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Is the new iPhone really going to be $999? I wonder if Apple are seeding rumours like this to make a smaller price increase seem more reasonable.
That is, effectively, what I was saying.

The list is dumb. The best thing we can do is move on.
There is no behavior that can guarantee business is not going to be sued. People sue for all kinds of completely frivolous reasons, and it still can cost lots of money to deal with it.
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Doesn't seem impossible to me:

http://info.legalzoom.com/can-lawyer-sole-proprietorship-248...

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/gpsolo/resources/solosez/...

That last link is the American Bar Association explaining how to do it.

(Experience in law firms may actually work against you there. In big companies I've worked for, none of the people working there had any idea how to start their own business, and would try to convince others it was impossible.)
Lucid had an editor called Helix. It was based on CMUCL's Hemlock. Probably that's also the editor SUN used in SPE. Hemlock is a Emacs variant written in Common Lisp.

Lispworks's and Clozure CL's editor also started from Hemlock.
I run a relatively popular open source project. I think that there are some strange forces in the tech industry which make it nearly impossible to get big companies to use your project.

Maybe it's not right but I really feel like not being based in Silicon Valley has something to do with it... Related to branding, social networks, bloggers. Outside of SV, it's very tough.

Only small startups were using my project initially; literally hundreds or maybe even thousands of small startups but not one large corporation (that I knew about).

It's been 4 years though and the good thing is that now several of the startups that were using my project got really big and are growing fast. Still no big corporations but it doesn't matter anymore. Me and one other contributor are now able to make money offering consulting to those startups which grew. Also we have a sponsorship deal now.
So your last generation iPhone still gets updates? I would not call that a excellent benchmark in my book.

The trouble with iOS devices is that they stop being usable the moment you can no longer update the OS in the way that most applications only support the newest OS (happened to several iPads here with e.g. Amazon app, Twitter, Youtube) - because updates roll out to the majority of users so fast compared to Android.

"stop getting updates 2 years in."

With Android most applications still support 4.X when Oreo comes out.
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That sounds so much easier than what I am doing with my laptop (macbook): I have to put it in my bag somewhere and take it out somewhere else and continue exactly where I left off every time. It is such a burden...
As it stands I think that Nexus 5 is getting neither - no functionality or security updates
The "particular" keyboard is actually quite good to use. I like the way I type on this one.

However it's not reliable. A single speck of dust under the keycap then you have misfires. Keys get mushy for no reason, get stuck etc. My b key does not work reliably now for example.
> Peaks have never been a useful benchmark of Bitcoin health, and I don't know where you're getting that from. Your thoughts on Bitcoin are basically being driven by popular media, and popular media is a terrible way to judge anything.

Most of my thoughts are driven by what passes for dialog at r/bitcoin and elsewhere in the community. To the moon! This is gentlemen! rollercoaster.gif! I would definitely agree that listening to hyperbole, wherever it comes from, is foolish.
> chuck norrys

If you’re going to try to capitalize on an internet meme, at least try to do the job properly.
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im still rocking my nexus6 because i dont see a reason to upgrade. before that i was rocking note line from samsung.

the only thing that im missing in comparasion with current phones is camera.
One shouldn't forget that suburbisation was a Cold War move - a very effective one and something Soviet Union could not even remotely afford to follow. Quite likely that it eventually prevented nuclear war by making it clearly unwinnable for the Soviets.
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6 is almost 3 generations ago. The 7S/8 (we're not sure) comes out tomorrow. You can buy a 7 now. The 6S was released 2 years ago. The 6 was released 3 years ago.
I did that, but I don't know what to look for. I searched for React but it didn't find anything. The article claims Apple uses React. I wanted to verify that claim.
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Please don't spread lies :/

300-400$ range phones work perfectly well for years and there's now even a staggering amount of pretty good phones covering most usecases from companies like Xiaomi that can be bought for as low as 150$ and they still run about as well as an iPhone 5c.
I get that it seems scary for an innovative startup to have facebook steal your intellectual property just because of a javascript library you're using. But I am of the opinion that patents are worthless to small startups anyway so it's not much of a concern. Until a startup starts getting to unicorn status patents are basically useless. If a tech giant wants to blatantly steal your idea they will and their wall of lawyers will mean you can do absolutely nothing unless you can convince a VC that a legal fight is the best way to blow through millions of dollars.
Don't know about duty but I think everyone has a right to expect help and a right to give help. It makes for a better world where these rights are regularly exercised.
When was the last time that phone got a security patch?
It certainly is one of the best things which you personally, can do for the environment.

I couldn't tell you if we're able to STOP it before we suffer even more catastropic consequences, but with time,
such a way of living (if lived by a high enough percentage of the population),
will eventually reverse the damage done.
It's one hell of a step in the right direction.

