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Nowhere does TurboHaskal accuse people who work on open source projects of "faking passion". He said he should not be forced to "fake passion" by writing open source code just to have open source code, the implication being that if one were really passionate about software development one would be compelled to do so. It isn't a statement about people who actually want to work on open source projects outside their day jobs.
Wave and Glass aren't great examples of how to run new product design.

Usually, the way to handle this is to build a really cheap, quick & dirty prototype and put that in front of users. Etherpad did this for collaborative editing, then got bought by Google, with the functionality folded into Google Docs. Google Cardboard did this effectively for augmented reality, and I'd bet that they're taking the learning from it right now for Google's 2nd-gen AR/VR products.
I was really excited about your app but it's not available in the UK app store yet...
You can still use it via Javascript that repackages the MPEG-TS into MP4 files. However, DASH or a similar home-rolled solution could potentially avoid the repackaging.
...And I was hoping it would be. No big security updates here, it seems.
At least one real-world test was conducted about how people acclimate to sonic booms[1] with an eye towards seeing how people would take SST airliners. It didn't go very well. In general, it seems that enough people do think it a hardship to kick up a fuss that will keep SSTs from being a reality over the US for awhile.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests
Cook's design heuristic seems to be some combination of faster/smaller/bigger/thinner - which leads to exactly the kind of line fragmentation that Jobs hated.

The overlap between the MacBook Air, the MacBook, and the iPad Pro is making less and less sense from a customer POV. If you just want a content consumption, browsing, and email device that maybe supports some basic text/photo editing - which is the use case for most users - which should you buy?
> With the OS taking up a huge chunk of that 16GB […]

Funnily, I just noticed on the 6SE tech-specs site that Apple's "premium" Apps (Garage Band, iPhoto, etc.) come pre installed on the 64GB version. It's like them admitting that 16GB is just to damn small.

OTOH I bought a 64GB iPhone 4S when it came out (that thing just quit on me 2 weeks ago) and I'll never ever in my life want to sync that much music again. So for me, it'll probably be the larger option, but I'll fill it up with photos and videos of my cats.
Sometimes I wonder about how the country evolves its view on things. And living through the evolution of gay marriage, and legalization of marijuana gives you some nice concrete data points. Watching the will of the people being expressed in these ways is kind of like watching a family dealing with a grumpy relative who slowly changes the way everyone else thinks about things. It isn't "fun" but it is fascinating.

I also know that in my parent's case it is their primary evidence that the country is going downhill fast even while I see it as a hopeful sign that the country can move forward. Not surprisingly, that dissonance is being tapped rather effectively at times by the political process. It is strange to see 'change' as the fuel that is used by others to either accelerate or stop further change.
Phone companies copy the best features from each other.

You didn't see apple implementing Samsung's "show your face to unlock your phone" feature because it was kinda slow and dumb. Likewise, I don't see any Android phones with 3D touch.

Yet when front-facing cameras came out, EVERYONE jumped on that feature, now your phone is dead in the water without it.

It was left to the history books the moment other manufacturers said 'meh, we don't need this right now'.
Yeah, HLS is really just an extension to the .m3u streaming MP3 playlist format. It's not hard to reason about or understand.
Well then you should love the iPhone 6s with its 4.7" display.
On the other hand, when you have have a video call instantly and practically for free this looks like a very self-indulgent expense. Not exactly the eco-friendly option either.
> It's weird how 'the cloud' has put people into the mindset where email isn't just a complementary service that runs alongside the web server and just works. Nope. Sign up for a third party service and if you're serious pay for it.

It's more that the big feudal lords don't accept trade from small freeholders.
This is not exactly related but interesting: http://people.hss.caltech.edu/~camerer/web_material/LATimes_...
Not sure if this is what you meant, but the SE probably isn't meant to be the flagship phone for Apple this year.
Some years ago Venda was sending C&D letters and suing any startup that had "vend" on their name: Alvenda, Vendder, Vendr etc. Overall an awful company.

https://dockets.justia.com/search?parties=Venda%2C+Inc&cases...
It would be great to connect this work up with the Rust Bridge project.
https://github.com/rustbridge
Very similar to a project of mine from 5 years ago: http://sbit3.me

I even had a YN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598682 :)
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"I'm not sure what specifically made the architecture so graphics-friendly (maybe a co-processor daughter board?)"

It had 64-bit processors, high-bandwidth NUMA links for CPU's/boards, plenty of RAM, interconnects from CPU's to graphics cards that removed obstacles to performance, often custom graphics cards, custom software interfaces, whole-program optimization, and ability to scale up to 256 CPU's and hundreds of gigs of RAM in one image. Compare original Final Fantasy movie to anything 3D animated from that time period to see what SGI Onyx machines could do. ;)

Hell, it still looks good despite all the advances since then by gaming and rendering engines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zQ-LhwYqdQ

That doesn't happen a lot. Quite a bit can be done in real-time on modern systems. A few things in trailer still look better to me than modern games. I recall the detail even included individual strands of hair's physics and rendering. Too bad the plot and acting sucked because it was first to look real enough to fool people passing through the living room. Scared the rural ones, too. Took 32 Onyx2 Machines fully loaded plus tons of custom software.

