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First Time Hackathoner Wins TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2015 With Witness
Just over a year ago, Marinos Bernitsas was cutting C++ code for algorithmic trading systems at a high frequency trading fund in New York City. Having spent a career in finance and amassing a wealth of...
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7 tips for throwing an awesome (conference) hacker event:
In two weeks Twilio will be hosting the Signal conference and thus the evening event that shall be hence known as “a welcoming assault on my senses that I wish had never ended” or “$bash” for short....
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Twilio Signal Day One Recap: Ushering In The Developer Era, and The Tools You...
Preparing For Signal, and Lessons From The LEGO Movie This morning, I arrived at Fort Mason early. Prepped my SD cards, blog posts, double checked the launch schedule for our product announcements. I...
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$bash Recap: Coney Island For Coders at #SignalConf
$bash got started with a bark. Dressed in full carnival barker / ring leader regalia, Rob Spectre ushered in hundreds of Signal attendees into the carnival for coders. Some hit the cotton candy stand,...
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Twilio Signal Day Two Recap: Breaking Down $bash, Bringing On The Builders...
The morning of the second day of Signal, attendees were left wondering what they did with their carnival hats, and if the Coney Island for coders they experienced the night before was all just a fever...
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Save The Hacker Hackathon Produces Emergency Blood Donation Coordination via SMS
Mediocrity looms large. If you’re not careful, you can make coding less of a creative endeavor and more of a chore. One hackathon set out to fight mediocrity and stagnation head on – Save The Hacker. A...
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Hackpacks Shine at Signal
A few weeks ago we welcomed the Twilio community to Fort Mason Festival Pavilion for Signal. One of our favorite parts of the show was watching what developers built with the swag we provided. As part...
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SIGNAL came and went, but the videos last forever. The inaugural SIGNAL conference started with a bang. Jeff Lawson announced a slew of new products to give developers the tools they need to continue...
View ArticleScaling For The White House: Wedgies Powers The State of The Union Polling
There’s an old saying “Opportunity knocks but once.” Nowadays, opportunity ditched the whole knocking thing and prefers to send emails via a contact form field on your website. At least, that was the...
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