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Will the phones sold by Verizon be a different SKU?

There are some phones, the LG G4 being one I believe, which are available in unlocked SKUs that technically work on Verizon's network, but don't have access to as many cellular bands and therefore don't get as good of signal/speeds.
Not only from government contracts. I remember watched a news clip years ago which interviewed the owner of a local ISP in midwest, who tried to use huawei's equipments and got FBI knocking his door.

I see your point of huawei cloning cisco's IP back when it first started. But today it's the biggest applicant for IP globally.
The video states they have locked in an exclusive agreement with a national grocery chain to provide tomatoes for 10 years at a fixed price. My guess is its a win-win for the respective companies.
Wow, simply wow.

Humanity is turning the world into farms, destroying natural forests but then engineering new types of habitats.

I wonder what the Earth would look like in 200 years.

What I am worried about is the rapid growth of the human population and its energy use. You can't have exponential growth forever. Most of the issues come from that. Farms and monocultures sound nice, but are they sustainable? Are the resources being recycled somewhere, or are we going to be plugging holes with bacteria digesting plastic and producing plant food?
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To answer your question, I may just be projecting here but it's probably a mix of jealousy of Zuckerberg and spill over ill will towards whatever it is that Facebook does from their sometimes objectionable behavior (turning the Internet in third world countries into a walled garden, psychologically manipulating their users, etc).
Great point. But, if a startup doesn't benefit from network effects (like an email or camera app), do you think VC money has more benefits than costs?
There is no conspiracy described in GP, only human politics as usual.
Many people have strong support for a single payer system. Seeing this simple failure illustrates a risk in moving that direction. Who do you trust to do a better job keeping costs in control? The greed (or fiduciary duty) of an insurance company or the governance of bureaucrats?

I trust the market more because the government has proved to be far more corruptible. There should be a government option for sure, but regulations should focus more on making the healthcare market healthy.

* Open straightforward pricing

* Removal of trademark protections for named drugs

* Reducing patent terms, adding affordability conditions

* Publicly funding research with open access requirements

* Mandating manufacture of unpopular or poorly competitive drugs to get patent protections

* Adding efficiency to approval and regulation process

It seems all too obvious that a single payer system in America would get overrun with regulatory capture and skyrocket costs in sweetheart deals.
And nothing will change because Google has very little control over android (they don't really own any of the important relationships which are between carrier and manufacturer) and is probably terribly afraid of antitrust issues, particularly in Europe, if they attempt to exert more control.
FWIW, Verizon does extensive internal testing of OS updates. When I was there, as an engineer, we would be given phones, and anytime there was a new update, we would receive the updates first, use it daily for a couple of weeks, and report what we found. There were multiple tiers of internal user trials before the updates were greenlit, and there were many potential OS updates that never made it to public because of the problems we found.

Verizon may slow down updates to consumer devices, but I always felt like it was for good reason.
Remember that an offer to buy is also a sales pitch, after a fashion. Unsolicited offers start to come in almost as soon as you feel like you have room to breathe.
On the Mac, third-party apps also have access to the Keychain (not just Safari). On iOS, each developer only has their own keychain.
> " And yet, a non trivial chunk of the candidates he had met with didn't clear this bar! Starting with an assumption that your candidate can handle complex questions when they can't even program can just muddle the issue, and there's very little advantage to skipping over the basic test."

And yet, I'd be surprised if almost all of those who didn't pass his "basic test" went on to be gainfully employed, and successful, building X app at X company instead of at Google.
But I thought buying from Verizon would cost less, because of the contract.

Am I right? My point is people who will buy phone for 50$ (for example for two year contract) from Verizon will get direct update from Apple (which improves overall health of the its ecosystem), but pixel ones don't. I think this is shortcoming.

So if you want fast updates like iPhone, you have to buy noncontract from Google itself.

Do you see what is my point?
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Nope. Latest projected path from the National Hurricane Center has it hitting the coasts of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina before heading back out to sea:

http://i.imgur.com/4zGAx1R.gif
For me Picolisp is a very nice Lisp implementation; easy to understand, enthused founder who has been at it since the 80s. Which is amazing in it's own right. And a solid community. Won't go away any time soon. Gambit is the same age, but I find the source code far harder to read. That's a matter of taste I guess.
They could be a bit more innovative with infrastructure building, like creating glass from the desert sand using solar:
https://vimeo.com/25401444
Not sure if it would do clear panes but could be used for pipe work and scaffolding perhaps.
Gratuitous screwing of customers aside, I'm trying to figure out what the benefit for Verizon is.

Do they get a lot of customer support calls from people who don't know how to use the phone, and need time to train the call center staff?

