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>> Fighting with Android became less and less appealing over time

> This rings true to me. I was long a diehard Android/Linux guy - even an explicitly anti-Apple person.

I keep hearing this but there's always some other reason lurking behind it.

I have never been an anti-Apple person. I use Linux on my desktop because I need something that just works. It must never fail on me and all tools I need must be readily available. Mac probably comes the closest, but speak with any Windows person and it's "yeah just install this usb driver to get the adb going and then install this binary stuff from a website and then..". No thanks, I have work to do.

I suppose the same can be true for the iPhone as well. Instead of rooting and installing homebrew and stuff to tether, just get something that works and click the button.

I don't "fight" my tools, Linux, Mac or otherwise. I get something that works instead. For the past decade, that has equated to Linux on a Thinkpad for me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8301303
Surprising thing is that most recruiters don't want to check if a candidate is actually qualified. We sell live coding tests (www.TestDome.com) and often get the response that testing limits recruiter's "pool" of candidates. Basically, they send everybody with a nice looking resume directly to an interview. Once a recruiter told me: "We tried testing before, but 2 out of 3 candidates failed the test before we could send them to a potential employer. So we stopped." :)
Because the choices are: 1) buy Apple, or 2) hide in a cave.
Why adding a Fave button to email isn’t worth it
Ask HN: How to schedule revisions based on spaced repetition technique?
I am interested in long content not flash card, e.g. a chapter from math book. Is there any tool?
And that is why when last week I went shopping for an e-reader in Bahrain and found out that the only thing here is the Kindle, I turned around and went home. That was absolutely terrifying behavior from Amazon.
With a bit of a stretch, you can probably call it unauthorized tranmission of data to a device and make a comparison to attempts at password brute-forcing on a website (which I believe is illegal in many countries).
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Doesn't work on my mbp 13" either... Also only grabs some random measurements
My guess: C. The people rich enough to buy a gold smartwatch doesn't care. They'll just buy the next when it comes out.
I know I sound like a broken record saying this.

But Stallman was right.

The idea that users don't own and control, what they perceive to own and control scares them on a very primordial level.
Which can can be deleted in 2 seconds...
It might be too late for your project, but I'd highly recommend using Masonry (https://github.com/Masonry/Masonry) for Autolayout. It's a DSL for specifying constraints that is far better than Apple's NSConstraint API and constraint language.

Since discovering it I've fallen in love with Autolayout and its abilities — where I used to dislike it before.
OPAM, the new package manager, is very good. But, yeah, the ecosystem isn't that huge.
A Chronology of Analogue Computing
http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article020106.html

The Mechanical Analog Computers of Hannibal Ford and William Newell
http://web.mit.edu/STS.035/www/PDFs/Newell.pdf
Despite all the hate running around (and ethics aside), I actually had a listen to it and was pleasantly surprised. It's a pretty solid album. I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand anyway.
"Microsoft hasn't shown interest in buying video game companies in the past"

What about Bungie? Halo died for me back then
Another myth about Lemon Law
The Consumer Must Prove The Exact Cause of the Problem
When defending a "lemon" case, many manufacturers and dealers like to argue that the consumer has to prove the exact cause of the defect or non-conformity. This is sheer nonsense. It hardly may take an expert to observe that, for instance, the brakes will not adequately stop the vehicle he is driving.
Once the buyer has found out that the product is not performing and eliminated the buyer's fault, the burden is on the dealer or manufacturer to establish the various defenses, such as misuse or abuse of the product.
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While watching the keynote, I thought to myself, "I wonder how many people will complain about the free album?"

And here they are, not only looking the gift horse in the mouth, but questioning its pedigree, complaining that it's a clydesdale when they wanted an arabian, and complaining that their stable which is designed to accept new horses automatically, accepted a new horse automatically.

If you tick the box "automatically download new purchases" you've already "lost control of your phone" because you're accepting Apple's assistance in getting any new media that appears in your account onto your phone.

Do people complain like this about Kobo and Kindle readers automatically downloading new books?
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One the one hand, this argument sounds plausible.

On the other, we've seen this movie before. Remember Verizon? The iPhone 5 (LTE and a screen-size bump)? NTT DoCoMo and China Mobile?

These were all supposed to be game-changers. And while they all helped Apple sell plenty of phones, the Android/iPhone game didn't really change.

I'm sure the iPhone 6 and 6+ will be very successful. But I'm going to need to see something more before I believe that this time the game really will change.
Most likely, he refers to the 2004 seed act:

http://www.eldis.org/go/home&id=18407&type=Document

which has been used against at least one seed bank.

