Ben Ford
@commandodev
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Organisational Engineering as a service for scaling tech companies | OODA | Former Royal Marine Commando | ADAPT. RESPOND. WIN!
London, England
Joined October 2015
Because OODA loops have come up a few times over the last couple of days. I want to say this: The military is full of excellent ideas and practices that can be used with a tiny amount of tweaking in civilian contexts. e.g. Mission Command: https://t.co/41cR7XFf9o
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In the beginning was the command line...
Software Engineers who made grep, cat, cut, find, ls, less, and sed really cooked here. 50 years later and it’s still bread and butter of data analysis. And it still works better than most of bloated alternatives.
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Read it. EOM.
It’s been almost axiomatic for a long time that John Boyd can’t be fully understood because he never wrote anything down. That argument no longer holds. “Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals” is the definite Boyd, in his own words, from start to finish: https://t.co/wVaopNWmJA
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I have no live rounds or empty cases in my possesion. Sir!
Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski brought a Shahed-136 drone to his speech at Westminster to vividly warn his European colleagues about the need to prepare for russian deep-strike attacks.
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0ne of the most humbling obits that I have ever read. A man of supreme courage, responsible for saving many lives, and who lived to 93. While sat atop an IRA mortar round in the snow, he felt it burning, so shoved snow down his pants to keep going! https://t.co/t7M5DQpEkQ
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This is an original document revealing Ian Fleming's proposal to create an elite commando unit for Naval Intelligence, which subsequently evolved into the celebrated 30 Assault Unit—still active today @Commando_Ops. The document bears the signature 'F' for Fleming:
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Turns out mixing dummies and Internet was not a good idea
You used to have to read physical books that called you a dumbass before you used the internet. We should bring this back.
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After a few followers mentioned they thought this might be referring to manufacturing stamps I had a quick look. Many manufacturers stamp with arrows, ironsights or initials including TRN. This seems like something that anyone in law enforcement should know if they aren’t a
Jfc so “arrows” on the ammo were potentially mischaracterized as “linked to transgender community” Absolute brain washed clowns are running this investigation!
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When Melissa Hortman was assassinated in June by a rightwing killer, sitting GOP senators made jokes. When Charlie Kirk was killed today (by an as yet unknown killer), Democrats unanimously condemned it, while the right actively stokes retaliation against the entire left.
Fox News’ Jesse Watters says “we’re gonna avenge Charlie [Kirk’s] death.” “Everybody’s accountable. And we’re watching … the politicians, the media, and all these rats out there. This can never happen again. It ends now.”
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Bloomberg has a stash of more than 100 emails between Peter Mandelson and convicted paedophile, the late Jeffrey Epstein. Their disclosure are humiliating for the British ambassador to Washington and highly damaging for the man who appointed him, Sir Keir Starmer. I have
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@jdegoes @adamwarski @kitlangton @propensive well, they also pressured ScalaIO to cancel me and the justification Darja used was that I'm likely "clinically insane". It's plain and simple defamation with ample support of the CoC for exclusion. The odd part? @adamwarski and his company have no trouble with that, don't feel
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Why did this happen to @propensive? The short version is that Jon Pretty succeeded in angering the woke Scala bros -- principally the leaders of TL, but also various members of Scala Center and the scalac compiler team -- by attempting to play neutral in the many battles that
This particular medley of fury and nausea is difficult to describe, but I will attempt to do so: I will never again write a line of @scala_lang. The language is, as far as I am concerned, thoroughly and irrevocably damned. Odersky et al. have presided over a travesty and now
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When two women accused me of a pattern of sexual harassment it was presented as another #metoo case, and tagged #believewomen. But believing women means believing those who dissent, too. In fact, four women said #meneither but nobody listened. Evidence:
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It wasn't immigrants killing women and girls in Epping. It was English men, predominantly abusive husbands and boyfriends. I'm sure it's easier to blame immigrants than it is to acknowledge deep-rooted misogyny but deflecting from problems rarely solves or improves anything.
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I was accused of a "systematic pattern of behavior" in the Scala community, citing misleading statements from two women. One of the women wasn't even in the Scala community, and my relationships with them could hardly have been more dissimilar. Evidence:
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The Scala Center (@scala_lang), @odersky, EPFL, and @typelevel should all make official statements welcoming Jon back, and signers should remove their signatures and apologize. If by some miracle these things actually happen, then everyone should forgive fully and move on.
Now is the time to read the evidence for the incorrect allegations made against Jon. I expect the signatories of the Open Letter to read this and withdraw their signatures. I'd also like the @scala_lang org to make an official statement welcoming Jon back in the community
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I was cancelled in 2021 for something I didn't do. The impact this had on my life was devastating, but I've never had the courage to talk about it before. This is my story of the misery that cancellation brought to my career, my social life and my health. ↓↓↓
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I was canceled in 2021 by two ex-partners. They used quotes stripped of context, while I relied on the content of thousands of private messages to show the opposite. I couldn't respond. AI is a game-changer. With help from ChatGPT, I'm now publishing my defense and evidence: ⬇
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