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> It's not actually that hard to write readable, clean perl.

The real issue is that it's trivially easy to write very clever, perfectly functional, and completely unreadable Perl.

A lot of Java's verbosity is due to the fact that inexperienced developers need to have their hand slapped by the compiler pretty frequently. "No, stop, what was it you really meant to do there?"

Of course now with Kotlin and Go we're swinging back the other way.
That's a pretty handsome sloth!

It appears to even be smiling. I am not sure why, but that made me feel better.
Want to take bets on whether LG and Samsung's flagships will offer a headphone jack in 2019?
I still have CDs / DVDs I love, so I have to get a portable. My friend loves vinyl, so she has to get a vinyl machine. The latter example is probably a stretch, but there is a value in using and appreciating old technology.

The drop of headphone jack comes with one problem: I can't charge and listen to music at the same time unless I pay for the earbuds, or get a third-party thunderbolt hub which has serious quality issue...

P.S: Mr. Robot saves whatever he wants to store away on discs. Kinda interesting. He probably doesn't trust hard drive as much as discs, and thinks discs will survive longer.
I don't really know the details. I just know my ex husband was career military and he once kind of hand waved off the importance of some security clearance label in, probably, some TV show with the factoid that basically, if you are in the military at all, you have some level of security clearance.

I don't know the nomenclature. I don't know if "Top Secret" is really super duper special or if that is, like, anyone above the rank of E-1. But I also know that, for example, one path to citizenship in the US is to serve in the military. So, if all members of the military have some degree of clearance and some are not citizens, then 1+1=2, I think.

But I googled to find a reliable source rather than give that anecdotal evidence. FWIW.
A lot of people make this point but I just don't think the analogy works. For one, you use the headphones with the phone as well as other devices, and those things might not grow a Lightning port.
Probably doesn't help in those situations, but there has been a lot of progress in the last year or so on DOSEMU https://github.com/stsp/dosemu2
One word: "walls"
I've already answered it elsewhere -- more than once -- and I'm trying not to waste any more time on it. I think the Linux Foundation is best positioned to coordinate a detailed written response.

There's some extra research I did that I haven't shared yet, including, for example, when the bugs were introduced (still needs double checking):

- Bug 1: Mar 2011, for Linux 2.6.38
- Bug 2: Apr 2012, for Linux 3.4
- Bug 3: Dec 2009, for Linux 2.6.32
- Bug 4: Feb 2015, for Linux 3.19

This paper was published in early 2016, with the title "A decade of wasted cores".
Me too. Other than the mediocre camera I've been really happy with it.
Not to mention for audiophiles there is the extra concern about sound quality loss.
Has any bluetooth wireless headphone maker solved the latency issue yet? If not, then portless might still be a ways off.
I wish I could understand mandarin, such nice projects need some good translation.
Ooh, cool. I did not know of that one.
Precisely this. We see this crying and beating of chests whenever some obsolete legacy interface is finally deprecated to the dustbin of history. "You can pry my 3.5mm headphone jack out of my cold dead hands!" the knee-jerk reactionaries foam at the mouth in mock outrage, and then they go and buy a good set of bluetooth headphones or earbuds a few months later.

I have an iphone and the airpods and I haven't missed the tangled mess of the old earbuds at all.
Mount and Blade, and to a lesser extent, Skyrim maybe, but I don't think GTAV fits here. It pushed its target hardware (originally PS3/Xbox 360) pretty far, to the point I wondered if it was going too far and was thus lacking in other areas (e.g. pedestrian/vehicle density).
In reality this is a consequence of how much effort we make in remembering something.

It's well known that making lasting memories relies on multiple associations that all lead to that memory.

So when you learn someone's name for the first time, say it a few times, and think about something factually unique about the person, make those associations with things that come to mind.
(ex: Benjamin, Ben, Big Ben, short Ben with a hat & side burns.)

