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That's great news. It would be a lot more worrying if you were their last choice for a partnership. Really, count your blessings. And as long as they're being headhunted but they haven't accepted you're in good shape.

It's like dating a very pretty woman. You can worry all the time that she's got lots of suitors and you can destroy your relationship by being jealous of all kinds of things that you imagine might happen or are happening. But the only thing that matters is that you're together and she apparently chose you, even if you're a bit insecure about why it is you over all those other options out there.

That would say more about you than it would about them ;)

Be happy, make them proud and I'm sure they'll make you proud as well.
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I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the implied assertion that the Saturn V was the product of senator meddling (absolutely no argument with the shuttle however). The Saturn V was a von Braun rocket, and as far as I am aware was designed with a similar mindset as the earlier Saturn and Jupiter rockets. (It is my understanding that) they basically made it as good as they could as fast as they could, damn other considerations.

So basically the Saturn V used LOX/RP-1 in the first stage but LOX/LH2 in the second and third because that was the best configuration, but SpaceX is using LOX/RP-1 in all of them because it's simpler but it gets the job done. (note that SpaceX is apparently considering developing LOX/LH2 upper stage engine for heavier loads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_(rocket_stage) )
> One key feature is that the Go compiler itself is the style guide

Unless something changed in the last six months that's not the case, there is a tool called gofmt that will do the reformatting if you call it.

I'm not really sure I see publishing a style guideline in the form of code rather than english text makes any difference, at least it didn't make it for my go code.

I suspect it has more to do with the fact that some of the developers behind go use acme than anything else.
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thats right, forgot about that special dividend. they also announced a huge buyback at that time as well.

here it is http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/jul04/07-20boa...

I think their stock has been pretty flat since, and the dividend increases haven't done much to stimulate the price.

Edit: btw, is this you in the MF thread about it? :) http://ask.metafilter.com/11657/Why-Will-Dividend-Make-Micro...
Apple does not want to become a conglomerate. No matter how "alone" you want to leave a subsidiary it will always be a distraction to management.
Being headhunted is not something that you actively go and invite, hence the 'hunted' part of the word. It means that his partners have very little say in that happening, if any at all.

The fact that they've pledged their allegiance to the start-up in question speaks volumes about them and I think your suggestion completely misses the point here.
Definitely. I am anxious to see how much C++11's extern template will improve compilation time, when it will be used by large libraries.

Of course it's still a horrible kludge. But the reality is that C++ exists and is widely used ;).
This is a strategic shift to turn the apple shareholder basis from a hedgefund hotel to a dividend fund stock. Very smart as in a deflationary shock hedge fund liquidate profitable assets first. With the recent AAPL performance the stock is probably on top of the list. Most interesting fact of the call: "Apple had a record weekend" Tim Cook (referring to sales start of the new ipad.)
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One of the people who proofread this said: "This is why I get up in the morning and why I by nature have serious issues with finding respect for others who don't create." I find myself agreeing with that yet at the same time I feel a bit like an asshole for thinking it.
> Aren't most serious languages designed for large code bases?

Well, C is basically designed for Version 6 Unix, the Programmer's Workbench http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWB/UNIX and troff, not a very large code base by today's standards.
Fantastically dumb comment. FWIW int in C is also 32 bit on all mainstream 64 bit operating systems, and Go has int64.

ROFL. I challenge you to find documentation for the C language or any other language commonly used in production where they speculate that they might wake up one day and change sizeof(int) on an existing platform.

"Fantastically dumb," indeed.
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"Illegal immigrants" : forced to work off their debts to the people who smuggled them into Europe, usually in illegal sweat shops or worse:

"Eastern European prostitutes" : a subset of illegal immigrants who are forced to work as sex slaves.
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They can't, unless they believe they'll be profitable doing it. It's not their money. That's a difference between Apple and Musk.
> Extra luggage is more work for the airline

This right here. Also, storage space for cargo is quite limited and packed full in comparison to the space used in the passenger cabin and you can easily and more safely accommodate 35kilos more "meat bags" than a couple of 35 kilo big, heavy suitcase that don't fit under the seat or into the overheads.
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Consider also the similar passion and ambition both von Braun and Musk have for manned spaceflight.
Interesting! I wonder why they changed that particular character and not one that is literally everywhere in DOS.

