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It's really sad. The original idea is that application interfaces should make programming accessible. Think the vi editor as used by AT&T secretaries, or Excel spreadsheets.

Some concepts and interfaces simply can't be shrouded in clickable widgets that command the computer to perform some pre-scripted task. Just like people need to use math directly and require the ability to input and manipulate simple equations, some problems require the creation of small programs--variables, conditionals, and the encapsulation of these things into functions.

Maximizing the utility of computers means everybody should be capable of not only basic grammar or basic math, but basic computer programming. But that doesn't mean everybody needs to be taught to be an author, mathematician, or computer programmer. Rather, actual computer programmers need to design applications in a way that make it simple and easy to apply basic editing, mathematical, and computer science techniques to the task at hand.

That was the original idea back in the day. Then it was co-opted by social movements in a manner that completely misunderstood the notion. Indeed, they have it completely backwards. The way to make programming accessible (and to reduce the outsized power of the programmer class, sharing the wealth) isn't to turn everybody into programmers, it's to make programming a part of every job.

But the fact that programming is largely still the domain of programmers isn't the fault of those social movements. It turns out it's really hard to design interfaces and applications in this manner, and harder still to keep it consistent across unrelated applications so knowledge and experience readily transfer. Arguably the furthest we've ever gotten is early text editors, the shell, and spreadsheets.
It would be easy to make an extension to do that but I suspect most websites would no longer work correctly. Many websites have their own API server on a different domain, many host images on another domain, most use a CDN of some kind which hosts CSS, JS and sometimes HTML on another domain, etc.
You're probably thinking of Myanmar https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43385677
As an alternative, I personally love the keyboard of the 2018 Macbooks and I'm not sure I'm aware of dramatically better CPUs that could be put inside of them? Certainly my new 13" with the upgraded CPU is fantastic. I would like a better GPU, but I can use an external GPU if needed. The disk speed is I think literally unparalleled, the screen is fantastic, the touchpad is the best in class, the T2 chip provides great security... I quite like my upgrade from my early 2015 13".
I have a similar issue where I need less noise to focus. At the same time I find music distracting... it is a pain.

Have you tried earmuffs made for shooters?

Example:

http://a.co/hHvMr8e

That's kind of thing I use. If people are close (one cube away with no walls) you can still hear them but they are very muffled. Distant voices (three cubes away with no walls) and noises you can't hear at all.
What second programming language to learn?
I've never heard anyone complain about the MBP cpus. What is yours?
Acetyl-L-carnitine may succeed where antidepressants fail
DHS launches a new cyber hub to coordinate against threats to US infrastructure
I care a lot about the Mac, and I'm not sure what to think about the fact that Mac unit sales are down again.

The Mac has been growing for a long time, and they seem to have reached a plateau. I assume that's the reason why Macs have became absurdly expensive in the last few years -- when they can't grow unit sales, they need to grow revenue per unit.

The result is that Apple doesn't build the computer most of their potential customers want -- a $1000 Macbook. I understand that they don't care about the $300 netbook market, but not offering a decent $1000 laptop is a bad idea. It means they are going to loose consumers and students – there are decent alternatives at that price point. Or, people like me, who just keep using their old Macbooks because the high price of the new machines isn't worth the marginally improved performance.

Where does this lead us? I don't see how the Mac should grow from here, and as a Mac software developer that worries me. I want to be in a growing market, not a stagnant one. I'm probably going to be okay for the next few years, but is the Mac still going to be a worthwhile platform for a small software company in 10-15 years? I don't know.
I suppose this is the literary equivalent of a software developer writing an article "No, you probably can't program computers"
Crypto skeptics always discount the value of the network.

>If speculators were to have a collective moment of doubt, suddenly fearing that Bitcoins were worthless, well, Bitcoins would become worthless.

