victorvation

You could both send and receive messages from within the Spotify app.

Direct link to official blog post: https://code.fb.com/developer-tools/getafix-how-facebook-too...

I find this type of neo-Luddism to be a strange form of gatekeeping for technologists. "Back-in-my-day"-ism for Google and manpages and the computer mouse.

I've been liking Techmeme [1] recently, which presents stories with additional sources and social context from generally knowledgable people. From their about page:

> Techmeme accomplishes this [...] by linking to stories from all around the web. Spotlighting the writings of reporters, commentators, and industry players from across the media and industry landscape [..] sparing readers the impossible task of monitoring an abundance of news sites, tweets, and status updates.

[1] https://www.techmeme.com/

Large open source projects on GitHub seem to suffer from this same issue, which was alluded to when GitHub added the ability to react to comments on issues/PRs [1].

[1] https://blog.github.com/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-req...

She wrote briefly about it in "How to look out for yourself inside a particular company". http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/03/21/next/

"Daily Viewed Snaps" is a media metric — the number of media items opened — which means that a single snap sent to many people is counted multiple times. "Daily Viewed Snaps Unique Users" is the number of unique users who viewed a snap, i.e. a user metric.

Looks like a logging outage for it to be that dramatic of a drop.

Large ad publishers such as Google and Facebook are already doing the equivalent of auctioning users' attention by proxy of views, clicks, and conversions through their existing ad delivery methods.

> More precisely, it feels the way Facebook did from 2009 to 2012, when it silently crossed over from one of those tech things that some people sometimes did to one of those tech things that everyone you know does every day.

Ubiquity is an interesting thought - there are very few apps that an average person uses on a daily basis that _aren't_ owned by Facebook. Four of the most used apps (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp) are owned by the same parent company.

In China, we see an analogous example - to an even greater extent - WeChat is practically the de facto mobile OS. Where do we go from here? Hardware? WeChat seems most likely to do this, from my perspective. What happens when Tencent acquires Xiaomi and creates WeChatOS phones? What happens when Facebook does similar and Mark Zuckerberg controls nearly every waking moment of most Americans? Who is the Apple to the United States v. Facebook monopoly?

I'm surprised that even on HN, people seem to unquestioningly accept that Yelp extorts businesses using reviews, where any other topic would be subject to a higher level of scrutiny. I've heard countless anecdotes about peoples' friend's account of how evil Yelp Sales is, but never any solid proof.

Do you have any reading material that you would recommend for single-threaded concurrency?

> Was the last Kickstarter a gamble?

_All_ Kickstarters are gambles. Their messaging[1] is pretty clear in the fact that you aren't buying a product, you're contributing money with the hope that the maker will deliver on their promises.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store

I wouldn't say it's unfortunate. The majority of my (and many peoples') personal computing is done entirely on an iPhone and therefore improvement upon it, either incremental or innovative or otherwise, is always welcome.

Interesting to see what the use case for this will be - will removing the JVM dependency really outweigh the increase in compilation time?

A lot of Canadians from UW _are_ the ones working in SV/SEA/NYC.

A classmate of mine interned at a Microsoft office in Sunnyvale and was provided a rental car for the duration of his internship.

Likely nowhere yet, seeing as Svelte is four days old (give or take a few hours).

It seems to me that Apple attempts to avoid the "invasive" use of deep learning, while Echo and Home utilize it aggressively. Perhaps this is why Siri is seemingly lagging behind Google Now.

Another example of this is Photos apps - Google Photos constantly calls back to the cloud and showers you with computer curated albums, auto-slideshows and "remixes", and automatically tag peoples' faces, while Apple Photos does its learning on-device and buries the "creepy" facial/background recognition features deep in its menus.

The "arms" on MagSafe adapters are actually bad for the cable - wrapping it around them puts undue stress on the cable, which causes them to fray faster. And a stiff/inflexible cable should also prevent it from fraying.

Seems like Apple took an proprietary, easily-damaged charging cable and replaced it with a standard, less easy to damage one.

The charging indicator light is a definite loss, though.

You create a new account. It's mentioned in the first line of marketing copy.

> It's easy to get started. You just create a new Facebook at Work account to connect with coworkers.

> I would argue that the outcome of hiring an Unemployable Programmer might in fact be better overall, because we're motivated and we get stuff done - as opposed to the hipster "rockstar" programmer we actually do eat and breathe code.

It's odd that the author seems convinced that they are more productive than 'hipster rockstar programmers' who aren't motivated and don't get stuff done. Isn't that what they do by definition? And what's truly strange is how he seems to think that those types of people don't "eat and breathe code", when the prevailing sentiment on HN is that these 'rockstars' have poor work-life balance and don't do anything except code on evenings/weekends. It feels like he's lashing out at 'young people' in general who seem to be able to get jobs.

I seems that the author's lack of success obtaining a job stems directly from a lack of effort - or knowledge of how much effort is required. He seems to think he is entitled a job just because he's been doing it since he was a kid or because he's had a job for ten years.

I can say from experience as someone who was looking for a development job with no experience, much more is needed than passively posting on a job board, listlessly browsing oDesk, or even sending out a few resumes. Every intern hiring season, my classmates all end up disappearing from class and social life for a few weeks - sending out hundreds of resumes and applications, dozens of emails (cold or introductions), spending hundreds of hours studying for interviews, tens of interviews - pounding the proverbial, virtual, and literal pavement - resulting in most of us receiving one or (more often) multiple job offers.

I'm a University of Waterloo computer engineering student. I'd love to join your team for a 4 month internship starting in September.

Location: Waterloo, Ontario

Remote: Maybe

Willing to relocate: Yes - Bay Area / NYC / Seattle.

Technologies: Full stack web. JavaScript - ES6, Backbone, Node. Python. Django.

GitHub: https://github.com/VictorVation

Résumé/CV: https://victorszeto.com/resume

Email: me at victorszeto.com

That's definitely possible. There are already a few startups that use the same method to track analytics and repeat customers.

Yes, and also so that you can go between two access points for the same network without having to reconnect.

Yep. Whenever wifi is enabled, your device is sending out probe request frames, which includes your list of preferred networks/networks you've connected to before.

Most devices will connect if the SSID and the security protocol is the same. If they set up a network with the same SSID and security protocol, using the same password (that they asked the waitress for!), then devices will automatically connect to it.

I guess this was inevitable after Twitch was acquired.

The Surface Pro 3 seems an awesome device for students. Being able to read PDF textbooks, hand-write notes while using diagram/drawing tools, browse the internet, follow along with (and write on/annotate) lecture slides, word processing with a physical keyboard, writing on PDF practice exams, etc, all in a single device is extremely convenient.

Looks great. I just wish there was a hotkey to start and stop recording. It's kind of a nuisance to have my mouse going up to the top right corner at the end of every gif.