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The new MacBook Pro was greeted with the usual amount of bitching that accompanies any new edition of that product. But by all reports it is selling very well.

And Apple exited displays and WiFi routers because they are shrinking commodity markets. Neither Apple nor their customers would benefit from Apple continuing to chase that.

Apple pioneered the laser printer in the U.S. market and made a lot of money selling them. Nevertheless, they got out of the printer business when it became clear that printers were a commodity. No one today complains that Apple doesn't make printers. In fact if Apple started to, everyone would say they lost their minds.

Thus it will soon be with displays and WiFi routers.

So I'm having trouble buying the premise of the article.
Hope someone explains in Feynman Technique http://qz.com/849256/how-to-master-a-new-subject/
The hex representation of GUIDs/UUIDs is case insensitive in most interpretations, I'd say that counts enough.
They probably just trade it. Increase their supply so they can sell enough excess back to the grid to make up the cost later. You effectively get 100% wind, but in reality you might have got 80% wind, 20% gas and sold some wind back to the grid. It's a good interrim solution at least.
> I would like to think of the Linux desktop environment as being closer to a Miata - something fun and enjoyable for those that are willing to accept different tradeoffs and enjoy being closer to the road.

I really like this analogy.
This is usually why you need 2 people. Someone to build the product and someone to sell the product. There'd be no Jobs without Woz and vice versa. Exceptions to this are unicorns. It's not surprising that the presence or absence of co-founders is a strong signal to investors.
It never went away, now it's just "catch (Exception) { }" spread liberally throughout the code base.
The Neuroscientist Who’s Building a Better Memory for Humans
Did they have a control group of non-STEM majors in the study? Couldn't see it in their report form a quick glance.
its an everyday struggle, but noting down the things which i am thankful for, such as wife, kid, some particular incident which could have been much worse but ended being manageable etc. has helped me a lot. It's a slow process though.
iPads are great. But what beats it is a Fire HD8. I got one for me and for my mother-in-law on CyberMonday for $56 each. That's about 1/10th the price of an iPad. I did not login to Amazon. I did install Chrome and VLC so she has music, videos, and the web - all one needs on such a device. Hopefully it gets rooted soon so I can install a generic Android ROM.
Yep exactly. Great to invest when there is really no need for it at all.
https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/safeslinger/ does simple handshake exchange and works w/iOS/Android but unsure if still maintained
Why is that a "dark pattern"? What trick is it trying to pull on you?
how could someone speak about a trend without using generalizations?
I always found the "coder monkey" idea amusing. Programmers are the ones who have the ideas. Your intuition has to be fed data, and the best source of data about what programming can accomplish is having programmed. When I meet people who suggest that programmers are monkeys for hire, I always wonder, am I to understand that being a programmer is somehow a setback in having ideas about what kinds of things programming can accomplish?

Anyway, you're building something through your own initiative, and every day you wake up and think to yourself, "what do I build next?" Perhaps you continue thinking hard about this as you pour yourself a coffee or whatever. Then you go and build it, and if you picked the wrong thing, your customers will as a direct consequence get mad at you. I personally think that kind of responsibility is much more exciting than being managed.

There's a pretty good chance all this will fail, simply because most things fail. That doesn't mean it was a waste of time. It just means your time wasn't here yet, and in the meantime you face life with a bit more data than you had before. Maybe next time around.

As for the people who tell you your project could've been built in a couple weeks, ask them if they routinely say the same thing to students doing problem sets, or anyone who's just starting to learn something. I mean, it's just nonsensical.

Also, mean-spirited negativity is really bad. You basically just have to cut people who radiate it out of your life, or at least be disciplined about what you talk about with them.

I don't know, that's my $0.02.
> Net, with the VC rules, by the time the VC is willing to invest, the solo founder is beyond willing to accept the check.

