arvinaminpour

TikTok seemed to run off of Alibaba Cloud (from what I read which may be wrong) so it's an interesting move to buy Cloud Services from Google. I probably read this as a way of strengthening the case that they're an "American" software company since they run on the same infrastructure as any SV startup.

Loved this TedX talk that Michael gave a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWR31GRu3_A

"I really think the act of making and doing things is the salvation of our crumbling society. It has to be as someone commented over lunch -- creation is the opposite of destruction."

RIP

I remember our high school history teacher taking us to an aviation museum in Toronto. They had a section of the plane out on display and it was a beautiful piece of work.

But I'll never forget the way the tour guide described the story of the arrow and the hurt in his voice as he recanted the decision to scrap the plane.

For that generation of Canadian aviation geeks, it was truly a gut punch.

My masterpiece https://music-grid.surge.sh/#2569-20-130-0-40-64-544-21-72-1...

I have a personal theory that Reddit is a great source of startup ideas. There are many communities that have special behaviours that can be a source of inspiration for such ideas. A good example is /r/borrow where you can take a loan from another person in the community. But targeting niche subreddits is a very good strategy :)

I've noticed it makes sign ups super easy which is great if you're building a new service and want to get users fast.

But what I wrestled with is the verification of the user on the server side after they've signed up (Apple suggests doing a daily verification of each user that uses Sign in with Apple) and also the annoyance of setting up trusted domains to be able to email your users.

Overall, it's great for users and for privacy but gosh it's a nightmare to setup for developers. Hopefully, Apple can somehow make it more seamless for developers in the future.

His argument is to reduce mobility in the short term to combat the uncertainty and unknowns associated with the Coronavirus. The R0 (reproductive ratio) of the virus is increasing and it’ll probably take longer to know how much havoc it’ll reap.

It’s unclear to what level the paper is referring (reduce flights on a global level, between cities in China or people leaving areas where the contagion started)

Was looking at building something similar on top of Lambda but I'm so happy that I found this!

Quickly browsed through the code and I don't think it supports local pages but might throw a PR your way to add support if you don't mind. Thanks!

So this is something a lot of us have struggled with and I think it happens when your goals aren't aligned with your work.

So what are your goals right now out of work? What is your workview and your lifeview. Find the intersection between those to get a good idea of what you want to accomplish in your life.

After coming up with those, try and tabulate the things you do at work where you have the most energy and the stuff you do at work that engages you the most. Hopefully, there are things in that list that give you some energy or engagement. If there is, do more of that and tell your manager to help you move towards doing more of that work. If there isn't, ask yourself what you want to learn. If you can't learn that on your current team, switch to a position/team where you can learn that. If your company can't provide you with those opportunities, then it might be time to find something new.

Startups are super rewarding but there are many unknowns and you have to do a lot of vetting to find the right ones. Even then, you could be wrong. If your goal is to start a company, then it might be the right route to go.

TLDR: Try and understand your goals in life and what you enjoy doing day to day before jumping ship to a startup. Your safety net will allow you to do that :)

If anything, I think there's a lot of value for having people broadcasting on a community level.

In the era of the internet and hyper-connectivity, we've lost that sense of community and having local broadcasters that don't work for companies and don't have corporate agendas is a step towards restoring it.

The available local broadcast frequencies just need to be shared by people in the community and there has to be a strong sense of accountability for mess ups

Most companies are trying to find the "second act" and need to bump up ad impressions and revenue until they find that next source of revenue. For Google, it's been cranking up the number of Youtube ads displayed per video and also making various changes to the way Google search results are displayed (the ads seem to blend more into the results than before). But I've definitely noticed this myself.

Gotcha I thought that it might have been server driven clients similar to the way Spotify does it. But that makes sense :)

I'm always surprised at how people utilize Jupyter notebooks. What kinds of platforms/software do these firms use to perform the analysis?

Love this a ton! How does Netflix ensure reliability for those platforms with an ever growing codebase and the evolving business? Was the platform built to be extensible from the start?

If I were approaching this: - Posting on NYC subreddit - Pay students to put up posters around meters and garages

I'd focus on the area with the highest density of garage parks or areas where it's generally hard to park as you'd be solving 2 problems: figuring out where to park and pricing.

savage

I found myself in the cycle that you described up there for about 2 years almost a year ago especially with side projects. A couple of things I took away from that period:

1/ Being truthful w/ yourself on whether you are building something for yourself or building it because you are insecure and feel like you're falling behind people in the community (ie I'm building this because 3 of my friends are startup founders and I want to be one too because I'm just as good as them). If it's the latter, usually your willpower will fleet. I fell for this trap in my last project.

2/ Being truthful on what skills you have and can utilize for whatever you want to build. For my last project, I was working on a website and had no prior web skills besides HTML and basic JS. I took it on myself to learn React, Redux and the whole shebang. By the time my willpower fleeted, I had learned a lot but was maybe 50% through a project and I lost interest.

3/ Dividing your project up into small chunks. Take a subset of those chunks, throw it into your product and alpha/beta test it with friends and family. If you have nothing to show for your work after n months of work, it's very easy to give up.

4/ Constantly show people and get feedback. If you show people what you're working on and they give you insight, it'll energize you to build and continue down the journey. Otherwise, you'll feel like all your effort is wasted away towards a dream that seems more and more unreachable as time progresses

In closing, I do think some people are more disciplined and motivated than others but everyone falls into the same traps. But I'm sure the folks you site as more disciplined and self-motivated have fallen to these problems; just earlier in their lives.

TLDR: Understand your motivations, make sure what you're building makes you happy and tell folks about what you're building to get energized.