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I'm on Republic Wireless, so there's only three phone models. They did a 4.4 to 5.1 upgrade fairly recently on every model. There were a lot of people begging for the upgrade, but there was also a very vocal group of people complaining about the upgrade, either the process of doing the upgrade, or the fact that so much in the UI changed that they were comfortable with. A lot of people were asking to be able to downgrade because they didn't want to re-learn how to use their phones.

Statistically, I don't know what percentage of people want upgrades vs don't, but anecdotally, I feel that most non-technical users don't want upgrades because they've learned how to use the phone and they're comfortable with it.
Nice. Glad to see they're finally hosting John Papa's styleguide. It will be much easier for newcomers to find it.
The meta problem is we're in the discussion comments of a linked article that buys into the belief that the only purpose of the higher ed system is monetarily rewarding vocational training.

In the real world that's a completely wrong way to look at the purpose of life and education, but in the small minded narrow constraints of the article its actually "correct".

A side issue is outside bubble areas, every low paid service industry worker has a liberal arts degree and they guarantee the ROI of self taught foreign languages or liberal arts will be zero. A guy looking for employment who merely is a lifelong expert on Japanese will never get hired if the competition is ten baristas, bartenders, and real estate agents all with bachelors or masters or PHDs in Japanese Literature.
Yes, but Applein the 2000's was notorious to kill products that still make profits for the sake of keeping the product line clean and lean, and not have consumer confused over which product to choose.
I can guarantee that as available computing resources increase every DRM available now will be broken and new ones will have to be created to keep up.

That's not what the EFF meant though.
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It's trash on Mars but hopefully data for spaceX and Nasa
The author says why he uses the term "bug":

> The reason I call this engineering fault a "bug" is that it arises the same way other bugs do.
TechCrunch claims there are 1.4 billion Android users. 7.5% of that is 100 million people. How many apps and services would kill to be able to reach 100 million people?

And just because a lot of people wait to update until they get a new phone doesn't mean they don't care about that update. Or that handset manufacturers don't care about the update. Or that Google should stop making new versions of Android. Or whatever the author's point is...
The first half of the post applies to web development too. Most designers design for the 'best case' scenario and leave out all the tiny details like error conditions, interactions, too much/little content, various screen sizes and touch vs mouse interactions (hover especially).

Let's face it, nowadays unless you are designing a content site there is an immense amount of work needed to handle all the complexities of designing a web or mobile app. This is why things like Bootstrap or other frameworks are so popular, they allow a designer or developer to cover 90% of those scenarios and focus on the important things.
The watch types are really clearly differentiated though:

Sport: cheaper model, a little better for athletic activity (screen is more impact-resistant but less scratch resistant)

regular: main model, styled more like a classic watch, screen is more scratch resistant but less impact resistant

Edition: made of gold, super-expensive

The Edition watch specifically isn't going to be confused with the other two models, and the Sport/regular split seems pretty straightforward to me.
Sketch-driven development is not that much better. It is easier to get from design to app, but then edge cases and real data start to interfere with vision and you are doomed anyway.
The only thing I see when I see a macbook is "impossible to maintain or adjust".
Three years down, $600,000 annual revenue, and what's coming next
Right, so as far as the advertiser is concern, this is still in the "may or may not be working" space.

The fact that a company working in digital advertising can get hundreds of thousands of dollars in "payout" without having to actually justify their value to the brand's bottom line, alludes to exactly what this article is about:

Google is offering a diminishing opportunity for brand exposure, and as those "payouts" get bigger, legitimate publishers are receiving less for their content (because they're competing with scammers), and advertisers are getting less sales (because they're buying more from scammers).

The article then predicts that those payouts you're enjoying are about to go away because Advertisers are soon going to realise it's all crap.

Of course, people have been predicting this for a long time...
> Google moved all? of the high level APIs into the Google Play Services Library

This is not true. And developers need all APIs, not just the ones Google wants to license to OEMs to maintain control of the platform.

