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From Microsoft's perspective, they were winning.

They had strong YoY gains on Blackberry, and Windows Mobile was set to overtake them eventually. By offering lower cost devices that didn't need to pay an extra per user Blackberry fee to the phone companies, MS was out competing Blackberry on price, while executing on their traditional strategy of having multiple partners flood the market with a variety of devices to fit everyone's needs.

(Where everyone was defined as business users.)

There were groups at MS experimenting with consumer focused designs, and even exploring app store types of business models (though they hadn't yet evolved into what Apple eventually released), people did realize that opportunity was there, but it is hard for successful incumbents to change.

Windows Mobile 7, which never saw the light of day, had just gotten a new kernel, support for higher screen resolution, and was setting out to be a really nice OS to use for business users.

Apple also did something else, it showed that the relationship with carriers could be improved. Microsoft had a very hard time getting past carriers testing requirements, they had a very hard time pushing out patches and updates. Apple showed a way by which carriers could be strong armed into being less customer hostile. The same way Apple showed that the music industry could be dragged into the 21st century.

Apple also dramatically brought down the cost of certain technologies, as they have continued to do. A single manufacturer making a huge order for one part drops the price of that part for everyone else. The OEM model Microsoft used for Windows Mobile, with the myriads of device form factors, was not able to create those types of market efficiencies.
Estimating distances robustly is very important for navigation. LIDAR is accurate at relevant distances and most importantly very robust against environmental effects. Without LIDAR you can use stereoscopic vision (like human with two eyes) but that is very demanding, not that accurate, and very error prone. Sure, human can do it somewhat well, but eye and brain are extremely complex things to implement (and it still takes years to learn to understand what you see).

Personally, I’d refuse to implement self-driving vehicle without at least a ”backup LIDAR” to check vision system results. Otherwise you are forced to assume stuff like ”things at stand still are either above the road, beside it, or just shadows”, causing crashes when there is suddenly a stopped car in front of you. (If you didn’t do that assumption, you would be dodging shadows and other clutter..)

[source: I’ve been researching vision algorithms in a related field.]
What are you talking about?!? I have to say that is a pretty poor argument. No the gaming industry has not moved to adopt Linux as a platform but that is largely in the AAA games which barely seem to give Windows the time of day as well. No more desktop software?!? What are you looking for in desktop software? The open source alternatives to Microsoft Office are not as nice to put it lightly but there is still enough desktop applications that aren't trapped in the terminal. Yes I still would more so recommend Linux to people that are comfortable with the idea of running things in the terminal and expecting more text based interfaces, but the software does exist.
> Wealth is a relative thing, not an absolute.

This is not true. Wealth is choices: how many different things can you choose to do? The average person today has a multitude of choices that were not available to the richest person in the world a century ago, and for that reason is wealthier than the richest person in the world a century ago.
It's open source, the community can always fork it and move forwards if they dislike what Oracle does with it.
Sure, it's beautiful. Just not nearly as beautiful as the mountain west and west coast.
> I just don't get it.

My opinion only, I'm sure other people playing those kind of games will have other motivations. Those games are fun because (and it goes with the article) there is competition against other humans. If you don't get any pleasure in competing I can understand those games will never appeal to you.

The fact you can lose your gear or loot to other players add more stake to fights: when you win your brain is flooded with natural drugs. When losing you have even more drive to get back to your opponent. Fighting against humans feels a lot more rewarding, and usually if you lose it is not because of "some bullshit game mechanic on this boss": it means you have to get better (at the fight part, getting gear part, the diplomacy part to have more people to bring etc.).

First time you get killed in those games is when you know if you'll stick or not: either you say "fuck anyone can come and steal my items", or you think "ok, if I can ambush this kind of person with 5 people, we could get free high level gear".

On an individual or small group basis, there are good benefits to play a bad guy so you see a lot of them. And I think this kind of environment foster deeper relationships: in the hate direction but also in the friendship direction. You get higher highs and lower lows. But the experience is rarely bland.

With MMOs you also get the inter-guild level and that's when politics, diplomacy, spying come into play. The best are grudges and alliances spanning more decades and multiple games. The funniest is when old guard guilds which hate each other end-up allying against new-comers kicking their ass.

You get some of those kind of stories with PvE only games but not as much. I may be wrong but I don't know of a lot of guild created in a PvE game spanning multiple games.

