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Pipefail is awesome - I had no idea this even existed. Thanks!
The readme in the repository give instructions on how to compile it using Borland C++.
"He thinks Apple is holding some details close to the vest and he has a plausible reason for why. Say what you will about Gruber's Apple partisanship, but he's always been great at reading between the lines of Apple's publicity events."

And he also thinks that no android wear device manufacturer is doing the same, for no plausible reason.

He's basically saying "apple has secret plans, they are awesome" and "Nobody else has secret plans, because they are not Apple. Thus, we can ignore anything they haven't talked about"

That doesn't seem very sane to me.
As your comment rightfully deserves due to language and general non-contribution, you've been down-voted into oblivion. Nevertheless, educating the uninformed is a public service, so here goes: amongst professionals and connoisseurs in the watch industry, the "knob" is called a "crown", so they have every right to call it that; they didn't just make it up.
> This is actually a collaborative project between Twitter, Foursquare & Square. All three companies contributed a ton of work.

Thanks for pointing that out. We updated the title.
You don't need a clearance. We have large commercial deployments.
I don't fully agree with kudos (and you can have yours back!) but I have noticed that they're a very interesting metric. My own very unofficial data seems to suggest that about 1 in 10 visitors to the post will give their kudos, making it a neat measure of how many people have read to the end and "agree" with a post.
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Nothing. I was just using an example of which I had some familiarity. In the context of this hypothetical thread, it is interesting to note that there is apparently some scientific data suggesting that Asians have a slightly higher IQ than other races. Not being an expert I can't readily provide the references. The other reason for using Silicon Valley as an example is that the theoretical we are discussing requires a survivor population that has a higher IQ density than the average population. The larger the sampling the closer the IQ density approaches average. Although I guess the argument would still hold for a city or country. I was just thinking that the difference in IQ density between Silicon Vally and California as a whole might be 20 points while the difference between China and the US might be 2 points.
Mostly harmless like when you fly them next to an apartment complex?

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

I find interesting that people are more scared of the NSA and yet we have tons of people flying these around your neighborhoods and apartments and nobody bats an eye about your invasion of privacy.
I really struggled to get through this post. I can usually skim his posts despite the slavish hackishness of most of them, but I really couldn't get through this entire thing. I think it's important to see what Gruber is saying, only if because he tends to aggregate the talking points you'll hear about whatever Apple.

But this...this was really a tough post to get through. I honestly felt like I was reading some long-winded justification article by a cult acolyte who just realized the apocalypse didn't occur last Thursday at 11:23am like he was promised and is vomiting justifications to account for it.

All that being said, it's one of the few Gruber articles I didn't flag because I was interested to see how he was going to eat his words.

The only saving grace of this entire post was this line "but I think Android Wear is simply the result of the rest of the industry trying to get out in front of Apple, out of fear of how far behind they were when the iPhone dropped in 2007." which I agree completely with. But agreeing with Gruber makes me a little angry and dead feeling on the inside.

But then I read this garbage "The digital crown feels amazing. It didn’t actually control anything on-screen on the demo watches I handled last week, but it has the most amazing feel of any analog controller I’ve ever used. Lubricious (in the second sense, if not the first as well) is the word that springs to mind." and I felt a little better. I mean geez, enough. Seriously. Just come out and say you want to make love to it. No Gruber, you really meant in the first sense.

I feel a little bit dirty though after dragging my eyeballs through this post.
Crown is watch nomenclature. Apple would have been ridiculed by the fashion/watch world if they didn't refer to it as a crown.
Agreed, I don't see any decent percentage of even the high end market investing that much in a watch that will be largely obsolete in 2 years tops. You buy a Rolex to have it for years and pass it down. A $5000 watch that no one will want in 2 years is not a wise investment.
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I'm an software engineer and for a variety of reasons I want to start a grassroots incubator to help my fellow under-served engineers and founders and to invest in good ideas without involving all the institutional... stuff. What do I realistically need in terms of seed money, time, office space, mentors, etc.
I argued why it was reasonable to do so. tptacek rebutted my argument with a sweeping emotional statement that money is better spent on schools than on justice. As such, one counter example suffices.
I think those qualify as counterexamples to our intuition as well. That simple rules might lead to complex behavior was basically unknown until not too long ago.
Not gonna lie, had to read that title 4 times lol...

whoa whoa whoa...a WEB front end for INTERACTIVE command line programs???
I don't think any of them are idiots. But here's a small sample of companies, off the top of my head, who have had serious problems in terms of monetization / revenue and needed to use investors / host company's money to run:

Pinterest. Groupon. Reddit. Snapchat. Instagram. Youtube (for many years). Twitter took a long time to make money. Most news sites have a hard time, which is why WSJ is paywalled (as mentioned in the article). On the "smaller valuation side", we could say FriendFeed, Zite, Hot Potato, Beluga, GroupMe, TweetDeck, Dodgeball.

