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Can we put some blame on Windows for that? It's not just that they can download software from wherever, it's that the software can do whatever it wants when it's on the computer, without the knowledge or consent of the user.

The best you get is a generic warning with some variation of "do you 100% trust this program to do whatever it wants?" which is unrealistic even for the most competent users.
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I don't see Musk working well within the structure Tim Cook would need to create in order for Tim to keep his job. I think it would be a huge mistake for Tesla.

Plus, the kind of manufacturing and operations Tesla is looking at is something Apple would be just as inexperienced with, and still might not work out.

To me, it would make sense for a Detroit company to buy Tesla. Older group cannibalizes younger while letting them retain overall independence. Car brands have done that before.
Post itself rendered nonsensical by title change.
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How do I find a great co-founder. My friends are awesome, but they're all doing their own startups or aren't as prone to risk. Going to meetups also has low yield although I'll keep trying. FYI Im staring a hedge fund.
> Eg rarely does someone go to their boss with the thinking of "I'm not working any harder, nor am I taking on any additional work, but I'd like a pay rise anyway."

Really? I bet that happens all the time.
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TouchArcade.com have a big forum, mostly players but lots of game developers too. Reddit's /r/gamedev, and it probably has an app counterpart somewhere, advertising's cheap if you can't reach them naturally.
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>>I hired a junior developer a couple months ago ... his arrival meant our code base should be rewritten in a "more modern language". Needless to say that he didn't last very long.

Aha, Let me tell you what the problem is here. This junior guy and most of his gang else where are starting companies with those 'Everything Else' languages.

All these 20 hr/day working kids are working on all these cool shiny projects, building billion dollar companies with these new language. While Java can perfectly manage to hang on and survive in ICU thanks to doctors like you. The new languages will get lions share of popularity, new projects and all they need to make it best language of the current times.

Needless to stay you can still work on Java. But it will mostly legacy code, and by and large unimportant projects which no one really cares about in any company. People working on such stuff are easily disposable. It gets difficult to get jobs by the day. Even your existing company will find it difficult to give you raise.

This happens every now and then. Fighting this as a whole is impossible. They best way out is adapt to the new stuff and move on or risk getting obsolete.
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I feel like this is not a new insight:

http://cdixon.org/2011/02/05/selling-pickaxes-during-a-gold-...

+ many, many more.
I just want to say thank you to the author for showing me backbone.anayltics. Absolutely fantastic and everything I had been looking for recently. Funny how one thing teaches about something else.
This is exactly the formerly revolutionary model of SV 1960s: equity stake for engineers! The East Coast model of private bank investment owning all of a company is over (for 50 years now).
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Seems to me Google will be the better fit.
I feel like a right idiot for championing Google as an open alternative to Apple for so many years. It now appears that they were operating a giant bait and switch. Now that they are the incumbents they no longer benfit from openness, so say goodbye to writeable SD cards, XMPP federation, RSS support, Google Reader ...

Each change is defensible if viewed in isolation, but when seen as an whole it is obvious what the overall plan is.

I think our only hope might be Ubuntu.
Has anyone used the code for a private discussion board? I am looking for one for a community college and the tagging and invites look nice.
I thought this article was going to be about bitcoin miners.

The only ones making money on bitcoin these days (i.e. excluding the early adopters) are those selling the mining machines.
Sure they can, just not the MP3s that belong to another application. Each application can put its own private data on the external storage.

Most of the people here don't get how scary external storage was with Android. Every time you install an app with the android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission you have to worry about what it will do to every other applications data. Some apps (like file managers) need this but letting every app that wants to write data to external storage have the ability to trash every other apps data is just crazy. The private app directories on external storage is a MUCH better approach.

And if you want to install apps that can trash other apps then I'm okay with needing root for that.
Don't we already use these as a sort of GPS for interstellar travel? I think the Voyager plaques contained coordinates to Earth based on pulsar frequency.
Don't you think that a manager should be able to assess the value of his employees?

I'd react the same way GP did.
What? No! Of course they shouldn't.
There's such a small overlap of core competencies that it makes it very hard for Apple to tell if they're getting a good deal or not. That should be enough of a reason for them to think twice.
All of this speculation reminds me of the AOL/Time warner or Skype/Ebay mergers. They were lauded as revolutionary at the time, but eventually fell apart when the companies discovered they had nothing in common. So will it be with Apple/Tesla, in my opinion.
If Apple wants to make a big, high profile investment that's aligned much better with their core business, they should buy an ISP/Mobile Network like Verizon or AT&T. Then they could shake up both sectors by cutting prices & encouraging competition.
Naturally a 20% salary reduction!