Or is it simply their reflexive control-freakery? Clearly they survive a lack of control from iOS.
As I understand it (lapsed Catholic), there are two senses to excommunication.

In one sense, it means that you are ineligible to receive the sacraments, and if you do receive them, they are invalid. This would be the case for someone with un-confessed sins, including heresy, or using birth control for that matter.

In another sense, it is the formal finding of excommunication by the church authorities. That's where a person is supposed to be banished from society.

I don't think that Galileo was ever excommunicated. Feyerabend claimed that the church fathers chose a wording in their finding that stopped one step short of accusing Galileo of heresy (for which they would have had to torture and murder him).
I'm pretty sure Google has multiple interviews with multiple questions.
Which ones are they? There's only one type of tomato not labeled 'product of Australia' on that page, and it's $23/kg. I'd love to pick some up when I go home tonight, just to try.
But I thought pixel lines was best opportunity to at least fix update problem in pixel line itself. Let alone Android ecosystem which is disaster when it comes to update issues.
That is extremely unlikely if current demographic trends continue, unless by "society" you mean wealthy whites and Indians.
A little more context please? I think everyone is familiar with the FBI investigation of Clinton related to her handling of classified material that very recently occurred. We may be less familiar with a similar investigation that occurred 8-16 years ago...
Of course, that's not the definition most 'front end devs' fall under.
That would take a novel. The overarching theme would end up being that you don't know as much about front-end development as you apparently think you do.

Which is what I said in the first place anyhow.
The graph of epipen pricing over time at the bottom of the article is jaw dropping. "Did we get in trouble yet? No? Add another 10% then".
Only imaginary books on Amazon have price curves like that.
Do they do the same for Apple devices ?
The US is the only first world country that has these problems. You don't need to come up with a fancy solution, just copy what another country does. It's not like it can get worse.
The IRS can garnish your wages without getting a judgement first. That is just a fancy way of saying they can take your money without going to court. You'll have to sue them if you think it's being done incorrectly, right?

Why can't the same be true of Mylan? "Garnish" their profits; and if it was done wrongly, they can sue the relevant Government department.

I'm guessing there are issues of scale of bad behavior involved here, and perhaps wage garnishing is really true only for "egregious" cases. My point is that maybe large lobbying pharma companies making insane profit margins off up-marked drugs ought to an egregious case too.
Our problems come with growing consumption per capita than our number per se.
The NTSB/FAA does a _great_ job of regulating. Aircraft have the beneficial property of being immune to bullshit. Mistakes, incompetence, and corruption lead very directly to planes falling out of the sky which is a very public and costly failure.

They're great because they have to be _and_ being great leads to success. You can, with solid engineering, completely understand and prevent failing. There aren't any act-of-God accidents. How and when aircraft fail is designed from the start; when they do fail there is always a cause and it's always fixable.

You can read plenty of NTSB reports about accidents (and they take mistakes which don't actually result in harm very seriously too) and they really do point out incompetence and stupidity. The most important part is that it isn't about blame or prosecution, it's about finding, fixing, and preventing problems. Revenge against people who screw up intentionally or not isn't helpful, making it impossible to screw up is.
This is fair, and a big reason I'm okay with update delays at Verizon. I trust them to block me from shoddy builds made by "fail often" companies like Google. As a business professional, I appreciate that Verizon demands reliability.

...However, people buying the Pixel are expecting direct control from Google, as part of the deal.

Verizon might benefit from taking a page from Motorola or Microsoft's book though: Allow users to opt into receiving direct updates, with the manufacturer or the user accepting the financial risk for problems encountered. Motorola phone users could sign up to be in test waves of their updates, and Microsoft, of course, has a Fast ring, a slow ring, a release preview, and of course, the official launch schedule the regular people are held to.

Note that similarly, when my Lumia Icon got Windows 10 Mobile, which Verizon doesn't currently support at all, Verizon did allow it, but basically said "it's at your own risk". And I get all my Windows Mobile updates directly from Microsoft on release.

Users should be able to accept the risk of a buggier experience to be on the latest software.
Understandably this is something you should make the correct choice for yourself, you might want to be scraped on readonly articles or public pages for things like thumbnails on reddit from EC2, but deny all `HTTPS POST /register` or something from EC2.
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It used to be the case that you'd get the phone subsidized by your service plan from Verizon, but not any longer. Verizon and the other major US carriers stopped subsidizing phones in the past few years.

For me the biggest reason I wanted to buy through Verizon was they were offering a promotional $200 trade in value for my Note 4. For some people selling their phone separately would be a better deal though, so even that won't matter.
I don't remember what we did for Apple devices, but I'm pretty sure they (Apple) had complete control over the update framework, including the updates themselves.

