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David Zhou

@dz

17 years

I bought Pokemon Pearl. LET ME SHOW YOU MY POKEMANS

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David Zhou

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2 years

Keanu's laugh in response to NFTs in this @verge interview is everything I wanted for Christmas

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one more Good Keanu™ moment about Facebook (sorry Meta) and the history of the concept of a metaverse

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6 years

yuri on ice at the olympics!!!!

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4 years

Zoom pro tip 3: make it a video background to have a convincing loop of you looking engaged

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Zoom pro tip 1: Backgrounds are customizable. Zoom pro tip 2: You can customize yourself right out of that meeting.

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5 years

media: sir will you run for president in 2020 you, a white man who until 30 minutes ago was high as a kite:

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3 years

not sure what i expected when applying AI image sharpening to superman 64 but he’s beautiful

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David Zhou

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2 years

wordle was essentially released as a freeware online game, and it's hilarious and disappointing that by doing so it's apparently breaking minds in tech

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David Zhou

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3 years

the daily struggle

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David Zhou

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6 years

Little known fact: there is a circa 2015 @polygon prophesy that @Pizza_Suplex would work there

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David Zhou

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5 years

people don't talk about failing at job interviews often enough so here's one of mine: the year was 2009, and i was looking to move away from front end work to more backend/fullstack work, and i was on the phone with a guy from mozilla

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8 years

Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert and all around terrible human, finally admits Trump will lose. But it's not Trump's fault of course

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8 years

The only thing Trump hasn't promised to fix yet is JavaScript

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David Zhou

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6 years

On the Chinese dating show If You Are The One, they ask friends to talk about you, and yes this is extremely me

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David Zhou

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6 years

i tried @cyanharlow 's incredible pure css portrait in an old version of opera and well, the disclaimer wasn't lying: "so the live preview will most likely look laughable in anything other than chrome"

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David Zhou

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5 years

and that is the story of my failed interview at mozilla and also why to this day i hate any technical questions about table joins in interviews and still use chrome over firefox (okay the last part is a joke, firefix quantum is so nice)

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David Zhou

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4 years

it's all fun and games until you walk in on yourself eating bad quesadilla on a @zoom_us meeting

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David Zhou

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2 years

in this age of crypto and nfts and just endless tokenization of interactions for capital gain, a sizable portion of a generation of developers cannot see anything of value in software besides monetization

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David Zhou

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8 years

Trump says "LGBTQ" the same way my parents say "HTTP": confused and slightly mystified

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David Zhou

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5 years

How do u protect against Xehanort’s heart from possessing ur body By using Norton antivirus

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David Zhou

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4 years

protip: Zoom supports videos as virtual backgrounds

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David Zhou

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4 years

Every tech person in the industry just flashed back to their worst exec led meeting listening to this drivel

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

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Here's Jared Kushner going for the world record of most meaningless corporate buzzwords used in a single one-minute video clip

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David Zhou

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7 years

Hi I found a manga called CLOCKERS about COMPUTER OVERCLOCKING and truly we live in an age of wonder (and also horror but)

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David Zhou

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4 years

you: landlords are people too me: i peeked into the landlord subreddit, where a tenant asked how they could get their landlord to fix a dishwasher that’s been broken for two weeks

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David Zhou

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5 years

making jokes that chinese food is bad and that asian people say words funny is literally the least risky form of comedy that has been peddled by decades of racist white men

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David Zhou

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8 years

THE NEW MACBOOK HAS NO PHYSICAL ESCAPE KEY RIP VIM USERS

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David Zhou

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4 years

your laptop: hey do this quick update it'll only take 10 minutes you: okay sure great lets do it your laptop: haha jk it'll be 45 minutes eat shit

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David Zhou

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8 years

current status

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David Zhou

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3 years

slack isn't coming back up until it learns how to use a can opener

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David Zhou

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2 years

as others have said, old flash games are going to really blow their minds away or i guess the game mod scene or the history of free games on pc like rogue and it’s derivatives

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David Zhou

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3 years

@backlon wait til MAGA discovers all the apps have a folder called “lib”

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David Zhou

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5 years

I think maybe battle royale games are not for me because it just feels like 15 minutes of stressful walking scavenging for items while being attacked, and if I want that, I can just go to the Union Square Whole Foods

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David Zhou

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10 years

lol sob http://t.co/VVgQ49G3lt

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David Zhou

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3 years

only some of you will know what this is 😭

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David Zhou

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6 years

live photo of me on the subway glaring at the dumbo in front of the door not letting people exit first

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David Zhou

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9 years

sometimes I love the comments section http://t.co/m2nTlPq9QV

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David Zhou

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2 years

my god!!!!!

