Tweets by Miller Medeiros (@ millermedeiros)

•   How to Ask Mentors for Advice 👇 cc: @sivers https://t.co/3sRoaKyOvt
•   And I’m still doing physiotherapy for the scapular muscles — which also improved a lot over the past 2 months… Unsure about what is actually making the biggest impact, but I’m trying everything. Every month I’m a little bit better. Today was nice on the trails! https://t.co/gnXypo7E9p
•   Started doing physiotherapy for the cervical and jaw, relaxation, and reduced the “stimulus” frequency and intensity… I think it’s working: symptoms (nausea, dizziness, sweat) reduced a lot, neck and trapezius isn’t as stiff, fewer trigger points… https://t.co/Rl1b3Rks81
•   Episode 252: Prof. Burton Malkiel: 50 Years of A Random Walk Down Wall Street https://t.co/RCyrXYA7WV https://t.co/j2onfWv6P7
•   Episode 11: "Rich Dad Poor Dad" The secret to lifelong wealth, it turns out, is just a few simple rules: Flip houses, cheat on your taxes and employ child slaves. https://t.co/W5RFET721b
•   A Short Research Library Outlining Why Traditional Stock Picking is Challenging https://t.co/CAOap3AoZK Looking for public comment (especially from stock pickers) on what needs to be added to this piece to ensure the empirical story is accurate.
•   Found this really good talk about Vestibular Migraine, and possible treatments, by Dr Michael Teixido (@michael_teixido) from the 2022 Migraine World Summit. https://t.co/HZHfuQ0XVo
•   Tried another session of "vestibular rehabilitation" but it's still too intense for me — was still feeling nauseous many hours afterwards... Will go back to my doctor and share the stuff I learned the past couple months, maybe we can try something else.
•   I'm still not sure what is the real cause of my problem, and/or if I'll fully recover, but at least I'm getting better... Unsure if the exercises I'm doing are working and/or if it's just "a matter of time" (would get better without doing anything), but I'll keep trying.
•   I've also found this YouTube channel by Dr. Yonit Arthur with a bunch of good videos on how to diagnose, and treat, different kinds of dizziness — highly recommended: https://t.co/185dHvDnHw
•   Some of the studies about "Thoracic Outlet Syndrome" and "Brachial Plexus Compression" (nerves under the clavicle) mentioned some symptoms which intrigued me: neck pain, dizziness, vertigo, occipital headaches, weakness of the rhomboid and scapular muscles. https://t.co/wX0JTBEZkT
•   Majority of the physiotherapy rehabilitation I'm doing because of the tore shoulder ligament (acromioclavicular) is focused on strengthening my "scapular muscles" — they atrophied after the accident and it affects shoulder rotation and trapezius/neck muscles. ⚠️ https://t.co/BJCIs3uxXX
•   My symptoms are getting better, but I'm still getting nauseous and sweating a lot... So I spent more time reading academic papers, watching YouTube videos, and trying to figure out if anything else might be contributing to my dizziness. Learned few interesting things.
•   Insane how the muscles used for running and biking are different, and how fitness doesn’t translate. I also totally “forgot” how to run fast — I could run 16K (10mi) in less than 1h (long time ago), now I can barely keep that pace for a couple minutes… Losing fitness sucks 😅
•   @bengold “One of my kids is crying because the toilet was flushed before she could show everyone her poop. Reminds me of working in a big company.” – @sacca (2015)
•   Protip: a “symptom diary” / “patient log” can help the diagnosis process of most diseases/problems, it’s a smart idea to do it and track everything. Protip: know your limits; be extra cautions in places with low visibility; wear knee/elbow pads. Accidents do happen!
•   I’m glad that I’m getting better… and I know it could be way worse — I’m lucky to be alive and walking, and I’m trying to focus on the positive side of things — but it really sucks to not know if I’ll ever be 100%, and/or how long it’ll take… 😥
•   I’m sharing this since some friends asked about a status update, and also in case someone else is going thru a similar situation — I did not know about “cervicogenic dizziness”, and it took me a while to “connect the dots”…
•   The past 5 weeks I also went mountain biking at least once per week… but going fast downhill (specially in the rock gardens) makes me feel really bad, and I was still kinda dizzy/nauseous 24-48h afterwards… — so I’m going slower and picking easier trails for now…
•   Another thing that I started doing to get used to movement, is to play OpenTTD for 1-2h per week — the trains moving are enough to make me nauseous, but it takes a while to manifest… other games didn’t work as well. https://t.co/yOXETah406
•   I tried to play tennis a few weeks ago, but felt terrible for the next 2 days… I guess the ball moving fast, running across the court, and vibration while hitting the ball, is too much stimulus for my brain/muscles right now… (I miss playing tennis 😥)
•   I stopped taking the muscle relaxant ~3 weeks ago. Symptoms worsened, but it’s still way better than it was a couple months ago.