For example. Android N will use OpenJDK, and this will be a big shift for us.
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Well, the scammers know what they're doing.
Discussion from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3244229
In the broad middle, I don't think there is much of a manners/customs/grammar distinction. Any well-brought up middle class child should be perfectly capable of interacting with all but the wealthiest nobility. Of course, there are a few upper-middle class snobs who will think less of you for your lack of oenological prowess or your off the peg suit, but such people are not a common direct influence on that many people.

There are other factors:

* One thing is simply understanding the opportunities available to you. The idea that "People like me don't (go to university | start companies | go for promotion beyond a certain level)" is quite harmful.

* It is not uncommon that people go into the same field as one of their parents, simply because of how big an influence they are on your life as a child. If one is a doctor, and the other a barrister, then if you follow one of them, you'll make more money than if they are both in minimum-wage jobs.

* If you do follow your parents in their careers, you will have had early exposure to some of the concepts. You may therefore perform better at university intake interviews, and the relevant prerequisites. They will also know about how to progress through the career in the best way.

* Regardless of nepotism, your parents' friends are another source of examples to follow in a similar way, and may be able to dispense similar advice.

* Even if you don't follow your parents in their careers. Having a parent who graduated from a competitive course at a prestigious university (which might be indicated in their lifetime earnings) means that you still have an example to follow, and their experience to draw on. One of the reasons for poor state school intake at Oxford is that most youths don't actually know how to apply. Also, if you know what to expect from such a place, you can make more of it, particularly in terms of the extra curricular offering - e.g. networking, bursaries and careers service.

* A youth with wealthy parents may be able take better advantage of low-paid and unpaid internships. If your parents can't support you through university and early career, then you may have to make more short term decisions - e.g. taking a low-paid summer job at a bar, instead of a lower or even unpaid job at a law firm, or working evenings and weekends instead of studying.

* At the extreme end, a child in poverty is likely to have fewer books and poorer nutrition when those things matter most.
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Of course. The socialists don't want anybody challenging their official religion, so call anybody that isn't a believer a "denialist".
It's hard to tell these days. Many people today fully accept the idea that human should adapt themselves to the existing machines and technologies, rather than design/adapt those machines and technologies to human needs.
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Another drag-and-drop quantum circuit simulator that runs in your browser is "Quirk" [0].

Quirk is faster than Davy's simulator thanks to webgl. It calculates varying operations on up to 16 qubits in real time as you drag gates around. It also lets you drop inline state displays into the circuit. Plus you can link to circuits, though the links can be a bit long so you may want to do so indirectly [1].

That being said, Quirk lacks the ability to compile circuits into a gate. Also it doesn't have a QFT gate (yet). I'm working on it. [2].

0: http://algorithmicassertions.com/quirk

1: https://t.co/qi12H3aVU1 (6-qubit grover circuit with displays, near the getting-laggy limit in terms of op-count)

2: https://github.com/Strilanc/Quirk
Sure, but it's a classic time money tradeoff. If you have a large trust fund it's a non issue. Or, if you can pay for two degrees in time and effort then the second degree need not pay for its self.

However, if you have two interests then gathering credentials in the one which can make more money is probably a better investment.
That sounds very Samsung to me.

What made Apple the thing it is today is their pinpoint and high quality products for each sector they're in, and their willingnes to take initiative and introduce radically different stuff.
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It sucks that we've taught most children for the better half of the past century to avoid all suffering at all costs. That lesson isn't actually coming from actual "compassion," which literally means "suffering with [someone]."

Sure, there are some unnecessary sufferings in life which we should avoid and help each other out of, like teaching a child not to touch a hot stove. But then there are plenty of necessary sufferings in life that people shouldn't be "saved" from, but rather taught how to deal with and handle properly.

