Farrukh Mirza

To the person who figured out my honeypot is a honeypot could you please stop putting the picture of Pooh bear with a jar of honey on it? Its like this person's life mission, I've blocked him on: - Client - IPs (now on Tor ffs) - The image (he just edits 1 pixel every time...)

When some vulture fund thief of our ATM network charges us €3.50 to actually access our own money, it’s time to look to government to ban this nonsense. So which potential govermnent will do that? Manifestos, anyone?

900 startups that hire REMOTELY: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TLJSlNxCbwRNxy14Toe1PYwbCTY7h0CNHeer9J0VRzE/htmlview#gid=1279011369 … If you're looking for a remote job, could be worth checking out the spreadsheet. (not made by me) Spreadsheet includes: • company • what do they do • website • CEO • and more! RT to help someone find a job

I’ve been responsible for the same code base for ~9 years now, originally as author, now as CTO with a pretty sizable team. One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that code that is optimal for a small team is very different from code optimal for a large team.

Marketing lessons learned over more than a decade growing startups (thread): Great marketing emanates from a great product. If the product sucks no amount of world class marketing can redeem it. Marketing can help make a good product great––it will never make a bad product good.

So, earlier today, Google published a whitepaper on BeyondProd, about how Google does cloud-native security. Here’s a summary thread /1

I am straight up addicted to noise cancelling at this point, I don’t even play any audio half the time. The world at -70% volume is a calmer place to be.

Games only render what you look at when you look at it, as the compute load would otherwise be impossibly high. Until observed, objects are a probability function, aka quantum mechanics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat …

The real reason I don't like Amazon Code Guru's "75¢ per 100 lines of code" pricing model has nothing to do with the actual price. It's that it makes developers think about LOC when they never had to before. It's additional mental overhead solely in service of the bill.