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I agree. I won't write a list of the problems in detail, but I've been a Mac user since the 80's because I've always preferred Apple's elegant design and ease of use. But lately, it's hard to figure out how to do things, and it's very buggy. Both I and my son have had to reset our phones to fix problems. It looks like my wife will have to reset hers to deal with a problem with music synchronization.

And the design as way harder to master than it should be. For instance, to search for a track in Apple Music, you have to be in any tab except iTunes Store. OK, there's some logic to it, but it simply is not intuitive. Why can't there be something that specifically says "Apple Music" that makes it obvious that that's where you go to find tracks? I'm an experienced computer user, and in fact a software developer, and when I first purchased Apple Music I was mystified about how to search for a track in Apple Music. I had to Google it. My wife, who isn't used to Googling for these kinds of answers and isn't a technologist, has no choice but to ask me or the kids how to do things like that.

In the Music app iOS, to make it show only the tracks you've downloaded, you have to click on the pulldown where you select Artists/Albums/Songs/etc. It's a switch on the bottom of that pulldown. When you're thinking "What tracks do I have downloaded?" this is just not obvious. When you get used to it, it's fine. But if you're a naive user, you really have to have a friend who's an experienced user just in order to figure out how to do such basic things. Naive users may not even understand that the Artists/Albums/Songs/etc. pulldown is a menu. And even if they know it is a menu, it's not intuitive to think that there's an on-off switch for showing all songs at the bottom of it, which relates a fundamentally different concept.

It all just seems like really poor design. I don't know what their problem is. But my son, who has always been an Apple user because I've been one, and who is applying to colleges like MIT to do engineering, is seriously considering switching to Android so that he doesn't have to deal with so many bugs. (Not that I know that Android is better.)
Systemic corruption. The area benefits from having lot's of Patent cases.
I suspect there was also an element of "A big dog in Christian Media wants something like my app. I can sell to them or I can fight the new thing they'll build and cross-market."

By selling he gets a chunk of money in the bank (possibly less than he'd have earned over time and certainly less than Salem thinks they can earn with the app), but he also avoids a marketplace battle and he can go work on other things. Salem avoids having to develop a competing app and gets a significant and likely fast-growing installed base.

My suspicion is that both sides feel like they came out ahead - Trevor got a couple years of good revenue followed by a nice exit; Salem got a market-leading app that likely will prove popular in some global markets where smartphone usage or capabilities are likely to increase over the next decade - what are the forecasts for smartphone usage in Central and South America? Additionally, if Salem isn't already an international player, having a top-rated app may let them expand other operations to cover more international international markets without having to do a lot of risky physical investment or international marketing first to break into those markets.
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> Our military goes there to defend allies, enhance long-term stability, and deny resources to terrorists.

Destabilize the region to ensure petro-dollar existence, replace leadership who don't want to bow, sell weapons and infrastructure.
You didn't lose your leverage. You just feel like you lost your leverage.

There are people out there who will hire you remote. In our job it's perfectly feasible to work remote. And don't discount the possibility of other companies in the state as well.
If you think their software quality is bad, you should look at their software development software quality. I'll just leave this: http://www.textfromxcode.com/

Apple seems much more concerned with adding new features than fixing bugs, even if that means a significant portion of their users have a bad experience.
Why do you think that's happening? Didn't anyone bother to build something decent or is the market hostile towards change?
It's not over yet. Apple will appeal.
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I'd say that the hyperloop has been remarkably good at sucking the air out of the room.

Could that be a positive feature, though?

It seems that in America, and particularly in CA where they're currently arguing heatedly about light rail, there are interests that have captured the industry - it's impossible to construct and operate these conventional technologies for anything short of insane amounts of money.

Perhaps it's possible to sidestep all the rent-protecting regulations, etc., by making the conversation about a technology whose regulation has not been thoroughly captured.
I would use NVidia Jetson TK1 or X1 instead, you can run same CUDA accelerated ML frameworks as elsewhere. Runs Ubuntu. TK1 is about $190 with 192 CUDA cores and enough IO for whatever you need. http://elinux.org/Jetson/GPIO

Train on a desktop/cloud GPU and use the trained network on the Jetson, you should get realtime perf for most simple autonomous driving related stuff.

Look into ROS and Ardupilot Rover as well for a head start into autonomous RC cars.

Here's a tutorial on getting Tensorflow running on Jetson - http://cudamusing.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/building-tensorflow...
Not only because of Venezuela. As usual the simple yet effective "Qui bono" ("Who benefits") question can clear things up:

The US and allies:

- US and the EU are really not affected by low oil prices, you can even argue it is good for them since they're net importers. Also they have strong industrialized diversified economies, so they're hardly vulnerable on one single spot.

