The only way to grow an organization without loosing speed is to be an accumulation of many small completely autonomous pieces that reuse and access shared resources independently and without any friction.
Agreed, testers are an integral part of any serious org and need to be kept in the loop at all times. Hiring the right tester is key and can easily compensate for bad / low quality work or when dealing with legacy systems.
We've just improved on our single largest System 002 catch record. On October 24, we extracted 10,755 kg of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after less than five days.
The lighter penguin is an elderly female whose partner died this year. The darker one is a younger male who lost his partner two years ago. Biologists have followed them as they meet every night to comfort each other. They stand for hours together watching the lights. ❤️
Focus on what you can control. Build something, anything. A product, yourself, your community, a team, a company or organization, relationships. Or help someone else do it. Don't complain or be a victim, ever. #PlayNiceButWin
@allenholub Agreed, however, PRs can be opened at any stage of the project / feature (in the beginning) and can be used for continues feedback and upfront collaboration instead of a large quality gate at the end. Any large effort after the fact slows down productivity due to large rework.
I confirmed that several Twitter engineers slept in the office over the weekend in effort to make the Wednesday deadline to build the verification feature.
A lot of these messages are not ironic: they’re real.
It’s understood that those not performing could well be laid off.
Twitter departed the world of public companies just shy of its 9th birthday. To the question of who won and who lost, the answer should be obvious. From a start of $45 on 11/7/13 to Elon's buy this week at $54.20, the shareholder made 20.4%. That's cumulative. 2.1% per year. 1/
This sweater developed by the University of Maryland is an invisibility cloak against AI.
It uses "adversarial patterns" to stop AI from recognizing the person wearing it.
No. Things don't take longer. Let's look at one way to make stories smaller. The image in the QT is the first step in breaking up a large story into many small ones. (Something they evidently didn't do.) A "workflow diagram" like that is the first step. 1/5
I registered the domain https://t.co/NIJIHl6ZLF 25 years ago today. I was learning Perl by developing what today is called a CMS to more easily maintain my homepage… in the process I decided i was building news for nerds, but was clueless what it would eventually mean.