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Yes this sounds like SAP with insufficient training.

Clients have been asking for years to get browser-like functionalities, getting a form with only the fields they really need and nothing that can be determined automatically.
But SAP has been improving for years, and now they are offering jQuery in disguise https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/

It's hard to blame bad UI on SAP when they are pushing for the opposite.
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What you are (accurately) describing is the high end of the IoT space. The low end is almost equally disconcerting but in the other direction: no updates, no responsibility and wildly vulnerable to attack.
Elastic Sales has pivoted to a CRM solution http://close.io.
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my initial reaction is to be against this, and then I think but I'm for driverless cars and that cat is pretty much born outside of the bag.
I think this is more a result of the increase in acceptance of entrepreneurship as a career option. Adding to the list of predictors of a tech correction, when you have a bunch of investment bankers and management consultants coming into consulting, you know you've peaked.

I have to wonder, what's the catchet of YCombinator when you have so many new startups being churned out every quarter? YC is always going to be fine - they get their 7%. They're simply increasing the bandwidth and they'll get a few hits, but we should be prepared for the average quality of YC start-ups to fall with volume.
I cannot agree with the quoted statement. Early Apple tablets do not work as well as when they were released. I bought an iPad 3. After each major iOS release it became slower. Now it runs iOS 9 and it is unbearably slow. I only ever use it to watch YouTube, and even this is an exercise in patience.

Because of the performance drop, I had bought an iPad mini 4. After half a year I sold it because I simply didn’t use it often. I cannot imagine spending $400 on a new iPad. I will keep using my iPad 3 until it breaks. And I will not buy a new iPad again. The OS and form factor is too limited to do any serious work on it. (I’m not going to buy a keyboard and stand for a tablet just to have a subpar laptop experience.)
>There is no reason, in my funny but pretty frustrating anecdote, for hospital to run so inefficient,

There is one reason why it is so. When they make such error, you must take effort, time and money to fix it. So if hospital can spend "their" money on system that can fix and/or catch such errors (+staff that can efficiently​ use it), but on the other hand they can just "outscore" it to you, guess what choice they will make?
Isn't it just a matter of time?
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Regarding "Niles – Conversational wiki for business"

The article says:
"It’s a $27 b market and claims 700,000 teams signed up in one week."

I believe this is a typo - they actually have 700 teams that signed up.
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Hello, I feel like taking some downvotes today.

In the same way that a vendor can't force you to honor their intention for you to view, read, and seriously consider the ads sent alongside their content, you can't force them to honor your intention to maintain privacy when you're visiting their servers. If it's fair game for you to mangle their content inside the browser before it gets presented to you, it's fair game for them to ask your browser to send back some bits so they can derive benefit they want. It's your responsibility to select a browser/extension combo that is providing the level of privacy and anonymity that you desire.

There's a bit of an escalatory reciprocal at work here; users demand more and more for free, and companies are left with fewer and fewer ways to get consumers to consciously pay for their goods and services.

I have never worked in adtech or user tracking, but I understand the mindset of those who do, and I don't feel that it's at all inherently evil, as some people make it out to be.

Part of the reason that sophisticated spam operations like private link rings and social media astroturfing are a required part of today's web marketing toolbox is because users are doing everything they possibly can to avoid seeing advertisements alongside their content. All this accomplishes is that ads migrate from explicitly-labeled boxes on the side of the page to the content sections, as "sponsored stories" on news sites, astroturfed comments on blogs, and stuffed product reviews on ecommerce sites.

I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with end-users running an ad blocker extension if that's what they want to do, and by no means am I suggesting any restriction on their freedom to do it. I run such an extension myself (though I usually wait until I come across a particularly egregious site to install it).

But by the same token, I don't think there's anything wrong with a company attempting to extract what data they can from a user's interaction with them, as long as it's voluntarily given by the user or the user's browser. There is no reason that they shouldn't be free to attempt to fingerprint individual users who are visiting their site, especially since in most cases, the goal is to enhance user experience by providing ads they might actually find relevant instead of asinine.

Just my two cents. I know it doesn't fit everyone's favorite narrative of "business trying to make money are evil", but I think this group of frequently-maligned developers deserve someone to stand up for them once in a while.
Why not find a company that doesn't have these ridiculous interviews? I find a huge number of these require a full day of interviewing, and very few actually pay you for it. I just stopped going for the Big 4. Working at these places seems like hell anyway.

Good luck on your search, my best advice is to change where you are looking.
I used to go to an SF restaurant that served rabbit, and it was quite good. Back in 1992, someone set up a fake Bunny Burger franchise as a very elaborate prank.[1] They were serving ground turkey, not real rabbit. The concept got a lot of people upset.

