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> If I do the calculation right, that's an average revenue per iPhone of $796. That seems extremely high to me.

The iPhone X is either $1000 or $1200. Since they said it’s their best selling phone on a per week basis, it wouldn’t be hard for that to drive up the average selling price compared to last year.

> Also, iPads bring in less revenue per unit sold

They released the newest iPad last year, the one that is effectively and air to but only cost about $300. Since the entry level “modern“ iPad (not a model a few years old) used to be $500 it makes sense that they may have lower revenue per unit.
> I don't think your comment applies at all to Kubernetes.

It does. I've deployed and maintained our company's infrastructure on Kubernetes for over a year now.

> K8s came as a savior to all my issues: I burned all my old ansible scripts and rewrote all my infrastructure in k8s.

This doesn't make any sense.

Ansible scripts out changes to make to a system. Kubernetes deals only with opaque images and does not change them at all, it simply runs them.

>K8s is far from being just a trendy buzzwordy shiny new cool toy to play with. It solves real world problems that dev ops have. I am so glad this technology exists and I hope to never have to go back to writing ansible/puppet/whatever scripts.

I'm not really sure how to reply to this without being accused of bad faith, but I'll just reiterate again, your post does not make sense because it is talking about tools that do different things. It's like saying you love hammers and hope to never use wrenches again.

That said, Kubernetes is a shiny buzzword that is much overvalued.
This Twitter account tweets #alerts BEFORE cryptocurrencies start falling. How?
I bet they are stoked that you are telling us? (Because that is a zero sum game).
Considering that referer is trivially spoofable, not a great idea to rely on it for anything really.
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One man's "burn piles of cash" is another man's "grow market share". There's a lot I don't like about Amazon, but it's hard to say they don't get growth.
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If you're talking about the notch vs. touchid, then no, I vastly prefer the notch/faceid and can't wait for all my apple products to have it.

Why? Simple user experience. I don't want to rest my thumb (or any finger) to unlock my phone before I select where I want to go. Screen turns on, notifications are present, phone is unlocked and my finger's first gesture is to select which notification to goto. That whole same user experience with 1 less motion is gold to me.
I don’t think they could buy a cell phone company. As much as Apple likes vertical integration that would immediately piss off all the other cell phone companies and they have a much harder time selling things. And that’s assuming that the Justice Department would even let them.

Netflix makes plenty of sense, I’d be happy with that.

I doubt they’d ever by Tesla, but if anyone could sort out the production issues they were having I imagine Tim Cook and his team would be quite good at it.
They've finally fixed it after 20 years because APFS is case sensitive. But it's been a lovely way for them to force upgrades to the pay monthly creative cloud if you want to ever move off HFS+.
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Brood War is the only true eSport. It reached levels of success that most eSports could only dream of, including having two+ television channels dedicated to it. With Brood War, even non-players could watch and follow along, but League, DotA, Overwatch, etc draw their viewers from the massive playerbases that they enjoy. It's impossible to understand at anything but the lowest level what is happening in a MOBA unless you are a devout follower of the game. I say all of this as a long time player of DotA (1,000+ hours) and CS:GO (250+ hours)
> the style really does not help the credibility of the story or allows following the argument

Yeah, I wish there was a supporting text document with citations.
If you look at iPhone iconography -- it's always been basically a rounded rectangle with a circle and square for the home button. Easily identifiable as an iPhone with just 3 shapes. With the home button gone, the notch is used to distinctively represent an iPhone.

Perhaps the whole thing is purposely form over function.
This is a sham. There is no specific allocation for the same in the budget. State Governments have been instituting insurance cover for population for ages and it is available around the same quantum. Generally insurance in India like any other country has the effect of artificially inflating healthcare cost. India would do well to spend money on improving public health infrastructure instead.
> Plus being a subset of C++, there is hardly any value in learning C as such, instead of good C++ idioms

To say this is to miss the point entirely. A machine runs not C++, but C. To learn how to use, e.g., std::vector (to cite a random example) is to learn a high-level programming concept which could be learned in any language but not to learn how the machine works. To learn how to use a char* in c++ is a complete waste and not different from learning how to use a char* in c.
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Have you played either? Esports make a lot more sense when you play the game competitively yourself. It's (to me, and lots of people) always fascinating to watch people being excellent at things that I'm not that great at.
One is a collection of very interesting and diverse styles and approaches to a subject I can't stand looking at. The other is a collection of interesting and useful products in a narrow range of styles that I am completely tired of. But both seem more effective for their intended purposes than if the boring style was representing the abhorrent subject matter, and vice versa.
Apple never gives that kind of information away. All we know is that since it’s launch Apple said that they sold more iPhone X’s per week then they sold iPhone 8s or 8+s (not combined).
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Fargate is kind of serverless. Ultimately you're running applications on containers on ecs. It takes away the need to deal with the ec2 instances which is huge, but you still have to deal with the networking and making sure your web server process(es) stay up.
There are clever solutions to this. Escrow works even in bitcoin. Then at a certain point you call the police. No reason to insert a hugely expensive third party in a 2 party transaction.

