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> Let's look at Apple 10 years after Jobs' passing. 3 years to go! How have you liked Apple's innovations since 2011?

it's always important to remember that the CEO is not solely responsible for the successes and failures of a multi-billion dollar company.

that said, it's really hard to look at apple under cook's leadership and say that it's anywhere near as innovative as it was with jobs at the helm. the bulk of their current revenue is just riding the wave that jobs started with the first iphone. the iphone x is the most daring thing they've done in years, and it's basically just an iphone with a big screen.

the iOS UX is still really good, but it's not much better than a clean android setup. on the other hand, the desktop UX feels very dated at this point. I never thought I would find windows to have a more modern look and feel than apple, and it's downright depressing to see what the mac pro has become.

the company still performs very well as an investment vehicle though; I doubt they are in any trouble in the near-medium term.
The point is, the crew onboard the ship can compare clocks with those in different frames of reference at any time. All they have to do is observe the period of a pulsar for example, or measure the orbits of binary star systems, etc. It would be quite apparent to them that there is a time dilation effect for them with respect to most of the rest of the universe. See Tau Zero, by Poul Anderson. It has a few mistakes, but it's still a great read.
I think niche market software, used by a limited number of highly specialized professionals, is somewhat incompatible with the open source economic model. When a piece of software is used by very many users, and there is a strong overlap with coders or companies capable of coding, say an operating system or a a web server, open sources shines: there is adequate development investment by the power-users, in their regular course of using and adapting the software, that can be redistributed to regular users for free in an open, functional package.

At the other end of the spectrum, when the target audience is comprised of a small number of professionals that don't code, for example advanced graphic or music editors or an engineering toolbox, open source struggles to keep up with proprietary because the economic model is less adequate: each professional would gladly pay, say, $200 each to cover the development costs for a fantastic product they could use forever, but there is a prisoner dilema that your personal $200 donation does not make others pay and does not directly improve your experience. Because the userbase is small and non-software oriented, the occasional contributions from outside are rare, so the project is largely driven by the core authors who lack the resources to compete with proprietary software that can charge $200 per seat. And once the proprietary software becomes entrenched, there is a strong tendency for monopolistic behavior (Adobe) because of the large moat and no opportunity to fork, so people will be asked to pay $1000 per seat every year by the market leader simply because it can.

A solution I'm brainstorming could be a hybrid commercial & open source license with a limited, 5 year period where the software, provided with full source, is commercial and not free to copy (for these markets DRM is not necessary, license terms are enough to dissuade most professionals from making or using a rogue compile with license key verification disabled).

After the 5 year period, the software reverts to an open source hybrid, and anyone can fork it as open source, or publish a commercial derivative with the same time-limited protection. The company developing the software gets a chance to cover it's initial investment and must continue to invest in it to warant the price for the latest non-free release, or somebody else might release another free or cheap derivative starting from a 5-year old release. So the market leader could periodically change and people would only pay to use the most advanced and inovative branch, ensuring that development investment is paid for and then redistributed to everybody else.
That gets my vote too.

JRebel works well, but we need an official and free tool.
Concerta :-)
Verizon is a holding company. It's structured as a holding company with numerous subsidiaries because it's got physical property all over the country, and is subject to literally thousands of different regulatory regimes: federal, 50 states, thousands of city and county utility boards. But its profit figures are reported on a consolidated basis. (And if you have hard evidence to the contrary, man do you have a valuable lawsuit on your hands.)
The ColorHug is a colorimeter designed to calibrate screens with an approximately-sRGB gamut. If you're trying to calibrate a wide-gamut screen with a ColorHug it isn't going to work very well. If you need to do anything other than consumer hardware you need to use a spectrophotometer (that can do spectral profiling) rather than a colorimter that's calibrated to different primaries than what it's trying to measure. A spectro is going to cost you at least $300, and a good one is going to cost you somewhat more.

Source: Person that designed the ColorHug hardware.
You should extend your moral obligations to all animated objects.
Onenote is pretty good on windows, but on linux the webapp is kinda crappy
Tomte is not really Santa. It's more a gnome like creature. He's normally living near farms and protects the family and animals. The connection with christmas is quite new and seems more connected with it's other name Nisse, or Julenisse in particular. "The Tomten" by Astrid Lindgren seems to give a good overview of the folklore.
Congrats on launching.

The front page feels pretty cluttered with stuff like the code snippet acting as a link to the payment page(?).

I think a monthly billing strategy is not beneficial. If I'm an early startup, I'm probably struggling to get signups in the first place, let alone VIPs.

What about one-shot mass uploads? I only need you to check the data once and (unless your VIP db updates) the data I get back is settled once and for all. Could easily lead companies to pay you $19 to upload 10'000 emails and then cancel their account.