The more you make, the better you'll be at remembering people's names and the easier it will get.
once it gets annoying enough - followed by "lets try a newer kernel and see if it goes away"
It will only get software updates for another year and security updates for 2 more years, it's 1/3 of the way through it's effective lifespan. The supported lifetimes are far too short when you buy in release day, let alone a year later.
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I don't know if it's the app, server or protocol problem but the last time I've evaluated Matrix (Sep 19, based on logs) as a possible Telegram/WhatsApp/Skype/Discord replacement there were some weird issues with "Unable to decrypt: The sender's device has not sent us the keys for this message" even after both parties verifying the fingerprints. I've used a desktop/Electron Riot client, the other party had used the web version.

Restarting the Riot had helped me to see the new messages, but not the old ones (which feels to be a correct behavior in regards to PFS). The actual problem is other party didn't knew I had issues receiving their messages until I've contacted them out-of-band - conversation looked just normal from the other side (except for me writing "test test" and not replying any meaningfully).

We ended up with a decision to try Matrix again sometimes later. Like, next year.
It is completely the wrong word since it describes me to be, at best, deceptive. If you don't disagree you can hardly describe claim I was lying!
I like how you put it : Android feels like it was designed by people who lack good taste.

Android is okay for developing countries and lower cost phones, but for phones over $600 there is really no contest when it comes to workmanship and polish that iPhone provides.
Good to see the US is catching up. It has huge cultural influence, particularly here on politics in Australia, so in spite of so many worrying trends, this is a relief.
Maybe GraphQL is that more powerful future you imagine.
Not necessarily religion:

"a set of fixed actions and sometimes words performed regularly, especially as part of a ceremony"
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ritual

and yeah, determining what an ancient person would have thought of as religious, or not, or even ritual, would be tricky.

but the point is that "rituals" (as opposed to "habits" or "customs and practices") make up a tiny part of our average day, and a tiny fraction of the objects we use.

To suggest that ancient peoples spent vastly more of their time in rituals gives a completely erroneous impression of both the ancient people and their objects.
My Nexus 6 screen still looks fantastic. Wish I could get a new one with an updated CPU, fingerprint reader, faster storage, better camera, and the same screen + form factor.
Another option: I sent my home water to a labs (http://www.karlabs.com/) they were happy to work with individuals and even have a test kit to facilitate.
Samsung still offers a flagship with a stylus, which everyone else stopped doing about the time of the first iPhone, and they recently went back to including support for additional storage on their flagships.

They might drop the headphone jack soon, but I wouldn't bet on it.
I'm not new to programming. I just haven't done much for a whole lot of years. Brainfuck, I'm familiar with it, is never the sanest choice.

I've narrowed it down to Python or Java. I've done C, C++, BASIC, QBASIC, Perl, PHP, and even some COBOL. I've played with a few others.
Does Samsung change how brightness works in Android? I think since 7.x both Auto and fixed are adjustable. On my pixel, I have Auto brightness, but at the same time I can choose the baseline brightness level - it gets corrected from that point.

So the switch is really "fixed at point" / "floating around that point".
Reminds me of https://github.com/zeit/hyper
Azure Government has datacenters that can support ITAR and DOD workloads. A Cray system could be deployed in one of those datacenters.
No Pmi needed. And it’s 4-4.5k total all in.
But if you're the type of person that has one good pair of headphones then attach the adapter to them all the time and just pretend that the port on your phone is a weird shape.

I get that it's not ideal and that adapters are awkward but it seems like it's such a minor inconvenience for your use case. I would expect that audiophiles are used to adapters to go between 2.5mm, 3.5mm, and 1/4" stereo already. What's one more?
> Apple has a really good track record of dropping things at the right time: floppy, CD-ROM, Flash, etc.

> At each of those steps there were people decrying the loss of these things. Today however, most people don’t miss any of them.

