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I don't think your frustration is warranted in this context, and context matters. The statement (a quote used by the article) was making a claim as to the staff involved with the expansion of Unicode being too homogeneous. If true, this could realistically pose a problem. I have some first-hand experience with this: I'm male, white and an engineer as well, but I'm also an immigrant in an East Asian country. Doing so and acquiring local cultural competency involved learning many things that weren't readily available to be learned in my European country of origin. It's therefore very credible to me that to serve a global audience, Unicode would benefit from a diverse staff trained in diverse environments due the way skills and knowledge are distributed.

In other words, no, there isn't anything wrong with being male, white and an engineer (and nothing in the text says so, btw), but there might be (or have been; the article describes a shake-up in the process thereafter) a problem with decision makers at Unicode overwhelmingly fitting those specs. I think you can easily make the argument for diverse representation in this use case.

This would of course benefit from the viewpoint of someone more familiar with the makeup of the Unicode Consortium.
Also, more in general, all the obvious improvements to the current smartphone form factor/concept have been made now: capacitive touch screen (iPhone), retina display (iPhone 4), fingerprint unlock/secure element (iPhone 5s), always listening Siri + Force Touch (iPhone 6s), plus huge improvements in CPU/GPU speed with all models. Where force touch was already quite a marginal improvement.

I have an iPhone 5S and my primary motivation to upgrade would be to get a 64GB model. I just don't see any revolutionary changes in newer iterations (neither in Android).

The same applies to the iPad. My wife has an iPad Air, but I have no clue telling how many generations it is behind, without checking Wikipedia. It works fine and there is no real reason to upgrade in newer iterations (except perhaps in specific niches).
I've been writing software for over 30 years as well, just recently came to mobile (Android) after coding just about every other platform on earth.

I have an Android app published now, but it was a complete nightmare as you say and I'm more convinced than ever that most things should be done as web apps, perhaps progressive web apps rather than native if you want to write cross platform.
I don't think we are at the end of anything, much less Apple. AI looks like the next big thing, and Apple needs to be careful not to miss it. Siri is just is not as good as what Google and Alexa are doing, and Apple appears doing nothing to satisfy the home demand. If they somehow completely miss the home AI front then I might get onboard the Apple is dying train. There is still time right now though.
if the only reason you're right and they're wrong is because you enjoyed the benefit of hindsight, then i would say that's not much to brag about...
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I have an iPhone and an Android phone. I use both on a regular basis. I see a lot of friends with iPhones looking jealously at people with Android, and vice versa. The grass is always greener. I've talked people out of switching—on both sides.

I'm far from the only one—before I got an Android phone, I asked my Android-using friends about it. They told me it was a bad idea.

I'm in a cynical mood right now so I'm going to say that both platforms suck, just for different reasons, and switching platforms sucks even more so don't do it unless you have a very good reason. Android has a ton of problems with software, ecosystem, and hardware. iOS has a ton of problems with software, ecosystem, and hardware. If you like the assistant and cloud services maybe Android is the right choice. If you like battery life and app ecosystem then maybe iOS is the right choice.

I also had the experience of dragging out an obsolete (5 year old) phone recently. I was surprised how well it compared against modern phones, except for the fact that a 5 year old lithium battery doesn't hold much of a charge.
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The filters are a big part of it I'd say. Definitely contributed highly to its appeal and fun-factor.
Here is a talk I gave at a conference, 360|interesect (which focuses on what technologists do in their spare time "while away from the keyboard"), on some of my motivations; this was before I started actually running for offices, though.

https://vimeo.com/126618332
> Economic signaling based on opinion of good/bad is the bane of the free market.

Sure, but "a third party intervening in prices is the antithesis of a price system where the producer sets their own price" is an empty tautology without any argument for why the world is better off for people being able to obtain soda more cheaply and balancing the budget with a non-distortionary poll tax instead.

Similarly,if you're going to make sub-Malthusian arguments that free food is "exactly how you end up with famines" it would help if you could name one example of a famine significantly influenced by prior availability of free food. In the interests of fairness, I'll name three that definitely weren't: the Irish potato famine, the Holodomor and the Bengal famine. Developed countries are a long way ahead of the era where free food is likely to have a statistically significant effect on the birth rate and all the data would suggest causality ran in the opposite direction with birthrates having fallen sharply against a backdrop of increasing access to better nutrition and increasing universal welfare access. It's developing countries, where people have to ensure enough surviving descendants to guarantee they continue to be fed in old age, that are the ones with the higher birthrates and rapidly growing populations...
Okay, if you want to be like that, then:

The money these people spend on insurance could have been better spent elsewhere in the economy.
Money does have multiple uses and multiplies productivity if correctly used
My first (incorrect) thought when reading the headline was that they were building a library of anti-patterns. Not sure how to do that, seems like a challenge to data mine, but it would be very cool to have. Anyone know of such a thing?
Any alternative to voluntary agreements would inject noise in the feedback that the humans involved can use to improve themselves and, ultimately, the species. You can't have equal opportunity. It's an impossible goal. It can't possibly exist. What should be possible is to have some kind of Fair Opportunity by optimizing it somehow but never equal. You need that constraint loose in the system so it can create wealth. Pursuing equality is only pre-authorize coercion and will converge in totalitarianism (because victimists will always bug you ad-infinitum to achieve their claims of lack of equality).
But that's a smaller proportion of people than ever before. So not only are we capable of supporting more people total, but a far smaller percentage of those are hungry.
Haa good catch, that's a strong sign if Oracle/Java is using it as an inspiration.
It's rather disturbing to see such a disconnect between reality and the perception of it among the western elite, specifically concerning the general living conditions most of the world lives in. This article seems to be nothing more than the same old post-scarcity rhetoric that certain groups push for political gain every couple of years.

The world is as it has always been; some things are getting better in some places, other things getting worse elsewhere, and in many places the status quo is largely continued. Making such sweeping declarations like the article does merely serves to turn extremely nuanced and interconnected systems into black and white judgement calls. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader as to why that is, and why it's being printed in the NYT.
The lesson you should be taking away from the luddites is not just that they didn't foresee that there were long term benefits to the technology, but that they violently opposed the progress. The potential for violence is the lesson. Get rI'd of large portions of the popukation's means of making a living by replacing their jobs with ai and there will be violence.

The process of replacing jobs with ai needs to go slow enough that the risk of large scale violence is minimized
It's too early to tell. The iPhone 7 did indeed sell huge amounts immediately after launch, but IIRC that's the period every iPhone has sold the most - it then tails off throughout the year. The question is whether the iPhone 7 tails off more or less than previous devices.
"Learn the art of minimizing meeting length but maximizing their effectiveness."

One basic tool here is to have an explicitly listed agenda for the meeting, with a first cut arrived at before the meeting. New topics ("walk-ons") can be added to the agenda in a discussion at the start of the meeting, or at the end if time permits. It's surprising how many 60 or 90 minute meetings are run without an agenda.

If you run out of time (which is undesirable and should be corrected if it happens often) you can push items at the tail of the agenda to the next meeting.

One job of the manager is to be sure all topics (not just pet topics) get their fair share of attention, and to move the meeting onward when needed.
Holy crap, the amount of libraries, uses React/Redux/Webpack and Firebase.
But presumably that would apply to all cities. Portland, for example, has multiple cafés that stay open much later.
I'm really glad I just learned this definition of "decimate", can't wait to use this
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> The removed it because it was a proprietary port

Apple is not shy when it comes to using proprietary ports - so I don't really buy this argument.

We can look at the iPhone 7 and it's proprietary non-USB connector as clear evidence they don't mind running proprietary connectors.
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No, in a few years everything will be USB-C. The ports are gone for good.
I remember thinking this was a silly move, but my greatest regret is that I did not reserve my preferred user name in time. This means I'll never really be able to use the service.
Taxing is not coercion, but a democratic decision to distribute wealth.
The return on investment in Vienna's commonwealth is the best quality of living in the world (quality of live is a lot more than private money)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Surve...
And still, for many daily users the differences are not going to be spectacular. At least not 'drop 700 Euro on it' spectacular. So I guess many people went from a 2 year to a 3-4 year upgrade cycle.
1. Instantly stop being a developer. Trust your team -- if they cannot figure it out, most probably you won't be able either. (Saying that because for some time at the beginning it will feel like you can.) Remember, they are at least as smart as you are, and have been thinking about the problem for much more time than you can dedicate to it. If they fail, you alone won't save it single-handedly.

2. Managing open-source-based codebase is vastly different from managing the closed-source one. Mixing both (a reality) will require special thinking and measures. It will require two very different sorts of developers and activities.
Do you know any company which recovered from introspection? It feels to me like they all tank, whether it be Yahoo! or Nokia. My Christmas wish would be to have enough competition that we'd have a real choice for privacy, performance, jack/hdmi/magsafe/Fn keys, and open-source. "Be the change you seek", they say.
I'd also add that the move away from carrier subsidies may be slowing the upgrade cycle. We had an artificial 2 year upgrade cycle just because that was when your carrier would give you a subsidy.

But now I'm sitting here with a 2.5 year phone that I don't feel like replacing for 700 bucks out of pocket.
About the camera: That's what I thought as well. So I presented my phone proudly in a bar to friends, all of them having Android. We shot some photos, and each and every photo was better than on the 6S. 100% and live.

