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Microsoft is not a Silicon Valley company and they are very much involved in these 'controversies' - lots of people have serious concerns about Windows 10 and privacy and, of course, Microsoft runs a search engine, a chat/VoIP service among many other things.
> I think the problem that most people have with Apple quality control is that the company has quite a lot of surplus cash and they don't appear to be using it to make their products better.

People always think they know how to spend other peoples money better than they do.
Some would argue that Abu Graib seems to be a replication of Milgram instead of SPE.

If this is what one believes I'd say one could also argue that Abu Graib replicated what actually happened in SPE.
It's not hard, just suck it up and register for the ML, and prepare the patches. People are irrationally scared of this process. There are plentiful guides.
Thank you for that link, it seems really informative! I'm going to give it a read, since this is something I've recently become interested in learning more about.
Why would anyone take the other side of that bet?
I think we should just wrestle until pin or submission.

Of course, I'm a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, so I'm slightly biased.
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I dunno if I'm romaticizing. A massive mission/goal driven exercise can be quite romatic. Tesla did that, and I'd call that more romantic than (for eg) FB's path.

Good points though. Tons of resources, people working in secret, and a total absence of "market feedback" have yielded big, impressive results before.
Or get the cheaper subsidised phone and don't submit to the data collection.

Much like buying a Windows laptop subsidised with crapware but putting Linux on it.
Indeed. Or more people than you realise implicitly support the idea of censure with only vague restraint, and are just nerding out on the details.

In the end it will likely not matter how expertly the eurocrats contain the symptoms of deeper, social problems, it might very well blow up in their faces.
How long have these accounts been out there though? As an example, I changed email addresses a few years ago, and have yet to get a breach notification at my new address from HIBP, though I somewhat regularly get notifications for my old one(s). This tells me that the majority of breached password data is at least a few years old.

And yeah, it's known, but still relatively recent. I probably first heard about it two or three months ago.
These screens build information from multiple sources inc. airlines, ground control, and in some cases airport management. They're typically run off-site at a data center since that provides high resiliency and some data is sourced from outside the airport anyway.

If the airport has a dedicated fiber channel between their data center and airport itself and it was damaged, this could be the result. The question I'd ask is why they have no fallback strategies (e.g. cellular, VPN over a less secure internet channel, etc).

This might be an area where they can explore graceful degradation, meaning that gate information would continue to display (from airport ground control), but some flight times might be missing.
When friends try to pitch me on their million-dollar ideas, I feel that I have a much better ability to estimate the size and scope. So instead of starting construction, I'm more likely to say something like '3 full-time devs working 6 months for a solid prototype, another 6 months for something that could be released' -- who's paying for all of this?
That's not true. The GDPR has an incredibly broad territorial scope:

2. This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to:

a. the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or

b. the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union.

So offering free services to people in the EU is enough to ensnare you. What does it mean to offer? From the official notes:

factors such as the use of a language or a currency generally used in one or more Member States with the possibility of ordering goods and services in that other language, or the mentioning of customers or users who are in the Union, may make it apparent that the controller envisages offering goods or services to data subjects in the Union.*

As for being able to acquire personal jurisdiction over you or your company to actually punish you for not obeying, that is not much of an obstacle either. Do you envisage potentially serving EU customers at some point in the future? (for basically any online company, the answer is yes) Do you use any services, banks, etc. that are located in the EU? (another likely yes). They may not be able to directly fine you today, but they might be able to in the future, or cut you off from European companies.

There is a reason why the doctrine of international comity exists. When followed, it limits the extraterritorial application of laws such as to not infringe on the rights of other nations to decide what behavior is acceptable within their own territory. But the EU has decided to not follow it with the GDPR. In fairness, the internet has made it challenging to find the appropriate balance, but the EU is way out of left field here.
Where I thought you were going with that when I read your first sentence is, I wish people could look at products for the things they do (features they have) rather than for the things they don't do (features they don't have). Regardless of Apple's recent slip in quality, they consistently put out features later than some of their competitors, but also at a higher quality than their competitors. Too often I'll see an article about "Apple introduces TouchID" and the comments say "Samsung has had a fingerprint reader for years!" like that matters or like the various fingerprint reader solutions were any good before TouchID. Or the iPod, we all know it's not the first MP3 player, but it was a very high quality MP3 player with a very high quality user experience, which really does matter.

