Backticks ('`Type`') are another good alternative (that I keep forgetting exists). pic.twitter.com/ILz3ODm07V— Ole Begemann (@olebegemann) January 30, 2019
“My first step towards untangling some legacy code that I don’t yet understand is usually trying to draw a diagram of how it currently works.”
My first step towards untangling some legacy code that I don’t yet understand is usually trying to draw a diagram of how it currently works.Somehow @_______paul found these drawings of mine from @tumblr circa 2014 or 2015, and was nice enough to scan them for me ❤️ pic.twitter.com/i5qHnySZwV— Bryan Irace (@irace) February 26, 2019
Jason Koebler and Jordan Cox of Vice penned a blockbuster investigation into Facebook’s content moderation practices that’s worth your time. They interviewed “dozens” of sources, including several on-the-record conversations with Facebook employees in charge of their moderation efforts: The thing that makes Facebook’s problem so difficult is its gargantuan size. It doesn’t just have to […]
Content Moderators Describe Traumatizing Work for Facebook and Twitter
Casey Newton of the Verge spoke with content moderators who are employed by Cognizant but working on Facebook’s behalf: Collectively, the employees described a workplace that is perpetually teetering on the brink of chaos. It is an environment where workers cope by telling dark jokes about committing suicide, then smoke weed during breaks to numb […]
With a new project called Selfie Harm, photographer John Rankin Waddell, better known as Rankin, wanted to see the role social media played on self image in young people.
“I think cooking for yourself is one of the simplest ways to create without any pressure for validation. Additionally, unlike art / design, cooking is ephemeral. No matter how good or how bad it is, it'll always disappear, either in your stomach or the
I think cooking for yourself is one of the simplest ways to create without any pressure for validation. Additionally, unlike art / design, cooking is ephemeral. No matter how good or how bad it is, it'll always disappear, either in your stomach or the trash.— flex luthor (@kwuchu) February 23, 2019
“You likely have to get management approval for a $500 expense...but you can call a one hour meeting with 20 people and no one notices.”
"You likely have to get management approval for a $500 expense... but you can call a 1 hour meeting with 20 people and no one notices."— Farbod Saraf (@farbodsaraf) October 26, 2017
“it’s not necessarily ‘discord’ - just think light and fast group chat. you all would love to be at the same bar debating and thinking aloud...you just can’t so replicate that level of casualness and velocity in a chat. tweets ain’t it”
it’s not necessarily ‘discord’ - just think light and fast group chat. you all would love to be at the same bar debating and thinking aloud...you just can’t so replicate that level of casualness and velocity in a chat. tweets ain’t it— ryan dawidjan (@ryandawidjan) December 7, 2018
“so many intense and lively twitter debates should just be held in an ephemeral read-only discord channel a lot of real-time nuance, dialogue, and clarification are lost in these monster threads”
so many intense and lively twitter debates should just be held in an ephemeral read-only discord channela lot of real-time nuance, dialogue, and clarification are lost in these monster threads— ryan dawidjan (@ryandawidjan) December 7, 2018
“The reason I’ve found conversation more valuable than reading recently (inspired by my chats with @kevinakwok, to name one) is that reading is a uni-directional and often brittle bundle of information flow. Conversation adapts in real-time.”
The reason I've found conversation more valuable than reading recently (inspired by my chats with @kevinakwok, to name one) is that reading is a uni-directional and often brittle bundle of information flow. Conversation adapts in real-time.— Eugene Wei (@eugenewei) April 17, 2018
“The main way to prevent software from rotting, it seems, is to maintain it: update it so that it continues to work as the platforms supporting them change underneath. In this sense, though, it’s not the same software you started with, as it’s continuously changing.”
Branch widens focus with redesign, makes starting conversations easier
That’s part of what makes Branch different from the question-and-answer site Quora, which it’s often compared to. On Quora, users vote on the best answer, which shoots to the top of the page. On Branch, answers to a prompt are listed chronologically. "They’re Q and A. We’re conversation," Miller said. "We’re not interested in the right answer. We’re interested in the conversation." clients might be interested in using the site to broadcast a conversation between a few top execs, sort of like a semi-public email system that employees could read straight from the source without the danger of it turning into a reply-all party.