For desktops, Bill Gates and SGI did this demo on a machine with two, 150-200Mhz processors plus their graphics cards:

https://youtu.be/zuMSk_S2ARI?t=1m22s

I start there because the first trick will impress you if you recall what multimedia, graphics, or concurrency were like on Windows PC's in 1998.
I think you can pretty easily distinguish stairs climbed using just the accelerometer, but I could be way off. I'd be impressed if a barometer had enough resolution to indicate smaller (~10ft) altitude changes.
How does a physicist use a barometer to compute altitude?

A: drop it from the top of the building and count the number of seconds it takes to hit the ground.
(parent here)

"Florida says 2-lane roadway is $3.3M per mile. So a few hundred feed, costing millions? Nonsense."

I was thinking of a stretch of highway or freeway - four lanes - when I asked the reader to "think of a stretch of road being worked on". Sorry - wasn't clear.

Also, I was measuring in meters. So, 400 meters of four-lane @ 6.6M per mile ... that's ~1.2M, give or take.

It's expensive.
To pile onto the anecdote wagon:

The heaviest pot smokers I know (and I know a lot, though I don't generally use, myself), will consume it as much as four or five times a day. As you note, one "usage" looks like a few hits off of a pipe, bong, or vape. It seems to be self-limiting, even in people with a history of addiction.

I'm not gonna suggest pot doesn't have negative consequences; the heaviest users I know also have motivation problems (but so do I, sometimes, and I don't do any drugs) which maybe contributes to them often having shitty jobs and a difficult hand-to-mouth existence. (But, that is correlation and not causation. Maybe the economy is shit, and young folks today have a hard time finding good work. Maybe smoking pot just makes it bearable.)

What's interesting to me is what happens when a pot smoker can't get pot. Among my friends, cigarette smoking goes way up, drinking goes up measurably, and use of other drugs goes up. I'd be willing to believe pot is a good tool for helping people quit more dangerous habits. People who need something help them get through stress/anxiety/pain (emotional or physical) will find something.
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I'm looking for advice on getting someone into programming. My friend is academically minded but has no programming experience. He's been severely depressed for the last 7 years, but mentioned yesterday that he was interested in learning about programming. This was a big deal since he's done little over the last few years to build into his life. I'm trying to think of things that will be enjoyable and accessible.

One idea I had so far was to play Stockfighter since he likes online games, but I think it might be a steep learning curve (I haven't played it). Another idea was just to build a basic website.

Would love to hear about interesting projects that got you started on programming.
I used to think this 20 years go. I was also wrong.

The state of the art of software development does NOT move fast, it moves glacially slowly. The fundamental technologies of 20 years ago are very similar to what is in use today. The tools are similar, the languages are similar, the frameworks and libraries are similar. Mostly, they have simply now more polished and have a few more features.

A handful of things that were leading edge 20 years ago have gained popularity. These include things like object frameworks, event-oriented programming and the like. Some things that some call new are actually things that existed in the 80's that have just come back into fashion. Take asynchronous programming using callbacks (popular with javascript/node). We used these techniques in the late 80's quite extensively. There are a few things on the leading edge today that did not exist decades ago (or at least I wasn't aware of them). But these are far and few between. The basics though, those have not changed.

What changes rapidly is tech fashion (for want of a better phrase).

When I hire, I simply do not care if you know framework X or Y. Or even if you know language P, Q or R. What I care about is if you 1) truly understand the fundamentals and if you can 2) apply that knowledge to create high quality software.
Just a quick technicality note: they would have it on their books as both an asset and a liability. The cash they received would be the asset, and the money owed back as a liability.

Have to keep "assets = liabilities + equity" balanced!
There have been ongoing rumors of supply chain issues for 3D Touch parts going all the way back to the 6S announcement.
The computing building is named after a student who went to Georgia Tech in the mid 1990s. He went on to found a company which was sold to IBM for over $1 billion.
They've been sitting on $5k of your money for four years, and you haven't contacted them for it back?
According to their presentation, it apparently somehow meant "China Edition".
In Europe, I noticed that the cell phone shops carry many more small (4 inches and below) Android phones than you see in the US. Unfortunately, these models seemed to have very sub-par specs.
currently using 5s and i'm definitely looking at a bigger phone
The barometers in Android and iOS devices can usually detect altitude changes as small as a few centimeters! Although I wouldn't say that deltas that small are reliable. I think you can get a reliable, trusted altitude delta as small as about half a meter.
Did they exclude battery life from the presentation?
Also surprising - an engineer's rigid and passionate misunderstanding of architecture (the Vitruvius not Gates kind).
There's a really simple cure for this - write your own piece pointing out and commenting on what you think is the interesting bit and submit that, with the title of your choosing. Then you absolutely get to frame, comment, editorialize. You just don't get to do it in the submission titles.
I love the size of the 5 and love the rounded edge of the 6 because it doesn't eat the insides of my jean pockets.

