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“We’d say, ‘Well you don’t really know that much. And we’re not going to put our name on a project like that because if something goes wrong, we have a lot more to lose.’”
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I think that says a iot about the automaker point of view. They have experience with being sued for defects decades later, and they know the story of Audi and alleged "unintended acceleration"
Being a parent to two kids, I can definitely see the 'evolution of rationalization' taking place as kids grow older. Your child will feel angry about certain events, or about other people and so forth for whatever the reasons, but usually, it's simply because they are hungry or feeling tired.

What's interesting is when you observe how they are trying to find out reasons why they are upset, when basically, it's their instinct/emotion that caused them to get upset. So you will notice the lack of consistency or relevance of their evidence in backing up their argument.

But this changes gradually as they grow older. They become more logical and more consistent. I think this is what most adult, or smart individuals learn to do as well.

It amazes me everyday to find myself rationalizing so many things and at the same time, persuading others using the same logic, when the other part of my brain secretly acknowledge/recognize that I'm making it sound all logical and trying to get others approval for my own sense of security.
Take a photograph, properly color correct it, and see what color the "white" actually is. It will vary a lot, depending on the color of light falling on the eye, and be tinged by the blood vessels in the eye.

What it won't be is #ffffff.
Maybe rename it to vermouth? :)
I have coin laundry in my apartment building. Once every month or two I go down to the closest laundromat with 2 twenties and walk back with forty dollars of quarters jangling around my pockets. I may be abusing the laundromat for their coin machine, but it works.
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What you said, but really once you've started Perl there's no reason to go back to sed or awk.
Any program you ever want to distribute has to have some decent error handling and option and arg parsing and that precludes them both.

Even when I think in sed or awk, I'll generally write in Perl; or, if I have an old awk script I'll use a2p to convert it.

a2p (awk to perl), s2p (sed to perl) and find2perl (find to perl) are all excellent ways to get you into Perl.

Nowadays my preferred language for almost anything is Python, but I still find myself writing Perl for some throwaways.
Trust & Safety maybe, but it's still impossible to use CloudFlare in Russia, due to harboring some drug-selling websites at your services. ISPs ban them by IP, and taking whole subnetworks of websites that reside on the same IP down with them too.

As much as I love your services, it's not possible to use them here, and ministry of communication even issued a recomendation not to use your services due to your unresponsiveness about takedown requests.
Not entirely off-topic; Doom had a pretty awesome, reasonably metal-ish soundtrack, by the standards of the day.
"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won't believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!" -- Feynman
The autosplit and loop options to Perl make it very suitable for an awk replacemnt. It even has BEGIN and END pseudo-patterns.

Once you've tried Perl you don't want to flip back and forth to awk because the inconsistencies in syntax (within and to each other) will drive you mad.
You could road test this idea with existing public transport. It would be interesting to see buses turned loose with GPS guidance say, within a city centre.
In fairness, the "evangelist" title at Apple goes way back to the time when technology ("home computers?!") really did need evangelizing to the press and the general public.

Then, as now, Apple believed in their mission with a fervor that suggested the nomenclature. See 1980s Guy Kawasaki, etc.
That chart is misleading because it shows consumption of all sources of energy, not just electricity. We don't use 28% of our electricity for transportation (yet!). Listings of electricity consumption by sector [1] show that the residential sector consumes the biggest share of electricity in the US. And the residential sector also has the highest seasonal variability in power consumption [2]. So better demand control for consumers might actually pay off pretty well.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_energy_consumption#Ele...
[2] http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=10211
I'll add Podcast Addict to the list, constantly updated and Chromecast support is awesome.
"I can sue you"

No you can't. They were not your lawyer, it was a blog on the internet by some random person. "IANAL" needs to die. You take free info with a grain of salt. It points you in the right (or wrong) direction.
Yes. I was reading (http://news.sciencemag.org/space/2014/06/hubble-telescope-lo...) that they got a bunch of Hubble time to look for Kuiper Belt Objects to target after they swing by Pluto. They need to know now so they can get the gravity assist correct.

Given the lack of complete knowledge about the mass distribution of Pluto-Charon system, that must be a hell of a hard problem.
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I've worked with lot of engineers with the described "logic bubble", often coming off as an asperger or rude. It's rampant. Engineers just don't know how to admit ambiguity, everything is solvable with logic, and this rubs off as arrogance.

Like the author I also experienced early on in life that the real world is much more unpredictable. Day trading, reading books have opened my eyes quite a bit. Also starting my own business selling my own software has really enforced the view that the only certainty is uncertainty.

