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When Apple Pay came out I was astonished. It's a brilliant move to act as a middleman between a device that almost everyone possesses and currency. After all, what is more profitable than a financial institution?
Tim Cook has stated there is huge room for growth in China. I believe their inflated currency and recent market issues/corruption plays a big role on why the guidance isn't stronger. The emergence of cheap Xiaomi dominance doesn't help, either.
US here… my pharmacy, grocery, gasoline station, and computer hardware store all take it. It's not like I spend money anywhere else. (Also three of those four have negligently compromised my credit card numbers in the past, so I appreciate giving them as little data as possible.)

Only one restaurant I go to takes it, the one that has little terminals at each table. I'm not sure how the mechanics will play out for restaurant payment. Personally I don't like the table terminal, but maybe someone will come up with a bill carrier that can take payment.
The fact that you can load anything outside App store means a lot for advanced users. And I am not talking from OSS perspective.

Besides, where have you seen OSS services? It doesn't even make sense.
Nope, you're wrong. Do you think smartphone sales are going to decrease this year?

http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/02/6-1b-smartphone-users-globa...

http://www.businessinsider.com/smartphone-sales-forecast-201...
actually no framework in techempore is a representative of the framework. also the test cases say nothing about the real performance either.
Wooh, slow down, it appears you've had a little bit too much to think.
Businesses where it didn't work fine don't usually openly advertise the fact they had to rewrite everything. Many of those that do stick with Apache Groovy often have restrictions on its use. Perhaps they only use the dynamic features of Groovy (the 1.x features), or only the non-Turing Complete DSL features like virtually every Gradle build script out there.
Your missing the point though: How much money did FO4 make, from people who could have pirated it? They chose not to, and a large part of that reasoning is that Steam is just easier to use.
I'm not surprised. I think Apple underestimated the demand for the iphone SE 64 GB. Its been out of stock in most stores since it was released. Apple's shareholders should be asking why can't anyone buy it in a store? Also many people don't want wait two weeks to receive their phone when they buy it online.
I imagine as a mobile device manufacturer you would be pretty excited to get to cut the total number of ports on your device in half and sell high margin cables/adapters/hubs as accessories.

Let the dongle wars begin...
I personally did not upgrade from the 4s because the subsidy ended. Relatively the iPhone 6 vs 5 was an unusually big jump for Apple which confuses the issue.
I have used Jenkins many times and it's always worked fine. But I always wish TeamCity was more widely adopted and deployed. Sure, it costs money, but so does IntelliJ. And it's completely worth it.
"The d120 can be used as a dn, where n is any proper factor of 120. For the standard seven-dice polyset, a d120 is the ideal "multi-die", as 120 is the least common multiple of 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 20."

- http://thedicelab.com/d120tables.html

So you could whip one of these out instead of the usual Crown Royale bag full of a zillion different dice if you wanted to have a minimalist flair at your regular gaming session.

Mostly though I think it's just a cool thing to add to that bag full of dice. You're playing these games in part to fantasize about collecting lots of pretty gems, and this is like adding a big diamond the size of your fist to that collection of little rubies and sapphires.
That really depends on the exact laws and how they're worded, and what kind of party this is. A party which involves ticket sales (as was stipulated before) is not a private house party, this is the kind of party that happens at a club and is something that's "open to the general public" (just like a concert or movie), so I don't think voyeurism laws would apply here. There's no expectation of privacy in a setting like this; anyone is allowed to enter, as long as they pay the ticket price and don't exceed the venue's capacity. So if you come up with a way of looking inside the place, getting the viewing experience everyone else has there, without trespassing in any way or interfering with other people there, I don't see how it could be a crime unless they invent a new law to address it.

Here's another thought experiment, but using modern tech: suppose there's a party like this (open to the public, tickets required to enter), and there's no rules at the club forbidding cameras or communication devices. If you pay the ticket price, you're allowed to enter and take photos all you want as long as you don't disturb people and make a nuisance of yourself. (I'm pretty sure any normal bar or club these days is just like this; people take photos of themselves at bars all the time.)

You don't want to pay the ticket price to get in, but you want to see what's going on there. Your friend however wants to go in, so he buys a ticket and enters. While inside, he whips out his phone, and activates an app which contacts your phone, and then streams live video from his phone's camera to your phone. You're now able to see and hear what's going on in the party without buying a ticket, apparently legally. Fast-forward a few years and instead of watching your buddy's video stream on your 5" phone screen, you're watching it on a VR headset, so it's almost like being there. My wormhole idea isn't much different from this; it just doesn't require a confederate.
I am not surprised at all, and I am not asking anything from Netflix, like I explained earlier. I was on sell side too, and I know that resolving international legal hurdles is not the most exciting thing in life (I lived and worked in 6 countries).

