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@umatweep

Grand aunt (#athaiPaatti) former @twitter #TwitterVMTeam, @intel, @HP, @UWMadison, @iitmadras, #kolkata

Joined August 2016
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It's HAPPINESS! It's Happening!! Today is my last day @Twitter and....of my 35+ year long career!
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Hmmm....did I inadvertently inspire someone???
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Just keep asking the same question because they don’t know the answer and they have no experience with being challenged: @igb now a TikTok audio.
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@igb thank you for your service 🫡 – at San Francisco, CA
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Timely and profound discussion of ecstasy, suffering, and Eastern metaphysics as they relate to work and organizations. Pain is inevitable; suffering is not. If we had more talks like this perhaps we could reduce the suffering in our communities. Thank you @_svs_! @rubyconfth
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💔 Chris was our keynote speaker at the first @graalcgo workshop. In fact he set up this site: graalworkshop.github.io/ for us. His enthusiasm & energy was infectious. His presence in the compiler community will be greatly missed. Deepest condolences to friends & family. 🙏
mike dalessio (@flavorjones) profile picturemike dalessio@flavorjones7 Dec 2022
I'm heartbroken to share this news about our dear friend and colleague, @ChrisGSeaton.
Screenshot of a message from Shopify's Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team that includes: Our dear friend and colleague Chris Seaton passed away last Saturday, December 3rd. Chris was an important part of our team at Shopify, and a notable figure in the Ruby community, and we are deeply saddened by our collective loss. Chris accomplished much in his life. He completed a Ph.D., rose to be Squadron Leader in the British Army Reserve, and started a young family. Chris began the TruffleRuby project in 2013 as an intern at Oracle Labs and stewarded it into a full-fledged Ruby implementation. Chris advanced the state of the art in dynamic language optimization, co-authoring 16 publications, contributing to countless others, and establishing both the Ruby Bibliography archive of Ruby research publications and the Ruby Compiler Survey. For his efforts, he was a Ruby Prize finalist in 2016. Chris’s papers, essays, and code contributions are currently archived at chrisseaton.com.

ALT Screenshot of a message from Shopify's Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team that includes: Our dear friend and colleague Chris Seaton passed away last Saturday, December 3rd. Chris was an important part of our team at Shopify, and a notable figure in the Ruby community, and we are deeply saddened by our collective loss. Chris accomplished much in his life. He completed a Ph.D., rose to be Squadron Leader in the British Army Reserve, and started a young family. Chris began the TruffleRuby project in 2013 as an intern at Oracle Labs and stewarded it into a full-fledged Ruby implementation. Chris advanced the state of the art in dynamic language optimization, co-authoring 16 publications, contributing to countless others, and establishing both the Ruby Bibliography archive of Ruby research publications and the Ruby Compiler Survey. For his efforts, he was a Ruby Prize finalist in 2016. Chris’s papers, essays, and code contributions are currently archived at chrisseaton.com.

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fwiw it's about a 30 minute BART ride from SFO to Civic Center Station
kate conger (@kateconger) profile picturekate conger@kateconger18 Nov 2022
Replying to @kateconger
In a follow up email, Musk encouraged people to fly to SF for this.
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btw I think timeline ranking is broken 🤷‍♂️
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It's time for a thread on why Twitter hasn't gone down yet 🧵
Mocking Spongebob meme If all these people were important, why hasn't Twitter gone down?

ALT Mocking Spongebob meme If all these people were important, why hasn't Twitter gone down?

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Still true....
uma (@umatweep) profile pictureuma@umatweep15 Nov 2022
Only 1 hard-headed core engineer left behind at twitter....
RIP #TwitterVMTeam – at San Francisco, CA
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I learned a hell of a lot working with John. A great engineer and an even greater human being. #TwitterVMTeam – at San Francisco, CA
John Coomes (@john_coomes) profile pictureJohn Coomes@john_coomes18 Nov 2022
After almost 8 years, I'm out. Loved the people, the culture, and (most of) the work. Cheers to all who made it so much fun.
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This is @profgalloway at his best. Straightforward, fearless candor splashed with industry, tech and life wisdom. Highly recommend, he nails it in two minutes.
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One of the things that I think is sad about the decimation of Twitter eng is that Twitter was doing a lot of interesting (and high ROI) engineering work that, at younger companies, is mostly outsourced to "the cloud" or open source projects A few examples off the top of my head:
Dan Luu (@danluu) profile pictureDan Luu@danluu29 Sep 2021
The value of in-house expertise danluu.com/in-house/
An alternate title for this post might be, "Twitter has a kernel team!?". At this point, I've heard that surprised exclamation enough that I've lost count of the number times that's been said to me (I'd guess that it's more than ten but less than a hundred). If we look at trendy companies that are within a couple factors of two in size of Twitter (in terms of either market cap or number of engineers), they mostly don't have similar expertise, often as a result of path dependence — because they "grew up" in the cloud, they didn't need kernel expertise to keep the lights on the way an on prem company does. While that makes it socially understandable that people who've spent their career at younger, trendier, companies, are surprised by Twitter having a kernel team, I don't think there's a technical reason for the surprise. Whether or not it has kernel expertise, a company Twitter's size is going to regularly run into kernel issues, from major production incidents to papercuts. Withou...

ALT An alternate title for this post might be, "Twitter has a kernel team!?". At this point, I've heard that surprised exclamation enough that I've lost count of the number times that's been said to me (I'd guess that it's more than ten but less than a hundred). If we look at trendy companies that are within a couple factors of two in size of Twitter (in terms of either market cap or number of engineers), they mostly don't have similar expertise, often as a result of path dependence — because they "grew up" in the cloud, they didn't need kernel expertise to keep the lights on the way an on prem company does. While that makes it socially understandable that people who've spent their career at younger, trendier, companies, are surprised by Twitter having a kernel team, I don't think there's a technical reason for the surprise. Whether or not it has kernel expertise, a company Twitter's size is going to regularly run into kernel issues, from major production incidents to papercuts. Withou...

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The teams to build Twitter 2.0 are already forming. Just not inside Twitter.
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