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Joined February 2009
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I don’t care how many times an application crashes, I am not “sending a report” fucking snitch behavior
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duretti (🗣 dret-tea) hirpa ✨ retweeted
Another blog post I've been sitting on for a while. A question I get asked often is how managers actually evaluate engineers. That's a long answer. But we can at least talk abut some expectations that engineers often overlook. marcorogers.com/blog/advice-…
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When I was your age, we had to write the code ourselves
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How your email finds me
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‘Hiring rockstars’ Bro chill you run a B2B SaaS company
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venture-backed CEOs after laying off half the company
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Imagine being Uber and making everyone do tough code challenges for a job only to have your admin passwords hard coded on a script that can be accessed by phishing one person.
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duretti (🗣 dret-tea) hirpa ✨ retweeted
Just learned that baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort, just like baby humans suck their thumbs. Everyone look at this
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Obama killing all of his houseplants is the most I’ve ever related to a president
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Software development: expectations vs. reality
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That’s my emotional support stack of unread books on my nightstand.
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duretti (🗣 dret-tea) hirpa ✨ retweeted
My objection to Rust, OCaml, Haskell, etc. is that I am a bad programmer who wants to write bad programs. Python is naturally suited to this task
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BREAKING: CDC Sets Quarantine Duration To Seven Mississippi
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duretti (🗣 dret-tea) hirpa ✨ retweeted
Mankind wasn’t meant to work in December. We were meant to hide from wolves, drink, and pray our autumn harvest will last us through the Dark Months
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Web4 will be finally closing our computer and going outside
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duretti (🗣 dret-tea) hirpa ✨ retweeted
please absolutely hesitate to reach out if you have any questions
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duretti (🗣 dret-tea) hirpa ✨ retweeted
Oh, you love git? Name every way your branch has diverged from origin
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Unstoppable Force (My Desire to Pet a Dog) vs Immovable Object (Dog That Wants to Be Pet)
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