long novel that you read for years. You follow the characters as they change jobs, have kids, argue with airlines. Then the Nazis show up. 25.8K 7:35 AM - Jun 6, 2018 8,625 people are talking about this
on your car's instrument panel? This handy guide will help! (Be kind, share this with a friend) 42 8:17 PM - Nov 7, 2018 31 people are talking about this
(in club): "Hey DJ, play Love to Hate You" DJ: "No" Man: "I demand it under my Right to Erasure" 1,949 8:24 AM - May 5, 2018 936 people are talking about this
can't really defend our detention of one million Uighur Muslims for forced renunciation of Islam, so don't you dare show up at the discussion of our mass abuses at the UN Human Rights Council. trib.al/0Ma0tqO 58 4:40 PM - Apr 1, 2019 79 people are talking about this
Wang Wei-Lin. None of us knows what he looks like, but #OTD 29 years ago he was the bravest person in the world. This is the uncropped version of Jeff Widener's famous photo of Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989. 3,790 6:54 AM - Jun 5, 2018 2,356 people are talking about this
in a mass execution today. It also publicly pinned the executed body of a man to a pole. It’s an abomination that this regime is associated with anything related to human rights, let alone still somehow sitting on the UN Human Rights Council. 3,954 9:06 PM - Apr 23, 2019 3,059 people are talking about this
Greta is already one of the most important, if not the most important, people in history. She may be repeating scientific conclusions, but the disseminator of a message can be the most critical role of all. AJ+ AJ+ @ajplus "We probably don't even have a future anymore." Listen to this 16-year-old environmental activist's speech at the UK Parliament.
lived your life like a rover in the wind never fading with the sunset when the dust set in. Your tracks will always fall here, among Mars' reddest hills; your candle's burned out long before your science ever will.#ThanksOppy. I owe you so much.
iOS devs, a little bit of WoW, a little bit of Star Trek and superpeople. Mostly western, mostly white. When Notre Dame happened everyone was in shock or grief. Sri Lanka - nearly nothing. This is beyond biased. 9 7:02 AM - Apr 22, 2019 See Kaweh Kazemi's other Tweets
bullshit. Slow down, read books and longer articles. I was better informed when I got two day late Herald Tribunes when overseas. 19.6K 3:37 PM - May 15, 2018 · Reston, VA 4,483 people are talking about this
become okay to be more offended by what someone with no power says than by what someone with power does? 299K 3:21 PM - Apr 29, 2018 93.4K people are talking about this
capsule ever lands near you, they're marked with IKEA-like instructions on how to rescue the occupants. 1,931 1:19 AM - Jun 24, 2018 645 people are talking about this
z z <⌒/ヽ- 、___ /<_/____/  ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ∧_∧ I FIGURED OUT ( ・ω ・) HOW TO FIX THAT BUG _| ⊃/(___ / └-(____/ 66.4K 11:46 PM - Apr 19, 2019 16.4K people are talking about this
your biz logic) 20yrs ago: Java (focus on your biz logic) 15yrs ago: .NET (focus on your biz logic) 10yrs ago: Dynamic langs (focus on your biz logic) 5yrs ago: Microservices (focus on your biz logic) 0yrs ago: Serverless (focus on your biz logic) 2,571 4:04 AM - Mar 27, 2019 998 people are talking about this
Terpstra thought it was nice to meet you @ttscoff WTF. Can't update Xcode because my OS isn't up to date but can't update my OS because my OS is up to date. ckyp.us/CLqmN2 4 1:54 PM - Apr 21, 2019 · Winona, MN See Brett Terpstra thought it was nice to meet you's other Tweets Screen Shot on 2019-04-21 at 08-53-30.png Screen Shot on 2019-04-21 at 08-53-30.png Shared with Droplr ckyp.us
but Xcode cannot be updated. Maybe the next macOS will finally fix things? Or the one after that? 27 7:32 AM - Apr 23, 2019 See Tricertops's other Tweets
IRC - 2018: You are in a maze filled with dozens of twisty Electron- based chat apps, mostly alike 833 1:50 AM - Nov 25, 2018 247 people are talking about this