Your market seems to be businesses who do many low-touch sales.

Other than that, it's an interesting idea and I'm curious about seeing it in action.
Agreed. Reaching back into my memory banks. When bigtable first became available for app engine I was fascinated by the prospect of working with Google scale capable database. But there were so many odd hard to reason about vagaries of squeezing that performance out of the database by means of key structure. The developer ergonomics seemed simple at first but in the end were not at all what I expected.
That's an incredible look into the name. I never realized this twist before, so thanks for that. Is it mentioned anywhere explicitly?
Yes, and what does this marching in the streets really accomplish? What does having a "March for Women" really get done in the greater scheme of things, aside from making everyone participating it and supporting it feel good about themselves? Same goes for the "March for Science" and other such "marches."

"Political protest" has become normalized to the point where the general populace is becoming increasingly numb to it, making the concept lose whatever effectiveness it once had, and it's gotten to the point where at least for me personally, I can't keep up with the "marches" anymore. What are we marching for this week? Anti-racism? Anti-sexism? Anti-homophobia? Anti-transphobia? Anti-2A? Anti-fascism? Anti-Nazi?

All this marching just seems very evocative of Two Minutes Hate at this point. Let the public get it out of their system and move on to some other issue next month. Rinse and repeat, keep the hysteria and fear up, keep the population subdued and angry and afraid and emotionally vulnerable. It's been working out well so far.
We have to pay for all sorts of things we might not use, like schools, roads, healthcare, police, the military, etc, through taxes. This is because (at least in principle) our society as a whole benefits from these things. Likewise, until now it's been thought that workers as a whole benefit from unions fighting for them.
This 1994 paper (using Scheme) might be pertinent:

Fields in Physics are like Curried Functions or Physics for Functional Programmers: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.49.1...
I don't agree, the entire visual effects industry, including their color departments, run on linux. Baselight and Resolve, are the two most common color correction programs in the industry, baselight exclusively runs on linux, and the big color companies (company 3, efilm, technicolor) all run resolve on linux. Coloring is done either on projectors, or broadcast monitors (something like a sony PVMA250 on the low end @ ~$6,000)
if you think you can make better use of the dividend, why buy that company's shares at all?

even if a dividend were break even compared to the capital gains from reinvesting directly, you would still come out worse from having it taxed as income.
Not sure if this was your point, but your first paragraph is an accurate depiction of the War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan (and I'm sure plenty of other war-torn countries in the region). Despite the USA having military supremacy in nearly every way, there will probably be no end to the bloodshed for decades to come.
Sure, many users in China can use other services, but it seems to be a no win situation for most people. Unless you’re technically sophisticated, you’re unlikely to pursue alternatives which provide a greater degree of security and require a bit of technical know how.

At best you can say that Chinese users will likely be no worse off using iCloud than they would using any other China-based service. Unfortunately that is no consolation for anyone who might have sensitive data.
To me that does not give enough to contradict, they don't break down the figures any further to reveal properly.

"Approximately 40% of all serious and fatal motorcycle crashes in the Netherlands are single vehicle crashes (a crash in which no other road user is involved). In the other motorcycle crashes the crash opponent is mainly a passenger car"

Now I'm sure some of the other 60% are caused by the biker, but the vast majority of two vehicle accidents involving a bike come down to driver pulling out of side road, overtaking into blind spot etc. Your guess is as good as mine how they broke down further.

The only UK figures, with enough breakdown, I can find are 2004[0], which gave rider at fault 42%, other driver 44% with 33% single vehicle. They removed single vehicle to get 22% rider, 57% driver as cause when more than one vehicle.

But yes the idiots taking racing line at 100mph in weekend traffic are an accident waiting to happen and have a good chance of ending buried in a wall. I'm happy to let them pass me.

[0] http://www.mile-muncher.com/dft_rdsafety_035422.pdf
"I am a visual learner." That has been debunked.
Oh never mind at the very end of abc.xyz.:)
I’ve wondered this too but I just had a thought. I ended up asking myself why any black hole is ever bigger than critical mass if this is true.

Take a black hole that’s been slurping matter in and it’s all at the event horizon because as you say, it takes forever to cross. But as that mass builds and builds doesn’t the event horizon move? Take the scene to the limit. Say a black hole never absorbs anything. The amount of mass parked just above the horizon becomes so great that another black hole forms. Now you have two overlapping horizons, which can’t stay that way. What really happens is that the density of mass inside the radius near the black hole is sufficient to be a black hole of a larger diameter and then it just... is.

I think that what this means is that you never get to the event horizon, but the horizon comes to you.
> Buffett largely avoided tech because it didn't have a decades long track record.