EDIT: edited for clarity
not op but I will say no, because Apple pushes the update by themselves.
We tried the gun, it didn't at all work that way for us -- we had a terrified pig running around with a hole in its forehead. Would you mind me picking your brain? Let me know your preferred method and I'll reply with my handle.

EDIT: just saw the email address on your first post.
The "minimum wage" aspect is an artifact of the imported labor (and mostly the "soul crushing"; you can lower labor costs by cutting wages, or working conditions). There is a reason they decided to be called the Green Bay Packers, and it's not because the jobs were associated with poverty & soul-crushing.
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FWIW, Apple apparently has a "Verizon team" (this was leaked in a Slack vulnerability). Presumably Apple works somewhat directly with Verizon on meeting their testing requirements for simultaneous release.
Edit: Is my price right??? After posting I began to doubt it and I am having terrible problems trying to find out what the current market prices for tomatoes is...

Commodity prices are usually expressed in tonnes. It seems at the moment the price is between $70-$80 per tonne. At $70 per tonne, the price would be about $1.2 million. You also need to pay operating costs. If the infrastructure is $200 million, I don't see how they will possibly pay it back. Even at current low interest rates, I don't think you would be able to pay off your loan.

And yes, commodity prices for food are ridiculously low. All of the money goes to distributors. Fix that and we can have nice things like this.
Thoughts on email: Your whole email is about you. The first paragraph is about you and what you want from the prospect.

Then you tell them about getting something for free without actually knowing whether "FREE" actually matters to them or not.

You then tell them you'll do a smooth integration, which is also about you.

Then you ask them to help you.

Then you ask them to educate you.

Then you ask them to introduce you to their contacts.

Then you close with a non-close and thank them for reading it when what you really want is a response.

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To improve it: 1) Make it about them 100%. No sales prospect cares about who you are or what you do. They care only about themselves and their company. So start with them. 2) Don't ask them to help you in any way, you are only there to help them do what they want to do. 3) You have to learn to qualify and make it apparent you've done your homework.
I don't think experience is replaceable. There are certain things in software that doesn't change.

- solving the problem at hand.

- solving it in the quickest time possible

- the solution to the problem should not introduce new problems

I think for experienced programmer such as yourself the knowledge that you "lose" or "decays" don't actually become useless. I think they will serve you in making better future decisions like for example what you are saying now. Realizing whether things are 'fads' or 'foundational ideas' is a big asset for an experienced programmer.

The same way with doctors. Their tools are changing rapidly but the underlying concept is still the same. She may not know about all the new tools but she understands how a heart works, and because of that she can gauge if the new tool is just a 'fad' or will it change how things are done fundamentally.

I think every career path has this in some degree or another.
I don't think he was using the word that way. I interpreted "dissociation" as the more clinical and formally defined psychological term for a mental state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociation_(psychology)
You see similar things with manufacturing coming back to the US. Plenty of SKUs, not many jobs. This is because it's the most easily automated SKUs that get brought back to the US.
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Thanks a bunch for the resources :). Gonna play around with some of these.

Modeling software is definitely something that's interesting, but also just helping these organizations not seem so unappealing. Their websites are old unusable, their career tracks are pretty bad, pay is low -- they sell these jobs terribly.

I wouldn't even mind working a degree away from environmental endeavors just to get smart people motivated to solve these problems and learn more. Think data journalism on environmental educational pieces. Or helping local governments preserve the nearby environments. Kinda just shooting around in the dark hoping to hit something, but thanks for the start :)
Thank you, my information was outdated.
So for example if I use iOS apps for everything I can let them handle authentication for me and use my fingerprint, which is a much much nicer user experience than remembering a load of passwords.

I'm two-thirds of the way thru the comments here, and you are the first to mention this. And yet, as you say, it's a "much much" nicer experience. I've started allowing iOS apps to identify me by fingerprint, and it's a lot more pleasant to do that than to type in some crazy long password.
You're lucky you have all of your friends close to you. Some of my best friends are a 2 hour plane ride away. This would be great (if they could afford it).
I don't use Facebook, but I frequently look back at old Instagram posts. Before Snapchat every photo service let you look at old photos (and indeed, that was half the point!).
Where do you go to buy expired domains?
I hear you, and appreciate where you are coming from. I will say that Verizon cares a lot about its brand and about perceived quality. I believe that's why they try to maintain as much control over the "change" process as possible, because they see themselves as the ones on the hook when the quality of the experience is sub par.
F-Expressions are awesome fun.

Gambit internals does kind of look like black magic half the time, but the author implemented environments because I asked [0], which is very cool.

