andrewparker's comments

If this is your cup of tea, it's worth reading about the Astor Place riots over Shakespeare performances in NYC

You are literally correct, but not engaging in the point. Meta shares in Scale are explicitly non-voting shares. Influence/control post minority investment matters as to whether the deal can be reviewed via Clayton Act. Meta did everything they could to avoid regulatory review with this transaction, and it worked.

This post doesn't quite comprehend why Meta made a 49% investment instead of an acquisition.

The path Meta chose avoided global regulatory review. FTC, DOJ, etc and their international counterparts could have chosen to review and block an outright acquisition. They have no authority to review a minority investment.

Scale shareholders received a comparable financial outcome to an acquisition, and also avoided the regulatory uncertainty that comes with govt review.

It was win/win, and there's a chance for the residual Scale company to continue to build a successful business, further rewarding shareholders (of which Meta is now the largest), which is just like wildcard upside and was never the point of the original deal.

iPhone 1 launched without cut/copy/paste

Socratic by Google still exists today and is a widely beloved app based on reviews. They had to rewrite the code and infrastructure, but "killing off the app" implies that they just shut things down. That never happened.

As for "happy story", I think the founders of Socratic learned a lot. Shreyans is just trying to share his learnings here. Not celebrate or mourn.

The deck plus the OEM dock with mouse, keyboard and monitor makes for a nice, cheap Linux desktop that you can grab-and-go to play games. The dock is really seamless, always works right away. If you're programming, I wouldn't recommend Deck without the dock.

echoes of United States v. Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

would be ironic if Mozilla played the next Netscape

Creation layer of the stack: Unity or Unreal.

This is a clever twist on unbundling. Well done.

Craigslist is misspelled (there is an "s" in it).

Giving me a photo credit would be courteous as the author of that image. https://thegongshow.tumblr.com/post/345941486/the-spawn-of-c...

You're talking about Presense, which is the point at which your brain flips and is convinced what its seeing is real.

Michael Abrash has a wonderful deck he wrote while at Valve about what it will take for VR to create Presense in the viewer. It's worth a read if you care about how we'll navigate past the uncanny valley of VR you describe: http://media.steampowered.com/apps/abrashblog/Abrash%20Dev%2...

Stephenson considers much of his position in "In The Beginning..." to be out of date at this point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Com...

CSS (like all written works) is copyrightable, so if there is clear evidence that the CSS was copy/pasted, CB Insights would have a case on that basis. Damages would be negligible, so it would not be a case worth pursuing.

Does this BS marketing PR stunt qualify Nature-published research papers for Gates Foundation-backed research now? Meaning: does this announcement qualify Nature as "open" enough for the Gates Foundation?

Neal Stephenson identified this same issue, and created Project Hieroglyph as his solution. They're about to release their first anthology of optimistic, progressive sci-fi short stories this fall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hieroglyph

A good complement to this set of challenges is Dan Boneh's Crypto class on Coursera. The coursera class is more theory-driven, whereas these challenges are more practical... they mix well. https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto

I don't think the author jumps to conclusion prematurely. He hates all this factory, provider, blah, blah nonsense, and I can identify with the feeling.

He is however guilty of lacking originality in his post because Joel Spolsky made the author's point much better about 9 years ago: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.219431.12

I received a phishing email from the author. I guess he must have scraped my email address from a blog post I wrote about bitcoin and coinbase.

While I am glad he has made attempts to contact Coinbase, I felt like live execution of the attack was spammy, so my first instinct was the block the domain of the sender's email, which Coinbase passes through to me. In execution of his proof of concept, the author is likely badly ruining his spam score / sender score.

You need to read to the end of the post to understand PG's analogy. There is software that controls the charging rate of the battery that (if the claims are correct) could be fundamentally disruptive to batteries going forward, so the Altair analogy implies a potential software licensing strategy as an upside in this company.

Good summary of human being's advantage in the war. But don't forget bacteria's key advantage: iteration speed.

Bacteria may be blind and and random in their micro-level behavior. But the speed at which they replicate is multiple orders of magnitude faster than the speed at which we can test and iterate new defenses.

It's a race of blindingly fast random iterations VS top-down snail-paced logical defense. If human's are to win, I think they will need to bump up the defensive iteration time an order of magnitude or so.

Implementing the Trie (on paper, in C) was about 50% of my final exam on my intro to CS undergrad class at Stanford. We had never seen Tries befor that point, but we had done a variety of trees, so we had the necessary prior experience. It was a fun exam and a very memorable experience.