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Aaron Patterson

@tenderlove

7 years

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エバンゲリオンは一番いいガンダムだと思う

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Back in my day, we used spare CPU cycles for folding proteins and searching for aliens

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I feel like Coronavirus related API endpoints should only be made available using SOAP

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There are two types of developers, those that have sent "Integration Test Email #1 ", and those that will send "Integration Test Email #1 "

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I like to add � and â€™ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug

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I heard Microsoft tried to change the file path separator in Windows, but it received tons of backslash from the community

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6 years

I changed my desktop background

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I'm so excited because today is my first day working at @Shopify ! I joined the Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team where I'll be focusing on Ruby and Rails development

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7 years

大草原草不可避

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Microservices are great for turning method calls in to distributed computing problems

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5 years

I'm working on a new programming language that completely prevents all programming mistakes by not allowing you to write any code whatsoever

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6 years

I like to take bad code, mix it with good code, turn it in to AAA rated technical debt, then sell insurance on the debt

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2 years

Twitter feels kind of slow today. I bet it's because of the 1000s of non-batched RPC calls just to render the home timeline

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6 years

With most sales being done online, we've eliminated the need for traveling salesman thus solving the traveling salesman problem

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4 years

Today is my last day at @GitHub . Working with my team to upgrade infra and fix weird bugs was some of the most rewarding time in my career. The projects were fun but what I'll really miss is spending time with all the great people. I'm sad to leave but excited about the future!❤️

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6 years

I'm excited to visit the Microsoft Office. I heard all the buildings have Windows

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7 years

I learned a new slang in Japanese today: 草生える. I will now explain it

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2 years

I'm really excited about Ruby supporting WASM because it means we can finally run Rails in the browser and React on the server as was intended

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3 years

Found a photo from that time I tried doing pear programming

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5 years

I have no idea what I planted in my garden because I heard that using random seeds is more secure

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3 years

Working on a new Zoom background

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5 years

Now that @basecamp is launching a new email service, I think @dhh 's next book should be "Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Work"

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6 years

If coding doesn't feel like typing some stuff in to an editor and then spending hours wondering why the f it doesn't work, you have at least another level to master before calling yourself a programmer.

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3 years

Programming best practice: don't

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6 years

This is a great design because it encourages you to learn keyboard shortcuts while your mouse is charging

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4 years

Now that the Suez Canal is unblocked, it can start on the next story from the kanban board

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4 years

Wow, that felt good!

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6 years

My only home automation is this light that turns on when the toilet seat is up, but nobody else in the house is as excited about this technological advancement as I am

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4 years

I wish GitHub would add Stories

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6 years

It's not a bug, it's just taking the code path less traveled

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2 years

me irl

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5 years

Spent ~2hours or so on a problem yesterday evening and couldn't solve it. Solved it within 5min of sitting at my computer this morning

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5 years

If Slack is down for 15 minutes you get to go home. It's the law

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8 years

You can tell Mr Robot is fictional because they’re using webcams on Linux

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5 years

One thing I like about working from home is that you can cry in your office instead of the bathroom

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5 years

エヴァンゲリオンはガンダムじゃないんだっけ

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5 years

エバンゲリオンは一番いいガンダムだと思う

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But "wwww" looks like grass growing, so it's similar to 草生える, which means "grow grass" but means "lol"

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5 years

Kubernetes is extremely popular in Japan

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7 years

Wow! I finally got to see a @digitalocean container

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6 years

There are only two hard problems in CS: 1. Cache invalidation 2. How to quit Vim

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6 years

I finally did it! I finally hit Inbox Zero!

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2 years

Surprised that Go is still on version 1.x. If they bumped the version, I think it would be way more popular as a Go 2 programming language

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5 years

このツイートは神話になれ

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5 years

エバンゲリオンは一番いいガンダムだと思う

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Sometimes the hardest part of programming is figuring out easiest way to do it

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4 years

I've decided to stop "programming in C" and to start writing "C shanties"

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5 years

Built a team to design a tic tac toe game, but we only hired ten X engineers. Need to hire ten O engineers next

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8 years

You're not a lead dev if you're not helping teammates level up

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5 years

We should make "can sleep at night" an OKR

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6 years

If Slack doesn't work for 15 min, you get to go home

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4 years

Zoom のバックグラウンドで自分の写真を使うのは仕事で適当だと思います。

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3 years

I feel like "legacy code" is a pejorative and I wish it wasn't. I find the challenge of adding features and refactoring existing code to be a very fun puzzle, and I wish there was a label that reflects that

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7 years

In Japanese "w" is short for 笑う which means "to laugh"

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5 years

I'm at best a two star C programmer. Maybe someone can give me more pointers?

