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Evan Solomon

@evansolomon

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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
9 years
If any Canadian journalists want a statement about @evansolomoncbc getting fired, I recommend dm'ing me w/o realizing you have the wrong guy
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9 years
Day in the life of an accidental Canadian celebrity
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8 years
@sarahkendzior the part where Trump had to be told this guy lived in the same building as him seemed quite weird
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Evan Solomon
8 years
@joshtpm all explained by Mike Tyson’s Punch Out
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Evan Solomon
8 years
18/ Hillary appears to be the first of Trump's 10+ debate opponents that figured out she shouldn't get punched in the face
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
9 years
Dear Canada, I want a TV show. One of you can make this happen.
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Evan Solomon
8 years
Nintendo stock is up ~100% in the last week. Also down about ~50% since the day iOS App Store launched. :/
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9 years
@Hooberbloob I summarized my position years ago and am available to host as many shows as Canada needs
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Evan Solomon
14 years
@evansolomoncbc I was mostly joking. Carry on. I hope whichever party can offer lower Molson Ice prices wins. Go Maple Leafs!
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9 years
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9 years
I am pretty cool, says Canada http://t.co/GMaexiXZQA
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
9 years
“Evan Solomon, eh? In which I lobby to appropriate a Canadian TV show”
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
3 years
This tweet makes an additional point that is less important but much funnier. Real names that engineers choose are indistinguishable from parody because Voldermort DB (highlighted here as one of the obvious fake buzzwords) is in fact a real database at LinkedIn.
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Coding Career
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This is brilliant: Software engineer got tired of getting rejected by automated screeners and tested a theory. Real resume: 0% success Obviously fake resume stuffed with buzzwords: 90% success rate Calls from from Notion, AirBnB, Reddit, Dropbox, Robinhood, etc
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Evan Solomon
8 years
"My strongest asset is my temperament," incoherent man yells at calm woman.
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
10 years
Paul Graham is asked if we're in a bubble, tl;dr "I'll give you two answers to this question, the first is fuck you"
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Evan Solomon
8 years
18/ Hillary appears to be the first of Trump's 10+ debate opponents that figured out she shouldn't get punched in the face
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Evan Solomon
6 years
@z_blair Cal club/SF golf club
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
13 years
My new WordPress setup with Multisite, nginx, and Batcache: http://t.co/ugkRmldJ
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
7 years
@JDiamond1 @Scaramucci Apparently this is a thing you learn from watching the west wing but not going to Harvard law school
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
9 years
Pretty exciting time for the startup nerds in San Francisco that have been life long Warriors fans for the last 3 weeks
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Evan Solomon
10 years
Announcing my new official role on Medium's legal team, Head of Litigation. This was my job application http://t.co/vNOfZy3kzC
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
10 years
Is there any data on how much time/money is wasted by people coming into work sick and getting others sick?
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
6 years
@z_blair Even made it par 72 with 36 out, 36 in
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Evan Solomon
9 years
@mdawaffe Step 2, show up in Canada and assume power as the "real" Evan Solomon
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
4 years
I have the same name as a Canadian tv politics host (👋 @EvanLSolomon ) so I get a little insight into the ridiculous dm’s and @‘s people send. Today’s message wants to know why the guy who killed someone is more heavily scrutinized than the guy who got killed.
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
8 years
If you assume that Trump only knows ~25 people that don't think he's a moron or asshole it actually explains all of his hiring choices
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Evan Solomon
8 years
Going to use my first social media mention of my dog to embarrass her with this cone of shame photo. Sorry Maple.
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Evan Solomon
10 years
@chriscoyier I think you want
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Evan Solomon
9 years
@pdavies Is it Mounties? Please tell me it's Mounties.
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
11 months
I already think about this every day
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Deva Hazarika
11 months
Quora being talked about due to Adam being on OpenAI board reminds me of this still unresolved 13yo wager between @rabois and @evansolomon about whether Quora will be the most valuable company created after 2005
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9 years
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Evan Solomon
3 years
Why do cars come with airbags and seatbelts if people still die in car accidents? (Serious answers only please)
@michelletandler
Michelle Tandler
3 years
Why is the booster being mandated if Omicron breaks through it? What is the goal here...? (Serious answers only please)
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Evan Solomon
9 years
Basically my last 24 hours
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Evan Solomon
8 years
1/ Been thinking about the debate for the last day & I think the right lens to understand it just occurred to me: Mike Tyson's Punch Out
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Evan Solomon
10 years
Reenactment of when the dinosaurs went extinct http://t.co/OFetTyw0wT
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Evan Solomon
7 years
Levels of friendship: We hang out for drinks We have spoken on the phone I’m willing to help you move I’ll rate your podcast on iTunes
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Evan Solomon
9 years
First I was "wrong Evan", then "other Evan", then "fake Evan." Now I'm a "hapless Yankee," according to Canadian TV.
