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They already are in it with Beats. [1] I imagine the engineering challenge of ANC with earpods is enormous. If they can shrink that down to AirPod size, that’d be one of the biggest technological marvels they’d accomplish.

1. https://store.apple.com/xc/product/MTQW2LL/A
there is very little seamless about the newest apple products, especially their software interfaces. i still have no idea what is happening with icloud or their files application or their gesture language. it is all very confusing. and just works? i actually don't own a single apple product that didn't have a major hardware failure within the first few years.

back when it was mac os x versus windows xp, sure, apple was well ahead of everyone else. that isn't true anymore, but people still claim it.
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I've tried this many times, but it doesn't ever seem to actually work. If my Mac is nearby, it immediately steals the pairing back, even if they're not the most recently selected audio device on the Mac.
Selling last year's model as a budget option was a Steve Jobs decision. It started with the iPhone 3G, which remained on sale in 2009 for a lower price, after the 3Gs was released.

Expanding SKUs was also a Jobs decision. He cut the computer line back to the quadrants in the late 90s as a way to triage the company. But later he oversaw the introduction of multiple new product lines, models, sizes, and color combinations.

Critics fretted about focus when he introduced the Cube, when he introduced the iPod, when he introduced the Macbook Air, when he introduced the iPad, when he introduced the Xserve, when he introduced the Hi-Fi. Some of them worked, some of them didn't. The ones that worked, really worked well though.
Is this article the payback for Cook asking the Bloomberg to retract that Supermicro story?
What's the point here?

- There were mp3 files and player long before the first iPod

- Before the iPhone there were other smartphones

- Before the iPad there were other tablets

- Don't get me started on the Watch...

Apple was never an Inventor. Everything they've ever created was built around a technology or even products that existed before. Apple "just" gets the user experience right and and builds products that most people find accessible, easy to use, and reliable.
It's embarrassing that this doesn't include a massive, bold-faced disclaimer above the headline.

Bloomberg is in the midst of a credibility-destroying fight with Apple over a sensational story that no other journalists can corroborate. Bloomberg has dug in, staking their reputation on Apple being wrong.

Seemingly in response Bloomberg... publishes a hand-wavy piece of cultural criticism about the meaning of Apple doing iterative design?
Do you also react the same to people with any of the many, many wireless headphone brands out there, or do you reserve your wannabe-cool smugness only for Apple users?
> Alexander Fleming, suffering from a particularly juicy cold, happened to sneeze into a Petri dish full of bacteria.

I'm not sure I've ever heard a cold described a "juicy" before. It certainly doesn't make it sound pleasant(and I doubt it was).
Other manufacturers could work within the Bluetooth SIG to fix those problems for everyone, if they wanted to. They just don't care enough to make that investment.
> I think it's increasingly obvious that for everyone except osx stans, it's not the best choice available, and it hasn't been for a long time

The problem with arguments like this is that they're self-reinforcing. If I try to refute it, you'll just peg me as an "osxistan" (is that a country?) and say I've proven you right.
If there are common elements then you name it and reuse the existing classes. So you are not adding much CSS just naming few conventions.
I hate it when corded headphones get caught in door handles and yank out of your ears, it's such an uncomfortable feeling. Also, i've never heard anyone admit to smirking before.
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Early in my career (software engineer) I was debugging an issue in our application that was causing some funky data to be written to the DB (turned out to be double encoding of UTF8 strings). While validating the issue locally, I decided the best course of action was to drop the table and recreate it. I did just that, except I still saw the issue. Well, turns out that I was connected to not to my local DB, but instead the production DB.

My manager was very understanding, and walked me through the procedure to restore the DB from backup.

I learned an extremely important lesson that day, and have always remembered it when I see others screw up.
My personal inconvenience is that I'm myopic so I tend to hold my phone too close to my face. The camera doesn't see me and have to tap the PIN every other time. TouchID doesn't depend on that and where my face is. My fingers are always near the phone.

However, I recognize this is an edge case.
Here's one example from the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46070229

All UK parties have problems of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
Insurance premiums when people with pre-existing conditions were not covered are lower than when people with pre-existing conditions are forced to be covered. That statement would be true no matter how much providers are getting paid.

Lack of supply of providers or fraudulent billing by providers is a separate cause of increased insurance premiums, but I don't see what ACA has to do that, and if anything, healthcare spending increases are slowing down since the passage of ACA, and premiums are even decreasing in many parts of the country.