This is what I don't understand. So often someone is in this position, dips their toe in the VC pool, and a VC says "here, have two million dollars but give me control." Then suddenly their formerly highly-profitable startup has to have 50 staff, a big office building with board rooms and lots of shiny glass, and before they know it they're living off successive rounds of funding then filing for bankruptcy, because a $1mil/quarter 1-man company can't magically produce $50mil/quarter from the same banner ads just by hiring 49 more people.

Why would you not just tell the VC "no thanks, I'm doing fine without interference"? Your company is real at that stage. The dollar signs being waved in your eyes by the VC are not.
Has Apple published anything yet?
I manage some mail servers for an ISP. There have been times when I've came across domains that we still have control over but the companies are long gone. Many times I'll "recycle" domains (old ones of mine, "donated" domains, or some of these "forgotten" domains) and use them for spam traps.

Typically, I wait until a domain hasn't been used legitimately for e-mail for at least one year (i.e. I'll set "null" MX records or point them to a non-existent host) before I repurpose them. You might be surprised at the types of e-mails that start flowing right back in after pointing the MX RR back to a real host: lots of it is crap (spam), but I've received travel itineraries, notifications from AmEx, appointment reminders from medical facilities, and all kinds of good stuff.
Digitalocean: 15% service tax to be levied on invoices of indian customers
The last step should be replaced by some sort of autogenerated https://lmgtfy.com link. :)
I think you are confusing Native Client with Salt (https://nacl.cr.yp.to/).
Isn't that the case with everything that they sell? Eventually, They will not sell anything if they stop selling products when they become a commodities.
Going forward, you can append "+whatever" to the username portion of your email address, e.g. You+spam@gmail.com, and gmail and most other providers I've used will ignore that part. Use it to trace the sharing of that address. I used that when signing up for a particular mailing list and found that my address was shared with about a dozen other marketers.
I respectfully disagree.

I love art, but I really dislike pretentiousness attached to art.

Gabe Newell wrote that he appreciated the art in Super Mario 64, and he was convinced by that game that video games could be art.

If we're going to talk about what's 'objectively better' or 'talent,' the fact is we can say something like this with certainty: Gabe Newell is objectively better than almost everyone at some things, including coding and creating and managing an innovative business that will bring an enormous number of hours of joy to billions of people. Can we say the art he likes is inferior to the art you like?
I just read the titles and looked at the gifs, didn't bother with the text :)
My solution was to give the iPad to my kid and get an Android.
They should also limit the number of lines that are allowed to be changed/added/removed every 6 days... and maybe it should be a law for popular products.
Absolutely. I set up a 3 month recurring re-evaluation. Every 3 months I do a reality check and tell my closed ones the result of whether I want to stay in my startup or leave. This gives them the confidence that I am thinking about my life rather than having no clue at all.
6 months of Nextcloud
I'd argue it's totally not achieved.

Instead we achieved an alternative that does the same thing.

A classic example of how these articles miss what in hindsight is obvious.

Mega projects hard.

Small component built projects easier.
Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson’s Epic Literary Feud
So there's no engineering manager empowered to override the Product Manager? That's a serious organizational problem.

The Product Manager and Director of Engineering should be peers, not one reporting to the other.
Starting from section 5.4, Implementing a shell, version 1

As it suggests, he adds features to the shell as he introduces the system calls needed. You can see the source here

http://basepath.com/aup/ex/group__AUP2ex.html#Chap. 5

See files sh0.c (for versions 1 2 3) and sh3.c for version 4.
How input works – creating a Device
What is the approval process? Do the FDA manually check the device (similar to FCC certification for wireless things)?
Connie Willis: The Doomsday Book, a winner of the 1993 Hugo for best novel. It's deep and wide and brilliant and there's a technical excellence to the storytelling that made the book as a whole satisfying. She leaves a few loose ends and they're just the right ones and in just the right quantity.
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Japan based

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Travel: Possible in Asia (a bit)

Python/JavaScript/Go developer that likes open-source and doing MVPs. Last contract was building features they wanted to try as standalone to allow for easy user testing and fast iterations. I do quite a bit of Rust in my free time (see Github for the projects).

