Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

One is reminded of Nick Leeson.

One things must be said: the root cause of all of this is the replication crisis.

This is why he managed to go on for so long.

People felt it was normal to have to try for one or two years to replicate a paper.

Turkish Islamic sect.

Ciro Santilli once was at student a hackthon, where he proposed working on OurBigBook.com to others.

The only person who showed interest was a follower of the sect.

It seems that they put a lot of emphasis in education.

Also, their self-name is Hizmet, which translates as "service".

That day, Mr. Fethullah Gülen gained some Cirocoins.

Hardcoded and unique network addresses for every single device on Earth.

Started with 48 bits (6 bytes), usually given as 01:23:45:67:89:AB but people now encouraged to use 64-bit ones.

How they are assigned: www.quora.com/How-are-MAC-addresses-assigned Basically IEEE gives out the 3 first bytes to device manufacturers that register, this is called the organizationally unique identifier, and then each manufacturer keeps their own devices unique.

One of the least evil of the big tech companies of the early 21st century, partly because Sergey Brin's parents fled from the Soviet Union and so he is anti censorship, although they have been tempted by it.

Google only succeeds at highly algorithmic tasks or at giving infinite storage to users to then mine their data.

It is incapable however of adding any obvious useful end user features to most of its products, most of which get terminated and cannot be relied on:

This also seems to extend to business-to-business: twitter.com/MohapatraHemant/status/1343969802080030720 ex-Googler tells how they lost the cloud to Amazon.

More mentions of that:

Too many genius engineers. They need some dumber people like Ciro Santilli who need to write documentation to learn stuff.

Ciro Santilli actually attempted two interviews to work at Google in the early 2010's but very quickly failed both on the first phase, because you have to be a fast well trained coding machine to pass that interview.

Ciro later felt better about himself by fantasizing how he would actually do more important things outside of Google and that they would beg to buy him instead.

He was also happy that he wouldn't have to use Google crazy internal tools: someone once said that Google's tools make easy tasks middle hard, and they also make impossible tasks middle hard. TODO source.

But whatever the case: Ciro will not, ever, spend his time drilling programmer competition problems to join a company.

www.wired.com/story/google-shakes-up-its-tgif-and-ends-its-culture-of-openness/ "GOOGLE TGIF 1999 video". TGIF is the weekly all hands meeting abolished in 2019: www.wired.com/story/google-shakes-up-its-tgif-and-ends-its-culture-of-openness/

Magazine of the Institute of Physics.

Haven't found the one yet:

Optional but really ideal:

The state of messaging is ridiculous as of 2020.

Internet Relay Chat vs XMPP: stackoverflow.com/questions/4149380/whats-the-best-open-protocol-for-chat-room-software