Micky McQuade

Former owner of Love to code. Currently using #dotnet #angular #azure. #bepositive

[Micky McQuade @mmcquade]

What are other metrics we should use for the Department of Government Efficiency?

- Federal employees vs Adults in US
- ???

[Hank Venture @HankVenture5]

@pmarca You would think that over 1 in 100 working age American adults being directly employed by the US Federal government would have set of alarm bells years ago, but apparently not.

It is absolutely not sustainable.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Once I got involved in guiding the architecture, all the pieces fell into place. I have a nice layered architecture now, with dependencies all well managed. I built a tool to check those dependencies on every test run. I also built a tool to help me visualize the architecture.

Conclusion: Architecture remains, so far, in the realm of human judgement. AIs, as intelligent and insightful as they appear to be, do not have that level of insight and judgement.

Bottom line: Don't trust the AIs to create the architecture. They'll just muddy the waters.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

Charlie Kirk was more committed to peaceful, open dialogue with those who disagreed with him than anyone I know. God blessed him with immense gifts, and he used them boldly and without fear. He knew the risks he was taking, but he did it anyway because he loved his kids & felt a responsibility to the nation they would inhabit. I traveled the entire country with him last year, we spent 1x1 time together in Ohio two weeks ago, spoke to him again 2 days ago. He’s long warned of the rise of political violence & the growing culture of assassination, when few were willing to listen, with a clarity of vision unlike anyone I’ve known. Completely and utterly devastated.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Liar!

[Micky McQuade @mmcquade]

This was always a way to be considered for a promotion when I was running a business.

Extremely good advice for younger folks. Don’t pretend you know everything but also think about possible solutions and present them with a willingness to accept advice.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Here's a helpful hint for any law firm associate who aspires to one day make partner.

If a client calls you up with a problem, do not go to the partner you are working with and say "This client has this problem, what should I do?"

Instead, go that partner and say:

"This client has this problem, and I recommend we solve that problem in the following manner. Please let me know if you agree/disagree with my proposed solution, and if you have additional guidance."

This is also good advice if you are a junior military officer.

Probably a bunch of other professions too.

[Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen]

Rand Paul is also right.

[Spike Cohen @RealSpikeCohen]

You don't get it guys, we can't cut spending now. We just don't have the votes to do it.

We have to keep spending as much as Biden did for 6 months.

We'll cut spending in September, with the same Congress in place, right before the midterms.

We'll definitely have the votes to do it then.

I am absolutely not lying to you.

Nor did I lie when I said this every few months for the past several years, even though I broke my promise to cut spending every single time.

Who are you going to trust? Me, or the guy who has consistently voted against spending increases?

Be realistic.

[Micky McQuade @mmcquade]

This is a very thoughtful take on how new computer science students should use AI (and what they should avoid)

[Lakshya Jain @lxeagle17]

I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions.

Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.

[Micky McQuade @mmcquade]

This is very accurate.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

A team who allows messes to persist in their code will gradually slow down to a tiny fraction of their potential productivity. I’ve seen teams that have expanded their estimates out to weeks and months for jobs that ought to take a day or two.
The slower the team goes, the more the pressure builds. The more the pressure build the more messes are left uncleaned. Each such mess impedes the team even more; and the slower they all go. It’s a vicious cycle, and if you’ve been a programmer for more than a couple of years you’ve likely taken a few turns around it.
But it gets worse. Managers, desperate to increase productivity, hire new people. This, of course, has the opposite of the desired effect. The new people, thrown into the mass of messy code, see how things are done around here and — of course — they emulate it. So now there are even more people making messes, which drives the cycle even faster, and drags the productivity even lower.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:

I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.

We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.

There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.

I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.

I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision. We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction.

I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void.

Jeff

[Yatharth Mann @yatharth_mann]

How I fooled @FortuneMagazine and Kali Hays:

A thread exposing how unreliable mainstream media can be!

Fortune published an article based on false information I sent them from an anonymous email address.

They didn’t even bother to verify the details.

1/n

@elonmusk

[Micky McQuade @mmcquade]

This is why free speech matters.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Elderly man arrested in Britain for “causing anxiety” with a social media post. This is insane.

Thank God there is a constitutional right to freedom of speech in America!

[Micky McQuade @mmcquade]

Hard truths are hard to hear sometimes. It doesn’t make them less true though.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

I wanted to read the full 1,500+ page bill & speak with key leaders before forming an opinion. Having done that, here's my view: it's full of excessive spending, special interest giveaways & pork barrel politics. If Congress wants to get serious about government efficiency, they should VOTE NO.

