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Apple says this shit every time it has a major press event. Saying it mocks poor people is digging around for something to be offended about. Is the author really offended every time they see an ad for a newer car model when current and prior models work just fine? Saying it mocks good hardware isn't out of touch. Seriously, what did they think Apple was going to say:

> Buy a new iPad pro.

Schiller turns around, goes back to the slides, stops midway, turns to the crowd and says "But I still use an old PC, because if it ain't broke, don't fix it!", winks, and continues the presentation.

Come on, this article is grasping at straws.
I'd disagree, no one is forcing people to buy iPhones. If the kids all have iPhones, then they have parents who aren't very good at not buying things they can't afford and teaching their kids that worth doesn't come from possessions.
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> Apple is misjudging the needs of their users, to the point where trendsetters like programmers will be switching away from the platform

I feel like this. I feel like the content creators (creative or coding) are being left behind by Apple which has pivoted far too far towards consumer tech.

I know professionals aren't profitable compared to the IOS devices, but they surely punch way above their weight on contributing innovation to the Apple ecosystem.

A small detail provides clear evidence of the problem: the drop in fusion-drive NAND Flash from 128 to 24 GB late last year. Probably this still serves 90% of users perfectly well, but it's an insult to power users.

I for one hope Apple will stop the drift of OSX towards IOS-like candification, and that it will keep up a serious effort on the professional market for the Mac. A good start would be a reversal of the Mac-mini "update" joke, which was actually a regression from 2012, with a user-servicable, 32-GB capable, skylake 4C/8T design as in, now, and please, can we have a proper Cinema display that's not 6 years old?
Have kids. Stand back and watch.
My very first commercial experience doing development was as an intern at Polk Audio. At the time their online solution was pretty immature (no version control and no development environments; everything was coded up in production).

I was working on a very important, high traffic form and...accidentally deleted it. Their backup consisted of paying another company to back up each file. Fortunately they came through but it took a full day to restore a single file.
At least oranges are delicious.
Never attribute to malice which might otherwise be explained by ignorance...

Though this might be a bit of both.
That's true. But companies tend to listen when you say "If you do that, the person will sue you and win!"
or try eating something that tastes good.
A bit more: https://medium.com/on-blendle/with-the-biggest-publishers-in...
Please. Canonical has written millions of lines of Free Software code.
Big firms in the US have never had it so good. Time for more competition
While I agree with the "why!? Node" sentiment of parent, you'd be wrong with this extension. Myself as well as a few friends (who have extensive history with DNS at both a sysadmin and developer level) disprove the theory that there's no overlap in the two skill sets.
Modern iPads have something called “Split View”, where you can have two apps open and active at the same time. Only two, though, but it mostly solves this problem.
Yes, in that scenario you'd have to stop. But then gas station usage goes up too. There's some crossover point where the EVs need more, but I don't think this gets you there.

By the way, don't mention headlights. Their power consumption is absolutely negligible. Heat, for sure, but not lights.
Yes, this is the moment in the post when he moves the goalposts:

> I also own a desktop PC that’s five years old. I haven’t upgraded that either. Why? Because it’s a desktop PC: I can pull out parts and replace them with newer versions as they age. I don’t need a wholesale upgrade.

In the course of 3 sentences the standard went from "upgrade" to "wholesale upgrade", which is of course not what Phil Schiller said. A PC that has had a bunch of new parts installed is not what Schiller was talking about.

That said, I largely agree with the author that it was a dumb thing for Schiller to say. It doesn't make any point about the iPad Pro, and it makes Apple look like they are mocking people who can't afford their products--never a good look for any company, and undercuts the "doing good" message the rest of the keynote attempted to deliver.
I'm not so sure about that. I could fairly easily afford a new iPhone or some other flagship device like that. Yet if I were to buy a new phone right now... factory refurb Nexus 5 on for $150 USD is probably the most tempting option.

If the cheap ass option does everything you'll need, you still don't waste money on the more expensive one.

I'm guessing this combination more than likely just boils down to some people who aren't very good at making financial decisions...
But that's the problem: the good points about hardware quality are objectively true regardless of an end user's ability to afford a replacement or the article author's proclivity to get offended.

Things are improving, but many components in a PC are known to eventually give out — the metric for hard drive longevity is literally known as "mean time to failure," batteries have cycle counts, etc.

