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Believing that only those in the U.S. know how to do anything and everyone else is substandard.

Ripping out existing support and sales structures and adding U.S.-centric ones that piss off local customers and lost them sales.
Time Series Decomposition, Finally Explained
I'm living polyamorous for about 7 years now and currently I'm in two poly relationships for about 3 years each.

When I'm thinking about it now, I'm living poly (8 years) for longer in my life than mono (4 years). I'm 31 and started dating with 19. So not much to regret, I guess. Most poly folks I know started with >40, when the kids finally were out.
Three things:

(1) Not retaining good exercise habits through my 30s and 40s. I did way better than most, but still went through too many periods - sometimes over a year - where I hardly exercised at all. It's really hard to pick it up again when you're 50, but really important too. It hardly even matters what kind of exercise you do (cue all the weightlifting bros jumping in to disagree) so much as that you do something.

(2) Buying a house. What a pain. The purchase price is just the beginning. Then you have to factor in property taxes and insurance and constant maintenance that's both a cost and a huge time-suck. The financials would have to be way more positive for it to be worth it, as far as I'm concerned.

(3) Getting involved in a project with crappy code and too many developers constantly making it worse. Life's too short. Even if it's not as directly in your area of interest, or not as outwardly successful, working on good code with an upward quality trajectory is better for overall happiness.
Yes, but, I don't have stereo vision, so all my attempts to play with balls (soccer, tennis, volleyball, etc...) Have failed.

I also grew up in France and can attest that it used to be difficult to integrate in any sort of group if you didn't play and didn't care for "Le foot".
I have no connection or experience with Kat walk [1], but it seems able to support a human (see video of sitting). That support might take care of your (rightful) concern for joint health.

(1) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/katvr/kat-walk-a-new-virtual-reality-locomotion-device
Yeah, in all of the demos they've put out, that's the one I think they could slap a domain name on and end up with something as big and useful as wikipedia. Just the documents and the query language and the "cards" or whatever.

I guess Eve is their prototype of the back end for that?
CTL is much stronger in the commercial space than they are in residential. Vertical integration is the name of the game in the commercial telecom space, and has been for 30+ years.

And really, think of CTL as a decades-long rollup of baby Bells in the north central / midwestern US and they make more sense -- just like AT&T is largely a rollup of the southern and western Bells and Verizon is largely a rollup of east coast Bells.

AT&T and Verizon were able to prevent Comcast from becoming a third national competitor (for now), but it looks like CenturyLink will just take their place. Look for them to get into cellular in more than an overbuilding capacity soon though. I will almost guarantee that Sprint ends up with Comcast and T-Mobile with CenturyLink -- though I also wouldn't be surprised if the opposite happens.

Our goal as people who use telecom services should be to get as much diversity in telecom as possible. Right now, it's a two-horse race: AT&T / Verizon and Comcast / Charter / Cox. If, in 10 years, we have a choice between AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and CenturyLink... that will be better.

Small, local competition for ISPs do not make sense over the long term. It may get you fast speeds over the last mile in the short-term, but doesn't get you a fast connection to everywhere else and the investment levels are going to be unable to keep up after the first generation. The oversubscription model benefits from national scale, and even a national last-mile telecom without a national fiber network will have problems matching the cost structure of their competitors (as we recently saw with TimeWarner Cable). The infrastructure doesn't scale operationally or financially otherwise.
Most things I regret I would later learn were for the best, for that is how I met my wife. I like the area that I live in and can say things leading up to this point were for the better.

There is only one true regret that I have. We weren't sure how the ceremony should go when my grandpa passed. I didn't like that there was confusion about what to do, the whole situation just wasn't going right. I didn't want us to just sit there without any sort of progression.

In the most idiotic move of my entire life, I agree, with the guy managing the place, that we should place the box and toss a little dirt on it. My grandma picked up the box. As she approached the grave, somewhere in the back of my mind I knew this was a bad idea. It was only about 3 steps away so I didn't have much time to think it through.

When I saw her place that box in the grave... I mean she was just crushed. I was about 22 at the time, so I should have known better. As a more mature adult, I cringe thinking about it. Why on earth did I let her do that on her own. I'll never know, but I will always regret that moment in both of our lives.
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So higher supply will create higher demand?
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Given infinite clean energy you can always harvest back CO2 from the atmosphere, so I am not sure why you make the sharp distinction between direct and indirect. Yes, I agree that at the end of they day it's only about the world's energy consumption and energy sources. So I'm just saying "stop wasting energy" then.

