Mark Myers
@markcmyers
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My books have taught #coding to grandmothers, cab drivers, musicians, and 50,000 other self-learners. Anyone can learn to code if you start with the right book.
Taos, NM
Joined February 2009
Just saw Ali Wong's Netflix special, and was shocked. I thought she walked that way because she was pregnant.
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20 Years After 9/11, One Thing to Remember is the Wave of Censorship That it Sparked, by @jeffmaurer1980
imightbewrong.org
There are lessons for today
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Jeff Maurer used to write for John Oliver. Now he's writing the smartest, sanest, funniest political blog on the Internet. I just subscribed.
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If we could just get 10 years further ahead on global warming, we could drown the damn virus.
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Our order finally came in from China, and my wife's baking a bat upside down cake.
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Don't run. Don't walk. Don't leave the house. There's new information from NEJM that means there's no safety for most of us outdoors.
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I just got a message from my food store saying I hadn't given them quantities for the canned tuna, soups, powdered milk, and other items I ordered online for curbside pickup. I assumed they understood that I wanted all of them.
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Radical measures are exactly what we need right now. Closing schools, unfortunately, is exactly the wrong one. Read more:
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It's worse than you think. An assessment from a non-expert who knows how to read the data and do the math.
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A Memory Shortcut, With a Little Help From Friends
nytimes.com
Humans formed social networks long before social media, so why not put them to use?
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Anyone can learn the fundamentals of a computer language in as little as 12 hours through expanding repetition. Start with the partridge. Endlessly recall the partridge and each thing that comes after it.
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I know because the Bible, Daddy, Fox & Exxon say so vs. I know because science, stats & logic say so. There's no Google Translate for this.
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Don't be embarrassed to search for correct code online. A new study says that Google developers themselves Google for code six times a day.
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A Facebook co-founder explains why 80-hour workweeks are self-defeating, at Amazon or anywhere else.
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In a stroke of #corporateWeirdness, #Subway tweeted that #JaredFogle's crimes "don't represent our values." So good to know!.
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JavaScript aka Java: 6% of my readers—people who are actually learning JS—refer to it as "Java" on feedback forms and in Amazon reviews.
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Live teachers are customer service for poorly designed learning materials.
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