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Offtopic. I was wondering what happened to guy who invented email. I kind of remember reading that he was living in poor conditions. Did a search on "inventor of email" and found a controversy about some guy who claims to be inventor of email(Shiva Ayyadurai). That's not the guy I was looking for. Instead I was thinking of Roy Tomlinson, as I found his name in an article called: "Ray Tomlinson's 'story' about inventing email is the biggest propaganda lie of modern tech history: Shiva Ayyadurai"[0]. But seems like Ray has already passed away.

[0] http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/ray-to...
:) That goes for television as well.
Couldn't agree more, I mean hell I put my G5 (cheese grater) behind my monitor (on my desk) back in the day _just_ so I could more easily dust my machine. Pretty? No way. Ergonomic? Yes.
I greatly admire the guy but does TBL OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS really need another award or title? All that money and publicity could be directed towards promising junior researchers who need it!
Yes, I'm very sorry for not being an expert in foreign names HN. Thank you.
That's Sir Tim(othy). The "Sir" attaches to the given name, not the surname.
Seems that startups are paying above average if you check some stats:

https://jobsquery.it/stats/data.projectIndustry/startup
It may depend on where you live. Here in south florida, everyone charges these fees. I tried to find complexes without it, and they don't exist. Sometimes you don't have a choice.
A simple solution for the consulting companies would be a rule requiring all employers to have at least 51% of their domestic staff be Native-Americans. That would ruin the whacked out business model of the body shops and return to a fair playing field for Native-Americans in their own country.
If you're going to say that the GPL is viral because it applies to derivative works, then almost any license is viral because the license of any work follows it around. That is the nature of licenses.

Anyone who expects to copy-paste other people's code into their own code and change the license is just fighting the legal system. You're still going to have to follow the terms of the license, whether that means sharing changes or including attributions.
> If you want to combine viral open-source code with toxic proprietary code, sure.

Even the Linux kernel qualifies as toxic proprietary code for the simple reason that GPLv3 is not backwards compatible. If anything the GPL is toxic to any other open source license including itself. Others at least try to play well with each other.
Ex-Aussie here. I wish that Australia would adopt a more de-centralise strategy on tech hubs. I live in Germany now and have seen multinational companies setup their European HQ is small cities or towns. This is equivalent to having Atlassian setting up their HQ in Bathurst.
SuperCell and TrustPilot are big names....
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Not sure why this was downvoted as it's completely accurate. Apple invited a well-known, Apple fanboy to an exclusive meeting with high level execs (feeling special yet?) to break this news - pretty much the best case scenario to break disappointing news.
It would be unwelcome for BSD projects to complain about freeloaders given "freeloading" is explicitly authorized.

You can take a quick look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Free... for a non exhaustive list of products based on FreeBSD. Some of them are doing some contributions, maybe some of them are 100% open source (I don't know), but clearly some are not open sourcing their most added value stuff, even when it is a clear derivative of BSD code.
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I wish there was more info on the Pro Display. I thought Apple was "out of the display game". I wonder if the UltraFine issues played a part in this.
>I live in a 40 bedroom "hacker house", where else am I gonna find somewhere like that?

A university dorm?
so:

when you're earning $1 it's not hard to double your money
when you're earning $1 billion it's hard to double your money
but when you're earning $1 billion it's a lot easier to earn an extra million or two.
Nope this is about most American tech workers being privileged yet gutless crypussies.
I remember playing Chrono Trigger on an early SNES emulator that didn't support alpha layers (possibly ESNES), and when you got to the future, you had to know to disable layer 3 so that the fog wouldn't just completely block out the world map.
What is the point of GPLv3 if it is not allowed to have any difference from GPLv2?
> There is nothing special about what social networks like Facebook do, the biggest challenge is probably serving so many requests and storing lots of data with high availability.

The difficulty with decentralising is that these are the biggest challenge to centralised systems like Facebook; they're problems which are very nice to have ("oh no, we have a billion users!").

The biggest challenge for decentralised systems is getting momentum behind an agreed-upon protocol.

Email was born when there were few people who needed to agree, and their major concern was being able to send/receive messages. As the Internet expanded, the momentum behind email ensured that it could ride that wave as well.

