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I hate ios safari with passion. Last release crashes a lot and it has the balls to blame the web page, so I have to run trough a lot of bogus crash bugs from users instead on working on real things.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638127
There need to be distinct apps:

- device management
- content management
- audio
- video
- photos

I've got a large music library, iTunes is horrible with it, trying to copy to device in iTunes is even worse.

Already photos (and camera taken videos) are treated differently (Photos app) than music/commercial videos.

iTunes is a frankenapp that really doesn't do anything well, aside from maybe be an avenue to buy things.
I upgrade every 2 years. It costs me about $1-2K for the "next" model's difference (after selling the old one on Craiglist/Ebay), however averaging the usage out over those 2 years I'm still getting really good bang for buck without hardware fault issues.
Naming a startup with the exact same name as the currently #5 Paid App in the iOS App Store seems unwise.

https://appsto.re/us/rq0kL.i
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Why compare it to windows ? Compare it to Ubuntu or Chrome OS. You have Aptana, textmate, emacs, and web based IDEs. Ubuntu's "one button search" works better, it's called /usr/bin/locate.

If you're buying hardware devices that linux can't support well then you're doing it wrong. Support open standards and eschew manfacturers that don't support open source.
For a long time I ran Debian in VMware Fusion in fullscreen mode on my iMac. There's a penalty but it's faster than you might think. My interest at the time was an effort to recover some sense of control over data privacy. Gradually I moved bits and pieces into the guest and these days I simply run Debian bare metal on a Lenovo. When my colleague wants to collaborate on a Keynote or Pages document she shares it on iCloud and I do pretty well editing in Firefox.
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FWIW, there are more options than just Apple and Microsoft. I was on RedHat from 1998-1999, Mandrake in 2000, back to WinXP in 2001-2002, Mandrake again from 2003-2004, XP again in 2005 but with Ubuntu running under VMWare, switched to mostly web-based apps from 2005-2007, but ended up going back to OS X Leopard (but again, with mostly webapps) in 2009. I had a System76 laptop running Ubuntu from 2013-2015, and of course all my workstations have been Linux (usually Ubuntu) since 2005.

I still have a soft spot for KDE circa 2003. It was as pretty or prettier than OS X, and also featured "No malware", but even moreso. Amarok is still probably my favorite music player ever, much better than iTunes. People in this thread say that Safari was one of the best browsers available when it came out in 2003 - well, it got that way by forking KHTML. Stability kinda sucked, but it was very usable.
'Still a city of slaves'
Here's a screencast of me making a blog application with the Yesod web framework: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SadfV-qbVg8

While I would also like more production Haskell examples, I wouldn't read much into this webpage—it's basically just a 15 year old joke.
> Apple Maps' reputation is much worse than it deserves

I haven't used it since launch, so can't comment on its current performance, but AFAICT its reputation is due to how poor it was at launch. I tried it with three locations that Google Maps handled fine (small sample I know, but enough to put me off trying it further), and had problems with all three results (my house: low-res satellite imagery; my College: wrong website address; Cambridge Union Society: correct details, but location was about 50mi out).

Hopefully its now better, but that initial impression is hard to shake.

Edit: initially -> initial
He went to art school in Italy and attended elite schools that cost a literal fortune. It's safe to say he was at least comfortably middle class and money was always a phone call away.

Lots of well off kids bum around being "poor" while their parents pay their expenses. Actual poverty is an entirely different thing and involves going hungry and having your electricity turned off.
The Army Sprayed St.Louis with Toxic Aerosol During a Revealed 1950s Test (2012)
That is a well written email announcing the change. I liked the emphasis on vision, culture and focus.
It's all about churn. It's new and shiny. Oh you actually depended on those features? You want document format portability? Those questions don't enter the equation. Eventually they dump everything and replace it with something else. The quality varies from useful to bad, but ultimately it doesn't matter to them, it all gets replaced eventually. Because new is better. Stability, backward compatibility, support for open document formats - these things don't sell in Apple's world view.
Apple in headline - check. Apple bad - check. Mention Steve Jobs - check. Talk about your personal piece of software that "always crashes" - check. You are golden!
http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2010/09/10/what-was-alan-turi...

> 1942, age 30. [Alan] Turing joined the Home Guard so he could learn to shoot. “[Turing] had to complete a form, and one of the questions on this form was: ‘Do you understand that by enrolling in the Home Guard you place yourself liable to military law?’ Well, Turing, absolutely characteristically, said: There can be no conceivable advantage in answering this question ‘Yes’ and therefore he answered it ‘No.’ … And … he was duly enrolled, because people only look to see that these things are signed at the bottom.” He learned to shoot, but he refused to attend parades, and the apoplectic chief officer confronted him, and Turing said, “You know, I rather thought this sort of situation could arise…If you look at my form you will see that I protected myself against this situation.” He’d decided on the “optimal strategy if you had to complete a form of this kind. So much like the man all the way through.”
<You really think there's less weed smoking where it's illegal?>

On this same thread, you wrote: "restrict gun sales and you reduce gun crime." So, why are the economics of banning guns vs. banning weed such opposites in your view?
If you see something, say something! Call it in if it is suspicious to you!
Looks very interesting. The author is apparently a contributor to Piston [1], which is written in Rust, and the language seems to share some similarities with Rust.

