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most obvious question i’ve asked all day: “did you eat ALL of the watermelon?”
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working on a new post, hope to get this up soon
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today i’m not using CSS, i’m using SSS
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one really great thing about this '10x' nonsense is that i can add it to the keyword list in my email rule that filters out and deletes linkedin requests from recruiters (adding to the list that already contains 'ninja' and 'rockstar' etc)
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be careful which golden cow you hitch your wagon to. unless you’re a crummy early stage investor who only cares about meteoric early growth and plans an exit strategy before things turn sour. enjoy your “10x” engineer. /rant
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and also the repercussions on the rest of your team - tolerating people like this will drive any conscientious person away - whether they work with them directly or not. having a bratty “golden child” in engineering will ruin your company’s appeal to marketing, ops, etc
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the original post is not wrong though - having someone on your team like this can speed your product to market. as long as you and your investors are willing to accept the risk of trusting the stability, usability, extensibility, and scale of your application to one fickle person
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yes they are responsible for a lot of the code because they wrote it without input or exposition or documentation or review. of course they’re the only one who can fix it because sometimes it’s a tangled mess that they created and only they can understand.
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in all seriousness i’ve worked with “10x” people like this, exactly as described. yes they produce a lot of code. yes they fix the bugs we discover in production. yes they caused the bugs in the first place by being “above” peer code reviews and working in a vacuum.
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i’m glad i learned this week how to spot a “10x engineer” now i know what to look for when hiring to make sure i never have a person like this on my team
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remember as you code today, often zero is not null. zero means something. don't default to zero if you mean 'nothing'
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that thing where you get a LinkedIn connection request from a great co-worker out of the blue
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turns out i should have taken the day off. my cognitition was lacking, i left at lunchtime to go home and take a nap.
take care of yourself, people.
take care of yourself, people.
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can i go back to work tomorrow please
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the precip rate at its peak
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between 2:44 and 3:24 today, we received 1.7 inches of rain in Rindge. #NHwx
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I’m going to make a video game
for my kids called “Don’t Wake up Mom” in this game you have to get dressed, get yourself a snack, without screaming or
fighting with your brother. If you Wake up Mom, you lose, the game quits, the computer shuts down, the computer is sold on eBay
for my kids called “Don’t Wake up Mom” in this game you have to get dressed, get yourself a snack, without screaming or
fighting with your brother. If you Wake up Mom, you lose, the game quits, the computer shuts down, the computer is sold on eBay
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remember flash mobs ?
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happy birthday America
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Foster kitten free-range time
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kids who were born on the day I signed up for twitter are eleven now and they already know I am boring
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I love watching This Old House and I really respect these craftsmen doing their best work, but randomly shouting “Ow! My Finger!” never gets old.
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i explained to my son what Abbey Road was and he did this with his Lego
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one of my favorite songs, this performance is intense and hypnotic. amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXjiEAc7wdI
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poorly targeted advertisement
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i wonder if a Waze dev has ever seen this - when you try to navigate with no signal it goes to 18:33 and 22min/12km (my settings are in US regional for time/units)
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if you’re reading this now and have wondered what was “up with” me, well, this is it. i’m trying to do better every day. but i think i need to own up to my past before i can move forward. i’m sorry. i’m trying. 5/5
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for me, protection was isolation–not trust. retreating was my immediate reaction, and guilt over what i did/how it was perceived kept me away. vulnerability was a weakness. investing in relationships left me open to enormous let-down. 4/5
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i have fully ghosted former roommates, college friends, co-workers. i’ve kept distant. i’ve ducked out. i’ve not responded. at the time i didn’t understand why; i just snapped into a mode of self-protection. 3/5
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need to write a letter. like AA/12 steps. i need to make amends with people i wronged. not wronged per se, but didn’t react to or treat a person or a situation in the way that was expected. 2/5
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as i continue to understand my depression and how it affects my life, i do a lot of reflection on the past, and events and relationships and how i participated (or chose not to participate) in them. i feel almost like, in order to move forward 1/5
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Waiting for some friends. #Fallout76
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turns out my kids are writing the new Escape from New York movie
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Hey Siri, when I get home, remind me to search for the Adam Savage show
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now, beer in the shower.
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a top 3 finish in #fallout76 Nuclear Winter. love my camo PA skin
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3 facts:
1. boring white guy
2. middle aged
3. nobody cares
1. boring white guy
2. middle aged
3. nobody cares
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Showman Syndrome: you hear any song from The Greatest Showman at any time, and it will be stuck in your head for at least a week following.
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still happens, not as often. https://twitter.com/mikesusz/status/1006669783113269249
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@jensimmons also i just realized this tweet was the weirdest old-web-dev flex
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i wasn't looking and tried to eat yogurt with the spoon backwards. how's your tuesday going?
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tonight i hopped into #fallout76 quickly and saw a whole bunch of low level peeps on my server. crafted up a bunch of weapons and outfits. if you see civil war suit/dress wearing people wielding flaming pitchforks, it was probably my doing :)
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STOP!
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shout out to my neighbors doing target shooting after 9:30 pm. i hope you contract some disease we don’t have a cure for yet.
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in the two years since, i’m at nearly 1200hrs into fallout 4. and 300 in fallout 76. this statement is still accurate, heh.
https://twitter.com/mikesusz/status/872489889291489281
https://twitter.com/mikesusz/status/872489889291489281
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listen, i'm not saying you _should_ buy two and a half pounds of cereal marshmallows in a big jug, i'm just showing you that it's _possible_ https://amzn.to/2JZngO5
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Shout out to all my over-zealous docent friends. I mean no disrespect.
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I keep typing replies to this and then deleting them. I'll think a bit to see if I can formulate something helpful, rather than just sounding like an over-zealous docent at a museum. You are probably not interested in how "it used to be" and are unable to relate to my experiences
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It's June which means it's time for me to again talk about getting started in this industry. This is an important milestone year, as I have been professionally making websites for 1/2 of my life; since 1996.