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cloudwizard | 6 years ago | on: The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is being extended through May

The local public health departments need time to get testing and tracing working. It is the only way to open up safely. We are way behind the Asian countries that learned the lessons of SARS.

cloudwizard | 6 years ago | on: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

I added Draymond Green

https://colornames.org/search/results/?query=draymond+green

Because, why not.

cloudwizard | 6 years ago | on: The hard part of the economics of Covid-19

It seems like the countries that are doing the best are Taiwan, Singapore, and HK.

https://time.com/5802293/coronavirus-covid19-singapore-hong-...

Taiwan can produce 10M masks per day in country of 23M

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/taiwan-sets-world-fight-corona...

cloudwizard | 6 years ago | on: Microsoft plots the end of Visual Basic

When MS dumped VB6, I dumped microsoft. Never looked back.

cloudwizard | 6 years ago | on: Boeing Weighs Cutting or Halting 737 Max Production

The engines are visibly different. They are huge.

cloudwizard | 6 years ago | on: Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement

I would wonder what the standards used are. There was a recent article about how students are less prepared for University since Common Core was implemented. Maybe the advanced class is easier that it ever was.

The biggest problem with education for gifted or even average students is that our standards are too low. It would be like if we set a 10 minute max for the mile run. Anybody that could run faster would still get a 10Min score. Then we rate the school based on the average running time of the entire student body.

There is no incentive to push kids faster than 10 min. All the resources go into the 2 kids on crutches.

cloudwizard | 6 years ago | on: Nearly half of white Harvard students are athletes/children of alumni/donors

only 26 percent of the white athletes, legacies, dean’s listers, and faculty children Harvard admitted between 2009 and 2014 would still make the cut based on, say, their grades.

https://slate.com/business/2019/09/harvard-admissions-affirm...

cloudwizard | 7 years ago | on: NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35491962

Could this be it?

cloudwizard | 7 years ago | on: Amazon Sets Its Sights on the $88B Online Ad Market

Probably a bigger issue for Amazon is that a large part of the ad market is competitors or potential competitors. Walmart, Safeway, and Azure won't be advertising on Amazon.

Does P&G want Amazon to control more of the retail market? Not if it has any brains. Amazon has it's own branded home speaker systems and will not sell Google's. If Amazon brought out a shampoo brand, would it sell head and shoulders?

cloudwizard | 7 years ago | on: LEGO built a life-size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces

stock LEGO in sets is around 10 cents per piece. technics are more expensive. Looking at Ebay, it looks like 30-50 cents on average. You are looking at $200K to $400K for the 1M Technics pieces. They said the motors cost $70K. Say up to $500K for LEGO including custom elements.

cloudwizard | 7 years ago | on: Getting Google to ban our entire company

My experience with Microsoft was different. Back in the day, I installed IIS server ( MS official web server) and it wiped my system. I called customer support and they said that I needed to reinstall to fix it. I re-installed everything. Installed IIS and everything was wiped again. Customer Support said that they could not help and I should wait for the next patch.

cloudwizard | 8 years ago | on: I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores

Correct link to pwabuilder is https://www.pwabuilder.com/

cloudwizard | 8 years ago | on: CEO of Bulletproof Coffee shares why he left Silicon Valley and moved to Canada

Some people consider their children their first priority. Why the US education system is failing above average children is a different argument. I send both my kids to private school and consider it a necessity.

cloudwizard | 8 years ago | on: Inside Vancouver's Brock Commons, World's Tallest Mass Timber Building (2017)

The speed of construction is due to prefab wood. Prefab concrete would be just as fast or faster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwvmru5JmXk

It has nothing to do with wood. Wood could be easier on the environment though.

cloudwizard | 8 years ago | on: Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python

I would pay double if the app produced was a progressive web app.

cloudwizard | 8 years ago | on: When Citi Bikes Are Faster Than Taxis in New York City

If you are commuting on Caltrain in SF, it is way easier to take the citibikes. Only a relatively short distance in SOMA and way faster. When I went south to the tech campuses, I brought my own bike on the train.

There are a few bikers that cause problems. I was driving in Palo Alto yesterday and a cyclist insisted on using the car lane instead of a perfectly good bike lane.

cloudwizard | 8 years ago | on: Managed SSL for Google App Engine

Any chance that you will support wildcard domain names?

cloudwizard | 8 years ago | on: 42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S

In US HS, the grades are going up but the world rankings are dropping. Our kids are not being prepared to be competitive.

https://qz.com/1032183/no-wonder-young-americans-feel-so-imp...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/17/easy-a-nearly...

https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/sei/edTool/data/highschool-08.html FYI - It may not look like much on the graph but the US is 2 years behind the top rankers.

cloudwizard | 8 years ago | on: 42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S

I was CTO at 2 startups during the first Internet boom. I was getting resumes from janitors that were offering to be trained.

I had to hire most of the teams from Canada.

cloudwizard | 9 years ago | on: Remove United from your flight results

My story about United was when I was flying from Vancouver to SFO. For some reason, we could not land at SFO so we ended up in Oakland. I said fine. Let me off and I will catch a cab.

They said that the plane was too big for Oakland. We sat on the runway for 2 hours then flew back to Vancouver with nothing put warm coke. By the time we got to Vancouver, it was late so so all airport and hotel food was closed. We had vouchers but nothing available to spend it on.

Of course they lied about the plane being too large, another airline flew the same plane to Oakland regularly. i had to spam fax their customer support line to get vouchers.