John Adams’ views on emerging technologies, software engineering, and various hacks
Today we’re going to teach you how to deal with having too many computers. Moving media around is a living hell because iPhoto and iTunes assume that you only ever possess one library. Sure, you can play music and movies purchased in the store on multiple machines, but what about your own library? How do [...]
At Twitter, we have many users which sign up for the service and mistype or enter invalid email addresses. Our product group doesn’t want us to use email verification, and for the most part, we cannot because we accept signups via mobile (through the 40404 SMS short-code.) If we bounce too many messages for any [...]
Viewdle, a video search engine, launched recently, and won the 2008 LeWeb Gold prize . It’s very similar to a technology that casinos have had for years. In previous times they’d look up your face in the five-volume Griffin GOLD book, a litany of cheats. Machine vision has surpassed the book, by far. I’ve long [...]
