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With all due respect, when have the stock apps ever been good enough on any OS? I spent 20 years using Windows, and the first thing I did upon getting any new desktop/laptop was immediately go and grab a bunch of apps that I needed. They weren't necessarily the "best" apps, either; my old Windows 7 laptop is still running Winamp as my music player because I've used it since 1998 and it still does what I need it to do.

One's preference for programs is really a matter of personal taste. You can try to make the stock programs "suck less", but I doubt you're ever going to really eliminate the need for third party programs. Distros like KaOS (KDE with all-QT apps) have tried, with limited success. The best thing any distro can do, IMO, is to have an extensive App Center and use a flexible packaging format such that it encourages more apps to support that format.
Let's take something else: vodka. Poisonous or edible? Clearly poisonous: if you drink a litre, you may feel nauseous, lose your balance, slur your words, throw up...

On the other hand, generally recognized as edible: many people consume it regularly, most doctors wouldn't tell you to never consume it, recipe books include recipes using it, etc.

Many (identified!) mushrooms are on a similar level of toxicity: one is fine, a kilo will make you nauseous, twenty kilos can kill you. Whether this is toxic or edible is to some extent a cultural construct. The dose makes the poison.
It's trending https://github.com/trending/python
Leaving strings class (or orchestra, whatever you wanna call it) after just 2 years. I was pretty good at it, but hated practicing as a teen.

A decade later and I wish I could play an instrument, still.
He's right - Apple has a numbers problem ins that they need to have any potential investment be a big product category almost immediately. They've been notoriously careful to avoid random development in the public eye. When they have come to the market with half-baked products (Maps, AppleTV, iCloud/Mobile Me) they've tended to double down on them, rather than walk them backwards.

The highly integrated approach they've taken to hardware, software, and services across Watch, phone, tablet, computer, apps and a number of accessories have put them in an awkward place. They need to integrate more things into the stack, and whatever they choose needs to be almost immediately integrated into the full stack. HomeKit has been an effort to jump into the IoT with a better platform. Seemingly, Apple's main strategy now is to rely on the accessories or apps to highlight opportunities (siri, maps, etc) and then buy them and integrate them. I suggest that Apple should probably buy Sonos to continue pushing HomeKit and to follow on their acquisition of Beats, especially given the tighter integration that Sonos now has with the Apple ecosystem.

The lack of an obvious target for complete ecosystem integration is not only their lack of creativity, but the lack of obvious consumer demand for additional pieces of the puzzle. CarPlay is very nice, but it doesn't change car buying behavior, it is more like icing on the deal.

Finally, this leaves Software, which Apple has been investing less in since creating the app store. They've become comfortable as a platform company and have been unable to beat Adobe and others in the pro app market. To any professional, Software should be the obvious target, but it seems the vast majority of Apple's customers don't care enough to seek alternatives to Apple's apps. I think the lack of focus on pro software is what is really behind the lack of newer pro-level machines, since I suspect that APple's engineers on the software side were really the ones pushing for greater levels of machine performance (Logic, Aperture, Final Cut X).

Right now, Apple has Breadth in their stack, and they need depth. Software is the way to build depth, but it is not clear that Apple has anyone who understands software beyond OS-level details.
It is comforting to know. the world is same!
As a student from a government run poorest rural village school in India, my college professors constantly questioned how I was outperforming and even suggested that I might be using the bribery system to get good grades in standardized final exams. TBH, I actually enjoyed that experience.
Can you remove people from being replied to ? Didn't look like it.

Also seems to remove the ability to show everyone a reply via the ".@foo" convention.
Microsoft Gives Away New Server Design Aimed at Speeding Global Cloud Setup
It doesn't matter mathematically but it does matter in real life. In real life you don't have all of the terms of the equation simultaneously, you acquire them in order. People generally have money and/or connections before they have a startup idea. Obviously, they also have an idea before they have a team, execution, or a product.
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I don't think that works for an interface that has to live and die on a phone screen.
They (including Apple) told us once too often that their new fingerprint sensor will now really, really, finally solve all issues. With every new generation they tell us that all flaws of all previous generations have been solved. And once too often, they we proven to be wrong.