Cleaner conscience, cleaner environment.
> 98% of the same performance and features

You’re talking about phones with hardware from half a decade ago. How exactly are you getting the same performance and features, let alone even support or updates from manufacturers?
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> When you ADD two registers, you really are making two reads in the register file, which really is a piece of physical hardware, and those reads really do go to a physical adder and get written back to the real, physical register file

You've elided a pile of abstraction here too, like what it actually means to "read" and "write" the physical register file. Additionally, CPUs do a ton of microcoding of operations, so simple instructions like a 2-register ADD may correspond to the "obvious" thing, but more complicated ones will go through more hardware/do more things.

The gulf of abstraction between the physics and any programming language is vastly larger than differences between programming languages, so it's weird that all of the hardware and operating system and C+GC is the right abstraction, but "tiny" extensions, say, like hardware and operating system and C+GC+generics^ is not right.

^ (Any of the common ways to implement them.)

> In contrast, adding some lazy FP callback into your latest node.js framework on DOM objects might be doing something, somewhere, but who on earth really knows?

This is the false comparison! Even Go can conceal arbitrarily complicated operations behind function calls. I can make a Go API that takes closures to execute later too. (There's even core language support built on this idea, `defer`, that behaves in a way that's resistant to the straightforward (RAII-like) implementation.)

If we're going to be talking about things at the instruction-level, you can definitely complain about the dynamism of Ruby forcing even simple + to be (quite) a few more instructions, but you need to consistently look at either the micro-scale or the macro-scale, or explicitly connect the two.

If you were doing DOM manipulations in Go, I'm sure, say, listening for some events (like a "lazy FP callback" might be) would be at least a similar order of magnitude in terms of non-obviousness to the JS version. It's fair that different language/ecosystems may encourage/lend themselves towards different coding styles, but this is most evident with apples-to-apples comparisons.
Nexus 6 isn’t even 3 years old. Many people keep phones that long.
I've tried android twice and both times were bad experiences but from recommended phones from people. My first iphone experience was bad (iPhone4) but I picked up again from 6s plus and never looked back.
Sorting is a fundamental problem so this is important stuff but I can't right now come up with a practical problem involving large sorting operations. Can anyone come up with a practical application for this? I have no doubt they exist.

I would think the breakeven point for using the GPU (assuming inputs and results are on the CPU) is several megabytes of millions or elements at least.

Writing this paper must have been a lot of effort. There are something like 50 different methods reviewed here. Good thing that papers like this exist.
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> Both incoming and outgoing mails said outside in an unlocked box (for many of us) that can be easily accessed by any passerby.

Yeah, but get caught messing with mail and you can get royally screwed. I don't know of any other country where the Postal Service has its own cops with arrest powers, seems to be a pretty powerful deterrent.
So basically your own telecom operator is preventing you from using yourn own phone? How do you people tolerate that?

My SO actually has the Moto Z Play and that phone has one feature that even none of the Apple iPhones had - the battery will easily live for three days, pretty much eliminating battery anxiety when traveling or staying somewhere for extended periods of time. It really feels wierd again to not have to worry about dragging cables, chargers and battery packs around on every minor event.
Does it still get updates though?

In 2011 I bought a Motorola Droid 2 and I it's been one of the best phones I've used, but I don't think I've ever got any system update. It's been stuck on 2.1 forever.
https://www.google.com/patents/US20170221242 - The majority is probably wrong in this case, unfortunately.
QNX springs to mind in that case, but I'm not sure if it's really viable as a day-to-day OS. There's a distro of it out there somewhere, I guess.

(Usually it's used in embedded systems)
> It would've been better...

For whom?
That answers the first question, "Wouldn't applying high taxes also be 'micromanaging'?"

For the second question "And why do you think the market, guided by tax changes or not, should decide on how long we keep building combustion engine cars?" I would say because the market under a fossil-fuel tax will do a better job at optimizing for what ought to be the desired ultimate goal of fewer fossil-fuel emissions overall instead of simply meeting what is an unnecessary side-goal of no fossil-fuel-burning cars.

For the third question, "If the market wanted to keep them around for a hundred years, until the oil runs out, would that be ok, given what we know about how damaging the emissions from cars are?", I would say a large-enough fossil-fuel tax would cause humans to not use up the remaining oil as fast as these other schemes.
The Motos are well supported by aftermarket ROMs if you want updates. They might be among the cheapest with this.
From the article: “It took me a lot longer than it’s supposed to to reach equity partner,” Campbell says. “Part of that was due to choices I made, putting a priority on raising my kids, for a lot of years as a single mom.”

