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I do not know which feature I will miss the most whenever I have to use older versions of python, either the f-string interpolation or the underscores in numeric literals.
You should traceroute bad.horse right now (2015)
I did say if you had to.

In the industry, I can understand why you might have to learn it. I just don't understand why you'd want to.

But then, I never liked Java: maybe I just don't "get it".
Did they aim for total market dominance? I haven't followed it to closely, but to me it didn't seem like they did any totally crazy expansions. Seems like they should have developed further models in smaller steps, but would people have bought enough of those then?

If they have 20 millions in debt, just increasing the price on their kickstarters slightly wouldn't have done it, so they obviously overdid something.
So do the existing hardware watches become collectors items or second draw fillers ?
What's the point of warranties and cloud services if you can just be like "oops, goodbye"? Can they be sued for this?
Right, but they can all have paragraphs (and many other elements) as a descendant.
I dunno. I like the standart EU CV. http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/documents/curriculum-vitae

You can save it as XML if you want to update it later. You can email it as PDF or .docx file. And it supports many languages.
> As if Naver, Korea's #1 portal, will change its domain name at a whim

Maybe they won't change their domain name, but what if you end up needing to move from http to https? Or what if you want to crawl their staging server at staging.naver.com? Or if you wanted to bypass the DNS?

Avoiding the magic constant achieves more than just guarding against name changes. It also guards against typos, you reduce n potential failure points to 1.
I haven't used Pascal for a very long time now, but AFAIK Free Pascal is going pretty nice and modern.

Apparently, there are some very nice and polished games implemented in Pascal, like Hedgewars or Ultrastar Deluxe.
I have a Pebble 2. I charged it last night. I have the Pebble Android app and I can't seem to get the two connected today. Is that because of this? Is there something on the backend that's required for notifications/sending already downloaded stuff from the app? I figured it did it all via the app on the client side, except the store.

If I can't even connect anymore, that's pretty screwed up, and I'm angry. If it just worked as it had before, just without the Pebble store or something, I can live with that.

Please just be some minor glitch. I'm very happy with the device as it was yesterday.

Anyone else having this problem?
I was looking at Pebble before but this shuts that down.

Coincidentally I noticed that the market for luxury watches has heated up ever since Apple Watch was released.
This looks nice. I'm really tied to using creationix nvm at the moment and it seems like these two libraries would be competing for control over how to manage node/npm. There's no GUI on nvm though, so if this tool can handle installing multiple different versions of node/npm then maybe it is a better alternative.
I would like to see what happen when someone like The Wirecutter, owned by The New York Times, has one of its affiliate links shared on Reddit and then has its affiliate account shut down. They are certainly responsible for millions of dollars of Amazon revenue.
> And screw over countless innocent by-standards in the process?

This is my same logic for going really slow through TSA checkpoints. It's intentionally to screw over everybody else that's traveling to make a point about how asinine the entire process is.
The reason could be for employment opportunities. Java is pretty pervasive in non-tech Fortune 500 companies. It's easy to find Java openings, with decent compensation, in cities with a low cost of living.
I actually had a Peddle around my wrist a few months ago, decided I didn't like it and sent it back. Really glad I did.
Phone number is sufficient in the UK for banks as well.
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Walmart actually has really good customer service.
Swarming crazy ants with a penchant for destroying electronics
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He/she means iPhone should have come out with usb-c port instead of lightning port
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Many of the 'big data' tools are in java. If you want to extend them or even just use them you'll need it(~hbase, apache samza, lucene/solr/elasticsearch etc)
I wouldn't expect Google to do this, they live on ad revenue. I'd like to see someone else do it though, with much stricter rules e.g. no javascript and no embedded media. And I'd like some idealistic people to write interesting content for it to get it off the ground until it becomes insanely popular and everyone starts writing things in that format so "[Cool Name] News" will pick it. And then the Internet becomes a good place to visit again. [end day dream]
You suggested systems languages (C and Rust) that aren't good for most projects for obvious reasons and dynamic languages (JavaScript, Ruby, and Python) which I think aren't as good for large enterprise programs. For example I've seen a complicated billing program that if it was written in Python would've been very hard to figure out and in that case Java's verbosity and static typing made reasoning allowed me to have tools to make analysis much easier. That combined with a huge and battle tested ecosystem of libraries and the fact that it's a common language that many programmers already know make it still a fine choice for many organizations.
> Sometimes I think there is a secret cabal conspiring so we can't have nice things

There is, it's called "Chinese OEM manufacturers".

(Yes, I know that an 'OEM manufacturer' is like an 'ATM machine'.)
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Picking the perfect name is pretend work. If the business is successful, it can buy any name on the CEO's whim. If the business is seeking to raise money, investors are going to care about the metrics. When the company hires, talent is going to care about the tech, the pay, and the culture.

