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> Chromebooks are instant on, and your profile/data is 100% cloud based. You can grab any Chromebook from the rack in the back of the classroom, open it up, log in and immediately get to work on your report or whatever.

First of of all that's not entirely true. Nothing is instant. It wakes up fast, but not instantly. Login is fast, but not instant. First time login is fastish but not fast or instant.

Windows has had Roaming User Profiles since NT, Google calling the feature "cloud based" is just another way of saying remote. Since Windows 8 you could have a Microsoft Account which was a "cloud based" user profile and use Sky/One Drive which is a "cloud based" data repository.

My guess is you didn't watch the webcast? They made special mention of the fact that with Windows 10 S they had improved the login and first login times to be much faster than your typical Windows experience.

> I got an original Chromebook from Google I/O years ago based on an ancient ARM chip, and it's still perfectly usable for when my kid's friend comes over to do homework and they need an extra box.

That was what they advertised here. In Windows 10 prior to this announcement you could grant any other Microsoft Account access to login to your machine and it would download their profile and provide them access to their One Drive. The experience isn't as fast as on a Chromebook but it's less than a minute. The emphasis in this announcement was that with Windows 10 S they got it down to under 20 seconds which is Chromebook speed.

> Windows and Mac computers will never be that easy to setup, use or maintain.

I would disagree. With what they announced today, Windows 10 S is pretty damn close.
> Modern suburbs and cities with their abundance of impersonal support allow us, maybe even force us, to be recluses in a crowd.

Being a major driver for people moving to cities, of course: you can't get what you want out in the sticks. Sometimes it's access to something concrete like a specific job or such, but other times it's because you don't "fit in" (e.g. you're gay in an intolerant area, or aren't interested in the local religion monopoly).

Hopefully those who stick around find it to their liking.
scrolling via space works perfectly for me on chromeos - the last line of visible text is the first line of visible text after hitting space.
Hmm weird. I'd be connecting directly to it, as in 192.168.1.10:32400/web and all it would do is redirect to plex.com and then complain that the server is offline. Refreshing a few times would sometimes fix it, but usually not.
No USB-C is a dealbreaker. I understand not going only-USB-C, but to not ship with any C ports is ridiculous.
At $189 for the computer they can afford to have a computer that is managed and always works and a bbc micro or raspberry pi for the student to hack on and tear up.
Both apps are native. I wrote the first app in Android, and then once I got that hammered out the way I liked, then switched to ios. On IOS it's written in Swift 3.
This is just completely idiotic bullshit.

A website should not ever bother with body text size at all.

A website should display its body text in the size that the browser specifies, and that's it (with the exception of adapting for a generally smaller or larger typeface).

It's completely braindead that nowadays, on my old, small laptop display, I get websites displaying huge letters, because those supposedly are somehow the right size on other displays. The resolution of my laptop hasn't changed in ten years, so why the fuck does anyone think it's sensible to make the letters larger?

Yes, new devices have higher resolutions. And you know what the solution to that problem is? It's called CSS. CSS has the concept of a browser/user stylesheet, which provides sensible defaults for the respective environment for you to inherit, which should mirror stuff like display resolution, but also, indirectly, the eyes of the users.

That's kindof the whole point of CSS, that you can abstract from that, and have the respective renderer take care of adapting your content to the environment, so that your website reads equally well on a decade-old laptop, on a new and shiny tablet, or on a 100" monitor.

And it's especially braindead because the only fix on my side would be to pretend that I'd like to read 5 px text, in order to have those braindead website become readable again ... except that then, sensible websites would take that seriously and would display their text in 5 px letters.
Yup, that's a different situation.
Ppl I'm talking about don't typically have too much land - we're talking 1-2 acres which we're talking about 2k per acre tops around here unless you're close to some body of water or a prime hunting land.
Is it only Mac where they look good, or only Windows where they look poor? Mobile seem to handle them fine, I'm not sure how Linux stacks up.
Speaking of fresh, its hard enough to eat fresh produce when you only shop once a week.

I have done the "drive to the gourmet food store to get fresh fish supposedly flown in by air that's only a couple hours old" and its expensive, like $15 to $20 per pound and interesting and tasted very fresh and delicious but tonight my kids have baseball practice and my son has scouts and weekly food shopping night is Thursday to avoid the weekend rush so looks like frozen fish tonight.

Farm to table is good signalling but not really practical for perhaps 95% of the population if not more. Something from the freezer aisle that can be cooked in the oven and tastes OK is better than something better that I can't eat because I don't have two hours tonight for special store supply runs and homemade preparations.

Also especially inland we have plenty of lakes and recreational fishermen and they all know about mercury poisoning such that they can only occasionally eat what they catch. Someone who can only safely eat one walleye per month looks at me pretty weird for feeding my kids fish every week "You having the pediatrician test them for mercury?"

