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Not on apple, but I remember for an old job interview I had to do an online timed basic math proficiency test. You were allowed/expected to use a calculator.

Thank god they had practice questions. Because here was silly old me thinking "well I've got a smart phone, I can just use that".

One iteration through the practice questions using my smartphone calculator, and off I went to the newsagent to pick up the old version for the real thing...

Of course,the rant for why they were testing me on manually-done math for a data analytics job can be saved for another thread :)
Right, east across the southern pacific would make sense if there were refueling stops. But in terms of going west they wound up going via Indonesia which the Japanese busy invading, yet Fiji, Kiribati, and Hawaii weren’t being invaded (and Fiji never was, not sure about Kiribati). There may have been naval traffic they would have to overfly they were concerned about I suppose.
Was about to get depressed and write a real nasty, down and dirty sarcastic comment, I mean, 1 + 2 + 3 = 24 , WTF?!?! Woz! What's your thoughts?

But then chilled out. I didn't even pay for my shiny new iPhone.

Kids, theres plenty of software to be (re)written, be grateful to be employable for a very long time.
Are you pressing ”=” to get the actual result?
High usage attracts higher level developers. The motivation created by your software being used by a large community of people is, in my opinion, the most portant thing when contributing. Sometimes it is easy, like adding a few flags to fpc, sometimes it is a bit more tricky, like adding utf-8 support to an IDE which lacks it.
I fail to see how a quote tag would drive away the throngs of Silicon Valley elites, people who begin sentences with “I’m not an expert, but...”, hardcore Randians, and Paul Graham sycophants.
They still make dial microwaves, I got one, I think it's a Pana --but unlike the previous one I had (don't recall the make) once set, you can't readjust time. Either terrible design, or maybe a patent preventing the adding of time while the microwaving continues. For example, if It think that instead of 30 secs, I want to readjust it to 40 when it's down to 20 to make a total of 50, I have to wait till it winds all the way down (or stop and set a new clock) -bummer
I find the spinner interface is a bit clunky in the first place as well. I haven't found anything as fast to use as the N9-style circle[1].

[1] http://www.nition.co/2014/08/the-nokia-n9-alarm-clock
So you think google storage systems work like your normal filesystem?
Twitter's search is similarly annoying. I most often use it to search for a person. I type in my search, the person shows up and in the time it takes me to move my cursor/thumb to the person and click, Twitter inserts some useless hashtags above the people it found. Now I have to search, wait for the replacing to happen, then click on the person I'd already found but was moved out of the way.
The commercial Bodyworn systems were a box that fits on your belt; they were totally analog.

Current material refers to 'bodyworn' for babies and toddlers who tend to lose BTEs. You get the same BTE, but it's strapped more firmly to the body.
It’s a simpler matter of not passing “allowuserinteraction” to the UIView animation options.
Oh, I wasn't, outside of my small town. I did extremely well on standardized tests, is all. But I still got the "You need to go cure cancer" comments. Youthful insecurity made me latch on to any source of validation, and soon you have someone who lives under the premise that they have to be extremely successful to be a worthy human being.

My nephew was just born with a trisomy similar to Down syndrome. If I can make his life better, I will count mine a success.
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Press equals. You're seeing the 23 you entered, not the sum. If you enter it very slowly, you'll see 3 until you press =.
And if your terminal state is hosed by a crashed cursor-addressing (curses) program, you may have to use ^J instead of Enter.
Really? Have you tried playing a game with them or any kind of app that is like a musical instrument?
So, quickly hit 1+2+3 = 24, if I do it slowly, I get 6.
keyboard events are fine — with a Bluetooth keyboard, you get the right answer no matter how fast you type.

The animation shouldn’t prevent the + button from being pressed again, but it does. That’s the bug.
They are definitely cheaper most of the time. They are often just a trace on a PCB.

Product designers hate mechanical switches because they are almost always the first thing to wear out. Including a switch robust enough to last as long as the rest of the product is generally too expensive for consumer electronics.