Good luck.
Look up a paper called "packetshader." IIRC it was the first research to demonstrate packet processing via GPU.
No need to be angry. It's a start-up. They all wanted to succeed, but life isn't always fair.
I don't get this. I got turned off of Amazon a few years ago and have been buying elsewhere. Because Amazon doesn't subsidize buyers with aggressive lowest prices the way they used to you can even find the same or better deals elsewhere.

It's not hard at all to live without Amazon unless you choose to submit to it.
Transport employees secretly paid by the government to search travellers’ bags
I should been clearer, I was referring to the pre-JIT behavior. Definitely an important distinction!
When being bought, one would think the new company would take over the responsibilities.

But I also read that the employee-shares would be worthless, so it looks like FitBit bought Pebble in a weird sense.
I think I'd run out of room pretty quick. It hits 4.4 m/s on the first jump so I'd only have room for a couple hops. It would also need a tether to run overnight, and that's a tough proposition for a little robot bouncing around.
Technically, this is the last "JavaScript" in the sentence.
What exactly do you expect from an ISP that can be hacked by teens? I find it more unbelievable that TalkTalk still have customers: "95,000 subs left after hack – 94,000 joined in last six months", "firm reveals £22m profit jump" [0].

Granted, it's difficult to say how much better other ISPs are. But come on.

[0] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/15/talktalk_h1_fy2017_r...
This is the most orderly shutdown of a hardware+services company I've seen. Congrats to Team Pebble for that.

It has to suck to end this way after 8 years. :(

I hope someone builds a product like Pebble Core; I'm not sure how generally viable that is, but I'd love to have it myself.
> Pebble’s Migicovsky is planning to rejoin startup incubator Y Combinator as a partner advising early-stage companies on hardware development, people with knowledge of the matter said. Y Combinator’s hardware head recently left, Bloomberg News reported last month.

Pebble CEO seems to be joining YC.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-07/pebble-sa...
This sound like typical post-acquihire PR bullshit. New 'exciting opportunities' and 'building the foundation for the next great wearable experience' does not in any way imply that any useful thing resembling a smartwatch will be created. It doesn't imply there will be a developer-friendly platform.

Nor does this message actually make sense. "We want you—our fantastic developer community—to keep playing a crucial role in our success." There is no "us" and "our success" - they just got bought by another company and are shutting down the whole product line. They are literally a different entity now.
It didn't mention firing anyone. When I see 'layoff' used in the context of manufacturing, it usually means something more like an furlough (i.e. the laid off employees stay home and don't get paid until the company has enough work for them to do). In this case, it seems they'd rather not do it, but if the software change drags on long enough, they'd have to start layoffs.

As for requiring a code change to implement new policy; maybe not ideal, but it looks like they're trying to move away from that with the requirement that hard coded constants be moved to a parameters file.

And in general, using the company's production software to enforce business policies is probably an important management control. Often when you see rules like that, it's because the company got burned by something in the past and wants to enforce a process that prevents it from happening again. In this case, maybe in the past an operations manager was evaluated based on how busy the factory does, and so just kept building up more and more inventory to game the metrics he/she was being judged by.

I think it was a tad inaccurate of the manager to call it 'legacy' software. It might be an old system, but it appears to be critical to the company's operations, and it seems to be something that is worked on fairly regularly. Even if it's written in Cobol and JCL, I'm not sure it would be fair to call it legacy software unless the company is actively working on a replacement and making only necessary changes to the old system in the interim.

So, while I understand your concerns, I'm not sure it's fair to pin this on bad management. It sounds to me like a company that's probably been in operation for a long time, and has processes in place to make sure nobody pushes any changes to a production-critical system without proper approval and testing. They could possibly streamline the process, but it doesn't seem (necessarily) crazy based on the information we were given.
I think it's against Amazon's policy because it's against reddit's. Either way, I hold Amazon 100% fault. When you go to an affiliate link, e.g.

https://www.amazon.com/KONG-Cozie-Marvin-Moose-Medium/dp/B00...

They don't do a redirect or use pushState to remove the "tag" part, so it's completely expected that people might copy and paste the URL to share. And that's even without the person acting maliciously, god help you if someone wants to kill your affiliate account.

All attempts to contacted them ended in a dead end of "sorry, abuses are handled by a special team who can not be directly contacted". And when we finally got the abuse team to respond, the most they ever did was confirmed the affiliate link was posted on reddit. And we have in writing them saying that a single instance of someone posting the link on reddit is grounds for your account suspension, even if that wasn't you.

