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My experience (and that of most people I know) with Apple chargers is that they break all the time despite the utmost care. I would hardly call that an engineering marvel.

Edit: I should be more specific - I wasn't referring to the chargers themselves, but rather their cables.
for the first 10gigabytes, that is
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f-string will become the "obvious" way. It's as fast as "%", and as powerful as "format()". We just don't comply with the "preferably" here. And yes, I would prefer to have Template and % sent to the trash bin so we are left with less options, but that would break too much code.
I upvoted you because I dont think you deserve to be downvoted for an opinion.

Having said that do you care to elaborate on your first claim. Not sure I understand where you are getting that from.
Are CJD and Alzheimer's two names for the same thing, just with different mechanisms of transmission and initial loads?

(I walked away from a protein misfolding seminar with the vague impression that this was the case but I never managed to track down someone who knew enough to answer.)
I mean, the fact that they continue to sell more iPhones than they ever have of each new model says something. A lot of companies' popularity only lasts one or two product cycles.
> Maybe this will be a big enough kick in the butt for Google to start supporting pen input in ChromeOS or Android (there are Android tablets that have pen input, but IIRC that support is plastered on top by manufacturers increasing support and integration costs significantly, so software updates don't happen).

This is what I'm hoping for as well. I'd love to use a phone with pen support, but as long as it's not built into the core OS, pen support is going to come at the cost of timely OS updates. And that's a trade-off I'm not willing to make since I generally buy unlocked and tend to skip quite a few generations before upgrading.
The SP3 is thicker by 2mm and is smaller on the other axes, and is 70g heavier. That's clunky?
My concern is the apps that are approved for this device and the speed at which it occurs.

I've bought into the whole eco system in terms of hardware: macbook, Apple tv, iphones, ipads etc. But I don't really care for apple radio, itunes music, or itunes video. I use netflix and amazon and spotify. So my concern is that those apps will be quickly available without any slow down or blocking by Apple. I also like to stream local content which I can do easily with my ipad. I think as long as I can get the same selection of apps I get for ios I'll be happy, but I've seen apple make arbitrary choices before.
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> deadlocks, a problem that is common, hard-to-avoid, and difficult to recover from

Deadlocks are by far the easiest concurrency problem to debug, since it's very obvious when your program is deadlocked, and in most cases a stack trace of the involved threads is sufficient to debug and fix a deadlock. Also, if your program is deadlocked it won't corrupt user data.

Rust's std::sync::Mutex is fortunately non-recursive, which makes it easier to find deadlocks during testing.

Data races are far worse since they may cause arbitrary effects at a later point in program execution, so they take a lot of developer time to track down and very likely lead to data corruption.
The iPad is not doing well I don't think thats controversial.
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Any others?
Yeah that is funny
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Which comes free with the Surface.
The `value` you are returning has type T. T is not the same type as Optional<T>.

With AnimalMuppet's approach, you would need to return a pointer to a T (so, `&value` in something Cish). Note that this is not the same thing as a nullable reference in, for instance, C#.

`null or T` is a valid representation only when T is a non-nullable reference. It doesn't work when T is optional, and it also doesn't work when T is a primitive type, a struct, &c.

That said, there's obvious reasons it might be wanted an optimization where it's possible. For that specific case, `Just value` could be specialized to `value`, but that can be done by the compiler (akin to automatic unboxing, elsewhere).
In those cases, most people would want to have full photoshop/ z brush instead of an app.

Theres also lots of artists who have reviewed the surface pro line favorably. Notably penny arcade's Mike K, and MTG's Noah Bradley.

When designers/visual artists are going to look at the market they are going to see surface pro, not iPad pro.

To top it off - The pro is also relatively closer to the cintiq ideal. Couple that with the iPad pro's price point?

How will you justify getting an iPad pro? The parallax, accuracy and hands on reviews aren't out yet.

I don't see who in the digital design world would buy this, or why.
On the flip side, if they were offering TLS services to these sites, they're literally man-in-the-middling encrypted comms to those sites. And in scope of US law-enforcement/intel collection.

Might be that they were asked to continue to provide services.
And others only dream that maybe their grandchildren will live such happy times as their grandfathers did. But it's time to go to bed, get some sleep before another day of reimplementing half of CL in Java...
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Another drunk memoir ...

> As a lot of drunks report, introducing alcohol into my body just felt like "Ooh, there we go. Here I am." Sort of like it elegantly completed a chemical equation of some kind.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a25749/rob-delaney-red-...

