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bwilliams18··on Storage Pod 6.0: Building a 60 Drive 480TB Storage Server
You would be astounded to learn how much use MS Office still gets today. Excel...that thing runs the world.
bwilliams18··on Storage Pod 6.0: Building a 60 Drive 480TB Storage Server
care to share some of the cron script??
bwilliams18··on Storage Pod 6.0: Building a 60 Drive 480TB Storage Server
Has anyone built a Swift implementation in Swift?
bwilliams18··on Iranians Are Using Satellite TV to Beam in Banned Internet
Don't let great be the enemy of good. Create a tor website, and provide a text file with the link in all downlinks. If people don't know how to use tor or can't access the site, that's fine, but if they can access it, they get additional features.

Provide a simple feedback form or voting system. It doesn't have to be perfect, these downloads are already hand assembled by someone each day. You aren't obligated to use all suggestions, or even the most popular, but use it as a feedback mechanism to inform your choices.

bwilliams18··on For What It’s Worth: A Review of Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin”
I had the pleasure of spending a week at MassMoCA a few years ago, it's a unique institution and is a treat to visit.
bwilliams18··on Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs, Forecast Misses Amid PC Blight
When similar rules occurred in the UK profit margins went up. Matt Levine on Bloomberg View talks about it regularly.
bwilliams18··on Thermal camera footage allegedly shows pro cyclists using motors
But it's conceivable they've found ways to shave the bikes weight down even lower to accommodate the battery and motor.
bwilliams18··on Poor New Yorkers Tend to Live Longer Than Other Poor Americans
1st Ave L is probably one of the most crowded stops in the morning for rush hour in the city, probably competing closely with Lorimer and Bedford L stops. In PM out of the city Union Square is similarly packed, and the train is nearly empty once you pass Lorimer
bwilliams18··on Space X lands Falcon 9 stage 1 on drone ship (picture)
And that's a bad thing?? Space Sex sounds amazing.
bwilliams18··on SpaceX Launch Livestream: CRS-8 Dragon Hosted Webcast
The US doesn't have the tense history with Nationalism that Germany does. Chanting USA is rather common at national sporting events, in times of triumph and often whenever someone starts the chant.
bwilliams18··on Taxi, Uber, and Lyft Usage in New York City
While Uber drivers don't always know where to get around, the Uber app provides them directions, and many of them also use Google Maps/Waze. Having lived in far-out brooklyn for a year, cabs NEVER knew how to get there, and didn't want to figure out how, but an Uber has my address, and will be told exactly how to get there.
bwilliams18··on Solving the cash problems from self-funding rapid growth
But the "house keeping" as you call it is what it really means to run a business. Any idiot can make progress when you've got millions in the bank to throw at a problem, real progress is made when your revenue/expenses ratio keeps growing, raw revenue growth is useless.
bwilliams18··on Universities Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds with Schools Attached
NYU must be third.
bwilliams18··on A visit with Apple’s chief chipmaker
Why can't it split the difference.

Also Buzzfeed has grown into a serious news operation, investigating many stories (Tennis Fixing), and breaking others.

bwilliams18··on Launch, Land, Repeat
BO is making it a competition by clearly trying to one up SpaceX with the timing of their marketing releases etc.
bwilliams18··on Launch, Land, Repeat
Thats exactly what upsets me, not what BO is doing, but that they're so obviously trying to take advantage of the SpaceX hype and appear to be ahead of them.
bwilliams18··on Elder Care Startup Honor Makes Contractors Full-Time Workers with Equity
I don't think the full time vs contract debate and the industry and business model decision are as separate as you'd believe.

It's the same thing in the restaurant world with tipping. Danny Meyer can assert that he's eliminating tipping because he can more fairly compensate employees, and I believe that's part of it, but the motivating factor is certainly the increase in minimum wage and its impact on the economics of the restaurants.

bwilliams18··on The Zappos Exodus Continues After a Radical Management Experiment
Basically, in both informal and formal hierarchies the same sorts of problems can occur, but in an informal hierarchy the phrase "you can't tell me what to do" is often times a valid response.
bwilliams18··on How the Powerball rules were tweaked to make the game an even bigger ripoff
It's not cheating in Nevada. But you can be bounced when they catch you.
bwilliams18··on A Tale of Twenty-Two Million Citi Bikes: Analyzing the NYC Bike Share System
I think his analysis is flawed because the Google Maps routing algo highly favors the bike lanes throughout the city, often taking you out of the way to use them.
bwilliams18··on Unethical Growth Hacking from YayView
I generally concur, but in this case, this guy agreed to share his information with facebook, not YayView. What if he's in a relationship and a friend of his girlfriend sees his profile on YayView, that could cause a serious issue in that relationship for no good reason.
bwilliams18··on G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft
But they still need the actual vehicle hardware, chassis, motor, etc knowledge. CMU's robotics division is just provides the self-driving component.
bwilliams18··on Ousted Founder of Men’s Wearhouse Watches His Old Company Struggle
McDonaldss.
bwilliams18··on Ousted Founder of Men’s Wearhouse Watches His Old Company Struggle
Any investor over 10% has to give up any profits if they buy then sell within six months...
bwilliams18··on Square jumps in market debut
This isn't a binary, just because those things are true, and because they tend to happen doesn't mean they are certainties or worth betting your whole net worth on. Anything could happen. There are outside market events to consider.
bwilliams18··on Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0
Any chance you're thinking about a B2 based backup client for Synology or the like? I'm eager to backup those sorts of things to backblaze without going through the ISCUSI route Marco is taking.
bwilliams18··on How Carders Can Use EBay as a Virtual ATM
The chance of actually getting caught in this situation is really rather low...being unsuccessful, sure, but truly caught, prosecuted, etc, probably won't happen.
bwilliams18··on Plex on the New Apple TV
No.

It's not built for you at all.

It's built for torrenters (and usenetters) who download massive collections of files, have them sit on local hard drives, and want easy ways to organize them and play them back. and it does an amazing job of that.

bwilliams18··on Theranos, Facing Criticism, Says It Has Changed Board Structure
I don't think the things they are doing wrong is inherently tied to being a startup or being VC funded, at least from a regulatory point a view. They appear to be skirting existing FDA regulations, and that is the area that regulators will focus on and clamp down in.
bwilliams18··on Chromium calls home even in incognito mode with safe browsing turned off
The point of incognito mode is to SAVE less data to the computer.
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