Burning tokens. Probably thinking about game theory. prev eng @PostscriptIO @Compound @branchmetrics @Twitter
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🤯 The origin/making of the Seinfeld theme.
So much to unpack here...
First: This dude.
Second: He re-recorded it for every single episode
Third: the bpm set to Jerry’s timing?
Fourth: it wasn’t a real bass?!
source: piped.video/oVldNNHQWVw
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When you need that t.p. but Amazon is out, and you’re not supposed to leave your house; tech San Francisco doesn’t fail. Thank you @chenosaurus for the speedy cross city delivery- I owe you one 🧻
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This dude is an absolute gem, and answering some deep sound engineering trivia (in the YT link) that I’m here for.
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Absolutely thrilled to open up access to analytics.twitter.com to EVERYONE. Check it out, and let us know what you think!
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The #Meltdown patch (presumably) being applied to the underlying AWS EC2 hypervisor on some of our production Kafka brokers [d2.xlarge]. Ranges from 5-20% relative CPU increase. Ooof.
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Twitter increased gif upload limit. Now I can finally share the entire Matrix movie in a tweet! (cc @KingJames)
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I’ve watched this clip like 50 times now, and every time find something new 😭
Kudos, and proper credit to @seinfeldmusic (ht @thetorpedodog)
“<the bass> is in an audio range that doesn’t interfere with Jerry..” 💀😭
Jonathan, you are the absolute best. Thank you.
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😀Yeah!! 1 tweet, 48hr, 121 matches:
We donated a total of $21,138 to @ACLU + @_MealsOnWheels
Thanks everyone!🗽🍽🇺🇸
Trying to do a small part. I'll match up to $10,000. Tweet receipts!
@ACLU action.aclu.org/donate
@_MealsOnWheels mowaa.org/donate
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Just happened at the WSOP Main Event. (Drunk?) dude all in blind preflop (full stack) level one. Tables his hand early. Takes shoe off and throws it at a dealer / player in the tank.
Who throws a shoe?
(Hilarious, but not great for the game...)
🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️ cc @RemkoRinkema @Kevmath
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Trying to do a small part. I'll match up to $10,000. Tweet receipts!
@ACLU action.aclu.org/donate
@_MealsOnWheels mowaa.org/donate
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The lore of "playing it safe" by joining a FAANG. The thousands unvested who joined $FB last year just had their stock comp cut nearly in 1/2.
and people think i'm a risk taker because I play poker.
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After 9 years...
100+ documents, 2 companies, 4+ immigration firms, 2 VISAs, 3 filing attempts, multiple RFEs, multiple (random) audits, 1 denial (our clerical error), 40+ entry stamps... This just arrived in the mail.
✨I got my Green Card y’all!!✨
🗽✅🇺🇸
ALT A mail envelope and brochure labeled: “Welcome to the United States”
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You are a legend! That entire ensemble makes this a timeless interview. Thank you Jonathan! Also seems like people really want to know:
*Jerry voice*: what’s the deal with the cricket sweater?!
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My eng management book will have a chapter:
'How to eat your lunch in 5 minutes then drink 5 coffees/day during 1:1s without dying'
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After 5 incredible years, today will be my last day working at Twitter.
Thank you everyone.
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there’s lots of people out there (here in US and other countries) in not good spots. I’m taking it very seriously. But hopefully this dumb tweet added some brief humor / happiness into your timeline/day. Stay safe & healthy everyone.
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Personal update: After some much needed time off, I'm excited to share that I'll be joining the incredible team at @Compound as Head of Engineering
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- Addamo sun run
- Imsirovic winning everything he played
- Landon/Perkins HU drama
- Leng folding for 1bb @ 11:1
- WSOP happening at all, for the most part, without major issue
- Rio goodbye
- PH FTing everything, and threatening arson
- Foxen/Bicknell going literally insane
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Don't challenge the woman in the Team USA shirt to ping pong at the ping pong bar; she *is* team USA 😹💯🏓 @lilyannzhang
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First time back in Santa Monica since the SF scooter ban. Re-validated my belief that:
- scooters are the future of last mile(s) urban travel
- despite the “annoyingness” of the scoot clutter, a modern city will make it work
- protected bike lanes save lives
- SF dropped the ball
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📈📊📲 Happy holidays! We just launched mobile Tweet analytics for iOS! Congrats to the team!
support.twitter.com/articles…
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1 year ago I made a life goal to win a Triple Draw WSOP bracelet. With scarce training material + limited time to log hands, I did what any good computer nerd would do:
Read math papers, wrote code, and had my computer simulate billions/trillions of hands for me.
