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The article points out things that do not happen to me.

Lose motivation and find it yourself? That's a truism since motivation is internal. Maybe they meant you lose external micromanagement.

Plan 4 days in advance? Sure if you decide to move to a totally different timezone. But it's not inherent to remote work per se.

Better communicator? This the article gets right. There's no time to screw around and sit on an issue.

Work life balance? You mean not having to spend an hour to/fro getting ready to look pretty for your boss and colleagues?

Answering the odd e-mail at different times is nothing compared to spending hundreds of hours a year getting dressed and driving to work
So, when can we expect an open source release of the tech and model?
PPP is inherently tied to the basket of goods, but the baskets aren't standard. Even if they had the same products in it (they don't), products themselves can vary a lot. Some yogurt can be made from real milk made in a clean factory or can be a fake based on palm oil mixed in a dirty garage with rats and no health controls.

It also includes the cost of housing, so you end up comparing building-controlled and highly regulated areas like Bay Area with who knows what in India.
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Perhaps you think this because the divide between US groups is more legible to you.
Google clearly did not intend 6P to be either budget or 'developer' phone. They were very serious about the phone and spent a lot of money on advertising it to consumers in a number of countries.
Border Patrol also stops people in the 100 mile zone to inquire about their immigration status. You can be detained or searched in this way regardless of anything having to do with a border crossing.
Wow very sad reading this. In general the idea of sparing someone from prison to go work in any kind of profit generating enterprise is a bad idea subject to abuse. Does anyone remember the Pennsylvania judge who got sentenced to 30 years in prison for accepting $2 million or something in kickbacks for putting kids UNDER 18 in a for profit youth prison for even the most minor offenses?

It was horrible, people who were 16 were getting 6 months in prison for shoplifting a DVD (not even Blu-Ray) from Walmart so that way the prison company could bill for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
The language definitely feels like it has matured as the change from 3.0 to 4.0 was pretty much painless. The big issue with programming in Swift is no longer swift itself but the libraries around it. A lot of the API's you use in day to day Cocoa programming are based on Objective-C and often stringly typed and not very compile safe.

For example NSNotificationCenter, setting attributed strings, core data or fetching resources. Also the whole MVC ViewController lifecycle is full of optionals. A lot of people abandon using Storyboards just to have ViewControllers that have everything set up compile safe, don't use prepareForSegue to pass in variables and so on. But that means doing everything in code, which is inefficient for complicated one-off layouts.
> You guys should consider donating to the International Anti-Poaching Foundation which fights these poachers.

The people in the video capturing calves are not poachers - they are Parks and Wildlife rangers. The sale to zoos are entirely legal in both countries, but might be contravening CITES rules.
Also, don't underestimate taking away revenue sources from your competitors. If your competitor competes with you at A, but makes money at B, then taking away that B revenue stream affects their ability to compete with you at A as well.
Software doesn't mechanically wear over time, this is an awful analogy.
I have hired junior web developers, both those right out of school and those without CS degrees. I look for:

- a portfolio website that deploys a range of recent web technologies. This demonstrates initiative, and also the fact that you can set up a web site somehow.

- some freelance work on your resume, even if it's as simple as setting up a WordPress site.

- a code sample, so have something decent ready, again showing an interest in more than basic web development. Deploying a framework other than jQuery is a plus, as long as you show some sufficient hand-coding skills.

- interest in back-end technologies is a plus even of the job doesn't require it

- in the interview, openness, honesty and drive

- and finally the coding test I give you will show if you know what you are talking about
If most people you email with use Gmail, what's the point of an "encrypted email" provider? Why not just use PGP and stay with your current provider? Thunderbird+enigmail is the way to do meaningful encryption and it is provider agnostic.
This is amazing. I've been aware of KeyBase for some time now, but never really explored it. This is the push. Typing this comment as I am setting up my proofs.
As pointed by ss17n:

> The two way functionality works with only one pair of buds - the other user holds the phone

So just keep the ear wax encrusted earbud for yourself. :-)
Actually, you don't have to trust all of them. Some miners can go rogue and it won't matter; everything will still work. The software of blockchains is almost always open source, so you don't have to blindly trust it either; reading the source code and checking it for problems it is always an option.
It's really not that remarkable, given what parts already exist. In pseudo command line:

speech_to_text --language=english | google_translate --from=english --to=swedish | text_to_speech --language=swedish

All this product does is hook up a few pieces that Google had already developed.
No, only 24 to 60 months of all failures repaired, for free, without questions asked.

Afterwards you can get all parts replaced for basically nothing, though, or buy the replacement parts and do it yourself (I just replaced the leather pads and cabling on mine)
> This is to say nothing of the documents, spreadsheets, photos, PURCHASED movies and music associated with that account.

