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> discontinued 4 years ago - that's a pretty long tail and in line with Apple

That may be in line with Apple, but it's not a long tail. It's short. I expect that any hardware I buy will function for decades.
Thanks for the reply!

Let me elaborate on my point. Consider a thought experiment: If you would spend 3 months in the woods, do you think it is plausible your symptoms would disappear? If you don’t think this as being plausible (likely even) then we have to agree to disagree and that’s it. Not enough data. If you do agree that might cure you then what does it mean about your ADHD diagnosis? It means that you have ADHD in the context of the demands society puts on you and not you have ADHD, period. That should give you some perspective on what is really going on here. To pile up on the diagnosis: in the article you linked a doctor was quoted saying "You're an engineer, that's not a field that people with ADHD have any success like you in.". That’s my point. If I have an ambition to be in the top ~1% of most performing population and sometimes (even often!) I cannot keep up, I won’t conclude I need to take medications, make it become part of my identity, and accept as an excuse. Not being in top 1% all the time is not the same as requiring diagnosis and treatment.
I've been doing a lot of Python lately and using type annotations strictly and a decent IDE like VS Code or PyCharm. If you screw up, passing a foo instead of a bar, both almost immediately highlight the error. Don't even have to run the script to see it blow up. Huge time saver.

Also doesn't hurt that it improves Intellisense/Autocomplete, gives better hints/help as you're calling a method, and improves on "self documenting" code.
>He wasn't being paid by Apple while he was working on NeXT though (at least I don't believe).

He resigned on the same day he told them about NeXT, which had already had a good amount of work put into its planning (including poaching several apple engineers). I think it's reasonable to assume that before he resigned, he was being paid.
> The right way is to make sure that stuff that used to work in the previous version still works in the current version.

But that too brings considerable downsides.

For all its merits, C++ is an extremely bloated language, getting even more complex every release, due in no small part to its commitment to backward compatibility.

There's no perfect answer. Python3's decision wasn't stupid, they just chose one downside over another.
That would not give women a leg up though. You are right, but the reason they don't do that is because is does not advantage them.

A closed group that helps its members is the best way to accomplish this. It is why it is looked down on when men do it.
Your ability to find tapes, discs, or things to plugin to it (assuming it even supports that) are disappearing with increasing speed.
Most people don't want to manually update code and patch their speakers. They want to push a button, and get music. Not run a local IT department
See my reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22133134
I just realized I'm not even sure what you were referring to and if you were kidding! :D

Let it as is! :D
Yeah, it seems like a major mistake to sell this as a one-time purchase. Market it as "genetic monitoring" Charge
a monthly or yearly fee to keep getting new genetic insights as research discovers the function of more mutations. Offer upsell re-tests with more complete or accurate sequencing.

I think they must have been banking on the data-set itself being highly valuable and made the tests cheap, then ran out of customers on both ends of the equation.
The blocker to open transit feeds is mostly transit providers.

Most transit providers don't see timetables and routes as something to be distributed for free to everyone. They see it as a revenue opportunity - they will only make schedules available in their own app (which only routes on transit from their company), or sold for money.

For smaller transit providers, they still want to be paid to produce the transit feeds, since they typically have to hire a programmer or buy software to make the transit feeds, and will only take on that cost if someone will pay for it - after all, they're happy with a paper printed timetable at the bus station.

In some cases, there are also bureaucratic hurdles. In one case I would really like to name but can't, a (very big) transit provider didn't own the copyright on the names of their own stations - they only had a license to use the names within their own country. They made a transit data feed, but since the feed contained station names, they needed to sign a contract with anyone who used it assuring them the names of the stations would never leave the country. Obviously no app can ever guarantee the names of the stations would never leave the country, so the city had no transit mapping for ~a decade.
This seems like wishful thinking. We all have a place in the hierarchy of our societies and your performance certainly impacts your position. Don't believe me? Decide to stop working. Eventually you loose your job, can't pay rent, and become homeless. You will find yourself falling down the hierarchy pretty fast.

Not trying to make any kind of judgment about this being good or bad. Just trying to point out reality. This is the world we live in - performance matters.
They’re admitting a misstep, but they’re not actually changing much.

At best, there’s a vague pledge to update legacy players a bit longer, but they’re still breaking your current whole home audio system, because legacy and modern players will need to be split into two separate systems.
The Transit app crowd-sources this from users who are using the "Go" feature in select markets.

There's also the Tripshot model -- an enterprise product where drivers install an app on a cell phone to track ridership, and it also sends the gps coordinates along.

