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There are lot of interesting technologies that we should pay attention to from mainframes particularly in managing distributed processes, interesting IO and accelerator configurations, etc. But this article seriously misses the mark and makes some bad arguments that show this person hasn't really administered a non-mainframe server in the last decade or so. He's also an "IBM Gold Consultant" we should take this with a huge grain of salt.

> It should not be an acceptable practice to just insert a CD and indiscriminately install software onto a production machine.

This assumes your machine is set up correctly. I've worked on some mainframes where everyone could access customer data and swap out production executable freely. Why? Because no engineer wanted to deal with 6 layers of bureaucracy to debug an issue or update a library. Segmenting the data and isolating specific infrastructure has proven out to be more efficient and more secure.

> Nor should it be acceptable to just flip the switch and reboot the server.

These are more about the fact that there is one mainframe. The reality is for distributed systems that anyone can flip the switch at any time and you better plan for that up front. Its a good thing that I can restart my laptop, or production servers whenever I need for updates, and don't need to do 6 months of business continuity planning for "update day".

> In mainframe shops there is an entire group of people in the operations department responsible for protecting and securing mainframe systems, applications, and data.

As does any non-negligent mid-sized organization. Having a security team is very standard at this point.

> Ever wonder why there are no mainframe viruses?

Because no hacker can afford to have an IBM mainframe running in their garage?

> There is even a term – the accidental DBA – that has been coined in the SQL Server world for developers who become the DBA because nobody else is doing it. Such a situation is unheard of in the mainframe world – indeed, you’d be laughed at if you even suggested it!

Great now I need to hire extra people to specifically administer my very expensive database deployments instead of relying on a cloud provided database and relying on general "DevOps" people to have enough knowledge to troubleshoot some specific problems. The DBA didn't go away for no reason, they've just largely outlived their economic usefulness.
Here is an alternative solution, although yours is a good one.

If you only need a single SNP or a group of SNPs within a region, you can use tabix[1] to index gzipped TSVs and query by genomic position. The position of SNPs can be obtained from a lookup table (2.5M is not very big even for R) or from an API if you were to say - query by rsid.

tabix also works over http (and s3) and can utilize RANGE queries to select a subset of a file...so you only wind up downloading a or reading a small portion once it is indexed and can do something like this:

tabix https://www.file.url.tsv chr1:1-1000

The command above would return variants on chromosome 1 between 1 and 1000.

The following variant browser works in this way: https://elegansvariation.org/data/browser/ - Theres no formal database (e.g. MySQL) running here, just tabix (actually bcftools which uses tabix) to select variants in a particular region, wrap them in JSON, and return to the client.

Setting this up on S3 requires configuring CORS... the igv browser also uses tabix indexes and provides guidance on how to set this up [2]

[1] https://www.htslib.org/doc/tabix.html
[2] https://github.com/igvteam/igv.js/wiki/Data-Server-Requireme...

I created a similar solution to what you have done using this alternative approach, writing a wrapper in R that invoked bcftools under the hood. The dataset I was working with was a lot smaller (1.6M Snps x 252 individuals), but should work with larger genotype sets as well.
I'm not sure how much he actually did versus just being the spokesperson, but my recollection is that they pushed him to the front around the release of iOS7, the announcement for which was when all Apple's "bold" moves, in both software design and hardware form vs. function trade-offs, started making me do quizzical-german-shephard.jpg several times at each product reveal event. I'm hoping his influence was, in fact, major and that he'll have even less future influence than the announcement implies, so maybe they'll change course.
The article describes declines in amount of sleep. Having just finished Matthew Walker’s book Why We Sleep I was surprised to discover that measurable cognitive effects and mental health problems like depression and anxiety occur when sleep drops by as little as one hour (7 instead of 8).

It’s certainly believable that smart phones do affect sleep if nothing else and if so that could explain in part the increased incidences of mental health problems and other issues described in the article.
No way, he's done, the part about him "consulting" is just a way to reassure the public that the split was amicable.
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How about decisions like removing the headphone jacks from the company's most popular music players, the very devices with which people are supposed consume the media-centric services that Tim Cook and analysts say are the future of Apple?

For Apple's and consumers' sake, I hope NOT.
Time to get his revenge for Steve Jobs cancelling the eMate!
Since the early 2000s Apple's feature removals have been good--except for the escape key/touchbar fiasco.

I've given it long enough and unlike the headphone jack which was painful but managable, the MBP with touchbar needs a re-do. Physical buttons for escape key and volume/brightness was a bridge too far.

Hopefully that can now happen with someone else in charge.
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I add a hidden password input (opacity/size, not display:none), so that an auto-filled value can carry forward if it's not an SSO account.
I read this as "Jony wanted to go and we had no choice".

It seems like a good way of prettifying his legacy, "that famous designer guy" vs "that guy at Apple".
This reads like it was written by someone who has never worked with a properly managed distributed system.

