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>A properly configured iPad, leveraging iCloud for device backups, photo backups, email credentials etc, solves all of these problems.

The iPad first came out in 2010. How many of those iPads are still being used? The original iPad can't even run the latest iOS anymore, while you can still load Windows 10 on five-year-old PCs, or many modern versions of Linux.

To add to your grim picture, those PCs that came out five years ago were starting to get Windows 7 installed by default. Maybe in the time since, people owning those PCs didn't upgrade to Windows 8 because of the cost, but Windows 10 was released as a free upgrade to Windows 7 users. Either way, Windows 7, 8 and 10 are still receiving security updates, and Windows 7 still looks and feels like a modern operating system.

Also, buying a replacement drive and copy of windows will still come out a lot cheaper than buying an iPad, and with an iPad there's no way in hell you're going to "install everything exactly as it was before you got there".
> It encourages short-term hookups

How so?
I agree that a smartphone can be a useful investment, but aren't iPhones really expensive (as are "flagship" Android phones)? My smartphone cost me about $90 unlocked, my wife's $130. I thought we were saving several hundreds of dollars compared to buying iPhones or a fancy Android phone.
At least half of every enterprise software I have used suffers from catastrophic link rot. And when you look at the URLs that do still map or redirect to something marginally on-topic, you just know it's a single API change away from redirecting to "we don't know what you're looking for, try searching here for hundreds of completely off topic (and occasionally broken) links".

No, I am not bitter. Learning where their FTP server is and how to navigate, well, that was gold.
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NYT is income insurance, aka an employer. They will pay you a reasonable wage even if you aren't writing stuff people read.
Yes but the data is encrypted by Apple and Google can't read it.
i have close to 99% on edis.at. 99.99% is simply not available for $5. My last mini machine with "100% uptime" was about 5 times as much, but not particulary stronger than a average DN box.
Thanks for this! :)
Why even have package managers? Serious question.

Do you really enjoy bloating your projects with 3 versions of the same package because it is required by 3 other packages that have been independently maintained?

Why would you not want to know what is in your app, if you spend so many man-hours building it?

Version control for all projects seems to be a much better solution than package management.
Thanks for the response. So, you guys are creating a 3-way market with Customer, Doctor and Pharmacy (Invisible to the user)? Sounds like a huge play.
Assuming Edison is Thomas Edison, the Wikipedia page about him has nothing to say about any law of his. I suppose they meant another Edison, though that is sort of cheating ("Obama's law: such and such" -- oh, I meant Jamie Obama)
Getting only two language options when attempting to login: English and Dutch. URL: https://blendle.com/login

Signup email sends me to a page where I get an error: "Hey, the link you used refers to a non-existing page. We're sorry!"

URL: https://blendle.com/kiosk?campaign=activation&content=button...
I just got Rust compiling for a linux kernel module.

It wasn't too bad, though an inability to read C header files is kinda a pain. And for any target you are going to want to wrap things up in a "Rusty" api, as dealing with cstrings is kinda a pain.

Still, it'd be a pain to go from C strings to C++ strings, and hook new/delete up to kmalloc/kfree.
I'm proud to be running my almost-seven-year-old PC, though I think it is about time for an upgrade. I also have a 2013 Macbook Pro, which is more than adequate for work. I'm not exactly poor, and I abhor the way the media runs away with this kind of comment.

But I also get a little peeved at overzealous marketing that takes advantage of people's ignorance. Convincing people that their 5 year old PC no longer meets their needs (when it probably does) is pretty similar to convincing some poor sucker to switch to your super duper maximum strength 4G Long Term Evolution wireless network because you can have 20G of data per month, when you actually only use 0.5G of data per month.
It's pretty crazy to me to think that so many people were relying on a module that merely left pads a string.
Thanks for stress testing! I made a fix this morning to reduce the graph spazziness :)
I don't think that it means "LOL poor people" either. But I do think that it's bullshit marketing talk. Apple is perfectly happy to be proud (rightly, I think) of the enduring utility of older pieces of Apple hardware -- but if some other company's hardware continues to be perfectly serviceable for 5 years, that's sad?

Also, if you have a 5 year old PC that's genuinely not serving your needs any more, sure, you could pay $600 for an iPad Pro that also probably won't serve your needs, or you could pay around $400 for a new PC that will serve your needs.
what's his name?
Valuation is based on revenue, not some abstract notion of their software quality.
For people who have the luxury of some non-trivial amount of disposable income, there's not really any such thing as "the best you can afford". I could afford to get an iPhone 6S in the sense that I have enough money, but on the other hand, there are other things I might want that I could buy if I got a cheaper phone instead. Unless having a high end phone is a big priority for me, it makes no sense for me to get the best phone I can afford.
You can probably find a VPS provider at $5/month, but it most likely won't be reliable. I probably went through 50 or 60 providers over the years and most of them are fine, until there is a major issue, and then you will see why it's only $5/month.

