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>There's just no way in hell Steve Jobs would be putting up with this and I wish he was alive to tear some people a new one. I didn't like Jobs but respect his ability to achieve things.

You probably wasn't paying attention when Job was running things.

OS X 10.1 was a mess -- it took until several updates to become somewhat usable. The Finder was half-arsed for a decade. Mail.app had several issues. The Windows versions of iTunes was crappy. OS X releases that are now praised as "the best ever" etc, got tons of complaints for introducing bugs and instability. XCode has been historically crap (and it's much better now). And don't even get me started on the state of their Cloud offerings under Jobs.

Hardware wise the same. Every new release, from the original iPod to the iPad was met with complaints and bickering ("No wifi? Less space than a Nomad? Lame") -- even if it actually took wifi and batteries 5 more years to even start making practical sense to have on such a device for syncing. Aside from specs people complained about, there were also all kind of other HW issues, from the overheating G4 Cube, to the logic boards dying on G3 iBooks, to cooling goo spilling from G5 towers, the crappy "round" mouse, and lots of other stuff besides.

That said, I don't buy the "Apple software went downhill as of late" thing. First, because as said there were always issues. Second, because in normal use I don't see any particular decline. If anything things have got better, to the point where we complaint about trivial stuff. The thing is Apple of today puts out a heck of a lot more software and hardware products than the rosy Apple you remember.

I'd take iTunes in the back and kill it though -- as the latest redesigns are absolutely crap from a UX perspective. Then again, I wouldn't call that a programming quality issue -- more of a "idiotic focus and shoving on our faces of BS online music platform issue".

>Or, there's a chicken and egg question: XCode and the surrounding tools are atrociously buggy and hostile to the developer and it seems to increase with each release.

The opposite. XCode was "atrociously buggy" in the 3/4/5 era and before, and has gotten quite better in the 6/7 series (despite having to support a whole new language).

In fact a large list of early XCode 6 crashing bugs have been squashed months ago -- which was (as reported) around 90% of them.
In the same way Ubuntu Touch / Plasma Mobile get really good support on the Nexus 4 and 5, it is likely this one will have an official image for the Nexus 7 / 9.
Really good point, but I think Canonical is wielding much less influence in their hardware relationships than Google can, thus the <hardware manufacturer><software developer> official name.

It seems childish to want your name first, but I believe it means a lot to some companies.
Well, it still does all the other Ubuntu things, and it is a cheap tablet. My survey of the ereader space didn't turn up anything I liked, or that seemed to come without strings. It is very possible that I missed an obvious and better.
This is an extremely narrow patent that doesn't do anything like claiming all uses of null pointer exceptions. It just claims what strikes me as a rather minor optimization on how attempts to dereference a null pointer can be detected. It surprises me a little that it was considered worth patenting, but I guess it is fairly general in that it could be used in a lot of language implementations. The benefit is hardly worth writing home about, though.
Knowing that some of this will result in a partial economic downturn, how can the 'average investor' hedge/profit from it? Not in a 'Big Short' sort of way, just using this as an investment strategy for the layman. Any ideas?
With the exception of Kaiser and a few other smaller providers, pricing in healthcare is completely opaque. Consumers can't make informed decisions because they essentially have no information. In most cases if you call a provider and ask what the price of something is they can't tell you. It's a myriad of "what insurance you do have" and "it depends".
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But if we don't have software patents, how else will we incentivize mega-corporations like amazon to invent innovative new technologies like a 1-click checkout button?
Sounds like an anti-trust action waiting to happen.
All of Ubuntu's mobile offerings have always been full GNU environments, so yes, it is very likely you could run LO and, say, Blender on this thing. You can already run them on a Nexus 4 with Ubuntu Touch too, but the screen might have impeded your usability a bit.
> There's just no way in hell Steve Jobs would be putting up with this

Says everyone who disagrees with any decision Apple makes. "Steve would have had the same opinion about this I do!" Statements like this are just you projecting your own opinion onto him.
Has any site that has been incorrectly de-indexed from Google sued and won? I have no idea, but this would be super fascinating.
Looking at Angular 2, for example, I feel they should name it something else. It's misleading. There's no continuity from 1 to 2.

I like the 1 branch, and will be happy to continue with it for a while.
It seems like there are lot of comments about how this kind of house wouldn't work (yes, this won't work in downtown NYC). But it also seems like there are lots of communities - poor, displaced - that would benefit massively.
I'm a big fan of projects like this, even if they only serve to push the innovation of affordable housing further.
My guess is that this is just their launch device.

