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I enjoyed Tyler's lecture greatly. One of the side-benefits of seeing lectures over the course of the series is to see which presentation styles work, and which don't.

"Dash" comes to mind. In cars, people in the U.S. would say, "Throw it on the dash," or "Put it on the dash," meaning "Put it on top of the dashboard." The "it" might be a a map or some kind of parking tag or whatever needed to be in-reach or easily visible.

You have to remember that the specs of the two trains are quite different, with the elevation above the track being much greater in the case of Japan (as a buffer against earthquakes).

I agree, but the founder was able to pull the rabbit (that is, Paul Graham's own words) out of the hat at the right time.

Might this be for sharing one's browsing history across devices? This seems like old news: http://www.tekrevue.com/safari-sync-browser-history/ Perhaps that type of syncing can be turned off? (I don't have Yosemite installed, so I don't know.)

At first, looking at her picture, I thought her skirt was a data mosaic of the text messages. That would make a nice pattern actually.

DoorDash should team up with Uber, Lyft et al. Or the other way around, Uber or Lyft could do what DoorDash does.

On another note, home delivery has been in Japan for many years, but there, the density of population makes it feasible - someone at the restaurant just loads the trays of food onto a special spring-suspension tray holder on his bicycle and makes the delivery. After finishing the meal, the recipient leaves the trays, dishes, and bowls outside for pick up the next day. Usually, there is no extra charge, and tipping isn't common in Japan, so it's a good deal.

See http://books.google.com/books?id=kJ3TAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT116&lpg=P...

Also, for some history, http://books.google.com/books?id=OT8OSoiYyagC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA... q=demae%20japan%20delivery&f=false

I don't know if this is still possible, but apparently you can order take-out using a Wii catering channel: http://www.destructoid.com/japan-order-pizza-with-your-wii-i...

Here's an example of the take-out offerings from restaurants in a particular area (postal code): http://demae-can.com/search/delivery/today/13110013001/

There are ratings listed. Heh, maybe there's another teaming possibility ... Yelp.

I think it is unclear what "... sharing your life anonymously" means. For example, if I told my friend that I'm using this app, and he follows my broadcasts, and he pretty much knows that I'm the only one using this app, won't he be able to deduce that it is me that is broadcasting? (You mention a "broadcast map" as well; well, if I live in Timbuktu, and I'm the only person there, won't my friend know it's me?) Also, in the text accompanying the first screenshot, you say, "... sharing it with the entire world." Saying that doesn't match up with the idea of having "followers." Now, I think I know what you mean, but the two groups ("followers" and "the entire world") don't match, and create a dissonance in my mind that gets me close to just rejecting the whole thing outright.

I'm sure you gained a lot of valuable experience programming-wise. To a programmer, that's something tangible. Not only that, but you persevered and got the app into the App Store.

Wow, this was like the nutshell cracked and the universe spilled out ...

Yep, and those static IPs are for the good ol' Google public DNS servers, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

2106 yen in a bookstore in Tokyo, not including tax. A little less than 20 USD.

I don't see the usual "Designed by Apple in California" sentence. Are you sure this is an original charger?

Same here, the "web reputation" is low according to SenderBase. See http://www.senderbase.org/lookup/?search_string=www.gabrielw...

"Fwd/Rev DNS Match" is said by SenderBase to be "Unknown" (this is odd). Checking on my laptop:

$ dig +short www.gabrielweinberg.com

gabrielweinberg.com.

96.227.124.38

$ dig +short -x 96.227.124.38

blink.duckduckgo.com.

It is on the Verizon FiOS network, which has a number of poor reputation hosts:

http://www.senderbase.org/lookup/org/?search_string=Verizon%...

The site appears within the CBL too, which gives some details: IP Address 96.227.124.38 is listed in the CBL. It appears to be infected with a spam sending trojan, proxy or some other form of botnet.

It was last detected at 2014-09-03 06:00 GMT (+/- 30 minutes), approximately 4 hours ago.

This IP address is infected with, or is NATting for a machine infected with "Gameover Zeus" or "GOZ" - previously it has been referred to as "ZeusV3" or "p2pzeus". GOZ is a version of the ZeuS malware that uses peer-to-peer (P2P) command and control mechanisms.