Edit: It's more than one hugely expensive third party if you consider each level of local government gets involved.
Won't happen, but a number of alternatives have finally been springing up which beat the features of Adobe products. DaVinci Resolve instead of Premier Pro and After Effects to a lesser extent, Unity Web instead of Flash, Darktable instead of Lightroom. And on the Mac OS side, Affinity Designer instead of Illustrator, Pixelmator instead of Photoshop.
That domain belongs to Tealium IQ, an alternative to Google Tag Manager.

Tag managers allow you to encapsulate third party tags (and really, any JavaScript you want) and have them dynamically injected without having to hard code anything else on the page.

Since that was blocked, you never even saw the other tags that would have attempted being ran.
I don't know, I have one and I genuinely love the notch (and the other rounded corners). The device feels organic and sci-fi in a way that strictly rectangular screens do not. (But I haven't seen an all-screen phone yet, so maybe I'd change my tune if I did.)
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Can't see the internship bootcamp on the provided link.
> And no Face ID camera. The "notch" was because of the Face ID components.

Facial unlocking was introduced in Android phones back in 2011.
That's not so arbitrary, that's plain QML.
Hofstadter's "Le Ton beau de Marot" (which is about translation) is one of my favorite books of all time.
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For me (small startup) this is the killer feature of k8s. I'm not operating at a scale where "cluster scheduling" is a thing I need to care about, though self-healing and load-balanced services are nice.

To be able to stand up an exact copy of my application on a dev machine, or even better in a review app per-branch (complete with DNS entry and TLS cert) is incredibly valuable. You can run through essentially all of the deploy pipeline before even merging, including SSL config tests etc.
100% the case. k8s is not a terrible thing and there are good uses for it, but the vast majority of people who are using it don't understand what it's doing, and don't understand that their application is not equipped to handle that type of execution model.

Just yesterday I had someone tell me "Kubernetes was like magic and it made everything easy". This is absolutely not the thing a serious/honest Kubernetes user would say. Kubernetes is a big heavy thing, and it's a lot of trouble to maintain it; generally, far more trouble than using sane configuration management on VMs would be (you need sane configuration management in k8s too, so you aren't swapping one complexity for another). We're reaching "MongoDB is web scale" levels of hysteria around Kubernetes.

Example of the insanity: my account on HN has been censured for the "tedious" nature in which I would assert that Kubernetes is not a good platform for databases.

There is a serious, concerted effort by Google to put k8s at the forefront, and they are not playing games with it.
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where's the engineering though?

how much weaker is the glass thanks to these curves. what's the factor of safety?

where are they intending the glass to break? how did they use that to minimize the damage to the rest of the device when that happens? is it easier to remove the screen there?
>The notch is a literal non-issue that only people who don’t actually use this damn device seem to complain about or even notice.

Do you suppose it's possible that it's no coincidence that people who dislike the notch don't use the phone?
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LUL. 20b in 3 months profit and they're struggling!
But this was a fantasy. In fact, Adam Curtis simply never existed, and neither did young people. At least, that's what we were led to believe by a series of internet comments while at the same time, the government undertook a series of seemingly unrelated actions.
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It's Qt based, it's easy to create your own blocks with C++.
Are you competitive at all? If you aren’t, it would be hard to understand any competitive venture.
I think you've nailed the problem for me as well: possibilities and opinions are presented in the same style as facts. This is more like what is done by news reporters than history documentarians.

I am not happy when opinions and possibilities are promoted as though they are facts, but I only tend to pay attention when I do not agree with the position. Adam Curtis does this a lot to link things together that seem otherwise unconnected and the position he takes tends to be rather inoffensive to me.

This is made worse by being combined with archive footage: we tend to believe our eyes in a way we don't our ears. I don't feel qualified enough to confirm that the archive footage is even about the events which are being discussed.

Thinking about it some more, I would be outright hostile towards his methods if the narrative were to move into a position that I did find offensive.
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This is one thing I absolutely don't understand. Phone makers should be sued to oblivion (and I'm saying this someone who is not fond of the litigation culture of US in general) for making a portable device that is essentially designed for failure .. a fall. A phone that is meant to be held for hours, to be placed in all sorts of surface, giving it a slippery back is willful negligence for me.

