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> My old 1st gen iPad fared a little better

My iPad 2 runs on iOS6 and has perfect battery time, and runs as fast as in 2011. Only some ad-laden websites crash the browser from time to time, but that's a problem with all 512MB memory devices (both iOS and Android). Everyone that upgraded their iPad 2-4 and iPad Mini 1 to iOS7+ regretted doing so. iOS7 was a major slowdown for those hardware devices. It basically got unusable slow. iOS6 on the other hand works great and fast, but most apps on the AppStore don't work anymore (apps that require iOS7). Yet all old installed apps still work fine. On a Samsung Android tablet from the same year (2011) you still can install the latest apps, and get the latest AppStore and Google app updates (but stuck in old Android 4.x) - those AppStore updates slow down the device more and more. So it's not black and white.
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Everyone resents these guys. I don’t blame you. There’s some serious hatred from ivy leaguers. Serious hatred.
Not NOW, been more than a week.
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> Unless, of course, you're going to refurbish it and launch from the platform

But then you're at the same problem again - if the fuel isn't enough to cancel out the entire downrange, they have to land some place further out again.
Lenovo don't do this any more, and offers a way to remove the LSE:
https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/product_security/lse_bios_n...

No excuses of course, and Microsoft can share the blame too.
For the Linux users: Try KDE Connect, it is amazing!

You can easily share files in both directions and you have a shared clipboard which makes exchanging short texts and urls very simple.
I agree that Feedly is great (using it right now to reply).

The support is however abysmal. I tried to raise two bugs for a year but nobody cared to reply. They are at par with JetBrains.

In contrast, I did not have any hopes with Chrome but it ended up being worked upon.
Jeremy Levine seems to have been the one who missed the most. Even the best have their failures!
Amusing that you call it sarcasm. Linux gaming has flatlined at 1% or so for years without any noticeable changes.

I just checked the last steam hardware survey, linux is at 0.60%.

The linux steam hardware has pretty much been a flop. Ubuntu is ditching unity.

I sit in front of linux desktops at home and work. I do occasionally game some under linux. I have a linux phone (which has a linux kernel). But I fully realize it's a niche and feel lucky when any game comes to linux. I don't really see any reason for any real optimism.
THE Andrew Warner is giving you product advice.... listen up!

One of the primary goals of any new startup should be to get Andrew Warner to notice you.

I agree with the comment re logo... it just drives me crazy that people don't understand the mechanism of blog post lures people to the product site via the logo link.
Does anyone know of a situation where a company was not allowed to be sold to another company and then it went bankrupt in a few months/years? I think they would have a right to feel wronged in that case.

I myself see value of Antitrust interventions, but I also believe in not intervening in the market unless it is absolutely necessary. Since I haven't heard about Tbh to this moment, I don't think that this is the case.
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Right, Tbh is bought only because FB is trying to retain those < 20 years old right now. However, I raise my eyebrows when I think about "never a competitor". So why buy Tbh anyway? Sorry to be rude if at all... I am betting Tbh will eventually go out of business if FB doesn't acquire Tbh. Snapchat can build similar product too, like FB and Instagram built Story to compete with Snapchat's.
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>The same business that will happily take anything that is MIT licensed, to reduce development costs by getting software at $0 and never contributing anything back.

Isn't that part of what people chose MIT for? To allow businesses to adopt their project without having to "contribute anything back"?

>I used to be a big (L)GPL zealot during the 90's, nowadays I just reverted back to using commercial software, because the community just doesn't care about companies taking their work away.

Isn't that their own decision? Whether to worry about or not?

People chose MIT because they are OK with this scenario.
> VCs have no idea if a company will be successful or not and it's basically luck

This anti-portfolio is a sample of Bessemer's Type II errors [1]. It does not follow that they are useless. (Their returns are far from useless.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors
It's been here for a long time, but by default the console has several filters disabling some output, including XHR. So most people don't know about it.
How efficient is to have an HTTP2 server serving sever-push events to thousands of clients? Better than websockets I assume.
"Usually" So there is an instance where this isn't the case?
Which, specifically? I chose them because, in my experience, they have deeper roleplaying than vanilla D&D (which, in the old threefold model is much more simulationist).
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>Tired of people bringing up that "article" and the sensationalist media headlines. All that articles shows is that the CPU, given 100% utilization, does the same result as it did on iOS 10

But that is LITERALLY what people were accusing Apple of doing, actually slowing their devices to make them buy newer models. There might have been less conspiracy-esque claims, but jesting they were "sprinkling wait() calls in the code to make me upgrade" is not in that category - so I disagree with your claim that people weren't meaning that.