In some cases, I had weeks of downtime or lost my data completely. Of course I had backups, but this is just unacceptable if you are trying to run a business.

Your hosting provider is something you don't want to get cheap.
Our build/deploy process does `npm i react-native`, which depends on babel, which depends on left-pad, so our builds failed for a little while.

We use `npm shrinkwrap` to stay fixed on specific versions of packages, but that doesn't help if they're unpublished.
A 5 year old PC is likely running Windows 7, which still receives upgrades, is supported, and is quite secure. Of course, all Windows 7 PCs received a free upgrade path to Windows 10. So there's no reason they couldn't be running the most recent Windows, without spending a dime.

Of course, they could also be running something like Ubuntu (Linux counter puts the number at 73 million, W3Counter at 2.58% of all devices, or just under half OSX's numbers in that counting method), in which case they'd also likely be running a recent OS, one which is arguably more secure than either Windows or OSX.

I don't think it's 'offensive' what Schiller says. But it does speak to Apple's mentality, where planned obsolescence and profit trumps all, and the faithful buy into it...
The go solution seems more reasonable and achievable- the host is part of the namespace. Instant decentralization.
SUSE is also another company in this space, and I believe we are incredibly focused on being a part of the OpenSUSE community. And we also have decent software, almost all of which is under free licenses. :D
How do you read an article like the one this thread belongs to and come away with "Seems reasonable, I need more of that"?

Trivial dependencies are a code smell, a liability, and an operational headache.
The code I speak about runs in powerplants in several countries. Non-nuclear, though, and has nothing to do with industrial automation.

Yes, shitty code will be our demise. I bet on AI.
It is intellectually dishonest to equate endorsing ones product with mocking people who are too poor to use it.
Same laws with some additional thoughts:
http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~elec399/201409/Akin's%20Laws%20of%20...
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Thanks for stress testing, I made a fix this morning to reduce the spazziness :)
It's the kind of elitist attitude stereotypical of iOS users. Just goes to show they got that attitude straight from Apple itself.
It's funny how people generally only make these criticisms of "poor" peoples' purchases.

You never hear people criticizing some middle-class guy for spending $27,000 on a Honda Accord instead of paying for a year of his kid's college education.
It is NOT the most used: http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index

Java is number one, still. Like six years running at least. JavaScript is somewhere between 4-8 depending on the survey you look at.
Backlight won't be an issue. LEDs like that have service lifetimes longer than your own. The switching elements in the screen burning in is another issue, but it seems like burn-in on modern displays (AMOLED) is a reversible hysteresis effect that you can clear out by flipping the pixels to extreme values approximately.
> There is no place for personal preferences, it's all formal.

Well, I admire your optimism, at any rate.
Interesting, but there is also the broken builds issue. 100% agree with your last sentence though.
This criticism usually comes from people that do not use Nim.
I was very surprised as well at first - now after 1 year of using Nim I realize I never run into any trouble because of case/underscore insensitivity.

#1: those variables have to be in the same scope or be procs working on the same types to be an issue.

#2: I don't use nimgrep, I just keep a consistent style across my files. When reading somebody else's code, case-insensitive search is usually enough.
Oh do you mean auto-complete? Not that easy to support since I'm relying on a remote server for song lyric searches
Well yeah, that is a fair point actually. There would be a couple of issues to sort out, but nothing major or anything we couldn't deal with.
The surface pro is a laptop.

The iPad Pro is a tablet for professional work. There are many professionals who can get their work done using an iPad.
If I were to use this myself, I would have no problem keeping my phone plugged in. I always have my laptop anyway, and if I'm at home I can just use a wall charger.
And yet Apple devices have longer software support lifetimes than any Android devices and better resale values for a longer time. That hardly sounds like a set of characteristics you'd associate with products designed to become obsolete.
Exactly. People have been laughing at Go for advocating vendoring. Now we have a very concrete evidence that this is a sane approach.

The vendoring mechanism advocated by Go is better than a central registry (like npm, PyPI, RubyGems or crates.io).

crates.io’s FAQ claims that a central registry is good for discoverability (find popular packages) and speed (fetch only necessary data instead of the whole git repository), but a proxy could provide the same benefits to an ecosystem based on decentralized repositories and vendoring.
I didn't have brand name anything in high school. I got through it okay. Wasn't the most popular kid by any means, but I was shy to begin with (I didn't start being more outgoing until I started going to regular meetups recently, years after I had owned 'status symbol' iPhones).

