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Genuine question, I am waiting for the soon to be announced iPhone 8, but what I am curious about is what is the selling point of this phone? The camera? Security? Why would I want this phone? I don't follow google or their employees companies much. Personally google makes horrible UI's and services IMO. The latest interaction with them by me has been Google fiber + TV. The fiber is fine and fast but the TV is a tire fire. I'm not impressed with the UI of android. So I really am curious what would compel me to buy this phone?
Appreciate your view. I think for teams with strong code review practices, we make sense as extra eyes rather than full replacement.

Edit to expand:

We also believe that reviewers attached to projects will gain context quite rapidly. We had a reviewer catch an edge case bug for one of our teams that had gone unnoticed by internal review. Economic side of this would have been large... but was only possible through the context they gained in previous reviews.
Isn't it more like 4 years, at least on the Phones?

I wouldn't mind getting an additional Android device, but two years of upgrades really isn't enough. It's nice to get a new OS upgrade every year.
Pretty sure they used Sharp as a partner, so it isn't like they started from scratch. That guess is based on this Sharp phone looking mighty familiar (http://www.gsmarena.com/sharp_aquos_s2_taken_apart_a_bezelle...) and Rubin having worked with Sharp extensively during the Danger days. (most of the Sidekicks were made by Sharp)

I'm kinda sort interested in this device, but honestly I'm in the sit and wait given that Sharp isn't exactly a name brand anymore.
Different strokes. One of the big Phoenix perks is that using it instead of just raw Plug has very little performance drop off. It's not a Rails vs Sinatra situation.

The Phoenix Channels implementation for websockets and the view layer for web requests are pretty phenomenal IMHO.
> Let's take e.g. a Caterpillar 300.9D excavator (weighing 950 kg, same as about a million wasps).

Not that it matters, given the way you did the calculation, but it's closer to 10+ million.
That's a public expression of who you are and what you stand for.
Well, your constant mass means that you will still have the same inertia when playing sports. I would expect pairs of fractured skulls, pairs of broken shins in soccer players, etc.

Wow, soccer would be epic in low G!
You can't get the things you get from the API from videos alone. If a player wants to see the amount of mana an enemy has, he has to click on the enemy, you don't see it usually. Same for items. There is an active component in information gathering in Dota (and those actions take time/clicks away from other things you could do at the same time).
People have in fact talked about these things. Including the science being great, the psychology being preposterous yet entertaining, and the disco being disco.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/11/stuck-on-mars-with-n...
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I'm downloading it via Curl and feel bad. I will look into compressing it further somehow and maybe hosting it somewhere.
If you are buying an Android phone, I am not sure why you wouldn't wait for phones officially supporting Project Treble . For example , Nexus 6p will get Android O, but without Treble.

Treble is the framework which could potentially make 0-day Android updates possible.
My thought process is that I don't know you from Adam, and without casting any aspersions, I assume that everybody is an accident waiting to happen. Pretty much any home woodworking shop gives me the heebie jeebies. I don't believe that anybody can categorically reject that they will ever experience a momentary lapse of attention while using tools. That means myself included.

Admittedly my views are biased by years of experience designing and setting up manufacturing equipment, which is different than an individual having their own wood shop. I don't even know if tools like manual lathes and tablesaws are still in widespread commercial use. I've never seen one at a construction site. Most work seems to be moving towards assembling prefab components.
The Unix Haters Handbook is pretty interesting reading, but I remember that the chapter on X was one of the weakest. It doesn't help that it starts with the hoary old myth that X named the 'server' and 'client' backwards. More relevant however is that from the vantage point of 2017, it becomes clear that X is one of the most unreasonably successful software architectures of all time.

Think about it: how many pieces of software design have remained in heavy use worldwide for 30 years. The fact that no one bothered to replace it in all that time is proof enough that whatever warts it has can't be that painful. (Now, finally, it seems like it's going to happen with Wayland, but it's not there yet.)

Not only that, but computer display technology has changed massively over X's lifetime. I'm writing this in a composited window manager hardware accelerated via natively-3D hardware outputting to multiple monitors of different resolutions over as many different digital display links. How much of this was even imagined in the 1980s? Yet the X protocol via it's extension mechanisms has proven adaptable enough to take in massive changes in the technology, and still keeps on ticking.
This is not a really fair comparison. For a device whose primary purpose is generally media consumption, a headphone jack is a real feature. To me it's currently a must as I don't want to buy more head phones when I already have a few really good pairs.
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There are a huge number of humans on earth who spend their lives in urban centers and also never have those experiences.

