The Nonintuitive Bits

Are smart phones becoming less addicting? Can a plugin weaken the hooks social media sites embeds into it's viewers? Show links: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/amazon-bans-tiktok-on-employee-phones-as-us-govt-scrutinizes-chinese-app/ https://www.nirandfar.com/google-apple-less-phone-use/ https://howonlee.github.io/2020/02/12/I-20Add-2020-20Seconds-20of-20Latency-20to-20Every-20We...

TL;DR bot got a huge update (with the site: tldr.cloud ) our views on WWDC 2020 Apple Silicone Windows also have tried and still trying Intel have tried also with ARM ( Atom ) and own 64bit ( Itanium ) Amazon have acquired Zoox

What does reducing scope have to do with being a senior engineer? When have you crossed the line into cutting corners? How to hack your motivation when working on your side projects? And what are Raspberry Pis best used for? Zain and Slava discuss all that and more!

How we hate/love asana TL;DR news telegram channel (and an article with an architecture) To Stadia or not to Stadia Neural network based Pac-Man

In this episode, we do a dive deep into #nvidia #ampere #A100 architecture announcement by #NVIDIA. The A100 GPU enables building elastic, versatile, and high throughput data centers . A100 is powered with 54 billion transistors. #InformationFasting - Zain also talks about his week where he is not consuming any information from the internet. Challenges to achieving it, positive impact, and more. R...

We discuss: - How long should you stick with a project? - How did Gumroad's CEO handle Gumroad teethering on the brink of collapse? - Why didn't Gumroad get taken over by a large enterprise? - Creating feedback loops to be a better engineering leader Links: https://marker.medium.com/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-a-billion-dollar-company-b0c31d7db0e7

In this episode we have discussed: Spotify’s Failed #SquadGoals The Decline of Usability git-bug

In this episode, we cover 3 major announcements in the world of open-source: 1. Github makes it all free and lives to its mission - "Every developer on Earth should have access to Github. Price shouldn't be a barrier".  2. Exciting PyTorch 1.5 release including PyTorch Serve, PyTorch Elastic, Full parity C++ APIs and more. A treat for all deep learning users. 3. Confluent, a company...

What's the right way to build a community? How can we track the spread of Covid 19? New applications of deep learning and conference building? All that and more in episode 19 of The Nonintuitive Bits Guest of the week: Chai Bapat (@chaibapat) Thoughts on this episode? Reach out to us! Twitter: Zain Rizvi: @zainrzv Viacheslav Kovalevskyi (Slava): @b0noi Sandeep Krishnamurthy: @skm4ml Slack: ht...

Main topics: new iPad Pro The Configuration Complexity Clock The Apache® Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership

Facial recognition technology has enabled solving many critical problems of our society - solving child trafficking to security cameras securing our house. However, due to the lack of complete understanding of the technology and lack of governing laws controlling the usage has made facial recognition technology one of the most contested and controversial topics. In this episode, we talk about Micr...

In this episode we talk about: Amazon's automatic checkout system being offered to stores and their User Oriented Development Practice 3D Printing in the Coronavirus Era How to Survive Working From Home Links and References:  (Book) The Incerto Series by Nasim Taleb  https://blog.prusaprinters.org/designer-contest-everyday-necessities-for-life-during-a-pandemic-with-three-3d-printers-to-be-wo...

In this episode we have covered: Coronavirus  Please Stop Recommending git flow   DigitalOcean Container Registry “Let’s use Kubernetes!” Now you have 8 problems 

More than 500 million first time internet users are being added across India, Africa, and many developing worlds, democratizing the economy and access to knowledge. However, the new-age digital world is all ripe with fraudsters waiting for these innocent first-time internet users. In this episode, we talk about Microsoft entering into the world of anti-virus, bigger companies, banks, digital payme...

A lot of things have happened for the last week, we have covered just a few topics: new Java each 6 months (JDK 14) Windows 10x Samsung Z Flip Essential Phone is dead 

What does NASA, SpaceX, and the Iowa Democratic caucus result tallying app have in common? They both have to make feature vs costs trade offs.  We go on to discuss when it makes sense to go serverless and when it doesn't (hint: it's not a binary decision) Resources: Iowa Democratic Caucus voting app woes: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21122737/iowa-democractic-caucus-voting-app-andro...

With ~3 billion people playing games and more than 1 billion of them spending money to play, we wanted to look at the gaming industry, to learn and share, in this episode. We discussed 2 arenas - game playing and game watching. Rise of cloud providers in gaming - Google Stadia, Microsoft XCloud, Apple Arcade, Sony Playstation Now. Rise of the game-watching industry - Twitch, Facebook Game Live, Yo...

* latest updates on all PlayStation 5 rumors * Digital Ocean laying off people * apple now owns 70% of the market of AirPods * Slava's new studio setup

We've rebranded our podcast from Tech Stuff to The Nonintuitive Bits!  We go into why that rebranding was needed in order to stand out, and how you can make your own products stand out from your competitors.  We also discuss how you can better stand out at work and in your career Our new website is TheNonintuitiveBits.com Resources referenced Rise (book) https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Practical-...

CES raised many questions about the future of society and our talk took many tangents. Topics discussed included recurring cycles in tech, optimizing for the wrong metrics, advertising with self driving cars, unintended consequences of AI-based makeup products, and wanting the human touch

Our naive thoughts about situation with nginx and overall different aspects of legal ownership of your code.

Re:Invent 2019. Our personal subjective (probably incorrect) opinions on main releases from AWS.

We are going to share our most favorite IDEs with you and some of our secrets how to be more productive when working with code. Resources for this Episode: http://gitpod.io https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/whyvscode https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#development-environments-and-tools https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#development-environments-and-tools https://oct...

Today discuss news, business, and psychology. We share our favorite sources to keep up to date with the tech industry. Then we analyze two business models that bootstrapped some of today's most successful tech companies (FaceBook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft & Netflix). Finally, there's a talk about tactics used by various online communities to self-regulate and nudge their members tow...

Topics: Reasons behind software Enterprise and Long Term Support Bid farewell to Python inventor Guido (and the walrus returns) Related Links: TensorFlow enterprise TensorFlow world   Python creator Guido van Rossum quits Dropbox, triggering his retirement