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> I once worked with a guy who built an app with everything done server side in web forms, including a datetime picker

ASP.NET Webforms? I have good memories of being able to do that easily, with zero (or almost zero) JavaScript.

It's not the best user experience ever (the whole page has to reload after each click, and the state is persisted by serializing structs in <input type="hidden"> fields), but I had a pleasant experience when I developed with it.

ASP.NET Webforms components were the best thing until we finally had React/Vue!

The only problem was that it was way too easy to make a mess in your backend code.
I bought my first 15" MBP in 2006 after Apple switched to Intel. I was a student back then and I got it for about 1800 EUR. It was a beautiful machine, I could replace the battery myself without unscrewing anything, and if I wanted to upgrade the memory or HDD I could do that easily.

Now here we are 12 years and a couple of Macs later. The current MBP is a bit more beautiful than the first one I got, it's noticeably thinner, the trackpad is bigger, but that's pretty much it. The rest is just technological advancements that have happened to the whole industry line-up of laptops (faster CPU, more RAM, SSDs, USB3, USB-C, Thunderbolt). And for that I now have to pay nearly double the price of my first MBP.

I think the sales people have taken control over Apple again. It just feels natural to look for an alternative at this point.

The really sad part is that Apple software, which is vastly superior to all competitors from my perspective, is no longer accessible for certain people due to the price hikes. I had hoped that Apple would take another path this time. They seem to have forgotten their decline during the 90s.
That kind of developer
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
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iOS still runs the darwin kernel. I'd be shocked if it didn't use swap.
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It’s a mildly interesting idea but faces an obvious chicken and egg problem that you’ve just punted on so far. Without demonstrably solving or having a plan to solve it (eg. why anyone would trade usd or btc for swifts), it’s uninvestible. UBI hype is likely the only reason you got an interview.
Users never returning has an effect on bottom line. So you can make the argument from that position.

Whether users return, and how that hurts your business, depends very much on your site and your users.

I will disagree about UX not being about bottom line though (in the usual context of a for-profit company of course). In a common setting, whoever pays developers and designers are doing so as an investment that they think will be profitable. If you can cut costs without hurting (long term) revenue by cheaping out on UX then of course you should (!). But often the idea is good UX will drive revenue...
In the same fashion that microsoft and ibm thrives: its lost its dominance in the consumer market “headspace”, printing money but no longer being a company worth knowing. Its just another BigCo at this point, with all the benefits and dullness associated with it. (Eg it’s difficult to be excited for apple product announcements; they have a money-printing operation and their only intent is to maintain it as-is; naturally any updates will be rather mundane, safe iterations on the running system)

In other words, apple became boring, or at least has been boring for a while now.

I mean, the whole computer market is boring (tablets, phones, laptops, etc; all the same shit YoY), but its kind of hard to think that current-apple is going to break that trend, in the same way you wouldn't expect IBM or Xerox to. Don't know of any startups doing anything terribly interesting in the space, with any real chance of success.

Hell, at this point Microsoft might be the likeliest candidate: at least they're doing something with stuff like stupidly big conference room screens and maybe Hololens will do something cool.
> unfortunately the number of apps that can make full use of the increased power is still limited

Isn't that a good thing? For example, wouldn't it be great if all web apps were optimized for specs lower than the machines we use?
> A pen magnetically attached will likely pop off when you put the tablet in your bag.

The surface pen already magnetically attaches to the surface, this would just give that attachment another purpose.

> Swapping it out when it dies seems simpler than remembering to charge it regularly.

You don't have to remember anything, you just "redock" the stylus when you're done using it and it will charge.
I think that SSS is a little easier to follow, while Mohri is more complete.

It was helpful to me to have both, as details skipped over in one proof were often highlighted or better explained in its corresponding description. For someone whose training was not theoretical computer science, SSS left me with a better understanding most of the time.
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The current line is a bit weird. MacBook 12” vs MacBook Air 13” vs MacBook Pro 13” without Touch Bar.

I just wish they release a 14” MacBook. That would have made more sense.
IKEA rebrands appliances in the US. However, I consider this a value add because IKEA has an excellent warranty policy. Sometimes rebranding makes sense when you have some sort of value to add to ownership.
"today a man on the internet from rich country with good job and a good standard of living says bollox to the rest of you, I've got mine, feed on my scraps"

:-\
Yep. They also live in the nicest homes, live longer, have nicer cars, and so forth.

Not saying it's fantastic, but if you have to ration a resource willingness to pay is a place to start.

I don't feel the same way about every resource (eg health and education) but whether you can visit some old town somewhere doesn't seem essential.
I agree - except that Pompeii had adverts 2000+ years ago, now preserved in the ash. If it were possible to solve this in 2000 years, we probably would have....

