Jes Sherborne

@jes_sherborne

Software developer and musician. Founder of . CTO of .

Evanston, IL
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Joined March 2008
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  1. Retweeted
    May 26
    Replying to

    Security Q: What's your biggest pet peeve? A: Torturously bad security interfaces.

    1 reply 5 retweets 49 likes
  2. Apr 21

    You live with a drummer, a lifestyle choice as bold and ill considered as being a drummer in the first place.

  3. Retweeted
    Apr 17

    Apparently McKinsey is now consulting for my Chinese restaurant

    25 replies 304 retweets 963 likes
  4. Apr 11

    Actual text from an e-commerce site: “We’re an extension of the things that we own.” A thousand times no.

    3 likes
  5. Mar 20

    “Casual empiricism suggests that the BS case is much more common”

  6. Mar 9

    This piece is fantastic. Complexity is a burden, but it can also be a competitive advantage.

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  7. Feb 3

    Here's a peek at what I'm building these days

    1 reply 7 likes
  8. Jan 12

    Luck and chance aren’t the same thing. Great read:

    1 retweet 2 likes
  9. Retweeted
    Jan 10

    i usually go paperless but this tweet deserved to be emailed, printed out, and posted on the literal percussion room wall.

    60 replies 2,634 retweets 7,729 likes
  10. 6 Oct 2016

    Still an epic font and a worthy project, but it looks like there's still a lot of work before they hit 100%

    That's simply not true: "Noto Sans CJK covers a little under 30K of the 80K CJK Unified Ideographs in Unicode"
    1 reply
  11. 6 Oct 2016

    Google’s epic Noto font system has *all* 110,000+ Unicode symbols. No more boxes for missing characters!

  12. 4 Jun 2016

    You must hear this. Alec Guinness gives an absolutely revelatory reading of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

    1 like
  13. 13 May 2016

    Yes!

  14. 13 May 2016

    Fascinating summary of early patterns of European immigration into East coast America.

  15. 2 May 2016

    Mandatory plastic surgery and chastity clauses—among the indignities endured by J-pop and K-pop performers. Ugh.

    1 retweet 1 like
  16. 21 Apr 2016

    There’s a ton of cool recent work on probabilistic data structures e.g., Cukoo filters instead of Bloom filters:

  17. 21 Apr 2016

    We overestimate the impact of prodigies. The overwhelming majority of scientific advances are made by others.

  18. Retweeted
    4 Apr 2016

    Despite more than 35 million trips taken, not a single person has died using bike share systems in the US:

    10 replies 160 retweets 223 likes
  19. 4 Apr 2016

    On-hold music sounds so horrible on a cellphone. Being on hold is bad enough already.

  20. 24 Mar 2016

    Unconventional home-improvement idea. Replace alternating strips of wood siding with mirrors

    1 like

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