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And as soon as they do that somebody else will start a free clone to siphon off their users, and people will abandon Twitter. Getting people from $0-$1 is a lot harder than $1-$5. Humans aren't very rational.

For that matter, note that mobile game companies found out it was harder to get all your users to pay $5 for a game than to get 1% of your users to pay hundreds.
It's very disappointing that a board awash with privacy advocates, blockchain theorists, and proponents of alternative approaches to voting can't muster a discussion on how to balance political rights with personal security.
> Languages such as C# and Java have done many a disservice with their keywords abstract and interface. There is a common misconception that by creating an interface one can make an object abstract and improve the design of a system.

This doesn't make any sense. In Java, etc., "abstract" is just a technical term relating to the type system. It means these are types which do not have a complete implementation, so instances cannot be created. The word is used as an antonym of concrete, another technical term which describes types that can be instantiated.

It doesn't mean any of this stuff about changing the abstraction level or improving the design of the system. The author seems not to understand that a word can have two different meanings even within a single subject area.

While I'm griping, if you are looking at the semi-arbitrary choice of programming language keywords and letting that shape the big picture of how you view software design, you're going to have a bad time. "It said 'abstract' so this must be the way of creating abstractions." If that's the type of reasoning you use, the programming language designers aren't the ones doing you a disservice; you are.
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Tim knows what he’s doing, keeping the Mac prices a couple hundred dollars higher than we’d like.
This type of uncontrolled self-experimentation is extremely fraught with bias and is not a reliable way to reach a conclusion at all. For example, you discount all the times you get a leg twitch and your phone doesn't ring. You probably don't even register it. Your muscles most definitely are not activated by 1-3GHz radio waves broadcast at less than one watt. Otherwise you'd be dancing like a marionette 24/7.

And the sleep experiment is even worse. How do you quantify "better deeper sleep?" Please don't spread this kind of anecdotal pseudoscience, it just makes the rest of the world more uninformed. The more confidence you have in your objectivity and expertise on the subject, the worse your bias gets. People who work with tech have to be doubly sure to control for bias.
> session object

what fields are in this session object besides an identifier?
> Is HBO Now good these days? Last time I used it, it was terrible.

If you don't watch live shows anyway, it's (IME) better than HBO-on-Cable, even accompanied by the HBO Go app (which is far more terrible than HBO Now ever was.)
> Disposable plasic knives are also banned in public,

No they're not.
I'm assuming you mean instruments and microphones excepted, because many high-end recording microphones cost $1000 and up. Yes, there are legends of a few albums being recorded with only a few SM57 (a $100 mic), but they're the exception - and most such albums aren't generally regarded as audiophile-quality.

But regardless, even just the input transformer on most mixing consoles costs at least $100. And many extremely high-end consoles use discrete opamps which can get really expensive. There's also a lot of tube-based outboard gear in studios.

Sure, you could build a mixing desk with only $2 opamps and no transformers, no tubes, etc. But that would sound bad. Unlike the audiophile world, recording isn't about doing everything possible to prevent distortion - if it was, all recording would be done with calibrated measurement microphones and other various lab equipment.

So how can distortion be good in recording if it's bad in reproduction? A few reasons. IM distortion, for starters - distorting every channel individually is going to sound much different (and in most cases, better) than distorting the mix of all the channels.

But also, in recording, the distortion is finely tuned to the exact song, by someone who gets paid hundreds of dollars an hour because they are very good at it (and yes, good at getting it to sound even better on a variety of different systems). A recording engineer can use exactly whatever mic preamp they think will sound best for the song. Yes, audiophiles do tend to adjust tiny settings for each song, but not to the degree that recording engineers do - no audiophile is going to own 20 different amps and switch them out for different parts of different songs (or at least not on a regular basis).

Recording engineers can also do so on an individual channel basis - use one preamp for the vocals, a different one for the large-diaphragm condenser over the piano, another different one for a small-diaphragm condenser pointed right at the piano hammers, etc. Unless they're using Dolby Atmos or some other multichannel format, an audiophile doesn't even have that option, no matter how much they enjoy tweaking minor settings.

So no, the signal path is certainly not way less than $100 worth of components - and it wouldn't sound nearly as good if it was.
> Idea for another project: a wrapper around the system's bulit-in web-view that automatically polyfills the different engines to somewhat the same capabilities.

I feel like PWA standards are so close now. The web platform needs some version of a few Node libraries better standardized (file access, process management, are a couple to mind), and maybe some better cross-platform ideas for FFI/native code-interop/shell calls. Overall, though, PWA capability is ahead of what a lot of people expect.

The biggest hurdle of course remains Apple's support for PWAs is quite lacking.
The photo shows a beer bottle and he refers to the development as "brewing". Being a home brewing enthusiast - that sure caught my attention.
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I've talked with several companies in the past 6-8 months where this tenure-based model of elevating engineers to management positions has broken down quite a bit.

