Jeremy Caney

Founder, Developer at Ignia. Owner, Product Strategist at Black&Cane. Investor, Advisor at startups. Portrait Photographer. Student of genetics. Wannabe Journo.

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And that, class, concludes today's object lesson in probabilistic forecasting of one-time events.

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@jayvanbavel @PackerLab “Who are we?”

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@Llarian Disappointing, but not surprising. Even in comparatively minor and insignificant business scenarios, there’s always those who are quick to assign blame—even before taking the immediate steps necessary to stop the bleeding. The comparison isn’t exact, but it’s the same motivation.

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@davidfowl That’s why I only write serializers, and then leave deserialization as an exercise for the reader 💁🏻‍♂️

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@GHGGuru I attempted to trace back the source. I suspect this came from a 2016 McKinsey report, which claims, “nearly three-fifths of all clothing produced ends up in incinerators or landfills within years of being made.” If so, that’s not exactly the same claim.

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@GHGGuru That’s a pretty astonishing number. The author of the article doesn’t seem to offer a citation to support it. I’d like to understand the context and any conditions that might apply. Is this referring to consumers in the US? Worldwide? Of all age groups? A source would be useful.

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I’m in awe of @SenSchumer’s decision to post this without quotation marks or a citation. He must have known it would yield this reaction. Given the rank hypocrisy of the responses, I’m not certain this is good politics—but I can’t imagine a better COMMENTARY on our politics.

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This thread is such a beautiful demonstration of partisanship, motivated reasoning, and decontextualization. Liberals are defending “@SenSchumer’s” words; conservatives damning them. Very few seem to recognize that this was (supposed to be) a scathing indictment of @SenateMajLdr.

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The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.

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@dot_NET_Junkie Oh, useful! I wonder when that was introduced? I know I tried this a number of years ago, but there wasn’t IntelliSense support for it at the time. As someone who over-comments my code, I’ve often wanted this feature. Does it actually export with the XML? Thanks for the tip!

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@Paleophile While I was on sabbatical last year, I was almost entirely absent from most social media. Returning to it was a rude awakening as to just how toxic it can be—and how unproductive and unfulfilling I find it. I’ve reduced my engagement considerably, and even that isn’t sufficient.

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@JesseJenkins @mattyglesias @Princeton It’s worth putting that number into context. In the university system as a whole, I believe it’s ≈50% of attendees are now the first generation to have attended college. By that measure, that 16% doesn’t sound as impressive, and helps demonstrate the imbalance in admissions.

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@andaroo @Reshadd @shanselman And, if I’m honest, I still don’t fully appreciate them. The challenge with a lot of “coaching” is it’s egocentric. I’m introverted; I live in a large, comfortable home with my own, dedicated office; my work is fundamentally online; I don’t have children. My advice is irrelevant.

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@andaroo @Reshadd @shanselman As I’ve exclusively worked from home for the past decade, I considered writing up some advice on LinkedIn when this first started, a month or two ago. For all of the above reasons, I’m glad I didn’t. At the time, I didn’t fully appreciated the additional stresses this introduces.

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@andaroo @Reshadd @shanselman Though, I do suspect it’s ESPECIALLY difficult for people who don’t already have good work-from-home habits, and are trying to develop them AT THE SAME TIME as adjusting to the unique stresses and limitations of quarantine. And that’s compounded for every member of the household.

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@andaroo @Reshadd @shanselman I actively avoid logging into LinkedIn. I can only imagine the self-help style articles that are being passed around right now. All social media is subject to a level of reductive analysis and self-aggrandizing. But that combines poorly with narrow-focused professional optimism.

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@Reshadd @shanselman This is compounded by quarantine where normal routines and boundaries are already disrupted, and it offers an easy, welcome distraction. Further, it creates a feedback loop with depression by displacing all of those healthy routines, and providing an escape from the real world.

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@Reshadd @shanselman For me, it’s often about pacing. I get excited, invested in a project, working more than I need—often disrupting my sleeping, eating, and social routines. I commit to more capabilities than the project warrants, but by the time I recognize that it’s more work to rewind features.

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@geneticmaize @MerriamWebster I use it that way. But I’m pretty archaic, in every sense of the word 💁🏻‍♂️

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@mattjqueen Don’t tell anyone, but I’m actually back in Seattle now. I’m just operating my Instagram on an alternate timeline because I fell so far behind on posting photos during sabbatical. I’m quite curious what conditions are like in the places we lived over the last year.

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@afrakt @MayorBrodeur FYI: It seems that tweet is now deleted.