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I'm pretty ignorant of design styles, but what always bothered me about "Corporate Memphis", and styles like it, was the very weirdly caricatured humans depicted within it. The people usually look incredibly weird, and while it's not quite "uncanny valley" or whatever, it feels like a very cheap and ineffective attempt at implying diversity. Maybe this isn't the intent at all, but it's most noticeable when there are differently deformed people in the art. People in real life come in all shapes and sizes, but not in the same way, with very bright colors and comically different proportions. As a non graphic designer, I appreciate that such a flat, 2D style may require some unrealistic designs, but as a human, I'm pretty sensitive to depictions of especially unrealistic human imposters. I adore Kutzgesagt, and I think that may be due in part to their predominant use of birds and other animals as agents, rather than strangely proportioned people.

"Here we love people, even if they have enormous hands!" https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbWYR4lWkAEOgAo.jpg

"I don't care if you're white, brown, black, orange, or purple!" https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Aleg...
There are well setup home office desks (I use one, now, didn't always have one), and there are all kinds of office makeshift desk situations, from a simple small ikea desk with a laptop on it and not much else, to the kitch table used as a desk (and cables going to the wall).

Sometimes you're also on the sofa and need to charge, and so on...
> I hate it.

There's nothing you can do. Computing stopped being about expert users the minute the rest of the world got online. Now the giants control all the devices, platforms, and mindshare. They will never cater to you. Informed users aren't the ones clicking the ads or buying the things as intended.

We've crossed into the gravity well of user hostility, and there's no longer any escape.

I hate it too.
Tangentially related, but when I was an undergrad at Caltech there was a device in a nook of the astrophysics building labeled "Gravitational wave generator" that had the appropriate two-decades-outdated look of equipment you'd find in a random physics lab.

It was two little weights in the shape of a dumbbell attached to a motor. There was a knob that allowed you to specify the frequency of the gravitational waves you wanted to generate, and when you flipped it on, the weights would start spinning, thereby generating gravitational waves at your specified frequency.

I always found it amusing that someone went to the trouble to make that.
bezos ,almost single handedly, drove the whole concept of consumer accessible computing

having been in the IT field throughout this period,i remember the awful pains you had to go thru to get any reasonable amount of computing power ,including purchasing hardware with months-long leads and having to deal with import/export documents and shipment ,not to mention things that are completely irrelevant like power requirements and rack weight per sqm of datacenter space

this has changed completely and now anybody with a bright idea can spin up a cluster of tremendous capacity for literally a few dollars that would deliver enterprise grade software (like RDS , EMR or ML engines) that you as a startup wouldnt have been able to license at all

this has been an immense boon to humanity for which Bezos deserves every single penny of his fortune
Yeah that's really neat!
> And the result is the cohesive narrative vision in Half-Life.

Half Life has no cohesive narrative. It is just a bunch of interesting random scenes thrown together and people make up their own narrative about it. It works but it's not a "cohesive narrative"
Give a MacBook to a child and she will likely try to touch the screen. Because at this point a touch interface is expected by people.

Even me who is used to non touch screens user interfaces, I tend to touch the screen on a non touchscreen laptop once in a while. It's frustrating that it doesn't work, because it does work on my ThinkPad and I enjoy it.

Apple not having a touchscreen option on their high end laptops is weird, since they did so well with the iPhone and the iPad.

At least that would help developers to implement touch interfaces for iOs. Or not feel dated for the younger generations.
There are no chargers on the market that have multiple ports and over 100W output across those ports, so you are pretty close just plugging the MBP in and the other devices into the MBP ports.

With PD 3.0, I believe manufacturers now have the _capability_ to do what you are talking about, but I don't know of any products yet.

FWIW, the closest I've seen so far is Hyppr's 100W 2-port charger. I use this in my bedroom to have a phone/watch charging stand and a free USB-C cable for the iPad. However, it does a straight 45W split with two devices attached - neither the charging stand nor iPad need 45W though.
Indeed, but that’s already the case if the manager goes around and says that we should work harder.
Yeah, tear out all that useless security
This is a really exciting development! Everything I miss from the 2013 MacBook Pro - no final word on what ports are being added or if they are bringing back the SD slot, but MagSafe, a working keyboard, and an escape key are themselves welcome.

The touch bar ended up being completely useless except for muting/unmuting zoom calls and smashing the left hand side seventeen times in a row until it finally registers as an escape key - I guess Apple devs don’t use vi. I was thrilled to have Touch ID at first but ultimately it only gets used in the control panel because apparently Apple doesn’t let anything else use it. I largely stopped using u2f keys because it was too much of a pain to dig up a usb-a dongle and I didn’t want to spend $50 on a usb-c form key that still doesn’t work on iOS.
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If you take into account personal enjoyment, then yes, house-odd games can be good - after all, it's fun to play 'em.