Perhaps Google's original mission is the best one - accurate, impartial search.
confessed != accused

> In a statement to the Times, DeVaul apologized for his “error of judgment.”

Quote comes from https://pocketnow.com/nyt-google-paid-andy-rubin-misconduct-...

> DeVaul was disciplined — Google has not said what action it took — and has since apologized for an “error of judgment.”
Are you planning on open sourcing this? Thanks!
You should be comparing calories, not pounds. Also, it really depends on what vegetables you're comparing (there is a 50x range in the amount of calories provided per input for plants as a class). Beef is generally less resource intensive than leafy green vegetables, but more resource intensive than most starchy vegetables. Chicken is less resource intensive than basically all plant food sources except for peanuts, potatoes, oils, and grains.

A brief glance at what most vegetarians and vegans are eating leads me to believe that their diets are probably not that much more environmentally friendly than your average meat eater. The real key is shifting toward inexpensive cheeses, milk, and oils for protein and fats and then consuming a lot more carbohydrates in the form of potatoes and grains.

And, really, the biggest impact environmental impact that most people can effect with their diet is not eating out as much.
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Yeah, have no dog in the race, but was surprised by all the negativity toward IBM yesterday. I don't have nearly the bad feelings towards them that I do say MS or Oracle. Also they've supported Linux a lot, at least ten years ago, unsure if that continues.

Basically they exited from all the markets I cared about in recent years and became a non-entity, meh.
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Doesn't the Macbook require a certain minimum power to be available before it will start trying to charge though. IE if I plug it into an old .5A USB charger would it try to charge off the 2.5W? That's most of what I meant when I was talking about providing enough power.
(Dart 2) Future&lt;void&gt; vs. Future&lt;Null&gt;, what's the difference?
Would paying people in countries with high birth rates to not have children be exploitative?
I think iPhones have for a long time been designed with the assumption that every user will add a case.
See the top comment on this very HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18336811
The more hardware support for HVEC the faster the scene will move to x265, the smaller files everywhere. I'm excited!
You're right. It doesn't make sense unless there are many people at Google that prefer sexual harassment to people that think and say the wrong things.

Either that or Damore just had less social standing than this person and therefore was treated differently.
Certainly not "desktop territory" (at least, 2018 desktop), but its definitely in "laptop territory" now, which is a major advancement.

Desktops are 8-fat-core behemoths in 2018 with incredible potential. Ryzen 7 2700x == 8-core / 16 threads. Intel i7-9700k isn't even the top-end anymore and is also 8-core /(only 8-threads). And its actually reasonable to build a 64-GB of RAM Consumer Desktop (Ryzen 7 2700x or Intel i7-9700k).

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iPad Pro may be 8-core... but its configuration is 4-fast core + 4-low-power Core, still building itself as a way to reduce power consumption at the cost of speed / performance.

4GB of RAM is also pitiful and won't be sufficient for desktop-level tasks.

Desktops can run 8-fat cores all day long due to their wall-power connection. iPads are still designed for mobility and low-power consumption. Its a good compromise, but I wouldn't bill it as anything more than a laptop-class system.
How much revenue/profit do you think they get from that (possibly, imagined) huge market share? Compared to iOS?

I guess that is something we could research.

This isn't profit/revenue, but some brief googling suggests 77 million iOS devices shipped in Q1 2018, and 5 million MacOS devices in the same quarter.

It seems clear that devices like this one announced are at least intended to capture some of the previous market for MacOS laptops as well.

Market share doesn't mean much if the market isn't contributing much to their bottom line, and/or has an expense to produce out of line with it's revenue/profit.

Ah, here we go:

"The Mac's Waning Relevance to Apple"
https://www.statista.com/chart/8817/mac-sales-as-a-percentag...

I think releases like OP will accelerate this trend further.
> The second year of keyboard replacements surely drives up the price.

Isn't keyboard replacement free worldwide for 4 years?
>Is it not still considered an international human right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty?

In most modern media, certainly not. And on Slate, it's usually the opposite (guilty until proven innocent), especially if the subject happens to be in one of the supposedly dominant classes (white|male|rich|anglo-saxon|straight, etc...)
It's pretty clear there are two sets of rules depending on how senior you are in the company.

It's also normal now for historically "powerful" groups to have a different set of rules about what is ok to say. For example, referencing Christ isn't treated the same way as saying something comparable about Buddha or Vishnu, and will likely be treated with more scrutiny.

The best bet for a new employee is to just avoid any hot button issues entirely.
Visual Studio App Centre has a build pipeline for React Native

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/app-center/
It looks like the author removed the bit about C77 from their post.

Although ANSI C wasn't a thing until 1989, the language had been around since 1972.