Nor is the gap between quality components and inferior alternatives bridged suddenly because someone heard Phil Schiller say something they didn't like. An $150 Acer trackpad is going to be significantly worse than a $1500 MacBook trackpad. I highly doubt this article gets published if the author had tried to use a 2011 budget PC laptop.
Care to give a source for that claim?
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Right now, about 20% of users that register start topping up.
Conversely, my 7 year old daughter dramatically prefers her guest account on my touchscreen laptop as opposed to the non-touch Chromebook we had intended for her to use. She just has a hard time wrapping her head around the idea of a screen that doesn't do anything when you touch it.
Wish I had seen this a few days earlier before throwing together my own AWS backup scripts (https://github.com/olalonde/offsite-aws-backup). Does this also support database backups?
Mossberg: the iPhone 7 had better be spectacular
Maybe they should drop the 'pro' labelling on the ipad pro. Because the surface pro line is a perfectly acceptable laptop replacement for power users and professionals looking to do computing.
Sell you software as you like
Quick script to test if your project is using any of the modules he unpublished:

for module in $(curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/azer/db27417ee84b5f34a6ea/raw/50ab7ef26dbde2d4ea52318a3590af78b2a21162/gistfile1.txt); do grep "\"$module\"" package.json; done

If any names appear you should replace them or force that specific version always (remove ~ or ^ before it). If nothing appears you're probably good.
While I think the comments about laughing at the poor are on point, the other half of this seems a little "trying to be offended." Yes it could've been worded better but it's a joke around our office that the PC's need to be replaced after 1-2 years, where we have Macbooks that have been in service for more than 5 with little to no issues.

I think it's generally accepted common knowledge that Mac's age far better than PC's, maybe not so much on desktops, but laptops? Definitely. I have a custom built PC at home myself and I'd never trade it for a Macbook of my own, but after using a macbook from the company for the last few years, I can't ever go back to a Windows laptop.
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Colin Chapman's law of race car design: "simplify, then add lightness".
Especially when the iPhone's cost is calculated over the lifetime of the device and the quality of the hardware.

Apple's latest iOS version 9.3 just dropped. And the 5 year old iPhone 4s along with every iPad except the original just got that update.

What other device would be safe to use with personal information and be just as usable after 5 years? At the original full price that comes to around $80/year. With the additional street cred of owning an iPhone?
Right, this is an apple conference, he works for Apple. I'm sure I'm not the only one here that's worked somewhere that we liked to bash our competition all the time, because we thought it was funny and we all believed it at some level. I think the author is reading too much into this comment.
What a myopic question. There's 30 companies registered to do the annual backflow inspections that the city requires on my property. When I get the list, I don't think to myself "Man, there's at least 30 companies making buck inspecting people's pipes. I better start a backflow inspection company! How can I disrupt these people who've managed to scrape together some profit?"

Yes, yes - Slack gets all the news and chicks and is probably bigger. But it's the entire mindset. You wouldn't start an HVAC repair company after hearing that an HVAC repair company is doing well, even if they're the biggest one in the region and even if they're making millions; similarly, you shouldn't start a chat app just because you hear Fortune magazine writing about a chat app.

There's another part to this too: With the word 'disrupt' I'm hearing "Slack is doing well; I'm jealous of Slack; how can I hurt Slack?" I used to have a neighbor that would get jealous of people and key their car if it was nicer than his. Nobody liked him and eventually they arrested him for unrelated reasons.

Don't phrase your business plan as being the equivalent of keying Slack's car.
Think about the test matrix.
Considering Benadryl is a medication many people take daily for several months of the year, every year, it's not that much.
At a guess a lot of the phones are bought on payment plans with carriers - so the up front cost is relatively manageable but you're paying for 2 years. This kind of deal is much much harder to value correctly and for sure people are looking at it as a "we can find $40 a month" rather than "that's equivalent to a price of $900 - can we afford that?".
How to get a politician to say just what you want to hear
In much the same way you might scan this billboard-sized QR code located at the top of a building. Namely, by moving backward. :p

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Ja...
Launching Density Labs. If you can dream it, we can code it
I find the iPad is a great platform to have when you have a lot of different computing options available and just need a lightweight client to bring with you. The most important app for me is Prompt2, an SSH client, that allows me to be work very efficiently, particularly when I pair a wireless keyboard. VMware Horizon lets me pull up an office desktop when I need one. Efficiency aside, I love using my iPad for reading, listening to music, checking news, etc.
My first real job was a DBA at Microsoft, on a very large marketing database (aprox 1.5TB in 2000)

That experience, how much work is required for "real" production databases, led a bad taste in my mouth. I stay away from self-hosted db's to this day. (example, I use google cloud datastore nowadays)
I signed up for the US launch a while ago because I believe in this model, but I have heard nothing from them since, so my email is already in their database, so they won't give me "Instant access only today for Hacker News readers."

Ingenious.
Ask HN: Your job satisfaction?
With all the recent threads about salaries, I would like to poll the HN Community about their current job:

1) What are some of the best things you value at your job?

2) What are some of the things you wish you could change about your organization?

3) Besides money what is the one thing you wish your organization would offer you?

