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Ignoring that they're for quite different tasks - Flexbox's (albeit crappy) support in IE11 makes it more appealing if I was going to pick one of the two.

IE11 still has more users[0] hitting our main site than Edge, so I can see legacy support dragging on for a while yet.

But as pretty much everybody has noted, they do different things so this is more of a hypothetical comparison.

[0] Just checked - Edge 2.9%, IE11 4.2% of ~1.6m visits so far this month.
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Was expecting a humblebrag puffpiece, but there is a lot of experience there worth sharing. Dealing with friends / family, self worth / image / confidence, investing, the luxury treadmill were all quite interesting and thought provoking.
This is amazing, never thought you can make a pong game without writing a single line of code, without using any CPU.

Moving the bars with knobs, and drawing lines is fine, but doing bounce ball effects with sound.. miracle
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I remember Jeff Hawkins said in an interview that CV has less money in it than most people think.
Err, isn't that by definition what a refund is?

You roll back the purchase?

Customer gets his money back, Garadget gets the device - and they don't need to deal with each other again.
>Yeah, but really just about anyone with a Bloomberg terminal has 99% of the same info.

Exactly. And while the retail investors play, the real money is made on that 1%.
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To be clear, he disabled the app, not the customer's device.
right, but he forcibly removed the other option, which was for the device he had purchased to simply keep doing what he had paid for it to do. this is typically not something anyone expects a seller to do.
Albeit misinterpreted words:

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>I am also quite surprised by the number of comments here at HN siding with Garadget.

I don't agree with disabling the customer's device, but I also don't agree with customers somehow being absolved of having a minimum level of decorum.
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Where did you get that from ? It seems to me he simply banned the device unique ID on the server side.

Is it even possible for an app developer to disable an iphone ? Apple would be mad.
> any reliable software release is being able to roll back if something goes wrong; we discussed how we do this at Google ...

How we do this at Google? Okay, tell me how to roll back the crap Android 6 upgrade back to 5 on this Samsung tablet I have here.
Do we know what state OP lives in? By coïncidence, I'm in a legislative meeting on Thursday concerning New York's regulation of the post-purchase responsibilities of retailers and manufacturers of devices that neeed to talk to the Internet to work.
McDonalds is well within their rights to deny service to a customer (assuming it's not discrimination).

In fact I've seen them (and other restaurants) do this first hand.

A customer is being abusive, or giving the poor checkout person a hard time - if they get abusive or threatening, the manager will often intercede and tell them to leave the store.

Likewise, I used to work in a electronics store - if a customer is a being a jerk, you're well within rights to ask them to leave (politely). Obviously it's the nuclear option - but there's definitely precedent for it.
I call this good old fashioned and fair to shareholders. Not tough. Wall Street is basically where you get the worst , and unfair treatment as a shareholder.
We are talking about the device that he sold him right? Not the iPhone? Lol.

He offered a full refund (although he admittedly could be a bit more tactful).

If he's said - I'm disabling it, too bad, I'd agree that's out of line.

However, what was actually said was - You're a jerk - I don't want your business, give me back the device, and I'll give you the money back.

Now they don't have to deal with each other, and nobody loses out (well, except for wasted time on both sides).
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Melbourne like all Australian capital cities has congestion problems and very expensive housing. I've found myself wishing I was in the startup scene in Sydney instead (seems more mature and serious.)
The goals are very different. AI in games needs to provide a challenge to the player whilst still being comprehensible. Most of all it's designed to be beatable. Part of the reason games make a good deep learning challenge is that they are consistent systems that people can comprehend and reason about pretty easily.

Most FPS games with the exception of titles like Alien: Isolation simply haven't needed anything complex. Essentially more complex AI with the same freedom wouldn't be noticed by the player in most FPS games. Given more freedom a more complex AI suffers from being less comprehensible as the player is less aware or unaware of the actions it took to do something clever. For example a clever enemy that flanks the player is experientially identical to a scripted event that spawns dumb enemies on the players flank. Further the advantage to the second technique is not only that the AI requires less work but the entire scenario can be carefully designed.

Which is not to say a more intelligent AI wouldn't make for a fun FPS game it's just people haven't been making those games.
Same boat as you, my friend. I actually just moved from Austin to the treasure coast for the exact same reasons (remote, beach, backyard pool on the cheap).

It might not be the cultural apex by tech hub standards, but being a big fish in a small pond is mighty rewarding. Not to mention, bringing that "tech hub" experience to an area like ours is attractive to all sorts of employers, regional and remote.
The device's primarily-marketed feature is opening your garage from an app. To do this, the app and the device talk through the company's server. This developer blocked the customer's app from the server. That breaks the device's primary functionality.
I think Spark is consistently eating into Hadoop's market.
> there’s nothing about software development that requires meatspace interactions

This is a big claim that is not true in my experience. Dealing with highly ambiguous situations, talking people out of bad ideas and learning through collaboration works much better in person.
It sounds like you simply don't consider non-shallow games to be FPSes.