tools provide poor developer experience Critics of Electron are complaining about *end user* experience There are valid points to be made on both sides, but I don't think it's tribalism to suggest that as developers we should prioritize users. 447 9:59 AM - Apr 25, 2018 191 people are talking about this
who prefer a web experience are web developers. Benedict Evans Benedict Evans @benedictevans Apps and the web. 323 6:27 PM - Jan 31, 2019 105 people are talking about this
explains what business problem React Native solves. In the space I work in the vast majority of problems are organisational (deciding what to build etc) and building APIs for apps to use. The native app is the easy bit. 59 1:00 PM - Jun 23, 2018 34 people are talking about this
earthflatters of the Web. I've seen myself lately explaining and debating (with no much luck changing opinions) on —why semantic html —why no public sourcemaps —why performance —why a11y —why no storing client side personal data with no need —why responsive Adam Rackis Adam Rackis @AdamRackis Are there any benefits to writing semantic html *besides* accessibility? Even within accessibility, is it not true that attributes can achieve that? 130 5:30 PM - Mar 24, 2019 71 people are talking about this
need to fix this on IE - ok fixed - but now it doesn't work on safari - ok fixed - but now it doesn't work on firefox lord save me 24 3:09 PM - Mar 6, 2019 See Susanna Riccardi's other Tweets
Barristan of House Scott, first of his name @bazscott There has been a cross-platform tool in iOS and Android and Mac and Windows from the beginning - it’s called C. Oh, sorry, is that not hipster enough for you hipsters? I thought you liked old things? 43 3:15 AM - May 1, 2018 16 people are talking about this
idea behind POSIX was that for critical and long-lived systems—eg industrial control, large databases, and so on—you could write against one API and achieve easy and consistent portability? 11 7:28 PM - Apr 10, 2019 · Campbell, CA See Chris Hanson's other Tweets
PM - Sep 24, 2018 See LokiAstari's other Tweets Richard Smith Richard Smith @zygoloid · Sep 24, 2018 I'm running a mini contest during this year's @CppCon! Show me the most awful, surprising, horrific, inventive, well-formed C++ construct you can fit in a tweet. Best entry as judged by me wins an iPad. #cppcon #cppcon2018
I feel like I'm trying to talk to Lassie. What is it, Lassie. Is something wrong, Lassie. Is Timmy okay. What the heck are you trying to communicate to me you fucking dog I don't speak Endless Barking 3,099 6:30 AM - Dec 27, 2018 876 people are talking about this
a game of chess: merge master into next; merge next into release/1.0; branch release/0.15 off next; commit and tag 1.0 on release/1.0; merge release/1.0 into master; merge master into next; checkmate. 13 11:29 AM - Dec 15, 2018 See Hisham's other Tweets
In a Docker container. Inside a Kubernetes cluster. Running in a VM. On top of a Hypervisor. In someone else's datacenter. $ howdidigethere No. Fucking. Clue. 8,880 3:42 AM - Jun 3, 2018 3,527 people are talking about this
iOS app update release notes: - bugfix - Thanks for using our app! We regularly update to improve, etc - Yoiks! The bug squashing bunny came a hoppin’ through the bug prairie and stomped on some bugs! We fed him some carrots and called him a good boy 409 6:55 PM - Jun 19, 2018 130 people are talking about this
are not working on @HuaweiMobile phones since the last Google Play Services update (May 11th). Support from the company is terrible... #androiddev 8 2:56 AM - May 13, 2018 See Facu's other Tweets
like "dinosaur"? That kind of always already thinking doesn't even respect the actual dinosaurs, who ruled the earth for 66 million years. Swift is just a socially- mediated technique used by young programmers to overcome their lack of experience. 4 11:46 AM - May 3, 2018 See John Daniel's other Tweets [renaud _lienhart]; [renaud _lienhart]; @layoutSubviews · May 2, 2018 Apart from the wonky tooling, developing in Swift makes me so, so productive & happy. I have immense respect for the dinosaurs who still swear by Objective- C, but they are missing a (r)evolution and may get left behind.
