sheldoan

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by sheldoan 9y ago
yep. the biological term is "spandrel" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)
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by sheldoan 10y ago
Interesting, this is the same argument made by social theorist Evengy Morozov: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/04/data-p...
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by sheldoan 10y ago
'Spandrel' is the technical term for a feature that is the byproduct of some other evolutionary adaptation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)
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by sheldoan 10y ago
Facebook had a great deal of insight into Instagram's growth due to Facebook Connect. They could see internally how many people were signing up for Instagram, how many people from their networks they were inviting and connecting with,
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by sheldoan 10y ago
Link for the lazy https://www.tradingschools.org/reviews/fractal-alerts/
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by sheldoan 11y ago
Susan Wojcicki is the CEO of YouTube
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Is Amazon Bad for Books?(newyorker.com)
24 points by sheldoan 13y ago|3 comments
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by sheldoan 13y ago
Try using Hola Unblocker, a handy Chrome/Firefox extension that allows you to get around regional blocks
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by sheldoan 13y ago
YouTube
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by sheldoan 13y ago
Done, thanks
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by sheldoan 13y ago
http://www.quora.com/Racism/Why-is-Im-not-racist-homophobic-...
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Why won’t the President rein in the intelligence community?(newyorker.com)
14 points by sheldoan 13y ago|0 comments
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by sheldoan 13y ago
Snapchat (Venice, CA) Feel free to drop me a line at sheldon-at-snapchat-dot-com. We're mainly looking to hire full time engineers with experience / expertise in any of the following: - Mobile client development (iOS & Android
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by sheldoan 13y ago
Facebook uses a fan-out-on-read approach http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/Did-Facebook-devel...
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by sheldoan 13y ago
Not a link to the full paper, but a summary is presented here: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/1/17/paper-feeding-fren...
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by sheldoan 13y ago
In addition, the Redis config file allows you to specify an eviction policy when the maximum memory limit is reached: # volatile-lru -> remove the key with an expire set using an LRU algorithm # allkeys-lru -> remove any key acc
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by sheldoan 14y ago
Snapchat (Venice, Los Angeles) Hiring software engineers. H1Bs welcome ------------------- >60+ million photos shared a day >Amazing beach house office on the Venice boardwalk >Small team (5 engineers), and a bigger user to engi