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Consider that two major newsworthy events in the US in the past week (Philando Castillo killing and Dallas attack) were live-streamed on Facebook rather than Periscope.

Facebook already has a huge advantage with 10x the active users of Twitter, AND they integrated live video directly into the app that many of those users already have, rather than a separate app most of them don't.

"App constellations" may be a better user experience... if you bother to download the whole constellation... but I think a similar principle to "the best camera is one you have with you" applies.
> I owned a 3 bedroom house in Kansas that didn't qualify for any write off

Were you living in it? Why didn't it qualify for the write off?
Interesting, it would be even more interesting to know how these problems were patched on Facebook's side.
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You state that these social networks haven't improved experience for user. But user count has steadily gone up and so has engagement. I'm sure the evolution is also inline with their internal metrics. Why is not evolving based on data a good thing?
> Now we've got some HR staff, maybe a recruiter or two, finance team, people underneath the UX, editorial, data science and BD teams (let's generously assume 1-2 hires each), and we're over 40 people easily. We haven't even discussed marketing, a DBA, ops, or IT support.

All which presumably can be filled by pre-existing Twitter people. In the M&A world these are called "synergies".
> Facebook or Google or Microsoft will eventually buy them, because of the users

Those companies already have those same users.
Hmm, doing "whatever works" is fine when you know what the "what" is. The early chapters talk about requirements, design, quality, etc, which is what I'd believe the student needs to understand. Before the discussion happened here, the first mention of waterfall or agile was in chapter 7.
The article seems to imply that the warning is given if driving conditions become "uncertain" and the driver's hands are off the wheel. Perhaps the time interval between warning and the car automatically stopping should be lower. What's the point of the car continuing on autopilot if it's uncertain of where it's headed?
Oh absolutely it validates their business model (or so it seems), but I can't help but feel that value is paradoxically lost (for the user) once everyone iterates themselves into equivalence. Network effect advantages become almost irrelevant when everyone maintains an equally split presence. And if value is lost for the user, their platform loyalty will plummet.

Facebook and Snapchat will begin to be perceived as a 'utility' (something that has already happened to Twitter), meaning, we as a society all expect these functions of social networking and messaging to be fulfilled by a provider, but the exact provider is no longer relevant. Pressures to maintain a positive balance sheet will lead to a proliferation of ads.

This will leave room for new upstarts to target a niche they can serve better than the incumbents, and lure engagement away. They will use VC money to fund their effort and offer ad-free, carefully-focused refuges away from the big networks. But the incumbents have so much money, they will all get bought out in the end. (Snapchat refused to be bought out by Facebook for $3,000,000,000, at a time when it was still known as a sexting app)

I see analogues to the churn of free image hosts -- new one starts up because all the old ones are full of ads; introduces ads a few years later because they can't pay the bills. The cycle continues.
Well I think you've hit on something there: since certain types of content are cross-posted to every platform, maybe that particular type of content is not why people value Twitter, specifically.

In other words, maybe you don't actually understand why people like Twitter. Which is fine--not everyone needs to like Twitter--but if that's true, you're probably not the best person to point Twitter fans toward good alternatives.
OK, OK, more than just a little. :)
> I could just write the code for that but I'll never prove the system works that way.

Or you could just prove from first principles, like we all learn in formal algorithm design theory.

The question is not whether proofs are valuable, the question is whether translating a system into TLA and using that proof checker is more reliable and saves you time over just attempting a proof directly.

Even if your TLA proof checks out, it may be a false positive because it doesn't accurately reflect your production code.
I don't think this could have saved the Wii U from its mediocre fate, but if only this were available from Day 1...
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LaTeX beamer or Google Drive has been my choice so far. I will give this one a try.
This thread is bikeshedding about rubber duck debugging. Any more developer memes we can pile on?
"sterilizing" means destroying the ability to produce next generation. No dying involved. It may be some very light infection, just with a sterilizing side-effect for example.
Actually, that's precisely how (real) autopilots work. If the autopilot can't reliably continue flying (e.g. in extreme turbulence, severe icing, or failure of some part of the system), it will immediately disengage with a loud warning sound, and the pilot has to take immediate control.
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If I'm reading this right, it'll cost at least $2,285.00 to get the minimum setup needed for development. Said that I can't use my existing Nintendo 3DS, 3DS XL, or new 3DS. Thanks, Nintendo! :/
Working in the japanese game industry it feels like Nintendo is ramping up in a big way for the NX.So I assume this revamp is more in prep for the NX than it is for the WiiU.
You can build what you think is the most robust and secure system in the world, someone somewhere will figure out how to break it. I don't think it's fair to insinuate that the people who wrote the code were "incompetent", especially given the size of Facebook's codebase. And given their audience they'll be more exposed to hackers than whatever thing you'r working on that isn't Facebook and doesn't have the same audience.
> It's such a shame, really; arguably Twitter, much more so
> than their competitors, tries to stick as close to the
> original form of their product as they can. I admire that.