That said, the other arcane part of transit directions is that if you update or break your feed, you have to wait hours or days before the result shows up on Google. (Sigh, batch processing...)
saudi arabia isn't a great power. it has economic power via oil, but this power is eroding at a lightning speed thanks to the end of the petrochemical era. it has no military power to speak of, nor any cultural influence whatsoever outside of the muslim world. at the same time, its own culture is being eroded by the west's at a blinding pace. its institutions are weak and too corrupt to be taken seriously. its labor force is non-competitive. its citizens are not educated, nor are they interested in a transition to being more educated and competitive.

it is entirely reliant on foreign labor, foreign weapons, and foreign intellectual property. it has no natural resources to speak of, other than oil. it isn't a member of any powerful geopolitical blocs, and its fear of its more powerful neigbor (iran) has dictated its disposition for a long time.

in short, it's a billionaire's playground, but it isn't a nation that's very formidable. in the realm of cybersecurity/cyberwarfare, i'd put my money on bezos.
Mutation is a thing.
The competent person will say all ORMs are garbage.
> Do you think these sonos speakers will still be fully functional in 20 years?

I expect the ones with audio inputs ports will still be usable as speakers in 20 years.
I thought you might appreciate this clip from a lecture by Dr. Russell Barkley which explains how to use the environment to compensate for ADHD (externalize everything - time, to-do's, motivation, rewards, feedback) and how to keep your willpower reserves high (frequent breaks, positive self-talk and positive mental pictures, meditation and exercise).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tpB-B8BXk0
Doing outside work while on company property during normal working hours is probably a pretty good rule.
All I gotta say, a good specialist will definitely attempt to go through different medications with you, as what works great for some people might have side effects for others. And there are new ADHD medications being released too, some of which end up working fabulously for people who previously couldn't find one that works for them without any impairing side effects.
Thanks. I do recognize myself very much in what you described. I've been convinced that I have ADHD for quite a while already, but I always was against the idea of taking medication... I was still doing fine when I was younger, but I'm now somehow unable to focus to do homeworks, at all... I procrastinate, fall so much behind, get super stressed about it, and instead of being motivated like I used to (hello panic monster) I just "crash", panic, give up everything and fail classes. Not great for self-esteem and general happiness.

I guess I'll reconsider seeking professional help and medication
I think characterizing "Vision Zero" as "safety at any cost" neatly illustrates what I'm saying about the local politics of traffic.

(It is an explicit component of Vision Zero that improved safety should not be expensive to communities.)
I'd reccomend adding an origin access identity to the static website
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Sure, you can prioritize the facts. But OP asked for the challenges experienced, and how they could help. I gave them that answer. If you then want additional facts, that's your problem, not mine or OPs.
I think this is one example among many similar that needs to happen. Though there's tremendous inertia for ideas like this. The people who needs to understand or care probably doesn't.
This along with the comment about them being in the SP500 got me interested. They are doing more than just the site we all immediately thought of when we saw "TripAdvisor". There's also "InstantBooking" [0], widgets, tools, a platform (it seems) for marketing/buying sponsored listings, analytics, "photo tools", and probably more. All of that was just from what they listed on products. Besides this, they are surely doing research, prototyping, and otherwise developing products that haven't/may never see the light of day.

Furthermore, they seem to do a lot of marketing which for them is the obvious stuff like online advertising (probably in-house team), conferences, and I'm guessing also local events. They also do non-obvious stuff such as branding one of little shops inside the Toronto Pearson International Airport [1].

Finally, looking at LinkedIn, here's the breakdown of employees.

1,100 sales
939 engineering
768 operations
652 bizdev
and so on. Full screenshot here: https://imgur.com/a/JCoibId

Obviously, there must be some overlap in job functions here, otherwise people are over-reporting that they are employees at the company (LinkedIn claims 5,679 employees). 160 people doing finance doesn't make sense, for instance (well at least imo).

The only conclusion I can make from this data is that they aren't having thousands of people working on just the main website. I'm inclined to guess that they ARE probably bloated, but without knowing anything besides some marketing copy for their other projects, it's hard to say with any confidence.

[0] https://www.tripadvisor.com/InstantBooking
[1] https://www.torontopearson.com/en/while-you-are-here/toronto...
and yet they just did
Where do you put the web server? What's the purpose of it?

Or you mean to use Python as the client facing API server? I meant how to architect if you use some other platform for the publicly exposed API. Would you build an internal Python API at the lambdas that run the actual data science computation, and invoke that from the client facing API/app?
I've dealt with this quandry!

Oh man, sure, the medication makes me a better member of society... but am I killing the old me? Am I discriminating against the old me? In taking the medication are we declaring the me I was born as a dysfunctional useless person?

