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Well are we discussing usability or build quality now ? Because there are huge compromises in both (like always in life).

People I know that bought Android tablets bought it for doing stuff vbezhenar blamed iPad being clunky with and explicitly wanting a tablet form factor. Of course it's not as fancy as an iPad and the battery doesn't last as long, but you can do stuff you described with less hassle AND using Bittorent with it.

But more or less it's obvious that those kind of people are in a minority. They rather sacrifice convenience of a tablet form factor to get a more usable one - like a PC.
in the early 2000s I was a young guy and board observer on a .com that was growing extremely rapidly and had a 9 day complete outage.

The venture funds, including the one I was part of, came in screaming, "who's getting fired for this", to which the CEO responded: "are you kidding me? We just spent $1.5M educating this team and you want me to hand them over to our competition?"

Every investor and other board member got real quiet, realizing how correct the CEO was. Good CEOS recognize that mistakes happen. The best make sure they retain the people that have learned through those mistakes.
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Here is a little fun story:

Last year I was on a flight en-route to an Ed-Tech convention in Philly. There was on board wifi and my phone had the wifi turned on. I go and check my emails before departure and get a debug page from tomcat. My initial reaction was panic, but then I remembered that the wifi runs separately from avionics. After all the mental pictures of the plane going down in flames due to someone leaving a server in DEBUG mode disappeared I simply closed the tab, turned the airplance mode on and went to sleep. Knowing in full that I had put my life in the hands of people who are pressured into writing code that works under impossible deadlines.

That's why I think that just like the romans poisoned themselves over time with lead in their pipes we will kill ourselves with buggy code from shitty projects.
My guess would be more vibrations?

Heavy equipment causes vibrations in the ground, which most people probably can't notice, but when you're literally printing at the atomic scale, microscopic vibrations probably make a difference.
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More choice, but now you need 50 different modules from 50 different authors to duplicate what would be in one good standard library, any of which could have bugs or be pulled out from under you for a multitude of reasons that are beyond your control.

Choice can be a bad thing too - when there are 10 different modules for doing a moderately complex thing, you have to figure out which one is best for your project, and whether it's still actively maintained, bugs are fixed, how do they feel about making breaking changes, etc.
It is remarkable that most organization try to "fix" this by teaching everyone to present (i.e. sell ideas) better, rather than teaching people how to better listen and evaluate new ideas.
A month ago I did the same thing, a T420s with just slightly different specs. The sad thing is that in 2-3 years whatever we choose to replace it with will likely have an inferior keyboard.
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There is an interesting, opposite mindset: The program will not function unless nothing is wrong.

It was surprising how reliable the programs turn out to be. But the shocking part is how small they are.

I'm starting to be convinced that the only way to write reliable code is to spend most of your time trying to remove code. And not at the expense of clarity; tricks like that don't matter.
We seem to have shared clients in some point in time. ;)
I think there's plenty of ways to signal you're a good provider or good in bed without throwing the entire viability of both into money pits of useless junk. It just takes more skull sweat to figure that out on a case-by-case basis.
If there's something sad about that fact, it's that the industry has delivered so little value in the past 5 years that not many people feel compelled to upgrade!
Kickstarter for a smart bed
Time flies! I wish that Apple would open up their boxes to allow for a bit more tinkering. More of the Wozniak rather than the Jobs philosophy. I think that they could do this, allow for user modification, without giving up on their high-minded design principles.
This article isn't even about ping pong. Furthermore, I love ping pong and think it's a great addition to any office. I look forward to playing my daily game of ping pong at the office and it makes the day way better!
I can be "not wrong" and sad at the same time. A newer PC would likely be much faster, resulting in less stress and less wasted time.
Main take away: Intel is doing three phases instead of two tick-tocks.

Secondary take away: due to the increased time to move to a better manufacturing process, Intel will likely not have as much a competitive advantage anymore. Though the number of competitors will (and has already) decrease due to the high investments.

Would be interesting to see how long intel estimates the process cycles are going to be, i.e. how Moore's law will progress.

Weird statement in the article: "it (TSCMs 7nm tech) should be very similar in terms of transistor density to Intel's 10-nanometer technology". This makes no sense as it would be comparing apples and pears. Surely they are referring to TSCMs 10nm tech?!
It's one of the reasons why I haven't upgraded my iPad 2 past iOS6.

It still streams Netflix great though, but the browser is starting to show its age - I can't load all webpages anymore. :(

Looks like I might need to pick up a new iPad..
Currently using Wrike + Skype and I've found it's a much better experience than Slack.
Why not just forward DNSCrypt queries over Tor?
Actually, my main development tower is about nine years old.

And in that time, I've upgraded the processor, doubled the memory, upgraded the hard drive to an SSD, switched the video card twice, upped the number of connected monitors from one to three, and upgraded the OS from 32-bit Vista to 64-bit Windows 10.