•   I started to walk, faster, and for longer durations, each day. After a few weeks, walking didn’t make me dizzy anymore, so I started to run and swim. At the beginning, 3min was enough to make me really nauseous, but now I’m able to run for 1h, and swim for 30min…
•   So I decided to double the muscle relaxant dose for 3 consecutive days to test my hypothesis — symptoms reduced drastically. Told my doctor about my hypothesis and trial, and she agreed that it makes total sense. Doctor recommended to keep the muscle relaxant for a few weeks…
•   and to start doing more things that makes me dizzy, so my “vestibular system” will get used to it — slowly increasing the volume. I tried a couple sessions of “vestibular rehabilitation” with a specialist but felt really bad afterwards… ended up giving up.
•   My hypothesis: tore shoulder ligament strains neck/trapezius > stiff neck causes migraine > migraine causes dizziness > dizziness prevents me from moving my neck > which stiffens the neck > etc… This would also explain the 6 day delay between accident and symptoms onset.
•   After reading that paper, and at least the abstract of all the 124 references, I got pretty confident that my problem was also related to my neck/cervical. And even if my problem wasn’t caused by the neck, it could be worsening the migraine…
•   So I started searching for articles on PubMed about different kinds of vertigo/dizziness, and found this really good paper: “The Enduring Controversy of Cervicogenic Vertigo, and Its Place among Positional Vertigo Syndromes” (2021) https://t.co/PEwDWRnJY8
•   After that, I decided to read my “symptoms diary” — that I started writing when the vertigo began — trying to find some pattern, and/or anything that we might have missed. That’s when I realized that my symptoms worsened 5 days after I stopped taking a muscle relaxant… ⚠️
•   I was also doing Physical Therapy for my shoulder (because of the tore ligament), and at the beginning of each session, the PT was doing some massages to reduce tension on my neck/trapezius muscle. Some of the “trigger points” worsened my symptoms and caused headaches! ⚠️
•   A couple months went by, and I was still not cured, so my doctor prescribed some pills to prevent the “migraine”, but the pills had side effects: weird taste in my mouth; heartburn; and VERTIGO!!! 🤦‍♂️ Felt terrible for ~2 days, couldn’t even work or sleep. So I ditched the pills.
•   By exclusion, doctor ended up diagnosing me with “Vestibular Migraine” — given my past history of motion sickness and migraine, and the fact that some things that worsen migraines seemed to worsen my symptoms (brightness/contrast, motion, etc).
•   Couldn’t even walk my kids to school; or walk the dogs around the block; or look down while using my cellphone; or use a laptop without an external monitor; or watch movies with too much camera movement; videogames; lay down; sleep… — everything made me nauseous 🤢
•   I decided to stop taking all the painkillers and muscle relaxant to see if the symptoms would go away (assuming it could be a side effect). After a week of pain, the dizziness was still bad, so I decided to start taking the painkillers again and search for a specialist…
•   I went to a specialist, and did another round of exams (VNG, audiometry, a few maneuvers, etc), and the results also didn’t help — everything normal… The only thing that didn’t worsen my symptoms was staying still, eyes fixed at the horizon level… (working or reading)
•   I started feeling vertigo/dizziness. Couldn’t even move in the bed without feeling nauseous. Went back to the hospital, did a bunch of exams (MRI, CT scan, neurologist/otolaryngologist evaluation), and they found nothing.
•   I was rescued by the firefighters, and did a bunch of exams in the ER. Since I was stable, I was discharged the same day. First few days were really painful… but after adjusting the painkillers, it became bearable. Unfortunately, in the 6th day things got worse…
•   I got really scared, pressed the brakes, and shifted my weight backwards… Don’t know exactly what happened, but I felt the chainring hitting the drop edge, the back wheel hitting my butt, and I went over the bars, landing on my right shoulder (helmet barely scratched).
•   I thought I was alone in the trail. There was a drop, in a place with low visibility. I was going way faster than usual. One guy crashed ~30s before me, and his friends were standing in the middle of the trail, waiting for him to come back from the middle of the bushes…
•   I had a really bad mountain bike crash in July 2022 — broke 3 ribs, 2 vertebrae (T1, T2), tore shoulder ligament (acromioclavicular)… It was on a trail that I ride often, on a drop that I jumped multiple times before, but I was really irresponsible and unlucky that day… https://t.co/45mLB4p3wU
•   Looks like I started to follow a bunch of random people that I’ve never seen before… don’t know when it happened, but I have a feeling it’s a bug on Twitter that started over the past week.
•   I predict that there will be a bunch if stupid predictions in tech for next year that will be absolutely wrong and quickly forgotten.
•   - "Do you have 5 minutes?" If you're a manager, do NOT send such messages to people in your team. They may be stressed with layoff announcements across the industry. Please add some context, such as: - "Do you have 5 minutes to discuss feature X?" It makes ALL the difference!