[1] http://www.piston.rs
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Actually, I firmly believe that this applies to big apps as well. From my experience, if there is an app a user needs and it requires the user to upgrade their browser? They will upgrade their browser. Most don't upgrade because nobody asks them to. If a need arises in a corp environment to use an app with the simple requirement of a modern browser - they will upgrade it. If the apps always "allow" sub par browser support and bend over backwards for it - there will never be a reason for people to upgrade.
By definition more gun law (restricted sales) results in more gun crime if those laws are enforced.

"Get rid of gun laws and you rid yourselves of gun crime" would seem to be more equivalent.

Crime is more often in the intent/implementation, not the tools.
That's good to hear. Thanks for the link.
What do you mean by awkward expression of UNIX?
Yes, obviously Swift.

I am brand new to iOS development, and picked Swift for this exact reason. I figured that if it proved to be a bad choice, I'd find out quickly and learn Objective C. Here are my impressions so far.

- The Apple documentation does a good job of covering both languages.

- A lot of 3rd party documentation is being maintained to cover Swift, e.g. much of the material on raywenderlich.com.

- There are good libraries. Objective C libraries for networking and JSON have Swift versions (alamofire, SwiftyJSON, Starscream).

- While it isn't difficult to understand Objective C answers to questions, (e.g. on StackOverflow), there are often Swift answers too.

- I haven't found anything that works in Objective C but not Swift, but then I haven't tried anything very advanced either. My app is very simple so far.

I think that Swift has some bizarre and ugly features, but it seems much nicer than Objective C.

One negative: XCode is not a great IDE for Swift. Refactoring just doesn't work. Renaming things tied to the UI via the storyboard is asking for trouble. I don't know whether this is true for Objective C also. In general XCode is just way, way behind Intellij, the IDE I use for Java.
You may well be eligible for unemployment under the circumstances but that's probably a fairly minimal percentage of what you were making as a mid-level engineer or marketing person.
OSX 10.5 and maybe 10.6 were the last good OSX offering.

Similarly I'd peg iOS 5 or 6 as the last good iOS versions.

Both of these systems has been in steady decline. The iOS-ization of OSX killed it. Desktop user don't need stupid shit like an App Store, terrible default security options that mimic an iPhone, full screen mode default when you maximize, notifications (aka. productivity interruptions), etc. my list could go on...

There was once a time Next and maybe Apple had programmers and educational users (educated users) in mind in building some of their software. That seems to be gone.

What are we left with now Ubuntu - that's another ghetto just a different kind?
First google result: https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell_in_industry

You'll probably recognize some companies, such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft.
I remember a place that asked me to sign a "exit agreement" with all sorts of ridiculous things on it, but did not offer a severance or any other kind of incentive for me to sign it. Had a good chuckle at that one. They insisted I couldn't leave until I signed it, and looked kind of confused when I said how about I just not come in the next day, or the day after, etc. They asked that they get some time to figure out how they were going to deal with that scenario...
Thank you I completely agree. Chrome is garbage and I wouldn't trust google with my photos or calendar data.
The comment you linked is insightful and the commenter is indeed in the target audience for the language. One point I didn't understand is this: "decoupling of on-the-wire layout from in-memory layout". What does that mean?

This is good stuff, and I plan to work on some embedded projects to experience firsthand the needs of this kind of project.
Yay for Australia, we finished science! /s
Thanks, I'm sure more articles will come online soon.

I hear that it was compliance-related, and that Zenefits is holding a mandatory all-hands right now for all employees. Peter Thiel also joined their board.
Move fast and break things (laws included).
Basically it seems that the imessage app on iOS basically can't be bothered to check every number every time a group message is sent. So once it has found you were a imessage number you are forever an imessage number within that group.

The only way to break it, as best i know as an outsider, is for everyone else in that group that are imessage users to delete the group and start over.

Likely it is another one of Apple's "usability optimizations", like how they would broadcast every last SSID you had been in contact with to try to speed up reconnects.
In CA, making grows legal has just made the illegal grow problem worse, since the legal crop masks the illegal crop in the supply chain. We have huge problems with illegal grows on public lands (or other people's private lands out of easy view) and the concomitant adverse effects (toxins, erosion, dumping, workers imported illegally, violence against neighbors and enforcement agencies, price pressure on legal operations, ...).
If you used Ed25519 you could get that significantly smaller.
> Scientists can study the function of sacrality, but I don't think science can make claims of sacrality.

