The energy spent on bitcoin’s proof of work is not tied to the volume of transactions though. At a technical/protocol level, the same amount of mining would be needed if there was $100 trillion being stored or $1 being…
And don’t forget the bane of working from home in the suburbs: leaf blowers. It seems at least once per day there is an active leaf blower in my neighborhood vicinity. Same goes for my colleagues. Noise cancellation is…
My bull case is this: over the next few decades, cryptocurrency will find its use case. Even if it’s just another asset class like Gold or Silver that some people and institutions put their money in as part of…
I deleted an unofficial Reddit app from my phone, since I found I was wasting too much time on it. I figured for the occasions I wanted access to reddit (mostly from searching for topics on Google), I’d just use the web…
> What can we do, now, as developers ? Get a job at one of Apple's competitors, and make those competing products better. Apple beats competitors because their product lineup is simpler and their products don't…
How is it that Google create/rebrand/close so many music and chat services over the years. While Apple have a single message service (iMessage) and a single music service (Apple Music) that have been consistently…
I’ve worked in the games industry and this is pretty much my advice for people who are interested in it: Just make as many games as you can. Don’t get hung up on some big new MMORPG game you’ve got in your head. Just…
Once the business model and psychology of content aggregation and habitual user feedback loops was discovered, there was no going back. That model is just too powerful and too economically successful. It sucked all the…
I’m so sorry you have to live with that system. I’m in Australia and had my first child not that long ago. After multiple hospital visits due to ongoing complications during pregnancy, an induced labour and an emergency…
This what my takeaway from watching Baraka again recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baraka_(film) While the film doesn't focus on any particular person, it covers society at large. It portrays the build-up of a…
I would love if Apple started treating app analytics like they do my GPS location or my camera permissions. Basically, if apps want to send analytics, they must go through an iOS API. Then as a user, I can inspect what…
That “stuffed ears” feeling took me about a week to get used to. Now it’s no longer an issue. Everyone is different though I suppose.
In my experience when people focus too much on sprint deadlines, they miss the purpose of sprints. Timed sprints exist not for the benefits of managers, but for the benefit of developers. They exist so that the…
Do you have any other google apps installed in your phone? Apps from the same developer can share information.
We should be doing both. Exploration of the solar system could be the greatest human endeavour of the next hundred or thousand years. Both manned and unmanned missions will be needed.
That's why I love UK and Australian/NZ power plugs. It's impossible to plug them in "the other way around". They only go in one way.
Being able to track the location of objects (or other people) through walls, for displaying in AR glasses. That's my guess.
Is this a uniquely American problem? My Australian mobile phone receives maybe one spam call per year. It’s my single phone and I give out the number to various businesses and people.
To “observe” something, you need to interact with it in some way, such as bouncing a photon off it. That interaction changes the quantum state.
The scenarios are usually less about creating realism, and more about crafting interesting combat puzzles. “The Last Of Us” does a great job imo. Each fight offers different strategies and paths. And the enemies are…
You can already set "background app refresh" permissions on a per app basis in iOS12 (and it is disabled system wide if you're in low power mode). I hope this carries through to the new background tasks in iOS13.
Apollo 11 is such a great documentary. They restored a lot of 70mm film and the clarity of the image is surreal. It didn’t get screened in any cinemas where I live, but the bluray looks absolutely stunning. I wish they…
It’s not a lack of control, it’s a different kind of control. Driven by algorithms and engagement metrics which appear to promote extreme content. That difference is what has people worried because the political and…
At a studio I worked at once, two others and myself were assigned to a new project. Since we were the only ones working on the project, we got permission to clear out a storage room and convert it into an office. It was…
With macOS and BetterTouchTool, I set up trackpad to do so much: - 2 finger swipe left/right: go back and forward - 3 finger tap: open link in new tab - 3 finder swipe left/right: move between tabs - 3 finger swipe up:…
The energy spent on bitcoin’s proof of work is not tied to the volume of transactions though. At a technical/protocol level, the same amount of mining would be needed if there was $100 trillion being stored or $1 being…
And don’t forget the bane of working from home in the suburbs: leaf blowers. It seems at least once per day there is an active leaf blower in my neighborhood vicinity. Same goes for my colleagues. Noise cancellation is…
My bull case is this: over the next few decades, cryptocurrency will find its use case. Even if it’s just another asset class like Gold or Silver that some people and institutions put their money in as part of…
I deleted an unofficial Reddit app from my phone, since I found I was wasting too much time on it. I figured for the occasions I wanted access to reddit (mostly from searching for topics on Google), I’d just use the web…
> What can we do, now, as developers ? Get a job at one of Apple's competitors, and make those competing products better. Apple beats competitors because their product lineup is simpler and their products don't…
How is it that Google create/rebrand/close so many music and chat services over the years. While Apple have a single message service (iMessage) and a single music service (Apple Music) that have been consistently…
I’ve worked in the games industry and this is pretty much my advice for people who are interested in it: Just make as many games as you can. Don’t get hung up on some big new MMORPG game you’ve got in your head. Just…
Once the business model and psychology of content aggregation and habitual user feedback loops was discovered, there was no going back. That model is just too powerful and too economically successful. It sucked all the…
I’m so sorry you have to live with that system. I’m in Australia and had my first child not that long ago. After multiple hospital visits due to ongoing complications during pregnancy, an induced labour and an emergency…
This what my takeaway from watching Baraka again recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baraka_(film) While the film doesn't focus on any particular person, it covers society at large. It portrays the build-up of a…
I would love if Apple started treating app analytics like they do my GPS location or my camera permissions. Basically, if apps want to send analytics, they must go through an iOS API. Then as a user, I can inspect what…
That “stuffed ears” feeling took me about a week to get used to. Now it’s no longer an issue. Everyone is different though I suppose.
In my experience when people focus too much on sprint deadlines, they miss the purpose of sprints. Timed sprints exist not for the benefits of managers, but for the benefit of developers. They exist so that the…
Do you have any other google apps installed in your phone? Apps from the same developer can share information.
We should be doing both. Exploration of the solar system could be the greatest human endeavour of the next hundred or thousand years. Both manned and unmanned missions will be needed.
That's why I love UK and Australian/NZ power plugs. It's impossible to plug them in "the other way around". They only go in one way.
Being able to track the location of objects (or other people) through walls, for displaying in AR glasses. That's my guess.
Is this a uniquely American problem? My Australian mobile phone receives maybe one spam call per year. It’s my single phone and I give out the number to various businesses and people.
To “observe” something, you need to interact with it in some way, such as bouncing a photon off it. That interaction changes the quantum state.
The scenarios are usually less about creating realism, and more about crafting interesting combat puzzles. “The Last Of Us” does a great job imo. Each fight offers different strategies and paths. And the enemies are…
You can already set "background app refresh" permissions on a per app basis in iOS12 (and it is disabled system wide if you're in low power mode). I hope this carries through to the new background tasks in iOS13.
Apollo 11 is such a great documentary. They restored a lot of 70mm film and the clarity of the image is surreal. It didn’t get screened in any cinemas where I live, but the bluray looks absolutely stunning. I wish they…
It’s not a lack of control, it’s a different kind of control. Driven by algorithms and engagement metrics which appear to promote extreme content. That difference is what has people worried because the political and…
At a studio I worked at once, two others and myself were assigned to a new project. Since we were the only ones working on the project, we got permission to clear out a storage room and convert it into an office. It was…
With macOS and BetterTouchTool, I set up trackpad to do so much: - 2 finger swipe left/right: go back and forward - 3 finger tap: open link in new tab - 3 finder swipe left/right: move between tabs - 3 finger swipe up:…