Joyce Park @troutgirl Twitter profile

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

2 years

This was Leo less than two months ago, and how I want to remember him.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

2 years

I've been thinking a lot about this DeSantis Martha's Vineyard thing, and finally realized why I'm so viscerally scared by it. He put people on the modern day equivalent of cattle cars by falsely promising them work. His buddies at DHS falsified the records so that these LEGAL

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asylees could not be traced. That is a little TOO CLOSE for comfort to what the Nazis did. I wouldn't be surprised if someone told the asylees that work would set them free! We are not that far from the unimaginable.

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Honestly I think all it would take is DeSantis deciding that it would help him and not hurt him to kill these "aliens" that are responsible for all his base's problems -- and then we're all the way to the Final Solution. We have to stop this.

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2 years

I bet when they did this to the Jewish populations of Europe, there were Christians sitting around joking about how dumb the Jews were to believe that there was a work camp with plentiful food at the end of their journey. That's what the MAGAs say about this horror: "it's a joke"

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And anyone who didn't agree with the Final Solution? Pretty sure their neighbors told them they were Communists and in the pocket of "the Rothschilds" (the Soros of their day) and the Jews were just getting a taste of their own medicine.

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Joyce Park

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4 years

Everyone just now realizing how much their productivity is affected by constant low-level worry: that's what it's like to be poor. You're swapping in your financial problems every few minutes, on top of whatever other mental stuff you're trying to juggle.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

10 days

I can't tell you how many VERY senior devs and eng managers who have privately confessed they could not pass their own team's interviews.

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every bad interview experience you’ve had comes down to some insecure person using the opportunity to power trip instead of doing their job sometimes this even gets codified into the official process

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Joyce Park

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6 years

@Prestopedia @hondanhon @PMourdoukoutas My public library (the busiest in California!) is perpetually packed with people using the resources there to get jobs or other income. Having gainfully employed neighbors is of great interest to me as a taxpaying homeowner.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

2 years

Surprising number of devs today don't seem to know how to write their own database schemas. Is SQL really that out of fashion?

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

7 months

Just saw a VP eng job on LinkedIn that had like 1800 applicants already. I've worked in tech for 24 years and haven't met 1800 legit VP eng candidates in my entire career.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

2 years

Not gonna lie... think twice before you become the guy who can debug all the layers of the stack. You won't make more money and you'll probably work way longer hours :(

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

6 years

Since we're talking about this: I spent my 30s working my ass off, and at age 40 my marriage was over & I was in the hospital with a brain aneurysm and now Stage A heart failure. Everyone young assumes they can get their health back once they "make it", and some of us are wrong

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

2 years

Hahaha just got a listing for a Senior Principal Software Engineer in Seattle that starts at $75k salary and no equity. The fuck outta here!!!

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

5 years

Don't forget that the Nazis claimed they killed the Jews in self-defense.

What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world to know

At 99, Ben Ferencz is the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive and he has a far-reaching message for today’s world

www.cbsnews.com

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

3 years

If you don't see how subsidized/cost-capped daycare and free community college could unleash a wave of economic growth like this country has never seen... our life experiences are just too different to bridge. And yours are too limited.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

1 year

Shit, SOAP??!! I don't know a single person under 40 who even knows what XML is!

tierney cyren

@bitandbang

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"Remote Junior Web Developer" job description: - know 5 languages - know animation with niche libraries - know two platforms - know server management - know git - know standards/best practices - know three different design tools - know a different industry - MORE jesus christ.

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2 years

@thefakeSilong I hope this also blows up in these assholes' faces. They've never been had their whole lives in other people's hands, and it shows.

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Joyce Park

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Why do people somehow think "MY Confederate ancestors didn't own slaves" is a flex? That just means they were gullible enough to fight and die for the worst ideology ever invented and got nothing for their trouble. Good job good work, Cletus.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

2 years

@ifindkarma Bad laws make criminals, and bad cops REALLY make criminals. They literally made these LEGAL ASYLEES into criminals without their knowledge or actions!

