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The comment appears even more heinous when Tim Cook goes on to brag a about recycling and Apple's environmental responsibility. Please. Apple is one of the most bourgeoisie and reactionary companies today, primarily pushing products meant for consumption, not for creating. At least be honest about it.
Hyperbolic analogies are a perfectly valid tool for refuting absolute statements, in particular arguments of the form 'the end justifies the means'.

If someone argues that some $noble_end is served by $means_under_debate, as a justification for the means, that argument can be refuted by giving a circumstance where the same $noble_end is served by some $extreme_means where both parties can agree that $extreme_means is never justifiable.

Then once we've agreed that the form of that argument doesn't work, it is reduced to 'the ends justify sufficiently noble means', we can move on to discuss whether the $means_under_debate are sufficiently noble, setting aside the fact they they lead to $noble_end.
No it actually doesn't, his commentary is more about the disposable gadget culture and Phil's inability to understand that not everyone is in a socio-economic bracket where they can participate in the never-ending gadget refresh. Maybe you should reread it?
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I think disrupting slack is a mistake. They are still in their infancy and have clearly built a solid product. Disrupt spaces and industries that don't have that :)
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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.

The utility of the device is incredible:
Mapping.
Phone.
Internet.
Email.
Alarm Clock.
Calendaring.
Photography.

If anything we should work to get smart phones in the hands of the poor. It would be a great way to improve their lives for a somewhat modest cost. I am not sure it is all for looks. Maybe we could quibble about whether they should have an iPhone or some cheaper smartphone. I am just saying, it could be more for utility than image.
We should just troll them and created packages with kik in name like:

kik-looser
iKik
only-kik
true-kik
true-kik2
real-kik
It's better to let niggers do work, don't you think?

AI is niggers for free.

You want to be a nigger, I guess.

The purpose of life is to entertain God.

God says...
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Really curious as to where this may go. On the one hand, I'm skeptical. It feels like there's simply too much friction for a commodity. And doing relatively well in the Dutch market is one thing. Being able to translate this to the English market is, of course, a different story entirely. On the other hand, being able to read individual articles from most of the major publications in one centralized environment is super compelling to me.

Additionally, I feel like the iTunes comparison that's often made isn't entirely fair. Before iTunes, I believe there simply wasn't any viable (non-illegal) alternative to get an individual song. Whereas Blendle competes with, as mentioned before, loads of other free alternatives online. I'm sure this is appealing to a core group of fairly voracious readers, but wonder if it extrapolates to the wider population to such an extent as to sustain an actual business. Thus far, I believe I've only come across the number of registered users. This is obviously not very interesting and perhaps they're not allowed to disclose any other metrics. Especially with the free initial credit though, I guess you'll find plenty who would be willing to give it a spin. Would love to see DAUs and/or the percentage of people that tops up repeatedly after using initial credit.

To be sure, I definitely hope they succeed. It seems like they've executed very well up to this point.
Unlike Red Hat, Canonical are a bad company (ethics wise), mostly sponging off Open Source projects. :(

Very few in the Open Source Community would cry if they were to disappear.
I've worked in projects that use OOP and projects that use procedural style and personally my brain seems to understand the OOP styled code much better than the procedural stuff. Do I then go around calling other paradigms garbage just because my brain seems to function more in an Object Oriented way than other? Of course not. Do I think OOP is then automatically better than other because I understand it easier? Of course not. I stick to OOP because my dumb brain can't figure out other paradigms as well.

Of course OOP is unnecessary since you don't need it to write good software. But one could argue that all paradigms are unnecessary since you could technically write any program using any paradigm. OOP, procedural, functional, whatever. My point is that people are different, use whatever you are most comfortable with.

EDIT: Check Bob Burrough's comment to the youtube video. He worded it much better than me.
Why is it Apple that's a real-world incarnation of Huxley's world? Why is it not the whole society itself (including Apple as a very prominent figure) – as you aptly described with your observations – that is the real real-world incarnation of the Brave New World?
I've found tarsnap to be slow at restoring in the past. My recollection is a few hours for a ~1GB maildir. I was using it for my personal things but I would (as would anything) test restore times if I was using it for serious stuff.
Really? I'm on chrome with uBlock and it hasn't blocked me.
Oh. So maybe lawyers are also not justice as a service. Maybe that was my point.
It's important to check that not only can you restore the database but you also check that it contains the data you think it contains.

Finding out that your backup consists of a perfectly backed up empty database isn't much fun!
Of course, the only right way is panic() and wait for supervisor to restart the process / VM.