Keeping the government open until March 14 will cost ~$380BN by itself, but the true cost of this omnibus CR is far greater due to new spending. Renewing the Farm Bill for an extra year: ~$130BN. Disaster relief: $100BN. Stimulus for farmers: $10BN. The Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement: $8BN. The proposal adds at least 65 cents of new spending for every dollar of continued discretionary spending.

The legislation will end up hurting many of the people it purports to help. Debt-fueled spending sprees may "feel good" today, but it's like showering cocaine on an addict: it's not compassion, it's cruelty. Farmers will see more land sold to foreign buyers when taxes inevitably rise to meet our obligations. Our children will be saddled with crippling debt. Interest payments will be the largest item in our national budget.

Congress has known about this deadline since they created it in late September. There's no reason why this couldn't have gone through the standard process, instead of being rushed to a vote right before Congressmen want to go home for the holidays. The urgency is 100% manufactured & designed to avoid serious public debate.  

The bill could have easily been under 20 pages. Instead, there are dozens of unrelated policy items crammed into the 1,547 pages of this bill. There's no legitimate reason for them to be voted on as a package deal by a lame-duck Congress. 72 pages worth of “Pandemic Preparedness and Response” policy; renewal of the much-criticized "Global Engagement Center," a key player in the federal censorship state; 17 different pieces of Commerce legislation; paving the way for a new football stadium in D.C.; a pay raise for Congressmen & Senators and making them eligible for Federal Employee Health Benefits. It's indefensible to ram these measures through at the last second without debate.

We're grateful for DOGE's warm reception on Capitol Hill. Nearly everyone agrees we need a smaller & more streamlined federal government, but actions speak louder than words. This is an early test. The bill should fail.

[Micky McQuade @mmcquade]

I just hope the jury is reversed from what you’re saying. Hopefully there’s only one idiot trying to convict him. They should be setting him free and thanking him. #DanielPenny

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Daniel Penny is an American hero.

His situation has been eating away at me and I have chosen to only talk about it in private until now. But I believe it is important that more people feel free to discuss these situations, so I may as well start with myself.

The reason this situation is disturbing is because I could have been Daniel Penny. We both served in the military and deployed overseas. The military trains young men to stand up for what is right, especially when defenseless women and children are being directly threatened by a credible threat.

If my wife and children were on that subway car alone, I pray that a young man like Daniel Penny would step in and protect them.

I have paid close attention to Penny trial. The evidence is overwhelming that Daniel Penny did exactly what we should hope every young man in the country would do in that situation — he put himself in danger to protect women and children.

After putting himself in danger and gaining control of the situation, every innocent citizen was able to safely escape the situation at the next train stop. The police arrived and Jordan Neely was still alive.

But here is the insane part — the police did not administer first aid because they were scared for their own personal safety. They felt there was a risk of contracting HIV.

Imagine a scenario where a young man is willing to put himself in danger to potentially save innocent bystanders' lives, but the police deem the situation so risky when they show up that they are unwilling to put themselves in the same danger.

That is the definition of what a hero does.

If we live in a society that tries to punish young men for doing the right thing—for protecting women and children that are in danger—then we will live in a society that is overrun by criminals.

That is not the society we want to live in.

The jury is currently deliberating the fate of Daniel Penny. They just told the judge that they are deadlocked and can not reach consensus.

This means there is at least one courageous individual in that jury room that is refusing to go along with the charade. Whoever that individual is, may we hope they continue to stand strong in the face of immense pressure.

Daniel Penny acted heroically on that subway train and now his freedom depends on a fellow citizen doing the same thing in that jury room.

Hopefully we find out today there is more than one hero ready to stand up for what is right.

[Jeremy Cross @JCross17]

The fact that jury is now on its third day of deliberations in the Daniel Penny trial is a complete insult. This should have been a not guilty verdict in 15 minutes. Im worried for that dude

[Micky McQuade @mmcquade]

@madskristensen Fantastic addition!

[Micky McQuade @mmcquade]

@tim_cook Fantastic ad

[Micky McQuade @mmcquade]

@Mikepc1988 Love stories that show how working hard can, and often does, pay off.

[Micky McQuade @mmcquade]

Somebody’s watching a romcom and wondering why it keeps buffering #TysonPaul #netflix

[Micky McQuade @mmcquade]

@VivekGRamaswamy ✋ I sold our business last year and would love to work on this!