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Several of my friends and I loved Windows phone and I hate Windows (prefer Linux). Sounds weird, but I've always thought Windows Phone to be more elegant than Android.
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Aaah, WPF. It's basically React (Native and hw accelerated!), 10 years earlier.

On one side, I'm glad that declarative app UIs can now be built on a web, on the other side - come on, Microsoft, we could have skipped a whole jQuery era and be somewhere else with the web now.

And react is still missing a big library of standard, well documented components with accesibility, performance and all the edge cases built in.
I really hope ArsTechnica covers this, because I didn't get anything of value from this BBC article, but I'd like to know more about the phenomenon and whatever "shadowgraphy" is!
The goal was to provide a good overview (covering terminology and key ideas) and then link out to resources for closer reading.
I have a question about an example referenced in the Bloomberg article linked from a previous discussion [1]. Quoting from the article:

> He began with his own students, telling them to imagine that by attending his lecture, they had exposed themselves to a rare fatal disease. There was a 1 in 1,000 chance they had caught it. There was a single dose of the antidote: How much would they be willing to pay for it?

> Then he asked them the same question, in a different way: How much would they demand to be paid to attend a lecture in which there is a 1 in 1,000 chance of contracting a rare fatal disease, for which there was no antidote?

> The questions were practically identical, but the answers people gave to them were -- and are -- wildly different. People would say they would pay two grand for the antidote, for instance, but would need to be paid half a million dollars to expose themselves to the virus.

Would classical economics really predict that people would give the same answers to these two questions? The article claims the two situations are "practically identical" but to me they seem clearly different: it makes perfect sense to me that many people would pay less of their money for the antidote knowing they've been exposed vs. the amount they'd need to be paid to voluntarily expose themselves to the risk.

As a simple example, if one only has $1000 to their name, then $1000 is the max they could possibly pay for the antidote (assuming they can't get a loan), yet I'd expect that most wouldn't be willing to expose themselves to that risk just to double their money. I thought utility theory in classical economics recognized that the marginal utility of going from $1000 to $2000 is less than the marginal utility of going from $0 to $1000.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15432905
Back in the day the number of apps in the store was a major point in the mobile OS wars, though. Google and Nokia were both constantly compared to Apple and told how they need to improve.

And yes, one response was to inflate numbers with random crap. Nokia created a developer tool to convert web pages to native apps -- basically just a webview wrapper with bundled web content. Ovi Store was half full of these "apps".
Microsoft, please invest instead in https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-roadmap-to-imx8/

so that you cut into your competitors cash cows, even if you don't have a profit. Just like Google did to you with Google Docs, cutting into MS Office.

This way, you'd at least have a voice on mobile, instead of fully out.
also needs a nod to https://github.com/rfk/playitagainsam which comes with a javascript player that can be embedded in presentations.

Love the effect with a clickety keyboard ;)
That's a good thing though, paying with regards to market rate - it's what SF has to do, given how cost of living there is exorbitant and even with the high wages there unaffordable.
Techcrunch forgets its a "Part" of Silicon Valley. Most Valley stories cannot be told without Techcrunch in it e.g the T.v show - Silicon Valley.
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I've got one in my pocket right now: Asus Zenfone 2. It just runs regular Android. Even has an "Intel Inside" logo on the back.

Windows has never had great dynamic scaling, so trying to run regular apps on a phone would be a nightmare of tiny click targets. Metro apps would scale better, but that was the whole point of UWP.

IMO they've given up slightly too early. They could have written an Android-on-Windows compatibility layer, or various other things, but Microsoft just can't handle a market where they aren't dominant. The only way they could leverage their dominance would be to break Exchange ActiveSync and say "if you want your calendar on your phone, it has to be a Windows phone".

And Intel have pulled back from the low-power area (mobiles, Edison) because they're not competitive there. Maybe the same "can't function when not market leader" problem.
I've been drug tested as prior to being given a Ritalin prescription. It's, of course, up to the sole degression of the prescribing physician.
I just installed the latest version of Linux Mint and the default graphics card driver had a bug that caused my entire system to freeze after a few hours of inactivity.

To be able to replace Apple or Microsoft, not only do you need user friendliness for how the machine works, but you also need to get rid of all the miscellaneous tech and configuration problems that crop up.

As I understand it, Linux laptop sleep/suspend/hibernate is still a big PITA.
I can't speak for Density, but systems that divide people into discrete types are almost always bullshit. At best there's still a small minority who don't actually fit into any type, even roughly (unless the "types" are just a quantized version of a measured dimension, as with the classic quintile-based terms for economic classes). It's fairly common in business settings for managers to buy into one or more of these despite their being bullshit, so the fact that it's used is not much of a qualification.

