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It's also massively more capable on the GPIO front. I used mine for a project with a lot of analog input that a Pi would never have worked for.
Returns on R&D have been falling across a wide range of disciplines for a long time. Joseph Tainter references work by several other authors, looking at patents and Nobel Prize awards. J. Doyne Farmer and the late John C. Holland both work in the are of technological innovation as well.

I'm not convinced technology and understanding are the causal factors here.
It's not really the same. The tutorial shows how to setup two frameworks to work together, so it's easy to extend the application in both front- and backend with other functionalities. Noone in their clear mind wouldn't combine asp.net and angular to display simple message
> How can Apple be targeted for monopolistic behavior?

Because they don't even allow other browser engines on their iOS platform, which is explicitly what was the subject of the "ballot box" ruling.

Monopolies are per-product class. Apple is responsible for both the hardware and the software. All it takes is having one of their products own half of its market.

… which, of course, could take a long time. It did happen for tablets circa 2011, I believe.
I didn't link to that because you didn't answer the topic being debated here.

Would you be willing to go on record and state whether you were forced to resign or not? If you were, then I agree that was wrong, and will stop linking to that FAQ post going forward. Instead, I'll link to your reply and offer my support that Mozilla was in the wrong for forcing you out.

However, if you're going to stay with, "NDAs and none of your business", then I can't work with that. I can only work on what knowledge is available to the public. And all publicly available evidence is that your resignation was entirely voluntary. I hope you'll agree that unless someone actually involved (such as yourself) goes on record, everything else is just baseless speculation. It wouldn't be fair to penalize Mozilla based solely on conjecture.

And yes, I was in Ohio during our 2004 vote to ban marriage equality via state constitutional amendment. I stated that people like you (as in, religious people imposing their views on others through force of law) helped make that happen. Marriage wasn't really on my radar until around 2008. I think it was just seeing California of all places vote against it that really crushed my spirit for a long time. I know empathy is really difficult, but imagine if our positions were reversed and I donated to successfully help prevent you from marrying your wife. How would you think of me? That I didn't live in California is 2008 is no reason I can't object to your actions.

As always, even if we strongly disagree, I appreciate that you're willing to respond and have a discussion with a nobody such as myself, so thank you for that :)
I personally wouldn't update any work-essential computer to any bleeding-edge software. Especially audio. Especially hardware I use to perform.

It seems absurd.

So does the suggestion to switch to Windows instead. Anyone who had to mess around with ASIO drivers, latency and crackling and sudden freezes under Windows can attest to that.

I wouldn't even add the fact that Windows 10 just screwed the partition table up for the second time within a week. Pretty problematic.

/rant

Some of the things pointed out in the article do have merit: Apple's QA seems to be a little off nowadays - we need that more than any hardware right now.
Yep, there are a lot of people using SQLite embedded in things. That's probably not a use case for DBHub.io. :)

Some things which seem like a good fit are:

* People wanting an easy way to sync a SQLite database been multiple devices. Effectively, a SQLite specific dropbox. :)

* Once version control is in place (eg tags, releases, similar concept to GitHub) then anyone wanting to publish data (eg scientific results) could find it as a good resource. eg "version 1.0 is the data from our FOO study on 2016-Aug-07". Central reference point thing for traceability, sharing, (etc).

* Simple database access for Serverless apps.

All of these are mainly just possibilities. We'll start building it out and getting something people can use, then see what falls out and take it from there.

Probably the biggest thing in our favour is sheer download numbers.

People already download the "DB Browser for SQLite" GUI 150k+ times a month. We'll add some basic (optional) integration in that soon, which should help get people testing and trying it out.

Based upon feedback and conversation from that, we can determine where to put time & effort.

Does that make sense? :)
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Same on Firefox / Kubuntu 16.04
Facebook asked WhatsApp users to give consent before collecting data, which some did. Why should the government intervine between consenting adults agreeing on a contract willfully? Isn't this the definition of tyranny and why we oppose things such as the war on drugs?
If you're not satisfied with the "official" devices (e.g. Jolla 1, Intex Aquafish, or Jolla C [if you were lucky enough]), then there are a number of community ports at varying levels of maturity[1].

Otherwise, there's the possibility that the Fairphone 2 will receive official SailfishOS support. Finally, there's a number of yet unreleased devices with official SailfishOS support[2]

[1] https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris

[2] https://together.jolla.com/question/136143/wiki-available-de...
>App stores are what users and developers want

I as a developer don't care. I was selling software on the web before app stores came around. And update distribution + payment processing wasn't hard. At least not that hard that I'd like to pay 30% of my revenue for.