> evil people....they bring despair

Unless you're one of those putting an end to them.
People who can't explain how current, voltage, and resistance relate to each other shouldn't be allowed near wiring.
not exactly https://duck.co/help/results/sources
The FOSSCAD Library is by FOSSCAD. FOSSCAD use to be called DEFCAD but they changed their name to let defcad.com become a for profit website. This repo is not by defense distributed.
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Windows NT was a hybrid: the graphics and windowing system is in the kernel for performance reasons (try running X on commodity hardware in the early 1990s) whereas Windows CE was all microkernel.
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> it's all about relative wealth. if you are more wealthy, you have relatively more say in the way society goes, at least in the way that things are configured currently.

This is a problem with the way things are configured currently. It doesn't mean absolute wealth doesn't matter.
> It's pretty clear where Guy stands on this from the outset

... and it's mostly irrelevant. A good Homo wikipediens, like a good judge or journalist or scientist, may well have his biases and private opinions, but is supposed to be able to put those initial biases and private opinions aside, impartially delve into the sources, and write a neutral, well-researched article about a subject.
Oh, you want to play "cherry-pick the cryptocurrencies" while comparing to AAPL's performance? Let me know when it's my turn to pick.
I would say that Pentax has the best Prime Len stock period. Also you can buy a lens from 1980 and it will work (No auto focus) perfectly. I have extra sharp beautiful 42mm and 50mm and a 100mm prime and it cost me less then $250. I love my Pentax. I own a Sony A3 RIII and I still get better portraits on my cheap o Pentax lens.

Pentax Prime Limited are amazing and so much cheaper then Cannon or any other brand.

Look here for lens: https://www.pentaxforums.com/lensreviews/
It's a running joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke
I would use one of this for Rotten Tomatoes and Netflix.

I know there is a chrome extension that inserts ratings on Netflix interface. But I use the Netflix app (to send to chromecast). So I spend a lot of time googling names of movies (extra steps when I have to find the original name of a movie that i showing to me in br_PT)
What about attacks from China once it launches its censored version? I believe censoring alone is not enough to do business in China.
What if the allotment of cheap electricity for each company was calculated as a function of the number of people employed by the company whose primary residence is within county limits?
Samsung's consumer electronics division isn't anywhere near as defensible as Apple's - they have little differentiation from other Android device makers which can be seen in the constantly fluctuating leaderboards of Android manufacturers (see Oppo and Huawei jumping 40% YoY).

If Samsung had their own OS + software technologies that differentiated them from any other electronics manufacturer, and offered their own services on top of that that made billions, and had a large developer base that was all-in on building software on their platform to further differentiate them from others, they might have a stronger business. As it stands, Samsung is just treading water in a zero sum smartphone business.
There's an examples/django project in the distribution. I think they removed the gevent bridge from PyPI for some reason, but you can still use the eventlet one. Gevent is production quality and the concept of bridging them is sound, so hope someone will work on it.
Show Stopper! is a great read. My copy is always lent around the office, especially to interns: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1416925.Show_Stopper_
Yes, I'm a co-author of BoringPGP[1]. Sequoia itself will probably support it as soon as Marcus and I get around finishing the spec but it's not part of Sequoia and I only work on it in my free time.

1: https://github.com/boring-pgp/spec
The speculation value of bitcoin dominates the use store of value, well, value. It is a speculative instrument at this point. Yes, a nice proof of concept, but now an instrument of speculation with a net negative yield.

Gold mining was of kinda stable fixed supply for millennia, then after the 'miners' in Johannesburg discovered half of the world's gold beneath their feet and industry progressed, became of productive value. As of diamonds today.

Bitcoin is of value there. It proved the blockchain, fantastic achevement. But like a natural vs synthetic diamond, of little future value. Further resources invested mining it are seeking returns which will not tend to zero but end in negative. Ethereum, the blockchain which no one fully understands or trusts, the left to Bitcoin's right.

Pivotal ideas, yes. And the end is a long way away.
Congrats!

I work for a venture firm in SF, we would be interested in buying the company in cash, or at least having that conversation. We've run companies like PagerDuty in the ops space.

Look forward to chatting! Here's my personal - yyzvictor@gmail
> reasonable (although not great) compatibility with older lenses

All Pentax cameras from 1975-on have used the Pentax K-Mount[0], which means that in (almost) all cases you can use most of the lenses made in the last 43 years. I would call that pretty good compatibility.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentax_K-mount
I'm willing to back up my statements with my existing login, and I don't need to be an engineer to read the history of resuable launch systems. They've been around since the 1960s, and space-capable launch systems were a thing in the 1980s. They were killed the first time around by the collapse of the USSR, and then again when the Iridium went bankrupt, eliminating the demand.
I’ll throw mine in the ring:

http://kermittdavis.com
Not sure for Solar, but most HAMs using field radio setups still use deep cycle marine batteries as they withstand abuse and are much cheaper.
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Haha, well in Bavaria what we think of as "a beer" is 500ml of beer at 4%, which is 20ml of pure alcohol, which is "2 units" in the UK.
It does put it in some perspective. It's a lot. He didn't say they were directly equivalent. You need 5% of US GDP to buy Apple.
I've been gathering some inspirations for a personal site. Here are a couple I liked. (Although now that I think about it, these were linked at the end of the article).

http://julia.im/

http://joelcalifa.com/

http://nik.org/

https://flexdinesh.github.io/
A particular years GDP isn't a per year unit, is it?
>No, what gives a share value is that someone else is willing to buy it from you for a certain price.

