This reminds me a lot of multi agent systems in computer science. A very exciting concept which is aiming to provide a framework for distributed artificial intelligence:
Love it. Finally somebody questions the status quo of the economy class. I wonder how this new design competes in terms of price and weight? In the end I doubt that airlines are willing to pay more for economy.
I love it how they decided to spend the money fighting the patent trolls. I started reading the article because the title reminded me of Richard in the Silicon Valley TV series. Happy to read that in the real world the patent trolls got busted!! :)
This is incredible, thanks for sharing. I had the exact same thoughts the author is describing in the beginning - how hard can it be? It turns out super hard. And one shouldn't forget that it is one of the few input methods to our computers. With voice not working properly and drawing on the mouse pad / touchscreen being too slow I would argue it is still the number one input method. So the expectations towards UX are extremely high and there should be no faults. I admire anybody who works on some kind of text input mechanisms from this day on.
To me, today's internet was born with the invention of HTTP by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
It's still an interesting article and a great achievement, but a big piece has still been missing. One can definitely credit them for providing the base though.
"Google dropped out last October without submitting a formal bid, saying the military work conflicted with its corporate principles, which preclude the use of artificial intelligence in weaponry."
I think we can't assume that these people have access to a computer, which is necessary to be able to root it. In the article the author refers to "smartphone only users" who can barely afford a 17$ smartphone. Even if there was a service available in their region which offers rooting Android devices, a lot of people might not afford to do so.
Important detail that Helene mentions in a comment:
You should add that that setting in Google Calendar is only available on desktop.
I spent a while the other day after getting one of these trying to find the setting on my phone. It’s not there. The setting affects your phone too, just have to use your desktop to change it.
I did read it till the end, but I got confused by the sentence "To clarify why this fix is bad, ..." in the paragraph after Linus's fix, so from there on I thought the article is talking about his fix of the fix. My bad.
A very concrete example: I am trying to find a solution for a certain error / warning in AndroidStudio. I try finding it using DDG, not succeeding, while on Google I'd find the solution within the 3 first results. Happened to me already several times.
So it is satisfactory to me if the search leads to a solution or at least the right path to finding a solution to my query.
I do not quite agree. I found that duckduckgo often returns too many results from the same website, which is for programming related search queries often stackoverflow. The same query on Google leads (for me) often times to more diverse results which include more different base urls.
For a couple of month I have set duckduckgo as my standard search engine, but I often do not get satisfactory results. Is this because I am used to the Google results or does duckduckgo indeed not prioritize in a good way?
So they thought before being able to produce the other models in a reliable way, why not release yet another model?! Great idea publicity wise, I doubt that this can be sustainable in the long term though. Why not focusing on getting one thing right?
Carefully chosen words and full of future visions. Thank you. We will see if this will indeed go in the direction he suggests - as usually one cannot foresee what will disrupt the world next. It can be something completely new which has nothing to do with computers.