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Devin Naquin

Software Engineer & Engineering Manager, Facebook 2010-2015 Software Engineer, Disqus 2008-2009

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online.wsj.com 16y ago

Tech Influx Transforms Mission Neighborhood

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blog.facebook.com 16y ago

Making Control Simple

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www.wired.com 16y ago

How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive

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www.techcrunch.com 16y ago

Basic Flaw Reveals Source Code to 3,300 Popular Websites

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vimeo.com 16y ago

Snakes on the Web: Jacob Kaplan Moss' Keynote at PyCon Argentina

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tech.yahoo.com 16y ago

New Attack Cracks WPA Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute

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python-history.blogspot.com 17y ago

The History of Python: The Problem with Integer Arithmetic

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python-history.blogspot.com 17y ago

The History of Python: First-class Everything

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python-history.blogspot.com 17y ago

The History of Python: Early Language Design and Development

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trevinchow.com 17y ago

Does DRM-free music on iTunes really matter?

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blog.hvidtfeldts.net 17y ago

Grammars for Generative Art

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www.sogoodblog.com 17y ago

Whopper Sacrifice: Ditch 10 Friends, Get a Free Whopper

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blog.naqu.in 17y ago

You're Doing it Wrong

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www.eflorenzano.com 17y ago

Why use VARCHAR when you can use TEXT

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oebfare.com 17y ago

Django Reusable App Conventions

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www.cnn.com 17y ago

Atom smasher will have to wait until spring

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freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com 17y ago

When a Novelist holds an IPO

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thedailywtf.com 18y ago

Mandatory Fun Day: You Know What to Do

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blog.disqus.net 18y ago

Testing Django Applications

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www.codingthewheel.com 18y ago

Learning To Drive a Stick Shift: Why Programmers Should Know C/C++

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www.codingthewheel.com 18y ago

How I Built a Working Online Poker Bot, Part 7

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www.codingthewheel.com 18y ago

How I Built a Working Online Poker Bot, Part 5

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www.codingthewheel.com 18y ago

How I Built a Working Online Poker Bot, Part 6

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code.google.com 18y ago

Google Code Jam Qualification Started

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arstechnica.com 18y ago

ACLU, others greets Bush FISA bill signing with new lawsuit

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arstechnica.com 18y ago

Mozilla sets Guinness World Record with Firefox 3 launch

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arstechnica.com 18y ago

20 million Firefox 3 downloads in a week, ~4% market share

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arstechnica.com 18y ago

Why the cloud cannot obscure the scientific method

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maps.google.com 18y ago

Google Maps Easter Egg

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www.statesman.com 18y ago

Austin may have lost thousands of high-tech jobs, but remaining ones pay well

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> When a currency is experiencing deflation it makes sense not to spend it. In that world, keeping my money under my mattress is the soundest investment strategy.

A does not imply B.

If the currency deflates at 1% but you could invest at 2%, your mattress isn't the most sound investment strategy.

read the amendment.

  "1 SEC. 5. PROTECTING THE PASSWORDS OF ONLINE USERS. 
  2 Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this 
  3 Act shall be construed to limit or restrict the ability of 
  4 the Federal Communications Commission to adopt a rule 
  5 or to amend an existing rule to protect online privacy, in-
  6 cluding requirements in such rule that prohibit licensees 
  7 or regulated entities from mandating that job applicants 
  8 or employees disclose confidential passwords to social net-
  9 working web sites."

Sorry to say but "this doesn't work, that's wrong, this is broken etc" is going to be said regardless of when you release and regardless of how many users you have.

The number one rule of software engineering. Your code sucks.

I had a standing offer from Google that I passed on, because I was busy doing other stuff. When I decided it was to move on I contacted my Google recruiter amongst other connections. Google didn't reinterview me, I was just extended an offer.

This process was slower than the entire interview loop at the company I am currently at.

Far too many employees at early stage startups have completely unreasonable expectations for how much their options are worth. So even though they're getting shafted, there's a sizable chunk of the population willing to work for scraps on someone else's dream.

I don't quite understand it, but I'm not exactly worried the startup employee pool will shrink anytime soon. But they won't be getting me and a sizable pool of the top talent.

It's less about speed as it is about size. A general framework is just that, general. You're paying in bytes for stuff you don't necessarily use.

Upgrade your career 17 years ago

great! another way for me to filter out potential employers.

"can you send us your stack overflow account?" "yeah, i'm no longer interested."