Month: April 2021

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S4 E17: Matt DeBergalis, Apollo GraphQL

Matt DeBergalis has been into tech since he was a boy, playing games like Flight Simulator on his Commodore 64 and reviewing the schematics in the handbook. To Matt, computers are tools to make things possible... and enable people to do it quickly. He loves community building, with his background in politics, and he loves the open source world. He finds that it's a powerful force for organizing people to create what wasn't possible before.

He lives in San Francisco, with his wife and 6 year old. And he's a private pilot, owning his own plane. When asked how he balances all he has going on, he quickly replies that anything worth doing is going to require hard work. For him, this is his family, flights and code adventures.

Previously, Matt co-wrote an open source product called Meteor, attempting to make it simpler and faster to write JS applications. At the core of the tool, there was a capability to write a query to move data around, instead of writing the code. They took that capability, and formed what they are focused on today.

This is the creation story of Apollo GraphQL.

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Speech Richard Nixon Never Gave (Encore)

The Apollo 11 mission to land humans on the moon was one of the most complex things ever undertaken by humanity. They had to prepare for any and every eventuality, including the failure of the mission. To cover that eventually, President Nixon’s speechwriter wrote a speech to cover that eventuality. Learn more about the speech which Richard Nixon never had to give, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - SPAClash: the buzz and the bust

Special-purpose acquisition companies offer a novel way for companies to list on stockmarkets. We look behind the buzz, and something of a recent bust, to discover why they are a useful innovation both for investors and markets. President Jair Bolsonaro wants every Brazilian citizen to have a gun—especially his supporters. And a visit to the world’s largest magazine archive.

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What Next - What Next | Daily News and Analysis – The Invasion of Lake Tahoe

Tech workers from the Bay Area happily left their expensive apartments for Lake Tahoe during the pandemic, hoping to get some fresh air and a change of scenery. Towns around the lake soon became "Zoom-towns" -- areas where remote workers moved in and never left, raising prices and driving out longtime residents. Now, locals are fighting back.

Guest: Rachel Levin, San Francisco-based journalist.

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The Best One Yet - 🐶 “The 1st ever dog-walk stock” — Rover is SPACing. Willow’s $82M breast pump. Exxon Mobil’s Blockbuster Video alarm.

The Uber for dog-walking is going public, but Rover has pulled off something no other platform app ever has. Willow just snagged $82M for a breast pump because it’s the AirPods of MomTech. And Exxon Mobil was the biggest public company in the US, but now it’s #26 — and we just heard someone ring “The Blockbuster Alarm.” $NEBC $XOM Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @JackKramer @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Got a SnackFact for the pod? We got a form for that too: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe64VKtvMNDPGSncHDRF07W34cPMDO3N8Y4DpmNP_kweC58tw/viewform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Invasion of Lake Tahoe

Tech workers from the Bay Area happily left their expensive apartments for Lake Tahoe during the pandemic, hoping to get some fresh air and a change of scenery. Towns around the lake soon became "Zoom-towns" -- areas where remote workers moved in and never left, raising prices and driving out longtime residents. Now, locals are fighting back.

Guest: Rachel Levin, San Francisco-based journalist.

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The NewsWorthy - Political Power Shift, Louisville Police Probe & iPhone Tracking Update- Tuesday, April 27th, 2021

The news to know for Tuesday, April 27th, 2021!

We have updates about:

  • how Census data is reshaping Congress for at least the next decade: which states are getting more representation and which are getting less
  • why the Justice Department is investigating the Louisville Metro Police Department
  • the topic getting the Supreme Court's attention for the first time in a decade
  • a possible breakthrough in the global fight against malaria
  • why Toyota just bought part of Lyft
  • how to use Apple's new privacy controls 

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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Sources:

Census Data Changes Congressional Makeup: WaPo, WSJ, Axios, NY Times, Census Bureau

DOJ Investigating Louisville Police: NPR, AP, Fox News, CBS News, ABC News

SCOTUS to Take Up NY Gun Case: CBS News, Reuters, USA Today, WaPo

Gov. Newsom Facing Recall Election: LA Times, Reuters, CNN, Fox News, Gov. Newsom

U.S. Shipping Out AstraZeneca Shots: AP, WSJ, Politico, WaPo

Malaria Vaccine Trial Results: BBC, Al Jazeera, University of Oxford, MarketWatch, WHO

App Tracking Transparency is Here: WaPo, WSJ, Vox, CNBC

Apple’s New East Coast Hub: AP, Reuters, NC Chamber of Commerce, Apple

Toyota Buys Lyft’s Autonomous Vehicles Program: The Verge, Reuters, Toyota

Oscars’ Record-Low Audience: Hollywood Reporter, Variety, CNBC, AP

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Short Wave - The U.S. Vaccination Rate Continues To Slow

Short Wave's Emily Kwong talks with NPR health correspondent Allison Aubrey about some of the latest coronavirus news, including the return of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the U.S. and vaccine outreach in harder to reach communities.

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NBN Book of the Day - Ritchie Robertson, “The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790” (Harper, 2021)

The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 (Harper, 2021) is a magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness. 

One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of rationality and evidence-based argument. 

Yet why, over three hundred years after it began, is the Enlightenment so profoundly misunderstood as controversial, the expression of soulless calculation? The answer may be that, to an extraordinary extent, we have accepted the account of the Enlightenment given by its conservative enemies: that enlightenment necessarily implied hostility to religion or support for an unfettered free market, or that this was “the best of all possible worlds”. 

Ritchie Robertson goes back into the “long eighteenth century,” from approximately 1680 to 1790, to reveal what this much-debated period was really about. Robertson returns to the era’s original texts to show that above all, the Enlightenment was really about increasing human happiness – in this world rather than the next – by promoting scientific inquiry and reasoned argument.

Zach McCulley (@zamccull) is a historian of religion and literary cultures in early modern England and PhD candidate in History at Queen's University Belfast.

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