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I haven't been to SF but it certainly sounds familiar.

Perth circa 2011/2012 was quite the boom town.

Of my friends who graduated in 2012/2013 and found jobs in O&G/Mining, most of them have since moved interstate/internationally and switched from resources to different industries or gone back to study after the boom receded. But for a while there engineering graduates were going straight into 120k salaries doing fly-in-fly-out work on mine sites.
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This is pretty much the answer. Tablets have a far longer lifetime than PC's (which are endlessly upgrade-able) and phones (which are constantly lost or destroyed).
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With the CIA ios exploits out in the wild now, how can you really be comfortable using such an insecure version?
After US, UK joins the ban
>eee901

Man those things were the shit. I first learned Linux on my brand new EEE901.
The way I usually see it is that the descendants will try to replicate humanity in a smaller universe, who will then recursively and eventually instantiate their own replication

Not that we're currently being replicated by our actual descendants, but by our higher level's descendents.

Eventually ofc hitting the base case where the simulation cannot support further simulation (which might be us, if we never manage to successfully simulate our own universe, with whatever hacks and approximation we can find).

And ofc, if we are a simulation of a higher level's history, and the simulation is correct (to all necessary degrees), then we must be heading towards the sane point where we would render a simulation (unless the approximation fails to support it).

So if level 1 managed to simulate, then all further levels (until base) should also simulate.

And if level 1 can simulate, then it probably will.
If that were coming out any time soon, I'd have expected it to be launched alongside the other changes to the lineup. But adding my anityercscreen size option by itself does nothing to reduce the confusion in the current lineup.
I watched my first home BlueRay disc two days ago.

Someone brought it round and I remembered that my PS4 could play them. To do so it had to connect to the internet. (Tracking/Logging maybe?)

Like the scene in the Sooranos where the wives come round to watch a DVD, it forced me to sit through those "FBI yada yada even though you don't live in America" and "personal opinions of the cast blah blah" disclaimers before for the film would start.

Haven't had to see those since streaming services became available.

Also reminded me that if I'd pirated the film I would have had a better experience than purchasing the legitimate product.

Streaming services are saving the movie industry from itself.
You probably do on your laptops or phone what others do on the iPad. it's also worth nothing how much more portable the iPad mini is than the 9.7" form factor.
I used my netbook until later year.

It was still working fine (running windows 10), but then I decided to add a SSD and broke the poor thing.
For the majority of filers, your result may be the complete opposite of the norm. No tax software deserves to be mentioned as "the best solution". The worst case scenario is that a particular company promises you riches on your return, when in fact you are legally in the red for the given year. This reality can swap back and forth between the tax provider and the individual - provider X may be the best for one person, while provider Y may be the best for someone else. A single tax provider will rarely be ideal for any two people. Never go with a tax company purely based on recommendation.

The facts always outweigh any "guarantee", unless they are contractually and legally covering your refund against any wrong on their part (and even then, you have to prove you haven't lied or entered any typo on your return, in which case any mistake on your part can be seen as fraudulent). Always get a second opinion on your tax return, by manually putting in the effort to compare an initial result against a competitor. My parent says "TurboTax found several thousand dollars" in a "fairly complicated tax situation". Oh, really? Good for you. Not so much if for some reason either a) one misreports their situation, or b) "TubroTax" (or any other company) miscalculates one's personal situation.

Seriously, don't believe any recommendation for any tax software. Even if the odds of being a victim of a corporate shill are 0.0001%, you're only potentially fucking yourself. No private company can guarantee your safety against the government. Do yourself a favor and check your yearly tax return against multiple offerings to ensure they are a) not purposely misrepresenting your return, and b) don't have a bug that reports a situation differently than the facts of your case.

Yes, it's sad that I see a comment starting with "TurboTax found several thousand dollars for me in a fairly complicated tax situation" as being a possible shill. I'm sorry, but I don't care - every single tax return should be checked against multiple companies. Even if this is a legitimate customer rather than a shill, the odds of their result being representative of the majority is too much of a risk when you consider that you are 1 v. 1 against the government with each tax return. Cover your own ass(ets); don't depend on someone else to give you a recommendation for "the best tax software". Put in enough effort to determine your individual results against your government's requirements, not any private sector company's supposed "'guarantee of results'".
Maybe open source crowdsourced data? e.g. If various people need thousands of examples of people's handwriting, someone makes an open-source repository and hopefully lots of people upload for the good of everyone.
Here's the ones I use most often: Avinor (Norwegian airport authority), Schiphol (Closest hub), Kastrup/Copenhagen (#2 hub (of sorts)) and Frankfurt.

Then there's all sorts of second tier airports which have their own apps of sorts - say, even Dyce (Aberdeen) has one, though I am not sure it is an official product.