I actually came to pretty much the same conclusion, I prefer being the me that is clear headed - the medication is a requisite for that and I dislike that chemical requirement, but I prefer this me.

I think I've gotten more over this after bringing someone bipolar(with some other issues) closely into my family, they are drastically different when off balance and constantly have to fight (adjusting meds, checking Li levels) to stay on balance... And the off-balance person isn't a bad person, but they're highly internally inconsistent, they constantly put roadblocks in their way and, even when the meds are way off balance - they'll come through stable for random moments and strongly want to rebalance themselves.

Their condition is rough enough that they can't self-correct, I can mostly self-correct, it's hard but if I've run out of meds I can make it into the Doctor and get more and I feel quite lucky to be able to do that.
Are you suggesting RCA jacks are getting phased out? That's the only way I need to worry.
Could you please elaborate on your setup. How do you achieve sending only DNS traffic over VPN? What do you do when your phone is connected to your home WiFi network?
The CatGenie is even worse.

https://jorgelo.co/the-future-a-cat-litter-and-drm-6dbda2642...

The cartridge system adds a consumable part for the sake of having a consumable part.

I'm sure it's only a matter of time until they try the same thing on dishwashers and washing machines.

"The Wash Master 4000 is optimized to work with a range of certified detergents. The following cartridges are compatible with your new Wash Master 4000..."
Yeah, but if someone is not ready to being asked on a forum I don't know what he/she is hoping for after posting to a forum.
Boston's public transportation developers are great at what they do. Their v3 API is extremely good. And that's why Google Maps and all the other transportation maps for the Boston area are very good. The map and transit app developers can only do so much themselves.
Try it. They'll defraud you by overriding the vote in person.
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If my piece of crap can suddenly stop working, then I don't want it even on a rental basis.

This is why the direction that the IoT market has decided to take things makes any of that stuff completely unacceptable to me. None of it can be trusted -- it is more likely than not spying on you, the way it works can change at any moment without notice, including ceasing to function.
When I was in Taiwan this past summer we took Uber to the airport from Taipei. I'm pretty sure our decision was based on in part on this misinformation. Well, now I'll know for our next visit!
Open source doesn't need to be more complicated. There are several open source projects with majority of users with only consumer mindset. VLC comes to mind.

The original producers of the software could be unhelpful even if they comply though. That's another story.
> I have heard from other SAR groups that the beacons have been a mixed bag, and they're getting too many call-outs from people who just got tired and want a ride home. Those people deserve a verbal chewing-out from the local coordinator, but on balance I'd still rather everyone go out with beacons and have a good time and hit that button if they need to.

Agreed. Recognizing that you're in over your head and calling for help before a life-threatening situation is an incredibly difficult call to make. A story I've heard is of someone struggling on a trip with friends deciding not to make the call for rescue, and then falling to their deaths from an exposed part of the trail.

The other argument for calling for help when you're in over your head in a non-critical situation (e.g dehydrated and exhausted and a ways out) is that it's hopefully lower risk for the rescuers than other SAR situations.
Those are very wise questions!

Perhaps they are ones that I expect the DoD has considered? As far as I know Signal is open source and no commercial arrangement is required to make use of it, putting the DoD in a position to respond in a technical capacity should there be a conflict.

In legal terms, I believe the DoD could stop any acquisition on national security groups. The US government, like many national governments, reserves that power. Signal is developed and run by a 501c3, making this a somewhat unlikely series of events.

Again, those are great points. I'm just not sure they wind up being any risks the DoD can't readily control.
Are you able to turn on/off speakers without having to go to the amp/receiver?
The problem of spouses beating spouses into voting differently (or parapalegics having their votes manipulated) is not on the same level of low voter turnout. Mailing in WA ensures much higher participation than the possible outlier manipulations that might happen (the number of calls about some ex-spouse having manipulated spousal votes is in the number of 0/yr for King County, WA). You get a tracking stub, by which you could contact the election board, if that was really an issue and...it's not.
I don't get how Nuvia competes with Apple though. Apple isn't in the server chip business... they just are in the mobile chip business. That is, unless Apple is admitting they're designing their own Arm-based CPUs for their data centers?
I get it if I wanted new features.

I don’t get it if I just want to stream music, the very reason why I bought a Sonos speaker in the first page. Threatening to just discontinue this service for no reason is just not cool.

I see my mistake to have bought an all-in-one package instead of an external streaming device.
No way. I don't want to rent a device, it's a principle that's flawed. Maybe there are advantages to such but the disadvantages outweigh every time.