It would seriously surprise me to learn that this exact scenario does not apply to iTunes with iCloud and Microsoft with live.com accounts, azure, onedrive, and whatever xbox music store they have now. What sets Google apart here? I'd argue that the only thing that sets them apart is that they give users more opportunities to expose themselves to ToS violations via the fact that they own YouTube and other popular content sharing platforms (eg: gdrive), and also that many more people have Google accounts than have iCloud or Microsoft accounts.

> Bear in mind the Jordan Peterson case, on which Google has yet to answer, is only one we know about due to its high profile nature. How many other users without access to the ears of the media get rolled over in similar manner?

He's a YouTuber with nearly half a million subscribers and a ton of videos. The reason his account was likely flagged in the first place was due to his high profile nature, probably some kind of conflict with copyrighted content and/or adsense. I don't think Jordan Peterson's account lock should be taken as evidence that this is randomly happening to a lot of other ordinary Google users.

(... and why is he uploading on YouTube with a personal Google account in the first place?)

> The probability is low, sure, but the impact is very high. Evaluating risk is not just about likelihood, but also impact.

I don't think that's right. The probability is low, and the impact is only as much as you allow it to be. I don't understand why it's all or nothing. You don't trust yourself to have a Google account and not overexpose yourself?

> The obvious objection, that one should use G Suite from a domain name they control, and do hour-by-hour snapshot backups of every document and photo they host with Google, is a fair one, but it puts the user in a position in which the very value Google services offers -- convenience -- is no longer there. So what's the point?

It doesn't have to be that dramatic, you download the really important stuff off of Google and save it on a USB stick or something. They make it absurdly easy to download all of your data with their exporter tool.
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that about sums it up perfectly.

In truth though this book seems to be a satire, and a comment about things to try to avoid doing in a Unix based operating system and crazy things Users have done, and the pitfalls/gotchas Users have found themselves in.

just like you should never type `rm ` in a directory. The same could be said for dos don't type `del ` same behavior.

it's a pretty good read, and kind of comical in 2017.
The social factor might just be the extreme cold.

Chicago, much colder than Philadelphia, also has some actively used winter tunnels.
I think the voice for the samples in your link still has the problems they talk about in that article.

There are noticeable blips in the speech that sound unnatural, particularly when certain sound combinations are used.

The very first sample with "Bruce Frederick" is clearly off. The intonation and timing between the end of bruce and the beginning of frederick is... mechanical.

There's a similar problem in the OPs link with the non-wavenet English voice 1 when it says "Wavenet".

Those issues are much less apparent in the wavenet voices. Timing problems are less noticeable, intonation problems are less noticeable.

Frankly, the voices there sound VERY good, compared to anything I've heard.

That said, I completely agree that there's not enough samples there to make any real judgement.
However you define productivity, I still work the same number of hours in a given day, so whether it's more output or better output, it's still all the same to me. There's no reason for me to invest the extra hours in sleep to improve it when I can invest that time in things I enjoy. I don't see how that changes anything I said. My work is defined by hours, not goals, not lines of code, but hours.
> The Nexus line was barely a Google product"

Certainly so. They didn't really stand behind it, like they should have.

> it was just meant to be a vanilla open device for developers, with some Google oversight."

That counters the reality that these things were sold on the mass market to normal people without developer accounts and the accompanying "You'll shoot your eye out, dev" EULA.

It was advertised on TV, for !@!#$@ sake.

> That's very different from a premium device built and supported from start to finish by Google*

There aren't many devices out there, aside from the iPhone, that are supported from start and finish by one company.
The point is that an imperfect translation engine can be adequate for making sense of written text in an asynchronous way (if one sentence is confusing your eyes can jump back to the previous one to try to guess the connection, etc.), but be near-unusable for on the fly translation of a real world conversation. Context matters a lot.
What can she do for some tokens?
Been android all my life. Bought almost every phone on the Google store. After the Nexus 6p experience -- I made an oath to my self to never buy another Google phone again.

From the onset it was broke. We are talking just a week after I bought, I started noticing a pattern of complaints about the audio clarity. I call support, what do I get? A refurb. Whatever, phone was just released -- probably gonna be a new phone. Two weeks later, another phone, same problem. I got used to it eventually, and worked around it. Headset, speaker phone, or whatsapp (for whatever reason) would fix the problem.

At first it was never Huawei again, whatever. But that changed. I called Google store again, one last time to complain. This time, they offered me a "buyers remorse refund". But then they retracted their offer as soon as the lady saw that I had it for a few weeks longer than 2 year. They told me the option wasn't available. But I kept asking them, why didn't you offer me this the second or third time I called? They never answered that one directly.

