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I find it surprising that nytimes takes 2nd overall, top in news category. It means nytimes is doing things better than others, and the news industry is very motivated to figure out how to make digital work.

> YouTuber with viewerships as high as mainstream TV shows can barely afford "2 guys and a mic."

This actually isn't a revenue thing, its a platform expectation thing. There's a really good video essay (on YouTube, naturally) explaining the 'Manufactured Authenticity' for popular YouTube channels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FJEtCvb2Kw

Many orgs had to let a bunch of people from text to free up resources for video, video being so much more expensive than text/audio.

Somehow both for Lampert

> the small percentage of people who are unhappy

Citation needed.

I wonder what G+ could have done to pivot after its terrible release. They had some good ideas, and usually Google takes those good ideas of a failed product and rolls it into successful products. Remember Google Wave, where you could work on a document _at the same time_?

Something like the automatic generation of circles in Google Mail, and integrate some kind of generalized wall posts for Google Mail users.

The 'Canadaland' Podcast, a Canadian media criticism podcast, did a fantastic episode on Petersons media strategy. It basically maps how Dr.(?) Peterson exploits his controversial reputation to sell his books.

http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/canadaland-guide-jorda...

(As a side note, even though its Canada-centric, Canadaland is probably one of best things that has happened to Canadian journalism in a long time. Anyone even remotely interested should give it a listen.)

Why would you choose a financial instrument that's only a few years old to replace the US Dollar?

There are some primary use cases that crypto solves in regards to international monetary transactions, but there are big questions in terms of technological maturity, and most especially around governance.

I love crypto, I think its potentially transformational. But it just isn't a contender yet. It needs to scale and it needs to mature.

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I thought the narrative was they just need to get through the short term before production stabilizes and is able to meet demand.

I do feel there is a difference between Tesla the car, and Tesla the company. Tesla the car is still the most desirable electric on the market. Tesla the company is a different story altogether.

If you're looking for a mobile game that hits that aesthetic, try "Alto's Odyssey"

Ah, I'm Canadian so having to sacrifice everything for loved ones health-care didn't occur to me. That'd be a horrible position to be put in.

What's happening in Turkey? I've only really heard about the political shenanigans going on in the last couple years

Biggest thing is to reduce spending. The closer to zero you can get on spending, the longer you can survive.

I dont live in a place where I can afford a home, and Im actually seeing that as an advantage at this point- my investments are relatively liquid compared to a house, especially in a depressed/shocked market. It's not an asset until its sold- no mortgage, no problem.

> Apple Watch, AirPods, HomePod, iPhone X, ARKit, Siri Shortcuts, FaceID, iMac Pro.

Those aren't transformational changes, they're are incremental changes that Apple is already good at.

A transformational change would be creating high-quality media shipping to Apple TV- a direct competitor to Netflix, fully contained in the Apple ecosystem. Building a content media division is very hard for Apple to do, but would keep them relevant.

Apple is missing the boat on media, which is the probably the biggest battlefield in 2018. Disney, Netflix and Amazon are setting the pace and there's no reason why Apple couldn't compete. Not only compete, but win in that space, with the insane capital and ability to lock into Apple hardware.

Nobody is talking about smartwatches. Everyone is talking about what they're binge-watching. Apples winning the wrong conversations.

Moving from a world wide web to a decentralized, fractured web? Instead of WWW you have FBW (FacebookWeb, GW (GoogleWeb), AW (AppleWeb). What a sad future that would be.

I would expect seniors to be a sizable portion of Apple Watches. Being FDA approved for tracking health would be a huge draw for this audience.

Watch Apple implement a subscription service to call emergency contacts in the event of a health event detected by the Watch.

Because they don't say "We do rape jokes. Be cool with that." in the interview process.

> They need to back to something

Like, say, backed by international oil market?

Microsoft tends to choose bad names: See Visual Studio Code, the most ungooglable name ever.

There is also a lot of regulation around those entities because they're known to be inscrutable and are expected to be if no regulation existed.

Technologists tend to think that tech is value-neutral, and will therefore give good outcomes.

Im highly suspicious of any blockchain startups given the cryptocurrency environment we live in. If this guy was part of the discussion for one of the main cryptocurrencies about governance, I'd be more excited.

If its gone to HR its already gone pear-shaped. Lay down the facts as you see them, let them know exactly what happened, tell the truth.

If they take it out on you, you know its time to go, but maybe this guy has been pissing other people off and you have no idea about it. Maybe its HR doing due diligence to fire.

Don't make accusations or shit on anyone, you don't know the whole story. Play to your strengths, which is knowing the tech and what it takes to get it to where it needs to be. Make sure you point out your attempts to communicate this fact. Provide any evidence of this- emails, etc. where you're communicating the state of the project and your projections for it. Let them know you've been frustrated with the miscommunication, but make sure that the miscommunication has started with you.

Again, don't shit on anyone. Stick the facts, so that if it blows up in your face it says more about them than it did about you. Its also the kind of resolution I'd I want to see on the interviewer side of "How did you resolve a difficult situation".

I switched from Sublime to VS Code because it was better at handling giant log files that would kill subl

> You landed in a really good culture

Here's the crux of the matter. Your approach needs to be tailored to the culture you're in. The higher up in the leadership chain you go, the more important your understanding of the political machinations of your company is.

All corporations have politics, even the smallest startups. Some are just more cutthroat/feudal/kafkaesque than others.

Shellcheck is one of those rare tools that made me a significantly better developer. In part because the more bash a dev knows the more effective they are at life in general, in part because it made it easy to follow rigorous coding standards- allowing me to take the quality-code mindset to less rigorous environments.

There are studies that teens with a predisposition to schizophrenia and similar mental issues can actually be exacerbated by marijuana.

I haven't heard evidence of it doing the same for adults, but I'd have to check.

There are a number of reasons why children/teens shouldn't use it, and should be as tolerated a children smoking/drinking/opioid-ing

I read that the use of marijuana actually inhibits dreams, and that people who quit temporarily experience intense dreams.

Whiteboards should be used for what they're good at: Visually explaining ideas/solutions on an abstract level.

They are terrible at compiling and syntax checking.

Theoretically you should already know whether someone can do the physical code part. That problem is largely solved for and don't require in-house interview.

In-house interview should be used for c̶o̶n̶f̶i̶r̶m̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ b̶i̶a̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ a̶g̶e̶/̶r̶a̶c̶e̶/̶g̶e̶n̶d̶e̶r̶ determining if the candidate can think/design/solve for the domain space they're being hired into. A whiteboard is a really good tool for assisting in that.

The point everyone seems to be missing, and the one I think most important, is that we're no longer building from trusted sources.

Build systems just download and run random code from the internet without verifying that its the correct code, from the correct source.

Its a ticking time bomb.