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I'll have to put a blog post together about it. Extremely poor planning, no accountability, a boss who was verbally and emotionally abusive to a co-worker (the reason I quit after only a year there and went back to the private sector).
How does that even begin to matter even a little a bit?

The only thing that is relevant is whether it works. Everything else is irrelevant.
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do you think fonts of these kinds are permitted ?
SIL Open Font License (OFL) -
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Yeah, it is very sad this and also my and your comment got no feedback at all. My opinion is skewed, because I work in controlling, but most of these guys are sometimes so focused on "growth" and other myths that they forget to build an actual business.
Judging from my own use and people I know, cellular talk time is one of the things people do on smartphones the _least_ these days.
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> 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.

See, that's exactly what the OP means. I tried to use face unlock on my Nexus 7 - it's just noot good enough. Too slow, too unreliable, especially in bad light conditions. I obviously haven't had the change to play with the iPhone 5s yet, but I'm quite confident that after getting used to keeping the thumb on the home button after turning it on, you won't event notice the fingerprint scanner.
Given the situation described, I'd be inclined to install a security camera in the classroom. Then if one kid punches another or starts walking around the room there'd be a video record of what happened that you could show a parent or court - it wouldn't depend so much on subjective testimony and would keep both the teachers and the students more honest. Is there some reason this can't be done?
I think you are going to need to provide some citations.

Which tribes/societies? What is their cancer rate? What are they not consuming that we are? (who are we?)

Wasn't steve jobs a complete freak with food consumption? (i.e. he didn't eat industrialised crap)...
Good question, not a clue but anecdotally I have never seen a finger-print scanner enabled computer that didn't use it as part of a two-factor auth as well as password in a corporate environment.

The cynical part of me thinks that the proliferation of mobile devices + the close proximity of these new devices to danger (danger being people who would quite like you to give them access at every opportunity it seems. e.g. employees of an increasingly privacy-hostile government, such as the police) in the hands of users who don't know the implications is the biggest change/problem.
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> While they may have implemented Touch ID really well, it's still just yet another way of unlocking the device. Strategically it has little benefit to Apple.

Uh, how many times a day do you perform some type of authentication of your identity? I have a feeling this will be one of those foot-in-mouth statements.
A language like Python or Ruby gets you ease of coding and a moderate level of safety; a language like C gets you speed but at a high safety risk.

Haskell could get you often similar speed benefits, and there are even a couple of rather interesting frameworks for it (with even things like compile-time template checking), but the barrier for entry is unfortunately high.

Thus a language like Rust really comes into its own: speed kin to C with safety significantly exceeding that of Python and Ruby. Users of Python and Ruby may find the parts of its type system which must be specified explicitly arduous, but it does make it ever so much more likely that code that you write just works, correctly, which (as primarily a Python developer) I have found marvellous.

Rust isn't there yet for web development, but solid support for the HTTP layer is well in progress: https://github.com/chris-morgan/rust-http. When that's far enough along, then I'll get on to the framework I have in mind.
It looks VERY similar to the Windows Phone OS now.

(Please don't vote me down - really, this is just my honest opinion. I actually think the Windows Phone OS looks very nice although it is not very usable in practice. Personally I have an android phone)
What you're saying makes it sound comparable to a compelling software demo that only works on simplified test cases.
Not a lot of details and 150K price tag.
I find it a bit dishonest when people describe GPL as confusing.

Sure, anything can be confusing. A door nob is surely confusing to some people, especially if they never seen one before. But a door nob is not inherently confusing, and intellectually honest people would not describe it as such.

Let me ask, what is confusing about a license that say:

You can and may do anything with this code, so long you allow others to do the same,
and to any modified version you might create.

There is nothing in the license text beyond that. If all countries legal system was perfectly sane, and that text would be legally full proof, that would be the license text. Since we do not live in utopia, the license text is a bit longer to describe what "can" and "may" mean.

To quote the license:

To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights or
asking you to surrender the rights. Therefore, you have certain responsibilities if
you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it: responsibilities to
respect the freedom of others.

Who can say that they are confused by this? tzs, are you really, honestly, confused by that sentence?
In the US, jails are run by cities and counties and are usually for offenders with sentences of less than 5 years. Longer, more serious sentences are served in prisons, which are sometimes called penitentiaries (or more euphemistically, correctional facilities). These are operated by the state of federal government.

