Since time immemorial, when a CEO asks a PM at Product Review, “what do you need to 10X users/revenue?”, “what will make you go faster?”, etc the PM steadfastly responds “We need [N] more engineers”. The Eng Mgr nods approvingly. A story thread, with some hard truths to swallow: | Continue reading
1/ Topic: Going from Web 2 to Web 3 - “Your take rate is my opportunity” 🧵 | Continue reading
Excellent *financial* analysis of using *commoditized* cloud infrastructure (vanilla servers). It misses: i) the (long-term devastating) cultural cost of recruiting world-class engineers to do undifferentiated heavy lifting; ii) it's unfeasible to recreate noncommodity infra. 1/n … | Continue reading
Today we’re going to talk about "the blockchain" and why it’s one of the dumbest most harmful faux innovations to ever come out of the tech industry. (1/) 🧵 | Continue reading
100 Opinions on this -- prompted by @vgr Will have to break for a call any minute, but will do best to free associate in meantime. | Continue reading
The US government is inviting inflation with its MMT-tinged policies. Brisk Debt/GDP, M2 increases while retail sales, PMI stage V recovery. Trillions more stimulus & re-opening to boost demand as employee and supply chain costs skyrocket. #ParadigmShift https://recision.file … | Continue reading
A Look at Taipei Zoning & City Planning - a thread! A close look (complete with technical details!) at one of Asia's newest yet interesting cities. 1/ https://t.co/39y01sJ0h0 | Continue reading
Covid Epi Weekly: Could Covid Kill 1 Million Americans? New strains are a shot across the bow. A message from the virus: We outnumber you. We’re more persistent. We change and adapt. It’s up to us: Fight smarter. Collaborate. Protect ourselves and each other better. 1/thread | Continue reading
~8yrs ago (Dec’12) I got a job @Google. Those were still early days of cloud. I joined GCP @<150M ARR & left @~4B (excld GSuite). Learned from some of the smartest ppl in tech. But we also got a LOT wrong that took yrs to fix. Much of it now public, but here’s my ring-side … | Continue reading
I did a detailed privacy check of the Tiktok app and website. You can read my article here (german): https://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/tiktok-ueberwachung-daten-kritik-1.4709779… Tiktok commits multiple breaches of law, trust, transparency and data protection. Long thread⤵️ | Continue reading
1/ #Python factlet: random() gives you floats in the range 0.0 ≤ X < 1.0, but not all floats in that range are possible selections. For example, 0.05954861408025609 isn't a possible selection. | Continue reading
Back story. Way back I worked in a PPT factory at an investment bank. Our job was to assemble “decks” for investment bankers. The operation ran 24hrs a day with dozens of “operators”. Young bankers would work CRAZY hours. Reflecting (1/n) | Continue reading
Brings me back to winter 2019 - when @RoamResearch had less than 5k in the bank and no leads on investors. @NotionHQ was famously turning $$$ away, so gave @ivanhzhao a demo, offered to share our research if he would invest or help us raise. "We have enough ideas" he said... | Continue reading
Don't let the sweater-vests and the (dilettantish) "education reform" work fool you: Bill Gates made his fortune through sheer robber-baronry, presiding over a vicious monopolist that shattered the law in its greedy quest for billions and permanent, global dominance. 1/ https://t … | Continue reading
I'm excited to hear about @ARM disrupting laptops and desktops from @Apple next week! But I'd also like to talk about how ARM is disrupting servers in datacenters, especially at @AWSCloud. It's eerily similar, just as profound, and similarly rooted in major @Intel missteps. 1/ | Continue reading
From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy: 1/ ‘I feel the pressure to give you a quick personal update about what is happening in Italy, and also give some quick direct advice about what you should do. | Continue reading
I usually don't do this but I found something that would be immoral not to disclose publicly. For those who don't know, #ClearviewAI is a program that allows law enforcement to identify someone through facial recognition. They scraped public images from the... | Continue reading
If you want to understand what happened with Shadow and the failure of the Iowa Caucus app you have to understand how electoral campaign tech work is done and funded. Let me tell you a story to make sense of it. | Continue reading
1/ Practically every startup ends up writing code, even if technology wouldn't be the main focus of the company. Here’s a checklist I made to help you and your hot new startup avoid the most common infosec pitfalls. [thread] | Continue reading
0/ Our world is changing, and we’re too short term in our thinking. We look to the quarter, fiscal year, or election cycle when the most meaningful changes are best understood by looking at a whole decade or two. These are my predictions for the 2020-2030 decade. Here goes -> | Continue reading
My first full time job at Apple was working on QuickDraw. The team was very small: the manager and one other engineer. Right before I started, Apple shipped the first PPC Macs. The QD team had done a lot of work for that so they took long, deserved, multi week vacations. | Continue reading
This is a thread about a font that's appeared in a lot of video games over the years, and how it was surprisingly challenging to track down its true origin. And no, it's probably not the one you're thinking of (though that one has an interesting story as well!). | Continue reading