I heard it was because he never really understood the tech behind the companies. He has also stated that he regrets not investing in Amazon early on.
Is this available in a proper typesetted form?
It'd be interesting to see if they had a similar moment of growth evaporating when Apple Music entered like Snapchat did when Facebook finally got a clone to stick.
As a user of AWS and DO (the former professionally, and the latter personally), I wonder if it's even worth competing against AWS. AWS is vast, vast: services built upon services that can replace almost all physical infrastructure. Push-button deployment.

But it comes at a cost: the cost. AWS's pricing model varies from very good to totally a flip of the coin: it can take hours to price-estimate infrastructure, which includes the data transfer fees that vary depending on how and where, and so forth.

DO is cost-competitive, so much so that until not that long ago they had totally free data transfer costs.

The question is, can they build a niche and not get eaten up by AWS going forward. Perhaps they're already doing that somehow. I just wish I could recommend them professionally as a consultant.
Years ago some idiot recruiter approached me by phone at my work. He got thru chain of offices and people to reach me by my name. As I had no phone on my desk finally my manager passed me the phone to answer the guy in a room of four co-workers.
I wasn't looking for a job that time actively. Possibly my name and company name on LikedIn was enough for his desperate quest.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity", A.Einstein.
China will block all non-approved VPNs from next month
Can't speak to US noise regs, but here most standard bikes really aren't that loud any more - years of noise regs have put paid to that. I'm just as anti excessive noise as many non motorcyclists. Not least because of

> "I'm all for outlawing motorcycles if noise is necessary for safety."

Being a noisy arse encourages sensible thinking people to start calling for outright bans. The lead footed in hot hatch or Subaru with Cherry Bomb are just as annoying as the noisy arse on a bike. Especially if late or around town.

On the flip side, noise regs have got so tight that some factory standard bikes are barely audible around town - presuming sensible revs, almost dangerously so. I think it was Toyota was trialling playing engine noises on EVs because of this. I don't want obnoxious straight pipes - just "enough" legal noise to be comparably audible as cars round town (as factory standard).
It's been on my radar that HTS wire is now commercially available and has already made an impact in the planned development of dramatically smaller fusion reactors. I also read reports of their use in massive electric motors used by navy vessels. Basically all these massive electromagnets can be made smaller, more powerful, and more efficient thanks to HTS wire.

They're already being used in the Tres Amigas project [1], though I haven't investigated what the scope of the application is there. I assumed it would be the power transmission since it seems likely to have the greatest losses due to the distance. It's clearly stated that American Superconductor is supplying the HTS wire for the project.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Amigas_SuperStation
I'd find that argument more compelling if not for the fact that most of the noise is focused behind the motorcycle instead of in front of it. How about we get rid of the intentionally loud exhaust system and replace it with a forward facing speaker playing ice cream truck music. In the name of safety of course. Doubt many Harley riders would go for that even though it is congruent with the claims of a desire to use noise to make a cyclist's presence known to other drivers.
> The really interesting philosophies emerge from the trenches and the battles in the field. For example, the most surprising meta-level insights on randomness come from Nassim Taleb's decade-long experience in trading securities.

I don't think Taleb would say his work was more important or "surprising" than the work of Mandelbrot, an academic.
Except that there is no "they". Unlike with Windows or macOS there is no Microsoft or Apple to make decisions for the whole "ecosystem". There are distro vendors, but they're more like app stores shipping pre-configured pieces (including pieces that we consider to be core OS functionalities). And there are a lot of them, so lack of consensus is not surprising. And then many vendors offer options to install this-and-that, so it's up to users to decide what exactly they build on their machines...

Given that there is no such thing as just "Linux desktop" (I mean, my setup can be completely different from another persons' one), it's hard to say whenever it's ahead or behind, unless every component option is known to be such.
As with most Open Hardware projects, you pay extra for the mere fact of the device's existence. Without paying extra, it wouldn't exist, because producing stuff in small amounts is way more expensive per device than producing them in high volumes.
> there's no telemetry in mitmproxy

Thank you kindly!
I had interviewed for an Editor position. The community writing articles for DigitalOcean's fellow customers seemed vibrant and I wanted to be a curator around this. The initial feedback I was given was very positive, and then I was ghosted.
High trust societies are the way they are because of genetic traits of its citizens. Especially in Scandinavian and other northern countries for tens of thousands of years the individual was only able to survive the long winter when it was able to think ahead and to cooperate in large groups. Like the skin color that fact must have some evolutionary impact for behavior. However those are things of the past. Bringing in migrants from low trust societies will once and for all destroy this culture of trust. Every integration measure so far has failed the past and will fail in the future as long as people ignore the fact that it takes certain strictly inheritable traits to be part of those communities.
Chickens perhaps dont care as much about windmills than they do about noisy/smelly drilling rigs. The mills probably do kill a few chickens but not in the same way as pollution.

