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Perhaps their top dev staff was busy doing website work or other tasks and marketing was in charge of the promotion?

Wouldn't be the first time I've seen marketing charge ahead with decisions leading to problems that could've been easily averted had they stopped and pinged a developer.
Founder here. Here are a couple comics that describe why it might have been the right choice to not try and software develop our way out of this one in the first place.
https://xkcd.com/974/
https://xkcd.com/1319/
The problem is, there's little market for "unbreakable privacy" and that market is already taken by Signal, Threema, etc.. - however since Skype turned to shit there's been a huge market for an easy to use and ubiquitous chat solution. For now the only thing that comes close to that is iMessage but it's Mac-only.
A while back I stopped using kindle and migrated my library to epubs. Apple's ibooks reader is much better and I didn't find much benefit out of eink devices. With ibooks you can sideload your own epubs, so it isn't much of an issue. Adobe reader also has a good reader mode for pdfs. Also I have iCloud library for my sideloaded books, so it's all cloud synced.

The only real benefit of kindle is the library selection and prices. The ereader software itself is mediocre.
> I've noticed apple cutting under-performing products over the years to boost their stock price.

I suspect you're wrong about the motivation. Steve Jobs was ruthless about cutting products that under-performed and/or stretched resources in directions that he didn't feel were strategic.

And Steve Jobs didn't really care much about stock price.

Apple made wifi products when the available options mostly sucked. Now that there are some pretty interesting mesh products out there, and Apple would have to do a lot of development work to match them, I can understand why they've stopped active development. Opportunity cost is a very real thing.

I don't like it, but I don't for a minute believe it has anything to do with their stock price.
Oh man, "Volvo felt". That thing went everywhere in terrain!
In Florida we have a huge toll system with the majority of it under an RFID like 'pass' you stick under your window. Tolls are ran by the state, largely on busy state roads in larger metro areas. I'm a pretty big fan, largely because it contributes to our lack of a state income tax.
It’s more of a straight-up Land Rover Defender clone to my eyes.
Were your fellow developers interested in F#? I have found most people simply don't care and don't want to learn it.

And there is the famous line "Functional programming? We did functions 30 years ago. No big deal".
That "surprise" is very reminiscent of their old X3 line of CPU's where they disabled 1 core for "yield" reasons. But, if you had the right motherboard you could unlock that 4th core and turn it into an X4.
`Get-Command` lists all the cmdlets in the current sesion. You can also alternatively hit `help -category cmdlet` which lists all cmdlets with their short alias and long name. You can do `man -category cmdlet` if you wish to page through. The first thing in powershell you should do is `help help` :).
Closest I can find is the claim that an IS-3 from late World War II has been reactivated from a war memorial and possibly sent into combat - where it would be unlikely to survive the modern environment for very long, I hasten to note, despite being apparently pretty good for its day.

It's not implausible that a modern weapon could punch a hole in tank armor and nonetheless not only fail to achieve even a mission kill, but leave the crew alive. It is really, really improbable, though. I could buy that it'd happened once, although I'd like to see some kind of cite for that. I'd have a hard time believing it had happened twice in the same, as yet rather short, conflict.
The police identified 53 exposed zones, of which 15 are in the most serious category. It's indeed a big problem (hence this report and a lot of talk about it in Sweden).

At the same time I think a lot of people from countries where you really have areas you avoid as a citizen (say, the US) often get the wrong impression when they read about so-called "no go" areas. There's no area on this list that I would avoid going to. And I've been to many, many of them, and have friends/family living in many of them (nearly all violence is between criminals).

Again, not saying it's not a problem. It's a big problem. The police were given more resources in the latest gov't budget to deal with exactly this and will surely get more next year and it'll surely be an important topic in the 2018 election. We'll see how it goes.

What are some other things you think have quickly deteriorated? I'm interested in this outsider perspective.
That makes no sense.

What's the correct decision? All the people voting completely against their interests now think they're making the correct decision. Not all decisions or votes are equal and the outcome of an election can change what can even be voted on and by whom for the next round.
It has always been cheaper than an iPhone with equivalent storage. It's niche is use cases where you want a pocket computer, but don't need telephony functionality.
I do mention lisp (or rather Clojurescript)
There are ways to construct contracts that bind your future self, even through acquisitions. Most companies don't, because they care more about the flexibility of "we can change our minds at any time". But they could.
Our form said Zip Number/Postal Code and State/Province and neither were required fields.
Obtuse enough not to realize that a subculture produces its own tropes. If "gg games" acquires enough of an identity, they way io has, then yes, outsiders might start referring to gg games.
I knew someone else would see it was a D90. :)
I agree, it's been a nightmare. I've dropped support for F# from my FOSS project because I can't get the .NET Core build working alongside the C# projects (and packed in a nu-get package, and deployed all in one process). I know that if I try to use it alongside any C# projects I will almost certainly lose many hours of time and it probably will fail to work at all.

