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To be fair, their hardware has never been impressive in modern times, from a technical perspective, except in a very short timeframe (basically from the first Air model to the second MBPR model). Before then, everybody knew Apple laptops and desktops were fairly solid but hugely overpriced, and you paid for stylish design rather than innovative tech.
Afraid not. Symantec has the website flagged for some sort of "mass-injection" attack, whatever that may be.
That Isaacson book really leveled him for a lot of people.

OP is right about him not putting up with crap. Sure, not everything that came out of Cupertino was rock solid. But I think as much of an aesthete that he appears to be have been, it's also pretty evident that he was incredibly shrewd and knew he had to ship at some point.

The cruddy software might be coming from Apple repositioning itself from an innovation to a legacy brand. Acquiring Beats (can you imagine Steve championing this - lol), less of a focus on the high-end workstations for consumer electronics and watches, removing the grunt from high-end apps like Logic and FCP. Certainly no longer the underdog we root for, as the article points out.
Why does he have to go to Sweden when there is no real need for him to do so? Swedish courts already confirmed that they don't need him present there, they could've easily have tried him already if the prosecutor did their job.
What I see in their chart is profit margins are generally in the 6-8% range with dips down to ~2% after economic recessions. It would seem to me that profit margins may be slightly higher than the historical average, but only slightly (though I would need a chart with a much longer x-axis to say anything with confidence).

As for the free market (I believe "capitalism" is the wrong word to use) squeezing the margins to zero, that works great in theory. However, the real world is made up of real people with imperfect information, so maintaining a slightly above zero profit margin doesn't surprise me, even when averaged across the entire economy.
Sure. But do you think FFOS will be closer to FreeBSD or closer to WebOS?
Now that's just BS, sorry.

Okay, the Pentium 3 is not 3 years old, it's more like 20 (soonish). I'd bet that there are quite a lot of machines out there that are >= 3 years old, running Windows 10. Or more appropriately, running a recent Linux distribution.

Sure, at some point the hardware capabilities become a problem. But I just don't see that for a random operating system (Android in this case), after 2-3 years.

The real problem seems the infrastructure - every vendor claims that it is a hellish effort to move all their useless crap and customizations, all their closed source blobs and magic fluff to a new AOSP base. And _there_ lies the core problem. If vendors would stop messing with random UI changes to 'be different', if manufacturers wouldn't hide their drivers, only THEN would your hardware argument come into play.

If I technically _could_ upgrade my late HTC Hero to Android M I might find the performance lacking - although again: I fail to see why the basic operating system wouldn't work just fine, playing games or trying do watch HD videos on a tiny display notwithstanding.
Because people are bloody minded animals.

This is a survey:
http://mappingignorance.org/2013/03/20/experiments-in-fairne...

The seminal experiment is Kahneman around 1986. I fail at finding a good treatise on it. But here's this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_theory

And as applied directly to econ:
http://www.econ.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:ffffffff-9758-127f-0000-00005...

The banks are simply our agents in this. Roughly, other "innovations" have made debt more dangerous over time. My paltry understanding is that one of the uses of inflation is to erode the value of debt.

We don't have meaningful inflation any more. And yes, I relaize how bizarre that sounds. But:
http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/3212.html

Something terrible has happened to the tradeoff between the balance sheet and cash flow. A really crummy analogy is position v. velocity on quantum realms; as competitiveness has escalated, we get to where the trade between them is more severe. Also IMO, much as wages have stagnated, the value of capital goods has also.
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"These effects do exist -- witness what tasers do to people, or what a 9V battery feels like on the tongue -- but nobody really reports these feelings when holding a transmitting cell phone near their tongue."

I liked the comment in the beginning but it's problematic here. I come from a system engineering background with some knowledge on hardware side. For our chips, the effects of an electrical surge are totally different than the effects of electromagnetic radiation. The interface point and nature of materials make them respond differently to each. The machinery of the human body might do the same thing. I cited the Frey effect as an example of non-melting-point effects in a previous comment.

Also, I found something very interesting about your claim to support my hypothetical parallel between chips and the bodies. Let me show you instead of trying to explain it:

"witness what tasers do to people, or what a 9V battery feels like on the tongue -- but nobody really reports these feelings when holding a transmitting cell phone near their tongue."