I submitted the following file (note the blanks): $ cat testblanks.csv 1997, Ford, E350

The following was returned: CREATE TABLE testblanks (Column_1 NUMERIC(32, 16),Column_2 VARCHAR(5) CHARACTER SET utf8,Column_3 VARCHAR(5) CHARACTER SET utf8); INSERT INTO testblanks VALUES (1997,' Ford',' E350');

That was in accordance with http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180

Cool!

But the CSV format has a lot of "gotchas." See, for example, http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware3/default.asp?cmd=.... Especially the rant about the Microsoft version of CSV.

I like the pictures. These are 1990s web pages: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6125914/How-20-popular...

As an experiment, I took a few paragraphs and replaced the words "software", "software and programming", "programming" with the word "mathematics" and replaced the word "programmers" with "mathematicians":

Most of the problems of mathematics arise because it is too complicated for humans to handle. We believe that much of this complexity is unnecessary and indeed self-inflicted. We seek to radically simplify mathematics.

and

Much complexity arises from how we have partitioned mathematics into boxes: <put various branches of mathematics here>; and likewise how we have partitioned mathematics development: <put various phases here, from "Eureka" moment to copy-editing of proof>. We should go back to the beginning and rethink everything in order to unify and simplify. To do this we must unlearn how to do mathematics, a very hard thing to do. (I paraphrased by replacing the original "to" with "how to do".)

and

Revolutions start in the slums. Most new mathematics platforms were initially dismissed by the experts as toys. We should work for end-users disenfranchised by lack of mathematics expertise. We should concentrate on their modest but ubiquitous needs rather than the high-end specialized problems addressed by most R&D. We should take inspiration from end-user tools like <replace with your favorite tools, like pen-and-paper, whiteboard, abacus>. We should avoid the trap of designing for ourselves. We believe that in the long run expert mathematicians also stand to greatly benefit from radical simplification, but to get there we must start small.

I thought I was going to coin a new word -- uberize. But then I thought to look it up. Lo and behold, there is an entry from 2007: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=uberize. The meaning of the word? To destroy or defeat in a quick and effortless manner.

I actually wouldn't mind if certain conspicuous, extravagant (and conspicuously wealthy) celebrities opted for an Uber taxi. Nope, wouldn't mind it one bit.

I can see Uber, Lyft, and traditional taxi drivers reading Sun Tze's The Art of War. Well, maybe Uber and Lyft.

Traditional taxi drivers need to be less grubby -- Uber was able to take advantage of that. How important a factor that is would depend on the country or city. But in some countries, it may be a way of filtering for drivers that speak English. For example, for Tokyo, Uber lists a flat rate of 40,000 yen, roughly 400 USD (!), for a ride from Narita Airport to any of the 23 wards of Tokyo. Pretty steep, given that a very nice bus, hotel shuttle, or express train is less than a tenth of that cost. Of course, the "last mile" is a consideration. For taxis, though, there are already established taxi services; http://www.narita-airport.jp/en/access/bus/#taxi shows that fixed fares range from 16,000 - 26,500 yen.

Seeing something spectacular like this really makes me feel that life is too short. Beautiful!

See Mark here: https://www.tibanne.com/about

10 seconds can be a lifesaver for someone doing construction on a high-rise building.

It helped that my TV included a little kit (containing cords, brackets, and screws) and instructions for securing it. It felt like just another step in the physical setup of the TV, not something I had to do "eventually."

It's one reason (the other being cost) we moved out of a datacenter located in San Francisco's SoMa district.

Man, I loved that!

On a Mac, I like tpp, which can be found at https://github.com/cbbrowne/tpp. I installed it using Homebrew (brew install tpp), which will install the necessary Ruby dependencies. Optionally, for huge letters, you'll need FIGlet (brew install figlet).

I know that Uber does background checks on their drivers, but do they also provide training to their drivers? Are drivers evaluated first by an Uber employee?

"Eventually" is not sufficient, certainly not for security-related software. More generally, unless one is able to devote a sizable amount of time to a project, the "activation energy" threshold for good ideas to result in actual code is never reached.

No, for readability. Paul Graham's essays are a good example. For example, http://paulgraham.com/copy.html