I'm not denying that other teens can and do feel the way your psychologist said, but I'm pretty sure it's a learned behavior, not something innate, and can be unlearned.
Poor people don't need to 'seem less poor'. They need to be less poor. And admitting you need to save is the first step to doing so. I wonder if this need to seem less poor so often is actually part of how some of them get poor; wasting money/effort trying to influence perception instead of spending it trying to change reality.
Ah, thanks. I guess a simple markup for email would be nice, but cannot see it being adopted enough to make it worthwhile for senders.
I used Springy.JS ( http://getspringy.com/ ) It's a pretty awesome library.
Holy crap the "politically correct" army has entered the tech world. We're not safe anywhere...
They are still type checked when they are instantiated and the code is as generic as always.

Uninstantiated templates are dead code that will be stripped anyway.
Umberto Eco wrote about something similar in one of his La Bustina di Minerva columns (available in english as "How To Travel With A Salmon: and Other Essays"):

I am struck (but i hope not literally shocked) by Omniblanket, which costs all of $150. At the simplest level, it is an electric blanket, but it can be programmed so that the temperature varies from one part of your body to another. In other words, if during the night your back feels cold but your groin tends to sweat, you adjust the program accordingly. Omniblanket will then keep your back warm and your groin cool. If you are nervous and toss and turn in your sleep, ending up with your head at the foot, then your're just out of luck. You will roast your testicles or whatever your have in that area, depending on your sex. I doubt the inventor can be asked to make improvements, because it seems he was burned to a cinder some time ago.

But he didn't anticipate the internet of things and the quality of the software coming with it. I expect the bed's software (necessary for the app) to be as insecure as they come. Lots of potential for midnight pranks by neighbors.
Are we seriously that sensitive now? The guy is trying to sell computers.
Apple has always sold elitism. They'll frequently add bullet points to products for some superlative to facilitate this. It doesn't matter if users have to throw away their old accessories or they have to trim out useful features like mouse buttons or a headphone jack. Getting to put on the box "thinnest" or "lightest" or "first" is more valuable to Apple than product utility. It's a strategy that has served them very well. As long as a market exists that values snobbery and luxury signaling, they'll have non-zero sales.
> P.S. I'm typing this on an 2010 MBP which, with an SSD upgrade, still works beautifully.

Congratulations. You have one of the last macs that were upgradeable.
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What about secure? So much software, so little is being reviewed...
On February 16, DOJ Got a Warrant to Open an iPhone 6 Using Cellebrite
What's your mobile device testing strategy?
Yes. Node sizes and actually physical sizes have no correlation anymore. Smaller nodes are smaller, but nowhere near the sizes suggested by names. The already a decade old 45nm process highlights this nicely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45_nanometer#Technology_demos Effective sizes are all over the place, and Intel's process in particular is nowhere near 45nm for any relevant dimension. It's similar with more recent technologies (and with 3D transistors, the distance between two arbitrary points becomes even less comparable.)
I think the end-game for CT is that all certificates will have to be submitted to log servers, so this is going to happen anyway.
From the Medium piece:

"Our editors and algorithms help you find the best stuff."

I already have three sets of editors and two algorithms for finding more stuff than I could ever care to read: they're called "Facebook", "Twitter", and "Hacker News".

So their curation piece isn't interesting to me at all; only the payments.

Put another way, the web has thoroughly solved the problem of "show me some stuff that I want to read right now" -- it's like trying to drink from a firehose. There is no need for another player in that already crowded game.

Where the web is failing is at funding all this stuff.

I imagine that the answer for this is easy, though: a "read it on blendle" button for whatever article you clicked through to from FB, Twitter, or HN.
The plan for CT was always to be once extended to all certs. And I think this is right. This whole system has suffered from security failures kept under the rug for too long, more transparency is good.

If you don't want transparency of your certificates don't participate in the public CA system. You still have the option of using wildcards for internal names.
I'd argue that an open office, in the absence of strict library rules, is analogous to an all-day meeting, e.g. "quick question!".

Meekan looks interesting, and they have the idea right (since as a third-party they are limited), but it's a plugin, and it's a bot[1]. Scheduling would be a core concept of my theoretical group-chat app - something you were incredibly encouraged to do by the interface, instead of bothering an arbitrary number of people that are probably trying to focus.

[1] the problem with bots is that it pushes stuff that ought to be "interface" into public view, with all of the notification and visual noise baggage that is implied by that.

