sheldoan

yep. the biological term is "spandrel"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)

Interesting, this is the same argument made by social theorist Evengy Morozov: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/04/data-p...

'Spandrel' is the technical term for a feature that is the byproduct of some other evolutionary adaptation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)

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, and other indicators of activity.

Link for the lazy https://www.tradingschools.org/reviews/fractal-alerts/

Susan Wojcicki is the CEO of YouTube

Try using Hola Unblocker, a handy Chrome/Firefox extension that allows you to get around regional blocks

YouTube

Done, thanks

http://www.quora.com/Racism/Why-is-Im-not-racist-homophobic-...

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)

- Backend / infrastructure

- Statistics / machine learning / massive data sets

New college grads welcome. Sorry no H1Bs or remote

Facebook uses a fan-out-on-read approach

http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/Did-Facebook-devel...

Not a link to the full paper, but a summary is presented here: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/1/17/paper-feeding-fren...

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 accordingly to the LRU algorithm
  # volatile-random -> remove a random key with an expire set
  # allkeys-random -> remove a random key, any key
  # volatile-ttl -> remove the key with the nearest expire time (minor TTL)
  # noeviction -> don't expire at all, just return an error on write operations

Snapchat (Venice, Los Angeles)

Hiring software engineers. H1Bs welcome

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>60+ million photos shared a day

>Amazing beach house office on the Venice boardwalk

>Small team (5 engineers), and a bigger user to engineer ratio than Facebook

>Potential for leadership, especially for experienced developers

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Drop me a line at sheldon@snapchat.com!