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It's unclear why Facebook and the White House didn't admit Zuckerberg, Trump and Peter Thiel had this dinner until we found out separately and asked Facebook.

It's also unclear what the Facebook CEO, board member and president talked about.
But we do know the output. And for those of us using the products for years at a time, at no small expense, the investment is significant
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A “preview” button would have facilitated this. Or even better, let users edit in the preview input if they want or the regular editor, switching back and forth as desired.
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That doesn't explain why Slack seemingly can't do it. They could literally hire the Ripcord author and pay him to continue development, and sell Ripcord as Slack Lite. It would be peanuts for them, and it would vastly improve their product offering.
Yeah. I hope me (and something like HN) still exists whenever someone in the know actually writes a memoir about this period of Apple's history.
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I think the synergy of the Ive-Jobs relationship was that Ive was the "how it looks" guy, and Jobs was the "how it works" guy, and the "how it works" guy always had final say on a product.

Looking at the past few years, it seems clear that the "how it looks" guy was the one with final say on a product.
They didn't proceed with the trial because either way he would be deported. Simple as that.

If they had convicted him, he'd be deported.

If they couldn't convict him, he'd be deported still (he's not legally allowed to stay in Canada).

So what's the point of proceeding with the trial?

The issue here is not even whether he's guilty. It's not knowing where he's from because he'd rather stay in prison in Canada then go back to Cameroon. Meanwhile acting like there's a big injustice perpetrated against him.
He might change his mind at some point but then again maybe not. Either way it's a ridiculous bind for authorities.
Seeing that Jason Snell worked fine MacWorld for over a decDe before he went independent, I think he knows some things about Apple’s products.
The key issue especially in the front-end roadmap is how the scale is not taken into account. Expecting all front end developers to use the same stack from small operations to Facebook or Google scale is irrational, yet for a lot of reasons it is standard practice. I understand how it gives a feeling of playing in the same court, but from an engineering point of view it’s useless complexity in a lot of projects.

Edit: For example I make a living doing web development and rarely using a framework or a package manager in my projects. Knowing their value sure helps in a CTO like role, but you can deliver real value and state of the art websites and apps without them.
did you read the article? it's explained in it.
The Marriage Institute has the best relationship technology that I've found:

http://gottman.com

Easy to glean the high level techniques in an hour. eg avoiding the Four Horsemen of relationship killers. But I've been working on my technique for years and feel like I'm just getting started.
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A corollary to your first point is the possibility he fears retribution from a criminal party -- maybe the passport provider threatened his family if he ever gave up his real name.

Other reasons not to give identity could be related to fear of being disgraced, or found by someone seeking retribution, or found by an abuser.

Being caught for past crimes does seem most likely.
I guess you stopped reading there?
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not a big fan of ML but this sounds like the perfect case for it. Amazon could catch people like this pretty easily.
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I visited the mentioned Air and Space Museum Annex this past weekend. It's well worth the effort if you're in the area, and IMO a better destination than the location on the National Mall.
The design change isn't an indication that they changed their belief regarding that aspect of earpods.

The design needed to change to better incorporate the active noise cancelling feature. Even if earpods fit most ears, to truly be able to implement in ear ANC, a seal between the buds and the ear need to occur so they decided to overhaul the design.
Polish is fine, but Polish should be capitalized. ;-)

I am wondering about your accent, though, because, to me, "bow" is pronounced the same in both of those examples. Robin hood shooting an arrow from his bow, however, has a different pronunciation which is the same as the bow tied on my present.
Where I work we do a small amount of user testing to validate our design choices. We recently just planned out a release worth of work to improve user experience because we missed the mark with our design.

If we didn't do this we'd lose to the competition.

When I worked at EA we regularly performed user validation, we had a whole room set up for proctored user testing. Hired professionals to conduct the testing. We also invested a heap into A/B testing and had a whole team dedicated to tracking this and analytics in general. This was just for marketing/launch web sites.

I've been working in the industry for 20 years and while the norm is as you describe there are certainly plenty of exceptions, especially when you product lives and dies by UX.
> But sometimes the products are worse, and Jessica still rates them 5 stars. “I haven’t found a thermometer by doing this that works correctly — they all give me different readings,” she said. Jessica is afraid to use the electronic appliances she receives, which often come with incomprehensible instructions written in both English and Chinese. She took photos of one product, a foot spa, without adding water or plugging it in.

> Jessica also doesn’t trust health and beauty products on the site, because of her boyfriend, a chemist, who has found toxic ingredients in analyses of unregulated products.

She'll happily give them five stars, though. Gross.
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> making web apps look exactly the way they want is easy

Its easy peasy with Qt as well. I am the only dev for https://www.sostronk.com/app and it looks (and behaves) _exactly_ as our designer wants it to. (Oh, and this is when I'm also spending time working on backend stories).