your girlfriend isn’t that crazy too pic.twitter.com/P00ptv9aEY 10 5:50 PM - Nov 6, 2018 See Susanna Riccardi's other Tweets Patrick Balestra Patrick Balestra @BalestraPatrick · Nov 6, 2018 Turning 22 today! Last year was probably the craziest year of my life: graduated university, moved to a new country and got my dream job
routinely exercise in t-shirts memorializing life events older than the interns on your team. 1,577 6:36 AM - May 21, 2018 · Palo Alto, CA 163 people are talking about this
the software industry’s age bias is that much of what you use on a daily basis is developed by people for whom it is their first real project. This is why the same mistakes are made over and over again 777 10:46 PM - Jul 6, 2018 295 people are talking about this
portion of being over 40 in tech involves listening to younger people with Big Ideas, sighing deeply, and muttering “yes, we all knew about that 20 years ago.” Dylan Wilbanks, Human Grumpy Cat Dylan Wilbanks, Human Grumpy Cat @dylanw It's 2019 and a big chunk of the UX world has suddenly gone "wait, content is important to the user's experience" and I'm just like WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN THE LAST *TWENTY-FIVE* YEARS 42 4:42 PM - Jan 15, 2019 15 people are talking about this
@Mr_DrinksOnMe Interviewer: Do you think Brazil's 1970 team can beat today's Argentina? Pelé: Yes. Interviewer: By how much? Pelé: 1:0 Interviewer: That's it? Pelé: Well, most of us are over 75 now. 161K 10:28 AM - Jun 24, 2018 36.4K people are talking about this
it several times, but each one hasn't been able to figure out how to open the door to get out." Source: reddit.com/r/vim/comments… 179 11:28 AM - Jul 7, 2018 59 people are talking about this
responsibility isn’t to make puns, work on whatever they want, & fly around the world giving talks. MENTOR others to become better than you. DENOUNCE toxic culture. CRITICIZE decisions that hurt others. Programming is EASY. Being a decent human is still hard. 5,296 10:37 PM - Feb 1, 2019 1,661 people are talking about this
I wondered "Where are all the old coders?" then I worked for a year at a telecom and let me tell you: found 'em 8 5:30 PM - Mar 16, 2019 See cube drone's other Tweets Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The Planned Obsolescence of Old Coders Old coders never die, they just become middle managers. onezero.medium.com
woman in tech? You're an MIT grad who worked on creating the first pictures ever taken of a black hole and a bunch of tech bros scour your Github check-ins to prove you wrote less code than the men on the project. Ugh. reddit.com/r/unpopularopi… 7,961 2:53 AM - Apr 12, 2019 4,025 people are talking about this Katie Bouman should not be getting credit for the pictur Katie Bouman should not be getting credit for the pictur… … reddit.com
if Apple had invested in ironing out issues in Xcode instead of making a new language? Or took on the most popularly demanded bug/feature enhancements instead? 14 6:11 PM - Jun 10, 2018 See Daniel Pasco's other Tweets Daniel Pasco Daniel Pasco @dlpasco · Jun 10, 2018 Replying to @dlpasco Imagine telling your landlord “we really need the wiring in the house fixed” and having them come back and say “I built you a hot tub”. Well, damn, it’s a fine hot tub, yes, thanks. But not living with a fire hazard and having the lights work would have been better.