These days the Internet, and hence the number of people who need to agree on the protocols, is huge. Think about, for example, HTTP2; how many organisations and individuals were involved in its definition and publication? How many more have been involved in implementing it for various browsers, servers, crawlers, libraries, etc? How many more have been installing updates, editing config files, etc. to use it?

Another change is the concerns of the stakeholders; if all we cared about were sending/receiving messages, then we could use something like telnet, HTTP, email, etc. Instead, the concerns are more fuzzy (e.g. "presence", "likes", etc.) and more political (silos vs federation vs p2p, expectations of privacy, encryption, archiving, searchability, etc.). Reaching agreement on such things is very difficult, as everyone wants different things.

The results either:

- Have buy-in from too-few people (e.g. diaspora, pump.io, gnusocial)

- Are so general as to be inappropriate for most particular tasks (e.g. RDF; an interesting example considering that RSS is a stripped-down subset of RDF, and is/was widely adopted; also compare to ATOM, which took that subset, threw away the ties to RDF, and became more interoperable!)

- Only offer tiny featuresets (e.g. the various microformats)
Interesting, didn't know this. This seems to be similar to AGB-Law, albeit pretty weak. While the US "contract of adhesion" [1] concept protects against terms "outside of the reasonable expectations", the AGB-Law [2] also protects against terms that are "unreasonably to the disadvantage" of the consumer. Arbitration clauses are not valid, for example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_form_contract#Contrac...

[2] https://www.buzer.de/s1.htm?g=BGB&a=305-310
I ran OS/2 from versions 2.1 to 4, all on generic beige hardware. You are probably right about 2.0, but 2.1 certainly worked on clones.
No, it's not okay, it reduces citizenship and community to a dollar value, which is just more neoliberalism. It doesn't pay the government anything either - for eb5 investor commonly makes a profit, and only has to employ ten Americans at full time minimum wage (not much tax there). The immigrants income is usually left back home (mainly China) and they don't declare it in the US since it's out of reach of the IRS. Mainly they send the spouse and kids to use top public schools and down the line they get social security and Medicare too. It's a complete scam
I don't think that's necessarily Apple's fault. Desktops/towers (much to my chagrin) are largely a thing of a bygone era. No matter where I go, everyone is on a laptop, and that's what allows the employee to be mobile.
This is exactly what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is designed to fight against. www.consumerfinance.gov
Have a Fractal Define Mini C myself, definitely desk worthy even as someone who is very fussy about product design. Has a utilitarian Richard Sapper vibe.

Really wish more PC component companies focus on high quality good looking components without the gamer branding.
I'm not sure Craig meant to say that. Tim Cook has stated he's not crazy about VR but thought there were quite a few applications with AR. Perhaps that's what he really meant?
I think the answer is that you have to be close to the money. The VCs in the case of SF. Hedge funds and finance HFT in the case of London and NYC (speed of light limitation). Then you get a local network effect of consolidated industries.
Respect in this case, or the principle of charity if you prefer to consider it in those terms, requires acknowledgement of the fact that such intemperance of language from a customer almost certainly originates in extreme frustration provoked by the malfunction of the product.

In the course of a year and a few months spent doing credit card Tier 1, taking on average about 150 calls per day, I dealt with a lot of people. A very few of them were indeed just assholes, of the sort who'll open with "your product is a piece of shit" just because that's their attitude in general. They were easy to identify, but hard to work with. A vastly greater number were instead moved to unusually assholish behavior out of frustration with the situation in which they found themselves. Given a touch of professionalism, they were easy to identify, too, and easy to work with as well once given the opportunity to vent some of their ire and settle down enough to behave rationally again.

Perhaps the customer in this case is just an asshole. But my experience, which is not inconsiderable, shows that that is extremely improbable. Given, as I mentioned before, a touch of professionalism on the part of the support engineer, I see no reason to doubt that this situation could have been brought to the same sort of mutually successful outcome which I so often produced in my time wearing a headset all day. Instead, the engineer has succeeded only in producing a PR nightmare for his company, and I hope also in getting himself fired for cause. (I would! On the spot, in a heartbeat. Just as, in any of the several customer-facing roles I've had, such incredible behavior on my part would certainly have incurred the same response.) I fail to see how such an outcome has any utility for anyone involved - the customer's still stuck with the same broken product he started out with, and the company's out both money and reputation, too. I'd be fascinated to see how anyone could argue that that's a reasonable expenditure to buy a mean and fleeting little moment of satisfaction for one support engineer.
A service will be able to keep cars near you, and will have sufficiently higher utilisation of their cars to be willing to pay more for parking spots. Your waiting time to get a taxi service will likely drop substantially at the same time as your waiting time to get picked up by a car you own is likely to go up.