I bet they will add other tablets from other manufacturers over time. Like with normal laptops, you can choose the hardware based on your needs. To me the software is key, not if the tablet is Ubuntu-branded.
This! I wonder whether this is part of some introduced obsolescence or also happens on recent models.
All Ubuntu mobile devices are running Unity 8, which is the next version of their desktop period written in Qt set to replace Unity 7. Currently they are still shipping Unity 7 on the desktop, though. Whenever desktop Ubuntu gets Unity 8, it would be able to shrink the screen down to a phone-like UI if you shrunk the display.
I would buy an Ubuntu tablet in a heartbeat. I've been on a Mac for years now and I keep pondering the switch to Ubuntu but I'm having a really hard time justifying the investment in actually switching because these Mac's keep on chugging along.

The MS Surface is really appealing to me on form factor, but I won't switch to anything that doesn't have a Unix/Linux base. I really like the new iPad from a form factor standpoint...but I won't buy an iPad specifically because I'm not going to be coding on iOS.

An Ubuntu tablet would entirely fill my need.
I'm curious, what were the reasons? What was the better alternative? I've read plenty about the shortcomings of the F35, but this is the first I've heard about shortcomings of the Abrams.
Do you mean that just because a company has huge market share it must be doing every single thing better than its competitors?
I'm curious on why you feel that the Swedish prosecutor delayed the case, and kept it in a stalemate even though the Swedish courts have stated (as others have stated here) that Assange does not need to be present in Sweden. If they really wanted to proceed with the case in Sweden, it seems like they could have.

If you believe that this whole thing had nothing to do with extraditing Assange to the US (or using the stalemate to keep him confined to one place), then what was the purpose of waiting for Assange's physical presence in Sweden?
Roof looks good to me. If its the same delta rib panels I installed, I had a choice of a 83 year warranty or a 100 year warranty. Snow load angle looks good also. They are off the ground and the roof extends out a bit so that the water stays off the side. I think they are built fine.
Switch to a distro with rolling releases. I've been a happy Gentoo user for over a decade. It was a scary time when Gnome 3 came out and I had to mask a lot of updates, but eventually Mate became stable enough for me to switch over from Gnome 2. Total control the whole time. If something doesn't work, it's my own fault. Of course XFCE, KDE, etc. have been available the whole time too.
No video, I'm afraid. It is responsive, but not as feature-rich or advanced an interface as Android or ioS, of course. My main complaints on that front are lack of some idioms and that it isn't as smart about what the intent of touches are in some situations. It is like venturing a good six years into the past in terms of overall polish of the interface.

Also the web browser in Ubuntu Touch is painfully lacking in features, and you can't yet put Firefox on there - but then I'm not using it for browsing.
Is your web server down?
Just one other data point: a friend teaches IT and cannot find any permanent employment, it's all temporary gigs of three or six months. So in some respects, it might be like IT workers - they are there, but employers are ruling them out for inscrutable reasons, and demanding access to migrants instead.
> but no such guarantee is possible under Swedish law.

There is no legal impediment to for the Swedish government preventing them from refusing extradition. What makes you think there is?
Why didn't he get a desk that raises and lowers? Then if you're in the zone but are tired of standing, just lower the desk and sit down.
Yup! That's where we are!
I could only wish that Google will punish their own sites the same too. There are countless ads on YouTube claiming to provide free Minecraft downloads, commonly shown to very young viewers of YouTube. You might even be able to see these right now by turning on Private Browsing and disabling your ad-blocker.
But it cost nearly 7X that amount. From another article about the same property:

> And $20,000 is still an aspiration. These two cottages and the deck between them cost $135,000 to build.

http://www.artsatl.com/2016/01/serenbe-rural-studio-artist-r...
I found it hilarious they did not even mention this on the page. My first question was the screen size and I had to google the hardwares name to find it.
I too have done this for years! I'm still not a damn entrepreneur and make no money aside from my day job. I think I finally realized what I have to do to get off this vicious cycle.

Build a habit of working everyday on one project. It's cool to get excited about a new project, but unless I change my daily routine to fit in time to work on said project, nothing will ever get created.

Successful companies and projects aren't created on fleeting enthusiasm.
It doesn't stop you from getting sued, though, it merely stops you from losing. It's pretty reasonable to want to avoid a lawsuit you're absolutely certain you could win.
At the time it was implemented, it was controversial; but the overall sentiment was that it was a necessary evil to get Mozilla some stable funding. Also, OpenSearch is a standard and anyone could easily replace the default.

