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The device clears user storage before allowing you to flash a new OS, so that isn't an effective way to compromise a user's data. Application installation requires unlocking the device, so the ability to sideload doesn't give an attacker any meaningful ability over installing from an unscanned app store like Apple's.
I'm in the same boat. I have nothing helpful to add, but I can tell you what DOESN'T work, maybe this will save you some time:

1. Replying and telling them what kind of opportunities you're actually interested in. That doesn't matter to them. Those who use the "spray and pray" approach don't seem to care if there's little chance of a good match.

2. Replying and telling recruiters to kill themselves. Although this is quite fun, they seem immune to the insult.

3. Clicking the unsubscribe links in their emails. In fact I think this may make things worse (because you've just confirmed that your address is active).

4. Flagging them as spam. Most of them are advanced enough to circumvent most spam filters.

5. Setting up filter rules in your inbox based on the "from" address or subject. Many recruiters never re-use those kinds of things.

6. Converting your resume to image format before posting it on the job boards (so the text isn't searchable). Not sure why this doesn't work, but it doesn't.

7. Adding a disclaimer to your resume begging/pleading with recruiters not to contact you. They ignore it, or think that it doesn't apply to them.

Sigh....

I guess the only option we have left is to deliberately try and crash the tech economy. If we succeed, that should get rid of the recruiters pretty quick. Let's split up the tasks: I'll start raising a Billion dollar seed round for my sandwich cart, you start working on a social network for dolphins. Okay team, let's do this.
Seems like a neat product, a mashup of an ereader and a http://www.myboogieboard.com/ with some added web.

The initial hero image has terrible contrast and readability though, and the site does too much unnecessary fanciness with scroll-ability.
The only way to have real privacy when it comes to software is by it being: 1) open source and 2) executable on your own servers. Open source in itself is not enough, but it is a required pre-condition, same thing with the fact that you can run it on your own server. In these aspects, Android is way ahead as there exist projects to replace all the proprietary parts.

http://www.replicant.us/
Battery life has got worse and worse though. For me it's less than a day if I'm using my phone heavily (which I often am e.g. on public transport I'll watch videos or browse the web). If I'm going out after work then it's work -> bus or train -> theatre -> bus or train home, if I haven't charged my phone since that morning then it's dead by then. So I've taken to leaving a charger at work but that's got its own awkwardness (unapproved device, other people "borrowing" it). I don't really want to carry a charger around in my pocket (if that's the alternative, I'd rather have a heavier phone with more battery life).
A tad "holier than thou" attitude pointing a finger at your competitor and to a large extent the entire internet economy. It would be nice to dial down the spin/FUD machine esp when you're the CEO. Ad targeting will and has evolved. Good things happen when you understand the user and their needs - I for one am willing to trade my privacy for USEFUL features and products (to paint this as only ads is injustice). Just like I'm willing to trade my $s for good devices.
Random example from a moment's thought on how to cheat: demo mode typically runs in a store display, and likely has little opportunity for evaluation of audio (unless placed in a separate showroom as some stores do for a home-theater demo, but in that case it'll likely get tuned carefully). So, in demo mode, don't bother turning on the higher-energy portions of the audio system at all, because nobody will notice if the audio sounds tinny. And now you've potentially saved tens of watts in demo mode.

(Also, note that demo mode typically tunes for most attention-grabbing in a showroom, which often does not provide the optimal viewing experience at home.)
People overestimate Amazon's dominance. Amazon is only dominant in internet retail. In the wider retail world they're quite small. Rounded maths, Amazon is only about 5.4% of US retail sales, and that is only including the top 10.

source: https://nrf.com/2015/top100-table
If Amazon ever banned competitors from running on AWS it would pretty much be the end of AWS.
Well-engineered hardware is definitely interesting, but unfortunately this article is rather lackluster. I'm not even talking about the many typos, but absurd claims like the suggestion that the use of Torx screws "Protects Dyson from counterfeit" really should not make it into an article by somebody who claims that they are "engineers, like you".

Their try at explaining the physics involved also does not quite convey they feeling that they understood what is happening and how.
My first thought too.

But then this is true innovation apple always giving us new great stuff that was not copied from android at all.

And let the downvotes come, no I do not like apple.
I would support something like an Fdroid repo for ipas and apks. It supports private repos. Every company having a repo you could simply add would be the best. Would fix trust and maintenance costs too since you control the repo list, they control the repo.

I can't see Apple or Google giving up the cash cow that is their respective garden though.
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"Consumer-focused major US tech companies," then. Hell, the logic still applies even if it's only directed at Google, who Apple seems to consider its arch-nemesis.

(And while they may not be specifically selling ads, Amazon's business model is absolutely heavily invested in invasive ad tracking, which was my point. Witness how Amazon products that you look at but don't immediately buy follow you around the Web for fucking weeks.)
I know at least 5 people off the top of my head who gave up with Google maps because of battery life. Apple Maps is not great, but it doesn't totally kill my phone.
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Wow, MS didn't follow an established standard ... /s.
Pretty much. I have a 5S and it makes it through a full day of moderate use or two days of light use. The only time battery life is a problem is traveling on the road, where it seems to burn through battery roaming (I assume). But, if I'm in a car, I can probably charge. In the woods, I have the same problem, but using airplane-mode solves it - if I'm in the woods, I don't want to answer email or phone calls anyway.
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> The main purpose for CDN hosted scripts is allowing them to be cached in your browser...

Hopefully, subresource integrity schemes will eventually allow browsers to fetch from local cache based on the checksum of the file contents, rather than the URI from which the resource is served. :)
I think you and the downmodders are shooting the messenger. I do not like walled gardens any more than I like taxes or drunk driving checkpoints. I'm just explaining why they are there and why many users actually prefer them, and I'm doing so to let people know there's a problem worth solving. Pretending the problem doesn't exist doesn't help.

Computer security is just far too confusing and difficult for the non-tech-savvy. With walled gardens people can delegate their security to someone that, while not perfect, is much better at it than they are. For most people this is a huge win. This is what happens to most peoples' computers if they are "open":

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/99/259360546_504c726d0b.jpg

If someone has a better idea I'm all ears, but I don't know of one that could match the Apple Store for ease of use. Since user experience trumps everything, app stores are winning.
And you can use that sort of library in ES6 because generators were standardized.
> I found it frustrating when I couldn't stream Prime videos to my android phone (is stock android that different from the version on Fire?)

They've fixed that now. There was a time when you couldn't, but eventually the fire crashed badly enough that they started allowing it.
I wonder what the programming equivalent of such a way of thinking is...
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Worth it for the concept of technical debt refinancing.
I'm attending GA's WDI cohort this November - March. I can't yet speak to whether or not its worth the cost; though I can highlight my goals during and afterward.

I've been writing code and researching CS in various capacities since I was about 14 (I'll be 26 in a few weeks). I contribute to FOSS as much as I can, I occasionally push out personal FOSS projects, and occasionally make screencasts / blog posts highlighting things I find interesting or have learned.

I get by at the moment doing freelance web dev for agencies in town, but its a dead market, and a lot of places have either gotten very complacent or segregated as far as design and development (we have lots of agencies that can make "pretty" things and lots of agencies that can make very "good" things, but no agencies that have a strong design _and_ development presence).

I don't feel like I have an opportunity to advance myself beyond where I'm at. There aren't any start-ups, developers don't talk to each other, and we're being taken over by three-letter-agencies (We're now home to US Cyber Command).

At the very least, from my perspective, I make serious improvements / contributions to local companies as a contractor, but get very little recognition / respect from the developers in those companies.

Its my goal at GA WDI, to gain better connections with individuals / companies that I want to work with and do interesting things with, and to get better understanding of where I'm actionable (right now I work in a lot of various environments doing a lot of different things; the only time I really get to discover where my interests and my strengths converge is in the evenings and on the weekends).

I learned from community college that you typically get out what you put in (at least in my limited experience)-- I'd like to think that if I'm able to put in what I already know and take advantage of an opportunity to learn more and be "in the right place", I'll be able to get a better and more stable job.

I hope that makes sense; its been a long day.
Ahh, I read 'which is unlikely' as referring to 'cars were banned' not 'commerce would not take place'. My apologies.
What he's saying is good, but it doesn't make him a hero. It costs him nothing to take this stance, and is actually helpful to him as one of the main competitors to the company he heads is deep in this specific issue, and it's a perceived weakness of theirs.

You aren't a hero for doing or saying something convenient that benefits yourself, regardless of whether it's good and/or true.
Wasn't XcodeGhost a direct result of bypassing Apple's security model?
That's not correct. Apple doesn't allowing purchasing digital goods through a non-apple payment method. The margins are so low for Amazon it doesn't make sense to give apple 30% for every kindle book purchased.
Shade does not do much for the humidity.
With all due respect, he is not a hero. He is just the CEO of Apple. And Apple, even though it produces great products, profits from exploiting factory workers in countries where workers have less rights and where labour is cheap. If he was actively fighting this system of exploitation, that would probably make him a hero. Instead, he profits from it. That makes him not a hero but just another businessman. Furthermore, he is defending privacy only because it strengthens his business and weakens that of Google et al.
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I can see this working when the entire team does support, but when you have dedicated support/outreach people they will likely prefer Intercom webapp.
What you might be thinking about is the agreement between manufacturers to not make motorcycle top speeds more than 300KPH (186MPH). There are no limits on horsepower, though, and the top speeds are simply electronically limited. This also has no relation to car models.
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Except perforce has been moving towards streams to compete with git's more desirable workflow, and you can't lock across streams anyway.
Yeah I moved 1000+ miles from Florida to Houston. It got 5 degrees hotter and 10% less humid. West Texas is a desert, Houston definitely is not.
The Prius interior is shockingly large, it is an impressive feat. Nonetheless, the quality of materials is far inferior to other cars in its price range.
I don't own a car and walk a lot. I also have a very limited amount of bag space- I carry a small bag that can't hold much more than my computer, phone, and wallet. Being able to have my phone run all day long without hassling with carrying a spare battery is nice.

Right now my 5 does okay; it usually only needs a recharge on a day when I spend a lot of time with terrible reception. But it'd be nice to not have to hassle.

And... well, I really love not having to carry a power brick for my Air any more unless I'm going on a multi-day trip. One less battery pack and cable in my bag would be a nice thing. Less is more.

When I get around to switching to iOS9 (I like my jailbreak), I'll probably use low power mode a lot on days when I know I'll be draining the battery.
Just got to meetups and learn on your own time man. Save yourself a ton of cash too. See if you can mentor/teach/assist there instead of attend as a student, that way you get way more connections, and you don't pay + you still consume course material. I did that, and it was wonderful.
>If you're in our News app, and you're reading something, we don't think that in the News app that we should know what you did with us on the Music app — not to trade information from app to app to app to app.

I thought this was the most interesting quote in the article. I would've assumed the all Apple products would be colluding together, but Cook seems to be saying that isn't the case. That's actually a pretty big gift to consumers, but I wonder what it means up top. Does "Apple" get my news and mail info separately, or do the news app and mail app get their content and deal with it independently of mama Apple? It's a great sentiment - and I can't imagine he'd say it in this sort of interview without truth to it - but it's hard to imagine it in play.
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Can confirm that this worked! This should be the top post.

Thanks for the tip.
Translation: because it is not useful for you it's not useful for anybody else.

That's nonsense of course.

There are a lot of use cases where this would be very helpful without locking (i.e. jar/dlls).

This is useful now, locking can come later. We don't have to solve every conceivable problem all at once. More progress is made in small incremental steps than big bang leaps.
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The question is not merely "Does GA provide benefit?", but rather, "Does GA provide greater benefit than the cost (financial, time, and otherwise)?"
wow, $33,000 15 years ago? That really puts a spin on me making $36,000 6 months ago, working in 4 languages and 2 platforms to build a really complicated SPA web app and mac flash content player system. Glad I got out of that job!
You might read this article as saying "here is a new innovation by Apple that you should be amazed by," but I think a much more natural reading is "here is a hack to get a better experience from your (Apple) product if you don't mind trading battery life for CPU/brightness."

The author does mention this Android feature in passing, claiming that "it’s not like the extreme low power modes found on Android phones that basically turn everything off and turn your $600+ phone into a dumb phone."

Disclaimer: I use an Android phone. I don't use low power mode, so I don't know if his "dumb phone" claim is correct.
One reason why table-top games are booming amongst my friends circle is that a lot of us aren't into drinking, yet we still want to socialize with an activity anyone can jump into.
This [1] is the letter linked to in the article that is evidence they support CISA, correct?

Maybe it's because I can't read legalese very well, but this looks like tech companies asking congress to codify our rights for the digital age, and to provide a well defined legal framework for those rights to exist within. I'm not really seeing support for sweeping powers of spying; it seems like they're asking for the opposite in fact. Again, I may be misreading that.

1: http://www.bsa.org/~/media/Files/Policy/data/09142015CongLea...
Got tablet, laptop, desktop, mobile phone. Still prefer paper books and print outs for long form reading.
I had to use Jira at my last job. I could never figure out what it did that you couldn't do in github with less trouble and fuss.

I can't say that I would absolutely refuse to work at a place that uses Jira, but it is definitely something that would make me lean towards another offer.
But... it's an async call. The error is going to happen as part of the event loop. That's inherent to the nature of async. If you want to get the error before it happens, you'll need a time machine.
I don't think it's about number of choices, but how impactful and interesting those choices are.
I'm happy they are kept separate, they (often) serve totally different functions. I was genuinely surprised not to see it in the control center though, seems like that would be helpful.

It shouldn't be needed most of the time, so it'd be a waste of space, but really it just emphasizes the need to have user control over the control center. I'd love to swap out some of the icons there for things I use more often.
I don't know about that. They were talking about line widths of 40 atoms. Another four years (factor of seven improvement) takes you to 6 atoms; another four years (factor of 7 improvement) takes you to one atom. At that point you're not talking about a "carbon nanotube" any longer - it's just a row of carbon atoms, and you still can't improve it any further.

I mean, yes, there will be process improvements. The article talked about 28 atoms as the next step. But there are fundamental limits, and they aren't very far away...

(I could be overstating the case here, in that transistor density may scale as the square of the line width, rather than linearly with it. The point about fundamental limits still stands, however.)
The quote specifically says they don't share data between apps, but not that they don't collect data from all of the apps and correlate it behind the scenes. Perhaps it is an overly cynical point of view, but true to the spoken words.
The design is impressive, but the construction is not. I see one being returned every few trips to Costco.
I can't imagine this is intended to compete head-to-head with something like Perforce. As you've pointed out it simply can't. But for a repo that's mostly code with binary assets that get updated occasionally it's probably a god-send.
In James Gleick's The Information, the first chapter is about a West African culture, turning phonemes, stressed and unstressed, into drumbeats, for conveyance over longer distances than one could shout, and needing to compensate for the information-loss of sound into drum pulse by using longer and longer "phrases".
None of the security and privacy arguments require a walled garden though. The real benefit is the fine grained control over what an application can do on your system. A set of fine grained controls and a a good set of defaults, or better yet the ability to subscribe to defaults as recommended by third parties. I Apple had controls much finer than those presented by Android with a set of sane defaults, and to that I could add what the EFF's recommends as defaults, we would all be better off, because Apple's best interests and my best interests are not always aligned.

I'm going to repeat that last part, because I think it's very important. Apple's best interests and my best interests are not always aligned. Why should they have ultimate control over what can and cannot be run on my phone.
Then again, some companies might like the fact that it could be another form of forced obolescence...

Personally, the inertness of plastics really suggests recycling and reusing; it's somewhat sad that we've invented materials that can last almost forever, and yet so many people are treating them as disposable and creating waste in the process.
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"Plastic Welding" is term people use. Though it tends to mean chemically bonding the mating plastics.
I don't think the public is sophisticated enough to understand the decoupling of these two ideas. But I also think that one day, probably soon, it will be.
Anything can happen anytime in the future, but this is the discussion about what is actually happening. Maybe a giant seamonster comes up and swallows the earth whole? Who knows.

But, right now, there exists filters to filter out US citizens comms from NSA spying, as revealed in CLASSIFIED documents.

This is something Snowden's friends love to conveniently ignore, because it doesn't fit into their artificially constructed world-vision of the US government as giant evil monsters.
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I've read the replies to vvanders and he's correct. With binaries you really want some sort of global locking (easy with a centralized system, hard with a distributed system).

I believe his (her?) point is that for a very large class of binaries there is just no upside in parallel development, one guy is going squash the other guy's work. You want to serialize those efforts.

We don't have global locks yet but we know how to do them, just waiting for the right sales prospect to "force" us to do them. I'm 90% sure we could add them to BK in about a week.
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