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Ross Harper retweeted
10 Jun 2024
The BBC: The far right are making gains in Europe. Should we be worried?
Also the BBC: Here's Nigel Farage for the 45th time this week explaining why refugees want to come over here & fuck your cat
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Ross Harper retweeted
17 Dec 2023
I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1.
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Ross Harper retweeted
18 Nov 2022
incredible indictment that everyone is desperately looking for somewhere to meet and talk to people, and no one has even mentioned Zuckerberg's $70bn metaverse
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Ross Harper retweeted
4 Nov 2022
I canโt stop laughing. Imagine spending 44 billion dollars just to get fact checked by the thing you bought ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
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Ross Harper retweeted
7 Jun 2022
In legacy software development I often see the same mistakes being made over and over again. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
But I guess it is hard to the right thing, because the solution is in doing what contradicts the intuition.
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Ross Harper retweeted
28 Apr 2022
Incredible how most engineering managers don't realize how measuring developer productivity by visualizing JIRA git stats is a dead-end if you want truly high-performing teams.
This path works just like mandating that teams use Scrum. Yes: it helps bad teams get better.
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Ross Harper retweeted
22 Apr 2022
Scan it. Scan it scan it scan it scan it
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Ross Harper retweeted
22 Mar 2022
Love it. A porpoising spoon. Well done, @AlbertFabrega
21 Mar 2022
And now, @AlbertFabrega will explain in excruciating detail why the Mercedes W13 cannot yet fight for victory... ๐
(via @VortexF1podcast)
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Ross Harper retweeted
11 Mar 2022
If you work diligently on the same codebase for a couple of years, things do get less shit
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Ross Harper retweeted
11 Mar 2022
amazed, and apparently all done by one Anil Reddy! ๐
Pockit.ai is a new kind of computer made for the physical world. On top of its powerful, versatile Core, you can attach modular Blocks and interact with the world in your own unique way.
youtube.com/watch?v=b3F9OtH2โฆ
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18 Feb 2022
Fun #F1 fact: just as the Millennium Falcon designer was inspired by a hamburger and an olive, the @MercedesAMGF1 #W13 designers were inspired by a crinkle cut chip
Ross Harper retweeted
6 Nov 2021
This is so f*cking cool!
x.com/Elzo_/status/145594993โฆ
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Ross Harper retweeted
IMO, technology selection is entirely up to the teams. There should be no central authority making those decisions and imposing them on everybody else. Instead, the teams need to collaborate. Start small; add incrementally; communicate constantly; if you get it wrong, fix it.
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Ross Harper retweeted
15 Sep 2021
You could make significant progress acting on the assumption of the opposite of these items
1 Jul 2021
There are a few pervasive fallacies that make software hard:
1. We need accurate, precise estimates
2. Low output is motivation-based
3. We need to get more work started
4. Throughput comes from isolated individual coders
5. We need to program faster
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Ross Harper retweeted
Educating a team slows you down for a week or two. Not educating the team slows you down forever. Time spent in learning is never wasted.
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Ross Harper retweeted
18 Jul 2021
This guy soundtracking his mum's life with his trombone is a wonderful thing
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Ross Harper retweeted
19 Jul 2021
Hi Iโm a software engineer at Spotify and have been programming professionally for 6 years. I also have a computer science degree.
I still struggle with foundational programming concepts sometimes.
And it doesnโt make me any less of a developer ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
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Ross Harper retweeted
16 Jun 2021
Delighted to be dubbing Alan Partridge into French, Spanish, Italian and Greek, for wholly legitimate and authentic reasons ๐ซ๐ท๐ช๐ธ๐ฎ๐น๐ฌ๐ท
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Ross Harper retweeted
22 Jun 2021
Happy 25th birthday to Quake! Quake was a tough game to make, but it turned out great. The team worked hard to get this game out with the features we wanted in: a full 3D texture-mapped world, internet multiplayer, in-game console with lots of changeable variables (1/2)
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