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Borat is supposed to be from Kazakhstan, not Armenia. Did @DEVOPS_BORAT break canon?
Ah, thanks for the catch. I sometimes mix up or forget the exact names or locations of those Central Asian countries, also the ones in the Caucasus and the Balkans. Have to keep googling and looking at maps to get it right. Will get better over time, am still somewhat new to them ...
Can't geography out of a wet paper bag.
My top five contenders for the author were: @davemcclure - Dave McClure @pt - Parker Thompson @tylerschultz - Tyler Schultz @supernate - Nate Clark @dsboulder I could never narrow it down to one of them. I had a simple theory: in the beginning, Startup L. Jackson's Twitter followers had a higher probability of following the real author's account, and they would have probably followed the author before Startup L. Jack…
Why? I mean why is it important to identify who's behind something that doesn't hurt anybody? Can't we just enjoy the art?
> Now that Startup L. is retired, Thompson doesn’t mind the secret getting out.
My top five contenders for the author were: @davemcclure - Dave McClure @pt - Parker Thompson @tylerschultz - Tyler Schultz @supernate - Nate Clark @dsboulder I could never narrow it down to one of them. I had a simple theory: in the beginning, Startup L. Jackson's Twitter followers had a higher probability of following the real author's account, and they would have probably followed the author before Startup L. Jack…
This was one of the weaknesses that was fixed. You might have noticed that at the time of my post, if you had pulled this list again, @pt ceased following @StartupLJackson.
What I expected to find was that, if I looked at who SLJ's first 100 followers followed, I'd find some accounts they disproportionately followed prior to following SLJ. And I did find that - the people followed by the first 100 (prior to SLJ) pointed to a Pivotal connection. Because many of them were following @pt, it wouldn't have made much difference if @pt didn't follow SLJ.
I'm going to try @devops_borat now...
I was always a big fan of https://twitter.com/hipsterhacker He's for the most part inactive, but occasionally drips out something acerbically relevant.
I was always a big fan of https://twitter.com/hipsterhacker He's for the most part inactive, but occasionally drips out something acerbically relevant.
Wow.. this guy with 93 tweets has 53k followers... that feels like its the highest followers/tweet I've ever seen. f/t (gotta trademark this)
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This was one of the weaknesses that was fixed. You might have noticed that at the time of my post, if you had pulled this list again, @pt ceased following @StartupLJackson.
That shouldn't have mattered much - I assumed the author's real account wouldn't follow their parody to avoid giving clues. What I expected to find was that, if I looked at who SLJ's first 100 followers followed, I'd find some accounts they disproportionately followed prior to following SLJ. And I did find that - the people followed by the first 100 (prior to SLJ) pointed to a Pivotal connection. Because many of them…
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Isn't he the dude that trolled himself with the 'Smashmouth eat the eggs' thing and the consequences thereof.
That may have been @arr - David Thorpe (edit: you were right actually)
David's also really talented at trolling (though in this instance, the show was in on the joke): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdUHDDj7fhk
In Silicon Valley, a place he calls “obsessed with status and pedigree,” could someone’s ideas get traction when it wasn’t clear if the speaker was a state-school dropout or someone with a $100 million checkbook? That sounds very different than the meritocracy narrative. It would explain why women and most minorities are so excluded. I know the next sentence says he succeeded, but that's just one Twitter account and…
In Silicon Valley, a place he calls “obsessed with status and pedigree,” could someone’s ideas get traction when it wasn’t clear if the speaker was a state-school dropout or someone with a $100 million checkbook? That sounds very different than the meritocracy narrative. It would explain why women and most minorities are so excluded. I know the next sentence says he succeeded, but that's just one Twitter account and…
Can you expand on what sounds very different? On its face your comment is self-contradictory.