Speculating about the quality of food on mars is pointless; we have no idea how that will work. If you can afford regular equipment shipments to mars (which is probably what a mars colony will require with near-future tech), it would probably make a lot of sense to ship up a bunch of spices. They have a very high utility/weight ratio, which is why they were the impetus for the foundation of so many historical colonies.
This is a fancy way of saying it's a fashion accessory for many people. Just like clothes, cars, housing, etc. I bought one because the materials seem like they will be nice, and that has value to me.
But when the latest is NOT the greatest, I don't want the latest.
Removing useful features: Progress™!
The entities actually paying Elsevier are mostly college libraries (not individuals). Though librarians tend to be pro open access, college legal counsel is unlikely to let them tell professors/students to use a pirate site (and many of them would not be comfortable doing so, despite not loving companies like Elsevier). And the most vocal professors unfortunately tend to care more about getting the articles they want/need than about promoting knowledge freedom. Therefore, libraries tend to continue paying for those articles to the extent their budgets allow.

I am hearing more lately about libraries/universities taking stands (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15006785 for example), which is encouraging.
> winning mainly through what I would call "micro" excellence

This certainly is an advantage for the bot. But it's also clear the bot understands some sophisticated parts of dota. It understands how to control the creep equilibrium via the aggro mechanics. Skill at this is one of the things that separates pros from casual dota players. In the video footage you can see sumail and rtz are surprised by this aspect of the bot. It also understands how to cancel salves as well as bait with them. That's all pretty impressive for a bot trained up from self play.
Thinking about the things that might need to be in place for a company to function without management:

- Self-organizing and Self-directed employees are often the hardest to find.

- The HR process, when done correctly, allows individuals to join a group to realize their potential that they may not have elsewhere.

- The group's goals would have to be somehow set. I recall Clay Shirky's excellent essay on how a group is it's own worst enemy and can't help but wonder how it might play out in an environment like this.

http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
All I want is to get google fi on an iphone. Ok battery, reasonable lifetime (I can usually get 3.5 years out of an iphone) and cheap international data.
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AFAIK, Fi uses both T-Mobile and Sprint if you have a dual band phone, and wifi if you're in a building without reception. Most phones have been dual band for a couple years now.
Whoosh, right over your head.
There is a huge different between not optimizing and giving decent perfs.

Allowing video content, using images and a JS framework is alright. Not making sure the first load is under 1mo is, however, unprofessional.

I get that some sites do need big pages: video tubes, big SPA, etc. But most sites are not youtube or facebook. If your blog post takes 3Mb to display text, it's doing it wrong.
I'm still clinging to my iPhone 5. Im waiting patiently for the soon to be announced iPhone 8 and I am only buying the 8 because my poor 5 is starting to not hold a charge, and is totally out of space and OS updates have ended.
What OS does it run? What type of SDK does it provide?
You can want to reward your top 10% while giving at least a market-rate adjustment to the next 80% (or whatever).
Based on the context, something like "the cobbler's children have no shoes" meaning they are too busy doing paid work for others to the same work for themselves.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/159004/the-cobbl...
Very cool. I'll definitely subscribe and watch for how this progresses. I'll like that it is minimal but still have display. Unfortunately if someone controls user machine they still can spoof the destination address so it's still possible to sign a bad transaction (as noted in the FAQ).
That's great :). Most problems worth solving aren't easy by any means. This could be a huge market if you do it right!
What is this horseshit. Try reading it if you dare.

So Damore misrepresents things and this letter pretends to be Larry.

What the hell has this world come to where this counts as "news"
Pardon the tangent, but here's a quote from their website:

> There’s a reason titanium is used to build rockets and replace bones. Unlike aluminum, which is what most phones are made of, titanium doesn’t scratch, dent, or bend.

The reason why titanium is used to replace bones is not its strength (though it certainly doesn't hurt). It's because titanium is the most biocompatible metal and has a capacity for osseointegration. Meaning the bone around it will fuse with the titanium.
as a European, I don't think we get that protection. In this instance its the first plane home
Oh and btw, it's very possible that speed is a software issue. Latest gmail app update tweaked a few things in how mailboxes are loaded and it's way snappier.

I have a moto g3 quadcore and 1G(maybe 2G)RAM. I cannot reason about slow performance for non gaming / pixel heavy stuff.
I wouldn't trust my freedom on judges accepting that argument.
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Exciting stuff.
Those who preordered can now pay for the phone, as I have, and expect to physically have one in a few days.
Agreed. The "what if it's me" response ought to be felt by everybody. And algorithms used in criminal justice cases should be open and reviewable.

