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It's TNBT.
I don't understand how food, a consumable, physical object with a production cost much greater than zero, is the same as a book, which is a non-consumable physical object with a large production cost, or a file, which is not a physical object, and has a production cost so close to zero that it's not worth measuring. Can you explain a bit further how this "fixes" my statement, or my accusation of inconsistent or illogical thinking?
"We Need the Right to Repair Our Gadgets"

Holy Space Pope! Isn't that pretty much exactly what started RMS on the Free Source mission!? He wanted to repair [the code in] his printer.
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It looks like it would be really awesome to have, but I have a feeling that it's going to be much more expensive than the current iPads. If that's the case, it almost makes more sense to buy a Surface Pro 3.
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I recently moved most of my sites to a tip jar only and removed the ads. I have always done better via tips or donations than via ad money.

This is only a tragedy of the commons if we find no other means to fund things we value and expect to have access to online. The Internet is here to stay. You are only an asshole if you hate ads, use adblocker and are also unwilling to fund the sites you use via some other means. There is nothing inherently evil about hating ads and choosing to block them. But if you expect to get all online content and services for free, then you de facto desire to treat someone, somewhere as your slave in some sense.

So if you use ad blockers and want services you value to stick around, please, out of enlightened self interest, support and promote alternate funding models that you find more palatable. And if your answer really boils down to "I expect everything for free!" then, yeah, go die in a fire.
Also, you can argue that Google has been punished for daring to stand up to the US government (for example wanting to warn wikileaks about surveillance of its employees). Perhaps it's coincidence, but the Obama administration recently sided with Oracle in its litigation against Google. That is the sort of thing you can expect when going against the US government. Also, you give up help when it comes to things like antitrust lawsuits.
Ask HN: Will Apple iPad pro wipe out Microsoft surface?
As Apple announced iPad pro which is more identical to MS surface with more powerful hardware what are the chances it wipe out Microsoft surface?
I'm wondering if the new A9X chip will be used by MacBook Airs in the near future. It makes a lot of sense for Apple. Probably nearly as good as Intel offerings, less power usage and better margins.
I suspect he means one-man-set-and-forget-production.
& just announcing "The Smart Keyboard", smart case built just for iPad Pro with keyboard built in. "Unlike any keyboard you've ever used before."

With Apple Fabric! And an Apple Dome Switch!
Cucumber is still quite relevant. Your alternative assumes Ruby, Cucumber does not.

I personally enjoy writing Gherkin as I get a large set of feature files that serves as documentation. I don't think it's that great as a DSL or to have someone besides the step definer writing the tests. Maybe that's why you found it hard to maintain. Oftentimes I define single-use steps because my other scenarios simply don't need them. It's definitely a poor solution if you are looking at it from a programming language or code reuse perspective. Instead I use it as a way, in English, to explain features. Granted I use it almost exclusively for integration/systems tests and not unit tests or anything.
They've apparently already announced the iPad Pro. It still runs iOS, so I don't get the point. The reason the Surface Pro is so powerful is because it runs an actual OS, so who is the target market for this?
I don't want it unless it has an exposed CLI without jail breaking.
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The book is exactly what it says it is. "Why Rust", an argument for Rust. 50+ pages. It's a fun read, but not too useful. My own comment on Rust is that the borrow checker is brilliant, and we'll see that again in other languages. The type/generic system picks up where C++ left off, and is very complex. But that may get better as the mess settles down and gets better documentation.

We now need a "programming in Rust" book which is not by one of the Rust developers, who are too close to the design.
If you're going to be using the web and Microsoft apps exclusively, it does, sure.
So what's your definition of an "actual OS"?
It is in direct competition to the 'Surface Pro'.
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* The value/importance of a 1% increase in efficiency can make or break team performance. 1% of an 8 figure company isn't enough to fund a multi discpline, multi-person team looking to improve efficiency for a year. The parent company literally employs a team whose sole purpose is internal efficiency/performance improvements where "single digit percentage" improvements are enough productivity to justify a multi-million dollar budget. Sure it "exists" in theory in a smaller company but it no one is paid to perform the job because the cost/benefit isn't there.

* The mindset change in regards to accounting, legal risks, etc.

* The amount of red tape & interaction with state/federal governments. No one cared what we were doing when we were just an 8 figure company.

* We actually care about PR when it, frankly, didn't matter before.

