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Actually, the biggest thing in Chrome's favor was being an installer pack-in. People still get sometimes Chrome installed on them if they go download Adobe Reader without unchecking the box. (McAfee Security Scan Plus is Adobe's other paid pack-in, you might see that instead, depending on your location.) People seem to vastly forget that a large part of Chrome's dominance of the ordinary user is the fact that installing half a dozen plugins or tools on Windows has or still installs Chrome and sets it as your default browser.

When doing PC support for layusers, I've found that: Most people don't know what Chrome is, and don't know the difference between it, Edge, IE, and the malicious Chromium fork they have installed on their PCs. (Side note: May the soulless individuals behind the "WebDiscover Browser" suffer a life of misery and despair as punishment for their crimes.) They end up with Chrome (or a malicious fork thereof) due to a bundle installer.
> Wouldn't you like to attend my seminar on the importance of representing yourself? Also, check out my book. And follow me on Twitter.

That doesn't happen, or at least it doesn't happen at anything close to the scale of prescription drug advertising.

Also, representing yourself pro se is a daunting, complicated endeavor. Buying a pill is not if you have the money, as you can clearly see with the supplement industry.
Or for rarely having outages...
Yes that's what I mean. I'm Swedish and it does not follow the Swedish input standard which I much prefer to any other.
I am not sure why WhatApp or Reddit would disappear, don't we have so many IRC and mailing lists that are still running, you do not need a crazy amount of servers and developers to keep things running.
I am not sure about YouTube, it would have survive in a fair competition, the problem is competing with giants that play in many markets is not fair
Matt Ridley, the author of the Rational Optimist, disagrees.
I'm not sure if that would bring them in the clear, Microsoft got fined for forcing Internet Explorer onto Windows users for instance.
Whatever we say about the EU, it seems they’re keeping US companies in check.

Sure GDPR is vague and had Edge cases, but it’s been a huge boon to the world. Thank you EU.
Hi Adora, This is awesome. I just applied for it. How many hours of lectures will we have in a week? As it’s an online course - do you recommend being in one physical location/geography?
That's because "open source" came after the GPL ("free software") and was positioned as something decidedly different.
Golden ticket holder here as well, personally I don't mind, I check back into the game every 3 or so months, enjoy whats new, read the monthly pdf's and thats that. I understand that the game will take time, and am satisfied with my investment in the development
Not the person you responded to, but he/she may be referring to there being other factors (unrelated to sleep) that may most likely be contributing to one's happiness factor, such as pre-existing health conditions (e.g., depression), relationships (both romantic and non), etc. A person who's just starting a new relationship and is still in the "honeymoon phase" might rate their happiness higher despite a lack of sleep.
Come on. It’s silly to pretend SF/SV is just one place among many others with respect to our industry. It is the place.
This is probably the most realistic theory I've heard that explains planned obsolescence.

I'd then argue that there's still some malevolence in there and that would be the maximum lifetime they calculated. Clearly the older stuff lasts longer so they miscalculated how long the new stuff should last and at some point it becomes the new norm. "Oh yeah, washer's aren't supposed to last more than 7 years"
So what dimensions do you propose to care about? Do the dimensions I mention not matter at all? If they do matter then I think there is still a point here.

You are engaging in a strawman. I don't claim anywhere that these are the only dimensions to care about, I simply claim that these are some things we've noted that testing leads to improvements.

Ultimately though my primary claim is simply that I see less value in opinions vs evidence.
Why do knowledge workers outrank finance or helpdesk or half one hundred other workers? Why should seamstresses in rows of clothes manufactories have to work in flow mode in desks in open noisy offices?

Sure, I get this. I get that the digerati want to be back in their offices, but the answer is not to objectify all other workers as deserving contempt and condemn them to open plan: the answer is to make fundamental worker health and safe working environment equal for all.

Don't make this about knowledge workers. Make this about workers.
What does the information in the course have to offer that is different from all the other books, courses and content out there on building a startup? Seems like everything out there basically presents the same concepts just in different words.
But if you charge people for a CPU that has been modified or set up so it cannot achieve the advertised specs then it is misselling.
The general principle seems to be that things owned by others remain so even if they are on your property, and intentionally damaging them is vandalism. E.g. if you notice someone's car parked on your land and smash its windows, that'd be a crime even if that car "has no right to be there" - you could require the car to leave in some legal manner, possibly have it towed or sue for damages caused by it being there; but breaking other people's stuff is one of the oldest things prohibited by law.
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This would be great if you didn't have to use scripted pipelines for so much stuff. Declarative pipeline isn't there yet.
Being mindful of your own emotional state presumes that you understand it. And judging by years and years of psychology, we're pretty bad at understanding ourselves.
I can't tell if sleeping well makes me happier, but I can confirm that not sleeping enough makes me unhappy. I need my eight hours, even one hour less and my mood becomes more fragile. Reduce it significantly less (let's say <5 hours) and the world turns dark on me.

