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Other companies were offering this service anyway. It's only natural AirBnB would want to provide that service themselves and take a cut.

You're complaining about how things scale. If there's an opportunity to make money by doing more of something, people will pile in and do more of it. That's how markets work.

It does seem too obvious, and the comment seems to be pointing somewhere else like you say.

What do you mean about the compressed size?

There are no hidden chunks in the file, and the image data chunk when inflated is 60147 bytes, vs 1270 compressed.

Can you spoil the latest Bourne film for me as well please?

I'm a bit disappointed there aren't any hidden chunks that take advantage of the PNG format :-(

Uncompressed it's just a binary message of 2 pixel colours, so unless that comment at the end is pointing somewhere else then it's not got much depth...

Yeah, I understand they want to try to monetise, but now it looks like you have to pay. They're pushing 'specialisations' which contain several courses and a project, but it's only because I've been using it for ages that I know if I search for one of those courses directly I can just 'audit' it for free.

It's a shame really because I have to explain all of that to my friends when recommending they look at a course "I know it looks like you have to pay, but you can do it for free..."

They're trying to teach creativity, so you sound like their ideal participant. Give it a go.

> leaves always fall concave side down

That explains it. They fall convex side down...

Actually I meant something like how Intellij has DB integration, so you could put in your host & port and connect to the DB to help you write queries etc.

> why in hell would you do this anyway

Integration with IDEs.

> we actually paid $400m. We believe that makes us the highest taxpayer in Ireland that year

So fucking what if it's not the figure any other business would have paid based on sales?

It depends on what you're having manufactured. I was thinking of original products.

But I'd be doing it more to learn about supply chains, manufacturing, etc. and the problems people face. Plus, some of those sites support plugins and have their own ecosystems, so I might see opportunities for automation other people have missed.

I always just audit the courses. I'm doing them for my benefit, not for a certificate. I might buy the lecturers' book though as a thank you.

Pro tip: Use the mobile app, download the videos and watch them at 2x speed to save time :-)

Interesting. I've just been reading about using alibaba with freight forwarders and shopify to create online shops where you can sell on Amazon. This might make it even easier.

Thanks! I'll check it out.

Same boat as you. I think this could be the key:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/startup-entrepreneurship-disc...

I can't recommend it highly enough.

This looks awesome. I've made several attempts at something that could write encrypted files with obfuscated file names to several backends but never ended up with something I was happy with.

I'll definitely give this a try.

Edit: One feature I would like would be to split files into n chunks to obfuscate the length of files (assuming it wasn't obvious which chunks go together to make up a file), so instead of a 1:1 relationship there was a 1:n for large files. I suspect this is a lot more work though...

> Or maybe they all know its impossible

How could they know? That's the point of the scientific method isn't it, experimentation and valuing observation over preconceptions?

Perhaps the difference is being a first mover while the market is establishing itself, before it then gives way to another innovation cycle.

I suppose in that case, the key is innovation. So Google would be wise to innovate over the competition... but they might stand a chance due to their deep pockets. It hasn't worked out well for their attempts to get into several markets though.

Perhaps we have: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyby_anomaly

I agree, but I think we're in the minority. FB have kept this simple and it is where it is. Then again, it's not like Google have anything to lose at this point so it just might be the difference that brings people to it...

> First mover advantage is rarely an advantage at all

Genuine question (not a snarky comment as it might sound), but can you link to any research that indicates it's 'rarely' and advantage?

I've been reading books recently that emphasise the importance of being the first to market with something innovative. Your brand then gets associated with the product/service ("hoover", "Uber", "google") even when referring to the general category.

Second-mover advantages do exist, but is there any research on whether it's more advantageous than being a first mover who iterates? I know it can happen, but in this case I'd rather be Uber with an established brand & mindshare rather than Google playing catch-up.

They've done everything right in terms of building a brand.

> seems like Uber's leadership position is at risk

You could have said that about any of the ex-Googlers who went off to try to develop a 'better' Google. At this point, Uber have the mindshare, at least amongst everyone I know, so unless Google have a 10x improvement planned then they'll just compete in Uber's shadow like the rest.

More like "Google late to the party... again"

I'd probably forget about it for that reason too. I mean, literally forget.

My bookmarks and bookmark toolbar are littered already. If I could download it I'd have more of a chance of being reminded to see it and use it. Plus I'd feel it'd be more secure, and I'd be able to work when offline (e.g. commuting/travelling), so I wouldn't use it for those reasons.

It looks like it has some interesting ideas though (I especially like the look of the nested debugging thing with probes).

Except this is in fact bullshit since if you're ever working on some speed/memory critical code, that's the time to bother filling your brain with the different options available and picking the appropriate one. Carrying around arbitrary knowledge to show off is pointless.

Most code most programmers write won't ever run at sufficient scale or be sufficiently critical that CPU or memory bounds will matter, and using e.g. one sorting algorithm vs another will be largely irrelevant. It's recognising when you need to bother optimising that is the sign of a competent developer.

And asking someone to write actual (not pseudo) code on paper/whiteboards - as I've seen in interviews - is like assessing someone's driving ability by asking them to mime driving a car.

Yeah, that falls into the "just work a few extra hours in the day job and save yourself the hassle" category... Good to know that's how the numbers stack up.

If they don't answer honestly and get annoyed with you when you clock off after your agreed hours, it's their tough shit.

I worked for two young guys once who'd never had proper jobs, much less ever managed anyone before, and they had the cheek to have a go at me for only working my hours. I told them it wasn't my company and walked off. They couldn't sack me for working my contracted hours, regardless of if other people were working more for free...

Do you mind giving a ballpark of how much you make? I was under the impression adsense basically made you close to nothing, perhaps unless you had millions of monthly unique visitors.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guide-Exchange-Traded-Funds-Index/d... is thorough and good (with a UK focus if that's good for you)

I don't know. I did the space shooter tutorial on unity last week and I'm finding it a doddle to make my first 2D game... I'm super impressed, having never done game dev before.