Working in this area the biggest challenge is getting the details right. Small difference like cut-outs on a dress make a huge difference in terms of end-user relevance. Same for colors, millennial orange comes in many shades. Deep Learning is pretty bad with such details.
One driver was the huge popularity of jailbroken apps. I think whether Apple wanted or not that they had to put a official AppStore out. The demand for 3rd party apps was insane.
I know OP asked for it but how do you suggest a web stack without evening knowing what the use case is? "Wanted to quickly put together a simple website", sounds like html / css might be enough.
Would love to see stats on building lifetimes across cohorts, e.g. do buildings from 80s, 90s etc have similar life span or are they demolished sooner.
Interesting, will read up on these. There's ten years difference between early Apple and late Apple Jobs so maybe things were different for Carmack. In the end, Jobs must have been doing something right given his track record.
I found the anecdotes from John Carmack about working with Jobs really interesting in this regard. Apart from being probably very smart Jobs did care a lot about the things they were building, and willing to throw everything overboard if you could convince him that an existing approach was not the right thing to do. It is something many managers or leaders lack IMHO, not willing to do the "right thing" because of politics, market studies or something else.
I've been in a similar situation (choice between Scala / Python / Go), the first person I hired was a Go guy so that became the default. We ended up using Go for APIs / web stuff and Python for data science and modelling.
My guess is owning the user time, e.g if you read article via AMP you don't even visit the original website anymore. Same with providing answers directly in the search results.
I couldn't find any info on the list what makes the people awesome speakers or criteria for being included on the list. Don't mean to sound negative, but anybody can put up repo with random people names and call them awesome.
Can someone point me to studies that model the effect of replacing all fuel-based vehicles with electric counterparts on availability of things like rare earth metals? I'm all for electric cars and such but have been wondering about the consequences on earth resources since current battery tech is not exactly environmentally-friendly either afaik.
on 1) Recent touch-based CC terminals are really fast, and often don't require a PIN if the amount is less than 10€. I've stopped using cash since with these terminals CC are faster than paying in cash.
The content ads in the article like "Rich people use these 6 mental tricks to make more money" or "How rich people save" are kind of funny - and sad at the same time.