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wodahs02on Cloud-based Chrome, Firefox or Brave browser that is also multiplayer

Just tried it out briefly. Pretty WYSIWYG. Could be useful for my daily standup. Hope it works on mobile.

wodahs02on Giving the Dry-Erase Whiteboard a High-Tech Makeover – MIT Technology Review

Good timing this. I just did an impromptu session with my lead designer to brainstorm some wireframe. It worked seamlessly. Awesome. Pls take my money (even tho it's free). People WILL pay for this.

wodahs02on Forget Equifax. Facebook and Google Have the Data That Should Worry You

Yes and no. FB and Goog dont have your most important data. Equifax has EVERYTHING that is core to your being

wodahs02on Why AppLovin was acquired for $1.4B and who's next

Chartboost is so widely adopted? I don't hear of them so much. That said, I know they are really big with games, so maybe if you dominate games, you sorta dominate

wodahs02on Penn Station Reborn

This is great. I took accela into Penn Station for 4 years from DC. I always wish they could revitalize that whole area. They can do so much with it. Today it's feels like a 3rd world train station.

wodahs02on These are the SDKs Pokemon Go uses to build a hit game

Am surprised there isn't a whole lot of SDKs in there. Some of the ones are surprising at least to me... haven't heard of Upsight before. Maybe the take-away is, use fewer SDKs, make it more lightweight and less crash-prone? Who's going to get that ad SDK slot? Everyone is probably fighting over that.

wodahs02on Remote Year

I wish these existed when I was just out of college. I would have loved to spend a year doing this before family, kids, mortgages, etc. Now I am just getting depressed...

wodahs02on We indexed some top mobile apps and the SDKs they use

Nice. Thumbs up. Would love to see a larger data set

wodahs02on Lessons I wish I had been taught (1996)

The Feynman method is a nice hack. Good mental model.

wodahs02on Subterranea Britannica

Paris has some crazy catacombs. I think Google Streetview should just go down and index it. Then there'll be plenty of people doing ghost hunting on their computer screen.

wodahs02on The MakerBot Obituary

I followed MakerBot pretty obsessively since its early days. I have to agree with some of the comments here. It was very clear after they raised venture money that they became a marketing machine. I suspect they were burning quite lot of money to grab marketshare and become the de facto personal 3D printer. They pawned that thing off at the right time and let it become someone else's problem. Classic venture playbook.

wodahs02on Comcast Is Said to Be in Talks to Acquire DreamWorks Animation

Is there any other company who cares as little as their customers as Comcast?

wodahs02on NSA mass surveillance so overwhelmed with data, it's useless, says whistleblower

Evil but dumb. I guess we can all breathe a collective sigh of relieve.

wodahs02on China demonstrates new anti-riot robot

Doesn't seem like a smart design. Can't people just kick it over?

wodahs02on An AI First World

A company without AI in their pitch today is like a company in 1995 not having a web strategy. Time will tell if AI is as sticky as the web. People are just overestimating where AI is today for most generic tasks like generic bots. For specific pattern matching deepnet works very well but to build Jarvis, we ain't there yet