freespirit77

My 13 year old son is showing interest in business and was looking for resources to educate him on how money/financing works, how the economy works, how do markets etc work. Shooting for a breadth first approach and then if he is still interested he can go deeper into the specific topics.

Any recommendations? He already listens to Planet money and really likes it but has a lot of follow up questions.

WhatsApp has a feature to mute chats so you don't get updates all the time for group chats you only want to visit that often.

In the last few weeks I have noticed that if I am using my phone a WhatsApp notification shows up in the status bar which says - "Checking for updates" but it's only updates in muted chats. However seeing that notification makes you engage with the app. Very annoying and under handed to get more engagement.

Hi,

I come from a backend(Services/K8s)/Infra background but going to be taking on managing a couple teams that build web applications and are deep into SPAs, JS frameworks and all the tooling that goes in to support it. Not going to be involved in day to day development but want a deeper understanding on the stack and ecosystem.

My learning style is to start from the basics and then build on top of it. In that vein I would like to understand the fundamentals of how the various front end pieces fit in vs jumping in straight into a opinionated framework like Vue or React. This will help me form a mental model on top of which everything else is built.

I know there is a lot of blogs/articles around HTML, JS, DOM, etc but nothing that I could find which ties everything together. Any good book/source out there that will help me kick of my new learning?

I was recently at Google Next, my second time and as Diana Greene was rambling through her keynote I needed to distract myself and was thinking why Google lags in the space even though they have great tech.

Here are some of my thoughts and would love to hear other folks take on it:

1. Google continues to be a Consumer company vs Enterprise. THey recognize this and Diana was hired to get them better aligned and I do see some of the changes she is bringing but it's been slow progress.

2. Google's developer driven culture leads to Products which are 80% done but the final 20% which is so critical to make them usable never happens. The devs by then have moved on to the next cool problem to solve. The 20% left is normally things like better integration with existing tools, better documentation and examples, things staying in Alpha and Beta for years and all other things which make it easy for the tech to be used. This one is the most difficult one for Google to change because it's the very core of their culture.

3. Lack of good vertical and horizontal integration with their existing services. They have great technology building blocks but don't do well to integrate them to build solution platforms. They lack a story around use cases companies can use to solve complex problems. Google's stance has been here are these great building blocks which don't at times fit in seamlessly but here are APIs go figure it out. Developers can make this work but it makes decision makes like CTO/CIOs apprehensive. I did see a pleasant change in this area this time with the integrations around k8s, Envoy and Istio as well as the next level of abstractions being built on top of it like Knative. Google of the past would have never stitched them to together to give a platform.