4) What is one thing the Founder or CEO could do to improve the leadership in your organization?
Also relevant: Beginning Engineer's Checklist

http://www.piclist.com/tecHREF/begin.htm

If a ten commandments of growth hacking ever comes into being, my hope is the first law states: Thou shalt not spam ;)
At least it's not written in Coffeescript and then further insulting you by calling it a JavaScript project despite being written in Coffeescript.

I've been foolish enough to have been quoted as saying "you can use JavaScript anywhere!" in the past (admittedly at the time, I was working on an embedded platform for TVs where apps were written in JS). Sadly it seems not everyone knows, just because you can doesn't mean you should.
So Apple has no clue what people use PCs for then.
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>I am not sure if I was suddenly without money, the iPhone would be what I would want to give up.

If you have an iPhone and then become poor, sure. You probably won't get ahead much by getting rid of your iPhone. If you're already poor, then an iPhone (not a smartphone) is definitely a luxury.

There are capable smartphones for much cheaper then an iPhone that could get the job done. That's what GP was likely getting at.

>If anything we should work to get smart phones in the hands of the poor.

I am not aware of a socialized plan to put phone in the hands of poor people, but they are getting increasingly cheaper. You can get Samsung Galaxy line (not the flagship model) phones from cheap, prepaid carriers. Wi-Fi is becoming increasingly available, which makes the limited data plans not that bad of a drawback.
> Because whoever wrote foo () was too lazy to make use of type traits and validate that T has a method called bar with zero arguments.

In a proper generic type system, the compiler validates it, not the programmer. Even if you constrain the type using type traits, the compiler would not check if the implementation satisfies the constraints. I can put a type trait for existence of bar() and then another programmer may rename bar() to baz() forgetting to update the constraint and the code will still compile fine.
I'm the founder of Density Labs. We are a small team of Ruby and Javascript developers with more than 10 years of experience.

I would love to get your feedback about our company or the website.
This brings hyper-sensitivity to a new level.

Perhaps to make sure no one's feelings are hurt, all ads for new products should be banned.
I don't know how bad it is, however I use Ubuntu on my desktop daily for free and I appreciate that, I don't see Redhat provides that though(ever since Redhat dumped Desktop users after Redhat 8/9 release many years back).
The experience of Slack is horrid, IMO.

- Anyone can be interrupted at any time (to say nothing of @everyone), so it's essentially just an all-day meeting. At least emails could be responded to at relative leisure.

- There are only three notification states: "nothing" (normal icon) "something happened in a non-muted channel" (red dot), and "you were mentioned specifically". There's no way to gauge importance without disrupting your flow. Some pointless cat GIF (why are these being posted on work chat?) is ranked the same as "what should we do next?". Similarly, "@everyone there are donuts in the kitchen, OMG" is ranked the same as "@someone THE SERVER IS ON FIRE".

- Channels are never-ending, so it's relatively impossible to tell where one topic began and another ended. Additionally, multiple conversations can be held at the same time, and it's difficult to tell who's replying to who.

However, I quite like Slack's group private chats. I'd like to see a group-chat solution that promoted those and completely got rid of static channels. Everything's just a private group chat, with all of the people that are needed. When the discussion's done, archive it - it's searchable, of course, but if you need to continue the discussion, make a new one! Maybe everyone in the chat even gets a summary emailed to them that they can search in their email client as well (thus solving the "wait, where did we discuss that" problem).

There are a few other changes I would make - for example, the return key should be newline by default to prevent people from writing

like

this

and instead

putting their thoughts into well-composed

messages
>What is so bad about trade secrets?

Nothing in particular, but there are lots of times when it's useful to a society for people not to keep them.

Patents generally last a little over a decade, after which competitors are free to use them. If you keep your developments secret, they could stay secret for decades, which means decades in which competitors couldn't study, improve upon, fix your ideas. It slows the pace of progress, or so the argument goes.

You can agree or disagree with the sentiment, but I don't think it can be dismissed out of hand.

>you have to go a step further and find out how to monetize it

I think this comes back to society's interest, as all discussions of patents must.

It's not necessarily in society's interest for you to withhold developments until you find a way to protect them.
What if drug manufacturers refused to sell drugs, only dispensing them on location, for fear of others stealing their secrets?

What if someone came up with an idea like Velcro, to hark back, and never developed it, seeing the cost and realising that the IP could never be protected. Would we be better off?
That's semi-interesting, because the materials + equipment needed to make this are very commonly available. Not every household will have a vacuum chamber, but many people interested in the Maker scene will from resin/silicon casting, vacuum forming, etc.
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I heard that email addresses are not particularly hard to come by.
And they've being unethical many times as well. I have personal experience of this. :(
I built a CNC, what can I make to pay myself back?
I figured that if I built a machine that can make stuff, I can make stuff to sell to others to pay myself back, and save up for a nicer machine.

