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I'm a big fan of TDD, but I quit reading this article the second my eyes came across "IBM System Sciences Institute" and the chart that accompanies it.

This is by now one of the most thoroughly debunked memes in our profession. I wrote a couple chapters about it: http://leanpub.com/leprechauns . I wrote a handy little guide for people to know just how much BS was involved in any one citation: https://plus.google.com/+LaurentBossavit/posts/aNKut1QV8pT

If that wasn't enough, there is now an actual negative research result on the so-called defect cost increase: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04886.pdf

It should be quite clear by now that this type of argument doesn't do TDD any favors, it taints it by association with intellectual dishonesty.
The first iPhone was announced at $599 in mid-2007.

That's $704 2017 dollars, and look how much more of a device you will be getting.

Seems perfectly find to me. If people want to spend it, of course a company will make it.
There already exists a widely-used license for actively protecting both users and developers from patents embodied in a work: Apache 2.0.

Facebook made their own license for a reason. Compared to Apache, the Facebook license gives Facebook greater power in the user-developer relationship. They only give users use of React patents, but in return they demand protection against all patents from their users.

I'm not a huge fan of the patent system, but I'm even less a fan of hoisting Facebook into a position of even greater power over smaller competitors.

tl;dr: The clause isn't fair. It grants uneven protection. Their refusal to use a similar, existing, popular license that does grant equal protection is concerning.
If two to three seconds of waiting (that's on the high end, and only for certain apps) is breaking your flow, you need to work on your attention span. That's ADHD territory.

Edit: For that matter, interacting with your phone for a few seconds at a time is probably an attention deficit issue in and of itself. I admit that it's common, but that doesn't mean it isn't a problem.
That's nice of you. Is it enough to keep the projects alive?
It's worth noting the author is elsewhere critical of libsodium.
> The colonials occasionally tried to welcome Native American children into their midst, but they couldn’t persuade them to stay.

"The colonials occasionally tried to welcome Native American children into their midst, but they couldn’t persuade them to stay." is a nice euphemism for "The colonials kidnapped Native American children, but they couldn’t persuade them to stay."
The entirety of human history puts lie to this false assertion, and the continued necessity of laws to prohibit such behavior shows that nothing has changed. The market is more than willing to put up with a gross inefficiency if it reinforces the dominant narrative and market participants have shown themselves ready to collectively make less if it means that members of disfavored groups make much, much less.
I think so, but the observation is not without loopholes.

For example, classical field equations apparently can behave in non-computable ways, so long as their initial conditions are sufficiently wierd. I'm not sure if QM as we undestand it can handle such fields: but then "as we understand it" is a bit too limiting.

So why haven't we observed these wierd non-computable fields? My guess is that it's because they don't exist. But it might be that we just haven't recognized them, perhaps some of those puzzling things in physics -- like QM perhaps itself is caused by naughty non-computable stuff going on where we haven't yet recognized it.
Think about this, a business is disrupted to the point where they can't make any money at all. Yet, no customer is hurt in the process. In fact the customer is happier because now at least, he has a choice. I would break a monopolist law for that.
First, you aren't talking about the average consumer anymore. If we're talking flashing operating systems, sideloading kernel updates and boot loaders in order to feel secure about your mobile device, then an older, vertically supported iOS device is probably a better bet.

Secondly, AOSP isn't forever. After your carrier/device-manufacturer drops support, Google isn't that far behind. If you're not getting AOSP drops for your device that work with device drivers then it's probably dead. There are a few brave souls willing to port modern Android to no-longer-google supported devices, but I wouldn't call that sure-fire security.

Thirdly, many AOSP derivatives and communities have niche motives that don't really align with the average user. New OS features, experimental "battery saving" kernel hacks and user-space root are commonplace where they really shouldn't be for the average, or arguably any, mobile user. Often devs get a new device and the community quietly moves on, dies, stops providing.

Mobile software is really in a sore place right now overall and neither duopoly is 100%. The incentives aren't aligned to the consumer.
Is there any other rational explanation of why China was granted "Most Favored Nation" status and entrance into the WTO other than short sightedness and the willing to sell out the western workers for a quick buck? No company can manufacture in China without transferring their technology and know-how to a local company. I can understand why China does this. Seems to be working well. Why does the west support this undemocratic, closed system, internet firewall, rising economy; soon to be superpower? Cheap iphones?

The west had quite a bit of leverage over China at one point. No longer.
Give the new boss a few more years...
Then I guess that means we can put to rest the idea that Apple puts form over function.
FYI this patent was published recently: "Automatic overdraw reduction before rendering" https://www.google.com/patents/US20170221242?dq=facebook+use...
Because who decides what projects deserve how much? Who decides that a project is even worthy to receive anything at all? If there was such a government program, what would prevent masses of inexperienced developers to start pointless projects, open source them, and file a claim to receive money from the government?
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Of course a lot of customers are hurt in the process, actually the entire society is: by weakening the rule of law and by rolling back most advances organized labor made in the last 100+ years. You have been bamboozled by calling this the "sharing economy".

