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To your explicit question, Google and most large companies run formal training programs (think college courses). However most are about learning a new skill (like teaching beginner Python), not about learning a new tool although those presumably exist. Many companies also have one-off learning events. The big difference in working for these large organizations is that the tooling is much better, so its easier to easily update and start incorporating the latest updates into your tech stack. It's not that big a deal to upgrade from Angular 1 to Angular 2 since you have tools to allow you to do big refactors as well as tests to catch any regressions. You're not doing a full rewrite but always incremental refactoring often with both versions at the same time. A front-end developer should be exposed to some of the newest technologies.

With that said, you're probably going to learn some of this tech on your own time. What you should be finding is that many of these frameworks are very similar and are incorporating the same ideas. Moving from Angular to Ember or Vue should be relatively easy. The big difference is learning the new api and the nuances. Things like properly configured IDEs will make this significantly easier (I'm a HUGE fan of Jetbrains' products).

At this point, you're dealing with javascript fatigue. It's definitely acceptable to switch to backend or full-stack development. Personally I'd talk to a colleague about the possibilities there. Additionally there's the point that you don't need to learn everything. Whatever javascript framework you're using, you can just spend time becoming an expert in that. There's no need to learn a different one until you've switched jobs.
Do we know how Google obtains this data ?

Could drones be used here ? It looks like it would be a good way to refresh this data often on the cheap.

(drone is the loosest sense, a balloon would do the trick)
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Of course Apple can make an iPhone with a replaceable battery. A small Chinese company made an Android-based iPhone 4/5 clone with one, and also the option of having a 50% larger battery with a slightly thicker phone:

http://www.jiayu-store.com/jiayu-g5-quad-core-mtk6589-4-5-in...

https://www.gizchina.com/2013/11/07/jiayu-g5-unboxing-hands-...

The Jiayu also has dual SIM, microSD, USB, and costs a fraction of the Apple while having a more rigid and expensive housing (stainless steel, not aluminium.) Apple could, if they wanted to, make a phone with as much user-friendly features if not more, but they deliberately chose not to.
please see: http://brendaneich.github.io/Strange-Loop-2012/assets/images...

from: https://brendaneich.com/2015/06/from-asm-js-to-webassembly/

and tell me this isn't the best invention since the pinnacle of human achievement that is javascript.
> Thanks to his family background, he could speak German, and he had heard that many universities there charged no tuition fees. His missing qualifications were still a problem, but one that the University of Gottingen decided to overlook. “They said that under exceptional circumstances, they could enroll a few people every year without transcripts,” says Spribille. “That was the bottleneck of my life.”

This marks a significant point in America's status as an educational and scientific power in the world.
I am not sure about UFO sightings because it seems unlikely to me that aliens would approach us like this.

However, given the huge amounts of exo planets discovered everywhere around us in the last year or two, I consider it highly unlikely that we are alone.
Someone could take Aros, Haikuos, Reactos, or even something else and port it to ARM platforms with a touchscreen.

I remember someone tried a Commodore themed smart phone.

But the iOS and Android duopoly makes it hard for third parties to compete against a mountain of apps verses the few apps third parties have, not to mention development tools.
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I need to get in touch with Moisey or escalation to have this removed from Yellow.Guide.
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>> Apple has decided that people want to buy razorthin phones

I wonder what percentage people who buy those razorthin phones end up adding a millimeter or more to their phones by adding tempered glass screen protectors and cases over them. IMO, that defeats the purpose of the thinness.
It is called "separation of fools and their money". This was popular before SEC showed up. It seems crypto-clowns refuse to learn from others and insist on re-learning the lessons
this is exactly the reason Coinbase has been delaying transactions but somehow people think it's a bad thing and keeping them away from their money.
A tacos-making robot is already a level of a project for university students.
The way it's usually done in the US is employees have a special brokerage account which is closely monitored (and probably won't let you trade during blackouts). Even if you had your own account on the side, the brokers would have caught it - this stuff is monitored very closely.

When it comes to crypto - all you need is an offshore exchange, of which there are plenty.

In all honesty, I don't know what is going on at Coinbase. It looks like a circus and I suspect its days are numbered. It is really depressing actually, not at all what the crypto community needs right now.
In Peter Drucker's memoir, Adventures of a Bystander he relates the story of a contemporary, and onetime colleague of his, who rose fairly high in the Nazi regime, who mentioned, when Drucker was preparing to leave Germany in the early '30s, that he had low-numbered membership cards in both the Nazi and Communist parties.
Not so fast! Competition only makes sense if you’re competing on the right things.