The point about lifestyle changes wasn't moral BTW, point is they should not be dismissed if they buy time, in trying to make exponentially growing green energy overtake the exponentially growing problem with CO2 emissions. You are asserting such changes are unrealistic, in which case it is of course no point in arguing for them. (But if you look at WW2 and the oil crisis in the 70s there were large-scale lifestyle changes being made, once the crisis is easily visible and understandable.)

It seems like we need everything that can be thrown at the problem (and probably even then hopes are low). Do you believe any focus on reducing (or rather, stopping further increases of) energy consumption is actually hurting a move to clean energy?
As others have mentioned, those System76 machines are rebranded Clevo laptops. Thinkpad's dominance among the OpenBSD developers is a strong hardware compatibility endorsement as far as I'm concerned.
I've also been in the test for this new Reply since last week. It's got advantages and disadvantages. All the @'s in messages can make them cluttered, but the new way of tracking who's involved in the conversation results in "in reply to Joe Schmoe and others", so I don't know who "others" are unless I dig deeper. That's not great.

I think this feature could stand a bit more time in the oven before it is made the default experience.
So you still need their HW, not that useful.
And after the heat death of the universe nothing will matter! Let's just all do nothing.
The comment on Apple at industry conferences is a bit of a misnomer. I've seen at least 12-15 Apple engineers (from the backend Siri team) at MesosCon this year and last year when I went. In fact, they gave a talk[1] about how the re-did the entire Siri backend ontop of Mesos and it has became much more reliable as a result.

[1] https://mesosphere.com/blog/2015/04/23/apple-details-j-a-r-v...
It's mainly for compiling automatically when the code changes and for hot reloading. It's important for working with web apps. For desktop maybe not but it's been maybe 10 years since I built a desktop Java application.
Don't stress about it too much. Even people who protect their ears can end up with it, and others who don't never experience it.

Also don't stress about it because stress generally worsens the tinnitus!
Not having kids earlier, and more of them.
Much more productive than with OpenCL where "Hello World" is 170 lines of code.

See http://dragan.rocks/talks/EuroClojure2016/clojure-is-not-afr...

Down/up arrows move you through slides, while left/up arrows move you through sections. Normally, you'd press down-down-down until there are no more slides, and then right to cross to the next section. ESC gives you the bird's view of the structure.
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.' [Nietzsche, The Gay Science, §341]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return

We all make mistakes, but I am happy with my decisions in life. Even the setbacks were valuable learning experiences, and often were good experiences.
// the stream has now been fully read, async in the background

What if the file is gigabytes in size?
When they release another great product, if it is successful, the stock price will reflect it at that time.

One of the things that keep senior engineers at a company like Apple is vast amount of money they can make from their stock options. If the share price tanks then the senior engineers don't make anywhere close to the money they can make elsewhere, so they leave. That makes it harder to develop a successful product.

I'm not suggesting Apple is a single failure away from a death spiral, but I am saying they can't rest on their laurels simply because they're Apple.
> And as IBM reported a couple weeks ago, even at higher prices, Macs tend to be cheaper to own.

>but that still puts me only about $1600 into this device

I always forget how dis-attached and money-blind pro-apple authors are from the 98% of people and how they approach money. I guess if I was in the 1%, I'd also think Apple was the cheap option! (I'd probably also think that about Lexus and BMW...)

$1600 over 6 years, or about $270 a year, is not inexpensive and the false label "cheaper to own" is absurd to the highest degree.

I could go out right now and buy a $600 laptop, a $200 chromebook, and be out $800 dollars. Then I could build a $500 rather powerful budget desktop, and be at $1300, with three devices, and have $300 leftover for repairs or upgrades.

I could buy a $800 laptop and another one in 3-6 years for that price.

I could buy an iPad, a Chromebook, and a $600 laptop. I could buy three $500 laptops.

There is no universe in existence where spending $1600 total cost of ownership in 6 years approaches ANYTHING CLOSE to "cheaper to own".

Frankly, I DON'T EVEN KNOW windows users who have spent $1600 in the past 6 years total, except for hardcore PC gamers whose hardware so dramatically eclipses the medium-grade consumer level tech in Apple laptops that to compare them is entertaining and silly.
But the new MacBooks are not upgradable (like the previous models). Will 256 GB SSD and 16 gig RAM be enough in 8 years? It will really depend on what you use your laptop for, but for most professions I would say no.
How is releasing the iPhone 7 which is port-wise incompatible with the new MBP a "best business decision of any company" when they clearly knew the product timetables?

The Google Pixel phone is better suited for the new MBP than the iPhone.

I think there are serious leadership problems at Apple and these sorts of incompatibilities among their own products is a symptom.

I'm stuck on my late 2011 MBP because every model after it is failing at the 'professional' part by removing ports and upgradeable/swappable components. USB-C is nice and all but it's not sufficient as the only port (and with only 3 of them left while charging).
Aside from labeling anyone that works out as a narcissist, the sheer 'ability' to do things is what makes it great.

