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@eaj

4 years

@massatofo @naval "Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species." "Because it means the end of innovation," "This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest." Ian Malcolm, The Lost World

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@eaj

2 years

Is that Lex Fridman guy a parody? I can’t tell.

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4 years

@naval “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” - Rumi

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4 years

@freezydorito But did you move fast?

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1 year

Can't get laid off from a FAANG if you can't get hired at one in the first place

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4 years

@dabit3 Stable

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@eaj

4 years

If I can run a six minute mile at 6500 feet in a mask, as someone diagnosed with asthma... I guarantee you can breathe while you walk around the grocery store.

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@eaj

4 years

@Ahmeer151 @vcstarterkit They probably just walk up that rock all the time. Repetition.

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@eaj

2 years

RE: Elon Musk

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@eaj

4 years

@marcelsalathe @ciro More like Zaphod from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which."

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@eaj

5 years

13.1mi, 1:33 First race since the 2018 Boston Marathon. Goal was 1:35. :) #boston #running

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@eaj

5 years

Me to my 12 y/o self: "So, you'll have a home office. In it you'll have 3 computers, a Microsoft game system, and a 'tablet' that is completely a touch screen. It'll all fit on your desk. The screens are all flat. All of them are hooked up to a really fast internet connection."

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@eaj

2 years

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." - Aldous Huxley

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@eaj

5 years

@Suhail @garrytan Still beats the average job: 3 months in: Alright, I have a handle on this position. 3 years later: I have been doing the same thing for 3 years. 5 years later: The company gave me a gold watch, and I supervise some people who did the thing I did for 5 years.

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@eaj

5 years

My daughter is a budding photographer, and always insists on black and white. She is 2.

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@eaj

4 years

@KevinSavetz @codinghorror They make it so hard to quit

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@eaj

4 years

Most apps today are CRUS apps. Create, Read, Update, Set 'Deleted' to True. CRUS.

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@eaj

4 years

Person: "So, how old are you?" Me: "Old enough to have had the job title of 'Webmaster'."

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@eaj

4 years

I heard JOKER is going to be a trilogy! I am really excited for both SMOKER and MIDNIGHT TOKER.

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@eaj

5 years

Has anyone else eaten a block of cheese as a snack?

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@eaj

4 years

Me watching 2020 unfold:

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@eaj

2 years

@astuyve @editingemily 418, I'm a teapot

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@eaj

5 years

I just wrote "====". I guess that's an even stricter equality operator.

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@eaj

3 years

The Marketing Website versus the Source Code:

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@eaj

5 years

@AdamDraper Human nature.

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@eaj

1 year

Older.

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@ReDKeV32

1 year

You might be old, but are you this old?

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@eaj

4 years

There's DevOps, and there's DevOops

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@eaj

4 years

Trump and the whole "everything goes back to normal on Easter" thing: It reminds me of a Product Owner that has no clue what the team's velocity is nor how much is left in the release backlog, but decides to show up for one meeting and tell everyone, "We're shipping next week."

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@eaj

5 years

Some person: "Hey, nice MIT shirt, did you go there?" Me: "Nah, I just use a lot of MIT licensed NPM packages."

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@eaj

1 year

Confluence: Where words go to die.

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@eaj

3 years

"Legacy code" is often code for "code that company actually makes money on"

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@eaj

4 years

Some wisdom for Sunday:

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@eaj

4 years

Nice one...

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@eaj

5 years

My new profile photo is really keeping the annoying recruiters away! I wonder why?

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@eaj

4 years

Tonight I learned you can set the length of a JavaScript Array to a value less than the current value, and any elements with a higher index will be removed.

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@eaj

5 years

Firefox is much, much faster than Chrome. You should switch.

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@eaj

4 years

I should quit Twitter. But no, here I am on Sunday night building a Twitter CLI and tweeting from my command line.

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@eaj

4 years

The problem with "throw away" code is nobody ends up throwing it away.