Except for that time they blocked third party access to their API. That was kinda big. [0]. I guess you could also say that this move supports your point of view, but those third parties were partly responsible for the popularity of the platform.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/03/twitte...
It's a strange thing that these companies seem only to open their platforms to development in a tardy and reluctant manner, Microsoft being a case in point - "developers, developers, developers" was the cheerleading chant from Steve Ballmer, unless of course the developers wanted to code for Xbox. They've opened it now I believe but again - extremely late in the game.

Meanwhile, Apple welcomes developers from day one and there are so many applications developed that it's hard to get user attention amongst the app store noise.
This was not a well formulated sentence. I'll go ahead and clarify it some for other people reading and scratching their heads:

>you can have a lower IQ and still have a high IQ

You can lower your IQ and still have a high IQ. I.E going from 130 to 120 is different from going from 100 to 90.
Going off-road like it did seems safer than stopping on a highway. Sure there was damage, but far safer for the unconscious* occupants than being rear-ended.

(* I use "unconscious" because this guy was not paying attention, but also because it appeared to the car that the driver was dead)
Is the hide feature known to work in incognito mode?

I do not see hide link with any of the stories on the front page. However it is visible once I open up the story. Intentional?
You've got a lot of good points. I agree that the current system works very well, and I personally appreciate it deeply (esp. considering how well-functioning it is, compared to many other countries today). But there's always room for improvement, and I was just suggesting something that I think could be an improvement.

Thanks for the well-thought-out comment.
Depends on how they're running the company. Post-acquisition at my last startup it was much easier to keep our startup intact within the larger company.

Regardless, the point is whether 50 people is reasonable to run something like Vine.
That is about half the common cost for a devkit. Plus the 3DS and WiiU devkits are not just regular devices with a swapped ROM. They are special hardware run. If you have a publisher you could ask to borrow theirs. My last company was using one borrowed from the client.

Sadly Nintendo less connections oriented. Sony lends devkits for free pretty often if you can convince them your game is going to be good.
Wasn't it? I don't know about the 3DS, but I think this was up from very early on in the Wii U's lifecycle: http://web.archive.org/web/20160330230414/https://wiiu-devel...
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> What's the point of the car continuing on autopilot if it's uncertain of where it's headed?

Haha agreed! I don't know exactly how the system works. My sense is Tesla's AP let's you be hands off for a much longer time than other self driving systems
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I knew this was going to be challenged, and you're not wrong. But Twitter still feels closest to the original incarnation of 'here be a (roughly) reverse-chronological list of text-message length posts'. They had the timeline, the "friend feed" first, and most enhancements affected only the payload of their messages. Moments was a big innovation, and it's presented as a separate offering on their website.

Whereas Facebook's primary function went from a carefully-curated yearbook-style personal and interest page to an... algorithmic timeline of friend's status updates and tumble-blog reposts.

Snapchat went from an app that sends disappearing photos to a general-purpose multimedia messaging app that happens to still put a timer on photos.

Instagram went from a photo and selfie-sharing app to a general-purpose social network with an algorithmic timeline, sponsored posts, and private messaging.
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Is their anything in Searle's argument that is specific to information and computing? I mean chairs for example are just piles of atoms, and don't really exist without some observer interpreting them as chairs.

(This by the way is a non-rhetorical question. I disagree with Searle on this point, but he his too smart not have a good response to this line of criticism).
Did you make formal specification of your algorithms in something like TLA+?
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Is it even useful if it's merely assisting the driver, though? I haven't used it, but actively steering a car while someone else is also actively steering it sounds pretty terrible.

