I think that's only true when the start up costs are relatively low, right? The airline industry also has a small number of very large players, but I don't know if we should also consider it ripe for disruption
The airline industry has already been massively disrupted by innovative startups and new investment. Startups have drastically changed the business of selling flights and travel services to consumers, the rise of budget airlines has completely changed the competitive landscape of that industry, and there’s countless ways that outside innovations have found their way into the supply chains of the big players.
The data is just being relayed through my server to a websocket. Nothing is stored, but I'm planning to post the source so people can see that clearly and run their own instance if they want.
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What's going on with google lately? First the google cloud outage earlier this month and now this? I wonder if there's some sort of systemic problem they're dealing with
Now I'm curious when the last time Google search went down? they must lose a lot of money everytime that happens. or is that one of those services where they spend ridiculous amounts of money and talent on making sure it never goes down?
It's that second thing. They spend a lot and have a lot of talent behind keeping search up. Also it's an easier problem because it isn't transactional. They can fall back to generic search results if they can't load your custom data, and you'd probably never notice.
Google calendar sort of requires your personal data to function (just like gmail).
I'm guessing that Google search is easier to distribute over a larger set of machines, since the data it uses is static to a large degree and less bound to specific users.
Search also has the possibility of degrading nicely, unlike a calendar. You could store the top million sites in some backup service and drop down to string matching if you had to. Searching for “how to train a hunting dog”? Here’s the Wikipedia page for Dog. Best of luck.
This reminds me of one of the first conversations I had with my manager when I started my current job as a software engineer.
I used to work at a large financial company who had an intensely rigorous approach to verifying it's software in both manual and automated ways, as well as a much more careful approach to writing code to begin with.
When I started here (a much smaller startup delivering marketing software for small business clients), I brought up that I was concerned about going to somewhere with a less comprehensive testing pipeline in place, to which I was told:
"It's not particularly important to be able to find bugs before they're released, it's more important to optimize the deployment speed so that we can release the fixes quickly"
Sounded crazy to me at the time, but I later realized it's really all about what your industry is optimizing for, and what would cost you more money.
> it's really all about what your industry is optimizing for, and what would cost you more money
Sure, those were not critical systems, they could be patched with minimal hasse to clients. However you can't really predict catastrophe costs. It could range from minor usability issues to hard to trace calculation errors that could jeopardise the whole production operation. If the company doesn't work work with prototypes it should invest heavily in test coverage, integration test and delivery pipelines
> This is important because most players of both genders use neutral-looking names. The study doesn't account for this.
Is this true broadly? I'd be curious to know if there's any data on that besides for anecdotal evidence.
also, a "neutral-looking" name can be really subjective, I would guess that there's a lot of player names that use adjectives that might be inadvertently related to a particular gender based on the cultural context.
I'd be curious to know what the names are in this case.
I think his music has gotten much more accessible and less obscure over time. I think The Impossible Kid (his most recent album) is a much better point of reference for what's interesting about his work, and it deals with topics in ways that are easier to understand and relate to, but equally as interesting and well considered
(See: Lotta Years -> reflections on getting older, Blood Sandwich -> Looking back on some family moments, Kirby -> Heartfelt and hilarious ode to his cat)
Check out the album he did with Kimya Dawson (The Uncluded - Hokey Fright). Kimya is pretty matter-of-fact in a lot of the songs and seems to reign Aes in (or at least offer a point of reference for when he starts getting out-there). Its one of my favorite albums. "Earthquake" is beautiful