But this only means that international law is a mess, and have to be repealed/updated. It won't happen soon, unless there will be more and more people willingfully breaking the law, as they are damn right to feel "entitled" to equal service, which can be delivered by config option. Technically, it is not a big deal. If it is a huge legal deal, the laws be damned.
Odd that it seems to work, though. How much money does Steam make from people who could be getting the content for free?
Same thing with "Wonder Years" it's all about licensing... hell "Daria" had to replace significant portions of the music (thankfully they had the original separate tracks to work from).
Is USB-C basically the trojan horse for DRM audio? Likely yes, right? HDCP on HDMI out, equivalent on USB-C out?
We have had problems but mainly with plugins. There's basically no mandatory QA process for plugins, nor is there any facility to make it obvious to an updater that an upstream change affects a downstream plugin and might break it.

In my opinion, Jenkins is a product that you really need to have a test instance for, where you either have copies of your builds or you've set up some 'unit test'-type builds to exercise functionality you depend on.
I've updated to the VirtualBox 5.0.19 test build which also fixes that. Bad timing for Ubuntu: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds
The quality of the camera keeps me upgrading every chance I can.

Also the touch-id capabilities are significantly improved.
The linked post mentions a previous post [1] where he mentions that proving you have the optimal path doesn't always require N! cost:

> If you have an instance of the TSP of practical interest (i.e. it makes a difference to your life if you solve it or not, and it is really a TSP, not the result of some weird set of set of reductions from some other problem), then I bet you the Concorde program of Bill Cook and others will get you a provably optimal solution in a reasonable amount of time. In fact, I would be really interested in knowing the smallest “real” instance that Concorde cannot solve in, say, one day, on a normal laptop computer.

Note the "provably" before "optimal solution".

1: http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/?p=6995
>That is not my main concern. Babel can wrap the code in 10 functions for all I care ( performance is also not a concern

Babel code is actually faster than the native implementation of most of the ES2015/6 features atm.

>The wrapped function throws errors - since apparently you need to download some babel plugins for it to work. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡

So you forgot to download some plugins and it's Babel's fault?

And, sorry, where does the entitlement come from? It's you who needs and uses Babel, even imperfect and buggy as it is, to get the job done, not the inverse.
"Usage of digital audio means that headsets should gain their own amplifiers, DACs and various other logic, which is currently located inside smartphones. Intel proposes to install special multi-function processing units (MPUs) ... The MPUs will also support HDCP technology, hence, it will not be possible to make digital copies of records using USB-C digital headset outputs."
According to all the VCs in my Twitter feed: chatbots.
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I'm the founder of a startup in the clean tech and IoT space. We deal with more data than we could possibly use in a user friendly manner. There are literally an infinite number of ways we can utilize this data for our users and convey helpful messages to them. Obviously, we can't do everything. But, when we prioritize, we find ourselves with line charts and column charts that just don't seem entirely user friendly.

How do you guys take a really complicated topic and dumb it down so people don't have to "learn" your product? Examples would be fabulous. Thanks!
USB-C has an analog audio output mode (audio adapter accessory mode which uses the device's internal DAC), so you won't have to do that.

There will eventually be passive USB-C→3.5mm cables for use with analog-only headphones.
This is a small anecdote, but: I'm happy with my current iPhone and the current models aren't additionally compelling enough to me to upgrade.

I have an iPhone 5S and don't want a larger one. When the iPhone SE came out, I was excited until I found out it didn't have force touch, which was the main interesting feature to me about the new lineup. Other than Apple Pay it seems I have very little reason to upgrade until this one dies or breaks. I don't see being satisfied with their product as a black mark against them.
I’m betting on next year’s Retina Macbook to nix the audio jack for a second USB-C. Likely held off because they don’t want to detract from a big wireless earbud launch with the iPhone 7 this fall…
The only iDevice that's not still in use in my family is my first, an iPhone 3G. My youngest has my 3GS. The 4 is with my father in law, etc. My first iPad, a v2, is with my sister in law in China, she uses it to Skype to us. These things just keep on going.
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fair means random. (for dice, coins, etc)
This is different in the rest of the world that has NFC card terminals rather than mag stripe, and it will change in the US as the new EMV readers roll out.
You seem to imply 4 projects is 4x the time. In my experience I spent more than 2x the time just getting a Cordova project up an running compared to just building the whole dam thing from scratch on iOS. Why? Cordova kept changing all the time. Documentation sucked. It was buggy. The tools were substandard and it had inconsistent behavior across platforms. Terrible experience. I have colleagues who had the same terrible experience but they still cling to the idea that it will somehow work out in the end. The idea of one code to rule all the platforms is just too enticing.

I don't doubt that some people will be more effective at using Cordova. The problem is people treat this decision as if it is independent of the people who will build the solution. Somebody with years of training doing JavaScript and practically no experience with writing native code will likely be much faster with Cordova. That is why these projects exist in the first place. There are so many JavaScript developers out there. For them even a crappy setup like Cordova will still be faster than native development.