This has always been like that, but more with age. That made having kids a real challenge. Luckily, my SO is not as nearly dependent on sleep as I am.
Isn't this how drone.io works?
Interestingly, I also studied piano for many years (from age of 5 until 18 I guess). I agree, wrist flexion is important, and I definitely do flex my wrists (sometimes in a seemingly exaggerated manner) when playing piano, however, for typing, I can comfortably type anything I want, including special characters, without flexing my wrists. Not sure if this is a sign of a well designed layout or RSI waiting to happen
People do not speak at 230 wpm. Ever. It does not happen.

Edit: I stand by this. Auctioneers do provide a good counter example but much of what they say is just repeated phrases.
So good of you to cut right through the nuance.

But of course to an Android buyer, it is all a part of the experience with the device. They know what to expect and what is there.

"he same sort of obfuscation Microsoft used when they argued a web browser"

And Microsoft was right. Windows has Explorer or Edge. It still does. The EU giant fine did absolutely nothing but made them realize that cashing in big on American companies is essentially free. Of course I still download Firefox, just as you can do on Android.
To play devil's advocate, Google's had these rules in place since Android released. It may be hard to visualize but Android started with 0% market share like everyone else. The tools Google used in Android's early days to rein in fragmentation (meaning what the EU is fining them for today) were effective but Google was still lambasted about not doing enough back then.

The only thing that's changed from then to today is Android's market share. I'm not so sure taking away Google's ability to fight fragmentation is necessarily a good thing for consumers or developers.

It'll certainly please OEMs and telcos, though.
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Or compare it with the fivethirtyeight blog predictions.
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That sounds a bit backwards, you would need to implement the network protocol twice and keep them in sync - which can be very tricky... Having a common code-base for parsing the network protocol into internal game structure objects is a huge advantage...
Can you link some products that have your research as a basis?
> why the same wouldn't apply to Apple for iOS?

Microsoft got into trouble because they forced companies like Dell and HP to make their products feature Internet Explorer.

Google is getting into trouble now because they're forcing companies like Samsung and LG to make their products feature Chrome.

Apple is not getting into trouble now because Apple is not forcing Apple to make their products feature Safari. Obviously iOS does feature Safari, but Apple was free to make that choice. There is no OEM here being bullied.
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A $2 million game will cost (more or less) the same to develop whether it goes on to sell 1, 100, 10000 or 10 million copies. The cost of producing a handbag depends a whole lot on how many you need to produce.

So assuming that shipping more copies is very cheap once the game is developed, what do you do when you get $6 million in funding for a $2 million game?
> Massive fines discourage monopolistic behavior, if nothing else.

The problem is businesses may take it as a signal that the EU is against foreign businesses rather than against monopolistic practices, in which case the thing being deterred is doing business in the EU rather than monopolistic practices. To show otherwise they would have to levy equally large fines against local businesses engaged in the same sort of practices, which they haven't and likely won't.

If they really wanted to signal discouragement of monopolistic behavior rather than a cash grab they would be ordering specific conduct rather than excessive fines. For example, if the issue is that they promoted Google Chrome in an unacceptable way, prohibit them from distributing Google Chrome in the EU for five years. And then do the same thing to Microsoft just to be even-handed, because they're still bundling their browser with Windows. And likewise with Apple and Safari.

Let everyone use Firefox for five years and see how much browser bundling happens after that.
Yes. That's what it means. Your contract is meaningless against a corporation when they can change the terms of the agreement and force you outside of a court of law into a monkey court of arbitration.

The courts are for the wealthy, not for the plebiscite. This is what this ruling shows.
So, a single AZ could span across multiple physical locations, as well?

Am I reading that correctly?
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Let's hope Dublin doesn't do something ridiculous like NYC and pass laws which fine property owners millions of dollars for cleaning up graffiti off their own property... only after selling the property to be demolished for a new development:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/nyregion/5pointz-graffiti...

I'm all for street art but this is getting a bit ridiculous when the gov starts deciding which property owners can and can't decide to have murals painted on the side of their buildings.
Not exactly high profile but subnautica was an early access game that turned out awesome. Granted, I only bought and played it after it was fully finished but early access started 3 years before the final release.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnautica
You mean, like Emoticons?
yes the malevolence is there, but it can be contained. in high price whitegoods (odd name, but there you go, the high price ones are now satin finish metal!) there is a huge story about long-life. European fridges have been driven to insanely thick insulation, far exceeding Australian standards, and there is a structural side to this: the units are very rigid, but have remarkably thin metal skins.

