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In my experience one of the main issues is those who hold the reins often do not have the technical expertise to envision something interesting. Therefore there is no directive to do something interesting, and thusly people do not innovate.

My solution to this is to 1) gain rapport with executive level people and inform them of paradigm shifting opportunities and 2) do the interesting things anyways, when no one is looking... This requires you to master your current position to a point that you make free time within your working hours. Automate, clean up, pay off techdebt until you find it easy to deliver enough to keep managers happy. Then start to work on toy projects to prove out interesting applications of things.
For a laptop? Even my heavy usage is ephemeral workloads.

I care so much more that the dang thing works reliably without fussing or fiddling, which can not be said about 99% of laptops on the market.
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I’m not exclusive to PWA and Xamarin; React Native is huge right now and Google is pushing Flutter heavily (in order to ease the transition from Android to Fuchsia, but I digress). And Swift/ObjC with Xcode and Kotlin/Java with Android Studio are always solid options and the ones Apple and Google officially recommend if you ask them.

The stacks and options are just tools in a box; I believe in using the right tool for the job (or the tool required for the contract) rather than being a tool about this stuff. But if asked my opinion I will default to PWA until I know there's a feature requirement beyond PWA's growing abilities.
Strange.

Toshiba laptops are purchased a lot for governments and large corporations. So they might be trying to focus on that.

But, the article says that the Toshiba laptop section is being sold to Sharp, which is controlled by Foxconn, and that Foxconn wants to:

"Sharp executives say Mr. Tai believes Foxconn’s know-how in assembly and connections in the technology business can make the PC business profitable at Sharp"

So they're giving it a reboot under the Sharp name, and maybe not focusing on government or corporate sales. Interesting.
On that console / IDE point you made, IPython can still be quite good for that if you use the interactive shell.

For example, I might make two shell tabs in tmux, and make one a small rectangle towards the bottom of the screen (holds my running IPython session), and a large rectangle above it (holds my Emacs where I’m editing source code).

And I might have a third shell tab somewhere that detects any time source files are changed and re-runs unit tests.
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I think you're expecting it to be a general purpose mobile CPU comparison, when it's not. It's a very specific look at the next generation of ARM processors. Similar to a look at the next generation of Intel processors or the next generation of AMD processors, it makes sense to compare and contrast specifically it to what came before in the same line. That said, they do include A10 and A11 processors in the benchmarks, so you can see how it is projected to perform in comparison with current processor lines.

Additionally, there's far more to compare that raw performance, especially when looking at these types of CPUs. Actual size (others here have mentioned Apple's processors are quite large due to cache), power draw at idle/peak, etc are very important for mobile CPUs.

In the end, it's not a buying guide, it's an info-dump about a new product.
They specifically mentioned QuickTime in the release notes as well.
Depends what you are doing and whether the upgrade justifies the cost and productivity gain. I just bought several i5 quad core 3.2Ghz Dell Optiplex 3010 for our church for $35 ea. They run Windows 10 and LibreOffice just fine on a HDD. Now, if I'm crunching for distributed computing, I might want that quad XEON 24-core 1U server off eBay instead. Just depends on your workload and use case.
> However, it has the slight problem of not actually being true.
The slight problem of your explanation showing that you do not actually understand the issue makes this unprovoked snide remark not only unnecessary but also embarrassing.

I thought it was a snide remark too. I wish people would stop using flashy statements just to make themselves sound smarter.
>if they didn't fix the keyboard it really is moot.

Exactly! You could give me 64GB Memory and 16 Core CPU and I still won't be happy. Without a keyboard, PC / Mac 's main user input paradigm, it is literally useless.

We need a keyboard that is thin, give more depth then the Third Generation MBP, water resisitant that is literally standard in all other similar priced machine from HP, Dell, and Lenovo Thinkpad, and reliability that is number one in the industry.

Macbook has had more keyboard failures then all other HP / Dell / Lenovo Business class machine before even the MBP Touch. And its replacement cost a fortune. A Keyboard Failure in the new MBP will set you back anywhere from $600 -$800. As the whole case needs to be replaced.