If they made a 4" phone with the design of the 6, perfect.
Haha, No. I am not even responding to the technical side. I am sure it is possible to do such a thing. Unfortunately, there are a lot of forces (one in particular actually) at work lobbying against anything that would make it easier to do taxes.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/turbotax-maker-funnels-mill...
I think that the Supreme Court is just tired of sorting out the Congress' (and state governments) mess caused by action or inaction.

My uneducated guess is that we will see a lot narrower decisions from the SCOTUS and probably some form of lesser engagement in the next couple of years.
It looks like it's the exact same case dimensions as the iPhone 5/5s to me. I'm pretty tempted to get one... my iPhone 6S just feels a smidgen too big.
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Maybe? I don't think the Concorde ever flew over the Ozarks, or indeed any location in which I found myself while they were still flying.

Boom's Kenrick Waithe worked on that same project when he was at Gulfstream and when he was at NASA.
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I think they're taking a cue from the way car trim levels are marketed. Consumers have learned to associate meaning with concise trim names, e.g. SE (standard, small, sporty), LE/LX/LS (luxury), etc. Names are concise and global* without directly pointing out the fact some editions are inferior to others ("Limited", "Standard", "Plus", "Super").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_trim_nomenclature

(* that is, you don't really need to know that SEL stands for Sonderklasse Einspritzung (Lange) to know it comes with something more than an SL).
The speculation I've seen is that they're waiting for the new 14nm graphics cards to be released this summer, since the current generation is 3 years old. I'm also due for a new MBP, but if this is true then I'm fine waiting another 3 months.
Why don't you just ask for their self-performance reviews / retrospectives for the last n years of their current/previous job after you've filtered by resume? I suspect that unless they were expecting it (which isn't unreasonable since a lot of interviewers have variants) "remarkably unsentimental" people like John Carmack would blow this part of the interview. Why do you care about the step-by-step process of my programming journey, which is irrelevant to whether the current me can help you out right now? If you're trying to test for passion ("why'd you start house painting anyway and what drove you to keep doing it for so many years?") or self-awareness there's probably a better way.
i commend the effort, but us tax code is insanely complex, and i doubt a weekend's work can make sense of it.
Look no farther than Bombardier, a relatively small but nonetheless very experienced company that's sadly nearly bankrupted themselves by simply trying to develop 787-like version of a regional jet. It doesn't appear like this kind of commercial aircraft development is suitable for anyone other than Boeing and Airbus.
The complaint is that that Colorado is acting in violation of federal law. If you feel that changes in drug policy should be pursued through federal legislation, then you should be in favor of the Supreme Court upholding existing federal law. Having said that, I agree with Colorado's assesment that the currect target of prosecution is the federal government for failing to enforce its laws (unless there is a specific provision compelling states to act in a certain way).
I don't like the touch id and touch pay that they're pushing. Fingerprint scanners everyone is probably not a good thing. I'm sure they're all going to end up in a database somewhere.
Isn't the deaths-per-km generally zero prior to the first accident of any airliner?
> If you want to watch a movie

On a 4in screen? Nope, I don't.

> If you want a decent sized music selection

I don't. I listen to music at home, from my desktop. I don't really have a use case for listening to it on the road.

> I, as a 16 GB iPhone user, would not be able to download or keep various apps on my phone that would be available for use if I had to trade off with taking pictures of my life

Sure. So don't buy a 16GB iPhone.

It's ok that there are phones that don't suit your needs, as long as there are also phones that do. Moving the base-level storage to 64GB has a cost, and assuming that Apple is determined to keep its industry-leading margins - and why wouldn't they? - then I don't want to pay that cost for 48GB of storage I don't need.

It's fine that the 16GB model is not for you. It really is. You don't have to call people bastards because they made a phone you don't want to buy.
I would buy it if there was a 128GB version. It's the only form factor that works for me. I can't reach the whole of the screen with a single hand on the 6s and 6s plus.
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So microsoft has done all this in the past few years. Yes, they are turning their reputation around. But Java has had this from the start, so has a 20 year head start.
I've wanted this forever!!!

That said -- when this guy is rooming with martha & bernie, intuit will send him fruit baskets to make sure the other inmates give him a warm welcome.

When can we expect py_double_irish?
>Now, there's a valid case that the employer/employee relationship is asymmetrical enough as it is (one employer -> many employees) that the company should give up that negotiating point

That's exactly why I think the employer should give up that negotiating point.