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

6 years

@wrembl3y @Prestopedia @hondanhon @PMourdoukoutas Santa Clara county pays flat $33.66, plus I think in Sunnyvale a little more if your house is extra-big? Wonder where Professor Mourdoukoutas lives that has such an extreme tax?

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Joyce Park

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2 months

A lot of times the thing that a startup thinks is their "special sauce" turns out to actually be a constraint that ends up killing the company. I'll give you an example: at Friendster we were SOOOO 1000% convinced that our "special sauce" was an n-dimensional friend graph that

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

4 years

I've interviewed 10 or 12 people this week for both dev and non-dev positions, and with one possible exception EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM was a woman, PoC, veteran, and/or LGBTQ+. Truly wonderful candidates too. If your pipeline sucks, the problem is not them -- it really is you.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

2 years

I've worked with MANY better coders who were surprised and mad that my career progressed faster because I am a better writer :/

Gergely Orosz

@GergelyOrosz

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Writing is an increasingly important skill in tech. Poor writing can hamper career progression, above a certain level. I wrote about tactics for more clear, more frequent, and more confident writing. Read it here:

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Joyce Park

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1 year

Holy crap, the NYT has an article about how much people spend on vacations... and it's like $10-15K!!! I am genuinely stunned. I think I might be an even bigger cheapskate than I realized.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

4 years

It's surreal that 4500 Americans died today, and all we're talking about is whether it's "worth it" to prevent deaths when there's money to be made.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

10 months

If you read any history at all you inevitably end up wondering why women kept dying in pregnancy or childbirth. So I kind of appreciate this dude for making it clear. If you treated your dog this way people would be more outraged.

Thy Geekdom Come🇻🇦

@ThyGeekdomCome

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Mrs. Geekdom and I have had 7 kids. All her pregnancies are high risk. They’re terrible. Hyperemesis. One near-stillbirth. A placental abruption. An apparent miscarriage (but OL of Lourdes worked a miracle). A still birth. 6 caesareans. “Geriatric” maternal age.

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Joyce Park

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2 years

Credit scores are such bullshit. I paid off a mortgage AND all my credit cards recently, and my Fair Isaac score went DOWN 50 points.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

4 years

Did you know if the Dems flip the Senate, the new majority leader might be... Elizabeth Warren?

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

3 years

There are almost 20,000 Californians hospitalized with COVID right now, and we haven't even begun to see the Christmas rush, and these fucking idiots are planning to have "underground" New Years parties. I can only conclude that our whole society has become a suicide pact.

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Joyce Park

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3 years

I wish engineers understood the legal implications of leaving California, especially if the COMPANY also switches their "headquarters". You could be losing your rights to equal pay, to your pre-existing IP, to work for competitors, or to start your own venture.

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Joyce Park

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4 years

A Silicon Valley recruiter told us that MORE THAN 80% of all jobs are filled through personal connections here. Almost everyone hired at $bigco comes through a referral. All those job recruiting startups, and this is the best we can do.

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Joyce Park

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1 year

Let's maybe ease back on the whole ChatGPT thing for a second. This is about a relatively simple math thing, and it's not even internally consistent!

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

3 months

@lingerie_addict Especially important to Black Americans who could easily be abused in local stores. The catalog let them shop with dignity, secure in the knowledge they wouldn't be overcharged or otherwise treated badly.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

6 years

Ooops, didn't mean to be a super bummer! Here's my one piece of advice: after a certain point, advancement in eng leadership is all about communicating well (esp in writing) and having good political instincts. Work on that in your spare time to advance.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

2 years

I tussled with React Native quite a bit this year, and if I have one piece of advice it's this: hire some people who have native experience, esp on iOS, because that's gonna be where 80% of your problems that make you cuss come from.

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Joyce Park

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10 months

HAHAHA OK this is a little mean but it's so perfect that Bolinas -- most NIMBY town in the entire land! -- has lost their post office because of a landlord dispute AND the fact they arranged it so there is literally no real estate for rent anywhere!

