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Wouldn't the people around you also benefit from these advances so in theory they wouldn't be dead in this scenario?

I think this is a huge misconception and I don't think it works this way. have you heard people say 50 is the new 40, etc.? The same thing would work at older ages. Sure the last 10 years are a decline, but you are pushing those years out not adding more of them.

Yeah makes sense, if you already have metal ships carrying goods there is no need to make additional ships just for protection. I suppose there could be an economic advantage if the pykrete ships can be made significantly cheaper and faster than the cargo ships.

It makes me wonder why Ukraine is so successful in the black sea with their sea drones vs. the Russian navy? Why wouldn't Russia have ships or something else blocking their battleships at port? It seems Ukraine is able to sink everything with ease at the moment.

What if, instead of building a full carrier out of pykrete, you instead build very simple pykrete ships that follow around the outside of a carrier group to add a layer of protection from torpedoes and sea drones?

Downtown Costco, is this Vancouver perhaps?

This is amazing. The other day I was looking to play "Don't Look Back" by Terry Cavanagh and the game is broken on his website:

https://terrycavanaghgames.com/dontlookback/

But this website has it!

https://flashmuseum.org/dont-look-back/

Awesome. It would be a shame if a great game like this were lost just because flash is no longer supported.

Chat-Clippy-T

Wedbush Center in LA is another classic example of this trick. <https://www.wedbushcenterla.com/>

The whole argument comes down to bursty vs. non-bursty workloads. What type of workloads make up the fat part of the distribution? If most use cases are bursty (which I would argue they are) then the author's argument only applies for specific applications. Therefore, most people do indeed see cost benefits from the cloud.

The submission page has a text box for submitting the story on a Google form. This seems like a bad experience. Can you also allow for submitting via a link to a Google Doc at least to preserve formatting of the text? I think this might be a better experience for the author. Just include an email address that the author should share the google doc with so you get access.

Why would it circumvent DRM? I'm assuming they would use the same DVDs for rental they currently use (similar to physical rental DVDs used by Blockbuster in the past).

Malaysia is working on a smart city from the ground up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFG-PIJ0GUE

I don't have a dog in this fight, however, I am curious. Who exactly are you? Who is this "we" you are referencing? And why does this comment need to be avoided?

Does any of this announcement affect Google Datalab? It feels like they keep Datalab as some second class citizen, that doesn't even get a spot in the menu bar in the cloud console and doesn't get any love when all of these let-us-build-the-model-for-you products get all of these announcements and upgrades.

Any chance there will be cron jobs for functions? Right now, I'm using AppEngine just to schedule a function to run.

To conclude that:

Google couldn't care less if their customers can figure out how to use their products.

That feels like a pretty strong leap to make from your complaint about using the term "reload" when "load" is better.

I can understand you are providing an example, and perhaps you feel the documentation has many such examples. From personal experience reading extensive documentation, I think you are being slightly unfair in this instance.

If I had to guess, given the speed of development of Google Cloud, it will take some time to get to the level of mature documentation of AWS who has had years of head start.

I just did the free trial and pasted in a current JD I have on some job boards. The user interface is nice and easy to use. I like that I was able to make updates and it would show my improved score in real time. However, now that I have improved one of my JDs, I will use that knowledge to improve the rest. So I feel like I have received all the value already present from the product. I'm not sure there is enough of a draw to spend $99 a month to check the content of my JDs. Also, I wish that it would give me suggestions for female oriented phrases as my JD uses 100% male language. I can't just come up with female phrases, I'm a guy! Overall, I like the product and I wish overall it had more advice to give in helping improve my recruiting process.

What percent of the population would have to stop eating meat all together in California to reduce consumption by the 20% that the Governor has called for?

Even if it is a global phenomenon, and even if the US is not the worst in terms of meat calories consumer per-capita, that doesn't negate the fact that we could still improve our environmental impact by eating less meat.

It's not a competition, we can still make an impact locally and globally by eating less meat.

This link states that beef are normally fed corn:

http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn/background.aspx

Also, cows can drink up to 30 gallons of water per day:

https://beef.unl.edu/amountwatercowsdrink

I don't know how we could consider it to be more efficient than simply eating other foods (i.e. plants) under any circumstance when all variables are considered.

The number 1 way to conserve water is to eat less meat. I don't think that people have learned this yet and most people have not changed their habits to consume less meat.

Serious question: why is it acceptable to change all kinds of behaviors, take shorter showers, fix leaks, turn off taps, and even install gray water systems, yet not change our behavior to eat less meat?

If you didn't eat beef for one day (1/2 lb beef = 1,250 gallons of fresh water) it could be the same as not showering for a month.

Sources: http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-practices-management/irr...

http://www.ewg.org/meateatersguide/interactive-graphic/water...

Programmers have been automating "programming itself" through the creation of higher level languages (ASM->OOP) and through things like libraries. Programmers are always thinking about how to automate the automating. The entire notion of abstraction could be thought of as automation.

Literacy in programming does help people recognize ways of reducing human effort. I believe it fundamentally changes the way you think especially in areas of analysis, reasoning and problem identification.

Ok, so I've been sitting here thinking for awhile now because I have the exact same feelings that you do about the growth hacking buzzword. I went and read your blog post and I have the exact same sentiment. I am a marketer and coder, so in theory I should love this new definition of "growth hacker" because it describes perfectly what I do.

So why does the term bother us so much?

Let me reiterate what you said in the other thread:

"I have a huge respect for both Ellis and Chen, and stated that on several occasions in the blog post. The same goes for what 'growth hackers' do, in fact, I could call myself one since I do both marketing and coding! I just don't like the term growth hacker, as this is just another buzz word for something that just isn't new."

I think the real reason we distaste this new buzzword, isn't because it is 'new' or a 'buzzword', but the PEOPLE that are now calling themselves growth hackers. Basically anyone who was previously a digital marketer, seo specialist, page optimizer, inbound marketer is jumping all over the term. Posts like this one, where it feels like it is equating people who use Geckoboard with growth hackers starts to become disturbing. Just using these tools doesn't make you a hacker.

The definition of growth hacker is solidifying, but it seems to be getting more generic by the day. If I could throw my hat in the growth hacker definition ring it would include these things:

1. Can Code

2. Integrates growth at the product development stage (e.g. AirBnb using Craigslist)

3. Comes up with innovative/clever new techniques

For #1, I think it IS essential. People will probably argue that point, but if you can't code you don't really know what is in the realm of possible. #2 is just marketing: growth hackers are marketers and product development is marketing.

The problem I see, is that there will be job descriptions for growth hackers used as band-aids after a product has been developed. People will just hire them hoping to grow their business, yet a growth hacker should be a position from the early stages of development.

Sadly, it looks like the new buzzword is taking a death spiral that will ultimately make it a meaningless differentiator for people who can actually do #1,2,3.