@IamStan @patio11 very few people at those companies make that amount, though. "getting in" is another thing entirely. I also can't think of anything more depressing than working at Facebook. As @jwz says "if you work at Facebook, quit" https://t.co/bAni3D59wr

@deanputney @Frauenfelder @ARTofCOOP will it have wifi

@nso95 nukes, then

@DocPop once they release a new model, I'll have my old to sell, but don't know when that will be. I am a huge ipad pro fanboy

@nicksahler @patio11 It sounds like @patio11 is talking about people who have spent 10+ years at those companies, only?

@NateMeyvis @patio11 Just ask the founders of WhatsApp if you don’t believe me. Pretty sure they made more than $400k/yr.

@NateMeyvis @patio11 It also doesn’t cover the fact that FaceAmaGooBookSoft can be really miserable places to work long term, even for infinite cash

@NateMeyvis @patio11 I “feel like” I didn’t. Fight me.

@sandersted @patio11 feature req for Twitter, not me

@patio11 I don't doubt that @migueldeicaza (for example, who I do know) is making at least that much (and more) as a Distinguished Engineer but the rank and file?

@patio11 there are, statistically speaking, basketball players who make it to the NBA and lottery winners, yes.

@patio11 I feel like @patio11 is selling a "you, too, can play as a professional in the NBA!" narrative here which is.. a disservice.

@patio11 Let's test this out. Software engineers, considering your total compensation package:

@dungeonbastard @Supermathie cc @frandallfarmer

@deadprogrammer trash pandas

@stewsnooze 🤣

@beeglebug turns out Dru is not our pal after all

this insanity was in the background of a scene, Trainspotting always had a 👌 musical sensibility https://t.co/tNrrnn653u

@dakami copying exabytes of data onto (by PCI express SSD standards) brutally slow 6+ TB spinning rust drives is not a good time

@Pinboard we need to build the great slate on blockchain, or add a battle royale mode to it

@stugrassie I've heard this

apparently, the ad didn't work

@Carnage4Life yeah, nobody wants to see examples of people's work or anything. That'd be CRAAAZY. Also who has time to drive around and look at plumbing, anyhow?

@john_lam just a smidge faster

@imperez I honestly still haven't figured out what this means but it's hilarious

@lizardbill you can't block verified users on Twitter everyone knows that

@lizardbill rosebud was his sled

@Pinboard This is why we write everything in JavaScript for the web browser today

@wilshipley @mathowie was it better than season 4 at least?

@waxpancake lol this is great, particularly the reasons

@chetamahori see also this section on categorization. Humans don't do well with infinitely nested infiniteness https://t.co/cv30JN68xp

@gknauss Be sure to wear a flower in your hair

@Gryzor you and I should run away together and get married

@ftrain TOO SOON PAUL

@rands yes, yes, one of us, ONE OF US

@jrobertson presumably since I think fuel costs are big!

@JeffreyWiden also teleportation

@migueldeicaza PREACH BROTHER! PREACH IT! https://t.co/Y5Qc1DY2Xf

@Pinboard if we can't be kind in our cruelty, we are truly monsters

@Pinboard (slowly raises hand)

@stevesi @trieut I can agree with you on this point if you are building hardware, where the turnaround is years and the penalty for even small mistakes is massive. But software is so very malleable and getting more so every year. Google docs literally updates itself *while you are using it!*

@alicegoldfuss there should be a healthy dose of "let everyone go about their business without bothering them" in the world

@alicegoldfuss my solution is to stop caring about literally everything. But seriously, people should decide which things they *really* want to care about and curate their effort so they are spending it on the stuff that truly matters to them. Do not Care About All The Things.

@stevesi The jester makes jokes in the court of the king, and there is sometimes truth mixed in there. Where the humor ends and the truth begins is for the reader to decide.

@stevesi that's the fun thing about history: it doesn't always predict the future reliably. And I'd rather invent the future I want to exist. It's more fun!

@stevesi @discourse so tl;dr I'm "being the change I wish to see in the world"

@stevesi it's also a form of dogfooding; @discourse isn't merely "forums" it's a tool for collaborative remote teamwork.

@stevesi when you can hire the brightest minds from anywhere in the world, I strongly believe it is a huge competitive advantage to take advantage of that ;)

@susanthesquark @alicegoldfuss We do, but we're an open source project hosted on GitHub. I wouldn't say it is the only factor by any means, but it is an important one!

@stevesi depends how much you care about the future of work, I suppose!

@beanjammin @shribr oddly enough you can use a nut-gathering tool to pick up rivals. https://t.co/QhGfp8RKHm

@jarrod_dixon get back to me when global fertility crashes.. also see Children of Men

@shawnmaddock @_jubobs_ @discourse @SlackHQ It is also much more of a digital interruption 😑

@segebee @discourse Check out https://t.co/xtRYvz7geU and https://t.co/uM3Y5PRC90 — we are always hiring github contributors and active community members!

