theoretick

wow, that's fantastic, thanks!

Any plans on Clojure support?

This rings eerily similar to the state of the Gnome foundation and other long-in-the-tooth FLOSS projects. Sad to read but I really don't know how one responds to "no innovation." Is "come up with good ideas" really a thing?

I think there is a much bigger issue here than the theoretical storage solutions. Everything you said is indeed entirely possible for most HN-readers and tech people but I sure can't talk my mother into switching to dynamic DNS and rsync.

The only reason there was a happy ending to this story was that this guy was connected enough to know how to contact someone at Google, what about the other 300million users who barely know what OS they are running? There needs to be some kind of restructuring to protect the public, whether its simple awareness or legislation.

I have sat on organizational committees and name-blinding would not work for some of us for one key reason: We use speaker's name/identity as a criteria for talk selection. Two main examples are whether they have presented before and how "strong" of a speaker they are.

We DO use names to discriminate but that often allows us to have "fresh" speakers and keep the lineup somewhat varied. It also allows us to filter for all the other spam-talks; i.e. marketers.

It is an issue of priorities but I would easily place quality of presentations over guaranteed blinding to prevent gender-bias selection.

This debate is entirely moot without context. I imagined/read it as something like: >"...Ah, and this absolutely brilliant woman started that trend. Just look at her, a beacon blahblahblah wrapped in that cute hat."

If neither of us have been there, its pointless arguing the statement. My point is simply that when I do such talks I frequently inject humor into it, just the way he had. Reading it as a completely isolated comment seems highly unrealistic to me.

Beautiful. I think I just found my new desktop background.

The APIs are a super nice touch. Running through tutorials can get really monotonous but the API stuff gave me a burst of excitement to play with the software I use every day.

I've done a bunch of these and whenever they say "oh, we use something thats a lot like javascript but we've slightly modified it" I just groan.

I'd much rather work harder to learn something real than learn a simplified style that is utterly useless outside your website.

> Pixel also comes with one terabyte of Google Drive cloud storage, free for 3 years,