Aaron Parecki

crazy how you don't learn about shallots until your late 20s

The CNBC app is not really formatted to deal with four-digit market drops.

As a programmer, it’s 💯 × more important to not over-engineer than to “avoid tech debt”.

You’ll have to refactor and throw away code in the future anyway—it’s impossible to know what requirements will be.

The less code you have, the easier it is to replace.

Due to #COVIDー19, all TCP applications will be converted to UDP to avoid handshakes. 🤓

I think most people aren’t aware of the risk of systemic healthcare failure due to #COVID19 because they simply haven’t run the numbers yet. Let’s talk math. 1/n

The greatest benefit to a schedule is having your analytics and data consistent so you can tell when something may have changed algorithmically.

But I have no reason to think they’ll be orders-of-magnitude wrong. Even if your personal risk of death is very, very low, don’t mock decisions like canceling events or closing workplaces as undue “panic”. 26/n

From a BBC News story:

Facebook is closing its London office for the weekend …Staff members have been told to work from home until Monday.

Wait.

Just completed the first full OAuth round-trip request, ever. Ping me for more info on how to get started with OAuth on Twitter. :-)

Hmm. The more I think about this, it might be okay. Who wants to hang out on zoom, drinking and cooking/eating homemade BBQ? When the first person on the call gets sunrise, we switch to breakfast burritos.

The challenge with doing a remote SXSW is that no amount of video conferencing technology can replicate Texas BBQ, followed getting drunk in a series of Austin bars, then recovering with breakfast burritos the next day.