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Google's provided results point at McCarthy while the first mention of Schmidhuber is at the 9th result from the New York Times.
My biggest gripe is that Tower 1 use to display all your stashes on the side (expanded, not collapsed) by name/date. Tower 2 hides all that information from being easily viewable. I use to use stashes quite a lot, but since switching over I've significantly decreased my usage of it.
You can kind of see this with trending topics. If you don't follow a particular topic but suddenly see it trending in your feed, there's a chance you may random walk into clicking it. If Facebook opens up a global/regional/local newsfeed that isn't highly targeted, then you could potentially start seeing more original content.
This looks like a great feature.
The only reassuring thing about this podcast was the brief mention that Ted Livingston (of Kik) was at those talks with so-called "leaders of Canada". I mean, do we really expect the likes of Galen Weston, Magna International, and the like to really talk about innovation or tech? Other than Kik, which of those companies would any person on HN really be interested in working at?
If the supposed cognitive load of people for using apps is around 26-27, then is there an economic load that says that people will max at say--- $60/month--- in total app subscriptions in the US? And this number could change drastically for users in other countries based on fluctuating dollar values.
I see it as some combined effect that is manifested in GoPro/FitBit stock (i.e. tanking). The reality is that the average person doesn't do any amount of extreme activity such that the step counters provides any additional value. But the lifestyle aspects shown in the ads convinces people that getting one will change their lives.
I discovered early on that the step counting wasn't really that great of a feature or selling point. I made it a habit to inform people around me that really the best feature and the only reason why I continued to use the UP was for sleep tracking.
They tend to devolve into awkward situations for people like myself who don't drink or don't want to waste time with the "oh really? you don't drink at all?" conversations. I'm not an alcoholic, but people consistently feel the need to dive into why I don't drink, choose not to, and have never had a drink.
And as much as people here or anywhere may say that they either A) don't care whether I'm drinking or B) feel awkward around others who don't drink, the reality is that the culture is centred around whether you drink and how much.
I learned quite a bit from this book in undergrad which is also written by a UW professor (Guang Gong).
Is this hypocritical?
- on a Mac, if I press the spacebar to show the quick preview and start navigating down the list, will this trigger downloading of all the files?
- how are older files cached? Do we simply unselect devices to remove them locally? At least with Selective Sync, I can remove files eating up my hard drive (very important on devices with 128GB SSDs/HDs or less). It's much clearer in terms of what's on disk and how to manage it with Selective Sync. With Project Infinite, I'm wondering how one would remove files locally without fully deleting the file across the Dropbox folder for every other team member.
For the most part, I'm not crazy about the Udacity platform and the lectures (they're too short, the mini-quizzes aren't always that great, and the platform doesn't feel like it has been improving in the past 2 years). However, all the value and learning is coming from the interactions with other students/TAs/professors on Piazza as well as the assignments/projects we do.
If you were to ask me how I would rate each component independently, I would say that Udacity is the weakest part of the experience.
All this noise on Twitter/FB/HN/etc. doesn't help when we don't get a chance to play around with it. Just saying.
Competition would rise. And then we'd be able to create a much stronger talent pool, higher salaries in the tech community, and overall a better ecosystem. But none of these companies have really tapped into this system.
But it seems like no executive at these companies has figured it out yet!
For instance, investing in security. "Workers see costs, not benefits to security".
Even though it's outside the natural scope of the YC (that being a Canadian-based study vs US-based), there's no reason why this can't be done. Particularly with the cultural similarities between Ontario (at least Southern Ontario) with parts of the US.