Add to that that any airline worth its salt has got at least one app, and it soon adds up...
It is not Google encouraging devs, it is the Dart team looking for reasons to keep going, besides Ad Words.

Just go watch any Android Fireside at Google IO or the responses of Android team at Reddit.

Java is Android's language, with C and C++ just being there to the extent of implementing Java native methods, low latency code and code from other platforms, not full blown access to the OS APIs.

As an example of an discussion regarding Scala, after their annoucement to ditch Jack and start anew their cherry picked features from Java 8.

"Java is the language we officially support."

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/5zf1xo/future_o...
For me, it's still a pretty jarring experience. It really takes an e-ink display to be comfortable reading closely.
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That doesn't work though. Even a game of billiards is so complex and so dependent on external influences that a change in state in an electron at the edge of the observable universe can have an observable effect on the outcome.

http://www.anecdote.com/2007/10/the-billiard-ball-example/
First off, I absolutely LOVE these write-ups. That being said I chuckled at this one:

>Tetra – Automatic notes for business meetings

>A lot of meeting notes are taken in Evernote but Tetra takes call notes for you by automatically dialing you to merge into the call and then sending you a fully searchable record of the entire conversation. It comes in auto speech only or human edited using a fast transcription feature for 50 cents a minute from humans. There may be some ethical challenges around recording others and each person using the service will need to inform those on the call they are being recorded but with two billion hours of conference calls a year, Tetra plans to take on that market using it’s AI and data. The startup launched on Product Hunt a week ago and now has two paid monthly users.

>The startup launched on Product Hunt a week ago and now has two paid monthly users.

>two paid monthly users.

Yes, two. But still, any traction is better than no traction! I love a lot of the ideas but am sceptical about most of them. Good luck to each company!
Anecdotally, I've had bad experiences with T-Mobile (similar issues with customer service reps messing up a plan transfer, and being unable to fix it), but I've found Verizon reps to be more able/willing to fix things.
I recommend this AI/ML learning method too. Practical first. Trust me, it'll keep you from getting bored/sleepy.

And for the practicals, I'll also suggest going over some of the hands-on examples at blog.algorithmia.com, especially if you have some Web dev experience.
Are you working as a developer? If so, how do I join your team? In my life as a developer I have deadlines that are set by customers and no amount of explanation that I need another week to make the code bomb-proof will shift them.
Presumably, so would Peer5 users by doing things like picking the cheaper streaming host with the superior quality. And by the way - what's so precious in your mind about uplink bandwidth? How does the direction of the bits from my computer make this a moral case for you?
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> California could have lead the way

Careful. Carlsbad is beach city with a bunch of hicks who now think they are rich because they bought a house in what was the sticks 40 years ago and it's worth a million dollars now--as such they tend to be Republican jerks. This is the fate of a lot of the California beach cities.

And they'll think this is a great idea. Until their wife subpoenas the records for a nasty divorce case. At which point they will suddenly be screaming about privacy.

PS: The past tense of the verb "to lead" is "led".
I had the first 1, and managed to turn that into 4 through two recalls (all basically cosmetic flaws) that have all at this point died. one was killswitched, recovered and killswitched again and bricked. one is stuck in a bootloop after a cm10->cm11 auto upgrade. the other two's batteries failed and i soldered usb cables in their place and they have a second life in the back of my electric junk drawer.

I thought about buying a k1 tablet, but i really couldn't justify it as i have a one plus 3 that does almost everything a tablet did. and i can make calls on it and not feel like a goober.

i don't think there's another tablet in the pipe: http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/08/11/rumored-follow-nvidi...

I have the first shield tv and its awesome. I use the g-force now service to stream witcher 3. I love streaming games. I used on-live back in the day, and was bummed when it failed. I lost like 10 games.

I did here that nvidia had a lot to do with the nintendo switch, but i don't care enough to vet that rumor, so i will jsut spread it anyway.
Nickel for every time that happened... ha.

But in all seriousness, we've all been there... ha.
5 years ago I was given an iPad 2 by a friend who had received it as a gift and was never going to use it (I think he had had it sitting in a box for a year at that point already). I have never updated the OS and I use it for reading. Sure, it is a little bit bigger than I would like, and the screen is low rez, but it lets me read books for the entirety of even the longest flights. I have looked at getting a newer android tablet (nexus 7 style) but nothing is worth the money since I have a perfectly functional one already. There are pretty hard limits on the performance you need to deliver all kinds of content since no one is using a tablet for serious production, there are better tools that are actually fit to task. All they can do is up the battery lifetimes. Well, marginally better for the environment I guess.