Capacitive buttons can be made much better with some kind of instant feedback to replace the tactile feedback of physical buttons.

The problem is that adding that kind of feedback costs money. Even if it's just a few pennies per device, most manufacturers won't do it for consumer devices. That kind of penny pinching is the reason I avoid consumer grade products if at all feasible.
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Or try typing it slower and you'll see that the result is correct
Pressing 1+2+3 quicky = 24, pressing 1+2+3 slowly = 6. Odd.
I missed an alarm yesterday because of this. I can't be believe they still haven't fixed it! If the spinner is still moving AT ALL, nope, it silently fails.
Every time I see a race condition like this the only thing I can think of is the Therac-25: https://blog.bugsnag.com/bug-day-race-condition-therac-25/

This isn't that, obviously, but it underscores the importance of testing. This clearly should have been caught in QA.
> Why not make a startup?

Why would you want to buy anything so important from a startup? Either it'll suck or it'll be good, and if it sucks you don't want it, and if it's good, Google or FB or someone will acquihire the engineers and shut down the product.
The main difference vs other store creation services is that we build Middle for one, two or few products to sell. Example shop: https://simpleshop.middle.io/ We focus mostly on short-term sellers.
3.11-3.1 ? LOL Apple.. Get your sh*t together!
And then you'd actually hear the music instead of constant thrashing.
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Or maybe another way to put it: lots of successful languages and IDEs are implemented in themselves, but lots of unsuccessful ones are too. I think I've seen some folks believe achieving that beautiful recursive milestone will be a silver bullet, but rarely (if ever) does it turn out that way. It's a nice thing to have and a great way to dogfood your product but not necessarily that important.
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That quote is actually by Doug McIlroy, who also gave this longer phrasing of it: "Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don't clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. Don't insist on interactive input."
Do you find tutorial of learning calligraphy using web augmented reality useful?
iOS used to be a home for MS' search engine, Bing. Now Apple switched to Google
Thanks for the suggestion! It's been on my backlog, but I'll prioritize it.
> What the hell is going on?

The same that has happened for every iOS .0 release for YEARS.

They focus on showstoppers (P1) only then focus on usability (P2) during the next year's worth of point releases. Then iOS 12 will come along and the process repeats.
Thanks for the suggestion! Enabling it for the whole site has been on my backlog, but I'll prioritize it.
My iPhone 7 - the latest iPhone at the time iOS 11 came out, and with the fastest single threaded mobile CPU for some time - can no longer play locally downloaded audio and be used at the same time without stuttering constantly. Everything is broken on iOS 11. Extremely frustrating. I will buy a new phone, but not an iPhone.
I was under the impression that modern water markets were all either massively regulated in response to historical market failures (public utilities in developed nations) or currently undergoing market failure (developing nations, c.f. Nestle's shit in Africa).
I work at one of the companies mentioned in the article although not doing ML. From what I can tell, these stories do a disservice since all these people come into the company wanting to do ML when most work is not nearly so glamorous.
I still find a number pad to be the fastest. Why am I spinning something around and trying to position it right when I just just press three buttons 9-3-0?
Are you sure? I never noticed that. As an experiment, I did this in an ssh session from macOS to OpenBSD:

stty raw; cat

... and while every key I tried now had its literal effect, including enter producing only a carriage return and Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V etc. producing their control characters (I think, I cannot see them :) ), <enter>~. still terminated the connection. Lucky terminal combination maybe?
It's not as bad as it use to be. In the old days you might do many telnets to get where you want.

Sing the Telnet song!

http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00222.html
I just bought my first iPhone in four years after a run on Android. Obviously neither are perfect but the experience so far has been startlingly underwhelming. I’m chalking it up to new release OS bugs as the hardware (8 plus) doesn’t seem different enough to warrant any issues.