I felt the same way about Palm (Google was a cooler company, so Android won even though WebOS was a more pure Linux system, friendlier to developers, and HTML/JS was the preferred app architecture followed by standard C++) and Microsoft (they don't have X app, even though the features from X app are built into the core OS). Dropbox was the same way, people hated on it when it was released because a hacked-together rsync solution worked "the same way".

Too often we get hung up on what a product doesn't do or doesn't do uniquely and ignore that execution is often more important. It's possible to launch into a crowded and competitive market and win, as long as you execute better.
I couldn't view the article because I'm not giving my email or joining any stupid cult just to read some new bullshit. What a stupid fail.
It's one of the big reasons that I think making periodic pairing for remote teams is so important.
Regardless of why I was interrupted, the TOS is total crap.
That’s Apple’s top of the line phone. You can ge a very nice new phone for $700 from them as well.

That was all I read into it.
Thanks! Just those in the US or looking to expand to there.
In the same Twitter thread the author attacks someone for using an 'accusatory tone' when questioning his claim. Meanwhile he's sending Apple the snarkiest of comments along with a bug report.
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> ... at the cost of an additional button you have to press every time you have to visit any website.

It's the website operator that's choosing to put that button there, and they could easily remove it by choosing to respect user privacy by default. They have clear choices in front of them to improve their user experience.
How do you not submit to the data collection? Didn’t we just find out google does that when you turn it off?
Pretty much! They are mostly over-sweetened versions of some southeast asian food. Once I had a curry chicken in a supposingly high end Thai restaurant. The curry sauce was so sweet that it tasted like dessert. Most Thai restaurants in North America are like that. I guess to most people sugar==taste good. This rule applies to many other ethnic cuisines that target "mainstream" in NA as well.
Because some people judge companies by metrics other than just the quality of the software they write? It's perfectly possible for Apple to create software of a poor or deteriorating quality while having a more sensible business model than their competitors. The one has little to do with the other.
I switched to android and am struggling to justify buying a new mac laptop: their whole platform is in the rear view mirror for me after decades of use. I may just get a chrome book to replace the old Air I'm writing this on.
Time for a new platform with some new innovations!
I wonder if the creators were aware of Robin Hanson's market maker mechanism, in which an automated market maker always accepts a trade. It limits its potential losses by offering increasingly worse terms as the market deviates from even chance of the outcome.

It also allows different predictions to be linked, so that you can bet on the outcomes of two events, or on the outcome of one event given a particular outcome of another event.
No need to buy the overrated $1k flagship, the $400ish SE is a fine phone for most people.
So you see the tip as a sort of bribe to stop those filthy poors contaminating your food?
I prefer most things Google, but stick with Apple for the privacy. I'll put up with lower quality services, buggy Apple TV, and an expensive phone that arguably not much better than a $200 cheaper Google alternative, just to know some creepy corporation isn't collecting mounds of data on me which will be used who knows how in the future.
"complex and expensive cashierless stores that won’t deliver much of an improvement to our shopping experience but may cost underprivileged people their jobs"
Cashierless stores are simple and amazing. I won't even comment the part about "underprivileged people", this is straight up dumb.

This is a time when an entire driverless car industry is trying to convince the world that its products are safe before it can even come up with convincing stats -
Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day. An additional 20-50 million are injured or disabled. More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among young adults ages 15-44.
THAT is not convincing enough? Autonomous cars are the future and will allow us to focus on other activities during the daily commute or long distance travels. Will decrease deaths, will optimize energy consumption by intelligently setting the right route and speed. Humans are inferior to computers on the road, that's a fact.
Consider the implications of a 95% devaluation. That means any foreign debt, which was already problematic, just went up by 20x.

In most situations, this is true. In Venezuela, however, inflation was already running at 300x a year before this announcement. (source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/world/americas/inflation-... ). So it seems like any functional business must already essentially be operating in foreign currency.
Misplaced hype.

“Today, Augur had 30 active users and 123 transactions in the last 24 hours. The market cap is roughly $269.2 million. That means that each active user is now worth roughly $9 million.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/lawmaster/status/1027188396291235...
While I applaud Apple for some of their practices, I still hate their heavy handed approach toward hardware/software control:

- OSX must run on Apple-approved hardware

- iOS apps must come from the official app store

- iOS apps must be developed on an Apple-approved device

- Extremely difficult to repair your own devices

- etc.
reminds me of the waiting room at the auto repair shop I work at. As an engine mechanic, its vital to make sure customers have access to up-to-the-minute stats on their minivan (or so im told by my boss.) Eventually someone knocked a stepladder into the screen and broke it, so we switched to whiteboard and engine techs had to scribble in status updates in front of customers like some sort of weird lecture.

