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The difference between terminally ill and 'brain death' people is interaction.
Terminally ill people can still act like a person. They can express their feelings to you, they can act on their feelings etc.
This contrasts with 'brain dead' people. Not only is their no hope for recovery, there is also no current interaction.

There are obvious questions raised in the above line of questioning about grey areas.
For example, people who are terminally ill and mute and bed-ridden. Or indeed the girl from the article who was 'brain dead' and yet seemed to have some way of expressing herself.

My point is that there is a basis for distinguishing between terminally ill and brain dead people. Though that raises hard questions regarding the gray area.
When has Apple not paid tax(es) they're legally obligated to have paid? Genuinely asking for sources for this claim.
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Are there any reasons not to get rid of referers altogether?
Well, random only in the set of people who use machine generated password!
I reread my posts carefully after reading this reply, and have a hard time seeing what part(s) of my posts convey "If you don't start your own company, you're an idiot". If you could quote said parts, that'd be helpful.

"That, combined with the kneejerk response of "start your own company!" combined with the fact that many of us just plain don't want to do that; we don't want the assload of hours and commitment it comes with that we'd rather spend with our families generally means that such suggestions do not contribute to the discussion."

Again, not sure what makes it a "knee jerk response"; pointers would be appreciated. As far as the "assload of hours", "never seeing your family", etc... this is exactly what Jason Fried and DHH are writing about. These are _not_ requirements to running a sustainable business. If you read Fried and DHH's writings and find yourself nodding in agreement at every word, I guess there are 2 takeaways one could get from it: the obvious "I really should work at Basecamp!", and the perhaps a bit less obvious "whoa, you can run a sustainable business without killing yourself, and those 2 guys are documenting their process - I could do the same!". I think the latter is not to be overlooked.

If you feel strongly that starting a company isn't for you, nothing wrong with that. But harshly attacking HN posters who merely suggest that this could be a worthy option just defies common sense and civil discourse.
The fact that they are accelerating growth at $200B in sales is utterly insane. A few more years of this and they will just be able to buy the whole healthcare industry or basically whatever else they want to do. This kind of big growth is effectively unprecedented for a company this massive.
"Your message wasn't delivered to linda@gameclosure.com because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail."

Are there other contact points?
I think there is a difference between knowing the tech enough to list in in a resume, and actually using it.

I sort of know K8s. I have experimented with it, have set up a few smaller but nonetheless "real" clusters, I have ran various apps on them, have broken them with various sorts of fault conditions, have tried to repair them. Without this I wouldn't be able convince myself my opinion of K8s is even remotely close to being proper and informed one (okay, it is still not but it's closer), and not solely based on my preferences and beliefs. And this is also why I'm not using K8s in production anywhere I need to design, set up and manage a system that I should be generally able to reliably repair within hours (or faster).

To interviewers who just want to hear some important keywords, I can tell some tales how I ran that fancy mixed-arch amd64+armhf cluster for my CI. Most likely, omitting the fact that this was a personal project and that in the end I somehow broke it and despite spending a pair of evenings had failed to figure out what went wrong with the networking... so I've just scraped it and switched to Docker Swarm.
But if I'd to actually design a system that I would maintain, I'd go with whatever I believe is actually technically appropriate and not with a mauve SQL database[1]. And I believe I would be able to justify my choices, explain the trade-offs, requirements and so on. Unless it's on GKE or it's not my responsibility to manage the cluster - then I can go with K8s, no problem here - it wouldn't be a lie to say that I "know it and have some experience running apps on it, but have usually preferred other solutions". ;)

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Can you (or someone) expand on this? It's not the first time I hear someone say that big $$$ views debt differently, but I don't understand how.
Apple guidance says their tax rate next year will be 15%. I thought the US rate was 20%. Is apple still planning to park their cash overseas?
Can you explain what the benefit of this would be? While I disagree with the parent (if you're sitting on a mountain of cash, debt is not a problem), what would the benefit be of having debt when you also have a mountain of cash?

Certainly made sense before when Apple had cash overseas that they couldn't touch, but what would the benefit of it be now?
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Why on Earth would it need that for?