Witness what a surge does to the CPU or how dropping an electricity source onto its I/O pins results in detectable activity. Yet, no users or monitor software reports detecting something like this when you hold a cellphone next to it.

Your claim would be true and readers would think cellphones/radiation had no effect on computers. Yet, they actually do have an effect that ranges from undetectable leaks to failures of the system from components made faulty due to long exposure. In later case, users not aware of attacks believe the components were faulty for other reasons. Here's a nice timeline on the leak side:

https://cryptome.org/0001/tempest-time.htm

Matter of fact, they banned cellphones in secure facilities because bringing certain ones within 20 or so ft of a secure phone compromised it. The background radiation of the phone bounced off the inside of the chip in a way that was modified by the circuits holding the master key. What bounced out could be caught, analyzed, and keys re-assembled. All conversations compromised without anyone ever knowing. Just because you walked in with a cellphone on your waste.

But, "nobody really reports these [compromises] when holding a transmitting cell phone near their [computer]."

;) What do you think of that parallel? Something to it possibly or just a fun thought experiment?
Can you put this version of Ubuntu on existing tablets, or does it have to be an Extra Special Not Shipping Yet Ubuntu Edition Tablet?

Would someone in Shentzen please put this on generic $39 tablets and sell them on Alibaba? Thanks.
Absolutely. He says things like

> Maybe 1 or 2 pages on your app will have really complex UI, but the other 95% of the app does not.

I guess I wish I had his problems. I work on an app where nearly every page has a complex UI, because it's a control panel for a domain with a lot of inherent complexity. Making manual DOM manipulation calls for every UI change would be a nightmare.
>Do most 401Ks really invest in student debt?

It's trillions of dollars, and every penny of it is held as an asset on someone's balance sheet. Do you think it's confined to "greedy bankers"?
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I develop on Windows and don't see the value on such examples.

Never used Genymotion, rather HAXM or real devices.

There are quite a few nice GUIs for Git, also no one has forced me to use Git so far.

I will become productive with Android Studio the day they are able to match what I already had with Ant, ndk-build and Eclipse ADT/CDT in terms of IDE/build performance and C++ support.

Keyboard shortcuts are the least that I care about in Studio.
It was also very simple to just use the 640x480 graphics mode on a composite display. US NTSC color cycles 160 times in that display area, which yields 4 pixels per cycle.

That's a 16 color, any color any pixel display 160x200.

Some PC games offered this option. It should have been in the CGA spec. For memory reasons, 1 and 2 bits per pixel were common. However, the same amount of RAM offers the full color set at a reasonable, if modest, resolution. (For the period)

16 colors on a 160x200 display was considered "nice" at that time, and having it be official would have improved early PC gaming considerably.
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I bought a first gen apple product with this in mind (new macbook), and it's been surprisingly good. My usb adapter sucks, yes, so that's a pain, but since it's not my primary computer it doesn't matter so much. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone as their primary computer. That being said, when the next one comes out I'm ditching this one and getting the new one; first-gen apple products are really mostly proof-of-concept it seems. (iPad 1 vs iPad 2, for example)
Improvements of a new OS are happily received. However, we're talking about the reverse, deterioration of mature products.
Or do a clean rebuild.
So I've read multiple places that low-income immigrant labor does NOT reduce the demand for local workers, and results in a general increase in wages overall. (which would mean that most countries immigration policies are based on inaccurate fears)

I'm totally willing to believe this. But I don't understand it. Is it that some portion of low-income local workers are qualified for more skilled work but there isn't the demand? Something else? Can someone give me the simplified version of events that explains this?
They might; I doubt they do directly. The emphasis is on the "interconnectedness". After five or so hops ( A invests in B ->C->D->E ), you don't much know any more.
I read somewhere that fantasizing about new features, off spins, optimizations, marketing tactics and etc would release enough dopamine that you'd eventually lose interest as the real deal wouldn't do better. I'll see if I can find it.

But what you posted is interesting and seems to be a perfect fit here and my project app/game graveyard. Someone actually said that I'm not building, im playing with borrowed Lego, pretty much sums it up. I think it boils down to analysis paralysis, that's the root cause. Any anxiety, any doubt, lack of focus, and procrastination stems from that. At least arrived at after really digging.
He's not running a public safety institution, he runs a site that has live audio streams from police / emergency scanners.