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Evan Solomon
8 years
Look at Baron Trump’s face. I think he is the only one on stage that understands what just happened.
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Evan Solomon
8 years
November 2017 — President Trump breaks Thanksgiving tradition, executes a turkey in the rose garden saying we "must be very vigilant"
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
11 years
It's hard to see "Simple" and "Just a blogging platform" in software when the dashboard has a clock and the weather.
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
10 years
After 2 weeks in a coworking space I've learned that most people waste their entire day doing basically no work. America is screwed.
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Evan Solomon
10 years
Woman on Bart tapped my shoulder for me to take off my headphones. She told me I looked “like a smarty” and gave me a fist bump.
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Evan Solomon
11 years
I wrote a post on @medium on working with the growth hacker you just hired: "Be Nice To Your Growth Hacker"
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Evan Solomon
9 years
Strange use of quotes followed only by a stranger use of an apostrophe
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9 years
If I'm hired, I'd like you to be on my staff
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Evan Solomon
9 years
Counting things is hard http://t.co/WVff2evcGT
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Evan Solomon
11 years
I've never been more excited for November to end http://t.co/wbCIiWjxsQ
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Evan Solomon
8 years
3/ On the surface, Trump looks like Soda Popinski, a brooding Russian sympathizer who gets liquored up and beats the shit out of you
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Evan Solomon
9 years
"Great tweet, 125 characters" "So 15 left?" "Yes sir" "I beat Hillary" "But sir, that's unrelated" "I BEAT HILLARY!"
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
9 years
Going to Salt Lake City, Utah, for a big rally. Lyin' Ted Cruz should not be allowed to win there - Mormons don't like LIARS! I beat Hillary
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Evan Solomon
8 years
Okay San Francisco, you have a few months to rest up before it’s time to pretend you’re huge Giants fans. Enjoy the summer.
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Evan Solomon
11 years
The one true way is cheese
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Evan Solomon
6 years
@z_blair Also bandon dunes (any 2)
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Evan Solomon
7 years
Can someone very smart explain to me why sometimes Amazon is very stupid?
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8 years
@JamesFallows it’s a supply problem, Trump is choice constrained
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Evan Solomon
8 years
If you assume that Trump only knows ~25 people that don't think he's a moron or asshole it actually explains all of his hiring choices
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Evan Solomon
4 years
@EvanLSolomon Woah, I think this is our first time actually interacting! Yes, I feel about 5% Canadian, it's great. 🇨🇦
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Evan Solomon
5 years
@randallb I don't care about let and const, I don't care about tabs and spaces, I don't care about css in js, but ligatures in programming fonts are an abomination
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Evan Solomon
11 years
I made a WordPress heartbeat API plugin that implements a game of Battleship using WordPress logins
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Evan Solomon
6 years
It’s phenomenal that there’s an organization that can spend $1.6 billion and also be unable to tell if they printed a ticket with 6 numbers on it
@AP
The Associated Press
6 years
BREAKING: Numbers for $1.6 billion Mega Millions are 5, 28, 62, 65, 70 and Mega Ball 5; not immediately clear if there's a winner
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Evan Solomon
12 years
Cogitate: A simple and readable WordPress theme http://t.co/8MVWu5VF Just published my new Twenty Twelve child theme on Github.
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6 years
🌈🌁
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11 years
Was browsing too-fancy jams at the grocery store next to a guy earlier. We shamed each other into buying fancier jelly than either wanted.
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Evan Solomon
7 years
I’m worried that in all this excitement we’re accidentally going to arrest George Stephanopoulos and Greg Popovich
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Evan Solomon
9 years
@vnleblanc I disabled Twitter notifications hours ago because my phone was buzzing nonstop
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Evan Solomon
10 years
The couple sitting in front of me on caltrain is trying so hard to find a selfie angle that doesn’t get me in frame http://t.co/pdBMmCKwod
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Evan Solomon
8 years
It’s cool that Trump sends texts with bitly links so you can see how many clicks they get
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Evan Solomon
10 years
Technology breeds weird relationships http://t.co/7jFO4tw35I
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9 years
Just found this tweet of mine from about a year ago. So true. Going to start calling Canadian Evan "Drunk Evan".