Railroads should compete on service, quality and price. They should not compete by laying down parallel tracks side by side.

Some things should be shared in common and competitive services built on top.
Facebook famously moved away from HTML5 for mobile applications, the author is talking about a time some years ago when his company began to look for other technology.

I think the important thing here is that "HTML5" as a solution would mean wrapping it in a Phonegap/Cordova application for mobile. Haxe means HTML5 and/or Flash on the web, but also native for mobile.
Nothing you've expressed is an effective counterclaim to the assertion that Apple chose a more deceptive route to dealing with the inevitable degradation of batteries in its devices.

On balance, the expected behavior for an aging phone is to suffer from decreased battery life as total battery cycles increase. Apple instead has chosen to decrease system performance to hide diminished battery life, and failed to disclose this. This kind of behavior wouldn't be tolerated in other market segments. Can you imagine the public backlash against an auto manufacturer that shipped a vehicle which intentionally decreased performance as its fuel tank drained in order to boost their 'maximum range' metric, but never disclosed this 'feature' to the public?
Yup, I thought the article had something to say about Canada's universal healthcare but this is a story we hear far too often in many places where there is not enough resources for mental health problems.
Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Bing Maps will all try to murder you if you ask for directions from Santa Maria, CA to Ventura, CA.

The obvious route is to follow the freeway that was built on the best route between the two cities. Instead, all three really enjoy routing you onto a two-lane twisty mountain road that is five minutes shorter if you are driving a sports car and all the lights are green. Heaven help you if you are driving an RV.

I've sent corrections to both Google and Apple about this. They both did nothing.
Harsh, but while reading this I thought something similar. Too many unknowns so it just struck me as too soon for this piece.
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Suggest you google it and observe that “average” has several meanings, including “typical” and “median.”
And yet we have Waymo building 2cm-resolution maps and not operating outside of mapped areas, and (more scarily) Tesla geotagging false positives where Autopilot misidentifies some roadside feature and panic brakes.
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Haters are disproportionately represented in replies.
The clue here is that even though you’ve been downvoted by multiple people, they’re all too chickenshit to voice their “legitimate” opinion backing the downvote.

The only real interpretation here is that, while ethically, you may be correct, you’ve expressed an opinion that “stealing is wrong” among members of the thieves guild.
True, but I suspect the deposit of her life savings was more symbolic from the point of view of the Soviet leadership. They saw an opportunity to both facilitate the ambitions of a true believer while promoting the idea that "if she can do it, why can't you?" to rally the troops.

Ultimately she achieved the retribution she desired and she should be remembered for her convictions and ability to follow through.
That's brilliantly simple. I really need to use `zip` more often in my python code. Thanks for sharing your succinct solution.
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Google Maps has a show speed limit toggle, behind a setting.
The company chose to move to bitmap-based animation to get better performance on mobile
Can someone explain to me why (outside of this one issue) phones get so slow over time? As a professional programmer I though I understood computers but I clearly don't.

What's going on my phone that it grinds to a halt? Why does a factory reset sometimes help, but sometimes not?

It can't just be that the workloads are more resource intensive. If I go get an old tablet it will take 5x as long to load google.com as the day I bought it.
They don't complain, no. It's not a user-requested feature. But it's been observed (in at least one internal study I know of) that people just end up using their phones longer, the lighter they are.

And increasing the length of a phone use-session is important, because it "unlocks" experiences people wouldn't otherwise bother with, that might then increase their total satisfaction with the ecosystem, and so increase brand loyalty. For example, some people just don't want to read books on their phones... but hand them a lighter phone, and they suddenly change their minds. They don't realize that that's the difference; it just is. And this might be the first device that got them to read e-books—which means they now associate the positive feelings of reading books in situations they wouldn't have otherwise been reading, with your device.

> which have definitely increased in weight over the past decade

They do increase, but only to a point; far less than if it weren't an optimization problem between increasing battery mass to power the features promised, vs. decreasing total mass.

Also of note is the fact that as phones are made more durable, people use cases less, which decreases total in-hand weight. So switching various pieces from plastic to aluminum, or one type of glass to another, may be a win even if it increases the base mass of the phone, as long as it decreases the probability that the user will feel the need to buy a case.
Maybe it's just a Swiss acting according to the stereotype of Germans on steroids [1].

[1] http://countryballs.net/_nw/9/18482749.png

;-)
Indeed, databases mapping all American households have existed, and been sold and re-sold, for decades.