A long time ago— like 15 years ago— I worked at Sun Microsystems. The company was nearly dead at the time (it died a couple years later) because they didn't make anything that anyone wanted to buy anymore. So they had a lot of strange ideas about how they'd make their comeback. | Continue reading
Hello, stranger. I’m glad you decided to join me on this impromptu tour of a somewhat forgotten era of computing: the time when Screens Were Expensive – and so computers had no choice but to use smaller screens, small screens, and even ridiculously tiny screens. Shall we…? | Continue reading
1/ Today I prepared for talking about common mistakes startups make (founding -> growth stages) by writing it in tweet form. I ramble too much when public speaking and hoped it would make the core ideas clearer in my mind and more concise. Think it worked. Here are the tweets | Continue reading
Two weeks ago, with the help of Egyptologist @drserenalove and Microbiologist @rbowman1234, I went to Boston’s MFA and @Harvard’s @peabodymuseum to attempt collecting 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery. Today, I baked with some of it... https://t.co/143aKe6M3b | Continue reading
Welcome to Threader, a place to read and discover stories and knowledge from Twitter. Get a selection of good threads every day. | Continue reading
The government just announced its proposed settlement with Facebook for its privacy failures. $5 billion sounds like a lot, but the fine print in the settlement has a lot for $FB to celebrate. I voted no. Here’s why. | Continue reading
OK. Buckle up folks, it's story time: It all started about 4 months ago with this news story: https://t.co/ADuOPAjC0y | Continue reading
About the "security issue" on #VLC : VLC is not vulnerable.tl;dr: the issue is in a 3rd party library, called libebml, which was fixed more than 16 months ago.VLC since version 3.0.3 has the correct version shipped, and @MITREcorp did not even check their claim.Thread: | Continue reading
Welcome to Threader, a place to read and discover stories and knowledge from Twitter. Get a selection of good threads every day. | Continue reading
Let's talk about peeing in space. Several people, in response to my NY Times essay, have said that women couldn't go into space because we lacked the technology for them to pee in space. | Continue reading
Welcome to Threader, a place to read and discover stories and knowledge from Twitter. Get a selection of good threads every day. | Continue reading
Whelp, that was awkward. I just had to leave an event at Google Canada's HQ, a meeting between Google & Canada's news publishers. We (a room full of publishers & journalists) weren't told until the event began that everything would be off-the-record. I'm keeping the noteb … | Continue reading
Thanks @goinggodotnet for this open letter about try. I wanted to share a few brief thoughts. 1/ https://t.co/eAhYZHd7wM | Continue reading
THREAD: Today I went to the public library for the first time in a long time. A woman came up to me and asked me to help her with the computer so she could apply for a custodial job. She had gone to the organization she wanted to work at, and was told to apply online. | Continue reading
Epic and EA had a terrible showing in front of UK regulators to defend gaming. While we all wish EA's version of lootboxes to die, there was more at stake.Regulators, in general, are looking for way to restrict, tax, or otherwise curb videogames again IN GENERAL. | Continue reading
On 16 June, 75 years ago, the gestapo dragged twenty-six members of the French Resistance into a darkened field between villages. As they were organized into small groups for the firing squad, a 16 year old boy wept, asking if it would hurt. This man was beside him. 1/x https://t … | Continue reading
Welcome to Threader, a place to read and discover stories and knowledge from Twitter. Get a selection of good threads every day. | Continue reading
Square Enix's ports are a delight to read about.From them asking Eidos for the PC source code for FF7&8 because they lost their PS1 code only to be sent a megafiles link with it to them doing their own cart-size ROM hack for Trials of Mana to allow the English script in. | Continue reading
I got some questions about this story on "tech titans" in Italy, and uhhh I think this photo is photoshopped?https://t.co/xLrslOCcwh https://t.co/n0gIShty4u | Continue reading
Putting this out there because it is now a matter of undeniable public interest as well as relevant to the recently announced DHS investigation: North Carolina's board of elections had more than one AWS S3 bucket(s) exposed to the public internet for an unknown period of time. | Continue reading
ONEMy dad died. Classic start to a funny story. He was buried in a small village in Sussex. I was really close to my dad so I visited his grave a lot. I still do. [DON’T WORRY, IT GETS FUNNIER.] | Continue reading
Looking at her list, @SenWarren could've made more -- much more -- if she hadn't been so selective, if she hadn't stuck to work consistent with her principles. The vast majority of her work was standing up for consumers and small businesses./1 https://t.co/MVeCyIaUsw | Continue reading
Welcome to Threader, a place to read and discover stories and knowledge from Twitter. Get a selection of good threads every day. | Continue reading
Every VC funded online publication became a woke clickbait mill for a simple reason: the metrics told them this was the best performing type of content. https://t.co/tqMEEtVI9n | Continue reading