Using ¥ as backslash still works in Windows and legacy apps (in OSX option+¥ gives a "real" \.)

This leads to some interesting situations: Word documents filled with ¥ where there should be \ and vice versa. By interesting I mean extremely annoying.

Another caveat is that anything hardcoded to use the tilde ~ will probably break because it is mapped to a completely key on Japanese keyboards. This causes endless fun in DOSBOX or even newer games: to get the console in Doom 3 I had to edit the source and recompile it with the console key mapped to another character.
I'd like to see some empirical evidence for some of your arguments. Not that I don't _want_ to believe you - I do, but my occam's razor is starting to twitch a little.
"Why not invest in space exploration , electric cars, self-driving cars, medical devices, green energy"

Why should they? Just throwing money at something doesn't guarantee success, and deviating from a company's core competencies can become a distraction that drags down the parts of a company that are succeeding. The dividend puts money back into the hands of investors that can choose to either re-invest back into Apple stock, or invest in companies whose core competency is space exploration, electric cars, or some of the other areas that wouldn't be in Apple's expected domain.
If you look up what gets covered by the relatively innocuous term "Human trafficking" you'll find it can get much, much worse.
An interesting view of slavery in Mauritania, it's important to raise awareness about slavery which has a natural tendency to fly under the radar.

But the sensationalist title is misleading, old style slavery is much more prevalent than this article let the reader believe, obvious cases are dubai and sex slaves, but there are more all across the world.

And there is the new style of slavery,the kind where people are free to get minimum wage to barely pay for food and shelter or maintaining themselves in debt, the kind where freedom is about choosing between brands or channels, choosing between a limited panel of wanna be leaders all funded by the same pocket.
The US doesn't own Christianity. I'm pretty sure that rdl was referring to the abrahamic religions. Two of the major three and the problems associated with them are pretty much defining characteristics of that region.
"About 100 advertisers have dropped Rush Limbaugh’s radio show because of his demeaning remarks about women."

Lets be honest, Rush Lumbaugh wasn't dropped because of that remark. He was dropped because liberals hate him for the majority of his political views and needed an excuse to get him kicked off the air.

The same people that wanted him kicked most likely believe prostitution should be legalized and/or don't care about this situation.
I can't think of a single business that Apple could buy (note: could buy, not 'look at the market cap and assume that is what it costs to buy the company') that would give it a level of control in an industry that the government would care about.
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Hey, crappy infeasible ideas are not exclusive to people who consume cannabinoids :) , I have those too.

Now, if only my useless brain would come up with a non-infeasible and decent idea to turn into a startup... :)

Edit: non-flamebait, do the people behind TPB consume cannabinoids? I haven't read their bios.

Edit2: obligatory XKCD http://xkcd.com/553/
Maybe Apple doesn't feel they can be successful in areas other than consumer electronics. Trying to get into another line of business would be a HUGE distraction for management as well as the employees.

As for your green energy comment: I think Apple can do far more to promote green energy by being a customer and driving partners to produce better products than designing their own green business. For example, by buying a shitload of fuel cells for their datacenters, Apple funds Bloom's (or others') R&D efforts. Same with solar panels and other alternatives.
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Why are Apple doing this?

I don't know much about stock and companies with money, but people on this thread are implying that Apple must get rid of it's cash? Why? Surely cash is good? Safety net? What if the sales plummet you don't go out of business, etc. etc.?
>Go tries to be as expressive as Python and run as fast as Java

Why the seemingly almost complete lack of love for Pypy from Google then? It's not like you can stop using Python anytime soon even if you keep extending Go. I believe Google's made one tiny donation to Pypy. Given their benchmarks (http://speed.pypy.org/) and given Google has literally tens of billions in hard cash lying around I can't see how you can't get them some money. A few hundred thousand to Pypy would be justifiable on the performance improvement YouTube would experience alone. Sure the motto is "don't be evil" rather than "do good" but this seems like a no-brainer. Can you give reasons why it's not happening?
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that's not true. it is their money - the shareholders probably just wouldn't like the move and as a result, apples stock price would plummet (but that doesn't really need to bother them - it's not like somebody's just gonna buy the currently most expensive company in the world). however what would bother me more as an investor would be that apple apparently has no idea what to do with all that money (how about expanding R&D even more, like microsoft? and develop the next gen input devices (after touchscreens))
Actually, I think that money is theirs. It's not part of their stock, it's cash that they have in reserve.
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I don't buy this argument at all.

