Mark Conrad
@markaconrad
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Christian|Husband|Father|Software Engineer @Lotame
Maryland, USA
Joined October 2009
This man's name is Rick Rescorla. 22 years ago today, Rick disobeyed orders, and saved 2700 lives. Rick was the head of security for Morgan Stanley in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. He warned that the Towers' basements were vulnerable to attack. His warnings
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Please feel free to make a case why school closures, not allowing kids to play outside, and convincing them they'd kill their teachers and relatives if they breathed on them were all worth it. But pretending all those things didn't happen is just stupid, revisionist bilge.
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"...But the real innovation is using slack to fix the problems that caused the need for slack in the first place."
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Word of the day is âcircumbendibusâ (17th century): anything that deliberately goes round and round without ever getting to the point.
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Remember this â to your users, your product is one of dozens they use daily. One takeaway: This is why your product must be as frictionless as possible. What are others?
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Midjourney AI Imagining Different Historical Variations of Spider-Man via https://t.co/j6PIXUjNfs
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Midjourney AI imagining different historical variations of Spider-Man: 1. Roman Legionary Spider-Man
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Slack in software teams is: letting people do the work they canât justify. This makes development more predictable, production more resilient to problems, and the whole company resilient to changing expectations in the world. https://t.co/5HttJupHci
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Resilience is coping with unexpected events and environmental change. To have resilience, you need slack. Slack in software development lets people do the little tasks that keep the work moving smoâŠ
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Itâs been a mystery why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades. Turns out they incorporated chemicals in a process that induces self-healing; scientists at MIT just figured this all out - in 2022. Extraordinary. https://t.co/cOPyln0ifd
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Researchers have discovered ancient Roman concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated self-healing. Applying this knowledge toward modern cement production, they hope to improve the materia...
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Story points and velocity: the spherical cow of software https://t.co/kgxid0nm8h
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what a spherical cow can teach us about task prioritization in software teams
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Gummi Bear's Top Ten Reasons Republicans think the 2020 Election was Stolen Let's not forget that Democrats went into the 2020 Elections with more suspicions Read the full article on substack This tweet thread contains just the Top 10 List 1/4 https://t.co/cc9maabH2h
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"Thinking is more expensive than typing."
I once stared at a piece of code for 15 minutes trying to figure out what "par" meant. Eventually I realized it was "parent". Someone saved 50ms by not typing "ent". The savings was paid for by 15 mins of frustration. Don't abbreviate. Thinking is more expensive than typing.
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I thought this was a good reminder
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These are the things your kids really want from youâsimple things that are actually the biggest things of all.
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Sometimes you should just solve the problem and stop talking about it
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I write software and I sell the software I write. Writing and selling it taught me the imp
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What on earth!
Just horrifying. These police must be held accountable. They not only failed to act decisively when seconds counted, but they also prevented parents and others from doing so. Letting 40 minutes passâfumbling with a doorâwhile kids were being slaughtered is beyond reprehensible.
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I now hope those who called for more restrictions will see that we were opposed, not because we didnât care about COVID, but because the evidence wasnât strong enough to show they were going to help â as has now been shown by what's happened since July 19. https://t.co/g9KstpOJf0
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Despite Omicron worries, England has fared no worse than other nations that kept restrictions in place, says clinical epidemiologist Raghib Ali
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âIn some cases children as young as 3 months old are being separated from their breastfeeding mothers, according to posts in a quarantine hospital WeChat group shared with Reuters. In one room described in a post, there are eight children without an adultâ https://t.co/0i5Gn0eCpu
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Progress is sometimes just getting a different error than the one you've been getting for the last 30 minutes.
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