Torrey Hoffman 🐀

Canadian/American in Seattle. Google SWE for 15 years, last 10 years in Geo. Working on Geometry. AWU member. He/him.

[David Smydra @smydrad]

Thinking of my former @Google colleagues today and wishing everyone the best.

If it helps, let me share a preview of the conversations you will probably have over the next few weeks, based on what my fellow ex-Tweeps and I just went through...

[Torrey Hoffman 🐀 @torreyh]

@jachristian Physical group activity: join an indoor climbing gym, CrossFit, boxing, yoga, spin, whatever interests you and has a good community feel to it.

[Torrey Hoffman 🐀 @torreyh]

@EmilyFairfax Is there a way to follow (audit?) the course remotely?

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@OdedRechavi Cut a notch on the other side of the disc and you can flip it over for twice the capacity.

[Torrey Hoffman 🐀 @torreyh]

@curious_corn @steveklabnik I work on Google Maps, on the Geometry team. Most of what I write is open sourced, and useful to many other individuals and companies. (look up S2). I suppose you could say I'm selling ads, but my job is more interesting than any of the four startups I worked at before.

[Torrey Hoffman 🐀 @torreyh]

@TerribleMaps This isn't a terrible map, it's awesome.

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@TeawithTolkien @jakeallr Me too. I grew up generic Canadian evangelical protestant / baptist but Tolkien had so much influence on my world view. Much of it indirect. I read Chesterton and other great Catholic writers because of him.

[Torrey Hoffman 🐀 @torreyh]

@Karunamon @DiracWinsAgain @Meaningness Plenty of people could be convinced that God is speaking through it and go to war on its command. Imagine a combination of the most convincing con artist, most inspiring preacher, most firebrand politician, with one-on-one discussion with millions simultaneously

[Torrey Hoffman 🐀 @torreyh]

@FreyaHolmer I hope you find something that works for you. For me, being in a community gym and working out every day with people I know is very helpful.

[The GigatonneCowboy ☢️ @GigatonneCowboy]

@thephysicsgirl

[Torrey Hoffman 🐀 @torreyh]

Not that I ever posted much, but I'm only here now to find out where people are going.
I'm @[email protected]

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@zola_ellen Today's workout was rough. Felt wiped out when I was done. But a couple hours later, I'm feeling good about it and glad I did it.

[Torrey Hoffman 🐀 @torreyh]

@protopop @runevision Really looking forward to this. I bought and tried the Android version but just can't get into it on such a small screen. I don't like having to put my fingers on the screen to control movement either, it blocks the view...

[Torrey Hoffman 🐀 @torreyh]

@delaneykingrox I've learned a lot from following you and wish I'd discovered you earlier. Polygons aside, I enjoy all of what you post. I hope you feel better soon!

[Torrey Hoffman 🐀 @torreyh]

@poiThePoi What if the robot had an AI with an apparent personality, living in the cloud, and it described its current hardware as “my current interface” and when blown up immediately was chatting with the squad like “wow good thing my brain wasn’t in there!” Separate the HW from the mind.

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

HE SEES YOU WHEN YOU'RE SLEEPING / HE KNOWS WHEN YOU'RE AWAKE / HE KNOWS IF YOU'VE BEEN BAD OR GOOD / SO KEEP IT SECRET, KEEP IT SAFE

[Torrey Hoffman 🐀 @torreyh]

@myelessar Day shall come again!

[Torrey Hoffman 🐀 @torreyh]

@myelessar

[Torrey Hoffman 🐀 @torreyh]

@delaneykingrox Installed it and searched and "No results found for Delaney King" 😕

[Torrey Hoffman 🐀 @torreyh]

@nkedel @HNTurtledove Tow the line. Baited breath. Sheesh!

;-)