What's a claim of sacrality? A claim that a particular set of behavior is concerned with the sacred is, as your second paragraph implied, an unremarkable claim. No more impressive that claiming some behavior is religious, or ritualistic.

This is where I'm struggling to understand you. Something is sacred, in the context of religious studies, if it is something set apart by a community and held deliberately in contrast with profane activities (following the Durkheim kind of definition - the older definition of folks like Otto is well out of favour now). To identify that certain activities, knowledge, experience, or behavior is commonly sacred, is just an observation about how communities organise their worldviews.

In a certain sense, no discussion of religion can be secular, by definition (religious and secular are as slippery to define precisely as sacred and profane). But in the sense that you can do secular religious studies, I don't know why 'sacred' for you is a special kind of topic that can't be admitted to the rest of the field.

On the 'people studying this go weird' tack. Yup! Very true. I think this is an issue with religious studies generally, and lots of related fields (biblical criticism, say). The people who are attracted to a field are probably more likely to have some affinity for what they are studying, and sometimes language can get a little to 'emic' for my taste. One does have to be careful to distinguish between the views someone will advocate and the positions they want to put forward as a scientist, or a secular scholar. Though sometimes people will blur those boundaries. Mind you, I get the same feeling from scientists and scholars with strong ideological opinions generally, not just religious folks. But all that said, the term 'sacred' is not unscientific that I can see, or at least, no more than any other term used to describe human religious activity.
Ditto - there's quite a bit here that suggests it's a fabrication, as had someone done this they'd want to talk about the gritty technical challenges they overcame, not gloss over them.

That said, if you want to play nuclear physicist, there are plenty of fun home projects. Farnsworth fusors can be built cheaply by a dedicated amateur, and you can build your own particle accelerator (cyclotron or synchrotron, take your pick) if the fancy takes you. Easier yet is making a cloud or bubble chamber, and you can use all sorts as a particle source.
"Our culture and tone have been inappropriate for a highly regulated company"

That might not be a bad thing. It could be precisely because it was inappropriate that Zenefits got ahead.
There's no substance here other than being pedantic and silly in equal measure.
That internal audit must be a doozy.
Isn't there a fast-isel that trades off output quality for compilation speed?
All of these complaints seem to really be picking up steam.

Would be really interested to hear from an Apple employee what the inside talk is like.
"Contractual capacity" means you have the capacity to enter legally-binding contracts. It is generally understood that if you willingly enter into a contract that you agreed to the terms. Not willingly entering the contract is signing under duress and would result in a voided contract. Not understanding the terms is not a valid defense, unless you were not capable of understanding them, in which case you would be ruled contractually incapable and any contracts voided. If you were capable of understanding the terms and simply chose not to before signing, that is on you.
I recently tried moving to Surface Book. Spent nearly $3k on a real nicely specc'd one. It BSOD'd daily, sleep modes are really confusing, battery drained terribly overnight, it was overall a bit of a nightmare. Granted probably half of my complaints are about Win10 rather than the SB itself, but still. I returned it.

It's SO CLOSE and it was $1,000 cheaper I may have just dealt with it. Just not quite there.
Conversely, Apple Maps still has no transit in Tokyo, rendering it completely unusable in one of the iPhone's largest markets.

So don't extrapolate your city to the rest of the world.
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I remember reading that and it's much more believable.

I really wanted to try it butnof course didn't but the smoke detector americium and aluminum pie plates always makes me laugh.

And "they were sawing up the shed with electric saws and a uffing the pieces in barrels".

We need to get that German lady BioNerd here to verify these stories.
Zenefits CEO steps down; David Sacks steps in
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For someone who is a License Raj apologist, you clearly don't know enough the History.

In 1977 Janata Party under the leadership of Morarji Desai kicked out Coca Cola and IBM (as the high profile companies). Both the companies came back in 1990s. Go do some research before you start defending economic policies.
For those interested in distributed locking with Redis and C#, check out this blog post we did which also links to a github project. We use this very heavily. Hope it helps someone.

http://stackify.com/distributed-method-mutexing/
Originally the dealership model allowed car companies to rapidly expand their market without the costs of the infrastructure to sell to consumers, when they had enough money to do so they could easily strangle these businesses.
(Also, no need to apologise, at all - I'm interested in the conversation, and you're not coming across negative in any way. I hope I'm not either: I certainly am not intending to be.)
> Surface Book

Man, I love the idea of this thing.

But I recently tried moving to Surface Book. Spent nearly $3k on a real nicely specc'd one. It BSOD'd daily, sleep modes are really confusing, battery drained terribly overnight, it was overall a bit of a nightmare. Granted probably half of my complaints are about Win10 rather than the SB itself, but still. I returned it.