Such a beautifully written article. I'd put this right up there with Dr. Nassim Taleb's article on smart people or experts with no respect for fallibility of the human condition, or the innate limitation as humans, the absolute guarantee to incorrectly perceive our point in time, space, and make poor decisions and walk off with a large check because of a certain pecking order in society that awards chutzpah or blind confidence in one's own ability or a groups ability. It probably comes from the evolutionary practice of hunters and gatherers.
> On June 19th 2014 I decided I was just going to launch it and see what happened.

11 total days in business - that defines 'fail fast'.
Nice gain. Do you hold it or do you trade it, say based on the market technicals and futures rollover curve?

I tried the opposite with UVXY and found it difficult to eke gains. I might sell everything and buy XIV or SVXY next correction lol.
Can't your get far more bang for your buck by using convection and a pizza stone or a brick or something else to hold in the heat?

Certainly the steam/humidity thing won't be helped by the pizza stone. But keeping the air moving and providing something solid to act as a more uniform beat source gets you pretty far. It's like switching from crappy pots and pans to a nice set. A big difference is the thickness and materials in the base to create even and steady temperature.
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This is not some single person dictatorship where Sundar can just call all the shots. They are so many people vested in Android at Google. I don't think Sundar has a choice.

I really dislike how everyone thinks the too management can sweepingly do anything they want. It does not work like that.
Facebook conducted psychological experiments on people, to see what would happen when they made people feel bad. Or to see if they could make people feel bad. Or to see what might make people feel bad. Not sure, doesn't matter.

Facebook is OK with this because it's part of making them billions of dollars. It's not the fallback to their ToS that makes them OK with it, it's the dollars. The ends have always justified the means.

Facebook did not have people's informed consent, whether their ToS said "Research" before, during or after the experiment, or ever, or always. I have never seen an informed consent form, but I am certain that it is not hundreds of page scrolls long, with a single word "research" buried in it to imply that you've accepted any and all future experiments, as one of many, many subjects focused on in the ToS. Informed consent, I'm quite sure, is the only subject of a legitimate informed consent form. When you read one, I'm quite sure that you know you're reading about informed consent and only informed consent, and it might reasonably take between ten and thirty minutes to get a more or less complete understanding of the complete document.

No one understand a complete ToS a la Facebook and their ilk, except the lawyers who wrote it, and the lawyers who might sue in its context.

The guy in Facebook who did this should be fired. You know that he knew people didn't know they'd given permission. The barest, molecule thin fig-leaf of an excuse is "well, ToS, and our lawyers said." ToS for psychological manipulation is the last, indefensible refuge of an evil, evil scoundrel.

Of course he won't be fired, because he helped contribute to future billions of dollars for Facebook. The ends have always justified the means. Fuck you.

The academics should be disciplined. They certainly understand informed consent, and its lack, and the ethical hell that they wallowed in. Fuck you.

This is part and parcel with Facebook's long, slimy lurch through episode after episode of privacy violation and subsequent sociopathic denial.

So now, the web's social networks are into psychological experiments on its users. Er, products. Er, subjects. What's next? The internet of things is coming, there are many rich troughs of slop to inhale involving physical manipulation. Let's see what happens when thermostats make things just slightly too hot, or too cold. Let's subtly vibrate their phones, to keep them on edge, and correlate that with angry posts, or interesting purchases.

Let's see if we can get people to fight. Why? Who cares, it'll be fun, and we declare afterwards what we were trying to do when we see what people do.

When it's all about the billions, anything is possible.
> There is a reason Apple does what it does (supposedly to match a real keyboard)

This argument doesn't stand since the shift key itself changes when you press it (it switches from an empty arrow to a filled arrow), something a real keyboard obviously doesn't do.

There's just no practical nor logical reason for the iOS keyboard to act like that.
I think there is a 'meta' aspect to software development. We almost work one layer above other branches of engineering.

Which is what gives that feeling that you can ideally work on any problem and solve it. Because that is exactly what we do, look at the diverse domains that benefit from the use of computers and software.
Hahaha, http://hackertyper.com/ is brilliant.

Full points for proactively lowering the production budget of C-grade hacker films.
This is fascinating, and it makes a lot of sense. Do you have any links to any research regarding this, for those that would like to learn more?
In college I used to climb down from the top bunk, walk across the room, turn off my alarm, and climb back up a ladder in my sleep.

Or so I was told anyway, I always assumed I had just slept through my alarm!
If you draw eyes using white paint, they will always look wrong until you acknowledge that the actual appearance of an eye is almost always some subtly colored shade of gray.
> Wow. That is shocking to me - is that typical of Apple?

Yes it is. We have a pretty successful app in the iTunes store and as a consequence, we have privileged access to the entire team, including engineers and executives who advise us how to word the description of our app and telling us all kinds of tricks to increase downloads.

A few months ago, we released an Android app and since then, we have fallen into a complete Apple black hole. The Apple people we used to exchange daily emails with are not even responding to us any more.

Apple is very, very serious about exclusivity.

And probably feeling very, very threatened too.
Comment still relevant as the response was to "Apple has always", which implies that isn't entirely the case.
There is a big difference between 'Jugaad' and deliberate mistakes. 'Jugaad' can be best translated into English as 'making the best of what one has to deliver stuff'. And that's a very good thing.

Heck we even had a subject in Primary school called SUPW(Socially useful productive work) which was basically a fancy name for Jugaad, where they covered every thing from building candles to making door mats with discarded cigarette packs, to building simple engine based toys with rubber band based springs.
They're also better able to avoid backing the wrong horse to begin with and better at rethinking and cleaning up after their mistaken rationalizations.
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I see nothing wrong with only showing uppercase letters on the keyboard as they seem easier to read.

The major flailing is the shift key. Right now it's white with a black arrow. That means the sentence started with an initial cap. At any other theme, say mid sentence, it's different again. Mid sentence it's a white arrow on darker gray.

So, in short: about to type cap? Black on White. Mid sentence? white on dark grey. Want to do all caps? Double tap it and get a new version.

I'm not sure how these semantics are different enough from iOS 6 to cause confusion but it does ALL THE TIME.
Yes, i did use that same pattern. And if you want to, you can kind of force Swift to do this (String! is an "unwrapped optional" and can be nil or have a value) but it feels unnatural. You definitely have to design a bit differently than ObjC. Luckily Swift's enums are amazing and you can return multiple values (through tuples), so there are great ways to return different types of values.
That's...well, bizarre seems too kind. As an outsider who hasn't ever dealt with Apple in that kind of capacity, it seems downright childish.

I'm not sure that I was in danger of developing iOS apps any time soon, but these kinds of tales make me want to run screaming.
Great piece, very interesting.

> Overall they just seem more balanced, you can tell that what Apple is doing doesn’t keep them up at night.

Eh, I have found the opposite, whereas Android developers will be very hardcore, almost akin to .Net developers who only use bing. They will only use Android, and Google, and Open Source, and never pay for anything ever. Even apps. And beware if you have an iPhone.

Not all, and maybe I am sheltered from the Apple critics because I leave my Android phone and table at home. And it really depends who you meet.

I certainly see Apple as a very closed company compared to Google, but it looks like that is changing with the WWDC 3,000 API's announcement, really opening up the OS to developers. iOS devs can start to do cool things that Android devs have been doing for a while.

As for the Google anouncements, is TV any different than the last few years? And they still don't seem to have wearables right yet.
I'm curious to see if this only grows worse given the continued automation of industries like manufacturing that have traditionally been the backbone of the American middle class during the 20th century. Not so much that jobs won't be there, but they will require more advanced skills and less employees, thanks to "software eating the world."

Building the case for raising the minimum wage is an interesting one to be viewed objectively (not that it ever is), but I think it's also too early to tell with Seattle what the long-term outcomes are.
you're confusing being smart with being wise, but it's not a surprise that this sentiment is in the thread. classing people as 'smart' is so narrow and limiting that it's totally meaningless but the nerds love nothing more than arbitrary categorization
I feel compelled to share this quote from the author of cfengine with whom I have had some emails of late, because it neatly summarizes a more holistic, physics-inspired approach to the computational world's obsession with invariance, which could be seen as present in the quest for 'randomness'.

The simplest idea of stability is constancy, or invariance. A thing that has no possibility to change is, by definition, immune to external pertubations. [...] Invariance is an important concept, but also one that has been shattered by modern ideas of physics. What was once considered invariant, is usually only apparently invariant on a certain scale. When one looks in more detail, we find that we may only have invariance of an average. - Mark Burgess, In Search of Certainty: The Science of Our Information Infrastructure (2013)

This accords well with the opening quotation Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. - John Gay, English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club (1727) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gay
It seems highly likely to me that power brokering (i.e. social intelligence) and analytical intelligence are orthogonal skills (and not the only orthogonal axes on which one may be "smart").

