thetmkay

8 ms·

1.
by thetmkay 9y ago
Thanks for the response - interesting set up especially with the use of Jupyter notebooks. It seems to be a case of always having a solution that's "the best of a bad bunch" rather than a "good" one. Like Churchill
2.
by thetmkay 9y ago
Thanks for the response, I appreciate the pragmatism in your advice. As with everything it seems to be a question of balance and circumstance.
3.
by thetmkay 9y ago
Could you explain how you get around the knowledge silo problem? Fungibility across the team is useful for resource allocation and can prevent bottlenecks - for example if a part of the codebase is higher priority or someone is ill or on ho
4.
by thetmkay 9y ago
The word "literal" here is slightly more complicated than in the usual commonplace misuse of the word. The author is trying to distinguish between "wallflower" the "socially awkward person" and "wallflower
5.
by thetmkay 10y ago
I think the "life" in life-style is the same "life" from work-life balance: ie, priorities outside of work. Therefore a lifestyle business is one where (supposedly) you sacrifice growth for time outside of work. The prob
6.
by thetmkay 10y ago
52% of 70% of the voting population said "No".
7.
by thetmkay 10y ago
Still 60-40 remain (of 3.7m), versus 62-38 (of 2.6m) in Scotland [0]. Looking at the majority of each constituency is misleading - it's a popular vote. There both strong pro-EU in numbers. [0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news&#
8.
by thetmkay 10y ago
What about German and French imports?
9.
by thetmkay 10y ago
Can London too?
10.
by thetmkay 10y ago
I voted today. I work in London at a startup with international markets. I believe in the ideal of free movement. I think the EU is a bit of a mess conceptually and mechanically, but in general a step forward for Europe. This is really the
11.
by thetmkay 10y ago
I am generally in favour of the idea of phone-free events, and I've been to one where where my phone was stapled in one of those "static-free" electronics plastic pouches. However, how far down the rabbit hole are we going to
12.
by thetmkay 10y ago
I've come to recently replace Twitter with Snapchat, having replaced Facebook Timeline with Twitter. The process is definitely cyclical, but there is at least one new emphasis that's changed: Content is treated as low-value, which
13.
by thetmkay 10y ago
> If you know that some percentage of your friends on social media are using "surveillance" tools, then you'll be more careful about what you post, because you will understand the true meaning of "public." Where
14.
by thetmkay 11y ago
On an semi-related note: Some of this sounds exactly like Gary Shteyngart's "Super Sad True Love Story". The way the girls talk to themselves and about other people, it's incredible a 40-year-old Russian male to capture
15.
by thetmkay 11y ago
Agreed. Many of the use-cases for ads have been replaced by search engines, marketplaces and aggregator sites. There's troves of information and access out there for a consumer to make informed purchasing choices. If I need something,
16.
by thetmkay 11y ago
Unfortunately this is socially positioned more like a TV or a games console, rather than a smartphone (used every day all day), which have much longer lifespans than a smartphone (5-10 years vs 2-5 years). The interesting question is how lo
17.
by thetmkay 11y ago
One of the reasons why it may lack real-world interest is lack of content. People need to believe in the medium and pioneer content in spite of lack of interest, in hope to generate that interest, or it will remain an unsolved chicken-and-e
18.
by thetmkay 11y ago
Why does it have to be fear, rather than preference? Maybe there's no data you're afraid of leaking, but you would prefer never to leak that data. It's a consumer choice - the problem here is lack of transparency/inf
19.
by thetmkay 11y ago
Equity can still be an incentive to work at a start-up - it's just not an incentive to take a pay-cut. Start-ups should lose its label as a cash cow - but it can still be: - a well-paying job - high impact - more freedom - good career
20.
by thetmkay 11y ago
I think PH suffers from an identity crisis. It started off as a curated newsletter and became a portal. It never fully embraced a community-driven approach (as evidenced by their opaque curation policy) nor a pivot to a more search engine&#
21.
by thetmkay 11y ago
> It's simply too alien for your typical CS grad In my university, Programming 101 (mandatory) was (and is) Haskell. For context, there is typically a mix of experience among the class - some will have programmed seriously before, b
22.
by thetmkay 11y ago
> I never contacted Facebook or Alex using my work email account. It was only after Alex contacted my employer via email that I sent a reply from my work account. Alex indirectly contacted me at work, not the other way around. From Wes&#
23.
by thetmkay 11y ago
(Slightly tangential) does anyone else predict and hope for a looser coupling between client and server? Even in the age of increased connectivity, an app or static client experience, rather than streaming (except for obvious cases like vid
24.
by thetmkay 11y ago
I've been using Fieldbook a little bit, and even playing around with their API. It's a great product I'm going to use more. Big fan - there have been several side projects where I've wanted to use Google Sheets as a prot
25.
by thetmkay 11y ago
What AR technology exists, and how good is it really? I think the big thing for AR is hands-free/HUD devices. There are niche use cases for phones, but they're described as CV problems rather than AR.
26.
by thetmkay 11y ago
The UI is the pitch - technology people can't use is useless to people (tautology). It's a commercial-like video to attract attention - but fair enough if it doesn't impress you. It's hard for me to judge UI without usin
27.
by thetmkay 11y ago
Hi Valentin, great video! Apologies I haven't looked at the technical stuff yet (so may be an obvious question), but I was wondering: Are the "API"s (what an object can be programmed to do) for the devices/objects (eg th
28.
by thetmkay 11y ago
Imagine you had a switch next to your bed. Most likely, the switch controls the lights, which is perfect when you want to turn them off and go to sleep. But maybe when you wake up, you'd actually want it to open the windows, or start t
29.
by thetmkay 11y ago
But will the service work in India?
30.
by thetmkay 11y ago
Thanks for the link! I will question the relevance of the first half of the talk (about CAs and SSL) in 2015, with TLS and the CA/B Forum. But his main thesis about trust agility is quite spot on. I'd never considered it before, a

More ›