Fraser Pearce

Ex-Beeber & Ex-Microsoftie, views are mine & not of any future, current or former employers. @[email protected]

[Fraser Pearce @_frazor_]

@electronicspec your email unsubscribe link is broken. please fix

[Fraser Pearce @_frazor_]

Make Nova Launcher Open Source, Let the Community Continue Its Development! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/IzopoXst3Z via @UKChange

[CAMRA @CAMRA_Official]

📢 We are backing the @BeerChannel's campaign to get cask the protection it deserves from the UK government and UNESCO.

📝 At 100,000 signatures the petition will be considered for debate in Parliament, so spread the word!

✍️ Sign now: https://t.co/mtgeMLzyVs

📷 @totalcurtis

[Jake Archibald @jaffathecake]

Well I had fun.

[CAMRA @CAMRA_Official]

@BeerDayBritain @WBOnline_ 📣 @BeerChannel’s petition to get cask beer UNESCO heritage status has passed 26,000 signatures! @beerdaybritain and NI is the perfect day to sign your name to protect cask.

📝 Help us get 100,000 signatures to get the it debated in Parliament here: https://t.co/Er0ku5wqG0

[Fraser Pearce @_frazor_]

@agirlcalledTom Yeah, I'm fairly certain I did too.

[Fraser Pearce @_frazor_]

@agirlcalledTom

[Fraser Pearce @_frazor_]

Petition: Recognise the production and serving of cask ale as Intangible Cultural Heritage https://t.co/IvOq2YZsTv

[Fraser Pearce @_frazor_]

@agirlcalledTom OMG, that's a thing?!?

[Sam Pullara @sampullara]

strongest LLM virus / final boss

[Fraser Pearce @_frazor_]

@agirlcalledTom Our Flag Means Death

[Jon Bruner @JonBruner]

This looks like an ordinary USB-C connector, but when we CT scan it, we find something sinister inside…🧵

[Fraser Pearce @_frazor_]

@theclub386 @IntelGaming Ah... 😬

[Octopus Energy @OctopusEnergy]

Great Britain wastes billions of pounds switching off wind turbines & wasting clean energy. Zonal energy pricing would put that energy to work & make bills cheaper.

But what's that got to do with the price of fish?!

Our fish-man fisherman explains:

[Geoff Norcott @GeoffNorcott]

Massive away win for the little fella.

[Fraser Pearce @_frazor_]

@OctopusEnergy I redeemed the shop discount instead by mistake, how do I undo that? (Should have been wearing my glasses 🙄)

[Jori Lallo @jorilallo]

Didn’t expect Ben Affleck to have the most articulate and realistic explanation where video models and Hollywood is going

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Mark Zuckerberg: “You can’t 80/20 everything”

When Facebook first launched, a user’s profile included things like the dorm they lived in and the courses they were taking.

Paul Graham asks Mark if he thinks Facebook would’ve worked without these features, to which Mark replies:

“I remember this early debate that Dustin [Moskovitz] and I had where we had to do some manual work for every school that we released Facebook at. To do that, we went through and parsed the course catalogs at the schools to make sure that the data was clean.”

Dustin argued that it would be easier to launch new schools if they didn’t parse these catalogs, while Mark thought this would be an unacceptable drop in quality.

“We just had this really long debate about what quality meant for us and the community that we wanted to establish and the culture. In retrospect, maybe it wouldn’t have made a huge difference in how things played out. But it definitely set this tone where there’s a lot of clean data on Facebook, you can rely on it, it feels like a college-specific thing—which was valuable early on for setting the culture.”

Mark then offers the following advice to the YC Startup School audience:

“In the projects you work on, you will have a lot of similar questions. There’s the famous 80/20 rule where you get 80% of the benefit by doing 20% of the work, but you can’t just 80/20 everything. There have to be certain things that you are just the best at and that you go way further than anyone else on to establish this quality bar and have your product be the best thing that’s out there.”

Video source: @ycombinator (2012)