The same people who want to avoid and help others avoid the suffering of a painful death, are the same people who would try to convince their friend to divorce her recently-drug-addicted spouse, who she should have "compassion" on, i.e. "suffer with" him, by spending her time helping him through it until either the addiction is gone or death does them part.

They're the same people who can't stand the thought of a young girl feeling ugly or a young boy feeling dumb, so they tell her how beautiful she looks in that dress or how smart he is, which inadvertently gives both of them an inferiority complex and causes them to put all their self-worth in their looks and smarts (respectively), often ironically causing the suffering they were trying to spare them from.

These are the same ones who encourage "transgender" teenagers (those who have no real condition but just want attention), because they can't stand the thought of a young person feeling unaccepted and unloved. So instead of teaching these teenagers to properly handle their emotions, and to properly examine their thoughts, they just give in and applaud them in their delusions.

All these "solutions" are actually causing more problems than they solve, both in the short-term and the long-term. All because they tried to spare someone else from a necessary form of suffering.

Rather, they should be teaching young people to learn to handle rejection, whether from a crush or a college. They should teach them to accept the truth even when it's painful to hear. They should teach them to bear patiently with the many inevitable difficulties of life. (Patience also comes from the Latin word for "suffering [with].") These are necessary forms of suffering that will come to everyone in life, and it's a shame that people aren't taught how to handle them anymore.
Teen birthrate at all-time low, 5% decline among Hispanics/blacks
The key (absurd) assumption is that 100% of assets are passively-investable.
I encountered concern about unorthodox approaches when building my house: the code says that if you have a central support for the stairs and it is a rectangular pipe of cross section X then it's OK. My staircases floated on a set of plate struts -- basically climbable sculptures designed by the architect. In order to get the permit approved we had to pay someone to write a 15 page book full of differential equations to determine that indeed they wouldn't collapse.

A pain, but worth it.
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They are counting return on investment though. Great MBA is super expensive.
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It would be good to remember that a vast majority of people don't respond to reason. They respond to emotion. If you make someone feel good about your argument, they will agree with your argument.

It seem the more likely one is to want to help society, the less likely that person understands this fundamental aspect of human nature.

And so somehow the ones who really GET IT are the ones in power, and the ones who don't want to make anything better.

It's so refreshing when you find a persuader in charge of everything who also wants to make everything better, like say Duterte in the Philippines, for example.
Look, I'm not going to get into a pissing match about what discipline is harder. The point is that learning Japanese at a university is not an experience that could be easily duplicated somewhere else and that there are probably other "soft" disciplines of which the same could be said.
This was my thought too. A lot of the times I suggest doing a hybrid app for the MVP. It is an easier and more affordable way of getting a functional and decent looking app to market. Allows the client to test and fine tune more easily. Oftentimes after launch they stick with the hybrid app because it gives them enough of what they need. Other times they decide to proceed to native but now have a much better idea on what they really need/want and saved tons of money in the process.
It's happening live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LNhAWbdrZA
Again, I'm not advocating for one strategy over another, just pointing out that Buffett's explanation is simplistic and that it is worth considering metrics other than average returns.
I should have put it in quotes, but it's too late to edit it.
I am hesitating since that would put things that were just accepted very recently, wounds still healing, in a relation to things that are currently way out of bounds. Not my intention.

But just to illustrate, recently a court in Germany supposedly denied someone the right to marry their pet. Why? Ah and there was a promient case of cannibalism between consenting adults a few years ago.

Got moral, ethical concerns about it? Or just caught some phobia? Either way, the society-transforming force of Individualism will ensure that the individual will get their way and get to do whatever they want.

The Internet (find likeminded people, get crazy ideas, be happy alone) and the declining birth rates (more focus on individual uniqueness and development) have only accelerated this trend.
Sure, it's a semi-facetious example. But I'm suspicious of job ads that mention things like foosball tables or climbing walls and other such frivolities - it suggests either a juvenile working environment or that the company has to provide gimmicks to entice people to work there because it doesn't have anything solid to offer.
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> You can't really have any kind of art career, for example, if you don't go to art school.

