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"Would you rather work with Java , C#, or Objective-C?"

In my particular case, Objective C, of course, because it is much better as an interface to c++ or c.

We do multimedia, audio, video and image processing. Java is not an update but going backwards in lots of things compared to c there.

We have to tolerate Google terrible tools for this as we port our software for Android.
I'm not really sure what your point is. If OAuth integration is a requirement for your project then its your responsibility to test it across the platforms you intend to support and that's a universal truth no matter what development stack you're working with.
> She could ask how much her treatment will cost, but her doctors won’t know. “We’re never told how much things cost,”

This to me was the most baffling thing when I moved to America. How can people accept this? "I'd like to buy this TV/car/plane ticket/bottle of soda/shirt, how much does it cost?" "we don't know, you have to agree to buy it first, then we'll bill you whatever the f we feel like, and you'll just pay up."
Thanks, it seems the separate from variable decrease operator (q --) broke my "internal parser" as I completely missed it somehow. I'll edit my post to remove the noise.
Newspapers classifieds sections don't help set prices nor are they involved in the transaction for rental/purchase (Airbnb takes a %).

I don't think they can claim common carrier if they're involved to this level, can they?
Yeah I thought so too. AFAICT the standard model and general relativity are incompatible with any spacetime quantization larger than the Planck scale and that's very far outside of our testable range.
These mandatory arbitration clauses buried inside EULAs should be illegal.
Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't seem good for me. Blocking things at DNS level, can be counterproductive. Maybe there's a false positive that's been blocked and it will probably a headache to find it.
> improving OpenStreetMap

Sure, but in order to actually make apps work (without forking every map project out there) you'd need to fake the Google APIs anyway...

> GNU/Linux-style package manager for Android.

That's basically what f-droid is.
How about Elon Musk? He would rate n=3, don't you think?
I think the question revolves around whether a host is a business. If you're a business, all sorts of rules apply that don't apply if you're not. Now here are people taking money in exchange for service, it might be hard to argue they aren't a business.
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What I was really hoping to read with a title like "Introducing Unified Update Platform" is that Microsoft had provided some sort of API for any program to use the same unified update system to check for and install updates, instead of having a million random updaters checking things in Task Scheduler.

They already do it for graphics drivers and so on. Linux does it of course.

But then I guess the problem is Microsoft would need to check everything in case users started blaming Microsoft for "sending them a virus through Windows Update" when RandomDodgyApp got a bad update.
Do you also favor coffee demonization commercials being started? Anti-cola campaigns? etc?
there was very little information about what steps to take or who to contact to get involved. does anyone know, specifically, how to help out?
It's not really about "crappier products that break more often." It's about not giving people compelling reasons to buy upgraded versions or not expanding into new product areas (as they've just recently done with their drone). And, yes, if you're a company with shareholders, you can't get away with selling a product and then have your sales dwindle when you don't follow up with anything people want to buy.
I forgot about that one. It just makes me feel bad for his daughter.
Currently we have two candidates, who are each more or less reviled by at least 50% of the population.

Would it really be better to have three candidates, each of which was more or less reviled by 66% of the population?

The truth is that Americans don't agree on many major issues, and that the major parties are a personification of this unhappy fact. Adding more parties doesn't help that. In fact, splitting the vote among more parties makes it likely that the elected official will represent the views of fewer of the total electorate!
I'd love to see what happens if the British parliament denies this. It will be enlightening about the future of all nations to see if this upsets those who have made their voices heard in the popular vote or if people with just roll over and take it.

This is a fun right from a political-science perspective.
If you are from a Baltic country there is no point to argue with you, because the sentiment against Russia and everything Russian, for whatever reason, is so strong, that people celebrate Nazis as heroes, just because they against Russia. Holodomor was not a genocide against Ukranians, it was ideologically charged event, so it is not comparable to genocide gainst Native Americans, or lynching. "And you lynching Negroes" is more applicable to you line of argumentation than to mine; the way minorities were treated in post-Stalin USSR and America of 40-50-60s is absolutely incomparable, not even close. I myself grew up in former republic of USSR and can attest that Russian and the local language (let say Azerbaijani; may be it was a different one) had equal representation with Russian and all the position of local power were stuffed by the local ethnicities.
You are arguing against the legality of airbnb.
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The default system fonts are more than good enough for just about any webpage. If Aerial were the only font web browsers were allowed to display, the world would go on just as productively, aside from some designers who conditioned themselves to believe they don't like looking at it getting upset.
I really wish that a party that gets a certain amount of votes would get representation in Congress without having to win districts. That's an incredibly high bar for a new party.

One or two more parties in Congress would make the current obstruction tactics much more difficult.
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This is very easy to fix: don't discriminate. At least in Brazil it is a crime, business or not.
And yet, tech firms still try locate themselves in the most expensive parts of the world: San Francisco, and Palo Alto. There's so many tech hubs other than SF, where they could hire talent for less than half as much, but they choose not to.

