carusooneliner

Thanks for the tip.

Any suggested readings on decentralized finance? I've circled the topic a bit but didn't find an introduction to fire my imagination.

Enjoyed reading your article. It's honest and your rationale is well laid out.

Avi Loeb's technical work is commendable but I'm left wondering if some of the reasoning in this article counts for thoughtful contemplation.

"We may be a phenomenon as uninteresting to them as ants are to us; after all, when we’re walking down the sidewalk we rarely if ever examine every ant along our path." Is it helpful to ascribe human-like motives to an alien species? Projecting our thought patterns on an alien species will not get us anywhere. There could be numerous reasons or no reason in particular why an alien lifeform might visit us: they are cataloging lifeforms, they are interested in 'ants' like EO Wilson, they might want to harvest resources on our planet, etc.

"But better yet, we could get in touch with Proxima b and entice the locals to visit and share a water-based drink with us." There's humor mixed in this statement, so I'm not sure if Avi Loeb is being entirely serious. I take the opposite stand of "don't broadcast our presence to aliens". It's common sense that if you're out in the wild, you don't draw attention to yourself.

We are seeing an elevated rate of failures on our service, which depends on AWS Cognito. Tweeted an update on it: https://twitter.com/outklip/status/1331705524396625924

Funny this blog in support of caffeine comes out when I'm two weeks into kicking my coffee habit. Are people going caffeine-free en masse?

In my case, I paid more attention to what I was consuming and coffee seemed like a good thing to drop.

Helper video that demonstrates how the app can be used: https://outklip.com/v/-M2XDVjxnjkVNVqfCszn

From the author's search result and a quick test I ran, it appears that the specific problem here is Google doesn't seem to "understand" Reddit. If it did, search results would be based on relevancy of comments on the Reddit page, posted in the specified timeframe.

Physics videos by Eugene (excellent animation videos explaining physics, mathematics and electrical engineerin concepts): https://www.youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutoryansky

Posted a blog on youtube channels I enjoy: https://sunilkowlgi.com/learning-stuff-on-youtube/

If a website attempts to record screen, Chrome will pop up a modal dialog asking user to select if they want to record entire desktop, application window or tab. The user has to opt in every time before any screen recording takes place.

Outklip is a Chrome extension with a few additions compared to QuickTime:

* It lets you record camera along with screen, so you can be seen in the video. Gives videos a personal touch.

* Videos on Outklip are automatically uploaded to cloud storage, which lets you share them via a link instantly after recording. Saves you the step of uploading the video to gdrive, dropbox, etc. before sharing. The video creator can see who viewed and when.

* An easy to use video editor, which lets you add text labels, remove parts of video, crop region of video, convert to gif, etc.

* A YouTube integration that lets you post videos quickly and easily.

One thing Outklip lacks is the ability to record a selected portion of the screen, which Quicktime supports.

Hope this helps.

My old company had the word 'Instruments' in its name but it was not a competitor to Texas Instruments. When I would meet people and tell them where I worked, they would often confuse it with TI. This was so widespread that my company made a t-shirt that had on it the slogan 'We don't make calculators.'

Panchatantra -- more than 1000yr old collection of fables from India. It's a kind of self help book that uses vivid storytelling with animal characters, to impart practical life lessons.

Start with Google Scholar's list of top publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues, and detect self-citing and citing rings within the universe of these publications. Almost certainly the guy with the record for self-citing doesn't have a paper in any of the top publications.

It's what you make and how you make money. If you make hardware or software and that's your primary source of revenue, you're tech.

Regrettable that the article begins by outing a prof from an unheard of university in India, who probably publishes in low repute journals and conference. Ideally the citing malfeasance score should be weighted based on journal and conference reputation.

Talk less and listen more. Learn to ask good questions. You can have an interesting conversation with anyone and life won't be boring.

Took DDG Enhanced Maps for a test drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EnmdbzdOWI

Video of the speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JRyy2MM-rI

Video of the Peter Thiel speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JRyy2MM-rI

The one I'm familiar with is ffmpeg, a free, programmatic tool for simple to advanced use cases: https://ffmpeg.org/

Excellent, this explains it. The YouTube video you shared says the trick is to create a resumable upload using YouTube API. The steps involved :

1. create a resumable session (here we specify video length in bytes)

2. YouTube returns a session URI which contains the upload ID

3. create a video with the upload ID baked in (edit video to match length from step 1)

4. upload video to the session URI

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/using_resuma...