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@eaj

4 years

When you tell the recruiter you are only looking for remote opportunities:

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@eaj

5 years

Me: "How do I run one unit test from the angular-cli?" ::: Tries logical things, wrong ::: StackOverflow: "Put an f in front of your describe function." Me: "Uh. What." ::: Turns 'describe' into 'fdescribe', works :::

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@eaj

4 years

@GreatDismal @daneetsteffens Here you go: This removes the paywall and all the JavaScript, reducing the page load from 3.4 MB down to 27 kB.

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@eaj

5 years

Just because a programming language has a feature, it doesn't mean you have to use it.

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@eaj

2 years

A major issue:

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@eaj

4 years

@CFodorKCCI @GreatDismal @KCCINews Do you really want to travel with $50 grand in valuables?

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@eaj

1 year

Looking for the answer to a programming problem and found my own blog post as a solution. I don't remember writing it. It helped though.

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@eaj

5 years

I like computers better than politics because computers have gotten a ton better since than 1970s, and politics has sucked since at least 500 BC...

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@eaj

2 years

Twitter

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@eaj

5 years

The dark blue on the map signifies the area where JavaScript developers know they can't use the number type for zip codes.

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@eaj

5 years

I did this in Visual Basic 3 in 1996...

sunil pai, etc.

@threepointone

5 years

apple did this before web folks, and I'm mad about it

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@eaj

4 years

At some age, a man's appearance begins to resemble the back-end of the social network they founded...

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@eaj

2 years

Shirt reads “My Free Software Runs Your Company”

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@eaj

5 years

@profgalloway @tferriss @JonHaidt Here's a no JavaScript version of the article where the page size has been reduced from 3.2 MB down to 32 KB:

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@eaj

4 years

A co-worker just ran a 'docker system prune' to the tune of 42 GB. Which was worth several million dollars of storage in 1980.

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@eaj

4 years

Reminder: Do not set time machine this far back... I repeat, do NOT set the time machine back to 345 million years...

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@A_aphrodisia

4 years

An incredibly intact Crinoid specimen fossil dating back to about 345 million years ago

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@eaj

4 years

@paulg Paywall (and JavaScript) free:

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@eaj

2 years

The movie that prepared me the most for the “real world” is Office Space.

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@eaj

4 years

8 mile run to and from Garden of the Gods today.

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@eaj

5 years

You can avoid Facebook and Instagram outages by never using those services.

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3 years

TDD: Tutorial Driven Development

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@eaj

3 years

The first image that pops in my head any time 1990s personal computing is referenced:

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@eaj

3 years

Lake Champlain facing Vermont. #Vermont #Running

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5 years

Slack is down, and the way I see it...

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@eaj

1 year

Sunset, Burlington, VT.

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@eaj

4 years

People should have "I Paid Off My Debt" parties, such a victory should not be so unceremonious.

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@eaj

5 years

@BoatShuman "The right to invest up to $250K" is a little sales tactic I'd like to call false hope selling.

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@eaj

4 years

At the end of the day, web development is an index.html file.

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5 years

CapitalOne: "No social security numbers or bank account numbers were breached." Next sentence: "Yeah, a ton of social security numbers and bank account numbers were breached." Sentence after that: "And Canadians? Like all of your Social Insurance Numbers."

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5 years

Alright, who parked their Jeep next to me?

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@eaj

4 years

So crazy that this kid would go on to give the world Linux.

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@eaj

4 years

Copy and paste? I owe this man my career.

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@eaj

5 years

If someone wants to measure your productivity in lines of code then throw in the Node modules.

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@eaj

3 years

I say this as someone with way too many tabs open: your favicon matters.

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5 years

Running is a hardcore anti-anxiety drug.

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2 years

Medium totally sucks

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@eaj

4 years

The only Bleach I consume:

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@eaj

5 years

Making a lot of mistakes got you down? No need to fret. Become a software developer. It's part of the job!

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2 years

Developer Problem: Any time I want to write a journal entry, I decide I have to build a journaling application first.

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5 years

6 miles in 1:05. Icy.

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5 years

@arrington @naval "Don't move fast and break stuff, because that's what I did and I hate competition."

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5 years

To think, the cost of a gigabyte of storage in 1980 was $193,000. Now, we have terabytes of data that is nothing but people's opinion of Robert Pattinson being cast as Batman.

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