I don't know how much of this is the F# team's fault, but F# the 'eco-system' feels like it's going backwards at the moment.
Is this the next DMC? I don't know. But I want one!
For starters, they're not trying to kill their own citizens by millions. Except North Korea maybe.
Although I hate drawing the parallel (Godwin's Law and all that) but the current "conspiracy right" delves into the "occult" to a certain extent: there are myths about Democratic operatives taking part in human sacrifices or running child-sex rings, publishing lists of confirmed kills!!! by this or that person and a consistent narrative of the (((globalists))) (read: Jews) and "deep state" impeding their current Savior from achieving greatness. Some people like Alex Jones go even further into full-on crazy territory.

Unfortunately it's becoming a mainstream part of politics.
To those answering "because the iPod is cheaper", understand that the alternative to buying an iPhone is buying an iPod + a smartphone.
Ethereum is a cloud computing service. It has two advantages over other cloud computing services:
(1) it is extremely highly available
(2) the person who uploads a program cannot modify that program afterwards and has no special admin access over that program's data storage; furthermore all data stored including program code is publicly viewable.

Because the program author has no admin privileges, users don't have to worry about the service provider abusing their admin privilages to secretly modify the database (which may otherwise be a concern for high-value applications such as, e.g. vote-counting, e.g. a database that stores bank account balances, etc).

The disadvantages are (1) it is much more expensive compared to other cloud computing services, (2) since the uploader doesn't have admin access, they can't fix bugs, and since everything is transparent, it's hard to store secrets.
The left is just as bizarre. Here in Boulder people seem to be graduating from yoga to astrology to drinking 'structured water' from bottles charged with 'orgone energy' at a surprising rate.

It seems like overkill to use modern marketing techniques to twist people's cognitive facilities, ultimately just to sell more stretchy pants.
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The Power of Naivety, and Why I Am Choosing Ignorance
That's (sadly) entirely too specific and technical for general communication. The more specific you get, the more someone will wonder if there's a loophole.
Barbie em português – Rotina da Manhã – Pista de skate da barbie Chelsea -
Sorry. You're right.
Wit.ai – built in NLP for fb messenger and more
weird! The lockered one at our complex is really slick. A room with an ipad and camera is bizarre.
> What makes Redfin a tech company? Why couldn't prudential (or another brokerage) build the same thing?

They can't because they'd need a brokerage in every state, real estate agents in every metro, and enough leverage to get the data out of the various regional MLS groups.

Its a tech company the same way Airbnb, Lyft, or Uber is a tech company. They have built alot of automation that is difficult to duplicate because you need national workforce buy-in.
So let's say prudential decides they need to replicate Redfin.

They hire some developers, make a list of all the features that Redfin has, and probably finish it behind schedule and over budget.

By then, Redfin has released dozens of updates and new features, etc, etc, because they're technology focused company.

Now is it theoretically possible for prudential to keep up with them? Sure. But they'd have to transform themselves into a tech company to do it.
It's also not up to them if they get hacked.
OT, but how do you like it? The 960 is the only model which would work with my space.
> > An iPod Touch with 128GB of storage is $299.

> But a comparable Android phone with 4G would cost around $100 these days.

128GB storage for $100?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg

More seriously Node.js has some pretty major performance problems, like the fact that it's single threaded. You'll make excellent use of one core, but that's about it. It looks great on I/O bound request/second benchmarks, but as soon as your code needs to do meaningful work it doesn't scale anymore. The solution to that is to spawn multiple node instances to make use of the actual machine resources, but now you're on your own and why did you bother with node.js then in the first place?
I'm thinking will the prices go up or down after this. Sure it will be harder for criminals to exchange their btc to fiat currency, but the interest in crypto currencies now is very high, so it will lower the supply of bitcoins?
The Detransitioners: They Were Transgender, Until They Weren't
I would love to see a company put its consumer data in a trust, to be kept locked up forever in the event of an acquisition. Has this been done before? (And what happens if the trust gets acquired)
This is really reassuring. I can't think of how a company would take advantage of my house layout, but they always find a way.
Getting hacked isn't selling data. I don't understand your point.
Really cool :) Which markup parser does this use?
Sure but the entire "society" of Japan is smaller than just California
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lol, calling "late capitalism" and Marxism/Marxists not worth taking seriously = "literally seething." I'm literally shaking right now guy, you're literally right. I'm literally about to go read some Rand now, literally. Moron. Your career directly contradicts your political "ideals."
> I know I can tether to a phone or pocket wifi, but I don't understand why depending on another device is still the status quo.