> no one cares about efficiency anymore.

That is not true. Discord and friends spend a lot of time for efficiency because they're using Electron. It is not impossible to have a (relatively) efficient application with Electron (VSCode for example), it just takes more effort. Compare that with Qt where performance is free of cost - in the last 5 years at SoStronk, I've hardly ever needed to spend dedicated effort for improving performance.
Another example, and I wasn't aware of this till very recently, is the Telegram Desktop app which is Qt as well.

But yeah, I do agree with your first point, the only reason Electron is in use is because JS developers are a plenty. At the end, cost is the #1 thing when businesses make decisions.
That’s like saying that a spreadsheet is no good because it isn’t machine readable.

PDFs are often display focused and difficult to parse, but it’s certainly possible to do so.

It’s success in the market as compared to a edit focused format like ODF underlined how important display consistency is.
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Weirdly it doesn’t. Regular Airpods keep falling off my ear. Got the Pro ones following similar reasonings as yours but they keep falling as well. The silicon tip just push itself out.
An even better idea: listen to CUSTOMERS
The problem with reviews is even though they have a name, like "Bob Seymour, from Manchester" or "Tracy Hughes, from London".

They're still impersonal.

Unlike the reviews when you go around to a friends BBQ or are at an event, and you say "Oh hey Sarah, I see you are driving the new X".

Then they proceed to tell you how great/bad or mediocre it is.

Surprised no-one has been able to engineer a more personable review mechanic, then again with all the privacy concerns. Do you really want to know what your friends are buying, and equally for them to know what you are buying too.
iPhones work with any BT headphones.
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They’re also superior in most ways as interfaces to works with more features than “main body text”, and to which you intend to refer again very often.

Pop fic and pop non-fic, then, for ebooks. Excellent for those. Paper or both for most everything else.
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WRT. Ripcord, from what I've heard (I can't find the source now :/), it was Discord, the bans were due to a bug, and were promptly lifted after contact with support. But perhaps there were other bans I haven't heard of.
>> also moving into the right direction. They are heavier, slightly thicker and have better battery life.

The worst thing about the latest iphones(10, pro) is that they got heavier. I find it so bad that I skipped the upgrade(s) because of that.
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It's fascinating to see how tools turn into environment people wanna live in. Its a god damn tool, dont commit your lives to it. Use it, abuse it, it doesnt work - toss it.
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> from non-Westerners, and from some Westerners as well.

What do you mean by "Westerners?" People in "the West" have many different body types.
I bet somebody will make an app at some point to collect everybody's fingerprint, under the guise of finding your "fingerprint buddy" or something.
It's read-only in the same sense as a jpeg or an mp3 are read-only — it's a format designed for publishing, rather than editing, data.
It's as if corporations were guided by only one principle make money, a lot of money.
"engineers" drove your company to spend money on a chat tool from a company that had leaked private chats, gave no real control over the interface, and used a closed protocol? Now those same people are complaining about it?
Her thought process seems to be a disgusting combination of "I'm benefiting so it's fine" and "bad stuff only happens to other people".

I hope Amazon investigates her, tracks people who contact her, and kicks the lot of them off the site. I also know that the chances of that happening are close to zero.
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Half a decade - woow! Sounds like the author has spent half a century there..
why is it multiple lines tall?!!!
Why am I not surprised to see she's obese?
Musk has said the cost of the methane for one Starship/Super Heavy launch will be about $1 million.
Schemes like this and people with lack of morals (admitted in the article), are what makes making online purchases so hard. Either the price has to be ridiculously low so that it doesn't matter if something is total crap (aliexpress comes to mind as a store where you do it) or you have to find some recommendation that you can trust.

I usually look at reviews from the Consumer Associations of the Netherlands and Germany (Consumentenbond and Stiftung Warentest), which helps a lot. You usually end up with products of the same type of brands though (Bosch, Siemens, etc). Which isn't bad, but it makes it very hard for smaller brands to have a chance at some market share without resorting to scummy marketing techniques.

Reviews on the German Amazon store used to be fairly trustworthy, but this has changed in recent years. As it is, you are better off going to physical stores where you can at least hold the products and see what the build quality is like.
Yellow means "Personal Recommendations" and the peach one means available options. This will be more clarified/fixed in the next release.
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Between these “authentic” fake reviews, the usual fake reviews and counterfeit products, Amazon seems open to serious competition.

I’ve already started buying things from Target and Walmart for things that are commonly counterfeited, like batteries and SD cards. I know they have a marketplace too but I avoid them for these items.