Was planning to check Franz out; now I won't bother.
and this happens every year as they always cut them down after the initial major release.
That's not necessarily bad, it could just mean they're re-investing basically all of their would-be earnings into themselves
What tax do Apple owe that they haven’t paid?
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Is your service more difficult to deploy to production with all best practices, real security, redundancies and backup - than it is to build? Then you're not doing devops.]

I don't think there's great consensus on what devops means. According to Wikipedia[w] the original definition was:

"DevOps is a set of practices intended to reduce the time between committing a change to a system and the change being placed into normal production, while ensuring high quality."

Which is a bit of a non-definition if you ask me. You can have that with traditional good system administration.

I see it as two things: the change from how a service or product is viewed, to a more holistic, system oriented view: the acceptance that "the system" consists of the interaction of code, configuration, infrastructure and users (along with changing/evolving requirements, because: humans).

And that one entity needs to own the entire process; the devops team. That team might change a bit in composition; but it means that rather than write some "application" and ship it to the customer on a floppy disk - most useful software is a process more than it is a product.

The other part (which is connected) is that as software delivery is a continuous process, it becomes natural to incorporate/inform "development" from the ops side (12-factor apps, plan for dev/stage/prod deploys, make a program/service that is easy to monitor, test, run and manage -- not "hexedit configuration in this zip of executable and config data and run it with magic_jar_executable, make sure to restart it after it's written 48mb to disk"). And vice-versa: be more explicit in treating administration as a traditional software project; version control, tests, immutable deployment states with snapshot / rollback support.

There's another group that seem to think "write software and throw it over the wall to the admins" is a perfectly sound model; all you need is better admins.

And to be clear: bad admins is a bad idea we/they will break your fool-proof single fat jar/single fat c++/go executable with resources baked in.

And good sys admins can work.magic with your broken software.

But it's not devops when the two groups are on different teams, doing different things - throwing rocks, insults and build artifacts over the wall at each other.

That still just "dev" and "ops" -- apart.

[w] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps
Safety and security are two different things that are very often at odds with each other.
> This is interesting, as the majority of the publicity I've seen about the iPhone X has painted it as lackluster.

It probably has become lackluster in some countries thus giving those reports. Definitely true in Singapore, there were plenty of IPX stocks available in Dec unlike previous years. But it's doing very well in China so overall it's a win for Apple.
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Your motivators feel much more accurate to me
If they expressed a belief that people of other races were inherently racist, then that would be a negative stereotype of that race and would be racist.

But no such belief was expressed in the article. They only said "No one was listening to us, and I can’t prove it, but I really feel in my heart: if Jahi was a little white girl, I feel we would have gotten a little more help and attention."

There's nothing in that statement expressing a view that the hospital staff was inherently racist because of the hospital staff's race.
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Flickr, for one.

Yeah, I imagine the putatively photographer sites like Flickr preserve it. My assumption is that Facebook saves it, removes it, then allows the image to display. ISTR years ago some controversy about EXIF stalking on FB, but it may have been another service.
Apparently this wasn't a "rumour" though.

There was a LOT of chatter about the cancellation of the X in the summer due to low numbers:

In a new report obtained by AppleInsider, acclaimed KGI Securities’ analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says disappointing sales of the iPhone X will lead to the cancellation of the model “with production ceasing in the summer”. This would be the first time Apple has canceled an iPhone model after just one generation since the iPhone 5C in 2014.

Apparently he's been pretty consistent in getting big leaks like this right:

Kuo, who has a long track record successfully revealing Apple’s plans, said lack of interest in China is the main reason. In China big screens are king and the iPhone X’s polarising "notch" is seen by Chinese consumers as removing too much usable space. Especially when the cheaper iPhone 8 Plus actually delivers slightly more.

The news also follows a new survey from Cowan that claims an interest in new iPhones has hit a historic low.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2018/01/21/apple-ip...
>> If the person dies doing something they love, who are we to judge?

"We" are a society who has decided, according to our morals, that preventable loss of life is tragic and we should do everything in our power to avoid it.

And why is that "judging"? The point is not to bestow some moral value on the person putting themselves in mortal dagner for "something they love". It is, rather, to stop them from needlessly and pointlessly killing themselves while at it.