But purely financially, they are a terrible bet.

> a bad bet if you have no better alternative.

there's always a better alternative. For example, putting the money in a bank account with interest. Or placing it into an index fund.
except their efforts are largely focused and selective

switch to arabic language and you will see things that could be easily identified as violent propaganda,yet they stay up because FB censorship system is not interested in enforcing rules in that sector

from what i hear its pretty much the same for India
To clarify: I am emphasizing the fact that HTML is not suitable for what we are using it for today. It is used in applications that don't have anything to do with the web, but is taken into use purely because it has good tooling around it and practically every developer knows it. This often happens because there are deadlines, developers need to push out products, and nobody has time to actually work on a better fundamental technology. So, the common denominator ends up being chosen. I am not talking about whatever tehnical issue you believe exists. If the standards bodies took their legs out of their asses, they would have come up with a better standard. Instead, we are stuck on HTML/CSS/JS.

> Parsing and rendering HTML is not a problem. HTML does not even feature in this discussion at all.

If you actually read the comment tree, you'd realize that the whole discussion starts with an anecdote about how slow rendering HTML is even on a beefy machine.

Having worked with React since 2015 practically daily, I can say with confidence that the only reason it exists is to enable interactive UIs on top of a document markup language (HTML). Rendering HTML is exactly the problem, React's (initial) purpose was to make rendering (or rather, producing or manipulating) HTML easier.

> Your comment makes zero sense, and reads like a non-sequitur rant.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
As much as I like to give Google a hard time, this isn' really Google's fault.
Always use your own URL's for everything. Also, why would you allow customers to upload files and then make them available? Unless you are dropbox or similar, that's bad configuration.

This really sounds like "We made some configuration mistakes and now blame Google"
The move to Austin/Texas seems to be the best decision then...it’s for the best. California has become unliveable for many. Doesn’t have to be..but it is what it is..

Best wishes to your mom.
node based game dev has been around decades before Blueprints.

Monkey Hero (1999) used node based game dev and I'm sure they weren't the first.
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Just look at the salary ranges for the various levels within FAANG companies. See http://levels.fyi

In both the Bay Area and Seattle if companies don't at least attempt to get close to these numbers they will not be able to get the best engineers from these areas.
Not sure if it's the same company, but this ICP number also owns flintos.com;

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>I have never needed an SD card, and have gone all-in on USB-C. I will be very disappointed if they add back in USB-A/HDMI/SD ports, or remove USB-C charging in favor of proprietary charge port. Sounds like unnecessary feature bloat.

I'm on the same side, though I wouldn't mind one-two USB-A ports added for when I'm on the go in a hurry without a USB-C/A cable. Or the addition of some smart "mag-safe but still usable USB-C port" combo.

But given the complaints from the "moar ports" side and the complaints from the "USB-C all the things" side, one thing is clear: There's no pleasing some people, there's doubly so not pleasing all the people, and Apple has to make its choices and be done with it.

That said, while I believed in the initial promise of the touchbar (especially for specialty apps like DAWs, NLEs, etc), I welcome its removal now, and I think most do.

The one improvement I could see to make it workable would be a full keyboard with separate, tactile keys (the same as we have now) but with changebale legends/colors. That would make learning shortcuts in new apps etc or customizing key behavior very nice. It will also enabled on the fly switch to different keyboard layouts (e.g. from foreign language like AZERTY to Dvorak) complete with key legends.
Unfortunately the back lid is not thick enough for that - even the iPhone isn't thick enough for the iPhone camera system, hence the "bump".

I actually wouldn't mind something closer to the iPad + magic keyboard design in a pro macbook, which would have the thickness needed for a significantly better camera.
The difference between speculating (in the stock market/shares/commodities) and a casino is that casinos' house-odd games (i.e., odds that are always in favour of the house) are guaranteed long term losing propositions by definition.

Speculating on the markets is not gambling in the same way as in a casino - there's some element of skill in speculating in the markets, and there's not house-odds on the markets. I would compare speculating on the markets to be similar to a game of poker (which is not a house-odds game).
> from people like you

What constitutes someone like me?

I absolutely mostly want to hear from people with similar attributes to me, similar fundamental guiding principles about what makes someone good or bad, and so on, but I'd also like to hear from people with very different experiences to me. I don't think these are especially incompatible ideas
There is a link to https://fydeos.com/ at the bottom of the page. Fydeos is a friend project.
23-29% of the climbers who try K2 die in the attempt.