Although occasionally this may be the case (pay cuts), it seems clear that the employer absorbs the risk of entering into contract with the employee at a certain time, with a certain market price. Interesting that the employee gets to partake in the upside but the employer gets the downside, with the exception of course of the employee getting fired.

I wonder - if there were really a way to gauge the current market for X talent (sort of a glassdoor salary index) - could employers purchase "insurance" or hedge their hiring price with "employee securities"?
> To me, it would make sense for a Detroit company to buy Tesla

Part of me thought of Tesla buying a part of Detroit.
If you keep winning like that for too long you lose.
Whenever these old articles get posted, I find myself reading them almost entirely for the sense of borrowed nostalgia. I was playing games on my C64 at the time, maybe playing around with BASIC, not this, so it's not real nostalgia. Still, I love reading about computer history that I never experienced and thinking "oh gee what a simpler time that was..."
Huh, I was more surprised that every time someone dies Wikipedia is edited.
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Size is poison, true. Not nearly as much as, say, dynamic typing. At that point you start having the exact same code mean different things at different times.

Plus those analysis tools you have for java do help with complexity.

That always baffles me. People get frustrated with java's verboseness for a large project ... and switch to ... python or ruby. Those languages require ridiculous amounts of discipline to work well in large projects (and needless to say, said discipline tends to be absent in the vast majority of developers).
Tesla needs no cash infusion. Their balance sheet is quite strong and their business is more-or-less break-even on cash flow.
GWT is by far my favorite way of writing javascript. It's work to get it working, but it's ironclad, has client-server RPC built in, and works on pretty much any browser out there.
Here's a link to the written StartupSchool talk. It's really good.

http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2012/10/what-goes-wrong...
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or if/when amazon releases a phone based on their android fork..
It means that the only way to add music to your car is through iTunes.
Also, someone installed the "polar vortex" mod and we've had temperatures going from -25F to 38F and back with some nasty winds. By the way, the driving in a -F day after a 32F+ day is seriously a pain.
What if google buys tesla? But I did hear that such conversations are going on.
I don't mean to take away from your main point, but Silicon Valley is not in a recession. The difference in energy between here and the rest of the country over the last 5 years is palpable.
Is Chess a game of skill or game of chance? How much?
You just made my day. :)
What happens when packets are dropped in UDP? A bit of audio corruption.

What happens when packets are dropped in TCP? A hard-to-predict amount of delay. And retransmission of audio data that you might just throw out anyway. (There are alternatives to discarding the data that should have already been heard, like temporal compression, but that's hard to do right, too.)
> You want to see where a hand compass is pointing, you turn until the needle points ahead or 'up'; then you read off the heading (or the other way around). Not too far from that, to writing it on paper that way.

No, that's not how you use a compass to determine which way you're facing. (Perhaps that's what you meant by "or the other way around.")

To use a compass, you turn it until the magnetic needle points to "North" on the dial. Then you read the heading from the top of the dial, and that's the direction you're facing.

Note that the needle might point in any direction. The magnetic needle only points ahead (up) if you are facing north." What you're accomplishing by turning the compass is calibrating* the dial, so that it is aligned with the local magnetic field. In other words, so that "North" on the dial is actually magnetic north.

The only thing that your example says is that you have a strong cultural expectation that north is up. So you face north, and the compass needle points up. Circular reference.

But suppose we'd stuck with the traditional European map orientation -- with east being up. (Hence the verb "to orient," related to the adjective "oriental.") Then we'd think it perfectly natural for the compass rose to point left.
This is a good switch. Apps can still read and write to external storage, just in an application specific directory. Look at it like this. If you are setting up a Linux server you don't run all your apps as root, you run them as non-privileged users. Why? Because an app misbehaving as root is a scary thing. But you also don't run all your non-privileged apps under the same user because if one of those apps starts misbehaving and you ran everything as the same user then its almost as bad as running everything as root - one bad app can trash all your data. Android had the same problem with external storage and the android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission - one bad app can trash all your external data. This update will make me much more comfortable installing apps that write to external storage because they can only write to their own external storage as it should be. If an app needs the ability to modify everybodies external storage data doesn't that sound like something that would need root permissions on a properly secured Linux system? Why should Android be any different?
Apple is such an absolutely massive company, but Musk makes them look so small. On the one hand, Apple has more brand recognition and cash than God. On the other hand, when you spend your time dreaming about electric cars, rockets, and hyperloops... who would want to play with laptops?