Because cellular providers, even with shared-data plans, charge per device. If it was just a one-time hardware cost to get each device its own cellular data access, it'd be more popular, but it's an additional ongoing cost that isn't (for most users) warranted by the additional utility.
Excited to read this! Looks like some good deep technical issues.

Shameless self promotion:

I have a Youtube channel where I do WebGL screencasts, as well as a myriad of other topics. Currently up to 99 WebGL episodes, and 21 3D Math episodes.

They're a lot more low level, and if you start at the beginning, you get to really understand each piece as it builds up over time. I find that a lot of topics and books rely on the user/reader to check out the source code to grok what's going on (which, often times, needs to be the case because the topic is advanced already, and has a level of expectation that the user will do their homework). That said, it's been nice building up over time because it's easy to see where things come from.

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/iamdavidwparker
WebGL playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPqKsyEGhUnaOdIFLKvdk...
Acquisition Ushers in New Era for Arduino; Banzi Named Chairman
And people trust this fool?
Before reading the article, I was really excited to read about people still using Elm (the email client) in 2017. There's enough people using Elm to justify a State of Elm in 2017? Awesome! I was disappointed.
This particular environment is obviously insane. The people are probably mentally instable with a huge complex.

This said, I would hate to have in my team coders who instead of coding post stuff about women persecuted in tech, men persecuted in football, whites persecuted in driving and blacks persecuted in sudoku. Or whatever.

When I work I see professionals. On s'en bat les couilles that they are men or women.
Forgive my cynicism but...

“The next time there is an Arab Spring, the people will be able to replace their leaders with code.“

Aside from security, Luddites, equal access, hardware failures, trust issues, power shortages, and many other issues with depending on technology for gov to function...

How does code beat guns?
Anthony Scaramucci Unloads About WH Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon
À l'école des métiers de l'animal de compagnie: les petits annonces
Ultrarunner here but based in France.
Yup. It doesn't even have to be a contract in order to have legal consequences.

Wizards of the Coast made a public announcement back in the 90s that they would not reprint cards on the reserved list in Magic: The Gathering. Even though they're now owned by Hasbro, they're still afraid of a lawsuit from collectors and trading shops if they do reprints or functional reprints (because that would drop the value of existing collections, causing material damages).

They toyed with non-playable collector editions for a few years, and then even that was shut down.
It depends, if you want to use it side-by-side with C# in a .NET Core project I'd say "forget it", you will just come away with scars from the process. If you're doing a greenfield F# only project, yeah sure, it all works lovely and is a great language.
Ghengis Khan was successful.
The "new age" thing has been going on for a really long time. That these people happen to be "the left" is neither here nor there. The Alex Jones phenomenon of "occult forces are out to kill us all" has only become mainstream now. There's a huge difference between people drinking "magical water" and preparing for apocalypse (which they are told is coming any day now, in the hands of "the libruls") by buying racks full of guns.
For me Definitely it is a problem.
If you are taller then 6Ft, good luck finding a place that you dont have to curl up to sleep, or you paid a little bit more to find a larger place with longer then 6 fts leg room.

For some reason in 2017 we still dont have mini hot water tank that could auto heat up the water at selected time. We have to wait 20 - 30 min getting the boiler to boil the water before taking a shower. And it is a problem when you have to work 10 to 12 hours+ for 6 days a week.
And if you are in cold Winter, your shower will only last 3 to 5 min.
But they say having a long hot shower is simply a luxury. At least you dont have to share the bath room.

You dont get decent Internet connection either. So definitely no fibre optics despite it is very cheap in HK. You could get a 1Gbps FTTH connection at ~$30USD. Or if you dont need the speed, a 200Mbps for ~$20USD.

But if you live in Cublics or Rooms / Flat, you are lucky if you could get ADSL, because some Landlord now dont even wire the telephone line. And the 6Mbps Connection, ( Speed depending on quality of the copper ) cost $30 - $40 or higher depending on location. And because they are old and poorly maintained you get heavy drop connection every time there is heavy rain or typhoon.

So if you want a decent / fast Internet connection to have at least ANY form of entertainment, like Youtube, you need to get unlimited LTE connection which cost $50+.

But they say fast Internet connection is a luxury, you dont need that.

Since those / some Cubics are built in old buildings some with restaurants at ground floor, you are bound to get big fat mouse, insects or more then usual cockroach to visit your home.

But they say having a insect free home is luxury.

Noise is definitely an issue. You can hear your next's bed room TV if they are loud, and worst is properly your fridge sitting right next to you making a grin noise every once in a while. Small Rooms and Flats are better, but Cubicles, ( those make with wood and metal ) privacy is non existence.

