james

Engineer @x. Building X Money. Training in the hyperbolic time chamber

[james @james_d]

@BowTiedBull Suggestion received and noted 😎

[james @james_d]

Testing something new...
https://t.co/U6qAvH1vmu

[james @james_d]

Look mom, I made it into the launch vid 🚀

[james @james_d]

testing something else https://t.co/P3ehFHrUwF

[james @james_d]

testing something... https://t.co/ZWWDsO8rcW

[james @james_d]

Festivities in the West Village, Manhattan last night after the first #knicks championship in 53 years

[james @james_d]

Sometimes you have to admit to your team that you've been tiptoe maxxing and vantage point maxxing so that your code reviews get taken more seriously. Awkward.

[james @james_d]

Still in the office. Our team has been hard at work

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@amuse @alx We are gradually widening the availability of X Money

[Jackson @zeroxjackson]

If you're a top 1% talented web engineer who wants to work on @XMoney reply with proof of your excellence.

Sounds like someone you know? Please tag them.

[james @james_d]

My coworker is 6’5 so I need an answer asap. Thanks.

[james @james_d]

How do I vantagepointmax at my desk? I tiptoemaxxed to the desk ✅ but while I sit my gains are reversed. Inflatable cushion? Hover squat? Ideas welcome

[james @james_d]

Nope. Thinking of my good friend Will from university.

We were both studying Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. I graduated with an average > 90%, which is very high. Mentioning this to illustrate that I am no slouch, and that I know how difficult different topics are.

I once brought Will a graduate-level cryptography problem that I had been stuck on for 30 minutes. He thought for a few minutes and wrote down a 3-line proof. It made no sense to me. I did 30 more minutes of math on paper and finally saw the 10 intermediate steps he skipped in his proof. I showed him the steps and he just said "I mean yeah of course, but that part is obvious". He would often chide me for writing too many obvious steps...

I had higher grades than him. But the difference was, I would study a lot. And he would barely study. Over our 4-year degree, I would time and time again see examples of this. He was a very humble guy and he currently works at Nvidia on firmware.

I know for a fact that he wasn't studying extra in the background. His brain just worked in a way that I cannot comprehend. There are different levels to intelligence.

[james @james_d]

The first person to use AI to remake Woody Allen's "A rainy day in New York" with modern, non archaic dialog will win best picture

[james @james_d]

The whole foods part is true but the rest is fake news. I went to a warehouse party this past Friday and I get espresso every morning from a different café where the alternative barista manually weighs each shot and times each extraction. The barista’s hair is always a different shade of green. That’s how I know the shot is gonna be solid.

[james @james_d]

@FischerKing64 Before the chess engines. No one could tell you that your crazy sacrifice was “imprecise”. It was just man against man. Mind against mind. Not over until a forced checkmate appeared. A wild west that no longer exists.

[james @james_d]

I was born in a house with a million rooms, built on a small, airless world on the edge of an empire of light and commerce that the adults called the Golden Hour, for a reason I did not yet grasp.

[james @james_d]

@EvaLovesDesign the coffee is good though. can't deny that

[james @james_d]

@EvaLovesDesign delet pls. the line on the weekends is already 30+ min. weekdays are still quick -- don't ruin it!