And users. User don't really "want" app stores. They take them because they are convenient. But my software download and sales volumes didn't change much with app stores. People just switched to the app store from softpedia (or whatever software sites they were using before). There's not more users buying software just because Apple came up with the Mac app store. At least not for my business.
This is great in terms of discovery, but I can't find the unsubscribe option? Maybe i'm overlooking something - would appreciate anyone point it out. Unsubscribing is probably a big of a pain point as discovery when it comes to newsletters for me.
Despite the snark of your answer, I'd be interested to know if you have any examples of science-based time management. It seems that this field is mostly trial-and-error, the techniques either work for you or don't.
This makes me sad, not because I wanted to use Firefox OS, but because JanOS[1] (a hacked up FFOS) turned cheap Firefox phones into really powerful Javascript-based hardware hacking platforms. It's really quite fun, and I love the idea of abusing the economies of scale of cheap consumer electronics to make creative hardware tools. Most dedicated hardware development boards with all the features of a phone would cost 4 times as much.

[1]: http://janos.io/
It seems that since the Google+ integration fiasco every single "improvement" YouTube introduces is a step back.
Yes--I didn't bring up advertising. They could advertise like the old days, like news papers did. They just couldn't target market their advertising--like they presently do at nausium.

I still think they would make their nut. They would still be winners!

And yes--I would pay for the right service, if they couldn't manage to compete by being hobbled with not targeted advertising. I paid for many websites before Google made advertising a science.

(My post has nothing to do with advertising. I get advertising. Just leave my info. out of it.)
Things like principal component analysis, eigenvalues and filtering are timeless and fundamental tools that won't go away in the near future.

Even if you don't go into computer vision - these have a wide range of applications, for example in sound or signal processing which are closely related.
There gonna be a third option like ubuntu desktop is the third option after windows and macos. But It's gonna be for people who value control or privacy above everything else.
The key factor remains the timing for this third option to rise.
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Privacy is strongly regulated in EU, there was a strong push for it from both our legislators and normal citizens. We asked the states to be involved and not let the "free market" decide by itself.
In my state one of the most important and independent role in government is the "Privacy Regulator" which has the power to check, verify and impose strong regulations on how you manage others data, and is very active.
The problem is Android and IOS basically came at the same time and got almost same apps in them. For a new platform there is not much to innovate other than we have the same features, but not the same company. There is only way to win in this industry now. Its to create a OS which has compatibility with android apps and has excellent hardware integration.
If a sale person stood on the street and offered people to install tracking software in their phones that will record every move, every call, every text, which the customer is told will be sold at a nice profit to any one thats willing to buy it with no oversight. At the end of one year, non-poor customer that the company earned profits from from will get a one time compensation of $20.

How many people will accept the deal, and why doesn't it already exist?

Or to ask a different question, will companies demand $20 for the services instead of offering it for tracking-as-payment? How will they fare against less polished services that are given away for free by people who run it on their spare time?
Or these tests were designed from the first moment to exhibit this distribution of grades since they favor only geniuses and insiders alike.

I am not really buying that this is some kind of a reflection of a natural or deterministic phenomenon.
There is: the ETA for that is the end of November. See here: https://letsencrypt.org/upcoming-features/
They use it only for comparing their method to the traditional brewing process.
> Could someone give an example where it really shines and clojure's loop/recur just doesn't?

In practice you don't replace TCO with loop/recur; you replace it with lazy sequences. They both solve the "how to work on unbounded data while consuming bounded memory" problem even though at first glance loop/recur seems more similar.

Most people who complain about not having TCO have not fully wrapped their heads around lazy sequences.
LEDs often emit more blue spectrum light than older technologies, which makes them more effective at stopping melatonin production. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsically_photosensitive_r...

LEDs also switch much faster than older lights, which means people can pulse-width modulate them, causing annoying flicker for people who're sensitive to it.

Admittedly both these problems are avoidable, but in practice they're seen as LED problems because they're so common with LEDs.
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How is it a framework? It just looks like a complete mash-up of existing frameworks/libraries, what does this offer that the others don't?
I think tone of "congratulations" on this site should be really important sign for Google to reconsider their way.
This all comes back to the two-faced saying of one thing loud and publicly while in the small print buried in legalese proclaiming something else. That practice needs to be illegal. It is basically fraud.
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That's my experience too. There are those who want to get a degree with the least amount of work and don't really find the topic interesting. And then there are those who will discuss it and debate it before/after class, etc.