What I can believe is that it's much easier to mismanage a distributed fleet of consumer PCs, as a result of mainframes mostly only having been used in situations with extensive change management and change audit processes.
Hopefully this signals the end of the designers tyranny at Apple.

While physical design has been of paramount importance in Apple's rise to the top, it has been more and more detrimental as Jony and his group wandered into worshipping at the altar of luxury and Platonic idealism.

When combined with /not/ ignoring other than luxury market segments and usability that was fine. But when Jony's star was completely ascendant everything else was sacrificed at that altar (see butterfly keyboard, single port MacBook, escape key-less touch bars, no 32 GB MacBook Pros since that would require non-power-sipping RAM.)

I could have lived with this if the design of the software hadn't also suffered in conjunction with the hardware. Jony was given responsibility for UX and it also started prioritizing abstract design principles over actual usability with extremely low contrast UI elements and other poor choices.

As we saw those points being walked back and Apple being responsive to the complaints, I've been wondering if Craig Federighi's star was rising and if Jony's was dimming, since I doubt he was a willing participant in the diminution of his artistic choices. Seeing the extreme effort he was putting into charity[0] and the spaceship campus, instead of his actual responsibilities, it all combined to me that he needed to either get re-focused by the CEO or get a new job.

[0] https://www.dezeen.com/2018/11/16/jony-ive-diamond-ring-marc...
https://petapixel.com/2013/11/24/one-kind-jony-ive-red-leica...
https://www.businessinsider.com/jony-ive-bono-sothebys-chari...
https://www.fastcompany.com/3019896/designed-by-friendship-j...
Ive seen what you did there, and approved.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20295754
It's not released yet.
Sounds like he’s becoming an 1099 employee.
Well Edge on Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile also puts address bar on the bottom.
> I think they now have 11 degrees of canceling

The QC 35 has 3 canceling modes: "High", "Low", and "Off"
It was announced in a press release on apple's website. what makes you think it wasn't planned?
"it attaches comments to SHA1 of the URL, to avoid leaking PII"

Seriously, SHA1?
I left Apple years ago because of this. Extremes are never good. Hardware was getting thin and UI flat for the sake of looking pretty to the masses. And from what I see things got a bit worse.

I actually prefer the aesthetics of early MacBook / MacBook Pro unibody and iPhone SE. And they were a pleasure to use. Good key travel and easy to hold with one hand, respectively.

I hope there is a bit of function re-introduced into the design equation, so that products become more balanced.
By way of example, check this out https://youtu.be/IdYGpiRZIgg?t=101

He has the Hugh Grant voice.
What's the definition of "fair" here? There are many scenarios under which that makes no sense. Is the price inflation adjusted? What if the currency in question tanked in the mean time? What about actual labor done on the copy (annotations, notes, ...). Not faulting Microsoft, but we really need to rethink this model.
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So.. I am confused what your point is? DRM wouldn't have helped this situation, which I think actually HELPS the case against DRM... it only hurts legitimate readers, pirates would have gotten it anyway.
This really borks in terms of accessibility, as the huge change as a result of an onblur event will be awkward. Also, it will require JS to do so, so simple post is no longer an option. Of course the system I'm working on won't work without JS and a modern browser anyway.
I’m happy with it.

Still would like more resolution for flight sims (gauges dials are readable just not always sharp) but otherwise it’s very very good for the money.
I hate that shit.
True. Thanks for the links and context. I was more responding to the blanket statement that women don't wear pockets. :)
And talk about the new $6000 Mac Pro which got memed a lot because of its astounding similarity to a grater. Although, I know this is not going to ruin Ive's legacy cause he's also been responsible for some great designs like iPhone 4 and aluminum MBP.

update:

I know it was designed like that due to air flow considerations. I just pointed out the fact that it seems the design team didn't get input from others, who IMO would've mentioned the similarity sooner, possibly helping Apple alter the design.

People here have been complaining about how Apple has prioritized aesthetics over functionality. It's worth taking a different stance and criticize Apple's choice of functionality over aesthetics in Mac Pro design.

update 2:

Some people actually have fear of holes (Trypophobia) which could be triggered by the design of Mac Pro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia
But if I don't know that it's there I'm not going to trigger autofill because I don't know where my password could end up at.
I've yet to read an article about Superhuman that doesn't look like it was written by an investor. Was given an invite, which is really just a ticket to purchase this for $30 a month after filling out a questionnaire. Obviously, I didn't go through with it. Not much of an invite if you ask me.
wouldn't hurt if they made them better for wrist support too... I really really hate the edge on the Macbook Pro that hits your wrist
I understand you have likely been looking into this for a while, but do you have any citations for any of this material? There are quite a few claims in here that need to be parsed out.
Here you go with a oneline (in bash, PDF, change as required):

for i in {1..7} ; do curl "https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r0/Day$i.html" | pandoc -f html --pdf-engine=xelatex -o "chap$i.pdf"; done
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Jony Ive certainly took Apple to a new style era. I wonder who will be the next one to do that and to me this is exciting. It means we will "maybe" a new style from Apple. I owned most of the Apple products designed by Jony and pre-Jony era. Can't be more excited with this. Also what he will do outside Apple, it triggers my curiosity what he will be involved, I bet appliances.
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Why does the link to the preview release go through a tracking site and not directly to the Play Store?
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Honestly I just doubt Ive would want to "bless" more than one competing product. The way I imagine this is that it frees Jony Ive to expand his unique brand of "perfection" to more product types than Apple sells.

Like, maybe Jony Ive continues to push Apple products and design as the best computers/phones, and then also is now designing appliances and cars and furniture.
Then I complain to them that their site is garbage.
His new company is called LoveFrom. Marc Newson is joining too.
Look at Jony's designs, everything from the first iMac to the soon to be released Mac Pro can be boiled down to a rectangle with rounded corners. 20 years of the same core element has caused it to become stale.
> Cite on the KSA leveling cities? Or is this just a weird way to reference the (terrible) war in Yemen?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Awamiyah#2017_Siege
We can agree that content creators should get paid AND that DRM sucks. The key point is that DRM DOESN'T REDUCE PIRACY, IT JUST MAKES LIFE HARDER FOR LEGITIMATE READERS.

DRM isn't super hard to break, it is just annoying. But for piracy, only ONE person has to break it, and suddenly it is available, DRM free, for everyone. Legitimate readers continue to be forced to deal with DRM annoyance while pirates get a DRM free experience.

How does this help the situation of content creators not getting paid?
There's no such thing as finished software.
"The Rapture for nerds" class!
He also covered the Uber and Lyft IPOs extensively, showing that he can apply his same writing proficiency to brand new topics seemingly overnight ;-)
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This is the worst. It often requires two invocations of your password manager program to fill two pages out back-to-back.

Just put both on a single page, quit trying to be cute web devs.
> The Linux foundation heads have a similar salary range, like many other foundations and it is not an issue.

Being common doesn't mean it's not an issue.

A day job without hazard pay should never be making more than 5x median income.
Is it tab compatible?
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CPS are often terribly trained and sometimes downright horrible people. They do all sorts of large scale scrutiny on perfectly fine homes, and then will turn a blind eye on children who are being horribly neglected. They tear families apart and force parents to fight for years in court to get their children back, irrevocably messing up the childs psychology in the process. Here is a former CPS agent talking about the horrific misconduct he saw amongst his fellow CPS workers.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyc9Zn3iWQk
> Is there any way to report corrections to Google maps?

Sell all your property, move to India and get a job on their equivalent version of Mechanical Turk.

Or you can install OsmAnd and use the OSM dataset, which is not as comprehensive, but it doesn't many lies. At most, outdated data.
I have 300+ books purchased and read on iOS Kindle, after buying Neal Stephenson's latest recently I discovered it has an obnoxious popover Audible ad on the page browse screen which must be re-dismissed each time you open the book. I was shocked how quickly it totally ruined the experience of reading a book. I haven't read more than about 10 pages on Kindle since, and I can't bear to buy another kindle book knowing this could happen at any time. It has been a couple weeks, it is probable at this point I will never read another book on Kindle (the only device I care about is iOS). I had sort of the opposite reaction, if there is some other entity mediating my experience with the text, I genuinely don't care what happens to my "library". Luckily these are mass produced and distributed books that are essentially immutable, so it isn't like I've lost anything that isn't available elsewhere.
Here is a rough silly first pass using figlet. [1] It just displays a word. Next I need to accept a post of that word and do something. Maybe another version will use a game.

[1] - https://tinyvpn.org/up/d/
So are you suggesting authors shouldn't sell hard-copy books, because they don't have DRM? I am REALLY confused as to what you are advocating.
My next Mac after my 2013 MacBook Pro finally kicks it will probably be a 2014-2015 MacBook Pro if I can find one. I was issued a brand new MacBook Pro for work and I hate it. Hate the Touch Bar and keyboard and only liked using it docked to a keyboard and external displays.
Self-driving buses might be great, but there's no point in waiting for them to be invented when there are such large gains to be made today from better and more frequent bus service, and increased efficiency/reduced pollution (from both ICE and electric buses).
Form does not end in the enclosure. He brought beauty to computing, but dongles are his legacy.

Personally I hope his client sends him way less work than he’s anticipating.
The reason they gave you might be an excuse. If they were worried about '6 integrations' they could limit you to one.

My bet is they are trying to position themselves as a 'luxury good' of software.

