I have one simple rule for my devs. Know what you're shipping. If you can't tell me what every package or dependency is and why it's there, it's not going in.
No, Mark, it’s not that “complex.” Let me simplify (again): you and Facebook take money from politicians and run their ads — even if they’re not true — without fact-checking them. That’s not democracy, that’s you profiting off propaganda. #siliconsixhuffpost.com/entry/mark-zuck…
Hey hey Mark @Benioff , I've always admired you and Salesforce for everything you stand for. Would you consider @salesforce making a donation to teamtrees.org/ 🌲🌴
Chilling. “Some mental health experts suggest that social media might be fueling the increase to greater suicide risk, & some early studies have linked smartphone use to anxiety, depression & sleep deprivation among adolescents.” wsj.com/articles/youth-suici…
The amazing story of Visual Basic, and how it found its way into everything, including Office, ASP and IIS, and how it had 10x more devs working in it than C/C back in the day.
Slashdot: The Rise and Fall of Visual Basic developers.slashdot.org/stor…
Wow.
This is an utterly astonishing article by the famous @stephen_wolfram, about his leadership style being a remote “very hands-on CEO” for 28 years, but also his work habits, travel checklists, computer gear, decades of daily work telemetry…
Incredible on so many levels!
To the “everyone must sit in the same room” cargo cult, I offer:
“[It] often surprises people that for 28 years I’ve been a remote CEO.”
blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019…
Quora Answer to Why can’t a bot tick the "I'm not a robot" box? by Oliver Emberton
Astonishing things that happen when Google renders"I am not a robot" widget.
Including drawing invisible image, render nonsense font, query history to see if "human-like" quora.com/Why-can-t-a-bot-ti…
A surprisingly large part of having expertise in a topic is not so much knowing everything about it but learning the language and sources well enough to be extremely efficient in google searches.