For me, the biggest thing Amazon has going for it is the dead-simple return policy. I’m comfortable rolling the dice with many products because I can easily return it, if it ends up being garbage.

Repackaging and returning can sometimes be a pain, so I’ll be reluctant to gamble sometimes. However, I’ve been more lazily repacking items and it hasn’t been an issue.
Thanks so much! I appreciate it! The animation style that you suggest has come up in discussions before. We're still figuring out how to exactly deal with different scenarios where the diary text is much more detailed than what we can achieve in animation. That will be an interesting problem to tackle as we add more and more content to the game.
It's unfortunate that not every diagram contains the legend from the first diagram in the GitHub repo [0] which explains yellow as "Personal recommendation" and orange as "Available Options". I think grey was "Optional".

[0] https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap
>he's not legally allowed to stay in Canada //

Doesn't that mean he has had a (summary) conviction, eg for outstaying a visa?

Do other countries have an established process that would resolve this situation?
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> The spreadsheet helps Jessica make sure she’s on top of due dates and getting paid on time. BuzzFeed News reviewed the document, which showed 117 open orders that hadn’t been refunded yet. A column titled “Total currently out of pocket” — or what she’s still owed — amounted to $2,282.01.

So not only is she getting lots of cheap crap, and having to fake reviews for it... she's paying over $2,000 to do so?
Yeah, we know the output, but we don't know what really happened or how things ended up this way. It still pairs up with the celebrity aspect. We know Kanye acts crazy, but is he really crazy, or is it for media? Impossible to tell.

I'm by no means defending Apple. The keyboards should have been gone after they discovered the defect, and they really should have gone further in compensating users. Still though, I find articles like this sensationalized at best.
When I see a product with about ~50 reviews and they are all either GLOWING with praise, full of pictures, include videos, or otherwise clearly took more than a few minutes to write, it's a good tell the reviews are mostly paid for.

I don't know how to handle this from Amazon's angle... how about limiting how many items a buyer can review from a certain seller? Or force them to contribute a 3- or 4-star review every so often, instead of all 5's? (this one's too easy to game - you just buy a 30¢ irrelevant item every now and then and review it poorly.)

It's a hard problem to solve for Amazon, and I don't trust them to care enough to fix it. In the meantime, I stick with volume as my indicator for quality. It's very unlikely a company paid for nearly 2,000 5-star reviews, so products with LOTS of reviews are the ones I usually end up purchasing.
We also know how obsessed Jobs was about product functionality. The original iPhone was going to ship with a plastic screen and was demoed with one when it was introduced. He saw our easily it was scratched an announced in a press release three months before it shipped that they were changing to a glass screen.

Contrast that to the then CEO OF Google who used a Blackberry years after Android shipped.
The central premise of that episode being that they were trapped in a simulation of a trashy novel.
Yes, paid reviews has been an industry since forever. What is the insight of this article?
That's not what they said, they were showing that the article was claiming biases without a sound argument.
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Under the guise of unlocking your phone...
It's a doubly weird cultural impedance mismatch, because I am a dev, and I used to laugh at all the MBA PM gaant PERT mumbo jumbo... until I spent some time re-evaluating my work experience, thinking about what kind of things I'd like to improve in the way my team and I manage our work... and realized I'd very much like a DAG and a GAANT chart and critical path determination.
I'm dense. How does "Always strive for the next version of your product to be thinner and lighter than the current one." become "Ive Doctrine"?
so he is the guy every body is talking about up here in canada
My best guess is that he is hoping to outlive the complex system that will eventually 'forget' this case and he will eventually be a free man to stay in Canada due to new people and systems in power.
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Not sure what’s to disagree with about that: “The reusable Falcon 9’s performance to GTO is listed at 5,500 kilograms. The same rocket in fully expendable version can lift 50 percent more payload — 8,300 kilograms. For the Falcon Heavy, the performance to GEO is about 2.8x that of the reusable version” https://spacenews.com/spacexs-new-price-chart-illustrates-pe...

Reusable means cost savings, but it has a dramatic reduction in cargo capacity. This means more trips to get the same mass into orbit, which means mire fuel directly used and every extra lb in the design is then carried up multiple times while further requiring more trips.
> but Jessica told BuzzFeed News she doesn’t think she’s gaming the system; she’s trying to help brands grow their businesses in Amazon’s massive marketplace. “I’m just a pawn in their marketing scheme,” she said.

> Jessica’s activity, as far as Amazon is concerned, looks legitimate. She makes purchases from her own Amazon account and credit card, so her reviews are labeled as a “verified purchase.”

Don't know if Jessica or Amazon is the bigger crook here.
oooh so that's it! I could figure out the issue everyone was having with this.
Is the issue of counterfeit products a worldwide problem with Amazon? I'm just asking because I'm in Europe and use Amazon quite often for electronics, and haven't faced issues so far. Could it be that the problem is mostly in the US?

