Software Defined Talk Episode 283: There are no chicken tenders in calendaring
Jan 29, 2021
01:02:21
This week we give our hot takes on GameStop, Clubhouse and Calendly. Plus, is Austin really a bad place to move?
Rundown
- Matt Ray finds a snake…?
- The Battle of GameStop
- VC
- Bitcoin Follow up
- Graham says we were close to getting Crypto but missed it.
- Nathan from Slack says: “The problem with Bitcoin is that people treat it as an investment rather than a currency. “
- Central bank digital currency
- Bitcoin | Acquired Podcast
- Earnings
Relevant to your interests
- https://open.engineer (rating engineers by public GitHub, what could go wrong?)
- Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | Amazon Web Services
- Vagrant First Commit
- Google threatens to shut off search engine in Australia over news law
- Otter.ai’s new Chrome extension can transcribe Google Meet calls in real time
- Tucows closes its once-popular software download site
- Advice on Lambda
- End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business
- Google employees have formed another union, this one international
- Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company Revue
- Discord looks to grow beyond its gaming roots
- Raspberry Pi
- How a Linux migration led to the creation of Amazon Web Services
- Four security vendors disclose SolarWinds-related incidents | ZDNet
Nonsense
- Costco Prices
- California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin (originally from a 2016 Quora answer).
- Tom Morello impressed with this Guitarist
- US Man Installs Crypto Mining Rig in Hybrid BMW Sportscar
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Listener Recommend Jobs
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Conferences
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Recommendations
- Matt: Earth at Night in Colour
- Brandon: Wyze Outdoor Cam
- Coté: Money. micro.blog
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