- Saudi Arabia: can stand short-to-medium term low oil prices as already shown on the 70s crisis.

About US "enemies":

- Russia: badly hit, a big oil exporter, but unlikely to be weakened much since it can rely on other exports.

- Venezuela: the most badly hit since more than 80% of its income is from oil, and having lost a charismatic leader replaced by a relatively unknown one, it's the right time to tighten the rope.

- Iran: you don't want to give them a huge influx of petro-dollars just after lifting the sanctions.

- China: since the beginning of the oil price plunging, it has shown difficulties to keep up and lately its stocks are free-falling.

So clearly a net geopolitical gain for US and its allies. Also the political instability of Middle East and Libya chaotic situation brings more cheaper oil, so all this looks like was part of this same plan: get rid of annoying governments (Chavez/Maduro, Gaddafi and Al-Assad) and weaken others (Iran and its allies: Yemen, shiite Irak government) while getting cheaper oil which in turn weakens other enemies like Venezuela and China and helps ailing allies like the EU. Not a bad plan at all I think. And people that think politics and economics are not related are either naive or didn't read much History. It's called "economic policy" for a reason.
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Which church made this possible? Several versions of the bible are public domain, he licensed the versions that weren't. Unless a church helped him write the app he owes them nothing.
> non-Europeans on skilled worker visas — known as Tier 2 visas
So it only applies to people that were allowed in the country because they are "skilled workers". This kind of visa already has a minimum wage requirement. I read somewhere that they are applying the same rules to stay that they applied to give the visa.
Still a change, but not what it looks like in the title.
Interesting. Over here (Germany) the prices in housing cooperatives are actually ridiculously low, compared to the rest of the apartment market. As a student, I lived in a single-room apartment with separate kitchen and bath, 26 square meters total, for less than 200 euros (including utilities).
I need to go learn crypto.
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One of the more interesting aspects of Mondo is from their blog they appear to be building their software stack from the ground up, as opposed to taking the approach of other new banks and buying in/white-labelling core systems from established providers.

So it'll be interesting to see if a set of new FS companies grow up who aren't dependent on legacy systems. If they do you could see a world where they can more easily interoperate without a descent into mainframe batch land :)
Quote from (http://www.ultratechnology.com/1xforth.htm):

“I wish I knew what to tell you that would lead you to write good Forth. I can demonstrate. I have demonstrated in the past, ad nauseam, applications where I can reduce the amount of code by 90% percent and in some cases 99%. It can be done, but in a case by case basis. The general principle still eludes me.”
I would love to see a bit more of these. I do wonder if they have a version with insulation that would work in a northern climate. This would be a great project for the reservation I work on simply because it is impossible to get a home loan on the reservation. It would be interesting to see mass production.
Even that's selectively looking at the facts though. At some point they paid for those patents, and that theoretically put money in the pockets of creators, incentivizing them to create more.

That said, to my eyes it's clearly a subversion of the intended purpose of patents, and is societally damaging, so I see no problem with derogatory labeling of this behavior and those that take part in it. It's unfortunate, but it's an important part of getting consensus in a short time frame with a large populace.
So who decides what to flag? Is google analyzing the behavior of chrome users and then automatically flags websites? Or can users flag websites? I disabled "Automatically report details of possible security incidents to Google" and "Protect you and your device from dangerous sites" in the settings, will my chrome browser still report these websites (in case it ever did)?
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I like this line of thought. If you are an idea machine, you're actually a lot less likely to be tied to any one idea and ride it down to the bitter end. Instead, you'd realize that most ideas aren't that great and it would take a higher and higher bar to impress yourself.

Maybe the dangerous thing is when ideas are in a state where maybe they're plans but you're uncertain and instead of executing on them or deciding not to you just let them accumulate and sap your attention.
According to the specs of someone who actively hates the system?

I'd say that you don't get the specs for a Windows computer from an Apple engineer.
Instead of answering your question, I'm going to ask one; does your lack of vision more reasonably conclude with "people are overhyped" or something less opinionated? Consider that your opinion is admittedly based in ignorance rather than information.
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The punchline that "it just works" is not lost in time. Lot of Apple designed software are more like talking points when they release iPhone or do a big media event.

