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Jordan Torbiak

@torbiak
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Joined March 2009
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Ashvin Gandhi@ashdgandhi18 Mar 2024
🚨New @nberpubs with @andrewolenski on major hidden profits in the healthcare sector! Bear with me as I explain how nursing homes are able to hide almost 2/3 of their profits from regulators and the public! I promise it's worth it! 🧵1/17 Paper: nber.org/papers/w32258
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mr. joshua
@pants30 Jan 2024
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Dev team output scales sublinearly with team size and the conventional wisdom is it has to do with communication overhead. There’s some truth but I think a simpler reason is a much bigger factor: having more people implies you take on lower-priority tasks that have less biz value
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Idle Words@idlewords2 Jan 2023
Here's the first installment of my case against landing human beings on Mars. You may think you disagree, but I'm going to talk you around. idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not…
Why Not Mars

Why Not Mars

It's slow, expensive, the engineering is mostly port-a-potty chemistry, and the best-case outcome is that thirty years from now we’ll get to watch someone remotely operate a soil scoop from Mars...

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Here's something for all you #Halloween historians: Probably the first known image of a *pumpkin* jack-'o-lantern is this engraving of a drawing by L.W. Atwater. It appeared in Harper's Weekly Magazine, November 23, 1867, p. 737. 'The Pumpkin Effigy'
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Jan Orszulik@JanOrszulik1 Aug 2022
I am getting slightly optimistic, this might just work #Precursor #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev
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Lumpy@LumpyTheCook16 Jul 2022
I would argue that what makes a video game "funny" relies far more on its presentation and mechanics than it does on dialogue or jokes. Oblivion is a great example of this
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weirdo@vg_history19 Feb 2022
j.b. harold 3: d.c. connection, screenshot, pc-88 (1989) mobygames.com/game/pc88/jb-h…
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I've always been fascinated by hash functions. 👀 Doing some work for explaining how sha256 works.
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Found a kindred spirit in this obscure space book from 1975.
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We all agree the status quo is unsustainable. Here are 1,000 words on how we could get the role of Open Source maintainer to graduate to a real, properly paid profession. The thing is, companies need it as much as maintainers do. blog.filippo.io/professional…
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Expertise is knowing how to chain all your stupid ideas together correctly.
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glyph@glyph18 Mar 2021
If you use Python, when do you plan to adopt Mypy for type checking?
7%within 6 months.
8%within 1 year.
45%I already use it.
40%I don't plan to.
699 votes • Final results
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Marc P.I.@iammarcpi10 Feb 2021
Ever see an image so beautiful that you just have to paint it?
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Tero Parviainen
@teropa23 Jan 2021
The three rules in complex system generators
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This program originated from a series of studies I made around watercolor paints. I wanted to capture the messiness of it — all of the unintentional distortion and bleed. I allowed it to take a different feeling, while still keeping those core elements that I loved.
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Hillel
@hillelogram8 Dec 2020
There's Always More History: deep dives into Vim, Unix, and why studying software history matters hillelwayne.com/post/always-…

There's Always More History

Last month I researched two historical questions. I originally posted summaries on Twitter and am reproducing both here.1 Why Vim Uses hjkl Question: Why does Vim use hjkl and not the arrow keys for...

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ricky b
@rbranson20 Nov 2020
I've always had a hard time taking the whole "agile" movement seriously given that, in my experience, velocity and agility have SO MUCH MORE to do with the software's architecture than how work is planned. [1/7]
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I came up with a new algorithm for multimodality detection. On my data sets (that are mostly performance measurements), it works much better than all the other approaches I tried. aakinshin.net/posts/lowland-…
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