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‘iDevices’ aka ‘iOS devices’ = iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and AppleTV. Of those, iPhone is by far the biggest business (it accounts for over half of Apple’s revenues.)[1] Revenues from iOS devices are still on the rise.[2]

The September quarter is not iPad’s strongest, wait for next quarter’s results for that[1]. Last year’s September quarter was exceptionally strong, as no-one expected new iPads 6 months after the last refresh and the iPad 3 had finally met demand in the September quarter. This year, new iPads were expected in September. The true impact of Apple’s new iPad line-up can only be seen when the company can meet demand (March quarter 2014.)

Marketshare is trickier to measure, as Apple is one of the only companies that report on actual sell-through sales and breaks the figures out to phones and tablets. And even if others were open about it, you’d have to decide in what markets they are exactly competing. Is iPad part of the same market that sells $100 toy tablets? Is iPhone part of the same market that sells Android 2.3 and Asha feature phones?

Cases could be made that iOS is losing marketshare and cases could be made that iOS is still gaining marketshare. I objected to GP stating iOS decline as an established fact.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/28/apple-4q13-earnings-charts/

[2] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/10/28Apple-Reports-Four...
> "People of my persuasion often make the case that if automobile insurance worked the same as health insurance, and we used insurance to pay for oil changes, the price of oil changes would shoot up wildly. Reason being that you would no longer care what it costs."

If it results in selling more bus passes and electric cars, we should do it. Unfortunately, we do not want to limit access to health care in the same way as health is needed to maintain a stable labor base.

How would a single payer system work with oil changes? We don't have to guess. Many places have single payer health and auto insurance. Large companies provide single payer benefits to their employees on much better terms then normal. Having only a single payer means prices can be dictated and adjusted as society demands to balance profit with affordable access to services.
Look, I'm a Canadian myself. I paid the $20,000/year tuition for my schooling too (thank you Waterloo Co-op!). But frankly, it's very easy for the both of us to claim we are deserving of certain privileges or that we worked hard to get where we are based on our own family socio-economic situations.

But the reality is that to get to this point, many immigrant families and first nations families face enormous difficulty to meet their basic needs. To get to this country is one thing, to get here without anything is another. To have everything taken away and having to build it up without a strong support network is difficult. Equality isn't just about the money, it's about the community around you that helps create an environment that allows you to grow and succeed. By just pointing at the price tag, you're oversimplifying so many social factors and issues that play into how you get into university, get out, and start your career path in which, for families coming from difficult situations can simply be solved by some money.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, I am a visible minority myself. I didn't suffer and neither did my parents because the heavy burden was taken care-of by my great-grandparents and grandparents notwithstanding blatant racism by society and even government laws. I'm several generations removed from understanding the economic difficulties, but I'm still very much rooted in the cultural and social ones.
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When I was living in NE, I was still 'the new kid from up the road' for five years ;)

I'd love to get back though, NE is my favorite among many places lived on the East coast.
> Correct, but the point is that $5000/month is more than enough to get by on

This is completely ad hoc and the interest of most people in acquiring ever more money suggests there is no saturation point.
To answer the question, "why do people corner themselves?", I think it's because there is value in categorizing things. Unfortunately, this will eventually introduce negative consequences as well, as you describe. It's like the difference between voting for a candidate or party vs. voting on individual issues. Sadly, I think it is the nature of populations and the growing nature of our digitized world to clump ourselves into groups.
I like that car analogy, because it also helps demonstrate the other way in which health insurance is fundamentally broken with respect to other insurances.

With car insurance, if someone wrecks my car, I get a check for the repair bill and the transaction is complete. However, if car insurance ran like health insurance, the insurance company would pay for a rental vehicle and leave my car totaled. If I ever drop my insurance, they'd take away my rental car and leave me with just the old wreck. There's no plan to make me whole again.

Granted, health insurance companies don't give out rental bodies. However, with other types of insurance, an adverse event (e.g. house fire, car accident) leads to an insurance payout that covers your loses. However, with health insurance, an adverse event (e.g. cancer diagnosis) just leads to a piecemeal payment of health expenses while you remain on their policy. If your policy ends, they don't have to pay for treatments on an event that occurred under their policy.

If we really want health insurance to act like catastrophic insurance, then it really needs to act that way. If I get diagnosed with cancer, I shouldn't get treatments covered on an annual basis as long as I am a member. Instead, the actuaries should calculate an average lifetime cancer treatment cost and I should be sent that as a check. It's then my responsibility to pay for that treatment.