But in reverse if you actually got good experience with native platforms and know the tools, Cordova is not going to deliver. You wont have access to the kind of debugging tools, editors, type checking, GUI builders, documentation etc you get on a native platform, which makes a native developer work efficiently.
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I've worked on CRUD apps for my whole career, and I've never seen one that didn't have some novel requirements.
Here's the discovery paper:

http://hubblesite.org/pubinfo/pdf/2016/18/pdf.pdf
From the article:

> The MPUs will also support HDCP technology, hence, it will not be possible to make digital copies of records using USB-C digital headset outputs.
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I was at a NASA workshop in Mountain View. An informational placard outside had two plots of growth, one with an unchecked exponential curve, and one with a curve that comes up to a peak and goes down. It asked which made more sense as a growth curve.

My idealized mathematical self thought, naturally, the exponential growth curve, because it expresses what happens when y-dot equals alpha y.

But I asked a passing Caltech astrophysicist, who (not surprisingly) gave a better reply. The curve that flattens out and goes down, he said, because exponential growth is impossible to sustain. Physical limits on some aspect of the system must intervene and impose a new law.
Well I'd start by sweeping out whatever is left. Your ether address still has 5 ether left in it...

Just following the transactions I can see that 125 ether were sent to Poloniex so I'd contact them to see if they can help you.
I was responding to a comment stating "I don't see why intention matters"
There is/was a vote on this pretty soon. We are deciding how modules would work - with a new file extension? With a module.json? With a separate entry entry in package.json? Lots of decisions to be made :)
a) thats not how cold wallets work, they weren't supposed to be on a networked computer at all.

b) check Teamviewer and remote desktop viewers. Especially the ports those programs would typically use. It is a common attack vector to come in through those and view your machine, install key loggers as you, etc. Which leads to the next part:

c) How was the 12 character password stored? Only in your head? In a password manager? in gmail? used in other areas?
So who's making arguments without supporting facts? The Hacker Life provides evidence that startups prefer Ruby, C and Python. Fortune 500 companies may use JS for client-facing web UI applications (which are generally not mission-critical), but for heavy-duty shit, they'll stick to Java, C#, Python, C++, etc. Show me what Fortune 500 companies are replacing these tried-and-true workhorses with JavaScript.

As for games, what serious gaming platform relies on WebGL? Most games are written in C++ for a reason: maximum performance. When I was Project Team Leader of the Windows NT Driver Group at ATI Technologies (now AMD), all the OpenGL software I saw was written in C++. JavaScript could never have been usable, even with V8.

Smalltalk, seriously. It's still used today around the world by many businesses. Cincom and GemTalk are major Smalltalk vendors. I have friends working at Cherniak Software and Simberon, both important Smalltalk software houses. ESUG (European Smalltalk User Group) is a mammoth organization representing hundreds of companies using Smalltalk. What did you say about "a position of obvious ignorance?"
This is the first quarter where we can see the impact of the changes. Be ready for its impact on future quarters.

http://recode.net/2015/12/30/att-confirms-it-is-doing-away-w...

Here is data on drop:

iPhone

First quarter of 2015: 61.2 million
First quarter of 2016: 51.2 million, down 16%
At work we have a condition (think: exception) hierarchy that uses multiply inherited mixins. One might be validation-failure and introduce a slot telling you the invalid value. Another might be user-error that records the user that triggered the error. A third might carry an RPC error code for use if reported over RPC.

I used a generic function with list combination to collect from the mixins only the slots that should be reported over RPC. The user is not among them since it is always reported to the user that triggered the error.
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>Software companies have become sweatshops where you are supposed to justify your absurdly high salary with insane hours and unreasonable expectations.

Sadly, I've felt this way for the past two months since I took my new job.
I had to take a pay cut for it. Sadly, I think the new company thinks I'm being overpaid and the demands are crazy.
All of a sudden, I understand so many of the WTFs on TDWTF!
The article's title is "One Woman’s Bizarre, Delightful Quest To Change Emojis Forever"

I like the title you submitted better but since you (jenny8lee) are most likely the person being talked about in the article I think you editorialized the submission title to fit your view, e.g. calling skeptics of the proposal old-timers. The article also doesn't mention the world Emojigeddon and you make it look it was a quote.
Remember when 2.5mm was a thing for phones that could play MP3s?

That sucked.
Wait, life begins in a flash of light?
This recent Planet Money episode [1] talked about how everyone thought options were free a few years ago, including former US Secretary of Commerce Barbara Franklin. It is fascinating and a large contributor to the skyrocketing executive pay we see today.