I also run a product (https://proppy.io/) to write proposals, written in Python (Flask) and TypeScript (React/Mobx).

- Site: https://vincent.is/

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- Email: prouillet.vincent at gmail.com
Talking to competitors to make, or even (if I recall correctly) to propose, such a deal is illegal but you might be able to effectively make a deal without talking to them and without running afoul of the law.

Just unilaterally make it your policy to not recruit from competitors, unless they recruit someone from you, in which case you recruit one person from them for everyone they recruited from you, and then return to not recruiting from them.

If they are observant they will figure out that you are using the tit for tat strategy and that they can probably maximize their benefit by not recruiting from you.
Perhaps you didn't hear that this is "political detox week" on HN. We can't have the rabble discussing what their betters are up to with that meeting with Trump in NY, now can we?
No one “works” on Poppler
I'd be surprised if many developers these days actually compared UUIDs case-insensitively, though, even if they're intended to be. Microsoft, which have relied on GUIDs for years going back to their version of DCE/RPC, probably does it right.

If it's part of a spec, then it's simpler, but it's still a potential point of surprise.
Sounds awesome, and something I'll be looking into in the near future. Wonder if it can run Elixir apps.
This - the Topsy Tail.

http://www.accessorybrainstorms.com/articles/topsytail.php

TLDR; She sold $100 million worth of product. My understanding is the prototype was built using a coat hanger with tape on it.
I feel like the article is more of a satire than practical.
That just sounds like a poorly tuned algorithm/learning rate in the single threaded case. Certainly you can emulate the parallel algorithm sequentially if you wanted.
To Say Nothing of the Dog won the Hugo for best novel in 1999. That probably makes it science fiction.
I think this is a very good point, thank you. I didn't intend to comment this but now I am reminded of the initial iPad release in which I believe a criticism was raised that there "was no use case for this device".
Best would be to pyrolyze the body to produce biochar. (Basically, heat without oxygen, the same way charcoal is made.) The carbon so produced is sequestered for thousands of years, and will contribute to soil health the entire time.
Surely there could be some optimizations, but there are no gross failures here.

At every step there were reasonable policies it seems.

It's not wise to frame this issue as '1 line of code' because '1 line of code' could ruin a company.

It's frustrating ... but it's not that bad.
> For folks who mostly just need a browser and for whom malware is a risk, you really can't do better than an iPad.

Yup, I agree, but some folks prefer a physical keyboard and an Ipad + bluetooth keyboard is not really super convenient.
Unfortunately, my prior reply here was flagged, but I'd like to try again. Here's a quote from Craig Federighi, senior VP of software engineering, less than half a year ago:

“Our practices tend to reinforce a natural selection bias — those who are interested in working as a team to deliver a great product versus those whose primary motivation is publishing,” says Federighi.

https://backchannel.com/an-exclusive-look-at-how-ai-and-mach...

In my opinion, this gives you a view of the thinking that goes inside Apple. Publishing papers correlates negatively with being a team player and delivering great products, and here Apple is on record as saying that they do not want that sort of people working there.
Tax policy is political (and how to tax things online is one of the parts under active debate), so this story does not belong on HN this week.
I didn't see a single source referenced, which may be why so many of the claims are totally wrong. When I saw claims such as, "(low-carb diets) simply trick you into eating foods that are less calorically dense", I gave up altogether.
Yeah. They want the location always. Fuck that. Why not just take it from the ip address you can detect?
Tacit collusion is also illegal in the US. In your case you are actually documenting it in your policy. It's easy for any lawyer to draw the conclusion and prove it in court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion
I wonder if Intel would be willing to change the behaviour to be the same as AMD.
There are a lot of fun predictions. Ggl "1900 OR 19th.century predictions". Though they're now much less accessible than before Google news archive died, and the past was paywalled.:/

I'd love to see a taxonomy of prediction failure. What were the underlying ideas, and how did they go wrong. Ideas limited/blocked/displaced/abandoned due to technological/economic/market/social issues missed because ..., or some such.

