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Kelly Eng

@boomereng

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product guy

Bronx, NY
Joined March 2009
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6 years
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it’s wild that $300 dollars buys you an excellent flat screen tv but a piece of shit dresser or table
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me watching the euro cup final: oh that’s the king of spain he has really good tailoring
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4 years
i’m dying
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1 year
husband hunts for startup returns while wife gathers faang RSUs
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@boomereng
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7 years
@vitorwy @obiraaijmaakers @kaitlinsm @nke_ise @xiotex it's not that this exact thing is the problem, it's that a million tiny things like this exist. and that having more poc in dev would solve
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6 years
today I downloaded an app after seeing a subway ad and I’m sending cosmic vibes to the marketer who will never be able to attribute it.
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6 years
fuck it i’m back on wired headphones. I’ll untangle them daily, I’ll clothesline a toddler, I don’t care. I just can’t worry about another fucking battery.
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2 years
@murrman5 they get his last name. insane.
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@lizziematusov POV: you just spent $300 to put 8 pieces of particle board together
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4 years
engineers be like "idk if it's possible to fix this critical piece of infrastructure...oh nvm got it lol"
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4 years
@TurnerNovak if my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle
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4 years
startup pitch: a subscription service for puzzles and legos and other things you put together, but then you send it back and get a new one
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10 months
“X added 10mm new accounts” the accounts:
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5 years
I tried superhuman and honestly it’s not worth $30/mo to me. You can just pay me $30 once and I’ll teach you got to use your gmail hotkeys and set up some filters.
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@MattZeitlin remember when they did this with sweet caroline
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5 years
why did they build an app for a job they could have done with a google sheet
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3 years
“I’m a product guy” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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5 years
@TechTinkering @juanbuis that the video game coders were all boys
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@FreddieCampion @juliaioffe she’s also George Conway’s daughter
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3 years
hey guys i’m taking a break from civil rights to focus on the stuff that really matters.... my email app
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3 years
at $10/mo, keeping a planet fitness membership so you have a guaranteed bathroom in the city isn’t a bad deal
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5 years
are millennials killing the question mark
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3 years
love to give up immutable biometric data in exchange for chuckle cheese tickets
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The former head of Y Combinator is launching a new cryptocurrency that will be distributed to every single person in the world. To get it you need to do a scan of your eyeball via @ellenhuet and @GillianTan
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a gathering where we get stoned and brainstorm B2B startup ideas
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4 years
I really hate how modern corporate culture has co-opted the word “values” to mean “business priority”. Honesty is a value “creating innovative products” isn’t a value
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2 years
@mattconvente and there’s really no consistent tier between Ikea and West Elm. you can roll the dice on wayfair but there are def some flops in there
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2 years
weird to watch america slow walk its way into widespread gambling addiction
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4 years
😱🤗😭🥰
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7 years
slack is the open office space of business tools.
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4 years
please keep writing NYC is dead stories. I have my StreetEasy alerts set up
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7 years
@chrislhayes "Kim Jong Un effectively called you a fuckboi, how would you like to respond sir?"
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5 years
Crying is ok! It’s like pooping for your heart.
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Every single woman in tech I know has cried at work. All of them.
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3 years
@kevinwebb22 @DanCrenshawTX he literally quit basketball when his dad died
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the inevitable backlash. it is what it is 👁👄👁
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7 years
@ganeumann @AdamSinger I’m a full blown atheist but I think this paints all religions with too large a brush. You can find intellectual strains in a lot of major religions, perhaps just not the loudest ones we see on TV.
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5 years
@AdamSerwer dude same thought. totally treated as expendable
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4 years
@katiewav when I moved back to NY from SF I had to spend over a g getting my clothing/shoes to just ‘not embarrassing’. was out here looking like a college kid at 30
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@zck meth and trello for me, thanks
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@jwcarroll I don’t even argue about topics I’m passionate about in group chats anymore. if my friend has a bad opinion that’s their problem not mine
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6 years
@Merman_Melville literally texted a friend last week that jack skellington could get it
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2 years
i’m going to miss these cspan shots once they elect a speaker and shut down free camera rein again
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4 years
sometimes the algo catches you in a moment of weakness and you end up making a purchase like this
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4 years
i think i need to turn off these notifs
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2 years
@adityaag i see more and more open racism on here, like the shame factor is not doing what it used to
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6 years
*waiting for stragglers to join the conference call* don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it “So... how’s the weather out there?”
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@boomereng
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4 years
and everyone lived happily ever after
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Dan Rose
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In 2008 Facebook’s user growth hit a wall at 80M and we were having serious debates about whether any social network could ever reach 100M users. 2 years later we had doubled our user base and not long after that we reached 1B users. Here’s how we did it:
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5 years
just two regular joes, grads from Harvard and RISD without a dime in their pockets
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someone should consider making a gaming headset that doesn’t make you look like an incel