It is at the very least an order of magnitude more dangerous than space flight.
Funny that you brought up the Switch, because its USB-C port is a huge mess: https://switchchargers.com/faq/ - you won't, for example, be able to use the same cable to connect both your laptop and your Switch to a monitor. You're also advised against using some laptop chargers. And so on.
The USB standard is pretty specific about connectors; I doubt the resulting connector would be licensed to be called USB.
“Nearly overthrow the government” is a bit of an exaggeration.
Any of 5 or so of those patents would win a Nobel Prize if real. And any PhD working with/for him would have strangled him already if he left contributors off.
While I find the performance just not up to par, I completely agree.
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I am always amazed at how people do not even think of this excellent use-case (let alone use it). This is something I have always loved in laptops and have used. Besides that card is barely even visible unlike a pen drive or a hard disk. It just stays there subtly.

I was also planning to have a bootable Linux on one of those, but I never got around to actually doing that. Now that my 2012 MBA's flash storage is dead (and here in India either I can't find replacement, or repair shops are asking for half a kidney) I will see if I can actually use a card instead.
But all that complexity of migration, when similar results can be achieved today using SMTP trust-lists and separate accounts.

In your roadmap example, steps 1 and 2 can be done right now by maintaining trusted network lists for SMTP, so that employees can't be spammed by unapproved senders. And it can enforce TLS between those trusted networks for privacy.

Meanwhile the customer-service people can have both guarded @internal.bigcorp.com and open @bigcorp.com accounts, the latter for public communication.

That's a pattern that's already in use and works on existing infrastructure. Any new protocol will have to offer overwhelming benefits.
That's a different phenom entirely.

People flip flop on policies because they are part of social groups, not coherent ideologies. They don't perceive themselves as flip flopping, because of course they have not changed groups.

If a 'strong' leader of a group such as the President, characterizes something as positive, followers will buy it.

Especially when there is a political divide, people tend to be 'against' ideas as well, much more so if 'the other side' approves or proposes them.

If you gave any number of policy recommendations to a random group, and indicated at random they were proposed by either Republicans or Democrats, I suggest you'd get responses more consistent with group alignment than ideological alignment.
They're copying the iPad because it's the only tablet that doesn't suck and sells in any meaningful numbers.
The headline is rather confusion. At first glance, I thought that there is a Linux distro for running on the iPad. but that is clearly not the case.
Good advice. I've filled in dozens of those questionnaires from big corps on behalf of clients, and they can be gruelling, but in general the infosec team on the other end are usually cooperative / collaborative - eg. they'll often take a "we'll work on this" or "we don't need this because X" over "won't fix".

The most important thing is committed spend - eg. it's common for Big Corp Inc's infosec team to put you through compliance, potentially asking you to spend $0000's on time and services, without comparing that to the value of the contract you could have with them. You could spend a lot based on zero commitment it you take your eye off this.
They should cancel it. And create a TSTO (Two Stage to Orbit) space plane system.

The first stage being fully reusable. With a major focus on quick turnaround, like 1 hour of post-flight inspection and refueling, then back in the launchpad again.

There was a slick Soviet design for a rocket system, that had 4 boosters with swept wings that glided back to base. I think the core stage also glided back to base.

Although this design might be obsolete, now that SpaceX has proven their suicide burns.
But the only legitimate use of a flash loan is to do some arbitrage - and there’s plenty of that in existing financial systems. All the other uses are for leveraging up theft and manipulation of markets. Well done cryptocurrencies, you’ve made a new cesspool of villainy!

Anyway, it’s not clear to me why flash loan providers are still a thing, as they seem to be open to a second layer of abuse: transaction copying / sniping:

All flash loan borrowing transactions are profitable (otherwise they wouldn’t be able to pay back the loan) - but why let the originator of the transaction keep that profit? What a sensible attacker should do is: 1) watch for flash loan transactions to be submitted by someone, then 2) quickly submit a duplicate transaction with a larger fee, but change the destination wallets to your own. That way, you get all the proceeds of a theft, and not just the loan interest rate.

Given this possibility, flash loan pools could be considered as ‘bait’ or a trap for the unwary thief...
>How the hell are you to discover these things?

The same way power users discover e.g. keyboard shortcuts, I imagine.
I use Authy for a few reasons. One is the ability to sync and use it across multiple devices. This is really convenient.

But the killer is the desktop app. I've had a number of instances where someone I was helping could not get the time of their phone and computer close enough to properly generate codes. Running the Authy app on the machine meant the time matched perfectly and they were finally able to log in.

It's not perfect but has some killer features.
They agreed to be bought by Microsoft, the deal hasn't been finalized yet
Sounds like what 37signals/basecamp has been pushing for as a model for a decade now.

It took some time and flailing about in the community. But fortunately there was a relatively quick and massive structural change to programming large web front ends with compontent-based JS over the years.