My original response was to your claim that freelancers were better off in pre-ACA times, to which I wanted to point out that was only because people with pre-existing conditions were denied insurance. Nothing in ACA has caused the amount paid to providers to increase.
What is the evidence that rules out the hypothesis that the population distributions aren't the same?

When the Khmer Rouge targeted intellectuals in Cambodia, wiping out 10% of the population, how did they fail to alter the population distribution?
Why don't we all steer towards the IBM PC clone model, but for smartphones? Why do we have free/open Linux on PCs and not on phones?

By the way, ironically, with its single user OS, an iPhone is more a "Personal Computer" than most PCs.
> I still haven’t seen anything that has the size, battery life, functionality, range, and audio quality as AirPods at any price point

Walmart has wired earbuds for under $5, which are quite small (they fit in your ears), have perpetual battery life (because they have no battery!), the same functionality (they play sound, in your ears), great range and great audio quality.

And you won't have to replace them in two years. Isn't that great?
I failed to get a single project on upwork despite one year of bidding as a JS, Rails dev etc. I've also watched youtube videos and read endless blogs how to get your first project.

So -1 here if you've included me.
Why do you think insurance costs is a big deal?

At age 33, I pay 30 USD per month for 100% coverage of any illness, up to 30,000 USD per year, which is enough even for cancer. That's in Hong Kong.

The only problem is American prices. Socialized healthcare is not needed as long as prices are reasonable.

If I was an American I'd probably just fly to Thailand for any serious health issues because the cost of flight ticket plus treatment would be significantly less than in the US.
The article itself mentions that the 2 examples it gives to state its premise were both "rightfully brushed off as raving lunatics."

Everyone agrees being an anti-semite is bad. The fact that people like Farrahkahn sit on the left doesn't mean all people on the left agree with those views. It doesn't mean they get a free pass. It's sorta how people on the right really hate it when you say "everyone who voted from Trump is a Nazi".

This seems to be very much mock outrage and false equivalencies.
How utterly embarrassing for Bloomberg. My respect for them has plummeted recently.
> I'm a pretty big liberal myself but Beto's chances in Texas seem smaller than the size of his name implies.

It's smaller than a some names for lower offices, and the size of name reflects (as stated at the top) a combination of chance of winning and level of office.
Thank you. I think your design is stellar. I'm keen to go through your code too. Since moving to clojure I have found myself reading much more source code
Another way to deal with this would be to not apologize, but to insist the algorithms are imparital, and to condemn their users. Call a big press conference and say, shit, we found that a big portion of our users are antisemites. Put that trending topic behind a trigger warning and maybe add content disclaimers to antisemite's pages. They could say they are protecting freedom of speech, but also the other side of the medal - freedom to call out positions you find wrong.

I understand of course that that ship has sailed.

Howver, I also believe that the strategy of "keeping the lid on" positions that are hateful or morally undesirable does not work long term. It was completely unthinkable and taboo to voice nazi positions in public in post WW2-Germany, it is even forbidden by law. But this did not irradicate Nazi thought, it just pushed it underground. And look, suddenly with some historical distance it is coming out again. Same in the US with people running around in KKK hoods and waving the confederate flag. Of course, racism was never gone or solved (no matter what we thought as white kids growing up in the 90s), but now it seems to be OK again to be openly racist in certain circles.

To tie it back to the topic, I believe we should not sweep positions we find horrible under the carpet, by saying they are taboo, and pretending we (e.g. Twitter) are impartial and unpolitical. Rather, we have to endure that people hold these positions, and speak out against them. Even if that means that we no longer are "politically neutral".
Trump isn't the first person to talk about having a military presence in space, that was pretty much the main reason for the budget going into NASA early on. And, well, aside from the bias Elon would have where he's developing what will likely become the most successful for-profit space business in history - which I'm sure he's aware of that bias, it definitely is a good idea to be prepared to defend against bad actors who may use space as an attack vector; safety and security is clearly a concern of Elon's especially when it comes to the potential that AI has for devastating humanity.
Broadcom makes $1B patent claim against Volkswagen
The Chrome Extension has the 'interceptor' feature which listens to ALL network requests made in the browser on a particular page and pipes it to the Postman App. This was very neat for me to debug my requests.

However, the standalone app doesn't have that feature (yet). So I will continue to use the Chrome Extension version until they have that feature available in the Standalone app.
Major left-wing activism leaders Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, and Carmen Perez are proud, longstanding supporters of Louis Farrakhan and his hate-group "Nation Of Islam"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam_and_antisemiti...

https://forward.com/opinion/396003/linda-sarsour-has-been-a-...
Not vouching for the linked article, but "fair and balanced" isn't a requirement to post here. Vox and Vice are both openly liberal publications that are regularly posted here. If you have specific disagreements, comment on them. Calling something a "nut-job shill publication" isn't productive.
There are lots of similar features which are just really nice from a UX perspective. The whole WiFi password sharing thing is basically perfect - and underlying a lot of these features are relatively complex technologies.