It's much harder to than you may realize to monetize.
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What's the relevance of these ratios to Carmack's purpose in extrapolating the series? At any rate, the limiting ratio of successive terms in the altered Fibonacci series 21,54,75,129,204,..., is the same as for the ordinary Fibonacci series, even if the convergence is slower (the difference between this altered Fibonacci series and the original Fibonacci series is just another version of the Fibonacci series, shifted over and multiplied by 20).
But isn't there about as much infrastructure in 2-dimensional geometry? There are 5 Euclidean axioms and you probably need some topological axioms too for the notion of neighborhoods and space-filling tilings. As for prime numbers you need 9 axioms. Rule 110 probably requires the least amount of infrastructure of these three examples.

We just happen to live in a space in which we obtain intuition about 2D geometry from very early on.
Someone should port this to a language that isn't C, not that I'm volunteering.
Yes, maxing out one dimension of performance may degrade it in another. This is just Berkson, again. My point is that along the entire range of variation, all reasonable measures of athletic performance are likely to be positively correlated. If you doubt this, consider the following thought experiment:

1. Pick an arbitrary athletic contest: 100m dash, bench press, obstacle course, marathon, whatever.

2. You pick a member of the population at random.

3. I pick a member of the German national football team at random.

4. If Joe Schmoe wins, I pay you a dollar. If Dieter Schmieter wins, you pay me a dollar.

5. Repeat until convinced.

Who do you think will win more money in the long run? Will the Germans tend to win because of their high general fitness, or will it be a toss-up because the Germans merely have "high soccer fitness" which does not help (or perhaps even disadvantages) them at non-soccer tasks?

That is what I mean when I speak of a "general factor of fitness". Over the whole range of population, people who do better at one athletic task will tend to do better at any other. If you take a sample from the population, measure their performances on whatever athletic tasks you choose, and drop the results into PCA, you will find one factor which is positively correlated with every test and explains, I'm guessing, at least 3/4 of the variance. What happens at the extreme tails is already acknowledged, and does not bear on this general point.

I tried to find data for non-elite-athletes taking something like the NFL combine and couldn't find anything, but there, at least, is a testable prediction for you.

My only point about a "general factor of fitness" was that I am unfazed by the comparison to IQ, because physical fitness is a perfectly reasonable concept that captures something real in the world. So too IQ. If you think the analogy is inapt, remember who brought it up :)
> that blog is nearly unreadable for someone with sight.

I'll take dog tiles vs pop-up ads or ads embedded in the text.
You're referring to an extremely small percentage of the venture investment community that is dealing with concerning itself about making billions. I'd argue that's 0.1% of the venture investment activity in the US market (but not 0.1% of the dollars). It's basically a few markets on earth.

Go to St. Louis or Dallas and you'll find venture investing going on all over the place that focuses on companies that will make millions and not billions. When you start a hotdog stand, and raise $50,000 from your cousin, that's venture capital too.

The US economy is not lacking in VC activity around million dollar businesses. There are more venture capitalists running around funding smaller ventures than at any other time. As I'm sure you know, $50k - $250k is not what it used to be 30 years ago, and it's now very inexpensive to start internet companies.

In my experience and observation it has never been easier to raise money for a x million dollar business venture, and I believe this to be true for nearly any city in the US.

That investment activity however does not make the headlines, and few people bother to do their research into how many 'boring' deals are being done by investors worth sub $10m that put $25k or $75k into a startup in Cleveland.
I don't want to learn another build system. why would I?
Software engineers should all learn JavaScript
Real-time collaborative editing of a LaTeX document sounds like a nightmare to me. You would need to be extremely diligent about breaking the document up into a set of sub documents and who is touching each part of the document.
Maybe they are going to offer hardware upgrades for the top tier models.

Luxury mechanical watches need service too, it's a very standard thing in the industry. Apple can offer a CPU/screen/sensor improvement every two years for about a thousand dollars for the luxury models and owners would pay it as they pay the water seal replacement for their Omegas and Rolexes... only Apple's margins are going to be sky high because it may be an easy thing done by a grunt in a tech service shop, and luxury brands have to send your watch to highly skilled engineers sometimes in another country.

