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I really like the subtle animation on all updated cells as he types in a value. By default excel just updates it instantly but that makes it hard to see the scope of your change by eye.

A quick scope through the options doesn't show what makes it do that. Anyone know?
Either the whole disk or the user partition, such that when the device gets stolen no useful information can be extracted from it. I don't have a script; I used berryboot to encrypt the SD card in the past. I'm not a good coder but I'll try to make something work
I like how this parody site uses the exact same arguments as those actually claiming this is a good idea.

Personally i think removing the jack is like a real life iWheel[1]. Time will tell.

[1] http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary...
You're being silly. They have spent the past decade making iWorks better, and in fact, the whole app was revamped from the ground up about 2 years ago, to bring perfect compatibility across platforms from mac to ios.

It's a far better application than anything Microsoft or Google is giving. Google's only run in the browser, and poorly compared to Apple's browser choice, and Microsofts is expensive, buggy and while it has immense numbers of features it has terrible UI.
Really this is a rant about the headphone jack. I get it.

I use the headphone jack in three different use cases everyday. Very displeased they are doing away with it, a dongle or $160 5 hour headphones is not a solution.
I'd assumed Karpathy was the the $1M student too, but apparently it was someone else (source: inter-university gossip). The same source did say the big4 were marking $300K offers on the NIPS floor last year, which I find even more extreme.
Would you mind sharing your rationale?

As someone approaching web front end development from a clean slate (es6 isn't the monster I though javascript to be, though there are some warts), can you tell me what vue does better than the alternatives (e.g., react)?

I'm building my first prototype of a web-based application right now, and sticking with raw ES6 to keep the cognitive load down (relative to javascript + a framework), but I'm likely to switch to one framework or another to get ride of some of the boilerplate I see happening.
A bunch of dudes looking for attention. SKIP.
It's not. There was a black woman at WWDC who gave a great presentation just a few months ago. Apple has had female presenters at a large number of their events, as far back as the 2001 time frame.

Don't believe the BS Spin TechCrunch writes-- they are about as credible as the weekly world news.
Fair enough. Seemed very off topic.
BUY button is broken.

Which one of you geniuses forgot to fill the href for it?
What about the mic for voice calls?
I suspect tradeoffs on underlying performance as the cause for Aphantasia. There's a guy in Sonoma I met and he can see in 3D like I feel it, but then he can put textures on the model and see that. Visualize it. He's also monochrome color blind, so it's a tradeoff. He makes really awesome wooden furniture.
I remember watching this video a while ago and it is super basic. I can assure you that there are great many things that google sheet lacks.
There are lots of things he does that are still rookie mistakes! Like index/match without doing a strict match (microsoft: when are you going to add a shorter syntax for that??).

Then he probably does that to make it visual but he should be using his mouse a lot less. F2, CTRL Enter on a range to apply the first formula without applying the formatting.

Also two data tables one above the other. As one expands it will hit into the other. That's where excel lacks a feature that apple introduced in numbers: not using a unique grid but a table being its own grid, placed as a shape on a sheet. That solves lots of problems.

Range names are not a good solution with experience. You get name clashes when merging spreadsheets, ambiguous duplicate names when duplicating tabs. For formula auditing F2 is your friend. And there are some third party add-ins to go to a reference within a formula and come back with keyboard shortcuts.

And no demo of excel is complete without showing the power of array formulas. In particular SUM(Col1 * Col2 * (Filter1=Col3) * (ABS(Col4)<4)) to do a sophisticated conditional sumproduct.
I can agree that it's in theory possible that a videogame becomes as expressive as a musical instrument, but in reality I don't see that happening in at least the next 30 to 50 years.

A musical instrument is much more direct. Want to play grumpy and loud? You play grumpy and loud. Want to play soft and singingly? You can do that. Every nuance is controlled by you, down to the finest grain. It might sometimes not sound exactly like you want it, but then you can still train to get it right. There's no limits.

Videogames on the other hand are much more digital/binary. You can't swing your sword in the exact way that you want to swing it. Instead you usually just either swing it or don't swing it.

You might get something akin to a melody, for example in an RPG you build your character's story by choosing to swing your weapon or not (as well as other such things), but a melody by itself, without artistic interpretation, is hardly art in the same sense.
That makes it even crazier to me. Wouldn't it be better to not have a bump? The bump on my 6S always makes me nervous when laying it down. I would feel much better about it if it were completely flat rather than the camera of all things sticking out and being the major point of contact with the surface it's on.
No, it's because it's not even decent journalism. Apple had multiple presenters at WWDC Keynote that happened to also be female.