It was pretty leading edge when I built it, and it's still pretty leading edge today. What's sad is the expectation that I should throw my computer away every 18 months.
People who do things make mistakes. It's the ones who don't make mistakes that should be of concern.
Ok, does this make you not poor? I think not.
The difference is when you work for someone, they can fire you and you can quit. 1 to 1 relationship.

When you have a business, you can have tens if not tens of thousands of customers. They can still fire you, but you can fire them as well.

What affects you more. Losing your sole source of income or losing 1/100th of your company's revenues?
I don't think you understand what "reasonable doubt" means in a legal setting (Google "reasonable doubt").
My initial impression is similar. The site is well designed and easy to use, full screen and mobile, and the initial selection of reading material is encouraging.

Only major pain point is the side scrolling, newspaper column format in the article view. I strongly prefer the vertical layout the rest of the internet currently uses.

This applies somewhat to the news feed as well. It feels like it's trying to replicate a physical news stand, throwing away the lessons learned from Google Reader and Facebook style feeds.
I call out Aspirin specifically, because you have to be very careful with children/teenagers who have flu-like symptoms or are recovering from chickenpox. This is a drug that can kill in fairly well known situations, but is available over the counter. Just because a drug is dangerous to certain people, doesn't mean that it can't, or shouldn't be prescribed by a doctor electronically.
The same case could be made for the poor buying golden jewelry. I don't find it very convincing.
Maybe Schiller meant it was sad that PCs haven't improved substantially in 5 years, which is true to a degree that isn't just sad, it's seriously bad. As software historically continues to slow, app runtimes inevitably will too.

Is an iPad Pro 2 the answer? Obviously not. The unsaid lesson from this event is that Apple's products aren't improving as quickly either. Nor are the new features as interesting. So it's not surprising that Schiller would look backward instead of forward.
> What the author of the article finds offensive - and which also put me off when watching the live presentation - was the suggestion that using old hardware is "sad".

Using old hardware is sad. I work in a depressed area and we constantly fix our students computers. 5 years is a long time on a hard drive and the forced Windows 10 upgrade has been a pain to people on 5 year old hardware. Its fine for technical people, but for the nontechnical that HD failure is devastation. Having your stuff stored on iCloud or the Google equivalent is a life saver.

The economics of apps on iOS and Chrome while painful for developers are great for normal people. With the better security and lessened management requirements, these computers make a fairly good replacement case. Technical people often forget what a pain in the butt Windows, OS X, and BSD/Linux are to maintain. Also, the iPads are lasting a fair bit (making for some interesting iPad sales numbers).

Chromebooks are viable, and if Apple sold an Apple TV with a keyboard and mouse (or other pointing device) that had Pages, etc., I would recommend that. As is, iPads are fine. Heck, if Microsoft had got their stuff together a Microsoft Continuum[1] style device would be great.

Plus, the author is using the "I have an agenda and will be twisting your word" version of a quote. I'm a bit sick of people pulling this stunt since its wall to wall in election coverage.

1) http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/getstarted-con...
Still running a desktop with a Q9650 and 8GB RAM.

Runs fine.
> Network coverage has little to do with the phone

The network coverage part of my comment was in reference to freedompop. Not sure who freedompop contracts with, but I went with T-Mobile because at the time they were much cheaper than Verizon. Their coverage is also much worse in my area.

> The iPhone doesn't have a monopoly on quality

I didn't claimed that it does. They were examples of devices I have direct experience with. The iPhone 5 was a similar generation to the Nexus 4 and Moto G and was a better (but more expensive) device. The Sony xperia devices similarly cost more than a Moto G, do they not? And you just wrote they have a suboptimal UI, so for someone who cares about that, that might rule out those devices.

My argument is not that iPhones are the only quality devices. It's that spending more usually gets you a better product, not just a more prestigious one.
You know what makes me really happy? Any computer being used for fun/interesting/productive things, not just 'the latest ones'.

As a die-hard retrocomputing enthusiast with far more old computers in my basement than new, I'm biased. But I sure think that the time has come for the compute industry to start highlighting the need for lesser computing power, but yet still more productive computing.

8-bit computers are awesome. 16-bit machines superb! Get yourself set up with these systems and you can entertain yourself for hours and hours. 8-bit is a great way to learn software development - 2 hours of 8-bit coding a week will keep you sharper than sharp when the time comes to go back to the hipstertools-de-jour. (I kid, I kid.)

