Timothee

Since it's too late for you to promote your own memories, you could look for avenues to recall more of the ones you probably have hidden somewhere.

I have some "memories" that have definitely been created by looking at pictures later. I actually remember one particular case where it was a photo of me as an infant in my mother's arms and I told my siblings that I remembered that and that I was sucking on a biscuit (which you couldn't see on that photo). It turned out that there was another photo of the same time where you could see that I was indeed sucking on a biscuit. That "memory" had been created.

However I do have plenty of memories from childhood that were not created later by other means. The earliest being for sure around age 3, when I had eye surgery. I remember a few things very clearly of that period. (because it was different and somewhat traumatic for a 3yo) For the most part these were not reactivated later by pictures or recounted as stories. (because people around probably didn't even remember them themselves for being insignificant to them)

E.g. I remember being pushed by a girl behind me in line in kindergarten, my glasses fell on the ground and one lens popped out and I blamed her for it. I was likely around 4 or 5.

I have recently started therapy and we're doing what's called "lifespan integration" (http://www.lifespanintegration.com/) where we go through life events year after a year and where I try to picture each particular moment to feel like I'm there. One interesting effect is that more memories besides the initial ones written down have come back over time or some come back with more details. I would think that or other techniques (e.g. hypnosis) could help you remember more things.

I think it was a combination of the price of the individual sheets (on Amazon at least) and the need for a high quality printer and assembly (the print and the lenticular sheet need to be perfectly aligned). I was imagining a cheap service to get memes into magnets for your fridge but the prices seemed not to match this vision. Working with artists like this site is doing is definitely a great idea. I had started trying to find a local printer but I don't think I found anybody fast enough for me not to move on to a different idea.

Great work!

But if I do need to, I have 1Password on my phone as well and can get the passwords from it.

Basically the output of the former could be the input of the latter.

I wrote it up here: http://timotheeboucher.com/on-writing-laconic-error-messages... but the gist of it was that their score submission endpoint required a checksum, but the error message if the checksum was wrong was:

    <Response type="error" reason="Checksum failed (ext_csm = cc7ae8d3d26d911f9d6e6178d93b9fc0, int_csm = c1f19e476622b8df7f830ee0c45df533)" server_ver="1.0"/>

Though to be honest, there is some risk of damage to the battery if the firmware is not doing its job properly. But Apple has usually done the "right thing" about big problems like this.

Further down, you can read:

even entry-level engineers can draw lucrative salaries in the Valley. Google Inc offered $150,000 in annual wages plus $250,000 in restricted stock options to snag a recent PhD graduate

Being a PhD graduate doesn't make you "entry-level".

I have no credentials or background to know the answer, but I wonder if this is something where the use of antibiotics decimates most the bacteria population so that it's easier for the resistant ones to thrive, as opposed to cohabitate and possibly be overtaken by the non-resistant ones. I'm thinking of it like Conway's Game of Life where a cell dies if surrounded by more than 3 cells. With antibiotics, you limit the number of living cells around and are more likely to keep others living.

Or maybe the non-resistant ones would have another trait that make them thrive more than the resistant ones if both are mixed?

While reading the article, that's what I was thinking: even if I limit my antibiotics use, it won't help me since this affects everyone, not just people who abuse antibiotics…

However as others have said, you need to have a way to get to the full password somehow, likely in the form of it written down and stored in a safe, at home or in a bank. Or in somebody else's password vault.

Actually, that's something I haven't seen much and that I have done myself manually only: the ability to secure this information by spreading the database with multiple trusted parties. Similar to what Snowden has done I understand: no-one can access the information by themselves, but you can piece together whatever information you need from multiple people. I know some stuff exists like this, I just haven't seen for password vaults specifically.

Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fjfqz6FxC8 It seems to be 3 to 4 seconds.

It is however for a specific use and I don't know how polyvalent it is.

Ok, I'm now very confused. When I saw the title I thought "Pivotal Labs" for a second and then "oh no, the 'other' Pivotal that is not Pivotal Labs and which I have no idea what they're doing". I got confused and the past and realized (or thought at least) they were two different entities.

But now, you, as well as an investor quoted in the OP[0], say "Pivotal Labs". Are these two the same thing? Are these two different but related entities? A cursory look at each sites don't seem to mark them linked, though it does show that the OP is about Pivotal as in http://www.gopivotal.com/

Thanks for the clarification!

[0] Actually he's quoted like so: "Palihapitiya even noted that Xtreme had built a “Pivotal Labs for mobile.”", which in itself doesn't mean the buyer is Pivotal Labs, but, in the context, is confusing. It almost sounds like the post's author get the two confused as well. (unless, they're the same thing obviously)

I'm not saying that that budget is reasonable or unreasonable, but that puts the amount in perspective a little bit.

