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Not a book but the novella “the machine stops” by E. M. Forster. I read this in the late nineties and it still pops up in my head frequently — especially in our age of the internet.
I found E M Forster’s novella “The Machine Stops” in the same league as the above: it is about the human condition, and technology is just a setup to talk about that.
An aside: the title is a great example of context sensitivity. On first glance, I interpreted the title as some serious bug in garbage collection algorithms/Systems (as in, they open some library that was an abandonware).
Remains to be seen how this impacts the US universities. Part of the incentive for the international students to choose the US over other countries for higher studies is because there are some seriously great professional opportunities after the studies if you can immigrate. For example, our industry is centered in the US, the US is truly a super power in research, the US mindset (startups, relatively merit-driven systems) etc compared to other developed western countries.
If there is no clear path to immigration, and if high quality education becomes relatively easily available (see: western universities setting up centers in the east), that can dry up the desire to choose a US based university I think.
Sent. First world problem admittedly.
This is fantastic. The exercises are non-trivial enough to be useful. One minor suggestion: if you can have the favicon set to your gopher, it can be great. Mine is a potentially narrow use case, but after logging in, I pinned this to a tab in safari, and the G throws me off a little.
Serious question: what is an AI coprocessor technically? Some machine learnt models burned on a chip? Or some kind of a neural net with updatable weights?
In my experience, the notion of "change the world" has no age bar sadly. Also, "change the world" is often thrown about in arguably shallow contexts. But then look at how Facebook got started, and it is fair to say that it has changed the world. My point? I agree with you, but I am not sure if that's just cynicism because arguably "shallow" companies have changed the world for real.
Sorry I never visited back. Yes, google tried it with Hangouts. Internationally, you can use Hangouts for wifi calling through google voice, but that did not work in the US for some reason last I checked.
I design/write software; mostly distributed middleware in the internet industry.
Fragmented messaging/phone calls and inability to have "seamless" conversations. For example: WhatsApp, iMessages, google voice, SMS, etc. Also for phone calls: FaceTime audio, carrier routed calls, google voice, Vonage extensions, etc.
How I wish there were central dashboards that intelligently sift through call/message history for each contact based on context across apps and just routes the message/call through right primitive.
I am clueless about the right etiquette, but can anyone share some high quality publications in the similar vein? Mainly interested in "head content" that is not a book, but a set of relevant, contemporary articles around our trade.
I think FB does not have to be a PayPal, and there are many good reasons outlined in these comments already why that is a bad idea.
However, it can become some kind of market place. It already knows user locality, it already has people flocking to it. It already has big brand stores sharing discounts and coupons to consumers.
All it needs to do is finish the last mile and allow those brands to actually have a "Facebook-only Sale", for example.
Also, it can become a great "local market place", and can help local businesses to sell to local customers.
TLDR: not just ads, and not necessarily a payment gateway, but a niche market place could be it.
Interesting.
I am wondering how this is going to be better/different than a smart search engine, or a travel/review site that may be entrenched in its space for a long time and may have a lot of UGC around places.
E.g. A google or yahoo search on best coffee shops in San Francisco turns up a list, a map and links to sites like yelp with a lot of UGC. What would a user gain from using tripful? Just wondering.
Interesting concept. I started in the SF bay area in the US, and did not see anything. Then I zoomed out all the way, and Australia lit up with notes :-)
Do you plan to add a timeline? It can be interesting to see opinions about a place over a time period.
Thank you. I was a little concerned when my MBP spewed out a list with this option. I tried a little look-up on why that is normal.
From the manpage:
When +L is followed by a number, only files having a link count less than that number will be listed. (No number may follow -L.) A specification of the form ``+L1'' will select open files that have been unlinked. A specification of the form ``+aL1 <file_system>'' will select unlinked open files on the specified file system.
On my MBP (SL) at least, all the files listed with +L1 are from /private/var/folders/
A quick search seems to hint that this is the location to store secure caches and temp files for Snow Leopard.