I have more objection to eating beef than rabbit. I used to have a horse at a stable that also had a cow, a big Hereford, that the owner was fattening up. When I went by the cow, I'd scratch the big white blaze on the face, which the cow liked. After a few days, the cow recognized me and greeted me with the lowing sound cows make. I haven't eaten much beef since.

Chicken is fine; chickens are too dumb to worry about.

[1] https://myriadicity.net/musings-and-amusements/amusements/bu...
No: Antitrust.

There's no excuse for Amazon selling and profiting from counterfeits though. Buck stops with them.
> 0 dependencies

If bundling your devDependencies at compile time counts as "0 dependencies", nothing has any dependencies. In this case, the whole thing's built on electron - all of chrome's rendering engine is quite the dependency. The uncompressed Windows version is 137 MB on disk. Fatter than most any app should be.
* Regarding "Pied Piper", funny that some refer to it

* "massively democratizes" is the new "disrupt"
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1. My argument was that their incentive is to avoid being sued, not profiting from a monopoly.

2. What monopoly are you proposing? A monopoly on the software that comes with the tractor?
Keepass can't? It can fill upon request with Ctrl+V which does <username>[TAB]<password>[Enter], but to automatically fill passwords you need the http plugin for keepass and a browser extension.
Made me laugh nervously and cancel my subscription...
>often its unclear that doing so would end up with results that are significantly better than traditional approaches

If Deep Learning can approximate any function, does that mean that in some cases it ends up approximating the output of traditional approaches?
Near my old workplace there was an incident where somebody tried to set a fire at night and the police got involved. The criminal got away that night, but I was impressed that they actually caught him a few days later. I got to thinking about how you could do this with today's technology when you're recording things all the time... "Give me the license plates of all the cars that arrived after 11 and left the area between 12:30am and 1:00am?" To say nothing of tracking people using cell phones. (Recall that last bit was discussed in the Snowden leaks...)
> In context, this is about CS classes, while the others might do some programming they shouldn't need to do computer science.

We seem to read the same statement differently. I actually had a CS101 class in highschool (also in Pascal, I didn't learn much there
;-) ). While all students there wanted to go in the engineering/science direction, I think only a hand full of us ended up in CS. Granted, this might be due to terminology.

On the other hand, I work with people who studied "business informatics", which at a bachelor's degree has the same base classes. I can guarantee you none of them use a pointer in their daily work (again, they do more in the sysadmin direction).

> To anyone on the path of becoming a professional programmer, ...

Yes, but not in the first lecture. Not before they know what a loop is. Many don't even know the command line (yes, I was also stunned to see that).

On the other point, I entirely agree :). I could make a huge list of frustrations I have with professionals not being willing or able to introspect how things work.

> c/c++ don't force this straight away though, [...]

As I said, it's not so much of the language anymore, more its legacy. C++ has stuck around quite a while, and this results in an abundance of old and bad APIs.

And with the better ones, you'll be able to leave pointers aside, but end up ignoring templates instead... Also, already the output operator on STL streams means you'll have a lot of explaining (or ignoring) to do.

Additionally, if you really are already teaching computer science students, I'd say you'll give them a better time explaining pointers and so on to them after they already know a language they can certainly use in the industry - in which case the idea of using Java to start out still has a point...

Edit:

This basically leads back to the original argument of the article: If you change the starting language for beginners, do it for their learning progression. If you're changing it to C++ for C++'s sake, you won't be doing your students a favor, stick with Java. If you can tolerate telling your students "hey, look, this magical thing is actually that feature here", you can also tell them later on that C++ is basically much like Java except for some details. I think language switching isn't as hard as it's made out to be if you're teaching the right concepts.
Maybe, but it's illegal for sure. The filming is, unless you have a good reason like "cars are being set on fire nearby, I'm watching my own"; and by facial recognition all the more if you have no damn good reason.

Maybe laws are different wherever you live but you didn't mention a jurisdiction.
Just as a side note, we've never needed to upgrade the ipad air 2 nor any prior tablet from apple. We're of horror stories of devices slowing down or degrading with each iteration of ios so we've been lucky in not keeping them up to date.