Point is this, folks: old computers never die - their users do.
GPUs have developed a lot. I had a high-end card a couple of years ago, and now I can barely run Elite: Dangerous. For the upcoming VR headsets I would definitely need a new GPU. Apple doesn't even have a computer on offer that would be powerful enough for the VR headsets (Oculus/Vive).
8GB RAM is also the bare minimum.
GPUs are much better now since GTX 460 but that's all you'd need to upgrade in this computer (and some storage) if you wanted to play current AAA games in 1080p or even at 1440p.
Those 500 line functions include private sub-functions though.
> A 5-year-old PC is probably not running a recent version of Windows

Windows 7 was released in 2009, and all official owners of Windows 7 were offered the Windows 10 upgrade.
I'd be surprised if many PCs that are 5 years old aren't running one of these 2 OSs
As a Class 4 StartCom subscriber, this is quite irritating.

We use StartCom to issue a lot of certificates for sensitive internal hostnames. While we don't rely on security by obscurity, we'd really prefer it if our internal hostnames weren't published all over the internet... :\

Given Lets Encrypt does this too, I'm not sure what other options we have with regards to certificates without paying on a per-certificate basis. :( I like StartCom's model of only paying for verifications (i.e. the only thing which really directly costs money).

We definitely want our EV certs going to CT logs, but not any of our wildcard or Class 2/3 certificates.
How did losing Left-pad package on npm affect your operations?
Generally curious about the effects and just want to get an idea from the frontlines on how operations have been affected.
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I was going to attempt a humorous comment of "I prefer a language that supports recursion, so I use Escher". But then my brain went, "think there already is an Escher". There is one, it's from 1995.

Are programming languages about to hit the same problem as musicians, thinking up that cool but unused band name?
The reason for this is quite simple. Presentation skills are taught to underlings, but evaluation skills have to be taught to decision makers. It so happens the decision makers also decide who has to put work into training.
>Mapping. Phone. Internet. Email. Alarm Clock. Calendaring. Photography.

Soo... It does exactly the same as my LG with Android 2.2 that costed me ~$70 2.5 years ago?
There's legislation at the state level enabling them to offer the birth control without in person screening.

Presumably some thought went into that legislation.
In times of climate change debate I think Apple is doing the wrong thing here, encouraging buy and throw away mentality increasing waste.
Great resource for those building with EmberJS, ReactJS or other frontend frameworks!
Your comment cracked me up.

But one thing worth quibbling over:

It might not have been a gentleman who did this. Might have been a lady. Or might have been a not-very-gentle man.
Clever idea! I think your key to success will be to integrate with calendars and another task lists.
I think you're off base. There are plenty of devices out there (android, windows phone) which have all the utility of the iPhone, but cost half the price of the iPhone (or less). To suggest that an iPhone is the only device capable of these things and therefore is a fixed cost is incorrect, IMO
>Weird statement in the article

At this point, process nodes don't map to a particularly well-defined set of feature sizes across vendors. So what I assume they're saying is that what Intel calls 10nm is actually pretty similar in terms of transistor size/density to what TSMC is calling 7nm. (No idea if that's actually true but it's what I believe is being said.)
I connect to Facebook, Google and YouTube over IPv6. It's automatic, I guess on DNS side. I'm pretty sure they still have plenty of IPv4 interfaces. Going IPv6 only seems a little aggressive nowadays.

BTW, if you use Firefox there is an addon called FlushDNS that shows the IP address of the web server. It's main purpose is to remove an address from the DNS cache inside the browser but actually it's more useful as an inspection tool.
I think this may be a consequence of HackerNews not having a downvote option for stories. I like the fact that they don't and I wouldn't suggest making the change but it tends to allow stories that have a higher dislike to like ratio to rise because the number of people who have an opinion are very high. This does tend to prevent some filtering of storied I do think should stay up on the top. It would be an interesting experiment to add a downvote to stories button to see what happened, even if that button didn't actually affect where the stories showed in the list at first.
Oh, the good ol' shell russian roulete.
Well, then it has changed. That is good.
Most peoples anti-hayfever drugs will be 'second generation' antihistamines, like loratadine and cetirizine, which are not problematic.

More worrying to me is the fact that OTC antiemetic (motion sickness) drugs like Gravol/Dramamine/Vomex/Dramina are made of dimenhydrinate, which is 50% diphenhydramine, which in turn is what the mentioned 'first generation' antihistamines are made of.
I think the "wrong shell incident" is quite common:

"Just need to load this dump to the testing database and I'm on my way to weekend...ok done...oh wait, if I look closer, this shell isn't the testing system...hell noooo, just nuked 8 hours of work each from 20 product managers."

Literally happend to me when I was a working student at a DAX 30 corporation. Never happend to me since then again.
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This is so silly. Apple is a company that makes money when you buy their products.

If there are 600 million people who are using something besides one of their product they are going to say that those people should use their products instead.

Get off your high horse.
I think that is a tough question to answer because it really depends on what you're doing with the data/database. Some queries may run faster on one RDBMS and some may run faster on another RDBMS. I would like an answer to this question as well. I did a quick search and I haven't found any modern comparisons of performance between databases, but it would be great if there was a more modern and expanded version of the SQLite comparison[0].

