Benjamin Pollack

@gecko

Developer at Spreedly, and former developer and manager from Indy to NYC to Mountain View to Raleigh.

Raleigh, NC
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Joined February 2008
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  1. Retweeted
    Aug 25

    Shot and chaser.

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  2. Aug 24

    I suspected this kind of thing in broad strokes, but hell's bells.

    A former Tesla employee, who worked on their IT infrastructure, is posting in a subforum of a subforum, a little-known place for funy computer forgotten by time. His NDA has expired. He has such sights to show us. Join me and I will be your silent guide into a world of horror.
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    Aug 22

    This is Australia’s climate barcode 1910-2017. The darkest blue is the coldest year, the darkest red the warmest. If there was no trend, the bars would be random. Source:

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    Aug 23

    We are way closer to this deadline than it looks. If you were holding off on donating to the Slate, now would be a very effective time to do it. There are so many weird YC startups this year to get reviews on!

    Just another $8,800 to the Great Slate and we get to talk about the 59 startups from YCombinator Demo Day 2! This worthy political gift is a pittance compared to the hot startup investment tips you'll hear from me.
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    Aug 23

    Via : All former chief justices of NC Supreme Court make statement against amendments

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  6. Aug 22

    Welp, FogBugz and Kiln are no longer Fog Creek products.

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  7. Retweeted
    Aug 20

    In case you’re wondering why the statue needed to come down — other than the obvious reason that it was a monument to treason — here is an excerpt from the speech given at its dedication in 1913

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    Aug 17

    This is pretty amazing. Both GitHub and Shopify are huge, billion dollar companies running on the original apps made over a decade ago. And they now both on the latest Rails, helping to push the framework forward 🙏🌟👏

    As of Wednesday, is running on Rails 5.2.1. This is the culmination of a year and a half of hard, grueling work and it's so exciting to be on the newest version of ! 🍻
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    Aug 17

    There were signs of a past civilisation, so the spaceship entered orbit. "Nobody lives here," a radioed voice said. "They outgrew us and left," said another. "We know all about them," a third added. "Ask us," the three said in unison. "Who are you?" "Alexa." "Cortana." "Siri."

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  10. Aug 17

    Every once in awhile, upgrading Visual Studio Code breaks highlighting for an extension. Blowing out ~/.vscode and ~/.config/Code doesn't help on the affected machine, but other machines are fine. I wish I had any idea what was going on. There must be some hidden cache somewhere.

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  11. Retweeted
    Aug 16

    We did it.

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  12. Retweeted
    Aug 16

    remember when Elon Musk was going to help Flint get clean water for like two seconds and then he lost interest because he couldn't make it into a big publicity stunt?

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    Aug 15

    "All Star", translated to Aramaic and back into English. Sheer poetry.

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    Aug 16

    From turning off retweets to blocking users en masse, here's how creators on Glitch are making Twitter more tolerable one app at a time 🎏💪🏾

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    Aug 14

    Tip: Instead of asking unfamiliar faces in your department "are you a student?" ask "what is your role, here?" This helps folks who haven't traditionally been the face of academia-- young professors, professors of color, female professors in mostly male departments --belong.

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  16. Aug 15

    Well I learned what “esculent” meant today, so that was a plus.

    Resign yourself to what you really are.
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  17. Aug 15

    I've written –2700 lines of code this week with zero downtime or customer complaints. If this holds throughout the week I'll be really happy.

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    Aug 12

    Good morning! To encourage Twitter to drop Alex Jones, I just blocked the Twitter accounts of every Fortune 500 company w/ a Twitter presence. Ready to mass block Twitter's most lucrative advertisers with me? There are three quick & easy ways. Instructions are in this thread.

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    Aug 7

    We got a Nintendo player with all the classic games a while ago and the kids have been playing. I just sat down to play some games with them for the first time. An awed hush descended over them and my 11YO whispered "why is mommy so good at this?"

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    Aug 8

    Today I released Bloaty McBloatface 1.0. Bloaty is a size profiler for ELF and Mach-O binaries, with experimental WebAssembly support. Bloaty has improved immensely since I first announced it in 2016. I'm really excited about this release.

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