Sure, you "care" about these things as a smaller business but you don't have dedicated teams of people solely to manage them. Building dedicated teams solely to perform function X vs. having teams that are more general purpose is a huuuuuuuuge practical difference imo.
This little book is basically promotional material for Jim's bigger book, which, at least from the blurb, sounds exactly like what you're looking for.
Could you run the other ones as well? If you're positioning yourself as a faster alternative to ABP, it makes sense to compare yourself against other popular alternatives.
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If you see a stylus, you know (there's a video with whiskey-smooth voiceover coming)
Hooray.
An environment has been created where the slightest of perceived infractions is maximally punished. You'll have to forgive me for not wanting to take that risk just because someone asked nicely. It's become quite clear to me that doing my best and moving on isn't good enough.

Have you considered the possibility that there's a real state of fear surrounding these topics? It renders everything toxic and every interaction becomes a minefield. It's not a healthy state of affairs, and it's not one in which telling people to do their best and move on offer is a sufficient response. It comes across as utterly lacking in empathy.
I believe Mark Zuckerberg's father is a dentist.
Exciting to see the Apple Pencil/Smart Keyboard - this appears to be very similar to the Surface Pro 3, leaving the ball in Microsoft's court for their Surface Pro 4.

(Leaving aside all the differences in software)
I also don't get it. One of the most important rules about good design is consistency, and this one looks noisy and cluttered.

This website does the opposite of what two former fellow students did: In a seminar they held a talk about aesthetics in software development. At the beginning, they told us that they couldn't agree on what makes good aesthetics, so they simply designed their slides with the worst aesthetics they came up with.

However, their slides still contained black-on-white text, upright, in readable size. Moreover, as they continued their presentation, we noticed that all slides had exactly that same "bad" style. They were consistent! Although those students strived for something different, they subconciously applied good common sense and did all important things right. It was good design, after all.
"Who wants a stylus? You have to get 'em, put 'em away, you lose 'em. Yuck! Nobody wants a stylus. So let's not use a stylus."

-Steve Jobs
Pencil. Jobs is spinning in his grave.

Edit: 99 dollars !!
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This thread isn't particularly mega.
Right?

Why is this so difficult.
Never heard Uber in use as a verb before. Skype, a few times.
> I don't use it myself but I'm frequently noticing CloudFlare aggressively stripping color-profiles from images

They have a service that tries to perform loss-free optimization of served images. It's easy to disable, and should be disabled if you either already perform similar optimizations (optipng / pngquant, jpegtran, etc) or have images with annotations, color profiles, etc.
They announced a Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2"
It's pretty clear; browsers were too slow to run ads.
The podcast, This American Life had a great episode on modern segregation and the failure of attempts at desegregation: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/t...

Missouri has a particularly bad problem. Basically, there is a lot of evidence that desegregation works in improving education outcomes. Yet, the issue is looked at with suspicion, since richer people in good school districts believe it is bad for them. The podcast features a shocking town hall meeting where you can hear the worst of people's racial prejudices. They looked at Ferguson, MO in particular, and how kids got bused to a predominantly-white suburban 'good' school district and the ensuing political drama viewed from the real implications on people's lives.
If by "Microsoft apps" you mean any program compiled for Windows in addition to any of those that can run on an OS supported by VirtualBox.

So the iPad can run iOS apps while the Surface can run virtually anything except iOS apps.

They're not really comparable platforms.
It's still really hard to leak in Rust though. Affine types and all.
Do you have image "improvement" options enabled? Maybe disabling them could help.
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I'm hoping this lights a fire for a surface pro 4 announcement.

What's wrong with using non-microsoft apps on windows?
It doesn't work that way. Circadian rhythms are regulated by the PER3 gene. No amount of practice will convert someone from a late-riser into an early-riser.

The only benefit you might see from forcing those young adults to get up before they are ready to wake up during their school years is that you might condition them to see their hours of morning grogginess as normal and reduce the psychological distress they might otherwise feel when considering the prospect of going through that experience every work day for year after year with no prospect of relief.
I'm interested in reading this but it isn't designed for mobile screens.

Who needs that, amiright?
Except it runs iOS and not a full desktop operating system. Why would a "pro" user choose this over a surface pro/MBP/ubuntu certified system?
To all who disagree with my statement that there is an independent document (or notion) that specifies requirements and program != specification, how do you define a bug?

I say that a bug is where a program violates a requirement. If you say there is no independent source of requirements than the code, then I don't see what can be bug as the program is self-consistent.
While I do agree Jobs was saying that no one wants to use a stylus to use their devices, you have to admit this stylus is a pretty good idea. With the additional sensors you can actually do things you can't do with traditional styluses and you're not forced to use it with your device, it's just an add-on.
It's officially running iOS and not mainline OS-X-for-tablets, so I think it's safe to say that's out of the question.
>I don't think there's any more reason to think that will be an indefinite trend than there was to think automotive assembly would always be a high-skill job.