Much like Rails, the problem wasn't the language per-se, but a broad consensus regarding the best approach and having structure community wide helps solve a lot of problems.

Now we finally have reached a pretty close consensus on the 'framework' side. Plus I'm also excited on the build systems side - as they are getting closer to just 'importing' other JS files instead of the endless magic of Webpack processors and similar hackery.

So with that area finally quieting down, performance optimization around SSR and pushing as much to the server-side in general is also finally reaching maturity. This is a critical piece of the puzzle. And probably the last major hurdle for serious performant JS-heavy frontends.

Heavily interactive web UIs are not going away no matter how many minimalist or anti-frontend-JS articles get posted on HN and elsewhere.

Countless SaaS products depend heavily on stuff we've had on desktop for ages (most legit critiques apply to miss-use-cases, not inherent issues). And their potential for serious interfaces with well managed client-side state, consistent abstraction layers with components, clean UI logic, etc, instead of ungodly spaghetti messes that were difficult for dev teams to manage - ones that would changed dramatically every time a new dev/manager was hired - or simply trying to hack full-on Rails style MVC but purely client-side (see: backbone.js), is finally coming to and end.

I'm personally a Vue, not React guy, but there's no question most advancements and experimentations happen in React's community first. Which a fine by me, as the good pieces always filter down to Vue quite quickly. SSR and deeper server integrations are clearly the way to go for any serious web app. The only downsides I've seen are they mostly JS server frameworks.
After getting several GB allocated to the Gradle daemon and using SSDs, I would bet.
Would you be open to a friendly chat on how we could possibly improve on this? As a small company, it's fair to say the big financials have evaded us so far - however, it doesn't mean it would be highly useful to understand how the top end thinks about internal threats..

My email is in my profile, so if you're up for it, send me a message. Seeing it's slightly unconventional to solicit chats via message boards so no hard feelings if not interested and if so no need to reply.

Thanks for the conversation any how!
>I think everybody is forgetting that apple repurposed the name “MagSafe”.

Well, they could trivially just multi-use it for all kinds of magnetic+safe ports, whether they are the round iPhone ones or the more traditional ones.

>What new keyboard translate to, I have no good guesses, but I do have a feeling that if you think it’ll be 2015 keyboard you’re in for a disappointment.

They have already fixed the 2016-2019 keyboard issue in 2019 models, so why would people be "in for a dissapointment"? It's not like they'll go back to the 2016-2019 era keyboard mechanisms...
I bought bitcoin in 2010 and now it's worth a fortune. I never see bitcoin as an investment. TSLA stock in my opinion is just hype. They make nice cars but TSLA is a very different story. People who don't know anything about cryptocurrencies and how they work are buying bitcoin and treating it as an investment. I see the same situation happening with TSLA. People open brokerage account just to buy TSLA. Maybe the bubble will never burst but I don't like taking risks.
Bars do not have to allow the public entry, indeed that's half the work of bouncers.
I had a similar experience as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18145781

I no longer recommend them any production usage.
> "reduced to practice"

That is de facto no longer a consideration by the USPTO. Congress could force the PTO to require evidence of production. That would be neat.
I think the way it's used these days, it deserves it's own spelling.
Maybe they have a couple of sugar daddies that can afford that. Whoever they might be.
A sales hurdle for selling to larger orgs.

A third party audit of your process (documentation, mostly) around managing risk.
Which is a very good thing, Gradle is back into Ant cowboy land.

Ever managed to understand Gradle complex files?

There is a full application living there.
At that point, you're still operating on a single machine, though, and you don't need Akka Cluster for that.
Check out avax (avalanche) for your dapp. It actually scales in a decentralized manner unlike most of the other "ethereum killers".
Why in the holy fuck do any of you give a single shit about Musk's opinions on software engineering? He isn't a software engineer.

It's astounding to me that anyone considers Musk's opinion about software as having any value.

To help stave off the inevitable downvotes you idiots are sure to give me, I'll also address the point itself.

Most mobile devices do not gain a routable public IP address, so some third party server is required to establish a connection between users of a mobile service.

I agree that allowing anyone to run such servers provides more redundancy, but then they would not have control of their own service. Most creators of software want to remain in control of their baby so to speak.

The main reason services go down is not because of lack of computation power but lack of ability to have so many simultaneous network connections.

I think Musk is wrong that the problem is "the servers are doing too much".
Doesn't the production of the related device show evidence that the original device could have been reduced to practice?
All of them, native code, wasm, whatever.

Yes, they might not match Rust down to the microsecond or byte count, it doesn't matter in distributed computing.

There are bigger fishes to fry as distributed computing problems.

And Rust type system for preventing data races among threads doesn't help when what is being used is distributed IPC across a cluster nodes.
There's a supposed billionaire out there looking for something to do soon.