The article states the cost of living is 41% higher. That's a large underestimation. In Palo Alto and SF, the average house prices (keep in mind these are mostly dilapidated tiny lot and barely livable) for 400% to 700% higher than the national average.

Taking into account the cost of living, I'm surprised that bay area salaries and compensation are not increasing more than it already has.
In places like Vancouver all hosts are soon going to be required to have business licenses posted on their AirBnB listings.
Further down he describes it as making it "sticky". This more clearly says friction to get out, no?
Did you read my comment? I do not want to be [paste an "indispensable" first world service] proof if I am in a foreign country because it kills the advanture and makes me thinking about fonts and cats.
Wait, isn't that the entire point of high-frequency trading and their low-latency access to markets?
Read up about "wedge issues".
It's a one to one transaction and very hard to prove.

Race isnt specified and many user profiles obscure the face. Instabook books automatically without host approval.
Sure, my point is that Verilog (and RTL in general) doesn't seem any more appropriate for expressing the kind of designs you're talking about than a more abstract HDL would be. The only reason I'd even think about using it is if there weren't any alternative tools which could express layout (which is unfortunately probably the case, and exactly why you are using it).
> Read carefully what I wrote, and I don't think you will disagree with it.

I don't disagree with you saying the Democrats switched position, but I 100% disagree with the notion that the Republican party is "somewhat" in favor of gay marriage. The party platform explicitly condemns the idea and calls for a complete ban on gay marriages.

I don't dispute that some Republicans support gay rights, but that no more proves that the Republican party supports it than the fact that some Republicans believe the moon landing was faked means the Republican party "somewhat" believes the moon landing was faked.

In practice, what happens when a contentious issue like this gains majority support is that one major party adopts it into their platform and the other party mostly tries to stop talking about it in the general election (thereby avoiding making it an issue while still holding on to the voters who oppose it). That's what you're seeing with gay marriage now and, historically, racism.
> Rather the author seems to be trying to redefine "operating system" to include things that have never been a part of such a term before, like online message routing and mapping services. Since when do we define "operating system" as including libraries for specific online services? User interface libraries, kernels, drivers, multimedia frameworks, sure ... but mapping services?

Mobile devices have an expectation of having more built-in features than other devices, so it makes sense that we would expand what we define as an OS.

Not to mention that the map services are implemented as core pieces of the OS within Android, so it's very much like having a proprietary libc with other proprietary libraries. You could create a program that doesn't use libc, but nobody does that because of duplicated effort (and the fact that Google won't hold your hand if you don't use their libc).

So I would very much argue that Android is on the path to becoming even more proprietary (it always was proprietary, just because of the fact that effectively all phones require blobs in the kernel as well as other firmware that is updateable but is proprietary).
I also owe my career to that course -- and really, to Steve Huffman's excellent instruction. The course has just the right level of depth. From that course I went on to build a paid site with Django (which also has great instruction in the form of an amazing tutorial), and shortly thereafter was able to land my first programming job using that project and some other things as my portfolio.
The downside is that it breaks all the websites using icon fonts.
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Building a colony in a salt mine would be an easier backup plan than a Martian one. Maybe you need to scrub radiation and smallpox out of your air but at least you have air! Admittedly solar power would be off the table, but almost everything else is easier.
I actually work in security so I'm torn on the subject too, but I know that pissing off users in the name of security is just as bad. Because then they're more likely to shun security altogether.

The right answer, in my opinion, is to force reboots by default but to allow the option to disable it.
there are a few orgs working on this using AI/Machine learning on the b2b side for news/journalism orgs, no offerings for general users yet but it's on the horizon for sure.
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There are alot of reasons I turn people down on airbnb. Usually related to money.
> Sounds fine to me if it keeps the crap out of the app store.

Hahaha. Oh, were you being serious?
He had millions to gamble with because he started out soldering computers in a garage and selling them to people.
Honestly, that would make sense and make a lot of people who are still invested in Flash pretty happy. They may prefer to devote those resources toward their current technologies rather than continuing to support the dying Flash development platform, though.
This. I recently worked on updating an embedded TLS implementation from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.2. I was told that it didn't need to implement TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1, but once deployed we found a lot of non-HTTPS servers still using TLS 1.0. In particular, Microsoft's Hotmail/MSN SMTP servers and multiple RADIUS servers on WPA/WPA2 Enterprise networks. It now allows for client connections to TLS 1.0 servers, but will only serve TLS 1.2 itself.
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I am such a fan! Great sounds, accessible, designed to be fun.

Korg often leaves me wanting just a little more in a good way.

Play. That's the best. People can just play. Serious or fun, it's all good.
iOS is by far the best mobile platform out there, in terms of its development environment. The problem is that everyone is using the crippled version of it.