I agree it doesn’t excuse the lack of attention to Mac hardware though. That’s something I find absolutely baffling; I don’t understand the reason why they’re not periodically releasing newer Macs instead of letting whole chunks of the product line rot. I get that consumer devices are more profitable, but I struggle to think that they wouldn’t still make a handsome sum of money. The product lineup is still kind of spotty and weird. That said, it’s possible that the recent releases and upcoming Mac Pro will mark a bit of a change of pace on this front.
Self driving cars are a way to fleece investors for 5 or 10 more years until everyone realizes it just isn't happening.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18192671

Among many: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18194173. The banana is dying and the suit is back!
Often there really is no better / equivalent alternative. If you have a specific need for a particular feature then there may be only a few devices with offer it at all. So as a consumer you have a choice between buying crap or nothing at all. There's no economic way to signal that you'd be willing to pay for something better.
There is a reason most good justice systems leave a percent of guilty people free, because punishing that last percent of people would mean also punishing a large amount of innocent people too. It is a law of dimishing returns, and I doubt that a mob of people is gonna have better restraint or control that a justice/ legal system will have while also having better detection and punishment of crimes against the society or social convention.
If your source is not HuffPo, Vice, or Buzzfeed please don’t waste our time. Your source cannot be viable journalism, nor an OpEd producer unless it is similarly align with these fine publications.
Maybe. The other option is that higher education will just be for the global rich. It’s a myth that markets need everyone, in fact it’s a core tenet of modern economics that markets can hum along just fine while excluding a large class of people, with no incentive to bring them into the fold.
I find it works better if I disconnect them from Mac first.
Wired earplugs on a phone are a usability nightmare as soon as you stand up. No thanks.
What service/api did you use for the t-shirts?
Ok, but whether or not you like it, it's certainly a new feature that is technically sophisticated.

Apple did not need to introduce FaceID... seems to me a non-inventing landlord would have just ridden TouchID as long as possible.
I know you're being sarcastic but the range on my AirPods is greater than 30ft, down the hall and two rooms over.
Just a reminder, that under US law, the 5th amendment only applies to passwords (what you know), and not biometrics (what you are). If you choose to use FaceID, thumbprints etc, the government can force you to unlock your device.
Not the experience after you got the bump. The experience of getting that 200k it cud be because of switch from one state to another or may be because you specialized in some specific tech.

The purpose is to identify what really led to a 100 % bump , i believe it is not something that happens usually in many cases and few special cases might have led to this.

To understand wat paved the way for this special case to happen.
Pretty amusing to read this on Bloomberg of all places. Practically the definition of innovator turned rent-seeker. One of the most entrenched incumbents in technology.
What a silly article. How someone could look at Apple's chip developments (A, T, S, W, etc. series of processors) and think they aren't innovative is mind-boggling. Apple developing key silicon in their devices is a major security benefit for their users and I consider that an innovative model.

The Apple ecosystem itself is innovative and I don't think there's a single company that does it better.

They still lead in interfaces (biometrics...FaceID) and multi-touch gestures.

I don't use Siri, but I'm glad they are developing that technology in a way that doesn't flat-out violate the privacy of their users. I just hope all the criticism comparing Siri versus Google Assistant and Cortana don't push them to change that posture.

It feels like Apple hate is becoming a meme. You can certainly criticize the company... their product line is becoming confusing, but to say they "used" to be an innovator is ignorant.
Users have been begging Twitter to try to build abuse controls for years, to deaf hears.
While the pairing process with non-Apple devices is the slightly more cumbersome standard Bluetooth pairing process, they still switch between multiple devices much more easily than other wireless headphones I own. I just tell windows to connect to my AirPods and they connect. I tell my android phone to connect my AirPods and it connects to those instead. Often with other wireless headphones I have to fiddle with the pairing mode on the headphones to get it to allow me to connect it to a different device, even if it’s already been paired in the past. My $350 Bose wireless headphones (2018 model) can only remember pairing with two devices before it needs to be re-paired. So using it with my phone, iPad, and computer is a bit of a pain. There must be other headphone manufacturers that get this right, but the AirPods are my first experience with not being frustrated by Bluetooth headphones, and the first time I’ve found wireless headphones to be less hassle than wired headphones.
There was controversy (still is?) about the Labour party refusing to adapt the IHRA definition of antisemitism because some interpretations think it means criticism of the state of Israel is always antisemitic. That's true in America as well when people don't fall in line with 100% support financially by the USA federal government for whatever Israel does.