Anyways, this discussion has derailed, so I'm just gonna leave it at that.
Two Sigma use statistical arbitrage.

"How are the machines doing?

So far, not so great. Machine-learning has yet to deliver Earth-shaking returns. The Man AHL Dimension fund, which includes a machine-learning strategy, has returned an annualized 4.7 percent in three years through June, compared with a 2.5 percent gain for the average hedge fund.

The Eurekahedge AI Hedge Fund Index, which tracks 13 pools that use AI as part of their core strategies, has returned an average of 9.9 percent from the start of 2012 through 2016, and is up 8.5 percent this year through August.

That compares with an annualized gain of 14.6 percent over the five-year span, and a 11.9 percent rise this year through August, for the S&P 500 with dividends reinvested." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-10/why-machi...
That's my point: impractical as it may be at the current time, I could not find an argument as to why it should generally be impossible.
My first acoustic coupler was 300 baud. When using a BBS, it was pretty much the speed at which i could read. 600 seems insane. ;-)
>Seems you are cutting and pasting

You wanted a totally original rephrase for a response to the exact same topic on a different subthread?

>Apple gave away free bumpers with the 4, so yes, it was an issue

Which few really used in the wild, so no, it wasn't.
> Linux gaming has flatlined at 1% or so for years

You didn't pay attention either. The growth was well described here: http://boilingsteam.com/linux-gaming-in-2016-the-good-the-ba...

And that was last year, since then it only improved. And please, stop using Steam hardware survey for any Linux market estimation. It's useless.
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Wonder how this will impact the model 3 backlog. Many of the Tesla fans have bought into the US made, green, and disruptive angles - in various levels of importance.

Will be interesting to watch how the backlog develops with this change. Could be quite significant.

Also if we factor in the layoffs last week in California and now this move how long until Trump takes a punch on Twitter as Tesla?
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It is completely clear that the fact check comes from a particular source. Stop calling it a "dark pattern" when this element is not deceptive in any way, shape or form.
Pretty awful perspective.
>If nobody in the real world had any issues with it nobody would have discovered it in the first place.

If only media worked that way and never discovered problems where they don't exist or are totally marginal...

By the same logic, if nobody listened any difference with $1000 "hi-fi cables" they wouldn't be buying them...
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Boy, I missed the time when we used "revolutionary" for, you know, revolutionary things.
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Yeah, but then they aren't entitled to complain that cannot get access to the fork used by company XYZ, that the *BSDs get less love than GNU/Linux, embedded OEMs don't publish their clang forks, Android devices are locked down to a specific version,.....
Someone emails sensitive material that you don't want persisted (e.g a password) in your account. Yes it may keep being persisted somewhere else due to the nature of email but hey, it very much depends on your threat model, you don't control what the sender decides to send anyway, and you can do a best effort for it not to become a liability on you.
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> Cuphead - which was funded by the developers remortgaging their houses

Cuphead was funded by Microsoft. The whole "mortgaging the house" story is just a marketing stunt, same as "the guy who couldn't complete the tutorial level in 40 minutes" video. They have a really good PR agency, probably hired by Microsoft as well.

http://fortune.com/2017/09/29/cuphead-microsoft-video-game/

I wouldn't call Cuphead indie game at all.
Exactly. I played DnD, asynchronously, over the phone. Hours at a time with the DM, rarely a die rolled.
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I don't remember if I've had an UberEats order canceled, usually it's been a good experience. One time the driver forgot a milkshake and went back to get it, another time it was too late (restaurant closed) but UberEats credited me. I stopped using them though because their restaurant selection was too random / inconsistent, and their delivery fee too high, and they bumped or got rid of the minimum order to waive delivery fee, and Uber/UberEats drivers now expect tips. I use Postmates now, because I can order from anywhere (including my favorite chinese place that isn't on anyone else's app), but it has even more inconsistency with when drivers are available, and I've had many orders canceled (fortunately not from my favorite place). I only use it when the delivery is free (there's still a "service fee" that's kind of high but whatever) and so long as the driver gets my food to me in ok condition I'll give a small tip to encourage them to keep doing it, since if you go to the postmates reddit it's nothing but drivers complaining about $0 in tips. In the Bellevue area there don't seem to be enough drivers which probably influences how often orders have to be canceled.
Well... notation. People come up with all sorts of ways of writing things and all sorts of weird models.
It should be noted that Apple has always been very against third-party stores, and have tried to punish consumers that use third-party stores in an attempt to discourage people from using third-party stores. Not to mention that Apple intentionally makes it hard for third-party stores (not selling parts or even providing information about parts).
It also goes both ways. The players have to engage and help build the story. I love the Feng Shui RPG for how they insist about the back and forth between player and DM. They also encourage the DM to pre-roll everything to make fights go smoother.
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I suspect US will be reserved for high end S/X models, with the model 3 likely majorily in China.
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How many Samsung devices exploded on their owners with first-party batteries? This is a ridiculous argument -- what aspect of a "non crappy" battery will result in a replaceable version being more bulky?
Your name.. pretty messed up.
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Most VC companies don't see tech startups as 'unicorns in waiting'. They see them as '5 years growth hacking and 3 more rounds until a 10x acquisition'. At this point in time for the majority of founders the only reasonable exit strategy in tech is selling to an existing company. Putting 'getting to IPO' in your pitch deck won't work. If you're serious about building something successful then aligning with a potential buyer really early and pushing your company to be something they'll both notice and want to buy makes a lot of sense.
Where abouts, if you don't mind me asking?

