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So, here's some things that magically never seem to make it into the bookkeeping:

- We were at war with an enemy that actually felt credible. The Reds had nukes, invaded countries, and could have (as both sides nearly did) brought about the fiery death of the world.

- Not only was this threat credible, the government did useful things to protect its citizens: Civil Defense stockpiles and training, school drills and films that educated, and so on. Our current .gov is willfully ineffective.

- Healthcare was much more affordable, as basic care was cheaper and not being eaten alive by soulless administrators with fuckoff-huge budgets in a non-profit dickwaving contest. Resistant strains of bacteria weren't as widespread. Insurance and malpractice was not as big a deal.

- Not only was healthcare cheaper, there was not as much science as we have today invested in feeding us shit food that tastes great and has no redeeming nutritional value. There wasn't a McDonald's or Starbucks on every corner.

- The prison-industrial complex was not as embedded as it is today, nor were police as militarized.

- You could get a good-paying job doing vocational work, and even receive useful training for it at school. You might even get a good pension. Neither companies nor unions had screwed everything up yet.

- You didn't have to worry about your job being trivially outsourced, as international shipping hadn't quite gotten together just yet.

- You didn't have to worry about being bombarded with advertising target directly at you every day from every appliance, because the 'net wasn't around, nor was Facebook.

- My alma mater had free tuition for the first half of the 60s. :|

- Ma Bell had a competent government-sanctioned monopoly, instead of the patchwork fiefdoms from the 80s and 90s.

- We put a man on the fucking moon, instead of ads in the browser.

~

So, uh, yeah. There were downsides to be sure--I'd probably be running some ENIAC derivative or working at NASA (given my skillset) doing server monkey work right now, I'd to write weird programs for weird machines in weird languages, I'd have been bullied more growing up, and if certain classes of accidents happened I'd be shit out of luck.

If I were not white, male, or straight I could expect more trouble; then again, I'd probably have a more close-knit community to help me with those problems.

I'll leave speculation on dating and gender relations for some other thread and time.

All the same, I bet I could raise a family more healthily and more easily, and with greater (if perhaps more false) confidence that Things Would Be Alright.
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Because I'm not talking about any of the things you're talking about, I'm talking specifically about why a person thinks that.

You say it doesn't matter and "who cares", but I asked the question, so obviously I care.
In terms of CRI, I have not yet found a line of LED bulbs that can accomplish the same color accuracy I've come to enjoy from my high-CRI fluorescent bulbs. CREE and SORAA are among the best, as far as I can tell. But I am a layperson when it comes to illumination. I have also decided to concede high-CRI as long as I can retain the high color temperature that I prefer (I prefer 5000K interior illumination even in the evening, which I understand is uncommon).

I'm not running a lab or anything where CRI is critical. I had simply preferred high-CRI when I was given the luxury of opting for that when I switched my house from incandescent to fluorescent ten years ago. I would like to see better CRI in LED, but to-date it doesn't seem to be a focus, even amount the high-end brands.
It's hard for people engaged in a career path to recognize the end that's coming.

Much journalism is literally farmed out to content mills and pays fractions of a penny per word. This implies a labor supply glut. I wonder sometimes if we see this in web dev too?
I'll explain how decisions on the Product are made. It's a pretty interesting process.
its Verizon's fault. if you put an activated verizon SIM card in it, it works. Verizon is just refusing to sell you a Sim card if you say it's for a nexus 7.
Is anyone here familiar with this work? I would like to hear more about it. At a minimum, this article is very much better than the usual science blog filler—it contains signs of a genuine conceptual breakthrough. For example:

“You can easily do, on paper, computations that were infeasible even with a computer before.”

That doesn't happen very often! Or this:

[T]he new geometric approach to particle interactions removes locality and unitarity from its starting assumptions. The amplituhedron is not built out of space-time and probabilities; these properties merely arise as consequences of the jewel’s geometry. The usual picture of space and time, and particles moving around in them, is a construct.

That is exactly the kind of thing that happens when one model is replaced with a deeper one.
The only way I see this working is if the gentleman claims to be a troll, or troll-like in appearance/ habits.
Not responding to the fawning per se, but specifically the "unlocking mechanism that is going to be market-defining": face unlock seems undeniably cooler still, works reasonably well, has been shipping on all Android phones for nearly two years now, yet certainly hasn't "defined" any markets.

