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But the iPod was already a huge success despite those shortcomings.

Apple seems to be good at figuring out which drawbacks are deal breakers and which ones are not.
On a bad day I cannot move, I lay in a darkened room as everything seems to annoy me (light, noise, even my own music). A few months ago, this meant that I couldn't get out of the house to pick my prescription (on a Friday), and it wasn't until the following Tuesday that I was able to pick them up. That wasn't a fun time, I should of got some help but I like my independence.

I was running my own business at the time, and found it very hard to work. I turned down new projects, only trying to support my existing clients. Luckily I was able to work from home, but the injury still meant I lost a lot of income and have had to use a significant amount of my savings.

It has been very important to me to help working and not rely on benefits as a friend of mine from college injured his back, he lost touch with his friends, spent all day playing computer games and he will be 40 soon and is still living in his parents attic. It's not been easy, but I am glad I stock with it. I did become isolated (Facebook & the web became my window to the world), work was actually the main thing that got me through this time. I moved to London a couple of years ago, where because of the fantastic public transport (baring the occasional strike) I'm able to get around and not be isolated. I strongly believe if I didn't move that I wouldn't be here now.

You're meant to taper off the medication as there's a large risk of withdrawals. I stopped taking Tramadol dead two weeks after the operation (day I had my stitches out, and started swimming the next). The only noticeable side effect/ withdrawal was a running nose. So believe I can do it again.

I made the mistake of wearing a patch in the sauna (I thought holding a bag of iced water over it would keep it stable). The high dose made me disorientated and may heart beat did go noticeably shallow for a couple of hours afterwards. Not a mistake I will repeat, I'll remove the patch before taking a bath or sauna again.

That's quite alright, I find it annoying that the only time Fentanyl is discussed (Opiates in general) is death and addiction.
ha cool, very similar! perhaps the same one: ) how interesting , its cool to see how other people make different choices considering the same starting material. I like route search box!
This is ridiculous, rather than fixing a broken algorithm calculating that time they removed the feature completely. There are lot of situations when I would need time remaining value.
They come with a charging case which looks to be about the size of the little plastic spool-box of dental floss with which some here might be familiar. It's not very large, but shouldn't be small enough to easily drop out of a pocket without being noticed, either.

I'm not sure what I expect with regard to staying in ears, though. They appear to be closely modeled on the wired EarPods, which in my experience don't reliably stay in the ear on their own, to the point where they are best worn with the cable wound around the crease of the pinna - both for strain relief, and so that they're easier to recover and less likely to be damaged when they do inevitably pop out.
Dont worry about the small things or the latest technology, it doesn't matter
Spacemacs might be great for existing Emacs and vim users, but it is horrible for beginners of both (in my experience), as you can't follow Emacs tutorials, can't follow vim ones, and there just aren't many spacemacs tutorials yet, and several I found were out of date.
Yes you can use them as normal Bluetooth earbuds with other phones.
I agree with you. Plus, I feel like I'm missing out on good sub-comments because the comments list itself has grown too big.
Thanks for the info. I just figured out that you have to start "registration" to get the prices which they currently have pegged at $699 plus $59 for a significant other to tag along.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/microconf-starter-edition-2017-...
I have used cheapo sub-$20 SoundBot headphones for almost a year and a half now, and have literally never had an issue with wireless connectivity.

EDIT: Ah, throwanem (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13170546) points out the crucial difference between headphones and earbuds. For me, earbuds are undesireable, so I didn't realise that the form factor was meant to be a selling point.
It sounds like you've extensively tried to work with both, correct?
This quote is so overused it's basically a tech trope.

The point is that, at the time, the iPod was a niche product, with several huge flaws. Subsequent iterations of the iPod fixed those flaws, but that doesn't mean you should have bought a v1 iPod. It made much more sense to wait.

Exactly the same logic applies to the Airpods. Suggesting that people can't criticise them because at some point in the future the product line will become successful is asinine.
Right, that works for the justice system. Fortunately, we are humans with free will and cognitive ability to make our own judgements.

When the company's entire senior leadership team is caught bribing physicians, many of whom were themselves arrested[1] for over-prescribing the drug in question, and is caught defrauding insurance companies to push their drugs --- We can wholeheartedly believe they are guilty. I wouldn't want them to go to prison until they have a trial by jury, but I don't have to give them the benefit of the doubt.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/business/drug-maker-gave-...
Comparison of JavaScript engines on Android
I would rather get die-hard users who would pay yearly, than constantly have to game the rankings to be high enough to get more sales. Even if the rankings change, you can get longterm value out of those who do pay, even if annual payments make less total customers.
Nix allows two packages to exist simultaneously on the filesystem and can even put both in your $LANGPATH (i.e., PYTHONPATH, CLASSPATH, GOPATH, etc), but the linker/runtime will still only look at the first package to resolve correctly, ignoring the second. In other words, Nix just sets up your environment--the language tools still have the final say about how they resolve multiple dependencies within that environment.
In the sense that the government are more likely to use data on a massive scale I also find that a scarier prospect. But that's not what we're talking about. The threat from Uber is different. Uber is far more dangerous in the sense that someone might target me specifically. More so if I was the ex-girlfriend of someone who works there or is friends with someone who works there.