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

4 years

I wish a fraction of the money people sent to Presidential candidates was sent to Mitch McConnell's opponent @AmyMcGrathKY instead.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

3 years

I lived and worked in Silicon Valley for 21 years, and know many of these people personally, and I think it was an accurate depiction.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

5 years

POTUS today invited those of us who are non-white to fix our own countries first. My country of birth, South Korea, put their corrupt president in prison after a process of peaceful demonstration. I'm sure they would be more than happy to teach Americans how to do the same.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

4 years

Stealing one piece of mail is a crime. Stealing millions of pieces of mail is a strategy.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

3 years

Hey tweeps, I decided to do a long thread about heart failure because there are SOOOO many misconceptions about it. If you read to the end I'll have a couple of asks for you! OK so first off: heart FAILURE is not what we normally think of as heart DISEASE -- which would be

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

4 years

Oh, forgot to mention... if your governor lifts the shutdown, renters gotta pay rent and presumably owners will no longer be eligible for mortgage forbearance. NOW why do you think Trump, Kushner, Hannity, and other big landlords are so hot to trot? Your civil liberties?

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Joyce Park

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1 year

@peer_rich @nikitabier I remember working with one once at a startup. He asked us to buy him stuff like A WHOLE PEKING DUCK for lunch. AFAIK he never shipped any code before resigning for a drug dependency.

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Joyce Park

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1 year

@sm @cramforce HOW do I get a job working for this dude?!?!

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Joyce Park

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2 months

@josephzeballos Biden was soooo good at the "bizarre but harmless activities" part of being VP. There was never an ice cream cone he wouldn't eat or a Mongolian sport he wouldn't try.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

3 years

My current theory is that shitty engineering interview culture is actually a way of PREVENTING YOUR OWN DEVS from leaving. Programmers who run that gamut for a few months are so relieved and traumatized that they can't even THINK about doing it again for years.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

4 years

Junior devs: if you don't have commercial experience and are solely asking interviewers to look at your school projects... they have to be set up to ACTUALLY WORK. I don't know how many times I've tried to click through to the first project on a website and it doesn't work.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

1 year

@knguyenpoetry @CMPCMPCMP What are the odds you'll each get a $10 Starbucks gift card?

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

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This is a trend that's been happening since LinkedIn became a thing, but we sort of didn't notice because there weren't very many mass job loss periods since then. When I was a junior, the VP eng would place an ad on Craigslist or Dice and they'd get maybe 200 resumes. 80% of

Ian Bach ☯︎

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One thing I’ve noticed in the best teams in tech right now is that there’s no desire to hire and mentor juniors anymore (across every discipline). This is in part due to cutbacks etc but it’s also that a new philosophy won out - instead of large, bottoms up teams, everyone wants

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Joyce Park

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3 years

OK I am placing dibs on a new term: "epistemic shear": when reality is cut into two streams that you cannot reconcile whatsoever. For example, you know the planet is burning down but you also worry about your 401k.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

2 years

Someone on this site who I helped once -- very minimally, tbh! -- got in touch today to say he has begun helping others as he feels I helped him. Truly an overwhelming feeling to ever hear that, I'm so lucky.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

3 years

Stanford just billed me $140,000 for my tumor surgery. I don't have to pay most of that myself but the thing about American healthcare is that you literally never know until you get the bill and anyone who says you can "shop around" is a fucking liar.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

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This is definitely the worst hiring environment I've seen in my career, and I lived through the Dot Bomb and the Great Recession. I don't know what to tell junior devs any more, especially the ones who made huge sacrifices for what they thought was a safe, lucrative career.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

4 years

XML

Kelly Thompson

@kthompsonbbn

4 years

Without revealing your age, what's something you remember from your youth that today's youth wouldn't understand ?

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Joyce Park

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But think about how this ossifies corporate culture. These guys are sitting pretty at the top of the heap in their current jobs, and they have a LOT of anxiety about being able to get a new job if they had to.

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Joyce Park

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2 months

failing to hit product-market fit gives you is that it forces you to confront earlier whether your thing is TRULY special sauce -- or just a pointless straitjacket.