The original K&R book was published in 1978, and if you read it, you'll see C that's noticeably different from C89 or newer. 'C77' was probably just a fun bit of shorthand pjc50 used to describe old, K&R style C. Or at least C that's missing some ANSI features.
Exactly!

Slim sleack shiny phones which break when dropped. Easily dropped because of shiny slippery surface.

What to do? Put some cheap something around it.....

And I'm wondering why people ask me why I don't have a case around my phone.

I don't get the thin phone to have more space for the plastic protection that's why...
I think cleanup is part of it. I also have noticed as a guy on the DS job family, but who has taken a large interest in SDE work, separating the job families can result in churn.
For example, I might think of three model choices A, B and C. C may be the worst of the three, but only very marginally worse. It can also be the case that C is an order of magnitude easier to keep and maintain in production.

I've seen cases where the wrong choice here ends up requiring three SDEs for half a year, where if they gave up a tiny benefit of the best model, they could have done it with 1 SDE in 1 month.
Yes, it was launched earlier this year: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/apps-on...
If you want to see "Amsterdam's way of life" then stay away from the downtown. It's literally adult Disneyworld, with pretty much everything it implies. It's great if that's what you're into (all of Europe visits the city regularly to get high), but not if you actually want to see their "way of life"
Looks like the same shitty keyboard as the MacBook Pro. At least there's an escape key...
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Unfortunately they are half-empty!
Correct, it kills apps before they swap.
> Is it not still considered an international human right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty? (UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 11)

Only for penal offenses (same source [0].) Torts are not penal offenses, and workplace discipline that doesn't involve government action is even farther from a penal offense.

> Have we reached a point in society that an unverified accusation is all that is necessary for termination?

An accusation, even unverified, is not required for termination.

“At-will employment” means pretty much what the name says. Outside of special cases (tenured and/or civil service status, special employment cobtracts) a job is a discretionary immediately revocable relationship, not a property interest secured by right.

[0] https://www.humanrights.com/course/lesson/articles-06-11/rea...
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"Without repacking, the microkernel would have to read rows of A separated by potentially large stride. If this stride happens to be a multiple of a large power of 2, elements from different rows of A in the panel may fall into the same cache set. If the number of colliding rows exceeds cache associativity, they evict each other and performance falls off a cliff. Fortunately, this situation cannot happen when the panel fits into L1, as with the models for which QNNPACK is optimized."

I only very roughly understand the concepts of caching and eviction algorithms, but I wish processors and OS'es (which presumably can configure cache behaviour) would expose the current cache configuration so that compilers and library designers can take this into account in a more automated/uniform way. Alternatively how accurately do emulators model cache behaviour? It would be nice to see where a bottleneck is, or how long ago a needed value was evicted for profiling purpouses
> "violating their guidelines"

Any guesses as to what guidelines were violated?
But you can't run your own server, right?

Owning the data is a very good start, but I don't see that it qualifies as proper indie web, if you're kinda-sorta tied to their service.

All of this is quite aside from the points others have made, that it offers no real solution to Hate and harassment are too common.
> I thought a lot of traditional Chinese culture got run over by the cultural revolution

Asking as a Chinese myself, can you point to some examples?

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Nobody cares about headphone jacks.
> You do know what the purpose of IP/patents originally was, right? The fact that companies have brainwashed you into thinking it's "dishonest" for the rest of society to benefit from their original invention is depressing.

Dude, harsh.

As a developer, I wouldn't want someone taking the work I'd spent years to build, taking a slightly older copy and then iterating on it and selling it.
In addition to obvious flaws others noted, these tools fails to catch a certain type of reviews manipulation:

Try:

https://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B07FTFFY24

https://www.fakespot.com/product/28pcs-wood-burning-kit-crea...

While fakespot gave D, it gave it for other reasons. What really happened there - seller completely replaced product on that page with another one. Read existing reviews to understand what is going on.

One more example - https://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B07FSW8VMQ - just read reviews to see how ridiculous it gets.

Not all of them are easy to detect. This seller added soldering iron as a variation to a wood burning unit - https://reviewmeta.com/amazon/B07D9H5H9Y - even by reading reviews you can't easily figure out fakeness of it. (https://www.fakespot.com/product/vastar-wood-burning-kit-44p... Fakespot gave A)

This type of blackhat stuff happens right now right and left. It is even cheaper/quicker/easier than paying reviewers for reviews now.
The demo file shown at the event was 12000x12000, 127 layers. It was 3GB on disk, 5GB fully loaded into memory. Double-tap to zoom was happening at 120Hz, fully animated, to anywhere within the document.

I realize I'm biased, but on such a machine, the observed performance is anything but rudimentary.
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This looks like a cry of MPEG "we are not dead yet".

