You're right, I stand corrected
The article is misrepresenting the situation. Jack Dorsey isn't attempting to sell anything here. The site allows anybody to make an offer, unsolicited, on a tweet of their choosing. Jack can choose to accept the offer…
I've been playing around with a Nest Hub Max, and with that you can pause/play a video by holding your hand like a stop sign in front of it. Kind of gimmicky, but occasionally useful. Was also curious about your use…
If we're talking about 1980s Japan, all of the talk about trade war could be a greater risk to Chinese stability. As with Japan back then, China's growth has been breathtaking, but it's also awash with bad debt from a…
Correct, but that was just the cost to develop the core booster of the Falcon Heavy. That doesn't include the original costs to develop the Falcon 9 and all of its subsequent variants, nor the cost to develop the…
Worth pointing out however that the Saturn V cost roughly $1.2B per launch, compared to $90M for the Falcon Heavy. So it was roughly 6x more expensive per kg to LEO. Not to mention it required a nation state to fund its…
The Chinese government's R&D initiatives are what's making the difference here. They've further laid out specific goals for particular technologies such as automated vehicles, drones, medical diagnosis, and machine…
Since that article, Kadowaki's actually now listed as a 2-star Michelin restaurant. Don't know what's happened since then, but I remember the name because it's the only Michelin restaurant I've ever dined in. Small…
China undoubtedly faces many challenges, as you fairly point out. However, there's a long history in China that determines the thinking of both the government and its people. That view is that a strong centre leads to a…
Stuxnet
This has also been making the rounds, Deep Photo Style Transfer: https://github.com/luanfujun/deep-photo-styletransfer
Sounds like you've already tried plenty of productivity apps, but in case you haven't tried it, I've found Todoist quite good. The "Apple-ification" as you put it is done pretty well. In place of drag + drop to set a…
Not sure why there was such a knee-jerk reaction, but it's actually fairly straight forward and not scammy at all. You're performing two trades, using a money market ETF that trades at the currency exchange rate, and…
If you have a need to transfer large amounts of USD-to-CAD or vice versa, have a look into Norbert's Gambit. It'll effectively let you perform the transfer for 0.2%. Probably not worthwhile for small amounts, but if…
With multiple stations between SF and LA, this could be mitigated with an emergency system that pulls the train off at the next stop. Similar to how some buses or trains have emergency stop systems, except instead of…
The mentions of his security concerns reminded me of this: http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/06/14/you-cant-get-there-fr... "As a thought experiment, imagine that Osama bin Laden was still alive and that he used the Tor…
As others have noted, this capability was intentionally removed. From http://redis.io/topics/virtual-memory "Redis VM is now deprecated. Redis 2.4 will be the latest Redis version featuring Virtual Memory (but it also…
I'm inspired by this man's dreams and the way he's striving for it, even though the end goal is decades off. Musk makes no secret of the end goal: Create a new civilization on Mars. Speaking at the National Press Club…
While I agree with some of your sentiments about the author, it feels like you're doing a bit of the same by claiming that everybody who wants to change the world are doing so only because they're projecting. I say so…
As someone planning to build some iOS games as a side project, I really appreciate this info. Some questions for you: Have you considered offering your game for free for a limited time to get your game out there, so it…
Based on monetary losses alone, the Yukos incident of some years back overshadows this by orders of magnitude, with claims that $98 billion was lost in the liquidation of company assets according to:…
Checked out the video, and it seems like a well designed app serving a niche audience. If you find some success with it, might I suggest skinning the app to serve other niches that share similar needs? I can think of a…
For those that want a free service and don't mind ads, there's also http://hotspotshield.com and http://expatshield.com which will let you access US and UK services respectively. The UK one doesn't support OSX, so I run…
> While the VM backend helped, we found that it still wouldn't stay within the bounds we set, and would continually grow no matter what we set. We did report the issue but never came to a good solution in time. For…
When you said that they decided to hire you, was that something they told you right after the interview? If so, I think it would've been prudent to follow up with both the CTO and the recruiter after a week or two had…