If we said that 95% of the product must be demonstrated to be capable of lasting 15 years, and could test it, we'd be driving to airframe resilience engineering: the jumbo jet is designed to work inside the metals fatigue point almost indefinitely, modulo cracking.

Thats not how we make consumer goods.
Noticed that today. I’m never going to install Chrome on iOS, stop asking!
Your skepticism is well-founded, but I'd like to put in a good word for Elite Dangerous. I bought it for $15 on sale long after the Kickstarter had ended and it constantly impresses me with its sense of scale and level of polish. Sometimes I'm amazed that game exists at all, let alone that it successfully came out of a Kickstarter.

It's not for everyone but if the idea of "Euro Truck Simulator in space" appeals to you, you'll probably enjoy it.
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You should expect a minimum 3-hour commitment a week: roughly 2 hours of lectures and 1 hour of group office hours. Lectures you can watch at your own leisure.

As for location/geography, as long as you have a device with internet access you can be wherever works best for you. We'll do our best to align timezones so scheduling is easier for you and your group during the course.
What were the results of the autopsy?
It’s just a text file so you can type it in TextEdit. Is that GUI enough?
The course seems rather no-strings-attached. For example, it mentions that the most promising companies will get $10K of "equity-free funding" as well as other goodies.

Appeals to altruism aside, what's Y Combinator's incentive here? Is the hope that companies will feel loyalty to YC, and join the core program?
You could say the same thing about Picasso, or Leonardo da Vinci. Did they figure out some kind of formula?
Exactly. The EU is going to force Google to do stuff that hurts the consumer not helps. Just hope Google limits it to the EU and let's us in the US continue with a great deal that Google offers.
Rapid application development involves an application, and for the purpose of writing application logic Python tends to be more advanced than Javascript, easier to write than C++, and with a better set of libraries than both.
From what I can tell, this creates a mapping of YAML to Declarative pipeline syntax, so it's unlikely to improve on that.
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I think the native date picker is okay for dashboards, internal tools, or similar cases where supporting 87% of users (based on browser) with an inconsistent experience is okay.

On a revenue funnel, especially for consumers, you should pick out a component with wider bowser support and consistency:

- Those desktop Safari users are more affluent, and probably represent a more significant opportunity then they do browser market share, especially in the US.

- The inconsistent quality of the date pickers will skew your numbers between users on different browsers. Noticing 15% fewer customers buy when using Edge? Is it because you have an Edge-specific bug, or is it just the weird date picker?
The methodology the parent links explicitly tracks multiple positive and negative factors and isn't explicitly tied to sleep.

Personally, sleep is a huge factor in my happiness, so tracking it is pretty important.
It's the same argument as with Microsoft vs. the EU regarding IE: Defaults are important when you have a monopoly.
Except that isn't exactly true.

I used other browsers on Windows before Internet Explorer ever existed, and even on Windows versions that came with IE in the box, either it was the age where we still used Netscape Navigator CDs to install it (and all your mime type handlers would change from IE to Navigator), or later or, I used IE to just download installers for other browsers.

It didn't open competition at all, it just made Microsoft pay for what every OS does today: it includes a browser by default. OSX, iOS, Android, multiple game consoles, and even some TVs.

They got punished for innovation, and no one else had to pay the fine for copying their behavior.
I'd like to dig more into this—could you send me an email at edwin@stripe.com?
Even car insurances do this even if you think they don't. They'll look for a reason to not pay you a dime even if it's on legally uneven feet.

No, I don't think car insurance is better about being willing to pay. I just think that it actually helps encourage driver responsibility on the road and it's less of an issue if you can't afford a car than if you can't afford medical care. I don't think the ACA actually insisting that all Americans have health insurance encourages anyone to eat right, exercise etc.
I meant locking out competing OSs is worse than bundling a browser with your OS. Both companies deserve the fine.
Anyone else noticing fraud with their Chase accounts?

An account rep implied they're having unusually high wait times when he put me on hold with the anti-fraud team for close to 10 minutes. As soon as the anti-fraud person came on the line, he cut me off by saying their system is down and I'd have to call back in 24-48 hours because there's nothing they can do right now.

It seems like the fraudulent charge on my account is timed with an attack on their system, so I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this too.
Hi Adora, can two members of the same company each sign-up or should all members of the company go under one account? Thank you!
I think 4.3 is a reasonable number even for EU revenue.

American multinational tech companies suck a ridiculous amount of money from the rest of the world.

The US would rarely do anything to harm their corporations. The latest govt is literally “A govt for corporations, by corporations”.
The point of Windows is it does everything using graphical interfaces.

That's not even remotely true:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee391626(v=vs.85).a...

