How hard is it to find an aircraft carrier without resorting to this? Not saying there’s no privacy leak here but aircraft carriers are not exactly stealthy…
It makes me a little sad that there’s no mention of Raymond Carver in this thread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Talk_About_When_We_Tal...
The current state of dominant mobile OS’s is about as bleak as the bleakest Carver story.
Since I’m on a tangent I’ll also highly recommend the movie Shortcuts.
> avoidance, which we also discuss in this paper, necessitates putting a much higher premium on insight and understanding of the structural characteristics of the problems being investigated.
I wonder if the authors are aware of The Bitter Lesson
I mostly agree with what you write. However, I have to say that, even 2 years ago, based on my somewhat limited knowledge of Zynga, I would have needed to be EXTREMELY desperate to an accept an offer from them. I left MS because I couldn't find a single product they made, aside from XBox, that I had any passion around, whatsoever. I know that I need to be fairly enthusiastic about the products or services that work on every day - the promise of a possible payout would not have been enough to get me to join an organization led by team that seems deceptive, unoriginal and unscrupulous.