But it's no nice looking they would say while buying a cover to promptly cover it the moment they unbox it. The idiocy of modern day smartphone culture boggles my mind. Ironic that it reminds me of apple's 1984 commercial in a bad way.
different shapes cause the strength to change in different ways.

certain notch designs are much better than others for keeping the screen from breaking.
Yeah I don’t mind the notch at all and never notice it.
You do what you gotta do! :) cheers!
Is there a chart somewhere that shows the trade-off between "number of patterns and algorithms to memorize" vs "number of steps to solve"?
So are cookies, but you wouldn't say that it's a bad idea to rely on them. Spoofing is only useful if you know the value you need to spoof.
What is wrong with the touchbar? What is wrong with the notch?

I've been on a touchbar mac and it's just as usable as having keys, with the added flexibility of changing them around (adding a lock button, etc.). It's mostly a non issue and does everything the prior bar did.

The notch essentially houses the 1 feature most people love on their X's, it becomes a non-issue once you use it. Or, if you're like me, you recognize that instead of losing a notch, you gained 2 ears of information.
High resolution here:

http://thoughtmaybe.com/hypernormalisation/

More of Adam Curtis's filmography:

http://thoughtmaybe.com/by/adam-curtis/
India has 1,320m people. This headline is slightly concerning, given the caste system in place that engineers poverty. Who is paying for it and who is getting the benefit?
Basically anything overengineered? Concrete example: C++ "manager" objects. Why not finally learn how to structure applications and keep allocations and resource use in check? The program will be so much simpler, compile quickly, be easy to understand (execution threads stop jumping around like crazy), and typically have less memory leaks / use-after-free etc.

RAII, garbage collectors and other fancy inventions for freeing resources from the call stack automatically? Not needed. Use global resource managers. Globals are needed and semantically the right thing. Not a problem.

Any crazy programming language with all the features they could conceive? The one you need is guaranteed to be missing. Better, express your problem yourself and write a simple generator script that translates your concepts (mostly as plain old data) to the minimal language.

Another: XML (and even JSON), possibly for anything except true document markup. It's slow and doesn't buy us anything. Yes, there are ready-to-use parsers, but after parsing you still hold a mess in your hands (and only strings / floats). Finally learn database basics and manage data in tuples. Make a text file parser that takes simple table (= list of column types) descriptions and then parses tuples from single lines and puts them as typed data in arrays of structs, done!
Great stuff! But I actually think implementing Space Invaders is much easier if done as a true "bitmap". An array of bits in memory. Rather than a sprite sheet.

Animation is just flipping the bottom rows. Collision detection is pixel precise. Rendering effects can also be optimized.

But the draw to bash shell looks like its running at high frame rate. Could this usher in a new dawn of terminal gaming?
> Isn’t the best choice for the privacy conscious to set up a VPN on a machine they themselves have physical control over?

perhaps I am missing something, but it seems like having physical control over the machine breaks several important use cases for VPNs.

if I understand correctly, the privacy that you get from a VPN comes from encrypting the traffic itself, hiding your actual IP, and mixing your traffic with other clients using the same exit point. although it is a matter of record that you are a subscriber, no intercepted traffic can actually be traced back to the IP you own (assuming your provider doesn't keep logs, of course).

I don't really see how these qualities could be retained by operating your own VPN server. unless you are doing some black ops shit, your identity would have to be connected to the VPN server itself, so the fact that it masks your computers IP doesn't matter. plus you probably don't have many other people using your server, so you lose that plausible deniability.

I would be quite glad to be corrected, as I certainly don't love trusting my provider when they say they don't keep logs.
The reason for processing on your own server is so you own the entire checkout experience. If you redirect he user to another site for payment, you run the risk of losing track of that user. Also, the third-party’s branding may clash with your own.
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> disjointed, hard-to-follow argument, that feels like its backed by no (or irrelevant) facts

Respectfully, I have to disagree. I watched this documentary for the first time last night and came away feeling that the jarring tone was deliberate (the whole point was that our unease about the chaos of the world is being exploited for political means).

I'm curious if you were familiar with many of the events depicted in the documentary? I suspect it would have been harder to follow without some knowledge of these events.
Looking at this the other way around, I think people want to conceive of politics as an objective science when in reality it's much more of an art form. Steve Bannon realized earlier than most people that politics is all about narrative and has used that realization to forward his political goals. Curtis is similar, although I don't think he has as specific a political motivation as Bannon. I think he more just likes narrative for narrative's sake and happens to have chosen politics as the backdrop for that. Probably not fully understanding how people would respond to it.
In my experience, you rarely have to reorient on the slider, because touch-and-drag is a valid gesture on the volume and brightness sliders. i.e., you don't have to tap, find slider, touch-and-drag, you can just directly touch-and-drag the button. Doesn't work for very large changes due to where the buttons are, but it hits 90% of my use cases in a cleaner way than the old buttons did.

I do have to flick my eyes down to find the button, but it doesn't bother me---fully understand it might bother others, though.