Musk plays the game on an entirely different level.

I think Sergey Brin understands this. Google is playing on that level. Self-driving cars, robotics, machine learning, Google Glass, augmented reality, NLP, etc.

The future will be a different world, and while Apple shaped much of the last 20 years, I'm afraid that time is over.
I took an engineering job in an academic lab. I traded salary for the opportunity to work on an interesting problem with interesting people. I expect to move on once I've achieved what I want to with my current project.

The problem is not the money per se, but the same problem I see in working for any non-engineering company. There is simply no career path available when your role is perceived as being outside the core mission of the organisation. To progress in academia one must write papers, not software.

The NIH has begun recognise the need for funding software and databases, but there seems little prospect of university career structures adapting any time soon. As far as they're concerned we're only the staff.
There's no write in the new API. Only read:

"The SAF makes it simple for users to browse and open documents, images, and other files across all of their their preferred document storage providers."
Steve would roll over in his grave.
No, the Storage Access Framework does not expose the filesystem. All access is through DocumentsProvider implementations in the various apps that you have installed. WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE now grants read-only access to secondary storage, and only system-level apps can request the WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE permission that is necessary for read-write.
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I would definitely be interested in this kind of the service if you use more special effects in production.
Oh nice. They have now almost a Common Lisp environment. Getting closer to Greenspun's tenth rule.
Suppose I was previously using Media Player X and decide to try new Media Player Y. How does Media Player Y access the MP3s that were previously accessible to X? Likewise, if I uninstall X, will my MP3s disappear?

As far as user expectations go, MP3s, videos, word docs, and a whole slew of other file formats don't and shouldn't really belong to any application.
I bet they could figure out something to do with the extra billions they'd have access to.
Same here, a number of Mono apps in production, both on mobile and desktop. A lot of my recent work has to do with OpenGL-related stuff running on Linux using Mono/MonoDevelop. I have had neither performance-related issues nor stability issues.

Ironically, we have some large-ish C# code-bases that run on everything but Windows.
"formed" did you mean reformed?

Almost everyone self censors or society would be quite different. In fact, inability to self censor tends to get people in trouble or is seen as a sign of mental problems[1].

However, I cannot really say your wrong. I'm not sure about the meek or obedient, but I would go with stilted or excessively formal. Societies with massive self censorship are very scary.

I have noticed that societies with massive self censorship often have governments that enforce it with an iron fist. I'm not sure if there is a laid back government with a society into self censorship.

(sorry for the late response - driving 7 hours and I missed your post the first time)

1) played for effect in "Silver Lining Playbook"
Apple would wish.. Elon would not sell..
You want developers to be able to contribute code, but they aren't allowed use the code themselves? Why make it open-source then?
Thanks for this. Mea culpa.
The elephant in the room: it is used for porn. Porn drives many things IT. As it is still forbidden or restricted in many countries, most user cannot just point their browser to porn sites. So they download or copy pics and vids to SD cards. Porn on the phone is so convenient for students, young workers (because they do not hav e their own room with a good PC screen to "relax" alone).

Why do you think most (and best) Android file explorers are Chinese?
Can you elaborate on why is Musk a huge Microsoft fan?
iirc they were using more than a /8 every month at the end of apnics lot (also cidr is a more useful notation)
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I believe medical doctors are paid much the same as other scientists for research, i.e. the more time they dedicate to research the more money they forego.
This is a great test of whether you "get" Apple. A lot of comments about what Apple should be doing, like how to take more market share from Android or Windows, actually make zero sense for Apple. This one actually does make sense.

The right kind of perspective on this is -- and it will make some people apoplectic -- future cars are like iPads with wheels. They both are basically giant batteries with very sophisticated software and well crafted interfaces. Apple has the engineering organization to deliver those key things along with a certain approach to integrating services, sales and support. What they're missing is the automotive engineering and that's something Tesla has done a great job of building up.

The price would be unusually high for an Apple acquisition but only in absolute terms. What makes it an "Apple-y" acquisition target is that it's an engineering piece of a much larger system, the "iPad on wheels", where the real future value is.

That is why Jobs was confident an Apple car would take 50% of the market. Not by building a better mousetrap but by redefining the product category.
For micropayments it hurts a lot. Selling something as low as $2, 30 cents fees is a lot..
So every music player must store a unique copy of a music library? That's ABSURD!

Are there bad apps? Sure, but PCs have had this problem for years and there hasn't been the kind of meltdown you describe.