Suggesting that the threat posed by Uber and by the government are just different points on the same scale is wrong. They're entirely different problems, and they'll need different solutions.
It is most definitely not. I can barely squeeze 6 hours out of mine. Running chrone, small node servers, and mongo processes, keeping background processes to a minimum and screen brightness as low as I can stand. It's deplorable, and I'll be switching to the Surface Pro to run linux as my next machine. At least then I'll get a proper command line for 'meh' battery life.
Or Palantir
This is very much the "Apple" style, and gave me a laugh.

http://4dpavshx5ly3quwy2v9yv83i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...

Seriously, I have very little to add to this. It's overly expensive wireless earbuds to go alongside a failure of 3.5mm jack.
Are you me?

I'm almost in the exact same situation after being hired basically straight out of college a little over 6 years ago. When I joined I was one of 3 total developers in a company with about 20 total employees. My hands have been in basically every part of our monolithic code base. Our team has now grown to 14 developers and about 70 total employees.

Earlier this year one of the other original developers who was hired 4 months before me was made "Software Development Manager". The boss and owner of the company used to look at he and I as equals, but now this other dev my superior. This superior is the same guy who once threatened physical violence on me years ago, and recently drove one of our other developers to quit over a personal squabble.

He doesn't give me orders or check up on my status or do any real managing of me -- I still get all that from the owner of the company (along with also being brought around to "meet big wigs", conventions in Vegas, being told how much value I bring to the company and being called the "MVP" of the programming team).

Where do we go from here? I could quit and try to find more money and room for advancement elsewhere (though I feel like my skills are not particularly strong). Or I could stick it out and collect a paycheck in (what appears to be) a very secure but boring position and hope that the management mess above me doesn't grow in a way that negatively impacts what I do.

This is the debate I have daily. Sorry for the stream of consciousness.
It could. It could also go from one-point-something to zero-point-something. Until now, the floor for car occupancy was 1. It's now zero. There is the possibility of empty trips (repositioning for next shuttle run, driving to distant parking lot, etc) adding rather than subtracting traffic.
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sure! Oh except for the fact that i linked an articule documenting skype specifically catering to NSA surveillance programs, and the NSA having a history of getting software to introduce vulnerabilities they can exploit...

but hey, why not throw out the facts to pile on?
If you are competing on price for commuters the obvious thing is a waterproof interior and some high pressure nozzles in the ceiling. Car drives up to machine with hose, hose attaches, water sprays.
Ask HN: Do competitive games balance wins/losses to keep the players playing?
In games that are mostly about team playing against other human opponents on equal footing average player will have 50/50 win to loss ration. However matchmaking system might manipulate when a player experiences wins and losses by matching him with weaker teammates against stronger opponents.

My question is, do these games use psychology to know when you should experience win and when loss to spend more time with the game and do the skew win/loss probability for optimal player engagements?

Are there any white papers on when is a right time to administer loss to keep player motivated rather than discouraged?
I used to work for a company Zillabyte that had a lot of web data. Mostly marketers and sales people were looking for lead generation. Let's say you work for Mixpanel, and you want to know all the websites out there with Kissmetrics installed. Even better, a report every month showing who uninstalled their analytics tools. Others looked for more general signals than javascript snippets (weak text analysis), but that was the bulk of what people asked me for.
Any not-too-common linux distribution with a recent kernel is probably a comparably good choice.
I plan to use them as a remote interface to my iPhone, especially when at home (iPhone lives in a drawer while charging). Things like setting timers, creating reminders or let Siri read out received messages - basically what Echo does, but not bound to one room. "Hey Siri" does not really work for me, I stopped using it almost completely.
For me, it was when they required to know my location even when I wasn't using them. Always? Really? Nope.
Never said it was, and In fact I encounter all sorts of science denial from the left. However these people have no sway over the party and the party leaders disagree. At this moment in time, the leadership of one party is actively hostile to the pursuit of truth, and they must be held accountable instead of it bein whitewashed with false equivalences.
This is from a volume of The American Mathematical Monthly from 1953. I looked around this site for some kind of reference but couldn't find it. I find it hard to believe (even these days) that this site just puts up papers without saying where they came from, so I assume I'm just finding the UI obscure. Where's the reference? (I found it thanks to Google Scholar.)
You are right, see my edit above.
> Is there hype around this? Not a single person I know is excited about this.