I am still so angry about this... I threw 600$ + 100$ for warranty at a company and for 2+ years I had a crappy phone that doesnt work when I call people. Done, never again.
I had no idea this Google Express app existed (It's not available in my region of the world).

It's a shame they force you to use it, over just adding to a shopping list in Google Keep.

I was considering getting the Home Mini but now I'm not so sure (grocery list, weather check, and general help (timer/conversions) while cooking would have been my main usage)
I actually bought a $25 bluetooth -> aux adapter that sits in my car like 2 years ago. I get in my car, plug in my phone to charge, bluetooth turns on and auto connects.
>Pot, meet kettle…

Not really equivalent though. Apple advertises and makes the whole app available on the App Store, delivers the whole app from their infrastructure, manages upgrades and back end services for the whole app, provide access to millions of customers and handle the financial transaction for the full cost of the app. It seems reasonable they get a percentage of the whole app’s price.

Meanwhile Qualcomm only own a few patents on a tiny sliver of the circuitry of one component for one function of the device.
You made me chuckle. Perhaps this should be a cautionary tale :)
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Way too much thinking about AB tests and how to track them
Strange, my spam filter is fine. Premium is just no ads + some extra space. I pay premium because I want microsoft to keep providing this excellent service without compromising my personal data
Pardon if this was asked but it's not clear to me, since they are Bluetooth, wouldn't they work with any device that also runs Google Translate?
Likely because you're less focused/more susceptible to the quick reward and novelty that these sites provide.

I've noticed when I sleep better I can better focus on long-form entertainment (reading a novel vs. browsing HN, for example).
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TFA mentions 18F and USDS as initiatives to get more tech savvy people into gov roles. I also wanted to point out Code for America which does things in very much the same vein: get talented engineers and product folks into government funded software projects for the betterment of everyone. They're an awesome group of dedicated people too!
Maybe you know this already, but I suggest you to investigate an app called Jspeak.
Take in account it requires a SIM in your device (so it would work on a smartphone but not in a plain tablet).

I've seen it used (and used it myself) in Japan and it was pretty good. Also, it was used by an old guy in a Ryokan in rural Japan. He didn't speak English so we just went to and fro speaking in his tablet, checking that the audio was correctly recognized (it converts it to text before translating) and then handling it to the other person who would read/hear the sentence in his own language.
They are worried about share price and what to speak to at their quarterly meetings (See their recent push for cloud revenue), they are still making a LOT of money. They are merely courting government with this plea. They are one of the largest tech companies in the world so gov will listen to their 'expert' advice (whether it be true or just good for their bottom line) and sign contracts because of it. Sort of like IBM these days. Open source has a long way to go to really be a threat to Oracle. But if you are going to paint a bad guy, open source might as well be it, who is going to argue on their behalf to the government and get a ear that will listen?
Check out libsodium/nacl. Go has an implementation of the box api[0] which is pretty foolproof. There are bindings and/or implementations in many languages.

[0]: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/nacl
I think what matters is not that AWS isn't any more insecure than "bare metal," but that older old guys in position of power also hold those beliefs. So if you get hauled to congress and you have to explain to a bunch of gray-haired senators why your data was on a "public cloud" all the senators are really going to hear is the "public" part and people are going to think your company was incompetent for putting private data on a public cloud.
The translation stuff seems to all be handled by your phone, so what is it about these specifically that makes them required for this type of functionality? I'm having trouble seeing why this shouldn't work with any set of earbuds...
Never, and it fucking sucks.
So ... any good?
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If your co-worker could share how he did this, it would be appreciated (specifically, what apps/code needs to be run).
Huh, my brother has a 6p and recently got it replaced by a refurbished one after it had issues booting. My 5x has worked like a champ for two years.
there are not 40+ episodes or even multipart movies of discworld, sadly. And while there are a few adaptions, I don't see how spending less time absorbed into the fantasy would be desirable ;)
Tangential: I just read the wikipedia page on this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_Oregon#Website_failure]. Is there any more in-depth information available about what went wrong on this project (or others like it)?

I'd love to read a post-mortem, or some technical explanation of what goes wrong on projects like these. Does the code just not work? Is everyone purposely just billing time and milking the contract, or does it start with competent analysts and developers trying to deliver working software? And if so, how does it get from there to here? Is this a typical gov contract thing that I've just not seen by working private sector?