Idiomatic Erlang doesn't differentiate between "system" / "environment" errors and local bugs. If it has failed — restart it!
What is so bad about trade secrets? You either share or keep to yourself. Sharing something then prohibiting others from replicating it is just pretending that there is a cake you could eat, but you are forbidden to do so.

I agree we have a different definition for obvious, but I would argue that mine is at least very straightforward. If you think your idea is novel but very simple, you have to go a step further and find out how to monetize it better than others. I think it is my responsibility to protect my interests e.g. trying to keep it a secret by obfuscating the code. We do this all the time in software.
Even those tasks are irritating on an iPad - outside of the limited multitasking, viewing multiple things at once is impossible. I can't look at an email and reference a website linked in it. I can't look at a few websites while composing an email. Comparing multiple travel booking sites side-by-side? Nope. If I try switching back and forth, the iPad has probably unloaded one of the tabs in the meantime due to memory pressure - why can't their state be archived to disk and loaded from that, at least?

It's interesting because for a very long time Apple said "maximizing is usually a waste of space" with the zoom button's behavior.
Why is everyone so eager to disrupt Slack? What exactly is so bad about it that an alternative needs to be built? It seems to me that they just made a product that works really well and everybody finds useful.
You will have better luck with a different question.

Don't ask 'How do I disrupt Slack?', or more generally 'How do I disrupt Y?'.

Also don't ask 'I want to build Slack for X, what X is good?', or more generally 'I want to build Y for X, what X is good for that Y?'.

Instead observe your environment. Get out and walk around. Talk to people you know in domains you have personal experience in, or are very familiar with. Lots of people - people that are like you, and people that aren't. Find out what their pain points are, and what they'd pay to get rid of those pain points. If you want to focus on chat, find out what their pain points are in communication (the broader area).

Then execute to solve those pain points and make the world a better place. Iterate your execution to solve one pain point (the one the most people say they have/would pay for) and get your first customers. Then solve additional related pain points in successive iterations.
It's been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Rutan
Ive got a PC Thats one week old. I bought it straight after apple failed to announce any macs with a decent GPU. Most devs I know are switching back this year or last.
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This entire discussion has me wanting to backup (and test) everything that I can get my hands on.
I know I would, Mapping. Phone. Internet. Email. Alarm Clock. Calendaring are also my primary use cases, but there are devices that cost a lot less than an iPhone that do those things just as good or even better.
"You are right that iOS could solve pain points for some of these customers, but then THAT is how Apple should sell people on it. That's what their marketing of old was like. Insulting those people does no one any good."

Marketing of old was "I am a PC" which always left me feeling like the PC guy, not the wise ass Mac guy. Apple has always had this snottiness about PCs, which probably appeals to the hard core Mac audience but is mostly impenetrable to the "I am a PC" guy because he is going to look at the iPad Pro, see it has no keyboard and no mouse and costs however many hundreds, and he's not even going to think of buying it despite whatver snottiness Apple rains out.
I used to have an 11" MacBook Air of a similar age. It broke so I was about to buy a new one before I discovered that they still don't have retina displays and have a very small amount of ram.

They quoted such a high price for repairs that I was able to purchase a Chromebook with 4GB of RAM and an Intel NUC with 16GB of RAM for the same amount. Both are running Linux, and I'm very happy.
You just described the functionality of every single phone on the market, though. Almost all of which are much less expensive than the iPhone.
The mitigation is relatively simple, don't allow (by policy and by enforcement) anyone to directly use the creds with DDL access in prod. All DDL changes should be checked in, code reviewed, and tested on pre-prod environments before being ran on prod.
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At my first professional full-time gig as a software engineer I had to find a way of dumping data from barcode scanners, after some software written in-house was supposed to download all data, flush it to disk, then empty the scanners for re-use. Problem was that the flushing to disk part didn't work (but said it did) so all data was lost. This was for scanning attendees at conferences, so all data on attendees were seemingly lost.

It wasn't me losing the data, and I don't blame the engineer that did, but management sure didn't mind doing that. I took the heat for it by standing up to them and saying "there's a bad news/good news situation here" and refocusing their attention. Bad news was obviously the data looked lost, the good news was it's probably not overwritten so I suggested we write a very small piece of firmware that just does a memory dump – the scanners didn't have separate slots for storage, firmware etc, it was all in one place – and hope the memory is ordered such that the firmware comes first, followed by all the attendee data. It worked – the firmware was indeed written first and dumping it all revealed all attendee data in raw form. Thankfully it was more or less all ascii so it wasn't difficult to process the dump after it'd been downloaded. We had to do this with 20+ scanners since the mistake wasn't discovered right away.

I believe management later tried to resell this as a "data recovery solution" to other firms using these types of scanners – don't think they had much success though.