The difference now is that people who are in the acquaintance-Internet friend spectrum can still be reached easily with an email, a tweet, an instant message… if you wanted to. So they always feel kind of "there" even if you don't actually communicate with them. Until, like the author, you try to reach out and they don't reply back.

It's kind of an interesting thing of online "friends": you can be in touch with somebody in a chat room or a forum for years and feel like you know them well (at least in the context, you've known them), but they can just disappear one day and you won't know if it's because they died or just moved on to other things.

I was thinking about that about a guy I've been playing Words with Friends for probably three years. I only play with him because I know we're about the same level and it's hard to find players like that. (we were matched randomly) But I don't know anything about him except for his first name, most likely his birth year (based on his username) and possibly the fact that he lives on the East Coast based on the time he plays his turns. If he were to stop playing, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference from him being dead. It's a strange thing.

He describes exactly how I see: I see from one eye at a time while the other gives peripheral vision and I can usually switch between them at will. And I just caught myself with the face turned a bit sideways while reading his post, like he's describing as well.

What this thread shows me is that being stereoblind is not uncommon, but I feel that somehow it's not discussed or really considered as a handicap of sorts. Some people don't even know they are until their late twenties! You get tested for color-blindness early and often, as well as just plain vision, but somehow stereovision is either not tested or tested and the answer is often "well there's not much you can do". (granted, a lot of people are unaware they're color-blinded too, despite the tests)

I have always been bad at sports and it's obvious that this has played a role in it, so it leaves me a bit bitter because it was never something that was taken into account into me being bad. I was just bad.

I'm glad I came across this post. I'll definitely checkout http://www.stereosue.com/…

I don't follow the causation between the first and second sentences. Are iPhone 4 not fast enough or do they lack the proper BlueTooth technology?

I thought that was a very nice touch, since it would be easy to skip that.

United States v. Scheinberg is a United States federal criminal case against the founders of the three largest online poker companies, PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Cereus (Absolute Poker/Ultimatebet), and a handful of their associates, which alleges that the defendants violated the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) and engaged in bank fraud and money laundering in order to process transfers to and from their customers. (...) After the indictment was unsealed on April 15, 2011, a date quickly dubbed Black Friday by the online poker community, PokerStars and Full Tilt stopped offering real money play to their United States customers.

Since the start they've had interesting technology (though of the kind that looks easier to implement than it really is) but, in my opinion at least, never found a killer app for it. I remember when they had that webpage where you would hit the space bar with your phone and that would be enough to create the connection. That was really cool, but it felt like a "cool trick" rather than something I ended up using.

edit: I didn't want to come off as negative and I'm sorry if it reads this way. Their solutions are very innovative and inventive, and really feel magical. I just wish it had caught on more… Hopefully Google is planning on using the technology in many places. It would make sense of course for it to be part of the core of Android, but the syncing between mobile and desktop could be very useful as well.

At the time Instagram was bought by Facebook, (and still I think) they didn't have any kind of ads and thus no need for sales people and a reduced need for engineering, product management, biz dev, etc. as well.

Media outlets hadn't really picked up on Instagram yet (at least, not as a tool to use themselves), so no need for media relations people. They didn't really need biz dev people yet like Twitter certainly does. (e.g. you need people to make the integration of Twitter in other platforms like iOS and OS X happen)

Also, Twitter is older than Instagram. Over time, if success is still going, it's somewhat normal to increase your staff just because there are things you can improve all over the place (product-wise as well as company-wise).

And now that Instagram is part of another company, it's hard to compare the numbers since they might take advantage of Facebook resources here and there which are hard to account for.

That project is pretty cool, though I do feel that having a Raspberry Pi to do that seems unnecessary. Wouldn't the JSBin and Codepen's of the world allow you to do most of this? Granted, as a kid, I'm sure having your own computer to work on makes a big difference.

I.e. people are more likely to get an iPhone 5C because it's cheaper and thus "only" $99 more than the free phone they'd get otherwise. But this is not specific to the 5C, since the same scenario was in place as soon as Apple started offering two kinds of iPhones at the same time.

I think he means from a feature-phone plan to a smartphone plan.

It starts at 12'34". Nothing much comes of it though.

Overall, this seems like a great way to get started with vim because it doesn't have too many plugins but it still has the minimum features expected from someone who used Sublime or Textmate.

edit: looking at their .vimrc, there's a lot of stuff that I'll use right away. Definitely useful, just not as a straight download/install for me.