It could be that I just avoided counterfeited goods by chance, or just didn't notice...
Try https://writeup.ai/
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It lowers the bar. The lives may otherwise be lost.
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>, so I'm not sure what unit of measure I'd need to observe the failure of Java desktop software.

When people say "Java failed on the desktop", it's in relation to the initial massive hype in 1995 by Sun Microsystems as the "Microsoft evil empire killer". Microsoft took the desktop threat seriously and quickly reacted in 1996 with a Java-clone called the J++ language -- which resulted in Sun's lawsuit.

There was a popular Java slogan back then of "write once, run anywhere"[1]. In other words, instead of writing desktop apps that specifically target the Win32 API, you write Java & Java byte code for the Java Virtual Machine. Instead of writing raw Javascript, code in Java to run as Java applets in the web browser. This was the same time period as the slogan "the network is the computer" that Oracle's Larry Ellison was also pushing. Both Sun and Oracle were trying to minimize Microsoft Windows' dominance with Java.

So yes, even though niche desktop software like JetBrains IDEs running on Java is a reality today, it is still somewhat of a failure when it's measured against the 1990s breathless promises.

It turns out that Java was much more successful on the server side. Ebay, Amazon, Google, etc all run tons of server-side Java. It is ironic that Javascript as the "toy" language to add a little dynamic interactivity to webpages over-achieved on the desktop while Java the "serious" language under-achieved its goals for the desktop.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once,_run_anywhere
> “I definitely feel like I have to keep [the reviewing] a secret from people who have strong morals,” Jessica added.

Age old scam that works because of people like Jessica who lack any moral compass and will help to screw over anyone for a buck.
I don't really use the numpad, but having another enter key by the left hand seems to be a useful feature.
For batteries and other everyday items, I find the AmazonBasics brand a good way to dodge the fake items. Amazon at least stands behind the quality of their own brand. But often it's just as expensive as the other name brands.
Just fix the loop hole in safe third country agreement that's all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada–United_States_Safe_Th...
It is machine readable, just not readily machine malleable.

I worked on a project where we were digitizing and cataloging various records. It was less challenging to do this with papers from the British colonial administration from the late 1700s, than to decipher certain 1980s documents written with a defunct word processor. PDF is a compromise that helps address that issue.

I would not recommend maintaining your general ledger in a PDF. But an annual report that may be referenced for decades is a great example of why a PDF is a useful format.
One thing I've noticed a lot of Swedes don't think about is that 'y' is pronounced the same as 'i' in English, as in the word 'gym'. They instead use the Swedish 'y' sound (like the German 'ü').
I don't use slack so the issue isn't on my radar, but if this has made it to the top of HN.... I guess Slack reeeealy effed up.
If comfortable writing a review about a product, I’m comfortable with friends knowing that I bought it.

The bigger problem seems to be critical mass of friends reviews to make it a worthwhile endeavor.

How many similar products have my friends bought? If that small group, how many have written reviews?

That subset of a subset is probably too small to be meaningful.
Still rocking a 2013 here. Just got handed a 2019 for work purposes. It makes me sad.
That's a very bold statement.

You could just as well for example say that front end Javascript developer almost never needs to understand event callbacks or how DOM works.

If you write multithreaded high performance code, yeah, you do need to know about cache coherency at varying levels of detail. Sometimes rough rules of thumb work, not too often you need to understand all those annoying performance destroying details that leak through cache abstraction.
> ...the Ive Doctrine: Always strive for the next version of your product to be thinner and lighter than the current one.

I'd say it follows a rule of "every sequel to a hit movie is worse than original" more.

I worked in OEM electronics since 2007, and I saw this happening all and every time with big public companies. In the industry, we have a term for that. We call it "Brand Fade"

It is near impossible for a big company to resist the urge to "optimise" the product to improve profits after hit sales with hopes of consumers not noticing it.

This is what is happening with Dell now with each newer XPS generation coming out more penny pinched that the previous one.
Thank you! We struggled a bit with coming up with a new interesting art style for CE2, but once we stumbled on art by Garen Ewing we knew we had something exciting for us.

Did you see our comparison with Renowned Explorers by the way? :)

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It was inevitable that someone would write an article arguing the return of the escape key was an act of genius.
Honestly Walmart has gotten so much better at competing versus a couple of years ago. Most items reach my door within 2-3 days (in nyc), and their customer service is now on par with amazon prime, which is to say, amazon has gotten much worse. I did not mind paying for the convenience of a "dont ask, dont tell" return policy, however, amazon has gotten more strict. If i wanted that, i would rather stick to traditional retailers.