•   Isso daqui é arte! Baixo Astral: Mapa Astral dos Candidatos https://t.co/20QxwmSrdS
•   a11y protip: "Decorative Images" should have empty `[alt=""]` attribute, or `[role="presentation"]`, since they don't add information to the content of the page. "Informative Images" are the ones that require a descriptive [alt] attribute. https://t.co/YvCnJDea3W
•   My experience was kinda similar, but: - some people might have done the same thing and got bad results. - some people never fully recover from burnout, and it can limit their potential moving forward. So take any “biography/anecdotes” with a grain of salt. https://t.co/I7ccn5qgAJ
•   ~10yrs ago I blamed social media and the death of RSS for the rise of clickbait links… a shame that this trend only got worse over time. https://t.co/ffM9YAjlOq https://t.co/cyuIj0sGoI
•   Concordo com vários pontos dessa thread, e olha que eu fui para os EUA numa condição muito boa, e com um salário muito acima da média… Ser imigrante não é fácil, e abdicamos de muitos privilégios que temos na terra natal. Não me arrependo de ter voltado para o Brasil. https://t.co/hnisQBba2c
•   New Bike Day! I preordered it back in October 2021, but it only arrived today... Worth the wait tho. Amazing bike! (Yeti SB130 TLR T1) #YetiSB130 https://t.co/2016EU4kHB
•   The longer an engineer works in a monolith, the more they yearn to decompose it into micro-services. The longer an engineer works across a ton of micro-services, the more they yearn for the days of working in a monolith. The grass is always greener.
•   needless to say i didn't predict how timely a piece like this would be when i was doing the interview. https://t.co/kafXincx8E
•   I kinda miss writing plain JavaScript/CSS without any framework, no transpile step (during dev mode), and being able to edit/save code on dev tools itself…
•   Beware of “Survivorship Bias”… — Many people don’t get to enjoy it later in life. Working hard might not pay off. There can be advantages for the “grind” early in your career, but it might also lead to burnout and other health problems. YMMV https://t.co/yFOJhL5smZ
•   If you don't want to do it by yourself, hire a "Fee-Only Financial Advisor". "Since fee-only advisors do not sell commission-based products, receive referral fees, or other forms of compensation, the potential for conflicts of interest is limited." https://t.co/fI0lg9F6zI
•   With a 7.2% rate of return above inflation, it takes 10 years to double the purchasing power — you won’t get rich quick, $1 becomes $2 in 10yrs, $16 in 40yrs — so you should increase your savings rate, and focus on the long term. Beware of any “get-rich-quick schemes”.
•   Stock market historical return (in most countries) was between 3-7% above inflation. There is no guarantee it will repeat, but use these values to calibrate your expectations. See: “Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook” https://t.co/NkuQnnqZck
•   Following the best strategy doesn’t matter if you’re going to panic and sell at the bottom, find what works for you. There are many reasonable options: - ETFs - Target Date Funds - Bogleheads Lazy Portfolios - The Robust Asset Allocation (RAA) Index - Paul Merriman Portfolios
•   Remember to spend a good portion of the money while you still can. “Delayed gratification” is a good thing, but your desires (and ability to enjoy it) might change over time. Remember that experiences are more important than owning things. https://t.co/PRpaQkDMzU
•   “The Psychology of Money” by @morganhousel has many good anecdotes about risk, luck, greed, patience, happiness, behavioral biases, ... The main themes are covered in this blog post, but I highly recommend reading the whole book. https://t.co/m9qrutP19T https://t.co/jkYBye1S4h
•   If you want to learn way more than you need about investments and personal finance, listen to the @RationalRemind podcast. They interview some of the most relevant people in the industry, and cite a bunch of academic papers. It’s really technical tho. https://t.co/EgkRCfHxsD
•   Investing in Technological Revolutions is not as good as most people assume. Historically, investing in declining industries (companies with low prices) has produced reliably better outcomes. https://t.co/jbEryZ0dI8
•   The best decision might lead to a bad outcome, and a terrible decision might lead to a good outcome (due to luck). You can’t judge the quality of the process used to make a decision based on its outcomes. https://t.co/BeP5NCwG9L
•   What is (Good) Financial Advice? Context matters a lot, what works for one person might not work for another one. https://t.co/gNkjOdX2zg
•   "It is clear that the long-term appreciation rates of housing and land have been low; they are more or less comparable to the historical returns on government bills." — The Long-Term Returns to Durable Assets (2016) Christophe Spaenjers https://t.co/JBj1D8d1VM https://t.co/iChlM6ZSWq
•   Dividends are irrelevant! It’s the same thing as selling a fraction of your portfolio. There is no evidence that selecting stocks solely based on dividends is a good strategy (it will actually reduce your diversification). https://t.co/An0nxPQ3po
•   Rent vs Buying a home. They are both good options — financially and from the perspective of well being. There are many unrecoverable costs of home ownership, and price appreciation is not guaranteed. Do what matches your desired lifestyle. https://t.co/wIu3MC8yqm
•   Gold (and other precious metals) are a “bad” investment. Unreliable inflation hedge (if investment horizon is <50 years); doesn’t seem like a good currency hedge; weak correlation to TIPS yields; high volatility; doesn’t produce anything; etc. https://t.co/8J67Z8i5iQ