On the other hand its actually been a negative impact in regards to wanting to buy a iphone. Knowing that if apple ever force a update or accidently swipe a notification away we could be looking at slower devices is a incentive not to buy their iphone products.
The M3 is not well documented. The big thing to discover is the memory map to get at the IO. At least the firmware is open source to help provide a starting point and it includes some base addresses for peripherals in the system.

https://e2e.ti.com/support/arm/sitara_arm/f/791/t/284956

http://arago-project.org/git/projects/?p=am33x-cm3.git;a=sum...

http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruh73o/spruh73o.pdf page 1172
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High-profile departures are hard to read because leadership teams are usually (and should be) paranoid about the effect on morale. Also, as a general rule, clean breaks with little to no warning are easier to digest for the rest of the company rather than long, drawn out affairs where gossip can be given life through dint of "overhearing" the subject (almost incorrectly or out of context) in the hallway.
Both. They've operated their own foundries for longer than I've been alive; probably closer to a century. They've since purchased at least one semiconductor company to design and manufacture some of their electronics. And yes, John Deere has built its own engines for a long time; the division is called Power Systems or JDPS, and they build engines in factories all over the world, and they sell their engines to other equipment manufacturers as well.
Few days back I got a duplicate book from Amazon, sadly, it was a gift for a friend who didn't realize that it was a duplicate book.
I've always wondered why something like CNN doesn't snatch it up (obviously the parent company) even with the large amount of useless garbage on it, I still think it's an amazing "pulse" on realtime events around the globe. Teamed together with algorithms that I'm sure Twitter already has under the hood you'd have the best access to breaking news all over the place.
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Honestly, I never know what to believe when I read these articles. A good friend of mine was on the board of a major oil company - and he told me stories about the backroom deals involving huge investments. Huge projects were really pay-offs to one country which would in-turn take actions impacting another country and resulting in furthering the oil company's goals (which weren't always just direct profit. Politicians put in power - groups hurt or supported - payback for favors from years before - actions to influence major court decisions years in the future.) Oil companies act in completely opaque ways.

At this point, I'm really just convinced that we need public involvement with all decisions by all powerful organizations - whether government or business. Nobody is on our side at these places.
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This is very similar to CPU overclocking. fraudulent warranty replacement claims were rampant untill recently but that intel fixed it .
There's some kind of obscure irony that the longevity of tablet hardware and software is having a negative effect on sales. Like netbooks, that could ultimately mean manufacturers lose interest in the form factor in favour of something with higher revenues.

The tablet would have doomed itself by being too user friendly.
As counterpoint, I used my first generation iPad until I broke the screen last year. (It withstood more than a few drops as the corners attested before finally succumbing.) Granted, my use case wasn't overly intensive: mostly just web browsing and video viewing (Netflix, HBO Now, iTunes). My primary gripes are with iTunes and video storage management, and while that was more acute with the limited storage of the first generation iPad, it hasn't changed with its 9.7" iPad Pro replacement. But that first generation iPad worked well for me, even with iOS 9.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/02/04/u-s-natur...

That was just one result on Google, you will find plenty more. Using Natural Gas is the #1 reason CO2 emissions have dropped in the US (and other countries).
One of the main reasons I left EA was because I wasn't working on games I was interested at work, and couldn't work on them in my spare time either. My job in the game industry got in the way of me making games.
I'm yet to hear a simulation theory with more explanatory power than the much simpler theory of "God did it".

Most of the claims are variants of "but computers, so science", which is not an argument at all.
And there is a pretty cool open data set for current and historic traffic information (speeds, travel times, etc): http://www.ndw.nu/pagina/nl/103/datalevering/120/open_data/ (page only in Dutch).
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For me the ideal tablet size is the 7 inch tablet.
Easier to browse with than a phone (possible to use mobile sites and desktop sites), easier to read (it's paperback size), easier to hold than a ipad/10inch tablet.

can ANYONE recommend anything at least as good as a nexus7?
Yeah, I do that too. You used to be able to filter by seller and only view items sold by Amazon I was exceptionally irritated when they removed that ability.
Why would he work at a hardware company?
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I had a similar situation with multi-tools. I was looking for other brands outside of the big ones (Leatherman, SOG, Gerber) to set what my options were. On Amazon, there were a bunch of nearly identical multi-tools sold under different brands names. That turned me off from wanting to buy there at all.

Ending up buying one directly from Leatherman's website.
I'm in the same boat not upgrading OS version, but it does limit your app choices significantly.
I was supposed to start a one-year contract with a large financial company in London - went there for two weeks, just got back. They asked me if I had any problems ("any civil suit" or something like that) and I told them "yes, I had a copyright violation 15 years ago, it got settled out of court". That led to an immense scandal and my agency is still trying to convince them to accept me anyway, because their immediate reaction was "no hire". This despite the fact that they are desperate for people (seriously, they want eight more people besides me and can't find them) and despite the fact that everyone agrees that my experience is perfect for the role.