Those statements don't really support each other. There's no particular evidence that Apple's timing was good, just that they dropped it and eventually nobody cared. But if they dropped it years before everyone moved on, then their timing was awful, not great, even though the end-state was the same.

Flash is a particularly weird example since Flash on mobile largely never existed, so claims to "drop" it are nonsensical. You can't drop that which didn't exist. Yes there was a brief attempt at Flash on Android, but that came long after the iPhone.

Dropping flash on desktop would have been a better example, but Apple didn't actually have the courage to do that, at least not on their own. It was more a unified push by all the browser vendors combined with Adobe themselves dropping support for Flash.
I recognize the author of this post just from the logo on his site. He worked in the industry and has spent years sharing his knowledge on gamedev.net. This is not an attack on the industry. He is speaking to his peers.

> [...] some of the "over-contrasty garbage" is intentional to help people rapid identify the things that they need to identify. Being able to quickly spot the things that you need to play the game are more important than sensible tone maps and contrast curves.

Is this speculation or were you involved in these discussions? Or, maybe a GDC talk? For all I know, you could the lead graphics programmer for Naughty Dog, in which case I'd totally take your word for it.

And, actually, I really would like to hear more specific criticisms. As much as I respect Promit, he absolutely could be wrong and a detailed breakdown from someone who knows better would be informative.
> I think Apple's business model is entirely harmful

Between Apple and Google, you think APPLE'S business model is the harmful one?! We're talking about (1) actually charging for their products vs. (2) tracking your every move and collecting all the personal information about you they possibly can so they can sell you ads better, right? I'm actually not sure I can even name a tech company with a business model as simple and honest as Apple's.
This sentence gave me alarm bells of weak or biased science writing:

> Experts don’t know exactly why hearing aids are still so costly, except that companies continue to invest in improvements, and fees usually cover the services of a highly trained audiologist.
Ask HN: What do you wish you had learned earlier in your programming career?
I know it's universally hated here on HN, but Samsung. Their top-end models just work; they have some UI bloat but some of that is also useful. They look good, are generally well-supported, good cameras, great screens, good battery.

(This applies to S8 and above, S7 and below were bad.)
Beware of Alternate Meaning Loops
The Long Way Round (2014)
Only in strict GR - when quantum effects are taken into account, the entire black hole will evaporate into Hawking radiation in a finite time.
That not how I read it you can transfer it to another federal job and a restricted set of civilian jobs It requires:

"an industrial or commercial contractor, licensee, certificate holder, or grantee of an agency, including all subcontractors; a personal services contractor; or any other category of person who acts for or on behalf of an agency as determined by the appropriate agency head."
The first comment in the thread talks about dual nationals, presumably people who are naturalized US citizens.

Do you mean to apply everything you are saying to naturalized citizens?
We know that now. They didn't know that then. Remember, this was well less then 5 years after the de Haviland Comet's started falling out of the air because they used square windows instead of ovals, and metal fatigue at the corners of the windows were resulting in massively more rapid wear cycles then projected.
The new Nokia devices seems to be pretty good in the mid-range category.
Yikes, thanks for the heads-up. A friend of mine who also values privacy was telling me how much he likes his Blu phone ... that's really a shame.
Already done. Maybe this particular phone isn't doing it, but pixel shifting is standard on Samsungs and the iPhone X.
Is it really unavoidable? Have you ever had a car 3.5mm port not work?
i know everyone says this, but I'm so glad they found a way to make this happen.

now that thats out of the way could we do the same with a Symbolics? who do I contact to volunteer time?
I think what more often happens is one of the parents are almost entirely responsible for the project, and the kid understands it well but had little to do with its creation/invention/discovery. If not, then it's quite a coincidence that most of the kids in these stories just happen to have a parent who works in the same field their project was exploring.

I don't understand, why can't the parents be helping and mentoring their kids, without necessarily doing the work for them?