The more experimental lisps, the better we can make the future. I love how the lispish community views PLT, and always tries out someone's new idea. (Bayes integration in newLISP is cool. LFE is also cool.)

[0] https://github.com/gambit/gambit/issues/204
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>Seeing this simple failure illustrates a risk in moving that direction.

Right. There are currently no known failures in the private system. Let's stick with that.
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Israel has already made huge investments into desalination and has now more water than it needs.
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There really is only one appropriate solution for this and that is universal basic income.
Nobody has any experience of being any older than they currently are, but a lifetime's memory of being younger. Hence most people of all ages feel old.

One trick I like to play on myself is to imagine I come back from twenty years in the future. What advice would I give myself? First thing would have to be "shut up about being old! Your life is still ahead of you."

I like the other trick too, where I imagine being visited by a teenage me and thinking what he would say about where I'm at. It can be an awkward conversation. Where's the Ferrari?

As a less whacky version, pay really good attention to your parents and your kids.
Maybe I'm a psycho, but it's interesting how pity and empathy extend to all living beings for some (most?) people
Don't just ask for the codebase, ask for repository access!

You might care about how it looks, but you should care more about how its changing. Tell them your more than willing to do it in office on a company laptop for an hour or two, tell them you don't mind having someone sit with you to answer/field questions.

This is right up there with "can I see a cap table" for questions to ask before taking an offer.
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Why is that personally I feel it is so that they can put all the carrier bloatware into the Android roms.
I like that here in Singapore carriers are not allowed by law to lock phones to their networks or put uninstallable bloatware. So carriers can put the bloatware in but I can get rid of it easily as not in the system rom and we are allowed to sell the device that we get thorough contracts.
Is the distinction between this page and the kind of things posted on craigslist, strictly that the posters had to pay to list their ads? Or do prostitutes not post on craigslist? AFAIK Newmark hasn't had to deal with any of this.

I'd be interested to know if there is something similar and legal in countries that allow prostitution (Netherlands?). Seems like they were making a lot of revenue for what is basically illegal ads - so a legal version would do even better I would imagine. Though I suppose the pricing would drop if it were legal.
Calling stored procedures microservices always makes me laugh.
> sun, seawater .... and fertiliser. As made clearer in other articles, they are adding nutrients to the water.

Yes, that is how plants work.
Instead of "odd shortcuts," think of it like this guy does:

Learn to speak vim — verbs, nouns, and modifiers! https://yanpritzker.com/learn-to-speak-vim-verbs-nouns-and-m...

"To move efficiently in vim, don’t try to do anything by pressing keys many times, instead speak to the editor in sentences

" delete the current word: diw (delete inside word)"
Ask HN: What are some ways to test an UI focused web application
I am a fresh graduate and I have joined a startup where we are developing Ruby on Rails based web app with ReactJS. The project is fairly large in size, yet there is no testing framework setup. Everytime we push some code usually small bugs like null checks in javascript and backend occur but mostly at the UI side. We want to avoid this by using some better practises and would love to hear what readers have to say.
I think the casual slur of 'minorities' counts as flamewar material.

Perhaps there's a reasonable discussion to be had (though it's likely beyond HN's tolerance) about how race and gender issues complicate each other, including in the tech world, but a comment like this one isn't it.
And webpack's documentation is the spawn of Satan. Going outside the typical use cases is downright impossible. While it has the widest feature set out there, it's incredibly difficult to believe in its reliability. That said, since you can always QA your bundle, reliability isn't as much of an issue I guess...
I've had a lot of fun with the social aspects in OnWard. Just about 10 minutes ago before I left the game, my group was standing in a circle joking around (until the enemy snuck up behind, dropped a grenade killing us in one blow.

VR is an amazing medium for remote social interactions. There's potential here. Not everything has to be about selfies, and self obsession. It's possible for random people to have a good time with each other. The internet makes it possible for you to find another person similar to who YOU are, and VR makes that interaction more personable. It's literally the best of both "Worlds".
I get the same behavior on firefox nightly.
Even if you are morally opposed to prostitution, is there really any benefit to authorities when you remove a centralized location and move it to the street or many different websites? If you really want to manage the prostitution "problem", having it all on a single website seems like a benefit for managing and researching the issue.
I felt it was an odd post for using as example a workflow which is common and then in the end trying to depict as something the developer has to be blamed for, for not using a UI for branching out.

Furthermore, using their UI doesn't guarantee that pipelines have been setup to test the commits in the repo. The article actually is about bitbucket pipelines, but hardly illustrates any of it.

I hardly use the web UI of remote repos unless I have to submit or review PRs. Especially the bitbucket UI which I find lacking intuitiveness when you start navigating the repos.