No idea on the usage of metal. But It isn't "residential building material", they are just metal cube or separators within a larger concrete room.
The most hated office jargon revealed – and their translations
The reason I use Redfin is because of their technology. Their site, apps, and (probably most importantly) alerts are massively better than what I've seen from any other brokerage. Sure, someone else could build the same thing, but thus far they haven't even come close. There must be a reason. My guess is that it's because it's actually hard.
AltSpaceVR is shutting down
Some examples maybe? Haven't been in touch with any new GNU projects.
Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (2012)
Lately I've been doing all my personal coding in C and/or scheme (guile). It's a fun stack and I love the "timelessness" of both languages -- code examples from books written in the 80's, or old libraries, still work (mostly) as-is.

For server stuff in production, once I went Elixir/Erlang I haven't looked back. Just blows anything else I'd used out of the water (in terms of productivity, performance, stability, and... FUN -- deployment is a bit of a bitch).

I'd also love to play more with Julia and Idris at some point.
That was also my logic circa a few years ago, but Apple's system of old models becoming the lower price unit has changed that. The 6 is 2 generations old, and with the new one coming out this fall, like usual, it's a lot cheaper than that.

I recently found a brand new 32gb iPhone 6 with no contract for $200. A Touch at the same place - walmart - is $195. The 6 is definitely superior hardware to a Touch and you don't even have to activate it.

You can also get a 5s or SE from them for about 150. When the new one comes out this fall, the 6 will be under 200.
Where did you see the $40 min with OVH?
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Works pretty well on Apple Watch as well.
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wait until you learn what MOBA stands for...
Lots of Android phones do include microSD card slots, so (assuming you can get a phone for $100), you could just add ~$50 for a 128GB microSD card, maybe.

(Edit: Added the parenthetical about getting a $100 phone. AndroidCentral's best "budget" pick was still $250 on Amazon.)
Yes, that stands out immediately. Great way to draw the right sort of attention for this concept.
>> Their chipset designs were inferior to Intel's but they had great CPUs.

In my experiance that is false.

the Space heaters what where the P4's where unstable and had continual problems compared to the Athons. I almost never had a problem out of a AMD based system but Intel based was a constant stability battle

The Core line up changed that but it was not until after the Core2Duo's that Intel really started to surpass AMD

>If there was a monopoly over the last decade it was only because AMD wasn't producing a competitive offering. It was not because of marketplace abuses like Intel's been accused of in the past.

This is also objectively false for any market outside the DIY/Gamer space. Intel made known, and proven anti-competitive deals with many OEM PC builders to ensure they would not offer AMD Chips to their customers

Ref: 2010 FTC Anti-Trust Settlement

Then you have the whole Patent battle of x86 itself which created the Douoply of AMD/Intel excluding all others from the market which Intel would have loved to have to itself asserting patent rights on the various x86 technologies.

So no you can not say that Intel is on top only because they have/had an objectively better product, though out Intel entire existence they have attempted to everything in their power (and some of it proved to not be so legal) to kill any competition to their market share not with innovation but with contracts, patents and other uses of the legal system

They continue this pattern today with their not so veiled threat against Qualcomm and MS over having x86 apps run on ARM while at the same time attempting to Sue Qualcomm for their aggressive enforcement of patents and restricted licensing of same
not properly hyper-organized == messy
A Bay Area developer wants to build 4,400 homes where they may be sorely needed
https://github.com/bettinson/bayesian-tag-suggestion

I wrote one of these in Ruby to classify links into tags! Was fun. I think it got me a job.
The consequence to the user can be pretty much the same, their data shared and used without their consent.
Buck and Bazel are definitely far better designed than these scary piles of macros like CMake and Autotools, but far from being ready for the same use cases. These new tools are designed for Google and Facebook's specific use cases: building binaries to run on their own servers, or mobile apps, from sources in monorepos (with dependencies copied to repo![1]).

I think even building packages for Linux distros is hard with these systems and cross compilation is barely documented too (however seems that it is supported, even for Windows). There are no discovery of libraries installed in system and features of system (killer feature of autotools).

[1] https://buckbuild.com/command/fetch.html
That's explicitly not how our system works. If you have a claim to a right rooted in the Constitution, you do not need to convince the majority to see things your way. Your rights emanating from the Constitution (and further from the Constitution of your state) trump the majority.
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Actually I fear 5s is far too slow to develop a sense-like feel for it :/

But thank you for the offer to discuss more :)
> Do not imply you're a meritocracy. Your company isn't, it's a handful of narcissistic wealthy people at the top surrounded by sycophantic top-level-managers with actual laborers 3 or more levels down. The idea that individuals can be rated on traits and promoted to "levels" is a laughable oversimplification to anybody who thinks about it.

Agree with you in principle, but I disagree about this interpretation. These "levels" are not about traits or ratings or performance; that's as much a lie as anything else you mentioned. They are entirely about trust: How much does the company trust you to be able to act in its best interest and derive ROI from your org? And from that perspective, the narcissistic and sycophantic traits are natural fallout.