I'm not saying that there's no such thing as opposing traits, but as far as I know the validated descriptions use continuous dimensions rather than assigning people to corners.
I live in Colorado.

CBD is a fascinating substance. I've tried CBD vape pens (best way to use it, because it doesn't stand up very well to the digestive system when eaten) and the effect is completely non-psychoactive. Friends of mine on prescription anti-anxiety meds have stated that it works better than their meds, and is actually LESS intoxicating than their pills.

Another property that is widely reported is the way it helps people with chronic pain. Reportedly, they claim to still feel the pain, but notice it is "shifted to the background" and doesn't interfere with their tasks in the workplace.

Most importantly, unlike scrips like Lexapro, the user doesn't develop a sharp dependence. A friend of mine on Lexapro has potent withdrawals the moment they stop taking it. This makes sense, because the MD who prescribed it told him he would need to do a "step-down" over a period of weeks to stop the medication. CBD has none of that issue.
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My opinion: Google is selling and pricing hardware based on software capabilities. For a lot of people, myself included, some of these features are amazing. That said, at the end of the day, it's still a $160 version of something that are commonly broken, and have cheaper 'dumb' versions of for a few bucks. This makes me really hesitant to buy.

Ideally, what I'd like to see to make myself, and I'm sure some others, a buyer is a free replacement program. I'm more than willing to support awesome software if I don't have to worry about it's backing hardware breaking so easily, especially something a lot of folks jam in their pockets.
They've given up on being a mobile OS provider, I think, at least for now. I wonder if the announcement that they got the Win 10 kernel to compile on ARM is more geared at laptops/tablets than phones.

What I haven't seen reported is Win 6.X had a large enterprise/industrial user base that now is going to have to choose between Android and iOS. It's interesting that the size of that existing customer base is small enough, compared to the consumer market, that it's not worth Microsoft's efforts to keep the industrial mobile OS product going.
10.6.8 was the pinnacle of Mac's OS.
It’s probably your tendency to produce flint knapped tools rather than code though, or your constant fire starting. “Damn it Thag! HR on back! You code, computer, no flint! No fire!”
Could you offer up some examples? Most pain medication is generic and cheap. And to be honest, irreplaceable for most types of pain.

I just don't see marijuana displacing current drugs to a degree that would threaten drug companies.
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Well it's not just that; at the time, the Bartle MUDs were the only games like it in existence, and so anyone (who happened to have the relevant network access, of course) who wanted to play a multiplayer online game played Bartle's MUD, which is why you got the whole taxonomy playing the same game.

That changed in the late 1980s, when the source code for TinyMUDs and MUSHes and DikuMUDs started becoming publicly available, and the userbase fragmented; the playerkillers went onto their games, the guys who wanted to chat went onto the games optimized for that, the roleplayers to another game, and so on. Nowadays, when there is a clash of playertypes, the misfits tend to get policed off the server - playerkiller types will get kicked out of other servers for griefing, people who optimize their gameplay too hard will get thrown off the roleplaying servers, and so on...

Bartle's insight is actually specific to his time period and his game and the few other MUDs (AberMUD, MIST etc) that were around while running one was hard to do. The insight still holds, but it would have been harder to spot at a later date, when everybody went their separate ways...
A bit more evil would be to do something similar every time someone mentions "password" or "secret" in a commit message...
Sure. The common wisdom matches common situations. For people who aren't experts, I would much rather have that rule than not. Experts know when to break the rules.
Interesting.

Also, I think banana flavor candy is gross so I think I will pass on trying Gros Michel.
Had a similar idea.

Wanted to get my vpn keys onto an i-product without A) going over the net and without B) installing itunes.

So I first tried hosting the file on a local webserver, but apple treated it as a text file and displayed it in the browser.

Then I wrote a pop server on android to deliver a client.ovpn file as a mime attachment in an email. Worked wonderfully and thought about extending it to deliver photos from my phone to others' i-products.
> Thank you, this looks very useful to me.

I'm glad to hear that! :)

> someone who has spent several hours converting csv data to latex tables in the past

Hopefully, tably will save you some hours in the future. If you find anything that could be improved, contact me and I'll see what I can do about it.
Despite the obvious publicizing issue here, umm these commit messages are [fucking] priceless.
Isolation is a big problem that remote workers can face. I would welcome something that could alleviate that.
Winning isn't strictly about money.
What problem? DI is really useful if you're pragmatic about it, misuse is not really a property of a particular language
As someone outside of SV (Nevadan living in Boston and practicing medicine), I think this article largely misses the mark.