I can't relate to that at all...alcohol has no interesting effect on me. There's a science in studying genes and chemistry, and a sort of science in just observing people and life and storing things and noticing patterns and developing hypotheses.
Yah this happens because the image is based on a grid. You can see it on any monitor if you open it up in an image viewer and zoom in an out.

As another commenter mentioned these effects are called Moiré patterns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern

They may be more or less apparent depending on the scaling on the image and the scaling algorithm being applied. Some scaling algorithms apply filters that can make the effect even more weird than normal.
Apple TV has always been based on iOS, but was 'forked' a while ago and has diverged a lot since then.

Initial reports suggested that this 'new' tvOS is based on iOS 9, which makes sense seeing as it's using a lot of iOS API's and frameworks
I'd be curious who they brought in to test the iPad Pro out. I really enjoyed the fact Microsoft used Penny-Arcade for their Surface and even let them write about the experience. As a consumer, it made me feel like Microsoft cared a great deal about making sure that demographic was heard and they designed a product with that demo in mind.
Ntrig, and msft bought ntrig earlier this year.
A €1 battery which lasts more than a year...
ED without the EDiots. I like it.
It's a display problem. The spike appears at 2015-09-08 12:00ish, but is not visible at the same time on the shorter timescale views.

Edit: yes, it's aggregating things incorrectly at 14+ days. Some parts of the graph appear to be 'aggregate' (spike), others appear to be 'average' (low points).
I like how "multiple windows" is suddenly considered an advanced feature.

You're confusing simplicity with ease of use. Adding a layer of indirection over the intrinsic file system is not simple, and even ease of use is debatable, since it creates an impedance mismatch by definition.

Nor is there any reason to consider this a zero-sum game. Having advanced features does not deprive the common user of their comfort, as they will simply not make use of them.

I'm of course not the target audience for iPads, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking they're anything but a toy. It takes something much more serious for a new computer generation to usurp its predecessor, and if mobile device manufacturers continue in this fashion, they might win only a technicality - market share. As opposed to the usual test of whether a platform is able to bootstrap its own system software, which iOS and Android emphatically cannot.
Depending on where you live (certainly not SF or NYC) it's quite common to get most or a large portion of your vegetables from the back yard. It could easily account for 10-25% of one's diet during the growing season.
It's 'pro' within the segment it's in, which is the tablet segment, not the laptop or desktop segment. Just like if they come out with an iPhone with power-user features for professional/enterprise usage, it's reasonably to call it a 'pro' line within the phone segment, without necessarily implying it's a more functional device than say a fully fledged desktop called a Mac Pro. I don't really see the issue but I get what you're saying.

And it does have some of that functionality, from a large screen, type cover keyboard, stylus to multi-tasking. That's not 'pro' in all industries (e.g. in software it's not), but if you're in marketing or say one-on-one tutoring or sales, I can imagine there are professional use cases reasonably enough to call it 'pro'.

Either way I'm not really convinced, still feels like a terribly niche item, not really useful to most professionals (who'd I'd think, prefer light laptops and/or small tablets in combination with a growing presence of now ~5 inch phones and smartwatches) either. Sure it's a nice device but is it going to turn around tablet sales for Apple? I'm not convinced. I just don't see a 13 inch screen beating say the MBAs or Surface 2s of the world.

Mostly I just feel like expensive tablets are a thing of the past. Tablets kind of filled this niche role in between phones and laptops, until phones became bigger (4 years ago the iPhone was 3.5 inches, then 4 inches, then 4.7 and now the biggest is 5.5), and laptops became not necessarily much smaller (although they did, 11 and 12 inch form factors are super popular, versus the more traditional 15 and 17, or the old 12' powerbooks with huge bezels that are bigger than 15 inch macbooks today), but much, much lighter and with solid battery life and SSD ubiquity. I just feel there's no real room anymore for expensive tablets, there's still room (1) very niche uses and (2) dirt cheap tablets, plenty of room for a random 'good enough' tablet for at home to read the news that don't cost $800. I mean hell the freaking keyboard is $170, the pencil $100 and the tablet $800, obviously you want cellular, too, as a pro user, that's $1080. So now we're at $1350 for an iPad pro with a keyboard and stylus that's still sub-par to other solutions. Anyway I don't have many doubts I'll be proven wrong, they don't just build random stuff without a ton of focus group data and conversations with business users, but I'm not really seeing it right now.
The weird part for me is that everyone I know who tried an iPad for getting work done (ie: PROfessionals) gave up on it. iOS is simply not geared towards productivity nor content creation, it is a consumption device. The surface pro is the exact opposite, it is a machine that works for getting shit done on the go (for some people, not all obviously).
> It's marketing. And when it comes to marketing its far more true than that Lynx will get you laid (lol), or that some new detergent will revolutionaze how clean your clothes are, or that some GAP clothes will make you part of the "in" crowd.