well over a year, we are close to dumping Swift on the server, and rewriting our app in something else. Memory keeps leaking at alarming rate (~1 GB+/day). Combination of Vapor 3, SwiftNIO, & Swift Foundation for Linux doesn’t seem production ready. 94 8:14 PM - Mar 25, 2019 51 people are talking about this
of Functads which are themselves a Tormund of Gurmoids, usually defined over the Devons. All you have to do is stick one Devon inside a Tormund and it yields Reverse Functads (Actually Functoids) you use to generate Unbound Gurmoids. 2,479 6:34 PM - Jul 15, 2018 838 people are talking about this
“fun” Rust: “fn” If you’re writing a new programming language, you know what you have to do 9,080 11:32 PM - Feb 28, 2019 3,015 people are talking about this
dev is 20% code and 80% people. Yet this industry pushes coding. We create code “bootcamps” , create “everyone should code” startups, crap on “soft skills” or anything that isn’t typing code, divide on “tech” and “non-tech”. Code is 20%. And I’m being generous. 3,585 2:46 AM - Jun 6, 2018 1,433 people are talking about this
moving to a new office! The CFO chose an open plan against your recommendation “for efficiency.” Roll 2d10 for how much turnover increases because no one can concentrate. 1,710 2:31 AM - Apr 28, 2018 657 people are talking about this
NOT like to work in an open office. Odds of company bosses actually taking this overwhelmingly negative sentiment into consideration when designing their new MODERN, COLLABORATIVE PHOTO OP SPACE? 0%. DHH DHH @dhh Poll: Do you like working in an open office? 635 7:21 PM - Jul 11, 2018 297 people are talking about this
TV: “this worker makes a unique ring with a diamond worth hundreds of thousands, this requires silence for concentration and precision.” software developer writing code worth billions: thrown on open space with foosball table. 32 9:46 PM - Dec 10, 2017 21 people are talking about this
have I seen a sales person held accountable for selling something that doesn’t exist. And yet I’ve seen countless engineers held accountable for not delivering something that was sold that didn’t exist. My single biggest frustration with our industry 8,763 11:00 PM - Apr 18, 2018 4,000 people are talking about this
Must have 10+ years Swift experience * Must have a PhD in Aqueous Geoochemistry from a top tier University * Must be a team player *zero applications later* Founder Blog Post: The War For Talent is real 3,319 9:07 AM - Jul 6, 2018 796 people are talking about this
security professionals anywhere juniors: uhh?? capitalism: not one person worth hiring WiT: u sure? capitalism: when will this skill shortage end PoC: excuse me, sir- capitalism: NO ONE AROUND ANYWHERE 948 2:43 AM - Jan 28, 2019 278 people are talking about this
down in the forest and there’s no one there to reverse it on a whiteboard would you be willing to relocate to SF? 2,184 12:12 AM - Jun 14, 2016 1,481 people are talking about this
recruiters keep sending me those hefty PDFs with photos of happy people around a table and list stuff like “company blog” or “flexible hours” but nothing about how’s the pay or how much vacation/year. You know - stuff that matter. 46 7:07 AM - Mar 12, 2019 See Marin Todorov's other Tweets
has ever actually done: 1. Represented a candidate exclusively 2. Sourced a candidate via github 3. Known what DevOps actually is 4. Sincerely hoped someone is well 635 8:52 PM - Feb 19, 2019 114 people are talking about this