This kind of thing just seems like par for the course. I don't get it.
it's within a magnitude.. good enough for most.
Except that's not at all related. 6502 was added not because it's legacy, but because it was a feature. It wasn't added in 1973 and "kept" for decades.
Android is guilty of this too. So annoying. About to take a button and it moves and I press something else. Frustrating.
I voted with my wallet.

After owning every iPhone since 3G up to 5s, I ditched Apple, and bought a new phone last week specifically because it had a headphone jack.

My WHOLE PHONE cost only a little bit more than Airpods alone. It's a Chinese phone that offers incredible value for money and I can't be happier(Xiaomi Note 4, for those interested).

Sure, it's specs don't quite match up to the flagship models from A and G, but it had what I wanted - a headphone jack(cheap, good, battery-less and reliable audio), a large-enough screen, lots of ram and a fast-enough processor.

I believe the dropping of the headphone jack was not meant as a way of herding users to better tech, like the CD-ROM ect. They could have left the jack in the iPhone 7 and released the AirPods anyway, as a cross-over test. The market would've decided on the winner. But they didn't do that. They didn't do that because they knew AirPods would not have sold as well.

It was just a blunt move of trying to increase profits. Just like the death-by-a-thousand-dongles decision.

Bad Apple. Bad.
According to http://xkcd.com/715 the normal curve for people googling their IQ is positioned significantly differently than the actual intelligence curve
And I get to be that guy in response. I don’t like the sanctification of Steve Jobs. He oversaw plenty of bugs - “antennagate” being the most famous, but there were plenty of others as well.
Portable Pedal Power Generator: https://www.amazon.com/Generator-Emergency-Portable-Lightwei...
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Oh ok, thanks for the detailed explanation!
BuzzFeed is just another gawker.

I mean, who cares if Gawker outed a gay guy just for clicks, or air'd people's sex tapes? THEY WERE SUCCESSFUL, right? They should be admired!

That's what this thread is leaning to at the moment.
Briefly, you get 16 frequency bands if you’re lucky.

A healthy ear has about 3,000.

It’s more complicated than that, but in a nutshell, the fidelity with which CIs can represent the world is very limited. They work for speech, mostly, in quiet. There are simulations of what they sound like on YouTube, somewhat.
Right - It's not so much algorithmic development as development of the toolchains that will enable such representations to be actually useful for downstream analyses.
This is why abbreviations should be avoided as much as possible, unless the writer can be almost certain that every reader will know the abbreviation.
Really neat story, and a very enjoyable read.

Somewhat unrelated but it reminds me of this episode of The Twilight Zone. A Classic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrival_(The_Twilight_Zo...
Similar, but with no input lag: http://www.clarkduvall.com/
Real IQ tests (i.e. not ones with portraits of Einstein on them) cover a few more areas than spatial awareness. This makes them a useful diagnostic tool sometimes -- as a personal anecdote, there is a huge difference in my score if you remove the processing speed parts, which apparently is evidence in favour of ADHD.

But even so, they are hugely limited in determining many very important qualities. Like social skills.

It's just another number we can calculate that happens to be relatively fixed by genetics and has some predictive power. But so is your height, and nobody raves about that.
Do you have the reachability feature enabled? It should allow you to reach the top for gestures while still using the phone one handed.

There's also assistive touch, which can help with gestures and other settings.
Original source: https://twitter.com/dangerdave/status/921790333905641472
I agree with your comment, but disagree that all of the concepts you listed need be understood completely when just getting started. Once the flow is recognized (which in my experience teaching others rarely takes more than a single pairing session) there's basically nothing left but a few functions that pass data in a circle. Everything else that you described comes later, and that later doesn't take long.
Yeah, a lot of microcontrollers have integrated capacitive sensing (Atmel calls it QTouch, other manufacturers have similar). In that case a capacitive button is very near free, as you only need an extra trace that is reliable to fabricate and requires minimal extra soldering.

