belril
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Technology analyst. Caretaker of two air plants. Occasionally awesome.
my public key: https://keybase.io/belril; my proof: https://keybase.io/belril/sigs/uFQB-6Aa-5cYMV5k4jQ7CUEe39-8MLz0wjfPrSFtCUI
To take this a step further, P&T's reveals often highlight and celebrate the complexity of pulling off a given trick. Sure, you understand how the cups and balls can be done after watching them do it, but good luck…
As someone who once competed with him for stories: Cade is a very strong writer with a robust pedigree who really gets the current state of play in ML, and has the chops to write about it for a general audience. At his…
Peyton Street Pens is a CA-based retailer who sells Ranga pens in the US: https://www.peytonstreetpens.com/pens/ranga/ If you’re looking for instant gratification from one of the vendors from the article, there you go.…
As a fellow ex-Ingresser, I think there are some truly fascinating stories that will eventually be lost about all the effort that has gone into that game globally. I’ve seen heroic feats of software engineering,…
First off: Diagnosis and medication access is one thing, but maintenance is another key — find a psychiatrist or physician who you get on with well and can work with for a good long while. Other tips: * Use hyper-focus…
> I learned a fair bit, but I also learned that in the college team project atmosphere, folks are gonna get carried and you’ll be graded on the total possible output of four people. I think this is basically in keeping…
There's a third option that you're not considering: these companies receive significant scrutiny from the press because of their size and power, especially as it relates to our daily lives. That scrutiny leads to the…
Ex-journo perspective: One of the reasons why you'll see a flood of negative news about a company is that once one well-reported piece comes out about potential wrongdoing, more reporters will take a look at a…
Happy to add clarity where I can -- it is my job, after all. Suspicion and skepticism are healthy, and I totally hear the criticism that the piece feels marketing copy-esque. For what it's worth, the Evernote team seems…
Here's Evernote's explanation of its investigation into user data protection re: GCP. https://blog.evernote.com/tech/2017/02/08/part-2-protecting-...
All attachments added to Evernote are now stored redundantly in Google Cloud Storage, which is designed to do just that.
To the best of my knowledge, all of Evernote's data transfer was done over a network, not using an undisclosed AWS Snowball-like service. -Author of the piece first linked here.
Hi! Author here. (Nice to meet you.) I can tell you that Evernote, not Google, pitched this story to me. While the Google Cloud PR team was aware of its existence, they did not contact or attempt to influence me when it…