Ruxandra Panainte

software engineer @microsoft. working on @MSFTDynamics365 @MSPowerApps with @reactjs @typescript. @UCL @uclcs alumna. born and raised in Timisoara, Romania.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW 🧵: Is human intelligence starting to decline?

Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s.

What should we make of this?

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too?

And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates.

A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

[colinhacks @colinhacks]

somehow this is the meanest thing anyone's ever said to me

[Paul Krugman @paulkrugman]

I keep seeing a factoid to the effect that the euro area and the US economies were the same size in 2008, but America is now 44 percent bigger. Folks, that’s just the exchange rate. At purchasing power parity, nothing like that has happened

[Timișoara 2023 @Timisoara_2023]

We celebrate the Official Opening of Timisoara 2023 - European Capital of Culture!
We are waiting for you!
#TM2023 #ECoC #Timisoara #EuropeanCapitalofCulture #culture #EuropeanCulture #Heritage #Romania #ShineYourLight

[Chloe Condon @ChloeCondon]

Shout-out to everyone on-call, but still trying to have a "normal" weekend:

[Adam Jacob @adamhjk]

Backlogs and Sprints are the two worst things that we were gifted by Scrum. The backlog allows you to "plan" in advance - the idea being that you know what to build, and it's just a matter of building it. You get folks to estimate it, so you can have a sense of how long it takes

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

One very strange thing that happened to me at Skype, where we went all-in on Scrum and 2-week sprints:

Sprint burnout.

I got tired of the retro & planning every 2 weeks. That as soon as we finished a sprint, we'd start a new one.

Got this feeling about 8 months into sprints.

[littleapostate @littleapostate]

miss him

[Chelsea Fagan @Chelsea_Fagan]

we never talk about how our normalization of things that are luxuries -- travel, vacations, college, paid leave, summer camps, internships, hobbies, etc -- forces people who can't afford them to pretend they have more than they do just to seem normal enough for mainstream society

[Molly Struve 🦄 @molly_struve]

Sometimes you just gotta go with it

[Ruxandra Panainte @RuxyP]

@monanicoara Thank you for sharing this. We don't talk enough about those dark times in Romania and I fear people are starting to forget. What keeps me up at night is that there is a certain brand of Romanian conservatives who love copying everything they see from there American counterparts.

[Emma Gannon @emmagannon]

Truly truly devastating Handmaid's Tale type of shit. Turns out we are hardly ever "over-reacting" or being "hysterical". We are living in unhinged times.

[Brandon Streussnig @BrndnStrssng]

i never know what the temp for Gerwig is on here but I think it’s cool how she kinda always dresses to match the vibe of the movie she’s making. More people should do that. I’d have a little more respect for Jon Watts if he wore the Rhino’s costume on set

[Daniel Trubman @dmtrubman]

my politics is whatever this is

[Roshan Patel @roshanpateI]

my mom just ended my life

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

Me when I get a teams chat on Monday at 8am

[Ruxandra Panainte @RuxyP]

@monanicoara Thank you for sharing this. We don't talk enough about those dark times in Romania and I fear people are starting to forget. What keeps me up at night is that there is a certain brand of Romanian conservatives who love copying everything they see from there American counterparts.

[30 Rock @30Rock]

It's #EarthDay, dummies. Remember to shut down your computers.