I wonder how resale affects these markets.
So I guess pitching anything that's dataviz as "Palantir for X" is a thing now? I need to update my Ys in my Y for X list. Uber for X and Palantir for X are the new hotness it seems.
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Like I said, I don't accept this physicalist assertion, because it ignores the problem of qualia and the Penrose-Lucas argument (which demonstrates quite clearly how the human mind is able to violate Gödels incompleteness theorems, and therefore is not equivalent to any purely computational system).
Offline Netflix and Amazon Video only works on tablets. Useful for flights. Otherwise, I'm not really sure what an iPad is for...
Schiphol already has a decent app for tracking flights and finding gates, luggage, and shopping, but I don't see how this will dissuade the providers of those other apps.
Was about to say the same thing. The incumbents are probably even at a disadvantage because as a young upstart you can always get in on the action by building a more efficient and simpler model and then querying the incumbents to bootstrap yourself.
TL; DR

"The Bitcoin system performs an iterative, very large-scale, public computa- tion, where so-called miners are contributing significant computational resources to the gradual extension of the Bitcoin block chain. Essentially, this block chain contains a sequence of hash values B1 , . . . , Bτ that satisfy certain conditions. These conditions determine the difficulty of finding new blocks in the chain. The Bitcoin system frequently adjusts the difficulty, depending on the computational resources currently contributing to the Bitcoin network, such that about every 10 minutes a new block Bτ+1 is appended to the chain. Thus, the block chain can serve as a [computational] reference clock, where the current length τ of the chain tells the current 'time', and there are about 10 minutes between each 'clock tick'.

...

The key idea behind our construction of time-lock en- cryption is to combine a computational reference clock with witness encryption."

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/478.pdf pages 3,4
I do print my itinerary on paper, too (The failure modes of paper being few and well known) - my colleagues tend to chuckle and call me a dinosaur - until they get that panicked look as we near the last leg of our journey - looking for a power outlet...

However, things happen. The good airport apps can tell you stuff like "You just got out at Arrivals C/2. Next flight departs from B42, to your right, four minutes. Estimated delay 25 minutes, but boarding still closes in 11 minutes.

Granted, you can get the same info from signage and info screens, but when you've been on your way for a day, tired out of your mind, your incoming flight was delayed and you may not catch the last leg home, having to spend (yet another) night in a hotel with as much character as a helping of yesterday's mashed potatoes, getting the information you need on a small screen in front of you rather than having to go looking is gold. Pure, brilliant gold.

And I really should only need one, which is where this API comes in - if other airports could fall in line and agree on a common API, maybe we could get an app or two which aggregates data from the airports on your journey and presents it in a tidy way.
Any company that expects you to work long hours, which is majority of SV startups, is exactly like that.
But couldn't our universe be being simulated by a species far more advanced and discrete to anything the human race has ever encountered? How do we know that another form of life doesn't find everything that we find super complex extremely trivial ?
Yeah, I hope openshift online will support it when they launch the next version (when ever that will happen... some roadmap would be nice :O).
Except it is of national interest to have a working highway system and for all the states to have a roughly similar economic outlook. "Pork projects" are a good surplus recycling mechanism.
Funny story:

My ISP actually closed my contract earlier this year. Out of the blue, I got a phone call from someone about "my cancellation". After some puzzled minutes the operator figured out that someone else with the same name cancelled their account but didn't state a customer ID or his address, so they went on to cancel mine. The operator told me he'd correct this, but a month later my internet access went down all the same.

After some back and forth to get it back up, the next supporter I had on the line said that they actually tried to cancel the cancellation, "but it was already too late for that" and the system didn't let them. That was surely one of the bigger WTF moments I had with support so far.
Ah, that brings back some fond memories! I still think there is a market for a netbook-type device, a cheap, small laptop with good battery life.

But I guess that niche is now occupied by Chromebooks (which is sad, because Chromebooks are surprisingly expensive here in Germany).

Edit: There are still netbooks being produced, HP makes one, IIRC.
To be honest, as much as I like Ocaml I think half of programmers won't be able to learn it. At least not to its full extent (monads, functors, GADTs). There's a reason functional programming never took off in the mainstream.
For someone that involved in Perl I must say you are getting a couple things wrong.

First let's address the talk you are referring to. That rant was about the authors frustration with Perl 5 vs Perl 6, the state of the Perl 5 core maintainers politics at the time rather than actual problems with using the language. The author is the creator of some great modules that could have been made core at the time e.g. giving Perl 5 a new core OO system but it did not happen. From what I can see he is still active in Perl 5.

Another point to be made is that the community tried to address Perl 5s "marketing problem" which led to many rants that in hindsight perhaps did not do any good.

