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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

Communities can be more or less cohesive. I don't know very many of my immediate neighbors. But we are definitely still in community with each other. There are things that necessarily tie us together in ways where we have shared experiences.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

It's hard to pin down what "community" is and what "culture" is. It's more helpful to not have rigid definitions, because it allows us to talk about what we see without trying too hard to label it. It's useful to say there is a white community. But it's disjoint and not cohesive.

@KamalaHarris ("Kamala Harris") wrote:

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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

I'm not giving @zspencer a hard time. I think they are right in some sense. And many others have made a similar observation about the lack of cohesiveness in white community. It's not wrong. But I think requires more unpacking.

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@trisaratopsRAWR ("Sara") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

@polotek We don't really have shared experience or community as white people; I don't think any of us know how to start addressing that. It seems like this rage is rooted in a sense of entitlement; they were promised social status by white supremacy and they're mad they don't have it.

@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:

You know what? I’m about to say it. I don’t care that you broke your elbow.

@LilNasX ("MONTERO 🦋") wrote:

had too much fun last night! thank u for coming out doja ur so small and cute

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

Until it's time to maintain white supremacy. At which point they are shockingly cohesive.

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@ZeePDX ("Zee 🛸") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

@polotek One thing to understand is that white is a category that was built, and while there are some cultural touchstones, it does not function as a community.

White people are actually a bunch of separate communities and they don't necessarily connect. At all.

@hiyayaywhopee ("nick woods") wrote:

everyone loves national treasure
because the heist that they pull is ever so clever

@33mhz ("Yassified and Ancient") wrote:

This was such a moment

@gcouprie ("Geoffroy Couprie") retweeted:

@o0ignition0o wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMXG5-Wt65s Apprendre le Rust - Episode 1: Installer rust sous windows, osx, et linux!

Et bientot un 2 ème épisode sur les types primitifs!

@DarcyCarden ("D'Arcy Carden") replied to a tweet by @DarcyCarden:

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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

I would argue that in many cases, the new capabilities have come at the expense of making the old stuff way harder. And the efficiencies we were supposed to get were never there or they are outweighed by the things we inadvertently made less efficient.

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@plum_perfect ("PlumGirl") wrote:

It’s that time of year again. Don’t forget to hang your missile toads!

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

Most of the time, when people are selling complexity, they're promising one of two things.

New capabilities. As in you can't do things that you couldn't before.

Efficiency. As in the thing you've been doing will get significantly cheaper and easier.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

I'm taking about web technologies in particular. That's where I work and what I know. There are lots of other tech spaces as well where what I'm saying may not apply. So keep this context in mind.

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@DaniQuietNow ("AuntDani (she/they)") wrote:

{}: curly bois
[]: square bois
(): curvy bois
<>: pointy bois

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@lefticus ("Jason Turner") wrote:

To my fellow C++ programmers:

{} : "braces"
[] : "brackets"
() : "parenthesis"
<> : "angle brackets"

Remember, it's "braced-initialization" *not* "curly bracket initialization"

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

The demand for software engineers is exploding. But we've spent the last 10 years or so making software systems way more complicated and less accessible. I mean it wasn't easy before. But what I'm seeing today is ridiculous.

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@lindseybieda ("Pumpkin Spice Lindsey") wrote:

Lofi orbs to ponder to

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

Most people are like "someone actually wanted to do this, so it was necessary to add support to the language". And that's not the way I think about it. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. We are terrible at considering the cost of complexity.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

Peele often misinterpret my arguments when I talk about unnecessary complexity in software. There are an infinite number of potential problems in software. We create a complex system when we try to make it solve all of them.

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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @cramforce:

@cramforce @kellan No it isn't. I understand that language nerds want it to be a good explanation. But this is one of those things where people create complexity because they enjoy it, and then try to convince everyone else that it's good for them.

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@axl99 ("Jessie Lam _(:3 」∠ )") wrote:

im emotional #piltoversfinest #arcane

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@murataenglish ("murata@studying english") wrote:

#piltoversfinest #caitvi

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@murataenglish ("murata@studying english") wrote:

🧁🥊
#piltoversfinest #caitvi

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@heyjenbartel ("Jen Bartel") wrote:

THEM 😱🧭✨ #chronocross

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@sentantiq ("sententiae antiquae") wrote:

“The sword does not kill anyone; it’s the weapon of the killer.”

Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est #Seneca #Ummmmm

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@daninithepan1ni ("Danielle Smith 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇿🇦") wrote:

I've decided to release kdl-rb as 1.0.0 officially now! Get it while it's hot! https://rubygems.org/gems/kdl/versions/1.0.0

@zkat__ ("tired but ❄️festive🎄 gay") retweeted:

@CDAW_National ("Coalition to Defend Amazon Workers") wrote:

🧵Today @amazonlabor filed yet another Unfair Labor Practice charge @NLRB against @amazon. This Company forces its employees to attend anti-union captive audience meetings and lies about their statutory rights, which is coercive and violates the National Labor Relations Act. 👇🏽

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@__apf__ ("Adrienne Porter Felt") wrote:

i don't know what Advent of Code is. instead of looking it up, I'm assuming that every day they reveal yet another uncanny aspect of JavaScript. open today's door and "true + true === 2" falls out, stifling your cries with the crushing weight of its truthiness

@RussellGlasser ("Russell Glasser 💙") replied to a tweet by @RussellGlasser:

Bonus: Obvious ads on Reddit that begin with "Hey, Reddit!" followed by several sentences of painful "fellow kids" text.

@RussellGlasser ("Russell Glasser 💙") wrote:

Me on Twitter every day: "Aha, a video! Can't wait to see this amusing clip posted by one of the many witty people I follow."
(10 seconds later) "I don't get it. What's the joke?" (scroll, scroll)
Twitter: "Promoted Tweet"
Me: "May your stupid TV network burn to the ground."