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@talamcorage @p0lar_fawn @publicinte Impaired by a single football match with the family? I honestly think it’ll be fine.

@p0lar_fawn @publicinte At 2yo, though, it's a crucial time for language development, which is impaired by screen time. My pediatrician said no screens until he speaks in full sentences, my mom introduced cartoons behind my back and he needed speech therapy. He's great now and has a phone but I get this

one of my mom friends is a hardcore montessori believer and does strict zero-screen time with her now 2 yo. she told me they're taking her to her grandparents' on wednesday so the whole family can watch a football game on TV (her nephew is playing) without the toddler being exposed to the screen. am i crazy or is that a little excessive?

@MeasuredView00 @bapt_afc @AST_arsenal @Arsenal Gotcha. Yeah, I hear that. Nearly 21 years a red member!

Emirates screening ticket sale update: Arsenal are just waiting on final approval for event from authorities. Sales likely to start today or tomorrow. First wave will be season ticket holders (Gold) who didn’t buy Budapest together with Junior gunner members. Then silver. Then red. Please keep eye out for email from club advising of arrangements.

@limmylammy @_PhilCosta Host read ones convert at a higher rate and are often more pleasant to listen to than the pre-recorded ones—especially from a funny/ charismatic host. All these things have trade-offs, unfair to just assume ill intent.

@_PhilCosta That along with insisting on presenter read adverts rather than pre recorded ones that are much easier to skip because I assume you get paid more for that tells me everything I need to know. Been a while and can’t say I miss it

There's been some real guff written about Arsenal - and Arsenal people - this week, with certain individuals and parts of the media showing their true colours. Those that know the podcast know the reality and what they stand for. It's not hard to read between the lines.

@WonderfulAjayi @FPLVeteran06 @sellorm I’ve been a red for 21 years. My position for Silver was 4412 when I checked at the start of this season.

@FPLVeteran06 @sellorm How long do you have to wait for silver? Or is it like season tickets where there is basically a waiting list

May I ask what the point of a red membership is again.

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@Junesong91 @ruukayo_ @timstillman_ I just think that it’s really unlikely that literally the only person outside of the club that’d have known this is gunnerblog. If someone’s ready to give up that info - I’m fairly certain the it’d have gone further than just him anyway. #fpl

@ruukayo_ @timstillman_ Tbh, I called him a bald bellend and it definitely got more attention than I meant it to. So if you're seeing this James, please enter my DM's so I can call you it directly ✌️.

Gunnerblog being an opp towards the club he supports? Imagine my surprise!

@DanielKnower @H0LI3R Kelala: Raven This no - context posting is so annoying!

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All time best.

@laugh_track_nat @foreverimbetter Messing up is fine. Just keep the stakes low when you’re practicing e.g. lunch just for yourself - rather than a dinner for five people! Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is arguably the only cookbook you’ll need. Helps you work out what goes together and helps you rely less on recipes.

@clifjaliki @acowsik @vini_ball Off the ball runs, timing, anticipation etc are all skills too.

@acowsik @vini_ball Sheerer was a tap in maestro,not much footballing skills to match,no offense meant🙏

We can all agree that these are the 4 greatest players in Prem history, right?

@nikodembernat @MemoriasIT @luke_pighetti Found it easier to use and much faster.

@MemoriasIT @HoraceBG @luke_pighetti Because it’s a new ✨ shiny thing ✨

nope never heard of it in my life. been doing this since 2018 and never once seen a .fvm file in any project

@marissa_lpx Complete lack of communication about the whole thing too. Nobody looks like they’re trying to find a way to actually fix it or that they see this as a problem.

Ironically, there seems to be a lack of tech being used to manage this growing queue (E.g no tickets with QR codes allowing the team to quickly scan thousands of people in)

The queue to get into @BlackTechFest today is honestly ridiculous. I’ve pretty much missed the morning, and multiple talks I had hoped to attend, because I’ve been stood in a queue for coming up to 2 hours

@Ankaman616 84 points will be enough to win the league.

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@paultallard @caseycrogers @DaneMackier Yeah, this is exactly it for me too. What is it with all these all or nothing takes of late?!

@caseycrogers @DaneMackier The extra layers means I have less to write when I create a new app. I copy templates, generate code, modify tests, and I am up in a flash! Instead of an encyclopedic knowledge of language features, I start from an encyclopedic knowledge of packages and use cases. Boom!

PSA: if your #Flutter/#Dart interface only has one implementing class, delete the interface and use the implementing class directly. Inheritance complicates your code so only use it where its needed. Don't use it just because some YouTube tutorial told you it was "Clean" Code.

@john__allard @tobi Yes, my point is that people are wrongly conflating a whole bunch of stuff as premature optimisation. People use it as a means of saying: that way takes too long and will stop me from shipping quickly so they feel justified in throwing out what I’d consider CS basics.

@HoraceBG @tobi Those probably aren’t the things being referred to by the saying, then? “Don’t prematurely optimize” doesn’t mean throw CS basics out entirely, it means don’t spend extra cycles optimizing before you know 1. Where the bottlenecks are, 2. If anyone will even use the software.

Sunday rant. For software engineering, my sense is that the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil” has massively backfired. Its from a book on data structures and mainly tried to dissuade people from prematurely write things in assembler. But the point was to free you up to think harder about the data structures to use, not leave things comically inefficient. This context is always skipped when it’s uttered. Not all fast software is world-class, but all world-class software is fast. Performance is _the_ killer feature. If you are in engineering, here is a fantastic anecdote. I refer to this account often. It’s a bit subtile, but the implications are massive- It’s an account of how SQLite became 50% faster, not by doing one specific thing but hundreds of small ones. SQLite is everywhere today because of this work. sqlite-users.sqlite.narkive.com/CVRvSKBs/50-fa… We need the engineers in all companies fight for this more. Product leads are not the right owners of the end performance of the software. This needs to be encoded in the professional pride of the software engineering discipline. Leaders in companies need to encourage it and hold engineering accountable. It’s simply not ok to fritter away the performance of the products for random reasons. Every user of your products cares exactly as much about latency as engineers do when typing in their terminal. They just don’t have the words to describe what they don’t like about the experience and neither should they.

@john__allard @tobi This false binary is at the heart of the issue. Many of these so called ‘optimisations’ aren’t even optimisations. Sometimes it’s just a matter of doing the thing properly in the first place which often doesn’t cost more than the apparently faster ‘ship now’ approach anyway.

@tobi It’s all context dependent. At startups it’s much more important to get software shipped and then optimize what actually sticks rather than spending time optimizing software that may never be used. Very different in mature product environments where software half life is long

@clairevo An app for sports. Either bring together a group of friends and use it to organise the game and get everyone to pay the person organising or the venue (🏀 court/ ⚽️ pitch etc) directly - or join the app solo, looking for already organised games with vacancies that you can join.

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@luke_pighetti As a tester on iOS, compared to TestFlight there is a fair amount of friction. This includes having to put your phone in developer mode. What are the upsides over TestFlight from a dev perspective?

OK Firebase App Distribution is actually pretty awesome for a tiny group of testers. Super painless. Then you can go right to store when that initial hacking together is done. At least that's the current strategy.