At a quick glance, it indeed lends itself very well to corporatocratic usages.

Having said that though, it's quite unsettling how there is much blogging about "monsanto lobbying against seed banks", without absolutely any reference which is not word of mouth.
I think we should be hitting with all our fury at this fungus that threatens to eat our bananas.

Because as far as I know it also threatens a lot of diverse plant life, especially rare species and living fossils.
First off, what was he really addicted to here, the video games or the alcohol? My girlfriends father died this past Spring because he holed himself up in his apartment, drinking himself to death and also died of liver failure. He would just drink and watch TV all day. In your case, I would call the video games incidental to the alcohol addiction just like I would call the TV binging incidental to my girlfriend's father's addiction. I'm sure there is a larger mental-health component to it all, but in the end, video games were probably not to blame here. And sorry to hear about your friend.

Surely you can get addicted to video games, though I have a nagging feeling that rate of addiction is lower than any of your classical addictions like alcohol or narcotics. Of course I also recall reading an article about some poor kid in Korea dying after constantly playing video games and not sleeping or the case of the parents who neglected their own infant who later died due to their supposed addiction to video games. So then you have nicely packaged stories of "that one kid" or "those parents" in your head to pull up at a moments notice and the wonderful forces of logical fallacies cause some folks to think it's an epidemic of never-before-seen proportions.

The point is that more "video game addiction" is just sensationalist bullshit. My mother surely thought I was addicted to video games in my teenage years. Of course I spent maybe an hour or two playing video games and the rest programming. In fact, even after I got a job as a software engineer right out of highschool and a full-ride scholarship, she was still convinced I was addicted to "those damn games" and I'm sure half of the folks here will one day be thinking kids are addicted to their Google Glasses or whatever technology we wind up with. It's no different than parents of yore thinking Rock n' Roll was corrupting their children. Parents, as a whole, can be some really sensationalist dumbasses.
It would only have downloaded to the phone if you'd previously authorised that behaviour.
Apple's New Product Storm Threatens Long List of Companies
MongoDB and Apache Cassandra / DataStax, where art thou?
So if I randomize my entire library now I'm getting songs I don't necessarily want?
They bought and ran Rare in to the ground as well.
Do you really not know how to delete music from your device? Swipe-left, delete.
A brazilian judge forbid the app Secret to be downloaded in brazilian app stores and also that the app stores should remove the app from the phones that had already dowloaded it.

This last part was dismissed a lot as a "take this picture out of internet" impossible decision by a judge who doesn't understand how internet works. Now I think it is more clear that things like that is impossible.
For me, it comes down to the fact that I find Auto Layout more declarative. I'm `saying what I mean` when I apply constraints - that can be done in code too, of course, although Xcode 6 is getting pretty good at surfacing that information. Whereas when I'm dealing with a box model I'm having to play compiler in my head. LinearLayout, RelativeLayout - these are terms that are optimised for the computer to understand. Constraints are the way we humans think about things. "Element A should always be 10 points to the left of Element B".

It's a bit like imperative vs. functional programming. In the former model, I have an idea in my head and I need to nest containers step by step to get to the final form. In the latter I'm simply building up a ruleset.

But like I said, that was my personal preference. I guess we'll have to differ on opinions ;)
Firebase simple login does provide similar functionalities right ?
>Apple is losing its advantage over Android regarding market fragmentation.

Android has 5000 devices, differing OS versions (half of the devices out there use a 2 to 3 year old OS), and differing hardware capabilities (including different qualities in stuff like sensors, some of them even being nearly useless).

And Apple is losing to that because it has "8 different" screens?

For one, you can support most of them (all iPads for example) with the exact same code plus 2 sets of bitmap assets: normal and 2x.

As for the iPhones, they transitioned without a hitch to 5 taller display, and the same will happen to 6/6+.
Related: "Apple just increased my iCloud storage, issued a prorated refund for what I'd previously paid, and put money back into my bank account - And Seriously, WTF?"
I am not a fan - at all - of the snooty, sophomoric and holier-than-thou phrase "first world problems", but I have to say that it does have a certain appeal when considering the vehemence with which a great many have protested how Apple has foisted this album off on them.
There was a proposal that has been discussed lately: adding a Fave (or Like) button into email. [1] While the proposal shouldn’t be taken too serious, it still raises some relevant questions regarding on the ongoing battle: fixing vs. replacing email.