I'm a son of two voice actors, and have done some voice acting myself as a 12-year-old. No, it wasn't a coincidence, but I also guarantee you that my parents didn't act on my behalf! I just, you know, learned from them.
That just seems oddly wasteful.
Thing is though that the fingerprints in the Apple design are a "if you want it, it's there" feature. Yes it's strongly encouraged, but those more security minded could bypass it's setup (if that's still possible) or remove the only enrolled finger.
The DAC on most consumer devices is not audiophile quality. Having had a mac book and a standalone USB DAC, there's really no comparison.
Commutes are on par with San Francisco, but housing and income aren’t as bad yet. Wait another 5 years and they might be at parity with the Bay area. But the bay could even be further off the rails by then.
Silent email filtering makes iCloud an unreliable option (2013)
That was with property tax. Unless trump gets his way, property tax is deductible from income tax.
There are features that both Android and iOS are missing that old pre-2007 phones had as well, e.g.

- Profiles where you can set custom volume, vibrate, and sometimes other settings. e.g. "Home", "Vibrate", "Silent". And easily customise + switch between them.

- Alarms that work when the phone is off. Set your alarm to wake you up, turn your phone off, and the alarm sounds in the morning. Lots of old phones had this feature. My Nokia N9 and Jolla smartphone had it too.
I haven't had any of those problems with the AirPods. No static, no latency.

There's some issues with reliably connecting though.
Either we put the lasers on the fish or I’m out
I cannot wait. There is such an opportunity for innovation as well. Hearing is such a psychological thing as well as physical. I had to really research on my own and bother an audiologist directly in order to tweak mine properly.

I wanted to take advantage of my hearing loss to also allow myself augmented, improved hearing for specific scenarios as well. I would love a platform that allows me to do so!

Regardless of the poor quality of the article, the relevant legislation is Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/670...
You're using a Xiaomi Mi 6, a heavily hacked up and forked Android. Why are you hoisting all the blame on Android instead of on Xiaomi? You're running a completely different OS from AOSP, so why are you pretending your critiques are globally applicable to all builds of Android?
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We'll see how dropping the escape key does with people who love developing in vim.
Still having the same problem today...icloud randomly filters emails from our mail server for no apparent reason, and they simply disappear (nothing in junk folder).
My solution - buy a high end smart phone - the more (directional) mics it has the better. Add a high quality "spouse mic" that you can place whereever you want on conference table/dining table/nightstand/next to the door bell. Most phones, home assitants, the kinect etc come with with mic arrays and have ridiculously sophisticated audio stacks. You can't do cutting edge speech rec without those stacks.

These ridiculous hearing aid companies are going to go the way of dinosaurs soon. And good riddance.
For the loss of the headphone jack to not be a downgrade, two things have to happen:

* Bluetooth has to work flawlessly - I hear there's been some issues even on iOS 11 and Android's Bluetooth has always been terrible

* USB C Audio has to work flawlessly [1]

1: http://pocketnow.com/2016/09/08/the-impending-horror-of-usb-...
The first Pixel is a good phone, still very performant.
> Apple has a really good track record of dropping things at the right time: floppy, CD-ROM, Flash, etc.

Counterexamples to your claim: Thunderbolt? Magsafe? Magsafe2? The physical escape key?

All of your examples were actually significant improvements: floppy / CD-ROM took up immense physical space and removing them caused a significant improvement in space and weight. SSDs initially had less capacity, but at least they had way better performance and also improved upon space and weight.

> The headphone jack is a legacy, bulky port

The headphone jack doesn't save on weight, its alternatives aren't an improvement. It does save on space, and I understand that space is tight on a phone, but honestly, we've already had so many brilliant and slim phones that have headphone jacks that I don't really buy this as an excuse. Do we /really/ need ever so slightly slimmer phones every year? Remember the bent iphone 6es?

I'd be willing to buy this if there was something amazingly novel that USB-C provides for headphones, or if wireless earbuds lasted more than 5-6 hours.

