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I would highly doubt they were larger within the time frame they started. Even though Twitch (Justin.tv) started back then, esports and watching video games were nowhere near as popular as they are today.

I would argue that Twitch has had a really strong role in making battle royale games popular -- they're extremely fun to watch in comparison to MOBAs which I'm starting to realize are fairly dull in the beginning but the anticipation of what happens mid-game to late game makes it exciting.

Awesome post! I kind of want to find more of these types of things (solutions to seemingly complex questions). If anyone has recommendations would love to hear

Not to mention they made it so Whole Foods is 5% back as well but the thing is Whole Foods is more expensive in general (probably more than 5% compared to other grocery stores).

Hard to say if I'll stay but it feels like a lot of companies are doing this. Netflix has done it as well... I feel companies are running out of ideas to scale their business and so they just say, "Wait a fucking second... our product is awesome! It's worth more!" I kind of wonder how long this will last.

> One of the most common and aggravating manifestations of hype in AI research is the renaming of old ideas with flashy new terms. Beware of these buzzwords -- judge a paper based primarily on its experiments and results.

So true

I wanted to come in to say this as well. I am not a fan of the previous practices Uber has had and I hope they have changed some of their ways but I have always appreciated their willingness to publish their findings from an engineering perspective to the world.

Wow that must be cool to have your last name be "Politely"

Heck that sounds pretty useful even for current cars today.

I imagine it isn't cheap though to add and even if it was reasonably priced I imagine they would make it optional in case people didn't want to add it to their car price in which case many would simply say "Nah I don't need that. I'm a great driver!"

Totally off topic but for his bio says for secure messages use Signal/iMessage.

Signal is great but iMessage?

It sounds really cool but also very opinionated workflow. Not to say I don't agree with it but I can only imagine the amount of effort making this whole workflow was also what went into defining what that workflow was.

There are a lot of workflows and I personally don't think it's on an IDE to enforce that. Yeah sure it's "integrated" but it's to the extreme which I somewhat disagree with.

If their workflow and emacs scripts were open sourced, I could actually try it and watch my tongue but since it's all proprietary all I can really say is good for you, thanks for sharing but I probably wouldn't use it myself.

This is speaking speculatively but Facebook right now is heavily trying to go into Messaging AI (Messenger) and so it needs to train those AI. I'm actually kinda surprised if they foresaw that training data so early but yeah it's really creepy.

Pretty sure it's just the lawyers telling him that.

It's funny you mention this. I know Uber has a lot of bad PR but my friend at Lyft was telling me how it's kind of an awkward situation where yeah sure Uber is a competitor for them but they have done so much for paving the way for ride-sharing being allowed in many different places.

Would love to see more visualizations of other frameworks in their respective languages. I wouldn't be surprised if they were just as big.

Dumb question but I recently was looking at Elm and ReasonML (by Facebook) and don't really know the difference... they seem to try to achieve the same thing no?

Completely agree. I definitely feel MOOC's provided this opportunity but it's useless without awareness and access. The principal allowed that.