One thing to note is just how poor the analysis of old predictions is. It requires both engineering and historical expertise to address "why did US buildings stop being connected by bridges?" or "on what are robot arms (still) bottlenecked?".

My fuzzy recollection is Peter Norvig gave a 'you can't predict the future' talk which dissed Ladies Home Journal(?) for 'no more horses'. And there's a lot of "the future / new tech is unpredicatable/surprising" which doesn't get questioned with a "So you follow science research? No. The engineering literature? No. The industry press? No. What part of your being surprised by technological change strikes you as surprising? Well, people in my echo chamber didn't parrot anything about it!" Sigh.
The process sounds fine, no need to violate it. The problem was that the IT Admin said "I'll put this on the fast track" but didn't, and no one else saw the urgency. It was just dumped at the back of the queue behind a lot of other things and mistakenly labeled an 'Enhancement'.

Proper handling would have had a dev working on it within the hour. The response to the code review would have been "other changes are out of scope, open another ticket for enhancements". If the developer didn't already have access to the test environment, at least IT would know that they're authorized for it. (Critical fixes shouldn't be assigned to a new hire who doesn't know the code base and doesn't have access to commit code yet.) The ticket would be edited (Test Case: view WorkOrdersHours report, Expected Result: ~10% higher total) and tester would be told to reread it and go ahead. And of course documenting the test runs is the tester's responsibility (they're the one doing the test runs), not the developer's, as is notifying the IT Admin and Operations Manager when the testing is done and it's ready for sign off.

Exact same process, same quality checking along the way, timeframe reduced from 6 days to 4 hours or less; likely less than 1 if the team works together well and their tools are decent. A good process can handle emergencies without sacrificing quality, as long as the people work together and the priority is communicated.
Hire P4 interns or contractors :)

If possible.
Here's some.

David/Julie: Having processes that allow critical issues to sit idle in a backlog for 2 days.

Shirley: Delaying a code change because of completely unrelated issues. Code changes that introduce bad code should be fixed first. But demanding that the person fix all unrelated issues in the file is not the way to go.

Tony: Not having tools in place for quick, completely automated testing. If a one line change requires 3 days of manual testing, something is wrong.
Sunset at Hulhumale, Maldives
Just do it. Seriously. I no longer have a job where I have to put up with this bullshit, but I did at previous jobs, and eventually I just started doing the tasks that needed to be done to make code nicer. I'd spend roughly half my time doing necessary tackling of technical debt. I even got thanked in the end, when new features post-refactor ended up not being the shitshow that they always had been prior. People don't know what they want until they have it. Lead them to the promised land.
Apple Watch sales to consumers set record in holiday week, says Apple's Cook
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Sounds cool but the fact that it co-opts the generic term as its project name is a bit off-putting. Does it really have to be named that? It comes off as trying to grab credit for something pioneered by others.

Still it seems really cool and useful... hope the author can be sensitive to the issues raised by the naming, but that aside, looking forward to playing with it.
nice work.

would be cool (albeit maybe difficult), to summarize the best result instead of taking them to Google directly. i suspect anyone using this page who gets to the Google results page will have no idea where to stat when they get there.

a less interesting solution would maybe be to provide a video that explains how to Google solutions for technical issues & error messages.
Hobbes once published a book entitled Stigmai ageōmetrias, agroichias, antipoliteas, amatheias, or, Markes of the absurd geometry, rural language, Scottish church-politicks, and barbarismes of John Wallis professor of geometry and doctor of divinity, so he, too, had his intemperate moments.