(incidentally, Lindsay, I've used http://www.radioreference.com to learn a great deal about Software Defined Radio, and I occasionally listen to various Illinois streams on http://www.broadcastify.com - thanks for running these sites!)
Opening log files? Having a generic text editing component that can scale to showing 75k logs makes it easy to build great visual tooling on top of that.
>The idea that the Chinese can just steal some autocad drawings and crank out competitive aircraft isn't realistic. They lack the experience in engine design and manufacturing for starters. Much of their military technology is either licensed from Russia, and then reverse engineered. Yet they still can't produce an engine even close to the PWF135.

Yeah those silly Chinks aren't smart enough. Huaaaah, America!
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Too bad that 1.0 will ship without something like Scala Future's. Now you can only have a similar functionality with CompletableStage. It would've been way better to actually have a similar implementation than scala.Future. I mean they wouldn't need Quasar, Akka for basic stuff. However currently you need to stick to Java pendants.

Kotlin has some great things, but overall I still prefer Scala over Kotlin for anything not Android related.

I mean what I would've loved in 1.0:

- specify Bytecode Level output 6, 7, 8, (9)
- Futures
- Macros (Big one especially for SQL Libraries really helpful)
- Buildsystem supported by Jetbrains.
- Support for all major Java Build Systems directly by Jetbrains

However at the moment, kotlin feels like "here we developed a language which we will use internally and we will do the stuff we need, for everything else, do what you please", while most languages do this, the newer ones actually coming with more stuff, ie. rust has a package manager, a build system (it only lacks libraries, where kotlin wouldn't suffer, thanks to java), golang which has also something like a package manager and a build system and a rich library which has great support for "threading".

i mean on kotlin you could use maven or gradle. however maven is like:
<dosomething></dosomething> ugliness.
and gradle is okai, but it feels wierd sometimes especially since code highlighting in intellij always feels broken.

currently I'm way more looking forward at jetbrains c# project than on kotlin, kotlin needs to evolve and get some libraries for major stuff.
(btw. i'm not totally against kotlin, however I thought 1.0 will bring a little bit more to the table, which actually has more than just "faster" compile times than scala, the jvm is rich and there a lot of great languages built on top of it (even python, ruby, js works on it))

Edit Actually this author also has a good point about the good and the bad: http://natpryce.com/articles/000815.html
Image enhancements in general I guess. Make it easy to get "better" quality if the source is "bad".

I also find it annoying that the filters window is always on top, so you have to close it after configuring the filters which makes you forget that filters are turned on. I guess always on top can be useful though, so it could be made optional in the window perhaps?
I was probably unclear: The whole computer freezes, and there is nothing I can do except a "hard" reset, i.e. pressing the power button until it shuts off.

But there are more issues still, e.g. that the computer will only connect to my bluetooth radio after a restart.
>We are always wary of guiding for mean reversion. But, if we are wrong and high margins manage to endure for the next few years (particularly when global demand growth is below trend), there are broader questions to be asked about the efficacy of capitalism.

I find this title to be misleading. The above quote can be paraphrased as, "We think profit margins will revert to the mean. If they don't, we will be really surprised that capitalism isn't working as we think it should."
The real question is

"Is it worth it for google to send their legal team to some small claims court hearing instead of just unblocking the site?"

And contrary to the popular belief, suing people really isn't that expensive if you've got the time to do it.
I don't know about "most", but it is probably safe to say "many."
Sallie Mae retains ownership of 25% of all outstanding student loan debt. If the debt was forgiven, I think it is safe to presume their equity stock price would go to 0.
Look here for the largest holders of that stock:

https://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=SLM+Major+Holders

Much of the other 75% is I'm sure also distributed into many other common mutual funds that are used in people's 401k plans.
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> Google owns everyone's browser

It doesn’t have to be like that.
They provide a good opportunity for rebranding nuclear power as safe. Especially since they actually are cheaper than fission reactors.
>Loan goes bad, you take the collateral

Yeah, and in the most recent cases that was somebody's home, for which nabbing that collateral was controversial.

>Now banks think they can get rid of that concept too.

