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This is a bigger issue than can be thoughtfully discussed in an Internet comment thread, but if you are interested, I highly recommend Amia Srinivasan's "The Conspiracy Against Men…

I find the gesture choices interesting and suggestive of future directions for interaction with wearable devices. Their help article on gestures lists the four supported gestures w…

Here's another Tumblr collecting passive-aggressive opt-out messages: http://cruelestoptouts.tumblr.com/

Hi there, I'm one of the engineers who worked on AT-AT. Shapefiles are useful when we export data, but because we want to give our cartographer the ability to continually edit neig…

Hackpad's search functionality is pretty good at ensuring that people find what they need. We do also maintain a Table of Contents pad, which serves as a central place that links t…

Airbnb Engineering currently uses Hackpad ( https://hackpad.com ) for this purpose, and it's working very well. We previously used Google wikis and GitHub wikis, but the poor editi…

Actually, package managers are core to most Linux distributions! That's been the case long before there was ever Homebrew for OS X. You should almost never have to manually install…

We do use a Rails engine for one of our components, but this isn't something we've explored a lot (or at least, I haven't personally; maybe some of the other Airbnb nerds will step…

Hey there, thanks for your interest! Our service discovery system is indeed a layer that sits between ZooKeeper and the application. But it's also pluggable -- that means that you …

Move Fast & Break Things A practical set of step-by-step recipes for reproducing some of Facebook's biggest mistakes (in security, web stacks, polytheism, deployment, algorithms, p…

I'm an Airbnb engineer, so I can shed some light on this question. :) The answer is: No, being staff or a host is not a requirement to attend; the guest list just happens to show a…