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The motor launch tied up at the small-boat pier in Seeadler Harbor in New Guinea to disembark a dozen men from the ammunition carrier USS Mount Hood. The date was November 10, 1944. Led by the ship’s communications officer, Lieutenant Lester Hull Wallace, the group had several errands to run on shore before returning to […]
Odds are there isn’t a Civil War buff living who hasn’t seen a copy of this remarkable pencil sketch (above) by special artist Edwin Forbes, which Forbes labeled as “William J. Jackson, Sergt. Maj. 12th N.Y. Vol.—Sketched at Stoneman’s Switch, near Fredricksburg [sic], Va. Jan. 27th, 1863.” The young noncom has gazed back at us […]
To the disbelief of gaping onlookers in the packed stands at El Toreo, Mexico City’s largest bullring, American rodeo performer Bill Pickett clung to the horns of a massive Mexican bull ironically named Frijoles Chiquitos (“Little Beans”). Watching from a safe distance in the saddle atop jittery horses were cowhand Vester Pegg and siblings Joe […]
The Curtiss-Wright Corporation came into being in 1929 through the merger of companies started by pioneering aviators Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers. Within the new company, the Curtiss-Wright airplane division made airplanes while the Wright Aeronautical Corporation focused on engines. By the time of World War II, Curtiss-Wright held more defense contracts than any […]
Introduction The Feature Systems team at Etsy is responsible for the platform and services through which machine learning (ML) practitioners create, manage and consume feature data for their machine learning models. We recently made new real-time features available through our streaming feature platform, Rivulet, where we return things like “most recent add-to-carts.” While timeseries data […]
Etsy announced the arrival of a powerful new image-based discovery tool on Etsy’s mobile apps. The ability to search by image gives buyers the opportunity to search the Etsy marketplace using their own photos as a reference. Tap the camera icon in the search bar to take a picture, and in a fraction of a […]
I previously wrote about JustTweak here. It’s the feature flagging mechanism we’ve been using at Just Eat Takeaway.com to power the iOS consumer apps since 2017. It’s proved to be very stable and powerful and it has evolved over time. Friends have heard me promoting it vehemently and some have integrated it with success and […]
Samsung Galaxy S22 series is slated to arrive on February 9, 2022, in the virtual Galaxy Unpacked Event, and already much has been seen of the flagship devices in leaks and rumors. So far, we know enough about what the Galaxy S22, S22 Plus, and S22 Ultra will look like, and their respective specifications. A […]
A funeral home copes with the surge during the coronavirus pandemic During normal times, Joe Ruggiero Jr. might hold 25 funerals a month; this April there have been 71. Due to a surge in COVID-19 cases, his family’s funeral home in East Boston is so overrun that the tribute lounge and cafe normally used to […]
How the iOS team at Just Eat built a scalable open-source solution to handle local and remote flags. Originally published on the Just Eat Engineering Blog. Overview At Just Eat we have experimentation at our heart, and it is very much dependent on feature flagging/toggling. If we may be so bold, here’s an analogy: feature […]