How exactly is putting a little scanner inside a button going to be meaningfully better? Like face unlock, it's at best a cute trick. Apple's past genius has been about finding new fundamental ways to use technology. Slightly easier protection against spousal snooping doesn't qualify, sorry.
Actually I believe all 50 states have "recreational use" statutes which provide land owners strong protections:

http://www.americanwhitewater.org/archive/article/124/

I'm not saying we aren't a litigious country but recreational non profits and others are working hard to ensure that it is safe for land owners to allow to/across their land.
5S definitely a nice upgrade and I don't see any reason to get a 5C beyond color and slight battery life advantage (presumably on non-motion usage). Saving $100 on a $2,000+ service contract is nothing.

But I'm super disappointed that Apple didn't target 5S battery life for dramatic improvement. The 5's battery life is already awful and it looks like 5S is even worse. Ugh.
Its their discipline that impresses me: How much they are willing to play the long game, and take short term hits to do it.

While getting hammered by Wall Street and the press for not innovating, they stick to their guns and keep evolving in incremental steps, and laying the ground for the innovation they want to do in the future.

For example, current iPhone battery life isn't the greatest compared to some of the larger phones out there that are packing much more battery.

But they keep making small efficiency improvements, over and over, so that if (when?) release a device with a larger battery, it will be like the MacBook Air situation, where the MBA gets staggering battery life on the next hardware iteration compared to competitors that have just adequate battery life, basically being carried by the hardware.

I imagine the larger display is a similar situation, they're not happy with some compromise they'd have to make to produce a display of the larger size, whereas competitors are happy to pump something out that is better by some metric (PPI, size), but has adverse effects (battery life, color oversaturation, artifacting).

I think Google has the ability to continue competing with them if they remain focused.

I have my doubts about any of the other Android manufacturers, though Xiaomi could be interesting in the future, due to their focus on services.
8x MSAA. Impressive.
GPL is hardly a neutral license. If anything, it's as extreme copyleft as there is. CDDL is actually quite neutral, and the compatibility issues between the two has more to do with the GPL, which is incompatible with pretty much all other licenses other than BSD/Apache/MIT/X11 style minimal licenses. Hence why ZFS can be safely adopted by FreeBSD and MacOSX.
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I feel like you didn't read the post at all.

He said 2 things:

1. These are weirdly contrived generational categories...

2. You have no idea about student debt, underemployment, life-long renting. “Stop feeling special” is some shitty advice. I don’t feel special or entitled, just poor...

So basically, the post is about the Huff Post author being detached from reality. "You just want to feel special- get over it" is really shitty advice, he's right. They teach you not to say things like that at work. At least I hope they do.

I'm a bit above 35 (past the next "old" barrier that starts with 4), and although I fall more into the Huff Post author's vision of the sad yuppie close to the start of gen Y, it pisses me off that on Marketplace (PRI radio broadcast on NPR stations) today they were basically trying to convince everyone that no one knows what the middle class is and that we should just get used to the new normal and should even consider wealth redistribution as a way to deal with it (I'm not joking- this was really said and the Marketplace idiot went along with it- seriously L.A.- are these the people you want representing you?).

So, I'm with Adam Weinstein on this one saying, "Fk you".

I didn't sign up for the economic situation we're in, and I feel that our fiscally irresponsible government is to blame. Wealth redistribution? No, I don't think socialism or communism is a good idea. The only countries in which either are working having been abandoning them for capitalism, from what I see (specifically, India and China).

Can we stop threatening to bomb people, open borders again fully to allow all kinds of immigrants, hire ex-Israeli soldier elites to profile passengers and replace the TSA and no-fly lists in our airports/etc. (like Israel does), and have less government. Our government has better things to do than to try to tell us how to live and how we should manage our money. Did you notice how the Democrats were giving Yellen a hard time because she was female? Almost completely washed over in the liberal media. Shame! So much bullshit. I cannot wait to cast my vote next time to oust every single one of the losers currently in office.
Looks like Google is trying to monetize it a bit and compete against Adobe Omniture. Well played...
Sir (or Mam), I wouldn't accept your labor nor your property voluntarily, let alone seize it. I empathize with whatever has brought you to the point of "keep what you kill and let the weak perish". Enjoy how you choose to spend your resources, I know how I want to spend mine.
Face Unlock doesn't work very well, is less secure and much more difficult. This is hardly a "cute trick". We are going to see the rapid expansion of fingerprints in place of passwords and it is going to be pretty neat.
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A thought: Maybe try to register the chromebook after switching the SIMs?
What an utter shock that those so minimal affected by the economic changes taking place over the last 30 years (tech community) are among the most skeptical that those changes are harmful to the vast majority.

