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The reminders are only printed once a week on Saturday mornings and use maybe 5-10cm of paper. It's just nice to have a physical reminder to do things sometimes, something you can't ignore. Plus I get enough alerts on my phone already.

Like people have said about the Berg printer, it's really a solution looking for a problem. I just wanted to make a little networked printer and build a nice case for it (I'm doing it in the style of a piece of equipment from one of the Alien films). There's no real reason to have it, but I do, so I'm making use of it.
I would like to know why I even should have a dumb watch before answering question about smart one.
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IMHO, you're absolutely nuts to believe a bike company, when it comes to these sorts of things - that's what an independent research company is for - or at remembering a basic part of experiments: it needs to be reproducable (and then verified) - this "shaved legs" hasn't seen that.

Specialized has something to sell - their business practices, especially with their trademark protection, has been ridiculous, which has been a turn off to people who think clearly.

The market for high-end bikes are people who can afford the bikes, which is usually not the people who would see any difference in buying the $2k bike, rather than the $15k bike. Specialized really doesn't want you to understand this, so they make wildly exaggerated claims about their equipment. People who benefit from fractions of a percent better performance usually are people who are sponsored by the bike company (and thus, get the bikes for free). A difference of a few seconds, over a 50km course makes sense for the elite time trialist, in the Pro tour, it makes 0 difference to your weekend warrior, doing an hour long crit.

Who the heck am I? I'm someone that rides bikes, often for very long distances, to break records (which I do). Don't believe the hype, unless you don't especially have an interesting in holding onto your money.

I'll concede only that my views are unpopular, but that certainly doesn't mean they're incorrect.
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All about iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and iWatch Specification
I think we already know how the Apple iWatch will be:

1) Apple will announce it's entry into the smart watch market

2) Apple will release a technically sub-par product but fans will buy it up

3) Apple won't refresh the iWatch until way after it's overdue, but will continue to charge a premium

4) Android eats up majority of the smart watch market by flooding it with varying price and quality levels, as well as monthly hardware refreshes (due to the number of oem's)... leaving something for everyone
It would solve the problem for tech workers and entrepreneurs. It would piss off a number of retirees who have been in Mountain View since it was fruit orchards and like it because it's not SF. The latter group currently holds a lock on the city council.
Most people I know that are looking for performance on Linux stick with XFS, but then again people that are serious about Linux aren't running ZFS anyway. And of course there aren't any benchmarks for XFS vs ZFS on Solaris. Where I see consistent problems with ZFS performance is with metadata operations. Sure it has great features for managing disks and protecting data, but those are the primary feature set and performance has always taken a back seat.
Why smartwatches are great:
They increase your phone's battery life

Since I bought my pebble and got used to checking that for the time and text messages I have increased my phone's battery life at least 50%.

The major drain on a phone's battery life is screen (backlight) and OS, and when we pull our phones out with the backlight on full we drain a _ton_ of battery life.

I love the Pebble because it's a developer-centric reinvention of the idea of a "watch". Everyone is invited to re-imagine what a watch is. And it has a 7 day battery life.
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There's lots of reasons why I stopped wearing a watch (mostly due to comfort) and I have almost no desire to return to wearing one. Even before smartphones replaced watches for most people, I usually didn't wear one or sported an old fashioned pocket watch because it was more comfortable.

The burden of pulling my phone out of my pocket is not so great that the tradeoff of using an expensive, clumsy, short battery-life wearable device that does some subset of what my phone already does (and requires me to have my phone on me anyway) doesn't seem worth it.

I honestly can't think of a single use-case where I'd prefer to use one over my smartphone. It seems to me that the use-cases being presented for it are either vanity fashion use-case, or cases where even the slightest bit of self-control overwhelms the use-case (I NEED TO SEE THAT EMAIL THAT JUST CAME IN RIGHT NOW AND CAN'T WAIT THE 2 EXTRA SECONDS TO PULL MY PHONE FROM MY POCKET)
do you really want to pay for a second phone line from your carrier just for your watch?
Same here. So far I don't see any killer feature that would make me want a smartwatch.

Somehow I get a feeling that doing anything more complex than reading a simple message (be it an email, SMS, notification, whatever) would just be slower than if I would take the smartphone out of the pocket and do it the proper way.

I might feel different though if I were into running/cycling/whatever.
How much will an unlocked version be of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+? If you buy full price from Tmobile.
> I would like to know why I even should have a dumb watch before answering question about smart one.

I think the main benefit is that a wrist-worn device takes less time to check the time than pulling out a phone, for the times where you aren't sitting in front of a computer with a clock in some corner of the screen.

For a smart-watch, the main benefit seems to be the same, but generalized to other kinds of quick things that can be checked -- texts and similar notifications.
Pretty sad, on my iPad I had it for a while first with the Chinese translation and then that faded out, then the video stopped but the 'live blog' updates kept going, and then Safari crashed. And now three versions: access denied, a plain text non-stylized page, safari crash.

Amazing that this isn't a solved problem by now.
Yeah, but remeber all these jokes before iPad came out. Who the hell needs this gigantic iPhone..
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I want a smartwatch, but not the ones that are out right now. I want it to be able to supplement input for a VR headset. Having a 9-DOF motion and orientation sensor, as well as a camera and touch screen (even if you won't be able to see it, the key feature would be that it's tied to your arm), would help a lot with that. But I'd also like it to last more than a handful of hours with constant use.
LOL Apple Live Event
I own a smart watch and it's awesome. Especially with kids, the ability to take calls and see notifications without taking my phone out of my pocket is invaluable. Often I don't have my hands free so having a screen always available on my wrist is super helpful.

In terms of battery life, I charge my watch while I shower and that's enough to keep it going.
He said he wouldn't have a separate smartphone, so it would be the first phone line. He seems to prefer a smartphone-in-watch-form-factor.
The livestream of this event, both browser and Apple TV access, is an unmitigated disaster. I'm not sure I've ever seen something go this poorly, and I'm certain I've never seen an Apple event go this poorly.
??? I think the parent's implication is that people will lose their jobs tomorrow morning, because of today's poor production.
Works just as bad. Actually managed to crash VLC somehow.
I have an analog wrist watch, it tells time at a glance.

I don't have to pull it out of my pocket

I don't have to turn on the screen

All I have to do is remember to put it on before I leave the house.

I don't care if you should have one, but it's all I want.

Oh, and the battery doesn't need to be cared about much more than once every several years or so.
Man I thought I was paranoid now... just wait until everyone is walking around looking like the Fed talking into their wrists...
I have a Pebble, and wore it for about six months. The battery life was great (once a week charging) and the service it provided was also great, as I didn't have to pull my phone out to investigate every buzz. I also missed fewer messages, because a buzz on the wrist is much more distinctive than in the pocket.

Unfortunately, I couldn't get past the aesthetics. I want a nice looking, stylish watch. Not a particularly expensive one, just decent. I didn't like putting on a decent outfit and feeling professional, and then have a cheap-looking piece of black plastic just hanging on my wrist. So I lent it to a friend, who has been using it for the past few months.

Edit: Oh, the one thing that I really miss since lending it out is the easy-to-access music controls. I found them very handy.
Cool. I've never worked there, but I appreciate that your comment came from personal experience.

Also, Oracle sounds super bureaucratic if you actually need approvals from the Google CEO! ;-)
No, I do not want one.
Ahh thank you! Now i can watch it on my laptop, and it doesn't cut out every 2 minutes
ApplePay: I do this every day and have been doing this every day for the last year with my Android phone in Australia!

edit Admittedly the integration of all different types of cards with Passbook is good stuff!
1. Volatility

2. Regulatory uncertainty

To some degree (2) causes (1). Both the threat of regulation and the lack of regulation cause volatility, and that issue not going to go away any time soon.
This could be a significant feature if one can make international calls for free.
Parser generators are an interesting academic exercise, but in practice it seems most language implementers have concluded that hand coding a recursive descent parser is the way to go: GCC being a prime example as the author mentions. I'd be interested to know if Coverity is still using McPeeks elsa/elkhound glr parser generator from years ago.

As antlr creator Terence Parr says "Why Program by Hand in Five Days what You Can Spend Five Years of Your Life Automating?" It really is almost trivial to implement recursive descent by hand.
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> Yeah, but remeber all these jokes before iPad came out. Who the hell needs this gigantic iPhone..

(1) it was more of a gigantic iPod Touch, not a gigantic iPhone,
(2) I don't actually remember that many jokes about "who needs" it, though: I remember lots of techies griping that they preferred a tablet to not have iOS style restrictions (because, techies), and jokes about the name.
Missing the option:

* Yes, I want a DIY one.

A friend at a local Hackerspace is building a third generation of his smart-watch, BLE-enabled and with OLED display. I think that the only way it's not going to be better than the current smartwatches on the market is because of the screen.

But honestly, what I really want is:

* No, but I want an all-over display bracelet full of sensors.
Or cut to the chase and just deploy DANE, so that we don't need CAs to sign anything?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Nam...
When this was released, I was wanting to talk management into getting a few for the guys on call or something. Imagine a server alert where your wrist watch starts freaking out and blinking red... would be hard to "sleep" through that and miss the pager.
Do you like the new Pebbles better, or are they still bad (aesthetically)? https://getpebble.com/steel
Then they released a decent metal one and made it look terrible by plastering their giant "Pebble" logo across the front.
How is this not a problem for Apple's recent announcement that another company is already called "Apple Pay"?
First I've heard that Haitian proverb ("Behind the mountains, there are more mountains."). Very appropriate for this community.
They need to swallow their pride and just use something like youtube for this.
I enjoy my Pebble, it has two features that make it totally worth it for me. One it vibrates on my wrist (silent but I can feel it, even in my sleep). Second it puts texts, chats on my wrist. So when someone chats me I can 'check the time' and see if its important. That is so much better than having my phone humm in my pocket or on the table.
Oh, I'm sure I get mistake for a recruiter more than the average female engineer. That's not really the point.

The point is that gender adds difficulty in establishing technical credibility.

A different female programmer might have trouble with a different aspect of this. For example, Chloe Alpert said how investor have trouble believing that she's the dev (https://twitter.com/chloealpert/status/509071535098052609) and how some other people were confused that she was the dev (https://twitter.com/chloealpert/status/509069378575695872).

She might have more trouble than other female devs because she's cofounded a business with a man. Does that mean that the whole gender doesn't matter? No.

In other words, my experience might be that people lump me in as a recruiter specifically. Someone else might be assumed to be the non-technical cofounder. Someone else might get assumed to be a marketer. Or a designer. Or whatever.

Point is - gender bias is real.
If I had one that didn't require a phone, and had decent (read: week+) battery life, yes.

But as it is? Nah.
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> Please upvote the poll when casting your vote.

Please don't ask for upvotes. It will likely trigger the voting ring detector.

People should upvote for a story when and only when they find it intellectually interesting.
Apple Pay (Video)
Same here, although I primarily use it because trading Vanguard ETFs is free, which is mostly what's in my portfolio. Other brokers probably provide better tools, Vanguard's views are adequate but nothing special really. They do have pretty great customer service though, the few times I have had to call the person on the other end was always very knowledgeable.
Thanks for not downvoting :) . I did not get if you liked the book a lot, or else if you found the plot awful :) .
If apple really wanted to do something "revolutionary" you think they'd add cryptocurrency support to ApplePay.
Most of us thought we were getting an actual computer in tablet form.. (was a big disappointment when I realized what it was... or... more correctly... what it wasn't)
Hasn't it been free to play for years now?

They get their revenue from their shops, like how most private servers do it.
Apple unveils the 4.7-inch iPhone 6
Exactly. I do it in the US with Google Wallet + NFC chip in my phone.

It's very surreal to see all the fanboys lose their shit in the audience as if this is a brand new technology.

Edit: Would have been nice if you could pay with the Watch instead of pulling out the phone
60 years is merely an eyeblink in human history, and a nanosecond in life's history. Human nature hasn't changed in 100,000 years. How many brutal leaders has the world seen, Hitler being only one. It's not a question of if, but when we will see another one. The difference this time is that he/she can destroy the entire world.
".. and we want to get rid of this .. " cut to apple logo " .so weve decided .. " apple logo * snippet of apple ad * ".. so there you have it!.. " -access denied-
You can buy 5 Raspberry Pis for every 1 Chromebook. It may not be better but it's much cheaper.

In my opinion, I think a second hand mac is going to be much better than a brand new Pi for a child to learn on...

You'd also benefit from having a somewhat similar hardware system rather than having a multiple of different laptops with different specs, ports etc.
Reddit live link https://www.reddit.com/live/tjm08vw836vc
iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Announced, Difference Between These Models
Mayavi is based on VTK, which is a C++ toolkit for data visualization. It's both an advantage and a drawback, depending on your needs. The good thing is that VTK is solid and if you're familiar with the concepts, it can be powerful, but it's also somewhat complex. On the other hand, the python (traits) wrapper around VTK that mayavi is built upon adds another layer of abstraction and changing things that aren't directly exposed by mayavi is difficult.

From a quick look, vispy seems to be built directly on OpenGL and numpy, so I think it will be easier to customize. But the devs will have to rewrite a lot of what VTK provides. It also aims at providing an integration in ipython notebook (with WebGL), which is awesome :)
And that's why they have 8 month co-ops in addition to 4 month co-ops.
I have as well in the US.

It's almost disingenuous for apple to make it sound like this is such new technology...

But I'm not going to complain, now that apple has nfc payments retailer adoption is going to go up so that's a good thing for everyone.
The big win here will be increased adoption of NFC: Apple is going to drive the hell out of it, and it's going to benefit everyone.
Yeah, we're in front of a screen... when we're at work. The Bay Area has a big culture of outdoor sports, though, including for tech workers. Lots of bikers, lots of hikers, lots of lots of plain old hanging out in public parks.

And many of those "indoor" work spaces try as hard as possible to have natural light.
From the prep of this whole thing, with redirecting apple.com to apple.com/live, I felt it was intended to replicate Steve Jobs's reality distortion field. "If we are going this far out, it must be huge!"

Ironically it's showing very clearly that the field has discorporated.
If you do the Linux From Scratch book and follow the embedded track, you should wind up with a busybox based distro around 33MB's on disk, plus you will learn a LOT about how a distro does what it does. I highly recommend it.
In a van, evidently.
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> repeating ... pseudo-intellectual arguments from the popular press.

I often feel similarly about The Economist. Though overall the quality is above average (sometimes by no small amount), it seems very smug at times and many of its viewpoints feel too conventional for me. It can be pro status quo.

But I can usually find similar faults in most reporting, if not worse. So it just becomes a matter of reading everything critically and skeptically, taking the good and the bad together. You take in material and you become aware of where its weaker points may lie, but those weaker points don't often invalidate the whole publication.
WARNING: this is a video file (it's automatically downloaded in my Chrome on Windows).
Apple Announces 4.7-Inch iPhone 6 and 5.5-Inch iPhone 6 Plus
One of those is an 8 year old benchmark, the other used a 9.6TB flash array so hardly a realistic storage platform. I'm not saying that ZFS performance is awful, just that other features like data protection come first. If you're hoping for some salvation from btrfs you might be waiting a while. Of course they're both developed by the same company now!

Here's a benchmark from 2013 with most results showing that it has worse performance on Linux than XFS and EXT4:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=zfs_linux...
Huh, cool. I haven't seen this before.
And it does not seem to work either.
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Spec: Must See
The launch webcast screwups are likely to hurt this more than the iPhone - between that and the 'nude selfie' thing Apple's reputation as a provider of online services looks bad, which is a pity as this seems to be a well thought-out product. But with so many strategic partners and a an inevitable large install base that's probably just a bump in the road.
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Really depends on how carriers choose to meter usage -- without knowing anything else about VoLTE, my guess is that voice data won't count against your cap, similar to how data from $CableCo_Video_Streaming_Service doesn't count against your cap.

Yes, this is Net Neutrality fodder.
This is what really hit me one day. I had things in the box unopened from companies that no longer existed. That really put me off buying cute 'toys' unless I could commit to using them and exploring them in 90 days.
A product competing (at least in part) with Google Analytics is criticizing Google Analytics. Please.
I guess the question remains, why do they keep developing btrfs ? (do they?)
Introducing Apple Watch [video]
Germany seems to be more lax. When I started to drive I got this advice: Always keep a half-empty bottle of vodka (or anything) in your trunk. If you have an accident while driving drunken. Get the bottle before the police arrives. Tell them: That accident was such a shock, I had drink something.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer. I never tested this. Do NOT drive drunken!
I agree to your terms but you get half equity.
It's strange. I grew up in the Bay Area (Santa Cruz and South San Jose) and am weather-neutral. I've had stints in Sweden, Portland and Arizona (all pretty extreme) and none of the climates really affected my life too much. Most of my friends are the same way. Anecdotal, but maybe the weather effect is more pronounced on transplants who don't take it for granted?

The reason I chose to move back has more to do with the sheer amount of stuff to do. And the good food :)
Serious question: what is the state of the art for in-browser live streaming to date ?

Twitch, Google Hangouts, any "live" sport event what protocol/technology do they use ?

A mix of HLS and flash ?
Apple reveals long-rumored Apple Watch
If it works for you, then there is no need to worry. I only said that because there are others who had difficulty setting this up.
"then controlled by the USA for a time after it defeated Japan in WWII"

Perhaps something like:

"then controlled by the USA for a time after Japan surrendered to the Allies in WWII"

... would make your comment sound a little less ignorant.
tl;dr: they made a bigger phone and a watch