How Baumol got the insight, from his obituary in the WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/articles/baumol-diagnosed-the-disease-of... [paywall]):

"Dr. Baumol’s insight in the 1960s was that costs inevitably rise fastest for things that are difficult to automate, including medical care, garbage collection and the live performance of a Mozart string quartet.

It came to him in the middle of the night.

“It was 4 in the morning,” he recalled in an oral history. “I suddenly woke up and said I know why those costs are going up! I got up, wrote down a few notes, and went to sleep again.” His theory became known as Baumol’s Cost Disease."

You could be direct with the coworker and call them out on their ulterior motive to pad their resume, but if you've misjudged their motive you'll look silly. If being direct is not an option, attempts to dissuade the coworker from using shiny tech overall won't work. Two suggestions --

* A more granular pushback is needed, for instance, "we shouldn't be using package X because it's not MIT license" or "the package has a higher memory footprint for what we need, have you tried package Y instead."Document these pushback arguments into a checklist to ensure your coworker has checked off before using new shiny tech.

* Convince others rather than your coworker of arguments against using shiny packages, articulated in terms of delay, extra cost, problems down the road, etc. It's an indirect approach but you won't be alone in pushing back on the coworker's scheme.

You're absolutely right, the environment ('market') matters as much as what you bring to the table ('product'). I've been in similar situations before where I've gone from being highly regarded by one manager to being regarded as average by the next manager. In a situation like this, it's best to change teams. While scouting for a team, pick one that gets a lot of attention from company leadership as they tend to focus their attention on teams with growth prospects. A team with growth will have more room for you to shine.

During coding interviews, I'm looking for the following evidence in a candidate:

1. how good is the candidate at problem solving?

2. is the candidate able to think in code?

3. are there any glaring syntax errors?

To assess the above three, a whiteboard, paper or Google Docs is sufficient. I'm not averse to using an IDE, just that the IDE's syntax checking hints will shift the candidate's focus to writing syntactically accurate code (#3) rather than on the problem (#1 and #2).

I have a software startup and was in SS in 2017 with an assigned mentor and a second time in 2018 but without an assigned mentor. The 2017 SS experience was a lot better because of two things: 1. My cohort of startups was quite involved in meetings and forum discussions 2. our mentor has an agenda for weekly group meetings and gave every group a chance to talk about their progress. It comes down to these two things -- cohort and mentor -- and YC picks them for you, so YMMV.

MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology, videos on molecular biology research by Nobel Prize winners from the institute: https://www.youtube.com/user/LMBCambridge/videos

Leiden University, video series on Philosophy of the Humanities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ChzesrWKI&list=PLPeStI124d...

Computer Chronicles, TV show on computer technology from the 80s and 90s: https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerChroniclesYT/videos

Peter Thiel's talks and interviews: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ObfUE2qbhzkC11v0WQtQg/vid...

Best of Startup Secrets featuring Michael Skok: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxpB5Hi17Tp2cAs_OoRZS...

Try video for leadership updates - it's more personal than written communication so helps build trust and you can explain things clearly with emphasis.

Couple ways you could do it: 1. a webcam recording of yourself, using quicktime (only on mac) or similar webcam recording tool 2. a screen recording where you talk through a slide deck of news, roadmap, etc. Again, using quicktime or chrome extensions such as the one I built: https://outklip.com. Outklip's advantage is you can record webcam along with screen, annotate during recording, do post-editing and upload to YouTube with a click.

I interiewed Sid Sijbrandij, the GitLab CEO (GitLab has 500+ members and is all remote) on running a distributed company. He said this about alignment: "I think it’s really important to write things down. People are very efficient at reading things. So, if you wrote it down you can refer to it, so you don’t have to say everything again, you can just drop a link. So, we write down a lot, in our handbook, on our OKRs page, you’ll find all our goals and strategy, etc. And at some point you keep repeating that, keep dropping those links and you keep answering questions. So, repetition is still needed, repetition is easier if you have one writeup and most people have already found it even during onboarding.". Interview video and notes here: https://outklip.com/blog/gitlab-building-a-distributed-compa...

Another interview with Sid about how GitLab uses video for remote work: https://outklip.com/blog/using-video-for-remote-work/.

Recommend skipping the article with the clickbait title and instead read the Dalio essay on which the article is based: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-how-capitalism-needs-refo...