So I agree with zwp (not sure why he was downvoted):

I wouldn't put too much faith in fingerprint readers.
I did check. I didn't see anything about the eInk tech being used. What's the resolution, ppi, contrast ratio, refresh capability, etc?

Also, who are you? It's pretty rare for an engineer working on a cool project on HN to be reticent in sharing who they are, but maybe I missed the thread.
Huh, never heard of Antergos but it looks great. Will consider it next time I swap distros...
Ask HN: Create API without coding?
I need to share/integrate some data with a business partner. They need the data in a format called JSON. Problem is: I don't code and the budget is very limited. Any quick & easy ways? I have two spreadsheets. Google?
There is a modern version of this http://hackaday.com/2016/07/05/a-150mhz-6502-co-processor/
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Caring too much. Caring for the tedious details, small and big, that I know are important.

This means that regardless of my job description and intentions, I always end up being a sysadmin, spending my life caring for the tedious details that are too boring for the cool kids.
Well, I'm hoping that even if I went to uni that I would have still become a lifelong learner because I'm naturally curious and a bit cynical. Believing that I would have come to the same conclusion in life, having a uni degree in my back pocket would have made me feel a lot better about myself all through my 20s and some of my 30s. Like when applying for jobs in a specific field instead of taking service jobs, growing my professional abilities in said field, having a regular paycheck.

Thanks for the recommendation!
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Gains:

1. Possibly required by any sources written by others (e.g. chip vendors).

2. You don't see how poorly written the firmware is.
That's precisely why this acquisition is happening now, they're not doing so well and that means they are (relatively) cheap.
1. Not taking care of my teeth when I was younger.

2. This is probably more substantial: Not finding the right group of people to surround myself with. This is a mixture of not putting in the effort and not being in the right environment (particularly growing up and not really having the choice).

Now I'm starting something to hopefully help me and others find and share interests/passions with like-minded people. Life is too short to spend not fully enjoying the things we do.
"Goodwill" is simply an accounting term (remove any preconceptions of what "goodwill" actually is).

Goodwill is essentially what happens when you pay over book value for an asset.

It's quite common in telecom, because telecom infrastructure investments are generally depreciated over 10 years, but the capital assets still have some value even after they've been depreciated for tax purposes. If they were still listed as capital assets they could be depreciated, so they have to be booked as an asset somewhere.
Not trying to get out sooner. Moving to a different country, and building a life there is a long, arduous, and lonely process, and I'm not even remotely close.

I'm 24 already, and I regret having to spend the best years of my life looking for a home, when people my age are making friends, finding relationships, and building memories.

I regret not having the same starting point.
Oh I see. Thank you!
Funnily enough, for a while I haven't been able to use Hangouts screen share in Chrome (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=649487) but works in Firefox.

A couple of years back I was having persistent sleep/wake issues that seemed to stem from graphics driver issues. I switched between the open source and Nvidia binaries, trying to find a stable combination. What a nightmare. In the end, I decided that I didn't want to mess around and tried out a few Live CDs (think I tried Ubuntu, Mint, and Fedora). In the end, Fedora worked out of the box and completed my "stress test" of sleep, wake, sleep, wake. I had to give up stellar 3D performance, but have found things to be working quite well and consistent now through all the Fedora updates.

