Coder, MSc neuroscientist, former brain-reading tech entrepreneur, jack-of-all-trades. Head of web development for digital research lab @OttawamHealth. 🌹🌱
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Joined October 2012
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"Don't learn to code. Soon GUIs will do it all for you." - 1985
"Don't learn to code. Soon that will all be done offshore for pennies." - 2003
"Don't learn to code. Soon nocode tools will do it all for you." - 2015
"Don't learn to code. Soon AI will do it all for you." - 2023
The software world would be in a much better place if everyone followed this advice
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Andrew Faulkner retweeted
Dr. Katie Bouman, who led the creation of an algorithm that helped capture the first ever image of a black hole, tells us what this breakthrough means for science 👩🔬 #EHTBlackHole #BlackHole
Andrew Faulkner retweeted
I wrote a lot of words about the world a Green New Deal could build theintercept.com/2018/12/05/…
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Know your JavaScript operators!
= Assignment
=== Equality
== Just fuck me up
Andrew Faulkner retweeted
House music was LITERALLY invented ny Black folks. The genesis of house is generally tied to Chicago DJ Frankie Knuckles, and the name “house” comes from the club where Knuckles held a residency — The Warehouse.
This ain't ignorance, this is erasure.
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Editorial: The US Department of Health and Human Services proposes to establish a legal definition of whether someone is male or female based on the genitals they are born with. This proposal has no foundation in science and should be abandoned. go.nature.com/2AISMdq
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Dreaming of your sun-filled family vacation? Visit a travel clinic & update your vaccination records in #CANImmunize before your trip! Travelling made easy ✅
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I’ve been a fan of this guy for a while - he makes extraordinary Rube Goldberg machines with a level of wit that elevates them beyond any I’ve seen before:
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Opinion in @thecadre 'That free flu vax, take advantage of it. Your baby cousin is cute, but you pick her up unknowingly having a touch of whooping cough and because they aren’t old enough to have been fully immunized, they can catch it...' #vaccineswork thecadreupei.com/2018/11/13/…
Andrew Faulkner retweeted
Fellow neat-freaks!
Add this to your .bash_profile and thank me later.
alias gcmb="git branch --merged | grep -Ev '(^\*|master)' | xargs git branch -d"
It cleans all branches you’ve got locally that have already been merged.
Andrew Faulkner retweeted
For Halloween I'm dressing up as all your abandoned side projects and domain renewal emails.
Andrew Faulkner retweeted
90% of "refactoring":
1. highlight large chunk of code
2. paste into new file
3. replace large chunk of code with function call
4. $ git commit -m "refactor login"
5. close refactoring ticket
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The @OttawaHospital's @OttawamHealth Lab at Algonquin College has released CANImmunize, a free app that aims to improve vaccination for people in Canada — especially families with young children. Learn more here » algqn.co/HVhG30jXgoz
This might be the best thing I've ever seen 😂
Natural 0: "It works locally"
Natural 20: "It's a feature" teapaw.org/cassidoo/status/999783…
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Activation of a connection between excitatory neurons in prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex and infralimbic cortex enhances fear extinction go.nature.com/2rIpaaX