About the efficiency: Agreed that it's a hard thing to argue. But the reason is less that it's not measureable, but because it's hard to convince people of efficiency that they don't even deem possible. Best example for me is Vim vs a random simple text editor. People who use the latter are hard to convince of why Vim is way more efficient, since they can't even imagine what you can do with Vim. In the same regard I know few, really few people, who even try to achieve some level of efficiency on their phones. But in fact since I have paid for the iPhone now I would love to be convinced from the opposite myself. So if you have some neat efficiency tricks (e.g. how to get a typing speed of not lifting your finger at all + good word guessing on an iPhone) I'm happy to admit being wrong.
Isn't learning maintenance, support, refactoring, testing, etc., also valuable (especially for beginners)? I think it's in the first page of Site Reliability Engineering that the majority of time and costs are present here, which might suggest it is a more valuable job skill.

As a beginner I saw posts like this and felt like this was the way to go to learn as quickly and efficiently as possible. In retrospect I wish I had stuck with a single project, such as a comprehensive Django application, gotten a job in that domain to extend my skills, and then built from there.
Assignment of Invention is standard boilerplate in every offer letter I've ever seen.
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Note that most Linux distros put the latest microcode updates into all of their kernels for any supported version. That means that an updated box with an "old" distro is still going to be OK.
What a shit piece of code. Recruiters should stop trying to be cool
Nice subversion. But I was poking at the relationship between duration, rather than offset.

Should they feel guilty leaving early if they finished their work?

Should they feel guilty leaving late if they haven't finished their work?
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"Easily debatable" is not an argument lol, and then you have the audacity to declare a non sequitur. Are you just playing devil's advocate or do you actually believe the population is going to balance out/ the same farm land will produce exponentially more apples over time? For your edification, agricultural land has been getting more efficient, but there is a hard limit, and it is called sunlight. Maybe we can increase capacity by growing crops indoors powered by nuclear, or maybe we can colonize space, but your petty arguments (if I could even call them that) do little to prove this is guaranteed before population catches up.
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Finally the historical use of the word Decimate. To remove 1 in 10.

> The word decimation is derived from Latin meaning "removal of a tenth" - http://www.dictionary.com/browse/decimate

In Ancient Rome if a Roman Army was to be disciplined for desertion or mutiny they would be decimated and 1 in 10 soldiers would be killed by the commanding officer. They would use lottery system to choice the ones to be whipped to the point of death and then beheaded. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army)#cite_n...
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There is always room for improvement in hardware and software. And such high end handsets were never meant to be replaced very often, so the drop in sales is not due to technology saturation, but due to more competition becoming better than Apple.
"Millions of Americans are currently hungry; we can report that they are moving at speed towards nearby fridges."
Out of that list, the waterproofing is the only one that really stands out. The rest are minor, iterative improvements. We're used to Apple making larger leaps on even years (4,5,6) then iterative improvements in odd years (4S, 5S, 6S). But this year they broke that - the 7 feels more like an iPhone 6SS than a 7. Yes, it's better, but it's not "full price for a new phone" better.
How does this reconcile with the difficulty of firing people? I've heard they have rooms where people just come in and watch tv all day because a company doesn't want to fire them.

So how can people feel a need to work 100hrs?
There appears to be a only small correlation to the overall trend down, and economic growth. For example, crime declined in 2008 and 2009 when the economy was still flat and unemployment was high. Crime did tick up slightly leading into the recession, though not substantially. So while it has some impact, it doesn't look like it accounts for the broad trend down since the 90s.
The data indicates just how much Americans need to use drugs. Imagine how big the numbers get when you scoop in prescription drugs in addition to prohibited substances. Clearly drug use is more important to large number of Americans than risk of incarceration.

Why does America have such a greater drug fascination than perhaps every other country?
Interesting article, but the example at the beginning doesn't strike me as a very good one.

The commenters were correct in being concerned about safety, and the suggestion to link Facebook was implemented.

I remember when I signed up for AirBnB my biggest concern was not being able to trust the person renting the place. Their account being linked to a Facebook profile (mostly) solved this problem for me.
I had a similar experience running a small team. It was very difficult to find people who knew or wanted to learn Clojure. I'm also experiencing the other side of the problem, in that I know the language but cannot find a job in which to use it.
You missed the point. Clojure's way of opneing TCP connections is standardized within Clojure -- all Clojure programs use a standard API call to do that.

Common Lisp, on the other hand, has no standard way of opening a TCP socket at all, because TCP was uncommon when it was designed. It relies entirely on (poorly documented, often unmaintained) third party libraries to do that.