I'm not even referring to just being able to lift something, because plenty of larger framed people can do that. I remember the first time I realized I was no longer "big" came when I squeezed through a thin pathway in my closet. Last week, I ended up doing 7 chained backflips at a trampoline park. What was the point of both incidents? "To see if I could".

If you do some forms of training, you can become very flexible. If you are martial art minded, you can find yourself very disciplined.

Finally, you do get more confident (what someone might see as narcissist or how someone might manifest it).
A quick summary of features:

STUDIO (web):

- drag-n-drop to build data-capturing or information-only app UI
- add/remove/clone/edit controls, labels, etc
- controls supported: the typical plus bonus - barcodes and camera even for web-forms!
- brand your app: name, description, brand-image/logo, colors

- click to publish: gives you instant preview/production-ready app on web + analytics for data from your app (can have this private if you get an account on our theatre platform)
- u can update apps that are already in production (studio accepts bootstrapping new app via URI pointing to its defining spec/persona)
- when you push updates to existing app, those using it automatically get the updates without re-installing anything

HISTRION (web+mobile):

- U can use channels to push your app to mobile users (they just need to install the single, generic/universal app-rendering app - the "Histrion": https://tiny.cc/historion-apk
- if you download the *.persona file for your designed app (no need to publish if you don't want to), it can later be used to render the expected app via the web or mobile histrion.

DIVINER (web):

- free analytics - mostly descriptive stats atm
- build dashboards on the fly (they are persisted across browser-refresh)
- share/export your app analytics as you wish: pdf, excel, images, url, etc...

ALL THIS without writing any code, making any configs or delving into dev-ops or even without requiring you to have any account on the platform!

POWER USERS:
- u can point the forms to your own existing servers (check "theatre address" field)
- can use HTTP POST, GET, and for mobile: SMS, EMAIL
- can build your own data-analytics dashboard without having to code/host the data apps yourself -- you can get the data-api for your published app via the diviner/default analytics dash...

You can use this service to whip-out quick surveys, polls, capture experiment data, etc... all anonymously!
http://www.donothingfor2minutes.com
Yeah, the "I've got a super good idea, but Tim Cook will have to call me to get it" is about as obnoxious as it gets.
beautiful qed - armchair product guy analyses situation (ok viewpoint), then makes a suggestion so asinine that it acts as a reminder just how hard product work is.

as tech is becoming mainstream, more and more "football coaches" will spout their nonsense, just like in sports.
Google+ in 140 characters.

Hint the problem has been solved decades ago , called tree-like comments.
This is a better-reasoned opinion than much of Cringely's recent work. That's not exactly a recommendation, though. He's an idea guy, some of which he shares, some of which he doesn't, but it's another thing to execute on said ideas.
Breaking the Multicore Bottleneck
Those are all pretty reasonable answers, honestly, and a lot of people who leave the northeast do it in general protest of the winters. Moving closer to the coast will also preserve you from much of this.

All I can really say is that I've definitely been on the road at moments where I realized that 100% of my options were dangerous accident risks. At that point you mostly try to minimize likely crash speed (if everyone goes 15-20 on a divided highway, probably no one will die) and look for an exit.
I'm not saying every single decision they've made has been the best. I'm saying that on the whole their decisions have been among the best as demonstrated by their dominant market position and insane growth and profits over the past 16 years.
From what I've seen of the latest Apple devices, they make sense to Apple if Apple wants greater integration between OS X and iOS, as in eventually having a single OS on all Apple devices. The new bar on the keyboard helps with iOS-style swipe gestures, standardisation on USB Type C means peripherals can target iOS and OS X devices, etc...

That's the only explanation that makes sense to me.
More free time to spend on leisure activities will create higher demand.

Demand for talent has skyrocketed over the last 5 years.
Not doing.

I have done a lot of mistakes in my life, including being bankrupt, but I learned from most of them. It's the stuff I thought of doing and didn't do that I regret. All those "what if..." now, that I'll never know the answers.
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We started using this as a recruitment tool at a company I work for

(p.s. we're hiring: http://genability.com)
If the T460 had the same display options available, it would be the perfect alternative: Two DIMM slots, two mass storage slots, two batteries, and still quite compact.
Very strange conclusions. Was BioShock Infinite the only game they were developing in that period? Maybe some other development was too expensive. Without all numbers it's quite strange to make such conclusions.
"3D Touch" is something thar was in the Nokia E6-00 in 2011. Force-feedback touchscreen is not new, and much like capacitive touch-screens I suspect it was R&D'ed by Synaptics and Apple happened to be their first mass-market customer.