What generally happens is, once in management, they end up on a track of being more business-facing and the breadth of their role continues to expand (while reducing hands-on code time) to the point where the organization has to relent and hire from the outside anyhow when the promoted manager finally admits they'd have rather remained hands-on.

I try to identify engineers on my team with an interest and early aptitude for management early-on, and mentor in that direction while mentoring those who wish to remain hands-on in the other. I always need a right-hand person to handle the higher-order organizational aspects while I'm away, and likewise, I need a left-hand person to lead the day to day technical execution. So usually I'm not lacking for support while at the same time elevating them to the next level (and without needing to hire someone from the outside).
Yeah. Those awful porch columns are clearly a product of being able to buy cheap off-the-shelf molded plastic columns and wrap them around equally cheap metal posts. They're trying to look "impressive", but they just look unbalanced, at the scale of the house.

Then again, each generation has its own problems. Housing for all but the rich is built around cheapness and available technology. Ours is a bungalow neighborhood because in the early 1900s, that was the cheap way to build houses. Balloon-frame construction with 2x4s and factory nails would have been anathema to previous generations - how could that possibly last? (Answer? About a hundred years.) My kitchen door is crooked because the door frame was crooked, built by relatively low-skilled laborers with poor measurements and tools, and the guy putting in the door just trimmed it to fit. No replacing that.
The problem is far broader than that. Other people are still watching cable news or read Facebook 24/7, and what they take away from it guides their actions. When those actions start affecting you, it kinda becomes your problem as well.
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> One could write the same code in python/javascript with using lists and strings and recursion in a similar way, no?

That point is made in the article. You'd need to invent a language for writing the formulas as strings, and handle it with a scanner, parser (for which you pick an output tree format). Then do the differentiation on the tree format, and finally reformat the transformed code back to a string to be passed to the character-based "eval".
This is called out in the post, but 32 is actually a really cool rhythmic (and accurate) fizzbuzz.
NeutralinoJS says it can run in as little as 1MB
https://neutralino.js.org/
What Apple has realised is there is an entire class of people who simply don’t mind paying $70 a month or whatever it costs to have a new iPhone, even though they’re not competitive in price, it doesn’t matter, and so Apple gets to make these huge profits.
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Non-ionising radiation does not penetrate deep into the tissues but increases the risk of damage to the skin and eyes. Dependent on the energy and exposure time, non-ionising radiation can cause localised heating, or photochemical reactions can occur with possible permanent harm.

It's not totally harmless. Just orders of magnitude less than ionizing radiation.
Better stated, we'll hire awesome wherever we can find it. The engineering team tends to cross paths in SD and Chicago (and curiously, Iowa). It would be ideal if we can find someone in the same geography but it isn't a blocker.
Some pretty good charts here:
https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/11/reminder-apple-financial-...

Interested to see Asymco's take. He was super close on the vast majority of his predictions for this quarter according to his Twitter account (https://twitter.com/asymco).

Q1 looks like it's going to be bananas, especially with iPhone XR, new iPad Pros, new Macs, etc.
Or running through a very simple and cheap carbon filter, which also takes out a lot of other off-flavors.
You've got to remember that cost of phone is far from the only cost. There are non-monetary costs such as loss of iMessage, Game Center (JK JK no one care about that), Apple Pay, etc. And then there are the actual costs, I've spent just shy of $3K since 2008 on Apple digital "stuff" (so iOS apps, Mac Apps, Subscriptions, IAP, etc) and while I'd estimate there is about $1k or so of actual residual value in those purchases (as in apps/subscriptions I still use daily and would buy again tomorrow if they went away) it's still not anything to sneeze at. While not all of that is iOS (Most of it is, my iOS apps/IAP/Subscriptions total alone is $2.4K) it is all part of locking me into the system.

Here is my breakdown (I pulled these number out of my Apple Data Export):

iOS and tvOS Apps: $1087
In-App Subscriptions: $380
iCloud Storage Subscriptions: $251
In-App Purchases: $520
Mac Apps: $560
iTunes Match Subscriptions: $150
Apple Music Subscriptions: $0
Books: $6
Movie Rentals: $9
Songs: $5
Yes, but you can still be a negative margin flyer. They're just losing a smaller amount money than they would have if you weren't there at all.
Does it include the metadata too?
Considering how easy it is to make decent ketchup, I'm surprised that most restaurants don't bother.
I'm not trying to tell you what happened where you grew up. I'm describing what happened where I grew up. We're both just sharing anecdotes.

The PhDs and environmentalists forced changes on timber communities in the state where I grew up because locals weren't good stewards of the national forests. If the PhDs listened to the timber town Oregon natives, the remaining old growth forest would stay open to logging too, the owls would have lost the last undisturbed habitat, and the post-timber economic cratering would have only been delayed for a bit.

