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Software engineer. Makes databases go fast. Purveyor of fine core dumps. Draußen nur Kännchen. https://nitter.gq/t.co/24wbDKHgYA

San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2010
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Neugründung der Deutschen Demokratischen Partei wäre doch mal was
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Jia Tan found a way to get paid to work on open source. Why can't you
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Nennt mir eine berühmte Frau aus der Geschichte und ich sage Euch, wie Richard David Precht ihre berufliche Fähigkeiten eingeschätzt hätte.
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An engineer and ex-founder wrote a long post on Google's culture. This line stands out to me:
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PSA: Google Cloud Support is unbelievably bad. They make you cry out for Comcast-level support.
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There's this idea that software is more about tacit knowledge of the team than the code. I hope somebody is watching the greatest experiment conducted around that carefully.
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Gender reveal parties, but for German nouns.
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the difference between mathematicians and computer scientists is that mathematicians love math and computer scientists hate computers
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Has Austin Powers made it to Suez yet?
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I have been working on pandemic outbreaks for 15 years. There is a misunderstanding of the difference between the response in much of the West, versus successful countries (including New Zealand and Australia). Summarizing: 1.Reactive versus proactive and goal oriented. 1/-
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Over the past days I've been exploring extreme right-wing sites from all over the world again. There are various approaches to Corona which I will detail another time. What stands out: Uncontrolled infection seems to be the preferred approach - let me explain why:
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It was only a matter of time before I did one of these #sorrynotsorry
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HAMILTON
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So proud how my sourdough turned out. And on the first try, too.
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If oil goes any lower, Exxon Mobil might have to layoff some members of Congress.
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Jesus in Zoom:
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Nothing like landing in a foreign country and being greeted with a sake tasting in the airport
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I wrote about why the downturn of storytelling in #GameofThrones also explains why it's hard for us to deal with Facebook, YouTube, AI, etc. The show was a rare beast: a sociological narrative in a world dominated by psychological/individualized ones. blogs.scientificamerican.com…
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This photo of Dr. Katie Bouman seeing the first image of a black hole upon reconstruction is perhaps the most evocative photo of intellectual breakthrough that I have seen -- of anyone, ever. 1/
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