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@troutgirl

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I've seen tweets and articles saying that it's rational to rent rather than buy. If you don't understand how home ownership gets you more rights and privileges in this country than renters -- esp if you're non-white -- then you just don't understand how the USA works.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

2 years

Can report that @costplusdrugs is super legit!!! Got 90 days of a prescription that is in short supply everywhere for $5.70 + $5 shipping. I think it was delivered in like 4 days.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

4 years

Italian mayors all got the red ass and I am SO HERE FOR IT.

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@protectheflames

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"I stopped him and said, 'Look, this isn't a movie. You are not Will Smith in I Am Legend. Go home." This is the updated compilation of Italian Mayors losing it at people violating #Covid19 quarantine. Yes, subtitles are accurate.

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we basically used all our resources to build that... which our competitors were trying much simpler and more scalable solutions (e.g. segment by universities, make everyone friend one account) that were "good enough" and in fact preferred by users! The biggest gift a startup

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@troutgirl

4 years

Stanford just cancelled in-person instruction. Google and Facebook won't require office attendance for a year or more. Follow the money.

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Joyce Park

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2 months

@kyleshevlin I think you've touched on something really important here Kyle. If young people can no longer dream of becoming artists, musicians, writers, journalists, film makers, or programmers... What's left to aspire to?

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Hey racists, you're so behind the times. Asian countries got this shit buttoned up now plus our borders have been closed to them for weeks, you should be worrying about catching the Rona from a middle-aged white lady at Costco who just went through a busy airport.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

4 years

TIL that all the food banks in the US give away about $8bb worth of food. SNAP is $70bb. If you care about hunger in this country, your charity is nice but voting blue is worth 10x more.

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Joyce Park

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1 year

@polotek Notice that for all her constant fear, she doesn't report any ACTUAL harm to her -- and you KNOW she's the type who would give us every detail if there were any.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

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How to become wealthy in the USA: * Never get sick * Never have a sick spouse, or divorce them immediately if they get sick * Don't allow your children to get sick * Don't take care of your parents or siblings if they get sick * Inherit a home or enough money to buy a home

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

3 years

How it's going

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

3 years

One of my biggest life lessons from 20+ years in Silicon Valley is that karma is real. If you're a selfish, miserable, lonely fucker who makes a billion dollars... you're just gonna become an even MORE selfish, miserable, lonely fucker.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

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@AlisonBuki @old_sound Here is a little more informative link:

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

1 year

Working with an ORM rather than SQL is like wearing someone else's underwear.

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

2 years

I now ask for an accommodation for my brain injury every time I interview, even if I don't really NEED it, because I want to normalize the practice and also see how the company handles disability. I just ask to be permitted to Google during the interview without prejudice, since

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

3 years

Is he really saying that he didn't know that listing ONLY names of large majority-Black cities as sites of voter fraud was a dog whistle? Then he should resign for lack of political intelligence.

The Hill

@thehill

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GOP Sen. Lankford apologizes to Black constituents for opposing election results .

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2 years

Brain scan doesn't seem to show a new aneurysm!!!

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

8 years

The best engineers are often the ones who embrace the most tiresome, least glamorous, and most "never-completed" of tasks.

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4 years

The GOP has almost entirely failed to congratulate Biden on his win, or even acknowledge it, and yet everyone else is supposed to reach out with understanding and forgiveness? FOH!!!

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@troutgirl

3 years

"I don't trust anyone who ENJOYS dating. It combines the worst parts of job interviews and medical exams."

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Joyce Park

@troutgirl

2 years

@rf_mehlinger I'll name and shame: UnitedHealth.

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2 years

@fuckyouiquit Wasn't this person paying attention at the beginning of the pandemic when kids had to sit outside Taco Bell to do their homework?

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@troutgirl

3 years

When it comes to Section 230 reform, we can argue about whether sites should be liable for content. But what we CANNOT argue about, IMHO, is that they should 100% be liable for RECOMMENDATIONS. Cut off the recommendation engines and we'll see a lot less bullshit.