Someone mentioned US economic prosperity. Any definition of "economic prosperity" must include prosperity for the majority.
Her older brother graduated at 14 with a CS degree. Is he making any money?
It would be interesting to let developers push whatever features they like to wherever they like, and use responsive design and usage tracking to push elements with greater use to the top (and left, optionally) of the page and push those with lesser usage to the bottom or to sub-pages. /spitball
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Here? Or in future posts? ;)
Does anyone else think like we're already in the "core 2 duo" era of smartphones? I look at my galaxy s3 and the newer phones and don't feel much motivation to upgrade.
The opensource ZFS code has been almost stagnant/in mainteinance mode all this time.

We must have been looking at different ZFS projects. ZFS development was far from stagnant. :)
"works reasonably well"

It doesn't.
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You should have used lisp :p
Can you please reference the part of what I wrote that makes you think I consider myself a harder worker?

more thick skinned than any Gen Y person

I consider myself more thick-skinned than most people of any age. I've had friends remark on that point.

Am I special? I think my personality type is uncommon, but I don't think that makes me special in the way you're meaning the word. I'm just another guy. I contribute the same amount to society as the average guy. I have no reason to think I'm special outside of what I mean to my friends.

That you assume that I think I'm special suggests that you're suffering from your own sense of self-entitlement. Are you aware of which generation I'm part of? Very little of what I said is self-referential. I am a part of 'previous generations' and I did grow up under the end of the Cold War. So you assume that because I'm making an argument, I must be defending myself, because apparently that's the only thing that makes sense to you? You seem to be projecting.
Android's face-unlock, while also slow, is easily defeated:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/08/03/android-jelly-beans-...
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So really with the 64 bit architecture this phone has effectively less RAM than the iPhone 5?

To maintain backwards compatibility between legacy 32 bit and new 64 bit processes Apple will have to stick two copies of their library into RAM, plus any native applications running in 64 bit mode will consume more RAM than their 32 bit counterparts anyway (12%~ more).

I love how this review is basically "THIS IS THE MOST EXCITING S RELEASE EVER (but I cannot really explain why, here is me dismissing most of the new features of this phone: Evolutionary camera, 64 bit which is meaningless today, gimmicky fingerprint reader, faster A processor which makes it almost competitive with Intel's last generation, etc)."

I think it is entertaining that tons of Apple's fans have been claiming entirely without basis that this phone would have 2 GB of RAM in it and that was largely their explanation for the 64 bit-eating RAM-issue, now it only has 1 GB still I wonder how they'll magic that huge deficit away.
Pretend the graph doesn't exist. Pretend the statistics don't exist. Pretend you have no way of knowing that "the 1%" are reaping the lion's share of the recovery, that they all live off in an Elysium we'll never know about.

Compare yourself to your parents, given that. You have the internet. If it's killed work for "the creatives," it's given the rest of us free access to their works. You have a cell phone, where your dad might've broken down on a highway north of Phoenix and prayed for a pay phone. If your kid runs a fever and the treatment wipes out your meager savings, at least he'll live, where his uncle might've died under the same circumstances.

I'm blessed with a good job. Maybe my luck clouds my vision, and there's a huge structural problem I refuse to recognize. Maybe it'd be different if I had a wife and kids, but I can't help but think that's... optional, especially for those of us in our 20s.

So maybe I just don't understand the plight of the author or those like him, but I can't help thinking that the primary drive behind the complaints is jealousy. The HuffPo article tries to say it nicely, and explain it with unfairly inflated expectations, but it still comes down to the same thing. Young people are jealous because other people have status, and it's just not fair.
StackExchange has a Programmers site which is supposed to be for conceptual questions. However, my experience is that if you can narrow down a question to a few possibilities, you can often get good answers (even better ones) on other SE sites.

then there are other places, forums, etc.
Yes, discipline is a great word for it. Against a sea of nay-sayers and critics they keep their composure and stay focused on the long-term. The result is that their competitors blow their opportunities by rushing, and squander any stature. Apple remains in total control of the industry.
So for Nexus to work, Verizon would have to upgrade their POS (Point of sale) system? If that's the case, seems like a Google problem, device makers should work within existing rules, can't count on ATT and Verizon to upgrade their systems each time a new device comes out.

Either way the OP with "caught red-handed" made it seem like a conspiracy
We proved as a nation that we can set up the economics well. There is no excuse for letting them get significantly worse. There might be luck in finding setups that let the most people succeed, but keeping them is another matter. Fix the mistakes of the last couple decades and do what works.
Writing web services in C can of course be done; I even believe that there are legitimate designs were it makes sense. Namely, if the back end is anyhow custom written and all you need is a smallish server to talk to the client. ( For example games, were the server simulates a world.) But the problem I have with the article is, that in this case frameworks don't help. Web applications were C makes sense, require a very different coding style from the one the article deals with. So it makes no sense to fetch just some values from a DB and give it to a server using C. C only makes sense if one has to do a large part of the heavy lifting oneself.
A comment on the article reads: "They are already flat out violating the same lease obligations by blocking Google Wallet".