Getting a new battery for your MBP cost $200, and you get a new keyboard that comes with it.
I'm CTO of a machine learning/computer vision company, and quite a bit of the team's work is "gluing libraries together" -- but even so, it's an intensely interesting, rapidly evolving field. Plus I get to play with pixels and cameras and VR. That being said, I paid my dues in the 90's and early 2000's doing web services and boring J2EE and gluing Java to native and PHP to Perl to CGI [bleech]
I've noticed that whenever anybody says that they're an introvert, or that they prefer quiet spaces to work in, somebody else comes along and says, "just deal with it, you whiner!" This attitude suggests that _everybody_ is naturally "introverted" and _everybody_ would prefer a quite space to work in, but we're not going to get that, so we have to make do with what we have.
I'm not nearly as introverted as it seems you are, but I was a bit awkward when I'm was younger. Probably still am, but less so!

One thing that helped me was treating small talk as a game and a technical skill to master. I can still get pleasure and find interest in doing a good job of making small talk, even if I'm not interested in the topic per se. It's a complicated game for sure, which is what makes it interesting.
"A cynical interpretation is that Apple is deliberately dragging their feet because PWAs undermine their $99/year + 30% app price + 30% in-app purchases business."

That interpretation doesn't make sense. The $99/year/active developer is a nominal amount -- sofa change to Apple -- that couldn't sanely affect the Safari development roadmap. The 30% is a much a larger amount (though still small to Apple's scale), but PWAs don't compete for that money; a PWA developer looking to monetize their app doesn't have an alternative monetization platform/store with anything like the reach into the iOS device market. Put another way: a PWA developer looking to monetize their app is surely going to release it through the Apple app store anyway.
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IIRC that was discontinued two (or more) years ago.
I meant the Swiss German spoken language, which is not High German.
> If you want to solely focus on interesting technical problems, I'd recommend working in a research lab or going to academia. On the downside, you may lose that nice paycheck, but your curiosity will remain forever piqued!

If you join an industrial lab, rather than a lab in a university, you can keep the pay but still do the same thing as the academics.
And there are different versions with different APIs. Best to just read the source code for whatever you're running.
Starting off with Ubuntu is a good idea. That's the friendliest distro of linux yet it still provides a fair amount of extensibility so you can start playing around with the really cool things linux offers. There wasn't anything I found myself missing. I suppose the keyboard layout is a little different but that's about it? Again though, the beauty of linux is that you can change just about anything for your preferences. I guess the recommendation is simply to just switch and just start and be patient! Good luck!
So the solution is to automatically download and execute anything and everything?

The 90s called and want ActiveX back.
Can't help unrealistic expectations. If you don't like the policy, don't buy the car.

I mean, it's a bit silly, no? Everyone complaining in this thread while Tesla churns out thousands of vehicles a week to a backlog of consumers willing to wait at least another year for their vehicle. To you, it might be an issue. To those who matter (Tesla investors, employees, and customers), it isn't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The market has spoken.
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I wish more people understood this. We're in the middle of an unsubstantiated moral panic, like the old "video games will make kids into killers" panic that turned out to be totally false.

MySpace used to have animated DoubleClick style untargeted ads. It sucked. Facebook crushed them partly because it's a much cleaner experience and Facebook ads are so much higher quality.

The problem with all the people claiming this sort of move is great is it doesn't ring true, they sound almost in physical pain over "tracking" (a scary word for very primitive and broad-brush techniques, by and large).

But where are the people who have actually suffered concrete, quantifiable harm? Some real, unarguable case where someone suffered because of ad targeting? If there were a real harm here, given the enormous scale of the internet, there should be millions of such stories but the only one I can think of was years ago, about a supermarket that discovered that women who buy X, Y and Z things together are very likely to be pregnant. They caused a minor family drama by sending a teenager adverts for baby stuff when her parents didn't know. Arguably this is a hole the teenager dug for themselves, but even so, it wasn't even internet based stuff from what I recall.

And as far as harm goes, that's about it. I've never been harmed by ads. I've never met anyone else who has been either.

But I remember a LOT of people complaining back in the bad old days about the barrel-scraping punch the monkey inventory that typified the web experience.
The sad truth is every interesting problem turns into a job eventually. I was very proud of myself when I did my first custom linux kernel for an ARM machine, rev 0 hardware bringup and all. Pretty proud when I wrote the first working kernel driver as well.

Now I'm doing that stuff regularly for various industrial applications, and it's pretty meh. Still beats churning out javascript for the 10000th online store, that's true.
Yeah, I'm on my 2013 Macbook Pro right now and it still runs like a dream (within reason). I don't see myself changing it anytime soon.
So no royal road, just working well and actively steering towards working on the things of interest :). Thanks for sharing.
'Correlation does not imply causation' only means that causation is not a logical consequence of correlation.