They also had some of the same set on stage the prior year.
It is hyperbole, average people can cope with being disconnected from society.
Some people who are lonely and develop these symptoms are better explained as reaction from DPD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_personality_disorder
In evolutionary terms, a lone hunter/traveler that becomes a shriveling ball of tears when completely alone doesn't pass the survival threshold: people are not evolved to die from being alone.
Besides in the modern world, you're not "really alone" unless you live off-grid in some remote wilderness with no internet/phone/radio. Disconnecting from society is far harder than what people think of it(not using mobile devices 24/7 on your person is not "disconnection")
It seems that a larger-than-I-expected fraction of the response to my post concentrates on a very small part of it, especially the part where I enumerate some considerations for thinking about whether a PhD might be a good fit for you.

By far the largest fraction of the post is concerned with tips/tricks for effectively navigating the PhD experience once you commit to going through it. I jokingly refer to it as a "survival guide" because (as I mention in the disclaimer paragraph) the experience is by no means a walk in the park.
Am I the only one more annoyed that it feels like they're ignoring professional users. To draw on Bernie, "We're tired of hearing about your damned headphone jack!" No updates to Mac Pro, Macbook Pro, or new Thunderbolt display (aside from rumor mill about MBP)
It's a really good idea to invest in headphones that have a detachable cable, if you are rough with them at all(basically any travel or commute situation). Then the point of failure becomes the internal connection, which mostly rests on build quality and how much you drop it.
As in bloggsfamily@localisp.net.au that both parents and all the younger sprogs share. Still common as anything.
If what you are looking for is a pocket phone, then neither Android nor iPhones are catering to you, as phone functionality are an increasing small subset of the functionalities being worked on or improved on smartphones. People who seek out pocket phones are usually looking at some recent generation feature phones, which despite being a niche market, have been improving technologically and have gotten pretty nice.
It's entirely intentional. The point isn't just to transpose the numbers from one medium to another; it is to understand what the numbers mean. The best way to do that is the way Martin does it in that video. That's how anyone who does this professionally does it.
Probably the most common example these days is spouses who don't email regularly.

Once upon a time, you only got one or two email addresses from your email provider (I'm looking at you, CompuServe and AOL), so at that time it was common for everyone in a family to have a single address. Eventually they added explicit multi-user features -- IIRC, AOL went as high as 5 emails per account before my family moved on.
IIRC those animations have been introduced with the current version, Office 2016.

I think they make it really easy to follow, especially when someone else is editing and sharing their screen.
I've met micro-managers that actually defend micro-management but even if you think it's a viable way to actually get what you want from your reports this is an objective fundamental problem with it as a management style. You simply can't scale it to any useful degree because any kind of scale requires trust and delegation.

Once you pass that magic threshold the people that report to you will take advantage of any slack you give because micro-managers don't inspire or create loyalty. They will also actively avoid making decisions because that's the manager's job and they don't want them all over their ass for being autonomous. At that point you're a manager with no time to think about the long term and you're in firefighting mode constantly. And I can't say I have any sympathy. You reap what you sow.
I read an article on that, but it was clearly mentioned that this was an issue with older versions of excel (excel 03 07? iirc).
FYI your last point's equation is displaying wrongly - you need to put astericks either side of "Col2". HN parses text inside * as italics
Apple's posted stats are 50 hours audio playback on the 6S over wire, 40 hours audio playback on the 7 over Bluetooth. I can attest that on my 7 the bluetooth can run down the battery a bit, but nowhere near as much as wifi, cellular or screen. How much battery drain you see in practice is probably affected by which headset you're using, what standards and codecs it supports, and if the iPhone can (presumably) burst AAC audio to the headset or not. I really should get around to reading a book on the bluetooth spec to better understand this stuff, though.

What bugs me about the iPhone 7 is that I expected if Apple was removing the headphone jack that they would add USB type C and Bluetooth 5 instead of the same-old lightning port and 4.2. In fact, it looks like there's more than one model of iPhone again, and the 6S' support for both CDMA and GSM appears to be a fluke, or they couldn't do it in time with the new antenna design. Unless I'm reading the iPhone LTE specs page incorrectly...
does anyone know whether the mere use of the 3.5mm drains batteries? I presume so.
Found the pcmasterrace.
It's about time. Office 365 collaboration just sucks!
Needs more courage.
You might downvote me all day long, but this doesn't change facts. Drama queens.
I have family who share one email between two spouses. They might maintain separate personal email addresses; probably not, though.
If you are a masochist
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Because most workflows involve some kind of document. Automatically routing that document to different people and standardizing the way they interact with it can be very beneficial.
Oh, shoot, I missed that. I saw "FWS" (meaning "folding white space"), and assumed that didn't include comments since they have nothing to do with folding whitespace.