(Wallis was a political adversary of Hobbes, in case that's not clear)
80's Japanese electronics were way ahead, my dad had one casio FX-602p calculator, I think still we have that one at home. It had an interface on the top and you could attach the calculator to a box like device and that device had 3 audio outputs. Then you can plug those audio jacks
into a cassette player to save and load programs.

btw, the word "seiko" means "starchild"
"I this had happened at any of the companies I started, I would have fired several people in the aftermath."

And then no one would ever try to block a code review ever, and your code quality would go in the toilet. Then, something like this would happen again, except with a much less benign change, and your servers blow up (not literally).

"1.) priority is not just high, it is critical"

Priority is always critical for whatever little changes management wants.
The author totally confuses being a true introvert with shyness.
Aww man. Fell of the front page. It was really good. I like his take on paper clip maker as a comedian.
I want to say, pyramidal cell in visual cortex connectivity network decoherence - similar happens with mice after sleep deprivation, and is reminiscent of the phenomenon of HPPD, and with stochastic resonance.
This should be called 'Drone Depot'
A chromebook is cheaper and, IMHO, better for most users.
1, yes.
2, not really
3, no
4, not really
5, yes, but does not affect this case.

If this company runs into this kind of problem often, then something can be done, but if this is a rare occurrence, it's not so bad.

Remember dev did not 'waste' 6 days of his time, rather, it took that time for the cogs to move together on it.

And even with 1 ... it's not super clear.
Tor at the Heart: Onion Browser (and More iOS Tor)
Very interestig.

Though, let's not forget, these things probably weren't drawn by the smartest people in the world. Many of them might look silly not because they were drawn long ago, or because it's so impossible to predict the future, but because they were created by an artist at an ad agency, not a scientist or an engineer.

Right now, the future predicted by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Sam Altman, or Elon Musk would probably be very different, and much more accurate, than the future drawn for a magazine by an artist.
Desktop OS Images Should Be Cryptographically Signed
It's easy to romanticize the old Ma Bell especially given the fantastic work done by Bell Labs.

I'd also remind you of the cost of a telephone system with monopoly status that didn't even let you install your own phones in the house for a long time. And which led too skits like Lily Tomlin's "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company."
What is the government trying to achieve by taxing foreign online services? There are no indigenous cloud hosting services like DigitalOcean.
Digital threat and defense is political; it's what governments do. Get this off HN.
> Yes, an FCC rule would have to be repealed by the FCC.

It could also be reversed by Congress. Ever since Wheeler's Open Internet Order was adopted, on a 3-2 party line vote by the Commission, Congress has been making a lot of noise about taking away much of the FCC's power and the regulations made under that power.

They never got to the point of putting a bill on the President's desk, as far as I recall, but I suspect that was due to their knowledge that it would have been vetoed and they could not have overridden the veto.

I wouldn't rule out the new Congress quickly putting some kind of "reverse everything that Wheeler did" bill on the new President's desk well before the new President gets to flip the Commission from a 3-2 Democrat majority to a 3-2 Republican majority.
A chromebook is a pretty good alternative.
Did not stop Apple from doing it.
Taxation is a political topic. Get it off HN.
I've been back on windows for ~10 years, mostly for gamin and work (.net dev). but I've always stayed away from SSD's because the get filled with so much bloatware on windows and the larger ones get very expensive very fast.

I just realized how effective smaller SSD's could be if I'd installed linux and avoided the bloat.
Fitbit Is Close to Buying Software Assets from Pebble
Sure seems like politics. Get it off HN.
It's very unlikely. Peer-reviews are spreading information across team, so at least two team members are understanding every area of the code, so project manager can always add more members to urgent or problematic task quickly.
I get you are on a troll spree against the political ban but don't you see gay rights, drug right, abortion rights, religion all will effect the future but some off us really don't want that discussion here constantly.

People are sick of everyone bringing up Trump because they can, it's adding nothing to the discussion.
So tired of hearing about the iPhone and Apple products. Any chance they'll soon jump on the open-source train?