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by sayrer 4y ago
It sounds like you built the right product on the wrong technology stack, at the lower levels. For example, I have never heard a Nomad success story, but this might be colored by interviewing engineers desperate to escape it. Something like
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by sayrer 4y ago
I can recommend the book “American Girls” by Nancy Jo Sales. I don’t have any daughters, but I’ve worked at some big social media companies, and this was required reading at one of them. The boss there did have daughters, but it wasn’t only
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by sayrer 4y ago
No, they’re trying to get to Singapore. Business in Vietnam is highly dependent on things like Facebook and Google. I was there last year, and have some friends that run businesses there. https://vietnamembassy-usa.org/news&
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by sayrer 4y ago
I have seen "meaningful, revenue-driving conversation happen", and I do find Zoom calls kind of irritating. I think the real issue is that this tech has exposed the fact that urban planning in the US is awful unless you're in
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by sayrer 4y ago
Here's the Twitter edge server from years ago: https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse551/15sp/notes/...
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by sayrer 4y ago
Here are some pointers: "Our approach to blocking links" https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/phishing-spa... "The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale" https://blog.twitt
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by sayrer 4y ago
"web previews: I'd do this by making it the client's responsibility." Actually a good example of how difficult the problem is. A very common attack is to switch a bit.ly link or something like that to a malicious destina
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by sayrer 4y ago
Userspace networking is pretty common. The chair of the IETF even wrote one: https://github.com/NTAP/quant "Quant uses the warpcore zero-copy userspace UDP/IP stack, which in addition to running on on top of
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by sayrer 4y ago
It's a neat thought exercise, but wrong for so many reasons (there are probably like 100s). Some jump out: spam/abuse detection, ad relevance, open graph web previews, promoted tweets that don't appear in author timelines, bl
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by sayrer 4y ago
1914 and 2016: https://www.rome2rio.com/labs/isochronic-travel-times/
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by sayrer 4y ago
This one is excellent. I've eaten Wattana Panich, Ekkamai (วัฒนาพานิช-ก๋วยเตี๋ยวเนื้อ) as well. Pujol might be my favorite restaurant. It's not that hard to get a taco omakase seat at the bar.
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by sayrer 4y ago
Usually it's because there's a database license or something that costs even more than the OS. No one wants to be there, but it possible to get trapped.
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by sayrer 4y ago
It's helpful in learning nearby languages. I am a native English speaker, and my French can approach fluency given some immersion (it's pretty rusty right now, though). DuoLingo helped me improve transactional Spanish and Portugue
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by sayrer 4y ago
I've never really bought this argument. There might be unethical growth hackers in the company, but A/B tests are not the problem in that situation. In my experience, they mostly just catch bugs. Stuff like "hmm, our much bet
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by sayrer 4y ago
A/B tests are pretty problematic for social networks, since anything effective can also influence the control group. They are excellent for single-player activities like shopping carts and signup flows. "Network Experimentation at
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by sayrer 4y ago
The early ones are just glossier versions of the NextStep preferences, too. See: http://nixon-development.com/guis/nextstep3/prefs.png
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by sayrer 4y ago
Most of the lakebed is dried up now, though. There are even two huge drainage tunnels to prevent the basin from flooding again ( https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Túnel_Emisor_Oriente ). These canals used to take farm produc
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by sayrer 4y ago
Well, I'm sure there are "growth hacker" types out there abusing the ability to observe browsing. But I think the real reason they don't bounce you to Safari, Chrome, etc is because users don't stay in the app if th
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by sayrer 4y ago
It gets worse the longer the IPv4 address is up, in my experience. Eventually, your address ends up in some log that is inadvertently made public.
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by sayrer 4y ago
So weird, because they actually had the best one for some time. The Windows Google Talk client was amazing.
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by sayrer 4y ago
How did that work when JFK was elected?
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by sayrer 4y ago
This is why you'll find the "© 2022 Twitter, Inc." footer in the right column of the twitter dot com website.
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by sayrer 4y ago
Get a job at a big company, like Google or Microsoft etc. There is always someone smarter.
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by sayrer 5y ago
This isn't really true anymore, in my experience. I've used Bazel with teams of 30-50 and no full-time maintainer, let alone a team. Once the migration is done, all you need is a few people that do some Bazel gardening every few w
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by sayrer 5y ago
Another problem here is the initial HTTP request on the web, if the site isn't in the HSTS preload list. It's easy for this to happen when you click a link, and there are lots of HTTP links generated by protocol-less highlighting
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by sayrer 5y ago
You can't paste your password on United's inflight WiFi portal. I eventually got it to work by making Safari share it from my laptop to my phone.
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by sayrer 5y ago
I've never tried to go to Russia, but the process you describe is the way to go if you can spare an extra $100. For example, it's much easier to get a Chinese visa by paying this company across the street from the Chinese consulat
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by sayrer 5y ago
Everything went fine for me too, but it was difficult to figure out what to do from California. Sending my passport to them that way made me nervous, though.
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by sayrer 5y ago
It's very difficult for Americans to travel there. But I got the visa once, and went to Oran and Algiers. I had to send my passport via Fedex to the Algerian consulate in NYC and cross my fingers. There are strange rules about whether
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by sayrer 5y ago
The article makes some good points, but it also shows that the author doesn't have a lot of hiring experience on the closing end (after the candidate has passed interviews). "For example, anyone who goes by a name that doesn’t mat

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