About SDKs you are right that there often is not an official Perl one for new Cloud services but I have had no problems finding what I need on CPAN for AWS etc. Also there are very good modules for doing generic REST things and with many services using the REST API is less opinionated and less of a hassle anyways. I just don't see the problem. Why even bother to use the language specific SDK for infrastructure like AWS. Terraform is winning that battle right now.

I have been working in mostly Java, PHP and JavaScript shops lately and trust me, the "cool" tooling you get there starts sucking the minute you need to doing more unixy/glue scripting. I have replaced 10000 line tools that in the end just does shell commands with 500 line Bash or Perl scripts that does said commands.

I guess this all boils down to the use case but if you are doing mainly unix scripting (which is what you are doing in a Linux based web DevOps setting) you will excel with Perl and Bash as your main tools.
The term "disruptive innovation" was coined by Christensen in his book "The Innovator's Dilemma". Then it was shortened to "disruption" and its meaning was quickly diluted by indiscriminate usage by the press and blogs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
I live in Japan. There is still no news about whether the Pixel is coming to Japan. How can I take the ecosystem seriously when Google is telling me "we don't care about your market"?
I assume this API is based on the work of Samsung has done for their own private APIs.

http://developer.samsung.com/galaxy/professional-audio

Last Google IO they had a session about all workarounds for improving the audio developers experience and they got Samsung on stage to talk about their SDK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2ZDp-eNrh4
Yet not long ago everybody was anticipating the end of the general-purpose PC because a tablet (with an optional keyboard) was seen as good enough for "ordinary people", and the merger of MacOS into iOS is expected any day now.

Now what is it?
They could do plenty:

-better screens (oled? color e-ink, perish the thought?)

-better graphics processing (maybe sacrifice some battery or thinness)

-incorporate top of the line features ('truetone' display, pens, etc)

All I'm saying is car makers find a way to make it work every year.
If you tweak Bostrom's argument, it can sort of make sense. For example, if you believe a simulated human mind is "just as good" as a real mind, then it might make sense to colonize uninhabitable planets by building simulations there. It might even be easiest to colonize all planets this way. And if you suppose a future with lots of successful planet colonization, then there could easily be a lot more simulated minds in the history of the universe than real ones.

However, I think the main problem with Bostrom's argument is an epistemological one: It supposes an entire outer world, about which we have no evidence and know nothing. It's like opening Sagan's garage[1], but instead of asserting an invisible dragon, you're asserting an entire universe. It is the least parsimonious hypothesis you could make, because it doubles the complexity of the universe!

[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Dragon_in_My_Garage
Back when the ipad first came out the iphone was far more limited and had a small screen. Now most of the ipad only apps are migrating to the iphone as well. With the large screen and powerful processor on par with the ipad there's less reason to need the ipad. Same with android, with large screens and powerful processors the need for tablets is going away, its an extra expense most people can't justify anymore.
As a bonus, I can just store my notes, etc. in plain text (org mode) in git, rather than being locked in some cloud silo.

Not a bonus: on Android, you can use MobileOrg+SyncOrg (which syncs to any git remote). Or you can use Emacs on the terminal and sync using a generic generic​ git client like SGit.
I do exactly the same thing. I open a Word document and enter all of the details of my trip, usually copy and pasting from many email confirmations.

Dates, times, addresses, phone numbers, frequent flyer info, confirmation numbers, hotel, rental car, and other contact info.

I also do all the math to understand at what time I should leave home or the hotel to be at the airport on time.

If I have to rent a car I'll map the route from airport to hotel and print a Google map with directions.

I do the same for any meeting, visit or location during my stay wherever I am going.

I'll usually send that document to my wife if travelling alone or, if it is a family trip I'll send it to a family member so they have all our trip info handy (you never know).

I'll print one copy for each person travelling. That goes in your bag, wallet, pocket, whatever.

And that's it. As I said in a prior comment, I have yet to be at the airport and thought "I should find an app for my iPhone". Our travelling is usually very relaxed because all the information we need is in one place.

And it does not require power. Maybe that's the key. As a long time sailor I learn the hard way that anything electronic can and will fail exactly when you need it. It can also be stolen or damaged. I don't want to find myself in a situation where all of my information lives behind a small screen that I just lost or can't power-up. Paper still works wonders...you can even write notes on it.
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Yes, and yet Baidu search is terrible.
The statement "we live in a simulation" is not falsifiable. For me this question is simply not interesting.
There's also http://fission.io
Had high hopes on my purchase of iPad 2. Thought it would revolutionize my Internet experience. But after getting hold of iPhone 4S and later other smart phones my use of iPad dropped to zero. Didn't find the need. Now its a device for my kid for games and educational apps.