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David Zhou

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2 years

my god x2

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David Zhou

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4 years

i’ve gotten hotter “sexts” from my doctors office reminding me of an upcoming appointment

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David Zhou

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4 years

“why is the candidate spewing lies constantly receiving pushback, it makes no sense”

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David Zhou

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2 years

my god

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David Zhou

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5 years

he asked "tell me about using table indexes" i said "like you mean a primary key or..?" then later he asked "tell me about table joins and its use" and i said "like maybe when you want to join two rows together?" and then 15 min later he said "okay thanks for your time"

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David Zhou

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4 years

ah my favorite kind of plan: 90% embellishment of what i’ve done, 10% “my next step is supporting you”

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

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How vague and meaningless is this?

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David Zhou

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4 years

way too many men on this hell site are defending toobin with “i too have been there” energy which i guess begs the question

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David Zhou

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3 years

inspired by this, i made a script that automatically quits @zoom_us when i sigh really loudly

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David Zhou

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5 years

@hels once i added every book i remember reading in college to my goodreads read shelf and that's how i read 35 books in one day

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David Zhou

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6 years

what is it with the constant effort to remind us that racists are people too remember, sally yale who is anxious and terrified of brown people, wears big sweatshirts and loves cannolis

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David Zhou

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5 years

responsive web design, but only the letter E

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David Zhou

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3 years

people managers: many of your asian coworkers and reports and peers are going to be shocked and angry and scared tomorrow morning. check in, give space or support accordingly

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David Zhou

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2 years

anyway if you’re curious how the thread is going, it’s now a referendum on how much good money could do

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David Zhou

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2 years

Attempts to frame services like Klarna and Afterpay as “budgeting tools” is the most fintech dystopic shit Next up: late fees and higher interest as “flexible repayment add-ons” Fintech is going to reinvent payday loans and market it “paying yourself from the future”

joshua

@joshua_bote

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Klarna got some bad PR when it offered “pay in 4” for a tank of gas. But the rise of “buy now, pay later" is just beginning — and they've already won over Gen Z. I dug deep into this lucrative world for @sfgate .

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David Zhou

@dz

5 years

turn out margin-left: -9999px is the front end equiv of "no one will ever need more than 640kb of memory"

A 49-inch ultrawide monitor is extravagant, ridiculous, and amazing

Dell’s UltraSharp U4919DW monitor is a joy to use

www.theverge.com

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David Zhou

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10 years

lol at first comment http://t.co/oYiN5Quprx

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David Zhou

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3 years

time to re-download this bad boy

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David Zhou

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8 years

I, for one, am ready for @billclinton to start tweeting from @FLOTUS

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David Zhou

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5 years

tbh I love that apple took all the cheese grater jokes about the power mac and said fuck it let's go all in

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David Zhou

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4 years

Some programmers will spend hours debating whether or not a variable or module name is appropriate and then you say “hey maybe change the word blacklist” and then suddenly it’s “names don’t really matter”

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David Zhou

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8 years

So this is what EarPods feel like

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David Zhou

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3 years

twitter design tweak to modernize the interface for 2021

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David Zhou

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5 years

The organizer of React Week wrote this Medium post, including: “I also hardly see any bias against [women], neither in tech confs nor in company jobs” “almost no-one complains about the gender of the speakers” This conference is tainted from the start.

Sara Vieira

@NikkitaFTW

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Two things wrong here: First bad documentation is actually not better than nothing Second: Wtf organizers? This is why people have a code of conduct. You don't seem to have one and you don't have anyone to tell you what a terrible joke this is.

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David Zhou

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6 years

do u ever wonder what a 1997 @verge would look like

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David Zhou

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5 years

A rough timeline of your engineering career: 0-5 years: wow i hope i'm doing the right thing 5-10 years: i'm doing the right thing everyone else is wrong 10+ years: digimon is actually an accurate depiction of computing

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David Zhou

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4 years

no one should be acting as a devil’s advocate right now in any setting, 2020 is already the devil’s share

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David Zhou

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3 years

@edburmila few more props to seal the deal

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David Zhou

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4 years

Dad: I have a Tinder account My brother: what Me: what My mom: what Dad: wait I meant Twitter

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David Zhou

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6 years

The core falsehood of “debate me!” culture is the assumption that one is required to engage on any topic at any time at any place, and that to not do so constitutes “losing”. It’s a bullshit stance taken mostly by folks who aren’t directly affected by the debate topic at hand.

Claire Lehmann

@clairlemon

6 years

If you don't support free speech for people you disagree with, you're effectively declaring that you cannot come up with a counter-argument that is more compelling.