interview is a one-way interview. At least, personally, I always am interviewing the potential team as well. No, you don't have all the control as the interviewer. 1,608 2:45 PM - Apr 27, 2018 297 people are talking about this
anyone know how to open a folder? Ugh I'll just google it." engineers interviewing other engineers: "How is the geodesic distance between quaternions defined and what are the implications for complex rotations in non-euclidean 4- space?" 6,185 12:58 AM - Feb 22, 2019 2,354 people are talking about this
“Answering the semantics of a question while ignoring the pragmatics provided by context.” “Interesting. Could you give me an example?” “Yes.” 13.7K 8:53 PM - May 28, 2018 5,317 people are talking about this
@lynncyrin When interviewing at a company, can I ask to look at some of their code? I wanna check for like ancient versions of libraries (angular 1, python 2) // nonexistent infrastructure (no tests, no ci) // code that's clearly a garbage fire (you know it when you see it) 382 6:00 PM - Jun 13, 2018 104 people are talking about this
promote "mental health in the workplace" ME: how about employing more ppl so the ppl employed are less pressured and paying them more to offset the stress of spiralling living costs and also giving ppl perm contracts EVERY COMPANY: lol no not like that 72.4K 10:28 PM - May 1, 2018 24K people are talking about this
anti-union — you are undermining the ability of workers to collectively negotiate and prevent being abused by shitty employers 15 3:28 PM - May 21, 2018 See Chris Hartjes's other Tweets Chris Hartjes Chris Hartjes @grmpyprogrammer · May 21, 2018 I was in a union when I worked at a grocery store. The union helped me when my boss tried to punish me because I laughed at the concept that my job there should be the most important thing in my life
years people will laugh at the idea of commuting an hour each way to an office where they pretend to be productive from 9-5, non stop. If your team isn’t distributed now, you’re missing one of the biggest productivity shifts in our lifetime. 11K 5:55 AM - May 15, 2018 4,055 people are talking about this
remote work. - I see... is your Sales team on-site? - No, they're on the road. - How about Leadership? - Always travelling… - Legal & Accounting? - Externalised! - IT? - Mostly outsourced... - 2,087 9:23 AM - Feb 27, 2019 624 people are talking about this
- We'd love to work with you on this project but you are too expensive (cut to few months later) - We have this terrible mess our other vendor left us with, how much will it cost to fix it? 2,059 7:08 PM - Feb 26, 2018 748 people are talking about this
/ takes me one step closer to the edge / and I'm about to add you to my professional network - "One Step Closer", LinkedIn Park 13 8:42 PM - Jun 6, 2018 See Graham Lee's other Tweets
to stop certification of scrum masters with no development experience. I’m sorry but if the business is paying me $175/hr. to lead a team and they’re a scrum master making $75k/yr, spending my time teaching them how software works is ineffective. 16 4:44 PM - Feb 24, 2019 See Jayme Edwards's other Tweets Jayme Edwards Jayme Edwards @jaymeedwards · Feb 24, 2019 Replying to @alshalloway and 3 others We don’t. We get rid of management that aren’t adding value to the production of product. I will not help people who have no business being in software advance their career as a bean counter.
