myth_buster

There is a parallel to that in VC business...

> We invest in people not products.

Additionally, a lot of SAAS pitches are done to enterprises and those pitches happen to sales/marketing folks and not devs/tech leads (who come later in the process).

> 10x better than the ad-filled, [...] 'stories you might like' suggested bullshit

Actually I see these on an AMP page too.

If you could see only one chart then I would say this is the one [0]. I was under the impression that Lyft & Uber were on quite even footing.

> The reports of Uber's impending death are greatly exaggerated. - Mark Twain

[0] https://archive.fo/Q0gkJ/595ad70474d05aa1f7b15600fe5ccec2f25...

I agree with the sentiment and appreciate the motivation, but...

> If a high school drop-out with nothing but a typing diploma could do it, so can you. Now go do it.

this is not representative. From the reading you seem to be "smart" too apart from hard working. =D

I think it's a timing thing. From the boards point of view, there is value for Tk to take leave and value for Uber to have someone else at the helm.

Although from TK's point of view it would really suck. It's like loosing your mother and a child.

I read somewhere that the best thing to do to cope with extreme personal tragedies is to keep oneself busy... what's better way to keep oneself busy than to work.

Coffee beans before roasting are infact "Green"[0] and are referred as green coffee. The roasting process makes it brown.darker.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_roasting#Roasts

Goes against the notion of decentralized web.

The content that user gets on their browser is cached content hosted on Google's servers.

The URL that is shown in the location bar is `www.google.com/amp/<site>`.

The rapid adoption is primarily due to fear of being left behind in Google's search ranking.

As the blog states, it drives mobile views away from the site whose content is being shown (some call it stealing).

On occasions I've seen more "Suggested Content" on an AMP page than the actual site.

From what I've read, AMP came as a response to Facebook's instant articles not primarily driven from user needs.

> given that content creators intentionally volunteer their content to AMP

This is certainly not true. The reason no many content creators and publishers moved to AMP is to not hurt their SEO. If you check most of the AMP articles targeted to publishers, it's addressed as get on the AMP wagon now or else you are doomed when Google starts ranking AMP pages higher.

So haven't I and boy am I glad. There seems to be a self selecting bro culture bubble.

Well there are biases involved.

If we flip it I do see companies hiring developers because their former employer is "popular". But I do agree with rest of your opinion.

CS189 - I've been going through this course and I like the presentation and content. Specially, all the plots that are brought in to explain and also the notes.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP941GogrXs32AiRNeQKT...

Great(x3) parent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718752

https://www.google.com/search?q=3*cos(sqrt(x*x%2By*y))%2B5#q...)

Aka, "No free lunch theorem".

Kudos for ingenuity but from my understanding, flying over land is preferred than over an ocean as there are options available in case of emergency. So isn't this jeopardizing flights for fuel savings?

Flagged again. Oh boy!

Kudos for putting the money where the mouth is but I think he is living in a capitalistic illusion or perhaps being stuck between devil and the high sea.

Richard Hamming's You and your research.

https://youtu.be/a1zDuOPkMSw

Won't you say that preventing a kid from accidentally viewing porn while searching images with `Safe Search: On` an important problem?

I think it's addressed to rile up a certain demographic which otherwise would not get involved in issues.

Saw that though couldn't download as it was timing out... I thought it's just weightages and values for the trained model. Wasn't sure it had code.

I'm surprised by how apt Lua is for these kind of algorithms. From the architecture diagram I expected to be hit by a large blob of code but found that most of things are taken care by the language/framework itself!

  Those units are about $250 per month,
  hardly the stuff of Viking-style pillaging, IMO. 

$250 is hardly anything until one considers the monthly earnings of the tenant.

Gif from the other thread...

http://i.imgur.com/lH4qRaK.gifv

Yikes... Being acquired by big CO is the equivalent of "we sent buster to your granny upstate"...

On a tangent, I'm curious whether events as the 8.2 earthquake that happened today, could affect these fibers?

Revolving door?

I came out thinking that he is an idealist and I respected him for that.

JBlow is featured in the documentary Indie Game[0][1] which follows the trials and tribulations of development and launch of two indie games Super Meat Boy and Fez.

It's surprising how similar the whole experience is to launching a startup!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_Game:_The_Movie

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884/

I found the documentary "I know what I saw"[0][1] rather interesting.

In this Mercury 7 astronaut, former pilots, retired air force officers, Major Generals etc give account of UFO sightings.

Although produced by History Channel, it features only accounts of these distinguished people and recollect no spin (if my memory serves me right).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTEZeY-fNCU [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1579236/