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Actually, there is a good reason to pay SF or NYC salaries to remotes - you get the remote people who're good enough that they can live anywhere and still command a premium salary. I moved to Boulder, Co because I knew that I'd never work here - only in SF or NYC, so I get better quality of life without a meaningful drop in compensation (I'd make more if I picked the right company in NY or SF, but I'm making what many of my friends in NY do, so I'm fine with that.
Can't not think of that one news anchor yelling "do it live" with a bunch of expletives.
I don't think this is meant to affect how apples look initially, only once they've been bitten into/cut so that the white part is open to the air.

Lemon juice used to be the trick, but if this does the trick then cool.
Hmm, ask Equifax how simple file upload is.

It's actually a pretty complex problem to solve securely, leading to scripts that try to support every configuration including off-the-shelf PHP hosting.

An ideal would be something like S3 where invariants like size, type, file format could be verified at time of upload and then exposed in on-demand manner to the rest of the application.
Can't quite remember the setup but I used to use Privoxy on the N900 to route my traffic through a remote connection while mobile. VPN/SSH tunnel style.

I do use Pihole, but I think this is more versatile. At least it would be if mobile devices were more open... grrmble.
It's more of a gap between the educated in the useful fields vs everyone else. And it's not going anywhere. The people who don't have the capacity to learn complex and useful things are left behind in our quickly accelerating world.
I would actually argue that raw SQL in Java has worked pretty poorly overall ever since it was introduced. The APIs have gotten better, and will probably continue to.

But you know what has consistently provided a nice abstraction that works really well for 90% of cases (even if you start with DML, as you should)? Hibernate :)

I've used plenty of homegrown frameworks, and they just never are quite what their originators crack them up to be.
Don't tell your friends about your goals
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> WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg is joining the company’s board.

I suspect this has more to do with Akismet than WordPress. They are using Akismet to filter spam issues, but it seems to have a problem with false positives after making edits.
You will find a very large amount of economist who disagree with the idea that the stuff in Big Short caused the recession.
This article bashes Juicero - rightfully, in my (humble) opinion; it is a stupid and wasteful idea, and ridiculously overpriced.

However, it has that in common with Keurig - which is a huge success.

My point is that just because something is stupid and wasteful it doesn't have to fail...
The sinister beauty of London at night
Related Radiolab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/ceremony/
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"May contain beef"?
That's always been a weakness with Microsoft's strategy. First with a stylus for Windows Mobile, later with the ribbon in Office.
Just get a Moto G or something. They fit the price and function well as a "consumable".
> I don't think this is meant to affect how apples look initially, only once they've been bitten into/cut so that the white part is open to the air.

I know, my point was that so far my experience with apples made to be better commercially fail when it comes to taste. I wonder if this will be different.
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What this piece misses the obvious financial privilege that many startups have. Uber is slaying yellow/black cabs around the world, but only by massively subsidizing its rides through investment capital. Amazon is the world's largest store, by working on margins that don't let people who actually expect a return on the investment compete.

It's gotten to the point that if a company actually does things the old fashioned way: taking a small seed, creating a product that people want, selling it and expanding based on that revenue... we ooh and ahh, calling it "organic growth". Everywhere else, it's just called "building a business".

Pair that with the "thought leaders" who dismiss businesses that allow people to build a life for themselves and their families. Because Silicon Valley isn't really about making things anymore, it's about making financial bets. And that's a shame - watching billionaires blow money on reinventing the vending machine isn't much fun.
> I have a right to know what is in the food I (might) eat.

Because you (or anyone?) certainly knows all the genes that have been selected via cross and selective breeding and all possible ramifications, right?
I loved it too, but my Nokia Lumia 800 never got updated. Loved the flow of things, it was fast, Whatsapp worked basically all I needed. But I did feel screwed as an early adopter. Why was I never able to run APKs? That would have helped so much...
Walmart just eliminated the wait for online returns
>I would be interested in seeing startups trying to solve suburban problems and producing suburban jobs. I think the fact that are very few companies like this is indicative of our increasing cultural divide

You'll have an uphill battle because "environment". Nobody wants to invest in making commuting more bearable or making areas with non-city population densities more environmentally friendly. Everyone wants to hitch their wagon into whatever the latest scheme to cram people into carbon neutral shipping containers.
General robot job replacement related issues aside, this robot only holds enough for 50 salads and, based on the video, seems painfully slow. It doesn't seem ready for a lunchtime rush.
Beware of taking impossibility proofs too seriously. They should always be interpreted to mean "you cannot achieve this goal in this model," rather than "you cannot achieve this goal."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

-- Einstein (?)
Windows phone didnt fail because of Microsofts efforts, it failed because of other companies efforts.