Cydia/Theos/Cycript were developed by two people and they come together so much better than that shitty Xcode stack it blows my mind. They are so good that iOS being closed source isn't even a con anymore. They are probably the most underrated tools in existence; most people haven't heard of them (let alone regularly use them) because the industry doesn't see un-jailed iOS as an lucrative market. It's a damn shame.
In the United States, if you're using your property to derive revenues, you are almost certainly a "business" by the legal definitions of the term that'd put you under the purview of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
For better or worse, it's partially on the company to manage expectations. Amazon does a great job of this, which is why it can get away with minimal profit most quarters.
> remember what screen and folder it's in

How is this fixed by a web app you have to remember the address for, or at best, remember where on your favorites you saved it?
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How about the moderate party being a democratically governed one, where it's members have an app that identifies them so they can only get one vote. Then whenever the candidate they choose votes on issues, the people decide via the app, how that senator will vote.

If he doesn't go w/ the people he is banned from the party. in this way the moderate party would cater to the demographic of the area... where one member might vote for gay marriage in NY, another in Alabama would not, but still be part of the same party, but only answer to their local constituents.
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Yes, but sometimes the middle ground is pretty bad too. Consider college tuition.

If you take a completely leftist approach then college tuition would be covered by the government. Many people would have college degrees, which would devalue them somewhat, but at least students wouldn't go into a decade of debt for it. It's an okay solution.

If you take a completely rightist approach then the government would have nothing to do with paying for college. Either your family can afford to send you (or have good enough credit to get a private loan), or you just don't get to go. Fewer people would go to college, which would make degrees very valuable. In other words, it's hard to get a degree, but worth it. The people who can't get them shouldn't be forced out of the work force, because most people wouldn't have degrees. This is also an acceptable approach.

The combination of the two is what we have now. We want everyone to go to college, so we make it easy to get huge unsecured loans that are almost impossible to get rid of. The loans are easy to get, so everyone does. Now degrees are expensive, but not worth much, because every other applicant also has one.

There are other examples (like housing and health insurance) where the same thing plays out. Sometimes you just have to pick a side, or you get the worst of both worlds.
Because you can solve (try to solve) the discrimination issue without ever touching the arbitration issue. But the problem at hand (specifically the problem in the article) is arbitration.

Mixing two topics, and then solving the wrong one is a very common and effective debate and political tactic.
This is my experience too. Also I used to watch Coursera videos on Android App. But if I lose my position in a video, it was pain to figure out where I left off.

I like short videos cause much easier to recover where you left off from.

Also I am not a paying member of Udacity but seriously considering them for Android dev program.
And let's not forget, there are engineers line up around the block, trying to work in SF and palo alto, but there's simply not enough housing. I'm sure these companies would be able to attract a lot more talent to the bay area, if they just solved the housing problem: but that would be politically illegal.
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I agree to some extent, but shouldn't some decisions require more than a simple majority?
Legally, I have no idea, especially since AirBnB operates in many jurisdictions.

But I don't see why giving price suggestions means they are suddenly responsible for the policies of their users.
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Not sure about it...
> There was at least one HN commenter I've seen that has claimed to just go ahead and install all of Google Fonts locally, which might be a bit extreme, but even automating that isn't necessarily a bad idea.

Arch Linux has a surprisingly popular (top 50) AUR pkgbuild for it: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-fonts-git/
I don't want to be locked in the ecosystem of the hardware vendor.
And I thought it was some kind of retrocomputing project related to Apollo workstations.
yes, you can sell your shares through other channels.

everyone can do that. you can take your 30 shares of random company x to your mom and sign a contract with her buying the shares.

anyone can do that.

stock exchanges are private businesses with private rules about who can and can not use their servers. they're open from 9:30 to 5. if you want to buy during other hours, you better find someone to buy from.

as far as the "look people are evil here's ONE ARTICLE of evidence" paradigm goes - its a bit lame. for further reading, google selection bias.

if you read my post, i'm not saying that this is good or bad. its just fact.

forex goes down during all news. doesnt mean that big banks cant trade with each other during news. doesn't mean that you can't walk into a commercial bank at noon and buy some currency. it just means that one exchange doesn't want your business during news because they'll potentially enter significant counterparty risk.

they just exercise their right of refusing to do business with you. doesn't matter that its automated through software. if I know for a fact I don't want to buy from door to door salesmen at 5am and turn my doorbell off during the night, its conceptually the same thing. you cant have it both ways. you can't only have "capitalism" when its good for you. you're either free to enter contracts or you're not.

and in case that's somehow not clear: stock exchanges are private for-profit companies. they're not institutions bound to some weird codified public goodwill. whether thats a good or bad thing is for you to decide.
Lots of things with microcontrollers.
I don't have any audo files on my desktop. would be nice to have a default so i could play around without hunting for one
Interesting, makes me think of IPFS but browser based.
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Can I find any moderate-size app that uses Meteor with Appolo and Postgres as an example? The Meteor guide and tutorials, as well as most well-known Meteor open source apps (wekan, telescope...) use mongo collections.

And since Meteor is a full stack framework, I would love to see a guide about how to best structure an app with Meteor and Apollo (I'm in the camp where I don't like to fiddle around with what's the best js stack. I'm happy to have the framework authors decide that for me, and get down writing my goddamn app)