•   You should also check this (counterintuitive) paper by @MichaelKitces and @WadePfau about retirement withdrawals — they conclude it’s better to raise equity exposure post-retirement. “Reducing Retirement Risk with a Rising Equity Glide-Path (2013)” https://t.co/BNfHbnrVqQ
•   I highly recommend watching ALL the videos from @benjaminwfelix “Common Sense Investing” YouTube Channel. He covers a bunch of relevant subjects, and the videos are backed by strong academic references. https://t.co/8HIgwhBSz4
•   To know how much money you need for retirement, and how much you can withdraw each year, check the “Early Retirement Now: Safe Withdrawal Rate Series” — @ErnRetireNow https://t.co/5q2JW1wXPk
•   Even though many companies are multinational, and the USA is ~58% of the global stock market, it still makes sense to diversify abroad. See: “Global equity investing: The benefits of diversification and sizing your allocation — Vanguard Research” https://t.co/VeFjTnkvS1
•   You can’t predict the future. Even if a strategy worked for 50+ years, it can underperform in the next 50+ years. See: “Market Timing: Sin a Little. Resolving the Valuation Timing Puzzle (2017) Cliff Asness, Antti Ilmanen and Thomas Maloney” https://t.co/wKzDi5wbni
•   Most people would be better off investing only thru low cost “Target Date Funds” (aka. “Target Retirement Funds”). It drastically simplifies the process: buy a single asset; no need to rebalance; automatic asset allocation; avoids some behavioral biases. https://t.co/V2s6AXepH7
•   The best time to invest is when you have the money to do so. Do not wait for market corrections. Do not try to time the market. Do not keep money on the side for “opportunities”. https://t.co/odqOzLSB7J
•   The “Stock Series” by @JLCollinsNH is another good resource for understanding why index funds (and “Target Date Funds”) are a good choice, why you need some bonds (to smooth the ride), and how to weather a market crash (do not panic). https://t.co/5FhSIwbA7H
•   To understand why “trading” is a bad idea, read all papers written by Brad Barber & Terrance Odean (or at least just the abstracts). Start with “Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors (2010)” https://t.co/nxfaC157dr
•   "4% of listed companies explain the net gain for the entire U.S. stock market … results help to explain why poorly-diversified active strategies most often underperform market averages." — Do Stocks Outperform Treasury Bills? (2017) Hendrik Bessembinder https://t.co/s3xLTIASf0
•   It’s basically impossible to separate luck from skill after controlling for known factors (size, value, momentum, investment, profitability). See: "On Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance (2012) Mark Carhart" https://t.co/SG4B1D8wIw
•   You’re unlikely to beat an index like the S&P500 over many years. You’re also unlikely to find a manager/fund that is able to do it consistently. Over 80% of the actively managed funds lose to their benchmarks after 15 years. See: “SPIVA Scorecard” https://t.co/yqe6AyDaTQ
•   To understand the impact of yearly management fees, check the “T-Rex Score” tool by @LarryBatesBTB Compare a 2% fee (most active funds) with a 0.08% fee (low cost index fund) over a 40 year period. Fees are one of the only things you can control! https://t.co/BByLzBrJGD
•   “The Little Book of Common Sense Investing” by Jack Bogle is one of the best resources to learn that: - low cost broad market index fund is a good bet for the long term; - management fees matter; - you can’t pick the winning strategies/managers in advance. https://t.co/Ix6dhZv6zo
•   Get "Term Life Insurance" and "Disability Insurance" while you're still young/healthy. But do not buy a "Whole Life Insurance" unless you're sure you need it — way more expensive, and only makes sense in very specific cases. https://t.co/mo3b8gw3qR
•   For basic personal finance advice — how much to save; when to prepay debt; types of investment accounts; how much to spend on housing/cars; insurance needs; emergency fund — follow the @moneyguyshow podcast and their “Financial Order of Operations” https://t.co/PY9qWAsw5E
•   TL;DR; - spend less than you make; - favor low management fees; - avoid turnover & debt; - diversify globally; - time in the market beats timing the market; - savings rate and time matters more than rate of return; - focus on your: health, family, work, happiness, fulfillment;
•   Some really good personal finance and investing advice from @polotek It motivated me to share things I wish I knew when I started to invest. I hope it’s useful for more people. https://t.co/1VNBK5X5xo
•   2 hours of focused work > 8 hours of multitasking
•   i wish more people would understand that people are more efficient at 70% capacity than 110%
•   I wish I learned about index funds when I first started investing, had the intelligence to stick with them, added to them over my lifetime, and never questioned the concept. I’d have more money than I do today and would have created more time to do more enjoyable things.
•   I work with a LOT of overachievers. These are people who have achieved by working hard, meeting goals, and going above and beyond. These people do not do well when they're not set up for success. What does this look like? 1/🧵
•   I love people that do meetings with complete agendas and prep-work before them. Seriously, why can't all meetings be like this? You get the agenda, do the prep work and only make decisions throughout the meeting instead of rehashing everything people could have done beforehand.
