Jordan Torbiak

[Ashvin Gandhi @ashdgandhi]

🚨New @nberpubs with @andrewolenski on major hidden profits in the healthcare sector! Bear with me as I explain how nursing homes are able to hide almost 2/3 of their profits from regulators and the public! I promise it's worth it!

🧵1/17

Paper: https://t.co/15dMt2sBSp

[Jordan Torbiak @torbiak]

@voberoi Sure, here's what I found in my bookmarks. I evidently liked all of them when I bookmarked them, and I remember some being extremely helpful. Posting threads on twitter seems like a pain, so I made a note on Pinboard: https://t.co/m6UKxDzOrE

[Jordan Torbiak @torbiak]

@withoutboats Works for me with Inoreader.

[Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson]

Dev team output scales sublinearly with team size and the conventional wisdom is it has to do with communication overhead. There’s some truth but I think a simpler reason is a much bigger factor: having more people implies you take on lower-priority tasks that have less biz value

[Idle Words @idlewords]

Here's the first installment of my case against landing human beings on Mars. You may think you disagree, but I'm going to talk you around. https://t.co/YSAl5mHGR5

[Jordan Torbiak @torbiak]

@SarahTheHaider The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton. Maybe it's just because I happened to read it right after Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, but I feel like they have similar energies. Also, The Luminaries had an enjoyable quality where I couldn't tell if it was modern or not.

[Jordan Torbiak @torbiak]

@edaqa Did it work out in the end?

[Graves Make RosesBloom @GregRozeboom]

Here's something for all you #Halloween historians:

Probably the first known image of a *pumpkin* jack-'o-lantern is this engraving of a drawing by L.W. Atwater. It appeared in Harper's Weekly Magazine, November 23, 1867, p. 737. 'The Pumpkin Effigy'

[Jan Orszulik @JanOrszulik]

I am getting slightly optimistic, this might just work

#Precursor #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

[Lumpy @LumpyTheCook]

I would argue that what makes a video game "funny" relies far more on its presentation and mechanics than it does on dialogue or jokes. Oblivion is a great example of this

[Jordan Torbiak @torbiak]

@SarahTheHaider What seemed to help me most: self-massage of the wrists and forearms using a lacrosse ball, rolling pin, or whatever; putting my keyboard on my lap so my wrist extensor muscles could be more relaxed while typing.

[Jordan Torbiak @torbiak]

@jsaryer I hit enough undesired indent behaviour in various vim filetype plugins that I wrote a general-purpose indent function that I use for everything. I've been happy with it for about a decade now. The minor downsides are far outweighed by the improved consistency.

[Jordan Torbiak @torbiak]

@devonzuegel @WendiYan5 https://t.co/oDBqDWpx4m

[weirdo @vg_history]

j.b. harold 3: d.c. connection, screenshot, pc-88 (1989) https://t.co/SDp4WbV8D4

[Domingo Martin 👾 @manceraio]

I've always been fascinated by hash functions.

👀 Doing some work for explaining how sha256 works.

[Zach Weinersmith @ZachWeiner]

Found a kindred spirit in this obscure space book from 1975.

[Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert @FiloSottile]

We all agree the status quo is unsustainable.

Here are 1,000 words on how we could get the role of Open Source maintainer to graduate to a real, properly paid profession.

The thing is, companies need it as much as maintainers do.

https://t.co/RK26lKGg3h

[Jordan Torbiak @torbiak]

@edaqa I've seen merino wool t-shirts that looked just like cotton to me. Supposedly they're more resistant to body odour.