Thread by @justinschuh: "The whole "Chrome is the new IE6" argument is objectively wrong, and really the worst kind of FUD. So, I'm going to o rest by providing some relevant history, and calling out just how much Chrome differs from IE6. [1/8] By th […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @swardley: "X : How to deal with technical debt? Me : As a rough analogy, I will take liberties, let us start with out Tea Shop exatles. Me : The first thing I do is mark on where things should be ... in this case our operatio […]" #jtbd #brexit | Continue reading
Thread by @EricRWeinstein: "1/ There’s something VERY suspicious about the social media platforms & their new treatment of Trans issues. lly as the preferred weapon with which to hunt those who will never give a single inch […]" #IDW #GalileoPrinciple | Continue reading
Thread by @swardley: "X : I know you says it's a commodity but we've decided to custom build this software. It creates a better brand experieo you know how much that is costing you? X : It's just engineering time. Me : Oh god ... Me : Do you map? X : […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @RikeFranke: "I had the opportunity to attend the -Industry Forum in Berlin yesterday and the day before, and to moderate the sessi (thread) [1] EU-NATO relations were a big topic, with lots of discussion […]" #NATO #DARPA #AI #autonomousweapons | Continue reading
Thread by @tobyontour: "One day I'll get all the project managers I can find in a room and give them a GCSE maths paper to complete. Every fil tap them on the shoulder and say "Can you stop what you're doing and move onto question 10?" and "How is yo […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @brexit_sham: "NEW DCMS VIDEO THREAD - The publication of the @ICOnews latest report on the use of data analytics for political purconfused Brexiteers prematurely excited; they've failed to understand that it's still an ONGOING investigatio […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @jason_kint: "that's interesting news: Aleksandr Kogan *refused to be interviewed by ICO Commissioner Denham's investigation.* Yes,o allegedly with his equal partner, Joseph Chancellor, harvested 80+ million Facebook records and sold tens o […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @Foone: "It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974. This limitation, which is still found in the very latest Windowss back to BEFORE STAR WARS. This bug is as old as Watergate. When this was developed, nothing had UPC codes y […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @DavidNeiwert: "1) “Eliminationism” is a term you need not just to become familiar with, especially in today’s American rush toward be a long, illustrated thread explaining what it means, how it works, and why Donald Trump is no […]" #MAGAbomber | Continue reading
Thread by @MaxFagin: "November is here, and that means a massive shift is coming. And by "massive" I am of course referring to the redefinitilogram unit of mass that the world has been building up to for more than 100 years. Let me explain: 1/ I've h […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @d1gi: "Thread: I've been watching the ⊂⟑r⟑v⟑n rumors. MSM have been so focused on whether there is funny business (ie, foreign i around the organizers' social media accounts that they are overlooking larger, far more important narrativ […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @morganknutson: "Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry on how awful the project and exec team was. I'mut the bait and switch they pulled by telling me I'd be working on Chrome, then putting me on this god forsak […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @dflieb: "10 years ago today, I had the idea for an app I thought was interesting. I called it Bump, and sent this email to Andy Hure’s a thread with some memories and lessons learned in the last 10 years. First lesson: Persistence matters. […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @Pinboard: "If you work at a large tech company, won't you take a minute to go with me down the list of senators who just voted to naugh? John Barrasso of Wyoming, who is up for election this year, voted to confirm Kavanaugh. He has receive […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @mpiedrav: "I sabotage myself when I feel threatened by project/task deadlines (e.g., when I know I won't make it on time), even whn world is made of deadlines. Whenever I try to go on, I feel a kind of deep abstract claustrophobia and I mo […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @mipsytipsy: "I've begun to see the inexorable sprawl of alerts, monitoring checks and dashboards as a deep well of technical debt.utage, or some system impacting event. you resolve it. you call a postmortem or retrospective. at the end, so […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @skabooshka: "FORCE MAJEURE I believe that Tesla Model 3 production has been impaired for the last several weeks due to a severe suruption having to do with the shortage of Silicon Carbide MOSFETs supplied by STMicroelectronics out of their […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @atomicthumbs: "A former Tesla employee, who worked on their IT infrastructure, is posting in a subforum of a subforum, a little-knny computer forgotten by time. His NDA has expired. He has such sights to show us. Join me and I will be your […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @dmitriid: "Twitter has turned profitable. Algorithmic timelines, ads, likes surfacing etc. works. *For them* Don’t expect them to because you don’t like it 1/ Instagram is profitable. Algorithmic timelines, ads, stories, app that refreshes […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @VitalikButerin: "1. Today I am going to make a tweet storm explaining the history and state of Ethereum's Casper research, includiwars, the hybrid => full switch, the role of randomness, mechanism design issues, and more. 2. Ethereum pr […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @gravity_levity: "1/ Who wants to hear some scientific intrigue? A few weeks ago, a group of physical chemists posted a paper onlinbservation of superconductivity at room temperature. Today I posted a comment pointing out something funny in […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @www_ora_tion_ca: "This is wildly disingenuous, I speak as a flight instructor and major IT incident investigator. Modern software ofessional discipline of a cute puppy in comparison to aviation practitioners. Airplanes *are* under constant […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @GossiTheDog: "This is going to backfire. West Virginia are moving to mobile phone voting for this midterm elections - software is a n voting system’ by “Votez”, a 2018 startup with $2m of funding money.cnn.com/2018/08/06/tec… The Voatz website […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @atroyn: "Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union: - waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find thapoor workmanship and quality - promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @sehurlburt: "“Why isn’t someone using my software product or open source tool? It’s good!” A checklist for you: 1. Have you descri and what the benefits are in a way a non-developer can understand? 