•   Tô curtindo bastante os episódios do @esponespod com o @danielfilho, @tadeuzagallo e @netomarin. Vários tópico relevantes sobre a carreira de desenvolvimento de software, empresas de tecnologia, vida no exterior, etc… Vale a pena seguir.
•   Do pundits realize people working from home aren’t “holed up in their homes”? Just because we work from home doesn’t mean we don’t leave our house, we just have more time to see friends, grab a bite, catch a kid’s soccer game, etc.
•   Moved back to iOS a few months ago, after spending 4yrs on Android… things that I still miss a lot: - Android Auto is way better than Apple CarPlay. - Face ID is good, but fingerprint reader at the back of the phone was better. - Split screen. - Android Clipboard.
•   I feel like command line shorthands shouldn't be used in automated scripts because it doesn't save any time and only serves to hurt readability.
•   Got some grifters out there lately pushing a narrative that the rise of broad-based aggressive individual trading activity is somehow empowering, so here are some links below to actual research/data on the topic, both newer and older.
•   Async code review by nature has some distance between the code writer and code review. Anti-CR people think this is a silly inefficiency, and so sync pairing is always better. But distance can be a good thing! It's why writers have editors and game designers do cold playtesting.
•   “Living abroad is good, but it sucks. Living in Brazil sucks, but it's good” — Tom Jobim
•   This hype taxonomy by @Klingebeil serves as a good counterweight to the infamous (and misnamed) Gartner Hype Cycle, which gave the mistaken impression that all over-hyped technologies ultimately endure and succeed (when many, in fact, perish entirely): https://t.co/hVMYeeTAZe
•   @nellshamrell Very relevant: "The myth of the developer that can't code" by @neilwithdata https://t.co/f4TFOWVSq2
•   a good decision can end in a bad outcome, and a bad decision can end in a good outcome. a bad outcome doesn't mean you made a bad decision, and a good outcome doesn't mean you made a good decision.
•   Compilei uma lista de artigos e vídeos mostrando a irrelevância dos dividendos na hora de escolher em quais ações investir: https://t.co/HtwMtbYci5
•   Utility classes: I'm not in a mood to be erased today. I was experimenting with utility classes in large production sites starting in ~2004. In 2009, I got brave and shared! I have receipts.✍🏻 Others released similar things in 2011-2014. https://t.co/73E4DiCAfs
•   have you seen tweets about stolen NFTs, crypto scams, or plain old bad ideas and thought "geez, how is that whole web3 thing going?" check out my new project: https://t.co/NoDtlR33C6 #web3 #crypto
•   Dear world: It is perfectly possible to imagine a radically-decentralized Web and simultaneously disbelieve that basing it on blockchain is necessary or even desirable. But de facto, the term “Web3” now means “buy my cryptocurrency” and is thus polluted, probably beyond repair.
•   There hasn't been some major breakthrough in the Metaverse/VR/AR. Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence still is nowhere close to living up to the hype. Blockchain is still a speculative boom with no unique use-cases. But they are all being sold as the inevitable future.
•   1/ On Making It Are we GMI? Are we NGMI? Are we WAGMI? What does Making It mean? I present below the 6529 GMI Framework (tm, all rights reserved, (c) 2021, 😂) Frameworks are just a tool. None are 'right'. This is just how I think about it.
•   Technology in search of a problem often creates one to justify its existence.
•   I saw there was some discussion on here last week about how we shouldn't celebrate developers who don't know how the whole system works, end-to-end. 🧵/1
•   As a handy reference piece, here are the top 10 reasons drivers get angry at bike riders.
•   I don't know who needs to hear this but... you're a human not a brand. Contrary to the neoliberalization of life, it is perfectly acceptable NOT to commodify or monetize your interests, hobbies, talents, personality, and insights (economic necessity notwithstanding).
•   Continuing on the theme of being the DRI of your own career, I wrote about how to expect more from your career (and less from your job) https://t.co/it6g6YKW8H
•   Yesterday, I shared a link to a library that provides a set of low-level primitives, things like <ScrollArea> or <Dialog> or <Popover>. You might be wondering: I can build all that stuff myself! Why would I want to use a library? 🧵 Let's get into it. https://t.co/RwukCAYaQY
•   Since the github issue is locked, I came here to publicly say thanks to @millermedeiros for the codemod he made to convert all exported anonymous functions to named functions, saved a lot of time! Codemod: https://t.co/8aLClndqHa
•   Here are the vaccines many already need(ed) just to go school: Chickenpox Diphtheria Hepatitis A&B Meningitis Measles Mumps Polio Pneumonia Rotavirus Rubella Tetanus Whooping Cough Adding one for COVID doesn’t impact your freedom, it makes us all safer.