[1]http://www.npr.org/2016/02/18/467253394/why-did-americas-ceo...
Try Lazarus IDE.
Thanks for the link to the paper. :)
Here in Canada, we have mobile debit/credit terminals that the waitstaff bring to the tables. They currently support swipe, chip & pin, and tap, so I assume that they'd support Apple Pay without too much trouble.
why does anyone care about your product? what does it do for them? how is it going to help them? what are their key concerns? focus on presenting that to the user.

Also, I highly recommend taking the next hour to watch this: https://vimeo.com/54469442
That was going to be my point as well. My “production” application runs light shows for electronic music events. The only state that matters is in-memory in the STM. There is no database. STM works wonderfully in the rare cases where there are multiple values which need to be changed in a coordinated way.
The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones. Isn't google still not a search company, but its moved past its 'search' era and now its focus on other things. Apple will always sell hardware, but it needs to orient to its next phase of growth, and that ain't hardware.
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I have an iPhone 5 (not S) and the performance is starting to get on the frustrating side. But it's only now getting to the point where that is an issue.
Man, those Elementary OS screenshots look sexy. Has anyone used it? How is it for development work? I'd like to give it a shot; one of the big things holding me back from going all-out on Linux is how beautiful OS X is.
Two to three weeks from the Apple Store when I checked this morning. I don't know if it's heavier-than-expected demand, or if they just don't keep that many in the pipeline (which I guess amounts to the same thing). My wife just broke hers (yes, again), so the plan is to at some point give her my 6S and I get a new 5SE, because I want my smaller screen back. It would seem that perhaps I'm not the only one.
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What sort of compatibility issues? Most packages update to work with new Node releases fairly quickly. Usually the packages that have compatibility issues are ones with native C++ bindings. If you `npm rm` the package and reinstall it, it will usually build correctly for the latest Node/V8 release.

Further, if you have a project that for whatever reason is not feasible to update to run on modern Current Node, you can use `nvm` or `n` to choose which Node release you want to use: i.e. `nvm exec 0.12 node old-project.js` and `nvm exec 6.0 node fresh-project.js`. v6 (and the versions that preceded it) has made Javascript really enjoyable to write.
> I think iPhone performance has hit a point where one doesn't really feel the need to upgrade right away

I have a cheap 2014 Motorola Moto G and I have the same "problem". Yes, there are hundreds of modern phones out there which are several times faster and have way better hardware but the Moto G is fast enough for me.

I usually just browse the web, type a few messages in Whatsapp, take a few pictures, ... and the phone does all of this well enough so that I just don't have any reason to invest 500+ Euro in a new phone.

Another bonus is that if I accidentally drop my phone I can just buy a new one (or two) and it will still be cheaper than an iPhone or other similar phones.
Apple iPhone sees first YOY sales dip ever
Nice but:
- admin interface? For having managed plenty of Apache servers running as reverse proxy servers, it's nice to have a GUI when there are hundreds of rules you can mess^Wfuck with
- high end appliance? I mean it's cool 2 Nginx Plus running on 2 R730 can have the same RPS than one 11050 but then how do you route traffic to these 2 Nginx servers?
PC's were a status symbol for a little while back in the late 70's/80's ...
Yes, the Gnome 3 and Windows 8 user interfaces went down this route as well.

Going back to Unity, whilst I have only used it in passing, based on that experience I can't think of a feature that I'd miss from a more 'traditional' desktop interface. The only minor things I found jarring were the online search results in desktop search (which I believe has been disabled in 16.04) and a slightly clunky look to the search results (which is just an implementation detail, could be something that is refined in the future). Is there something you'd want from Unity that it doesn't currently offer?

FWIW, I think the Windows 8 desktop interface was a mistake. There was too much hidden away. It also didn't feel cohesive to me (the jump from metro to desktop and vice versa was too jarring IMO). Metro works really well as a phone UI though (I'm using it now, I think its greatest strength is probably the speed of navigation through the interface).
>I'm sure there will be lots of "Apple has lost its ability to innovate" articles based on this

Given that people have already been writing those articles for a couple years, i'm sure a drop in their revenue and missed estimates won't make them stop.
Nazi Germany had the lowest crime rates in modern recorded history (if you don't count "government crimes"). When a government is able to act unilaterally with impunity your safety is still at risk, only the risks come from the government rather then street criminals. The real risk in Singapore is, what comes down the road? What happens if they implement laws that restrict free speech, or criticizing the government? What sort of position will people be in to oppose future government oppression when they live in a Totalitarian state that is completely controlled and monitored? At the end of the day, ceding your rights and freedoms to government officials with the idea that you can trust them to do the right thing is dangerously naive, and has never ended well.
This is a tools problem. People need to know how to use the tools in a business or let them go. You don't keep carpenter around who blames power tools not working the way he expects when he never charges the batteries.

Dropbox's response could be, "Hey we have training seminars for that".
Linux users evangelise Dropbox more than other users.