I'm an Australian, and the American midwest/countryside is quite appealing to me. (Cities... not so much.)
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I have mixed feelings about this.

Somehow people think they have the right to buy the brand they like. But this is not how the market works. You can always choose not to buy it.

Don't like how Apple solders everything to the main board and glues the screen glass to the body? Just don't buy Apple.

But this can be a difficult decision because of things like 'status', vendor lock in, greed, and what not.

The feeling that you can't live without Apple, Facebook, Android, Instagram, and so on, is a strange thing. And it's one of the things I don't like about todays society.
What?!? I do it all the time, just a simple swipe left and it is deleted.

You just need to change the default from archive to delete on the settings panel.
Yes, that's the link. Sorry I didn't link it in my original post.

It does paint a pretty direct link, even if the results have been rushed.
Yes this is PR speak. These companies have 2 possible exits:

1. Get big enough to build and scale an ad network and other services

2. Get bought by an existing scaled network

Option 2 is far easier which is why startups/VCs optimize for it. FB benefits by letting them do all the experimentation and then acquiring when they have proven traction, effectively gaining control of the new users for less money than competing outright, while the founders get a nice payday and move on.

What gets really interesting is when the same VCs behind FB are the ones kicking off these new experiments, a nice little money machine once you're in the loop.
There should be such thing as "gross negligence" when it comes to security. If believe it applies to companies managing "critical infrastructure".

But, fortunately for Equifax, companies that manage social security numbers haven't been declared critical infrastructure. If they were, I'm sure Equifax could have been found guilty of gross negligence.
Though the point made in the article is by then, when the app has lots of attention, it’s too late (using the office of fair trading and Instagram as an example)
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From what I gather, it's a php page. You upload 1??? file or download that file - for that you have to know the URL. So it's rather x<->anyone who knows the URL.
That could be an excuse for everything.
I’m not defending the shit Lenovo‘s been pulling these last few years, but it’s worth noting that none of it (neither the Superfish fiasco nor this) affected ThinkPads. Apparently their consumer line and ThinkPads are run quite separately. I hope that keeps them from messing up the ThinkPads...
This only highlights the moral emptiness and naked corruption of the modern GOP.

Deregulation is fine if you strengthen the ability of citizens to obtain redress through the judicial system. If you weaken that ability, or it is weakened, you increase regulation.

But they're both deregulating and restricting judicial redress, which only increases power of those who don't need it.

Companies either are liable or not; these clauses preventing class action lawsuits seem baseless to me.
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Your claim sounds good the way you put it, but less so when you consider that retributive justice seems ineffectual at deterring violent crime... unless you're also going to claim that shitty companies are generally smarter than felons.
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I can't speak for exact performance comparisons but server-push isn't designed for events like SSE or websockets. It's designed for the client to make a request and the server to efficiently responded with multiple payloads to populate a client cache.
For anyone else who wondered, Tbh is apparently some kind of mashup of YikYak and SurveyMonkey which lets you send warm fuzzies anonymously to your friends.
"By the time Apple drops iOS support for a device, it's already starting to show its age"

Not really. My iPad3 no longer gets updates, but has great battery life, and runs common games and apps fine. It's fast enough for most web browsing, has retina screen and no reason whatsoever to be abandoned.

iOS Safari is not a great browser, it could be improved to run better on a device such as iPad3, but that doesn't suit Apple and their focus on native apps.

Now that Apple has stopped all updates for this device, my only option is to jailbreak and hope I can install an updated web browser. It's pathetic and irresponsible that Apple abandons its own products, no security patches, no nothing. They are like Facebook - they only care about "now" and "tomorrow". If you're a customer from yesterday, you are worthless.
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But we're supposed to be a democratic country where everyone's vote is "equal". The money is speech thing completely bypasses and greatly skews that rule. It's like a parallel voting system where a wealthy person's "vote" is quantified in the amount of dollars he or she spends to buy politicians.

