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Ryan Grove
Ryan GroveWoah. I thought I knew how to play chess, but I didn't know about en passant until just now. I guess now I know how you and your sister must've felt when you discovered it! 😳
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant
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Ryan GroveJoined Director of Engineering at Cake
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yaypieRyan GroveInteresting idea. We'll give this some thought. In general, though, I'm not a big fan of the idea of using topics to trigger app behavior. I think it's important that topics be relevant to people, not just to computers. The main purpose of topics …7- yaypieRyan GroveI would love to see people bring conversations from Twitter to Cake. Twitter is a great place for conversations to start, but it's a terrible place to actually go in-depth on anything, especially once multiple people join in and the threading …5
- yaypieRyan GroveWhen I was in high school I took a zoology class. Once a week — or was it every day? I can't remember now — the whole class would go to the Oregon Zoo, where each student would observe an animal they had chosen to study. I chose to study naked …
2 - yaypieRyan GroveEveryone at Cake was sad when we heard the news that @wxwax had passed. We didn't know him in person and most of us were only just getting to know him via Cake, but he seemed like a really interesting and thoughtful guy.1
- yaypieRyan GroveI've spent much of my career writing PHP, sometimes loving it and sometimes hating it. It's not my language of choice these days (Cake is JavaScript all the way down), but it's hard to beat PHP for getting shit done without a fuss! When I was …5
- yaypieRyan GroveFord has announced that they plan to introduce both all-electric and hybrid electric models to their F-Series pickup truck lineup. The F-150 is the bestselling vehicle in the …
5 - yaypieRyan GroveSounds like a great phone! > Having said that, I’m very happy with the stamina of my phone. The most intensive use comes from Google Maps, as I use it between 2-3 hours a day while I drive to and from work. Just curious: why not use a car charger …1
- yaypieRyan GroveMax Stoiber shared a great blog post today about the technology choices he regrets making while building Spectrum, a community-focused chat platform. It's an interesting and informative …15
- yaypieRyan GroveTwitter user @jonworth created this helpful and depressing "What happens next?" flowchart for Brexit. We're currently at the "No Confidence Vote" box in the middle that all those arrows are pointing to.
2 - yaypieRyan GroveSeems odd that Bloomberg characterizes the results of that poll as "the country hasn't shifted significantly" when it shows that the country has flipped from majority leave to majority remain. Leaving means wrecking the UK's economy and creating …2
- yaypieRyan GroveSounds like the vote was indeed a resounding rejection of Theresa May's proposal ("the heaviest parliamentary defeat of any British prime minister in the democratic era") and now a no confidence vote is on the …3
- yaypieRyan GroveYou mentioned the kiwi in passing, but I think it deserves full inclusion! With one caveat... When most people think of kiwis, they probably think of the fuzzy brown thing that's bright green on the inside, kinda sweet, and super tart. But did you …
5 - yaypieRyan Grove2018 was such a great year for movies! Like @JazliAziz, I also loved Avengers: Infinity War. That it managed to bring together the stories and characters from more than a dozen movies made over the course of a decade was impressive, and that it …4
- yaypieRyan GroveInteresting! Makes sense. But once we've detected a drone, what do we do about it? Flight operations would still have to be shut down, and tracking the drone itself via radar wouldn't necessarily make it any easier to locate the drone operator. …2
yaypieRyan GroveWelcome to Cake, @brygom! It does seem like WordPress and Drupal are likely to be pretty good options just given how popular they are and how large their communities are. But if you want an alternative, Ghost might be worth checking out. They have …2- yaypieRyan GroveI'll try! So, when programmers create a website, they write code in languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. They typically store this code in what's called a source code repository, which is special software that keeps track of all the changes …4
- yaypieRyan GroveI would be a terrible salesperson. 😄1
- yaypieRyan GroveWeird how that works, isn't it? I'm generally pretty terrible at remembering names (if you tell me your name in person I'll forget it before you've even finished saying it), but for some reason I find it a lot easier to remember names …6
- yaypieRyan GroveWoah. So...can someone smart explain like I'm 5 how "motion and confinement" result in mass? In my head I'm envisioning quarks and gluons flying around in a really tight space and bouncing off of each other, but I don't understand how this could …1
- yaypieRyan GroveI'm still waiting for a response to my tweet... 🤔 https://twitter.com/yaypie/status/10827677570101002242
- yaypieRyan GroveIn December, over 1,000 flights at Gatwick Airport — Britain's second-busiest — were diverted or canceled and flight operations were disrupted for 36 hours due to reports that one or more drones were spotted in the airport's …
4 - yaypieRyan GroveThis definitely bothers me. In fact, it makes me angry. I use an iPhone, which is generally very good about allowing me to control how my location data is used. I'm super careful about which apps I give location access to. But it turns out none of …5
- yaypieRyan GroveAw man. When I saw the photo in the feed, I thought this was a propulsion device you could wear or hang onto to zip around while scuba diving, Thunderball-style. Turns out it's a bit too small for that. 😄
2 - yaypieRyan GroveThat video does look like it was recorded by a Tesla's built-in dashcam feature, but the claim that Autopilot recovered from the skid is almost certainly a lie: https://twitter.com/wk057/status/1081726202614894593 That said, as a human driver …1
