I miss something between a MacBook and a MBP.
Something light with a Retina display, minimum 13" and a good CPU. Basically a Thinkpad X1 Carbon with OSX.
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Something light with a Retina display, minimum 13" and a good CPU. Basically a Thinkpad X1 Carbon with OSX.
On the one side, I am wondering that people are still consuming sugar—the last years more and more news/facts/studies pop up putting sugar in the right light. On the other side, addicted people usually say about their drugs that they make them feel good and that they are not addicted and keep consuming. But one big problem that it's quite hard to resist sugar. It's key ingredient of most products in a super market.
For most of them and those who chose popular stacks it's usually quite easy to get a job. Or any job. This gives them superpowers and enables them to ask for a lot--high salaries, tons of perks, free food, freedom and maybe a company with the right vision, leadership and policies.
But what they forget in all this abudance of options is that a job is a job. You can call it career, give it exciting titles and enrich it with stock options, it stays a job. You can work at Google, at a fancy office, with super smart coworkers and free a-la-carte-food everyday but it is still just a job and you are not free. And even Google has its dark sides the employees accept. Let's not start to talk about Facebook, Microsoft or Apple.
Maybe one company has shady growth tacticts (btw which successful company doesn't have them? Even Google abused all their properties to push Chrome), the next one lacks free food or uses an aged stack. Remember it's always a job. And if one doesn't like it, he might try to find a better option but shouldn't be suprised about new drawbacks. Or he could try to start his own company. A perfect one where everything is perfect for everyone. Then one will realize that many things are more complicated than they seem.
There's no perfect job.
On USV's portfolio site I just found Blockstack Labs (2014), Coinbase (2013). Are there more or recently closed ones?
React is great but so wrong for an SSG and instantaneous loading of next pages is great but...
- Preloading all blog posts does not scale and is not wanted; a post is read and only a tiny tiny part clicks on the next or other posts
- More important is that the initial or clicked post loads rapidly, but it doesn't, it's slow and when looking on all the other million SSGed blogs which load in milliseconds, no thanks
I looked deep into Gatsy once I was choosing a SSG but until the end I couldn't understand the architectural decisions made. Yes it feels fancy but doesn't match the use case at all.
Out of curiosity: wouldn't improving the self-hosting experience cannibalize subscriptions of your paid plans?
Then this is not my cup of tea. I think the keyboard is still the best and most versatile interface to a computer.
The idea sounds ok once you clarified at the first glance but how does it work, will it work, what would be the implications. And many more questions. Currently I see the core idea surrounded by many vague statements.
And btw you can do this today already: just start a VM with a browser (might be a bit resource heavy and the integration into the main OS subpar). Or Docker with a browser. Not sure though if latter fulfills your security requirements.
But at the end, the browser is more then an isolated piece of software in a VM. An integration on OS-level is required and trivial stuff like a full-screen mode is possible but might complicate matters within a VM. Or 3d acceleration and everything where a direct access to the API is required. And suddenly the VM is piping everything through the main OS because a browser just needs access to all the OS APIs and then you end at square 1. So, I also find your idea a bit confusing.
He is writing that the current browser sandbox model is not secure–all in a dramatic, clickbaity manner.
After many esoteric lines, then he says (maybe it's the tl;dr)...
"We need a highly secure (ideally provably secure) sandbox that doesn’t have any features! Then, you can run an insecure browser inside, where security doesn’t matter."
Then again some more lines of confusion.
So, what does he suggest? Putting the browser in a VM?
That she agreed on Mozilla's change-of-control clause—so Mozilla can just walk away in case of a M&A deal and still get $1B—is simply disconcerting.
I do not have any insights and why she gave in on this point but I know that one of her main skills and responsibilities in her position is to negotiate well and do proper deals. She had to negotiate this change-of-control clause away or to let Mozilla sacrifice on the payout if they walk away. Moreover and considering that Mozilla doesn't have that many financial potential search partner options (Google has been with Chrome rather a competitor for many years now), this should have been possible, I'd assume with my limited knowledge.
I do not like if random forum guys like me are bashing CEOs, I know that this is the toughest job and I don't want to pass judgement on decisions I don't have insights on. But this is really, really weird and Marissa should have known that this bummer will pop up at the next due diligence and create distrust ('are they more time bombs at Yahoo? lets dig deeper') or just reduce the deal value or just increase deal complexity later.
Maybe she didn't think about M&A at that time and she was rather in a fire-and-forget mode but a CEO is always supposed to think about what happens if new shareholders join, about the next due diligence, heck just about the future of the company and eventually, to keep the company always in a proper and clean state and not leaving time bombs for potential successors.
1. Will VR achieve mass adoption in the next 5 years considering the high costs for GPUs and screens with high pixel density?