If I have to pay royalty fees to ship an h.264 decoder, that's not open. If I have to pay royalty fees for my startup to distribute videos in h.264, that's not open.

Standardized doesn't mean "open".

[Edit: I think several people in this thread disagree what Open means. Since this is the context of a Mozilla story, I think it is fair to use "Open" in the sense of "Open Source".]
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Even though there are better alternatives to MP3 from both a technical and legal perspective, and even though Apple has been pushing for AAC within iTunes, nothing is close to replacing MP3 as the defacto standard for distributing audio files.

There are multiple reasons for this, like the huge cost of re-encoding everything that was once encoded in MP3, the broad hardware and software support or the fact that MP3 is good enough for most purposes.

Broadband plays a role here as I'd bet that if it weren't so prevalent today, then people would actually want formats that sound better at lower bitrates. As it is, Amazon doesn't have a problem in selling songs encoded at 256 kbps, although you won't hear a difference when comparing that to an 128 kbps encoded AAC file from iTunes.

An upgrade scheme only works if files encoded with the newer codecs don't have a problem being played on older software/hardware, because here's the thing ... H.264 is already good enough as far as video codecs go, just as MP3. And this is doable, but the newer patents will most likely touch the encoders, not decoders and the newer patents themselves will get more fragile over time, as you can't really innovate on top of the same technique forever.

All in all I agree with the general sentiment ... proprietary platforms are more dangerous than patents and native apps are more dangerous to the future of the Internet than proprietary codecs.
Because Apple's duty is not to pursue community goals. Furthermore, they don't have the competence to make those sorts of investments. Apple is not a philanthropic organization, and it would be to everyone's detriment if they were to act like one.
cute trick. I'll definitely use it as an extra security measure next time I'm working on something that leaks an id in the source
Haha, yep, that's me. I even owned the stock at the time. And yes, the stock was flat for the next 3-4 years, at which point I sold it and it continues to be flat.
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>>In a single sentence, it's about fundamentally about POWER and not "speed".

Most code isn't inner loops in device drivers.

My point was that Obj C's behavior should be more or less deterministic, and method calling reasonably fast?

So "more or less" is just not good enough for you. [Edit: E.g. cache interaction is too hard to reason about when doing lookup for method dispatch, etc?]

Well, I'm too laid back to work on your problems. :-) I decided a long time ago that what I really liked most was to create lots of functionality in as short time as possible. But I admire people that care about things and learn about them relentlessly, so thanks for the information.
The shareholders of Apple are the owners of Apple. They get the final vote in the end, although it has to be translated through boards of directors and management.
You missed the point entirely. Slavery is about an absence of freedom. So-called "wage slavery" posits that an equivalent lack of freedom exists with people who are "bound" to their job.

But that is bullshit. Wage slavery is bunk. People aren't tied to jobs they hate because they have no choices, they are tied precisely because of the choices they've made.

Choices to buy smartphones, xboxes, big screen tvs, cable and internet service, cars. Choices to eat pre-made food, take-out, or restaurant food instead of cheaper fare like beans and rice. Choices to live alone in expensive housing instead of living with roommates in a cheap neighborhood. Choices to avoid keeping to a budget, avoid saving, avoid putting in the elbow-grease to acquire more skills.

That's about money but it's also about choice. When you have savings, when you live well within your means, when you build up your skillset then the whole goddamn world opens up for you. You have your choice of numerous jobs and even different careers. And especially you find that you are able to support yourself with part-time work. Is that slavery? No, that's freedom. And it's within the grasp of virtually anyone who works a job for a "wage". No it isn't easy, it takes sacrifices. But don't imagine that your slave master is your boss, your slave master is yourself, only you have put yourself in a box financially, mentally, and job skills wise that you feel you are trapped in.
The Apple Board of Directors has a fiduciary duty to investors. If they take action that causes the share price to fall dramatically, thereby losing investor value, you can be pretty sure the Board will not last very long so yes it would matter.
HP, Dell, Facebook, ARM Holdings, TXI, Cisco, Google, Amazon, Oracle, Intel, AT&T, Verizon.