Good test to tell them apart: if the lecturer mistakenly starts to talk about stuff that he already said in the last lecture (i.e. mistakenly doing the last one again), the first group will be happy and silent because there will be less stuff to learn for the test. The second group will tell the lecturer because they want to learn. This is then often mistaken by the first kind of people as trying to please the professor or "siding" with the prof instead of the fellow students. Because they think in a school-mindset.
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I have some sympathy with this but I think people ignore a lot of the stuff which Google just gives away with some fairly light advertising. Think about navigating with Apple maps, or trying to organise your life with Hotmail or trying to do anything without Google search. Some of their product decisions wind people up but I think they do a lot more good than harm.
> Why are they not transparent like finance guys, lawyers, doctors etc.

What makes you think that the situation in other fields is any different?
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Generally, under affirmative action programmes and the like, nobody gets anything “just because of their ethnicity”. Rather, they may be given slightly reduced entry requirements, for example, to compensate for their background potentially disadvantaging them.
I know you're half-joking, but if this is something you're passionate about, there are things you can do (while there's still alternatives platforms...):

1. Purchase non-Apple, and non-Android devices (e.g. Jolla/SailfishOS, Ubuntu Touch devices)

2. Develop software for the alternative platforms -- that's what I do. It's a lot of fun programming on a GNU/Linux mobile. I write software in Python with 3rd party modules from pypi, and Qt/QML.

3. Spread the word. Tell other like-minded developers about how fun it is to work on your alternative platform of choice. Plus since there's only 10s of thousands of users, your software actual gets used (and people appreciate it!).
That's interesting - I'm surprised to hear so many first hand accounts.

If it is widespread it's especially unfortunate considering there's already some controversy around the high numbers of asian applicants.

Btw, I only mention race because it is a central topic of the article.
We're talking ASP.NET and Angular, so of course it's going to have some Big Enterprise (tm) stank on it.
My understanding is that they were Internet Applicants [1]. The wording the DOL used makes it appear that someone just needs to say they meet the basic qualifications (defined in another section on the same page).

What should be concerning is it applies to these 3 jobs specifically. Palantir is offering a lot more jobs than what is indicated in the lawsuit [2] [3]. As another poster has said, could it be a poisoned recruiter? I wonder if that will be considered and if it will affect the AI (adversity impact).

[1] https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/faqs/iappfaqs.htm#...

[2] https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/newsroom/newsrelease...

[3] https://www.palantir.com/careers/
Compaq, on the other hand, was the first “PC clone” company. It’s a term that sounds rather quaint today. At the time, though, Compaq sent a shudder through the industry. Compaq reverse-engineered the IBM PC BIOS without ever looking at the BIOS code. That was harder than you might think, because IBM actually published the assembly code for the PC BIOS in its technical reference manuals. Compaq was able to prove that its engineers never looked at the code or disassembled the original BIOS to come up with their own.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/57702-hewlettpackard-co...
I imagine you've never been the one hiring or interviewing developers, have you?

There is an amazing bit though: there are the ones that you classify as "surely worthless", but then you see they can indeed get some jobs done, so a non-technical manager or HR-person can easily confuse one of those that "can sometimes program computers to do useful stuff or keep things running" vs someone who can do "software engineering".

Oh, and then there's the infuriating third category of those extreeemly smart (IQ through the roof + wealth of knowledge) but extreeeemly unproductive (like even manifesting "negative productivity" and dragging a team down or an entire project into the ground, the "-10x programmer").

People are... complex :)
Best recourse would be a credit card chargeback. If Paypal, probably a writeoff.

The trickier part is, it's unknown whether StartCom will backdate more certificates, triggering Mozilla to block them entirely. That could happen well after the window where you're allowed to request a chargeback. Although I do believe it's extremely unlikely that they will. Unless Google and Microsoft follow suit, such an action is just as likely to damage Mozilla as it is to damage StartCom. People who just want to access websites will not bother to understand the reason why suddenly only Firefox is refusing to let them view their pages.
And if only Sailfish OS was open source.
https://together.jolla.com/question/80676/request-fully-open...
Seriously... I avoid Firefox on my (rather beefy) desktop because of how much it freezes. I don't want to imagine how it worked on a 50€ phone, which looked like it was their target.

Maybe they thought Gecko would be ready by the time the OS was going to ship?
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I don't know if it's systematic per se, but I wrote a comparison here: http://technomancy.us/169

My take is that the biggest difference is not in the language but the runtime. Nearly all the things that Racket lacks (except world-class GC and JIT compilation) can be added in after the fact due to its massive flexibility; Racket is a natural choice when you want a lisp but can't afford the memory or launch time overhead of the JVM. Unfortunately the things that Racket does well typically cannot be retrofitted onto Clojure due to its sloppy semantics around nil, but maybe Clojure's port of Racket's contracts system will change the balance there.
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I restated my principle in terms of family because I don't think you disagree with my principle there. Do you think my brother should threaten me with violence if I employ someone other than his son?

