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Beard enthusiast, Mathlete, Code Monkey, @SproutSocial Web Team Manager.

Joined July 2013
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learning to learn is a competitive advantage, but learning to teach is a force multiplier
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Statistically, no one loves you. No one has even ever heard of you. Enjoy Arbys, you completely irrelevant turd
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Sometimes the only appropriate response to a code review is
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Happy Birthday Bruce!!
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Ancient Developer Spell: To summon errors, simply say "We're ready to launch"
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Build, Maintain, Grow: a recap of talks on #tech and #business by @Enova @Braintree & @SproutSocial. bit.ly/1AwpBWA
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Are you a #developer in the NW Chicago area? Meet your peers TOMORROW at the Northwest Chicago Developer Meetup! bit.ly/1Bnw0P0
Meet Team Sprout: James, Web Team Manager sproutsocial.com/insights/me…
Join us tmrw for 'Build, Maintain, Grow' w/@enova & @braintree-our own @BeardedBasco & @JoshuaSigler will present! bit.ly/1JIjezN
I started programming when I was in college. You don't have to start as a kid or teach yourself to code to be a good developer. – at San Francisco, CA
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Excited for the Build, Maintain, Grow event w/@enova & @braintree-our own @BeardedBasco & @JoshuaSigler will present! bit.ly/1JIjezN
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Top #Sublime3 packages from @SproutSocial's front end team bit.ly/1JmkhrM
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The first Chicago Distributed Systems meetup is next week at @SproutSocial HQ. Come hang out with distsys hackers! bit.ly/1NZZ2g8
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We're hosting next week's Chicago Scala enthusiasts' meet up meetup.com/chicagoscala/even…
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After adding $20m in ARR and 10,000 customers in past 36 months, @SproutSocial launching new product and new markets next week. #gosproutgo
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ES6.tips – a news site for ECMAScript 6
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D&D stats explained with tomatoes
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No "character" limits here, we're happy to be celebrating Team Sprout's growth reaching 140 employees (and growing)!
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lmao if you think knowing the difference between a linked list and a binary tree is in any way indicative of frontend development skill
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With transpilers (Traceur etc.), ECMAScript 6 is CoffeeScript for people who don’t like CoffeeScript’s syntax.
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