I made my comment above because it's easy to read "6 years...algorithmic sentencing...unaccountable" and miss the fact that this sentencing was given to a dangerous man with multiple prior convictions.
Whilst still in academia, I surely wasn't interested in diluting my whiskey.
> tech like rabbitmq and couchdb

and a whole sub-community in elixir. erlang is gonna be just fine.
> Your memo was a great example of what’s called “motivated reasoning”

Guess he'll have to join the throngs of people fired for motivated reasoning to arrive at 'diversity is strength' and 'everyone is equal'.
And consequently they don't think end-to-end communication is feasible without "WebRTC"?
My daughter is allergic to eggs, salmon, and fish in that similar family. Having vegan options in this modern day has been a real help.

I started my food side project https://bestfoodnearme.com with the idea in mind that I can catalog dishes at restaurants based on allergies, gluten free etc. Allergic reactions are a very scary thing especially with small children.
Ok Donald, the ratio may be off, but your own linked article does in fact conclude microbiobial in the human body outnumbers cells (just slightly) and the study you linked isn't very clear in that it discusses just bacteria which is only part of the microbiome.

Further, the ratio has little to do with the actual function which is the major takeaway. Nice fake account btw!

Edit: from your article, “It is good that we all now have a better estimate to quote,” says Peer Bork, a bioinformatician at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, “But I don’t think it will actually have any biological significance.”
> Devices shouldn’t become outdated every year.

> Essential Phone will get guaranteed Android OS updates for 2 years and will get monthly security updates for 3 years.

That's honestly not much of an improvement, and I'm not aware of any current phones that are outdated after a year (unless you're one of those gadget fanatics who has to have the most cutting edge phone).

> we've tried to make our phone as affordable as possible.

$700 is affordable now? What world are we living in!? Silicon Valley, I guess?

> Simple is always better.

> we put nearly a year’s worth of development into making a camera that integrates into the body of the phone (without the tell tale camera hump)

Really starting to question their priorities at this point...

Maybe "essential" is the wrong word for what they're doing, because it seems like they spend a lot of time on things that aren't essential at all. Who needs a 360 camera? And who cares about a 1mm camera protrusion? And since when do we all agree that a 3.5mm headphone jack isn't "essential"?
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So, do tell. What does my choice of an iPhone express about who I am?

People seem to believe they can infer a very weird amount from a smidgen more than 1 bit of information.
tru master. Send a screenshot please, I like motif.
Eventually you go from playing the market to BEING the market.
As someone who has developed software in Palo Alto and in other places, I can testify to a mystique of the valley that some hold. It's true that you can get things done -- particularly scale a company and get investors -- more easily there then anywhere else in the world. And there are a lot of the world's greatest computer scientists there. But some people think that it is the only place, or a least the easiest place, that you can do really cutting edge engineering. That seems a little more dubious to me.
that's nice, but generally speaking the mindset is still very much imperative.
Customs is likely to consider "I wiped my phone, so there's nothing on it" suspicious too.
Better question - why can't we reuse the concrete blocks.
But we can't let science get in the way of marketing copy, now can we?

(Thanks for the interesting tangent, btw)
I see you are interested in logical fallacies. You may also be interested in the one called "tu quoque."
Pretty good article. The economist can be counted on for insightful takes on current events. I recommend everyone add it to their daily reading list.

There is one problem with the article, though. It's not going to bring along any of the right-leaning people who are upset about anti-male discrimination and other such things. The article opens (smartly) by calling out “motivated reasoning”. But by the end, it references a list of lefty (from their perspective) links. Perhaps a better interpretation of Damore's own references would have been better.

Is it so unacceptable to admit that yes, men and women are different, but not mutually exclusive, and that women have plenty of the things the company wants?

Edited last sentence for clarification.
>The US is much more polarized now than in previous decades

I've seen this and I believe the data behind it, but I also think that while the US politics are very polarized right now, the actual spectrum of politics represented at the national level seems very narrow, and very right leaning (Reps and Dems).
I think the discussion around deployment may have been unnecessarily tainted by their experience using edeliver - it's an automation layer for building and deploying releases, but as mentioned it is configured via shell scripts and because it does a lot, a lot can go wrong.

The basic unit of Elixir (and Erlang for that matter) deployments is the release. A release is just a tarball containing the bytecode of the application, configuration files, private data files, and some shell scripts for booting the application. Deployment is literally extracting the tarball to where you want the application deployed, and running `bin/myapp start` from the root of that folder which starts a daemon running the application. There is a `foreground` task as well which works well for running in containers.

