Ryan King
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Software engineer at @color , formerly @chanzuckerberg , @bolt , @twitter . Not leaving SF.
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Fifteen years(!) and two days after its original launch, I am re-launching
Blog post with more context:
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Me, 2005-2010: "compiled languages are slow and painful to work with"
Me, 2015-2021: "interpreted languages are slow and painful to work with"
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For the record, unlike the janky script which ran the first version, I now pay for a real monitoring service, which is costing me.....
$8/month.
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Introducing Ada Frances King. Born 12/4/16 7lb3oz. Home now and all is well.
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How can I get Gordon Ramsay’s job, but for technology companies. Just walk in and yell about everything they’re doing wrong.
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I have found that being an Principal Engineer is just asking two questions over and over again–
1. "yeah, but why?"
2. "and then what?"
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This whole employee vs contractor debate (re:uber) wouldn't be as a big deal if we didn't rely on employers for health care.
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To folks asking me if twitter still use Cassandra, here's your answer:
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As a homeowner I would happily pay for a services that provides a 24/7 phone number which you can call and get any (minor) house repair done within 24 hours.
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I'm told there is a small human inside this woman the size of this croissant.
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i'm really happy for your twitpocalypse and imma let you finish, but twitpocalypse 1 was better
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There's something wrong with our industry when "6+ years" is the highest experience bracket.
http://t.co/6oT6P6FgNa
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@QuinnyPig
Not sure it it’s still true, but back in the day twitter had its own sms infra. We bought an sms gateway company in 2009ish.
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Grandma requested Jazz at her funeral. Good thing the priest is in a trio.
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One thing I miss about working at Twitter is that I didn't have to pretend I wasn't watching the World Cup.
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@mipsytipsy
managing senior engineers at a startup means reminding them to build crappier software
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New blog post– . Read a bit about building the original native-Retweet functionality.
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Cleaning out my desk and was reminded that I have this
@dickc
gem. Autographed even.
http://t.co/Q57S8o7db9
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One of those days where you spend a lot of time writing an email that the recipient doesn’t even bother to read. RTFE
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Still true.
In retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.
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slides from my
#cassandra
presentation yesterday:
http://www.slideshare.net/ryansking/scaling-twitter-with-cassandra
#chirp
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There are only two kinds of engineering teams–
1. understaffed
2. failing
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Based on our dog’s behavior, I am fairly confident we will have an earthquake in the next few days.
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At lunch yesterday with my team, I blew their minds when I pointed out that Twitter launched before the iPhone.
They didn't understand how you could use it and I was like...
"Have you heard of SMS?"
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"We're using JIRA because that's what everyone knows."
I hate to break it to you, but none of your team actually know how to use it.
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We just open sourced a little thing I've been working on:
http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/06/announcing-snowflake.html
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The only silver lining to the Elmo takeover is that a lot of tech industry idiots have outed themselves as such.
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San Francisco homeowner dilemna–
I found a solid handyman that could do small to medium projects, do I…
a) Tell everyone I know to guarantee that he stays in business
b) Tell no one, so that he is always available for my projects.
Please advise.
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PM: "everything we have talked about is in the doc"
me: "who has access to that doc?"
PM: "just me so far"
me: ...
PM: ...
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I just published “Ad-hoc status reports considered harmful”
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Yesterday: skied from Switzerland to Italy. Ate lunch. Skied back and had fondue for dinner.
http://t.co/0My96c4tZd
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In the last week I have personally gone from:
There are "bad apples" in the police and you have to get them out to get them out to prevent more rot...
to..
Fuck the police.
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That point after a long day working from home when you finally close your work laptop.... and open your personal one.
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So, it turns out that the only way to not be evil is to actively do good things.
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The RNC yesterday was full of racism and nepotism, yet everyone in my twitter feed is taking about plagiarism. Need to find better accts.
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Dear Everyone: I got your email. And your email asking if I got your email. But I'm too busy listening to your voicemail.
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I am now that engineer that spends half his time trying to convince other engineers to not build something.
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There is nothing automatic, only processes you don't understand that haven't visibly failed.
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Again today: skied to Italy to eat lunch. Check the photo for a couple surprises.
http://t.co/WgmgwJ5mHA
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@tormeh89
@nikitabier
@mhdempsey
The estate tax doesn’t kick in until $10.6M (for a couple). So assume the suggestion is to change the percent without changing the threshold the message is “10M is enough.”
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The 3yo likes to call strawberries straw-babies and we encouraged it because it was cute. Now her favorite is blackberries.
#parentingProblems
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@tferriss
@MrSandoval_
can be good for this. Make sure to rachet the pain ($) up aggressively.
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If you'd like to see a demo of how you can use User Streams, I have a toy you can play with:
https://github.com/ryanking/earlybird
#chirp
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I just did the math in my head and it seems that twitter has had better uptime so far this year than the Bay Bridge.
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Hey everyone, its not an "Open Letter", its a blog post. This shit isn't hard.
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Pretty sure the new mgmt of this app does not know about the mobile web client. Hint hint.
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5yo: "how many days are in a year"
me, software engineer: "*usually* 365"
5yo: "because February has 29 how often?"
me: "every 4 years, *usually*"
5yo: "not every 4 years?"
me, trying not to be a software engineer: "yeah"
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Hmm, over-confident rationalizer approaches a complex system to make an "obvious" change.... 🍿
Sorry for showing you so many irrelevant & annoying ads on Twitter!
We’re taking the (obvious) corrective action of tying ads to keywords & topics in tweets, like Google does with search.
This will improve contextual relevance dramatically.
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Just marked something off my todo list that has been there 7 years. Anything is possible.
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