I'm wondering - if the allegations are true, why doesn't Google sue? Are they trying to preserve some kind of relationship with Verizon?
And how long has that science been clear? Are we talking Keynes or Friedman?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine details examples of where total free market economics doesn't work for the vast majority of people.
Were the staff who worked their way up the management tree compensated for the perceived increase in responsibility?

If so, were they required to take salary cuts?
Always remember this useful rule of thumb: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
What's the optimal response in this situation? Can he sue?
Current MacBook Airs already get full-day battery life. Apple/ARM and Intel are quickly converging from two sides – but the cost of switching architectures (while something Apple certainly has been quite good at in the past) seems too high to me for the payoff, and that’s even if, spec for spec, ARM could beat out Intel. Add to that that the relationship of Apple with Intel seems to be a quite good one (so there is no reason for petty politics) and I really don’t see it happening.

24 hour battery life (instead of 12) and half the performance in a MacBook Air seems hardly worth it to me. To my mind that device is already more constrained by performance than battery life.

(Conversely I also don’t see ARM/Apple getting too slow to keep pace with Intel on the mobile side, so I don’t see them switching there to Intel, either.)
As a former mitary wife, I am kind of personally offended that this is the top voted comment here. Being rooted in place like a plant is not the only means to raise healthy, secure kids. Ugh. I really wish this were downvoted to hell. I am so annoyed at feeling compelled to reply to this shit.
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Right, but part of the question is, if unpaid internships are so bad, what about mentored open source development? How can one draw a line?

From my perspective, hiring people in related open source technologies means little ramp-up time development-wise, it means seeing someone who has a somewhat entrepreneurial spirit, and the like, all on top of the benefits of unpaid internships.
well, sketchiness of the metrics aside, the 75% more productive is an average value, not a median value (or a mode), so not all labor will yield "1.75x cost"...
With the current licence (CDDL) it is not going to be included in the repositories of main distros anyway.
They is perfect for being gender neutral; the only other method I've seen is those weird journalist articles that randomly switch between him and her. They makes semantic sense and is explicitly gender neutral, I don't see what the problem is?

One can argue that he is technically neutral, but practically speaking the association is always male.
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(look at the number of suicides for recovered alcoholics versus general population, the number of suicides is WAY higher for recovering drug addicts even compared to recovering alcoholics).

I realize this thread is getting old, but that's another possible reversal of causality (P(A given B) vs. P(B given A). It's also possible that drug addicts are from a segment of the population that is more likely to commit suicide, but the drugs medicate away the suicidal urge.

You also have a strong selection bias; as mentioned upthread, you haven't studied the habitual drug users who didn't end up in prison. There's no way the drug market could be as big as the TV news likes to say it is, unless the majority of users were living ordinary lives despite their drug use.

Nobody's saying that drug addiction should be ignored; they're saying that you can treat the problem more effectively by treating society itself rather than trying to prevent access to drugs.
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They are not going to change anything related to the DMCA as part of this. It is totally just posturing, and get ready for more of it- they need a lot of PR for people to forget that Putin made Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, look like a warmongering asshole. That and the naval base shooting has made for a rough past 2 weeks on the administration.

But I think that everyone should seize this opportunity to make them put their money where their mouth is. Demand to your senators and the administration that not only allow device unlocking, but allow choosing cable channels we want to pay for, get rid of all unwarranted software and tech patents, make digital rights management uncovered under the law, and stay the heck away from the internet except to enforce the protection of children from predators, but in a way that doesn't involve nonsensical dns hijinks- just track them down and jail them or remove their sex organs.
I often wonder if Google deciding not to purchase this spectrum was the biggest mistake they've made.
It's all about execution. When Android manufacturers make these "innovations," by and large they're sloppily implemented and poorly communicated. They're generally part of dozens of features that companies like Samsung try to boast about - so the net result is that consumers don't know what to pay attention to, they aren't inspired to feel lust for the product or any of its particular features, and so the product becomes just one more indistinct phone on the scrapheap.

Whereas Apple focuses on a few core features to improve on and communicate with each phone, and they're overwhelmingly cautious - like only integrating Touch ID with a few spots of the phone at first. But they nail the initial execution, and the communication. So their phones are still the absolute centre of the market. And no other company can inspire product lust to the degree they can.
it hasn't been worth the overhead of running another OS to get its features since.

That's a rather cavalier attitude towards the integrity of your data. :/

I can replace operating systems. It's a lot more difficult to replace lost or silently-corrupted data. That makes data integrity one of my prime concerns, which it should be for any production systems.