It's no broader a statement than the one you prefer.
Can we get a processor that can handle 32GB of LPDDR first?
Yes definitely. Non-addictive, pretty harmless (physically) and it can be very therapeutic and insight-giving, albeit a bit frightening when it kicks in. It’s an introspective, spiritual trip, it very much clears your mind of distractions and running thoughts and alters your perception to the point where it seems like you’re examining yourself.

It’s also largely side-effect free unlike say MDMA. That’s what’s nice about psychedelics.

Certainly worthwhile but do your research first so you know what to expect (Erowid) and have some friends to look after you until you’re a bit more experienced.
But what is not "industry standard", as far as I can tell, is to release user data without permission in press releases.
Happy to discuss if there is any feedback.
For European customers that's a non-issue thanks to GDPR.
https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/cctv/ at least in the UK, you can request people who have CCTV footage of you, and also note that people have to delete CCTV when they no longer need it (how long that should be is arguable), so people have to delete CCTV without being prompted to. and this is not new with the GDPR, it's from the old law, from 1998, I think.
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Hello HN,

I'm an engineer with a medium-sized SV software company. I'm leaving the company, and I've earned a decent number of stock options.

I'd like to buy them, but the total cost at ~ $60k is more than I can do from savings, and more than I'm comfortable doing with a personal loan (though I do qualify).

I've spoken with ESO Fund and with SharesPost, but neither has been a good option. My company hasn't raised money in some time and therefore the publicly known valuation for the company is really dated.

Are there any other firms I should be considering here? Thanks for any pointers!
Absolutely, yes. Don't be around assholes when you do.
The benefits of black budgets and zero public pressure for measuring ROI.

They probably invented some ridiculous justification about "not being able to disprove the unknown" and that every abstract hypothetical threat we can invent should be taken seriously, something something Ruskies.
I'd recommend this as well. I've got a little bit of experience with it and it was easy to set up and integrates really nicely with Stripe. Can't recommend Craft enough as a CMS.
It’s somewhat plausible considering their unique biology - radically different to plants and animals. His book on mushroom cultivation is a classic. But honestly later he had some crackpot theories.
Did you even look at those numbers?

One might safely assume that parent did just that, given the detail of what they posted.

How do people pulling down six figures a year (in somewhere other than SV) not have any money at the end of the month? One $4 latte and NewEgg impulse buy at a time. I get the impression that you're looking for the big ticket item(s). Maybe there isn't one. Maybe it's just one $1.8MM jet rental at a time. $1.8MM for jets + $600K for catering = $2.4MM. Do that about 350 more times and there's your $800MM. And I'm dead serious about the 350 number. I'll bet they pay too much for payroll because "only the best and brightest", the in-house gym with state-of-the-art equipment didn't come cheap, the $100K espresso machine, and on and on...
I can't talk about mushrooms but I wouldn't recommend LSD and I think similar reasoning could apply to mushrooms as well.

I wouldn't recommend LSD not because I had a bad experience but because I felt why someone could. It's a scary drug that you really don't have a lot of control over until its effects start to wear off.

With something like alcohol or marijuana you mostly have control, you can kind of regulate how much of their effects you want to experience by consuming more or less, their effects wear off relatively quickly, and you can sleep them off. For the most part.

Anyways, the main reason why I wouldn't recommend LSD is because I think an individual that's interested should research it themselves and decide if they want to themselves. They shouldn't try it because someone said it was good or that others are doing it.
I think most of the complaints you outline can be solved by

1. Having tooling support for source controlling a notebook without all the garbage generated json causing issues.
2. Having tooling support for testing
3. Having style and review guidelines for notebooked code

In other words, treat a notebook as a first class citizen, and as a legitimate part of the workflow, and it stops feeling like a crufty, unreproducible, hacky mess.
If every Mercedes Benz crash makes national news and the media tries to blame the car for the crash rather than the driver, you bet they will.
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The nice things about standards are that there are so many to choose from. Looks like Apple is making their own standard just like Google.
>> still searched for witches in the 1980s.

There are more practical and down-to-earth reasons why they would want to monitor witches. Another gate, the heavens gate UFO cult, caught the FBI's attention when they all killed themselves in 1997. That caused the FBI to start monitoring some scifi and UFO groups. I don't knock the FBI for wanting to maintain broad institutional knowledge. If that means paying for people to be experts on witchcraft ... if they had experts on UFO cults in the 1980s maybe they could have prevented heavens gate.
Plus: "Different," and shorter-acting, than most other common psychedelics.

