This is a great story, definitely made things a little dusty for me. Thanks for sharing. My own experience with him was also special - he was such an amazing kind, generous, and insightful person. And he would easily qualify for my "ten smartest people I've ever met" list if I was the sort of person who made such lists :-)
Some of us actually did know him. I did, albeit not as well as others here, and I see no harm and much good in people celebrating his accomplishments in his chosen career.
Love how they write an article about their own company's bankruptcy, complaining about pensioners and discusses getting out from under pension obligations as a purely good thing, and never once mentions the economic impact on those pensioners.
I have a rule of thumb I tell my friends when they ask me questions of the form "X is so lame, why can't GPM just do Y?". The answer, almost always, boils down to laws, regulations, and contracts. This is one of those times.
I worked on GPM prior to the youtube merge, and for a short time after. We did a lot of things: when I first started there it didn't offer streaming subscriptions at all, or radio, or....
As someone who worked on Google Play Music for many years, I'd like to point out that a lot of the UX criticisms here are really just personal preferences, and those preferences are based in very large part on the way you listen to music. Some people are "lean back" listeners who just want to put on a radio station of music they like and not fiddle with it. Others are expert curators who have tens of thousands of tracks in their personal collections. Some are all about their personal custom playlists, and don't care about music libraries or radio stations at all.
It is pretty much impossible to build a music UX that optimizes for all three of these user types, since they want such different things. Apple Music, Spotify, and Google Play Music have all made different choices in how they address this. Some of those were (IMHO) good choices, others weren't. But it is dangerous to assume that what works well for you will work well for others. The discussion about the queue here is a great example: one person hates it with a passion, another loves it.
Its not just BofA - Amex does a great job of classifying your transactions and giving you monthly and yearly reports on your spending. Other banks with "premium" credit cards do similar things.
An interesting article, which I think accurately describes my brief time at Microsoft during the Ballmer era (our startup was acquired after the bubble burst).
But his definition of "made men" seems very vague and very convenient. The people who Nadella appointed to higher positions were almost entirely people who had been at Microsoft for many years. Why are some "made men" and some are not? The definition seems primarily about whether or not the author liked them personally.
Numbers is actually the best spreadsheet for stuff where presentation matters. For example, me and my friends use it for our D&D (and invisible sun) character sheets - the formula language is powerful enough to do what we need, and its ability to manage multiple tables per sheet is uniquely powerful.
And the icloud version of Numbers is pretty handy when you don't have a Mac around (but the collaboration capabilities suck compared to Sheets).
rip off seems a little strong. this is an excerpt from a book on a different but related topic, and he is using the octupus as a way to make a larger point. The author probably has read the book in question and others to help them make their point, but that is not the same as ripping them off, its research.
Thanks for the idea. But given my experience I've kinda soured on Porsche, plus parts are so damn expensive. My plan is to take part of the settlement and get/make a track-prepped miata.
Edit: But of course if someone feels so sorry for my tale of woe that they gift me a GT3, I wouldn't turn it down :-)
I've owned many, many BMWs over the past twenty years. I spent way more time and energy fixing quality issues on those BMWs in their first year than I have on my Tesla.
The Porsche Boxster I bought in 2015 was much better than the BMWs in its first year. But it did have a broken convertible top motor upon delivery. And that car just got totalled by my insurance company, because a defective firewall caused water to leak into the interior and destroyed the electronics and interior. The dealer estimated $48K to fix. Yes, $48K.
"They are interesting because with just three initial functions (successor, constant and projection functions) closed under composition and primitive recursion, one can produce most computable functions studied in number theory (addition, division, factorial, exponential, etc.)."
There are good reasons why those early Leafs are so cheap. Namely battery packs that lose effectiveness very quickly due to lack of cooling. Stay away.
And sometimes when people aren't that good at their jobs, they blame external causes instead of accepting responsibility for their own performance. (Note: I do realize that discrimination and bad managers are real things, but then again so is the Dunning–Kruger effect.)
The key thing is that you can set up a separate website for payments with iOS devices, but you can't embed or link to that website within your iOS app. I've seen apps rejected because their technical support website was linked from the app and the header of that website got you to the payment website after like 10 clicks.
Diabetes is actually more of a continuum than a pair of diseases. I was diagnosed with a Type 2 variant (low insulin output and high insulin resistance) when I was in my twenties, and I was very skinny at the time. I can't tell you how offensive it is when people (including many Type 1s) blithely blame Type 2 exclusively on lifestyle choices. That said, diet and exercise do work very well to control Type 2 diabetes.
Armadillo Willy's is an awfully local reference. They only have a few locations relative to the other chains mentioned in this thread, and the furthest from the South Bay is in Dublin.
I agree 100% on why I purchased FSD at $2k. But I'll add that I almost never use Autopilot, as I've had too many negative experiences with it. I do frequently use (and generally love) the smart cruise control feature, though - steering the car in traffic just isn't that much work for me and I don't have to worry about the car lunging to the side when an exit ramp splits off.
Users on these phones generally don't have google accounts. Of course some kinds of Assistant commands won't work without such an account, e.g. scheduling appointments in your google calendar.
KaiOS is not a google-developed OS. kaiostech is its own company with offices in several countries. Google gave them financing but it isn't fair to them to paint them as some sort of vassal - Google funds lots of things.
Exactly this. T9 input is difficult for most people, but especially for the customer base of the Jio phones: a lot of the people who buy these phones are looking for content in languages they aren't necessarily fluent in, and some are even semi-literate in their native language. Being able to send a text message, make a call, or search for a popular video via voice input is a huge boon for those users.
Adobe used to lay people off pretty much every winter to make their Q4 numbers look better, then hire many of the same folks back a few months later. It sucked. From what I've heard they don't do this is as much now that their business is subscription-driven.