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Sean Scanlon

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when will then be now?

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Joined March 2007
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@littleidea
Andrew Clay Shafer 雷启理
8 years
the hardest problem in computer science is aligning talent and incentives with outcomes
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Sean Scanlon
8 years
Really impressed by @twitter transparency on exposing login passwords to their _internal_ logs. Most companies would sweep this under the rug and hope no one notices.
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@GORDYLAND
GORDY
9 years
this is important
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@mdcarlson
Mark D. Carlson
9 years
"If Maven downloads the Internet, npm downloads the Internet and all of its friends" --@mraible
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Sean Scanlon
9 years
"Not all wizards wear hats" -@oliverturner
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@TheBotLebowski
The Bot Lebowski
9 years
You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
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@sarahmei
Sarah Mei
9 years
Your team is an immutable data structure. Every time you modify it, you're actually making a whole new one.
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@ben_a_adams
Ben {chmark} Adams ⟠
9 years
Blaming perf issues on Garbage Collection is like blaming your hangover on your liver... Its the thing that's saving you from your code
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@holman
Zach Holman
9 years
There are only two hard problems in computer science: 1. People 2. People
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Sean Scanlon
9 years
Just posted a photo @ U.S. Route 395 in California
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@ericelliott_
Eric Elliott
9 years
Stuff that will help your coding career more than a degree: mentorship, cool projects on GitHub, experience building real apps.
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@Hay
Mike Hay
9 years
People are willing to pay $20 for games that will never be finished on kickstarter, but they won't pay $1.99 for a game they can have now.
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@CodeWisdom
Programming Wisdom
10 years
"It is far, far easier to make a correct program fast than it is to make a fast program correct." - Herb Sutter
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@_Caro_N
Carola Nitz
10 years
Cards against compilers!
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@CodeWisdom
Programming Wisdom
10 years
“Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.” - Eagleson's law
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Sean Scanlon
10 years
"Dude, suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something." —Jake, "Adventure Time" via @momentumdash
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@starbuxman
Josh Long
10 years
"Hug somebody you care about." *hugs production*
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