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Need to add font enhancement features. Can I pay 2 cents per letter to have the letters animated in fire?

Definitely have the same feeling after QuakeCon or music festivals as well.

And we are lucky that with software we have the flexibility to rebuild without many of the costs other disciplines face. If I want to rebuild a skyscraper in its same location for the same purpose, I can't build it offsite and then quickly publish it to the building site. I also don't get to reuse any of the cement or girders I used to build it the first time. Additionally, I can't easily redesign a skyscraper to support a totally new use case while not impacting existing tenants and the way the use the building.

Here's a hypothesis: people are more likely to buy a product when they see it has a large number of reviews and ultimately Amazon cares about moving product.

Motivations are certainly different now. I do wonder if kids today still have that "wild west" feel when messing with computers. I remember when I was young, writing programs and making computers do simple things seemed really impressive to me at the time! The bar is a lot higher now and I wonder if that dissuades some kids from trying because doing something impressive now requires a lot of extra overhead that I didn't have to deal with.

I agree. Fox is a factory that happens to make movies. A corollary here would be to say that "fashion as an art form is truly dead" because Wal-Mart sells mass produced graphic tees for children.

Or, in many cases, people have done the mental calculus between free, powerful, entertaining services and their privacy rights and have chosen the former.

Yes! Felt like an actual adventure and less of a roller coaster on rails.

This is why Everquest was so great for me. Leveling took a long time and you really got to explore the world. It would take teaming up with people just to make perilous journeys - this is something I don't think exists anymore in games. Additionally, gear lasted much longer. You could be using the same piece of armor for months potentially as you leveled in EQ. It really felt like you were building your character. Now in MMOs, it often feels like you are just checking boxes to get best-in-slot items so you can be like every other high level $build $class character.

Had a client that wanted a machine learning solution to determine if one name that was in one list was also in another list...

Would also like to get involved in one. My ML community right now is entirely those who work in my group.

On the topic of old email addresses, make sure your old email provider doesn't release your email address after so many years / months. This is a common way to get access to accounts by creating a new email account with the same address as an expired address and then using an email-based password reset to gain access to the account. Happened to my wife with an old email address from high school.

So my dream of an LBS ETF will remain a dream.

Netflix is the cost of renting The Office and Breaking Bad forever.

Linear algebra is probably my favorite part of math from a practicality standpoint. I'm not in a math heavy field, but knowing how to use matrices to solve optimization problems has been very helpful.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find those jobs as they would be exceedingly rare. FAANG companies can typically offer those salaries because they have the pipeline / structure to make new developers valuable and have the bankroll to support those salaries while you learn. Smaller companies without as much cash can't make that sort of investment.

If those sort of jobs exist for new hires, and I'm not sure they do for new grads, they'd most likely be small, extremely well-funded startups and they would be looking for a very specific skillset to drive value quickly (and typically a new grad wouldn't have those kinds of skills).

My two cents. I'm a decade past the new grad hustle and I haven't really kept my ear close to the ground, but I haven't heard of anything like what you are seeking.

This reminds of me "Typing of the Dead". It's like the arcade shooter House of the Dead, but instead of a light gun, you use your keyboard and shoot zombies by typing words to kill them. Pretty fun way to work on typing speed.

I don't doubt there's a market for that service.

What would be a viable alternative? I don't think they can just ignore the issue and, as you mention, can't review every single story. They'll have to rely on some form of sampling for the reviewers. Would it be better to just take a truly random sample of all reports? I don't think that would be very effective given the number of publications they have to review. Do you let users review the content for veracity? Seems like that just creates a situation where the group with the most participants pick the news. I'm not sure this is the optimal path, but to say that Facebook has learned nothing is disingenuous.

Probably the best live training I've ever attended for data warehousing.

I bet it's super reliable.

If it's not handled appropriately, you're potentially making a really poor-taste virtual roller coaster. It could easily be seen as making a spectacle of a national tragedy.

There's actually a start up that does this for AirBnBs called NoiseAware (I have no affiliation with them). I could definitely see that being interesting for more permanent rentals as well. Probably hard to get tenant consent though for that purpose.

Just curious - what sort of data would you want to track on tenants?

I'm sure some unfortunate developer in Japan has made this mistake as I've seen datetimes stored as strings in America.

There's also probably logic in UIs somewhere that uses the string representation for something more critical than you'd expect.

The address extraction piece would make an awesome API that you could charge for if it's effective. I imagine a lot of aggregators would pay for something like that.

I like this idea a lot, but not able to check it out due to 502 errors. Would like to see it when it's a bit more built out. What are you using for address extraction?

A password to an individual's CNN account could easily be their same login to their bank or other more important account.

It gets especially difficult with dynamic content or when trying to scrape sites written on very heavy frameworks like ASP.NET Webforms that require passing the view state with every request. I made a calendar aggregator for adult hockey times in my area that scrapes rink websites[0] and it was far more difficult than I had thought it would be because of the fact that the rinks all used Telerik Webforms controls to do their calendars. It turned a 30 minute job into a 2 hour job.

[0]: http://dpscschedule.azurewebsites.net/

I think this is more of a brainstorming tool to get ideas.

For instance, I found phishfish.com which I would have preferred over what I went with for my phishing simulation service.