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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
I think the term “technical debt” is muddying the waters. Let us speak plainly. A 🧵.
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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
28 May 2022
People say Steve Jobs was a product genius. Some insist on claiming he was our iPhone “product manager” too. Let’s take a look at this. How did he work?
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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
12 Apr 2022
If we don't start actually acknowledging the truth to each-other we cannot possibly hope to marshal the resources and the political will required to build systems to make the world sustainable.
The ten planet lifestyle has to stop.
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Not enough people are talking about the fact that Wordpress gains 3-4% market share *of the entire web* annually.
Let me rephrase: Wordpress adds 1 Shopify **every year**.
w3techs.com/technologies/his…
ALT stats from the table showing historical growth of wordpress
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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
11 Mar 2022
"Swinging the Pendulum" is my favourite operating principle @Shopify. I learned it here and used for many years in leadership.
It's a metaphor we used to communicate when we need teams to start optimizing for the other end of the spectrum.
Here's how it works:
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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
4 Feb 2022
jo | curl --json | jq
In the future, you'll forget there ever was a time when you didn't use this trinity.
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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
30 Nov 2021
finding the radius of curvature of a curve at a point,
by finding the intersection of two normals very close to the point
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Here's something you've never seen before: a prototype original iPod. panic.com/blog/a-prototype-o…
ALT A photograph of a prototype original iPod. The case is extremely large and has yellowed over time. There is a funky clickwheel, the final size LCD screen, and large black buttons labelled UP, DOWN, LEFT and RIGHT.
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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
29 Mar 2021
Ever Given a chance, pull off an engineering feat. Figure things out. Apply effort.
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I'm verifying my Arweave address RMm3DUK6MJB9j2jezM8H0N5rz49_y2Elo_bxfw4XtCg
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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
1 Mar 2021
1 - I want to share some data from a client we worked with last year where we did something that I think was a little clever to definitively prove the incredible value of their community.
But first, some background....
#CMGR
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An interesting follow up to the Apple certificate server system. blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple…
Plaintext feels so odd in 2020.
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Photographer Reuben Wu uses LED-equipped drones to illuminate mysterious shapes. This is Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, a nearly featureless white landscape left behind by the evaporation of prehistoric lakes. wired.trib.al/NHfaMiE
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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
20 Oct 2020
Agile team "velocity" is typically a drop in the bucket compared to your actual lead time. (Image adapted from @joshuajames).
charleslambdin.wordpress.com…
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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
7 Oct 2020
In reflecting on Coinbase debacle, I hope that the dissolution of employee trust in traditional corporate structures with regards to social responsibility will force us to explore different forms of collective organization that are more conducive to shared social consciousness /1
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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
16 Sep 2020
this electrical transmission tower has a little problem. can you spot it? actually, it's not a small problem--it cost us 16.65 *billion* dollars and caused the deaths of 85 people.
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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
12 Sep 2020
Don't let the sweater-vests and the (dilettantish) "education reform" work fool you: Bill Gates made his fortune through sheer robber-baronry, presiding over a vicious monopolist that shattered the law in its greedy quest for billions and permanent, global dominance.
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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
16 Jul 2020
Economists of every stripe, from Marx to Milton Friedman, have a consensus on the nature of land: "Land is a natural commons — it belongs to everyone, and that land value (rents) should be recaptured by the community, who create the value in the first place."
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