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I'm extremely put off by Apple line up getting frustratingly confusing. The devil is in the details here. There was a time, where you could simply trust that an Apple product is built like a tank, that a technology once introduced (like, say, glass screens, or force touch) will always at least be default in the upcoming models.

But it is frustrating that Apple started removing fundamental features in a random fashion, even from flagship products with no intimation of them. Retina Macbook Pro does not have a glass screen. Users did not realize that until the staingate issue cropped up. It feels even blowing air on the screen will pull off coating. In this iPad, they conveniently removed the lamination.

I cannot even imagine Apple doing that back in the day. Imagine a version of iPhone, let's call it 4E, which does not have 3G.

It feels like I have to do a spec comparison about everything before deciding which Apple product to buy. Because there is no knowing what they silently removed.
My dog died in my arms waiting to put her down. This was during my divorce from my first wife.

As bad as the divorce was, nothing will ever come close to losing that dog. She was always there for me like no human ever can or would be and I was a mediocre owner to say the least.

I would like to get another dog, but after my childhood dogs passed away, getting her I knew it would eventually come. Dogs are better than any person I've ever known, including my current wife and myself. I wish I believed in dog heaven, sadly we just get to be blessed for the time they're here with us.
In this alternative solution, the government does your taxes, so instead of paying a company/accountant to do it, our taxes / the deficit will pay for it. Someone has to do the work, and if it's not these companies, it will be the IRS. I'd be in favor of simplifying the tax code so everyone could file their own return with confidence!
I also have an old iPad 3. It certainly shows it's age and is significantly slower than my iPhone 7 Plus. However, the iPad 3 has worked well for FIVE years! I can count on one hand the number of times it has crashed, it has never been affected by malware, spyware, or some buggy crap software which wasted hours of my time. It has not disappointed me once in those 5 years.

Why would I stray away from a product that has not let me down for so long? Is the surface kickstand and pen input worth:

- having to learn a new OS
- not having facetime
- not having imessage (90% of my friends and family are on iOS devices)
- risking time lost due to malware, bloatware, blue screen, etc

Sure there are tablets out there that are thinner, faster, cheaper and have more features. I just don't care! I rather pay $200-300 more for a device that I will use almost every day for the next 1000-1500 days. Once iPads, iPhones, iMacs start wasting my time with random problems then I will shop around. Until then there is absolutely nothing that would make me switch brands.
Seems like they have a very good rating for a charity. Maybe you don't like where the program money is being spent? A lot of the money is spent on policy change in UN and in other non-African nations?

The ONE Campaign spent 83% of its budget on raising public awareness and educating policy makers in support of smart and effective policies and programs that are saving the lives of millions of people living in the world’s poorest countries. We strive to spend as much of our budget as possible on this work, which has direct impact. The percentage of funds committed to these programs is above the international best practice of 80%.
Startup Says It Can Replace Traditional College with a One-Year Program
We saw multiple error messages like this in our logs for multiple clients

php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No address associated with hostname
They probably got rid of lamination to reduce cost, but I wonder if the loss of lamination will improve repairability.
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are you seriously arguing Mayer's tenure was a success? Every major decision she had her fingerprints on (sumly, tumblr, etc) turned out to be massive, expensive failures. Lots of external factors go into stock price so I would argue stock price alone is not a good indicator of leadership.
The police are asking this guy to produce a document that does not currently exist. The police are effectively asking this guy to take a document they do have and is useless (the encrypted hard drive), and using the contents of his own mind to transform it into a document that is useful to them.
The scrolljacking on that page is painful. Maybe it's just the massive images they're loading that's causing the chug on my machine (Macbook Pro), but it's really off-putting.
If you do not anticipate concerns and rely solely on bottom up design, you are guaranteed to require expensive rewrites. Plural. It is also as trivially easy to end up with bad abstraction bottom up add top down, usually by not taking measures to uncouple components (also known as leaking implementation in abstraction)

Properly anticipating issues takes experience.
SpaceX to Make History by Re-Flying Orbital Rocket
I can't actually tell if you're kidding. Forgetting whatever made up number Wall St. has assigned as Yahoo's "worth" they've gone down in flames completely as an organization.

I don't judge a business by the stock ticker, I judge one by their products.
Swift developer from Russia is looking for clients
My favorite new tactic of theirs is in their new commercials, where an actor will ask if the "iPad" can do something, and the announcer will confirm that it can, on the "iPad Pro". The one that jumps to mind is the MS Office one, but I recall at least one other feature that they advertised using the same tactic.