for iOS engineers work? Is it like, engineer, senior engineer, then podcast host?” 1,658 3:40 AM - Jun 29, 2018 · Hayes Valley, San Francisco 253 people are talking about this
adobe reader takes up 50% CPU of the most powerful machines available to consumers. the carbon emissions from reading PDFs now exceed motor vehicles. it's still impossible to copy/paste text from a pdf 560 6:48 PM - Jun 4, 2018 185 people are talking about this sarah jeong sarah jeong @sarahjeong · Jun 4, 2018 Replying to @sarahjeong the other day i read a tweet about how adobe acrobat is bulky because it has to include backwards compatibility for every kind of pdf since the dawn of time
mainly used to illuminate your aluminum Christmas tree. (via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_…) 31 5:32 PM - Dec 13, 2018 See Justin Dolske's other Tweets
also the Soviet Union: - waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality - promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out 53.6K 8:47 PM - Jul 5, 2018 19.8K people are talking about this
everyone that the coding effort expended on Google pranks would have kept Google Reader alive indefinitely 2,784 6:33 PM - Apr 1, 2015 3,126 people are talking about this
own reflection in the mirror, it's hard to imagine that beauty could look any other way. But it can. The world is full of people who made a dent – big or small – without performatively sleeping on the factory or committing security fraud by tweet. Elon Musk Elon Musk @elonmusk Replying to @elonmusk There are way easier places to work, but nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week 2,739 11:23 PM - Nov 26, 2018 659 people are talking about this
Pro if I’m going to buy it… No Touch Bar USB A A proper keyboard (not the butterfly switch shit they have at the moment). The option to have the max spec (with the above restrictions) That’s it. Not hard to achieve Apple. 12 9:44 AM - May 15, 2018 · Leeds, England See Oliver Foggin's other Tweets
can be cheaper, yet very well built, sturdy, upgradable, have more memory, be more powerful, have a replaceable very fast NVMe SSD, than a MacBook Pro, supposedly the pinnacle of notebooks? 1 8:19 AM - Jun 16, 2018 See fabrice ファビリセ's other Tweets
about the idea that the 3rd- generation – latest and greatest! – design fixed the problems. It did not. They need to scrap the butterfly keyboard entirely. 53 7:54 PM - Apr 1, 2019 See DHH's other Tweets Kelly Vaughn Kelly Vaughn
all the #plastic wraps on @apple products? Set a new #environmental standard. * Plastic to wrap the phone *in* a box. * Plastic to wrap the plug *in* a box. * Plastic to wrap the box itself. * Plastic to hold that box *in* another box. 21 9:29 AM - Oct 28, 2018
Lyft to pickup at SFO’s arrivals level, so they pickup at departures. This has made congestion so bad, there’s now a sign encouraging drop-offs to go to arrivals. So now departures go to arrivals & arrivals go to departures because tech fixes everything. 33.7K 11:07 PM - Jun 3, 2018 8,820 people are talking about this
in cryptocurrencies that we held for customers because our founder died and he was the only one with the passwords to the wallets. Welcome to the financial future! coindesk.com/quadriga-credi… 5,060 9:09 PM - Feb 1, 2019 3,571 people are talking about this QuadrigaCX Owes Customers $190 Million, Court Filing Shows - Coin QuadrigaCX Owes Customers $190 Million, Court Filing Shows - Coin… … “Quadriga’s inventory of cryptocurrency has become unavailable and … coindesk.com
uses bitcoin, stopping that is almost certainly the best thing you can do to reduce your company’s carbon emissions” @merxplat at #rubyconf_au - 205kg carbon dioxide per transaction! 2,841 5:54 AM - Feb 7, 2019 2,554 people are talking about this
increase demand for iPhones, noting that they double as flashlights and sirens and can be charged by hand crank. bloom.bg/2R5u63R 1,167 6:34 PM - Jan 22, 2019 855 people are talking about this
acquisition by Microsoft... No worries this happened with Skype, Wunderlist and Nokia and... oh fuck. 29 10:14 PM - Jun 3, 2018 23 people are talking about this
is live! This month we talk about Work. In this rather depressing yet unabashedly hopeful edition we feature articles by guest authors @mcpaccard and @atineoSE deprogrammaticaipsum.com/category/issue… 2 5:06 AM - Apr 1, 2019 See De Programmatica Ipsum's other Tweets
nazis here Twitter: Baseball videos! Can’t find those anywhere else. Us: No, death threats help Twitter: Moments! Like CNN but stupid! Us: Wat are you doing Twitter: Kanye’s birthday party! Kardashians! Whee! 24 11:19 PM - Jun 13, 2018 See 's other Tweets
becomes negligible and is dominated by the weak nuclear force 1 8:45 PM - Nov 12, 2018 See Tom Brow's other Tweets akosma akosma @akosma · Nov 12, 2018 Replying to @steipete if nanoinfluencers have less than 1000 followers, I guess picoinfluencers have less than 100, femtoinfluencers have less than 10, and when you open a new Twitter account you're a zeptoinfluencer until you have 1 follower, at which point you are an attoinfluencer.
"showrooming" today: people taking pictures of books and buying them from #Amazon in the store and even bragging about it. This is not ok, people. Find it here. Buy it here. Keep us here. That is all. 50.1K 2:48 AM - Dec 16, 2018 11.8K people are talking about this
have to work to earn their money. That's what makes them wealthy. Some of y'all get a two car garage and don't want to tax billionaires because you think you're closer to being a billionaire than being poor. But my salaried beloved....*peeks over glasses* 15.9K 6:02 PM - Apr 22, 2019 5,080 people are talking about this
figured out that software is pretty much tapped out. If they want to keep growing, they have to take over other sectors. This is what they say when they mean "software will eat the world." It sounds nicer than "*we* will eat the world." 849 11:57 PM - Mar 11, 2019 181 people are talking about this Dr Sarah Taber Dr Sarah Taber @SarahTaber_bww · Mar 11, 2019 Replying to @SarahTaber_bww I don't I've quite articulated why I'm so critical of the tech industry. Tech isn't just software anymore. They're coming for ag, food, & manufacturing- & they're bringing a negligent attitudes towards risk & safety that they learned in the cushy world of apps.