As for your doubts, you can doubt all you like, that changes nothing. I am well aware of the history of ANSI CL, and I'm not sure what point you are trying to make with all the namedropping.
Presumably the factories won't keep producing things if they're not selling them.
As self-reported by Apple according to unknown criteria. We don't know yet.

But if you look at the development of iPhone sales [1], they pretty much peaked in 2015. Q1 2016 was only a rounding error away from the top in 2015 and YoY 2016 sales are very much down. That doesn't seem like a hot growing market anymore.

[1]: http://www.statista.com/graphic/5/263401/global-apple-iphone...
Many Japanese companies pressure their employees to report significantly less hours than they actually work. So not only will they work you to death, they are stealing money from you along the way.
>Apple is not shy when it comes to using proprietary ports - so I don't really buy this argument.

There was not a single proprietary port on the old MB Pro, except for MagSafe, which isn't really even a port, but instead a power interface.

Zero.
How long until people just start passively disobeying? I mean, if the choice is death by overwork or loss of career (maybe ending in death due to homelessness)...
Sure - so let's say you have PI insurance of $100/week, and you do an international flight each week also at $1000/rt. This still leaves you with $28,900/week pre-tax? What other major expenses can you see with private software consulting?
> At the end of the day eating well and staying healthy is a personal responsibility.

A significant portion of human beings are wired for addiction. It's a fiction to claim that people are all free and are responsible for every choice that they make. We for instance control market on all drugs that have any potential for addiction, food has a potential for addiction for lots of people. If people are so free to choose to stay healthy and eat well, then why are all drugs not freely available to anyone who wants them. Opiates, benzos, etc.

No one is saying that anyone else should tell you what to eat. I am simply saying that free food that is healthy should be freely available. No friction and no excuses to not eat healthy. And economically there is a huge incentive to eat that free food as it's free.
> the latest MacBooks Pros has been mostly negative

To developers to the hipsters they are "FANTASTIC!"

Apple doesn't think they need developer specific tools. Personally 90% of what I ever see is Apple products at Open Source conventions and developer conferences.
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This kind of clause has been part of every offer letter I've ever received from a company with >100 employees
Incremental changes are less noticeable. Sure they show up on spec sheets but unless you've got both models side by side for direct comparison smartphones have generally reached a level of "good enough".

I don't really think my Pixel is amazingly faster compared to my old Nexus 5, most apps I use on a frequent basis were instant on both phones. I think the screen is arguably worse on the Pixel but unless I go find a Nexus to compare with, they're essentially identical.
I subscribe to chaos theory, so yes, any action has enormous repercussions in the future. But policy-wise, I don't think what you are saying is at odds with what I'm saying. If you get rid of the soda tax AND the subsidies on corn (syrup), it balances out nicely.
The difference is a little less shocking when you adjust for crime rates. E.g. we have about 8-10x higher incarceration rate of Germany, but we also have more than 4x the murders per capita. (And the chicken came before the egg here. Violent crime started going up in the 1960s, but it wasn't until the late 1990s that the incarceration rate had gone up by the same proportion as the violent crime rate.)

Americans aren't very generous when it comes to crime. In many European countries, even murder carries only about a 10-15 year sentence. On the other hand, I wonder if that's a product of our situation. The United States is fantastically violent in comparison to Europe, and always has been: http://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/homicid....

E.g. Berlin is slightly bigger than Chicago. In a typical year, it might have 60-70 murders. Chicago in comparison had well over 700 this year. You can't look at the criminal justice system in the U.S. relative to our more enlightened European counterparts without keeping in mind that difference.
It wasn't left alone. Instagram's API became a lot more restrictive after Facebook's acquisition and they are implementing a lot of features from Facebook's obsession with competing with Snapchat ( Live, stories etc...) Not saying it's a bad thing.
Would you mind sharing other "correct by construction" ideas/references/libraries you know ?
This is extremely standard. The same language was used at my last two jobs.
If you think you'll be working on something of your own, turn off the offer and tell them why. Better, negotiate a different agreement now. That's a standard contract but they might not care leaving you some margin to pursue your own business.
Maybe you were like me and assumed that the "address" input just meant street address, since there's a separate zip input? I did that (#### lawrence st) and then it interpreted my street address to be in a different state. Instead you need to put in your address including city and state. I'm not actually sure what the zip code input is for.
The de-prioritization of MacOS could cause defections from all-Apple customers. Even though MacOS device revenue is a small percentage of iOS device revenue, MacOS defections break the all-Apple halo and open the door for other devices to be recommended by former advocates of Apple's ecosystem.
$ yarn start

yarn start v0.18.1

$ react-scripts start

sh: react-scripts: command not found

...The demo site looks cool, though :)