Used a computer once, but I didn't inhale. Mostly shitposting. Also talking about programming, cities & urbanism, real estate & my cats. Down 2 clown 🐟 he/they
Jan 16, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
In one of my dream worlds, I have acquired a series of really bad goofy tattoos on my right arm and ankle that have persisted across many dreams, and also got an electric kid sized tricycle for travel that can hit 45mph. Also moved into my childhoood home but have a teleporter.
The ankle tattoo is a welcome mat showing an Italian dinner. The arm ones are a series of doodles some guy I met at the Miami airport chilis after a teleporter trip did for me in a cab and all glow in the dark. One is a cigarette up a squirrels nose
Jan 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I wonder what the performance of doing a Enum.take(1) on a stream of a nontrivial query 50 times (1 per state in the US for example) is like versus doing it all in memory and having each one be a pushed event over the websocket
It’s probably negligible due to network overhead but it’s kind of interesting to thing about. Might toy with it this week purely out of academic interest.
Frankly I’m somewhat sure it would be slower but having a “loading” state per state and the map rendering slightly faster
Jan 15, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Was just talking to my little brother and remembered the time we were 9 and 11 years old and our old man took us with the lawyer of his friend who just died and had us search his whole house for hidden money and “blocks of cheese” and lol the cheese was cocaine
You gotta love when you have parenting so good you’re taken as a pre teen to recover cash and blow from a dead man’s house who slept with a baseball bat by his bed and a 38 special on his bedside table as a dying alcoholic
Jan 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
printf(“hello world”);
return 0;
}
My brother sent me “C primer plus” and “Python for the absolute beginner” when I was turning 12 and insisted I start with C lol
Probably the most game changing thing that happened in my whole life. I have no other skills but somehow I’ve been writing code for 18 years. After getting through these I found rails around 06-07 and started building web things
Jan 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I think Goldman was highly incentivized on this level considering the entire Marcus project, and this was probably sold alongside it on an executive level. There was a lot of excitement about it, and they're operating as a public vs private entity its something many believed in
That said, it was def well played by Cook. He's a master of supply chains, and in this case the supply chain was credit supply for a massive amount of customers, and he came with an extremely compelling offer that had potential for lock-in of consumers that are generally wealthy.
Jan 5, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In about ~100 lines Elixir and ~50 lines implementing a hook and some logic in JS I was able to make an interactive map of the whole US displaying sales data per-day on mouseover today. And it loads ~1.1M records and crunches it all in < 500ms. Not bad, Phoenix Framework. Not bad
Its just a LiveView with a component for a Map display where each state is an SVG with a id of the states abbreviation to populate it
Also was able to implement it all being a heat map using a gradient of greens and compiling the logic server side and sending the colors to client
Mar 3, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
My grandma is telling me the most amazing story. Lol strap in, this is a good one.
Its 2004. My grandpa has retired after working 35 years at Ford, and 20 years at Kroger (while also working at ford, with a retirement package from both), and they decided they should take
a little trip. Their neighbors had told them how fun it is to go with other retirees up to Detroit and Windsor to gamble. My gramma has taken 1 sip of beer and 3 sips of wine in her life. She isnt likely be enter the world of gambling. But she caves and says OK.
Mar 2, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
FAANG salary people should talk more about the functional comp
From folks I know
NFLX salary is $$$ straight up
AMZN backloads your RSUs, survive 3yrs and you are a 'winner' jack welch evil mgmt style and get hella skrilla
FB vests monthly, evil but also who else does that?
This is three specific very different examples, but it can make such a difference based on how you look for where to work considering your own current situation goals and life plan.
Mar 2, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
One of these days I'm gonna have a bunch of beers and buy a shitload of out of the money call options on ford because its been fundamentally undervalued for ten years. Until that day, I will keep watching it like a confused hawk as I have since 2008 lol.
they didnt take bailout money and have hella EV holdings and solid tech underneath them. Its there.