That's probably jsatk's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13169976) point: Apple seems to be trying very hard to generate hype, but there isn't any.
I just use Gulp alongside the standard Polymer CLI. Here's my Gulp config https://gist.github.com/NickRun/977bb54eada17653acc81ccd63b1...
Yeah when in that case, they wouldn't bounce randomly or too softly.
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Thanks man, you're the best.
I'm the opposite, Amazon is a bajillion times more convenient for me to use than other online stores. And judging from how their business keeps growing, I'm guessing more people are like me than you.
Continuous Discussions:Episode 59 – Year-End Special: DevOps Trends, Predictions
It's ironic that with all that JS, they couldn't be bothered to come up with something better than a gif to display the actual content.
A quick search out of curiosity brought this:

http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/ibmnotes
Not to mention that if you have hard, effectively physical boundaries between services (i.e. completely separate processes in completely separate projects) it makes it easier to scale them independently.

For example, when we started out we had a few servers running all of our stuff. When one service grew more, we scaled it out to its own services. Because we used Django's ORM, all of a given service's tables are restricted to a given prefixed schema (e.g. 'systemname_servicename'), which is easy to migrate separately to a new service without risking breaking interconnections ('oh, we have this one query that uses that one table') etc.
vim-notes does have inter-linking, so I guess this project is pretty similar.
Hmmm. If the car decided, before your trip started, that it's too dangerous for anyone to drive where you want to go because of possible weather and environmental conditions mid-route, would that be useful or enraging?
these comments got real deep, real quick.
Thanks! I'm trying to hire right now. (web audio and/or webrtc devs call me) :)

I've thought about a virtual secretary but I'm not so sure how helpful it would be. They would need pretty specialized knowledge to be able to help much with support requests. I don't have so many meetings that I can't schedule my own.

As far as Uber for your country. Does Uber not exist where you are yet? There was another one in Malaysia called GoTaxi or GrabTaxi that I thought was interesting. It connected you with 'real' taxi drivers for a pre-arranged flat fee for the ride. One guy told me he used it just so he had a record of what taxi he was in incase he got robbed by the driver.

Edit: latent thoughts
If you're looking for "a better IRC" while still not tying your communications to a single data silo, Matrix[0] with the Riot[1] client is currently the best experience.

The brilliant bit is that you can set up your own homeserver which holds all your chat logs, can authenticate against whatever you like (internal username/password, LDAP, or even CAS single sign-on), and allows you to communicate with people and rooms on other homeservers without having to manually connect, create a dozen different accounts, etc.

I think right now, 50% of users are on the matrix.org homeserver and 50% are on their own homeservers. And the upside of everyone being on a homeserver is that everyone essentially has their own bouncer by default - no more having to set up ZNC on some random VPS on a user-by-user basis, you can always message anyone and they'll get your message whenever they reconnect.

Because of its federated model, you can also use it to communicate with other companies and customers as well as internal communications - something Slack/etc aren't really chasing after.

[0] https://matrix.org
[1] https://riot.im
Have you used paredit-mode in emacs with a lisp dialect? Getting proficient with this mode can be a lot like what you describe. Paredit let's you navigate and edit the tree structure of lisp code pretty effectively. It's not inherently a modal paradigm, but I used it evil-mode successfully. I'd imagine what you describe could be a refinement on that technique. Lisp lends itself well to this type of editing due to it's lack of syntax. Other languages are more difficult.
It seems clear that hybrid-business models will pave the way to the next economic foundation–sharing economy, collaborative economy, etc. We are in a period of technological innovation where the economic possibilities are only constrained by society’s ability to effectively message and disseminate emerging value propositions.

In other words, anyone can make a potentially revolutionary marketplace (helpwith.co?), but how do you get people to care?
I exploited this once when designing a puzzle. One clue was "encrypted" text appended to the end of an otherwise-innocent zip file.

(One person found it, but the whole thing was way too hard. I drastically overestimated people's operational cleverness.)
Which is fair enough, but nearly every driver I've spoken with hates the pin and a reasonable percentage get lost unless you put a landmark in as the address.
There are always bottom performers.
How long until someone puts a personal gym inside a self driving SUV, so you can workout during your commute? I can imagine people running on a treadmill inside a car while it is stuck in traffic. Or at least sitting on a trainer.
The weather problem needs to be solved if you want fully autonomous vehicles with no human on standby, otherwise when it snows you'd have a bunch of autonomous vehicles stood still, blocking the road not knowing what to do.
A company of 100,000 with 100 developers does not make high level architectural decisions from a blog (at least, it should not). If you read the article and can't identify exactly why the issues he raised don't apply to your organization's architecture, then it probably does apply to you.

