What are Bloom filters?
A tale of code, dinner, and a favour with unexpected consequences.
Genesis
“So how do you know whether someone’s read a post already?” asks Sarah, Medium’s legal counsel. We’re at dinner…
*Medium has since updated their branding. The latest guidelines are here.
Ever since Medium first launched in beta three years ago, we have sported a logo that is a big, bold, black-and-white slab-serif M, from the font Stag.
Twelve years ago, I was heading Blogger at Google and frustrated we kept losing users to our competitors, like Movable Type from Six Apart. A common phenomenon at the time was that people would start blogging on Blogger — because it was free, popular, and easy to set up —…
We are pleased to announce that Medium recently raised $57 million in capital. The round was led by new partner Andreessen Horowitz with significant participation from Google Ventures and Greylock Partners, who also led our Series A. We are also fortunate to count Obvious Ventures…
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