It isn't. One day even programmers will, in general, be replaced. The way I see it is that programmers will be one of the last ones to be replaced because once they are replaced, everything else that can be replaced that isn't will soon follow (as replacing programmers will send the process of replacing such jobs into overdrive).

Everyone learning programming does not solve the bigger problem for society, but it is probably one of the safest careers even if it isn't safe.
I think it's fairly obvious that puranjay was talking about transport of humans.
Later edit. It's iOS for fuck sake. It's ridiculous to compare iOS with full Windows. A keyboard is not that useful in a TOUCH based OS.
How do you define a bug (see my reply above)?
He said this at the iPhone unveiling. For an iPad, a stylus makes a lot more sense imo.
I like to joke too, but not really, if you're serious - Jobs always hated things until he could claim that Apple reinvented them. Even Gruber was making fun of it yesterday. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/09/08/gizmodo-netflix

In any case what Jobs meant was that the companies that were putting out devices that required a stylus to operate correctly were doing it wrong, and that's been proven pretty extensively by the kind of touch interaction that the iPhone popularized.

Specifically: the new iPad Pro works just fine with touch, but you also have an option of an Apple-sourced stylus for more intricate work.
Or any number of 3rd party Windows applications?
Is Yahoo's CEO overpaid and not being fired because she's pregnant?
It is interesting comparing Microsoft and Apple's convertible tablet strategy. Microsoft's devices use the full OS and are basically laptops first and tablets second while Apple is doing the opposite. If this is truly designed to be "Pro" as in enterprise , I think Microsoft's strategy is going to lead to more productive and therefore better enterprise devices.

EDIT: And after the price is revealed the scales tip a little more in Microsoft's favor. The entry level iPad Pro is the same price as a Surface Pro 3, but has half the disk space and doesn't include the stylus.
Rust's users are all developers so there's no distinction between expert and novice users.

I built rustfmt with nightly Rust and it dynamically links all kinds of shared objects from the Rust install. This doesn't happen for a simple hello world so there must be something different in rustfmt's build.
You can call an ecosystem 'intelligent' if you want to, I suppose, but there's not really any way to discuss it as a 'maximizer' when it has no goals and no intentional behavior. You could as easily describe water as a 'gravitational potential' minimizer - it has a collective aggregate behavior that you can characterize, but that doesn't make it intelligent by most definitions of the word.

>If capitalism didn't have a coherent behavior, then how could we ever rely upon it as a primary driver of our economy?

It is not a 'primary driver' of our economy, it is a description of our economy. The primary driver of our economy is corporations - entities obeying a profit motive. They have behaviors, intentions, and goals - they attempt maximize shareholder profits. "Capitalism" doesn't intend anything, have any goals; it doesn't even have any non-emergent behaviors.
Use the index, Luke
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Then I shall restate with greater precision.

The operating mode described by the comment to which I was responding, that of CloudFlare performing all steps of SSL termination, is one operating mode available. CloudFlare offers at least one other operating mode in which they are not responsible for all aspects of SSL termination. In particular, they offer an operating mode in which they do not hold private keys. This is referred to as "Keyless SSL". Thus the concern voiced by the comment to which I was responding, that of CloudFlare stripping SSL, is but one available option rather than the only available option.

Clearer?
how can one return the song one just heard on radio? does anyone intend to?
"Who knows more about productivity than Microsoft" ?
It is not desktop, so that makes sense.
If it suits your workflow, why not? I can see it replacing wacoms for many.
What it really takes to learn how to code?
What about Pencil from 53? http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil

Edit: To clarify, seems like they shouldn't (maybe couldn't, but I don't see a TM on the 53 site) call it Pencil since there is already a device made specifically for iPad called Pencil.
Interesting. How does Rust prevent the cyclic reference counting issues that led Chrome to adopt Oilpan?
It didn't have apps. This one has all of iPad apps.
If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're
the product being sold.
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Care to explain, why do you have multitasking in quotes? You think iOS is some version of DOS?
Is there a Tour of Rust like there is a Tour of Go? I found the Tour of Go very helpful when I first approached the language.
He works at Cloudflare.
It's a faulty analogy. In fact, a paperclip maximizer goes against every single principle of capitalism out there.

The paperclip maximizer is bad exactly because it isn't based on capitalism; it will maximize paperclips regardless of whether someone values them or not! At _any cost_, it will maximize paperclips.