Note that these turbines are near the highways for a reason. Those who care enough about the view to get out of thier cars will always find windmill-free vistas.
Getting MongoDB to work with Laravel locally
This is not the case at pretty much every co-op school I know of, including my own. Usually the programs utilize summer breaks and take 5 years, though you can often do 2 co-ops in 4 years or the like.
Anecdotal, but:

I currently work for a media conglomerate where colour tends to matter a lot to both the print and digital channels. I'm not sure which monitors they use as I tend to work rather separate from that group, but they all work on Macs—that's been the case since the late 80's early 90's in publishing and there seems to be no move to stray.
That's interesting regarding OLED, I thought over time the different colour LEDs decay at different rates?

A while ago I had a look at Eizo's 10 bit / channel TFTs, which looked impressive to me (from a layman's perspective), do you have any opinions of those?
Preferably, pick an existing project that you already use in your area of interest.
What these numbers tell me is that while lots of people start their own companies, these companies tend to stay small.
Maybe in the western cultures, but I've been hearing variations of the "nail that sticks out gets hammered down" from my korean family for a long time.
i'm german, so no.

but i admit that its incredibly rare to find localized data sheets. they're generally en_us, not that it really matters.
I think when he talks about "identity" what he really means is unquestioning allegiances, preventing purely merit-based objective discussions on some issues. IOW when you have an angle in it, when you're in a discussion not to get to the truth of the matter, but to achieve certain goals you have, to influence others, to push them in a direction that is favorable to you (without being conscious of it, otherwise you're just a dishonest manipulator, and this is not about that).

Just wanted to be more precise about what this "identity" thing really means. I think though that you can have a "wider identity" and have "fruitful" i.e. truth-seeking merit-based discussions at the same time; you just have to be conscious - and honest - about it. So I'd dispute his implied drive that you mustn't "be" something (Communist, Christian, etc.). What is really called for is being cognizant and honest.

Taking being Communist as an example, this would mean that you're playing for the ultimate goal, not for the advancement of your party over others no matter what. Putting ideals over politicking.

Of course the core ideals is a much harder core. These core ideals are the true core of your being, there's no easy arguing about changing them.

I apologize if this all is trite and cliche.
> AFAIK, stable unsafe Rust doesn’t even has malloc & free functions.

It's stable to import the C malloc/free, and it's relatively easy to use Vec as an allocator: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7yhhq6/borrow_cycles_...
A bad day at the office – perspective on the HMS Ambush submarine collision
Trump administration cracks down on H-1B visa abuse
I've read that painting the windmills white attracts insects, which attracts their predators.

I dunno if anyone's experimented with other colors, to see impact on avian mortality.
We are inside of infinite number of recursive black holes. We are inside infinite number of Homer heads. But we are too small to view whole picture even for level above.
"In SF we have these bastards who love nothing more than to rev up their engines and make noise, on residential streets, at night."

This is pretty much everywhere in the US. Aside from local ordinances, there is nothing you can do about. To call people bastards for a loud bike is one thing, but have you ever heard 'loud pipes save lives'?
Apple did fight off the FBI over this issue not long ago. I'm not saying the war is over though... that was just one battle.
OnePack: Most functional backpack for everyday life and travel
Another thing to bear in mind is that at least some of your colleagues are likely to be actively breaking stuff while they are "being productive". So in their productivity they achieve negative progress. You, by taking a break or a nap or whatever, are in fact achieving more than they do.
Make a list of what's coming up, the next 3 or 4 tasks if you can. Just this simple task of knowing what you have coming will let your subconscious start to think it over a bit so by the time you are putting the finishing touches on one task you already have a toe-hold on the new one.
SSTables have had a very significant impact on how many other databases have been developed. LevelDB was their first public appearance (I believe).

It's also nice to recognize the work of people who have had a significant impact on the industry. Jeff Dean & Sanjay Ghemawat are an incredible force.
Sometimes it can be due to pressure from investors. They've raised hundreds of millions in VC money, and VCs are often more comfortable with an "industry veteran" in charge. (And sometimes they're right to be.)
I wouldn't entirely underestimate Tory's play in this either. His background is in business, even at one time chairing on at least one corporate board including Rogers Communications.
The whole job center/activation system is a Kafkaesque nightmare of demotivation and denigration, according to people who've been through it.

Instead of making the stick bigger and more scary, why don't we focus on making the carrot tastier instead?

Having a job is not a goal in itself, having a decent life is. A job is simply a tool to that end (and not the only one).
Drop me line at vlisivka@gmail.com if you want to talk further about that.