Hacker News: kingryan

New comment by kingryan in "Show HN: Search Engine for Blogs"

kingryan — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:36:50 +0000

yeah, reminds me of working at technorati in 2005

New comment by kingryan in "Ask HN: What can I do to accelerate scientific research?"

kingryan — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 02:58:57 +0000

You mention meta.org, you know you could work with us on it https://chanzuckerberg.com/join-us/openings/?team=engineerin... (search "meta" on that page)

New comment by kingryan in "The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale"

kingryan — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 17:53:31 +0000

As of several years ago the putlic http endpoints would easily do 1M/sec at peak times. Not just api, but web, images, et al.

New comment by kingryan in "Bay Area Startups Find Low-Cost Outposts in Arizona"

kingryan — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 04:45:04 +0000

In California you can get a DL without proof of legal residency.

New comment by kingryan in "Bolt: Anonymous Payment Channels for Decentralized Currencies"

kingryan — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 22:48:23 +0000

Nope. (I work there).

New comment by kingryan in "GitHub Outage"

kingryan — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 00:43:35 +0000

But no one can do anything to generate new webhooks.

New comment by kingryan in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2015)"

kingryan — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:16:43 +0000

Bolt (bolt.com) - San Francisco, CA- https://bolt.com/jobs

Bolt is radically simplifying online commerce in a way the world has never seen before. We combine top technology with a very careful and unique approach to processing online transactions. We are an elite, engineer-first team with lead players out of Facebook, Twitter, Google, Apple, PayPal, and CyberSource adding a few core members to our team. In the middle of our process, we do a product/tech deep dive at which point we promise there’s no going back. :)

A bit about Bolt’s culture:

- We care about output, not input or “busyness"

- We value our time immensely.

- We prioritize respectful directness

- We think Silicon Valley startups are built for failure, and are doing things radically differently

- We don’t care about PR or any startup vanity

If you want to join a team of seasoned professionals that prioritize productivity, alignment of vision and unyielding commitment to quality, then email me directly: rk@bolt.com.

New comment by kingryan in "Twitter announces layoffs"

kingryan — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:39:54 +0000

... and pay taxes

New comment by kingryan in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015)"

kingryan — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 22:32:19 +0000

Bolt - San Francisco, CA - https://bolt.com/

Bolt is a new payment platform that radically simplifies the exchange of money; it’s a reimagined money moving engine to solve the largest unsolved problems in payments.

We are an elite team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple adding a few core members to our team.

If you want to join a team of seasoned professionals that prioritize productivity, alignment of vision and unyielding commitment to quality, then email me directly: rk@bolt.com.

We’re only replying to serious applicants with 5+ years of high production experience.

New comment by kingryan in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)"

kingryan — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 21:33:59 +0000

Bolt | San Francisco, CA | Platform, DevOps, Security and Infrastructure Engineers | Full Time | Onsite

https://bolt.com/jobs

Bolt is a team of elite engineers from Stanford, MIT, Facebook, Twitter, Square, and other top companies. We are passionate about technology, finance, and the future of payments. As we explore the bleeding-edge in payments and fintech, we're looking for teammates who are ready to join a top team and take charge of large responsibilities as we sail deep into uncharted waters.

New comment by kingryan in "Keywhiz: Square's system for distributing and managing secrets"

kingryan — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:01:53 +0000

Though the sneaker page makes it very clear that its not ready for production use.

New comment by kingryan in "Twitter Cuts Off Employee Access to Its Metrics"

kingryan — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:18:28 +0000

If you're classified as an "insider" then you can't even trade in the trading windows without a 10b5-1 plan.

So at TWTR (I'm a former employee) knowing things like the MAU would probably make you an insider, which means you can only sell on a plan.

Not knowing the MAU is a blessing in this case.

New comment by kingryan in "The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users"

kingryan — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 23:59:17 +0000

Right, because no matter how much RAM you put in a machine, access is always the same speed.

New comment by kingryan in "The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users"

kingryan — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 23:57:49 +0000

The messages are not repeated in fanout, just the ids. I guess you would know that if you actually the links.

New comment by kingryan in "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2010 Edition)"

kingryan — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:19:58 +0000

San Francsico, though remote work is plausible.

Twitter is looking for all sorts of good engineers. The up to date list is always at http://twitter.com/positions.html.

New comment by kingryan in "Ask HN: How much a 'Promoted Tweet' costs on Twitter?"

kingryan — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 05:21:15 +0000

yes

New comment by kingryan in "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2010 Edition)"

kingryan — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 05:44:34 +0000

San Francisco: Twitter is hiring like crazy.

We're working on about a million interesting problems at scale, with resources and the ability to open source almost everything. We also have a good deal of fun. twitter.com/jobs or ryan@twitter.com

New comment by kingryan in "Twitter Announces "Snowflake" for Unique Tweet IDs"

kingryan — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:30:29 +0000

Version 1 UUIDs require 128 bits.

New comment by kingryan in "Twitter Announces "Snowflake" for Unique Tweet IDs"

kingryan — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:27:51 +0000

Except in email everyone has a separate mailbox. On twitter everyone's mailbox overlaps and there are an infinite number of possible public views of the tweets (searches, lists, etc.)

New comment by kingryan in "Twitter Announces "Snowflake" for Unique Tweet IDs"

kingryan — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:25:45 +0000

NTP seems to work fairly well for this. It takes into account network latencies and attenuates over time.