For a period of a few years, a few years ago, I started shopping very frequently for pants, shirts, etc. I once caught myself wondering why that was the case. The answer surprised me: I was not happy with the stuff I was buying. They would not fit comfortably after the initial wear.

Then I noticed what was really the problem:

1) Pants are getting shorter, mostly in the inseams - the distance from the belt loops to bottom of the zippers. (In other words, pants now "sit below the hip", there is no more those that "sit at the hip").

2) Shirts are getting shorter too. They don't go as far down under your belt as they used too.

So, just these two combinations leave a good part of my lower belly exposed quickly and easily, something I do "not" like.

3) It is quite hard to find pants with basic options, like pleats and cuffs. Everything is flat fronted, it seems.

So, it is easy to see why no one is shopping any more unless they really have to.

Just my 2 cents :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXuVAi2bHdA

Quick question: I did not see anything unique to "old geek" in the website, other than the URL of course. I guess it is an implicit assumption by both job seekers as well as job posters.

On that note, where would this concept be headed if other job sites added a simple attribute called age (or something similar but more palatable) where job posters could specify their preferred age range, and job seekers could search on it?

What kind of a demand is there for a pipes-kind of product or even a customizable/searchable rss/feed integrator?

How much would a typical user be willing to pay for it?

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Watching this, it too looks like an artist rendition. Notice how the moon moves in a straight line. And while the earth rotates around, the moon doesn't. That is fine as we see only the same side/face of the moon but remember: this is taken from far far away so, at that distance and angle, you should be able to pick up a change in the moon's rotation as well. Here, we don't.

Interesting indeed.

It seems like textbelt does not know this information (or at least when you sign up or send a text message). Does it try in sequence to send the text to all carriers one by one until one succeeds? If so, I'd imagine textbelt would get blacklisted pretty quickly.

It would be interesting to see how the mapping is done.

When it comes to an "AI" language vs. typical language with an "AI" library, I will just repeat a phrase that is often used in the field: what you thinnk of as an AI problem today will no longer be considered AI tomorrow, since it will then be well-understood and implemented in many places. People used to say that in response to the (seeming lack of) progress AI had made to date. A good example of that is Siri or Amazon Echo. Not many people consider it an AI problem anymore, or so it seems.

I agree wholeheartedly with the last paragraph of Mr. Ousterhout's reply here - and I must say, a smart, classy and almost Tcl-ish way of a jab at its distractors:

http://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/0009.html

I came across Tcl/Tk while doing Motif in a large C-based project. I simply couldn't believe how powerful, simple and succint Tk was compared to Motif (or anything else since). And it ran on Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac OS, to boot. It was too late for that project to switch, but all my other projects have used Tk if they ever needed a UI.

Similarly with Tcl. I still think the best introduction is Mr. Ousterhout's original Tcl/Tk book. It stands as one of the best language books on my shelf. Combined with Tk, one can put together a working application prototype in no time.

Of course, this was eons ago. Nowadays, Tcl offers one of the best environments with a complete set of packages ranging from web servers to image and sound processing. Plus, you can distirbute your program and all of its media and support files easily as well.

I believe Tcl has been mischaracterized and has suffered in terms of open popularity. But for insiders, it remains as one of those secret indispensable Ninja tools that is used over and over again for competitive advantage.

I haven't read the book but I am planning to.

I caught the last few minutes of your interview on NPR the other day. You said you built the FB Exchange. I made a mental note to look that up later and now serendipitously, it shows up here. Anyhow, not familiar with it but it sounded like some sort of an interface to Amazon. Would you care to elaborate?

I have given similar demos. You first explain what you are going to do. Before the demo, they go all go into "no, it is impossible. I have been in this business for 20 years. Blah blah." You demo it, and once in a while, they get it, their jaws drop and they appreciate it. But mostly, it is a suspicious disbelief, followed by adversarial challenges where they insist you disclose everything under the covers right then and there.

I have even heard this: If this was possible, why hasn't IBM done it?

Sometimes, it is pretty depressing.

In any case, even if, as you say, if the crypto handling system failed, and it returned nothing, there was no critical information that was lost. Only information on an error message, which you will hear from the user anyway.

Users are more comfortable with this way: they simply copy/paste the text to us and we have all the info we need.

So true. I have myself observed / felt this several times. My experience is that the facts of any discussion are laid out pretty quickly at the beginning. There is something that prolongs the discussion and heats up the arguments on all sides and I believe it is our collective emotional baggage, or lack of it. Some twist their words to mean anything just to stay in the conversation, some dig in their heels in the hopes of never having to be proven wrong, some stick to the bare facts but ignore others' emotional investment, etc. And some just enjoy trolling as if it is a spectator sport where they flame both sides but without any meaningful contribution of their own towards a resolution.

Sadly, I have not found an approach that works better than to quit the discussion cold turkey.

I love this new career path. Beats working years just to advance to manage your old team.

Now I can see the logic behind all the attention on emojis at the Google I/O event. They will be our new leaders.

Yahoo has also gone from a genuinely useful and relevant aggregator to a full-blown click-bait shop.

Perhaps this is how she thought Google makes its billions and she wanted to emulate it.

Sad but she will be richer for it.

I am looking forward to when they release the version where they are generated on the spot with their new GPU improvements.

But for so much resources and combined talent, I would expect more than new sets of emojis. They way they were dishing it out was as if they brought peace on earth. Honestly, I would have felt embarrassed to mention it even in passing. (And what was with all those jeans and dress code in general?)

Also, if you are copying Apple and Amazon, which are known for their attention to detail, how about improving things a bit? At the end of the voice demo, the app purchases the tickets (without showing prices, locations, times, etc. (and how do I set up those in the first place?)). Now, the kicker: the phone displays a QR code and asks the owner to show it at the ticket counter at the movies. Himmm.... Really? How about skipping that too and just buzzing/vibrating/texting the user with that info when actually at the movie theater? After all, they spent a whole lot of time talking about context awareness, location awareness, NLP processing, etc. Didn't Siri do this much years ago?

Anyway, too many other things like that. I don't have time to list them all. I am just saying that a lot of people expected something more, and more cohesive.