Sadly not, I would love to reach out to as many people as possible, but the problem is that developing to two both Android and iOS at the same time makes it harder to focus and grow the product from an MVP into a real useful everyday product. And with the limited resources that makes it even harder.
Don't be too negative of the previous company while interviewing because it comes off bad. But if you can explain things that were good, and things that were bad so it's not all negative the interviewer will understand.
> In the first 24 hours, we removed about 1.5 million videos of the attack globally. More than 1.2 million of those videos were blocked at upload, and were therefore prevented from being seen on our services.
Would this be bots uploading the video or are there 1.5 million individuals trying to re-upload the video to FB? If so are they also having their accounts banned for praising / supporting terror attacks?
> are they also having their accounts banned for praising / supporting terror attacks?
doubt it was just bots.
I followed the topic as it was trending on twitter and many of the accounts that re-uploaded it were accounts with Muslim names - often accompanied by a message such as (paraphrasing) "let the world see what terrors are inflicted by white man". They wanted to ensure the world sees what white man are capable of. For many it was a moment of "look at what they are doing to our brothers and sisters". I think they felt it was an injustice that the information is removed in this case (yet when the attacks were carried out by Islamist's nobody cared).
There was also a lot of outrage because some MSM's were not immediately calling it a terrorist act. I can understand quite well why they wanted this to be seen in all its gory detail. If my family were among the dead I too would wanted to make sure people know the truth. In fact my pain would be so big that I would want to show everyone in the hope that maybe somebody gets radicalized enough and hits back by blowing up a place where such types hang out. I'm not glorifying revenge or violence, but if you feel yourself into that kind of situation (that pain), it would take a lot of strength not wanting to retaliate (or shout out to those who might).
Please build this. Google's Sync app is terrible. I don't understand their logic - if you have a high res photo on Google Photos, but the original on your PC (Which will be higher quality) it won't overwrite it. You need to delete the cloud version and upload the original. It's stupid - I had a free Photo account with "high res" photo syncing for free, then I moved to a paid account and I have to delete all my photos and re-sync - which doesn't work on Mac, so now I only have 1/2 my photos backed up... So annoying.
Cleaning up the mess left from early-adopting N photo apps and websites that subsequently shut down is why I took on this project. I've got 20-odd hard drives that have accumulated over the years, filled with backups and libraries from Apple Photos, Aperture, Picasa, several hundred gigs of Google Takeout tarballs, and other ancient DAM apps. I wanted a single, organized, deduped, copy of my photos and videos. Skip the thumbnails, the files that are missing original EXIF headers, or have suffered bitrot.
Finally, I've got a single folder hierarchy I can rsync to my NAS or wherever, and know I got everything. There's a simple SQLite db I use for persistence, and a web server that sits on top of it that makes browsing and searching your whole library feel serendipitous.
So yeah, it's Google Photos that lives on your bookshelf. Viva the distributed web! I'm looking into the applicability of dat and ipfs for secure sharing soon.
I've got a limited number of beta users trying it out right now. If you're willing to share your feedback, please consider signing up. The beta is free.
I have on the order of terabytes of digital photos from QuickTake through Nikon's various Ds to the Sony A9, with various pocketables and all the generations of iPhone along the way. I have a quarter million iCloud Photos images, 30K on Flickr, etc.
So this looks fantastic! Subscribed ... very willing to be a beta tester and provide detailed feedback.
However, the problem I'm finding is a small percentage of file corruption from all the storage upgrading and copying over the years, meaning no given file can be 100% trusted to be a valid original.
I haven't found any file or photo deduplication tools with the savvy to figure out which of two identically sized and timestamped files is the least corrupt image.
In many cases, a second generation is viewable while the original is present but unusable. This most often applies to very old Aperture libraries that got copied from NAS to NAS over the years, where a "master" may be corrupt but it still has a viewable generated high res cache as a JPEG.
Implication is the "structure" of the image files themselves has to be analyzed ... is this an uncorrupted viewable image?
Note that with JPEGs and various flavors of RAW, renderers will still happily open and display the file but what humans view can evidence bit rot. Conversely, some files are detected as corrupt by file examination, but can be viewed without problem.
To offer "principle of least loss" for mass merge of diverse collections, this would have to be figured out.