It's pretty confusing if you don't catch the causally mentioned "Pro" bit at the very end, after they've gone through a segment on the "feature" that the "iPad" can do. I just hope it'll net them a lot of returned iPads from rightfully frustrated customers.
It's never wrong for businesses to lobby for their interests. It's wrong when our elected officials bend to those business interest when it goes against the public interest.
no 3d touch? guess 3d touch is dead then.
Trump won’t allow you to use iPads or laptops on certain airlines. Here’s why
What if they put funds towards building out broadband and employed homeless people?
If they're searching your phone, it's likely that you're already in secondary inspection. At that point if you're an alien they're already suspecting that you're inadmissible and they are trying to build a case. They will ask a lot of questions in secondary inspection. If they search your phone and find that it's wiped, they will ask about it and they will expect a convincing explanation.

CBP officers working in secondary inspection to this all day, every day, they know what they're looking for, they will lie to you if necessary and chances are that they have heard the same explanations many times already. Secondary inspection is not a pleasant experience at all and you don't want to make it worse by trying to outsmart people who do this for a living.
A simple web app solves the problem of making plans in a group chat
Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist (2010)
The company I currently work for sadly claims all IP. Not just the things I do for the company but all IT related stuff I do in my free time and even all non IT related things. I could write cook book and it would belong to them. I tried to get that changed but they were only willing to cede IP rights to non IT related products but will still remain a usage right. At least they are willing to transfer all rights to coworkers or me if we ask them to do so for a private project. But even though they seem willing to grant exemptions I'm put off by such contracts. At the end of the day only the contract matters and good will does not.
Guy Who Got a C on Constitutional-Amendment Paper gets Constitution Amended
Ruby 2.4 introduces Enumerable#uniq and Enumerable::Lazy#uniq
> give money to a company with crappy software

> spend your time fixing their problems so they can continue making money with crapy software

someone needs some Stallman love
I had a coworker come to my desk one day, years ago. "Why did you add all that duplicated code to that file??" Huh? Oh, I didn't 'add' that duplication. I took two long files by two different authors, changed them to use the same white space, variable names, comment style and organization strategy. That's all I did. I didn't have the time at that moment to take the next step.

He came back four hours later and said that he couldn't stand it and he had refactored the code and fixed/written some tests.

Perfect. I learned long ago that there are ways you can start cleaning that will induce (some) others to participate.

He spent hours writing tests while I was working on an adjacent part of the code that had worse bugs in it. The work got done and a big piece of the code (this was a project I supported but didn't maintain) didn't, in the end, have my edit history all over it.
I'm not religious, but I heard someone once say something to the effect of "when you die, all of the dogs you've ever known come rushing up to you at once."
iPhone SE (new storage sizes)
Ultimate Guide to API Design
I wonder if front-loading advertisements is the future. Drinking your verification can before you get on the YouTube ride.
Today, in the "companies that treat people like things" section we talk about IBM -- a company that routinely fires thousands of people. Today, the enlightened company is planning to relocate or dismiss the rest of their workforce, in the hope to change the company from the inventor and champion of all-that-is-waterfall to "agile".

All with a straight face.
I live in a metric country and screen sizes are in inches, the other measures have their metric size in parenthesis, I would googled the 9.4 inches high, but not the 9.7 screen.
I think this is a false equivalence. The IRS is already "doing taxes" for most people when they get their paystub and investment data electronically sent by those institutions and using that to compare against the self-willed returns. If anything for many individuals (not self-employed, minimal investments, basic mortgage) this plan would reduce overhead.
HOW Your INSECURITY IS BOUGHT AND SOLD
^This. In fact you can buy readymade solutions now which physically destroy the NAND gates on the input of a code, or as you say, if you fail to input a code within a time limit.
There's also the 3G, 3GS, 4S, 5S, 5C, 6S, 6 Plus, 6S Plus

Looking back, there were always non-descriptive names, and inconsistencies.

I'd argue that not knowing what 'Android' is actually demonstrates the technology has reached its goal of being universal. It's implicit instead of explicit. People buy it without needing to know what it is. Why would most consumers care about the name of an operating system? It's unimportant. It's not like I remember the exact model of my TV or car, the important thing is that I can watch one and drive the other.
How do you break into that world? And is there room for serious engineering, not just consulting?
The important difference is that “pro” supports the stylus, while “non-pro” does not.
UK to follow US flight ban on laptops
The IRS already has the infrastructure to do it. For simple returns they also have all the necessary information whether a return is filed or not.