EDIT: I posted before finishing the article, Gruber thinks Apple may upgrade the electronics too, but for "hundreds" of dollars.
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I have my first public pitch tomorrow, any advice from seasoned pitchers? It's a 30 second elevator pitch competition.
The wonderful thing about broad statistics, a decline in one area can mask increases in others. Here in Santa Cruz (city, not sure about county) lots of crime categories are up across the board. It is pretty darn noticeable.
Even if the electronics are obsolete, you've still got a chunk of gold hanging off your wrist. Gruber mentions this, and raises the possibility of trade-ins. They do it with phones, and it makes sense for watches made of solid gold.
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When I was looking at the sample of tiles, I got the same feeling I get when I'm in total darkness. My brain is trying to organize and compartmentalize it but none of the available templates are working, so it just tries them over and over again.

(Expert juggler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoZJET-mX68)
> assuming it was true that intelligence was mostly based on genetics rather than quality of education

I think the difference between these 2 opinions is their definition of intelligence.
Does it have a speaker? Let's make this the must have speaker like the iPad camera. (Never use either)
AND he says that if it turns out Apple doesn't have secret plans, then he will indeed be very disappointed.

Everybody else's watches are shipping. If they've got secret plans, they should probably get around to revealing them.
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> AndroidWear OEMs are iterating faster with a wider range of options.

That's the critical point.Both ecosystems are starting from a similar point. AndroidWear is iterating faster. And since watch apps are probably much simpler to build than phone apps, we'll probably won't see a big difference between the app ecosystems. And there's probably little that can be patent protected.

Probably the only difference would be that your phone will determine which watch you'll use. But the watches will pretty much be the same.
Heh. Notch should join up and ask them what to do with all of his money.
I honestly don't understand why Daring Fireball hasn't been banned on HN. Gruber is just an Apple shill.
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> Just make up your minds and tell us the rules already.

This is a bit off topic, but this is something that I've spent a lot of my life being worried about. I'm pretty sure that most people don't really understand what rules even are. Effectively they want two rules 1) things I like are good and 2) things I don't like are bad. However, you cant just come out and say that because of other social reasons.

Back on topic. I work in a 'nice' place in Indiana and recently there have been 35-45ish year olds wearing business casual showcasing their drone like remote control flying machines to their 35-45ish year old, business casual wearing friends. Additionally, growing up I went to church with a guy who ended up recently graduating college with some sort of piloting degree (sorry I dont know any of the details besides "he went to college to be a pilot"). He's now going to be a police man of some sort reportedly because recent piloting regulatory changes have made it even harder to make a living as a pilot.

With these two anecdotes in mind, my guess is that the chaotic social fabric that rules our lives will decide in favor of the UAVs and against manned aerial vehicles.
Gatto is amazing. That video is exactly what I had in mind when I wrote that sentence.
> It’s an unfortunate fact that media reporting on individual crimes yields a relentlessly dismal drumbeat of downbeat news. But even as each reported crime yields a story that is terrifying enough to shape our perceptions, the truth is that none of them tells us much about the broader trends. Far better to ignore the anecdotes and focus instead on the big picture, and the hard data tells us: There’s been a remarkable decline in crime.

But then the media isn't really about giving us perspective, is it?
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My impression of Android Wear is that it’s best thought of as a wrist-worn terminal for your Android phone and for Google’s cloud-based services. An extension for your phone, not a sibling device. Android Wear devices are almost useless other than for telling time when out of Bluetooth range from your phone. I don’t think that’s a device that many people want; it’s a solution in search of a problem.

I don't see how the overall point doesn't equally apply to the Apple Watch. Playing music via Bluetooth only and an interface to a nascent payment system don't really change the fact this is still the iPhone's $350+ wrist buddy for the vast majority of its uses.
I meant Super Mario Bros 3. Sorry about that.
Thanks for the reply ,this type of integration sounds like it would in fact speed up the work flow, it sounds very interesting.
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I think it's time to get over the fact that it's not round. 99.99999% of the LCD screens in the world are rectangular.

Apple is trying to reinvent the watch, not the LCD. The Apple Watch is capable of so much more than a mechanical watch. Why would they needlessly adopt the limitations that would come with a round face?
The same thing is happening with world poverty. Most people think poverty is getting worse, but the opposite is true

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_and_ola_rosling_how_not_to_be_...
then don't capitalize it.
As it happens, I've had direct personal experience with the shelter organization named in this article.