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3 years
disney should do an Office-style sitcom of the people who were in charge of getting the death star built in time and its a dark comedy about the daily grind and bureaucracy the ultimate meaninglessness of it all
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@bcmerchant @TheLincoln counter culture kids can just make their own thing and find each other online rather than defining themselves broadly in opposition to the mainstream. i think this is healthier actually.
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3 years
someone I just interviewed explained their job gap saying they won a small sum in the lottery and traveled the world with the winnings. I will be using this from now on
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4 years
that signup list? we deleted it 😎
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@JeremyNguyenPhD @adamisfigurin effectively a copy of his consciousness gets to do the do-over but not his current consciousness
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5 years
is this disaster prepping, or is this stocking my pantry properly for the first time in my adult life?
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2 years
it’s my birthday 🥰
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I’m gonna start saying “nice to e-meet you” to recruiters so they think I’m older
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@ennuigo @dancow we’re not sending our best
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@AndyRichter all guns no buns
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@MZHemingway jesus christ lady
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@AdamSinger @ganeumann fun fact: Newton used it to explain why the planets didn’t go slinging out into the universe when his theories would’ve predicted that.
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@proetrie they bet too conservatively during the daily double and final jeopardy
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2 years
finally pregnant enough so people jump right into saying congrats instead of staring and deciding not to take the risk
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that’s how I saw Trigun, Bebop, Inuyasha. Spent hours and hours torrenting more over DSL. Kids these days have Crunchyroll! so spoiled!
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2 years
@gran1te_mtn @coldhealing sounds like you need to leave the octagon and see an actual subway car
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4 years
someone on staff at Twitter had to actually type this out
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@dialtone_ @KFCBarstool if everyone who said that just went and voted for her, maybe she could
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@yescynfria selection bias on the answers here. only ppl doing the right thing and keeping them separate will answer this q lol
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@ModernMachines samsung isn’t selling the ads!
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just signed a lease on a 3BR/2BA PALACE in Brooklyn for the price of a medium-crap one-bedroom in SF. totally floored by the difference in market. in-unit laundry.
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@JamilahLemieux @hellolanemoore my boyfriend was using a cooler as a nightstand when I met him. He was 33.
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3 years
@nikitabier more like number 2 app eh
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4 years
I'm headed to Hawkfish to help boot the orange man and his goons from office. Pumped for it.
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me, through tears: they’re selling dollars for 40 cents
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@lizziematusov im looking right now at a cabinet i assembled and the doors are uneven. just the pits from jump street
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@scumbelievable you're doing a lot
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4 years
if Trump gets removed and Pence becomes president for a week, Biden is gonna have to get all his “46” swag reprinted
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6 years
do you have to shout your gdpr consent to it or what
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I loooooove this. Your next Uber could have window ads optimized specifically for you:
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I don’t see how we could go back to the office before there’s a vaccine
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inspiration: I’m putting this little peach together but have no interest in keeping it once it’s complete
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7 years
It’s striking that almost all of these women have MBAs, law degrees or PhDs from prestigious universities. I wonder if the “genius dropout” trope ever materializes for women. (Not gonna hold my breath.)
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42 women in tech who crushed it in 2017
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@KylePlantEmoji reading this tweet just made me do it
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I want an episode of Plant Earth except instead of earth it’s your body and about all the weirdo bacteria that live inside you
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at what point does weed become legal enough to where, in a professional setting, it’s not a faux pas to allude to getting responsibly stoned over the weekend.
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I created a chore spreadsheet which had a column entitled "definition of done" so that we had aligned expectations on what the task was. 🙃
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Tess Rinearson
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earlier this week, an eng manager friend was telling me that he has to resist managing his partner me, at the time: "I'd never do that" me, over the weekend: *levels my boyfriend for fun*
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make that $300 to teach you - can’t become another underpaid statistic, but hey that’s ROI positive within a year!
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@alex @farnell ’s perennial startup advice is “don’t compete with a spreadsheet”
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fresh from the "how should we market to millennials" brainstorm
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@ira remember when bradley cooper was just the guy in the friend zone?
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when you have no women involved in product naming
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I feel like we’d all be better off if we always had a 3-day work week
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lil ultrasound. i’m pregnant btw 🥰
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day 5 of the design sprint
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@CLTdevelopment I’m convinced that home invasions are down because they’re just not as ROI positive as swiping a phone. who’s gonna steal a tv these days?
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@AdamSinger @ganeumann I’m not ignoring them, I just don’t think it’s fair statement to dismiss religion out of hand. Plus now many people have died in the name of “democracy”? Conquerors gonna conquer.
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First language: gift giving Had difficulties: words of affirmation Most used: quality time Totally hate: n/a Most loved: acts of service Beginners: physical touch
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i think this rules and I hope it gets built
@designboom
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hayri atak proposes the striking, sinuous 'sarcostyle tower' for the new york skyline
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@CaseyNewton we’re gonna try a new thing called “not giving a shit about any societal values and focus solely on making money.” this is a bold new idea.
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