Let me name some of them: Instagram (fb), facebook, Snapchat.

Especially the last one has an agenda.
Antibiotics, groth hormones etc.

Restaurants here are required to declare origin of the meat and will clearly state meat from certain places may contain those extra ingredients.
I think some of the people that do have a problem with SV or tech in general also just have a problem with people they perceive as having lower social status succeeding. It's not anti-intellectualism exactly, but it sort of parallels it in my opinion.
> someone releasing a phone "for enterprise" that didn't work on Verizon, the main carrier of enterprise users

Whose fault is this though? Was it missing a particular radio band, or was it anti-competitive behaviour by Verizon? I'm used to just buying phones and slipping in the SIM.
Yeah, I don't expect GitLab to reach Google salaries, but I do think that the data point is useful for knowing how much they are below Google. (Note also that this was an unnegotiated offer; I tried negotiating, evidently not very well, and only got Google to budge about $5K. I'd imagine the legendary Google offers are the ones you get if you are in a position to get Google into a bidding war for you with another comparably-profitable company, and I certainly don't think those can be called "market rate".)

I do expect them to reach Etsy - they had been facing serious investor pressure at that point and laid off a lot of people in a lot of departments including the CEO and CTO, and had not reported a profit for several quarters (they reported one this year after the layoffs). They laid off their summer interns two weeks before the summer, leaving the poor college kids scrambling to find another internship. That's not a company with enough cashflow to make significantly-higher-than-market offers.

And yeah, the comment above (as I read it) was in comparison to GitLab raising a significant funding round.
> I thought Rick was going to be like the professor from back to the future.

Well, it started off that way: https://vimeo.com/97680161 (NSFW)

Who knew that little short would turn into one of the most popular shows on TV?
MS has gotten really good with hardware off late. Why not a Surface phone with Stock android and regular updates? If it works out, gives MS a platform to try different services like Samsung with bixby etc.
I think that's close to the truth but really there has never been any product direction or commitment from MSFT. why would you build a product on that?

Surface isn't successful. It's a disaster. Just a well covered up one so far. Give it a couple of years and it'll be down the toilet as well. Consumer Reports dumped on them last year with a 25% failure rate within 2 years. Rather than deal with this, they go into denial and market market market mode.

The problem is that they're building products they want, not what the user wants. And when the user asks for something, they just say NOTHING and drown out all the negativity with blogs and hype and pointless communication paths to pacify the users who are pissed off.

On top of all that there is this personality cult around Satya where everyone is saying he's the second coming, the saviour and all that junk. Turns out that it's blinded marketing, the enterprise customers are getting shafted (me) and footing the bill for cock up after cock up after cock up.

Quality is gone. Privacy is gone. No one says anything. Everyone is voting with their feet.

Same turd of a company as ever.
Isn't tor painfully slow? (where bouncing from VM to VM isn't as slow)
Yeah I think little has changed in SV in the last year compared to the near 180 in public opinion. My theory is that journalists and readers who used to hate trump as a hobby are bored with the lack of scandal and have turned to SV, the only other interesting new thing in the us.
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Why doesn't Microsoft just build a custom version of Android? They get instant access to the vast android apps and they can integrate it deeper with the Windows ecosystem and also innovate in their own "fork" of android.

They could eventually surpass other versions of Android and become the goto android implementation.

I never understood why they didn't go that route - after all Android is open source. What am I missing?
I loved my Lumia 920, and if only there were apps, I would not be using iPhone right now. Major things I've missed that were available on android/iOS:

banking app - some other banks had an app for WP, but I didn't want to switch banks

public transit route planner - there were some, iOS and android had THE app for my city with really good bus arrival estimates

official public transit app - I couldn't buy tickets from my phone

official city parking app - had to go to parking teller and pay there in friggin cash, now I just set the zone and am done with it

even the most popular taxi app was not available

Hearthstone - I like this rng card game
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>it should have tried to copy its own strategy on PC, which is creating a OS and letting other companies build Windows Phones.

Google/Android beat them to the punch. I don't think that would work for a third entrant.
That's like saying an atom bomb produces a warm glow.
> no declaration on the restaurant menu on where the meet comes from and what it may contain.

I actually don't know what you mean here. Do restaurants normally list the farm they get their meat from? Around here (Pittsburgh, PA) I don't think I've ever seen that, except at the "eat local" places, where it's basically their selling point, but they're not the norm.
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Some interesting collisions here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

"Problems can occur with the words socialism, socialist, and specialist because they contain the substring Cialis, the brand name for an erectile dysfunction medication commonly advertised in spam e-mails."
Rick and Morty has a lot of "bad" episodes IMO, where there's nothing in them except Rick being an annoying jerk.