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David Zhou

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6 years

love 2 use the web on my phone

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David Zhou

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4 years

morning and evening ritual

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David Zhou

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5 years

tinder but for friends of friends you want to be friends with

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David Zhou

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6 years

trying out the newest hot js framework

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David Zhou

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4 years

trump’s “disinfectants work outside the body so maybe they work inside it” is roughly the same sophisticated thinking i had as an 8 year old when i thought “if i eat watermelon seeds they’ll grow in my stomach”

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David Zhou

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7 years

So far @CNN is one of the only major news outlets to wait, process, and then call out Spicer's lies.

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White House press secretary attacks media for accurately reporting inauguration crowds

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David Zhou

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7 years

Alexa controlling the oven feels optimistic and maybe a fire hazard?? Last time I asked Alexa to tell me the weather she turned on my TV

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7 years

IT'S A ZEN SAYING Danny Rand is an actual woke college student back from study abroad in generic Asia

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David Zhou

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4 years

One 2nd order effect of discrimination and sexism in tech companies is that affected engineers often leave teams tired and disillusioned, instead of hopeful and "excited for what's next". *Why* you look for your next role carries its own compounding toll.

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David Zhou

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8 years

If you're wondering what happened, Tim Kaine stole his Pokemon gym and laughed about it on camera

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David Zhou

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3 years

oh no

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David Zhou

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2 years

thread has gotten more reasonable since, but still that sheen of career/money hustle that floats above so much stuff these days (and not just in tech) not every hobby or artifact produced is in service of the grind* *i realize hacker news is a self selecting crowd in that sense

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David Zhou

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4 years

Too many men have internalized workplace abuse they've received as a perverse mark of toughness (and then perpetuate it down the line), and some of the replies to this tweet prove it.

Chris Sean

@RealChrisSean

4 years

I quit my job today. I genuinely love where I work. The CEO and my colleagues are amazing. But I will not allow one bad apple to mistreat me and yell at me as if I’m nothing. As the only developer at the company I gave my 1 day notice 30 min ago.

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David Zhou

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4 years

msnbc going over every state and then staying “too early to call” is the worlds worst daily standup

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David Zhou

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2 years

a corollary is that human society *should* be more complex than smart contracts resist the urge to tokenize, and leverage or capitalize every facet of our lives

Kelsey Hightower

@kelseyhightower

2 years

Human societies are far too complex to be abstracted away behind a set of smart contracts.

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David Zhou

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4 years

I left Vox Media a year ago for Mailchimp and coincidentally I haven’t thought about AMP or Apple News JSON for 12 months and it feels great

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11 years

This was Twitter last night http://t.co/1dcOCLd8QA

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David Zhou

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5 years

these violent delights have violent ends

Red Dead Online Is Filled With Massive Piles Of Dead And Burned Horses [UPDATE]

Red Dead Online players jumping into the game yesterday and today have discovered something terrible and strange: Piles of burned horse carcasses outside some towns, like Valentine. Many are surpri...

kotaku.com

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David Zhou

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6 years

You, asleep: if i don't water my plants they will die Me, awoken: what is dead may never die

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David Zhou

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7 years

> Make a tool that makes sense in my head > Watch someone else try to use it > Wait what

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David Zhou

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5 years

In the spirit of 2019 here is Mario's face but with Detective Pikachu's eyes

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David Zhou

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5 years

Google backdoored themselves into having an alternative HTML spec that many media companies must follow for competitive reasons, and TBH I'm still very mad about it

Faster AMP on the origin: AMP + SSR = ⚡

AMP now officially supports a technique called server-side rendering (SSR) which you can apply to your AMP pages to make them load even faster. Our tests show increases of up to a whopping 50% on t…

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David Zhou

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2 years

@ianbobmorris newgrounds will blow peoples minds

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David Zhou

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4 years

hi the only time it makes sense to overwork yourself to the bone in the service of exploitive capitalism to disproportionally benefit someone in power is if you’re playing animal crossing and you owe money to tom nook

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David Zhou

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4 years

this instant noodle article by @jamesyworld is everything

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David Zhou

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3 years

Some news! Today's my last day at Mailchimp. Over the past 2 years, I worked with so many good people and learned so much from them! And I've met dear friends that I'll miss calling coworkers. I'm off the next two weeks before what's next, and maybe I'll finally finish Persona 5

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David Zhou

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1 year

in case twitter goes down don't find me, i'll find you

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David Zhou

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6 years

@dami_lee my bad iphone recording of the tv in a random dc hotel 😭

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David Zhou

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6 years

oh shit the japanese figure skater are skating to YURI ON ICE

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David Zhou

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9 years

Someone should make http://t.co/8IFT1t0ypB which is a URL shortener that redirects to a nickelback video 50% of the time

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David Zhou

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5 years

Fellow hiring managers: this is bad and you should not do this.

Jessica Liebman

@jessicaliebman

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Hey, I wrote something! … I’ve been hiring people for 10 years, and I still swear by a simple rule: If someone doesn’t send a thank you email, don’t hire them.

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