Your comment expresses a certain view, that looking into others' lives and forming opinions about their choices is somehow morally wrong. An alternative view is that it's the responsible thing to do, when one lives in common with other people.
Bernie basically ran on class warfare. It's not exactly a secret.
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Fair question. Is that person slacking, projecting, coping, or percolating?
You're talking about the present. I'm talking about paying down debt now, because the really good times never last. You tightly constrain - or ideally eliminate - the debt now so that when the challenging times inevitably arrive, you have far more flexibility.

See: GE, Sears, US Steel, Alcoa, GM, Xerox, Eastman Kodak, Kmart, IBM. All former giants that were laid low. The only guarantee Apple has, is they'll face a critical point like those companies did. Having $200 billion in cash with zero debt, will sure beat having $50 billion in net cash, when that time comes.

Apple should know this better than anybody. They nearly went bankrupt 20 years ago, due to their fortunes turning south.
Yes, the proper way to interpret this is that investors are a lot more optimistic about Google's future vs. Apple's. Investors see in Apple a company that serves hardware to a mature market, while in Google they see a company that mainly produces software in fairly diversified markets.

Investors may be wrong of course.
iPhone X wasn't as supply-constrained as previous iPhones. Whatever that says about iPhone X demand, it won't make a revenue difference at this juncture.

Apple's improving their operations every year, so they can ship more units now than they could last year or the year before. Previously, if Apple was completely supply-constrained between launch and the holiday season, they would only earn revenue on the quantity of iPhones they could ship. Now that Apple has improved their supply chain volume, their launch quarter units shipped will go up purely as a function of that, and their revenue will also increase as a function of the higher unit price of iPhone X.

The only difference, if there truly is one, will come in the next quarter or two. If a product is supply-constrained, there's a backlog of demand for it that only gets met down the road. If the product isn't supply-constrained, there isn't as much backlog and consequently, unit sales and revenue won't be as high. But that doesn't affect the launch quarter because the launch quarter is completely limited by supply.

If iPhone X was a total flop, of course, that would have shown up by now. But "iPhone X less popular at launch than iPhone 6" is a hypothesis we can't judge yet.

Edit: It's also really, really easy to tell whether a product is supply constrained. Just go to apple.com and see how long it'll take to ship. See if people are scalping them on Craigslist for a premium over the retail price. These kinds of things happen with major console launches and used to happen with Apple's product launches, but Apple is one of the biggest consumer electronics brands in the world, has some of the best operations in the world, and contracts with the best high-volume electronics manufacturer in the world, so it's more than possible for them to overcome the supply constraints that "plagued" previous launches.

iPhone has an installed base of 1.3 billion users. That's more than 1/6 of the world population. At this point, there probably aren't even enough people in the world who can afford smartphones for demand to grow as fast as supply. If Apple's operations and supply chain can grow faster than the global middle class, they're going to get past their supply constraints, and apparently they already have. That's not necessarily a reflection on this year's iPhone.
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They probably put together a production cut plan just in case (as they should), and then someone finds out about it and assumes that because they made a plan to do a thing, that they're going to do a thing.

Popular thinking can't really wrap its head around risk management.
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FP does not solve a problem for reactive programming, reactive programming solves a problem for FP.
'Stunning'? Come on.

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I literally just came to this thread wondering if this revenue number was related to the stock market bubble in general, especially since Facebook’s stock does not seem to be impacted...at all...by the recent negative press / shifting focus of the company.

I also want to add that the huge focus on marketing and advertising in general really comes from a shift in the business that occurred in the 1970’s at the major business schools. At the time, there was a feeling that the US was overproducing products that weren’t needed, and the only solution was to more innovatively inform customers of what they needed, since cutting back on production would hurt the job market. One thing this led to was very specific marketing segmentation, among others. For instance, all older Americans used to be classified as 65+ in most marketing programs, maybe with race and gender added on as well. Obviously that was a very general category that now has been split into dozens of subcategories.

Anyway it seems like their plan wound up working out to well with the numbers we’re seeing out of Google and FB...
While this may be technically sound, I think this is not the most fundamental way of explaining FRP. FRP is just a toy really. It's a useful toy that help to grasp and use an advanced programming concept. Let me explain.