This would be a far more economical system, but it requires that health insurance companies start paying for health expenses that are incurred under their policies, just like every other form of insurance.
We haven't really ruled out any of the common stack tech choices. They are all good in their own ways, and have their own tradeoffs - and the intention here was not to spark wars about which tool is the best.

I think the choice was much more of a proactive choice - we liked Go, we like the way it fitted us - good for fast iterative development upfront, good for the long term, fun to write code in and with a lot of advantages that come with the fact that it's a language designed today - with a lot of lessons learned from the past.
Hi Sumang,

Can you put your email in your profile, I'd like to contact you about something I'm working on that may be of interest to you.

Cheers!
I don't know which is weirder, that the British Navy is using the Minmay Defense. Or that Britney Spears is Minmay.
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I think the best thing to do is to remove that Scholarship program. In the long run it will be a something people will use just to avoid paying you. Let those who are struggling figure out the system on their own. When they get better financially they will pay you (hopefully).
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Could you explain a bit more, why exactly does this advice "just get out there" not apply to anyone who isn't either white, heterosexual, cis or male?
It all depends on mood. Some days I rock out to Porter Robinson, Shreddie Mercury, Bassnectar, etc.

Other days its a crazy spread of Sigur Ros, Porcupine Tree, Animals as Leaders, and Mars Volta.

Some days I just need silence. I know thats a lot of name dropping, but it hopefully shows the overall spread that qualifies my least favorite statement: "It Depends"
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Google image search is a superior solution in this case!

I could've sworn I had saved or bookmarked the perfect donkey picture, too. It's a pity I can't seem to find it right now.
Did you also consider Java or any JVM-based language?

Modern Java is a lot less verbose than it used to be and it knows a lot of tricks (e.g. akka, play framework, dropwizard, Rx, dependency management, good IDEs, advanced profiling and instrumentation etc.)

Netflix is an excellent example of how you can leverage the JVM to build one of the most advanced system architectures hosted on AWS.
Great post for those with integration view of business, as Steve!
I think apple represent with perfection, an totaly architected technological enviroment. What with the most care with the user experience, the usability, the clean design, is bringing to all of us the perfect experience!
And the apple environment could be simply explained by just one sentence : "careful with the maximization of the user experience"
And i agree with Adnaan, in his thoughts, that - "The auto industry is going through a technological discontinuity in its shift to hybrid and electric vehicles. This is still in its very early innings" ... And with the apple´s power of design and product integration, i realy belive that the auto industry could be the next re-invented industry by apple!
I think it depends on how rich the target person is.
I don't think anyone's disagreeing with you, they perhaps just don't like the sarcastic, snarky tone of your otherwise empty comment. Personally, I enjoyed it, but I suspect many in the community would not have.
Example #4 Going to a restaurant

Example #5 Going to a park, especially an "improved" park with kids playground and you're a dude.

Example #6 Wilderness hiking (although this is really a safety issue, and as a lifelong hiker I assure you your local hiking club is a fantastic way to meet people)
I love the sound of this but remain cautiously optimistic. One thing that immediately comes to mind: How do you prevent the user from breaking their own user experience by deleting folder X or moving file Z?

My thought would be to create a locked folder accessible only by APPX and then if the user decides they don't want to use the service any more and revokes permission to APPX the folder gets deleted.
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The thing with literal data, is that you don't get a comprehensive look on their "best" work. For example, Tom Hanks. As a cinema buff, an actor's work isn't rated based on his highest and lowest rating. http://i.imgur.com/MnVFiWF.png?1

I wouldn't show the highest and lowest rated film, but rank on awards and successful ($) hits. Also, showing an "average" is good, but can really hinder a true value.
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Does this take the needed deceleration in account? If we are to land there anyway :P
Put otherwise: to sort them all it's O(n/5*(5 log 5)) = O(n).
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It seems fun to hate on "evil" doctors, but why do we consider doctors as any different from "personal business consultants" who's business expertise is health?

I'm curious how you guys think medical professionals should actually be paid / how can pricing be done "fairly" in a system where there can never be "information symmetry"?
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Or is the datastore invisible to the front end UI and Dropbox application?
How easy it must be to dismiss someone based solely on their physical characteristics. Isn't this the very thing your rant aims to protest, namely, discrimination?
This New Yorker article examining major discrepancies in health-care costs between McAllen Texas (which is the 2nd most expensive health-care market in the country) and the town up the road was eye opening for me. The summary is that when doctors invest in medical facilities (like in-practice labs) they are financially motivated to direct patients to use those facilities.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_...
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My point is that the people that get the benefits are not necessarily the people that need them the most. I've seen many families with status that did not need the money, but took advantage of it. I've also seen many families that needed the money, but could not get it because they were not status.