So the usual fuss about nothing, looking at meaningless income averages, neglecting the individual choices and circumstances that actually explain things.
Most of America's landscapes were managed by indigenous peoples for tens of thousands of years. The idea of Europeans sailing to find a sparsely-populated wilderness is a myth. Tenochtitlan was one of the largest cities in the world in the 15th century.

Furthermore, the fact that biochar is a buzzword in green agriculture today shows how little we've learned, seeing as indigenous populations used the "hidden wisdom" of 'terra preta' for thousands of years to enrich the soil. The quality of our crops today is built on thousands of years of selective breeding and clever farming by peoples in pre-Columbian America.

Sure, pre-modern cultures may have had "less effective" understandings of medicine or technology, but at the same time, these cultures survived for millennia. We're definitely more effective at screwing up our planet than they ever were.

Given the pending ecological disaster(s) we're facing, it's probably more responsible to try and learn from the examples set by ancient cultures rather than flippantly declaring that they were "less effective", and dismissing any contrary information as romanticizing.
Lineage OS is pretty easy on my nexus 6. Unlocking the bootloader was the hardest part, which is literally "fastboot OEM unlock"

So yeah its hard. YMMV.
Cool to see research in that field, I realized this year that for gaming GPU and VRAM were actually more important than CPU and RAM, it probably tells something about underusage of GPU in general computing.

There's one big blocker as far as I can tell, though: portability. When it comes to gaming, neural networks, cryptomining, etc, I always see "only nvidia cards supported", or "work best on amd". If we were to use GPU in just any kind of application, we would need to have hardware abstraction library which support any kind of GPU, including intel chips.

Is such effort already being worked on, at any stage of completion?
This is the OLED, face recognition, fully tricked out model. There will be several tiers and they're not all going to be a grand. Have you ever heard a too-high price rumour of an Apple anything, throughout the decades of them selling endless piles of expensive stuff? Seeding rumours, heh.
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> I feel very badly for the people in the article who lost their life savings on a failed investment.

San Diego did a good thing with this. They bought back the medallion at some price relative to what was paid minus some amount for time owned, interest, etc. Then when they redistributed those bought back medallions, they slightly increased the medallion count.

That sequence stopped a lot of the problems. Anybody who got caught out by medallions collapsing could just get out. Anybody who bought in at this point knew what they were getting into.
I don't think those goals are actually contradictory. Cryptographically verified auto updates, manually acknowledged non signed file upload updates can coexist peacefully.
If you strip away some cosmetic differences, most deep learning is basically fuzzy logic, so he did witness it.
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But is is really… unaffordable to anyone but the richest?
A kind, patient mentor when I needed much kindness and patience.

Dear God, who is going to clean out his office?
I believe the Note is equivalent to Apple's Plus models.
Albeit things like "managerial summary" (not ELI5 but quite close) are very much needed. Abstracts tend to not deliver this. More importantly, often key limitations are overlooked in both to make the research look way more groundbreaking than it really is.

Caveat lector: speaking mostly for computer science and medicine.
Excellent post! Months ago when I saw gopher QR code I was wondering how is it possible to encode picture like that but found nothing.
the live edge looks like can ding a rim of a poorly inflated tire.
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I don't crash my car once a week.
That depends on who you ask: https://www.sciencealert.com/vegetarian-and-healthy-diets-ma...
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vim has something like this: users who pay can vote on features to be added. https://vim.sourceforge.io/sponsor/faq.php

However, the donation is about helping poor children in Uganda, not about running the project.
The simple answer is its complicated. Having a child is stressful on the organism, but there are ultimately 2 types of stress eustress and distress.

Sometimes it's good sometimes it's bad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In the country I live in (France), most smartphone sales are packaged with a subscription and the price of the phone is hidden.

Is that an exception ?

Because I see why Apple wants to sell the idea of the iPhone as a luxury product, but subsidization runs opposite to luxury.
So we let the human zoo keep on running and are supprised they get murdered?

We refuse to supply them with medicine, technology and law and order and murders happen? Supprise supprise.

What a awful awful thing it is to leave them in the stone ages, and all the horrific things that happen in tribes, just for our entertainment.

OT There is a parellel here to possible libitarian utopias. Sure you are without government, but as such you have no protection.

If you piss off a country and they bomb you/stop you resupplying, you don't really have any recourse.
Fair call, the author does just advocate tests before code rather than "tests as thinking".

But oh, there are a ton of people who have tried to use tdd as a design process (aka test driven design, as opposed to development, I guess). I tried to pick a representative link here: http://agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html

"one view of tdd is the goal is specification, not validation", "it's one way to think through your design". It's one position in a spectrum of viewpoints.

