rileymat

I think you are missing the point.

He does not deny that there are people on the tail of the normal curve. But his point would be that there are more people that started at 12 and programmed a couple of hours on the weekend v. 4 hours a day. And there are still more than that that started at 15. This creates a normal curve, not a bimodal.

I think you should reread the article. It was mostly tackled the distribution of programming skill.

And we know the work they were doing will not be filled by anyone else.

bisect.

My biggest problems with C++ (one of my favorite languages) 1. ABI issues. 2. Template Error messages. 3. Templates need be defined in header files (generally). 4. Object Slicing. 5. Cross platform Unicode/ASCII string encoding.

I understand the reasons behind these, none the less they are really annoying.

Why is it so hard for twitter to implement some optional filter for this stuff?

You have a complete history of a users tweets and a record of how long the person has been active, number of followers, textual analysis of the tweets, block/mute status with respect to other people, whether you follow ect. It seems like it should be really easy for twitter to put messages into a spam/harassment folder, never to be seen by the target.

Thanks, the link I was clicking went straight to the Github repo. Did not see the article.

Can someone explain the magic sauce that makes this work?