Capacitive buttons have some distinct advantages too, primarily being waterproof and nearly infinite durability. A lot of UI issues like OPs stove are likely poor software, there is no real reason why a capacitive button would need a 700 ms pause between actions. Now, the lack of tactile feedback is a more fundamental problem sometimes, but capacitive buttons can be great when implemented well.
The worst thing for me is the Camera. If I want to take a photo of something that's just happening I don't even bother anymore since I can expect it to take 10 seconds to wake the phone, get into the camera, and have the shutter button respond and have it actually take a photo (sometimes it looks like it took a photo but it actually didn't save!).
Most estimates I'm familiar with are substantially lower than that - between 0.1 and 3 errors per cell division.
What functions are best on the front page of the internet?
Ah ok. Thanks for explaining that to me.
Public cloud, maybe not that far away. Linkedin's new data centers have sub 400ns switching and 100G interconnects.
https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2016/03/project-altair...
I've got some passive noise isolating earbuds for concerts. I wore them to Gamescom and my wife kept asking me to speak up because I had the exact same problem your friend did. I could understand her speech perfectly, but felt like I became the person yelling and making all the noise.
I think it's overall a good move, given 12% of their land is used up by transport networks and it's a tiny island.

That said, if space is a real constraint, I think they could make a deal with Malaysia, if they really needed to, but I think their independent streak is too strong to allow that thought --they once were part of it, pre-independence. On the other hand there are "autonomous" regions out there.

The question[1] has been considered in some circles, although more fantasy than anything else due to enormous, maybe insurmountable, cultural and ethnic differences. One is Sinetic the other Malay --and in the past lead to some terrible ethnic riots.

[1]https://www.quora.com/What-if-Singapore-combines-with-Malays...
Reading about the 314 has suddenly triggered a memory for me about the Hughes H-4 Hercules (another huge flying boat from the same era, though never made it to production). That was another massive aircraft/flying boat.

From there, I recall a movie where Yogi Bear and his mates stole the Hercules (read: Spruce Goose) for some reason. And then I went all nostalgic.
The "technology costs money" argument makes no sense when you consider that the Apple Airpods retail for $169. They contain:

- mics

- DSPs

- drivers (speakers)

- custom wireless chipset

- batteries

i.e. all of the stuff that you need to build a regular HA. The differences are that:

- they have shorter battery life (but a lower capacity battery)

- built in larger quantities

- not 'medical grade'

Telecoil doesn't add significantly to the cost, but it does use a bit of internal volume. They are incredibly useful and are not going away anytime soon.

It's not like you need the 2017 model of HA; for most people the 2000 model would be just fine, and (for the company) the costs of IC development and regulatory have long been recovered. ASICs are expensive to produce, but not that expensive that it adds thousands to the COGS.

The real reason is simple market forces: people will pay a lot of money for healthcare. Insurance coverage in the target market determines much of the price.
That house will sell for $850k.

But yes, the OP should be able to easily afford it.
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What are the concepts you are most struggling with..could you list out a few..check out metacademy.org
I ordered one. It came with an adapter. It's not a bad adapter, really. It's no larger than the plugs to make the connections, and connects firmly.

What I lament is the inability to charge and use headphones at the same time with this adapter. They have another adapter "coming soon" in their store which will do both.

That said, it's been 25 hours since my last charge and I'm still at 71% battery, so it's less impactful than I thought it would be.

I'm a little concerned about the reports of screen burn-in I've seen on reddit, but the other rumors about discoloration did not impact my model, so it's just 'wait and see' now for me.

Overall, I really like it.
I think this is a great point. It's why even cartoon-art games like Super Mario Brothers (1985) can age really well visually while games that put so much effort into graphics still age poorly.

If the main goal in a game is to make the graphics of yesterday look and feel obsolete, then that game will probably look and feel obsolete tomorrow...
I did a backup and complete restore. It went from completely unusable to annoyingly usable. Still considering downgrading to 10.3
Has BuzzFeed done either of those?