> which of two identically sized and timestamped files is the least corrupt image
What I've found on my older hard drive backups was file corruption due to bitrot or file truncation.
I use `jpegtran` to validate JPEG bytestreams, `dcraw` to validate RAW images, and ``ffmpeg` to validate videos. At least for my quarter-million-file corpus, those tools detect corruption sufficient enough for me to want to skip the file. I actually had to write a bit rotter to write tests for this, and do glitch inspection.
> To offer "principle of least loss" for mass merge of diverse collections, this would have to be figured out
Every unique SHA gets copied into your library (if you have copies enabled), but any given asset will have 1 or more asset files (that are merged in the UI and DB). To minimize risk from bugs^H^H^H^H "undiscovered features," PhotoStructure never moves or deletes files excluding it's own cache and db.
> I've got 20-odd hard drives that have accumulated over the years, filled with backups and libraries from Apple Photos, Aperture, Picasa, several hundred gigs of Google Takeout tarballs, and other ancient DAM apps.
I'm in a similar boat. What I'd like to know is: where are the duplicates and what can I safely delete? Anything that can help me clear it up would be a godsend!
This was the approach I originally was considering (to do in-place duplicate deletion), but eventually gave up due to the impact of "undiscovered features" in my code.
The approach I've settled on which should work for most people is to establish a new library, with unique copies of each of your originals, skipping exact SHA matches and invalid files.
In your case, though, you'd run PhotoStructure in its "don't copy into the library" mode. Once it finishes scanning your drives, you can run a simple SQL query against your SQLite db to get a list of duplicate files. That query will be in the FAQ.
I could manage that query but your average user wouldn't. How about a way to export it to a CVS file so it can be viewed and filtered in the users choice of spreadsheet app?
man why do so many sites add this shitty robot checking shit for even signin up for mailing lists. your non-existent project even has it. i'm tired of selecting cars/bridges and fire hydrants for 2 minutes at a time only for the robochecker to fail. the audio option workaround doesn't even work anymore, i'm really sick of captchas
Yeah, sharp edges everywhere. My favorite feature is if it can’t convert your raw images to JPEG, instead of skipping them it stores them in Drive as non-photo data, which can fill up your quota and cause your Gmail account to stop receiving mail. It’s probably the worst software that Google has put their brand on.
You are lucky. I had some corrupted and very big photos in my filesystem. Since Google sync couldn't convert it, the software decided to upload the corrupted file to Google Drive as is. Sure I've checked to sync just photos in high res.
Result: the corrupted uploaded files filled my Google Drive, so I couldn't receive emails anymore in Gmail! Lost 7 days of messages till diagnosed the problem.
The amount of shares and value is all relative and has no bearing on "the faith or future you see in the company". Somebody investing $1,000 in Apple who only has $1,000 to invest is the same as somebody investing 10M who has 10M to invest.
I believe the real question you're looking for, is what percent of your portfolio is each of your companies.
> Somebody investing $1,000 in Apple who only has $1,000 to invest is the same as somebody investing 10M who has 10M to invest.
It's really not. You can't really meaningfully diversify with a portfolio of $1k, but you sure can with $10M.
It makes more sense for the $1k investor to pick one stock they feel good about it and hope to get 10-20% or more return on that, rather than for that $1k investor to try to find ten funds / stocks that balance his exposure.
For the $10M investor, it's financially irresponsible to allocate your entire portfolio to tech. _It very probably will pay off very well_, but there's a significant chance you'll lose several million.
> It makes more sense for the $1k investor to pick one stock they feel good about it and hope to get 10-20% or more return on that
If you're going to invest $1k, does it even make sense to do it at all even for that 10-20%? I recently for the first time bought some stocks (about 5k), and I don't like that I'm refreshing my etrade account all the time. In the end it would have been better I feel to spend it on something else. If you're gonna invest, I say invest in the liberal 5-digits, if you don't have means to do that, don't invest in stocks. (that's the reason why I asked the original question... I'm curious if others who are earning "engineering salaries" are investing in stocks only by small amounts or going all in)
It doesn't have to be so black and white - you don't need to invest small or go all in. I setup an automatic transfer which happens the day after I get my paycheck. Over time it's added up to be quite a lot of money.
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All my personal projects fall over with my poor design and frontend skills.