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HOLY FUCKING SHIT THEY NUKED TRUMP'S TWITTER
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Four Seasons Total Landscaping, near the adult book store, across from the cremation center. Got it.
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CNN projects the US presidency for Joe Biden
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We'll know the election results when every ballot is counted. That's how democracy works.
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Linux is free, if you don’t value your time
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I’m starting to miss being shown around potential employer's offices and pretending to be impressed by your generic open-plan office and ping-pong table
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30 Sep 2020
That debate was the worst thing I've ever seen & I was in The Star Wars Holiday Special.
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1 May 2019
Quite often I feel I'm watching engineers engineer things for the sake of engineering things. It just seems like there's a lot of "isn't this cool?" and not enough "should we be doing this?"
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> COME JOIN OUR ROCKSTAR ENGINEERING TEAM *cut to an office where 4 developers are sat with headphones in, looking deeply morose, no-one is smiling* > FREE SNACKS *a half empty box of stale doughnuts lay under a pile of paperwork*
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having your president on twitter is like your manager who "used to code" make some last minute production changes to a client project 🤦‍♂️
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19 Jan 2018
Until you have backups, you don't have a database. What you have is a prolonged period of optimism.
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19 Jan 2018
Tip: JavaScript's Array.from() accepts a second argument that's a `map` function. Useful for calling on each element of an array you created.
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29 Dec 2017
Replying to @realDonaldTrump
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18 Dec 2017
Replying to @disqus
@disqus went to go check out your pricing page... it’s chaos in IE... Left=IE, Right=Chrome
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3 out of 4 Republican voters oppose the FCC's plan to gut #NetNeutrality. If your rep is a Republican, call them right now and tell them that. BattleForTheNet.com washingtonpost.com/news/the-…
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8/ What this indicates—beyond any serious doubt—is the following: Special Counsel Bob Mueller, the former Director of the FBI, believes Mike Flynn's testimony will *incriminate* the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, or both of these two men.
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13 Nov 2017
another added benefit: unreadability promotes security through obscurity in your code.
13 Nov 2017
Using a random name generator for variable names will future proof your application and normalize confusion.
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