The reason they're so stubborn about it? "What if something happens and I am asked why I accepted him despite knowing he had problems? Then I'll lose my job". People love CYA.
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The problem with tablets is they're incredibly limited. The hardware seems to improve with every generation, but specifically in the instance of iOS: the software seems to be stagnate. What's the point in having super fast storage, quad core processors and fast memory if the software is so limiting and horrible it doesn't let you take advantage of it?

As a developer, I find iOS to be a horrible operating system and very limited. If you want to surf the web or play games then the iPad is great for that. The same thing applies for Android tablets, however I find Android tablets to be slightly more developer friendly because you can hack them and access powerful applications.

Bottom line is tablets can never replace computers or laptops.
"In the past month, both Apple and Samsung have refreshed their flagship tablets for the first time since 2014"

The first sentence doesn't say it all? These things aren't cheap (for most of us) and people want the latest and greatest. Updates have been coming in the 6 month to 12 months window for phones/tech. I know I wait for releases to purchase hardware. It's the only way to ensure the longest support window, for one.
My iPad collects dust. I use the iPhone Plus constantly though, which is nearly a tablet.
Interesting, this is the same argument made by social theorist Evengy Morozov: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/04/data-p...
Personally I greatly enjoy the Tab S2 with Book Cover. It has an AMOLED screen which is superb for night time reading, and feels small enough to put almost anywhere.

Samsung just released the next version of it, but I'm not sure how sold I am on the all glass design.
A 6-word diceware passphrase has more entropy than 12 characters of ASCII and is easier to memorize. In what way is that bullshit?
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this is reductive to the point of being meaningless.
It depends. Not all range is equal in terms of forage and the flavor of the animal it produces, nor the weight. Some range regions have protein-rich grass that produces nice flavor and weight, other areas need a couple weeks in a feedlot to make the animal (relatively) edible. Similarly, some natural range adds a lot of weight and others are augmented with cereal feeds for the economics to pan out. For others, the economic sweet spot is at a lower weight. One of the critical economic inputs in the mountain west ranges (which tend to have high quality forage) is also water, which is sometimes ignored.

There is quite a bit of agricultural economics research on this and the results are surprisingly complex. There are also many areas where the forage is high enough quality that the feedlot finishing is arguably optional even if that is what they do today.
>authentic products, but "not authorized" because they were factory overruns

These are counterfeit products. When you contract with a factory to make 10K units with your brand on them, they aren't allowed to use your brand to sell any number of "overruns" past that.
it was only after your comment that I'm noticing: talking, listening, understanding, seeing and remembering. I wonder if we're just too focused on doing things that people do.
My parents recently bought a new Windows laptop because their modern iPad can't do all of the things they want. If tablet software can't compete with PC, then their sales are bound to go to zero as PCs like the Surface become more prevalent. Personally, I don't own one as my phablet does everything that I would want a tablet to do, and my PC and Kindle do the rest.
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Noooooo, they definitely would NOT want to know about this. It turns unknowingly trafficking in counterfeit goods (not a crime) into knowingly trafficking in counterfeit goods (definitely a crime).
If Amazon doesn't have good controls to prevent people from selling fake Apple products, I wouldn't assume they have good internal controls to prevent the seeking off their own products either.
And whats so unbelievable about this stat?
To me, even if we ignore the God debate, there are some big problems with theories like these because they irreverently presuppose that everything including the human mind can be reduced to mechanical/mathematical principles. This ignores things like the problem of qualia (which I'm subjectively convinced is real), and the Penrose-Lucas argument for why there is a non-computational component to human consciousness.
> Upcall is definitely not a spamming service (no robotcalls or autodialing service)

Nobody said it was a robot-calling or auto-dialing service.

"Qualifying leads" is the thing where people with whom I have no prior business arrangement call me at work, asking if I'm the right person to talk to about (service that they sell), right? "Spamming service" sounds about right.
> Not having a store that your food comes from might make for a safer mental picture, but Amazon is going to go with the cheapest vendor every time, and they don't have the scale of Kroger or HEB to knock prices down anywhere near them, thus they must buy lower quality goods to hit the same price point.

It's a dangerous game to bet against Jeff Bezos losing because Amazon lacks scale and problems hitting price points. Amazon may not have the grocery scale of Kroger today, but it also has billions of dollars to spend, a different cost structure and no need to compete with existing grocery chains completely on price (it's a different service, Kroger won't be at my door within two hours).
Could you define "explanatory" in this context?

When you say "God did it" - how did he do it?

The simulation idea often involves concepts like computers and turing completeness. Not sure those meet your idea of "explanatory" here. But they explain how it could be done. While I never saw an explanation how God did it.