Here's what it comes down to: my 2013 macbook pro is fantastic, and none of the new stuff regarding ports is a genuine improvement to my experience, but all of it adds to potential frustration when I eventually have to make the switch when the hardware can't keep up anymore. I feel similarly with my iphone SE.

I really wish they'd stop futzing around with everything just for trivial improvements.
That's really unfortunate. Do any phones do it right?
S7 also..
Well since at least one person thinks I'm not crazy I'll stop trying to argue now - thanks!
There is very little in the article about how the technology actually works, other than some vague indications it relies on carbon nanotubes, which so far haven't really been useful for anything, outside of academic curiosities. Testing your water is actually easy, you collect some and send it to an analytical lab that uses standard processes and understands possible interference.

edit: the video shows a bit more, the nanotubes appear to have been chemically treated with compounds that show an affinity for lead, not much information beyond that. This seems like quite a feat to accomplish at home. My experience in grad school with high school students working in our lab was that you needed access to the university facilities to do well at these competitions.
They did, then after I raised that issue, they invited me back, thanked me for being a poineer and said I should proceed and likely wouldn't get caught this time.

I told them to check first, cause I don't want to move platforms then have an issue.

So, weeks later they told me that underwriting doesn't like my new name and I won't get to use their platform.

Bad names include the terms "weed" or "the". Acceptable words are "GrowFlow" or "Mister Kraken" - direct competitors who basically sneak through.

Even when everyone knows what's going on everywhere.
> This would take infinite time (from the POV of the external observer)

No, that's not correct. What is correct is that, in the idealized case where the hole is eternal (i.e., it never evaporates), it would take an infinite time for the external observer to see the qubit cross the horizon. But the qubit reaches the horizon and crosses it in a finite time.
You know things have gotten bad in CA when people are saying Boston has "not too much NIMBYism" in comparison.
You are not the target market. The funders want to live forever, and they don't have to worry about money. You are just collateral benefit if this works.
> Only in strict GR

Even in strict GR, the statement is not correct. See my response upthread.
What technologies are adopted by Mongolian Nomads
So far as documentation goes, OpenAPI does include fields for human consumption - such as "example". I've been using Swaggerhub to validate my OpenAPI documents and it clearly demonstrates what the automatically-generated documentation might look like.

It won't help you at all with unit testing (you shouldn't be using HTTP for that). You can theoretically use it to generate a client library in your language of choice for integration tests (true for Swagger, not yet for OpenAPI). Finally, there are tools built around it that let you play around with APIs that have these specs - Microsoft PowerBI comes to mind.

There are ways you could use it to build an API, but I wouldn't consider them a good idea. Edit: You could completely automate the process of ensuring that your semantic versions are compliant (i.e. you aren't breaking compatibility when you are claiming that you are not).
Security clearance does not stay with the person once they leave the job unless their new employer is (or is sponsored by) the same granting agency (i.e. DOD or DOE) and even then there is paperwork involved to set up the transfer.
It's likely that reading Gmail data and other sensitive actions require significantly less privilege than some Google-wide "root".
I misinterpreted the statement then. Naturalized citizens are different, I thought it was in reference to those who come here for a job, then require a security clearance. That would create conflict in my opinion.
I really want/need a new phone but the whole headphone situation has left a really bad taste in my mouth. Not usually one to get worked up over the minor details of smartphones but it actually makes me angry thinking of buying one of these phones and then dealing with fucking dongles for the next 3 years.

There's a reason "pass me the aux" is a meme and not "pair your phone with my bluetooth speaker, oh wait it's not connecting, let me try disconnecting, do you see it? Yeah it's GHS-9013 I think, okay, I hit the pair button, do you see it now?"
> From what I understand they are describing a mechanism through which information can escape black holes.

A hypothesized mechanism. None of this has any experimental confirmation, nor is any likely any time soon. It's an interesting theoretical advance, but that's all.