I can say that I use Postgres and have not been disappointed with performance and it costs me $0. I encourage you to try it out. If you're a heavy user of SSMS, then you will have to change your flow a bit to accommodate psql. However, once you get a handle of psql, it's actually a pleasure to use.

[0]: https://www.sqlite.org/speed.html
The whole thread is just really astounding. I am rather neutral on the drama here, but I am certainly coming away with a real distaste for npmjs just from reading that.
> It's cruel to suggest that folks living in poverty can only be deserving of assistance if they embrace their poverty and advertise it to the world. There are real costs to appearing poor in our society.

Can you offer an alternative? I can't see anything else being workable and not insanely expensive.
Yes I think everyone has had one of those "Wanna get away?" moments. Hopefully they're very early in your career and only ever happen once. Mine was small and I was very Jr so nothing more than my pride got hurt.

The worst is when someone else notices it before you. We came in to work on Monday and some reported that they couldn't log into the system. We checked logs and noticed there were timeout errors on some SQL queries. Huh, that's odd, why is there a query "update Users set deletedat=now()" with no "where" clause running in production??? Turns out someone was in a hurry and tried to make a test pass without thinking to much about what the code was doing. Then - push right to prod on a Friday evening!
iPhones are still pretty poor value for money compared to cheap androids, as long as you can get reasonable pay-as-you-go contracts as well.

I'm not sure how that situation changes in the US, where there doesn't seem to be the same market for pay-as-you-go sims that is found in the rest of the world.
Porsche 911? Rubbish I say! You should seriously consider a Tesla if you are to have something better, than an internal combustion engine.
You mention entirely different things:
1. AI (as the many-sided phenomenon that it is) is coming, want it or not. It'll become a political problem to select the good parts from the bad, so we can have our cake and eat it too, without plunging everything into yet another economical/social disaster.

2. If there's one thing we don't need, it's more people. Limits to sustainable growth/steady-state are already being routinely surpassed and each time a new human is born you make a commitment to allow him/her to live, that is you can't simply adjust population ethically like you can adjust e.g. the amount of money or products in an economy. (One of the few places where poverty is so rampant that human populations are reduced to (practical) carrying capacity of that region by natural means is North Korea (see the North Korean famine))

Further population growth today makes no sense by any reasonable metric unless you want to populate other planets which we can't in the foreseeable future to any significant degree, and I fear some (primarily African) regions are going to learn this the hard way (OTOH these supremely poor regions show you just how resilient the human body can be, so population count becomes a choice between many people just surviving or few people actually living sustainably).
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To add some real-world numbers: The resale value has dropped about £100 per year for the entire line-up ever since launch. So if I can buy a second-hand used model at a price that I can currently afford, and re-sell it in a year's time for £100 less, and buy the next model. Meanwhile, I have had the best (if not the fastest) computer money can buy, with the latest operating system. For £1.91/week, the price of a bus fare or a cheap meal.

I can go up or down a model at any given time, as the hardware behaves as a commodity, and there is little penalty for trading, both price-wise, and restoring the settings and contents of the device. It is a good store of value, with the only cost of ownership the steady depreciation. And if you can buy below market and sell above market, extracting value from folks who are not as thrifty as you are, you can drive the cost even lower, or possibly even make a profit.

I have bought a "4" in spring 2011 (£350, sold for £40; 1 × battery replacement £10, 1 × screen & button replacement for free from a friend's junker), and a "5S" last year (£230, current re-sale value £170+). The actual cost over the five years has been £1.50/week, £79/year).
It'll just run out of fashion with time. 10 years ago, flip phones, slide up phones and two ways were the status symbols. Fashion is cyclical, maybe we'll see the return of the flip? :)
There is however something sad about buying products to not look poor.
I'm really excited to see Blendle opening their doors to the English speaking market.

Journalism funded by advertising contains several seemingly-unpatchable incentive structures... (a) the need to promote the advertising to you, breaking the concentration you need to read the article... (b) the fact that getting you far enough to see the adverts is enough to earn revenue so the content quality can be a secondary priority... (c) the fact that some sites go as far as mixing journalist-written content with PR-written content so you can't always tell the difference immediately.

Yes, there are bound to be some UX hurdles, some promises and hand-holding around privacy, some exploration of subscription or micropayments... but fundamentally this is a better model as it fixes all of the broken incentives without (as far as I can see) creating any new ones.

Good luck Blendle & alexandernl.
Now that would be secure.
I disagree with this claim.

> There are really only two reasons why people might have a computer that’s more than five years old:
> 1. They can’t afford an upgrade.
> 2. They don’t need an upgrade.

There are many other reasons. Among them, upgrading hardware will force an OS upgrade that will break significant software and hardware.