So we can do both. Simplify the tax code and send a lot of people a post card summarizing their tax year. If the summary is wrong or not advantageous, they can file an amended return.
Introduction to Property Based Testing
Homegrown Nominated as One of the Best Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform
> It's tougher to fire employees than contractors

I keep reading this here, but this doesn't square with the reality I see all around me (this may be specific to the USA). I've observed plenty of people getting fired, sometimes on short notice and for non-obvious reasons, often only known to the employer and employee. As someone who does not run a business, could someone explain to me the details about exactly what makes firing someone "difficult" for an employer?
The Pro screen is a little different too. The iPad Pro doubles the motion detection to 240hz when there is any kind of touching going on, which reduces the latency when drawing. My understanding is that this significantly adds to the cost of the hardware, and is why we don't have Pencil support across the entire line.

I thought that the Pencil does not use a radio a la the Wacom, and is purely Bluetooth, but I can't find any source to back that up so I could be mistaken.
Do the physical properties of explosives change when they happen to travel outside these specific airports?
"(I refuse to get an HMO for moral reasons)"

Can you elaborate on this?
Why Geometry Shaders Are Slow (Unless You’re Intel) (2015)
Companies can't track your thinking. They can know when you're using their equipment. I'm fine with them owning what I do with their hardware, networks, anything they pay for... but they can not own my off-time, and they most certainly do not own my mind.

What I build in my offtime is mine; this is in fact where every entrepreneur starts. What you're proposing is that all innovation should stay in the hands of the employer, and you as an employee are shackled at all hours.

I know that some states have different laws in this area, but CAs are strong, and no one owns what you do when off from work and using your own equipment but you. Do not ever give up that right or we all lose.
it's become very hard to justify getting a new iPad over something like the surface.

The cheapest iPad is less than half the price of the cheapest surface, and if you only need the iPad features then the surface is really expensive.

edit: Seems you can still get the old Surface 3, which only costs a bit more than an iPad.
So we know for certain people like that are in a "tiny minority"? I would guess they are more than a minority. Being super productive in a potentially distracting or accountability-free environment requires a lot of discipline and self-motivation, which is something I would have guessed is the minority attribute.
>I don't even know if I can reasonably say that there are ~500 companies in my city who a) have a position open for what I do and b) I'd want to work for.

That's about 2 applications a day, which isn't too crazy. The job market for software people is deep if you live in the right place, 500 is a lot but not surprising to me.
It is, yes — good point.
I doubt it. The Mini is a great tablet for little kids. It's just the right size for toddlers and they can still hold it even when you put an Otterbox Defender on it.
> When a savvy software company hires someone, they understand that [thinking deeply about a work problem, even during nights and weekends] is how developers operate.

This isn't really the _reason_ that companies have these kinds of policies though... Ultimately companies have a legal problem of sorting out what they own from what they don't. This is especially important when the company sells it's assets. The default/simple approach is to try and "own everything". (Not saying this is good for employees, but it is simple for companies.)
I happen to agree with most of the points the author makes--that those features would make Go nicer. I think I disagree with the author (and probably you) about the degree to which these features matter. I write a lot of Go code, and the times when I really need those features or feel that those features noticeably reduce my risk of error are few and far between. Go code is not as DRY as Rust or some other languages, but I'm not sure that the extra DRY-ness would make me significantly more productive or correct. If someone wanted to fork Go and implement these features, I'd love to be proved wrong.
I do not own one myself, by I have seen people type on Surface keyboards on trains, with the Surface resting on their laps. It did not look awkward or uncomfortable.
Was bad journalism. You can simply look at their 990 form https://www.one.org/us/about/financials/

Non-profits must have open data showing how their money was spent.
I meant why there haven't been apps that could be purchased and simply deployed with a Docker command. For instance, a simple Log management solution that could be deployed this way for a cloud network of a business.
Confirmed : https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=774198&t...
Unless your startup is about coffee i highly doubt it.
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It might be anecdotal which I doubt but then how do we know this is action of tiny minority. I should add I do work from home certain times but I take it as privilege rather than a right to work whenever it is convenient to me.
Right, but in that case the court is asking for specific documents which it knows exists.

In this case, the court is asking the man to provide evidence which the court is not aware of. And there also might be evidence for other crimes which the court isn't aware of.

This is also a right to privacy issue.
Many peoples taxes are basically automatic. The government's cost to do these is basically negligible.
I can think of very few other things with such poor reward systems. When I start washing dishes, I start seeing clean dishes immediately. Even if I have hundreds of dishes to wash, I can feel good about that first clean dish.
A few years back, when our favorite family dog died, I wrote about it. As much as it hurt (and it was crushing), something that stood our for me was our choice to euthanize. We found a vet who had a specialist end-of-life practice. She offered hospice care for terminally ill animals, and in-home euthanasia services for when the time comes. She spent over an hour with us in our home, with Rubu, listening to our stories about him and helping us get ready. She then took him for cremation, and hand-delivered the ashes back to us. She was on a mission, a wonderful mission.