I keep the difference straight be remembering the phrases "county jail" and "federal prison", which makes it clear that going to prison is much more serious, and a much worse place to be.
Watch all the Android phones suddenly appear in late 2014 with fingerprint scanners. Just watch.
I think we will only see a github for mechanical design once there is a good OS alternative to solidworks and it's brethren, freecad (http://www.freecadweb.org/) is in the right area but you can't underestimate how huge these packages are. I think it will be another 10 years to see something like freecad reach the level of the commercial software.

Part of the issue is that there is not open standard for an editable parametric cad file. All the open file formats are 'flat', its like flattening a photo shop psd into a bmp.

Anyone collaborating on an open platform will at the moment still need the same expensive software to edit the files. That is the barrier to entry, not the availability of a github for CAD.
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>> What's the infatuation with performance in a cell phone?
Assuming you're talking about GPU performance: Apple cares a lot about GPU performance because iOS uses the GPU heavily for a lot of tasks - all the animations, transitions, blurring and blending effects that you see are executed on the GPU, mostly via CoreAnimation.

Also, there are new games and other applications that are pushing GPU requirements to near desktop-class. For example, the Infinity Blade demo that was shown during the launch.

I think a lot of people care about having enough GPU performance to enable all of these.
Just because there are segments of the population who can not take advantage of a feature at all times does not mean the feature is unwarranted or designed without considering this fact.
Why 'perceived' transgressions? Am I right in concluding that aside from rehabilitation and the practical requirement for the sequestration of persons who are a danger to an innocent population, you believe there is no other purpose in incarceration?

If that is so, we need to introduce re-education courses for victims who primitively persist in calling for revenge (though they call it justice) following the misery resulting from destruction of treasured possessions through to rape and murder of family members.
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Actual Apiary user here. Couldn't care less about the mocking up part. I use it because it's a fantastic tool for writing good-looking API documentation quickly.
You mean like how they executed with Siri. Siri was also supposed to define a market and take over the world. In the new iPhone there is no mention of Siri at all.
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In 10 years the word "phone" will no longer be associated with voice communications more than any other type.
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Not only that but the scale of Google drives decisions that may not make sense for the rest of us.
Slightly offtopic, but I love Node.Native[1].

It provides an API similar to Node.js using C++11 lambdas.

1. https://github.com/d5/node.native
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Apple owns a stake in ARM and likely has more influence on their direction than they would with Intel. Apple is fond of controlling their destiny and that means controlling the entire stack. They might keep iOS and OSX separate but I could definitely see them unifying hardware across all their lines as much as possible. They avoid the margin paid to Intel and can lower costs via scale.

e: I know they had a stake in ARM at one point, but I'm unsure if they still do.
All I can say is that TouchID is the new Siri.
You're diverting. The point was the idea that the fingerprint sensor was merely taking a photo of a fingerprint, which was incorrect.
>> How exactly is putting a little scanner inside a button going to be meaningfully better?

Quoting from the article:
"Apple's Touch ID was the biggest surprise for me. I found it very well executed and a nice part of the overall experience. When between the 5s and the 5/5c, I immediately miss Touch ID."

Coming from someone as respectable as Anand, I would call that reasonable grounds to call TouchID "meaningfully better".

Maybe you can point to something similar for face unlock?
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To expand on what Osmium said, a "golden age" is more like a "goldrush age": A big breakthrough opens up a new conceptual frontier, and the golden age is scientists rushing in to homestead and start mining the new landscape.

This isn't to say that all progress is done in goldrushes, but the most basic and, therefore, best-known work of a given field will be done in that period.
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A fine summary although I'd argue that what the Government needs to do is encourage growth outside of London (it's really not that bad up here and I was born and raised in London). This is a small country we should be able to distribute ourselves a little better.

