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This is one of the vanishingly small instances of actually representing the tech industry well in media, even if there's a lot of exaggeration and they elide the boring stuff. There are so many scenes in that gave me deja vu. Everyone gets treated even handedly, no 2 dimensional heroes and villains, just a load of people trying to build something while their egos get in the way. I'd give it the highest recommendation possible, representation is important!

By "Lightning fast management tool" you mean "virtualised table"?

I too spent far too many years in the adtech industry before realising that what I thought I was doing (helping fund cool things on the web) was not what I was actually doing (destroying the web as I knew it.) Having left it behind in the early 10s it's got way worse than I ever imagined, there's effectively no regulation at all now, and certainly no way of knowing where the ads stop and the content begins. Having sat in ad industry self regulation meetings myself I know the author is completely right, they will never do anything about any of the many many problems, so what else is there to do than ban it, nothing else is going to work with the system that currently exists.

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I think that's a bad misreading of the article, and life in general. When the author is saying "better" he's talking about the whole makeup of a person, not just a single advanced skill. Being amazing at maths is extremely useful, but it can be quite a narrow area of expertise, and I would imagine the author wants his child to be a good person, not a hyperfocused maths machine with no social skills. The children's achievements are combination or talent, effort and nurture that other children may not have, it doesn't make other children lesser, and they will have talents of their own.

+1 for this, I may end up buying this anyway but aside from the piano I have a Arturia Keystep Pro hooked up to a few synths that can sequence 4 channels, would be amazing to have this work with that setup and record all the midi channels and be able to select the channels in the app.

Just so you know, it's not just Sweden, kids around the world all love eating at Ikea ;)

This isn't an article for computer scientists, and I think he covers this pretty well:

"While Levy calls him a “world-class computer scientist who has authored definitive texts in the field,” he also describes Raghavan as “choosing a management track,” which definitely tracks with everything I’ve found about him."

"Despite his history as a true computer scientist with actual academic credentials, Raghavan chose to bulldoze actual workers and replace them with toadies that would make Google more profitable and less useful to the world at large."

I'm kind of disappointed, Apple make such a big thing of being green but keep making machines that aren't upgradeable in these tiny form factors. I was really hoping for a more affordable Mac Pro with easily accessible memory/ram and some expansion slots.

I don't understand why people are holding JS to a higher standard than other languages, is it just because it used to be easier?

Knowing nothing about Java, I wouldn't expect to open a Java file and know what every line means. There's a million reasons to find modern web dev complicated but not taking the time to google "js import" is not one of them. Also I wouldn't expect to "just know" how to take a Java program and build it in a way that I could host it somewhere, I'd expect to have to work at it.

CTO and lead developer on a focused project are very different jobs - my guess would be he relaxes from the very strategy and soft-skill heavy day job by diving into a challenging problem that keeps his dev chops up and lets him focus on a finite problem.

This looks really great, something I could use and would pay for when polished but there's definitely a few issues for me at the moment:

* Why go fullscreen and modal? I want to drag in links from docs, email, other browsers, have it side by side while reading PDFs etc. etc. this stops me from doing any of that

* Please let me change the shortcut! I already have Option-Space bound.

* Let me put the browser window anywhere I want when it's in the single page non-fullscreen mode, don't levitate it to where you think I want it

* Unless I'm missing something the process of opening a page then adding it to a workspace seems to be three clicks - open page, hit + (plus) button, select workspace, select workspace/inbox - need to make this one click, maybe just show the inboxes? This also seems clunky, I'd much rather browse, drag that page to the workspace/inbox, continue browsing and adding further pages, then arrange all the pages in the workspace after i've added all the links. Seems a faster workflow.

Hard disagree on Ancillary Justice, I thought it was a standout book, and considering it won the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C Clarke, Locus First Novel, and tied for the BSFA award I wasn't the only one.