That concept originates from a common programming mistake. A common mistake is to use compulsive caching. It's the tendency to store function results in a variable just because this result is gonna be re-used. The right way instead is to evaluate (or "re-evaluate") the function every time you need it unless you have a good reason not to (the only good reason is that the function is a bottleneck that affects the experience of the user). This is a better way of doing things because as everybody knows, invalidating caches is a hard thing to do (and variables, guess what, are just caches).

The added benefit (which really is not a benefit, but just good programming) is that things gonna now seem reactive.
They are useful to prevent the hotlinking of images/video from third party domains, which can incur in significant bandwidth costs for smaller websites.
Also of note, sounds like slowing all those batteries down really did the trick.
Do you Nature will eventually hit on a global optimum? If so, that belief is opposed by what biologists know about developmental and evolutionary pathways.

For a trivial and well-known example, there is now no developmental or evolutionary pathway that will lead to a vertebrate eye where the nerves run behind the retina. As a result every last vertebrate has a blind spot where all of the nerves dive through the retina. This makes our eyes less efficient because the nerves block out light.

We're therefore stuck with the first design of the vertebrate eye and can't change it. There is no pathway to the more sensible design of the mollusk eye.

This is but one of many examples. For another one, relative developmental timing of growth is fixed across vertebrates. For example the "hand" grows before the "arm". The result is that pterodactyls, whose wings are entirely hands, could fly from birth. But birds (whose wings are arms) and bats (a mix of the two) can't fly from birth. No matter how desirable an evolutionary trait that may be.
There's actually very little empirical evidence that the particular two-axis model offered by political compass (or libertarians in general) is much better at modelling real-world distribution of political ideas that the one-axis left-right model.

That's not to say that there aren't other axes of variation than the left-right axis, though.
> instead you get a bunch of errors that there is no "hash" overload

Since you get some kind of compile-time diagnostic, then effectively, the type is checked. Just, within static time, not as early as you'd like, with not as a relevant a diagnostic.

ISO C++ doesn't dictate the wording of diagnostics; a C++ implementation could work backward from that error, or do whatever else, in order to phrase the diagnostic in terms of a problem in the template.
Yes, we are in an AdTech bubble where companies attempt to say that their advertisements are more targeted and actually reach people when they aren't.

Facebook has had a bunch of issues where their metrics either are inaccurate or don't make sense. Google has cornered advertisment on what people intend to search but probably can't grow much bigger unless they go beyond the United States (the problem is that they are probably already saturated in the top 20 economies). This leaves Video advertisement and that is either getting increasingly harder to monetize or you have to make your own content which basically means you become Netflix, Amazon, Crunchyroll or Youtube (which Google already has). Not to mention the amount of clickfraud that is already happening.

So what will happen when this ends is that we will see a bunch of AI promises that can't be fulfilled not occur and a drop in AI investment. Also, any small startup in AdTech will either rise to the occasion or die trying.
There is an emerging pattern of analysts pushing out negative outlook on Apple's performance shortly before they announce earnings. This quarter it was the whole Apple X production cut thing.

Why do I feel this is actually some sort of gaming of the system which ought to be investigated by authorities? Clearly, there are players are constantly doing this to drive share price down, buy the stock and wait for it to bounce back up again after earnings.
We're talking absolute numbers here, not margins or percentages.
Google and Facebook are propping open the internet advertising door, against the forces of technological progress.

Google only controls Chrome so that they can ensure it never incorporates real ad-blocking. Google controls Firefox by bribing Mozilla with a tiny slice of its advertising winnings. Facebook plays second-fiddle, but has its own influence as the second largest ad network.

Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg are smart and must realize what they're doing is wrong. They must simply not know how to replace their advertising revenue with something legitimate and future proof. In both cases they're (arguably) one-hit wonders. Google is still Google Search and Facebook's social network is still just a social network.

You can buy Oculus or clone iOS but if your only plan is to stick ads on everything, you're not making any real progress.

They both have a single-point-of-failure in their businesses. I predict this single point is going to fail catastrophically in the surprisingly-near future.
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