Comments that illustrate the current state of SV tech recruiting, a thread:1) CEO of a startup: “I just lost one of my best engineers to [AppAmaGooBookSoft]. Their *signing bonus* was almost the entire annual salary I was paying them. How am I supposed to compete with that?” | Continue reading
Are you in 🇪🇺UK/EU and want to ditch your old bank and get a 💳 fintech bank app instead? I'll summarize your options and my experiences in this thread. 👇 | Continue reading
The latest tactic in the attack on free speech is to openly smear any *defense* of free speech—once a standard part of civic education—as being a reflection of "white privilege" or "white supremacy," as if merely defending your rights were racist.https://t.co/YodEJ1TBjV RT! | Continue reading
1. WTF is going on with Trump's social media accounts?Let me explain in plain English. | Continue reading
1/ Today is 8 years since we founded @Segment! Like many startups, our first two years were brutal. The last six have been an insane ride. We made so many mistakes along the way, and owe so much to our early customers. | Continue reading
How do I know so many made-up stories about how the Enigma code was cracked and didn't know until yesterday how interesting the real story is? A volunteer at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park just casually blew my mind with a bit of the story. /1 | Continue reading
Thread/ Hi, Yann here. I’ve been working with japanese anime studios/artists and making collaborations with western studios/artists for more than 10 years. Currently working for a french/japanese studio in Tokyo with a team of french bg artists on an american/japanese project. | Continue reading
this might get my ass blacklisted but i want to talk about the ridiculous amount of experiences i had/saw at netherrealm for the short FIVE MONTHS that i was there.NRS needs to be exposed for predatory and abusive behaviors in the same ways that riot, epic, and telltale have. htt … | Continue reading
there is so, so much in this article that i can Identify with, except the "bonuses worth three times your salary" part https://t.co/iYZLNb2eM8 | Continue reading
Is Concurrent Mode just a workaround for “virtual DOM diffing” overhead? Some people got that impression. Let me clarify why we’re working on it. (Thread) | Continue reading
A few quick things I've learned recently from interviewing people about social media, which has been super interesting. | Continue reading
Thread on Assange and Sweden.Because of misinformation.1. | Continue reading
I think right around this minute is just about exactly 5 years since the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL became public. I remember the day vividly, and if you're interested, allow me to tell you about how the day, and the subsequent months, and years unfolded ... https://t.co … | Continue reading
When I went to Harvard in the late 1990s, other folks had warned me that the (paper) freshman facebook was largely a way for skeevy guys to decide who they wanted to perv on, uh I mean "meet," IRL. So since we weren't allowed to have no headshot, I submitted my license photo. htt … | Continue reading
I don't want to be doom and gloom, but Patreon is about to eat itself. Or, more specifically, the investors who demand geometric growth are about to demand Patreon eat itself.https://t.co/Ze7Z0g829Z | Continue reading
Node.js, Go, and Rust were all released within a year about 9 years back.Here's what I remember about that time. | Continue reading
1/ Why is Spotify looking to buy Gimlet? Three reasons: (1) Differentiate through unique content, (2) Earn better margin with non-music content, (3) Capture the ad dollars moving off radio, DOUBLE the size of the music market in the US. I'll break this down below (thread 👇 … | Continue reading
<<THREAD>>A few days ago I requested a rug sample from a cute little online homewares retailer based here in Melbourne. They have really adorable stuff. They responded asking me to provide my credit card details for a security deposit. [1/23] #infosec #opsec | Continue reading
I’m an Engineer who loves America.I just figured something out I want to talk about it. Let's talk about weaponized bots, algorithm exploitation, countermeasures, and counter-countermeasures. <A MEGATHREAD> | Continue reading
1/ Thread. Here’s one way to view the Facebook/Apple dispute. Say I own a chain of 100 popular grocery stores. It’s far from the biggest chain, but folks trust it. Dole uses my chain to test new items. It wants to pilot a new kind of canned fruit at 3 of my stores, and I say OK. | Continue reading
1/ EU Member States' representatives today agreed that UK citizens can travel without a visa to the EU post-Brexit.Press release: https://t.co/fHdcb41fW0Full text: https://t.co/N01uLiv6GMSome comments. | Continue reading
This is sickening, astonishing, sad.@McKinsey, its name dented by Rajat Gupta and shenanigans in Ukraine, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and beyond, has now been shown to have played a key role in worsening the opioid crisis in advising Oxycontin’s makers. https://t.co/xlRRYoUzyU | Continue reading
Quotes on surveillance from foreign correspondents in the @fccchina's annual report are bonkers and chilling. Here's a sample, starting with this surreal account from ABC's @MJSCarney: https://t.co/FSQAfdpwx6 | Continue reading
Hoolleeeee @#$%^*. Read the article. This is one case where the details are even more damning than the eye-catching headline would suggest. https://t.co/DRXkGt9ssz | Continue reading
Tonight I start my course @Columbia_Biz. This is my 27th consecutive year teaching Security Analysis and a good time to take stock of what has changed and what has stayed the same over the years https://t.co/mxltejTcYI | Continue reading