Techs would mark down "NG" for no go, OK for ok, and HOLD...these all make sense to us, but not to customers. Even worse, once an hour or two a tired tech would shuffle into the waiting room study the board for a minute, and slowly cross out the name of a person. The whiteboard worked, but that day our shop was indistinguishable from a mafia den.
Microsoft is no angel, it's just dwarfed by the egregiousness of Facebook, Google, and Amazon. It still does some sketchy data-collecting in Windows unless you opt-out (though it's backed off a bit since that came to light). Microsoft can afford to not fully partake in the skeeviness because a) it's not in the ad business, and b) it is in the enterprise business. Enterprise customers won't put up with that stuff, and they have the money to pay for that privilege. So when Microsoft makes most of their money that way, their business model isn't centered around the other stuff, and customers get partially spared from it by proximity.
Why use such an old Linux kernel with CentOS? Arch and Debian are very stable operating systems for Desktop use.
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I know people that have kicked opiates and tobacco cold turkey - but who could not give up using cannabis if their lives depended on it. This is a legitimate concern in the current tide of de-criminalization / legalization.
Is there any chance you remember the name of the place in SF?

Edit: Lots of Thai places in Little Saigon.
Pak Nam Thai Noodle Bar, Zen Yai Thai Restaurant, Lers Ros....
> If housing demand was going down then housing prices would be going down.

Assuming supply (in the economic sense) was constant; if supply was dropping, then prices could go up even with demand dropping.
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My secret hope for Apple is that they buy an ISP / Telecom like Comcast.

It curdles my blood that ISPs are not only logging so-called advertising data, but are permissibly collecting and storing http requests, building full browser profiles etc, and of course are not being transparent with any of it.

Apple's message around privacy as a Human Right, along with the natural business model fit around content, wireless, telecom, etc gives me some hope that they could pull this off.
"If you haven't made it big at 40+, that means you worked on a lot of failed projects, that makes it harder to believe you can change that."

I find it unlikely a programmer, no matter how good, would make it big. There are exceptions, sure, but globally programmer is not a highly paid professional like a surgeon, for example.

I don't think there is nothing wrong with a steady paycheck and doing a job that engages ones mental faculties.

I'm soon 40. I enjoy puzzles, delivering value to demanding end users and getting feedback from my work. It's really nice when a feature you've implemented gets good feedback and customers discuss about it publicly.

So, I suppose in 'boring' tasks I'm motivated by delivering end user value for demanding professionals and the occasional math puzzler or investigating new algorithm or technology is just sugaring on top.
Samsung gives out drivers for download. A simple search found it:

https://driver-samsung.com/samsung-printer-ml-1710-drivers/

I own a ML-1660 for now 7 years and the drivers still work fine for me. Just no duplex printing, which is a shame.
I have tried to discuss similar issues here...

My frustration is moreso with the flagrant and 'at all costs' wealth posturing that is a part of contemporary tech recruitment strategy and how it fails to extend to paying the staff at these state of the art food services a livable, or even market(1), wage

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17612190
> Soviet apologia or imagery

Is that actually a bigger problem in the EU than it has been in the past?

There have always been admirers of the USSR in every country, but if I recall, they've always been a tiny percentage compared to Nazi apologists, aside from Russia. I also don't recall any of them being outright racist and calling for wholesale destruction in the way that other extremists have done.

I could be wrong there - I'm not a huge consumer of Nazi or Soviet propaganda.
As both a mobile developer and a consumer, I'll praise the iPhone over other smartphones all day long as an amazing and great product that just works.
This article is a mea culpa. He spent the last however many years bashing Apple for not doing what everyone else does.

Now he finally sees there is value and merit to the way Apple has chosen to do things.

That’s more than ‘everybody sucks so go Apple!’
I take more photos now that I can just pick the thing up to a powered-on screen--I guess it uses some gyroscope and accelerometer magic--and swipe from the right.
The other day, Norm McDonald noted something about Eddie Murphy that I hadn't considered - he was the most talented young comedian ever.

It blows my mind that Murphy was performing at such a high level when he was just 20-21.
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I'm not sure that's true. Every single post about climate change or global warming, for instance--no matter how tech-related the story may happen to be--gets flagged almost immediately. That's not being done by liberals.
The contracting company adds a cost layer between the worker and the employer. The money funding that cost layer comes out of the worker's salary not the price they charge the company they are providing services for.