Pocket was simply an extension that got bundled outright. After decades of Mozilla declining to include even uber-popular extensions in order to "keep up appearances" of being a neutral community project, they basically endorsed a random startup without any sort of consultation or public competition. That's what people objected to. If they had implemented a standard and just blessed Pocket as a reference implementation without bundling it, nobody would have complained.
Probably. I'm long overdue for changing hosts.
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It's possible to extradite people only following an agreement about their treatment post-extradition. For example the receiving party could agree to not further extradite them. This kind of agreement happens fairly often. A common example is extraditions to the US from EU countries. Following a 1989 decision of the European Court of Human Rights [1], EU countries cannot extradite suspects to the US if they would face the death penalty in the US. Therefore in every extradition from the EU to the US involving a potentially capital crime, the US first signs a waiver agreeing not to seek the death penalty in the case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soering_v_United_Kingdom
I laughed.

Oh wait. This is not satire? Oops.
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OSX is known to have a not so good window manager, in example. Well, instead of improving it, by implementing other WM's standards (look at almost all the Linux WMs and Windows', they have maximize buttons, they stack on the border of the screen, etc) they chose to not be smart and not, oh god not copy what works the best. They chose to "force" fullscreen instead of maximizing, to not implement stacking shortcuts, etc. They are going backwards. And sadly you can say that for a lot of things about OSX
If standing for long time was such a great thing, all those hordes of retail workers would be thriving in health and joy.

I am not saying sitting is all that great, but standing all time is not solution. Sensible approach to everything is what wins and we lack those.
What mature products deteriorated (apart from iTunes) and in what concrete ways?

Mail is much better than it was even a year ago, XCode too, the OS is stable...

And FCPX didn't deteriorate over 7 -- it was a written-from-scratch reboot of the platform that just happened to cut some features people used (most got back with a vengeance).
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I think it's why Medium is getting a bad name. I used to associate it with high-quality articles, seems they just let anyone in nowadays.
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Hi Dang, I'm Jack (Project lead on CSFG) see my earlier comment about updating to 2.0 today. We wanted to switch the traffic to the latest version of the guide instead of the old one linked. All you are missing out on seeing is all the broken sections :)
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>weren't locked out of the bond market forever-- Mexico's 30 year bonds are standing at about 6.8% right now

6.8% represents quite a bit of risk in this environment of historically low rates. How is Argentina doing?

I mean, I agree that people will eventually "forget", but that's always with the assumption that the "last time" was some unique set of circumstances.

It's amazing to me that people still believe that the best way to reap the benefits of capitalism is to seize or extort the capital from the capital owners. Of course, everyone thinks that those capital owners are some mysterious "other", and they'll be unscathed by the wealth grab. I wonder what people would think if they were told by the government that their savings and investments were being reset to zero so some students could get a free education? Probably wouldn't be so impressed...
I wonder if Mozila will attempt to create a list of scam advertisements and automatically block those...
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The latter half of the article set all kinds of alarm bells ringing, starting with the pseudoscientific Air squats are one of the best ways to release enzymes that breakdown the production of fat in your body. So what's the evidence for that? Following the link, the page you land at does not mention enzymes at all. Moreover, it's by Mercola, who has his own page on quackwatch (http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/mercola.html)

So I looked at some of the other links, and point 1 about raising your legs cites...the Daily Mail. Not a reliable source, and particularly pilloried for its medical coverage, see eg https://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/

The article is fine as an anecdote about the author's failed attempts to use a standing desk, but it's not persuasive evidence.
De-indexed in search is a bit different from effectively blocked in the browser. If Chrome says your site is dangerous and actually your site is harmless, are they defaming your website? If Google choose not to include you in their search engine, that could still be an issue, but it's probably a lot more nuanced.
Is there a list somewhere of which extensions have been deemed "important"?

As far as I'm concerned, every single Firefox extension I currently use is important, regardless of what Mozilla thinks of their importance.

I also have several extensions that I wrote myself for my own personal use. I'm not looking forward to having to modify them, assuming they'll even work with the new model.

This is a good example of the Firefox brand being tarnished.

The name "Firefox" used to make me think of empowerment, and being able to get so much more out of the web browser and the web experience.

Now when I think of "Firefox" it makes me think of uncertainty, of broken extensions, of my time being wasted updating my own extensions, and of enduring all of this for little to no benefit to me.
| You clearly never used iTunes for Windows.

IME, every terrible thing about iTunes applies equally to both platforms.
No problem, but is the URL correct now? If not, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll change it for you.
sell financials. buy alcohol producers and distributors

buy gold.

buy bitcoin? :-)
In my opinion, you may want to drop the price tag on entry. It is widely looked down upon (eg — pay to pitch, etc) and will make you lose some credibility when it comes to discovering serious talent.

Also I feel bringing religion into business (which is essentially what startups are) is unwarranted. Don't get me wrong, but there is literally no correlation here.

You seem like a genuinely nice guy so I just dropped in my 2 cents, and yes, you should reach out to Slack. Best of luck, mate!
Besides little long time bugs (like my device prompting for password because it's been 48 hours since last TouchID when it's actually been like 8) there are bugs in new things.