Compared to Equifax, this is nothing. Why? Because this data can't be used for identity theft, and it's been widely available in downloadable, fully portable form for 2 decades.
Trades made with/without insider knowledge reveal the same amount of information to the market since the market doesn't know what made you decide to trade. It's illegal for a few reasons - it encourages quid-pro-quo relationships between investors and businesses, makes the good investment opportunities only available to those with privileged relationships (and magnifies 'the rich get richer' problem), and poses serious conflict of interest problems to everybody involved.
>beloved

What a strange word to apply to a medical system. I mean, really think about it. That's like saying the "DMV is beloved". It's just a strange word usage that makes me wonder if you're more of a "fan" of their system than an unbiased source.

My Canadian friend I regularly play PUBG with, remarked that non-life-threatening illnesses like a broken arm can have waiting times measured in months. (Sounds like our VA.) And he lives in one of the large cities. He is glad that nobody goes bankrupt but he would NEVER use the world "beloved" to describe it.

"Better than the USA"--probably, I'd easily give you that without raising my brow. But "beloved"?... I'm sorry, I just can't get past that word. It's so out-of-place. If this was a novel I was reading, I'd have to set the book down for a moment and go, "Really?"
I see what David Gerard is saying, it's just that having a map is very different from having to find the optimal solution to TSP on that map. We look at maps all the time and don't solve TSP on them.
Equal parts learning about the world [1][2][3] and armchair engineering [4][5].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14989538#14991800
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14277421#14278793
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11996355#11997040
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13409082#13414587
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15683120#15684346
I use Apple maps for navigation and Google maps for looking. Apple maps's navigation does basic things like tell me what the next exit on the freeways, even thought it's twenty miles away, so I have some idea what I need to do next. It knows that in the UK, roundabouts go by the city the road goes to next (on signs), instead of Google which uses road names (not on signs, useless). It tells me right before I need to turn, unlike Google which I always misinterpret. Apple maps seems to label the major roads better. Google maps seems to have decided that things like freeway numbers aren't necessary until you zoom in really tight, which is extremely unhelpful when driving.

Google maps, however, knows where everything is, everywhere. Also, you can download offline maps and get navigation in the middle of nowhere.
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> you didn't have to ask users for permissions to access contacts, sms, SD card and other data

This isn't true. Android 6.0 introduced runtime permissions, where permissions could be granted in the context of the application. Previously, the permissions still had to be granted, but they were granted before the application was installed.
What people usually mean (and it used to mean only this) by a "removable"/"replaceable" battery is that you can change the battery entirely by hand in less than a minute, without needing any tools. Until recently, this was possible with just about every other smartphone except Apple's.
For me the problem with Google Maps is how appallingly badly it fails when things go wrong. The offline mode is prone to silently getting locked in "rerouting" and just completely leaving me hanging for 10 minutes at a time. And if it loses gps signal, it doesn't seem to think the driver needs to know about this. A
Silent failure is terrible.
I'm sorry I really didn't mean to come off as dismissive. I have zero doubt of the murderous hatred for gay people (among many others), and the danger people face when they come out. I have many friends in the queer community, I don't in any way intend to minimize these things.

The person you mention holds truly awful views. And I don't know what to tell you, except that at least some people can change. I've seen it myself and I'll cop to when I was younger being squeamish about gay marriage. A decade later I was jubilant when Obergefell came down. Was I a bad person then? Am I better person now? I'd say I wasn't then and I'm still just as imperfect. I just learned more, and although I am ashamed I was wrong, I'm glad I eventually got it right.

Dan Savage gives as advice to people coming out to their families to give their relatives a year to be offensive. A year to ask the just plain ignorant questions. After that, there's a hard space to say, "you accept me or I'm out". Obviously that has its own problems in certain situations, but given the years he's been giving it, it sounds like its been working and it gives voice to the spirit of what I'm advocating.

I think plenty of people hate the gays, the jews, the browns and whoever else. Plenty of those will never change, I can't defend those. But I think many more will, and I think we have to find a way to create the space for them to change without coming at them straight out of the gates with moral condemnation. Good people can be misguided, but they'll never come around if we start from, "you're evil". That said at some point, if you willfully refuse to see the light, there is an end to the conversation.
Android is a botnet that is collecting data. Google should be paying you to use their harvesters.
Isn't this where "piercing the corporate veil" comes into play?
A lot of research has been done in that direction.

http://www.inductive-programming.org
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>Of course I may have missed something.

Yes, you missed telemetry (which is impossible to disable) and unskippable updates.