Current status, slowly making my way through ~that~ UAlberta Counterfactual Regret Minimization paper, for…. reasons cc @iambadugi 🤫 🤖
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If PricewaterhouseCoopers keeps results secret, how did RT tweet this before it was corrected on air
(9:11 PT) nitter.app/rottentomatoes/status/… 🤔
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After ~6 years as the Director of Engineering at @BranchMetrics, I have decided to move on.
Branch was the most rewarding & challenging job in my career. I'm extremely proud to have helped grow the (literal) back alley ~25 person startup to an over 400+ strong unicorn.
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Hello from the Twitter Insights/Analytics team! If only @hey_sterling's arm was longer. #twitter
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Exactly 10 years ago today I crossed the US border moving to Silicon Valley (actually SF, but I didn't realize they were different places at the time). I'm very grateful for all the challenges, the opportunities and the people who have helped me grow along the way.
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I blocked him months ago, which was the only way to make this app bearable. Now my entire FY page is people noticing their entire FY page is his dumb shit + ads.
Imagine paying $40BB just to ensure the entire user base knows how vain and insecure you are?
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📉🤔😡To the Equifax trader/insider who snuck in 2500 $EFX PUTS and saw 34000% ($1200 -> ~$4MM overnight) gain: GG, and say hi to the SEC
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WeWork: 90sDotCom Bubble Level Bankruptcies
A stark reminder of the startup stock gambit, and absurdities of (modern) AMT.
Let's look at a hypothetical of how bad this outcome could be for an early employee:
businessinsider.com/wework-v…
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👩🏻👨🏻👩🏼👨🏼👩🏾👨🏾: Props to @Hired_HQ for this subtle but important feature. Reducing bias while reviewing eng candidates
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New hobby: changing my iPhone/Wifi name, watching other Caltrain riders excitedly look around for #celebs
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Very excited, today I joined @branchmetrics as their Director of Engineering.
If you're an app developer try us out! branch.io
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Empty apartment! Thank you San Francisco for 11 wonderful years. It’s been real. My heart will always be here.✌🏻❤️ 🌉 🥲
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20+ years of frontend summarized:
(1990s)⇒ <table>..stuff..</table>
(2000s)⇒ <div>..stuff..</div>
(now)⇒ <script>..stuff..</script>
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Taking some long overdue PTO, to get away from stress, using my phone too much, and sitting in a chair all day.
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Also, from my understanding, this isn't temporary. This is now the new baseline. Double Ooof.
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4 years ago today these 5 engineers joined the Twitter eng team together. 4 years later - we're all still kicking! 🎉
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5 years ago, this guy convinced me to quit my job + move to SF for a small company called Twitter.
Thanks @mattknox
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Black Mirror's S3E4: San Junipero was the absolute best world creation / story telling I've seen crammed into a mere 60m of TV ever.
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The man beside me on my flight opened/studied his calendar on his iPad. The only entries were exact sunrise/sunset times
I suspect vampire
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If I'd known certain world leaders would be using Twitter as their LiveJournals, I probably would have written more unit tests
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📱You can now promote a Tweet directly via mobile! Big step for the Ads platform! support.twitter.com/articles…
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FWIW, I'm an immigrant, here on a VISA (and happily pay my taxes)
I can't vote, so I donate
@ACLU @_MealsOnWheels
Trying to do a small part. I'll match up to $10,000. Tweet receipts!
@ACLU action.aclu.org/donate
@_MealsOnWheels mowaa.org/donate
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Promoted Trends require manual approval from Sales. This is a disgrace and I'm embarrassed I helped build this product
Try harder @jack
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each company deals with this situation differently, but one might be much better off (financially) quitting and literally rejoining the next day. a reminder that a stock needs to do *100%* gain to recover from a 50% drop. its literally gambling and hope. #martingale
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#TwofficeHistory [Mar23, 2011] @LadyGaga visits and pair programs with @raffi. Uninterested, @asdf watches SC2 replay
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Big update here! Looks like AWS/EC2 just deployed an updated #Spectre patch (perhaps Retpoline-ish), addressing high IO HVM instance performance issues! Big credit to Amazon for addressing performance needs & concerns so quickly and diligently. Thank you. cc @_msw_
ALT A 2 week CPU chart with a noticeable spike on Jan 4 (with a note attributing it to Spectre patch), and a drop on Jan 12 (with a note attributing to a possible new patch)
ALT CPU chart (clamped at y-axis 50%) showing a drop at 22:00 for Jan 12, 2018. There is no corresponding change on the overlayed DiskWriteOPS
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My career and life achievements have peaked with this DM question 😭Where do I even go from here?
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Considerations
Employers:
- let your employees early exercise
- allow a longer exercise window post departure
- switch to RSUs
Employees:
- understand AMT (your responsibility)
- consider taking RSUs
- your golden handcuffs is a form-3921
- a jetski is never a good purchase
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I was curious what the biggest theoretical popular vote win could be still resulting in an election loss.
