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Brian Armstrong

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Always learning. Software engineer on MSL Infra @meta.

Albany, CA
Joined June 2009
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Brian Armstrong
9 months
Apple IntelligencešŸ‘Œ
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Brian Armstrong
10 months
It's unbelievable that I still can't make an event in Google Calendar from a natural language input.
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Don Pettit
10 months
How to change a camera lens……
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Mekka šŸ’‰x7 @[email protected]
1 year
They asked Reggie Jackson a question about overcoming racism in baseball. They expected a candy coated, saccharine answer, but he gave them that raw uncut. šŸ‘šŸæ https://t.co/xANrKClTdU Don't ask the question if you're not ready for the answer. šŸ¤·šŸæā€ā™‚ļø
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They asked Reggie Jackson a question about overcoming racism in baseball. They expected a candy coated, saccharine answer, but he gave them that raw uncut. šŸ‘šŸæ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GMH2z4...
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Brian Armstrong
2 years
My number 1 piece of advice for engineers is: review your own PRs before anyone else does. Getting out of the editor and reviewing in a pull request puts you into a different mindset.
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Brian Armstrong
2 years
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Multi
2 years
What does security feel like?
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Jaana Dogan ヤナ ćƒ‰ć‚¬ćƒ³
2 years
Unpopular opinion: No one I know at FAANG worked for years to ship a few buttons unless they are committing career suicide or are locked into a job for visa reasons. At FAANG, you develop rare skills, e.g. how to build and run a billion dollar business.
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Siqi Chen
2 years
It's depressing to see so many talented people from top schools with amazing resumes go work years at FAANG, and the most they can point to having shipped are a few buttons in one minor workflow. I mean I know FAANG can afford it, but you can't. Work at a startup!
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Brian Armstrong
2 years
On the other hand, working at Google straight out of school was incredibly valuable in 10 years of startup experience afterward.
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Siqi Chen
2 years
It's depressing to see so many talented people from top schools with amazing resumes go work years at FAANG, and the most they can point to having shipped are a few buttons in one minor workflow. I mean I know FAANG can afford it, but you can't. Work at a startup!
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Brian Armstrong
2 years
What? But I conformed to NSItemProviderReading for you.
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Brian Armstrong
2 years
Does anyone have experience with FCC approval for devices with bluetooth modules? Is it feasible as an individual? Would be interested to chat.
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Brian Armstrong
2 years
How does Google Calendar not yet have natural language event creation?
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Brian Armstrong
3 years
ā€œLife is short; don’t waste it. Tell the truth. Technology should enhance human creativity. Process matters. Beauty matters. Details matter. The world we know is a human creation—and we can push itĀ forward.ā€
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Brian Armstrong
3 years
ā€œNow, as you live your arc across the sky, you want to have as few regrets as possible. Remember, regrets are different from mistakes. Mistakes are those things that you did, and wish you could do over again. Regrets are most often things you didn't do, and wish you did.ā€
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Brian Armstrong
3 years
ā€œWe hired people to tell us what to do. We figured we’re paying them all this money, their job is to figure out what to do and tell us. And that led to a very different corporate culture, and one that’s really much more collegial thanĀ hierarchical.ā€
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Brian Armstrong
3 years
ā€œAnd Apple was a very bottoms-up company when it came to a lot of its great ideas. And we hired truly great people and gave them the room to do great work. A lot of companies—I know it sounds crazy—but a lot of companies don’t do that. They hire people to tell them what to do.
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Brian Armstrong
3 years
ā€œCan somebody make a three-hundred-dollar box that hooks up to your television on one side and maybe hooks up to ISDN or a cable modem on the other side and allows you for, three hundred dollars, to have a web browser on your TV and to access the entire internet?ā€ - SJ, 1996
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Brian Armstrong
3 years
Damn I'm old enough to remember this lol
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Brian Armstrong
3 years
ā€œAlready, when IĀ want to find out the movies that are playing around Silicon Valley, IĀ just go up on the local web page and check it out. It’s a lot faster than going through the newspaper, and a lot faster than calling the theaters, et cetera.ā€
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Brian Armstrong
3 years
ā€œAlready, when IĀ want to find out the movies that are playing around Silicon Valley, IĀ just go up on the local web page and check it out. It’s a lot faster than going through the newspaper, and a lot faster than calling the theaters, et cetera.ā€
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Brian Armstrong
3 years
Great deep dive into our powerful team management features @capitalxyz
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Angela Xu
3 years
1/ We just shipped something @capitalxyz that makes managing your team seamless. Our customers are founders with ops/finance/legal teams who require varying levels of access to the company acct. This was surprisingly challenging, from both a product & engineering perspective.
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@itsvarora
Varun Arora
3 years
It's heartbreaking to witness the collapse of an institution that was so integral to our ecosystem. At @capitalxyz, our biggest priority is helping founders get set up with business checking accounts *today* using Capital, so that they can get their operations back on track.
@capitalxyz
Capital
3 years
To answer your questions, Capital does not use Silicon Valley Bank in any way. SVB’s current situation does not affect our ability to provide the best banking services for startup founders. Our banking partner is Blue Ridge Bank (Member FDIC) and was established in 1893.
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