Elliott Hauser

UT Austin iSchool & CEO @trinketapp. Move slow and fix things.

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

Taking a little twitter break. If you need me I'm sure you can find me.
Remember me thus:

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

Free #startup idea:
Facial recognition for white supremacy rallies. Sell me names, addresses and employers so I can name, shame and boycott

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

"One wonders sometimes if science will not grind to a stop in an assemblage of walled-in hermits, each mumbling to himself" - Boulding, 1956

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

As so often happens, @zeynep said it better so I don't have to try. Thread.
https://t.co/lVVrjHcxqb

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

Look, tech problem isn't just discrimination against women+minorities. It's hostility to ESSENTIAL skills that/because many engineers lack.

[Rhett Allain @rjallain]

My new rule for physics classes - you can use python instead of a calculator. Even use your phone https://t.co/8P8Qad2xvf

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

PSA: `git push` w/o a default branch set sends your test branches to github for all to see and ridicule.
May you learn from my mistakes.

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

I appreciate your concern abt my items' status, Craiglist people, but what I really want is someone who wants to actually buy my stuff...

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

Free #startup idea:
Craiglist clone that automatically filters out any response with the words "Still available?" in it.

[NASA @NASA]

Send a message to the farthest man-made object in space: @NASAVoyager! Submit #MessageToVoyager by Aug 15. Details: https://t.co/uvZ3Ssssmq

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

@liza Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson. An exhaustive history of the Von Neumann architecture and the various alternatives that lost out. 2012

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

@ben_nuttall Genius.
And +5000 style points for the boss blog post.

[Ben Nuttall @ben_nuttall]

piwheels: building a faster Python package repository for Raspberry Pi users https://t.co/vAzawgM9dp

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

@nixcraft @musicandwords I'd add Gallium OS (Xubuntu based) for chrome OS users. With https://t.co/BkABAxkqTN it's ~15 mins to dual boot heaven.

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

Or try the recursive version:

NERDS is an
Encryption
Rights
Defense
Society

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

Free #nonprofit idea:

National
Encryption
Rights
Defense
Society

NERDS unite!

[Mark Agee @MarkAgee]

Sorry I was led to believe that trans people were so skilled in combat that I should fear being alone in a bathroom with them

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

@lpolovets Basically I agree that a good CEO should have a good hypothetical answer bt a resistance to diverting focus is a great instinct as well /end

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

@lpolovets Seeing how a CEO would navigate a problem is valuable but so is the focus to say "not this year's problem". 2/

[Elliott Hauser @hauspoor]

@lpolovets How does the answer affect your investment decision? Market and co will probably evolve in unpredictable ways, so could be moot. 1/