It wouldn't though. The bitcoin network itself has a non-zero value.
Charlie Stross detailed this in a blog post (which I can’t easily find). Basically, printing a book is easy in comparison to editing, typesetting, and marketing.
Again? Feels like all the magazines around here went through their "digital edition with these cool features" phase 4-5 years ago.
To some extent, _every_ Windows program on Win95 was a 16-bit program. (There was a lot of the 32-bit API that was built by thunking down to 16- bit equivalents.... one notable example was that Windows95 notepad was still limited to 32K files, etc.)
No it isn't.
In TRON you leave a trail behind. In Snake, you grow as you eat and drag your body along the path you crawled.
TRON's trail is static, Snakes body is dynamic.
I don't know about the rest of europe, but macs are standard (if not universal) at web agencies in the UK (often purchased by the company).

I'm sure it's very different at large corporations.
I am a developer and I really love the new MacBook Pro.

The CPU is now on par with the rest of the industry, keyboard issues largely resolved and the TouchBar is incredibly useful for developers. Look at the recent update from IntelliJ to see some of the future potential. Contextual buttons that completely change depending on what is selected is something nobody could ever remember with Fn keys e.g. refactoring specific buttons when a method is highlighted.
They could focus on cooling, which would enable them to throttle the CPU less often. The recent firmware update helped with the throttling but it still runs extremely hot.
The tldr is that writing books is hard and most attempts fail.. especially if made by amateurs haphazardly and without practice, instruction or plans that involve learning to do something before being good at it.

It finishes with a satisfying lesson in curmudgeon economics.

...

Anyway... it's interesting that so many people want to write a book. They may be naive, but they do know it's hard. That's why they haven't done it yet.
People’s/companies’ own websites aren’t commons. The protocols that make up the web itself haven’t degraded through use; this is no more a tragedy of the commons than if every shop in your town made you wait a few seconds before you could go inside.
UTF-8 decoding usually means translating UTF-8 text to a more convenient character representation like UTF-32 or if you are naughty UTF-16 before processing, not adapting the application to work with UTF-8 data.
I think this thread is satire.
Have a good one.
But its cloud runs on AWS and/or Azure and/or Google Cloud?

https://thenextweb.com/apple/2018/02/27/apple-confirms-it-ru...

Edit: SaaS growth has hard technical requirements and is a key qualifier in parent comment.

Edit 2: Everything after "but" is the take I'm reading.
I keep wanting to buy one, but the lack of games is evident. My friends who have one enjoy playing the same few games over and over.
The actual tweet: https://twitter.com/alokmenghrajani/status/10075143375929876...
It's really not. You aren't entitled to an audience. Such bullshit. Put whatever you want up on your own website.

I can't walk into SirusXMs office and demand that they give me a channel so my voice can be heard. I'm not entitled to my own TV station.

I really wish one of these companies would just do something like ban Trump from Twitter so we can let the courts just put an end to this discussion. Getting banned from Twitter has nothing—nothing—to do with free speech. Nothing. Zero.
I was working like some sibling posters with web browser, terminals, editor, etc. running in MacOS, but most work files living in a Linux VM. The Linux VM needs to live on my local machine to run a proprietary compiler which sometimes has to be used on the road.

Most of my work is in embedded land, so I usually have at least one serial console running and often those go up/down as the device providing them goes up/down. MacOS would fairly regularly get something tangled up in its USB stack (I think they re-did a substantial amount of it for El Capitan), leading to me needing to move my desk USB hub's connection to a different port on the computer. Then, once the second port fell over, I had to restart the computer to get USB back.

I used to have an NFS mount between MacOS and the virtual Linux machine - that was an endless source of problems with MacOS losing track of file handles, then refusing to unmount or shut down cleanly. On average, I probably had to hold down the power button to hard-reboot once per day. And, NFS always seemed slower than it should've been.

