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Commentary on https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7194789351812214784/ by Logan Abbott. This seems very reasonable and I hope this idea catches on in other places. Other options that come to mind would be more onerous and less likely to be adhered to. Additional beneficial side effects of this will be for all network games to be more fault tolerant to network problems and for EOL considerations to get more thought and testing during development.

We have a fun smart team here in infrastructure at Tubi. Are you interested in leading us? Check it out… Note: the role is filled now.

Original article is at https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/the-banality-of-genius-notes-on-peter This bit really hooked me on this article: Peter Jackson’s decision to make Get Back an eight-hour series rather than a two hour movie was a risky one. When I heard about it, I wondered if it was the result of a man who, locked down in his Antipodean editing suite, had waded too deep into his material and lost control of it, a Kurtz in the Beatle jungle. ...

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Observability Lead at Tubi! It has been such a fun and educational journey with Tubi so far. I am grateful and honored to receive this new challenge.

https://youtu.be/sgX5-Mm47cg Introduction Howdy there, Internet People. I am known as “chicks” and I’m here today to talk about the Internet and community. Background First, a little of my story to set the stage. I started in the computer business before there was a web browser, but conveniently the Internet blew up at the right time for me and it has kept me employed or consulting steadily for 30 years. ...

Repost of post by David Kenny from Nielsen: Today marks the 25th edition of The Gauge, an important industry snapshot of the total time U.S. viewers spend watching TV each month via broadcast, cable and streaming platforms. The Gauge is tracking, arguably, the most seismic shift in the history of television. In just 25 months, streaming has moved from representing 26% of total time spent with TV in the U.S. (cable was 39% and broadcast 25%) to today representing 37.7% of total time spent with TV in the U.S. (cable is now 30.6% and broadcast 20.8%). ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPW7QPCalAA During our first visit to the Pismo Beach area we talk about restaurants, the beaches, and amazing views of the Pacific Ocean. We talk about these places: Zorro’s in Shell Beach Steak & Seafood Wooly’s on Pismo Beach Hotshot Billiards in Pismo Beach InterContinental the Clement hotel in Monterey Passion Fish in Monterey The article about the Del Monte Shopping Center is at SF Gate. ...

share_url is https://youtube.com/watch?v=3kcQzCzSDvc&feature=share I’ve lived through this story and I’m still surprised by many facets of it.

I keep getting these emails from linked-in and I can’t help but wonder: why are you neglecting your website that much? Why is the app that much better? Is it really better? They don’t make it apparent how. Do they not care about people using the web version anymore? Does Microsoft really feel the primary audience is mobile and not people that sit in front of their computers all day? Why should we believe that linked-in is going to continue investing in the app when we’ve seen folks like StackOverflow create apps and then abandon them? ...

First, the Economist covers my new job in the first month. Now, we have Wired covering this as well. That’s my two favorite magazines of all time. I’m not sure how Smithsonian’s Air & Space or Make will get in on this, but either could be the hat trick! Wired article is at https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-drive-thru-mymcdonalds-app/