@jmoiron @amontalenti For professionals like artists, surgeons, lawyers, designers, etc; the comp structure at the "top" of those fields has them paying teams to manage an org that relies on their prestige & skill. They're the boss, but they are still a practitioner. Engineering is...
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@jmoiron RT @JohnOusterhout: I'm excited to announced that I've just released the 2nd Edition of "A Philosophy of Software Design". See https://t.co…
@jmoiron @JackMurphyRGR If you're willing to burn ~$6bn/year, you can offer your customers great rates.
@jmoiron People hate this trope; they think others outproduce the median only through self sacrifice, setting a toxic example. That isn't how it manifests: consistently doing things modestly better and avoiding fruitless tangents compounds to 10x impact quickly, esp. with broad scope. htt...
@jmoiron Vaccine hesitancy is an public health emergency and we need to treat it like one. https://t.co/RXpBJvQvXi
@jmoiron RT @ahmetb: Dropbox just shared their Software Engineer (and other) ladder definitions. I hope more companies can follow on this lead and d…
@jmoiron Be wary of taxonomy masquerading as abstraction.
@jmoiron RT @Simone_Biles: let me tell you one thing if they have fried pickles I will order them
@jmoiron The most clever micro-optimizations feel great to write, but they have a limited shelf life, because they exploit finer details of the underlying platform that are more likely to change.
@jmoiron @JackMurphyRGR Moral panic seems to be a consistent feature of our politics. Dungeons & Dragons, explicit lyrics, satanic panic, stranger danger, 90s "PC gone mad", super predators, metal music, violent video games, and more prior w/ prohibition, red scare, rock music, etc.
@jmoiron RT @_rsc: New blog post “Hardware Memory Models”, first of a short series.
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@jmoiron 600,000 Americans died of Covid-19 because too many strongly believe in shit like this and stopping the spread relied on everyone following the preventative measures. https://t.co/RSIb7Y7Jg9
@jmoiron @copyconstruct At the micro level, everything feels like it's macro level. At the macro level, it isn't.
@jmoiron This is a general tactic, even used against challenges to recent conservative historical mythos; eg. people trying to get a teacher fired at my old High School because he questioned Chris Kyle's reliability as a narrator in "American Sniper" https://t.co/9tqIKlpSiE https://t.co/...
@jmoiron @goinggodotnet @AleInTech Bikini Kill, Knife, Elastica, Mazzy Star, Portishead all had at least female vocalists too. There's tons, I have road trip playlist lying around somewhere.. the 90s are a rich vein.
@jmoiron @goinggodotnet @AleInTech Miki Berenyi/Lush, Saffron, Shirley Manson, Kim Deal, Veruca Salt, Belinda Carlisle, Courtney Love, Karen O, Ari Up, ...
@jmoiron @buckwilson go gate; sw; w; s; go pat; at kob
@jmoiron One upside to my name is that I'm in with a shout here. https://t.co/X4xxapvHZy
@jmoiron Really sad to hear of the passing of Kentaro Miura. It's bittersweet to learn how many people in my timeline his art has touched only now, in these circumstances.
@jmoiron 🤔 nothing comes to mind https://t.co/pqhrAfMk2O
@jmoiron Since Dershowitz trending, lets remember that time Norman Finklestein accused him (convincingly) of plagiarism in "The Case For Israel", Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan (yes that one) said it was fine, and then Alan (who wrote a book on Cancel Culture) got Norman fired by DePaul.
@jmoiron @JackMurphyRGR What one purpose does a computer serve?