What the heck? This is absolutely wrong. The fundamental basis of the value of a share is that it results in gaining a portion of the company's profits. The company makes money and then pays some of that out to shareholders. Even companies that make zero money now have shares valued at least in part on expectations of what money they might make in the future.

Sure, humans are obviously not perfect at anticipating and researching and calculating all this by any means. We are not homo economicus either. There is room for irrationality, for misjudgements, etc. But even with all that shares are just that, shares. The actual ownership of a public company is about shares (yes, there can be different classes in some cases). They represent power and returns, even if it's decentralized.

So a share does in fact have an innate value in terms of the actual cash it can spin off for a shareholder and the input to the company it gives them. Multipliers will vary based on risk and future projections and such, but it's perfectly possible to hold a lot of boring stocks that may not grow much but just print money, consistently, year after year with minimal management. This is not at all the same as cryptocurrencies or any pure asset, where what you ultimately get from it depends purely on what someone else will pay you for it.
Or one USA to build 20 Apples in a year.
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Paul Graham in 2015:

It would have been a good deal for Apple's board to give Steve 95% of the company.

Market cap when he came back: 1.73b.

5% now: 33b.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/674760647767285761

Today, 5% of the company is 50 bilion. Jobs became de facto chief after then-CEO Gil Amelio was ousted in July 1997 (wiki). So that would make an annualized AAPL gain of 17.3 percent, excluding dividends. Even more impressive.
Except JVM is going to get fibers, co-routines and tail calls in a future release.

"Project Loom with Ron Pressler and Alan Bateman" at this week's JVMLS 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J31o0ZMQEnI
There's a relatively sizeable subset of that electorate that believes the world will end soon anyways, which probably complicates matters too.
Unfortunately Sigma and Tamron have backed off from Pentax support in recent years. There are still some in the current catalog, but the newest lenses aren't offered.

On the other hand, Pentax's just released 50mm might be the best 50 ever.
At least letting us know that they don't like it so at least I know it's against their principles and they might push back in other cases when asked. That they seemed so willing to do it should be the fear, not that they had to (and by the way, they didn't have to, losing all of their business is an option for principled companies).
I'd sooner bet he find some pedantic way to wiggle out of it
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There are so many "slightly different but mostly the same" things in this space. In Rust, this is const generics: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2000-cons...

struct RectangularArray<T, const WIDTH: usize, const HEIGHT: usize> {
array: [[T; WIDTH]; HEIGHT],
}

const X: usize = 7;

fn main() {
let x: RectangularArray<i32, 2, 4>;
let y: RectangularArray<i32, X, {2 * 2}>;
}

I haven't read enough about singleton types to know the exact details about their similarities, so I'm not sure.
I agree, and so is the built in data collection.
You may have missed the part where the author says that problems should be addressed as they come up and not just once at the end of the week.

A retro obligates people to find and/or bring up issues. In my opinion an open door policy would push people to bring up things that actually matter.
Avoiding situations like this has swung me around to the profound organization health effects of regularly shuffling director+ level personnel (e.g. every 2-4 years).

What you lose in efficiency (as they refamiliarize themselves) -- you more than gain in healthier politics, cross-organization cooperation and knowledge, and overall following of rule of law / documentation.
Don't forget iTunes. Part of why iPod succeeded because it allowed stress free easy access to a giant % of the world's music, all at one constant price.

The iPod wasn't revolutionary in any respect, it was a perfectly executed version of what other people were already doing, that had a huge, incredibly well done, marketing push behind it, with even the smallest detail given attention.

Also the white ear buds were genius. Everyone who used them was advertising the product.
I can see how this might work to get ”information” from youtube on music, but in the general sense, come on...
Well it's not a font problem, the issue is that the background in IE is white, whereas it's dark grey on chrome. It's readable, but not very legible.
I recall a website that tried this for Boston. There was strong agreement on some neighborhood boundaries defined by particular streets. Others were literally all over the map.
There are multiple safeguards for planes that don't work for self-driving cars.