It's not that I'm against H2 because I don't think we need good infrastructure links between the North and South, it's just that I don't see that reducing an already 2 hour Manchester to London commute by 30 minutes is worth the money (already estimated at around £20 billion). I'd like to see a counter proposal describing what you could with that kind of money invested in the current network. My concern is that if H2 goes ahead, we will see each Government that comes to power pointing to it as the solution to all rail problems and taking little interest in the rest of the network.
I'm happy about the comments related to the home button being an upgrade regardless of the scanner. I was worried about the feel of the button with the changes.
Any ARM experts around? The sagacity of the move to 64-bit is explained in terms of getting rid of cruft, and via analogy to a similar move by Intel on the x86 line. But I thought that the largest boost to that line comes from the many additional registers available under 64 bit mode. In ARM, with its RISC architecture, there are already a nice number of registers, so I'm wondering where the true advantage lies -- especially an environment of strongly constrained memory.
Incorrect. Read my grandparent comment.

http://www.citeworld.com/security/22399/iphone-fingerprint-s...

(Though it may work for a very short period of time if you were alive when they cut it off, but not for long)
I would love to hear the inside stories on this.
I think this is slightly apologetic thinking. Apple didn't start off with a complete ecosystem of obeisant suppliers, in-house hardware, software, and retail stores - they built up their empire piece by piece, starting I suppose from the late-90s. And we still don't know their master-plan. The space has been open for any other company to decide to compete on that level. Lenovo could have decided to do that. Any other company could have decided to rise up and play the long road too. It was not impossible to think like this in 2005.

Instead Apple's competition has fallen over themselves to try and chase every short-term opportunity, leading to constant reinvention, total lack of focus, and squandered potential. Frankly, it's embarrassing - you would think that enough people outside of Apple recognise the scale of the challenge Apple poses and decide to respond. Instead these companies come off looking like cheap idiots.
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Are you aware of Ada Web Server (AWS)?

http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/gems/gem-29/
It's a consumer product, so it's more about the feeling that only your fingerprint can unlock your phone. If it takes off, and people like it, you're going to see it everywhere. The politicking is just slippery slope stuff, who knows what's going to happen.
Great article!

Is there any website that lists these patent trolls and their sister companies? I think this would be a great way to create awareness and potentially make people think twice before dealing with such companies.
> there have been stereo cameras on various Android models over the years

Hm. I now envision a (physical) addon that has a two mirrors, like a periscope, and fits over the end of the phone, and the "face" camera -- allowing the two cameras to be used for stereo imaging... Not sure if you'd be able to do just as well with motion sensor data coupled with just the main camera -- and having the user move the phone from side to side (using parallax for depth sensing) ... would make for an interesting algorithmic problem at least.
I've definitely heard that argument before. I always conclude with the person that our definitions of democracy are not similar.
Sorry using C is a security nightmare.
You need to use a higher language like C++ that can encapsulate and abstract your web-framework enough.

Or use a C framework that has secure string handling and others.
Rejecting unitarity is a bold thing to do. What can it mean for the probabilities of alternatives to sum to more than 1?
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That 30% faster figure is because the iPhone is rendering the scene at a lower resolution than many of the phones with larger, 1080p screens. Look at the next graph where each phone is rendering a 1080p scene to see the difference.
With the new keychain syncing in iOS7, the "Touch ID" is only one small step away of making typing passwords unnecessary. That's big!
Siri hasn't gone anywhere and it's still being improved.
There's no mention of it anywhere? So what, there's many other previous headline features they're not highlighting.

I'm not implying that Apple can't make mistakes - it's clear they can with Maps and Siri - but a) it would be extremely uncharitable to judge them on version 1.0 of Maps and Siri, both ridiculously complex features, and most importantly b) their overall product strategy is still the best in the business. Doesn't matter how much people kick and scream about the newest Apple mistake - does anyone even remember Antennagate? Tech people cling to these memories, but normal people forgive and forget.
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(btw: entire careers have been based on susy, without a spec of experimental evidence: on might say, it is not even wrong)
Reasons not to use C for web dev:
1. Maintenance costs will go through the roof with C. C developers are not cheap, and most people who use C have are not web developers.
2. Hiring will be exceptionally painful. Again, most C devs are not web devs. Put another way, most web devs use other languages.
3. Some C developers are so good that very few people can understand their code (Linus talks about this, and I've seen it happen at a prior company)

By way of personal experience, in '99 we had an outstanding developer who was a rock star in C. When he left, I remember sitting in a meeting when an A+ developer (he really was good) was asked by the VP Eng, "Can you support his code". The response, "No". VP Eng: "Why is it not commented?". Response, "It's commented. In fact it's the best code I have ever seen. But I cannot support it, it's amazing, but its way beyond my skill level."