Markets, on the other hand, have the goal of providing products/services that people are willing to pay for. It adapts. The more people value it, the more capital it will attract, and the more resources will be allocated to it.
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The insight was related to winning first-service points when returning serve. This tweet has a screenshot of the association: https://twitter.com/lapsu/status/620223838895407104

This isn't too far from the logic: "How can we win this game? Score more points than the other team". I suppose the more interesting thing would be to compare the same correlation across players.
it's more specific, yes, but those differences don't matter if they aren't requirements.
And it's not a Wacom-like active digitizer, you need to actually charge this thing. I feel the stylus that came with Windows XP tablet edition in 2002 was probably better than this.
Hi, thanks for your comment. Whilst I haven’t used basecamp before, I’ve used trello quite extensively. Suppose each team in a company had its own board, and each board had lists splitting milestones into ’this week’, ’this month’ and ‘this year’. Sure, you could go through each board and see what teams were up to, but wouldn’t it be easier if you could aggregate all of that data in one place? Wouldn’t trello boards become even more complicated if you wanted to add the concept of individual lists, whilst still maintaining the format ‘this week’, ‘this month’ and ‘this year’? Lastly, I’ve yet to see how trello could provide a ‘timeline’ visualisation of milestones that were achieved in the past alongside those which are still yet to be achieved.

Basecamp, on the other hand, does appear to provide a ‘timeline’ visualisation of a project, but the service seems to focus more on keeping ‘stuff’ to do with a project in one place. My proposal is very different in that it focuses solely on milestones. Users would have the ability to group similar milestones together, for example ‘achieve X sales’ where the value of X could then be plotted on a graphed alongside the date achieved. This would allow, say, a team lead to monitor the progress of an individual or the team itself. I think this is quite different from basecamp’s offering.

Hope that answers your question!
"We can have both Word and Excel on the screen at the same time!" - Apple, 2015.

These Apple keynotes can be pretty funny.
Windows RT, the OS that could only run "Metro" apps, is dead and gone. All the current Surface tablets run Windows 8.1/10. They're ordinary PCs, with your choice of Atom x7 (Surface 3) or Core i3/i5/i7 processor (Surface 3 Pro), in tablet form-factor.
Same for "aesthetic"
I think you didn't understand my sentnce. The phrase "IBM was computers" means that they totally dominated the entire field of computers. It means that you didn't buy a computer that wasn't IBM. While in reality they had competitors, the hyperbole is still appropriate.
I love my Nexus-series tablets. I'm a ruby guy, so I have a Macbook (and a hackintosh); if they were to release a Surface killer, I would be in line.

Kind of disappointing.
Those spambots hit hard these days. However, they never ever touch your origin or your CDN at all (check your logs, nothing). They fake the log entry directly into the Analytics systems.

Google has to cleanup, but sadly, they haven't moved a bit since ages.
You should attend career day at local schools.
> While I do agree Jobs was saying that no one wants to use a stylus to use their devices, you have to admit this stylus is a pretty good idea.

The apple distortion field is running at maximum.
- How is it gimped?

- Why do you have multitasking in quotes?

You're going to need to work a bit more on your comments here, you can't just expect a full Anti-Apple thread to do well with zero sources or information.

> Later edit.

You completely re-write your comment and downvote me? Fantastic.
This is the part where I blush and attempt to hide in the corner.
Remember that capitalism works in favor of big numbers. 1 person has to earn as much as 1000 people in order to have the same power as them.

So while your point still stands, if you have a decent middle-class then it will be much more powerful than any billionaire will ever be.
Can you point to a single company worth even one tenth of what Uber is worth?

This is a misleading way of looking at things. Uber serves many more markets than taxi companies, so they can be much bigger while being more efficient per ride.
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I'm pretty cynical, but I just can't believe that was the only/major reason. In 2009, I have to believe that browsers could run advertisments pretty well. I am sure it was a great ancilliary benefit for them, but I think it has much more to do with the apple approach to tech.

You can keep people in your ecosystem if you use a chrome browser, an android phone/tablet, and author all your documents with google drive. Except instead of the hub being a mac computer, the hub is your chrome browser which you use to search, create documents, go for entertainments and purchase products. If chrome is ultra fast, it can handle and process all your data and give you a great UX as well.

IDk, I guess you are right though, the faster you surf the more adverts you see I guess.
I think he complains about website he uses as a user, hence he should contact the owners of those websites.
First off, I'd definitely recommend reading http://gamasutra.com/blogs/JesseSchell/20150626/247113/Makin....

VR-wise, b) can definitely be mitigated. There seem to be two current strategies - either you design the experience to be primarily stationary, or you set up a room that people can actually, physically walk in.

stationary-only experiences might seem like a tight constraint, but constraints breed creativity :).

Rooms to walk around in have also been done, but they're obviously more effort to set up and maintain, and are typically done by larger institutions.
I've grown curious about Bak's implementation of Smalltalk (OOVM A/S) that was mentioned in this article. Has anyone here had a chance to tinker with it?