The other reason is that employers are constantly whining about how they don't have enough engineers, can't find qualified people, etc., and then lobbying Congress to do something about it. Employees don't have this kind of political power.

Finally, I wouldn't mind if negotiation were simply eliminated with job salaries. You don't negotiate with the cashier at Walmart about how much you're going to pay for some vegetables or a TV. The price is the price, take it or leave it. It'd be better if everything were that way, so that consumers could compare things more accurately. There are many nations where the posted price is not the actual price, and haggling is expected and normal, even on something as mundane as groceries. Without exception, these nations are backwards and economic disasters. There's a reason for that.
I have given this some more thought and my theory is that probably most of the currently young devs will turn into old developers that will have stooped learning a long time ago. I guess that's the natural progression of things. Most people stop learning at some time. It happened to people who started 30 years ago and it will happen to the currently young hotshots too.
But it term of convenience to unlock your iphone it is unbeatable.
Are you kidding? I was expecting the 16gb SE to be $550, 64 for $650.
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Plus battery life is the first thing to go when they aim for thinness.

I know they've improved battery life in the SE, but still, overall the trend is thinner with a smaller capacity battery (but more efficient components, so you ultimately break even).

I have a phone with a 3100 mAh battery @ 5.1" 1080p, it isn't the thinnest phone around, but boy does it last three or four days. It is super nice. We need more phones like that.
Touch ID data is stored in Secure Enclave; it doesn't leave your device. And it doesn't store an image of your fingerprint.
There are some things are genuinely physical. Here is an example: Marijuana is known to constrict the vessels of the brain. Over the long term, the brain compensates for this to return the vessels to a normal state. When you suddenly stop smoking cannabis routinely, the vessels expand because the THC is not maintaining their restriction. Expanded vessels in the brain are a common suspected cause of migraines, and severe headaches are a top reported symptom of cannabis withdrawal. Interestingly, this effect of cannabis on the brain's vascular system also makes it a highly-researched drug for migraine treatment. It would be like taking migraine medication every day for a long time, then suddenly stopping and getting a flood of headaches as the brain re-adjusts.

Now, I don't think this is "psychological."
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I actually do. For the size of my hands, it's just perfect.
That's why the ticket is $5K. Even if your fuel estimates are correct, they will burn 4-5 times more fuel, but they will charge 10 times per ticket compared to economy. I just checked, and you can get $532 roundtrip NYC<->LON.
This is just for a single form, the 1040.
My impression is that the Touch ID (on the iPhone at least) stores the fingerprints locally, and it's pretty hard to get at them, but I admittedly haven't done much research on it.
Agreed, the N4 was a great phone... switched to OPO about a year and a half ago, and happy with it, but it's sometimes awkward to use.
Always the same excuse that doesn't even hold up.

* US population density: 35/km2
* Finland population density: 18/km2

It's not about the size of the country, it's because in Europe the infrastructure owners are required to let others in [1]. In US the operators are natural monopolies with very little incentives for competition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operato...
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I'd even call this a statement of confidence in the longevity of Apple's own industrial design. There's a clear implication that Apple's design doesn't date easily.
Seems so. They probably didn't want to point out that it lasts longer than both the 6S and 6S plus, lest their ASP drop.
They've never built a 6-style model with a 4" screen. Seems more like a case of just taking the old chassis and upgrading a few components. Not that I'm complaining, but in a perfect world, it should match the design language of the current generation.
"System Expansion" http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=14&id=1509
Coming to the UK soon! We're constrained by geography in part due to where we run our weather models, but the UK is coming soon I think!
You didn't even stay 1 year? Honestly, if your normal experience is to leave your company in less than a year, I think you have some expectation issues to address. While I know google isn't the amazing dream land the news makes it out to be (I've worked there in the past), it's really not that bad. If you've quit that quickly -- and this has happened multiple times -- you should really try to re evaluate what it is you're looking for from your career and see why these jobs aren't working out for you.

To get back to the original point, treating the stock 4 year sum on the same scale as the salary doesn't make sense (though recruiters will pitch it like that). A more honest accounting is to look at the annual number, which is directly comparable to the annual salary and will give you the true picture of how much you make per year. 180k of stock really means 45k per year of stock compensation. For a company like google that's more or less equivalent to cash compensation.
If you go through various leadership events inevitably you will come across some speaker who will say "Write down what your greatest strength is" and they generally have other people in the group write down what they think your greatest strength is. And then once you have determined that, the speaker drops the "bomb" "That is also your greatest weakness." The insight they are going for of course is that your strength can be used against you, and if you aren't careful it will be.

The thing I always remind myself is that if I die tomorrow I want to be sure I was passionate about what I was doing today. But its also good to be fairly compensated for what I'm working on :-)