It's SO CLOSE and if it was $1,000 cheaper I may have just dealt with it. Just not quite there.
Here is my point, suppose a kWh costs 10 cents retail. This represents an average cost of maybe 1 cent of profit, 1 cent of admin costs, 3 might be transmission costs, and 5 might be generation costs.

In a 1-1 net metering scheme, I generate 1 kWh in the distribution grid, it goes to my neighbor, the utility bills my neighbor 10, and credits me 1 kWh. When I draw that 1 kWh, the utility loses 2 cents on average. But they also saved 8 cents by selling my kWh to the neighbor. The summing works like this:

10 from my neighbor to the utility
0 from me to the utility
-10 for the utility to provide me that kWh
8 to the utility for avoiding the cost of generating and distributing the 1 kWh that went from my system to the neighbor.

The net to the utility is 8 cents. Ouch. But we are talking about the average kWh. It might cost the utility 3 cents to buy an off-peak kWh and 8 cents to buy an on-peak. If that is the case, they are already losing 2 cents for every on-peak kWh they are selling me but making up for it with off-peak (I am likely to use more off-peak anyhow).

In this case, netting might look like the following:

10 from my neighbor to the utility
0 from me to the utility
-8 for the utility to provide me an off-peak kWh
11 to the utility for avoiding the cost of generating and distributing the 1 kWh that went from my system to the neighbor.

The net to the utility in this case is 13 cents.

13 cents is better than 8 cents but it is worse than the 20 cents they would have made if I just consumed without generating.

Whether you credit at wholesale or do a .75-1 netmetering or whatever depends on evaluating the stranded costs and whether they are reasonable. Insofar as you look at average kWh prices and not the value of actual production from solar, you inevitably overstate the stranded costs.
Half-life is not life-time. If you have a very high dose of I-131, 7% of that dose will still be around after a month, and 0.04% after 3-months. That might be enough to still be very hazardous.
Yep, naked domains are supported, as is SSL.
Repo called openstack-specs sitting in the openstack namespace. Inside that repo is a folder called specs.

https://github.com/openstack/openstack-specs/tree/master/spe...
They's trying to get an accurate measurement on the concentration of smug
in San Francisco.

http://southpark.cc.com/clips/104282/smuggy-san-francisco-to...
I would consider that a bullet dodged.
> If they could, distributed algorithms would do without clocks entirely, but then consensus becomes impossible

Consensus can be achieved without clocks using blockchains: Instead of timelocking the resource, client can broadcast his altered version after making changes to the network. The next client than then start working on top of this changed resource, but since multiple versions might be floating around (due to timing issues in the first place) the longest tree wins. So if a client submits work done on a shorter tree then it is rejected by the network.

This has other issues like it takes longer time & reorganization risks but it does away with clocks altogether by providing a different method of timestamping.

This is similar to proof-of-work timestamp server that bitcoin uses but we can do away with proof-of-work because the resource and membership in the network is centralised.
> At the end of the day, all that really matters is whether the language helped you do what you were trying to do better than any other language.

Absolutely. But one problem that new languages face is that libraries are part of how much the language helps you do what you are trying to do. So to gain any traction, a new language needs to have libraries...

> Complete C ABI Compatibility

... and there they are! Nicely done, though this is a fairly common solution these days. Or, it could be regarded as a cheat, because you don't have your own library...

> Alternative Standard Library

... and another point of criticism dies.

I also like the difference between debug and release builds. All in all, this looks pretty nice.
It's similar and there's some endless debate over comparisons of various effect handlin systems. I like the one the op recommends because it's fast and lightweight, but free works just the same. Free is really necessary if you're going to be doing lots of introspection of the monad values where you'd still probably want to write your functions against such a typeclass stack but then translate the values out as free transformer stacks.
Poor Founders Conference

If your parents bought you a certificate from one of the upper class private universities, you're not invited.
I don't think I'll ever be a great concert pianist, but I just accept this as one of my limitations. I have never put in the necessary effort, and even if I did, I doubt I would have the required amount of talent. It would never have occurred to me to blame it on pianos.
Everyone on HN is fighting over whether or not we have a tech bubble
And I'm just sitting here like:
You guys know the US Education system is on the brink of collapse right?

If you guys want something to be worried about. We have one of the biggest graduating college classes in US history, this year, into an over saturated job market. Most of which have more debt and loans then they can hope to afford in their lifetime.
Somebody denying knowing the difference between physical and chemical processes and then repeating it as the argument is really rare for me to see.
I just wanted to the point out that the actual overhead of transpiling the module in Closure is zero.

Here's a link where you can see the module boilerplate "compile away" http://goo.gl/fR3BjQ (Choose Advanced Mode)
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