I don't follow them that closely, but this seems like a pretty huge leap of a comparison.
I've been tested at 159, and I often ask stupid questions at work and feel like it's my first day :(
A quality Bluetooth headset covers all of those requirements except for Telecoil.
An excellent project, though maybe Sakura CSS would be a lighter alternative to distill...
Hmm, I just tried it with stty raw and you're right.

It has happened to me though. Maybe a curses crash can leave it a state other than raw? One of the other modes such as inlcr plus ..? Also I suspect smart terminals and shells prevent a interactive session from getting too crazy.
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> Can an executive chef be replaced with enough data? I'm inclined to believe so.

I want what tastes good to me, not what tastes good to most people. You can't solve personal subjective problems with data.
On an iPhone 6, if you type quickly, AUTOCApitalization lags and doesn't switch off until after 4-5 characters, which is absolutely mindboggling. The system obviously knows you've typed more than one char, is this thing multithreaded in the extreme?!
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Pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored as ICMP Echo packets (2016)
Yes, the bit about what the RED One was trying to do was a bit cringy but I thought it skirted around claiming it was better than film. The comparisons between the Alexa and RED One were very good, however. Coincidentally, I was doing work for Oakley as the RED One was being tested. After two test shoots with it, the director declared it B-cam and let a PA operate it, only because we couldn’t get the color right. This was action sports and the frame rate would have been useful. Even now, I am not sure much has changed. I don’t go on sets or handle much live footage these days but my observations have it that much of the production industry who could use it still lacks understanding of ACES. I have not worked with Alexa on any projects where I interacted with both camera and footage but my understanding is ARRI remains the king of blacks.
Capacitive also has some drawbacks. Like with this oven... They tend to be temperature sensitive, depending on shielding. Delays with QTouch aren't unusual above 120F.
Some films are absolutely just as contrast-y as these HDR images. In particular, Fujiilm RDP-III slide film. See: https://www.flickr.com/groups/provia100f/pool/

But yes, Arri does have a beautiful soft look along with Fuji digital cameras, and plenty of film stocks do as well. It all depends on the tastes. Gamers aren't going for soft reality. A lot of hard-edged gamers are going to go for the high-contrast, desaturated ExTreMe ChaLLeNgE look.
That's what both El Capitan and High Sierra have been sold as on the Mac, so it's not as if Apple has forgotten the tactic. On iOS they have too much competition from Android to take a step back like that.
That is what really astonishes me about technology: Stuff can get worse. As you said, it is a solved problem, but unless someone somewhere is pushing hard, it will keep getting worse. People in charge make stupid decisions and the creators probably don't care because calculators are unsexy. Next thing we know, there is a billion dollar startup with a calculator app because the current ones are so shitty.
Can confirm. I run W10 on my gaming machine, which still has a spinning drive. I cannot believe how frustrated I get every single time I use it. An operation as simple as opening the Windows menu and searching for an app can take up to 20 seconds.

What a waste of time.
Apple and Google have no idea how sewn up the market is with regulation and patent warfare.

The tech is easy and well-known. Being able to legally sell the product without getting sued? That's hard.
Speaking of telnet, that protocol was actually much richer and had many more features than it would seem at a casual look.

I learned that when implementing a tiny part of the telnet protocol in a retro computer emulator's serial port emulation routines, mostly just to enable character mode and proper (non-)echoing. (I also implemented the RS232 control lines, so that telnet'ing into the port actually behaved like a physical terminal would with respect to carrier detect and all that, but I think there wasn't any overlap with the telnet protocol itself. Maybe flow control.)
Given that they managed to break volume control for iPhone 7 users like me (other versions too?), this isn't surprising in the least. Volume control mostly works now (11.0.3). However, half the time now it'll show the volume changing, but the actual audio output will be unchanged (may be an app issue, happens mostly with WhatsApp voice calls, but have had it happen some with the built-in Music app, not as reliably flawed there).

I'm still rebooting every couple days to keep bluetooth working reliably with my car. Maybe by 11.1 I can tell my sister and parents that it's safe to upgrade.