Steve Saxon

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Just another software engineer living the dream in Southern California, with my wife and two lazy Lhasa Apso puppers.
Creator ofAzure Communication Services
Creator ofAlexa Presentation Language
Political ViewsSomewhere left of the Democrats. Like Jesus.
Homepagehttp://stevesaxon.me/
@olafurw I used to work in a related team. It’s loading over a 100MBs of data related to all of your channels so it knows the latest status. They used to make 100s of distinct web service calls, which was even slower. I wouldn’t have done it this way, but it was before my time.
They should put this on Twitter’s gravestone in the social media cemetery
@carnage4life this is how you “phone it in” in a post-phone society
@walruslifestyle I think we’re saying we are accepting that 8 billion people will die, but at least a handful of folks will get to go glamping on Mars 🎉

This post makes Tim Sweeney seem like a total rube. What kind of company sells goods and gives them to elites for free? Luxury goods companies. You think influencers pay for that stuff?

Influencers get their followers interested in buying those goods, which drives people to the stores. Is the bird site so different? What were the formerly verified folks if not influencers that drove people to the site to read their updates.

@evacide 6 months in jail for destroying evidence, versus multiple life sentences. Hard to fault the logic 😔

Recall it? An investigative reporter in Vegas, Jeff German, was stabbed. A bureaucrat was charged with his murder. German was working on a story about the bureaucrat. Thing is, was working on other stories too.

To continue German’s work, and as an act of solidarity, "The Washington Post teamed up with his newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, to complete one of the stories he’d planned to pursue."

He had heard about a Ponzi scheme. Now it's published.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/01/mormon-ponzi-scheme-vegas-fbi/

#journalism

An alleged $500 million Ponzi scheme preyed on Mormons. It ended with FBI gunfire.

In Las Vegas, a lawyer with huge gambling debts is accused of a financial fraud that left hundreds of victims in its wake

The Washington Post
Nobody would ever confuse me for a handyman but I installed a light switch today and feel like Bob fucking Villa!
A linguistics professor was lecturing on the role of the double negative, noting that in some languages like Russian a double negative remains negative, while in other languages like French a double negative becomes positive. However, the professor observed, in no language in the world does a double positive become negative. From the back of the classroom a student replied, "Yeah. Right."
@thegibson this actually me go see if dagnab.it is taken. It is. Dagnabit!