If you're not actively steering it but just waiting to take over if things go poorly, things also seem like they'd be difficult. Other than getting in an accident, how is a person supposed to know when autopilot is doing it's thing correctly, and when it isn't?
Lily is fascinating to me, in that it's the exact language I've been working on in my spare time. Same impetus, use-cases, everything. Guess someone else shares my delusion after all ;)
> I'm not going to explain the individual job functions of 50 people

Good thing I didn't ask you to.

> It says they had 3 product managers

Seems like a lot of product managers for a company with one product which isn't especially complicated. Smells like a sign of hiring really fast to try to grow.

> I would guess this means 8-10 engineers

The fuck do they even do? You don't need that many people to make something like Vine. Unless I'm missing something and there's more to the service than the video-related social CRUD app?

> You've then got a [bunch of dept heads]

Eh, I can see those I guess.

> Now we've got […snip handwaving about team sizes and numbers…] over 40 people easily.

OK.

> help centre and customer support

Yeah pretty sure Vine doesn't have a custom support team.

> ops [and] IT support

If they're managing their own servers that would add a lot of overhead I suppose. If they're just running off EC2 or Linode or whatever then there's not a whole lot of staff there.

> Does that all make sense now?

No.

> there are a lot of specialized roles to keep something with 25-30 million active users a month running smoothly

I think it takes more people to work out a revenue model for Vine than to sustain 25-30 million active users.

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Basically, bullshit. In Vine's case, you really don't need a big engineering team, which means you don't need a lot of people to manage your engineering team. I find it much more likely that Vine hired a bunch of people (engineers and otherwise) with VC money when they were growing fast.
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How about"copilot"?
>> It's such a shame, really; arguably Twitter, much more so than their competitors, tries to stick as close to the original form of their product as they can.

> Twitter just doesn't have an idea about where to evolve.

My feeling is the secret sauce was "being cool and disruptive". /s

To secure that position they have, IMO, spent the last few years painting themselves into a corner.
Specifically because this is such a precarious transition of control, pilots have extensive training in staying alert and being prepared to take over, have co-pilots, and have rules about adequate rest times etc. And yet there are still air accidents involving improper use of the Auto Pilot.

We can expect none of these things from the average driver - they're more likely to be watching Harry Potter on their iPad
Oh, always read "protip" on reddit with a smile. It is aimed at the young, sounds like you're being a bit chatinho.

Also thought it was recognized that narrow columns are easier to read, such as in a newspaper. It uses the well-regarded "read the docs" theme. Maybe zoom would help?
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It's about their sixth, and they have several more already in the pipeline (including animal crossing and fire emblem titles).
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Well, if you need to run flashed carts, then yes, they are custom hardware. Downloadable titles can be debugged and run on normal 2DS/3DS hardware with the IS-SNAKE according to the site, which still costs over $2K. The dev units themselves are fairly reasonably priced considering they'll have additional memory for debug builds, etc, and cost a reasonable amount - the problem is the flash card writer and debugger hardware that is needed to actually use them.
The PoGo game must be giving Nintendo believers a big morale boost.
Given how many deaths happen due to car accidents, one would think that any car feature that decreases safety should be considered a bug (UX bugs included).

The sad thing is that Tesla has been repeatedly blaming the driver, instead of improving its technology in an openly earnest manner -- an approach that eventually made air travel the safest.

With so many sensors, car travel can eventually become safer than air travel in the future. If Tesla attitude improves, that future will arrive faster.
That's nonsense. When the iPhone launched it did so without a native app SDK, which was by far the biggest criticism leveled against it from the tech audience. They fixed it, but it wasn't day-one. And didn't the Apple TV launch without an app SDK initially, too?

Meanwhile gaming consoles are obviously not open platforms, but the vendors /do/ usually entertain developer relations from day one - I can't recall any launches with only first-party games.

Considering you can't deploy to iOS without Apple's approval, it's really not any more open than gaming consoles. The App Store and its approval process just operate at a larger scale, they're not conceptually more welcoming.
It can be more complicated with US carriers. Verizon and Sprint (the 1st and 4th biggest carriers) traditionally have used CDMA technologies without SIM cards. This is changing with LTE, but their non-LTE technologies do not use SIM cards. Furthermore, these carriers will generally refuse to activate a phone from another carrier or retailer to be used on their network. So, while you can just put a Verizon SIM in a tablet for LTE data, you can't do the same with a phone. (I'm not sure how this will work with VoLTE.)
Despite that, it is wexing that they wouldn't come across this issue during testing. Maybe it's a production issue. I am very interested in a technical explanation from either Google or Niantic. They surely had to test iOS app and check their Google permission page. Otherwise it would be really sloppy testing.
Could you say more about this? I'm interested in your perspective.
On the other hand, if you get accustomed to using better software, and end up working at a place that uses, say, Orcad 16.2, it will be much more painful of an experience.
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james-mickens has a _very_ similar style as well. for example, if you have not read 'the night watch' (http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thenightwatch...) check it out.