[1] www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/the-email-fave-button-could-actually-happen/375610/
There's also 3) Go with godawful, over-saturated, epilepsy inducing Samsung and think that a company, that actually double crossed Apple as their strategic partner won't double cross you.
> Do people complain like this about Kobo and Kindle readers automatically downloading new books?

Kobo doesn't do anything like that, at least not mine. For one, I deactivated wifi to have better battery life. But also before, no books I didn't buy were pushed onto it, maybe apart from an example book I don't remember anymore.
I think you're largely correct, but I'd add another point, which is that even if Evans was on the money about why people bought a Galaxy Note a year or two ago, it far from follows that the decision process is exactly the same today.

Someone might have chosen a Macbook in 2006 because they really liked the white plastic, but that doesn't mean that eight years later, they'd be at all likely to buy a new white plastic Lenovo running Windows. In the meantime, they will have acclimated themselves to the platform, gotten used to how it works, come to rely on features that aren't on another platform, or simply not want to deal with the hassle of starting over from scratch with a blank slate device.
I haven't checked yet but what I know is that if the album was pushed onto my ipad, my bluetooth speaker will autoplay it everytime I turn it on. Anticipating edit : I know there might be parameters to avoid that wether on the ipad or on the speaker but keeping a clean itunes was the minimum hassle solution I adopted.
> "Screen time" on devices is different from screen time on TVs.

It can go both ways. You can either grow up as psychopath programmer or shallow creative. Either way, I bet that real social interaction is best for kids.

Obviously the key is steering them in the right direction. The challenge is doing in a way, that they do not notice being managed.
@ishi take a look at this example http://adodson.com/hello.js/demos/friends.html
Irrelevant of that setting, I don't think that this is a brightest move, few days after that whole iCloud thing.

I mean, you are aware how it works, I am - but a random Jane Doe only heard that celebrities had their naked photos leaked and now something strange had happened with unknown music appearing on the phone: https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=iphone%20u2%20wtf
Perhaps the etymology of the word will help with the connection to the taste. In Dutch (another Germanic language) mealy = 'melig', which is close to 'meel' (: flour). There you have the connection to the sawdust-taste. Sawdust and flour, i think, taste pretty much the same.
The car may be programmed to adhere to strict safety laws, but some necessary maneuvers will not be possible due to physical constraints and people can still get hurt.
In terms of layout there only 5 resolutions (ignoring DPIs): https://rythie.com/ios-sizes/
and then assets in @x2 @x3 versions
So, it seems you can't.
Its hard to tell which was the 'greater' addiction - both surely were compulsive behavior which he couldn't shake. So its not right to call it sensationalist bullshit - I understand you want to protect a favored activity.
I developed it on a mbp 13", just not the retina version. Someone reported the bug that it doesn't work when the browser is zoomed. May that be the case for you?
Give a try to Netalyzer: http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/

Here is an report sample: http://netalyzr.icsi.berkeley.edu/restore/id=example-session
You might like this article about "branded apples", like the Pink Lady. That's a branded trademark, not a variety. (I like them too.)

http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21580468-britains-appe...
Lots of things lead to addictive behavior, sure.
This is a terrible idea that is full of security holes! If you can call having paper-thin pseudo security a hole.
>Probably to prevent an attacker from stealing your account, but not to stop them from reading your emails.

Since nothing important goes to them any more and I mainly keep them active to stop them getting squatted for for some highly intermittent email (3+yrs) I might have forgotten, then it doesn't matter much there. As it is, the main attacker where gmail is concerned is google itself, followed by the NSA.

As for other people with gmail accounts, yes, but I'm aware of when that happens and wouldn't email anything sensitive to any gmail(hotmail,yahoo,etc.) account.
It had been. Everyone was just talking about the Y-combinator so I derived from there, but Omega was first.

Once you have any fixed-point, though, deriving the others is trivial. The explosive self-referential nature of your system has been uncovered.
I guess Google could never do such a thing if they wanted...

Yeah right
And our village idiot experiences joy whenever he is given a lolipop.

What I'm getting at is, priorities may vary. You might care for portability of checking emails outside, I'd rather have crispy text because I'm working with all day inside.
Or for that matter, the English word cornmeal.
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Client-side authentication. In javascript.

What could possibly go wrong? ;)
Introducing Chaos Engineering
For racism == violence:

One particular racist doesn't have to commit violence. The effect is systemic, and as a result law enforcement can be used to enforce violence on people of color.