Minus: Can be really rough on your guts, relative to other psychedelics. Do not eat beforehand, consider making "tea" with lukewarm water.

Contrary to popular advice, I am not a fan of "trip sitters" because the presence of third parties tasked with judging your sanity can be a little stressful. If you are not comfortable being totally alone, the psychedelic experience might not be one you enjoy. Or it might be.
I like reading the handwritten notes:

This one is a gem: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789...

They were trying to describe nuclear testing sites or activity? And at some point they ended up drawing a cute teapot with musical notes coming out of its spout.

This one has a drawing of a military building, with a little truck and man next to it:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789...

A rather details rocket engine or a satellite payload:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789...
As someone who is a student, I'm working on writing a new-kind of operating system this summer for GSoC. I find it pretty interesting :)
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edit: And anecdotally, I've interviewed a few companies doing $100k/mo and loving Shopify and WooCommerce. I think those are great places to start.
What's the deal with the recent flood of anti-Tesla news? Does someone want to buy Tesla stock, or is Tesla just no longer cool?
My close friends and I spent 11pm-6am in his living room painting, talking, and listening to animal planet background noise. Best 7 hours of my life
The interesting thing isn't the technology, it's what the users/customers are doing with it. It's how it improves their lives, simplifies their business, enables them to build other products and increase profits, etc.
Indeed, the assumption being that those who do their utmost best to steer users towards an app when a simple site would suffice for the purpose have ulterior motives, most likely related to data collection on said users.

This growing aversion to device-specific apps is actually a good thing in itself. Remember when web sites used to state that they were 'best viewed with browser X at resolution Y'? The rise of Firefox and the related demise of Internet Explorer (I wrote 'Internet Exploder' initially, a habit very much ingrained after years of suffering at the hands of Github's new overlord) did away with that nonsense, the web was slowly starting to live up to its promise of universal access no matter the OS or browser vendor. Then apps showed up, and with them the balkanisation returned with vengeance: to access this service you need to use iOS, Android app under construction, no plans for other devices, sorry 'bout that.

There is a space for apps: games and other performance/timing-critical applications which are hard to implement using web technologies. Applications which by nature are device-specific, e.g. Android Xposed, firewall apps, etc. Things like checking the bus times or booking a train ticket should never require an app.
Software is design, not construction. This is why it's hard to estimate.

You ask an architect to design a new skyscraper in a fixed three-month timeframe, good luck. It won't be what you want, or it'll have severe problems discovered during construction.

Software developers are creative workers, we have to accept this. Unless you're doing the nth iteration of basic CRUD/RESTful web app, or a trivial "display data from a database" app (note: the DB design may take more time, some of the controls on interaction will take more time, but the core of it will be the same) you can't reasonably estimate your time.

Once you know Ruby on Rails, making a prototype of a webapp is a rote task. You can knock it out in a known (from experience) time. Then you try to improve it, add new features, customize the backend (first time you've written a DB connector), things start going off schedule.

The only other way to have reasonable estimates of the development, is to spend a ton of time upfront (unestimable) designing the system before we touch the code. Ok, now the coding tasks are well understood, but you also just spent 2 years designing it. And, like the architect, if you rush this design part, problems will crop up during coding that will blow your schedule.
Do a search for firefighting drones, waterjet propulsion isn't the only method. But they could augment eachother and not cause any damages.
> "freedom software"

Too long, let's call it "free software" for short. It has "free" as the first word which emphasizes the essential freedoms.

If you want to refer to non-free, gratis software, the term "freeware" has been common for decades and other languages don't have that annoying ambiguity problem.
The Plus-sized phones didn't launch until after Jobs passed away, iirc.
The reason that planning software development is bullshit is that you simply cannot know all the little details because in software development you're always doing something you've never done before (because if you did you could just copy-paste your previous work).

If you can plan and execute putting a person on the moon, you can plan and execute software development.

I think the problem is the overwhelming majority of software development is so low stakes, easy to replace, assumed that bugs are par for the course, etc... that most orgs have stopped putting real effort into planning AND executing on that planning, instead just cargo culting the planning phase.
Thanks for the reference, I'll look at it.

When I wrote my edit to the comment, I didn't expect much reaction to my confused ranting. I was surprised to discover it resonates so strongly with people here. I guess I'm nowhere near alone in thinking those thoughts, and going through this process.