If anyone has any resources on this sort of thing, I'd love to see them.
I'd actually recommend against it due to its "domestic spin", as well as its bias, questionable editing, and questionable experts.
I haven't used it much yet myself, but I did notice that one annoyance I had was fixed, regarding zooming the font onscreen.
What happens if the CC isn't entirely in sync with the video or audio?
>You're not addressing the poster's point.

I already addressed it. The poster is repeating the point. That doesn't make it more valid.

>Apple A series tech is destroying the Qualcomm's snapdragons just fine without any need for legalities.

You might want to review world wide market share numbers before you try to defend that statement.

>Are you suggesting that Qualcomm is using its licensing fees to support an unprofitable Snapdragons?

I'm suggesting Apple is using litigation expense as an avenue to destroy the business of their competitor, again. Apple has much deeper pockets than Qualcomm. It's very simple math.
Blockchains and POW are mostly orthogonal concerns. They've become associated because one implementation chose to use it, and is very well known. Also because POW is an effective way to grow network-effects by distributing profits to those that participate in 'mining'.
My 6P has the Huawei logo on the back. It doesn't say Google anywhere.
this was what I noticed too, I don't really have an ear for Japanese, but it sounded as natural as when I have heard it spoken by others. Huge huge improvement.
Take a look at the chinese manufacturers if you want good android phones.
Be careful with the unlimited video storage deal because it's not really unlimited video?

It's unlimited until 2020[0] and then I'm guessing you'll have to pay for it afterwards, and after a few years of taking videos without caring about space, you're probably going to rack up a massive bill or have to spend a ton of time cherry picking what you want to save.

Their plan is pretty smart tho. Most people will be like "screw it, I'll just buy another phone to avoid spending that just to keep my videos".

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/M5LYvrH.png (read the fine print)
Oh how much I wish Google paid to Morgan Freeman or David Attenborough to have their voice as an option.
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For anyone interested in multi cloud deployments at the IaaS layer I recommend looking at https://libcloud.apache.org/
What version? Ive been using 2.1 it for about a year on my Acer C910 (i5) and has been flawless. It maxes at 4GB of ram which is the only bummer, but that makes the pixelbook appealing.
wow. I hope they will publish details on the optimisations
I was impressed when it was just 1B accounts, to think they actually had 3B accounts, that in itself is impressive.
> have decent quality and somewhat less reliability

I don't believe that is inherently true about wireless headphones.

Re: tradeoffs, you can say that about any set of alternatives, and there can still be one option that in the long term is best for most people. Eg horses vs cars as means for personal transport.
And an ungodly amount of money towards Mnuchin's private charter bollocks.
"Built in" as soldered unto the mother boards? Or "Build in" as in an expansion card added to an expansion card slot (even if "internally")?

I assume the difference between those two would be the difference between price?
Their offerings are certainly impressive when you (or your leadership) are willing to look. Most of their flagship offerings are also HIPAA certified (or can be upgraded to such).
One relatively unknown feature of the iPhone's Stocks app is the support of ETHUSD, BTCUSD and LTCUSD pairs.
But all of your data would be inaccessible, as it's associated with the (banned) account...
> "As I explained in my post it's a reskin of NextSTEP."

I'm aware of that. My gripe was with painting OSX as something with heritage stretching back to the 70s whilst suggesting that Microsoft's OSes have a far shallower legacy. If you acknowledge an old version of BSD as the forefather of OSX, I'd expect similar treatment for the forefathers of Windows.
You'd be surprised…
I think the people GP was referring to were early industrial age folks before labor unions pushed for humane working conditions.
Apps too, how many won’t let you use the keyboard in landscape? How about maps when driving east/west and almost completely obscured?
Please, could you elaborate?
Can you cite one example of a modern platform that would be meaningfully impacted by making memcpy(a,b,0) well-defined for all a, b? These hypothetical situations you're talking about aren't real. We don't have computers with 18-bit bytes or one's complement arithmetic either.

As for the distinction between a==0&&b==0 and a==0||b==0: first of all, the standard does make memcpy(a,b,0) undefined when a==0||b==0. Second, it's perfectly reasonable to run into a situation where both and b can be zero: consider the same demand-allocated buffer case. Why wouldn't you also want to demand-allocate the destination buffer?
Maybe an advanced version of the translator could translate ideological positions as well as literal language. A conservative person conversing with a liberal person could have their "I don't believe it's my responsibility to subsidize others' healthcare" instantly translated to "I think healthcare should be federally funded from tax revenue".
I worked on this feature and just want to clarify that it isn't Pixel exclusive; it works on any Android phone running M or newer. It is exclusive to the Pixel Buds, though.
There is an even greater divide between the US and cultures who don't speak the same language: Mexico, Russia, China, etc.
This lifestyle sounds unbelievably dreary and sad.