I really regret now not making a big deal about it, and writing a shaming blog. But at the time I just wanted my wife to move on and focus on something more productive. It was a huge emotional blow to her, as the site was something she was very proud of and something she did on her source of money (As a family we are financially fine, but having her own little stream of money she could use on random silly/unnecessary purchases made her feel a lot better).
>>Buyers need to start demanding Open Source Software and Open Hardware...

Exactly
I've only used C# very topically. Do you have any documentation that describes how it behaves?
npmDM?
I don't think they even have a few hundred thousand customers. Their first one kicked in the neighborhood of 50k supporters. Did they even ship the second?

A hardware company on the hook for fulfilling 50k orders of the sequel has some pretty serious expenses. A sale might have been the best landing and what got everyone a refund for the 2nd.
It looks great, but mac only?

Isn't Electron meant to be cross platform? Shouldn't this also work on Windows and Linux?
Retail price over the full sales run. Kickstarter was just the preorder phase of it and thus likely doesn't cover the full R&D, especially not if the estimates were off in some way.
Is scale part of the problem? I could generate $2 million a month in sales for Amazon and it'd be a drop in the proverbial bucket.
It sounds like the developers at Pebble are hopeful that Fitbit will allow the community to step in where Fitbit can't (or won't): https://developer.pebble.com/blog/2016/12/06/developer-commu...

"Further down the road, we’ll be working to phase out cloud services, providing the ability for the community to take over, where possible."
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No. Chinese manufacturers are building whatever you pay them for. It's literally a human-powered API converting designs to hardware. It's the western companies that don't want to build nice things.
I gave up 3 years ago: http://blog.mostlydoing.com/2014/03/how-to-securely-store-pr... (I don't trust myself to securely store my private keys)
This sounds like bureaucratic nonsense waiting for signatures and approvals. Maybe the task flow needs to improve.
World’s first permafrost greenhouse farm starts operating in Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O03k0DV2m1k

If anyone's not familiar with the reference.
Interesting (looked it up thanks to your post). As a means of recompiling old code for newer systems that is a great solution.
Good question. It's indeed hard to tell where to draw the line.

If you are going for a "social market economy" kind of society - e.g. a free market but elements of what would be called "socialist" in the US - then there is a place for huge businesses that are run privately (i.e. not state controlled). E.g. Wallmart, Ford, Microsoft...

I would say the government should step in, that is the public should gain control, if the enterprise becomes utility-like. If you "need" their services to participate in society at a reasonable level. Or if many people build their businesses on them. This feature of "being essential" is not neccessarily the same question as whether a company is a monopoly or not. The end 1990s Microsoft was maybe a monopoly, but it was not a utility or infrastructure.

OTOH, I'm not sure you could classify Google or Amazon legally as Monopolies, but they have created awesome (in both senses of the word) infrastructure. I don't think this infrastructure should be entirely in the hands of a company or a few people. We also don't let owners of toll roads make the rules of the road.

So I wouldn't neccessarily nationalize Walmart, FedEx, Ebay. But I would regulate large Telcos for example. The model here in Germany seems to work quite OK. The market is deregulated, most of the infrastructure is still owned by the former state companies (Deutsche Bahn, Telekom, ...), and these rent the resources to other companies. But there are regulatory bodies that ensure that e.g. the prices are fair. It's not perfect, but it seems the resulting situation is preferable for customers (having lived in the US and Germany, I'd say both public transport and telecommunication is on average cheaper and better in Germany, and I think it is a result of this model.)

Twitter is a possible target. It doesn't seem profitable as a business anyway. But if someone decided that we as a society needed "a twitter" (I don't know if we do...), then maybe it could continue in this way.
Is the use of a tech shift or form factor change as an opportunity to redefine the product so as to reduce customer freedom or introduce surveillance a dark pattern?

I've thought of this with the mobile revolution. You could never have introduced total device lock down and ubiquitous telemetry so easily in the PC era. There would have been an outcry. But change the form factor...
I generally don't, but I do slip up on occasion. It's also useful and safer when checking directions, even more so than a GPS suction-cupped to the windshield. Glancing at my wrist is much less of a context switch than looking at a screen.

I don't think any of the Fitbits have any kind of integration like this.
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> a JVM disassembler

Note that Dalvik bytecode is very very different from the Java bytecode read by JVMs. For one, Dalvik is a register machine (like LuaJIT's internal bytecode) and the JVM is a stack machine (like Python bytecode).
I think we can remove "on a plane" from the headline. And maybe "with your phone".
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Hear hear. I wish I could get the simplistic-but-effective features of a Pebble elsewhere. Track my steps, send me the notifications I want, and let me customize the watchface. The heart rate monitoring was what I was looking forward to the most, it would have made it /perfect/ for my use case.
It seems to be just 3.6.0 RC1 actually: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2016-...
Presumably the people affected could sue over it, but if there isn't any money left in the entity responsible for the warranties it is kind of a futile gesture.
It presents the user a false dichotomy.
My feedback:

1. The site captures my keyboard and prevents me from using it to navigate my browser. This is a substantial accessibility issue.