I mean, if "FPS" means "a first-person game where you often shoot things", then Deus Ex, Bioshock, Half-Life, Thief, Fallout 3/4, Skyrim, etc., can all qualify. Hell, throw in Dungeon Master, and maybe even Portal and Minecraft. Of course one can argue where to draw the line based on how much "shooting" takes place.

But people often say "FPS" to mean specifically "games like Quake and whatnot". Under that definition, shallow gameplay is part of what makes a game an FPS.
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Amazon removed the comments from that review about 30 minutes ago. There was a comment from a journalist, Thor Benson, asking the reviewer about his experience.
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There's traditions around this race, and it's okay if you don't agree with them but not being part of the community that embodies these traditions means you cannot come in and redefine them.

Also, no offence, but you clearly don't know enough about the race to really be talking about how it should be operated.

This race is full of obscure rules and insanely harsh conditions, it's just how it goes.
That doesn't seem like a particularly damming criticism of someone though....
I never liked Gnome3, I don't know why, it might be because it uses way too much chrome space at the top, lot of wasted space.
Try it and notice how it actually works vs just asking to give a better grade.
So poor cities are all filled with dumb people? At least we're not overflowing with massive pretension. I'll stay here and leave SF for the rest of you geniuses.
Because, honestly, I am not so sure one can just be trained to be a good developer. There has to be some level of self-interest to hit the kind of performance levels one needs with a small team.

A worry about a lot of the people that are just joining the technical scene; they're entering a world where computing has been abstracted so far away from the actual hardware that many of them think the only way forward is to string together plugins (not that that's a particularly new phenomenon) and cloud services.

But for sales, or stocking a warehouse, or operations, or managing a team? Hell yeah I'd hire some of these folks. If only I had a business that needed that kind of staffing...
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Problem: My SaaS trialers either convert or expire without me really knowing why.

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About half a day into building, it occurred to me that this is not in any way specific to the one product I was building it for, so I moved the API endpoint out to its own domain. There's a general purpose product there in beta now:

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Many people "don't trust banks" not because they think there are elaborate conspiracies going on behind the scenes but merely because they think that the minute they slip up the banks are going to take advantage of them as much as they can. And they are almost exactly correct in that matter.

NSF fees are basically the equivalent of high-interest short-term loans. In some ways they are worse because the interest is assessed instantly and reducing your cash flow. Let's say you screw up and end up $5 off on your budgeting. OK, no big deal, maybe you take $5 out of your cash emergency savings (which might be, oh, $10 or $20) or you borrow $5 from a friend or family member until payday and you make things work. But if you have a bank account and you're off by $5 then you get hit with an NSF fee instantly. Now your bank account isn't just $5 in the hole, it's maybe $35 negative. So now you can't use it for anything until you come up with that extra $35, which is going to be more stressful to deal with. And then once you get things squared away after payday you're out that $30 for no perceptible real value. And that's assuming you don't get a cascade effect happening, which can easily happen if you're in a temporary money crunch.

If you're living close to the margins you can't afford to risk that sort of expenditure for no return happening every once in a while. Some people simply can't afford to live that way, it's easier to live on a cash basis. You cash your paychecks at the bank they were issues or you go to a walmart and you pay a bit of overhead. You pay your bills in cash or via money order or cashier's check. It'll cost a bit to live that way, a lot more than $30 a year generally, but it's predictable and it's under your control.
Ok but I don't want to live in a suburb or out in the middle of nowhere. I want to live in a major city. I chose this lifestyle for myself and so have many many others. Yes it's expensive but I make a lot of money. Money that I wouldn't make if I lived elsewhere. So like someone else mentioned above, the economics work out at my stage of my life. If I have kids, the economics might change and make me consider something different. But I don't plan on having kids for a long time so that's not something I have to consider at all.
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If someone could explain how this works to someone who only understands basic circuits, that would be much appreciated. How does it maintain state and draw shapes on the oscilloscope and trigger sounds with such basic components? Amazing!
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You see, this is where I disagree.
"better than a human" was never a valid defense against a machine failing and killing someone. Why would it be different with autonomous cars?

Let's say we have a fully 100% autonomous car, where you don't have to pay attention to the road. It crashes, injures or kills someone - who is responsible?

If a human did that, then we call it "an accident" and your insurance company foots the bill. With an autonomous car, sure, an insurance company will pay for the damages - but they will demand that a problem is fixed or they won't insure those cars anymore.

So anything less than 100% perfect is a huge liability for manufacturers, and we are very very far off 100% perfect.

I cannot imagine a world where autonomous cars have minor/major accidents but we just brush it off as "meh, whatever - humans have a higher rate of accidents so it's fine".

Or maybe think about it this way. Introduction of autopilot in airplanes resulted in a major improvement in safety, the number of plane crashes has literally plummeted(sorry) after its introduction. But it hasn't eliminated crashes entirely - and every time there is a crash, Boeing/Airbus will ground their entire fleets to investigate what went wrong, if there is a perceived fault then thousands of planes have to be updated before they are safe to fly.