Take a car for example. You can now lease the latest and greatest car, but you don't own that car, it's not your asset. If your in dire straits; where if you need to sell, you cannot, you don't own it, it's not yours to sell.

Not forgetting that the vendor then decides the price you pay. "Cool, due to climate change tax, we are increasing your payment". All you can do is pay the demand or live without a car which if you need to commute, your screwed.

What you might own may be junk, it still has a value. When you lease, you get none of all that. It's a worrying trend.
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I have the opposite experience. I am formally diagnosed with ADHD, none of my friends would dispute the diagnosis. When I am on stimulants (Vyvanse and Dex) I have a ton more patience and emotional equilibrium. I pay attention to other people longer and more deeply... aka empathy. I can sustain an outward focus without distraction. When I am off meds I am distracted by my own free-running cognitive and emotional processes, and I have to spend effort looking inward to manage them.

I have had no temptation to abuse the stimulants. I don't really enjoy them, on the balance, but they make an incredible difference that meditation, high quality diet and physical activity can't even begin to approach. They really calm me down.

My wife prefers me medicated. I'm apparently nicer, more patient, more even-tempered and easier to get along with.
As many are aware, this sort of "manufacturer parts only" tech is everywhere. First printers, then k-cups, now water filters and I'm sure the list goes on. While, initially I share the outrage at massive upcharges on parts that should be super cheap, there's another problem they're fighting. The consumer will often buy the cheapest appliance regardless of continued cost down in the future. If you can offset that loss in profit with something else that's less prevalent on consumer's minds, you can compete with other sellers. Best Buy has to sell a TV for a couple bucks profit margin but then ask $50 for an HDMI cable to make up the profit. Why? Because if WalMart has the same TV for $40 less, the customer will go there to buy. If given the option, I bet most customers would not pay an extra $200 for a fridge even if you told them the filters are $35 cheaper.

I state the above not to give these companies an easy excuse out, I still think this is not the ideal solution. But what should they do instead? I witnessed this first hand years ago when I worked retail, people would come in and ask me questions about a printer and then drive to WalMart and buy the same printer for $15 less.
I really feel like the data side of things is under-rated. mostly, it seems like when people talk of IP, they talk about th e software and forget the data. Uber, Snapchat etc are companies mostly in the business of shuffling data around. Good or bad, that's subjective. And this data-search product is a nice welcome to those people who are trying to get something off the ground, research or just trying to understand the world and human behaviour better.
"continue to function" != "receive new features"

They'll all continue to work exactly as they already do.
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At this point it's hard for me to feel sorry for anybody still using either Google or Microsoft.

They've both been bad actors for years now, and the excuses people come up with to keep using them anyway have worn very thin.
Why not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem
Yep, pretty much everyone would be disgusted if there was an HN or Reddit spin off that was only for men to help men get ahead.

But do it for women and they are saviours. Sexisms is weird.
Efficiency is measured in a lot of different ways. Development speed? Team familiarity? Existing infrastructure (private pypi etc...)? Existing libraries?

If we go with what I would assume is your definition -- speed of execution versus resources used -- it is certainly possible to build fast Python applications that are efficient.

But use what makes you and your team happy, life is too short for anything else.
being aware and vocal would change anything?
Not in legal world.
Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 votes that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.
There is definitely a lot of internalized shame/pressure when it comes to ADHD diagnosis and seeing a specialist. I have been diagnosed and prescribed since many years ago, but I still feel the distress and get anxious every time I am forced to switch a provider due to life events (nothing dramatic; usually just either to me moving states or my provider moving states, which is exactly what happened with my most recent one).
To focus on one product: the original play:5 came out Nov 2009 (which is impacted here). The replacement came out in Sep 2015.

For a company that builds their brand loyalty on keeping existing customers happy with their purchases (via OTA updates and slow replacement frequency), 4.5 years isn't long enough in my opinion—hopefully there weren't a ton of play:5 buyers in that final year. Forever isn't reasonable either of course with how heavily cloud based they are. I think it should be closer to 10.

It's a little hard to imagine 2010 devices keeping up in 2020, but I'm sure that 2030 will be kinder to 2020 hardware. In the same way a 1995 laptop is far less capable than a 2005 compared to 2015. I think they could make that commitment.

I give Sonos a longer time I would others because they justify their price tag based on how unlikely you are to have to replace it. Rather—that's how I justified all of mine.

And they should be up front with what that duration will be when you buy it.
Sadly, most hardware being rented and not bought is already close to the truth.
Sure, but the other half could be Martian or Roman God DNA and they'd never know!
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