This can't possibly be true.
Thanks for this pointer, it's very interesting!

It's hard to argue with numbers that are already there in front of you. A lot of the cost changes have been driven precisely because there was investment and the industry grew, his prognostications about it never being affordable were an attempt at a self-fulfilling prophecy in that by increasing skepticism about the tech curve, it never gets explored.

I'd be skeptical of his views of the future, though. For example, he mentions gas peaking plants, but grid-scale lithium ion batteries are already cheaper than natural gas peakers for many situations; lithium ion is getting cheaper but natural gas is not. The only advantage of natural gas is lower capex, but in this financial environment that's not a huge advantage. By the time that solar is displacing lots of other energy, lithium ion will be displacing all those natural gas peaker plants. Once he sees those numbers, he'll probably change his mind again.
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The passive side gets the same results as the active side (before fees), but the active side determines what the result will be.
Replying to myself, I know. But a related point:

So let's have fun with numbers...

1.4b Android users. 7.5% updated to the latest. That's ~105m.

500m iPhone users. 84% updated to the latest. That's ~425m.

(I'm pulling these numbers from different sources, but they're probably of the right scale.)

My only point is that there might be an argument that Android's deploying new versions on about 1/4 of the devices that Apple is, not 1/10. Which is an important distinction if your argument is that Google is failing at getting people to update their devices.
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One of my friends once told me, "We don't have spelling bees in India... it wouldn't make sense, when you hear the word there's really only one way to spell it."

I on the other hand can't hear the difference between Hindi "b", "v", "g", and "k" half the time :)
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Thanks for the detailed rebuttal. What exactly was "just plain wrong" about what I said?
I agree with all your analysis on the ad fraud, there is definitely a bubble and there is a shit ton of fraud going on and it's costing everyone money. Where I disagree is the effect that a cleanup would have on Google, people aren't going to just stop paying Google, the portion of money that was going to shitty intermediaries will go primarily back to Google. Bids may go up, fake views may go down, but sales should remain the same for the same budget.
The problem is the waterfall approach of client->designer->developer. If the first line of code is written after there's a supposedly "finished" Photoshop or Sketch document, the project is doomed to run into all the fundamental design issues explained in this post.

Yet often that seems like the only way to the client, who thinks that they can't afford a programmer in the "planning" or "design" phase... Even though it leads to an unpredictable budget explosion in the latter stages.

One solution is to have better tools for app design. Instead of PSDs and handwaving static Invision clickthroughs, there should be a tool that allows an app prototype to be modelled using real code and native mobile concepts like navigation controllers and list views.

I've worked on such a tool, Neonto:
http://neonto.com

It's not perfect (the code generation can never match a veteran programmer's style), but for prototypes often good enough - and much more powerful than clickthroughs.

Btw, Neonto is considering switching to React Native for the generated projects. If someone's interested in that, give a shout to hello@neonto.com and voice your opinion!
I quite enjoy listening to the conference call for a company. It really does tell you a lot about what's happening behind the scenes, and before anyone else knows it. It's like the company telling you little secrets :-)
The benefits of diversity is many and there are many more examples I can think of (such as industries that only recruit from 50% of the population has generally problems when demand change).

But... as it often is, I don't see the interest for diversity to be consistent by those who claim to be in favor of it. Let me ask you one question:

The state is the biggest employer of people. They could have a hiring policy of a minimum 40% men and women per job (sorted by either title, assignment, union membership, or what else attribute one might like). Such policy would have a major effect on several professions with currently sits with a ratio of around 90% and higher.

As it stands, only a few professions ever address problems of diversity. Technology is one of those, and it's gender ratio is fairly average compared to the majority. only about 30% (2010 statistics from Sweden) of recognized professions have a balanced gender distribution of minimum 40% men and women. In the remaining 70%, the most extreme had 99.7% women to 0.3% men.