I think it is true that there is a diversity problem in SV, just like there is a diversity problem in medicine. It’s a problem, because there is no a priori reason for women and ethnic minorities to be less prevalent in our high-paying fields. But that’s probably the only point that resonates.

The criticism of Juicero and Theranos being emblematic of focusing on the wrong problems is not sensible. Companies fail, sometimes spectacularly, sometimes due to dishonest behavior, etc. If Theranos had the tech they claimed to have, it would have been richly rewarded (outshined only by the consumer surplus it would have created).

The oddest turn is that of blaming the global rise in income inequality on SV, and then to lambaste SV for trying to come up with solutions to ameliorate that problem as it proceeds to its logical extreme.
As much as I dislike this licensing kerfuffle (it was kind of the nail in the coffin for me, after Caddy's long-time lack of deb/rpm support), all these points are true.

Especially the automatic TLS functionality is very valuable and works well.
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> On the other hand, if a serious issue is detected after a specific version has already migrated to testing, the package will never (automatically) migrate to testing as long as new blocking issues keep being found. This can make testing rather unpleasant.

That is a valid example on what can make testing unpleasant, but still holds my point as this is a lot more uncommon than sid breakages, and also the package is removed from testing automatically a few days after any RC bug is filled, which prevent new testing installations of this broken package.

> Of course, the same two-week wait time also applies to any regular bugfix, unless it's manually migrated to testing. Thus, one bug that affected unstable but not testing is not proof at all. Personally, I'm happier with unstable than testing on my laptop and work desktop.

The default wait time is 5 days (medium urgency), high urgency fixes (which fixes RC bugs on testing) waits 2 days before being migrated to testing. But you don't need to believe me, see for yourself:

Release critical bugs affecting sid (excluding packages that are already removed from testing, so we don't see any obsolete package that is to be removed from unstable too)[1]: 539

Release critical bugs affecting testing[2]: 453

[1]https://udd.debian.org/bugs/?release=sid&notbuster=ign&merge...

[2]https://udd.debian.org/bugs/?release=buster&notbuster=ign&me...
That's not the real reason public opinion has shifted sharply against denizens of the Valley.

That would be Uber. A company so sociopathic, so awful, so entitled, so full of loathsome self-aggrandising bullies they became an unwitting figurehead for hatred of the Valley. And Uber make it so easy to hate them.
There is the endowment effect, and then there is the effect of the diminishing marginal value of money. You're talking about the latter and it certainly is recognized in economics just about as far back in its history as you care to look. But Thaler was trying to demonstrate the former and it's the sort of insight he won the prize for theorizing about.
Rich people usually own / use quite a lot more land (directly and indirectly) than poorer people. So land value tax is plenty progressive in practice.

See eg https://medium.com/basic-income/why-land-value-tax-and-unive... for how this could work.
Inconsistent systems cannot prove Kolmogorov complexity limits. What's your point?
Is it just me or does reading what basically boils down to "Don't go outside, eat this premade salad and 'boost your productivity'" sound somewhat depressing? I don't think that being inside all day eating low quality food under fluorescent lights is going to boost my productivity at all. I would honestly want to go to a restaurant and get an actual salad at lunch.
This article feels mostly spot on.

Except I do see at least investors like YC making an effort to broaden the kinds of investments they make, more into actual "public good" type companies like in the education, health, and non-profit sectors.
The article yesterday claimed scientists have known about this since the 70s.
I'm curious about 'community is much better'... any more info?

I don't live in SV.
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Rick And Morty has a great number of good "science" jokes, but really its more about general Sci-Fi tropes. (Time Travel, Multiverses, Clones, Aliens, and Androids aren't really "science" as much as they are about "Science fiction")

But the hardest thing for me was to get used to the straight up nihilism of Rick. True, there have been plenty of Nihilistic "protagonists" in other shows: Peter Griffin in Family Guy, Eric Cartman from South Park, Homer Simpson (depending on the season of course).

But Rick is different: while the other characters are arguably Nihilistic due to ignorance, Rick purposefully and specifically pursues the "I don't care" attitude and gets away with it due to his intelligence (while other characters in other shows seem to get away with it due to literally dumb luck).

That difference continuously pisses me off in Rick and Morty, and as such its difficult for me to enjoy a lot of the episodes.

Nothing against the fanbase or anything: I recognize that Rick and Morty is a huge following, and the enormous lines at McDonalds for the special Rick and Morty Sauce just a few days ago demonstrates that Rick and Morty are the new "mainstream" cartoon. But its apathetic and malicious main character really grates on me, and I personally an unable to enjoy it as much as everyone else seems to.
Somebody told me that at Lloyds Bank, the core standing order system is still written in pounds, shillings and pence. There's just a translation routine sitting on top of it.
I stopped using the windows for the same reason. I loved that I could buy a performant phone for $50 when my $200 Android feels sluggish. But I hated not having any apps.