The engineer who lost the data at first mostly got off the hook with some blame game and a warning. It wasn't a very good working environment, and prior to losing the data the engineer had been pushing serious overtime hours without so much as a thank you because management had promised delivery without involving engineering in the discussions. A few months later that engineer and several others, including myself, quit for other jobs.
I felt the same as the author. The blog post, however, is a bit unfair to Apple and Schiller.

I think what he meant was "It's sad that these people don't know yet the wonderful news that they can use this fantastic new iPad instead"
I'm going back to Skype, which is actually lighter than Slack, and we only need simple chat. Slack (both Chrome and the desktop version) was taking almost a second to change rooms... (like a webpage with thousands of elements)
This is gold...

A module for padding the left of a string?!

Used by big projects like Babel?!

NPM takes down a modules without asking the dev

NPM republishes another module without asking the dev.

Then the whole NPM3 mess (unrelated to this article)

If have the feeling those people there have no clue whats on.
This combined with the cost of hosting (I remember the ruby community freaking out over rubygems costs a couple years ago) makes me think maybe we're evolving towards decentralized dependency hosting. Something like Storj where users offset hosting fees with blockchain payments when dependencies are fetched.
Schiller is marketing his company's product. So what?

What he said was along the same lines of rhetoric as all the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" commercials.

There's nothing to take personally about what an executive says about the products you choose to use in your home. That's your choice.
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> whats next a paperclip?

Smart paperclip was a Microsoft thing ;)

You reminded me that I need to dig out and backup my Office 97 disk before it rots.
Didn't read Schiller's comment as a jab to users. More as the usual attack against the MS/clone industry.

My thoughts at that moment: 'modern digital like' is a sad joke. 4K video won't change your life, even 1080p. If your hardware isn't absurd, pop Linux, a SSD if needed, and enjoy the 80$ bliss. All from a guy trying to sell hour based color shifting .. come on.
With FOSS...

I.e: https://rocket.chat/
This is fantastic, thanks for posting.
"To design a spacecraft right takes an infinite amount of effort. This is why it's a good idea to design them to operate when some things are wrong."

I feel like this applies to everything. I mostly work on ecommerce and analytics systems, and I feel like I'm having to make this same argument all the time.
The point that is an automated system could tell which cases are likely frivolous.
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We've had vhosting for eras and SNI for years. So shared hosting is out.

And I've never seen a VPS provider that doesn't offer v4. Even a $5/mo DigitalOcean box has it.
>>It's such an obvious mistake that I wonder nobody at Apple has pointed that out during the rehearsals?

Maybe this isn't a mistake ? maybe, deep down, Apple knows that the number one thing they sell is status and a false feeling of superiority ? So why not give their users who replace their devices often, some of that feeling ? a feeling that they are less able to supply via highly differentiated innovation ?

So who knows whether this method will work or be deemed as too crude - most of us here aren't good at marketing as Apple.
> Some newer languages that try to fill the niche are D, Nim, Rust and Go.

I always thought Go is less suitable as C++ replacement due to its GC. Another candidate which could be a dark horse is Swift.
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Sounds more like a lot of click-bait news articles to me. I don't see Slack going away any time soon, but I stick mostly to irc Freenode for all my communication needs. It almost does everything Slack does minus the screen sharing, voice, and video stuff.
We're going to make this free for personal uses but not sure at this time what licensing model we should adopt.
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> [From the article] I don’t need a wholesale upgrade.

The newest component in my desktop PC is likely 3-4 years old. The entire machine is, obviously, a good deal more powerful than an iPad - it can drive the DK2 just fine, and Oculus have specifically called Apple out on performance.[1] You don't even need to participate in frequent piecewise upgrades to match or exceed the iPad.

What Schiller might be missing is that people are using their PC in addition to an iPad. This is an strikingly obvious conclusion but doesn't fit the typical Apple marketing rhetoric.

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/4/11159700/oculus-rift-mac-su...
You will never be able to get both 100% guaranteed memory safety and low level control/performance. Opposing it based on principle means that you'll never move on to anything better because a perfect solution doesn't exist.

For what it's worth, you can write quite a lot in 100% safe code, such that you have to trust only the standard library. Which is the case for any programming language.