You're knowledge of Windows is either lacking or based on misinformation. Which is fine, but it's probably not worth arguing the point anymore.
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Thanks for teaching me a new word!
This blog post is a sort of homage to one of my college professors (Dr. David Banks) whom I credit for my career path. He wrote a paper on streamlines that I never bothered to read until recently, 22 years after it was published.
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Well, okay. Right. I agree. I just don't want people reinforcing the meme that "justice is always slow and expensive and that's why businesses want arbitration" when the real reason is "courts are too fair and that's why businesses want arbitration". The accessibility, fairness, speed and low cost of small claims courts to poor individual litigants is a bug, not a feature, from the perspective of the US's larger corporations.
I really like Elite: Dangerous and commented about it elsewhere in this thread[0]. You can play it solo if you want and never have to worry about encountering other players. Combat is real-time and you even have to dock the ship yourself. Like I mention in the other comment, I'm constantly impressed by the scale and polish of the game.

I'll watch some reviews of the new No Man's Sky update and if it looks decent I'll probably get it on sale.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17559080
I can't speak for everyone but I already run Geekbench multiple times when I use it and always have. I think most users do the same. The author is experienced in testing machines so I felt this point was redundant to state.
Did this story get demoted somehow? How/why, and why silently so? I thought I saw it on the front page but now it's on page 4, when it currently has 35 points in 1 hour, and there's nothing comparable on that page (everything else is much older or lower voted).
Nowadays there is also Qt.py, "API-selector-as-a-package": https://github.com/mottosso/Qt.py
A consideration if you're making an accessible website is keyboard navigation. Having numerical inputs eliminates this, however. Still a good read, I have been thinking a lot about date pickers in the last year.
Elite is also one of the better VR games available.
I have 9360 with i5-7200U. I've just checked, fan kicks in after 90 seconds of sha1sum /dev/zero and stays always on lowest RPMs. 25C ambient. With 50% core load at 3.1GHz it stays silent most of the time...
I remember having it years before that. Here's a February 2007 blog post about WriteRoom 1.0. http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/27/writeroom-distraction-free-wr...
I have well over a gigabit download speed on fast.com just now. I think it can keep up just fine.
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Google will start charging phone manufacturers to use Android on their devices. And they'll pass that on to consumers.
The EU will get their check.
> same sort of obfuscation Microsoft used when they argued a web browser (IE) was an essential part of a desktop OS

How is a web browser not an essential part of a desktop OS.

Literally every single consumer operating system comes bundled with a web browser, and in fact everyone bundles their own

OSX: Safari

ChromeOS: Chrome

Windows: Edge
> In the visible, ground-based can't match space observatories (in the visible, the atmospheric turbulence is way harder to correct for).

The image this article is about is mostly in the optical (MUSE only goes from 465nm to 930nm; and the synthetic filters used in the MUSE image [4] seem to be quite close to the used HST filters).

> And really only in the near-infrared, as past 5 microns, we can't really see through the atmosphere.

Not quite true [1] (at least if only considering absorption), it's just that the background becomes more and more of a problem (both continuum and narrow emission lines), and one has less nicely defined windows of transmission and lots of strongly variable absorption lines (picking dry places for the telescopes and selecting nights with low water vapour column densities helps). At the VLT for example there is VISIR [2], which does mid-IR imaging and spectroscopy.

Of course the sensitivty from the ground is much lower than from space or somewhere in between (for example there is SOFIA [3] which is a 2.5m telescope on an airplance) and some bands of interest are indeed absorbed.
But there are indeed projects that involve mid-IR observations that can be done from the ground.

[1] https://www.gemini.edu/sciops/telescopes-and-sites/observing...
[2] http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/paranal/instruments/visir/...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_Observatory_for_...
[4] https://www.eso.org/public/unitedkingdom/images/eso1824c/
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"a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer."

A question not expecting an answer is pretty close to correct particularly in a modern context.
Not really. If they take the time to observe their feelings, most people know they are happy, anxious, stressed, angry, irritable, manic. They don't know WHY.

Being mindful of your emotional state allows you to try to dig into why you are currently feeling that way and what is the source of the emotion. That's what we are pretty bad at understanding :-)
Microsoft had to have a browser choice screen the first time you tried to use IE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu
Google has also a startup launchpad with provides equity free funding. I am not sure why though, but its great for founders like me who are interested.
Intel's CPUs are likely not modified (very much). All Intel CPUs automatically downclock themselves when they start to overheat as a self-protection measure.

It is up to the case-manufacturer to provide adequate fans and cooling for the chip. Otherwise, Intel's chips are forced to protect themselves and start to slow themself down.
The correct answer is "it depends on which paste you use".

If you're using a "liquid metal" compound, you probably want to be very careful, as it is conductive.[1]

[1] https://www.ekwb.com/blog/thermal-compound-guide/