First, they're not physically inspectable by every Tom, Dick, and Harry. This means it's easier to obscure interfaces and other potential areas of attack. Not state-actor proof, but probably ISIS-proof. Second, they only get software updates while parked at an airport, so it makes MITM attacks harder (though not impossible). Third, they're in the air where death isn't a sudden movement away. Pilots can override the system and fly it manually. Fourth, they're heavily monitored with errant flightpaths reported to militaries around the world (to stop another 9/11).

We have none of these safeguards for self-driving cars and there are going to be hundreds of millions of them.
So the mere mortals should be thankful for the little Apple gives them, right? Small businesses competing with Apple should be just fine as well I guess even if they don't have the same tax advantage.
"For comparison, the same $10,000 invested in an Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index fund would now be worth $2 million."

That doesn't seem too bad considering the risk involved investing in a single stock.
Universal doesn't have to mean single payer. Almost all the comments here are conflating them and addressing single payer.
Back in '96 I was an assistant admin for a network of some 100 Macs in a biotech lab.

My supervisor was a die-hard Apple lover, had a Newton, and a fair bit of Apple stock. They could do no wrong in his eyes.

I was a Mac fan (had a Duo 280c, encouraged my folks to purchase 603 clones) but pessimistic about Jobs return. In my view at the time, he had done damage to Apple with the Mac intro and had failed w/ NeXT, even though I was huge fans of the hardware of each. I just didn't think he had the ability to scale a hardware company. I was hoping for BeOS to be the savior.

Nonetheless, it was exciting to see him return as the interim CEO. My supervisor bought a bunch more stock, think it was something like $7/share, and I gave him alot of grief for being foolish. I'm sure he's living in paradise right now, lol.
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Just to give some context, the first publicly traded company to hit $1T USD market cap was Petrol China, but that was only in HK, in mainland china, its stock were never valued more than $500B. And it has only 5% of stock in HK open market.

Compare to AAPL today.

Apple still has a ridiculously low P/E of ~17. Which is how everyone values a hardware company. And has stayed within this P/E range since the death of Steve Jobs. Apple hasn't been selling more iPhone than the last super cycle aka iPhone 6, which is when the plus version was first introduced. But Apple's iPhone ASP has been up $100+, and Apple has been buying back LOTS of share, which is one of the main reason pushing its stock price upwards.

A lot of analyst likes to focus on the flat unit sales, and the higher ASP. In reality it is the user base growth that is much more important. Tim Cook mentioned a double digit percentage growth in iPhone. That puts Apple with close to 800M active iPhone users. Roughly 70M+ of iPhone users coming are either new to smartphone or switching from Android. So while Apple's iPhone sales has been flat for a few years, its iPhone user base has matched from 600M to 800M. Given the moat, or the stickiness of Apple ecosystem, users are likely going to buy another iPhone, staying within the ecosystem than going to Android.

The Mac are also adding lots of new users, 60% of Mac buyer are new to Apple. This continuous trend means Apple is adding 10M new Mac users YoY. The last reported figure there were roughly 150M active Mac users. If we look at the sales figures and Active Mac users over time, it is clear the average Mac lifecycle is now on 4 - 5 years before upgrade.

The iPad has roughly 300M, may be now closer to 400M iPad users. Again while the sales hasn't grown, its user base is growing.

Both Horace Dediu and Benedict Evans are expecting 1.5 billion Active devices by either late 2018 or mid 2019. As impossible it may seems, Apple is STILL growing its user base.

And there are few more things to fuel future growth. The rumoured of slightly cheaper iPhone and Mac. We should have a sub $700 6.1" LCD iPhone coming this September. Along with a better sub $1000 entry level MacBook. And I believe the best iPad has yet to come, still with lots of potentials.

Yes, I hate the TouchBar, Yes I absolutely hate the new bloody keyboard they put on MacBook. And I don't like FaceID much, still prefer under screen finger print. But all these aside, Apple is still doing extremely well, and its bigger picture is good with no immediate risk at its current valuation. Cant say the same for Microsoft, Google, or Amazon.
And they have just finish moving into its new Spaceship. There are lots of mental preparation and inefficiency involved when moving to a whole campus. I hope they are now settle and up their productivity.

To sum it up, with a P/E less then 20, and the most Net Cash ( ~$130B ) any company has in the world, they are truly worth their $1T Market Cap.

Congrats AAPL.

P.S - Steve probably would have sent another note to all employees about Dell. :P
Is this all related to sleep quality? Increased alcohol consumption decreases sleep quality, decreased sleep quality increases dementia risk, therefore increased alcohol consumption increases dementia risk.