Michael Hays
@donutspree
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Dallas, TX
Joined February 2009
I'd actually argue that obsessive attentiveness to detail like this is what makes great developers, and great software. Sure, it doesn't matter in this case, but if you don't care about the silly stuff like this, you probably won't care about the little things that *do* matter.
Period or no period in your exception messages? Bikeshedding is a big problem in our sector 🤦‍♂️ #dotnet
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*sigh* One day we'll treat all humans with kindness and respect, unconditionally. But today is not that day.
I didn’t compare him to one. He IS one.
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One of the best articles I've read on API design
đź“° Today, I write about patching globals, why it's so appealing, and five reasons that make it a bad API design. I really think you should read it. Huge thanks to @leeerob and @ljharb for helping me proofread this one. https://t.co/eald1ziUgk
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Unironically this dumb meme helped me through one of the worst times of my life
does anyone have any useful sentences that will change my life immediately upon being read?
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This is one of the most important discussions that we're not really having about the culture war. All attempts at promoting inclusion and love should be focused on the outcome, with honest deliberation on what messaging works, and what doesn't
This dude is silly, but I think there is a genuine tension worth discussing here. It is inevitable and natural that any group that hears a steady drip of affirming messages seemingly designed to include everyone but them may begin to feel alienated, but there are also very good
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The stakes in getting AGI right are enormous, probably the highest in the history of humankind. I have no problem with people devoting their entire lives and personalities towards that. But many of us just want to work, donate to good causes, and socialize with similar people
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EA has always been too culty and weird for me to really get involved with. All I want is a community of people who want to work really hard to do good things
I was a fan of Effective Altruism (almost taught a course on it at Harvard) together w other rational efforts (evidence-based medicine, data-driven policing, randomista econ). But it became cultish. Happy to donate to save the most lives in Africa, but not to pay techies to fret
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If any of y’all want to tell your IT / security person about https://t.co/d6h6PQmBa6, that would be great. I’m responsible for marketing and really don’t want to have to figure that part out.
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I would love to be wrong, though. FWIW, I don't think this is a scam the way most other cryptocurrencies are, and that it's been created with honest intentions. A non-national UBI is what we need more than anything to address the horrible inequality that lies ahead of us
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I love this idea in the way that I love Communism, in that in an ideal world, it would be a lovely way to distribute resources to maximize human well-being. And just like Communism, I would be shocked if it ever worked in reality.
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A 10-year-girl in Delaware picked up “It’s Perfectly Normal” while at the library with her mother. When they came home, she showed her mom the chapter on sexual abuse and said, “This is me.” She was being abused by her father, and it was the first time she’d spoken about it.
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"I find it likely that many of the people behind it don’t even care about trans people one way or the other, it just happens to be a potent outrage cocktail that is helping build political power for a party where outrage cocktails seem to be the only recipe that works lately."
What the frick is with the war on trans people?
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A doctor writes about how to tell a mother her child is dead https://t.co/ERGdcVjQIB via @nytopinion
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🚨 WARNING: OPINION DETECTED 🚨 I think you should be using return types MUCH less often than you are right now. const func = (): string => { return 'abc'; } There ARE specific cases where they're awesome, but mostly they just slow you down. New video on TT now 👇
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BREAKING: It's happening. An original animated series following the next earth Avatar in the cycle after Aang and Korra is coming in 2025 from Paramount and Avatar Studios. All the info: https://t.co/szlm5I13TM
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My prior shit-post aside, my genuine response to this is that after spending years doing web dev with community-maintained tools I hope I never, ever have to go back to that shit ever again. I’ll eat the capitalism, monetization, whatever. I just want good tools.
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Bizarre and sad to me that a philosophy that essentially boils down to "Try to do the most good for the most number of people" is met with such vitriol
Thread: I've been thinking about what I find so tiresome and frustrating about some (not all!) pundits on the left these days. I guess this tweet is a good example. Here’s what happened: @willmacaskill published a fascinating book about the future of humanity. /1
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