a software engineer, I lost all of my previous desires to work for big two, Facebook and Google. They have the same reputation of Philip Morris now for me and many people. #surveillancecapitalism @aral 89 7:52 PM - Jun 9, 2018 39 people are talking about this
conscience who still works at Facebook to aggressively seek other options. It's hard to walk away from the money/perks, and most of all, to admit that you were hoodwinked into thinking you were a part of something good or special. But it's long past time. 224 6:43 PM - Jan 30, 2019 115 people are talking about this Sentius Magnus Sentius Magnus @drance · Jan 30, 2019 I don't mention him often. But I can hear, in my head, Steve explaining the App Store and code signing in 2008 to a Mossberg or a Pogue with an example of a dishonest company trying to spy on your children. This situation is exactly why certificates exist. theverge.com/2019/1/30/1820… Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps Facebook’s internal iOS apps simply don’t launch anymore. theverge.com
happened at #TED2019. Within minutes of revealing Facebook’s intimidation tactics onstage, I stepped off it to find Facebook had complained & demanded to see my script. Great credit to @TEDtalks & @TEDChris for standing firmtheguardian.com/uk-news/2019/a… 7,590 2:33 PM - Apr 22, 2019 3,654 people are talking about this My TED talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair | Carole Cadwall My TED talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair | Carole Cadwall… … For more than a year, the Observer writer has been probing a darknes… theguardian.com
I use to protect myself from surveillance on a Chromebook? A. A hammer.#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism 32 9:01 AM - Jan 23, 2019 17 people are talking about this
of poverty at the end of the 19th, and a distinctive sign of rich people at the end of the 20th. smartphone addiction used to be a distinctive sign of rich people 10 years ago, but now it's a sign of poverty. accelerations.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/sun… 3 11:36 AM - Apr 1, 2019 See akosma's other Tweets Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good Screens used to be for the elite. Now avoiding them is a status symbol. nytimes.com
LABOR made your iPhone. Labor makes things under any -ism. The -isms just determine who gets paid 8,556 4:22 AM - Apr 26, 2015 7,619 people are talking about this
people. Stop allowing this kind of thing. Refuse to participate in the development of anything that doesn't have safeguards. Stop looking just at your code and start looking at what you're putting out into the real world. 25 7:35 AM - Mar 5, 2019 17 people are talking about this Charlie "Don't Surf" Owen Charlie "Don't Surf" Owen @sonniesedge · Mar 5, 2019 Replying to @sonniesedge And fuck me, there's going to be a whiny privileged white dev boy (because it's always is) saying that HE hasn't done anything and that HE is actually a good boy and doesn't discriminate. If you're that boy, shut up. Stop making it about you.
CEO of facial recognition company Kairos argues that the technology’s bias and capacity for abuse make it too dangerous for govt use. Kairos will refuse to sell its technology to governments. Via @BrianBrackeen techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/fac… 4,254 5:03 PM - Jun 25, 2018 2,452 people are talking about this
Smith on ethics in AI: “We don’t want to see a commercial race to the bottom. Law is needed.” (Nobody cares about ethics. There's no money in ethics. Ethics slows progress. Ethics kills jobs. Government is the problem.) 8 3:00 PM - Mar 5, 2019 See Kontra's other Tweets
my new book, which LAUNCHED TODAY. Read the excerpt, then buy the book! ruinedby.design/sample- chapter 213 2:49 PM - Apr 10, 2019 71 people are talking about this Sample Chapter — Ruined by Design Sample Chapter — Ruined by Design ruinedby.design
oath for programmers: I will program no harm by privacy theft, attention hoarding, radicalization optimization. I will not put engagement metrics above the humans they are extracted from. 3,325 4:31 PM - Feb 1, 2019 1,041 people are talking about this
in iOS: coordinators, routers, presenters, and more. Some of these ideas are so cool! Then I remember we reached hundreds of millions of users with just -pushViewController:animated: Sometimes simple works. 764 9:07 PM - Apr 19, 2019 167 people are talking about this
This tweet saves you many $1000s: Don’t use custom fonts or sizes, Dynamic Type only Don’t create custom navigation Don’t create custom transitions unless it is pivotal to your product Accessibility is more important. Ego-free UX 1,867 2:25 PM - Feb 20, 2019 463 people are talking about this
feito a partir de baixo. Alles wordt van onderen gehouden. Wszystko odbywa się od dołu. Tout est tenu d'en bas. Everything is held from below. Все держится снизу. Tutto è trattenuto dal basso. Todo se sostiene desde abajo. 1 2:38 PM - Feb 16, 2019 See akosma's other Tweets
"work" I don't just mean the 9-5 money-making sort of work). You have limits. And it's not a bad thing when you have to cut back, when you have to relax, when you have to take time to heal. 380 7:12 AM - Feb 13, 2019 27 people are talking about this foone foone @Foone · Feb 13, 2019 Replying to @Foone And it's the same thing with mental illnesses: You cope. You spend spoons on making up for the problems they cause. You may stay functional... but you are spending spoons. You don't have an unlimited budget.
quality in people. One that I recently have had the unfortunate experience to have to think a lot about. Be kind to others. It costs you nothing. 21 10:20 AM - Jul 13, 2018 See Erik Tjernlund's other Tweets