Its also extremely bad social signalling, I know its wrong to even say this, but fish is generally pretty boring and bland. Its like trying to obtain artisinal flavored chicken or artisinal flavored sea or mountain salts. There's a reason people put a lot of work into what goes in or nearby the dish in a fish, spices and stuff. I'll blow money and time on something that will taste good. Fish isn't in that list.
Apple has to deal with all these forces and it's maintained healthy margins in Macs. It can do this because it offers a unique product, windows PC makers can't differentiate themselves because they rely on MSFT for R&D.

When Apple started kicking butt in laptops by using sealed batteries with substantially more capacity, PC makers were locked out from doing same for years because it required battery conditioning software drivers, which MSFT didn't provide.

Commoditization took time, early PC market didn't have the direct model. And the race to the bottom in PCs isn't the fault of the manufacturers. It's an effect of the business model, and customer decisions. If a large segment paid up for better PCs and local support that model would still work, instead they predominantly choose to save a few bucks on the purchase price by buying the cheapest ones with crapware.
I wanted to post the same thing. That episode of radiolab was great.
Suspect it is to do with the intended education market. But I know what you mean.
Not really, Surface laptop is clearly an Apple MacBook competitor and not some MS version of Chromebook.
Good point. It's hard to highlight certain differences because it's a very different editor. In general I think Howl offers a better API and a more keyboard centric UI compared to Textadept. Most commands are operated via the command line which offers auto-complete (vs operating via the menu bar, with custom dialog boxes for each command). Howl also doesn't use Scintilla (Textadept does) and is not subject to Scintilla's limits.
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Some of the nicest, most helpful people I've met lived in trailers for a time. I wouldn't even call an animal trash. Those who use that term to describe any person, let alone those people, need to check their sociopathy.
Not necessarily. IBM has had 20 consecutive quarters of declining revenue [1]. They continue to buy back stock, adding $3B to their repurchase program last year. They've bought back stock furiously since 1999 [2]. It's a defensive measure to reduce the share float, and thereby juice EPS.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-18/ibm-misse...
[2] https://seekingalpha.com/article/3977909-ibm-bought-155-bill...
I'm an ex-Facebook exec: don't believe what they tell you about ads
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Is this below market expectations? It seems that the stock is down 2% in after hours trading.
Thanks for the offer. I'll take into account.
No, this hasn't gotten anywhere near human testing yet. The FDA isn't involved.
> to do the "right" thing

"right" according to whom? nature itself doesn't believe that
Short answer: Yes.

Longer answer: When I first read it, I didn't think that the limitation that he had proposed applied to the type of device that we were making. He was really criticizing a similar but-not-identical type of fusion concept, and I clung to the differences. However, as our work progressed, I saw that the basic concept applied, which is that the scattering which would occur in a plasma (or a beam) would dissipate the energy concentration faster than the fusion rate would compensate. In short, a beam would thermalize with its surrounding plasma at an energy rate faster than the fusion rate.

We looked at using van de Meer beam cooling to try to keep the beam in a highly collimated state which would reduce the thermalization rate, but this wouldn't work. We also tried using Landau damping to make self-reinforcing waves that could, in theory, keep the energy concentration, but this really didn't work.
And if you like the original episode, I also strongly suggest you listen to this:
http://www.radiolab.org/story/shrink/

It is not CRISPR-related, but part of the same interview. It was really inspiring.
This looks like an April fools joke that someone took seriously.
One question, are you also running your browser maximized on your 24" monitor such that it is about 20.5 inches wide?

If yes, consider trying running with your browser non-maximized, and set to about 1/2 the width of your 24" monitor. The lines will not be so long that way.
At least for posts, on discourse forums I see a control on the right where I can go to specific posts. It's useful because it also shows you what date you are jumping to.
The problem is most of the time developers working with clusters do not have control of which distribution to use. TensorFlow was considered stable (or at least stable enough for research) for a long time before it can be used with glibc 2.12.
isn't this just being pedantic? for most people "fast enough" equates to instant.

if you asked most people if anything was "instant", they'd say yes and point to a number of things that feel "instant" to them.

It doesn't feel useful to nit on use of the word instant by using a definition that differs from most people.
That's a very real concern. As a parent I think about things like that all the time. My son has a personal Chromebook and both my son and daughter use Google school accounts.

The alternative, in this case using a Microsoft Surface Laptop instead, should raise many of the same concerns. With the tight coupling of online services and single account sign-on options that Microsoft offers, similarly extensive advertising and usage profiles can be built.
You're right, my thought experienced only proved that it is possible for a developper to be 10x better than another one, with the same brain, only more experience.

About your project, i had the experience of building the exact same project ( an product demo ios app with a web backend and its content management interface). First project had to be done using "enterprise" practices, and the other was free. First one i did with a senior developer helping me on the web interface side, the other with an intern i had to explain what MVC was.

