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San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2008
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Keep in mind that when you send a pull request you're saying, "I wrote some code. I think you should maintain it."
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for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change
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"My Library" (my cartoon for yesterday's @guardianreview )
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you have to know just how clean code can be before you can decide whether producing code that clean is worth it
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RIP TDD on.fb.me/1luakLD i'm shopping for new programming techniques. a bunch of new techniques.
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Joe Sims retweeted
So proud of our @CoverHound team for its 15th straight record month in new policy growth! #Innovation + #Passion = #HappyCustomers
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"The genius behind Isaac’s design of npm is that it solves dependencies, a longtime problem in computer science" quote from npm inc's COO
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Saddest thing you’ll hear all day: Curiosity has a little speaker that it used to play Happy Birthday to itself on Mars.
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Drink every time someone on your team says “Yeah I have a branch that fixes that but I just haven’t deployed it yet”.
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Kudos to our @CoverHound team for another record growth month! And they did it only 27 Days this month. #Teamwork & #Innovation
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i mostly write comments for code i haven't written yet
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I don't actually know how to program computers; this is a 17-year piece of performance art
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Apparently it rains in Miami. They never showed that on Burn Notice. – at Miami Beach, FL
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Joe Sims retweeted
Etsy has a new HTTP response code "439 Request Not Handmade", for if we suspect you're a robot scraping/abusing us. Artisanal requests only!
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teaching tdd yesterday: it scales your brain by offloading on the computer a bunch of stuff you would otherwise have to remember
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"Become a programmer, they said. It'll be fun, they said." whatthecommit.com/b308cab3c8…
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There really is nothing quite like the fresh smell of green-field app development.
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This is your periodic reminder that you should read The Pragmatic Programmer. Read it already? Read it again: pragprog.com/book/tpp/the-pr…
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Rails 4.0.0: Final version released, weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/… -- still love this framework after 10 years of working on it!
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