Might give Elementary OS a spin. This old Thinkpad T510 is getting dated, but still solid as ever (besides battery life).
Rigidity of thought when young.
GNU Emacs is a political project, rooted in the free software movement. Too often people like you insult Stallman and ask for an Emacs that is a bit better technically in exchange for removing the goals of the GNU proejct. There's plenty of other software to use that cares about technical matters only.
I watched this last night, and have been thinking on the subject of iron fertilization, there's good reason to think that large swathes of the ocean are limited in phytoplankton population due to iron deficiencies. When there are so many people with tech fortunes that kind of disdain government, I'm surprised no one has spent the 30k+legal fees to do some free-agent geo engineering. Sure it's a bit reckless, but wasn't the time for contemplative measured responses to this train-wreck a decade ago?

http://www.nature.com/news/ocean-fertilization-project-off-c...
Unfortunately, he didn't actually say that.
so "curated" in this instance is short for "Here's what I found"?
Tech Hubs Losing Dominance in Job Postings
Some people also spend weeks and months in Minetest (this one fictitious):
https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6642
How to Integrate PayPal Express into Spree Commerce
You can probably try to outlaw international meat trade. Still, colder countries are okay-ish for cattle actually, and you can grow chickens pretty much anywhere.
Seems slightly bulkier and 20% heavier, but that's not too bad. I wonder if the T460s panel works fine in the T460 if you're willing to do the swap.
Airtable.com?
Only if you're still living in a bubble of comfort.

(Which I am as well. The bad news has had very little impact ON ME. Because I live in a part of the US with the best infrastructure. )
I used perfmon and procmon and saw the Spotify process was writing to a file in my temp folder named etilqs_{random string}. The first part of the name is SQLite in reverse. This was on Windows. I also noticed three other etilqs files but they were owned by the Google Chrome process.
High end cars can pull up to 1g lateral forces and many cars can pull up to 1g breaking on a good road surface. Relatively low top speed just means you don't accelerate very long. I have hit weightlessness over a hill at high speeds followed by 1.x g on the other side, so 0.5 g does not seem bad.

Remember 1g * 1 second is only ~22mph.
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I think you still can do that manually, but it is awkward. I think it's clearly an attempt to make Twitter more welcoming to new folks.
It's a big amount. Relative data are useless here, we are talking about a 1-2K heating in a 300K body.
I regret being hard headed in a lot of my decisions. About accepting more mentorship, more critique, more guided challenge, and more help in general, especially when these weren't that expensive in terms of commitment and moral debt. This might be hypocrite because I'm enjoying the various forms of my current frugally retained freedom (and kind of still look down on those with various burdens who acted reckless by my standards back then).

I also regret not taking better care of my health. Although I consider myself a fairly responsible individual in this regard and went to great lengths to avoid health issues on many aspects, I haven't managed to be careful enough and cover the entire ground here. Health issues are costly in a lot of ways, the extra care requirement being the worst for me.
This is only half true. Current external 5K displays require two DisplayPort cables.
"What you need to succeed in startups is not an expertise in startups. It's an expertise in clients"

Love this. Without a customer you do not have a business
What do you wish you did differently? How did you move forward?
The problem with looking at how Ben Franklin developed his skills is that he had relatively fewer books to read and he had many fewer demands on his attention. For example, I read a piece a while ago discussing how Franklin learned Italian: he and some friends make a competition of memorizing an Italian grammar book.

This is a terrible way to learn Italian, by modern thinking; because almost nobody is actually going to do it, and it won't actually get you speaking Italian. It's incredibly demanding for little reward. But if you know nobody who speaks Italian, have an Italian grammar book and immense dedication, and no TV or video games to fill the long, lonely, candlelit hours, I suppose you might as well?

Similarly, hand-copying and re-writing Spectator articles multiple times in multiple forms is probably a (labor-intensive) way to improve your prose. But today we have word processors with copy and paste and blogs. Why not just write there and practice rewriting that?
You should really read "Haunted Empire" that talks about Apple's struggles right after Jobs died. Right now we're seeing the end result of losing his vision of design.

https://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Empire-Apple-After-Steve/dp/0...
I don't think big, radical, change the world tech ideas are going to come from the same type of technology startups they have come from in the past. It seems like the next generation of big ideas will come from infrastructure-heavy startups like Space X, Tesla/SolarCity, and Bezos' Blue Origin. There will probably be some potential Hyperloop opportunities as well.