First project took 6 months, plus 2 more because of some guidelines i didn't respect first, plus a whole team of admins to handle the production side. It probably costed more than 100k to the company ( not counting the internal days spent in meetings). The internal team that was supposed to maintain the code wasn't able to do so.

The other took less than 3 months and costed something like 10k, including server cost (i used app engine). The intern made the project evolve for more than a year.

A 10x developper is not just able to produce more, it can prevent you from falling into traps that can simply lead your product to a complete failure, and your company to simply cease to exist.
Not saying that the new macbook pro is worse than the previous one. But having more sales doesn't have to do with a better product. The brand, network of sellers, marketing and product fit are more important.
> "Let the market run free and everything will be right" sounds good in theory, but that implies that we will be better off without anti-trust laws, and minimum wage rules.

I agree; it should not be taken to an extreme and I didn't mean it in an ideological sense. But there is value to 'free' market competition; it's a useful tool and also provides freedom, in the sense of liberty, a core value of our society. Government intimidation of businesses is almost always a bad solution to the problems; law and regulation are democratic and much more just. Infosys isn't the first - remember the businesses whom Trump claims to have intimidated about their factory locations.

> It'll create market inefficiency, which will allow other promising companies to compete, which can potentially raise the quality of the end-result.

Fundamentally, that's not the result of inefficiency. It's called "inefficient" because it costs more for worse outcomes. It's a very predictable, well-tested outcome.
From the point of view of shareholders, stock buyback is superior to paying dividends taxwise. If shareholders just hold the stock, the price rises, and they don't have to pay any taxes.
Human and machine aspects of typing latency (“typing lag”)
You can upgrade Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Pro for $50 or something like that.
I've been watching this for years and, frequently, Apple stock value goes down after the company announces it has met or exceeded expectations. I have no idea why this happens.
Almost all Lisp code will put the closing parens all together at the end. And the idea is to not care about how many there are by using an editor that provides the appropriate assistance.
If they did they wouldn't ask me to turn it on and find their shows for them. I finally had to put my foot down and now they are starting to do it againthemsekbes and maybe soon will be better than me at it.

But they still won't know or care how their computer works, or how to program.
> The things that makes TOR useful for people avoiding prosecution also makes it useful for people involved in malicious and criminal activities ... Everything from spam and network attacks to trafficking people and contraband.

It is ok if someone that doesn't understand it says those sorts of things, but when an organization like cloudflare[1] jumps on the goof-troop bandwagon, it really does make a difference.

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/trouble-cloudflare
No, I'm sorry, you are wrong. If you are a 'serious' programmer and you cannot do that task in under an hour, you better find your terrible teachers and give them a good talking to. Maybe try to steal their wallets or purses to get some of what they stole from you back. Graduating from any Univ./College (that is not Univ. of Phoenix style scum) should make that particular challenge not just able to be done in under an hour, but it should make you laugh at how easy it is. Yes, easy. Binary is learned in the first month (or less) of any 'good' department's curriculum and should be considered to be the same as PEMDAS is to Algebra in terms of foundational knowledge. I cannot imagine how any teacher not just nakedly after your Pell grant money could ever skip it. What next, will people complain that knowing the difference between and 'int' and 'str' is too difficult to recall? Are pointers too tough? If your comp-sci program did not teach you what binary is, you better go get another degree, because your current one was just theft. Yes, Google, StackOverflow, all that jazz. I get it and do it myself too. But good lord, not being able to code that in under an hour should be embarrassing. For Christ's sake, it's in the 5th episode of flipping CrashCourse for crying out loud, literally kid's videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GSjbWt0c9M&index=5&list=PL8...)
his first target is HSV. HSV is a cash cow. innovators dilemma applied to pharma-cash
The library doesn't always fit, let alone larger keychains. This gets you encryption but means you have less room for the software that pays. This is the balance. Also, many of the IoT devices have a few hundred bytes of ram and a few kilo bytes of flash, so public key may be out of the question. It is changing, there are devices like the esp32 that can fit a lot more along with providing wifi/bluetooth
There are many more blurry lines than that. For example, is a contractor an indie hacker? Technically they get paid by clients, not employers. But they're also directly trading hours for dollars, and rarely make for good interviewees. Etc.

At the end of the day, we can spend a lot of time bike shedding about semantics and the name "Indie Hackers," but what's more important is the overall purpose behind the site — a place for entrepreneurs to learn from each other and share their experiences transparently. Sometimes those entrepreneurs will be the Jeff Atwoods and Bezoses of the world, and that's just fine.
You could say that people like Oscar Wilde were the exception, rather than the rule. As is the British NHS experiment, in the great scheme of things. The tendency in the last 200 years was either to have as many privately-held entities running things around (the "liberal" side of things), or to have as much State-control as possible ("socialist"). For the moment the pendulum seems to be pointing to us going more "liberal" (I had a cultural shock when I read that parents are supposed to pay for their kids' elementary education in "communist" China).
I think anyone paying attention knows the world went from lots of phpBB community websites straight over to Reddit. Reddit is hideous, but man, it's easy to use, and accessible.