I completely agree with a support system for people who need it, but I do NOT think that system should be based on racial background.
Sounds like a libertarian wank fest.
It has a lot more to do with financial status and social standing than any other factor. A white guy growing up and living in a poor part of the southeast has a very different experience from a white guy who grew up in a mansion. Race and gender are poor guides to figuring out how much a person struggles.
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We could have a situation where it's possible that you were paying for a plan that would pay for your hip, but the government decides to dissolve that plan and force you to buy a new plan that's not allowed to pay for your hip.
Entertaining one. Should not be downvoted. :D
Yes, but the real problem is fuel( even with antimatter ). And radiation.
I want C (Objective-C) with Lisp macros too. Are you looking dor contributors?
and sometimes actors will take movies where they love the part knowing full well the chances of the movie making it big are nil.
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You've got this a little backwards. CD Baby, for example, charges per album (currently $49) to sell your music through a number of digital distributors (and they also provide distribution for physical CDs and vinyl records). It's just a one-time fee, but you have to pay it for each album you sell.

Distrokid, on the other hand, does charge an annual fee, but that's for an unlimited number of albums.
That depends on whether the person pronounces it as an alphabetism or as a word. Some people say FAQ and pronounce each letter (like /ɛf e kyu/¹), in which case they use "an". If they pronounce it more like a word (like /fæk/) then they'd use "a". So, it's a difference that depends on how the person speaks, and may be right or wrong depending on how each person learns to pronounce the acronym.

[1]: My IPA is rusty, so bear with me.
What we are discovering is that actually it doesn't sacrifice as much as you'd think - and I think that's the point we are trying to make with our article.

You get both the performance, and you get a very lightweight language - I'd say almost as easy to write as Ruby or Python - with great open source support and growing and with a great community around it.
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We'll even be able to tell when you finish fixing it because the stream of duplicate comments complaining about it will (hopefully) end :)
This is cool. I was hoping to write something to look at movies differently (just something to get me working on something). I didn't even know IMDB let you get data.

I don't know if it's possible but can you break games, shows, movies, etc out? Video games got shown next to movies (and probably shows). I would like to know if some actor does great on tv but flops games/movies etc.
That and the random kept giving me foreign actors. I suppose that means it really is random...would be cool to see random by language or something.
I've been to a cat cafe in Tokyo, and I don't remember seeing any cats in cages. I do agree that it was a depressing place though, none of the cats were interested in interacting with the humans.

The place still seemed popular. I don't know why. The one stray cat I found during my stay in Tokyo was much more friendly than any of the cats in the cafe.
Where did you move from, and which countries did you move to?
It's bizarrely worded, yes. I think what they're trying to say is it's a planetary system very similar to the Solar system. Announcing it as a new "planetary system" would sound much less dramatic, since we've cataloged more than 700 of those.
I think I would have laid on the guilt a little more. Something along the lines of...

"Hi, buddy! We noticed that you created five dummy accounts in order to get access to our referral reward. Thank you for your interest. If $1.66 per month or $0.05 is too much money for you to afford at the moment and it would prevent you from having a roof over your head and feeding yourself but would still like to sell your music and make a living in pursuing your dreams of being paid for your art and work, then you should check out our scholarship account. We believe in our community and are you are a good person that would not like it if people didn't pay you for your work so we are confident you wouldn't do the same to us."

Or is that too much?
I don't understand why they don't put an MMU into the R-series. Should't take up much area nor waste any cycles if not enabled (and not necessarily when enabled either).
But also if you do: https://github.com/middleman/middleman-blog
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the story imply that the encryption helped the coup?
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That's a great tip.
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Not sure why OP linked to the Github file instead of the file on the site (w/ syntax highlighting, etc.): http://jekyllrb.com/docs/datafiles/

It's also worth noting that you could already do this in _config.yml, this just lets you split that up.
In before the tired allusion to going out for skittles and tea after smoking weed at midnight (in florida)

