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Slack is the opposite of organizational memory
The internet is not a dumptruck and neither am I
Abe Winter
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Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs
You know nothing John Snow
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Instead of containers, give me strong config and deploy primitives
A modest proposal
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Stripe can make automatic LLCs but a wire transfer from Citi nearly ended me
Big banks lack the DNA to build self-serve
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ORMs Are Backwards
Not bad just backwards
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The coming IP war over facts derived from books
Facts are friends not food
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Leakage paths for the Apple / Google Bluetooth tracing system
Plus general overview
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Automatic categorization of text is a core tool now
Get ready for medium data
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Warrantless encryption is a first amendment issue
Encryption is privacy incarnate – don’t ban it
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JITs are un-ergonomic
I lift my LAMP beside the github door. Keep ancient Fortran your storied numeric libs cries she. Give me your interpreted, your slow, the wretched refuse of your (insert pun for ‘teeming shore’).
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Slack's core flaws require topic modeling to fix
Chatops is a ladder
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Only distributed fact-checking can keep up with democratized distribution
Tragedy of the comments
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Patton's sword and the future of work
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Gmail really wants me to say yes
Works for me. I’m down. Absolutely.
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Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta
Why did you sting me? You’ll drown too