2. Also curious about any pedagogical research behind WoofJS's development.
Note Prerelease users should be aware that this document is currently in draft form. It will be updated substantially as Python 3.6 moves towards release, so it’s worth checking back even after reading earlier versions.

Although this document is dated today, but it bears the above note right below editors.

Also according to PEP 464's Python 3.6 release schedule, Python 3.6.0 final was scheduled on 2016-12-16.

So the title should be changed to "Python 3.6 release candidate 1 released"
I'm working on a deep learning library similar to caffe and mxnet in cpp and cuda.
Now I want to watch the movie
Pebble never used an E-Ink display. They used Sharp memory LCD displays (which Nike funded the development of in the watch formfactor) and called them E-Paper because they promised E-Ink in one of their kickstarters.
If you have enough blank lines, { or } work as well in vim. At least that's what I use. Thinking about it, I only use % for parenthesis I think.
I had two Basis (original and the newer one) watches and when they had a recall/shut down operations, they did a buy back of them. So I got a check for the original purchase price of each and mailed them into Basis. Now that I have a couple of presumably soon-to-be-useless Pebble watches sitting around, it would be nice if they did the same thing. I nearly ordered a Time 2, but am liking my Garmin Vivoactive HR, so thank goodness I didn't order one.
So this is where all the IPv4 space went!
Fortunately all the three big are available as open source.

The free IntelliJ edition is somewhat limited but perfectly usable for core Java.

I personally prefer Netbeans but then again I choose Linux or even Windows over Mac so there goes my credibility ;-/
If one can't afford a lawyer, the state should provide one. Is this not how it works? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I have a professor who's also a lawyer, and he said something that resonated with me: "The law isn't about what's convenient [or profitable], it's about what's right." People who have been wronged can take things far beyond what would be "reasonable".

The mere presence of a lawyer changes every interaction you have with any institution. It makes ignoring you a far more risky endeavor.
xerox and escalator are good examples, too.
I have no doubt. After spending 1 year with K8S, I've become extremely frustrated with it and its components. I honestly expected more (and better) out of Google and its partners and contributors.

They don't owe me anything in particular, but I do wish more people would let their fruit ripen on the vine instead of in the grocery store (or worse, at the purchaser's house).

And judging by the comment scores, I'm not the only one who feels this way.

Conversely, you may note that I do get very excited and happy about products that are well-designed, well-documented, and aren't dumped onto an unsuspecting public before they are mature.
I think there are certain things here that should go and things that should stay.

Reviewers should not be afraid to reject code, changes should be tested.

However, there are both bureaucracy and code reviewing things that I would change here to not slow things down unnecessarily:

- If the code practices document hasn't been updated, pending future changes shouldn't block your PR

- You should never have any trouble finding someone to review your changes - the whole team should be empowered to review.

- Strictly, only the lines you touch should need to follow any existing code practices, not the whole module because you happened to change one line. Otherwise people will be scared to do small fixes.

- You should only be forced to write new tests for functionality you've actually added, for the same reason. As well as of course fixing tests you break with your code.

- Don't even get me started on Ed not having access to Marge...

- Why does this piece of work need to be done in the first place? Why would a backlog be limited to 3 months?

TL;DR: There should only be as much bureaucracy & strict rules as strictly necessary. Unnecessary bureaucracy is the death of companies, large and small.
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In general I like Electron, it makes it easy for web developers like me to get into making desktop apps. However, if you're not building it cross-platform, what's the benefit of Electron? If you disregard easy for web-developers.
>A "healthy" mind in a dysfunctional environment can produce physical symptoms that mimic mental illness

Im not sure I understand. When you say "mimic mental illness", are you saying that environmental factors cannot cause a "healthy" mind to get a "real" mental illness?
They genuinely believed they were going to change the world, drank too much of their own kool-aid and eventually ran out of money.

Pretty sure they feel terrible right now and I don't think they slept well for the past 6 months.
Could someone reasonable see this coming before KS? Most likely yes. Would they get this far without taking big risks? Most likely no.

You feel angry you didn't get your pebbles, I feel angry I didn't get my two pebbles and a core.

Imagine how they feel - reportedly turned down $750 mil and less than a year later had to apply for a job at another struggling wearables manufacturer.
How poetic.