So the worker knows the contracting company is squeezing them and they get into a sort of adversarial relationship.
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Plus, iOS 12 is going to significantly improve performance on all devices as far back as the iPhone 5S.

When was the last time a major Android update made five-year-old devices faster?

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-12-preview/features/
Is there evidence of this working though, or is it the same concept as the 'wisdom of the crowds'
Huh? The NYS Attorney General approves all condos separate from the local building permitting process.
I have family members still happily rocking their 2011 models and I use my 2013 every single day at work. I have no confidence that their latest models will have that type of longevity and will likely switch to Linux when they quit working.
No States allow broad gambling. Even Nevada only allows it in certain areas. So it's pretty safe to say that gambling is generally illegal, with a few exceptions.

By that logic performing surgery is illegal, should Apple remove an app that helps operate surgical equipment?

Also, many states allow private gambling anywhere as long as there is no house edge(vig/rake), which makes it more of an industry regulation.
The primary middleman ethnicity for restaurants where I live (Southern California) is Korean. There's lots of Korean-run places for the following non-Korean cuisines (in descending order for the quantity I've seen): Japanese (sushi & ramen), Americanized Chinese (distinct from Korean-Chinese cuisine, e.g. Jajangmyeon), Vietnamese, Mexican, Thai, Middle Eastern. There's some Korean fried chicken places, but I think that's kind of its own style, and is still advertised/branded as Korean. All of the aforementioned places don't make any mention of it being Korean-run. Though some of them will have things on the menu you wouldn't find at a non-Korean-run place, like kimchi.
Ah man. Tim is a cool guy and Apple's products are quite solid, but their arrogance just isn't quite gone yet.

I don't want to charge through a weird port, need a dongle for everything and be prevented from installing/using proper apps that can even do what theirs can.
Except the computer jockeys probably wanted carpeting to cut down on the noise.

It's insanely hard to concentrate in an open-office bullpen with every surface being a hard noise-reflective one.
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I haven't been there. But I work in Morrisville, and that's not too far from me, so I'll make it a point to check them out sometime soon.
Does being a new parent of twins in my mid-forties count as managing a serious medical condition? I don't have anything to back it up, but I feel your situation is more the exception than the rule. I would like to be proven wrong. I keep plugging away at side projects when I get a chance to take a breath. But even then, it seems to take tremendous effort to get into any kind of productive zone.
Conversely, I'm 30 and lost all enthusiasm for software after working for the big three.

I suggest going to a smaller place where you'll have a bigger impact and, hopefully, good coworkers.
That analogy doesn't work because the people doing the waterboarding have the power to choose not to use torture in the first place. Whereas the W3C can't choose for content producers to not use DRM--they will do it regardless.
I've gone both ways. Pre-90s, HP in my head brought to mind solid pieces of equipment with good engineering. You could back over a HP-41CV with your car, and it would still work (or at least I wouldn't be surprised; never tried). I'd blindly buy a piece of HP kit if the specs said it would do the job.

Then over the years my mental image gradually changed. HP printers weren't reliable workhorses over the complete product line anymore. Then the Windows drivers got bad. Then the inkjet cartridge bullshit. They effectively quit making calculators. Then Carly, then...and now I'm in your boat, where the HP label is equivalent to "made in China, and not the good China, the bad China that uses slave labor and cuts every corner it can find". I now actively avoid HP products.
What happens when your stake is big enough in an outcome, that you start pulling strings, legal or not ,for that outcome to happen.
Yes, I am... ( and C/C++ )

But I use the right tool for the job. Python is a great tool, but not for performance (Applies to all dynamic, interpreted languages TBH).
I experienced this when I moved to Houston, and I've commented about it before. People told me everywhere that the abundance of restaurants was incredible, that I had to try X restaurant and Y cafe, etc. After trying them all, I've found them to be pretty bland. There's not a lot of complex flavor, food is inconsistently cooked, stored, etc. The weird thing is that the meals look incredible, like they're visually stunning but boring to eat.

I only really noticed this after I started copying some Gordon Ramsey videos I was watching online. Preparing easy, simple meals the way that he prepares them (taking care to select produce and quality dairy, using fresh herbs, etc.) yields food that's better than I've eaten in 90% of restaurants. These aren't the really long "how to cook like a Michelin chef with a blowtorch and truffles" videos, either, these are like the "quick and easy broccoli soup with goat cheese and walnuts" videos.
That's the myth of democracy, yes. Glad to see there are still a few true believers. But in practice, 1/10^9 is the same as zero.
Some probably do, but I'm crazy enough to say most consumers probably don't care that much.