Mac OS as lot of Apps which need update, Photos -- was more of an attempt to catch up with Picasa
Similarly notes and icloud as well need updates. It feels like Apple just wants to through sometime out since they are trying to catch up with others in the market and once that is done, you have to wait another year just to get an update.
Software development and updates should be iterative and not based on media events.
Traditional banks are very risk averse and have large investments in older tech.

It's a brave company who chooses the ground-up re-write of a core system in the banking world.
If you are good at what you are doing, make sure you have saved money for at least 3 months of living. That is your leverage back. Then ask for a raise - if they keep saying "it's not the best time for the company" and other bs, just quit. Go to a nice vacation, refresh your mind and start looking for something new. If you don't feel secure about finding a new job start looking now, before you even ask for a raise. That should make you more confident.
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Can the mods edit the title? Mozilla officially stopped their development efforts of Firefox OS on smartphones, not the brand in general.
$100,000 a year doing basically nothing, and you sold it for basically nothing. They made the deal of the year, and you lost out big time. I applaud this guy for creating something popular, and monetizing it well. But that is up there with one of the worst self offs I've ever read. With only $500,000 now you're on the five year crunch to get a new product built or find a new job.
for me, its the realization that if i don't get what I want, i risk feeling disheartened about my job in the future - especially if its a job i enjoy.

there is a risk/reward benefit that one enters by asking for a raise, where if all things were to stay the same, I could walk away relatively unscathed.

this could change depending on whether or not you were asking for a raise because you feel you deserve it, financial necessity, or both.
I agree with your concerns about a Google or Amazon phone being a datamine in your pocket, but I think that, for most people, it's not an issue: they simply want a phone that works for them and don't give much thought to how much information about them is being squirrelled away.

A huge factor in Apple's sliding software quality is lock-in: once you're on iOS using an iPhone, it's so much easier to simply stay on iOS than it is to move platform. Most people, myself included, will look at the effort required to move and decide that, really, the grass probably isn't greener enough to make climbing the fence worth it. Once you add in some other Apple devices --- say a laptop or an iPad --- staying becomes even easier.
Within our startup, there's a separate Slack channel called "Crazy ideas" and a separate column in Trello for things that are ideas rather than plans.
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As posted, it could be read as a claim by Shaw. I'd hate to read the comments on that thread.
Last I used it it had a memory-leak issue that persisted for quite a while. By the time the bug was fixed, I'd gone off it.
Amazon.es has an Android version of the tablet with similar specs for €195:

http://www.amazon.es/Aquaris-M10-MediaTek-MT8163B-Lollipop/d...

The Ubuntu version has a faster CPU and better camera.
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The real news is that they are planning to release one with the following specs: http://www.ubuntu.com/tablet/devices.

However, without a system to maintain it upright, and with those specs, the following marketing image, while very enticing, is a bit misleading.

https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/1273c568-tablet-overview-conver...
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Partly it's because murphy's law says that you "loosened it" for the next guy.

But also because confidence is a big part of the job. Once you start second-guessing yourself and listening to too many suggestions at once, you'll start to suck. Obviously all people have insights to give, and you should listen and absorb what you can, but most doors are unique and your opportunity to learn is proportional to your immediate involvement with the door right in front of you.
Thank you so much for your kind words.
I have been very impressed (and frankly... surprised!) by the open/click rates the email digest has been getting. People who have decided to try the product seem to find it very valuable, which is really encouraging.
Does that come with health insurance and a 401k? I'm very risk averse.
I'm using my 4s on ios9 for hours every day. If it was bricked it would be a pretty silly thing to do.
How can I negotiate a salary raise if my Manager isn't the person who decides whether to make the raise or not?

He only makes recommendations and more often than not those recommendations are not listened to by central HQ. Should I ask to talk with the section director? What is a viable strategy in this case? I am preparing a viable BATNA at the moment.

In any case I'm very interested in those recommendations!!
Five years is a really really long time in the "monetizing digital content" industry. Five years ago you could make an actual living off a semi-popular niche blog. The iPhone itself is only eight and a half years old. The idea of a "long term" revenue stream has to be evaluated in this context, irregardless of the other obvious fact which is that money today is worth a lot more than money in the future.
My statement above but you are imputing the proposal of a causative radiation mechanism. is poorly phrased. A better way to put what I was getting at is that they are not claiming that radiation effects are the only possible causative mechanism. They found some observation in some data and published it, probably in the service of a future grant proposal. Saying they didn't prove anything for this publication is like saying water is wet.

Should hn spend much time discussing the result (or really, observation)? Absolutely not. Should they get grant funding for this? I dunno, I hope there are better proposals out there, but really have no idea.
>Why not forgive the loans?

