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I've been a customer of theirs for at least 12 years, I think (I have an entry in my password manager from about that long ago, and I might have had an account before that). It's b…

Native retweet on twitter, probably.

I've known at least a half-dozen superb bootcamp grads, but the quality is definitely uneven.

Yeah, a huge number of early twitter folks did exactly this.

I felt that way too, but I have mostly changed my mind. My wife, who has a FT job, a purse company, and 2 kids, plays a SHOCKING amount of Maple Story. She never pays money, but at…

Have you looked at SICM? (Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, the far less popular half-sibling of the SICP) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpret…

He was rich enough not to need more money before starting YC-the acquisition price for viaweb was $49M, and it roughly ~10x'd between then and the peak in late 1999. (cites: https:…

Johnny come lately, eh? https://www.reddit.com/user/mattknox :)

If you tend to do this a lot and use Chrome, you might find the tweak this comment inspired for me useful: open chrome://settings/searchEngines add a new search engine, called anyt…

These questions aren't useful for evaluating pg's work (or frankly that of most PL implementors) because it concerns things, like syntax, libraries, user culture, etc., that is out…

have you thought about publishing the full source from then? The HN source was dense but very educational, and it would be really interesting to see internal tools written in arc.

Wetherell was not involved with launching retweet, and didn't implement much (maybe any?) of the code in that Nov 2009 launch. He probably did write a version of the frontend for r…

I've actually been treated exceptionally well by the half-dozen or so CEOs I've worked for. This is pretty common in tech, at least in SF and NYC, in my experience.

Here, you should have 2 orders issued events, one order_succeded, and one order_failed (hopefully not with an actual NPE, that would be pretty bad). So much like an SSTable-based s…

It's fascinating to me that people don't point out that you can get many of the benefits of microservices with all your code in a monolith, indeed, all in a single runtime. Of the …

I ran twitter's new engineer training for a long time, and much of this rings pretty true to me. I would only add 3 things: -1 the skill of teaching is approximately orthogonal to …

Twitter never used Jruby in any significant capacity. Note that the article she cited ( http://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use ) said we were evaluating jruby, but chose no…

I talked with some of the opposition later in job interviews, and they would typically write/modify a program in C that would find and kill our client. Their process tended to be: …

Having had my Milgram immunization, I would probably be able to resist the temptation. :) That said, I doubt anyone would be particularly interested: all of this is pretty out-of-d…

I think it's harder to safely do changes to development machines, because the coupling between components is greater. If you want to change, eg., libxml or something like that, lot…

It seems to me that very few organizations ( ) have effective countermeasures against bad behavior, but very little seems to happen anyway. ( ) google had that guy who stalked peop…

I think you're right. If people talk honestly about why they did things and weren't obviously trying to do ill from the start, it's pretty easy to empathize. I read that the partic…

Yeah, I learned tons about Windows internals. Three standouts: 1: We never hit a limit to what you could do to the stack. It was trivial to write a function F that would fake the s…

(Possibly) interesting aftermath to this article: I gave this interview a long time ago to a completely unknown security blogger. (I think her blog had like 10 subscribers at the t…

Yeah, I can absolutely see what you mean, but I don't think there is as much incongruity as you think. Had I been working for the russian mob or whatever, that is, an organization …