@bryanculver it certainly does not become optimistic. There are occasional whiffs of some optimism but then they are mercilessly crushed under an inevitable bootheel

@Pinboard insufficient, must be morally outraged

@secretGeek the obvious solution is to press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+ENTER

@waxpancake @textfiles let it be said, and so let it be done, amen

@ftrain https://t.co/XDK8jrlyfX

@DanDiplo it will, just like Counter-Strike has been around for 20+ years

@photomatt ohh thank God finally ;)

@danluu searching for stopwords is always gonna be a little weird but there are edge cases of titles that are legit all stopwords https://t.co/eKGLispcjN

@Carnage4Life on the other hand, I'm glad they at least have some conscience left after selling out. But of course not selling out would have been the smarter long term play.

@JohnONolan @ekryski I also have tremendous confidence in @natfriedman

@JohnONolan @ekryski I definitely don't disagree on the massive internal disarray part though. Whatever GitHub's ideas of leadership were, they clearly weren't right.

@5tu @siracusa yeah for retina, or for all displays? and it's intentional? I'm curious

@JohnONolan @ekryski It's worth ~19 billion to me if you can avoid being LinkedIn.. ever.

@JohnONolan @ekryski 7.5B in stock doesn't sound.. terrible? How many billions does it need to reach to be "good"?

@JohnONolan what was the value of the stock? How many shares, etc? Do you know?

@gknauss I had one job where I wrote a FoxPro for DOS system to handle a bunch of doctor-related calls. The supervisor wanted it turned off for a week to upgrade, thought it'd be no big deal to go back to paper. A week later she was begging me to bring it back faster.

@causalinf "studies" the "sex markets" you mean

@gknauss ok crankypants, I'm giving you an Apple // for your next task. Enjoy.

@mathowie Pretty sure Muhammad was the first action hero

@vladsavov "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution" -- @cshirky

@tqbf bureau + crazy with a weird spelling is how I remember it, which fits the definition.. like I was telling @mathowie a while ago

@_4261727279_ https://t.co/riCvD1sLeX

I kinda miss Ballmer. Yeah he was too aggro and too Windows Server Is All The Things, but like C+C Music Factory, he was Gonna Make You Sweat

@kevindente unsubscribe

@scottwasson this is a very deep cut from the archives indeed

@PierB @AndrewNCassidy it is on iOS!

@discourse is absolutely and unequivocally 100% open source, not "open core" -- there are zero features we hide behind Enterprise Edition hosting. Compare with GitLab https://t.co/Uop6VFRg4H

@roloreaper Fortnite battle royals

@gameshack_ Yes it was 20 v 20

@gameshack_ Counter sniped. After 10 knockdowns they wised up. I should have moved.

@bdharrington more salt goes with everything!

@nicksahler It is ok to forget that LinkedIn exists

I had forgotten how awesome the bug-a-salt is. So awesome. https://t.co/uS9nAJFDiH

@andreaniDouglas not a whole lot of rat fans because they're like 90% vermin https://t.co/DNhbaDWMnt

Rats 3, Jeff 1. One of the snap traps got a rat, finally. I didn't realize how much bigger rats are (250g) versus mice (25g). I did take a picture, but I am not posting it because it is suuuuper disgusting.

@shanselman I already did! just no kinect https://t.co/3m002gIvdW

@mathowie this.. can't.. be good for anyone

@happywebcoder I find the benchmark data over the last 3 or 4 years for Rails and ActiveRecord in particular supports my assertion. A 20% performance loss for 50% more selfish "developer happiness" is completely fine per Rails Doctrine. Sad that we can't optimize for "user happiness", instead.

@HMSchreck Also I bought the planks off Amazon, I didn't make them.. lots of 'em for sale there, have a look

@HMSchreck hey! there's youtube videos of this working like gangbusters, man! look it up if you don't believe me. If anything this is an allegory for "specific engines work best at specific things", just like Stack Overflow is very strict Q&A and sucks at discussion.. by design ;)

@axlotl yeah this is why poison food is such a bad idea.. also the "wherever they happen to die, they decompose" angle is.. daunting

@jongalloway @kevinmarks I say good riddance! Avocados are gross! :trollface:

@ckloote @tqbf Loved the ending, I second this rec

@mikeydoubled @burtonachitect D batteries are a pain and expensive though

@jongalloway @kevinmarks This New John Galloweigh is ... pinteresting

@burtonachitect They came out of the box tuned for mice.. did not realize rats are 10x heavier!