Brian Armstrong
@brianarmstrong
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Always learning. Software engineer on MSL Infra @meta.
Albany, CA
Joined June 2009
It's unbelievable that I still can't make an event in Google Calendar from a natural language input.
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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. ššæ https://t.co/xANrKClTdU Don't ask the question if you're not ready for the answer. š¤·šæāāļø
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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. ššæ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GMH2z4...
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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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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.
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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On the other hand, working at Google straight out of school was incredibly valuable in 10 years of startup experience afterward.
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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What? But I conformed to NSItemProviderReading for you.
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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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How does Google Calendar not yet have natural language event creation?
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āLife is short; donāt waste it. Tell the truth. Technology should enhance human creativity. Process matters. Beauty matters. Details matter. The world we know is a human creationāand we can push itĀ forward.ā
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āNow, 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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āWe hired people to tell us what to do. We figured weāre 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 thatās really much more collegial thanĀ hierarchical.ā
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āAnd 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 companiesāI know it sounds crazyābut a lot of companies donāt do that. They hire people to tell them what to do.
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āCan 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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Damn I'm old enough to remember this lol
āAlready, 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. Itās a lot faster than going through the newspaper, and a lot faster than calling the theaters, et cetera.ā
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āAlready, 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. Itās a lot faster than going through the newspaper, and a lot faster than calling the theaters, et cetera.ā
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Great deep dive into our powerful team management features @capitalxyz
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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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.
To answer your questions, Capital does not use Silicon Valley Bank in any way. SVBās 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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