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4 years

I know every election website does live updates but I refresh every minute anyway because what if the websocket disconnected?

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3 years

Vaccines wouldn't have side effects if they had written them in Haskell

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4 years

Rails 6.1 + Ruby 3.0 is gonna be _awesome_

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7 years

I have a massive trade deficit with the grocery store so I’ve decided to impose tariffs on Kroger

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Ruby is the first programming language I used at work that made me actually enjoy my job. I love being a Ruby programmer! #ruby25th

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5 years

I really don't understand why people would write something in JS when they can do it in pure Kubernetes

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5 years

Soy sauce packets all ready for tonight's trick or treaters! Kids love soy sauce packets

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4 years

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第三次世界大戦の火種が2〜3個凝縮されている。

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So "wwww" is equivalent to "lol" in English

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I'm a 10X engineer, but I know other status codes too especially in the 50X and 40X range

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8 years

I bricked my iPhone and now it won't fit in my pocket

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6 years

*open new terminal window* *stare for a few seconds* "what was I going to do?" *close terminal*

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6 years

How are people supposed to work long hours when all hours are the same length?

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8 years

Area man approves pull request

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5 years

360 reviews are fine, but I feel like 2π reviews would be more rad

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6 years

If open source software is free does that mean I'm the product?

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4 years

Apple switching their processors to ARM is a pretty big RISC

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4 years

Every time I use Ruby, it just feels good

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Common Big-O complexity list: 1. O(1) 2. O(n) 3. O(n log n) 4. O( I can't understand wtf this code is doing )

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Evangelion is my favorite Gundam

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I feel like we've done enough tests on A/B, it's time to move on to C/D

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My New Year resolution is 2560x1440

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I guess if you have a poor work environment you'll end up with 10 ex-engineers

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3 years

It's not ✌️personal info✌️, it's just "Meta Data"!

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4 years

Working from home isn't always great, but I guess it's better than being in the Office 365

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7 years

Everyone seems to be talking about Eclipse, but I'm sticking with Vim

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3 years

What if we just did 4 day work weeks instead?

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5 years

How do you install kubernetes on serverless?

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Many people don't know this, but Rust's borrow checker actually runs a credit check before allowing you to take on more technical debt

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3 years

I have some very sad news to share. Our cat Gorby passed away yesterday.

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Honestly I didn't appreciate mechanical keyboards until I tried typing on one, and then it just clicked

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I'm sure every company has that one channel where basically everyone in the company idles and then someone inevitably does ` @here ` and waaayyy too many people get notified. Ours is it-helpdesk, and I've always wanted to ` @here ` that channel so I finally did yesterday. ❤️🧡💛💚💙

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5 years

I'm excited for palindrome day

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6 years

I used to work with a project manager that was a morning person. He was an AM PM

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@tenderlove

8 years

I think if "dependency injection" was just referred to as "passing stuff in", nobody would care so much

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3 years

These new MacBooks look top notch

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@tenderlove

7 years

It's awesome that @Netflix is using Rails, but it's even more awesome that they are sharing some of their work!

Fast JSON API serialization with Ruby on Rails

by Shishir Kakaraddi, Srinivas Raghunathan, Adam Gross and Ryan Johnston

netflixtechblog.com

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@tenderlove

7 years

@elonmusk I agree. Adobe Illustrator is a danger to the public

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6 years

Isn't SOAP just GraphQL for Enterprise?

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8 years

Ruby: Everything is an Object Lisp: Everything is a function C: Everything is a segfault

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4 years

Any app can be a Single Page App if you reduce the font size enough

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3 years

Sorting git branches by "last activity" is much more helpful for me than by name. Here is an alias I use to list branches by activity: git config --global alias.recent 'branch --sort=-committerdate --format="%(committerdate:relative)%09%(refname:short)"'

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Had some plumbers come to our house because the toilet was backing up. Turns out the sewer line is cracked and plants growing in. When they showed me the video I said "looks like you found the root cause!" but nobody laughed

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Public speaking pro tip: the audience reaction doesn't matter as long as you laugh at your own jokes

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