"Smart" is inadequate as an adjective, because it leads people to say things like, "If you're so smart, why aren't you the boss/senator/president?" If we separate these forms of intelligence in our daily conversations, we might make it easier for the oft-exploited analytically intelligent to appreciate and take advantage of social intelligence, and gain more recognition from those who have social but not analytical intelligence.
That's easy: cheap energy, particularly thorium reactors. Driving down the cost of energy creates a defacto boom, not to mention the industry to build out such infrastructure.
Just got a major literary hangover from finishing http://parahumans.wordpress.com/ .. not really a book, more an online series. Be warned - it is long, addictive (and sometimes a grind/confusing/difficult to suspend belief [only occasionally though]), but the world building & range of characters is astounding.

Thinking about doing a mind flush with either a short Kurt Vongegut or Terry Pratchett then on to tackle The Origin of Wealth, by Eric Beinhocker
Because it's not directly developer related?
Very logical and absolutely not the way Apple operates.

Steve Jobs' ghost is going to be haunting these walls for a very long time (well, at least until the new campus comes).
I think the specific example you gave actually is a joke.

http://www.quora.com/Why-is-Array-forty_two-called-the-reddi...
Not disagreeing that many things stay the same as you listed, but at the same time, there have been incremental changes everywhere that would be noticeable in their absence years back. I perform a job that didn't exist 25 years ago, I stay in touch with friends in new ways and so on.

25 years from now, we'll still eat similar things, use similar vehicles, transact in similar ways, but I think that the gap between the front of technology and those old things will widen. We won't see current cars quickly replaced, but I'm confident that Google & co will make decent progress with each year on their technology, then regulation, then adoption.

As for sharing your car, remember that eventually generations of future drivers will know little different. Or gradual cost pressure or advantages will influence decisions. It will start with use of vehicles in resort/campus-type situations, then eventually start to replace second vehicles then may be the only car for some people.

Driving age in Australia is 16. So there are another 9 years before someone is born who will reach driving age by the 25 year mark.
Yes, it's just an esoteric language intentionally meant to be difficult.
Interesting historical trivia. But it's worth noting that Apple's 1990s developer strategy was almost a total failure, whereas Microsoft's "talk to actual developers" approach was much more successful.

Note I'm not making some sort of Mac/Windows analogy because the whole communication space has changed radically. Just making the point that the title "evangelist" implies more of a marketing role.
This is an interesting angle on something I've noticed, and perhaps a better explanation of it, but I'll put my observation in the ring in case it offers any other insights: Smart people can end up developing faulty world views because they are good at arguing, and every time they win an argument, they convince themselves more and more of the infallibility of their world view, when in fact all that happened was they encountered yet another person who couldn't spot the flaw in it.

An example of this is extreme libertarianism. For a long time, I had convinced myself that it was totally sound because if I argued politics with most people I knew, I could shut them down with logic and "prove" my case. The logic and robot-like consistency of it just reassured me that I was unassailably correct. It took me getting to the point where I realized that I didn't truly believe some of my own arguments, despite the fact that I had successfully made them countless times, to snap out of it and realize that my views, as rigidly consistent as they were, were probably disastrous from a public policy standpoint. I rationalized a position to others, which ultimately rationalized it to me as well. Don't do that.
Unless I'm mistaken, water poisoning is only a credible threat when you consume exclusively those high volumes of water and nothing else to raise the salinity of the water in and around your cells. Over the course of a day, most of us get (much) more than enough sodium from other sources to eliminate any risk of water poisoning from 3.8L of water per day.
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I have a small startup in India where we do not have funding or great bandwidth as in US. I have developed little products(some samples of recent ones are https://www.youtube.com/user/bastughughu) based on market and has been able to pull revenues to feed my small team and have a decent setup. But we want to expand and dive fully into product development with some support both financially and also marketing help to sell the existing products.
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You can make it sound like he has no idea what hes talking about, but theres no reason why microsoft is playing FBI.
Is someone "smart" if they cannot explain how they arrived at the correct/optimal answer?
I can actually understand them dragging their heels on that - it only manifests when you leave iOS, at which point they've already lost the customer, and it causes a worse experience on their new non-Apple device, which could drive the user back into Apple's arms. It's slimy, but switching ecosystems is a high-friction event, and Apple may have just determined that the cost of supporting former customers is greater than the winback they'd get from doing so.

Alienating developers, on the other hand, seems like a losing play. Publishing on Android doesn't mean you stop publishing on iOS, but giving them the cold shoulder might drive them to do so.
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