The author did address your situation and said to use microservices:

“When you’re ready as an engineering organization.”

But for most smaller companies, the issues raised by the article are significant -- One company I worked at tried to do microservices and found that doing distributed transactions across multiple microservices was causing much more complexity than the microservices saved. Doing nested/recursive transactions and rollbacks across multiple services was causing multiple problems - especially in deadlock detection/avoidance. They eventually moved much of the code to a more monolithic service.
Because it's all marketing bullshit. In fact that's a good indication that it's marketing bullshit - the fiction that the tip of the self-driving car spear will be consumer vehicles.
Dumb question: Are man pages the only place where any footprint of troff really survives these days?

Sometimes I feel that contemporary markup languages like Markdown, Textile, etc. fall short compared to the syntax that was just as readable and quite a bit more powerful in troff...
It's the facts that are the problem with your weird theory: this doesn't even make sense as an NSA backdoor. It only works if they've already backdoored your computer.
UUIDs support in MySQL 8.0
I'm pretty sure Apple's success is mainly due to building good products that people want and are willing to pay high prices for. Wacky marketing language may be part of their corporate culture but I don't think it's much responsible for their success.
IRC is a pain, yes. I made a C library to talk to IRC servers about (oh god) 15 years ago that I then put a perl wrapper around ... it provided a notification engine like the slack notifications I see today. But I had to cull all the hacker in me from 15 years ago to get it working right ... not an easy thing at all.
While I agree praying doesn't do anything, you're overlooking that there are a lot of people that strongly disagree with us. To them, praying is an important act, and praying for you is likely something they will literally do because they think it will help. Granted, there are many people who say it as a platitude but don't actually do it.
> Everyone does it.

Like, say, acting out of internalized ethnic bias, everyone does it, but not everyone does it equally, and that everyone does it to some extent is no reason not to call out the KKK (or their anti-science analogs) as a particular problem.
And just as badly, "can't" and "cunt" just vary the vowel length without changing the vowel or consonant sounds (in some English accents). Many languages don't use vowel length to signify changes in meaning, and it is obviously hard to teach.
Sometimes I accidentally use it to search for directions, then switch to Google's voice interface when it (inevitably) fails and I realize what I've done.

I don't like the errors voice messaging causes (you can tell when someone's sending texts with it), so I never use that.

It's OK for setting alarms or timers but I've only done that a couple times because I always forget about it and do it manually instead, or (for timers) my phone's farther away than a microwave or something.

Tried using it to record notes by voice once. It was entirely terrible at that task.

My phone would be at most 1% worse if Siri were simply gone.
Not the OP, but I hate the 2-page swipe-up screen. I can't get used to it. Having so much real estate dedicated to crap like AirPlay, AirDrop and NightShift makes zero sense to me.

I'm not in love with "click to unlock" either, although the 7 makes it bearable with raise-to-wake (it's just stupid on my 6, though).
I've just gone to Linux from mac. Went to Mac before xp sp2 so I had been on it a long time.

The more clicks, touches and swipes they insist I use just to navigate, the more I appreciate vim and tmux.
Right on, I appreciate the clarification.

Ah, honestly, I envy that time you had before the internet/javascript/SPAs/etc became so ubiquitous. I bet it was loads of fun figuring it all out and hacking your way to a solution?

You're right, programming really is a drag. I know it's different, but just like with athletes and training versus playing, writers toiling away on manuscripts and outlines, and someone like my father, a construction worker, who labored on bits and pieces of a project before ever realizing the satisfaction of a completed project; you have to endure the suck and find satisfaction in it. SMALL VICTORIES.

Your story reminds me of the passages on Bill Gates in Malcolm Gladwell's The Outliers that talked about Gates teaching himself programming and spending time in the school's library to use the one computer, eventually consulting at an extremely young age.
The thing is that even in rural areas the logistics of autonomous cars allow you to get away with just one for an entire family. The fact that the car can come back home and pick someone else up later means that even if there are still people who own cars (and I suspect lots of people still will) sharing amongst small groups will likely decrease overall count of owned vehicles.
I frequently use Siri to create reminders during my commute, because it's more convenient than pulling my phone out (especially in winter!) and I almost always have an earbud in anyway. If a quicker, lower-friction method exists of capturing stray thoughts before they get away, I haven't found it yet.

I also occasionally use it when I wake up in the middle of the night and don't want to abuse myself with a bright phone display in order to find out what time it is - I don't keep a clock on my bed table, but my phone always charges there. "Hey Siri, what time is it?" is handy in that circumstance, unless the "Hey Siri" part decides not to trigger, which happens often enough that I don't really find it reliable. (I think that must be because a half-asleep voice sounds different; this isn't a problem I generally have at other times, even when using a $15 Bluetooth earbud which can't possibly have a very high-quality microphone.)