mattwg's comments

mattwg | 9 years ago | on: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google

I think it makes a bit of sense. For a lot of companies Twitter is already a major point of customer interaction and retention. Maybe Salesforce feels like they could monetize that aspect of Twitter, with the advantage that a ton of consumers are already there and using it.

mattwg | 9 years ago | on: OS X-KVM: Running Mac OS X El Capitan on KVM and QEMU

Thanks for following up with details! I wasn't aware you could do this with Messages, that's a nice interface to know about.

mattwg | 9 years ago | on: Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100

> Do you really believe this? They are doing so using a private company.

Do you have to be a non-profit to do good?

> I hope the pitchforks come out against Chan Zuckerberg. They are doing everything possible to build exactly the opposite kind of world that they claim to promote.

I don't know enough specifics about Chan Zuckerberg to respond to this. Sounds like I need to do some more reading, are there any particular resources you've found useful?

mattwg | 9 years ago | on: Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100

I hadn't heard about that before, thanks for sharing it. The idea makes for a comically evil headline, but it isn't obvious to me that the concept is necessarily nefarious or exploitative. It seems very similar to the blood transfusions we already do today to stop people from dying.

mattwg | 9 years ago | on: OS X-KVM: Running Mac OS X El Capitan on KVM and QEMU

> I ended up just scripting Messages.app on a real Mac and that works really well, even 2 years after. I remote control my house that way.

That sounds pretty neat, do you have more details written down anywhere?

mattwg | 9 years ago | on: Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100

How is this true of the Gates Foundation? Or Good Ventures? Chan Zuckerberg is specifically aimed at improving equality. Do you have any actual examples of wealthy philanthropists using "the rest of us" as guinea pigs to cure themselves of disease?

ryandrake's point is an important one, but I don't think this level of cynicism is justified.

mattwg | 11 years ago | on: How to Squeeze a Huge Ship Down a Tiny River

Yikes, gotta be confident about that one. Apparently the Oasis of the Seas is also able to retract it's chimneys (I'm sure that's not the correct word) to get a bit of extra clearance.

Video of this ship, and it's sister ship Allure of the Seas, going under the Great Belt Bridge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Opr17Zw11E