All of these are huge, expensive undertakings. Making humanity distributed will be expensive and costly, but also transformative. Solving global environmental sustainability with solar power and energy storage, and revolutionizing planetary transport with hyperloop technology will also be hugely transformative. I don't see that happening without spending tons of money on infrastructure.
I'm old enough to remember that public hand-wringing always accompanies major updates to Apple product lines. The Macbook Air was WIDELY panned when it was first released. It went on to be the most popular laptop they sell, and one of the most popular in the U.S.

Apple has a ton of money and a willingness to percolate new ideas. We won't be able to really evaluate the new MBP--and the ideas it contains--for years.
Do you get all your tech knowledge from marketing material?

And what is specific to Apple about wide color gamut displays? These types of displays have been common for years.

Apple didn't invent 5k screens.
Finally something that gives users what they actually want.
Speak for yourself.

There are plenty of people who will grab a backpack, stuff it with clothes, and take a last minute flight to an unfamiliar city just to hang out and see what it's like.

It's not correct to blame a lack of adventurous spirit on an entire culture, or to pass it off as generational.

If you want to get out and see what the world is really like, just go do it. Don't waste time rationalizing why you can't get anything out of it because "we're only exposed to a well curated section of various cultures instead of experiencing them unadulterated."
I've always wanted this kind of thing in Gran Turismo, or some other racing sim, just so that I could do my various commutes over time with no traffic and fast cars.
Is there any official documentation of what exactly is reported? For instance, what does Windows send to domains like ad.doubleclick.net? It's rather curious that Microsoft builds such extraordinary defenses against the user interfering with telemetry like hardcoding certain DNS lookups and tricking the user into thinking that the hosts file actually works (http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r30676597-Complete-Win10-blo...).
People want stock that doesn't look like stock
What does GPL3 license mean in the context of Wssdl? That if I write a dissector with it then it has to be open sourced?
I agree re: win > macOS on window management but why do you prefer the file explorer? The lack of tab support is a major pain point for me on the windows explorer, that combined with the great file preview support that Finder has makes it much more useful to me.

There may be some features I'm missing though, I only use Win10 for gaming.
Melting Arctic ice is also worrisome because it alters the salinity of the ocean, potentially altering ocean currents.
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It is exactly for that reason that I often prefer the term "force multiplier"[1] when the situation requires people to understand a multiplicative factor is in play.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_multiplication
I find working in split-screen using something like sharelatex.com makes it difficult to actually read your PDF as you edit it. I keep the PDF open in a separate window, and compile from the command line.
Also declining software reliability; declining hardware performance; lack of real vision or creativity; emphasis on superficial hardware changes (smaller, thinner, etc) over engineering significant new classes of customer benefits.
>"CTL needs to raise cash and issue/buy-back shares."

Can you elaborate on this? Does CTL need to buy back shares so that they can use them to put towards the $15B in stock to put towards the LVLT transaction?

If this is so isn't this the equivalent of cash? Since they need to finance that purchase of stock? How would that not be $10B plus $15B?

If the source of that financing is creditors how do they get paid if not cash? Is this some kind of structured financing?
Wasn't one of the main premises of it that it reduced IT support time? "Only 5% of IBM's Mac employees needed help desk support versus 40% of PC users." In that case, it's even less of a relevant comparison now.

[0]: http://www.businessinsider.com/an-ibm-it-guy-macs-are-300-ch...
Not discovering I had ADHD until 40s, which leads me to

Realising ADHD's part in wrecking a great relationship years ago.

Not launching my last startup 1 year earlier (We'd have probably survived the recession). Also having to let people go - I found that as tough as losing a job!
Interesting.

We're talking integers here, though (re: Python).
> Every one of the big 5 could spend a couple billion to win a market.