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/blog/a-briefing-docu...
I'm curious, I just signed up myself. How many bids did you put out? What's your experience like?
> If you were a European company would you prefer to deal with your European neighbours, getting bids from France, Germany or Spain (for example) or would you want to have known snitch-countries bidding too?

Unless we are to pretend that only the Five Eyes do spying, I would assume that France, Germany, and Spain all have competent intelligence systems and thus the result is probably more or less a wash.

It may also be worth considering that there could be a difference to be distinguished between noting that a given practice is common and endorsing it. The former is an observation, the latter a judgment call. It may even be possible to offer the former without weighing in on the latter, though some will tend to interpret this as a statement of enthusiastic endorsement.

Perhaps I failed to season what I thought to be clearly phrased as observations with sufficient qualifiers? If so, please accept my humble apologies for misleading you by being unclear.
Gesture UI (the audience literally gasped when Steve scrolled through a long list by flinging it, and applauded pinch-to-zoom), and actually using best of class components (except the camera).

All the other smartphones then were laggy/poor screen/plastic shells/etc. Their UIs stunk. It was a huge step up with a bunch of key incremental innovations in a single package.
I'll give you the watch but the iPod isn't an mp3 player, the iPhone isn't a smartphone, and the iPad isn't a tablet.

The iPod is THE mp3 player, the iPhone is THE smartphone, and to a lesser extent the iPad is THE tablet.

No, Apple didn't invent the concepts but they created the definitive product using those concepts.
>that was pretty much the main reason for the budget going into NASA early on

Sputnik inspired NACA to transition to NASA out of fear.

>And, well, aside from the bias Elon would have where he's developing what will likely become the most successful for-profit space business in history - which I'm sure he's aware of that bias, it definitely is a good idea to be prepared to defend against bad actors who may use space as an attack vector; safety and security is clearly a concern of Elon's especially when it comes to the potential that AI has for devastating humanity.

Elon thinks it's a good idea because he likes subsidies. A "Space Invasion" doesn't make sense. A "Space Army" doesn't make sense. "Coastal Defense" doesn't make sense. ICBM missiles changed the entire meaning of war and defense.
Where or what is claiming that Twitter is "supposed" to be an internet safe-space?
And use on boarding/migration where the user can supply the missing additional data.
100% agreed. People are complaining online about how the new Mac Mini is priced, but they're not just selling a computer. It's a whole ecosystem of things of mostly reliable stuff that works well with each other. They can put a price premium for the quality of their software ecosystem, which keeps getting better.

Being able to use your phone as a camera to take a photo directly into a document in Pages on your computer is a pretty cool trick.

Having your airpods pairing sync between your devices and easily jump to the device you're using is really well done (from what I hear, I don't have them myself).

A phone getting more than two years of software updates may not be flashy, but I'm more interested in that than anything else that phone manufacturers are doing.
Optography
Guix uses a fork of the nix-daemon (for now), but otherwise uses nothing from the Nix project.
First of all, this is a tiny sample of the jobs and job seekers that are out there, so we probably don't want to draw too many conclusions from it.

> How does this balance work?

People who want a remote job but can't find one settle for non-remote jobs. The ability to work remotely is just one of the many factors that makes people decide whether to take a particular job. Very few people are lucky enough to work in their ideal job.
APT (on linux) and MSI (on Windows) platforms both attempt to solve for those factors. Both are also bedrocks for the the operating systems they are designed for. Everyone else on this thread seems to be skipping right over both these names. Why?
Who said Twitter was "safe"? Twitter blocks some of the extreme end, but not nearly enough to call it "safe". Twitter hosts credible threats by people who have attempted murder, like the recent pipe-mail-bomber.
What is embarrassing is believing there's now a conspiracy against Apple because Bloomberg got a scoop and decided to follow through.

Don't worry, Apple can survive some criticism.
> and in some cases are even purposely trying to lose money.

Just to clarify, what exactly do you mean by this? VCs or startups trying to lose money? For what purpose?
> Why don't we all steer towards the IBM PC clone model, but for smartphones?

Isn't that Android?
Another reminder, you can temporarily disable Face/Touch ID by holding the volume up and power buttons for two seconds, something you could probably do while your phone is in your pocket without anyone noticing.