I was forced to keep watching since a group of my friends continued to watch Rick and Morty regularly, and I can definitely say that some episodes are way better than others. "A Rinkle in Time" (Season 2 episode 1) was mostly great episode for instance, and I can recommend it as one of the best that Rick and Morty can offer.

I haven't seen all of Rick and Morty: there may be some other really good episodes in there. But I've only seen maybe... 6 or 7 episodes across S1 and S2 (and I haven't seen any of S3). I recognize that Rick does occasionally care about Morty, but seriously, his treatment of Morty is downright abusive in the vast majority of episodes.

The fact that Rick saves Morty on some episodes doesn't change the fact that Rick's treatment of Morty is incredibly unfair.
Maintainability is a high-ranked concern for the project maintenance, for sure. But for the sake of the project's applicability and longevity, an even more important reason to write it in C is portability. It's an OS, after all.

Porting Menuet to another architecture would likely be a significant amount of work. Whereas most OSs have very limited arch-specific portions.
>a world without iPhones, Facebook, Google, Uber/Lyft

World without insane eulas, itunes, exploitation of drivers? Such an utopia.
> racist and sexist white males making decisions and developing a workplace culture

One need not be white or male to be biased against people of color or women. It's probably easier for us to fall into those patterns, and historical patterns of deliberate oppression were undoubtedly a major factor in establishing those biases as dominant cultural patterns, but anyone can do it with a little extra effort to rationalize how they're "one of the good ones".
As a non-american and as a person who has never been to SV but love the idea that is described in the article that anyone can start up a company I would like to adress the points in the article.

1. Your ideas are only as good as the people in the room. And your door is shut to most people.

Well, if anyone can start a company the door isn't shut. I don't buy that white men only invests in white men. I think people invest in companies (for the most part) where investors think they will gain the most money from.

2. Your rainforest of innovation has turned into a factory farm.

Totally agree, this is why startups should bootstrap and perhaps not start up in Sillicon Valley. Perhaps it is better to start up somewhere cheaper.

I think countries of the world should make it easier and less expensive to start a company. That is the best recipee for success in my view. If it is less of a risk to create a company, more people will do it.

I have been wanting to start a company for years but haven't just yet because of the economic game. I am still planning to do it, hopefully pretty soon but I want to save up enough so I can run my company for at least 1-2 years without any other income.

In my country Sweden, unfortunately, smaller companies get taxated pretty hard which makes any earning disappear. You will need a pretty good stream of incoming cash to be able to survive. Since I do want to create a product and not simply be a consultant this is much harder to achieve.
I agree. It is not the classic anti-intellectualism, but I think a refined version of it.
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I had a Granny Smith apple in the back of my fridge for something like 3 months.

It looked like I just bought it when I found it again.

Realizing that honestly made me uncomfortable.
Outlook+Exchange is really the thing keeping Microsoft alive.
For a small number of core apps. If they have invested heavily and put their best engineers to work on high quality core apps like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Messenger etc (maybe it would be 15-20 apps 90% of people install on their phones), they would have had a much better shot at gaining momentum.

Other smaller apps would have followed and been made by independent developers but you need to cover the apps almost everybody is using and make them comparable feature and quality/performance wise to iOS and Android versions.

Number one thing most people do on their new phone is download Facebook/Messenger/Twitter. If those apps suck they will immediately have a very bad impression and will switch back to iOS or Android as soon as they get a chance.
This is just google trying to be apple, except with shitty products. The $160 airpods actually bring something new and worthwhile to the market. This $160 "wireless" wired earbud brings nothing except inconvenience.
Seems like a good question for the person making that claim to answer with data.
> the Bartle MUDS were the only games

He specifically doesn't like being given sole credit - http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2015/QBlog130515A.html

> This is why when people introduce me as "the man who invented online games" or whatever, I always mention that I co-invented them with Roy Trubshaw.

(and the rest of that paragraph)
Labelling GMO/non-GMO status tells you nothing about what is actually in the food you eat, in the same way that labelling Scrum/non-Scrum status tells you nothing about what is in the software you use.

The only thing a label that says “GMO” would tell you is that there has been more regulatory review of what is in it than if it wasn't a GMO.
> I was asserting that Russians are interfering with elections in many countries

You did not make that assertion anywhere in the linked comment.
people from the midwest and south are largely not represented in sv companies. sv has done a great job at basically hiring the same type of person over and over. I believe this is mostly because of their preference for a narrow set of universities, among other things.
This is something I've long believed. A Data Style Sheet to go along with the raw HTML and CSS.

You could even make it as designer-friendly as JQuery while still building modern isometric SPAs as output.