Here's another article just for fun: http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/test-driven-d...
A bit off topic but I wrote a very small JS library that uses this exact format 6-7 years ago. It transforms such an object to a DOM tree. This is nice to see somebody mention this format, this kind of validates it. So, thank you!

It also accepts things like ["div#123.class-name-1 class-name-2", ["span", "Hello world"]].

You can keep a reference of a node in a Javascript object if needed:

let refs = {};

let div = jso2dom(
["div",
["span", {"#":"sp"}, "Hello world"]
],
refs
);

console.log(refs.sp); // <span> Hello World </span>

I've found it very convenient so far and still use it today. This is simple, prodigiously stupid and works in vanilla JS, so this works for me for the time being.

Parsing may be complex but in my case, this is done by the Javascript engine, so I'm not affected by this complexity.
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And also more emissions are released into the atmosphere due to an interruption acceleration cycle that resembles that of a traffic jam. But then I'm not sure even if a viscous speed bump would help there. We need tech that will eliminate the need for speed bumps - of any kind - and speeding tickets.
No offence :P but we are paying > US$1000
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> I think everyone has a right to expect help

Of the people with whom you have formed strong social bonds, yes.

Of random strangers? .. I don't think so.

Unless they are bound by some sort of a contract (employees, servants, etc).
The macbook trackpad it is so wonderful. I'm watching something on youtube, I'll just flick it over to the apple tv by pressing airplay - it's magical. My backups go to a time capsule - install time a couple of minutes, it just works, it sits there in the cupboard and I never have to think about backups. When my phone rings and its across the room, I can answer on my Mac.

I seldom (never?) have to worry about reinstalling device drivers. Everything works, all the time, on my windows laptop somethings don't work and I have to do convoluted things to make them work - e.g. pdf's no longer open in adobe reader, I keep saying yes make adobe reader the default but it never works, I've never looked into it cause who cares. With my mac I seldom have to fiddle with something because it's not working - it is a lot smoother experience, with windows bits are broken everywhere and I just work around them.

Edit: oh also the 2d graphics are so much nicer and crisper - core graphics makes gdi/gdi+/direct2D a joke (I spend a lot of time writing graphics code), cocoa is superior.
Don't necessarily have to punish poor people in net. The revenue from such a fossil-fuel tax could be either redistributed directly to everyone (the so-called "revenue-neutral" carbon tax) or the revenue could be used by the government to provide services to the poor.

The more important question you comment skips over is: should people (poor or not) be commuting significant distances using fossil fuels in the first place? Such a tax on fossil-fuels will naturally cause employees & employers to be physically closer.
> Edit: thanks for the downvotes. Care to educate me where I am wrong?

I have upvoted you, because I fully agree with you. Breaking laws is, in my opinion, acceptable in some situations... for example, to protest against injustice (as it was the case with strikes, right to free speech/assembly, and racial segregation) or standing up against neo-Nazis and police brutality. But it is not acceptable at all to break any law for business profit. If you want to make more money and a law hinders you doing so, then go through the democratic channels.

Of course, this does not account for politics being effectively gridlocked, but hey, given you're a multi-billion-dollar corporation, it's definitely easy to hire some top notch lawyers and lobbyists.
Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL ?
have you read /r/juststart?

My issue is when I could (hypothetically) bill out at $100 an hour is spending 3-4 years earning cents per hour worth it? (I do find the industry fascinating though as someone who used to pay affiliates millions a year.)

EDIT: also the issue of being defensible and having only one primary supplier for visibility (Google Search) and limited monetisation options which people have had issues with (Amazon Affiliates or Ads)
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For them, obviously.

For us... well, it's no skin off my nose personally whether they live or die. But from their point of view... well, I'd be pissed off if it turned out I'd spent my whole life in poverty, hunger and ignorance because some do-goodies decided my objectively-terrible existence oughtn't be disturbed for some bizarre reason.
I'd point to property taxes as a plausible way this can happen. They're already a non-trivial consideration for people looking at low-tech self-sufficiency, and I can only see this getting more pronounced.

(This is something in the back of my mind whenever I hear calls for a shift to land value taxation. I can't really see it happening in a way that doesn't further normalise wage labour).
> those who used dynamite were treasure hunters, for example, not archaeologists.

This is actually not completely true. Heinrich Schliemann, for example, was widely known and criticized for destroying the ruins of Troy at Hisarlik with dynamite.
My old MBP is heavier than my T440 by half a pound. I also never said that it shut itself down, just that it was consistently uncomfortably hot to be using, and I couldn't imagine attempting to use it to run a bunch of VMs like I use my T440 for.

I'm happy to have sold that MBP and put Apple far behind me, with the inflatable battery and high temps, it was on par with the $20 x100e I picked up last year (though that x100e was much lighter/smaller).