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Evan Solomon
10 years
@evansolomoncbc You're like my drunken internet alter ego. You do something people hate, then everyone complains to me about it on Twitter.
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Evan Solomon
8 years
Sat at an airport lounge table with a bowl of fruit and so far 3 people have asked my permission to take a banana
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Evan Solomon
11 years
This is how I know @Medium gets me http://t.co/f7VNQGSb0n
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11 years
Real Hacker News comment: "I have worked with a few hundred programmers and I can only name 3 that where competent before 30"
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10 years
@pdavies If you line these up horizontally it looks like they're distant relatives chatting online http://t.co/sKytCrQjhb
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Evan Solomon
3 years
Who are the most reputable astrophysicists on the moon being made of cheese? Also looking for information on whether all the king’s horses and all the king’s men were not just innocent bystanders in humpty dumpty’s great fall. DM with tips.
@michelletandler
Michelle Tandler
3 years
Who are the most reputable scientists, doctors or journalists on the case against covid vaccination?
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Evan Solomon
6 years
@justinkan I have repeated this advice from you probably hundreds of times
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Evan Solomon
10 years
Complaining about recruiter emails on Twitter is the carefully-staged-selfie-on-a-beach of tech nerds
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Evan Solomon
8 years
4/ In reality, Trump is Glass Joe, the intro level opponent
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Evan Solomon
8 years
Played Chambers Bay just on the edge of a big storm yesterday
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Evan Solomon
7 years
Headlines that would sound completely insane outside of Silicon Valley
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Evan Solomon
8 years
Your software project has spiraled out of control as soon as you name something “core”, “engine” or “utils”
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Evan Solomon
3 years
@gtryan @paularambles @guan I’m framing this tweet and putting it up at Real HN Comment headquarters
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8 years
16/ That's how she hit him with the Alicia Machado story after he defended his Rosie O'Donnel comments — grunt, dodge, punch
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Evan Solomon
11 years
Just witnessed: guy exists cab, screams at driver; stumbles away, steals compost bin; trips, dumps compost on self. Great three act play.
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Evan Solomon
12 years
I made a zero-dependency Kissmetrics library in JavaScript that works in Node.js and browsers
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Evan Solomon
7 years
When I’m searching for an emoji I make the face of the emoji. I think this helps me find it faster. 😬
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Evan Solomon
8 years
Jay Z, Beyoncé, Lebron and Gaga vs Scott Baio, Ted Nugent and Duck Dynasty guy? Trump may have failed on no front as badly as celeb status.
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Evan Solomon
7 years
All across America people are praying the bitcoin price at Christmas is above the bitcoin price when they told all their relatives to buy at thanksgiving
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Evan Solomon
8 years
Sisterhoodgate, multilingual Coke commercial…Trump is gonna have an aneurism by half time
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Evan Solomon
10 years
It was pretty impressive how everyone in Silicon Valley became a car industry expert today.
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Evan Solomon
9 years
Waiting for the groupies to show up, should be any minute now
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Evan Solomon
11 years
I LOVE CHEESE
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Evan Solomon
10 years
Went outside to pickup my SpoonRocket delivery. Almost got into an Uber by accident. It's easy to see San Francisco as a parody of itself.
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Evan Solomon
8 years
@fredbenenson friend asked me about this yesterday, 100% Travis
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3 years
@helenhousandi Do whatever with your hair, get the hat back
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Evan Solomon
8 years
Apparently Jose Canseco has been trying to convince Elon Musk to extract liquid hydrogen from Jupiter to coat(?) Mars and provide energy
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Evan Solomon
8 years
Would love to see a video of someone explain to Trump how computer and network security security actually works. “The key is public?! SAD!“
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9 years
Every time I try to play a "live video" and get a form to choose my cable provider I feel like the internet just went 15 years backward
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Evan Solomon
10 years
Real Hacker News comment: "Nice article, but overuse of italics made me cut and paste into Emacs to read it."
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Evan Solomon
8 years
I don't know if this actually matters but I honestly can’t understand like 40% of Trump's incoherent word salad
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
11 years
If you enjoyed (or didn't see) my cameo in @nikolayb 's #wcsf talk today, now you can see with 100% less @nikolayb :
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Evan Solomon
8 years
When Trump shows up in these background shots he looks like a loosely tethered hot air balloon bouncing around the stage
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@evansolomon
Evan Solomon
6 years
@AustenAllred Fraud is just bad unit economics + intent + unequal outcomes.
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