Well done.
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Yes. Obesity in the mother can increase birth weight. Increased birth weight can require a C-section. There is a strong link between obesity in parents and children regardless of delivery method.
Update to answer my question: my work PC had 'turn off all unnecessary animations (when possible)' ticked in the ease of access centre under the 'make your computer easie to use'. I don't know if this is by default. Unticking it made these animations occur but wow it creates a bit of lag in excel even on my workstation. This is probably some configuration thing on my work's SOE and why they have it disabled in the first place.
Flatness can result in much more overwhelming complexity.
Don't know about TRIM but all the others seem to go to the merge with Micro Focus
The animated image at the end is genius!
I'm always suspicious about harmful effects of all these electromagnetic waves around us, and with Apple forcing everyone to use Bluetooth headphones, I'm even more concerned.

Researchers have not come to a definite conclusion about how much EM waves can be related to diseases, but they haven't denied it either. And one thing is obvious: long-term exposure to EM radiation cannot be good, no matter how much low-power it is.

Apple (and other Bluetooth headphone companies) are building on a presumption that EM waves are not harmful, and even if they are, lawyers can easily close the case for Apple.
Steer an FPV RC Car with an Arduino-Powered Wheel
1. Removing the headphones is not what people are complaining but unable to charge the phone and use wired headphones is one thing people are complaining about.

2. USD 160 for a AirPod! thats too much and the design really is not up to the mark
> I don't think that is true at all.

I've run into a couple of sites that reject passwords containing ', %, and other special characters that suggest there may be some truth to it.

If you're scrubbing input as if it's about to be insert into a database via SQL, then there's really only two possibilities. Either a) you're running legacy code that still does the check and does blind escaping (which has its own set of implications) or b) you really truly are storing passwords as plain text.
Has anyone been able to compare PS VR with Oculus / Vive? How big of a deal is the pixel density? Any noticeable lag?
"I have not failed, I have just learned thousands of of ways which don't work" applies to science as well. It bothers me popular science often presents ground breaking work as a direct competitor to an established theory, while usually the established theory is a necessary stepping stone to the new one. usually, because it's more obvious approach and explains some aspects of the system. The old theory can be used as an instrument to gauge the qualities of the system under observation, and incompatibilities found provide then fertile material for new understanding.
I wonder why they advertise so much for 4k resolutions, when they still run with a 60degree fov on 30fps with resolutions under 2k. This is madness.
IIRC, they purchased a huge block of 16 million IPv4 addresses quite some time ago and are still pulling from that, so they aren't investing any new money into IPv4.

Also, I don't see them being that stressed about it, they now have the t2.nano now which are ~$5/m and still come with a free IPv4 address.
In addition to the other points that have been raised - Office is expensive! True, Apple's hardware also tends to be pretty expensive, but when you can buy a new iPad for $400 (or MacBook for $900) that'll last several years, an extra $50-$100 per year for Office 365 is a significant addition. Even on more expensive hardware, that's likely the most expensive software purchase most users will ever make... which means that rational or no, some users will shy away from it... and they'd be stuck without an office suite. In comparison, iWork used to cost ($80 back in the days of iWork '09, later $5-10 per app for the rewrites) but has been free for a while now.

Google Docs is free, but as a browser-based interface it's slow and nowhere near the kind of native experience Apple likes to promote; it requires an internet connection on anything but Chrome; it will never be a poster child for the latest macOS features like trackpad-pinch-to-zoom or Versions or the share sheet or whatever. That's on the desktop; on iOS, Google has a set of native apps but they're quite feature-limited.

Also, both Word and Google Docs are owned by companies that directly compete with Apple, and the apps promote the respective company's ecosystem (e.g. for storage, they push you to OneDrive and Google Drive respectively rather than iCloud). For better or worse, Apple wants to control the whole experience and make it all seamless. Not to mention that Apple probably wants to avoid situations where in the future it could be held hostage to some extent by the owner of a 'must-have' app for its platform.

There are less popular alternatives, but they all have their own problems.

Personally, I neither need to open people's Word documents nor have particularly strenuous requirements for a word processor or spreadsheet (or presentation software, but I'm pretty sure Keynote has some fairly decent pluses compared to PowerPoint anyway). So I am quite satisfied by iWork.
Yes, apparently he saw the keynote before anyone
(I am relatively excited about this research direction. It seems like the sort of thing that might lead to genuinely useful components of a safer AGI system later.)
> I can’t find the quote anymore but I heard Sam Altman of YC say that there are no shortcuts or cheats when it comes to building a startup.