I have no problem with individuals disposing of their property as they see fit. Just as Sven might like to pass his house to Lucas, I might like to rent my house to Jose the Mexican. And I object to laws that would prevent both of these things.

I guess another disagreement we have is that I don't see citizenship as property.
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Weight loss is a result of a proper treatment. A result.

Care is getting the obese person to lose weight. Which is hard, harder than dealing with hard drugs. Dieteticians, who are supposed to be specialists, fail hard at care. GP doesn't even know where to start.

So let's fix what is broken. If a person cannot eat, they are fed, right? That is a task for a properly trained nurse.

But I don't know of a doctor who wants to provide essentially more than daily care and effective one to begin with.

And doctors do not like to feel like failures.
Well, if you enjoy something, it's much easier to put a lot of time in to figure it out.

For example, I became a software entrepreneur about five years ago making money from my own projects. Dealing with a lot of business related "work", I actually discovered I also really like law, in particular tax law.

A friend of mine was a pretty good lawyer (hung up his hat to do more entrepreneurial stuff) and I occasionally ask him to look over contracts I've drafted. He said some of the contracts I put together are better than what some of his colleagues put together. I've also defended myself in a few tax disputes with legal arguments, and always won. If I knew more about it before, I think I would've genuinely enjoyed being a lawyer.

If you enjoy something, it's not that hard to become really good at something. If you don't, it is extremely hard to become better than the guy who loves what he does.
By the way, it's AngularJS.
It's really not about time, it's being able to think flexibly. I have seen several freshman who never coded before where 1/3 of them get it in a few weeks and have an easy 4 years, where the second set either drops out or spends a lot of time trying to keep up.

An assembler class where the high end spent 2-3 hours and come in with 3-5 pages of code vs. the low end that spent 50x as long had 100+ pages of code that did not quite work. At first glance the difference was if you looked up how the math coprocessor worked, but more generally how much you tried to brute force the problem vs. look for a cleaner solution.
The reason paychecks take so long to clear was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12096250 'Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer'
But this a poor, skewing argument always made by at least one person here. For most FF is very responsive and there are no problems what so ever.

And FF is not FF-OS.
Sunset is the strangest place I've ever seen from the air. A totally regular grid of housing with no almost no open spaces at all. Maybe you can't see it from the air but are there even community spaces where people gather? I can't even see any shopping or restaurant areas. It's all just regular roads.

I can't imagine how you could make it any more developed. There isn't an inch of breathing space is there? If you built up how would anyone get around? In higher rise places even like London there are parks and a variety of spaces and variation in the layout to get around the extra vertical density.
What is the difference between someone loading it for you or for example a school that teaches you skills to do it on your own?
Sacrificial parts are great design IMO, specifically when they protect a much more expensive part. However, it does bother me that the parts are often very custom and only available from the manufacturer.

I enjoy listening to a conversation where some blowhard talks about was was obviously a shear pin breaking in some mechanical peice of equipment and then replaces it with a grade 8 bolt.
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True true, I'm craving the day Ubnut Phone runs on my OnePlus 3. But I also used an loved Window Phone (so smooth, so intuitive and beautiful)... But the lack of apps kills you. Start with being able to run APKs, go from there please.
Great solution if you never want to use code anyone else has written. To be fair this seems like a pretty common mindset in CL-land.
Any box that has browser and can access Google can do that
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Company builders are companies or areas within companies spending resources to develop others or own new ideas. The following article talk about them: https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/16/the-rise-of-company-builde...
I really think it's location, location, location, not necessarily whether or not the software is the product.

I've worked for consulting companies, product companies, and right now I work for a sort-of back-office organization. The best I've been able to do, despite several years of experience, good references, inside connections, a graduate degree, and being pretty (I think, anyway) personable is...75k. And I don't know anyone doing much better unless they moved to SV or NYC.

My long-term plan is to see if somehow I can find the time to find a side-project or contribute to something open source, so my ability is out there and highly visible to anyone considering me, but that is going to be very difficult for where I am now. I'd love to make low six figures, it seems difficult to believe even in SV there are new grads making 150k, and it's frustrating to me because I know I perform at the level of people making that much money.

EDIT: In case anyone was curious, new grads hired for development in my area of the US get paid from about 35-45k.
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