Brainix

About a year ago, I got hit on the head (hard) with a metal pole at 9:30 AM, on my way to BART to get to work. The guy asked for my phone. I was too disoriented to take it out of my pocket. He grabbed my earbuds (but didn't get my phone) and walked away.

I lost a lot of blood and had a bad concussion. In the ambulance on my way to the hospital, I couldn't recall my zipcode. I needed seven large staples in the back of my head. After that, the mental fog persisted for about two weeks and I wasn't productive at work.

Up until that point, nothing bad had happened to me. Thankfully, I'm ok now, but I'll never live in Oakland again.

On OkCupid. Not even kidding.

Can't you see? You're not making toothpaste better. You're making coffee worse.

Google built GSA at a time when there were limited options for search, and when most tech companies had to manage their own hardware, and when it was magical to have any kind of search at all. It made sense at the time.

But now, the problem itself has changed. Companies host on the cloud, there are many options for search (even hosted/managed solutions), and customers' expectations are very high for good search results. All of this boils down to the biggest issue that most companies face re: search - the business logic of providing fast/good search results (rather than maintaining a search engine itself). Also, companies increasingly view search engines as a first class information retrieval system (a good compliment to a source-of-truth database), which can empower internal analytics to make business decisions.

Most companies don't need/want Googly algorithms/hardware to power their search. I'm guessing here, but I bet that recent versions of Solr and Elasticsearch put the last nails in GSA's coffin.

The Essential Calvin and Hobbes. That book taught me to be a decent person.

Dear 2016,

You haven't figured it out yet, but we consider advertising unethical.

Yours, 2066

Who's got two thumbs and has already deployed Flask 0.11 to production? This guy.

If it had been a men's coding school, it would've been acquired for $25M.

Edit: Apologies, couldn't resist.

We're painting in broad strokes as there are exceptions to every trend. But in my experience, bootcamp graduates are more like tinkerers and university graduates are more like engineers.

Most bootcamps don't cover computational complexity, for example. Or functional programming, or objected oriented design, or music or ethics or philosophy. Instead, most bootcamps focus on tools rather than ideas.

This is exactly what copy.deepcopy() is for. Although if you're headed down this road, you're generally in for a bad time.

My thoughts exactly. Why doesn't the article identify the "Google manager," and how did "Hustle Con" acquire this email? Seriously: [citation needed]