Evan Weaver

Engineer/Founder/Investor

[Evan Weaver @evan]

Put the Fauna blog's greatest hits back online: https://t.co/6dfxfGSzG7

[Evan Weaver @evan]

@natfriedman Test for PFAS too, especially in dairy products

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@martin_casado Singularity true believers and opportunists discovered they could get more attention by preaching doom instead of salvation; it’s motivated reasoning from beginning to end, just like ID

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RIP Larry the Bird. You deserved better

[Evan Weaver @evan]

In my opinion the key to restarting growth is new product lines. Focus on efficiency in the old thing and invest speculatively in new, adjacent things. Meta did this well. For whatever reason Twitter never had the resolve to see things like Periscope and Vine through.

[Evan Weaver @evan]

People expect Twitter to revert to the fail whale days, but the problems then were scaling problems: challenging but benign with clear success conditions. Twitter isn't growing anymore and the problems now are all adversarial: spam, hackers, trolls, competition, regulatory.

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I know the team understands this. Unclear if the new management does.

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@blaine @rk @bs @biz @greenberg @goldman It looks like it was sometimes used for the maintenance page prior.

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@altryne @rk @bs @biz @greenberg @goldman It's not in the codebase anymore; somebody would have to deliberately add it back.

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@rk @bs @biz @greenberg @goldman It doesn't matter because whale is eternal but we didn't have the whale until 2008. Prior to that, sometimes the computer maintenance kitten would make an appearance for "retroactively scheduled" downtime.

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@goldman Nothing personal, @jeremy and I ignored everyone and we were right to do so.

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@rk @bs @biz @greenberg @goldman This was the first week I joined, after various delays and uncertainty as to whether the job was real. I'm sorry you didn't get the t-shirt @rk.

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@rk @bs @biz @greenberg @goldman Before I added the Apache timeout change and the whale, the site had no timeouts and your browser would just show a white page after 5 minutes of waiting.

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@goldman Oh yeah I think you're right, not a ban really just not posted to the public timeline, which quickly became a statistical sample anyway instead of all tweets

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@goldman If I remember the "algorithm" was not substantially more complex than "if tweet.include?('neko')"

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@goldman The neko cats!

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@matasar @hoverbird @goldman Maybe everybody else will log off and it will be just us again, like the old times. And @aplusk or whatever

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@ArielWeisberg https://t.co/lfJjLchrNw

[Evan Weaver @evan]

I'm stepping back from my CTO role at Fauna: https://t.co/Zeiorz04v4