My last Elixir gig prior to my current one used Docker + Kubernetes and almost all of our applications were Elixir, Erlang, or Go. It was extremely painless to use with releases, and our containers were tiny because the release package contained everything it needed to run, so the OS basically just needed a shell, and the shared libraries needed by the runtime (e.g. crypto).

My current job, we're deploying a release via RPM, and again, releases play really nicely with packaging in this way, particularly since the boot script which comes with the release takes care of the major tasks (start, stop, restart, upgrade/downgrade).

There are pain points with releases, but once you are aware of them (and they are pretty clearly documented), it's not really something which affects you. For example, if you bundle the Erlang runtime system (ERTS) in a release, you must deploy to the same OS/architecture as the machine you built the release on, and that machine needs to have all of the shared libraries installed which ERTS will need. If you don't bundle ERTS, but use one installed on the target machine, it must be the same version used to compile your application, because the compiled bytecode is shipped in the release. Those two issues can definitely catch you if you just wing a deployment, but they are documented clearly to help prevent that.

In short, if there was pain experienced, I think it may have been due to the particular tool they used - I don't think deployment in Elixir is difficult, outdated, or painful, but you do have to understand the tools you are using and how to take advantage of them, and I'm not sure that's different from any other language really.

Disclaimer: I'm the creator/maintainer of Distillery, the underlying release management tooling for Elixir, so I am obviously biased, but I also suspect I have more experience deploying Elixir applications than a lot of people, so hopefully it's a wash and I can be objective enough to chime in here.
How about we just reuse the concrete blocks? They don't wear out do they?
>Certainly sounds a heck of a lot like how web applications work (even though we're currently terrible at sharing libraries, heh).

NeWS was architecturally similar to what is now called AJAX, except that NeWS coherently:

+ used PostScript code instead of JavaScript for programming.

+ used PostScript graphics instead of DHTML and CSS for rendering.

+ used PostScript data instead of XML and JSON for data representation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
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"Have you ever noticed how no one takes sentences that start “I’m not a racist, but…” at face value? Here’s why, in the words of Jon Snow in “Game of Thrones” (season 7, episode 1). When Sansa Stark tells him: “They respect you, they really do, but…,” Snow laughs and comes back with: “What did father used to say? Everything before the word ‘but’ is horseshit.”"

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This is a really bizarre use of the word consumer, essentially equating it one to one with the word citizen.
> Have you ever been backpacking in a desert, mountains, wilderness?

I'm guessing that being on Mars isn't even remotely similar to being out in the harshest Earth environment.
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It's disappointing they did not reference the seminal work by the father of the Periodic Table on ethanol/water solutions [1]. This work is often cited as justification for why Russian vodkas are 80 proof.

1. Mendeleev, D.I., O soedinenii spirta s vodoi, sochineniya (Total Collection of Transactions: On the Combinations of Alcohol with Water), Leningrad: ONTI-Khimteoret, 1937, vol. 4.

UPDATE on Mendeleev's work with alcohols:
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/20...

Dale Schaefer and colleagues, who conducted the study, note that vodka has a long-standing reputation as a colorless, tasteless solution of 40 percent pure ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, and 60 percent pure water. All such beverages should have the same faint or undetectable taste. But sales of premium vodka brands have surged in recent years. Schaefer’s group at the University of Cincinnati worked with colleagues from Moscow State University in Russia to find an answer.

They knew that famed Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, noted for work on the Periodic Table of the Elements, made a key observation on alcohol solutions in his 1865 doctoral dissertation. Mendeleev believed that a solution of 40 percent ethanol and 60 percent water would develop peculiar clusters of molecules, called hydrates. That solution became the global standard for vodka, which usually is sold as an 80-proof, or 40 percent alcohol, beverage.
Playing devil's advocate, is that not itself a statement of sorts?
I retroactively instituted a $100 cutoff too. :-)
Busy people rarely get bored. We won't go to Mars for vacations, we'll go to establish a colony. Which means there are a myriad tasks that have to be accomplished on any given day. They'll have to make sure their equipment works in stellar condition otherwise they'll die, build new things, explore, grow plants and taste their food, run experiments, fix things, take notes of everything and report back to Earth, and the list goes on. And once they get there we'll keep sending them new stuff, and probably other people too, quite frequently. Mars is indeed a barren place but imagine being a geologist, it's like Christmas, you have a new world all to yourself to explore and learn new shit. That could keep you busy for a lifetime.

Sure, in the long term they might get depressed assuming a trip back to Earth would be impossible. And that's why we'll send mosty scientists. We want people who are dedicated and passionate about exploration and learning.