Apple could buy any one of them, either through friendly or hostile means. Not a single one of those would make it through anti-trust. Shareholders for Cisco would love to get $200 billion for their company; the US Government would never allow it in a million years. Shareholders for Amazon would love to get $200 billion, and they'd likely outvote Bezos' family holdings to agree to the purchase. Larry Ellison would sell Oracle for $300 billion in a heartbeat, and all shareholders would agree. Intel shareholders would instantly take a $300 billion bid; the US Government would never allow that purchase either. Apple also would never be allowed to gobble up either of the telecom monsters; AT&T shareholders would take a cash + $250 billion in shares deal, and Verizon shareholders would easily sign off on a $200 billion deal.

I think Apple would love to own their own telecom network, given their love of all things integrated. The things they could probably do in owning something like Verizon's network would be astounding. It would never be allowed.
>Apple has moved humanity forward

I would say this is quite a lot of hyperbole. They have refined what others have made but they have not moved humanity forward.

The Haber-Bosch process, Norman Borlaug, the space race, the production of a silicon chip etc have al moved humanity forward. Apple in comparison made some trinkets.
I'm so sick of people who think that wealth is a zero sum game. It, unequivocally, is not. The fact that Bill Gates has $50 Billion, does not mean that poor people are some how worse off because of it. In fact, it is quite the contrary, poor people, rich people, all people are better off because Bill Gates and Microsoft brought computing to the masses, yielding untold magnitudes of increased productivity and more affordable goods of every stripe. Can anyone look me in the face and say, the world would be worse off if there were 10000 Bill Gates in the world? It is time to destroy this myth.
but that doesn't really need to bother them

Oh yes it better bother them. Cook and the Board have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders. They can't just go spending money however they want without regard to shareholder wishes or stock performance.
Apple believes that it can offer a better return on that cash by giving some portion of it back to it's owners/shareholders than by continuing to hold it all in reserve. That's really all this is about.
Platforms seem to get irrelevant quicker.
Tim Cook said on the conference call that they have well more than enough to make strategic investments and to support growth.

Plus, a company's #1 goal is to create shareholder value.
I don't think you can really point to any one single reason why Apple's stock has been driven up so far lately with any sort of confidence. The market is not always rational when it comes to individual stocks.
C is that language, among so many others, sizeof(int) is implementation specific, and indeed it does vary, though (S)?ILP64 is rare. On the other hand sizeof(long) varies all the time.

You seem very ignorant, please learn and stop the FUD.
I think they're saying that it's the shareholder's money, which is absolutely true.

However that doesn't preclude them from doing good with it, even in money-losing investments, beyond perhaps shareholder revolt ousting the board. There's an oft claimed belief that corporations are somehow bound by corporate law to do everything in their abilities to increase profits/returns for their shareholders. That is not and has never been true. Corporations are essentially mini-democracies, albeit where your say is scaled by your ownership: If the shareholders don't like it they have mechanisms to deal with it.
Plus you have the bad publicity when people learn that they are being weighed for the flight. For many people, it's a touchy subject (like obesity or an eating disorder) that can turn traumatic pretty quickly.

Not a good idea at all
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> Obesity is 100% calories in/calories out

Generally, yes, you are technically correct. What I hate about where this train of thought often leads is: it is not human, at all. It ultimately makes all fat people look like lazy, greedy and stupid slobs because hey, the answer is sooo simple and totally obvious, right? 100% calories in vs. out!

What you completely fail to realize is the squishy human part that makes a lot of people eat way too much and not move around enough. Food and food addiction (mild or heavy) can be very powerful escape mechanisms for underlying psychological problems and once you are caught in that downward spiral, it can be very difficult to find a way out of e.g. depressions AND on top of that shedding all that excess weight with potentially life-long damage already done to your tissue and skin.

With fat shaming being a very widely accepted form of discrimination, it will take a LOT of courage and strength to lift oneself out of that hole, so I don't find it that surprising that a lot of people can ultimately not change and they hardly get any sympathy or healthy, positive encouragement, quite on the contrary, a lot of additional toxic shame.

So there definitely is a lot more to this.
I'd guess that C++, Java and NIH are all powerful forces at Google.
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