You're right, I stand corrected
The article is misrepresenting the situation. Jack Dorsey isn't attempting to sell anything here. The site allows anybody to make an offer, unsolicited, on a tweet of their choosing. Jack can choose to accept the offer…
I've been playing around with a Nest Hub Max, and with that you can pause/play a video by holding your hand like a stop sign in front of it. Kind of gimmicky, but occasionally useful. Was also curious about your use…
If we're talking about 1980s Japan, all of the talk about trade war could be a greater risk to Chinese stability. As with Japan back then, China's growth has been breathtaking, but it's also awash with bad debt from a…
Correct, but that was just the cost to develop the core booster of the Falcon Heavy. That doesn't include the original costs to develop the Falcon 9 and all of its subsequent variants, nor the cost to develop the…
Worth pointing out however that the Saturn V cost roughly $1.2B per launch, compared to $90M for the Falcon Heavy. So it was roughly 6x more expensive per kg to LEO. Not to mention it required a nation state to fund its…
The Chinese government's R&D initiatives are what's making the difference here. They've further laid out specific goals for particular technologies such as automated vehicles, drones, medical diagnosis, and machine…
Since that article, Kadowaki's actually now listed as a 2-star Michelin restaurant. Don't know what's happened since then, but I remember the name because it's the only Michelin restaurant I've ever dined in. Small…
China undoubtedly faces many challenges, as you fairly point out. However, there's a long history in China that determines the thinking of both the government and its people. That view is that a strong centre leads to a…
Stuxnet
This has also been making the rounds, Deep Photo Style Transfer: https://github.com/luanfujun/deep-photo-styletransfer
Sounds like you've already tried plenty of productivity apps, but in case you haven't tried it, I've found Todoist quite good. The "Apple-ification" as you put it is done pretty well. In place of drag + drop to set a…
Not sure why there was such a knee-jerk reaction, but it's actually fairly straight forward and not scammy at all. You're performing two trades, using a money market ETF that trades at the currency exchange rate, and…
If you have a need to transfer large amounts of USD-to-CAD or vice versa, have a look into Norbert's Gambit. It'll effectively let you perform the transfer for 0.2%. Probably not worthwhile for small amounts, but if…
With multiple stations between SF and LA, this could be mitigated with an emergency system that pulls the train off at the next stop. Similar to how some buses or trains have emergency stop systems, except instead of…
The mentions of his security concerns reminded me of this: http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/06/14/you-cant-get-there-fr... "As a thought experiment, imagine that Osama bin Laden was still alive and that he used the Tor…
As others have noted, this capability was intentionally removed. From http://redis.io/topics/virtual-memory "Redis VM is now deprecated. Redis 2.4 will be the latest Redis version featuring Virtual Memory (but it also…
I'm inspired by this man's dreams and the way he's striving for it, even though the end goal is decades off. Musk makes no secret of the end goal: Create a new civilization on Mars. Speaking at the National Press Club…
While I agree with some of your sentiments about the author, it feels like you're doing a bit of the same by claiming that everybody who wants to change the world are doing so only because they're projecting. I say so…
As someone planning to build some iOS games as a side project, I really appreciate this info. Some questions for you: Have you considered offering your game for free for a limited time to get your game out there, so it…
Based on monetary losses alone, the Yukos incident of some years back overshadows this by orders of magnitude, with claims that $98 billion was lost in the liquidation of company assets according to:…
Checked out the video, and it seems like a well designed app serving a niche audience. If you find some success with it, might I suggest skinning the app to serve other niches that share similar needs? I can think of a…
For those that want a free service and don't mind ads, there's also http://hotspotshield.com and http://expatshield.com which will let you access US and UK services respectively. The UK one doesn't support OSX, so I run…
> While the VM backend helped, we found that it still wouldn't stay within the bounds we set, and would continually grow no matter what we set. We did report the issue but never came to a good solution in time. For…
When you said that they decided to hire you, was that something they told you right after the interview? If so, I think it would've been prudent to follow up with both the CTO and the recruiter after a week or two had…