I promise you that Microsoft would happily dump a couple billion into the phone market to own it. Microsoft paid 7.2 billion just for Nokia, not counting the likely billions poured into the Windows Phone OS itself.

Disclosure: Microsoft employee
I think you should make the switch:

[1] Cash portion of compensation is significantly better

[2] Diversification of experience improves. You have big enterprise, start-up and now would add trading/finance to the mix

[3] If you keep a tight rein on lifestyle inflation you could easily save enough money to become your own angel investor in 4 to 6 years from now if you really find you prefer the start-up environment

[4] If you stay the ego-crushing aspects will continue to weigh heavily on you and create daily stress.
>> The Macbook Air was WIDELY panned when it was first released.

The Air wasn't a replacement of the Pro. It was a new device, an ultra portable.

It didn't become popular until they added a second USB port and SD card reader, added a higher resolution screen, fixed the battery life issues, fixed the horribly slow performance, and reduced the price big-time.
" If, in 10 years, we have a choice between AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and CenturyLink... that will be better."

CenturyLink is already one of the big players and they'll never enter markets that Comcast, ATT, or Verizon are already in. We're a small ISP and a Level 3 customer. I'm moderately concerned about what this acquisition will mean for companies like us in the long run. The hand that feeds us is now also a competitor.
I agree Apple needs a new billion dollar business segment and it's simple what it is; Apple Bus Pool Pro :-)
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Exactly. The headline of the article[0] Cringely links - IBM says it is 3X more expensive to manage PCs than Macs - doesn't even say anything about Apple computers being "cheaper to own", as Cringely puts it.

Admittedly, I haven't read the entire thing. I stopped when I got to third paragraph because it seemed like an odd statement with no real backup other than the very general quote from IBM -

> There are lots of reasons for this, not least that better OS software means Apple needs to update its systems far less often than Microsoft updates Windows. "We have to go out and manage the Mac environment 104 fewer times a year than PC," Previn said.

I don't doubt IBM's information here by any means, but just as with Cringley's and my own example of consumer MacBook ownership, it's only one example - "IBM finds Apple computers cheaper to manage", not "Apple computers are cheaper to own".

[0] http://www.computerworld.com/article/3131906/apple-mac/ibm-s...
I understand your point but its not really fair. The choice is not always conscious when there are a thousand behavioral analysts on the other side of the screen trying to make you use their apps more and more.

I would say its the lack of a conscious choice that makes us using our phones so much.
An honest question. Why?

Does Apple not make enough money, do they need to grow?
> they can't rest on their laurels simply because they're Apple.

No, but they can because they have something like $200 billion cash on hand. Which means if they really care about their stock price they can do a buy back if they want. Or if they are worried about employee compensation due to lagging stock price they can give bonuses, etc.
Ah, I remember that!

I tried searching for "cable suspended cockpit", which netted me this immediately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJCsomGwdk0
Twitter is terrible, I was just victim of one new way of spamming.

Some beard company started liking a tweet of mine because it mentioned the danish word for "beard", they then unlike it, and a day later they like it again, so daily I get a new notification from them.

When people call them out on this behaviour, they just tell them to mute them: https://twitter.com/Golden_beards/status/793083513708961792

They have so many engineers, but they can't or won't interfere with this.

I have never been so close to delete my profile than today.
The shortcut is to make friends with locals. They will share the tips and tricks of the local population, plus they will point out many cultural norms and nuances that one would otherwise miss.

After you share enough experiences with locals, you cease to be a tourist.
That might be an interesting approach, I was thinking more set 4 price points and let people then vote which trade-offs to make to meet those price points.

At the moment I'm looking at a new developer laptop (though next year is more likely) and you can see that striation already.

I want a QHD display, 16GB RAM (or better) and an SSD, I'm not really fussed about the processor anything i5 or graphics but most machines with my requirements have a monster i7.