Several years ago I met a woman, through a friend. We ended up married not too long after.

Just over a month into that, she was acting increasingly erratically, creating fights, attacking me, and disappeared one day with no information as to where she'd gone or why. Turns out she'd gone to a shelter, Next Door. She contacted me (via phone and email from there.

It turns out there's a provision of immigration law, called an I-360 petition, that's part of the Violence Against Women Act (though both the act and petition apply to all genders) in which an abused spouse of a permanent resident can claim citizenship status. The claims of the alleged victim are taken prima facie (on their face) to be true. It's quite the law.

I visited Next Door, by appointment, having been the victim of abuse myself in this case, both for information on where I could turn, and on what they knew about the I-360 process and how I might protect my own interests (another long story). I met with the director, Kathleen Krenek, and one of the senior support staff, I'd have to check my notes, but she doesn't appear to be on the organization's web page presently. They were markedly less than supportive. I made absolutely clear that I wasn't seeking information on my ex.

AT&T employees weren't required to spill this information to my ex. Next Door informed her themselves, as noted in court testimony.

The outcome of the family law case was annulment of marriage on the basis of fraud.

My ex remains in the US, presumably by way of her fraudulent VAWA petition. Apparently the ICE haven't bothered requesting or reading the annulment decision, or the Court's finding of my ex as "less than credible".

It's been five years since the last court date and decision, but this still burns pretty deep. I absolutely didn't consider myself MRA before this (anything but), and find a hell of a lot in the movement that's pretty objectionable, but there's an absolute truth that the system frequently presumes a role and guilt on men, termed "the abuser" in the relevant VAWA statute, despite the fact that there's no actual proof involved.

One thing I did learn is that the process is ugly, extremely expensive, soul-sucking, and needlessly confrontational in far too many ways. Human relationship are like that, and it's not until you've seen them go south, and encountered the reasons and deceptions revealed, that you really get a full understanding of this.
Yes: GSA prices are IIRC the result of a pro-forma (and totally BS) discounting process.
Absolutely, the forums are very useful particularly at beta time. But they aren't the best or only way to share information. I think Apple could still open up things a bit more here to help developers without harming themselves. There are no real secrets once millions of developers have the betas anyway.

I'd love to see them open up more around bug reports too, there's a lot of mystery and guesswork due to the closed nature of Radar. (Not to mention all the duplicated effort in Open Radar that tries to compensate.)
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Because you should never compete on price, but on how good you are. If your only value prop is that you're cheaper than somebody else, you have already lost.
The whole point of the article is that the button hold is bad because Siri has no context to understand what you are about to say, isn't very intelligent, and that means you end up making up weird phrasings to try and indicate that you want the website "the Economist" to load in a browser, rather than directions to The Economist office building, or facts about The Economist website traffic from
wolfram Alpha, or to open The Economist latest issue in iBooks ...

By being in a browser and selecting the URL bar, the context is narrowed from "anything you can say in English" to "a website, if it's not a website, search for it".

By dropping a dropdown, the context is "one item from this list".

N.b. he also talks about desktops, not just mobile.
It'll be more fun to see the Will It Blend...
name= should work as well.
Just asking because I never coded for that scenario but found a web page that had that, and it's valid
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There is already someone porting Keen5 to C https://github.com/sulix/omnispeak
Other people might have secret plans (like Tag Heuer's rumoured smartwatch maybe), but i think it's fair to assume that the android wear manufacturers have shown their cards. Android Wear is a released product at this point. Samsung has released four (or more?) iterations of their smartwatch. LG has released two. Motorola took some extra time to release theirs - if they had a secret awesome plan and were rushing a placeholder to market just to get their foot in the door, they would have released three months earlier. None of these companies did anything beyond the basic "smartphone notifications and action buttons on your wrist" feature set.

I'm sure there are plans for the next version to be better in lots of little ways, but i think it's perfectly rational to assume that what we are currently seeing from android wear is indicative of the general vision for android wear. If anybody had a truly game-changing idea, we would have seen some hint of it in their products by now. It's probably unreasonable to pin your hopes on apple have some revolutionary breakthrough with their smartwatch (they've been pushed to market by public pressure just as much as LG and Samsung have), but it's even more unreasonable to think that samsung has some amazing secret plan.
When estimating the future costs and benefits of a decision why would you use the persons present values and not their future values? It seems silly to consider how much present day me would enjoy something in the future instead of how much future me would enjoy it when it will clearly be future me, not present me enjoying it.
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