Anonymous Billionaire

I'm an anonymous billionaire. Self-made via tech startups.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@not_alff @Emmaquinten @ZAMENZA No it isn't. In the UK its like 20 GBP. It's not even a fine, it's a processing fee. This is true whether it's Sunday League or the Premier League.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@MelanyBelanyBoo @Imperial_Syndic @AlexKoenig1 @Bitcoin_Teddy It is about asking someone's opinion then ignoring it. This is fundamentally rude if consistently done. Don't ask me if you don't care what I say anyway.

Talking about things we don't care about is an entirely separate discussion.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@MelanyBelanyBoo @Imperial_Syndic @AlexKoenig1 @Bitcoin_Teddy Asking your partner about their day is not the same as asking them to make a decision just to ignore it. One is nice, the other is rude and annoying.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@BradleyKellard This gets very hard to quantify when multiple founders and early hires involved…

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@DanielGlejzner @BaronKimble Tbf if you’ve gone through a whole CS degree and aren’t familiar with the syntax of at least one language, you’re probably not a great engineer.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

It’s probably still the least bad way to do it whilst not getting false positives. I need people who will know if the AI is correct or not. It also broadly screens for IQ. Then again I ask easy questions like “write a function that reverses an array.” Most can’t do it.

But this 10 min exercise (in any language or mainstream IDE of their choice), is a great signal to noise ratio for me. Tech-adjacent people can buzzword themselves through sometimes. It’s hard to fake knowing how to code and think programmatically.

I’m also looking for:

* Do they make a new array and xfer over or do they do it in place? Do they understand the trade offs?
* Do they write tests? Do they write them before or after they write the function?
* Do they ask clarifying questions like what if there is an empty array? What if null is passed in? How large is the max input? Etc.
* Can they communicate their thought process clearly out loud?
* What do they do when they are off by a bit and need to debug?
* Do they know how to use the debugger?

Of course if they do decent on this (they don’t need to tick every box, it just depends on the level they’re going for), I then ask about design patterns, systems design, infra management, and a whole host of other things.

My FE dev question also includes “Make a button on the page with a counter. Every time you click the button increment the counter.”

Like I’m not trying to trick/stump people, but I can learn so much from these simple tasks. And again, the vast vast majority can’t do them, even after prescreening with HackerRank, asking them not to use AI to do it, and telling them they’ll have to code in the interview.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@r0ck3t23 Apple and Google get 1%? Last I checked they get like almost 1/3 of every sale. CPAs for so many things are at around 1/3 of LTV. AppStore takes a huge cut for payments. It’s ridiculous.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@Abomination81 Why give away your alpha like this?

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@MadridPreeti I referred for over a decade. A referee can change almost any decision as long as play has not yet restarted. The mistaken identity thing you’re mentioning likely refers to removing the yellow from the players record after the game.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@farhaaan7 @Kaleabbekele7 @flahenriquebr I can raise my arms and scream "PLAY ON! ADVANTAGE!" but if as I'm doing so, the player gets tackled, injured, or whatever, we go back to the free kick. Here the ref saw a chance for advantage, started calling it, it didn't happen, so he called the freekick.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@farhaaan7 @Kaleabbekele7 @flahenriquebr I was a referee for 15yrs. It means if they've already had their advantage, they cannot then go back and claim the freekick. For example if Argentina shot or carried on the attack, then it could not be brought back. But when the attacker did nothing, advantage never materialized.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@FadeValo01 @PoliceThePolic1 He is not complying with clear, lawful orders. I don’t know why this is so hard to understand. He is actively and repeatedly resisting.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@NotMunlii @PoliceThePolic1 No, from what I defined, he commited a crime. Cops have the right to set a perimeter. You don't have the right to crouch right behind the back of an cop arresting someone. He wasn't randomly maced/arrested. He was repeatedly told to let go and move away, but refused to.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@aleksanderrawc1 @PoliceThePolic1 Nice counterargument. Was he asked to take his hand off the railing or not? Did he comply or not? Was he within feet of an active arrest or not? When then taken to the ground did he resist or not? Facts don't care about your feelings.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@1RSH4D_x @luismmolina @dnapway Most employees lack agency. They need to be told what to do.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@1RSH4D_x @luismmolina @dnapway In exchange for money?

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@readDanwrite @landondonovan @FOS They have different types of leagues/teams for different wants/needs. You signed your kid up to the most competetive team then got upset when he didn't make the cut. If you just want him to have fun with friends, put him in a rec league.

[Anonymous Billionaire @BillionAnon]

@UnchartedSphinx @explodethepa @ywomendeservles Source on the 80%. Sounds made up to me.