Yes. It's marketing - the magic context in which we suspend our disbelief and let people lie to our faces, and we then applaud and pay them.
AirPlay mirroring has too much latency. Using it for gaming is unbearable.
It's worth noting that some (probably most) of these aren't iOS exclusives; I've had Medscape on quite a few of my Android devices over the last couple years, for example.
WorldWideWeb was the most inovative Web browser. Opera just copied it.
This kind of philosophy bothers me:

> “There’s a tax that comes with interoperability and what can be seen as complexity, which is it can actually be an impediment to innovation.”

Yes, it's possible that standards can become too complicated. Rather than refusing to participate, as Apple has done with pointer-related designs, why not join the group and give rational reasons for simplifying the design? Every thing Apple has reinvented here is already supported by W3C Pointer Events as far as I can tell.
It's extremely intuitive, I didn't recall how to do any of them but I knew I'd be able to find out in the context of using each App.
The idea that clumps of proteins misfolded into stacked beta sheets (beta amyloid plaques, i.e. Alzheimer's) tend to cause other proteins to misfold into beta sheets and join the glob. So, exactly like a prion except with a "messier" mechanism that doesn't strictly follow A+B->B+B.

Which raises the question: did prion diseases ever really strictly follow A+B->B+B? Can Alzheimer's be transmitted by eating "infected" brain tissue? If the answers are "No" and "Yes", then it seems that what we mistook for two diseases (because of differing context and symptoms) was actually one underlying mechanism (with different context and symptoms).

Disclaimer: I Am Not An Epidemiologist, I am not extensively familiar with recent literature on the subject, I just did a bit of unrelated work in computational protein folding and couldn't help but wonder.
Did you have your corporate Exchange account set up on the phone?

By default, this requires you grant the ability for remote wipe and other MDM capabilities.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa998614(v=EXCHG...

Is this standard/allowed? No idea. I think that's something to speak with a lawyer about if you think it's worth it.

On one hand, it is your personal device. On the other hand, you obviously had privileged company information on the device at least in regards to your emails and to configure the email account you would have had to accept their remote admin capabilities (I'm fairly certain you're prompted with this on iOS but I'm an Android guy).
Have you actually used it? On the Macbook, Force Touch is totally intuitive -- it's like using a normal trackpad. It's actually quite eery. So I don't think "touching too much" is going to be an issue, any more than accidentally clicking a trackpad. It will probably be _very_ natural for things like text selection (which is a constant PITA in touch UIs).
This is all a response to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10192042

Reasonable people can disagree about what "safe" and "easy" mean, but I don't think Rust's concurrency primitives are either given the (very real, very bad) possibility of deadlock.

>Rust's standard library has channels.

Which are a good start, but only a partial solution without coroutines (and the other additions you mentioned).
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I own a Surface Pro 3 and I will be buying an iPad pro. The Surface Pro 3 for Visual Studio, and the iPad Pro for music production. The markets are completely different.
Love the penny antenna.
You may be able to run two apps side by side on the iPad now, but you wont be able to instantly alt/cmd+tab between the fully capable PC versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Chrome running 50 tabs, 500 page Word document, while rendering something, while powering 2 or 3 external monitors if needs be. It's a completely different paradigm in terms of productivity for artists and so on.
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If you didn't install some device management tool or corporate app, you probably had your company e-mail connected via ActiveSync, which allows this.

Apparently agreements covering this are not entirely unusual. If you haven't signed one saying this, they clearly fucked up. Even if you did I'd think it is bad form to do so without warning, unless they have really good reasons.

Takeaway: Keep work stuff off your phone completely, or access it over better controlled channels.
The starbucks full of students typing out reports on iPads with bluetooth keyboards begs to differ. I mean, obviousy, you can't do all work on an iPad, but for a certain class of "work" it works fine.
So if I already bought several standup specials from louisck.net?

If I got videos from a kickstarter?

If I make videos myself and want to show them to friends?

Are stand up comedy fans, kickstarterers, and film creators not part of Apple's target market?
At 2.000+ lines of code, you need abstractions. Picking good abstractions is hard. Experience teaches you which are good or not.