Reality is it applies to everyone and its just a "woe is me" strategy. I "can't" socialize because I'm not pasty white, well there's a load off my back I don't have to be responsible for anymore.
If you agree, then we should start with the top (e.g. bankers/corporations) who get away with tax loop-holes. And you're mistaking the long-tail of different minorities who face various socio-economic problems with a myopic scenario.
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Really? I'd say eating at a restaurant alone is unusual (carry a notepad and pretend you're a critic), but going to a rock concert or traveling alone is very normal. You meet tons of solo travelers in their 20s or 30s at hostels across Europe.
Not necessarily, if the star is smaller and cooler than ours.
People (in general) don't like OTHER people doing that. They assume that the person going solo is lonely, sad, and is generally someone to be pitied, mocked, or both. The stigma is not attached by the people going solo, it's attached by everyone else.
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As a socially awkward individual, I couldn't think of a better place to get out in public then at Watsi / Teespring / Goldbelly HQ. Chase, Netta, Grace, and the whole Watsi team are super awesome people and passionate about what they are doing. At their office warming party they had an office naming contest which got people talking/connected, have to wonder what ended up being the winning name?
Hi!

This is on my to-do list. Should be in Nightly builds in a few months' time.
Or test tube babies, or completely artificial brains.
White women are still privileged over other women (in the US and Canada anyway). You don't have to be male to be privileged.
Cool project! By the way, small correction: It should be courtesy, not couretsy.
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Sorry, I didn't mean to disagree with the underlying message that AI/ML should be getting away from the "just eat huge amounts of data and process it" paradigm.

What I more meant is: why on Earth should we accept that whenever someone says the magic words "intelligence", "cognition", "mind", or "consciousness", we switch our scientific brains off and start openly espousing blatant woo? Any real advancement in high-level AI not only should but must involve a scientific theory of intelligence: what is it, how does it operate, how can we measure it? Is it made up of smaller component parts or is it a unified "thing"? How can we detect it if shown a non-human intelligence?

If someone has such a theory, it should be entirely possible to publish the theory without revealing details of their proprietary algorithms. If, in fact, they believe that there is only one algorithm that gives rise to intelligence in the entire universe, then they might want to keep a trade secret, but they should have to justify to a Senate subcommittee or something why the hell they're trying to keep one of the deepest, most fundamental secrets of Nature a secret.

A true science of AI should do for intelligence what the Wright Brothers did for human flight: stop the cargo-cult and find the underlying principles. In fact, a true science of AI should split the field into three branches: theory of intelligence, taxonomy of naturally-occurring agents, and engineering of artificial agents.

Given all that, anyone and everyone who takes the "I'VE FOUND THE SECRET BUT I'M NOT TELLING YOU PATENTS PENDING NEENER NEENER NEENER BUT TOTALLY INVEST IN MY COMPANY" approach... comes off like a Renaissance gentleman scientist suddenly claiming to have discovered the Philosopher's Stone.
I am not a MongiDB fan (I am auser but not a fan) but what your are implying is FUD; MOngoDB is unlikely to lose your data but it is not as idiot-proof as traditional DBs. Anyone who bothers to read the documentation would know how to avoid data loss. Having said that, I am not happy about Mongo's DB Locking but it hasn't affected my applications' throughput yet.
I'm not sure how much bonuses software engineers get. I've heard it's great for bankers, traders etc. But do software engineers(who work on building infra/tools, not the kind who write trading algos) get paid good bonuses as well? By good I mean 30%+
Besides, a partnership with Elon musks, for me, this seems as a very good disruptive ingredient in this equation!
I completely agree that it's not necessarily a good thing; I was just pointing out that it's am arms race that impacts both genders.
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It's a sign of strength in a company when the CEO can talk candidly about problems like this. Every company has problems, most worse than this, but they rarely talk about them except in the blandest, most evasive way.

Conspicuous candor.
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My go-to icebreaker is "so, how do you know {party_host}?" Then share with them how you know {party_host}. That establishes a few things:

1) Instant connection - we both know {party_host}

2) You learn a detail about them (occupation, hobby, hometown)

3) They learn a detail about you

4) You've told someone why you're there, so then you won't feel like everyone's questioning your presence

5) You've got a starting point for talking to more people (introduce this person to someone else you know, and/or they'll do likewise)
This comment should be in the FAQ somewhere as model comment.
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Which you can. You don’t even need a Lightning cable, only a Lightning-to-MicroUSB adapter.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD820ZM/A/lightning-to-mic...

Anecdotal: my Lightning cables are holding up a lot better than my Dock connector cables ever did. As for chargers, I’ve never had an iPod or iDevice charger break on me.