•   To understand the differences between "whole life" and "term insurance", check this video from The Money Guy Show. TL;DR; most people are better with "term insurance" since it's way cheaper, "whole life" only makes sense in very specific cases. https://t.co/ZkMPVnukmX
•   Make sure you get "term insurance", "whole life" is a scam! Also remember that you might not qualify for an insurance down the road — they refuse people with certain health conditions... — the sooner you do it the better: https://t.co/ZJqLmcvMd3
•   My mom died (stroke, age 45) when I was 15yo, her life insurance covered our mortgage and other monthly bills until I graduated. I'm glad my mom was financially responsible, it allowed me to make good choices for my career. PS: disability insurance is also a smart thing to do. https://t.co/ejlEY6ttT2
•   Why is every job listing like ‘you must work well under pressure’ ‘you have a high tolerance for stress’ please I’m so tired. I just wanna do something with my life that doesn’t involve working inside a pressure cooker. I’m already cooked. Let me out
•   I realize #techtwitter has moved on to the #Web3 debate now, but I just had to write up the #AppleBrowserBan. I attempt to answer this deep philosophical question: how far should web apps go in trying to emulate the advanced functionality of native apps? https://t.co/h0iF6WVc98
•   "Not a pyramid scheme or bubble! You can also get rich if you join soon! The emperor isn't naked! All the problems will be fixed and we'll find valid use cases! It's the future! You simply don't understand how it works! Haters are losers! It isn't a cult! We are a community!"
•   What I love about this is that so many hiring mangers feel the need to match the team's time zones when in fact sometimes they could get more productive with them out of sync. https://t.co/TwMNVWQaMr
•   Thanks to long-time friend @larryswedroe who joined @benjaminwfelix and me for a special @RationalRemind community AMA recently —> https://t.co/aFKWJMwKXD
•   I made a list with some of my favorite guitar solos. I likely forgot a bunch of good/famous ones, and didn't include any songs from some of my favorite bands/players... Maybe one day I'll expand it and/or organize it properly. https://t.co/pd0qB3Sn7e
•   For about the twentieth time, IF YOUR DATA ABOUT REMOTE WORK IS BASED ON THE LAST TWO YEARS, IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW MUCH OF IT YOU HAVE, BECAUSE IT'S NOT ABOUT REMOTE WORK.
•   Protip: If you know how to code, but aren't familiar with mathematical notation, check out the "Math as Code" repository: https://t.co/fFJW4oLaEf @mattdesl did an amazing job! PS: I'm waaaay better at reading (pseudo) code than mathematical notation. YMMV. https://t.co/f3WeD4JWqR
•   A lot of common knowledge doesn't hold up after you analyse the historical data... Our perception of the world is full of biases, and highly influenced by the recent events. Sometimes we are "fooled by randomness" and believe a trend will keep going forever (it likely won't). https://t.co/xSSz0mXVMJ
•   This is a great thread. Not because I agree with everything in it. I don’t actually. It’s great because it gives more context on how to think about various important career decisions. It’s important to develop a perspective on how you think about your career moves. https://t.co/1vGssRYpzr
•   One of the things you learn as a scientist is the ability to look at a plot and think, "that just doesn't look right." That's the feeling I got when I saw this plot that Lomborg is currently pushing. https://t.co/L6Lz8jEuFw
•   Every company/team should have at least a couple of "No Meetings Week"s a year.
•   I can't even play the majority of 3D games without getting motion sickness (one of the reasons why I stopped playing videogames), with VR it happens way faster... Most meetings should be an "email" instead. https://t.co/4udazysAcq
•   Asynchronous work leaves more time for synchronous (rest of life). It's worth learning how to do it.
•   First company that officially normalises a nap after lunch gets my fullest respect and recognition. May it be listed in perks and core behaviour.
•   Bug was on a part of the codebase that I never touched before... The couple of hours fixing the bug "in the wrong way" wasn't wasted tho, it was an opportunity to learn how it works, and it lead me to the proper fix. Good code is rarely written in the first try.
•   Spent a few hours fixing a bug: was able to reproduce it; edited 3 files; wrote unit tests; refactored it to be cleaner; and was reviewing my own changes before creating the pull request... Realized it could be fixed (better) w/ a single line of code. Reverted all changes. 😅
•   Lots of folks have poor work/life balance in their early twenties and don't reap great rewards for it. Not a value judgement, just an observation.
•   At a certain point in your career, salary isn't the only thing you're negotiating. You're also negotiating time. Is the high salary worth the tradeoff of no work-life balance? Is the culture worth a low market value salary? You gotta learn what tradeoffs matter to you.
•   Eu uso máscaras em público porque: - Tenho humildade para perceber que o mundo não gira ao meu redor. O uso de máscaras protege a mim e também aos outros, que não têm nada a ver com o que eu penso ou deixo de pensar.
