...what we did at Snap was just wait for 8-24 hours before acting on a signal, so as not to provide an oracle to attackers. Much harder to figure out what you did that caused the system to eventually block your account if it doesn't happen in real-time.

(Snap's binary attestation is at least a decade ahead of this, fwiw)

This broken safety culture has been around since the beginning of the Shuttle program.

In 1980, Gregg Easterbrook published "Goodbye, Columbia" in The Washington Monthly [1], warning that NASA's "success-oriented planning" and political pressure were creating the conditions for catastrophe. He essentially predicted Columbia's heat shield failures in the article 1 year before the first flight.

Challenger in 1986, and the Rogers Commission identified hierarchy, communication failures, and management overriding engineering judgment.

Then Columbia happened in 2003. The CAIB found NASA had not implemented the 1986 recommendations [2].

Now Charles Camarda (who flew the first shuttle mission after Columbia and is literally a heat shield expert!) is saying it's happening again.

[1] https://www.iasa-intl.com/folders/shuttle/GoodbyeColumbia.ht...

[2] Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report, Chapter 8: https://www.nasa.gov/columbia/caib/html/start.html

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i don't have time to open source it, but it's low key revolutionary having a pretty smart AI looking at my life every day and helping me track the three most important things to do.

Sitch is a new type of concierge dating app. We're using AI + Humans to ask you questions, get to know you, then help you find love.

We're an AI powered concierge matchmaker for serious daters. Sitch is live in 5 cities and expanding nationally in 2026.

We're philosophically opposed to the dopamine-fueled mini-game doomswiping of 'traditional' dating apps which cynically monetizes desperation. We're monetizing intent!

* We're top-tier VC funded (a16z Speedrun, M13, early Snap angels) * Looking for a PM who loves building for consumers, loves relationships, is a bit unusual, and is obsessed with building unique experiences only made possible with the new era of LLMs

* 2-3 days/week in person, in Manhattan near Union Square

Site is at https://joinsitch.com, and feel free to send me (Chad) and Dini (co-founder) a note at hi@unusual.inc

https://www.amny.com/lifestyle/new-york-city-ranks-2nd-in-a-...

One of our metrics is how little time you spend in the app. We're explicitly opposed to the dopamine-fueled mini-game doomswiping of 'traditional' dating apps which cynically monetizes desperation. We're monetizing intent!

* We're top-tier VC funded, small team of 2 cofounders (Snapchat, Bumble), a CTO from Snap/Clubhouse, and 3 engineers, based in NYC.

* Stack is Django, OpenAI, Flutter, Rust

* Looking for a Mid-level Engineer who is an all-arounder. Backend more important than front-end code, but if can also work on client code (or want to learn) that would be ideal.

* 1-2 days/week in person, in Brooklyn, and the rest remote. We strongly prefer NYC area candidates.

See our "corporate" site at https://unusual.inc, and our app site at https://joinsitch.com, and feel free to send me a note at chad@unusual.inc

[0] https://www.northwell.edu/katz-institute-for-womens-health/a...

Sitch is a new type of concierge dating app. We're using AI + Humans to ask you questions, get to know you, then help you find love. We're a concierge matchmaker but we don't call ourselves that and we don't charge the obscene prices that matchmakers charge.

One of our metrics is how little time you spend in the app. We're explicitly opposed to the dopamine-fueled mini-game doomswiping of 'traditional' dating apps which cynically monetizes desperation.

* We're top-tier VC funded, small team of 2 cofounders (Snapchat, Bumble) and 3 engineers, based in NYC.

* Stack is Django, OpenAI, Flutter, Rust for Chat infrastructure.

* Looking for a Sr. Eng who is an all-arounder and wants to eventually manage. Backend more important than front-end code, but if can also work on client code (or want to learn) that would be ideal.

* 2 days/week in person, in Brooklyn, and the rest remote. We strongly prefer NYC area candidates.

See our "corporate" (hah!) site at https://unusual.inc, and our app site at https://joinsitch.com, and feel free to send me a note at chad@unusual.inc

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But it was incredibly unreliable at scale, and my colleague and I spent a week of sleepless nights under incredible personal and business pressure - as the servers got busier and busier - ripping it out.

Still love vector clocks, though, and have fond memories of the Basho team presenting at Erlang Factory

Sitch is a new type of concierge dating app. We're using AI + Humans to ask you questions, get to know you, then help you find love. We're a concierge matchmaker but we don't call ourselves that and we don't charge the obscene prices that matchmakers charge.

One of our metrics is how little time you spend in the app. We're explicitly opposed to the dopamine-fueled mini-game doomswiping of 'traditional' dating apps which cynically monetizes desperation.

* We're top-tier VC funded, small team of 2 cofounders (Snap, Bumble) and 3 engineers, based in NYC.

* Stack is Django, OpenAI, Flutter.

* Looking more for a backend engineer but if you're an all-arounder and can also work on client code (or want to learn) that would be ideal.

* 2 days/week in person, in Brooklyn, and the rest remote is our ideal working environment, so we're strongly preferring the NYC area.

See our "corporate" (hah!) site at https://unusual.inc, and our app site at https://joinsitch.com, and feel free to send me a note at chad@unusual.inc