Now bring that analogy over to cars - small, personal transportation vehicles, where profit margins really aren't that fantastic. Which manufacturer will risk releasing a product where they have to keep updating and maintaining the autopilot for the lifetime of the car, and for which they are liable every time it fails? Not to mention that planes are held to ridiculous safety standards, while cars are not(so far, I haven't heard an answer to what happens if a bird shits on the lidar and you don't clean it - it's an instrument with almost chirurgical precision which requires similar level of maintenance, and I know people who buy a car and then don't even wash it once in 3 years of owning it).

I'm not saying we won't get there. I'm saying that I don't see any chance that this technology will be ready in 5-10 years, and if anyone is foolish enough to sell an "autonomous" car in the next 10 years, they will set back our progress massively because the car will fail, and there will be public and legislatory backlash.
Yes, any Dutch student can get a full Creative Cloud subscription for €19,66/month. That's for the whole suite, I assume you can cherry pick only Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign for a fair bit less. You need either an education related e-mail address, which I didn't have when I went to college (The Netherlands doesn't have something like an .edu.nl extension), but a scan of a university card seems to be valid as well if you read the fine print.

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Well, you could definitely front two versions of your application lambda function with a traffic splitter lambda function that would send 99% of traffic to the production alias and 1% to the canary (or whatever the number you wanted was. See how to call one lambda from another: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31714788/can-an-aws-lambd... and aliases: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/versioning-alias...

This post might also be of interest: https://blog.jayway.com/2016/09/07/continuous-deployment-aws...

Note, I have never done this, this is just how is approach it.
No, I mean if I (or someone on that account), years ago, had watched episode 18 of the season until the middle, and I'm starting the season from the beginning and watch until episode 3 -- then every time I come to the season, it will jump me to 18 rather than 3.

And it doesn't even (by default) show that season in "recently watched" or other place that's easy to get to!
I help manage an apartment building.

There's always the chance there's something wrong on your reports. You should get your own credit reports directly from Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion; this will cost you $30-ish in CA. Make sure the reports include FICO scores, and don't settle for any non-fico nonsense (eg CreditKarma or any such competitors). For future applications, you may be able to re-use those reports for a month. It never hurts to ask.

As for us, our algorithm (at least in part to avoid illegal discrimination) is simple: we drop anyone with bad credit (maybe a small medical collection is ok, but nothing else), then sort by income descending.

The other possibility is you're giving off a difficult tenant vibe. It's hard to explain in words, but after a while, I think you get a sense of who's going to be a pita. So things like asking about apartment rules (eg no smoking, how many pets, etc) is fine; asking for exceptions to those rules can go either way. It really depends how you ask.
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He has two one-star reviews and a five-star. You can't actually fault him for only reviewing the exceptional Amazon purchases...
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There are countries where national laws says doing that is illegal to deny service to some customers based on subjective opinion and you can be sued for discrimination.

"This customer is a toxic asshole" is not that far from "this customer has a skin color / religion / political view I don't like".
There's also Quake on an oscilloscope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMli33ornEU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIdiHh6mW58
Amazon is selling a service that is sold at, say, CVS. And CVS makes a profit off of that service. CVS gets all of the cash, Amazon ends up with most, but not all, of it. Traditional credit card companies can charge somewhere in the realm of 1-3% or so on transactions, so imagine that CVS retains a similar or lesser cut.
I can still picture that icon in my head 20 years later...
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The Garadget device, not the customers phone!
I never mentioned a phone, did I?
Wasn't he an office drone before drawing Dilbert?
I don't understand how Philadelphia gets away with being such a wonderful city. It's an incredible anomoly.
It's perfectly legal now to be a founder on an H1B if there is a way for the "company" to fire any individual. Establishing a board of directors with investors or having 3 co founders so that any 2 can fire the third.
Umm that doesn't seem possible. The H1b is an employment visa. As in someone literally has to employ you. Are you sure they're not on EB1?
How would you feel if you bought a Tesla Model S, then a few weeks later they called you up and said "we don't like your online review of your car, so we're going to disable most of its functionality, but you can return it for a refund". $8000+ in option packages on that car rely on cloud functionality run by Tesla. If you don't -want- a refund, but -want- the car you already paid for that's sitting in your driveway, should the manufacturer be able to roll back your purchase on their whim?
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If American car companies want to sell in the EU, which is about 500 million people, they will soon have no other choice.
For London is not that low at all. And... in the rest of Europe is generally lower.
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This is a misplaced sentiment. If Amazon were trying to trap people into spending money at their store and forcing people to pay exorbitant Amazon prices, then maybe this argument would make sense. But Amazon has a wide selection of products at low prices. And they'd be willing to let people extract their money and go use it elsewhere if it weren't for the pesky problems related to money laundering. There's really no reason to assume amazon is acting in bad faith or against the interests of people using this service.
So install freetype-freeworld and enjoy the nicer fonts.
LOL?

Garadget sold a product to the customer, accepted the customers money -then disabled the product when the customer wrote a negative review.

Who's the jerk?
He called their product a piece of shit and that justifies bricking his device?

I don't think customers get to behave however they want without repercussions, but come on...
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Yeah, I misinterpreted "device" (as "iPhone").
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