I suppose if the new 'venture' is for-profit it might give credence to the view that Altman and the board diverged because of his desire to turn OpenAI toward exactly that.
There are many, many life lessons I have drawn from my youth spent playing poker semi-professionally. Perhaps the most consistently useful one was that, as mentioned in the article, one's performance should not be assessed purely on the outcome.
In poker, you can play perfectly and still lose. That is true in almost every field of life. Or, to give it more nuance, you can play exceptionally well and only win a little, whereas someone has had greater luck can play relatively poorly and win a lot.
This led me to look up whether the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands), and therefore the British Government, received any money as a result of the .io domain.
I'm not sure this is really reflected in reality, perhaps aside from the 65+ generation. I grew up in Scotland, and it was very much a beer drinking culture.
The point about 'getting used' to poor features, or indeed even bugs, applies not just to video games but any type of software you work on for a long time (especially personal projects, where you don't have a QA team).
This will no doubt be familiar to many of us on HN.
There is a free McDonald’s restaurant in the corporate headquarters, but there’s also a deli counter which has fresh sandwiches, as well as a counter for other hot meals (chilli, chicken curry (UK) etc.
This could obviously have a substantial impact on challenger banks like Monzo (which I use and love). Not least because it would get around the regulatory challenges they face in the US.
Perhaps Jobs didn't appreciate the full extent to which their product would transform humanity, but that is not necessarily the same thing as him not wanting, or opposing, us using our iPhones as much as we do.
I understand the desire for a backlash on smartphones, but their ubiquity is simply a demonstration of just how much utility we derive from them.
The headline and tone of the article implies that they have evidence of some underhand or nasty behaviour by Sandberg. But there is none - having the political intelligence to make the most of a photocall does not make you a bad person.
It could also be described as the birthplace of WhatsApp, in which one of the co-founders asked for 'thoughts on my free iphone app'[0], which is amusing in retrospect.
Funnily enough, I had a meeting with Nick a few months ago (about Brexit) and he mentioned being out in SV as part of work his organisation was doing. I suspect that may have not been the full truth..
His organisation, Open Europe, employed 6 people. I wonder if they will follow him to FB.
For what it's worth, given his domain expertise (particularly the EU), I think it is a fantastic hire.