Nadella's Microsoft is more hostile to their users than ever.
I use bootcamp to dual boot Win10 to play some video games. I have absolutely no desire to use it as my main OS, it feels so unorganized and clunky.
Obviously, State Defense Committee subsidized the tank for her, "realizing the publicity opportunities", as Wikipedia says.
So yes, that was propaganda, and the story is true at the same time.
Yeah I'd wish there was a way to make exclusivity contracts illegal.

Sell your TV show to all the streaming services instead of one.
My Nexus 6P's performance has degraded considerably over the past couple of years. It's actually quite laggy now. A few of my friends report the same with their 6Ps. To be fair I haven't tried factory resetting it in a while, although I shouldn't need to do that in the first place..
Because "software for printers" is actually not what this is.

It is an art project, an "artistic operating system", originally an assignment for design students, possibly a cruel joke, a "statement".

It's a peculiar failure of comprehension to look at all of that, wonder what it is, then find the software part and come back to the software developer website to report that it is "a set of software for printers".

Like a textile specialist staring at a painting for days, not getting it, then finally looking at the back side and, relieved, going back to report to the Textile News readership that it's a linen canvas, stretched and decorated on one side.

...and then suggesting they really should mount it on the wall the other way so people can more easily see what it is.
OpenFL supports WebAssembly too, but outputting plain JavaScript (and not WASM) simply runs better and is smaller

The company also has a priority on mobile, where the native targets in OpenFL are performing much better than the older Adobe AIR version.
The problem of "under addressed" places in the world is addressed (no pun intended) by several companies. Eg. What3Words (w3w.co) has created a grit of 3mx3m squares which cover the entire planet. Each of this squares is identified by three words. Post/Mail organizations in several countries already accept those addresses. Google also has the OLC (Open Location Code) to address an area of adjustable size on earth. I find w3w very convinient to communicate a place over a voice connection (radio) or by writing it down on paper. Nothing you couldn't do by sending latitude and longitude, but more convinient.
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We have e-mailed another Congressman from our state. They launched a Congressional Inquiry. Hopefully, something positive will come out. My area of expertise is software development.
I love the passion behind this project, but as with most physical or high-level UIs, the idea strikes me as overly hubristic. In my experience, truly marvelous works of interaction which expand the range of human thinking require thousands (upon thousands) of lines of code. Clearly, that kind of logic can't fit on scattered, small bits of paper. So is most of that complexity defined by whatever code keeps this thing running? (Realtalk?) Does this mean that the limits of your thinking in this environment are constrained by the skill and intent of the coders developing the system libraries? I feel this will end up becoming little more than a (really cool) room-sized toy, not something that will change the way we think and interact.

Maybe boring ASCII code is simply the correct, inescapable tool for the job. Maybe expanding the range of human thinking is impossible inside a system that can't modify itself.

(But maybe I'm completely wrong!)

EDIT: One of the other comments mentioned that Realtalk is self-hosted on pieces of paper. Hmm, that makes this a whole lot more interesting!
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I've added a lot of those places manually through the "Add a missing place" in the menu. The review process either takes 2 days or stays in limbo forever. Google maps also gamified the contribution process so you can get internet points for improving their maps.
Just pick a well adopted tool that makes sense to you and stick with it. Once you have a good grasp of one, it's not too hard to pick up another one if you have to.
A good summary, if a bit repetitive, of how Apple has fallen behind in the mapping department since Scott Forstall's fateful call to divorce the company from Google Maps. But I think he buries a rather important lede farther down in the post:

That sounds great—but living in San Francisco,
it’s hard to imagine this working smoothly. That’s
because half the time I request a ride, I have to
text/call the (Uber) driver to coordinate my pickup spot.

The company that really needs to fire its entire cartography department and rebuild or license a new one from scratch is Uber. The deficiencies in their maps add a ton of unnecessary friction to the customer experience, and not just in crowded urban areas. I can only imagine the frustration their drivers must feel, especially since quite a few of them aren't native English speakers.

If I were Uber's new CEO, I'd treat mapping and location services as a class-one emergency, up there with any others that people commonly criticize the company for.
I don't think it's making "a buzz out of nothing special"... you compare it to every data centre with battery backup which is a standard thing, but scaling that to apply the same principle at a full grid scale rather than a single data centre is not nothing special.
There are definitely still solutions.
Specs are already released, although not complete. Look around Adobe's website for "SWF file format specification".
That doesn't necessarily limit your risk exposure if litigation ensues. Anyone going after you (or the data holding company in particular) is going to attempt to pierce the corporate veil. And while that's not necessarily easy, it's still common enough. In that situation, it's almost inevitable that the separation won't be clear and strong enough to avoid being pierced.

Of course, that's all irrelevant unless there's a significant change in how the law treats data security.