Mike Perrow

Tech startup angel investor/advisor. Former Google/Facebook Engineer & Eng Director and very slow Twitter profile updater.

[Mike Perrow @perrowcommamike]

zopu @ BS

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

until the day i die i will never understand how this wasn’t the end of it

[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

[sam henri gold @samhenrigold]

google ai LOVES to step in when it sees “vs” and will try its hardest to compare whatever you throw at it

[Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel]

A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.

[Mike Perrow @perrowcommamike]

Feels like half of my inbox...

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

We didn’t

[Damon Beres @dlberes]

People will be like, “generative AI has no practical use case,” but I did just use it to replace every app icon on my home screen with images of Kermit, soooo

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Mapping the Lickability of the Periodic Table

[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

.@elonmusk I did listen to the climate part and yeah, I do think it was dumb. I don't expect @realDonaldTrump
to know the nuances of various CO2 ppm levels and their consequences, and him reaching out to the person who has arguably done more for climate than anyone else is pretty sensible. You had a responsibility that I think you largely abdicated by downplaying the reality of things.

[Spencer Greenberg 🔍 @SpencrGreenberg]

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill.

Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me):

🧵

[Anthony Bonato @Anthony_Bonato]

Simone Biles is now the most decorated US Olympics gymnast, so here is a thread of her as functions

y = x

[Rachel Blum @groby]

That's how you know you've encountered a mature engineer:

They see stuff they don't understand, they acknowledge they don't understand it, and then they (re)learn it.

That's it. The folks claiming this is "embarassing"? "You just have to know this"? Not ready yet.

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

Here’s the thing folks. I’ve been coding 32 years. When something like this happens it’s an organizational failure. Yes, some human wrote a bad line. Someone can “git blame” and point to a human and it’s awful. But it’s the testing, the Cl/CD, the A/B testing, the metered rollouts, an oh shit button to roll it back, the code coverage, the static analysis tools, the code reviews, the organizational health, and on and on. It’s always one line of code but it’s NEVER one person. Implying inclusion policies caused a bug is simplistic, reductive, and racist. Engineering is a team sport. Inclusion makes for good teams. Good engineering practices makes for good software. Engineering practices failed to find a bug multiple times, regardless of the seniority of the human who checked that code in. Solving the larger system thinking SDLC matters more than the null pointer check. This isn’t a “git gud C++ is hard” issue and it damn well isn’t an DEI one.

[Alison Hopkins @Hopkins_Alison]

Dear @Channel4News

The Y2K bug did not “turn out to be a phantom issue”.

Hundreds of thousands of us worked our bloody socks off to make sure the world went on working. The fact that nothing went badly wrong took a decade of planning and effort.

Sloppy bloody reporting

[The Poke @ThePoke]

#ElectionDay

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

Remember your voter ID for God’s sake!

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

the last remaining Tory demographic is….sherry drinkers