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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
I think the term “technical debt” is muddying the waters. Let us speak plainly. A 🧵.
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People say Steve Jobs was a product genius. Some insist on claiming he was our iPhone “product manager” too. Let’s take a look at this. How did he work?
Arnaud Mamias retweeted
Not enough people are talking about the fact that Wordpress gains 3-4% market share *of the entire web* annually.
Let me rephrase: Wordpress adds 1 Shopify **every year**.
w3techs.com/technologies/his…
ALT stats from the table showing historical growth of wordpress
Arnaud Mamias retweeted
"Swinging the Pendulum" is my favourite operating principle @Shopify. I learned it here and used for many years in leadership.
It's a metaphor we used to communicate when we need teams to start optimizing for the other end of the spectrum.
Here's how it works:
Arnaud Mamias retweeted
jo | curl --json | jq
In the future, you'll forget there ever was a time when you didn't use this trinity.
Arnaud Mamias retweeted
finding the radius of curvature of a curve at a point,
by finding the intersection of two normals very close to the point
Arnaud Mamias retweeted
Here's something you've never seen before: a prototype original iPod. panic.com/blog/a-prototype-o…
ALT A photograph of a prototype original iPod. The case is extremely large and has yellowed over time. There is a funky clickwheel, the final size LCD screen, and large black buttons labelled UP, DOWN, LEFT and RIGHT.
Arnaud Mamias retweeted
Ever Given a chance, pull off an engineering feat. Figure things out. Apply effort.
Arnaud Mamias retweeted
1 - I want to share some data from a client we worked with last year where we did something that I think was a little clever to definitively prove the incredible value of their community.
But first, some background....
#CMGR
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An interesting follow up to the Apple certificate server system. blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple…
Plaintext feels so odd in 2020.
Arnaud Mamias retweeted
Photographer Reuben Wu uses LED-equipped drones to illuminate mysterious shapes. This is Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, a nearly featureless white landscape left behind by the evaporation of prehistoric lakes. wired.trib.al/NHfaMiE
Arnaud Mamias retweeted
Agile team "velocity" is typically a drop in the bucket compared to your actual lead time. (Image adapted from @joshuajames).
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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
In reflecting on Coinbase debacle, I hope that the dissolution of employee trust in traditional corporate structures with regards to social responsibility will force us to explore different forms of collective organization that are more conducive to shared social consciousness /1
Arnaud Mamias retweeted
this electrical transmission tower has a little problem. can you spot it? actually, it's not a small problem--it cost us 16.65 *billion* dollars and caused the deaths of 85 people.
Arnaud Mamias retweeted
Don't let the sweater-vests and the (dilettantish) "education reform" work fool you: Bill Gates made his fortune through sheer robber-baronry, presiding over a vicious monopolist that shattered the law in its greedy quest for billions and permanent, global dominance.
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Arnaud Mamias retweeted
Economists of every stripe, from Marx to Milton Friedman, have a consensus on the nature of land: "Land is a natural commons — it belongs to everyone, and that land value (rents) should be recaptured by the community, who create the value in the first place."
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