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18 Nov 2022
i'll add $$$
18 Nov 2022
If anyone still at Twitter is going to this stupid “code review” by El Musko I will pay you cash money to walk in there with a document in binary and present in earnest about the hardcoreness of your code.
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18 Nov 2022
my most salient line of code? never heard of it
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16 Nov 2022
the secret to making tweets viral:
brands, dunk on musk
15 Nov 2022
Step 1 of online brand-management is to, like, not personally reply to everyone who hates you to let them know that they’ve successfully hurt your feelings.
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aaron is vibe shifting to mastodon retweeted
15 Nov 2022
Twitter employees take pride in being able to speak up to power, the same principle this platform was built on. 2 yrs ago, I openly criticized execs for their lack of diversity. Instead of firing me, they reached out directly and ran focus groups with women and folks of color.
15 Jan 2020
Harvard Professor: “Now Tweeps, what is wrong with this photo?”
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It’s hard for people on the outside to appreciate how nonsensical this selective “policy” enforcement is. The team responsible for the serving of 10MM tweets / second for internal and user-facing use cases is down to like 2 people. Good luck shipping basically… anything?
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15 Nov 2022
looking for this guy; easy to spot walking around HQ
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7 Nov 2022
And, for the any employees still at Twitter, don’t underestimate the power of a pocket veto.
Sometimes it doesn’t work out, or you have to escalate and risk it back firing, but a good pocket veto is a tool to learn to wield well.
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late but the depth of this analysis has as much depth as his faux spirituality did. fuck off with this shit
Folks at Twitter past and present are strong and resilient. They will always find a way no matter how difficult the moment. I realize many are angry with me. I own the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the company size too quickly. I apologize for that.
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4 Nov 2022
Losing the META team is a deep loss to the field. It is inexpressible. In awe of @ruchowdh @KLdivergence @binary_aaron @__lucab @ubiquity75 @if_peradejordi who are the most kind and grounded human beings I’ve ever met, even as the magnitude of their work impact is staggering.
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i have little else to say that hasn't already been said. 5 years at twitter trying to affect change in a positive way, working with some wonderful people along the way
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so much life has happened during this time. we've all met lifelong friends (and sometimes more 😉) at the tweet factory and i hope for the good of the world that it either somehow manages to be better or just shuts down.
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i keep thinking of my fellow tweeps who have worked so hard to make this platform and the company behind it better in so many ways.
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4 Nov 2022
Quitting Twitter Inc earlier this year is like graduating high school and feeling a bit sad but like, nostalgic, and then a few months later your high school explodes.
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29 Oct 2022
apropos of nothing: what's the highest-impact, lowest-lines-of-code change you've made?
mine was either a one-line config change that increased stability of shuffle operations in spark for almost everyone using it for a while, or a three-line 🐍 metaclass that got called SO MUCH
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29 Oct 2022
please stop concern trolling about this.
- stimulants affect people with adhd differently. “Casually tweaking” it is not
- 41M scripts != 41M people
- if everyone around you is on it, maybe examine yourself and see if you might actually have ADHD or get better friends
29 Oct 2022
blows my mind that 41M adderall prescriptions were dispensed in the US in 2021
41M people casually tweaking on pharmaceutical grade amphetamines every day
the re-branding of meth has been one of the greatest marketing campaigns of the decade, truly wild
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aaron is vibe shifting to mastodon retweeted
28 Oct 2022
Happy Friday all.
ALT Me with sheets of printed code
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24 Oct 2022
“so you used to go to a bar, nurse a cocktail, and write sad boy essays about your life?”
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21 Oct 2022
boy they are coming in strong
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