I just don't know where to look / who to ask about "what can I make you?"

Thoughts?
Fedora? Any of the RHEL recompiles?
The reason Tesla used the word 'autopilot' is because the system is much like the behaviour of autopilot systems in Aircraft - they can handle throttle and navigation, and if you set it up right and in the right conditions/environment, it can land itself.

The Pilot is always required to monitor the systems and be able to take control - so the analogy to a Level 2 autonomy car system like Tesla's Autopilot is quite correct.

Anyway, my point is if you keep talking about Tesla's lack of autopilot - regardless of the case - you're going to just confuse most people, because clearly they do have that.

If you want to refer to Level 4 systems, perhaps 'driverless' or 'self driving' are better terms to use.
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This feels more like a markov chain with added emojis. I'm I missing something? It definitely doesn't feel smarter than the old AIM bots of yore.
I had to drive to the ghetto to get a prepaid phone that works on the Verizon network but people from the ghetto drive to the fake Verizon store to get their smartphone.
A SE is $399, sure you can get an ok phone for less than that. But, ED: even if that's significantly more than a 'cheap' phone it's not that expensive compared to a cellphone plan. People look at things as symptoms, but it's mostly ongoing costs that are real issues.
The amount of de-duplication performed by Tarsnap, and the amount of files, which for a maildir I imagine is a lot of tiny files, probably negatively impacts it. Dealing with a single DB dump file the performance is fine so far at least. I can imagine one could also try to partition the data into multiple independent dumps that can run in parallel during the restore if speed became a concern.
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Do you have anything to back your opinion or you had just one bad experience with Oracle consultant and now generalize to tens or hundreds of thousands of cases that you have absolutely no knowledge about?

On my part I only have very positive experience with Oracle consultants, but this is only my opinion based on just a few interactions.
Was going to say this. If you are legitimately poor, you can get a used Moto G 2013 for $35 and activate it on Freedompop for some free data each month and use wifi wherever possible.

That would be a phone on a budget. iphones are absolutely just for prestige, the same way Macbooks in universities are.
The cost separation between a cheap phone and a nice one, spread across a contract, is probably not very significant. An iPhone isn't like having a Rolex; it (like many of the other higher end, new phones) offers significant functionality and performance benefits. Which is to say -- its easy to look at a poor person carrying an iPhone and say they only chose that particular phone to not look poor. But i'd personally wager that they chose (what they perceived as) the best phone, because the cost difference was not a significant factor.
>> no one is forcing people to buy iPhones.

It's not that simple.

I once heard a lecture from a psychologist researching the effects brands have on teenagers, and she said owning a brand can deeply affect a teenager's self-assurance, create anxieties, etc.
TIL what "Jank" is.
I also have open sourced the extension at https://github.com/igauravsehrawat/beautify-me
Hmmmm, there is Fedora, which is Red Hat's kind of equivalent, and also CentOS. Guessing you're already aware of those and they don't work as well for you?
You can get a refurbished Moto G 2013 for $35. I have a huge number of people in my extended family on those, since they are not techies and just want a good phone.
I have a feeling that sometimes (often?) people just get bored with their existing, working solutions and want to try something new. Obviously Slack is so new that this does not really work.
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Sorry, but claiming 4 year old devices are usable with iOS 9 is a joke.

The rule of a thumb with iPhones is that you update n+1 version your phone shipped with. Anything more kills the performance to almost a standstill. I won't go into the debate if it's intentionally or not, but as sure isn't with much added value.
From the Clive design paper[1]:

At this moment, the kernel used is a BSD kernel, but we are working now on making Go run on the bare
hardware and on hypervisors. When that is done, the BSD kernels will be replaced with our own one.

So if that is enough to be a systems programming language, then C# is also one on account of the Singularity OS[2].

[1]: http://lsub.org/export/clivesys.pdf
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system)
Could you not just use another email address?
Or Apple's slides are contextual and exist as support for the presentation. Nah, can't be it, context is not a thing.
Regulators are underprepared for artificial intelligence
I'm looking at evaluating Postgres for the data work I do at work, which would replace the (expensive) MS SQL server we are currently using. Aside from performance boosts from being able to throw more hardware at the problem due to lower costs, is Postgres as performant as MS SQL?
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This is the tag line I expect from people who don't deliver consistently. I want to hear you say no when the dreams are unrealistic.
I have a '99 Honda CRV, but given how much I drive it, if it ever dies, the replacement is likely to be Zipcar.

I also have a 6-yr-old iMac at home, and it definitely falls into the no-real-need-to-upgrade category (I do have a newer laptop, but it is running Linux--and I expect to be able to keep that for a while too).