I don't think I ever saw a successful community run on top of discourse.
The issue is not necessarily hiring. There was a story on HN a while back saying how Facebook recruiters had stopped bothering to target women specifically because even though they were heavily incentivised to do so, the FB hiring committees weren't on board with the whole positive discrimination thing so it wasn't working.

However, the big tech firms do seem to have a problem with firing. I've heard this several times now from other people and saw it myself when I worked at Google. Hiring is never 100% accurate and so even if hiring itself is unbiased (questionable at best), without unbiased firing the quality of that segment of the worker pool goes downwards over time. Even though the engineers often truly believe in a meritocracy, HR in particular is a strongly female dominated profession and unfortunately I do suspect a "sisters gotta stick together" mentality because I saw within the span of a single year at Google a man get canned for merely not being particularly productive, whilst a woman who openly and repeatedly lied in meetings (and lied very badly at that), and who caused her team huge heartache due to her terrible quality work, was not only not fired but in the end promoted into management. It was widely known that women who weren't very good or caused trouble were almost impossible to get rid of and were typically transferred around between teams rather than shown the door.
I'm not directly responding to your comment but some of the best sushi chefs use fish that was frozen. And this says all sushi served in the US has to be freezed to kill any bacteria-

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/nyregion/sushi-fresh-f...
There is a flag for it.
I was surprised that my website 'installed' on my Linux PC, created a '.desktop' file and launched in a separate window. It works now, only bug I encountered is asking 'add do desktop' while I already launched it from desktop
If it actually worked or was promising, people would be throwing money at him.
My first impression was not a good one. Its hardwired assumption of xterm control sequences, even when TERM says something else entirely, caused it to be unusable on my terminal (which understands DECSLPP as DECSLPP).

* https://github.com/neovim/neovim/blob/v0.2.0/src/nvim/tui/tu...
I'm curious, how does the replication work if the replica instance is smaller (I assume smaller in disk space)? Is is automatically removing some of the data from the replica based on a heuristic rule?
So is that where the trout in Krogers display case down here in Denver come from? Trout trawlers in the Great Lakes?
It's mostly to make the laptop look/feel thinner. Has nothing to do with ventilation.
Someone told me that market behavior is anticipatory. Makes sense I guess. So everyone must be assuming that because expectations are up now (because of new stuff), that they will be down next quarter (no new stuff coming)?
They invest internationally. To invest in the US effectively requires surrendering 40% of that money to CA and the federal government first.
"And knowing the Facebook sales playbook, I cannot imagine the company would have concocted such a pitch about teenage emotions without the final hook: “and this is how you execute this on the Facebook ads platform”. Why else would they be making the pitch?

The question is not whether this can be done. It is whether Facebook should apply a moral filter to these decisions. Let’s assume Facebook does target ads at depressed teens. My reaction? So what. Sometimes data behaves unethically."

This is the key quote for me. It's clear that if this data can be abused, it will be.
Think of Discourse as a JavaScript app you load on your phone. Yes there is that unavoidable first time install on first page load, but once the app is installed, all it needs to render the page is the JSON data that makes up the comments -- which is very efficient, far more efficient than a full HTML page load of a traditional website.

So how you feel about this depends on "how often you use the app". If you only plan to visit that one page, ever, then it's not a great tradeoff (though 700kb -- no idea where you are getting 4MB from -- of images is basically nothing on a webpage these days). If you visit many discussions and many pages, it's a win.

In other words a single discussion doesn't need 4000 comments, you just need to read 4000 comments across all discussions all time. I'm not sure your math is correct here, either: I just visited meta.discourse.org in incognito mode and I see about.. 700kb of javascript?

http://imgur.com/a/gPiEb

I'm sorry but I don't know where you are getting 4 megabytes out of 700kb. See above screenshot.

Answering Macha, below:

- Your chosen example is missing http/2 so requests aren't batched

- Discourse homepage by default shows user avatars for each participant, up to 5 in each topic, so there will be "more images"

I suggest testing with meta.discourse.org (hosted) or discourse.codinghorror.com (self-hosted) to make sure you're looking at apples to apples, and properly configured sites.
Infrastructure becomes obsolete and is scrapped all the time, disappointing investors. Newcomen steam engines didn't get to their end of life or anywhere near it, they were mostly scrapped when Watt's revolution happened no matter how new they were. You're saying that investors have been caught short by present trends. I think that's true.
Nice. Maybe now they won't copy Apcera so closely.
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