Yeah, I've heard someone - Euclid may be? - said something similar about the road to science... :)
right now can one charge and hear music?
Which would you prefer?E-mail marketing or marketing automation software?
$2mm is something like one hour of revenue for Apple

I don't think they make design decisions on that basis
Illusory Introspection and confabulation are fascinating but generally have more to do with what was going on in your head when you took that action? than can you explain why you think that?. XAI is not interested in psychological state or an explanation in terms of ion concentration, voltage changes and synaptic activations. Or in the case of AI, the meaning of the contents in vectors after maps on matrix vector products.

A large part of human success is that we are able to transmit knowledge to each other and accumulate experience over generations. A human starting from scratch is not very much more than its ape cousins.

Human beings can explain efficiently because we must learn concepts decomposably and can take deductive shortcuts. In its purest form we have mathematical proofs as explanations. Explanations work with core concepts and generates on that basis. E.g. We want to know A and we know B, B is applicable in condition C. We will show condition C applies. With B, A can be shown in terms of...

When you give big data to machines they work with raw correlations and output predictions. But humans have to be more creative because our scratch space is so small. Newton took Brahe's big data and compressed it to a theory of universal gravitation. Darwin made a relatively small number of observations, all things considered, and came up with On the Origin of Species.
5 Years is probably generous.

1. They are only now being shown in R&D to be possible to make small enough for consumer devices. How do produce at wide scale is unknown and how they would be implemented in a stack is unknown.

2. It's unclear if the market is there for applications that need LIDAR over more proven IR or cheaper CV techniques.

3. FCC requirements are a pain for active sensors like LIDAR or Ultrasonics on consumer devices
A very, very common scenario for me was to listen to music in my 2009 car (on long drives) through AUX cable, while still charging the phone through a car charger. It seems that time is gone now.
What is "Ubuntu on Windows"?

Are you using that new fangled Linux literally in Windows thing I heard of? How's that going?
As someone who watched the live stream of the original presentation from the Stack Overflow lunchroom I can confirm that the video is missing some context. Definitely a bit of house style and a throw back to some old school memes, but overall an informative and humorous training session that I am glad was made public.

Joel usually gives great presentations, and recently he even started personally editing our internal company update videos (and complaining when we don't show appreciation by up voting them :-) because the first one was a bit dry.
Interesting. I get part of it. How does being online increase entropy?
"These are the new leads. These are the Glengarry leads. And to you they're gold, and you don't get them. Why? Because to give them to you would be throwing them away. They're for closers."

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TQ8GvYqwOfg/TweSejc8ZgI/AAAAAAAAAC...
This 'zine (and really, much of the author's entire website) are pretty much pure, concentrated joy and tech-geek happiness. I hope my kid grows up to have the sort of attitude about solving problems and going about life that she does.

Bravo, Ms. Jvns!
I think there's a lot of room for nuance in 60 inputs per second. The sword example is "digital/binary" because of how long it takes to swing. But you're usually given direct, continuous control over your character's movement. These movement mechanics can allow a lot of expressivity, especially if there are multiple mechanics which can interact. Take a look at the movement in Super Smash Bros. Melee if you want a concrete example.
I don't get why you simply can't list all of the folders that are shared with the entire Google Apps domain.
the guy says he's not an idiot then brags about spending $30 per month on a VPS (idiot),

You can always go with cheap, fully virtualized GNU/Linux server, or you can go with a virtual, true UNIX server running at the speed of bare metal[1].

Your choice, but quality, correctness of operation, data integrity and performance still cost something. It you don't care about any of those things, fork out $5 for the alternative and call it a day.

[1] http://www.joyent.com/
I think Dropbox is drifting towards Microsoft (which is not a bad thing I think). They're collaborating with MS Office.
> There are lots of things he does that are still rookie mistakes!

A fun allegation, given Joel's Excel history :) Joel invented VBA: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html

However, its quite likely he's not the world's best Excel poweruser :)
They don't even support CORS correctly [1]. I use Google Storage+AWS CloudFront for my static assets because S3 is so thoroughly broken.

[1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=715806
That's true - but if you're also a customer of the company and you notice you're no longer interested in the products they sell, that can inform your investment decision about the company's future performance. It can be an earlier signal than waiting for results announcements.
That same meek, SJW, intellectual slut-shaming "logic" is also used to accept and defend multiculturalism where persons come to occupy, spread their values and stay separate and not integrate with the society which welcomed them. That's anti-social, a priori. Plus, we don't accept canabalism or 6-year-old brides and say "that's their culture, we cannot judge it and must do nothing."
Is he on bail for charges that were uniquely mendacious?

Or is it just that everyone in the industry that's competent breaks certain rules, and he's been targetted for being a giant asshole in a public way.
The Goal Seek part was painful to watch. Why would rounding completely break that? And why would it end up at 9 billion?