There were silly little issues like my external monitor's HDMI not supporting some volume adjustment protocol for it's audio out, and MacOS refusing to just reduce the levels sent to that device. So, the volume keys didn't work at my desk, except for mute. The security around downloading executables from the net was a pain - way too many clicks to get MacOS to run random open-source programs via Finder.
Why is Movie Pass Club going bankrupt?
Of course Krugman can't see what problem cryptocurrencies are supposed to solve. That's because the problem they are supposed to solve--government manipulation of money--is not something he sees as a problem.
I think having no updated machine under $1000 for the last 3 or 4 years is the culprit and not the refreshed MacBook Pro, which starts at $1800 and has never been their best seller.
That's a sensible concept. I like the scoreboard idea.

Are you able to share any of the compliance standards you have certified your boards to? Have any of these boards been certified for sale in a consumer product?

I ask because FCC Class B radiated emissions limits (for example) are tricky to meet, and the design requirements to get there are frequently not well understood.
If I'm Apple I'm earmarking some money for AR development. ARKit is really solid and should get better w/ time. That can provide a nice launching point for developing AR glasses. If anyone can pull off tech glasses it's Apple.
imho, I think ppl actually overestimate the role of parenting. Often extremely gifted children (as Tang and Tao are/were) will have their interests piqued by something, and then on their own volition learn everything they can about it. There isn't much prodding by the parents. For someone with an IQ of 140+, maybe doing calculus problems is more fun than video games.
Not really.

HN will ban you if you are unreasonable.

The best subreddits (askhistorians, etc.) will instantly delete low quality posts.

Reddit as a whole banning bad subreddits (fatpeoplehate, coontown) made reddit a better place for everyone, and the trash moved to voat which is barely active now.

Most big sites will now ban you for for threatening or very hateful speech.

Etc.
Another wild thing like this is what you'll notice when you read up on Lisp machines. We had development environments in the 70s/80s that would seem magical today.
How about not just raising taxes to raise taxes? The US isn't really effective with what they collect already (beyond more military), but hey let's slap some more pork belly on.

That would be fucking swell.
In my experience (especially with Elsevier), their copy editors are doing more harm than good. I dread having to go through proofs, as they always manage to sneak in mistakes, from spelling errors to changes in equations or figures.

My advice to students: NEVER just accept the proofs they send you, ALWAYS do meticulous proofreading of the proofs even if your manuscript was flawless. I'm aware of one case where they removed the entire abstract, and since the authors didn't notice that when checking the proofs in the publisher's online proof-checking system, the paper was published that way. They had to publish an erratum with the abstract because, once published, they don't allow changes to articles, even if it was clearly a mistake by the journal. (Disclaimer: It wasn't my paper, so I don't have an axe to grind here; I just found it appalling.)
Do you happen to remember what medication it was?
Unit sales up 1% year over year, revenue up 20%.
I would expect brand to be important. Do you want to be in a Waymo with no accidents, a Tesla that kills the passenger occasionally, or an Uber that kills other people?

There are people who only buy Volvos because of the reputation for safety they've built up.
There is a reason for Apple's position though. Many/most of these MacBook Pros are being used in professional work environments which expect your laptop to be silent.

I've been in quite a few meetings with the fans going to 100% and it's incredibly disruptive. So whilst you have options to increase the fan speed the defaults are understandably kept quite conservative.
There was OCL on the IBM S/34 and S/36 back in the day, and there's CL on the IBM i today, which dates back to the earliest S/38 days (circa 1978). It's been some decades now since I've dealt with JCL, but as I recall both of those other languages make JCL look like child's play in comparison. Also, don't forget about Rexx!
C'mon, you just needa little motivation. ;-)

Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe

https://youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk
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Computers and keyboards must be a godsend for you! Do you have any trouble typing or is the fine motor control and formation of words there perfectly fine?
Because Apple hasn't been a technical leader in many years. They've established their brand as a luxury brand and their products as a status symbol; all else is secondary, including to most of the users. Almost nobody arrives at a purely rational decision to buy an Apple product in 2018 when competitor products nearly universally have a lower ratio of price to (performance/quality/screen size/serviceability/etc). Like everything else Apple does today, this strategy is also unoriginal: Harley-Davidson was a major innovator way back in the day, but nobody but a Harley fanatic in the biker community will recommend you to buy a Harley today, because they're (outdated design/inefficient/unreliable/etc); despite this, they're the most recognized brand by non-bikers and Harley fans will ride it out with Harley-Davidson to the end.
Please people use and support https://reviewmeta.com/ .
I can't tell if you're asking for more or less curmudgeonry.
So? What does that have anything to do with the OP? Idiot.
Honestly, even accomplished writers sometimes don't have a book in them. I've many works that would be a great Harvard Business Review article but got expanded into books for some reason or other. You probably have a great long read article in you, book... not so sure.
For literally centuries, people thought that number theory had no practical applications. Same for a number of other fields of mathematics. Is quantum computing somewhat overhyped at this moment in history? Undoubtedly (but way less so than block chains, I would argue). But that doesn’t mean it won’t ever become practically useful.
For sure, although as a counterpoint I’ve also seen programmers do the reverse. Spending a lot of effort building bad abstractions to completely minimize code reuse/size, when really we would have been better off with slightly longer code that was clearer and that meshed better with our problem domain.
Maybe you are.
I guess a good alternative is to have the build tools refuse to do anything until the user/developer has installed the proper hooks by running ./init-hooks (as opposed to executing ./init-hooks silently in the background). I agree that's a preferable way to do it in a public project: explicit is better than implicit
I remember watching an episode of MTV's True Life where they profiled people with OCD.

For 2 out of the 3 people profiled, the OCD stemmed from a fear of something bad happening and that was their way to cope. For one specifically, her mother had a surgery gone wrong and almost died.

The therapy was to have a mock funeral for her mother, go to the hospital and watch her mother have blood drawn and essentially go through all of the motions of having her mother die so that she could process it.

By the end of the treatment (which seemed to be a little ad for only a few weeks) her symptoms were drastically reduced.
Oh, yes, Japanese workers, who dont take almost no holidays anyway, sure lets give them some additional vacation days.

Gifts can be expensive and plenty once the receiver does not use them.
This is fair. I don't have a ton of heat issues but they could allow me to easily bump fan speed earlier on in the process of heating up. Would be a welcome addition.
I appreciate your viewpoint, but this is largely not a response to anything in my post, just a restatement of your previous post.
It's hard to say, but Kafka provides a number of important predicates for idempotent processing out of the box for consumers and producers. Given that stream-style-apps are just a series of consumers and producers linked together, there is good reason to believe this would offer idempotent processing.
this is someone who at the age 10 could have gone to college. That's how smart he is. One in 50 million IQ. I don't think parents are that involved, imho. This is the digital age. All you need in is an internet connection to learn the same material as everyone else has access to. This kid as a 10 year could have self-taught himself calculus online. if a 10-year old shows up to school knowing as much as a 20-year-old, then grades will be skipped..lots of them.
36 I’m way more distracted than I thought

I finished Cal Newport’s Deep Work and even though I thought I could focus when I really needed to I realized that I’m kidding myself and I go to my phone habitually.

I’ve also stopped using slack/hipchat during a lot of the work day. When I get to the end of the day and see the hundreds of message counts it’s quite shocking.
DJI is turning robot battles into the next college sport
A book that has been incredibly helpful for me and family members is Code to Joy, by George Pratt and Peter Lambrou. They also have good tools in Instant Emotional Healing (older book), but it's more technical and not as beautifully written.

Reading this book will give you an understanding that probably the episode of turbulence resonated with some other past experience(s), and had a multiplicative effect on your fear. These effects are deeply engrained in the unconscious mind, and are hard to deal with through rational or conscious thoughts.

The book guides you through a process to work on these issues.
Sure it can, they still sell an iPod Touch model from 3 years ago.

Heck, if all they sold was a Macbook Pro from 2015, quite a few developers would be happier about it.
No, but the frameworks they use and services they outsource tasks to definitely are commons. Even more so are design and development trends.
why in God's name is iTunes still so bad?