Since 9.0 (or so) using CarPlay I find that it occasionally messes up the audio engine on the phone requiring a restart to a fix. That means instead of my old weeks and weeks of uptime it now varies between 24h and 7d or so.

Having your phone not have audio work correct? Horribly obnoxious. Especially when 70% of what you do is listen to music and podcasts.

I gave up on Podcasts and switched to Overcast because Apple (despite years) was unable to correctly sync which podcasts I'd listed to and which I hadn't. I'm wary to buy things from iTunes because I end up with 2 or 3 copies in my library of some songs, randomly.

I STILL randomly get corrupted songs on my phone and occasionally have to reload all 45GB of music (everything I own, just easier since I have the space) to fix the issue. Don't know why.
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>The justice system has an obligation to bring him in.

Generally there's an expectation of reasonable effort, 24/7 police guard isn't going to magically stop him from leaving.
Why not block it at the source instead? Prevent these types of ads from being submitted to AdSense in the first place.
That's not selectively looking at the facts at all. The facts are plain:

- company buys patents for the purpose of seeking rents

- company aggressively pursues others who are independently creating potentially valuable products to shake them down for rents

- company produces nothing of value with the patent except for increased wealth transfer by extracting value from others' work

That they [theoretically] put money in someone's pocket to get the patent in the first place does not change any of these facts. And calling attention to the behavior isn't selectively dealing with the facts. They exist purely for rent-seeking.
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"Well-supported scientific theories should be used to constrain the search space when addressing new problems, otherwise we'll get stuck re-proving the same basic things over and over again."

I think QM showed this was pretty much not an acceptable position to take.
Developer here. Samsara grew out of my work at Famo.us where I was its Chief Architect. It's goal is to think of layout as a stream, and to create user interfaces by composing streams.

Happy to answer any questions.
yes for space and tab. no for letters. in practice, I've never actually needed typematic repetition of letters, so it's a reasonable tradeoff IMO.
>For OS X, the decline began under Jobs with 10.7

So what issues do you have with 10.11? Because I don't see anything to complain about. Then again, I also didn't see anything troubling in 10.10, 10.9 and 10.8, with the exception of their ill-fated transition to a new DNS backend, which they later reverted.

A few bugs here and there, yes. Nothing I haven't seen since 10.2, or that's not comparable to the kind of issues I have with Windows 10 or the Ubuntu box I use for development (actually that's far worse, but I digress).
I read this article thinking it would provide some new information in 2016 or even a lot of details about what "declining software quality" the author has been experiencing. Instead, I found that it's a poorly written re-hash and re-linking of what others have written about in the last couple of years.

The author's limited experience is mentioned in a few sentences without a lot of details. The whole article could've been trimmed down to just two paragraphs including the links to the other articles, considering that the linked articles are not "recent news" to have additional commentary and considering that other people have already written about it with commentary.
They (Designers and Product people) will one day learn that the single greatest feature and design, the most objective one is raw speed.

Always go faster for a long time. Meaning tackle long aged hardware, long uptime, and just generally maintain same performance. Across everything, from device hardware and speed locally on the device to the wifi/4G signals, ISP, to the backend and their software and hardware. Performance in speed is the greatest subjective design and feature.

Unfortunately the time to invest in it requires convincing the designer and product that integrating A/B tests for hearts vs star for favoriting isn't worth it for the long run.
why Ruby instead of Python?

why Java instead of... well, i guess there isn't a language w/ GC and an ecosystem as "mature" as Java.

with clojure, which is indeed shiny and new, some people have cake and eat it too: speed of the jvm + flexibility of scripting. i guess a samish sort of thing could be accomplished w/ jython+Java if clj is too flashy.

anywho, i hear the "don't go for the glamor," thing and indeed try (i.e. make a conscious effort) to lag 'teh new hotness' by some interval. ES5 strict is usually good enough. indeed, tail calls are the one coolest feat.s ES6 to me, and they're pretty much everywhere unimplemented, including Babel, except maybe for some special cases.

w/ Java... it's a language i wish would move toward vanishing -- or at least go one layer deeper than everyday application development. when i first started writing applets, it was the coolest thing ever: Sun was awesome, the same program ran everywhere, there was automagic memory management, etc... now, Oracle's laying down all kinds of noise a/b owning the language, there are other runs-everywhere platforms/methods (ES, LLVM), and the Java language itself just looks incredibly noisy unless one uses some of the really excellent (but wo/man-hour costly) tooling expressly designed for handling it.
It doesn't have to, but that's the way it's trending.
Many congrats on the release & also thanks to the Scrapy team for the effort involved.

As far as I am concerned, this was the last package I used heavily that still had not made the upgrade.

For the Python community: which packages are you still waiting for/working on?