> the first of its kind to reach Africa

What? There are about 11 undersea cables connecting Africa with the reset of the world. Many of these we have had for more than 20 years, with the oldest going back to the early 90's. How is Googles the first of its kind?

Adding more undersea cables won't reduce the cost of bandwidth in Africa, or anywhere. Adding more competition to the local infrastructure market will. I was stuck on a 512 Kbps ADSL line with a 3 GB cap for the same amount as I am currently paying for a 200 Mbps uncapped fibre line until the Government owned telecoms monopoly was privatised and the market opened up to competition.

In a manner of speaking, yes. If Google choose to put an advert for this Pixel in a ad spot that they could charge $1m for, then Google are costing themselves $1m by doing so due to a lost sale. They may not be taking money out of their pocket, shifting it to the other hand and putting it back in their pocket, but they are paying for putting their advert up instead of a competitors. It just so happens that advertising their own Pixel instead of a Samsung phone makes then more money in the long run because people buy the phone ... you know, like how it would have been if Samsung had bought the slot for $1m.

I don't know, Apple have a habbit of removing useful features over time. The next chip might make the "bold move" of removing the ADD instruction or something.

Uh, thanks I guess? We will add it to the other cables we already have serving Africa that provide us with a total of 470 Tb of capacity. What would really be useful though is instead of them laying the cable North/South like all the others, they lay one Easy/West to give us direct connectivity to the Americas and Asian continents without having to go through Europe first.

If they replaced all the human workers with robot workers, this would have not been a problem. Not a single robot was admitted to hospital, only weak, fleshy humans.

I'm fairly confident that gold linker and lld are multithreaded.

So if you need part of your house repaired or extended, do you employ someone full time as an employee of yours, or do you hire a contractor for the duration of the build? Companies have similar needs where they only need someone for a short duration to do a once off job.

Or they are trying to be more efficient.

We were approached by a company to develop something similar. They were a large organisation with a large number of offices and a large number of roaming contractors. They simply wanted to know how many of their desks and offices were actually in use on any given day so they could scale appropriately. Why pay for 200 offices and desks when you only needed 150 at any given time? They tried manually counting people at desks, but it took too long to audit the building and by the time they reached the end, the data was already inaccurate.

They simply wanted metrics to help the business.

This was my problem with Windows 10 when I installed it a few months ago. It failed to do some update, so wanted to repair itself, but every time it tried it was trying to restore itself on the EFI partition, not the actual windows partition. Thankfully at that point I still had grub installed with the boot sector of one of my disks intact, so was able to boot into Linux via legacy option, but after many failed attempts to boot windows 10 and having it trash my EFI partition while trying to restore, I gave up and haven't booted windows since. No loss though, I only ever booted it up to do updates in case one day I ever actually needed to do another cross platform build.

It doesn't matter what it is, or how it fits into anything, just identify something which annoys you and make it better.

Curtains don't open when you wake up...
Traffic Lights seems I'll times...
Having to specify times on the microwave when it can easily measure weight...
Windows wants to update to latest version...
KDE doesn't integrate with Office 365...
Your Company is using Office 365...
The Digital Sign-age at the Airport has a brief 0.5s black frame between videos...
I can get a lift anywhere I want by pressing a button on my phone, but I need to wait 20min before a waitress takes my food order...

... I'm sure I can make this process better!

Then just sit down and learn enough until you know how to make it better. Then make it better.

The reason you became a programmer is because you see patterns in the world, and can imagine a way to make those patterns more efficient. You don't need to revolutionize the pattern, just make it better. Linus Torvolds never revolutionized operating systems, he just made the development process around them better.

One of the things that stuck in my mind about the video (aside from the cheesy feel sorry for me video editing) was that he said they didn't have a corporate account for the funds to arrive in, so they chose his personal account?

I live in a 3rd world country (South Africa), and it takes me 1 minute to set up a new bank account with shared access credentials with my existing bank. This means the account is completely separate from all other of my accounts, and I can create as many logins as I want for it with as much access as I want (read-only, read-write, which accounts they can see etc). This has proved massively useful when sharing a household with others. Open an account and set up access profiles for spending for certain people in 30min. Why can't people doing Kickstarter type campaigns do the same when they are trying to start a business.

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My (overpriced) insurance company already does this. You get 2 free "rides" a month where people rock up and drive you home in your own car. So not only do you get home safely, so does your car. Heard via the grapevine that it is saving the insurance company quite a bit of money. Other industries are now starting to offer it too. My bank for example offers the same thing (although only twice a year) to make sure I remain alive and continue to give them my money.

I do. It is the equivalent of reading a book on a subject. You see how other people think and categorise their code, hopefully inspiring or improving your own. Even if you don't agree with the way they are doing it, you broaden your spectrum on how things should not be done or how they can be done better. I've been a programmer for 24 years (12 of those as a professional) and I love watching people program as an inspiration. Watching notch code a doom engine from scratch in WebGL (Dart?) after constantly criticising his love of Java with Minecraft ... it made me interested in new languages and new techniques and made me respect him more. Watching Handmade Hero do SIMD optimizations inspired me to learn more about CPU architecture (again). I can learn these things on my own, but I can't inspire myself to learn them. That is what code streaming helps with ... inspiration.

Looks like the studios are double-dipping.