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belril

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About belril

Product marketer & ex-journo. Avid home cook. Occasionally awesome.

my public key: https://keybase.io/belril; my proof: https://keybase.io/belril/sigs/uFQB-6Aa-5cYMV5k4jQ7CUEe39-8MLz0wjfPrSFtCUI

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    Comment #44239751

    To take this a step further, P&T's reveals often highlight and celebrate the complexity of pulling off a given trick. Sure, you understand how the cups and balls can be done after …

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    Comment #26486330

    As someone who once competed with him for stories: Cade is a very strong writer with a robust pedigree who really gets the current state of play in ML, and has the chops to write a…

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    Comment #26233801

    Peyton Street Pens is a CA-based retailer who sells Ranga pens in the US: https://www.peytonstreetpens.com/pens/ranga/ If you’re looking for instant gratification from one of the v…

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    Comment #21937526

    As a fellow ex-Ingresser, I think there are some truly fascinating stories that will eventually be lost about all the effort that has gone into that game globally. I’ve seen heroic…

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    Comment #19990846

    First off: Diagnosis and medication access is one thing, but maintenance is another key — find a psychiatrist or physician who you get on with well and can work with for a good lon…

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    Comment #19435751

    > I learned a fair bit, but I also learned that in the college team project atmosphere, folks are gonna get carried and you’ll be graded on the total possible output of four people…

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    Comment #17239927

    There's a third option that you're not considering: these companies receive significant scrutiny from the press because of their size and power, especially as it relates to our dai…

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    Comment #17239257

    Ex-journo perspective: One of the reasons why you'll see a flood of negative news about a company is that once one well-reported piece comes out about potential wrongdoing, more re…

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    Comment #13611513

    Happy to add clarity where I can -- it is my job, after all. Suspicion and skepticism are healthy, and I totally hear the criticism that the piece feels marketing copy-esque. For w…

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    Comment #13609058

    Here's Evernote's explanation of its investigation into user data protection re: GCP. https://blog.evernote.com/tech/2017/02/08/part-2-protecting-...

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    Comment #13609035

    All attachments added to Evernote are now stored redundantly in Google Cloud Storage, which is designed to do just that.

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    Comment #13608970

    To the best of my knowledge, all of Evernote's data transfer was done over a network, not using an undisclosed AWS Snowball-like service. -Author of the piece first linked here.

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    Comment #13608952

    Hi! Author here. (Nice to meet you.) I can tell you that Evernote, not Google, pitched this story to me. While the Google Cloud PR team was aware of its existence, they did not con…