Banks are pretty good at assessing loan risk. You don't think so? Go try to get a small business or unsecured loan.
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The study is very misleading. I was excited to read about some scientific breakthrough because I saw the link from Hacker News, but this one crucial fact gave it away:

> the McMaster researchers rounded up 40 overweight young men

Of course they both lost weight and gained muscle. They were overweight to begin with. Anyone overweight who starts exercising loses a lot of weight and gains muscle simply because their bodies began to have higher caloric expenditures, and their muscles had to adapt to more mechanical stresses.

If we're talking about someone whose body fat percentage is already normal, however, we'll go back to choosing between losing weight or gaining muscle, because you can't do both. When you exercise, you burn the carbs first, then the fat, then to a small extent, the protein, though these three are being used simultaneously to produce energy. You hit the fat-burning zone when your carbs can't produce as much energy (fat produces way more energy but requires way more intensity to burn), but since fat also takes some time to burn and you already need to produce energy to continue with the exercise, you use the protein too, which comes from your muscles.

This is the reason why bodybuilders have a cutting phase and a gaining phase. They gain muscle or strength for 2-5 months, cut for 1-2 months, then go back to gaining muscle again. How do you gain muscle? You put on weight--meaning, you eat more. The weight that you put on will be about 5 parts fat and 1 part muscle, and that is why the cutting phase is necessary. Muscle is only gained with the fat and continued weight training, so burn the fat once you put on the weight. Whenever you attempt to lose fat, you will always inevitably lose muscle, so if you want to get buff, you can only do so much fat-burning exercises. That means keeping your runs at 10-15km, for example.

In summary, you can't do both. You can only gain muscle and lose weight together if you're really fat to begin with. If you're within the average body fat % range, though, you still need to switch between cutting and gaining phases.
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> Windows got so much flack over the years. It wasn't the prettiest but it worked and did what it said.

No. Just No. Windows loves to "forget" things. Things like Bluetooth devices. Or wifi devices. Windows likes to update your laptop for you when you're trying to close it ("Don't turn off your computer..." Wait, what? I have a plane to catch!). Windows scatters files all over the place! And that registry. UGH!
Oh there are so many more than two sets of rules, and the predicates that determine which sets apply to any given individual are legion as well.
As I wrote above: "It made the task much more fun for me and allowed me to finish after I got a serious case of "author's block" trying to code it in Java." In other words, I did like it! :)

I haven't used SML nor OCaml. [Though I seem to believe I prefer SML over OCaml in terms of visual appeal/readability, FWIW.] I wanted to code for Android, and OCaml-Java requires too new a JVM (from what I understand, Android is stuck with JVM 1.4 [or 1.5?]) IIUC. Before I found Yeti, I tried to use Kawa (a Scheme/LISP for JVM), but it worked too flakily for me, unfortunately. Then I found Yeti; I stumbled into one bug at some point, but the author quickly fixed it, and I didn't have any problems since then! And it's typed, so a plus vs. Scheme.

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edit 2: also, I liked Yeti's manual & documentation very much.
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> That's where the alarm is

Good point. I never really used alarms until Siri, because it was too cumbersome. Now setting and deleting alarms via Siri is probably the best voice-recognition experience I've ever had.
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tbf, xcode has gotten a lot better in the last few years I've been working with. stability especially improved between xcode 6 & 7.
They don't stand still though. That's not a comparison.
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This is an extremely vitriolic piece that it seems should have been titled "The Sad State of Node and React. I have never used React, but got married to Angular a few years ago, which I'm guessing is basically the same? Either way, these are all choices that you have. I've never used node on the backend or the frontend. As is mentioned in the article, you can still fire up a text editor, write some html and CSS and have perfectly good website. Tools that are used beyond that are all developers' choice.
You can even render React components as views on the server in Express, I was shocked how easy it was having used both React as a SPA and Jade views in Express.

That seems like hands-down the best way to mix server rendered HTML with SPAs, especially if you have to support fallback to pure server rendering.
Thanks for that link. Interesting. There's also the evidence... which needs more corroboration to be sure... that heat above a certain temperature kills them or weakens them. Small scale experiments and survey of blast-furnace workers provided evidence for it. With both, the fertility went back to normal I think a few months after they left the environment where they were overheated.

So, initial evidence for sperm-killing heat to be a safe and effective contraceptive. Doesn't feel as bad as you'd think, either.
This article again?