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.NET work in Bethesda? NIH work is a good cause. http://ln.is/social.icims.com/vie/xa51u
Coding on an airplane? Any advice?
Coding on a bus: Don't drop your phone as you rush to get off at your stop.
Coding on a train: be careful that the seat doesn't crush your screen when the person in front of you shifts their chair angle.
META: Okay, finally learning to use https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ - it has excellent keyword muting 4 timelines, although it feels cramped.
META: Go to https://x.com/settings/muted_keywords and mute paper.li. Previously I've been muting entire accounts to achieve the same result.
@mistersql paper.li is a cancerous wart on twitter. Ditto all those "x people followed y people unfollowed"
♡ 1 ↻ 0@mistersql I just found out this only mutes notifications, not timeline dreck. WTF. Unhappy about that.
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It is a sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop sort of day.
What are the useless signals in hiring software devs? I seen people argue at times against every single possible signal. So what works?
@mistersql (i.e. whiteboarding at job interviews, hard questions, the computer science degree, years of experience, being a geeky guy)
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Reading on signaling theory
Some signals are costly & useless
-a lawyer's expensive cloths
Some are valuable
-a string of successful cases
What are y'all doing for productivity?
If StackOverflow is the place to ask really beautiful questions, where is the place to ask stupid questions?
Databases.Everyone is already in a DB. Guns?
Credit cards
hunting permits
NRAs membership
email
gun lovers groups on FB
Similr for religion
@mistersql With Patriot Act data requests & NSA, it is only gov't self restraint that is keeping authorities from doing anything with this.
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What happened to convention? https://x.com/Sean_McBeth/status/799217715529453568
From out of office to bus 45m and still no bus & people complain about the metro? The bus system here sucks.
STOP. EVERYTHING. THIS TEXT HAS A YELLOW BACKGROUND. https://x.com/bennylope/status/798628684928167936
So 5 minutes into creating my network-with-devs-in-trump-country-twit-acct there's hardly any python orgs there. WV, IA, KY, TN... not much
In a post truth world, @everyboolean will need to resume tweeting.
I got people in two different feeds talking about national break up. Last time we tried it it was civil war & my uncles served both sides.
A truck on every corner and a Taco Pop Tart in every toaster. https://x.com/rcatanese/status/797634896692920320
Source code jokes got dark fast. https://x.com/rrr00bb/status/797979272883372033
Colbert accidentally uses ASL again at 3:22 - Moose/deer. Does he know #ASL?
http://ln.is/www.youtube.com/6sMob
Who reads newspaper comments & do they have any impact?
The antidote to radicalization is a job. If your firm is only hiring local people who commute to the office you're creating Trumpites.
1/x Someone said that if you can move back to the rustbelt, you should. I cam from Ohio, I could work remote, but I got roots here.. so...
@mistersql 2/x since one of my goals of my account was to be able to find people to join my team when I needed it, I have a list of all the
♡ 0 ↻ 0@mistersql devs in the DC area on twitter & try to interact with them. But I just created yet-another-account to specifically network with
♡ 1 ↻ 0@mistersql 4/x people from outside the cities, in the rustbelt and states without cities. In Canada there are tons of remote workers &...
♡ 0 ↻ 0@mistersql no fascism. Creating employment opportunities for people who live far from the cities is just good civics.
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I've been reading continually all week on why Trump won This is the best article...from Cracked! But it is *serious* http://ln.is/www.cracked.com/blog/YUwvH
Proud of the cops in my neighborhood TkPk is a model. https://x.com/stevedumais/status/797509284871409664
META: huge uptick in % of account I see have gone private. I expect to start seeing more auto-deleters (delete x days old) soon.
Effective person to person advocacy on social media: https://x.com/LaceyIrvin/status/797127264148267008
Ironically, if you learn a little ASL you'll find out the Deaf are a bunch of social conservatives-W T F And don't forget to hire Deaf devs! https://x.com/NyleDiMarco/status/796881185641218048
Same. Go zips-Akron Ohio https://x.com/pwthornton/status/796467900072726528
Peaceful protest in Takoma Park MD. Proud of my neighbors. https://x.com/mistersql/status/797204334048112640/photo/1
We have six months to work. Four years is too long too wait. https://x.com/culturekills/status/796933489396514816
UX people here need to fill a position? Got a UX expert ( @gregnorc ) coming on the job market in DC are: http://ln.is/norcie.com/WSfRv Move fast
Anyone know what's in the cards for the Military? More deployments? Isolationism? More/less $ for vet social services?
U in Takoma Park? Today at 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM https://x.com/TakomaSeth/status/796995353316904960
You can reach me using Signal by @WhisperSystems, get it now. http://ln.is/whispersystems.org/s/Iiq4x
META: my twitter target topics
-tech & activism (wired if it were anti-Trump)
-programming jokes
-professional networking
@mistersql It was a mistake to be otherwise.
♡ 0 ↻ 0@mistersql We can't be afraid to say "Radical Anti-Trump Activism". And then live it.
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I ought to write a blog post on things we can do to resist. Hire immigrants to fix your house. Boycott Trump products & his sponsors.
The gov't is run by office drones & software developers in cities. Trump's worst policies can only be implemented with collaboration.