I have never seen a repeat of this experience in a 4th gen language. I'm sure it can/may happen, but have not yet.
I assume you mean battle-tested from a security standpoint.

I suppose you'd need to make that judgment call yourself. In my opinion, many of the options I listed have seen sufficient production usage that I consider them roughly as secure as any mainstream framework. For example, Play and Scalatra are used at Netflix, BBC, LinkedIn, etc.

Many expressly avoid notoriously dangerous (and frankly alarming) deserialize-user-input-and-execute patterns, which is in my experience the most common form of framework vulnerability.

As for performance, scalability, and reliability under pressure, that is precisely the point I was making earlier: higher-performance platforms combined with frameworks designed for performance and scalability are targeting grace under pressure moreso than legacy frameworks. Higher performance gives you greater peace of mind with availability, responsiveness, and user experience.
In the daringfireball.net review Gruber specifically mentions in benchmarking the 5s outperforms the 2008 15" macbook that he has.

It's hard for me to justify from a 'need' perspective to go from my 4S to the 5s, since to be honest the 4S has no slowdown at all and is a great phone.

I'll probably end up donating it to my mum and moving her from dumbphone into smartphone land.
I've been keenly following this area of research and have heard some of the talks and read some papers. I concur with the sketch given by @gaze.

1. The notion of unitarity is a "common sense" rule that implies that you can consistently assign probabilities to possible outcomes in a quantum mechanical experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarity_%28physics%29)

2. The notion of locality states that what happens on Jupiter better not affect how fast your code compiles this morning (or how experiments run on earth). This is an important postulate, because if this weren't true, we might as well give up on doing science as there would be arbitrarily many external influences we couldn't take into account.

All our experiments so far are perfectly consistent with these two principles. Quantum field theory is the brainchild of the marriage of unitarity (from quantum mechanics) and the idea of locality (in field theory). Our world view today ("Standard model of particle physics") is based on this.

In practice, calculating answers using this theory is painfully difficult. YOu will add up thousand pages worth of algebraic terms and then your answer will 'miraculously' reduce to a few terms. This and other observations have inspired researchers to search for underlying structure... leading to what is now being called the 'amplitude revolution' by some people.
If it gets rid of passwords, it's the greatest invention since the iPhone.
Attempting to summarise a person in 4 letters is obviously limiting, but on a personal level it always seems to concur with my personal 'sense' of someone. I think the problem, as always, is how we use this kind of information. I've see HR teams get all excited about the team fit of a person based on Myers Brigg when it was pretty clear to the team itself that was not the case. However, I once had a colleague who I found difficult to work with (the situation was mutual) but after a 'profiling session' I discovered they were more introverted than I thought and came to understood what that meant. This lead to a great improvement in our relationship. Sure maybe a 'good old chat' might have sorted it out but I guess that's what the profiling session was.

I'm an ENTP by the way.
Haha, I certainly hope so - that's what I meant by my edit above. If Apple pushes this technology across the entire company then only at that time does it become a compelling part of the Apple ecology. If too many services/devices "chicken out" and avoid integrating with Touch ID then Apple will continue to be forced to carry legacy authentication mechanisms, lowest-common-denominator style.

If this tech remains an iPhone (or even just iDevice) only tech, it's a (albeit impressive) party trick. Nothing provided by touch ID can't be eventually replicated by a competitor, patents notwithstanding.

No other OEM is positioned like Apple is to pull this off, but it won't be easy to elevate touch id to how we today perceive something like retina.
Ah I considered the second bit in the historical context.

The poly-lingual software related company seems to be a more modern trend IMO. At the time PG is referring to I would have been very surprised to see that going on in the web industry.
This article really hit home for me, as I had a similar experience this year: burnout after high-stress software dev (after which I didn't even want to look at code), followed by getting back into gaming, then suddenly finding renewed motivation for (and enjoyment of) programming.

How do I limit my game-time to 1 hour daily? Easy, I set the Family Timer on my Xbox. I know the password, so I can extend it, but at least it's a conscious decision. I'd highly recommend this approach to anyone who wants to try out gaming but is afraid of it sucking away too much time.
Well when you add up all the backdoors to the various spy agencies worldwide, plus the obfoscation mass code, I the that accounts for the bloat. good luck finding it amongst the 18 GB sources of Android, or similar for the other systems.