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@troutgirl

3 years

A little while ago @cbouzy advised his followers to buy a solar charger and of course I did because I just blindly follow him and it's a great idea. I think I'll be buying them for all my friends this year.

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@troutgirl

3 years

I'm alive! They're keeping me overnight though. It's a little weird because it's very close to where I was when I had my brain aneurysm...

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@troutgirl

3 years

Glamor shot in pre-op

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1 year

As we mourn Ben Ferencz, who prosecuted Nazis, I was struck by something he wrote much later. It was an essay about his hijinks roaming Europe at the end of his service there, after Nuremberg.

Mansour Omari

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1/2 Deeply sad news. Benjamin Ferencz, the last-surviving Nuremberg podium prosecutor of Nazi war criminals, left our world. Meeting Ferencz was always an aspiration. His legacy including advancing justice & accountability for victims & survivors will stay with us to learn from.

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@ask_aubry What does "her labia is long [snip] to the point her lips can't even close around them" mean?

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@troutgirl

5 years

I have health problems that make it difficult for me to stay out late and stand up on a sidewalk for hours. This will be my protest.

Adam Rifkin 🐼🌻

@ifindkarma

5 years

If you cannot attend a @Lights4Liberty event TONIGHT, please: 🗽 Go outside at 9pm 🗽 Light a candle or electric candle 🗽 Hold a moment of silence ✨ 🗽 Donate to @RAICESTEXAS and @ACLU if you can #DontLookAway #Lights4Liberty #EndUSConcentrationCamps

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These days, payment processing is cheap to implement - but fraud prevention is expensive. Community "features" like phone chats are cheap - but community safety is expensive. Recommendations are cheap - but not radicalizing users is expensive. GOVERNANCE is expensive!

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@troutgirl

7 years

Are there any kind, detail-oriented junior devs who would like a job with me where they learn React?

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2 years

Devops friend just told me, "Two of my favorite coworkers are quitting over management's quixotic attachment to crypto." Wonder if this is gonna be a trend?

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@troutgirl

3 years

Now that he has received a historical Oscar nomination in a leading role, I'm gonna need everyone to learn to pronounce it correctly: Steven Yeun rhymes with fun. Not Yoon, not Ywen, not whatever mush you're saying.

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4 years

Did you know that the US Citizenship and Immigration Services agency is bankrupt and therefore cannot let people become citizens?

Trump policy and coronavirus leave agency bankrupt, tens of thousands of potential voters in limbo

Just shy of 2020 voter deadlines, the federal agency that handles citizenship is out of money, and thousands of green card holders can't become citizens.

www.latimes.com

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@troutgirl

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Instead of just focusing on voter registration, we should be telling everyone about the joy of absentee voting! For the first time you can get an absentee ballot in any state with one online form:

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@troutgirl

2 years

Facebook just proved to the whole industry that showing discriminatory housing ads will only bring a $115k fine. That's like a nickel for you or me. Discrimination is now essentially legal again for all intents and purposes.

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3 years

Im being discharged!

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@troutgirl

4 years

The youngs will hopefully never know the terror that was SOAP.

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@troutgirl

3 years

When do we pivot from crapping on vaccine line-jumpers to crapping on vaccine hesitators?

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@troutgirl

3 years

When people say Biden's Secret Service protection detail head David Cho -- a Korean American -- is actually his Chinese handler... They're saying I'm not an American. Also that they're racist assholes.

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@troutgirl

3 years

And only ONE was an engineer: Diane Greene of VMWare.

Alyson Shontell

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3 years

@EvelynRusli @WhitWolfeHerd Yes. Out of thousands of US companies that are currently publicly traded, only 20 of them were taken public by female founders who were also the CEO

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2 years

People need to have serious conversations with multiple adoptee friends, and ideally also adopter friends. I learned that a very high percentage of my adoptee friends were abused and that was that.

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@troutgirl

2 years

@feline_cannon @jrobison By all accounts the DHS employees deliberately falsified records to show that asylees were living in homeless shelters across the USA that they had never even heard of. If that isn't conspiracy, I don't know what is.

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