As someone who doesn't own a car, the only potential appeal to me of owning a car is shorter waits and predictability (always there). If the predictabiity and waits drop for rental services, my reasons for considering buying a car would rapidly drop. If the waits to use a car I own go up, my reasons for considering buying one would drop further.
The contribution by humans is unequivocal. If you would like to understand how we know that, take a couple hours and read the IPCC report Summary for Policymakers. It is a fascinating and relatively easy read. It also includes projections based on several different models and estimates the impact on society from those projections.

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_SPM_...
One is a subset of the other.
I'm on #3 hackintosh, and I agree, they're great. I'm using it for audio production primarily. 0 problems, and I have a lot of peripherals. The one place these fall short is graphics card support. Newer 1070's and 1080's simply do not work (unless there's some very recent developments).
True, it's unfortunately a bug/feature of democracy to turn any and all scientific truth into a discussion.
They dont have to do anything. They can just come out with things when they are ready. The Pro line is such a specific usecase that they wont be missing that many people and even if they loose some they will come back if what they come with really are as great as they claim.

If they really wanted to put out the words that they are working on something they should hint at it instead.
great initiative! Always great to see what people are building!

I am working on a minimalist habit tracker (https://everydaycheck.com)! Focus is on keeping it as simple as possible while helping people form new habits, and basically, get things done.
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Hmm, there's quite a few places in the UK I think you'd be surprised. The salary's are not as high - but they're still really high and outside of london you save mega moneys.

Moved to Glasgow for a higher salary than I had in London, and where rent is 1/3 of the price.

There's Edinburgh, Manchester(home of the bbc) (ranked as two of the best cities for tech in the UK, manchester for media city), Bristol, Bath, Newcastle, Cambridge. All good salaries and likely to save more money than in London.
Tim Armstrong is running the combined company. There's no power struggle.
>Brutal to all the MBP hot takes from this fall.

Not really, what are people supposed to do? Move their entire ecosystem to Windows?

Just because it sells doesn't mean it's a great product. Balmer's reign is testament to that so I'm getting pretty tired of (non-shareholder) people pointing at spreadsheet numbers to justify Tim Cook doing a good job.
To license macOS means to support infinite hardware variations, and to rely on OEMs not to suck.

Kind of.

Apple had to approve any clone designs. It wasn't as willy-nilly as the PC market. At the time Apple allowed cloning, Apple itself had a large number of varying models to support.

Apple's big problem was that the clones were faster and cheaper. For example, the Umax C500 was available up to 240 Mhz while the PowerMac 4400 was only available up to 200 Mhz and the Umax machine was $400 less expensive and that was on the low end.

Power Computing's clones were high end and either matched or outperformed their Apple equivalents for less money. The PowerTower 200e was released the same day as the PowerMac 9500/200 and it was $1300 less expensive.

In the really high end, the Daystar Genesis MP smoked everything in Apple's product lineup.

The cloners were bad for Apple but only because Apple couldn't compete with them. Developing both the hardware and the software was too expensive for them to not be able to make all of the profit on every sale.
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I wish I had such choice......ryanair is the only airline that flies anywhere near where I live. I could say "fuck you ryanair" and fly with someone else, but then my total journey time home would go up from 3 hours to about 8-9 hours. As much as I dislike them, I'm not going to make my life significantly more difficult and spend more money just to avoid them.
I was a founder and did tech support for years. Eventually stopped doing it for a couple of years and tried doing it again.

I wanted to fire every customer who called in because of the abusive way they treated the support people. The support people patiently explained to me that it was part of their job and they didn't take it personally.

