Who came up with these conversations? Hard to believe this was part of the training data. And where does the training data come from? To what extent is it applicable to academic or corporate settings?
Why is multi-sig in quotes? Is Coinbase providing its users with a '3' address that is on-block chain, or does this "multi-sig" approach still reside entirely off-block chain.
Edit: I presume that Coinbase still holds on to all of the private keys for Vault accounts. Can someone verify otherwise?
Same issue happened to me, Google responded several hours later with the following email:
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Dear AdMob Developer,
Last week, we wrote to let you know that on December 19th 2013 we would initiate refunds to you for unused legacy AdMob advertising credits. Today we are writing to let know that between December 19th and 20th we inadvertently processed refunds for more than your unused balance. In some cases, customers will see multiple refund amounts on their bank card statement.
To correct this error, we have reversed these incorrect refunds with corresponding transactions for the same amount(s). These corrections have been processed on December 23rd and December 24th to the same bank card that the initial refund(s) was processed to. This means that you will see one negative and one positive transaction on your card statement for each refund made in error. These transactions will have “GOOGLE*ADMOB” as the description for the credits.
We will be processing the correct refund in early January 2014 for the correct amount owed to you. You will see a separate transaction for this refund amount on your January or February bank card statement.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
If you have any questions about this communication please check out our FAQ’s linked here.
There clearly is lots of innovation going on, but 54 Mbps wireless hardware was introduced over 11 years ago!
Furthermore, AT&T's DSL speed has only exhibited a .15 Mbps CAGR over the past 5 years to its current peak of 6 Mbps. Comcast's average cable internet speeds were 6 Mbps from 2005 to 2007, until they jumped to 12 Mbps in 2008.
Just one of the many examples that highlights the market for energy-proportional computing. Check out http://www.cra.org/ccc/docs/ieee_computer07.pdf. Machines today still consume around 50 percent of total peak power while sitting at idle!
The 6 degree Fahrenheit drop in the coast vs inland temperature gradient has resulted in a 33% reduction in coastal fog drip.
This is definitely not good for our Coastal Redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains, given their reliance on high fog density. Such a reduction in fog will result in smaller trees and a reduced growth rate. As a result, the more aggressive tanoak and douglas fir species will proliferate and dominate the limited Redwood forests.
It sounds far off, but this is definitely news worth considering if you are planning a timber harvesting operation. Given that these trees take between 20-50 years to grow back, such logging operations could drastically change the surrounding ecosystem.
I believe that the Redwood forests are one of northern California's most amazing gifts, and I would be extremely sad to see them go.
Reminds me of the importance of a good product manager. So many big software shops develop product today on the "feature level". As a result, developers and "managers" lose sight of the customer's workflow. Understanding the product from entry to exit and seeing how all of the pieces fit together is critical to creating a good product.
@jpluscplusm thanks for the feedback and good questions. Regarding the "what state is the codebase in" question, I can't imagine them telling me its "poor". What questions do you think would help me to gauge the quality of the code base? Obviously there is no formula, but it would be interesting to see what factors impact a codebase's quality. I guess there are static analysis tools to help out though :)
Hmm interesting. Back in October, I reported a dead sea lion outside my house (I live on the Bay) to the department of Ornithology and Mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences. They came out and removed the animal's carcass, and told me it had died of kidney failure due to a sexually transmitted disease (Bacterial Vaginosis). They explained that half of the Pier 39 sea lions were victims of the STD.
this will definitely be interesting to see how it unfolds. Does anyone know if the SMS messaging infrastructure is still working? Is this just limited to the Web interface? Is api.twitter.com still up?