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Come on, speed limits? Almost no drivers consistently obey posted speed limits.

My comment, which was partly satirical, was trying to point out that you're choosing to notice some infractions (running stop signs) and ignore others (speeding).
I don't think you really understand how iOS works. iOS uses points as its units, not pixels. One point on a retina display is two physical pixels. One point on a non-retina display is one physical pixel. To create a one pixel thick line on a retina display, it must be half a point thick.
Sounds fun, will follow.
The digital crown will snap off, and people will be pissed.
The Red Delicious is a terrible apple. Waxy and mushy and watery.

Try a Worcester Pearmain if you get a chance.
At 48:10, the presenter briefly talks about the plausibility of using F#, Haskell, and Scala at Jane Street.
What if the sensors are inside the toilet?
iOS apps use fixed layout, so they can't scale up/down with different display sizes. Since iOS only did double density once so far before iPhone 6 Plus, apps are quite easy to handle it. Android has way more variety, which is a pain for app developers.
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I fail to see how not having a working scalable UI framework has anything to do with this.

Furthermore, have you used auto layout in Xcode 6? Not sure what about it doesn't work. I've got an app in review right now that's ready to support iPhone 6 and 6+ without any extra work because of Autolayout. I'm not saying it's perfect, but I'm just not sure how you can claim that it plain doesn't work. Also not sure why that has anything to do with why they're scaling @3x down to 1080p
> "Alfred will head over weekly... and replace supplies... like putting new paper towels on towel holder"

I find it funny that this is considered a problem these days.
Hmm, I don't see any mention of security. I can't find the source, but I remember reading that if you wanted to restrict access to certain pages on your site to authenticated users in a single page app it was more secure to do it server side. Security experts feel free to chime in.
This isn't correct. If you've ever resized an application window in OS X, it's likely that you've used autolayout. iOS has the same functionality. In addition to a flexible layout system, iOS has the concept of size classes which determine appropriate content to show based on display size.
PassportJS = NodeJS authentication, designed for single sign-on.

HelloJS = Browser + Phonegap authentication and API request handling designed to interact with thirdparty services from the client app.
yes, working families.
Might be related to the childhood preference for sweet foods - apparently Red Delicious has high amounts of sugar, relative to other apple varieties. For example, 14.8% sugar for "Early Red" variety[1], vs 10.4% average over all kinds[2]. Maybe this is enough to explain it?

[1]. http://www.researchgate.net/publication/49591548_Composition...

[2]. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+apple
This is really interesting, it means that non-iPhone 6 apps are tricked into thinking they are rendering into a 320x568 logical buffer; but really a fractional scaling is applied to the UI views so that things like text labels and buttons render crisply into the larger resolution of the device without the app needing to be updated at all.
grim fandango was written in lua? :O
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That was a nice interruption to work which was nearly starting over at https://pym.readthedocs.org/ But I really have to write some code.

Saved for later: https://github.com/jalanb/pym/commit/4d5df8fd328d1c71de1a519...
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I'll leave aside the meta commentary on your (unneccessary) downvote comment.

Facetime is what makes it possible for me to stay in touch with my family on the other side of the planet, and that's even if I'm sitting out in a park far from Wifi. It just works, and even if it hiccups once in a while, the reliability is high enough that you just shrug it off with the confidence that it will recover. This is on LTE with good reception.
After the age of 50, shitting your pants after an apple is a distinct possibility. Not that I'm against fiber, mind you - it does help pass the thyme.
http://www.betabrand.com/tan-reflective-infinity-bike-scarf....
iOS has always been able to do fluid layouts. It was possible with Springs and Struts (though a PITA), and from iOS 6 onwards has Auto Layout, which I personally find better (more declarative) than Android's box model.
The red delicious is a metaphor for the U$D. This is the work of Bolsheviks advocating flight from the dollar toward a new reserve currency, concealed as harmless information. Eden's door is Exit Only. Run from this serpent.
And with all this added screen real estate, you're still limited to 4 apps/row. Absurd.
It's not racist, but saying "I only date black men" or (worse) "no azns, no femmes" (an all too common phrase on gay male hookup profiles) is incredibly dehumanizing and terrible on many levels.
Yes, but its a pretty arduous task digesting and implementing API docs. That pain was the impetus to standardize them into the HelloJS library.
Hi, I'm also very interested. Can you share some more details and can I provide with some from my side?
>You can get a bigger screen, you can change the keyboard, you can put widgets on the notification panel (if you insist) and so on. Pretty much all the external reasons to choose Android are addressed

It wouldn't be hard to come up with a list of dozens of features that you can customize on Android that you can't on iOS. If you really think you're covered "pretty much all the reasons" to choose Android, you haven't researched the platform very thoroughly.
This one is not out of stock, but the wheat one has so much more panache.
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Did you make sure you were using radians and not degrees? Seems fine for me.
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I was recently torn between a Republic Wireless Moto G and a Freedompop Galaxy S4.

I went with the later, because while it was twice as expensive, I liked the screen size, LTE, camera, etc a lot more. And I think it was worth it, especially considering my phone bill is $0 rather than $6 / month. I can always buy more on demand if I need any beyond the flat 200 minutes a month, but so far that has not been the case. It probably will be around Christmas, though.
OCaml, F#, Haskell, Standard ML all with a longer history and (except SML) being used at the industry.

Why bother with Swift in such use case...
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Is DPI really a term in the iOS community? I thought DPI was a holdover from the print-era, and the politically-correct term was PPI (pixels-per-inch - not "physical" pixels per inch).

I've heard 1x pixels called "device-independent pixels", "CSS pixels", and "points"; but I've never seriously heard the term "device-pixels-per-inch" until this article.
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All existing apps will be rendered into the current 320x568 frame buffer and scaled up. It's really no different to an iPhone app running on an iPad in that respect.

I'd imagine the scaled up apps will also look slightly blurry, but how much is to be seen once we get the devices.

A developer has to build the app under iOS 8 SDK with new launch images for the iPhone 6 and 6+ to use the native resolutions of those devices.

The frames will then be 375x667 and 414x736 for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ respectively.

So the auto scaling is a stop gap, you really need to have the app running at the native resolutions to look as best they can.
CoreGraphics uses points, not pixels. Experienced Cocoa developers know to make sure their drawing is done on pixel boundaries to avoid blurry edges, and there are APIs to help with this.
Ambrosia is pretty good too.

If you are in or near Portland, they do there is an annual apple tasting event:

http://portlandnursery.com/events/appletasting.shtml
Maybe! What are the details?
30% of US households stuck in dial up hell
it has my ancient password from ~2008 for

http://login.aeriagames.com/user

That company went under 4-5 years ago, and I seem to remember few forum (phpbb afaik) software/database breaches at the time.
>derives automatically and inevitably from just basic rewrite rules.

Sorry, I don't understand what that means.

Also, (lambda x: x(x))(lambda x: x(x)) already gives you an infinite loop, so why do you need a Y combinator to show non-termination? Once you have functions as first-class citizens that you can copy around, you've lost control of termination. Seems pretty intuitive. What's the specific contribution of the Y combinator?
Is the portion of the code the user can hack being run in a separate sandboxed execution context, or can the user really change everything written in Lua should he try hard enough...?
Vote with your wallet. Lots of variety has been lost forever because old breeds haven't been cultivated anymore.

There is an initiative here in Europe that tries to keep old true-to-seed breeds alive but they have to fight the brutal lobbying of Monsanto and the likes.

In the end it is our fault when we buy stuff for the wrong reasons (cheaper is better, looks, etc).

Arche Noah:

"In the past 100 years we have lost about 75 percent of agricultural diversity worldwide."

"Beginning of the (20th) century there were 2,000 apple varieties, today you can find at the grocery store only max. 20 varieties."

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

Fun fact: these days Joe Cocker cultivates old tomato breeds on his farm in Colorado and gets some of his seeds from the Arche Noah network.
Why? Is it unreasonably difficult for you to implement recursion via direct self-reference in your language? Or do you just not want to because the Y combinator is there and it's cool?
If you follow Benedict Evans on Twitter then you know that he is something of an Apple fan boy, so it's hard to read such a piece without noting that there is already considerable bias in it.

I'd like to address the first list though, "There are a bunch of reasons why someone would buy a high-end Android rather than an iPhone".

That list does not include the two reasons that myself and people I know use Android:

1. We wish to have control over our devices

2. We have not invested heavily in either Apple or Google and we avoid making choices that will force us to be invested in one over the other

On the first point, control may be about privacy (using something like XPrivacy), personalisation (perhaps CyanogenMod), adblock (AdAway), or simply having more control over what runs to be able to extend the battery of a Nexus 5 to a few days of heavy use rather than a single day (kill all the background services but still have the apps available for us to use).

On the second point, myself and my friends do not use Google as an ecosystem or as a range of permanent services and virtual assistants. We invariably are using different launchers (Nova is most common), perhaps Duck Duck Go... and our Google footprint is really just to use some Google apps as standalone apps (Gmail, calendar, drive). We tend to get media from Kindle, or Spotify... so we're not even hooked on Google Play.

What this means is that we've avoided deep lock-in with Google, and we make choices that avoid being locked in to Microsoft or Apple too.

When I think of what most of my friends use, it's a mix of technologies. Apple and Lenovo laptops, the latter running Windows or Linux. iPods and Cowon music players. Mostly Android phones.

The biggest reasons not to go for an iPhone are the same reasons we haven't gone for an iPhone to date: It feels like an all or nothing decision that would be hard to change in the future.

The value of an iPhone seems to be of the entire Apple ecosystem, it makes sense if you've bought into it already, or are choosing to buy into it, but not if you do not choose to be locked in.

The value, to us, of an Android device is that you can get the benefits of this technology without having to be part of any ecosystem, Google's or Samsung's or that of anyone else (Amazon?).

I'm not sure it's possible for Benedict to see this any more... he's personally so deep into the Apple world that his perspective is skewed by that reality. The question of why anyone would choose not to be a part of an ecosystem isn't even asked. He's made it an Apple vs Google question, when the people I know using Android are not even considering that question.

PS: If I think of what entices people to consider an Apple iPhone more than anything else, it's the camera (usually noted as the software ecosystem around the camera). Photography on an iPhone bests every Android device there is. This is the single reason that some of my friends have an iPhone.
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YOU are a terrorist if you support the USA.

YOU are personally murdering innocent civilians by participating in this government.

Just take one quick look at this map:

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Sure, why not? There's basically nothing wrong with a cheeseburger, although the soda is right out.
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Must depend on where you are. See this:

http://portlandnursery.com/events/appletasting.shtml

If they can procure 60 varieties, then it's definitely not at "US" thing.
Paint me interested, but what basic skills are you expecting from the beginning?
IMO that kind of term is anti-competitive and should not be legal. Uber markets itself as a free market alternative to the old cab monopolies, so why are they doing things like this?
Covert tactile communication / notification. Imagine a poker game.
> (λ x . (x x)) (λ x . (x x))

This shows an infinite loop in lambda calculus evaluation. It can be arrived at independently (and I'd be surprised if it hadn't been) just by trying to build the simplest expression that doesn't reduce. Why do you need the Y combinator for this?
I am on mobile right now, but I would say Oberon (a bit basic), Haskell, Go, OCaml (not sure), JavaScript and all commercial implementations of Smalltalk and Common Lisp.

Ah, regarding .NET there are a few commercial profilers out there besides what Microsoft offers. Like the JVM, the CLR exposes an API for such kind of tooling.
Before you ask if this is Off Topic - is it really?

If it's off topic to talk about enabling others to murder ask yourself if that last blog post about 'broism' or 'women in tech' is relevant.
From 2013, but still kind of valid...
The punishment of losing a license is one reason I think self-driving cars should be allowed to operate without one. It would be locked into automatic mode or allow a restricted (low speed only) manual mode for emergencies.

This would also help the elderly or disabled who would not be able to pass a driving test.
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I find this extremely relevant to software engineers practicing in the fairy city of San Francisco, CA =>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO18F4aKGzQ

We make obscene amounts of cash in comparison the rest of the country and for what - to contribute more to murdering the everliving fuck out of everyone.
That's an excellent question. Doing this did not, at any point in time, feel like I was sacrificing my time for other fun activities. I enjoy coding the point of addiction sometimes.

On contrary, I felt the opposite most of the time - "I should be writing code right now instead of playing video games or socializing on weekends." But that will differ from person to person. Certainly not everyone will enjoy programming 24/7.
Why don't you read my comments again, all my comments in this thread, and then let me know who's selfish and entitled.

here's a summary

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8301247
Nice catch, thank you. I've fixed it now. :)
Unable to process sugar, their kidney turns it into fat

Kidneys do not turn sugar into fat.

restrict carbs to a minimum and without a diet they will slowly lose the weight

That is a diet. They will lose weight if they consume fewer calories than they spend.

This nonsense is a great example of the awful ideas that people have about dietary science, and how poorly the truth is being communicated.
FYI (not really relevant for your post, but useful for people to know) -

Gender is the protected class, not women. This means that it's illegal to use gender as a factor in employment, barring very strict standards of when something is a legitimate job qualification. (For example, if you hired someone to stand in a women's locker room and hand out towels, you'd probably be able to legitimately discriminate on gender. You could not however use gender to only hire women for a teaching position at a women's college.)

Now, in practice, the court might be more lenient on gender discrimination against one gender or another (and it might change based on job). Just like the courts are likely harsher in penalties towards black people.
'Groupon'-style daily deals are popular here in China, especially for high-margin offline services like restaurants and massages. It's so popular that it's worth checking if there's a deal, once you've arrived at a restaurant and before you place your order, as often you'll save 10-15%.

Both taxi-hailing and Uber/Lyft-like services are popular here also. Discounts for users and incentives for drivers helped to drive initial adoption.

The article mentions Dianping, which is equivalent to Yelp. It used its comprehensive database of restaurants to create a niche when 'daily deal' sites became popular.

Uber also operates here, with three services:

- People's Uber (ride-sharing; about half the price of UberBLACK)

- UberX

- UberBLACK
A watch which does need charging once a day with a special charger, which is not very robust, very clunky, with a UI for kids for 350+?

No way.

Apple targets the fashion market. Material might be great, but the form factor is horrible: big, clunky, ...

Basically Apple tries to sell a very tiny computer add-on in a jewelry case.

Currently I'm only using watches for training a Garmin 310xt and now most of the time a Suunto Ambit2 S. The latter is the more modern and it does the training stuff very well. I can swim with it, it has GPS and it has very good heart rate monitoring functionality (it gets the oxygen consumption and energy using heart rate variability data).

For Apple I would hope that the new Apple Watch is the equivalent of the first iPhone, which also wasn't very good on the hardware level (slow, limited connectivity, ...).
Yay! I've had the Coinbase wallet installed on my phone for months now and not used it because the killer feature for me was "being able to buy Bitcoins". Now I'm glad I live in the Netherlands.
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What does being fat, bald and bearded have to do with race?
Rust actually has an optional GC. Also, even non-GC code in Rust is a lot different than say in C++ since the compiler can point out a lot of memory leaks to the programmer.
Very interesting approach. Like others said, the best way to describe is like using the higher resolution (scaled) mode on a Retina MBP.

I wanted to share pxcalc [1] for anyone doing DPI/PPI calculations, please be aware it exists (and it's awesome).

[1] http://pxcalc.com/
Alas, and it looks really gorgeous too.
Check your privilege driver dude.
It is that exact line which broke me out of the "this is an objective analysis" trance. It is clear to me the author tried to impartial For that I have to credit him. Yet afterwards the faux-impartiality became grating. I can only conclude he did his best but just does not fully understand Android.

Leaving out stuff like water proof-ness, wireless charging, and multi-windows. These are features which in five years we'll all take for granted. These are real innovations.

I was honestly expecting more from Apple. Apple has the engineers and the component budget to reach the forefront and push it forward. Yet I'm left wondering what their component budget actually went into and where their engineering time went.
Sounds interesting. Hope to hear more.
the game engine was likely c++, and the scripts (Fx, behaviors, etc) were in Lua. It's a common setup.
I think a lot of analysis misses this fact wrt tablets. I might upgrade my ipad2 this year or next, but it feels like it has another 2 or 3 years of life in it, and it won't go unused. The market was flooded with so many cheap Android tablets that never got their OS upgraded and were underpowered to start with. Even the first gen Nexus 7 had the bad RAM issue that caused them to become unusable after a year. That plus the underpowered ipad1 must have skewed a lot of perception on what the natural life cycle is for a tablet device.
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Hey man, the iPhone 6 was just announced. All of our problems will be solved by Apple, no?
Combined with approximately 50% by mass of bacteria.
The law speaks quite specifically to how bicycles are to behave where they cannot travel at the same speed as other vehicles. It does permit them to impede traffic where doing otherwise would be unsafe.
High specced and premium are two different things - my Nexus5 is a great phone, but my 2 year old iPhone5 is still more usable, looks better and has more apps (that I actually use).

Nexus 5 is a great deal - I just would not consider it premium (even when I bought it last Nov).
Would be interesting to see an animation of the meme spreading over time.
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As people continue to undervalue their data and put up with advertising we'll increasingly see this logic.

I agree in general with your point, but I wanted to add that Android is so open that you can easily make different choices. E.g., you can install CalDAV and CardDAV plugins and you can use Fastmail, iCloud, or whatever your favorite e-mail/calendaring provider is. Google could make people's lives more difficult there, but in a sense Cyanogenmod and the fact that handset manufacturers can fork Android will probably keep it sane.

Also, I think that the focus on advertising is too one-dimensional and doesn't see the bigger picture. The use of free Google products makes people want to use them for work as well (like illegal private Office copies drove enterprise Office adoption). Companies that use Google Apps for Work pay $5 or $10 per month per user for Google's services and get the guarantee that data in Apps will not be used for advertising. Then there's Google Play Music, a percentage of every app store purchase, the future Youtube subscription service, Google Voice and Hangouts calling.

Over the last years, Google has steadily added venues for getting revenue besides advertising.
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(I work with the search team at Google) This was a bug on our side, and should be resolved now.
I really don't think it matters if you call them "dots per inch" or "pixels per inch".