I have found people are on a grid with "people helpers" as one axis and "problem solvers" as the other. Close to 100% people helper, you know that you can help this person because you've done it 100x. Close to 100% problem solver, you're going out of your mind because you've done this 100x.
Apart from the effect of being unable to trust a security-critical product?
As mentioned in other comments, Garadget is able to open the garage doors of its customers remotely; this incident implies that they could actually do it, should their decide that a customer deserves an even worse punishment than denied service.
I don't think they care about this. Mac Pro sales aren't large enough to be important to the company's bottom line. It's far more important for them to keep pro customers from abandoning the Mac altogether.
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Why make an assumption at all?
Depends on your definition of "happening".

For most of the population their only daily contact with a STEM person is the TV weatherman who typically goes to great wishy washy lengths to explain that tonights snow fall or last weeks record high are not the sole or most significant primary proof of the truth or falsehood of global warming. Meanwhile clickbait and disaster pr0n movies for generations have implied we all gonna die due to climate change yet for generations life has gone on, and in fact will continue to go on, and the alarmists are looked with contempt similar to pseudo-Christian preachers and cult leaders announcing the end of the world, admittedly for differing strategies but identical reasons, gaining money and power (edited)

So everyone knows most STEM people are honest and that honesty results in our admittedly pretty awesome modern world, while simultaneously their personal daily experience of a climate expert is at best extremely wishy washy and the scam of begging for money and control via the impending apocalypse goes back millennia before modern "climate change" and most people very wisely scoff at it.

The results make sense that most scientists are technically trustworthy, as opinion leaders their politics are less influential than your average plumber's opinions, and apocalyptic preachers have always been full of it and always will be.

For political reasons and tribal reasons, many will have to pretend to be surprised to signal that they're in the in group and the out group suxs, but we all know the above is how the world really works.
Using ""restrictive" because they remove the right to add restrictions" is like thinking the law is restrictive when it removes my freedom to kill people.

You can use that word with that meaning, but then I won't see any negative connotation with it, and will be happy we are restrained!
So, is college still worth it? In the most simplistic terms, yes.

Let's look back at homeownership. Attending a four-year college — even if you borrow, and even if you do not graduate — still increases your chances of owning a home, compared to people who never enroll.

But if the new economy demands that workers have the ability to flow to job opportunities (like dragging-n-dropping them on a spreadsheet) then home ownership is an anchor.
> there is no debate

Even for things that are substantially better understood no one would ever say "there is no debate".
In addition I feel SCADE.io uses Swift has more production quality than Go. I tested Unsafepointer C in Swift is significantly faster in version 3.1. It is in some case is faster than Go, Ruby, GCC and Java just for fun in benchmark.

Kotlin to LLVM is amazing idea and risky if it will break in Android. Only time will tell.
Thank you. I hope in the near future we have a party that can reflect your views without rejecting reality. The only way to bring Republicans back into reality is to stop rewarding them for insanity.
"But what America did was a basic human obligation. It is the obligation of every person born in a safer room to open the door when someone in danger knocks. It is your duty to answer us, even if we don’t give you sugary success stories. Even if we remain a bunch of ordinary Iranians, sometimes bitter or confused. Even if the country gets overcrowded and you have to give up your luxuries, and we set up ugly little lives around the corner, marring your view. If we need a lot of help and local services, if your taxes rise and your street begins to look and feel strange and everything smells like turmeric and tamarind paste, and your favourite shop is replaced by a halal butcher, your schoolyard chatter becoming ching-chongese and phlegmy “kh”s and “gh”s, and even if, after all that, we don’t spend the rest of our days in grateful ecstasy, atoning for our need."

If you accept the premise that the west should accept immigrants to help them, there'd be hardly any fewer in need of help, while her example of what the west would look like is exactly what would happen, and is happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE

Fortunately westerners have very low population growth, so they leave plenty of room for new arrivals.
Not even that. Say there is a random chance of 1 in 1,000,000 that any given person will be struck by a meteorite. In this case, I can quite happily say that the chance that I will be hit is very small, but the chance that someone will be hit is very high (because there are a lot more someones than just me).

If the probability of people being affected is random and independent, then the above explanation holds. If the probability of people being affected is correlated, then it holds less.

For example, say there is a random chance of 1 in 10 that the earth will be destroyed by a meteorite. Then, the chance that I will be destroyed is equal to the chance that someone will be destroyed.

I think for global warming, it will be somewhere in-between.
Every time the topic comes up of Apple ceding the high performance market, I wonder: What are developers at Apple using? Some in-house hackintosh?
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