Because Tim Cook is too busy cosplaying Social Justice Warrior to notice the tech his tech company produces is in trouble?
It's the _website obesity crisis_ in full swing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10820445
What about Spotify? Seems like a cheaper company that is beating Apple at a game they want to win.
Q1 2016: 74.8 million iPhones sold

Q1 2018: 77.3 million iPhones sold

Q3 2016: 40.4 million iPhones sold

Q3 2018: 41.3 million iPhones sold

They are selling MORE iPhones..
How does this differ from KiCAD though? Does it just automate steps you normally would do in there? Whats the purpose of exporting to kiCAD? Ive never used kicad
I hoped flight school would rid me of acrophobia (I realize it's a different fear but still, you're high up in the air). I earned an instrument rating and started working on my commercial ticket before the money ran out but never cured my acrophobia.
All I know is what the articles and commenters were saying then, as an interesting contrast to this comment now. Every article on AlphaGo described a general state of shock at achieving something that (even if at a purely psychological level) seemed at least 10 years away.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/546066/googles-ai-masters...

> Just a couple of years ago, in fact, most Go players and game programmers believed the game was so complex that it would take several decades before computers might reach the standard of a human expert player.
You only spend $2000 on your mac books? My last one was $3,750 after shipping and taxes.
This. Several societies I am a member of are essentially only financially solvent due to their journals.
I had a similar setup about a year back.

Running a Ubuntu Host with KVM, passing through an NVIDIA 970 to a Windows host. Yea...the GPU performance was fast, but everything else was so slow compared to running native. I think my biggest issue was with disk R/W, especially when memory pressure went up from the VM the system bogged down to a halt. After that, my biggest problems were with the fact that after the Windows host turned off, the GPU was stuck in the weird state where you can't reset it ( I know its a feature™ from Nvidia) and the Keyboard / Mouse would flake since I would attach the whole USB root to the VM as well.

In the end just decided to install back Windows and not have to deal with it.
I'm still wondering whether the amd64 port of OpenVMS will kill amd64 like it killed every other platform it ever ran on.
I believe around $199 a share is when AAPL would become the first company ever to have a market cap of $1T. It could happen tomorrow. For reference, the first $1B market cap company was US Steel in 1901.
> I am a developer and I really love the new MacBook Pro.

I'm guessing you don't use vim.
You’d think, given it was touched up by Apple designers, they’d have exported the Excel sheet to Pages instead.
We all hope the keyboard issues are resolved, but that's far from confirmed yet.
They should buy Sony. It would give them:

- Universal Studios

- PlayStation (aka a big foothold in the living room) and some of the most creative game studios

- Awesome displays (TVs)

- Bigger footprint in the consumer electronics market

- ... and most important of all the best camera sensors in the market (including camera phone sensors).
Keep in mind that this doesn't include the 'back to school' season...
Give people the tools to opt in and out of whatever filters they please. Even turn it on by default if you want. This is one of the few things Twitter has done right - you can simply turn off their "quality filter" if you don't believe that they have your best interests at heart when deciding what shows and what doesn't. (Where Twitter does wrong is a number of other opaque filters that cannot be disabled)

Reddit has a simplistic version of this. By default, you will not see anything that has a score of -1 or below.
> Are we ready to impose a new 15.5% tax on everyone?

If at the same time pre-tax salaries increase by 15-30 percent when the employer no longer has to pay $16k for insurance, most employees would probably prefer it. (Apart from people earning 6 digits -- and in Germany those people can opt for private gold-plated insurance instead, too.
I have found that copy editors and layout people add an immense of value to the final product.
I think a better analogy would be an article along the lines of "Sorry, your good idea isn't necessarily a startup"
If you ignore Office 365, GCP is much closer to Azure than Azure is to AWS. Microsoft's inclusion of Office 365 into its "Cloud" revenue makes their cloud platform seem to have much larger market share than what it actually has.