Discussing the viability of a codec that is still 2 years out and throwing a comparison like that in the mix seems dishonest. Also every "graph" drawn is deceptive and seems clearly biased in favor of vvc (the most obvious one is "decoder install base" and "ecosystem adoption" where vvc didn't score 0)

But I will be happy as long as we have a good competition in the codec space.
Where did you get that idea?
That is an awesome (horrific) vision of the future

Edit: the video, not your three year old :-)
I'm surprised no one has released an ad blocking router yet. Just plug it in and it has default dns rules in place to block all domains serving ads. Like a pihole but built into the router. It could broadcast a separate network that doesn't block ads in case the ad blocking broke something you needed to use. If I had any experience in manufacturing i'd be all over this.
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> bring the next hand out or drop your phone....

This is not a great solution, but in "Accessibility Options" you can enable the gesture to swipe down on the bottom to bring the top of the screen down to the middle so you can reach it one handed. It's clunky but helpful.

It's the functionality that used to be on a double tap of the home button or something, and I thought it was removed, but it was just turned off by default.
I don't have any insight into the details, but I'd guess that under the hood (and not-so-under the hood) it looks and behaves a lot like a TPM
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No, he didn't physically assault someone, he just created a toxic work environment. Which, in the great at-will employment state of California falls under the "You can be fired for any reason, including no reason whatsoever" employment clause.

But yes, it would be nice if companies actually published their HR procedures, and expectations, so that they could be held accountable for how they carry out (Or fail to carry out) disciplinary action.

So that you can actually know that there is a double standard for the rank and file, versus the thought leaders, instead of having to infer it from reading tea leaves.
> Not every laptop user needs to be able to run BPF.

True for the moment, but I can see that changing. Having a safe VM at the system call layer is a game changer for so many subsystems. It turns the Linux kernel into a hybrid exokernel.
My son (9 years old) is turning into a Fortnite addict. I'm blaming myself for allowing online games. I've built him a PC so he could learn how to program. Sometimes we experiment with Unity together, sometimes we spend time in Python. But lately Fortnite is grabbing him more and more, and he spends all his allowed time (1.5 hours per day) there, so there's no time left for exploring other things. He can't control himself. He spends his savings on virtual items, significant amounts. He just blew $40 worth of his savings on virtual stuff.

I Googled for "fortnite addiction" and was shocked how many similar stories there are. It is an epidemy. Game shops are exploiting advanced psychological tactics to turn young generation into addicts.

I am thinking more and more that this should be regulated. There should be a set of rules that a game shouldn't break. For example, prohibiting sales of items, or putting a cap on that. No gambling. A user should be able to pause a game without being punished. And so on... Isn't there a way at all? I understand this is stepping on personal liberties, but it hurts to know dudes in Epic Games are stuffing their wallets while young kids are breaking their banks to buy virtual pistols and don't have ways to exit that world without taking a hit. Especially since playgrounds are empty and streets are not playgrounds anymore.

I blame myself.
This is life for high end systems though. I have a Dell Lattitude 7390, 8th Gen i5, 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM. Cost about £850 (edu discount). The upgrade to 512GB SSD and 16GB RAM would have been an extra £500. Admittedly you also get an i7, but if Dell actually offered 1TB and 32GB RAM, I would bet it'd be at least £1k on top of the base.

On the plus side, despite Dell's warning, both the SO-DIMM and the M.2 SSD are user serviceable and easily accessible. The chassis even has retaining screws!
thanks for the feedback! Will change it
I think you are missing my point. An organization like the OSI might define what open source is. But that doesn't make their definition the meaning of open source. The meaning becomes what open source is. Since you have many different licenses under the term open source, some of which contain the non-absoluteness I described earlier, the meaning of open source becomes "software that you can modify etc. under certain conditions". That is why you have open source under a permissive license, under a copyleft license, under a patent granting license etc. That is the historic president. There is therefor no reason why you couldn't have open source under a non-commercial license, other than that this doesn't meet the OSI definition, but these other exceptions do.

But as I said I would still prefer "non-commercial open source". I grants you the right to modify etc. but only if you don't exploit it commercially. Just like copyleft open source grants you those rights, but only if you also distribute the source code.

Apparently though I guess if there was something that was a red herring it is this whole discussion as someone pointed out that common clause doesn't even call the license open source.
How about most people stop using their mobile phones, or all the other electronics they carry that require charging?

I am not going vegetarian on any day. Why? Vegetables don't satisfy my tastes nor do I get enough calories from them for my activity output.

You aren't going to change people's wants and needs because they are different from yours.
The developer is trying to make it a financially viable project with what is, presumably, a pretty small customer base.
Increases and declines are less interesting unless there is a structural issue with the company. It's if the stock price stays flat which is when you should be concerned... buybacks etc... lack of growth.. things like that need to be considered.