Given there's no unit cost for software, that's always going to be a weird one. It makes more sense for supposedly 'exclusive' social networks (remember those?), but email doesn't quite have the same network effects.

Their 'laser focus' maybe going to be on people for whom $30/mo is an irrelevant expense, but more importantly they want 'status' individuals, who will personally market the product to those within their 'status' circle.

There's a class of higher-net-worth individuals who almost define themselves by specific things: their school, their car, their address, their job title, their activities, the club they belong to. To be fair, in some ways, it's important they do that because in some career trajectories, appearances are everything.

But key to building any kind of luxury brand is scarcity (or, it usually is, there are some that defy this), and of course brand, so they want the 'right people' to be using this.

If regular plebs use this, well then it's not much of a status signal.

All of this seems very cynical, but the reason I believe this might be the case is that the marketing collateral doesn't focus on anything materially relevant.

Yes - it's fine for companies to talk about very high level things like 'getting things done faster' - but ultimately, there has to be some kind of material translation there: what features etc. actually drive that productivity?

I don't see anything at all.

In fact, the screen shoots that we can kind of see in the marketing collateral provide not much information at all. I don't see the 'there there' - at least not from those shots.

Many startups make the opposite mistake - tons of features which they don't map well to 'problems solved' (and sometimes it's not bad communications, it's often features that actually have no value) - but the article in a16z - and the Superhuman website are just way too limited in terms of any details, to the point where my 'red flag' is raised.

About 50% of office workers spend '3 hours a day' in email. Maybe more. And so yes, any 'improvement' in email is worth something, possibly even $30.

But my 'spidey marketing sense' is telling me this is all about selling a 'decent' and 'nice looking' email client to aspirational people who are desperate to signal their status.

Possibly not for HN types, possibly not even for true, email warriors.

Either this, or they could really trying to pull the exclusivity/insider thing to the max as a launch strategy.

Should note 'The Information' is a $50/month news site - which has really set the bar for this kind of stuff. But the difference there is 'The Information' does get really juicy 'insider' kind of stories. The $50/month is probably easily written off as expense by every subscriber, there's materiality there.

Anyhow - the level of curation going on here is a little odd.

They say 'Superhuman' - that's totally fine, good on them, but I'll wait to see it to draw any conclusions.
Making a checklist isn't the novel or useful part. It's having recurring lists that reset each day or week.
But I think the number of semis on the road have grown exponentially in the last two years. And sometimes they occupy two right lanes and sometimes they dangerously change lanes.
I'd be amazed if the random fluctuation in Apple's stock is less than 1%.
I agree with your observations, but reached the opposite conclusion and prefer Computing Science as a name. I take this as evidence that it’s not really important what we call it so long as we’re clear on what’s being studied.
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Well we can hope, can't we? As long as no exec at all is going to go to jail for this, I say let Boeing die. It's the least we can still do for those 300+ victims and their families.
Depends, I'd be surprised if I'm that lost on any interface (being born in the 80s and having dealt with a wide spectrum of them).

That said, I rant a lot more these days, but not because it's new or different, it's because I know that the change is not done for the right reasons.
Social networks are the hardest user bases to build. Just ask Google.

If anyone knew a good, universal, repeatable strategy for this, they'd be a billionaire. It's kind of like asking, "How do you write a hit song?"

Unfortunately the winning formula changes with time, location, and the purpose of the app.

One thing I'll say about your name (not sure if you're in the US or not): it's hard to say out loud with a straight face, and it could come across as creepy to invite someone to it. "Tickle" is just not a word I'd use outside a kids app.

Good luck.
Unnecessary ad hominem notwithstanding,

> the designer of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Macbook

can also be

> degrading the company [paraphrase since the parent has now been flagged]

They're not mutually exclusive.

There's a strong argument that form has undone the function of some of Apple's hardware.

Success in no way precludes the possibility of bad decisions.
Any kind of book is possible on web. Here's a photobook (only graphics) by Satyendra Sharma, for example:

https://bubblin.io/cover/ladakh-by-satie-sharma#frontmatter

Disclosure: I'm the developer behind the project.
It could be longer than 100 years. I recently tried to find a copy of an article published in 1932. I can't find any version online and the nearest print version is in a library 1,000 km away. I asked the library if they could scan it and email it to me and they said no, it's still covered by copyright. This work was published early in the author's life; she died in 1983. So the Berne Convention would protect this work for 101 years after publication, and the domestic copyright will last for 121 years. I will be in my 60s before the copyright expires on a work published when my grandfather was born.
That's Greek alright!
If and when there's time, I'll have to reach out. I can't imagine a world in which anything running on my laptop needs 40GB of heap allocated. I've only run the Slack desktop app once or twice though. Felt like a beast even then.
There are always irregularities in the heart beat. A perfectly regular heartbeat would likely be unhealthy, given that hear rate variability (HRV) is a desirable trait.