ClassAndBurn

Tracy was the best CEO I ever worked for. Hands down.

She listened to everyone and made PlanGrid a place where everyone was empowered to make change. Her passion to solve problems was obvious and raw. She attracted people who were similarly passionate.

I knew she had it harder than others when I saw one of our own VC's caller her a "little girl" while doing a fireside chat with her at PlanGrid. In spite of it all she built a truly amazing company and culture.

If you are reading this thanks Tracy.

Nginx is an incredible product. I've used it at nearly every company I've been at and on multiple occasions its entirely saved us both via its capabilities and its accessible, robust documentation that we had to read at 2 AM while fire fighting. Congrats to the team on a hard fought journey.

Now we all get track how our user traffic increases when YouTube is down...

Cloudflare is great. I love that they spend resources on projects like this. This would normally be a Moonshot or someone's side projects that would get limited/no release.

This is amazing! Really innovative designs and ideas. As 3D printing is a new technology, even on Earth, I wonder if there are traditional designs using bricks or other materials created from the native soils and rocks that would potentially have more understood construction properties and lifespans.

The additional bet of building something on an entirely new planet an entirely new way seem risky. (but awesome, if someone from NASA is reading this; don't stop)

San Francisco is only 7 miles square and nearly a 1/3 is the Sunset and the Richmond which is almost entirely 2 story max, single family homes. Measure K which limited most of the big construction to South of Market pushed everything into an already packed downtown. Not everyone wants, or can afford, a condo on the 30th floor.

I also hadn't realized how much of the city is green space. Kind of amazing that has been preserved.

To me it was a way for engineers to make interfaces without having to worry about any are design. An engineer-turned-marketing-person would call it "CLI 2.0". The problem was the non-designers still don't know UX at all and natural language is hard so you end up with a sub par, poorly design interface that doesn't understand you.

Journals are based on prestige; researchers give their work for free to a publisher where it is reviewed by other researchers (usually for free) and then published such that other researchers must pay to get the work. It does create a well respected system since publishers want only quality work but the arrangement has become more and more one sided favoring the publishers.

TL;DR This isn't that surprising. The cost of publishing is lower than ever and researchers are tired of getting charged for what they give away for free.

I agree. Their knowledge and insights would be better as advisement to a new generation of leaders so there can be a continuous learnings and new ideas in government.

Thank you! I was trying to find that before posting but forgot their naming of it.

That is a staggering rate of increase. I can see a future where this is less centralized; learning could happen in "phases" where a local device improves its model given local data and reports back something centrally that can be combined and used to train a shared model.

This requires hardware to be miniaturized as non-ML compute has been and when that does happen we'll have the learnings from the current edge computing push. In the mean time I've excited to see what developments are made on both the hardware and software side.

And now my head hurts.

A City Car Share used to park behind my house and I had to call the company a half dozen times because someone left the keyless hybrid running after they dropped it off. I had them unlock it so I could turn it just so there wasn't a running car next to my back yard. This was exasperated by people who weren't familiar with the car but it was a real enough problem that I knew to listen for it.

Its a guess. Facebook also controls many of the "competitors" currently. Its also not about not being compliant, they want their customers, its just not worth reevaluating core aspects of the business when they believe people will sign whatever they have to to continue using Facebook.

GDPR doesn't cover enough of the population using Facebook to warrant such a change to their business model where you can use the service without them using your data. They believe they are entrenched enough to just require this (and likely are for many EU residents).

No other industry entirely hides the end price you'll pay, or even an estimate, until after you have gone through the service. It's a sad state of affairs but not something we have to be stuck with; most of the time we could get these numbers ahead of time.

ER visits are difficult in their own ways; you can be brought in unconscious and go through treatment you can't agree to, you can be close to death and the time it takes to check costs could impact if you live or not. This means you'd want to do something like fixed costs for these services but with good medical coverage for everyone those fixed costs could be what people do in place of insurance.

I don't have an answer other than universal healthcare. There are reasons that this can't happen at the moment and it's still difficult to implement in a way that works across the board. This is a hard problem and will take a lot of effort to get right

Their AWS wasn't threatened, only their ability to use CloudFront.

  We will immediately suspend your use of CloudFront if you use third party domains without their permission to
  masquerade as that third party.

Really $9 for infinite storage is a deal.

I would say these are the solutions people are producing right now and the problems they are solving are still unknown.

I work as a programer and have worked in high cube, low cube, open offices and coworking spaces. They all had pros and cons but I saw what was and wasn't liked differed by the job position; sales and marketing liked open offices more while people coding prefered separation.

In open office environments (which were pitched as awesome and 'the latest') they spent a lot of time figuring out how to best separate people who spent their day on the phone or talking from those that needed concentration. It would have been easier IMO to give each department what was best for those people but the upfront cost of planning and buying different supplies was deemed to high.

The argument that a non-homogeneous office layout made the space less modular was a good one that I didn't have a counter for.

Totally. I signed up for the Kickstarter of uBiome years ago who's market line evolved from "We'll figure out a 'normal' biome and help you get there" to "Turns out there is no normal, let's try grouping people" to now something around "OMG this stuff changes constantly! We're going to go science for a few years and get back to you latter with something".

Nutrition research is really difficult; lack on immediate reactions (digestion and metabolism take time), highly variable results because on stimulus in other parts of the body (including stress) and its being ethically impossible to have a control group (locking people in a room and feed them one this isn't realistic anyways).

On the curve of "knowing how much we don't know" we're just realizing this is way harder than anyone expected even a few years ago.

An odd catch-22 of not investigating other possible solutions so they could get a legal precedent is that they couldn't tell anyone outright that's what they were doing. So someone trying to he helpful ended up ruining everything. No no good deed goes unpunished.