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theotherone··on Show HN: What would Paul Graham do?
What's it built with?
theotherone··on Ask HN: very qualified but can't find a decent job. What do I do wrong?
That description sounds like exactly who Twitter would want to hire. Knowing Scala beforehand isn't a requirement; I certainly didn't. It's possible that by sending the resume only to a specific engineering manager, it got lost in the shuffle. Have you tried following up, and/or contacting recruiting?
theotherone··on Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database
Elaborate?
theotherone··on I did the scariest thing I can imagine: I resigned
Github has remote employees.
theotherone··on Filepicker.io (YC S12) lets content flow without worrying about bandwidth
You can run their scripts in an iframe, e.g.:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-08-13-tarsnap-credit-ca...

theotherone··on Ten million users is the new one million users
There's no way they have 1MM DAU. People play that once and then leave.
theotherone··on How to be a growth hacker
We've historically had waaay more engineers than marketers on twitter's growth team. We look at growth less as marketing and more about optimizing (through ux, design, experiment, machine-learning, analytics, etc) all of our possible distribution channels with respect to a set of core metrics.

We lean towards teaching good generalist programmers how to do "growth," which actually doesn't feel much like marketing in day-to-day practice.

theotherone··on How to be a growth hacker
If this is something you'd like to do for twitter, and you have javascript, rails, and/or java/scala chops, or you're just a damn good generalist engineer who can pick up anything, send me an email at lzmfAuxjuufs/dpn.