Also, wealthy people will almost always prefer pro-small taxes politicians, on either party. So they will fund either Republicans or Democrats that think that way (especially with Democrats that have a "public position and a private one").

Allowing money to decide rank in society is what we normally call corruption, because it also bypasses laws, like when rich people get away with crimes, because they have money and influence. That's not how it should work, right? Similarly, I very much doubt that having mostly rich people buying politicians is how a democracy should work, too.
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It complicated...Nazisms did not persecute Christians in general and considered Christianity a part of the German culture. Atheists were persecuted, and so where members of sects like Jehovah's Witnesses. They wanted a church which was subservient to the state, and members of the clergy which opposed this or criticized the party were persecuted just like other political enemies. But the mainstream churches (Germany have both Protestant and Catholic) cooperated with the Nazi government.

Some Nazi ideologues were negative towards Christianity, but in general the system were positive towards "German Christianity".
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> You can't even have an HTML signature on Gmail for Android.

Do not know for android but next sentence is true

You can have an HTML signature on Gmail for IOS.

Basically you setup html signature on web desktop client, then send email through mobile app without signature and gmail does the rest (fetch your hmtl signature)
All our classes required delivering some kind of working code, either at the end of semester, or throughout it.

It was also the class that introduced us to unit tests, by having the code delivered as C library, that the teacher would link against to run her tests.
There are indeed many founders who specifically build companies just to cash out through acquisition, but from my experience there are way more founders who don't come from this point of view.

What really happens is these founders are focused on the product and don't really think much about the business model. This is understandable and actually much better than MBA types who spend months planning for stuff without even building, but the problem is there isn't really a good business model for these types of companies.

The only viable option is ads, and even this has been monopolized by big techcos so it's not easy.

Most founders don't even get to worrying about this point because their companies never take off. But the ones that do, come to a point where they need to make a decision whether to sell out or to find a viable business model.

Like I said, finding a viable business model is increasingly becoming difficult for consumer apps that rely on ads, so these companies tend to cash out.

From outside it may look like a bunch of "tech bros" hoping to strike it big with minimal effort but that's mostly not the case if you look inside. If you're curious, look up what this TBH company went through before having this "overnight success".
Ha, there actually are engines, that many of the new RPGs share. But I am not sure D&D (or at least 5e) is well suited for being a base for many different games, because i.m.o. it has a strong focus on combat.

If you want a game with lot of encounters with monsters to defeat, getting more and more powerful to defeat even harder enemies, with combat system that is not overly complex but still tactical, you definitely could (and maybe even should) base your game on D&D

Heroic fantasy works. I could imagine Witcher, or Monster Hunter, even aliens style sci-fi reskin, fighting monsters in derelict space-ships should work... but i.e. Shadow of the Colossus would be harder, and Game of Thrones style political intrigue might turn into really simplistic dice-rolls.

But this is probably true of many games, i.e. I heard that Fate is really good if you want to do something with a structure of action-adventure tv-show, but probably not a psychological horror :P But doing i.e. politics in that system might be more fun than in i.e. base 5e D&D.

Probably the most succesful engine I have seen is in the powered-by-the-apocalypse games. Apocalypse World invented a really simple base machanic, where if your character wants to accomplish something, you roll two 6-sided die, sum the numbers, and if it is 10/11/12, you just do the thing, if it is 7/8/9, you do the thing, but something bad happens, and if it is 1 to 6, you don't do the thing and something bad happens.

Probably my favourite system I have played so far :-)
I had a similar experience interviewing at Wikia.

I was straight out of uni and the interview was a three-part, month-long process.

At the end, HR called me and gave me an offer, "welcome to the team" included and so on.

I was just told to wait a week for the CEO's formal approval, which was to be "standard procedure" for every new hire.

A week became two weeks, then another two weeks, then another. During that I was still assured the job was coming.

In the meantime, I found another job, a pretty good one.

A month later, I got a call from HR at Wikia saying that maybe I should start looking for a different job.

At the time it was a real disappointment for me, but it taught me to be never be sure until I'm holding the signed contract in my hand.
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There were attempts at airline mergers just before 911. US Airways and United were going to merge but the deal didn't get approved.

Both ended up filing bankruptcy some point later, and since then the airlines have largely merged from a very diverse field into American, Delta, SW and United.

The other example is in investment banking - previously the retail and investment banks weren't allowed to merge and many of them got into trouble. Today, after the financial crisis, the industries have consolidated around 4 or 5 major large and broad banks.