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Good thread. My whole career has been cleaning up legacy code bases, usually under management radar, sometimes it pays off in reliability, rarely it pays off in ability to add new features 'cause it takes so long. (Funny thing is, I am not a neatnik at home. AT ALL) https://x.com/sarahmei/status/1090860963698434048

Oh, I know who that is, he wrote Clean Code. (He's that guy whose personality is fused to his his advice) https://x.com/sarahmei/status/1090880328313360384

I'd wired this to the door bell for when I really don't want to wake up. https://x.com/DigitalTrends/status/1091361784122957825

Best ticket

To win at twitter your scroll to the bottom, the very bottom, the very first tweet. You defeat the boss & then twitter never comes into existence in the first place. #HowToWinAtTwitter https://x.com/shahedC/status/1091138550601519107

Looking for an object initializer pattern in Python like C# that doesn't permit positional args. eg instead of C(True,False), I want C(P(unzip=True,keep_zip=False))

But namedtuples let you do C(P(True,False)) which is no better than C(True,False)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17283957/object-initializer-syntax-c-in-python

Endorse. This is a good way to evolve a code base https://x.com/JonathanBodner1/status/1091044001254461441

"like a black hole....I'm a person not Jira!" Ha! https://x.com/duretti/status/1090826133577158657

IDEA: postmates or uber eats but for flying banchans* to your house for Seoul

* korean breakfast small plates https://x.com/mistersql/status/1090728667255369736

So we spend 1%-2% (5%?) of income annually out of pocket to stay relevant. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1088186889260228636

today's coding kata https://x.com/fish2000/status/1090670908233170945

Sorry, all I did was type "pip freeze"

Something funny about this snow, it's shticking.

damn right = I really agree with you
damn rights = PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/app/Pipfile'

Judging from twitter, Howard Schultz is a nonstarter for everyone left of center. Would he draw votes mainly from

So I hear you thinking, "I need more @mistersql"

Here is a summary of my alternate twitter accounts:

https://mattwalksintoabar.blogspot.com/2019/01/my-twitter-accounts.html

After promising the kids we were going to the Museum of Natural History to see dinosaurs, we gotta explain why Trump closed the Museum.

(Doesn't open until Tuesday! Heck, even the private museums are closed!)

Baby spinach, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Baby spinach, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Baby spinach, doo doo doo doo doo doo
Baby spinach!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/01/26/whole-foods-recalls-products-with-baby-spinach-possible-salmonella-contamination/?utm_term=.4f574508b050

My dentist hygienist is always bugging me about Free/Libre and Open Source Software

When google engineers & their children start dying from scarlet fever, (because youtube is pushing antivax non-stop), then Youtube is going to take this seriously. https://x.com/washingtonpost/status/1088824010392195072

Someone needs to create a netflix of newspapers- ie. one monthly fee for access to a whole bunch of newspapers. https://twitter.com/JeremyLittau/status/1088556056953999360

So there is this cool COTS package called PyCharm, via it's "Python API" or "scripting language" you can customize it do match your business processes, so it can do invoices, payroll, meeting room reservations, etc. https://x.com/ExpertBeginner1/status/1088533899553243138

Y'all should take the SO survey so you can answer this question: https://stackoverflow.com/ https://x.com/LindaLawtonDK/status/1088335227154546688

IDEA: gofundme, but for the office when you can get purchasing to buy something small and basic.*

*this doesn't say anything particular about my current employer 'cause this is how it has been everywhere I work

Insecure cows have in pasture syndrome.

My favorite was "this part of the specification is literally incoherent." "yes, but we can't do anything about it, please just write the app to match the spec". True story. https://x.com/Marion_CIO/status/1087544597201539072

KATA: vertically center a div on an infinite scroll.

netflix watch list is x% junk I probably will watch soon and 1-x% stuff I should watch but not feeling it yet. Youtube's recommend workflow encourages you to focus entirely on the junk, which is too bad because for certain skills, youtube is 1000x better than text.

Seems like this idea could be applied to charting the value of variables of a higher level program as well. Could be boring for an immutable programming language. https://x.com/FogleBird/status/1087557351211704320

I use things like http://mint.com so hard, that I've started to see mint's rough edges. A product like this could be pretty cool https://x.com/jlongster/status/1087429287215579137

Seems like some gambler should be able to arbitrage the "Trump Out" betting odds (30% https://www.electionbettingodds.com/TrumpOutHome.html) vs the odds Pence is the next president (<2%) https://www.electionbettingodds.com/ 30% trump out means 30% pence in & able to run for re-election on a Pence-(whoever) ticket.

I wish I could justify getting one of those nice warm coats - but
- not enough cold days per year
- DCs worst isn't all that cold
- DC forgot to have winter most of last winter
So I'll make do with layers.

These generously unbuttered noodles, without parsley are the perfect blank canvas for just about any stew or braise. Noodles optional.

# Don't rerun this job. Rerunning will have no effect.

raise DespairException()

other pseudo human interaction #4
- "we don't need to foster esprit de corps, we will just have a crowded, loud open office plan"
- "morale isn't managements fault, it is your god damn attitude- shape up or get the f' out"