•   I don't think leaders here have wrapped their heads around the impact of Delta in the US. This is a new era: A) A bad phase of the pandemic for unvaccinated adults and B) The beginning of the endemic reality for vaccinated people. Policy responses require a new paradigm. 1/n
•   🧵The last 48 hours on here have been all about The Vaccine Discourse. Is FB killing people? Is the govt passing the buck? Who even can tell what IS misinformation, and who watches the watchmen, anyway? I’ve spent ~7 years watching the AV movement evolve online and have thoughts
•   I know folks are very, very tired of hearing coronavirus updates, but if you have not been following it & are in a position where you need to care about general shape of the pandemic, read up on Delta. Best single lay-appropriate explanation I've read: https://t.co/0vgvc5AEB8
•   It’s a privilege to be able to quit your job. It means you have a financial safety net, don’t have to worry about losing healthcare, can afford to have a gap in your resume, don’t have to worry about a visa etc. Don’t look down on people who stay. #DevDiscuss
•   "Offices increase spontaneous in-person collaboration" If there are multiple offices (heck, even multiple floors), sorry: there's already a lot of remote work going on. These "in-person" discussions? They're actually excluding people who are more than 10m away from their desks.
•   Dez recomendações baseadas em evidências da Choosing Wisely para que pacientes e médicos encarem COVID com sabedoria 1. Use máscaras bem acopladas ao rosto sempre que estiver em público Adiciono: mesmo que esteja vacinado ou que já tenha tido a doença. Cuide de você e do próximo
•   You shouldn't store currency in floats, but that's just my $0.02000000000000000042
•   Estamos desde cedo minerando memes, o material tá muito bom e é difícil segurar pra não soltar tudo de uma vez Lança um RT pra ajudar a página a pegar um alcance maior :)
•   If you are a developer, and you feel bad about not knowing everything, I have one item I want you to memorize: No one knows everything. No one. The best coders in the world only know a small fraction of everything there is to know about coding.
•   Ideally, every pattern in my code should be worthy of copying. Because at some point, it will be copied. Each line of code is an implicit statement: “This is how we do things here”.
•   The best thing young people can do early in their career is get ridiculous lucky breaks repeatedly, in my experience
•   I just spent 3 hours studying @reactjs 18 and have about 15 pages of notes on what all the new buzz words mean. I love how @dan_abramov explains things in the Working Group discussions. You really should check it out. Especially the explain like I’m 5 😃 https://t.co/3R9MQ4Kbqs
•   Front End tech disagreements can many times be summed up as unwillingness to see items from different perspectives. CSS scoping is different for documents versus apps. JS complexity is sometimes necessitated by business requirements. It’s never “just” one answer.
•   I wish instead of "remote work" we started talking about distributed teams.
•   Stunts; Prince of Persia; Civilization 1; Populous II; Sim Farm; Ultima VII; Lemmings; Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?; The Lost Vikings; Dune; The Incredible Machine; ... https://t.co/ATNIA2ua4m
•   I like many things about Brazil — family, friends, food, climate — but some days it's really hard to justify living here. The way this evil government handled the pandemic is maddening. >500K preventable deaths... Anti-science discourse... No idea when we'll be vaccinated... 😔
•   this. https://t.co/vMo4VKyHfO
•   Our response to covid has a lot of bad implications for the fight against climate change, a far tougher collective action problem. Among the worst is the exposure of "trust the science" as a kind of secular faith, not a genuine defense of scientific thinking. This took many forms
•   Programming is based on mathematics in the way that cooking is based on chemistry. All of cooking is chemistry but you don’t have to know the periodic table to cook. Even if you suck at math, programming still might be your jam.
•   Daily stand-ups are an anti-pattern / "cargo cult". https://t.co/JHg4nLQUea
•   The further I get into my career, the less specific opinions I have on software development and data and the more I am just amazed that this <gestures vaguely at entire Internet> works at all.
•   Lesson 1 of working in tech. Start saving your safety net as soon as you can. You never know when they’ll be mass layoffs, manifestos or unethical/unhealthy demands you’re forced to meet. Tale as old as time. 🌹
•   Always remind this. Nobody is perfect. https://t.co/Vk7lLIaNfY
•   Had quite a bit of backlash to our paper, published last week, which set out 10 streams of evidence supporting predominance of AIRBORNE spread of SARS-CoV-2. I respond to some criticisms in this thread. 1/ https://t.co/ZOY0lXx2VJ
•   Visual accessibility is about more than color contrast. In my most recent tutorial, learn about some other WCAG Success Criteria you might not be meeting, and how to create solutions with modern CSS. https://t.co/fVI01FXOSm https://t.co/EX1IDrCr5v
•   The bullshit asimmetry: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
•   The "Release Radar" playlist also doesn't work as expected... Many bands/artists with similar names from the ones I like, but from genres I hate. 🤦‍♂️
•   Also weird that there isn't an "offline playlist" — all songs that are currently on the device cache — specially when "offline mode" is enabled.