you might like it :)
OK not literally day one but developer support for iPhone was obviously a key early priority, as opposed to Microsoft and Nintendo which seem(ed) unconvinced that anyone except appointed developers should be allowed to write code for their platforms.

True that the Apple TV thing was not programamable till recently but I gotta say there's alot wrong with the AppleTV - it seems to be pretty blah and nothing and found no real definitive identity - a wasted opportunity on Apple's part.
Why does it make someone a bad internet citizen to implement internet protocols? Is there something official about the Linux kernel (the insecure, buggy, and written-in-C Linux kernel). I would start clean-sheet for a lot of reasons, mostly security, but I don't know what that has to do with my internet virtues.
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> No, that's what "privatization" means. Privatization can be a reform

Look up a dictionary please.
Instagram has more everyday users. Think about me, the average dude. I have 100 followers on Instagram, most of whom are from high school/college. I have zero followers on Vine. Unless I dedicate my life to making funny Vines, I probably won't get any followers. Whoa, now Instagram has pushed a video feature, great! Now I can share "vines" with my 100 followers. No need to download Vine after all.

Not to mention a lot of the funny vines get posted onto a youtube compilation anyways, so in the end youtube is profiting from vine's success. Vine's business model was just doomed to fail.
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I'll take a look at toning that down tomorrow.
If it's a good enough name for airplanes, it's a good enough names for cars. Both require users to be ready to take control at any moment.
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I wasn't quoting anything. I'm not a huge stats person, I have a casual interest in epistemology but in this case that sentiment just comes from having a lot of domain-specific knowledge about drugs. If you search my comment history for drug-related stuff, you'll see similar criticisms of David Nutt's studies, among other things.
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Twitter (the service, not the company's) secret sauce is:

You can have a public platform, using an identity you choose for yourself, to broadcast snippets of information.

Where do you evolve this? Blogger, Blogspot, Livejournal, Tumblr, Medium, they're all in this same space, except they focus on traditional, long-form content. I don't see Twitter as a social network (although many do, that's okay). I see it as a broadcast medium, a soapbox, a blogging platform.

But if you see Twitter as a social network, you're subject to a different set of pressures than a blogging platform.

Also, Twitter holds no value to FB, Google, MS, or Yahoo. They all have subsumed parts of its core functionality into their offerings. If they ever get acquired, it's by some 'outsider' that wants to enter this space, like Verizon or Yandex.
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I may be out of the loop of some drama, but to be it seems like Twitter has been so successful, and it seems like its here to stay. It's got advertisement in between tweets which will be viewed by tons of people. It's the preferred social network for well known people. My twitter feed is also much less of a toxic junkyard than Facebook is right now.

Vine on the other hand I agree with, the business model is doomed to fail. Instagram already has a huge userbase, and all it has to do is implement a video feature to kill Vine.
That's really cool of them.

Where can I find this library? Googling led me to the two sites below, but there's no download location in them.

[1] http://ts-dep-dem.web.cern.ch/ts-dep-dem/services/library/

[2] http://information-technology.web.cern.ch/services/software/...
Thanks for that hint! p_slides is explicitly dumb, though. It has no requirements to install additional software, pre-compile anything or run a server. This way it just works for many lecturers on different Operating Systems with very different areas of expertise and continues to do so without any changes after 5 years. Hosting on GH Pages is totally awesome for us developers, however my primary use case is to have the slides self-contained (no dependencies) in a private repository with other lecturers for using them in the university.
Right now I'm tracking LightPaper[0] and Typora[1]. Both support Markdown and saving as text, i.e. normal .md files. Quiver, which I'm using daily, stores files with a custom format.

I'm very excited about Typora, but for me to use regularly it needs a file navigator similar to LightPaper's.

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[1] https://www.typora.io and https://github.com/typora/typora-issues
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Of course they're going to blame the driver. Admitting anything else tends to lead to class action lawsuits. They're a business, not a lifestyle.