2. If someone Googles to try to learn mor […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @_rsc: "@mattfarina @Crell @sdboyer This is an absolutely fair criticism - we have not handled the community process around dependegement well. The core Go team was not involved early or often enough for that process to lead to a smooth lan […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @JairusKhan: "I was a speaker and workshop organizer at hopeconf this year. My first 2600 meeting was over 20 years ago. I'm also aundreds of events/concerts/festivals under my belt. I'm also an anti-racist who has been shitkicked […]" #hopeconf | Continue reading
Thread by @EmporersNewC: "1. Hello, United Kingdom, it’s the United States of America here, and we need to talk. 2. We understand that you chwith the EU, and we’re cool with it, but we thought we’d tell you how we see it. 3. When you entered the Comm […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @Pinboard: "Here's Amazon's political action committee giving the maximum donation to Bruce Poliquin, Republican congressman in Maidistrict, and among the top recipients of NRA donations in the House. Poliquin has cashed over $200K of NRA c […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @Yascha_Mounk: "In 1951, Bertrand Russel took to the @nytimes to argue that the best answer to fanaticism was a calm search for trumandments of Liberal Inquiry could not be more relevant today. (Number 6 will blow your mind! ;) ) Thread. 1. […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @SimonDeDeo: "OK: following, my thoughts on Google Brain and similar institutions. Disclaimer: this is my opinion, as someone who deir funding, and has built a career without needing to flatter them. (An anti-disclaimer, if you will.) I gre […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @MikeRoach3: "This is the U.S.'s Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, the next generation of American fighter jets. It has been in dee 1992. All told the program is slated to cost upwards of a trillion dollars. And it is one of the most colos […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @absurdistwords: "So you really just don't understand what systemic oppression is. The thing about systemic oppression is that it de to run. Lemme explain. Let's say that there's two sets of kids. North side kids and South side kids. They l […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @Kpaxs: "POSITIVITY and BRAIN CHEMISTRY, a THREAD: We go negative because our brain expects negativity to feel good. This paradox makes sense when you know the operating system we have inherited from our animal ancestors. You can transcend it and tr […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @dollarsanddata: "\1 Tweetstorm on some uncomfortable truths in personal finance and investing. To start, raising your income is far more important than cutting your spending when growing your wealth. Spending definitely matters, but without sufficient incom […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @tastapod: "[Thread] What do I mean by “the best programmer I know”? Let’s start with the assumption I think I’m a decent programmer. Here are some examples: 1. He sees what is really there. I see what I am conditioned to see. Once he points it out, it […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @Suhail: "1/ Getting my first 100 customers always felt like a puzzle. The next 1000 seemed unreachable. Besides, how can you get feedback to make the product better w/o users? After many years, we ended up w/ 6,000+ paying customers. It was a grind […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @oliverbruce: "1/ I finished a work trip in China and stuck around to travel for the last few weeks. Was blown away by the Chinese bikesharing systems. I used them everywhere. A few observations (for everyone, but especially for @michalnaka ;)): 2/ Bikeha […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @JanelleCShane: "These "I forced a bot to watch X" posts are almost certainly 100% human-written with no bot involved. Here's how you can tell. 1/12 First of all, neural nets learn by example. If you show it 1,000 hours of video (assuming 120,000 unique 30- […]" | Continue reading
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Thread by @JoeAgneya: "Jesuits, 'soldiers of Christ', aren't your average priests. An order founded in 1540, it had great emphasis on scholarship, learning native languages and unorthodox approaches to missionary work. Pope Francis is a Jesuit […]" #TipuSultan #TippuSultan | Continue reading
Thread by @jensenharris: "Leaving a big company job for a startup can rejuvenate your career and make you love work again. But landing a startup job requires relearning some things, especially if (like me) you logged years and years at Microgoogf […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @jamiebuilds: "I think it's time I publicly shared about how Microsoft stole my code and then spit on it. I'd been waiting for them to do something about it, but that is clearly never happening. When we were working on Babel 6, one of […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @naval: "How to Get Rich (without getting lucky): Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy. Unders […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @PaulMMCooper: "The Altai region of Central Asia seems at first to be a remote & peaceful place. But it also sits on the world's busiest flight path for space missions. Here used-up rockets regularly crash to earth, & local peop […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @JaneLytv: "Earlier today, Facebook turned on a feature that showed information about Pages including: - date of creation - number of admins - location of admins - name changes. This allowed us to confirm that many pro-Trump pages a […]" | Continue reading
Thread by @johnnyryan: "Facebook is confronting EU users a new “terms of service” dialogue that denies access until a user opt-ins to tracking for ad targeting, and various other data processing purposes... These Terms refer to the “data policy […]" #GDPR #Adtech | Continue reading