2. And if we get to a mass compatible price point, will VR be the killer medium the mass is looking for?
So, I still find the adoption rate of the Vive/Rift underwhelming and I do not see the high costs as the main reason. Millions of gamers invest in 3-4k rigs, why not in VR then? Those weak adoption rates might give a glance on the future--or if there will be any future--for VR.
The Virtual Boy was nothing against the current VR products and for a Nintendo product a pretty mediocre one then, maybe their biggest product failure but they still did 770k units.
Not sure on the classList and dataset APIs and if there weren't any other option to implement the required functionality.
'Your browser doesn't support the features required by impress.js, so you are presented with a simplified version of this presentation. For the best experience please use the latest Chrome, Safari or Firefox browser.'
Wondering which features they are using not available on Mobile Safari.
Code Golf is about programming as short as possible and it's also a section on StackExchange [1] where you find daily tasks and many people solving them in many languages. You learn so much because...
- You code really every day and you code new stuff
- Motivation is at its max and you want to be faster than the others and have the shortest piece of code; so you still keep coding after your submission to shave every byte away
- And you learn tons of stuff; reason: you spent thinking hours about your solution, how to tweak it etc and suddenly, you see somebody popping in the answers who did it way better than you, so you analyze and study their implementation for hours like you would never read others' source code, adapt their algorithm and learn; especially when it's about array or bit manipulation StackExchange's Code Golf has a vast selection of tasks and some many awesome programmers there; it's just insane, some guys deliver 10 byte long solutions within minutes while I need 2 hours and 150 bytes
- I want to stress–and this might be the most important topic—writing code is one part of coding but there at Code Golf, you learn that the approach, the core algorithm is more important, and can vary so much, so coding is not just writing commands in a text editor, no it's thinking about the right approach and second about writing it down.
- And you see and learn how same problems are solved in different languages
- One thing which you need to get used to are all these golfing languages which are indeed esoteric but every task is solved in all the mainstream languages as well; at the beginning I didn't like all these golfing languages like Jelly, Pyth, MATL but they grew on me and now I understand them better but find them still a bit awkward; so I like more the JS, Java, C, Python solutions; but again you find everything there, lots of solutions in Haskell, Brainf*, PowerShell, TIBasic, x86 assembler, Vimsrcipt, Mathematica and so on
Compared to standard day routine coding where you glue one API to another Code Golf is ultra refreshing and I'd never had so much fun when programming and learned that much at the same time.
I think there are other code golf communities but I think the one on StackExchange is the biggest.
Have to disagree here. Yes there is a lot of good stuff especially written in the past but looking at today I see high caliber English writers and books in every category I do not see in that quality and quantity in any other language. Ok I do not know how it's about Chinese but that's my perception regarding other in particular European languages.
Always when I look for something, literature, fiction or non-fiction I switcch after seconds to Amazon.com from my local Amazon and find way better and more stuff. Frankly, the local selection feels like written by amateurs comapred to the US, I know this might sound bold and is probably too generalizing but the general perception is that you do not miss out anything if you stick to English based literate, rather the opposite. Of course therr are exception and genious writes not from the US like Unberto Eco and others but still nothing to the vast majority English based literature offers. Heck, even my Kindle account is US only.
If one country produces excellent media it's the US.
goods yes and only if you produce them, services no
anyway nobody would send stuff from UK to other countries even if the were in the EU; you would found country organization like you did before; so I won't see any changes, just for producers but most startups are not producing goods or to think further most companies in these expensive countries don't manufacture anything.
Berlin is affordable but that's it. You won't find the best people, the best teams and a good legal framework.
The UK has a better legal system. The UK Ltd. is way superior to the German Ltd. and soon they will move away from the EU inherited laws which are too much market regulating. Especially consumer protection and labour law are just a big bummer for many and for startups in particular.
Besides, just check total fundings, exits, average fundings sizes, etc. then you see the difference. Berlin based startups got much moeny the recent years but slowly people question again the ecosystem since exits are missing. Ok the city doesn't have the startup history like a Valley or London but still. Clear successes are missing. The only huge thing was Zalando's IPO.
Re tattoos, I don't know why so many people are doing this too. Sometimes I think it must be a huge misunderstanding: I observe tattooed people longer and more intense because every time I think 'why'. Why did they do this. Often the tattoos are ugly, faded, huge and then I stare even more and longer. And I guess that tattooed people misunderstand my staring and think I am attracted to them and affection must be the reason I watch them. Since many will watch them they must think, wow my tattoo makes people look at me, I need more tattoos.
On the other side they make people look at them and maybe that better than nothing or no attraction and maybe this initial slight disgust could turn into demands the longer you watch because you discover other beauties of the person.
With the situation now, it's debatable but saying that a trademark 'just provides some advantages' is a bit of an understatement.