So, the argument on the front page is true. It does guarantee memory safety in safe Rust code, as much as possible. It gives you the tools to extend your abstractions with unsafe Rust code, which you need to supply your own guarantees with.
Online dispute resolution works b/c the disputes in question are small. You would not want to have an important civil matter (like a divorce) settled in ODR b/c the rules are so flexible. It's basically, whatever the arbitrator thinks is "fair". I'm exaggerating slightly, but in many cases (e.g., modria) I've read that the arbs are given a fairly light training on anglo-saxon legal principles then left to apply their moral intuition. That's fine if you're just arguing over an ebay return. It's not fine if you're arguing over custody of your kids. Cynically, I wonder if ODR would work just as well if the result were random (as long as the disputants don't realize this). The process gives the illusion of redress for small wrongs, a way for angry customers to vent, and a 50/50 chance at "justice" for each party.
It kind of feels like the author was just looking for reasons to be offended. This comment didn't really seem that offensive at all.
In this defense, a slide on this presentation does say "The ultimate PC replacement"..
Hasn't hurt Java devs any. Although we have plenty of mirrors and no concept of unpublishing.
> Over the counter sleep medicines lose their effectiveness when taken regularly, so it people are less likely to do so

I have known people that simply increased the dose.
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Ok, then! Let's move on to Phase Two of "Internet Mob Rules". Let's start a change.org petition and Brendan-Eich him out of of his job for being insensitive.
I have two 10-year old PCs in active use on my desk right now - both are running Windows 10, one is playing back Netflix right now while I type this on a third (brand new) machine.

The kicker? Those two 10-year old "PCs" are actually MacBooks. They still run fine & do everything I need those machines to do - but I had to install Windows 10 on them, because Apple stopped supporting their own hardware. A machine that maxed out at Snow Leopard is capable of running Windows 10... I think that says something about the way Apple now treats its customers.
This Apple Keynote 2015 video extract speaks for itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4UOmR_xSBM
Is the iPad Pro a feasible replacement for an actual computer? Not even close. Not until it runs a version of OS X.

Was apple mocking poor people? Of course not. It's 2016. Can we stop overreacting about every little thing yet?
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Not saying that NPM is perfect but you can host your node modules wherever you want as well. Supports tarballs/folders/git out of the box.
That kind of talk is worse than no talk at all.
You demonstrate a misunderstanding of why the patent system exists (not surprising given the people that profit from it go great lengths to ensure this is the public perception). The legal protections baked in the the patent system are supposed to be a side effect; they are the carrot to get people to buy into registering a patent. The intended result is to provide a path for non obvious ideas to enter the public domain. The legal protection is provided to discourage people from hiding or obfuscating construction plans to maintain their monopoly while also ensuring that those same plans are on record at the patent office so as soon as the device enters public domain access is available to all.

Under this scheme the "ability to franchise the making of foam in a specific arbitrary shape" completely fails the test of being unique or novel and is 100% divergent to why the patent system exists.
Adults are not your children and also they don't owe anything to you.

You get who you get.
> We are working hard to retrieve all of your data.

Given that in most cases where a backup exists, the user data is not lost, it's a bit unsettling to say that (and also in most cases admins are not working, they are mostly waiting). It's more reassuring to the user to say "we are verifying that all data is restored correctly" or sth.
Why didn't you upgrade her to desktop pc? Laptops, especially old ones with bad heat dissipation suffer immensely in performance. With middle of the road desktop + ssd she would not need to upgrade in many years, better ergonomics too. The way I see it, even non techie user can gain a lot in productivity just by learning a couple of keyboard shortcuts and using simple automatization tools that are more readily available on the desktop. The problem with ipads is that one would rely on apps that could quit working any time and you loose your data somewhere in the cloud.
Having done several long trips, I strongly disagree. I certainly wouldn't recommend it if your idea of a road trip is eating a sandwich at the wheel and running into the bathroom while you pump gas, but if you actually sit down for your meals and take stretch breaks, charging barely adds any time. I drove DC to South Florida this winter and I'm planning on DC to Montreal this summer and not once do I wish for a gas car.
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Not to knock on the group of companies, but I tend to agree. I think the larger the YC cohorts get, the more it becomes evident that the interview/selection process is heavily weighted towards the team and not the product. My take is that they are playing the odds game. With a bigger cohort they can risk more on the team instead of focusing on the product. The theory being that if they select 120 companies, the chances of having a few unicorns is increased. The smaller the cohort, the more they have to look at the product so the risk is minimized that none of the companies are unicorns.

With that said, I completely agree that I would like to see them return to smaller batch sizes. I think the larger cohorts almost give an assembly line feel to the process. Again, not diminishing the accomplishment of any of the companies, but I think the larger cohorts is almost doing a disservice to the founders.
Why do you want to disrupt Slack? Slack is a great product, and it's not winning based on features and functionality alone, they have a great business team as well.

Don't try to compete with a well run team at the peak of their abilities. Go find an underserved market that has tons of money and incompetent incumbents providing services. Slack is successful because this is what they did, but that has sucked a lot of the upside out of the market.
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