0⃣Little memory jog. Arriving at UofI in 1995, my first presentation (on a topic of my choosing) was about what I called "the wildcat approach to product development". The talk was shaped by my experiences in R&D where betting on the wrong horse had become concerningly common … | Continue reading
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THREAD: I’ve covered enough startups behaving badly to know @Glassdoor reviews can be an early warning sign. And after many sources said their company pushed for positives to offset negatives, I wondered: Are companies widely trying to game it? | Continue reading
Hi, I'm Jeff and I'm an Engineering Manager at @npmjs and I'd like to talk a little bit about open source, humans, and general empathy | Continue reading
“Current conditions mirror what happened after the housing market collapsed. Prices tumbled and property was abundant, but the only people who could afford to buy were those who hadn’t been crippled by the financial crisis.”Who has cash? Money Laundries. https://t.co/83mXjZQbS3 | Continue reading
As a furloughed scientist, I thought it worthwhile to use my PhD skills to look at evidence for the president’s claims of a national security crisis & whether his desire for a wall is an adequate justification for a government #shutdown that has cut off pay for 800,000 Americ … | Continue reading
Sorry to be pointed here, but anyone who's been part of or run teams of journalists who code (as I have) would know why you don't hear this. It's because these "coders" aren't considered journalists in most newsrooms. (1/6) https://t.co/fNUNAc9agx | Continue reading
This is a thread for those of you who say coders and developers should take no role in politics. Those of you who watched my #WCLDN talk last year already heard this story. You can hear it again.This was Rene Carmille, and that is a punch card. https://t.co/GJeWmFKIeH | Continue reading
There is an aspect of the debate on the costs and benefits of the euro that I have been finding increasingly unsettling. 1/n | Continue reading
Between the lines @HillaryClinton raising pointed questions abt Bernie as an op. Consider the complicity in his campaign of bots, trolls, bros who *still* bully, threaten & harass HRC & Democrats. Many of the Bernie “supporters” we know fr/IRA indictments were Kremlin min … | Continue reading
Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by consolidating metadata analysis of 3 key platforms (Messenger, Whatsapp & Instagram). They will make money by tracking your relationships and social groups. They will make that information easily accessible to law enforcem … | Continue reading
For those who aren’t quite sure why these media layoffs keep happening, or think “it’s the internet!” or “people don’t pay to subscribe,” there’s a lot more going on. Though that is part of that. Here’s a cliffs notes version - not exhaustive but it hits the highlights: | Continue reading
How can you do great AI research when you don't have access to google-scale compute? By being weird. The big tech companies are obsessed with staying nimble despite being big, and some succeed to some extent. But they can't afford to be as weird as a lone looney professor. | Continue reading
1/ We are 8 years old today! 🎂24 Jan 2011 @sohear wrote about this website, built by 2 Estonian dudes.15 minutes later someone used us to send £2000 to France.In the evening I called @its_ewa to become our first employee.👇 what happened next? https://t.co/0FXuZiwH … | Continue reading
What is happening to American journalism isn't a mystery. Google and Facebook are eating this industry alive and taking down American democracy with it. | Continue reading
1/ Right after graduating I worked at @Google and Larry Page said something in passing that has stuck with me for a decade: "Most important problems aren't that hard to solve, it's just that no one has really tried." With some experience, I have come to believe this is 100% true. | Continue reading
Today's personal story of machine learning run amok (thread):My research group is looking at the privacy behaviors of paid apps. Doing so requires us to purchase lots of paid apps. The Play Store processes each purchase separately, as opposed to batching them. 1/ | Continue reading
On Feb 13, 2014, four Blackhawk helicopters took off from a Mexican Marine base in Baja California, heading east over the Sea of Cortez. The 40 troops on board were on a secret mission. Their target: Ismael "Mayo" Zambada, a leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel. | Continue reading
BREAKING: Facebook just took down 364 pages and accounts for coordinated inauthentic behaviour in the former USSR. Who was running them? Sputnik employees, that's who. https://t.co/CB1Sb04lTf | Continue reading
Large quantities of data = High quality of science. My new Nature Human Behaviour paper published today with @ShuhBillSkee shows that this could not be further from the truth. https://t.co/kRGZmYL0eJ (1/10) https://t.co/27ycxAek7Q | Continue reading
With more than 100,000,000 downloads ES File Explorer is one of the most famous #Android file manager.The surprise is: if you opened the app at least once, anyone connected to the same local network can remotely get a file from your phone https://t.co/Uv2ttQpUcN | Continue reading
Perhaps unfashionable (opinion) but I stand by it:Every single JS developer should strive, by the time they have 6-12+ months experience, to have some basic working knowledge (have read some, and can reasonably understand some parts) of the most recent JS (ES20XX) spec. | Continue reading
Some of my favorite C++ movies:"No Concepts For Old Clang""There Will Be Memory Leak""In A Land Before std::chrono""Open Range(s)""One Threw Over The Exception's Catch""The Silence Of The Lambdas""The Usual Contracts""Back To The std::future""Road To std::partition" | Continue reading