Date/time localization should just work, here Amy needs to manually ask for it, and everyone else is notified that she did! And that doesn't even cover language localization! If I'm having a meeting with a colleague whose English is weak and prefers Chinese, will it just drop even more noise into the chat when she requests a translation?
I agree with your interpretation. It would seem to have more to do with the slowing sales numbers for tablets as well as the incorrect assumption we would be in a post-PC era at this point. That day will come eventually and while large tablets may not be the answer, Apple is certainly hoping it will be. There has to be a good bit of concern at Apple that they are still largely dependent on the iPhone.
Can't see the benefit when I have load-balancing and HA using dnsmasq fronting dnscrypt-proxy to 6 separate hosts.
He means the gains from doing well are greater than the losses from doing badly I think, kinda. http://www.advisorperspectives.com/articles/2013/07/16/nassi...
I believe I'm a realistic dreamer. I believe anything is possible. And I built things people said it was impossible.

Given a due date or budget, I set priorities and find a compromise. I do time-boxed research to increase the certainty. Also, I find the must-have and nice-to-have. Then, I build the product backlog and start weekly sprints using scrum.

I consistently deliver 88% or more of the weekly sprint goals. 88% is the average of points I delivered in each sprint for the last 3 years.

Dreams always seem unrealistic. I say yes, but what's a must-have? What can we build in the first week? Or second week? What should we build first? Which is a nicer way of saying no, right?
A lot of websites now implement responsive design so this isn't required:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design
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I did the same thing about 8 years ago but had to ask a more senior person to restore.
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>> The implication being that in the last 5+ years the PC industry has failed to offer 600 million users a compelling reason to upgrade

Compelling reason why I had to upgrade my iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and original iPad after less than 3 years? Painfully slow and unusable.

Well if the compelling reason to upgrade is "painfully slow and unusable", then maybe a >= 5 year old PC that still works isn't a bad thing. If I'm not mistaken, my 2011 MBP's quad core i7 can still outperform the CPUs in today's Macbook Airs (the most popular Mac notebooks) in terms of pure processing power.
It was certainly different, but I wouldn't say the original art style was 'destroyed' due to the fact the at any time in the game you can switch back to the original style. It's not exactly destroyed if its RIGHT THERE.

I think with DotT there is less room for that kind of art upheaval though, because, frankly, the art already looks good. It still holds up very well today, expecially if you run in SCUMMVM in turn on some graphics filters.
You clearly didn't watch the keynote, since a significant part of it was about unprecedented programs to reuse and recycle their hardware.
This can often be solved by prepending

https://web.archive.org/web/*/

to the now broken URL.
Apple makes no money on the OS. That is included with the hardware and upgrades are free. So aside from services such as App Store and iTunes, Apple has to sell hardware to make money. It's not in their interest to encourage people to hang on to older hardware as long as possible.
semi-Related:iCar release date rumours, features and images: Apple CEO Tim Cook comments on Apple Car rumours

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apple/will-apple-make-icar-pr...

Reading related news is interesting. Imagine Apple applies its tactics on their cars: You probably need a new apple designed plugin other than the universal one, special tools to change flat tires and/or update the exterior slightly to market therefore driving a 5-year-old car is sad.
"nothing about today’s iPad Pro presentation made me rethink my position at all"

This is the only part of the article that resonated with me. Apple completely failed to provide any viable reason for 600m+ PC users to switch to an iPad Pro.
This is something I struggle with. A part of me just wants to put my brain on autopilot and simply let my manager tell me what to do. That usually doesn't end well for me.

However, I realize that people who want less responsibility and make no decisions are looking for a sense of stability and security in their lives. They want to wake up each morning, go to work, come home, and get paid on a regular basis. They want the regular paycheck.

The irony of this, of course, is that this course of action is no less risky than entrepreneurship, because, at a moment's notice, your employer could fire you and destroy the illusion, even if you've worked over a decade for them. No matter what path you take in life, you need to own it. The days of working for a company for a few decades following a defined path were brief.
I hear this a lot, but the evidence indicates that the majority of humanity judge a person's worth on their assets, money and job title. Sometimes, physical appearance as well.
Apple wasn't 'flouting' iPhone order, judge says
For some reason I had never heard of the NUC. Just looked it up and it's incredible for the price. F* the Mac Mini! Thank you very much for mentioning the NUC!
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It could be branding? Just like most people don't like a "basic" offering.

I could be "Pro" doesn't just mean the "professional software developers" and could mean any kind of professional?
That is the "limited multitasking". You're limited to two, your ability to view information is arbitrarily limited by the application displaying that information.

Want to view two emails side-by-side? Use two emails apps, I guess.
If you're willing to order from places like AliExpress, try <$40 for low end Android phones (unlocked).

E.g. here's one that ships to the UK for $31.58:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Original-Blackview-BV2000S-Mo...
https://www.ramnode.com/vps.php has a few
http://alert5.com is a pretty good aggregator for aviation news.
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These companies will have a hard time displacing existing Slack installs, but they should still be able to grab some of the remaining market share.
It's dishonest to assert that Apple mocked people who are too poor to use their products.