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imo, it's better to get a longer post that provides motivation and idea behind the redesign. Slack just told us the reason why they're doing it -- for consistency -- but doesn't explain how they landed at their symbol at all.

As unorthodox as it is, the way I learned Git was through re-implementing it as a project for the data structures course I was taking [1]. This isn't the method I would entirely recommend to most people: instead, like the author, make a diagram for each of the (most-used/basic) commands and sketch out how they interact with the data structures. [2] is a good starting point.

[1] https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61b/fa17/materials/proj/pr...

[2] https://git-scm.com/

There's an irony here since the CEO of Airbnb, Brian Chesky, used to handle all of the customer service for the company [1].

[1] https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/vox/recode-decode/e/5518597...

That seems to be pretty hard. I just finished a long search for an Open Source one-page markdown editor (no split windows for preview and editing): the closest I could find was an editor called MarkText but even that doesn’t have half the functionality of Notion or Dropbox Paper. It’s hard to compete with fully funded and devoted teams.

I would also say that market conditions for lemons also applies to the job application process since quality signaling through a resume is still pretty hard.

You don’t even need an in house ordering machine; everyone has a smart phone so just make a mobile system or website. It’d be easier if there was an aggregator like UberEats but for dine-in.

What’s their return rate compared to an index like the S&P500?

I would argue that the problem of ‘spam’ has not been solved, since that would mean an agreement on what constitutes spam—that spam has some inherent properties that subjects it to easy classification, and that spam is not evolving.

But that’s beyond the point that I originally wanted to make: spam and email have very similar parallels to security and the Internet. In another universe, it’s possible that the issue of spam and security could’ve been incorporated into the protocols themselves. But for some reason I’m sure is rational, those issues were moved outside, to the hosts — to be left to be solved with middleboxes as firewalls and Google’s spam filter.

I would argue that this was the smarter choice and that both of these involve the same problem: spam and security are ill-defined and constantly evolving.

Are you guys talking about an older iteration of 61A? It doesn’t really make sense to read SICP nowadays if the course is taught in Python.

Two popular note taking apps which do this are Dropbox Paper and Notion.so, but they only support inline math. A niche app that does both is Gitbook but they’re a newer company and I’m not sure about personal plans.

Edit: I should add neither of these support code execution. I would really love if someone could point to a Wikipedia / knowledge base composed of Jupyter notebooks but have the functionality inverted — primarily focused on note taking and secondarily on code execution.

Don’t forget our community colleges, which are perhaps even more impactful. Even an average student can go to school and later transfer to a CSU or a UC. Beyond a standard 4 year degree, they also help with getting younger students ahead and older ones continuing their education.

The economies of scale is what will matter: new transportation technologies may appear in a blink, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be mass-affordable.

Personally, I’m fine with any large transit project as long as it goes faster than a car and cheaper as well.

Are there any other influential companies that are like Google? I would love to know how well academic research transforms into industry.

Sometimes a good analogy can take the place of a visualization [1], albeit I did imagine a distribution getting more concentrated.

[1] http://varianceexplained.org/statistics/beta_distribution_an...

No, it’s just that 8 hours is the recommended amount for the average person. Your “chronotype” may differ.

Wait, what? Are you confusing ML with AI? The last two courses I took on ML were all theory. For example, when we use linear regression, we make assumptions about the noise — i.i.d. and Gaussian.

Not really: NP-hard problems are a set of a decision problems "does a route shorter than x exist?" while in quantum computing, we know an answer exists but the question is obtaining it. E.g. the factors of a number always exist.

This sounds like a community Wikipedia – keep me updated though!

I think in addition to this an aggregator, you also need a website that helps create an RSS feed for each user while simultaneously abstracting that notion away. Thanks for the pointer though :)

Can't you just have a website like Medium that acts as an aggregator (of RSS feeds) instead of a platform? The issue I have to whether stick with RSS feeds, which seem like it's dying, or to use ActivityPub, which doesn't seem to be developed that heavily.

A note that Tim Cook is in favor in doing business in China:

"Your choice is, do you participate or do you stand on the sideline and yell at how things should be," Mr. Cook said. "My own view very strongly is you show up and you participate, you get in the arena, because nothing ever changes from the sideline." [1]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-tim-cook-no-point-yellin...

Since you are one of the few people who support a re-entry of Google into China, can I ask a question? There is no doubt that a cultural gap exists between Chinese and Americans, and their perceptions of the current Chinese government. Should a foreign company like Google adopt the culture of the country they're entering, or maintain the culture of where they're headquartered?

From what I've read, the main opposition is only coming from Americans... oddly enough.

Probably the latter: the larger the value of a network, the more likely it is to attract attackers.

Libertarian as in you don’t believe it’s possible to scale government while keeping it efficient?

The ‘one’ stands for 1.0, as in the people signing up will become beta users for a product that will inevitably be shelved. /s

So did Yahoo have a bigger impact on the 90s than Google on the modern generation of the internet? It sounds like Yahoo created a lot of the products we use today but Google incrementally improved them.

In other words, really smart people can make really dumb investments.

Doesn’t Safari prevent videos from auto-playing?

The misallocation of capital is a natural result of capitalism, which is a distributed, greedy algorithm.

Do you think Waymo will build its own network or hitchhike onto someone else’s? If they choose the former, I can see them being a contender.