Above that, you need architecture. Picking a good architecture is hard...
Right, but you do have a choice what's displayed on the landing page, and even what default objects the user is given to play with. It pays to select them well because ugly stuff can drive potential users away. You need to show people who aren't technical that you can achieve nice effects and show them how.
Please don't complain about the next vim vs emacs debate. :)
This is a weird comment, because of course the Ogallala Aquifer extends through eight states, and has been extensively tapped in all of them for decades.
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Haha, you nailed it. Good old planned obsolescence :)
If all you want is something with a big screen to watch videos with, there are plenty of cheaper and bigger options out there than a $700 Surface knock-off.
Are any of them profitable? For sure, none as profitable as the iPhone.
I was thinking about this a week ago while contemplating their gaming moves with AppleTV.

I think Apple wants to focus their own design energy on the broadest customer base, which means casual gamers. Based on that, it makes sense that they would basically deliver their rendition of the Wii-mote. It's interesting to compare it to the FireTV remote as well.

Honestly, there's a lot of "hard core game" controllers out there and they all fit in the mold of the XBox/Playstation dual-stick model. It's a smaller market, and people tend to be brand loyal and also generally not fans of Apple. So I think it makes a lot of sense for them to stay out of that racket and leave it to third parties.
I'm REALLY interested in hearing more about this.
Windows 8.1 is amazing on the Surface Pro. W10 is a major step back for me. It's also the perfect form factor for reading graphic novels, although it's easier holding an iPad Air for extended periods.
With every Snowden leak that has come out, you don't think the Government has access to ALL of google's tracking data? Even if they didn't, all it would take is the mere thought that you might doing something wrong, and they'll subpoena it/get a warrant.
It began a while ago, it is just now more apparent because the level of innovation in each successive generation has become so small. I wonder if we will look back at the last 8 years as Apple's golden years, because it is really feeling like their best is now behind them. The level of innovation that has created their most loyal of fans and zealots no longer exists, and there is so much less to indoctrinate the next generation. Newcomers no longer think that Apple is a head and shoulders above the rest innovator and Apple is built on the loyalty created by being different.
>True. And yet, it still means there is some pushing of demand into the future due to the deflating prices. Which means that your argument in the GGP post is false.

I never said deflation cannot defer people's demand. The comment I originally responded to indicated that a deflation rate of 1% would, in general, discourage spending. I would wager, that almost no one defer buying an iPhone if they knew for a fact that it would be 1% cheaper a year later. Just as I don't think that knowledge that the price would be 1% higher a year later would cause someone to buy an iPhone they were not already planning on buying.

What I'm getting at is falling prices, in and of themselves, are not a huge problem. If you want to say that a deflation rate of 20% would cause huge problems, ok, maybe that's true for some products. Conversely an inflation rate of 20% would cause huge problems in some realms. Inflation is not generally good and deflation generally bad--that is the myth I'm addressing.
Yeah, isn't Microsoft Surface Pro marketed precisely to be an enterprise-ready tablet?
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I started working on something myself--should have something out in a day or two :)
Any indication if Apple is going to support pointer events[1] now since there is a stylus ?

[1]: http://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer
If I recall, one of the games in the App Store demo showed a "This game requires a controller" warning.
This "game" is stupid because it doesn't do anything at all to show the trade offs.

As a gross generalization:

Higher Growth -> Higher Employment -> Higher Inflation

High Inflation -> Negative Income Growth (for those on low wages and fixed incomes) -> Risk of Recession and/or Social Disruption

Lower Growth -> High Unemployment -> Risk of Recession and/or Social Disruption

Put those parameters in and the "game" gets interesting. At the moment it's just pointless.
Consistency is really important in branding. I don't understand why people rag on Apple for being so incredibly consistent in their branding. I bet your own marketing department would love to have that kind of discipline.

How much time is spent here on HN talking about A/B testing things and going with the best result. Apple is incredibly profitable. As much as it might irk you, I bet their phraseology performs VERY well.
The short version: any complex data processing done at scale will have a lot of steps and fail a lot. To avoid having to constantly monitor everything, you have systems called "workflow managers" that help you make sense of those multi steps monsters and manage their dependencies, their failure etc...

If you never had to process that kind of data (we're talking about Google, Facebook and Twitter kind of data) then you probably have no exposure to this kind of system.
Subtitle: Psychologists used to manipulate and deceive their subjects with impunity. Did the end justify the means?

And the answer is an easy, explicit "no". This is why we now have ethics committees. If you do actually need to deceive your subjects for your study, then your study has to pass an ethics committee who will weigh up the benefits of the research against the required deception.

But yet again we see another article that basically treats the entire field of psychology as starting, ending, and only encompassing Milgram's infamous experiment from 54 years ago...
Any word on how many levels of pressure sensitivity the pencil thing has?