Engineer at https://xitter.cf/t.co/SYbghks00r. Serverless, cloud, ML/AI, Haskell, node.js, FP. Dad, runner, mountain unicycler. Hacker since 1978!
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Exercising 150 minutes per week for 4 months is equally as effective as taking an antidepressant for depression, review finds.
Get outside and get moving.
Start small and easy. For many, a walk is enough when you are starting.
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If you can see the lunar eclipse right now, you're watching all sunrises and sunsets across the world, reflected back to us by the moon.
(Images from NASA/GSFC)
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You can't innovate in a space, including open source, by accepting the same constraints as the entrenched competitors. But this is exactly what most people do; try to do the same thing, but slightly different, and win on being better.
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Picard management tip: Don't assume anything is possible or impossible until you've asked the people who will be doing the work.
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If your employer is requiring proof of vaccination to go to the office, I want to hear from you. DMs are open. Email: danielle.abril@washpost.com
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At @FPComplete we've just opened up a new position for a Scala developer, details on our jobs page if anyone is interested. You'll get to work on a project including both Haskell and Scala, and with our team of Haskell, Rust, Scala, and DevOps engineers: fpcomplete.com/jobs
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Why have laws controlling guns? Killers will just ignore them anyway.
Why have laws against rape? Rapists will just ignore them anyway.
Why have laws against anything? Criminals will just ignore them anyway.
Why have government?
Why have society?
Why try to do anything?
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Bam! @Paceline_fit jumping around the top 50 iOS apps is a fantastic test for a solid architecture. Serverless is a facet, but also how loosely coupled a system is, leads to a small engineering team getting a good night's sleep during high system load. #serverless #javascript
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New episode alert! In today’s episode of PodRocket we interview David Luecke, creator of @feathersjs, a framework for real-time applications and REST APIs. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts bit.ly/3dBUIZ2
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Enough is enough. Amazon hosts Parler on @awscloud.
As Amazon workers, we demand Amazon deny Parler services until it removes posts inciting violence, including at the Presidential inauguration.
We cannot be complicit in more bloodshed and violent attacks on our democracy.
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If there's a significant political backlash for impeaching Trump for **inciting an insurrection** then we're probably completely fucked no matter what.
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Esoteric metrics based on analyzing extensive data about employee activities has been mostly the domain of fringe software vendors. Now it's built into MS 365.
A new feature to calculate 'productivity scores' turns Microsoft 365 into an full-fledged workplace surveillance tool:
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Catching a little heat for my $FB comment at the end, but I’ll double down.
Going to work for Facebook today is like going to work for Philip Morris in the 1970s.
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