david_j_rice

#CivilRights education is important! #SFUSD’s proposed cuts to @HarveyMilkSF spells the end of the school & its social justice curriculum. @SFUnified @jennyhlam limiting enrollment at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy is not the way to address budget woes. #ISupportHarveyMilk

Too real.

You taught us so much. I'll miss you, old friend.

What a hypocrite. Elon Musk has received billions in corporate welfare from U.S. taxpayers. Now he wants to stop 30 million Americans who lost jobs from receiving $600 a week in unemployment benefits, while his wealth has gone up by $46.7 billion over the past 4 months. Pathetic.

the biggest excuse I've heard about tech employees over 40 is 'how will they learn these new tools'. Like, bitch they coded before google existed, I THINK THEYLL BE FINE.

Bring in the experts.

Great starting point for thinking about the eng mgr role. 5 Engineering Manager Archetypes - patkua.com patkua.com/blog/5-enginee…

The biggest impediment to racial justice is this country is the denial of systemic and structural racism by a large portion of whites. Before Ferguson, it was somehow acceptable to say, “I don’t believe systemic or structural racism exists, yet I am not a racist.” 1/

If previous company(ies) worked at is part of your hiring and promotion criteria you are both missing out on talent and massively wasting talent you already have. You can do better.

So the next time someone puts down “should have...” or “more thorough...” as a contributing factor or a ‘root cause’ - understand that while these may help us *feel better* about the future, they do not help us in the future. (fin)

Automated test coverage numbers in the absence of a well-articulated test & quality strategy are pretty much meaningless. And even then I might balk at any particular value of coverage numbers.

Something I now feel confident about: significant incidents that involve SSL cert expirations are rarely about SSL cert expirations. They provide a nice and neatly-packaged scapegoat candidate for an org to ride into a sunset named “certainty” or “closure”.

“I applaud Ticketmaster for continuing to shine in what is apparently a competition to provide the worst customer service in any industry" -- U.S. Rep. Katie Porter

Is there a more harmful world in all agile than commitment? Even official scrum dropped it 8 years ago. Why are we still using it? See: scrum.org/resources/comm…

Companies should be allowed to fail. Modern-day “capitalism” in America is to flatten the risk curve for people who already have money, by borrowing from future generations with debt-fueled bailouts for companies. profgalloway.com/capitalists-or…

WTF!

This is a test for whether capitalism is just a call sign for when CEOs are looking for bailouts — via @SRuhle @MSNBC

An experiment that’s part of my 8-year-old’s home learning. And it seems to have worked so well No touching > water & soap > hand sanitizer > dirty hands