People who have grown up near extractive industries may have a lot of experience of how those industries work that PhDs lack. But people who grow up around extractive industries may also be poor judges of the sustainability of those industries. Anything you grow up with seems "normal" and it's comforting to believe that there's a good, familiar kind of job waiting for you when you grow up. Locals may see things very unclearly when clear vision would reveal big challenges and changes ahead.
This seems just like Bertrand's Paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_(probability)

That is, given a random chord of circle, what is the probability that it's longer than X? [1]

It's the same issue: how are you randomly choosing the chord? Random (uniformly chosen) intersection point with the radius? Two random (uniform) points on the circumference? People likewise make assumptions that, they argue, pin down how you have to choose the chord and derive solutions on that basis.

[1] In the official version, X = "side length of an inscribed equilateral triangle", but any value could raise the same issues.
As a developer the company can have whatever view of itself it cares to have as long as my paycheck clears.
Everybody says this before elections. Trump was going to 'drain the swamp' and Obama was going to take down k-street influence. Then they get into office, tip their hat, and turn their back until the next election when suddenly they're incredible again, or at least they promise they will be. Obama ended up creating a special executive chair to let a Monsanto VP take control of the FDA, tried to jam the corporate written TPP through in the most undemocratic and secretive way possible, chose not to even try to hold the banks accountable for collapsing the economy, and so much more. Trump's apparently decided his go-to man on foreign policy and national security is none other than John 'Yellowcake' Bolton.

That old joke really is true. How do you know when a politician is lying? Their lips are moving.
Exactly this. Before you could ignore the lone racist person in the neighborhood.
Now, they can go online, create a forum and gather together...

so much for the promise of connecting the world...
In large parts of the world, the idea of "self defense" guns is considered barbaric and absurd. And the high rate of violent crime in the US reflects that relative barbarism.

There are places in the world where keeping a full-auto Kalishnikov at home is considered normal. They're much more violent than the US is.
Thanks for this clarification! I agree it can be useful.
But how many people use their phones for data while holding them against their heads? (Not to mention in a shielded cubicle?)
Social media is basically gossip.

The only difference is scale. You had to be a prolific gossiper to spread a message to several dozen people before. Now, it's one click button away for most of us.
Exactly. Paid television subscriptions (i.e. cable television) is not the Internet, and has always been regulated differently. Even under Net Neutrality, it would get an expedition as bing a specialized service.
That doesn’t begin to include people who get belligerent with call center workers.
EU floats compromise on Irish border backstop with London
"PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code"

That's kind of interesting now. Most Linux installations today coexist with a management processor running Minix. So what was a sort of mild rivalry is now a détente.
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This is an interesting look at how a monorepo can be used - I've [blogged about merging microrepos into a monorepo](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2018/06/01/git-subtree-monorepo/) to get you started.
Most violent crime is because an idiot is not in control of his emotions or does something impulsive. If the majority of population is armed and have guns on them all the time, you get accidents and shootings because of that. They will attack to prove manhood or just because they are drunk or out of fear.
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Did you think they weren't going to leverage your phone number in other ways when you furnished it for "improved security"?
It does with Dish/Sling. Fox has been blacked out multiple times on Dish. There is nothing inherently wrong with ATT or the fact that they own HBO that caused this. They want to raise prices and Dish doesn’t want to pay. This is how Dish negotiates and they tell their customers it’s to keep prices low. Channels get blacked out all the time on Dish.
I wanted to try to analyze application logs (usually a timestamp and some text) but all examples in pandas deal with numbers.

Is this useful for the analysis of such data (with a machine learning mid term goal (clustering and anomaly detection)?
A "good reason" doesn't seem to include "because it's convenient to have", which is the reason for a lot of people.

UK is extremely restrictive with their knife laws according to their own page. I don't know why you're trying to depict it otherwise. I'm not even taking a side here.
.7 billion per day, mind blowing.
Tangent: Are there other people here who just refuse to sign up for any of these programs?

I have family members who are super into frequent flyer programs, credit card points, etc, etc. But I don't like the cognitive load they introduce, and I don't like having to figure out how much I'm being manipulated in any given interaction.

I get that I'm missing out on goodies, but they're paying for those goodies somehow, so I figure I'm doing ok once I account for the cost of my time and for situations where they'd get me to pay more.
It's great to be able to stop

When you've planned a thing that's wrong,

And be able to do something else instead

And think this song:

I can stop when I want to

Can stop when I wish.

I can stop, stop, stop any time.

And what a good feeling to feel like this

And know that the feeling is really mine.

--Fred M. Rogers
> our civilization is mature enough to abandon the concept of having to work to be able to live

Or at least make the concept universal. It's been alive and well for the ruling classes for centuries.
In my experiece the exact opposite is done by telecoms, insurance and banks. New customers are enticed with offers not available to existing customers, and great things are offered to them. Being a customer for decades doesn’t have rewards with that group of businesses.
What if the humans are not reliable
It's more than that it's the first between HBO and anyone. Plus it occurred right after a merger with one of slings competitors.
Can anyone comment on where exactly lies the line between, too simple to need formal specs, vs crazy to build it without them?

What would be the simplest system for which you would recommend taking the time to make a formal spec?