•   I find it weird that @Spotify doesn't have a way to listen to ALL the bands that I'm following (shuffle). — I get tired/annoyed after listening to many similar songs in sequence... (main reason why I still miss my old mp3 library)
•   Idolize no one. Not celebrities, not reality show stars, not self-proclaimed experts on relationships, finances, or anything. Listen when it’s relevant, learn what’s useful, but exalt no one. It’ll only lead to disappointment & disillusionment when they inevitably come up short
•   Introdução muito boa sobre Medicina Baseada em Evidências com o @josenalencar e @jcsouto Comentam sobre diversas falácias comuns, e citam exemplos relacionados com a pandemia. Recomendo para todos que queiram aprimorar o raciocínio crítico. https://t.co/U7A5fQ7675
•   Trolley Problem in Brazil https://t.co/e376lJIWew
•   Se você é leigo e não sabe qual lado seguir porque vê que os "médicos não estão se entendendo", esse fio é pra você entender melhor por quê não existe tratamento precoce para COVID. Desbancando os argumentos da turma que tá te enganando desde o começo.
•   Quem conhece o @cbachini sabe como ele é engajado nas comunidades de #frontend, #UX e #design. Ele está com #COVID19 com 70% dos pulmões comprometidos e sem conseguir um leito no SUS, teve que ir para a rede particular, mas ele estava sem convênio. https://t.co/05UcMV9L1g
•   As we strive for success, we mustn't lose sight of what is truly important along the way. The parable of the fisherman and the investment banker: on life, career, business, and finding purpose... https://t.co/KwzclGZwdm
•   THREAD: When I was in high school I was a running phenom. Then I largely failed. Here are lessons for the driven that I wish I knew when I was obsessively training and neglecting just about everything else:
•   FYI, the "Distributed" podcast by @photomatt has some good interviews and insights about remote work: https://t.co/cay1yW6I32
•   The book "Remote: Office not Required" is also pretty good: https://t.co/7TgWkKNrUr
•   Find it really weird when remote job listings are USA-only... some parts of South America are basically in the same timezone as the east coast. And to be honest, I still don't understand why tech companies care about timezones... Majority of work can be done asynchronously.
•   resume tips I have learned as a recruiter at a fortune 100 company (targeted towards college students), a thread:
•   @ThomasVConti @minsaude Vai ver @minsaude não sabe que existe revisão sistemática constantemente atualizada sobre toda evidência científica de eficácia de tratamento medicamentoso para COVID-19, tadinhos. Está publicada na BMJ e já foi atualizada em 17/12/2020. Vou ajudá-los 👉🏻 https://t.co/ckD6EWfMWZ
•   Já que o Ministério da Saúde só dá bola fora… Existem 3 formas pelas quais COVID é transmitido: 💦☔️ Gotículas 🌬️☁️ Aerosóis 🙌🖊️ Objetos Os principais são gotículas e aerosóis. Segue o fio….
•   I’ve gotten a lot of bad advice in my career and I see even more of it here on Twitter. Time for a stiff drink and some truth you probably dont want to hear. 👇👇
•   I don't know who needs to hear this, but they had to rejigger the marshmallow test once they discovered it actually tested whether the kids under study trusted adults
•   When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. ~Goodhart’s Law https://t.co/jU0LwbN66p
•   A thread to refute the nonsense spewed by #covid deniers/minimizers...
•   Want to upgrade my monitor (Dell UP2716D); I like the color and pixel density, and size (27") — monitor is not that far away, I don't need to move my neck to see content near the edges, still makes sense to maximize apps to cover whole screen, etc... [1/3]
•   Somehow can't find monitors with 16:10 aspect ratio (or 4:3, 5:4); good color; high resolution; and USB-C / Thunderbolt 3. My needs/desires doesn't seem to align w/ the direction the "market" is trending. I need to adapt, or maybe this is a real "market gap" 🤔 [3/3]
•   But I still think that 16:9 (specially 21:9) is the wrong aspect ratio for me — I need more vertical space; often have 2+ splits on vim/tmux; I like to maximize windows to cover the whole screen (fewer distractions); I don't watch videos or play games on my work computer... [2/3]
•   [pt-br] Slides com basicamente o mesmo conteúdo (em português) para uma palestra que dei em Abril de 2015 sobre boas práticas na construção de ferramentas de linha de comando (usando o node.js): https://t.co/upl03sWyLt Palestra antiga, mas o conteúdo continua relevante.
•   [en] Slides from a talk I gave back in June 2017 with a bunch of "protips" on how to build (and test) good CLI tools: https://t.co/rWdLvOrPl7 Used node.js for all the examples, but concepts applies to any language, content is still relevant.
•   BAD BOSS IN JOB INTERVIEW: "what's your preferred salary?" GOOD BOSS: "here's how much we've paid other people for this role" The first one gives the employer the exact minimum you'd accept to work there. Then you spend 5 years working your way up to where you should've started
•   Come work on my team! https://t.co/6a8nUlyFYe
•   COMO GANHAR DINHEIRO COM OPÇÕES BINÁRIAS! Não é pegadinha! Vou ENSINAR aqui e agora as ESTRATÉGIAS utilizada pelos TRADERS mais LUCRATIVOS do Instagram, para que você PARE DE PERDER DINHEIRO! Não tem pegadinha, estratégias reais e comprovadas LEIA O TEXTO ATÉ O FINAL #Daytrade