Specifically I hated all the shitty apps that had flooded the app store because of their half baked promotions.

All of their promotions incentivized churning out a bunch of shitty apps. Like paying people $100 per app, this created a lot of crap in the app store to wade through to find quality apps.

Instead they should have matched revenue or paid an extra 5 cents per download. Something to incentivize a dev to write one good app instead of 5 throw away apps.
this article is so nonsensical, it's almost comical, I don't even know where to start. Ok, how about calling it a problem that 19 out of 20 investments will fail. Willing to invest like that is a great thing about SV, not a bad thing!
SV will adapt or die. It's how stuff like this always goes. What's left of domestic manufacturing adapted. Coal is basically dead.

If SV picks latter option I just hope the corpse doesn't stink up the rest of society.

(obviously this is a long ways off because inertia but it's something to think about if you think you'll retire by selling your SV property to the next sucker)
asciinema actually records output, this relies on the environment being exactly as it was the first time you ran it. If one command fails or has different output, other things might not work.

This also cannot follow cli sessions. If you open, say, a REPL, you're on your own.

That said, I would love for asciinema to get some "type to progress" capabilities.
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Interesting how they consider Puerto Rico to be a country of its own instead of an area under the US.
Well, epel has extra packages. They are by definition not essential to the functioning of the OS. Why you wouldn't want those from a rapidly updating or rolling-release repo is something I don't understand.
I don't understand the point of this observation; are you saying they aren't allowed to criticize? Or that they are guilty of the same things? Or that they're somehow complicit? What are you getting at?
The problem is while presenting my IQ is 20 points lower. I suppose this holds for many people. There are too many presentations on youtube which spend minutes just fixing typos.

I agree a few seem authentic but soon it just feels like a waste of time — and break in the flow of presentation.
I seem to ignore the "people agree with your view on a thing" or at least it doesn't satisfy. I already know people agree with me or don't - so rationally I don't search for that.

But I definitely experience the "you learnt a thing" addiction. And frankly, I don't know how to feel about that. If that's the thing I'm searching a hit for... do I need to stop that?

I think probably yes - but I'm not sure why. When I thought deeply about it and talked with a friend about it, we somewhat came to a consensus that as long as you still do a significant amount of deep reading, thinking, work, etc per day these little hits of "learnt a thing" probably are fine to endulge.

It's when you're always only "learnt a thing" and never digging deeply into them and applying them that you have a problem.

But what's the right balance? Or is some hits of learnt a thing always bad?
They threw about $500k at my employer at the time to hire some Eastern European company to build an app. They ended up stringing something together that got deployed on like 10 phones.

The problem was that a big enterprise customer is clueless about mobile apps, and Microsft’s endemic NIH syndrome made it difficult to work with business systems that aren’t Microsoft platforms.

O365 is a great example... the office platform should be an amazing mobile platform that drives all sorts of interesting things. But as an O365 customer, Microsoft just uses it as a lever to push their MDM product (you cannot configure Office apps without Microsoft stuff).

MDM is a pure commodity play. Microsoft would rather made $4.99 month on Intune than capture business process on their platform, which is worth 10x more.

Meanwhile Apple treats everyone pretty equally, and you can actually get stuff done.

I said this 20 years ago and it is still true today... Microsoft should spin off Office, server and client into different companies. Office could be an exponentially more valuable cash cow without being dragged down by the shitshow of Windows. Windows on client is a legacy product providing solutions to problems that people don’t have. Office is fundamentaly a more valuable platform.

Where I work, PC users spend more time in Outlook any other application. Browser and Word account for about 50% and 25% less time on average. So why are we presenting this UI optimized for computing circa 1997 where people run lots of little apps? Apple got this right by making iOS very low touch.
Do you get similar salary / benefits (adjusted for rent)?
" there is no a priori reason for women and ethnic minorities to be less prevalent in our high-paying fields."

Sure there is: racist and sexist white males making decisions and developing a workplace culture that prevents them from attaining those positions.

And the sooner people accept this, the better for everyone.
Right, rick and morty is one of the few things that "science" makes great. The rest of the sciency mumbo jumbo, meh, boring. /s
because every data model is different, every process flow is different, every UI is different.
sv has a diversity problem, but I think its more geographic than related to skin color.
I wonder how this will affect taste. Apples bred to look picture perfect often/usually/always? have terrible tastes in my experience.