The problem isn't insecure SD storage. It's bad apps using sensitive data and not storing it securely.
Remarkable how much the old badge [1] resembles the original Nintendo Game Boy [2].

[1] https://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/static/images/2014/02/old-fr...

[2] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Nintendo_...
If I don't get at least a 10% raise to match inflation without even asking for it, I start looking for greener pastures.

If I deliver, you should reward accordingly without bargaining or brownnosing.

If I don't deliver, just fire me, no questions asked.
I don't understand. Don't Android apps have unique users? Like app_xxx? Why couldn't the fuse filesystem just set the /mnt/sdcard to be owned by root (chmod 644), and app directories owned by app_xxx (chmod 660)? That would fix whatever read permissions on apps could be leveraged from being in the sdcard_rw group. Access to read sdcard files has never been an issue, sdcard permissions have been granted. Anything that didn't require sdcard permissions would be in the /data/ directory. Someone please explain this?
I was an intern at MS in 2001, and this weekend when I was going through my box of old memorabilia, I found a badge identical to the "current" badge.

Probably time for a redesign...
The cost differential is about right given that Indian labor, skilled and unskilled, is about 1/10 the cost of the US. This mission employed 2500--not exactly Spartan.
Truth is NAT works just fine for the vast majority of cases, and makes a layered (IE not-eggs-all-in-one-basket) approach to security much simpler.

The real problem is routing table size with BGP. As we continue to divide the internet into smaller routable blocks, this is requiring an exponential amount of memory in BGP routers. Currently, the global BGP table requires around 256mb of RAM. IPv6 makes this problem 4 times worse.

IPv6 is a failure, we don't actually _need_ everything to have a publicly routable address. There were only two real problems with IPv4: wasted space on legacy headers nobody uses, and NAT traversal. IETF thumbed their noses as NAT (not-invented-here syndrome) and instead of solving real problems using a pave-the-cowpaths-approach, they opted to design something that nobody has a real use for.

Anyway, I'm hoping a set of brilliant engineers comes forward to invent IPv5, where we still use 32 bit public address to be backward compatible with today's routing equipment, but uses some brilliant hack re-using unused IPv4 headers to allow direct address through a NAT.

Flame away.
Our team thought that a restrictive "open source" license would be better than closed source. I'm going to change the post to better reflect what we think contributors ought to deserve for contribution.
At the end I would prefer to run a full desktop operating system with a mobile UI in the device.
They're removable, so any call to the filesystem could potentially fail at any given time. They're mountable over UMS, meaning an external system can remove the volume you're currently attempting to write, and delete or modify your data by the time you get it back. They're slow, which is hell on a game's startup time, for instance.

The permissions change doesn't really fix any of these problems, but the sugary API they've written to support it certainly makes it a lot nicer to work with. Dealing with all these cases using the File API is not an enjoyable task.
This would not be an open source license (which is why you haven't seen anything like it being used by OSS) -- see http://opensource.org/osd
Just out of curiosity, didn't they deaden your nerve befor they went in and drilled and cleaned it? Once that did that for me, it was no more painful than getting a cavity filled...
would love to see an API for nmap.
I think the question might become, do you have any front-end portfolio at all? Have you taken any courses, do you know what the job is, and do you know the tools?

I wouldn't be surprised at all to see a company pick up a UI/UX designer who has no professional experience, but who they like, is really keen, and has an understanding of programming is probably a huge plus.

But, it is probably more difficult to get the same position if you can't show them any other work you've already done or that you have an understanding of the lay of the land.

Think if the tables were turned. If you were a UI/UX designer and wanted to be a programmer, do you think you'd be able to get a job as a programmer just because you're keen? I doubt it, the hiring company would want to see at least some proof that you're able to do a tiny bit of programming.

They may be very keen to train you, but I wouldn't go in completely green.
Ha yes, exactly. This article is a big fantasy by someone who thinks Apple can bring something to Tesla apart from some design rules for the tablet in the dash.
Can you describe the Newton's solution for those of us who have never seen one in person?
Don't underestimate that Apple has a good grasp of the cutting edge technologies even if they are not building those things themselves and putting out beta after beta. What Apple have a knack for is waiting until the technology is at a stage where there is a real and legitimate consumer use for the technology and refine it down to where its practically usable.

Futurist tech list google glass and self driving cars is exciting - but not within the grasps of real use by everyday people.
I've changed the question to reflect the definition of OSS. Thanks for the feedback!
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