All you see is a cheap ride -- sponsored by VC money and you gladly take it.

Edit: thanks for the downvotes. Care to educate me where I am wrong?
I disagree - I've used a $300 stock android phone for just over a year now, and I haven't really run into any "cruft" issues. But, poor android performance is a very valid problem with android.
Great! This is the kind of number I was hoping for; thanks!

The remaining part is how much efficiency is lost in between (charging, transformers, etc.)... hopefully it's not a significant fraction of the difference?
Good riddance. I was in New York recently, and hailed a taxi for the ride to EWR instead of Uber/Lyft because my phone's battery was flat. The same ride that cost me <$50 on the way in on Uber was over $100 the way back, including effectively mandatory 20% tip -- and this was the lowest of the "suggested" options of 20%, 25% or 30%! And yellow cabs are a lot less comfortable as well, you're separated from the driver by a Plexiglass cage with a TV screen bolted on, attempting to blare ads into your face.

I sympathize with cabbies who spent a lot of money on buying a medallion of their own in the early 2000s and drove their own cab. I have less sympathy for the guy who invested $2.6 million in 2013.
It isn't just React -- the PATENTS file is in most Facebook repos.
Title says Mario, but then the example is Megaman? Is he really that unknown theverge?!
Or, you're using snapchat, or instagram, or signal.
Problem is, these algorithm based reinventing the wheel exercises don't filter out bad candidates. Being good at these has no relevance in 99% of companies.

We give candidates a take home exercise which is a simplified version of our business domain. We look for clean, readable, well tested OO code.

We had to turn down a CS PhD because their solution didn't meet any of these criteria (no tests, for example).

Were we to do algorithm trivia instead, they would have passed with flying colours and we'd be burdened with unmaintainable code.
Thanks! Yeah, this is the kind of number I was looking for. The remaining part is how much efficiency is lost in the transfer of energy from the power plant to your car (transmission, charging, etc.).
The key to that is to have the car charge, when it parks. Then even modest charge speeds are sufficient to keep your car charged all the time. You would only have to wait for a recharge when going long distance>300 miles in one drive. There electric cars would be slower than combustion engined ones - unless you take breaks anyway, which would make the charge time mostly vanish. But yes, electric cars have tradeoffs too. As a plus you never have to refuel in day-to-day driving and there are all the other benefits of electric propulsion (comfort and environmental impact).
No, it's a bug. A home/consumer router isn't targeted at power users, and should not require the average user to understand what they're doing.

I also think it's unreasonable to expect people to patch bugs in consumer gear they've purchased.
I switched jobs a while ago, and while a lot of the previous stress factors were eliminated, they have been replaced by an almost equal amount of other stress factors.

(going from a small startup to a large corporation is good for work/life balance, not so much in terms of getting things done)
> My view, as a former lawyer, is that if you want to sue FB for patent infringement, you would be very unwise to continue using React. Willful infringement = treble damages.

It isn't just React. The PATENTS file is in most of their repos.

It seems like it will basically allow Facebook to infringe on patents from many companies once their software has crept into the dependencies of critical parts of the open source ecosystem. (I'm not sure if it would be accurate to call React Free software.)
I hated it at first but started liking it after a few weeks.

9 months later I kind of hate it again. You get used to the short travel, and the clickiness is very pleasant. The problem I have now is that sometimes you can feel a click and it doesn't trigger - most commonly with the arrow keys. Also occasionally a few keys would "jam" and not fully click.

Overall my typing speed and accuracy has definitely decreased.
The password needs to die and better UX will kill it
Not buying the dogma.

OK, having tests and code reviews sure, but spec-first has generally beat test-first in my experience.

Not "design the whole thing waterfall-style" specs, but actually just a wide ranging discussion on what the thing is more or less supposed to do. Why? Because it's not just you! The way it works is about your team, and the business and the context of that code. And 5 bazillion test cases aren't actually the best way to communicate this to all the stake-holders involved.
He misused the terminology but basically got it right. The originator of the loan (your local bank is probably just a broker, who is acting as an intermediary for a wholesale vendor) then sells it to a REMIC[1]. It's tranched by the REMIC and sold off to institutional investors. These were properly labeled as mortgage backed securities[2] for residential real estate. This is all by the book, mind you. At least that's how it was conventionally done. If our housing market crashed with this system in place, we would have seen a hit but it wouldn't have affected things nearly as badly. It became 'systemic' when bankers decided to trade 'synthetic CDOs' in volume[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_mortgage_investmen... - [For context, Freddie Mac/Fannie Mac were REMICs] So what OP meant when he said "prime / subprime" was a misuse of terminology, but if he replaces 'prime' with 'AAA' and sub-prime with 'BBB and Residual' -- he's more or less on the mark there.