For example:

#users { from: store.users |where roles.includes('Admin')}
> What I also like: Bitbucket has the real Trello integrated which is great.

We have an issue board built-in - https://about.gitlab.com/features/issueboard/

If you have any suggestions, we'd love to hear how we can improve it (or any other part of GitLab; e.g. the UI) - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues
It's also worth pointing out that the design cost of a new model of car (which is equivalent to a new VERSION of an existing software product) is at least 1 billion dollars.

If a really good big crud app costs 100k on upwork is more similar to remodelling an office. In many ways.

http://bramaindustries.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/office...
UWP apps that work by accident on phones is not a bad strategy, though. Good application design is responsive, same reason responsive became a huge buzzword in web dev. Even if you are just designing with Desktop in mind: there are hundreds of combinations of monitor resolutions and DPI settings, and everyone has their own personal preferences for how they arrange applications on those monitors. Windows apps have always been resizable and there are always people that will want to shrink app windows to tiny phone sizes while they work on other things.
All software has issues. Snow Leopard, and Mountain Lion were high points absolutely.
But that's the problem. If he had been smart, he would've used a public wifi somewhere without CCTV. There's a big difference between using ISP logs and really identifying a user through TOR.

If the user here hadn't used his work computer and had paid the vpn account with bitcoin (using another email address), it would've been much, much harder for the FBI to track him.
A couple links:
https://thebestschools.org/magazine/limits-of-modern-ai/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frame-problem/
Where "under-developed" means: Not the party line propagated by some useless gender "study" department that has exactly zero clue about technology and the personal sacrifices necessary to be good at it.
The concurrency model you use is heavily dependent on the scale of your application. Java is just fine for the typical web server stack.
I remember that story for tablets. Same was with Amazon Fire Phone.

But i don't know how you can write off $1B... because honestly even iPod or iPhone wasn't successfully from the beginning. So they invest years for that status.

Competitors make clones, release them and after two months declaring abandoning market. Totally non-sence for me!
The loud evangelists for social justice are usually seeking power.

Blue-collar jobs aren't considered prestigious, so they'll get little more than lip service.
True, but it needed to happen (and I think apache 2.4 was forced).

Generally it takes us about 12-18 months to get round to moving things on, and an OS upgrade is a great opportunity to kick us into a 'do it now' state.
Super nsfw 45 seconds in

The aesthetic gets across in the first 30, though.
"And a counterpoint: Given unlimited computing power now, we would have no way of making the AI, because we have no idea how to program a general AI."

That's not a counterpoint to anything I said. I never said that I thought we know of a way to make AI, or that we're even close. We don't really know if we're 10 years away, 50 years away, or 5000 years away.

My point is that for all we know, we have to invent entirely new branches of math to deal with these kinds of questions, which could itself take 50 years. That's why we need to get started.

Maybe our only difference of opinion is how far away we think general AI is. I have a feeling that if we knew for a fact that AGI was 50 years away, you'd agree with me that it's worth worrying about today.

(Especially when "worrying about it" means people researching this and working on the math of this, something which I hardly think should be a controversial use of humanity's resources considering that 1% of the global fashion budget would fund AI research for the next thousand years.)

Note: While Andrew Ng's quote is very popular, iirc, he actually does think there should be some research into AI safety.
You should read up on usda storage guidelines for them. Apples can be stored for almost a year.
Apples are a great at storage. Some can be extremely hardy if kept in a mostly dry and cold place. It was one reason they became so popular: you could keep them over winter in a root cellar.

This is how we get out-of-season apples. They basically get stored in refrigerated warehouses.

Granted not all apples are like this. Some become mealy pretty quickly.
The lack of a Youtube App from Google killed the Windows Phone.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/microsoft_on_the_issues/
Windows Forms is a thin wrapper around the Win32 API and GDI+. Which is good if you want to customize things on a low level, but bad if you want to run it anywhere else. But cross-platform compatibility for a UI framework was probably a very low priority in 1999 or 2000. You could port it to .NET Core, but then you could only run it on Windows, since pretty much everything is a P/Invoke into user32.dll.

Generally, having something cross-platform either means you're terrible everywhere (Swing), terrible on non-primary platforms (GTK), or have to invest a lot of work in making things work well and still don't quite feel native (Qt). Or you go the Xamarin Forms route and have a few core controls that have to be implemented natively on every platform, which reduces their features to the lowest common denominator, often doesn't expose or enable low-level platform details that may sometimes be needed for customization, and means that you have to invest thrice as much effort into making everything work.

In my experience UI frameworks either are bound to a specific platform, or suck. Or both. But a cross-platform WPF would be awesome, but I'd rather expect UWP to become cross-platform instead of WPF.