Kirk Klobe

@usethetools

if it can be installed, I've probably installed it.

Minnesota, USA
Joined July 2011
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  1. Oct 5

    Forced signups cause over 50% of potential users to leave. Of those who remain, 88% lie, just to get past the form.

    120 retweets 137 likes
  2. Sep 27

    Sure seems to be an inverse relationship between shouting "SCIENTIFIC FACT!" and actually knowing what that means.

  3. Sep 26

    "We review empirical studies that measured the benefits of refactoring and find the situation to be quite unclear."

    3 retweets 3 likes
  4. Sep 25

    "The display on the iPhone 7 is ... by far the best performing mobile LCD display that we have ever tested..."

    1 retweet 2 likes
  5. Jun 5

    "How I want to learn [your thing] : 1. Text on website 2. Text on paper … 2428. Spraypainted on side of cow 2429. Video tutorials"

    1,824 retweets 2,048 likes
  6. Aug 24

    Pretty nice Google Hangouts desktop client.

  7. Jul 30

    and I still have to resist it more often than I care to admit...

    I think the biggest takeaway from my 16 years of programming is just 5 simple words: Don’t try to be clever.
  8. Jul 28 San Francisco, CA

    BIG NEWS: for and for is now generally available!

    328 retweets 261 likes
  9. Jul 20

    The Apple Music matching update has fixed all my mismatched tracks

  10. Jul 11

    it certainly does.

    This looks interesting: a Functional/Logic programming language for the JVM with interop with Java and Scala
  11. Jul 7

    Wow. "... between Go 1.5 and Go 1.7 the runtime team was able to turn that into a 100x improvement in pause time"

    Go’s march to low-latency GC — Twitch Blog
    2 likes
  12. Feb 2

    which one of the two possible websites are you currently designing?

    3,729 retweets 5,616 likes
  13. Jun 13

    Over/under on days until "Windows 10 Upgrade would like to connect with you on LinkedIn!"?

    1 like
  14. Jun 9

    The dream of all biz people is a *workflow* so that’s how all of their ERP software works. Too bad for them that humans don’t work that way.

    49 retweets 48 likes
  15. May 27

    [User requests feature already in product] Junior dev: "lol dumb user" Staff dev: "Closed - fixed" Senior dev: <opens usability bug>

    4,316 retweets 4,821 likes
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    • Lazy Game Reviews
      @lazygamereviews

      LGR - Classic PC game reviews, vintage hardware coverage, oddities. Business email: clint@lazygamereviews.com

    • John Pritchard
      @johnpritch11

      Inventor, scientist, engineer, entrepreneur.

  17. Apr 28

    "The most common way to get usability wrong is to listen to what users say rather than actually watching what they do."

    472 retweets 440 likes
  18. Apr 19

    The three(?) most important things you need to be able to do with code: 1) Read it easily 2) Reason about it clearly 3) Replace it quickly

    302 retweets 233 likes
  19. Apr 16

    it's actually pronounced jithub

    635 retweets 761 likes
  20. Apr 10

    "Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them." - Laurence J. Peter

    351 retweets 380 likes

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