[2] US-FNMAMBS, IIRC

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligation... Start reading here
The article said about 10 villagers, not the entire village.
> due to a legal fiction that classifies them as independent contractors.

The taxi industry pioneered the independent contractor model. They provide the car, I lease it and do whatever I want with it for the duration of my lease. The company has very little control over what their drivers do - they would offer bonuses on certain fares to try to get drivers to go get their contracted fares in outlying areas...

Renting a car is much cheaper than leasing a taxi, so the only reasonable use for my leased taxi was to try to make some money with it.

I met a few other taxi drivers who thought that ppl like me, who drove for the biggest taxi company in Phoenix, were getting screwed by Big Taxi. One of these drivers was a solo owner-operator. He did everything himself: regulatory compliance (meter certification and whatever else the department of weights and measures cares about), advertising, etc. The other guys drove for smaller companies because they didn't like Big Taxi's corporate culture. I thought the arrangement with Big Taxi was acceptable.

The series of events which forced my retirement from taxi driving were about 2 years ago, and I haven't kept up with the industry news... One of the guys I used to drive with gave it up when the owner-operator he leased from three in the towel. He did two or three trips for 'duper, rapidly realized that was a waste of his friend's new Prius, and got a 7-day-a-week job at a golf course. Another guy just went back to taxi driving after a year and a half "working his ass off" for a funeral home that didn't actually appreciate his efforts. This one said the call volume is significantly down, but call quality is way up. He recently got to take a fellow from Phoenix to Tucson - the guy had to be in federal court by 9am... It was a good fare.
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I am pretty sure that electric cars are going to take over the car market. Tesla has shown that electric cars can be more desirable than combustion engined ones. They are also the best way to reduce the environmental impact of cars. Currently, the market share is limited by the higher price and more so even by the small number of different electrical models offered. The price does not matter if you cannot get the car model you want in the first place.

So any threats to fossil car sales is about accelerating the switch and push car makers into quickly offering a wider variety of electric cars. As soon as electric cars cross 50% market share, combustion engine cars probably will become less desirable and difficult to sell. So a total ban should not matter too much then, the trick is getting to 50%.
Apple's 1k pricing will be doing just fine as Samsung is also pricing Note 8 around the same.
Difference is, in this case, nobody loses their jobs and no one is starving. What you are saying, is the loss of future drone jobs. Should it be that case, we should never automate agriculture ever, since it had been the major sector of employment for many many centuries.

I think in this article's case, it is good automation, not the aggressive kind, so I want to know why people would lament over the loss of the those non-existed shitty jobs.
Honestly the snark is unnecessary. I made no mention of war, nor perfection. Though as there were variable rates of nomadism in different indigenous language groups, and (in my experience) indigenous Australians are great foodies, there was probably a great deal of picnicking.

There are and have been no perfect human societies, and I'm making no such claims. My point is that unthinking statement, always based only on popular myth, that premodern cultures were uniformly inferior to modern, are unsubstantiated. The picture is much more complicated, particularly if you are willing to countenance values other than those our particular culture has chosen to maximise. Even the most cursory reading of anthropology and history reveals this very easily.
iOS 11 won't support iPhone 5 unfortunately, see:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5
I mean my wife is still using my iPhone 3Gs (8 years old), so I get there are different needs. That's exactly my point.

Would you make the argument that everyone should be using $200 chromebooks?

If not, then why would one make the argument that anything more expensive than a chromebook is crossing some kind of threshold?
Right which is an interesting case because you're really doing TDV (test driven verification) against an existing design.

Or ... testing.
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If your app is more than a todo list, there is no way manual tests are faster than automated tests.
Writing software without tests is like running on minefield, you actually can get quite far, probably.
Women lawyers can get together and start their own law firms. The same goes for any lawyer who is convinced he/she is unfairly underpaid.
> On the other hand, hypercomputation has no physical basis. So what's the point of using it to model anything real? It's next to useless.

Plenty of mathematics does not "model anything real", but you may still want to understand it. The paper starts with an analogy to non-Euclidean geometry, which once "had no physical basis", until we learned more about the universe and found that it did.

Mathematics isn't a pitch deck.
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And since people get a better service out of that, on average (yes, I know everyone can bring up a terrifying anecdote), it looks like we're better off making a few changes. You seem to paint it black & white, but really if some laws are still being broken, they can be enforced. Or changed. Or reconsidered from the beginning for the new situation.

