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Amazing concept!

how long before reddit is also gamed by paid influencers or bots?

The irony, coming from a non anonymous blog

Probably will get downvoted for this, but I think the halo around reading books is overrated. You can gather ample amount of knowledge just as well via a series of essays online, podcasts, and sometimes even twitter threads.

Most of the books, for example, introduce a radical new idea and then elaborate on that needlessly for 400 pages. I found Sapiens to be one such book.

Even if the idea/premise is insightful, there is often a lot of redundancy in the pages. We should value brevity more.

Of course, this might not apply to all books. Textbooks/Reference books can happily coexist with online tutorials/blogs. Even certain nonfiction books (Thinking Fast and Slow comes to mind) might be best presented in a book format.

HBO is betting on their content to be superior right now, but there are some obvious areas where the streaming experience isn't on par with Netflix. No 4K/HDR, one plan costing a premium that limits simultaneous streaming to only 3 screens, etc.

Hope that they catch up eventually else it's gonna be hard to compete solely based on content.

I would have guessed AWS from your post since it's the more notorious one about bad WLB. As a new grad SDE1, things are bit horrifying especially since I've onboarded remotely.

Was your original team in retail or AWS? Also how do you figure out what team is good/bad when trying to switch teams?

Perhaps a sign of things to come, podcasts, like RSS and feeds will eventually just be something you'll find exclusive on a dominant web platform. Sucks.

>"First, tech should embrace and accelerate distributed work. It makes tech more accessible to more people. It seeds more parts of the country with potential entrepreneurs. It dramatically decreases the cost of living for employees. It creates the conditions for more stable companies that can take on less risky yet still necessary opportunities that may throw off a nice dividend instead of an IPO. And, critically, it gives tech companies a weapon to wield against overbearing regulation, because companies can always pick-up-and-leave."

The next big "tech" revolution is working from home -- and distributed working. It has been around, like the way smartphones were around before the iPhone -- in concept, but never realized in practicality. It is an imperative that tech should accelerate and develop a cohesive set of products that will enable iPhone like working from home.

Wasn't talking about the bears specifically, but yes, this should enable us for a greater call to action to save our ecological systems.

I wonder if we can create ways in which this will remain enabled even post the COVID crisis. Limit the amount of visitors, keep the parks open only during certain months of the year, etc.

Except plumbing or electrical trade school certification doesn't help you achieve that either

It has a paywall, forces users to have an account to read the stories published on the platform. It's not a champion of the open web, either.

http://scripting.com/liveblog/users/davewiner/2016/01/20/090...

I mean, he's talking about journalistic standards. Having an open web is crucial for having good journalism on the web.

Blogger and Tumblr aren't like Medium; maybe a good comparison for them would be Wordpress. Twitter's official blog isn't on Medium. So doesn't "have" it - blog.twitter.com

Slightly off topic, but the fact that the world's richest man who owns a tech giant chose to publish this on a closed platform like Medium should be worrisome for the future of the open web. On the other hand, this might just be the biggest brand endorsement for Medium till date.

Why is this suddenly on the front page?

Fascinating. I've seen that at a lot of shops and places in Japan they go beyond the 24 hours – indicating continuity in a way.

For example of a shop is open in the pattern –

Monday, January 8th 21:00 till Tuesday, January 9th 02:00

The Japanese signboards will denote it as -

Open on Monday, 8th Jan 21:00-26:00

I think it's we quite convenient and let's the people know that the shop's time pattern sort of carries on from the previous day onto the next.

I went to the Startup cafe a couple of times, but I failed to grasp all the general amazement around it. I hoped to meet new people and learn about their entrepreneurial activities, but again, the people didn't speak English; and those that did, didn't seem interested.

>This process is hard but not as nightmarish as people who don't live in the country reading articles make it sound.

Agree wholeheartedly. Been living in Fukuoka myself for the past two years, and I cannot help but notice that the foreign population here has been steadily growing. Although the city is marketing themselves to be the new Startup hub in Japan, I still think it has to be as global as say, Tokyo, to catch up. English is also not so commonly spoken here as Tokyo.

This guy never replies to any emails.

Fair enough, although my statement was more about the amount of sunlight they get per day, for all days of the year versus someone closer to the poles having to adjust to constant fluctuations.

You're right when you say that they get ~12 hours every single day, but their clocks would still have to account for the slight changes (by a few minutes) in time for the sunrise. Which means changing their clocks everyday/every few days, based on the sunrise. But for what? They anyway get ~12 hours sunlight, so it's not a worthy tradeoff for them, compared to someone in Massachusetts.

If only humans worked like batteries, soaking up the summer sun to use it in winters..

This is a good suggestion, however, it might not be useful globally. People in the tropics/around the equator get so much sunlight that they would not want to trade the convenience of our current time systems with having to adjust it based on the sun just for that extra daylight.

It's kinda surprising how frequently rewrites occur across tech companies; considering rewrites can essentially stop the development of any new features in the product. I was recently part of one such huge rewrite, albeit it was truly necessary since we were porting from a 1970s COBOL based Mainframe to a Java based Middleware solution. This rewrite itself caused blocked any other development projects for the last 6 months and sucked in a lot of resources.

Isn't sticking to a stable tech stack that helps run production smoothly and let the developers have their peace of mind better? Rewrites might be essential, but only in the cases where your technology is seriously ancient.

Is this only due to the crazy front-end and JS frameworks world or am I missing something else here?

This is interesting! Even in Hindi, the bun type of bread as paõ. Could be very well derived from Portuguese

This article is like scaremongering, partly about how Google and Facebook are selling ads but interlaced with "SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER!", all the same. Some posts can be so ironical.

Exactly my thought. They might have gamed HN too!

Reminds me of the Book of Genesis recital on Apollo 8. You don't really leave room for secularism or diversity if you read from the scripture of a single religion when you are representing a nation of diverse beliefs, or even worse, humans on Planet Earth.

This should have been titled "A brief history of Google Fiber" instead.

"Status could also open up new advertising opportunities for WhatsApp. If it followed Snap and Instagram’s lead, it could insert full-screen ads in-between friends’ Statuses."

If this is implemented, it'd be a shame, coming from a company that posted this - https://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads