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The smugness thing really hits home. Sometimes clueless, overconfident or downright negligent people are so embedded in a culture that an outside expert opinion is exactly what's needed.

Thanks for the reply.
Where is the anti-competitive behaviour in this? It is not that you cannot export your photos, it just does not have a feature to make a gallery with one click.
Your note abou iTunes is also off the mark.
> XML's saving grace was that it came with good schemas out of the box

JSON is inherently "schema-less". So this provides us with no grievance.

> something that has, at best, extremely weak types

You provide the reader with nothing that indicates that strong-typing is important for JSON use-cases.

> schema equivalents that are bolted on, rarely used, and end up relying on humans understanding exactly what the data looks like

There are no schemas in JSON.
I'm sure I'm not first to question this, but if you download Tails or Tor browser or whatever, wouldn't that be sort of obvious? I mean it leaves traces. Then if you only use it to do something specific be it chat with friends, browse for porn, take part is activism or to buy illegal products for example wouldn't it be easy to see that: your computer went offline, then something new (Tails) went up, took anonymous connection to somewhere and then X happened, then Tails went away and your main OS/machine went back up.

My main "inspiration" here is the fake bomb threat by the college kid to get out of mid terms, just before the email about the bomb was sent his IP downloaded Tor bundle. The service he was using also had the schools IP or something so administration could see it was sent from inside the school, but I think that is still valid concern. This kind of meta data about your actions can leak just as much information as actually seeing what you are doing.

My question therefor would be: should more people use Tails as their "daily driver"? Would that make it more anonymous/private for the people like whistle blowers? My only idea at the moment would be to pay for two separate trusted VPN provider (don't know how you would vet that trustworthiness) with bitcoin, to keep your anonymity/privacy with them as well. Then pipe all your traffic through one of the VPNs all the time. Then when you need to use Tor, you would simply pipe it through that same VPN when you would emerge with rest of the clients from same point and then pipe your Tor traffic through the secondary VPN. This way you would still get the benefits of encrypted tunnels all the way through with benefit of Tors anonymizing and it might not be so obvious you are browsing Tor to your ISP or whatever.

Maybe I'm thinking this is harder than it actually is
When I first learned about Parse, I started to wonder how giving away 20GBs with 30req/s generates money, and I think now I have an answer.
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The alternative is not to include them at all. What benefit does that provide?

(You have to play the game to get why he can't give hints)
That one just sounds like a dark pattern.
As someone born well before the 9/11 attacks -- were there any positive consequences to the emotional attachment they provoked in the public? Indifference would obviously have been the correct response. What actually happened was not dissimilar to stabbing yourself in the face because you think a mosquito might have landed on it.
>a computer doesn't know the difference between formal and informal this seems to indicate that Alpha isn't truly above Fan Hui in strength. Also the formal games were played with fast game rules,

I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding you, or you're misunderstanding the situation, but the informal games had faster time controls than the formal ones: the formal games had one hour of main time, while the informal games just had byo-yomi (3 periods of 30s: if you take more than 30 seconds for a move, you "use up" a period).
I wonder why I'm not entitled to free updates that correct bugs in some software I paid for
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>You will upgrade because all of your data will be in iCloud and all of your finances will be in Apple Pay, and you will have no choice: you will upgrade or die.

You can download all of your iCloud data from the web client, and Apple Pay doesn't involve the cloud at all. It's all stored and encrypted locally and you have to re-add your cards with every new device. (I don't even think they persist over backups?)

>Even if Apple doesn't implement this strategy, they could, and that to me is cause for concern. Personally, I don't want the only thing standing in the way of being coerced in this way to buy things I don't want to be the continued benevolence of the largest corporation in the world. I want an escape hatch to keep Apple in check. And right now, I don't see one.

Yes, and Microsoft could do the same. Will either of them actually do so? I doubt it, but I suppose it's possible on an infinite timeline. Keep in mind that Apple needs a platform for their own developers to use, and for app developers, and closing the Mac would make that very difficult. Apple also knows how many of its customers are developers and they wouldn't just throw that away for questionable gains. Lock-in is fragile because eventually you get users using your stuff because they have to instead of because they want to, which is never a good situation.

>And the tools are set up so that you can only build for supported version of the OS.

Near as I can tell, this is false. I can set my deployment target all the way back to OS X 10.4. Will this not work?
I'm not sure that combining BI with a flat tax, especially as high as 50% would work out. People with minimum wage or low-paid jobs would have a disincentive to work -- working full time would net them nearly nothing versus staying home, unemployed.

Napkin math: 2000 hours (approx full time hours per year) * $7.25/hr (US min wage) * 50% = $7250. Cost of transportation, child care, and other things that wouldn't be required if unemployed could easily eat most of that, netting a wage of just a dollar or two per hour.
Haha, I love it. They nailed it.
> google and microsoft moving forward api standardization

Google maybe.

Microsoft never - if it's one thing that is in their DNA than it's they always have undocumented API edge cases, so they can change them right in front of a competitor - they have a very long history doing that. Ask Apple (Word, IE, etc), DOS-competitors (DR-DOS, etc), IBM (OS/2, DOS, OpenOffice, Lotus, etc), "open" Office format (docx, xlsx, pptx = weird XML serialization of their old binary OLE2 based Office format), Win16API, Win32API, NTkernel API, and many more.

You are right with AWS.
So you mean Facebook is open sourcing Parse...
Three times.

1st) Blockstackers Intergalactic (Slashdot's original parent) sold to Andover.net.
Andover.net got bought by VA Linux.
VA Linux changes it's name to Geeknet.
2nd) Geeknet sells sells Slashdot and Sourceforge to Dice.
3rd)Dice sells it to these guys.
http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/mini-faq.txt

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3 clicks to do just that?
"Uber for x" click-bait title.

For shame OP, Uber isn't a common noun.
A lot of well deserved praise for Feynman but this video stuck with me for some reason and I always pictured the guy as a bit arrogant and snobbish.

youtube.com/watch?v=3D2RaDVkylY
Another good example is exporting Notes files from iPad. You HAVE to have 10.9 OS X on your laptop. With all those engineers on payroll they can't allow exporting to older OS?
No fault there?

Since when do you load up the Uber app just to see what cars are around you? Going window shopping for rides to nowhere? At best it's "Living Social" without the discounts.
What were these features?
Amazon has fully embraced BaaS. And I don't know of any AWS services they've added and then removed. I think Amazon will be the winner here. MSFT is also starting to embrace BaaS. Of course they have a less stellar history of support.
I went from iPhone to Android and back again to iPhone. I had no troubles at all with either transition.

Tech journalism can be so dramatic sometimes.
If you don't know how to solve a simple problem, especially one that was solved 50 years ago in computer science, you're fucked anyway.

A lot of these interview questions are 'crap' but designed to be solvable in 20-30 minutes and not require hours of domain specific knowledge. In other words, it's something _anyone_ with _any_ degree of problem solving skills should be able to solve.
Especially 6 years after the fact plus with Silverlight being deprecated and for Linux Moonlight is abandoned.
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That reads like a rant, and I don't understand what the actual problem is — do you have an old Mac that can't be upgraded to the latest OS X? Do you have to pay money to upgrade OS X, and you don't want to? Or do you refuse to apply a free OS upgrade?

If it's the last of the three, then that's just a decision on Apple's part to not waste resources trying to support every possible combination of OS X version and iOS version. Yes, that leaves people like you unhappy, but leaves the majority of users happy, with better software.
Its a logical consequence of resource limits, technical debt is expensive, and must be resolved eventually. There is a reason that support for GTK 1.x applications vanished over time, as well as ones that needed old compilers, tied to old library version, and old versions of glibc.
Had a chuckle
As stated in the article, 50% was chosen only because it's the rate where calculations are simplest, it's not the proposal (it'd generate way more than the current government tax receipts). Income tax rates under a revenue-neutral negative income tax could remain pretty similar for those about the threshold; it's really just replacing non-cash welfare-cliffed benefits with a smoothed cash transfer.
Oh man, good find. I wonder how many examples there are of "We're not going anywhere" followed by closure a couple years later.
Don't threaten. Get them engaged, get them to set their own team goals (with your guidance) and get them to agree to the goals. Divide pleasant and unpleasant tasks visibly and fairly. Get rid of people with poisonous attitudes who sabotage this white glove treatment.

Threatening only works in the short term, right up until your best people pick up their shit and leave. In the long term it does not yield the kind of workforce you actually want to have.
Hardware ray tracing changes everything
Refusing to "mess with something that already works" is a recipe for disaster.

What companies often learn too late is that there are basically two options:

1. Make maintenance -- both in terms of upgrading underlying software, and addressing accumulated technical debt -- a regular, required part of their process, or

2. Occasionally face a potential existential threat from the unbounded cost of staying fixed in perpetuity to a stack that "already worked" once upon a time but no longer does due to lack of upstream support and available developers to keep it limping along.

The genuine problem is that "what does this do for next quarter's results" is the only concern, which means long-term thinking is actively discouraged.
Is there a list of known-good hashes for official Mac installers?
I mean... you could do this, but it would completely depend on your threat level. The problem with this idea is that using your computer in any way that's remotely convenient or normal is impossible. Eventually everyone screws up/gets frustrated/let's their parent or SO use the machine. Right then all of this is mute.

If you're this level of paranoid any email account used more than a handful of times has to be burned and never touched. You definitely should not ever access a cell network with a smartphone, which has to be burned as well every week or so. Social media use is also dead. If you don't use social media because of security concerns, that's fine, but 2.5 billion people do, so you're probably in the minority.

If you're going to whistle blow there are a bunch of other steps you should implement, running TOR being one of them, Tails if you're that high up of a risk (hint: you're probably not). If you're at that level 1.) you should be doing everything from various public wifi networks in cities nowhere near you and 2.) the fact that you downloaded TOR is not what anyone's interested in anyways, it's what you're saying and doing behind it.
Agreed, though I'd hope that some lessons from basic income could be used in the disability benefit sphere too. The welfare cliffs are devastating and produce severe underemployment among PwD.
can only hope ;)
I imagine this is more talking about Word 6 and Office 97 then the later versions. The 2000 upgrade was forced by the aim of making the office XML files the new standard as opposed to the competing OASIS (OpenOffice) standard.
You think that's what caused it?
the old binary formats for office were the collected history of 20 years of software development, and even Microsoft had trouble with consistent implementation - at least OOXML had a digestible easy to use standard.
While this is not specifically GH Pages, the documentation has been hosted on GitHub for quite some time now: https://github.com/ParsePlatform/Docs
This is exactly the issue. It is irresponsible for a vendor not to nudge users toward upgrading when older versions no longer make sense to support.
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No, such derivative work, is pretty much the opposite of innovation. It is like 'Apple made another color variant of this year's iPhone, awesome, check it out'.

What's worse, they are maybe 10s of them every week, distract the community's focus to improve let alone perfect current system.
What stands out to me the impact of loyalty on corruption. Despite doing obviously the right thing: Boisjoly later revealed this memo to the presidential commission investigating the disaster and was then forced to leave Morton Thioklol after been shunned by disgruntled colleagues.

Elsewhere in the discussion[1], we learn that key information about the O-rings had to be carefully, anonymously disclosed to protect the jobs of several people, including a prominent astronaut.

How do we avoid corruption when loyalty uber alles is the rule of almost all organizations?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10992224
So maybe it is time to stop and instead of making of/searching for yet another JS lib just think, should I be doing this on the web in this way at all. This trend to make everything on the web into some kind of application has already thrown out of the window all the good that was done for the web in the past 10-12 years.
I dont give a fk.
"And nowadays everything is in the app store, including the developer tools. And the tools are set up so that you can only build for supported version of the OS. It is still possible to use XCode to build an application for Snow Leopard because you can still get an old XCode install DVD and an old Snow Leopard install DVD, and if you get Snow Leopard Server you can even run it on a VM. So no matter what Apple does, you can run Snow Leopard forever if you want to."

Sigh. That makes me very happy.

It also makes me very happy that I saved, into cold storage, every single .iso and .pkg and ... everything ... that I ever downloaded from the apple developers site. The old apple dev resources/download site was too good to be true - you knew it was going to go away.
They're both plenty fast for most sites.
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Hi Joe, sorry to come across that way to you. They're not the same because:

-Social security (means tested, dehumanising and bad for self-worth/esteem)
-Pensions (only handed out to older people who are probably in a less creative phase of their lives)
-Allowances (whilst close it is unlikely to be completely unconditional and usually tied to an emotional/familial bond which comes with it's own set of baggage)
-Annuities (this is the closest of the lot but generally only rich people experience this so it would be interesting to see what happens when given to less well off sections of society).

Unconditional basic income deserves to be studied from a scientific perspective. Too many of our major political decisions are based on anecdotal evidence and they therefore don't achieve what they presumably set out to achieve. Unconditional basic income is a unique concept with it's own unique set of inputs and outcomes just as the concepts your mentioned are. We cannot just assume outcomes as that is bad science. We have to implement, test and analyse our results.

If you are interested in this approach to governance I highly recommend reading this article to stimulate your interest: http://www.demoshelsinki.fi/en/2015/12/08/this-is-why-finlan...
If there is a criminal complaint it has to go through an indictment hearing by a grand jury. If the officer is not indicted there either is not enough proof or the officer acted in accordance with the law.

Usually a judge has to hear the criminal complaint first and determine if it has merit first. If there is no evidence of the complaint, the judge might decide it has no merit. If it is a false complaint there would be no evidence.

I don't think a union has the power to change how the court system works. They can protect the officer from getting fired, but the officer still has to be tried in court just like anyone else. Although grand juries are not as strict on officers as they are on other people.
You can download the newest Xcode et al without the App Store, from here:

https://developer.apple.com/downloads/

(Edit: You can download Xcode all the way back to Xcode 2.3 from 2006)
O.k. Let me be more explicit. Automobile companies have a different self-interest than you think they should. (As demonstrated by VW's action)

VW has over 450,000 people - all viewing the world differently ( as demonstrated by VW's corporate actions differently)

Out of 450,000+, excluding the dealerships, not one agreed with you enough to blow the whistle.
I don't really understand your comment. What about Typescript precludes it from targetting web assembly or asm.js in the future?
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I feel like everything that's going down or changing now has a freaking petition to keep it as-is. What if it simply isn't profitable for them to keep it up? Would all these petitioning be willing to pay 10-100 what they are now paying for the service just to keep it alive? What makes this so unique? Why doesn't someone just build something similar?
Magnifique. I've just spent 30 minutes perusing the website. I would pay good money to have access to a "live" VR exhibition of these old streets. Walking around Paris, in two different eras.
> If I were using iTunes, perhaps that would someday be untrue.

That's simply not true. The iTunes store sells DRM-free AAC, a documented format. You can transcode it into literally any other format, if you don't like AAC. Ripped CDs are ripped to the format of your choice.

Only the Apple Music streaming service uses DRM - and buying a DRM-free version of any track is literally one click away.

I can think of many things to criticise Apple for, but lock-in of your music is not one of them.
It often feels that to learn anything you have to let go of you in subtle way to be able to align with the world and take a deep accepting look at it. Only then you're enlightened. And yeah it feels a lot like compassion or love.
I for one welcome our new corporate overlords! f1rst p0st! How about a Beowulf cluster of those??

Ah, the good old days... :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10986026
In perpetuity? Does your payment of $100 oblige the software manufacturer to provide bug fixes for you indefinitely?
Have some experience with non-profits...

Some options for seed money:

Partnering--combine your request(s) for funding with other providers, or beneficiaries (schools).."collaborating" is big just now...

Grants--arduous route with a steep learning curve in terms of writing effective proposals...

Benefactor-- local moneyed enthusiast who wouldn't mind making the news with a bit of altruism...

Solo--funding it yourself then selling it...

Good luck!
TypeScript is a proper superset of JavaScript so it's an easy choice over dart IMO (even google's angular2 team chose it).
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. My understanding is that it is perfectly legal to download OS X 10.8+ this way; the updates were offered by Apple for free as long as you run them on a legit mac (which I'm assuming you are). The downloads on kat.cr are the same exact DMG files you would get if you downloaded from the app store. If this is not the case, feel free to correct me.
The creation quote always justifies my NIH strikes.
The "real" Parse service is built to power hundreds of thousands of apps. The OSS Parse Server you run yourself would only need to power a single app. Two very different use cases.
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Apple scares me. It's like a totalitarian regime. All is well so long as you behave an fall in line.

Like them or not, they have a lot to learn from Microsoft. I can't remember many instances of having your entire computing existence obsoleted. MS has always been very aware of maintaining compatibility, which is a sign of respect towards their userbase.
No problems with iMessage screwing you over when switching from Apple to Android? If you ever participate in any group mms messages its borderline impossible to escape apples ecosystem without serious drawbacks.

If you switch to android and want to still receive group mms from friends, every member of the group mms that has an iPhone has to delete the entire thread and start a new thread. Not only that, they each need to add you or another non ios member as the first person in their new mms.

Pretty ridiculous and irresponsible if you ask me.
Apple continues to release security patches on older versions of OS X for a while. In my case, I am on Yosemite and have not upgraded to El Capitan yet, but I have all the latest security patches.
First; I run the same software on all my computers for around 15+ years; some libraries etc have been added ofcourse but basically I develop with vim in python, c#, java, c/c++, haskell, haxe, ruby, perl, php etc and the Chrome browser since it was out. The software on the Air would be completely identical to the software on the Pro. So not sure how it can be 'my' software; it's software for sure, but what I don't know.

I am making statements of what I observed. If benchmarks show that the Pro is faster but to me it feels slower would that matter to me? Not really. I do not do 3d work or video editing and maybe it is faster in that; to me while coding it just does not feel as snappy and I can just show the beach ball to you on the pro while I have never even seen it on the air during work.

But that is nothing compared to the battery life; this is not subjective; I just get a few hours out of my macbook pro's battery while, again with the same config, my air did basically all day (6-8 hrs) and my x220 does 12-13 hours. OpenPandora does an easy 10 hours. The 2015 pro is by far the worst I have while for me battery life is more important than speed. I really don't need speed for what I do even while devving games (2d).

Whatever the issue; I will never buy that again; Apple did do nothing to help even though I showed them, in person, the issues. I might buy an air again though ; especially if the battery life improves to 12+ hrs.