The idea of a "debt jubilee" is definitely something that's been discussed before by economists and philosophers.

One big issue is that there are other people on the other side of those debt cancellations that would get hurt.

For example, it's terrible that young adults have massive college loans to pay back. Some are kicking around the idea to forgive those loans. But there are also creditors as well. Think of grandparents who have a 401k for retirement. Through the interconnectedness of the financial system, a component of their retirement income will depend on payback of those "bad" college loans.

Will those senior citizens happily vote for a debt reset if they know their retirement savings get reduced? Seems doubtful.

The way to sell the idea of debt forgiveness is to convince the creditors that it's impossible for the debtors to pay them back. Therefore, take a financial hit now instead of later so the economy can get moving.
Thanks for that.

So can anyone point me to an ad served by Google that is as bad as the examples in the blog post? I thought Google had previously cracked down on such ads from the serving side too, although less deceptive ones were still allowed, no? I'm happy to be better informed!
And it would be an absurd and a clear indication of lack of any kind of independence if they could not.
It's debt in that we pay interest on it. Resources that could be spent on the here and now instead go to maintaining the idea that's not getting paid off.
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I didn't suspect so much traffic, we're back up now :)
A lot of banks & building societies built mainframe systems to run mortgage businesses in 70s. They're still running on them, and don't want to bear the cost of transition. When the housing market is buoyant they transact and make money, so a system overhaul isn't a priority. And when times are bad, there's no money for that kind of project. As for the software vendors serving this sector, that's another story...
> you must be ready to walk out when negotiating a raise

This. Otherwise they can say any sad story or excuse and make you stay forever without a raise...
Congrats BTW... I know there are many who would love to be in your situation.

You could try to disconnect your employer's association with your butt in a chair in the office with the value the get from paying you. One way to do that is to negotiate a remote work arrangement, Tim Ferris or Remote by 37 Signals have some great advice about how to do that.

As far as actually setting an expectation that you will work 4 days a week when everyone else works five, unless you've established yourself as a particurally irreplaceable piece of their puzzle.. you're probably going to need to find an employer that embodies that culture, I know there are various companies that do 4 day work weeks. It becomes really difficult for employers to justify why one person isn't around when everyone else is, they're afraid of the dominos... wether justified or not. Again... remote work makes this much easier.
It does not necessarily help. I accidentally bought a Smart TV about one year ago, an LG model with WebOS. I never dared connect it to the internet, but it was horrible nonetheless because the software was so abysmally slow.

For example, to change a channel:

1. Grab the remote, press "5", press "OK".
2. Put down the remote.
3. Wait five seconds.
4. Overlay with "5" appears.
5. Wait five seconds.
6. Channel switches.

I sold this shit a few months ago, and am now using my five-year-old dumb TV again.
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Notes just received a pretty significant upgrade. And Photos was upgraded recently as well -- for better or worse. You picked the two most recently upgraded apps as being in need of an upgrade.
Is Apple's software quality truly declining? I've been an OS X user for a couple years now, and I'm perfectly happy with my laptop and its updates.

Whenever I read articles like these, I wondered if the software quality has actually declined, or if it's received too many features to be properly maintained, or if now it has so many more users that the flaws have become more apparent.
Right. It seems like we've finally settled down so starting the whole process again (interviewing, selling the house, moving, etc...) is something I'm not looking forward to. If the trend continues then it'll certainly have to be done.
How many companies a year are bought by public companies? (A quick google search didn't reveal the answer.)

That's another funding exit.
I've also seen something years ago where a house is made from components that come from a manufacturing facility -- each one can be hauled in on a flatbed. But when they are all assembled, the result really looks and functions like a regular house.
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Few things here.

My last solid OS X machine was a 17" MBPro with a G4. I forget the OS - Cheetah maybe? That year I also had a developer Intel box. It seems like it was that transition that I could really feel things were going awry.

I'm not talking about the dev box, it was what came after. I had a MBPro 15" Intel machine that was really buggy hardware-wise. yOu could no longer apply updates without rebooting (something we all disapprovingly looked down on at Windows). The software just didn't work anymore either, or at least it felt like it didn't.

I think a lot of this was tied to more and more embedding of Apple apps, just like Microsft did. That and gaining some sort of complacency because they were not the scrappy underdog.

I've been waiting for another Snow Leopard where Apple just says "no more 'features', just bug fixes and stability" (for iOS as well). bUt I think that's just a pipe dream at this point and the train of more is better had already left the station.
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