And I keep thinking that's how I want to go... not in a hospital, wasting money on last-ditch efforts. I want to be at home, surrounded by the people who love me, listening to them tell each other stories about me. And when it's time, I want a doctor to deliver a painless injection to stop my heart and let me go in peace.

There's something greatly fucked up about our society when we help our dogs die with more dignity than we do ourselves.

(fwiw, Rubucac died of hemangiosarcoma, a dog-specific cancer. It attacks the cells lining the inside of blood vessels, causing them to grow random, structurally deficient ways. It usually starts in the spleen, and spreads very quickly. The new blood vessels rupture, causing internal bleeding. By the time it is discovered (usually due to weakness from the bleeding, or often, the dog just dying right on the spot), it has already spread throughout the body due to circulation. Dogs only last a few weeks at best before they die of internal bleeding, heart attack, or stroke, and treatment options are invasive and largely ineffective. I'm glad humans don't get it.)
Alexsey Belan(M4g) seems pretty good at exploiting systems but not so good at staying anonymous.
New York is the 4th largest state in terms of population, so obviously it is going to have a big debt compared to, say, Rhode Island. New York has a particularly pathological state government because if you deleted New York City and it's environs, it would be a red state. Thus you have the representatives from Queens who think the government has to subsidize off-track betting to save jobs as well as your share of tea party types. The quality of public services is excellent (they hired a friend of mine to write printer drivers for IBM mainframes fast enough that they can turn around paperwork in 2 days even at peak times) but the level of corruption for elected officials is legendary.

The money argument has nuances. I pay $90 a month for 2 Mbps DSL. From the viewpoint of the phone company, there already is competition for fiber -- they can get $90 a month from me and pay their shareholders a dividend larger than earnings (in fact, pay a dividend even when earnings are negative!) Maybe they could charge $120 a month for fiber, but they could not charge a lot more than that, but from the viewpoint of their investment, they are only getting an extra $30 a month.

Now, a newcomer could get $120 a month, but they would split the market, and some people are going to look for the low cost solution, particularly when the profits the phone company is making are already insane and they could be offering the same service for more like $50.

Probably the most practical situation (what is supposed to happen in my valley) is to work with an incumbent (Charter) to extend service to less profitable areas, because frankly, Charter makes money hand-over-first in all the rest of the areas.
The iPad stylus is amazing. Very noticeably lower latency and better accuracy than other tablets I tried.

If you want to use your device for taking notes, proofreading documents, writing in margins of PDFs, doodling, illustration, etc., then the “pro” iPad models are lovely.
IBM is so weird.

I haven't worked for them, but I work with 2 former IBM Engineers in Austin... both of them say the same weird things.. like, you can't get two monitors (when one asked, he was declined, then his boss pulled an old CRT out of a closet and gave it too him... a 640x480 CRT from what must have been 184 years ago) ... And other weird tales that just seem antithetical to a tech company..
The urea system allows the engine to run lean and hot without excess NOx emissions, which reduces particulate emissions. The particulate filter should take care of the rest.
AI can fail, just like programs.
An example I've given here before is: http://securedrives.co.uk/

There are other solutions though, and of course you can make your own if you feel confident about it.
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Land mines
Across species eye contact is a thing for both carnivore/herbivore dynamics and also dominance hierarchies so if you intentionally wanted to create a weird theory I'd suggest mixing those in weird ways.

So if a hunter gets hurt while hunting he could screw up the hunt for everyone by being hurt except for crying messes up his eye to eye stare down so he temporarily falls to the bottom of the dominance hierarchy allowing the overall tribe better luck hunting and more meat for everyone including himself, therefore cry in pain, in the long run equals more delicious meat. Stalking being more a carnivore behavior than herbivore I'd theorize crying is extremely manly and women carried the trait originally rather than directly benefiting by expressing the trait.

The vegan types can be very vociferous when presented with commentary about the biology of the human body appearing to have evolved to support meat eating, so be careful, its very politically incorrect to look into things like cross species carnivore eye contact behaviors or apparently evolutionary evidence of stalking and hunting biological technologies.
You don’t need more than two switches in most data centers
The new Acceptable Ads committee (And why it still won't work)
You can already play with this using Git's "grafts" and "replace refs" features. Most of Git's graph algorithms are OK with this because they traverse the graph while setting one or more "SEEN" bits on each node. If you find one that loops infinitely, it would be worth making a bug report.