The change proved that medallions were either a bad idea, or a badly managed idea. Some change would occur anyway.
What's so innovative about the screen? All the components at the top of the phone are still present in a blocked out section. It's not like they figured out how to conceal those components beneath the screen, which is what we're truly waiting for. Until the front of the phone is 100% screen space (perhaps minus a very thin bezel), it's certainly not worth the hype.

Edit: I went back and looked at the latest leaked photos. It's better than I remember. The phone looks decent enough when the screen is off, but very gimmicky when the screen is lit. It looks like they went as far as they could, realized they couldn't deliver any better, and so left that top section of the phone in what is essentially an unfinished state. I suspect the innovation I'm holding out for will happen by iPhone 10 or 11.
Agreed. In Turkey, taxi medallions are part of a terrible system. They are extremely expensive in big cities. In many cases, Taxi drivers do not own them. Different drivers work in two or three shifts and pays a predetermined amount to medallion owner (a hefty sum). Sometimes medallions are rented by a third party and he manages the taxi drivers and pays to the top dude.

Government does not allow Uber like systems. Also Taxis are very expensive especially in smaller cities. And no, many does not behave nicely. They are also reckless in traffic.

So we stuck to this monopoly and nobody questions. Why is driving a Taxi a profession in this age of technology? Anybody with decent driving skills can do this yet Taxi drivers are the first to prevent any competition. This pattern is quite noticeable in many other areas of industry. They make restrictions and regulations with good intentions, later it turns to a monster.
That can be a choice. If you know every interaction with your phone is going to be an exercise in patience, you'll be less likely to whip it out for every random thought or notification you get.
law firms are desperate to retain women but they value work life balance and having children too much
Surely it should also be emphasised that any competing products that happen to violate those patents would be off limits? The emphasis in most of these discussions is that you have to get off React, but it's likely you couldn't move to a direct competitor either.
> Why would they retain employees which they would not rehire (minus wages in place of hiring cost)?

For good relations with the Government which has a goal of decreasing unemployment, and avoiding bad PR in popular media? If you can wait a couple of months to achieve exactly the same outcome with fewer risks, why not.

> Meanwhile, as Amazon's efficiency increases, throughput will also increase

No, throughput is a function of demand, not efficiency, unless Amazon is currently backlogged.
a single entity controlling a cryptocurrency defeats the purpose of cryptocurrency. just issue something like amazon credit or whatever.

just one example of how weak the writing is on mr. robot. the basis of everything must be "Lol hackers bro amirite?"
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I'd bet these trucks defeat it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_Truck
The free market usually fails to discriminate, because people are more greedy than they are bigots. This is why government help is enlisted to enforce bigotry - often in the form of required licensing, limiting the number of people entering a career, etc.
Dentistry.

Housing as a cartel.
"The ocean temperature necessary to support a hypercane is high enough to cause third degree burns in around 10 minutes and second degree burns in around 20 minutes."

I think you got those mixed around :-)
rush hour only adds 15-20 minutes? as a southern californian, i'm amused that you call that a downside.
Progress is made by breaking laws. The founders of your country committed treason against England. Strikes used to be illegal. Fredom of assembly, speech, religion and press used to be severely restricted.
You're more likely to be in a car crash than the victim of a crime...
First of all, the "no layoffs" claim can easily be achieved through attrition, as covered elsewhere in this thread. That means that someone would have been hired to replace a departing worker but now isn't getting that job.

Second, even aside from attrition, there are absolutely people who would have wanted the jobs that the robots are doing. Some of those people would have wanted those jobs because it would have been their only option. I would rather they had other options (via a social safety net, presumably), but that's not the world we live in right now.

At this point, I suspect you are intentionally reading me in the worst sense you can manage. I think I have adequately explained my position, and if you really want to continue this discussion, I encourage you to go back and re-read my comments. Engage the statements I made or ask questions about the points you don't understand. Otherwise, have a good one.
If I remember correctly I saw a Bose demo where they were able to roll their car over speed bumps and it would stay completely level. I’m not sure if that completely negated their impact, but it looked like it from the video.
> Not excusing the price, but people these days spend multiple hours a day on their phones

That's my reasoning when I buy a new computer. I can buy a MBP for $2000, use it for 3 years and sell it used for $1000. $30 a month is a bargain considering I use it between 5-10 hours a day. I may pay a mac a little more (20%?) than the competition but it's worth it considering it's subjectively better (and objectively different, Mac OS / design / size -- arguably less and less so).

However, I'd never buy an iphone (or an expensive smartphone). Iphone users may disagree, but for what I've seen they provide almost the same experience as much cheaper phones (typically two times cheaper). Another issue I have with the price is that I don't feel confortable walking around with such a small expensive item. So easy to lose it or forget it.