~99.99994%. huh..
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Science. Is. Fucking. Awesome. 🥲
I’m looking forward to seeing my family soon. I haven’t seen them in over a year.
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I made a data structure: The HyperLogSandwich, for k-occurrence cardinality estimation
github.com/chanian/hyperlogs…
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Din Tai Fung just opened in SJ. I'm pretty sure this map is an accurate representation of the current line.
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@twitter ex-tweeps have organized a big going away drinks party for those who were let go landingnest.eventbrite.com
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My ideal Sunday morning brunch is definitely best served in a sealed plastic bag with my name on it 😋
ALT A plastic bag containing poker chips
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Always be recruiting. Even to the other commuting engineers riding Caltrain via your via Hotspot/Wifi name 😅😇
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I'm most grateful to the Branch team. The hardest working, most dedicated team I've ever had the privilege to work with.
I'm taking some long needed time away from tech. Yes, I'm leaving the San Francisco / Bay Area - (but no... I'm not moving to Miami). HMU, lets catch up!✌️
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brain: “let’s cook a Wellington, that’d be fun and festive!”
stomach: “do not cook a Wellington. I’m hungry now, not 6hrs from now”
Me: * proceeds to finely chop 3lbs of mushroom *
Happy holidays y’all ✌🏻
ALT A baked beef Wellington pastry on a cutting board
ALT 6 boxes of mushrooms, shallots, flour and other ingredients
ALT A duxelle lump, wrapped in crepes
ALT An unbaked, lattice covered Wellington pastry
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Me thinking I can debug via tail -f production.log nitter.app/chanian/status/6362189…
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😳Just checked into this weird spaceship hotel in Madrid. Starship Enterprise Chic 👌🏻 freshome.com/2011/11/08/12-d…
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I recall playing a reg infested 10/20 @ Wynn one night and (me being the obvious mark/rec) stood to get food, the remaining 4-5 players all insta sat out and went to their iPads
I literally lol’d saying: “at least don’t make it so obvious fellas” as I left and didn’t return. 🤦🏻♂️
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Currently at a GDPR enterprise summit hosted by lawyers & regulators. I’ve officially entered the “acceptance” stage of GDPR compliance. AMA
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The more I think about it, poker tournaments are just a giant, slow map/reduce chip sort. Also, wish me luck! ✌🏻️😎
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A rather... favorable quick poker + food trip to Vegas, one of my fav. cities in the world. Took a 1sec video every ~2waking hours for a nice visual tldr;
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Back from a long vacation trip to Vegas. My goal was to have fun, eat good food, and get in as much mix game experience as possible. I had a blast.
To my non-poker followers, here’s a quick peek into what a week of Poker in LV during the WSOP looks like:
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Rouge One watched backwards is classic SV tale of Engineer who spends career decomposing Monolith then retires quieity on a farm with family
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This is absolutely nuts. Completely justified, necessary, and seemingly extremely well coordinated/executed, but still nuts. Also why any idea that international travel will return to “normal” in 2020 is so wrong.
I’ve landed in Hong Kong after flying from Paris CDG, via London Heathrow. I now have to wait ~8 hours before I get my #COVID19 test results and thus have ample time to tweet about my experience.
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2 cabs 🚕, 2 flights ✈️, 2 boats 🛥 and a 8,500 km journey later to get as far away from SV as possible for a few days to relax.
Found a wonderful tiny house, built on a tiny unnamed island in the Swedish Archipelago. Kitchen, sauna, wine, the Baltic Sea and @dhc 💯
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Shout out to the ZOOM ($ZM) trader who bought ~$750K of OTM CALL OPTIONS last week and just sold them for $27MM
I'd love to do a Zoom call and virtual high five who ever you are.
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If you are one of the other 38 players remaining in this WSOP, and you are reading this: I have pocket Aces.
#TweetBluff
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@RemkoRinkema I was curious, so wrote & ran an AI + simulator on the infamous deuce hand. Don't mean to salt the wound, but gets the proper answer for Bryce. @skoldpadda9 was closest on the math.
1MM trials yields 354:1
@SuddenlyBryce: 99.718%
@golferjosh: 0.282%
(0 chops)
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Pretty grateful to be able to play the great game of Badugi (and ace/deuce), heads up for a WSOP bracelet.
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The owner said “if you get in trouble, the GPS coordinates are painted on the wall, that’s the only way someone will find you here”. 😂 cc @dhc
ALT A small loft with a gps coordinated painted on the wall
ALT A calm lake / sea, with the sun setting
ALT Various plates of food including gravalax, eggs and bread
ALT A tiny house and tiny person enjoying the great outdoors
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