Sean McQueen

engineering at @Stripe

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

I hate to flex on the timeline like this but I started my Saturday off by flipping this giant pancake perfectly

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

@aripap What a tie

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

@iroasmas omg

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

wow I did not realize Ackman was this physically big

looks like he eats slices of Portnoy and rates them for his YouTube channel

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Just a couple guys who hate the scumbags @BusinessInsider talking shop.

@BillAckman

[Jack (not a burner) @_jackmcpherson]

POV: it’s Christmas morning in 2001 and you have no idea you’re playing one of the greatest video games that will ever be made

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

@TheStalwart It’s worth saying that the polls on this have a high likelihood of being garbage

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

@TheStalwart This is a fascinating question. I bet the assumption that “more turnout is always what we want” is held very deeply by democrats at this point and can only change very slowly

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

@ESYudkowsky @elonmusk Nope, was pre-Elon

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

@bnj Oh I see!!!

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

@pushtheneedle I mean sure, 1 hour into Queens and on Staten Island, there’s some cheap places

The Seattle area equivalents are like Renton and Bainbridge

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

@floydophone this is true but that isn't the problem that kills most startups

metal deck chairs on the Titanic would have been way easier to maintain than the wooden ones they choose

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

@heatherGrey_ and the velocity adds up too…

every month you can ship about a year worth of bigco work

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

Hey check this out!

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[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

My journalist friends are starting to get kinda big. More than once I’ve found a friend’s article on a major publication, not realized its their byline and then shared it with them to read … lol

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

@tristajaye hi here's one

https://t.co/IdLfL3Xgd2

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

CTO observation: LLMs make engineers 10% faster overall and 300% faster at writing shell scripts

This is because shells scripts are horrible and bash was a mistake

[teej dv 🔭 @teej_dv]

"I use Linux as my operating system," I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually," he says with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+Linux." I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Linux, but it's not GNU+Linux."

The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" I interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

@SpencrGreenberg I’ve seen a bunch of these..

Being good at using AI is a small green flag; being really bad at using AI is a big red flag

[Spencer Greenberg 🔍 @SpencrGreenberg]

We got this extremely interesting set of responses from an applicant for a software engineer job opening.

Spot anything odd about it?

[Sean McQueen @seanmcque_n]

Markets are very good at finding reality

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

How come we haven’t seen any climate change deniers rush in to fill the insurance provider gap in Florida?

Seems like easy money since risk isn’t actually going up, just wokeness