Apple can use their formidable logistics (few variants bought in huge quantities for several years) to be first-to-market with these improvements. The same logic probably applies to their Hi-Def smartphone/laptop screens, I don't think they made fundamental R&D in that space, but signaled early to manufacturers they were ready to pay for them. This makes them appear as innovators, while allowing their competitors to offer cheaper alternatives a few months later (where they invariably outdo Apple spec-wise after a year or so, so clearly the tech is coming from the manufacturers, who were just waiting for their next-gen to become economically viable). That is no small feat, and has a positive impact for the industry, but I would not call that innovation.
Analyzing code base through GIT history
Well done on Redash - It looks and feel very nice. I'll definitely keep an eye on it, but Metabase's 'Questions' and visualisations are a bit more polished for now.
Ouch! Been there myself, staying in some relationships longer than I should have and leaving drained. To counter that, I've said "no" to the last 4-5 single women who have entered my life because I don't want to try something (relationship) just to try it, and more importantly they just didn't feel like the right match for me. Old me would have said yes to a few of them, but I'm more patient with myself now.

Good to know the happy ending, though. Congrats!
It doesn't seem like anyone really read beyond the headline for that IBM keynote. He was only referring to the difference in cost for enterprise support across 100,000 machines.
Sex: I regret not having a lot more intimacy and sex during my twenties.

Friendships: I regret not keeping closer ties with my old high school friends. Since then, we've taken very different paths, but I still feel like they're the only ones who ever 'got' me.

Fear: I regret allowing social anxiety and shyness to prevent me from connecting with many interesting people that I've met over the years.

Embarrassment: I regret spending my life trying to be 'productive' and 'socially acceptable' rather than following my heart.
I'd be tempted to do this. Not work for Facebook, but blog using Facebook.
Some of my regrets.
- not brushing my teeth when I was a kid (not really my fault though). I'm paying the price now
- I was very good at maths when I was an undergraduate. I had to choose between applied maths and CS. I chose CS but I think it gave me lesser career opportunities. And it's easier to learn CS on the side as a hobby (it's constantly evolving so you have to do it anyway).
- I didn't pick the right PhD topic. It seemed cool at the time, but it was a niche field with little practical application.
- I should have done my MS abroad (but I was afraid that my English wasn't good enough, among other things).

Overall, I didn't really know what was possible at the time. I was only looking at step "N+1" and missing the big picture.
Apple has been getting bad press these days because:
- A lot of employees left the Apple Car project, it is now reduced to software only
- Siri is lagging behind other assistants
- Removed the audio jack off the iPhone
- Removed USB ports on the macbook

The only exception, Apple Music, is catching up to Spotify but that comes at the cost of paying for exclusives.
oh my, once you discover the concept of TCO your mind will be blown.

see the recent IBM study on this very topic (macs vs pcs).

and yes, that's IBM as in IBM-compatible PC.
"but they offer no real productivity gains in the long run."

I guess if you define 'long run' however you want... sure. Your point may stand.

For almost everyone I know, JetBrains tools have delivered a massive, measurable amount of productivity gain, compared to any other tools they were using (commercial or free). "no real productivity gain" is highly subjective, and doesn't come close to matching the experience of most of the developers I know in their day to day work.
The Digital Romantic Revolution (2012)
from the article:

->socking it to the customer when a new product is released is a tradition in Cupertino dating back to the Apple III.

Remember the original 128K Macintosh cost more than $2400 and it was close to useless.

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Does anyone know at what point it was that Apple blew up after firing jobs and had to call him back. was it before or after this?
So the whole point of this article is to get to his magical idea, that Apple should somehow hire all the screenwriters and be then be granted the streaming rights for all of their work? Just a tiny problem (well many problems, but this is the most glaring) in all that:

The companies who actually pay for and produce the movies, films, documentaries, etc would never agree to it.
I don't remember when it happened, but there came a time when the amount of effort to strip and disable stuff in Mac OS X became more of an effort than free *nixen. Sometime later, I made a small investment in swapping a desktop environment for a vanilla xmonad, and I couldn't be happier with the minimalism and lack of distractions.
the main point comes across obviously and nicely, and is about as subtle as A Modest Proposal.
Par for the course for Cringely.
Then stop talking about crimes about humanity. If you consider yourself a criminal, go and jail yourself.

Personally I don't think "going back" is viable, we should probably be trying to engineer ourself a new climate. Better than we had pre-industrialization.

Our planet was pretty messed up even before humans came. It was going to snowball.
When my son went to college I told him, you can have an AirBook, or you can get a Levono Yoga and replace it every 2 years. He choose the Yoga and he is still using it 3 years later.