Picture yourself in a convenient store. A black male with a hoodie on is shopping. You decide you don't like him, and notice an officer outside. You tell the officer that the man is stealing items from the store.

What do you think is going to happen? What would happen with a white male? The outcome you know would happen is what defines privilege.
Did you read the article? Mentioning Jobs is just for catchy title. There are few quotes from other tech-related people who also limit smartphones and tablets for their children.
What I've seen with my kids (under 10) is when they get an hour of phone or tablet, after they have to give it up again, they become very aggressive and behave in a manner which is comparable to someone with a chemical addiction. That usually lasts 10-15 minutes then they calm down and start acting like themselves again. Talking to other parents they report similar behavior

There's something about shifting your attention from one "space" to "another" ( game vs. real life ) that kids under 10 seem to particularly struggle with.

And as a parent that they become so aggressive when making that context switch tells me there's something I need to watch closely and control, despite the fact that it's great to have my kids silently occupied and leaving me to get stuff done.
Well, I'm not sure I do suffer from video games addiction but whenever I start playing a game I have a really hard time to stop playing it. I feel like my brain gets extremely excited and so I stop thinking about basic things like eating, drinking or going to the toilet. It's like by playing I am overwriting this basic functionality of my brain. When this happens and I don't control myself, I can play for hours and hours, usually all night long (which is something I would never do in any other situation, I love resting in a bed). It's happened before being able to continuously play for almost 24h without that basic functionality I talked about. There's always a time when I actually get in control again and decide to stop, usually by uninstalling the game right away to avoid doing it again anytime soon. I then get a really big headache/hangover. As such, I avoid doing it but it still happens once every one or two years, it depends on Sid Meier's productivity, if you know what I mean. (Yeah, this November is going to be hard on me.)

I'm ok with games with a small duration, casual games with a completion time of up to 5/10 minutes. I play chess or Carcassonne sometimes and when the game ends I'm done and just fine.
I understand your position, but I don't agree with it at all.

"Reasonable" and "not-overdesigned" are rarely concerns that last into the future. And I don't think they even hold up given today's (high-end) technology.

Why on earth would font size be the arbiter of anything other than font size? Some programs don't even display text.

Logically, it makes a lot more sense to scale the entire display (or, sure, subsets of it). That's still technically challenging for some of today's systems, but not all of them. And it will be a vanishingly small number of them as we move into the future.
Has anyone installed a whole house fan? I've heard they can rapidly cool your house to the outside temp at night?

I can't decide if it would hurt resale value too much to have a giant fan vent in the middle of the ceiling though.
http://usvsth3m.com/post/97128521413/how-to-dismantle-an-app...
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"harmful content like pornography" LOL. Think of the Children! :D
Honestly, the questions seem more like ones my psychiatrist would ask and not my Boss.
We know a lot about nutrition and healthy eating. You shouldn't believe everything you hear. Go talk to a dietician.
That works if there is only one cyclist or pedestrian on the road. Traffic lights are required when there are multiple, so they don't bump into each other, regardless of whether the self-driven cars can avoid them.
I have read that only a percentage of the population are sensitive to salt and that has been extrapolated to the whole population because a) it's quite hard/expensive to test, and b) you can theoretically still achieve reductions in average disease and mortality by limiting everybody's intake.

If that's true it's somewhat like making everybody wear glasses, whilst understating the risks to the folks who are actually sensitive.
You know what, I act exactly the same way when distracted while being on internet (for example, writing this comment).
The title seems misleading.

I listened carefully to determine if the deal or even negotiations was now confirmed. Didn't hear any proof.

It seems this news slender report is a report into the rumours and speculation that Microsoft may be in talks.

And we knew it was rumoured yesterday. Nothing new.
At Drexel the school terms are three months. So each co-op is two terms. The normal cycle is two three month school terms one six month co-op.
I'm an American white male who typically finds black women more attractive. You can be infinitesimally less disturbed.
It's only added to your device if you had "automatically download new purchases" selected.

Who purchased this album?
Man Accused of 'Terrorist Threats' for Posting Heavy Metal Lyrics on Facebook
How can you hate the weezer buddy holly clip which came with windows 95? It was by far the best file on the windows 95 cd.
The album appeared in your iTunes account as a new purchase. There was not "forced down to users" about it.
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That makes much more sense. Expecially if you can do a four month stint and then extend it. Then your not stuck at a bad job or you can really get involved and learn.