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I wear skinny jeans, but am not a hipster. I just have really skinny legs and look (and feel) ridiculous if they're baggy.
Hey everyone,

I started Village because I couldn't find a place online with reasonable, civil discussion about my city, Toronto.

On Reddit, r/toronto could be a bit harsh and was pretty heavy with downvoting. Local blogs had comments sections that were mean and insulting.

Village is an experiment. It's a place that- while honest about the challenges my city faces- tries to celebrate and share what's awesome about Toronto too. It's a place for reasonable and civil discussion. It's a place to discover awesome and interesting things in Toronto.

I custom wrote the software for Village but I feel like the software for creating a social news website is pretty trivial at this point. If you want, it only takes 5 minutes to set one up using Telescope. The hard part is cultivating a community.

But in the same way that you can’t design a users experience (because it implies a sense of control over what a user will experience), you also can’t design a community. Instead, you can only hope to cultivate a community.

That's what I'm hoping to do with Village :)

PS - If you're interested, you can read more about my thoughts on how to cultivate community here: http://www.itsonvillage.com/design-tips
Fair enough. Of course there's a bunch of us for whom the 6+ is simply too large to be putting into front pockets whether we want to or not. For us this is a total non-issue :)
So Gmail doesn't leak anything, but a Gmail Apps account does? Anyone know why?
Sounds like we really have it good here in Berlin, even though everyone is still complaining...
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>SquareTrade found that the iPhone 6 holds up impressively well in drops, spills and slips

But surprisingly they didn't test bends.
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This isn't even about SMTP envelopes. RFC 2822 is about email headers, so it's even worse. Totally invalid for any real world usage outside perhaps an email client.
I am hopeful that this will lead to a decline in skinny jeans, and I will be back in style.
> “When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”

― Jiddu Krishnamurti, [Freedom From the Known, Chapter 6][freedom]

[freedom]: http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-tex...
It's a significant portion of the book so to summarize in a tiny comment will likely not do justice to the concept. However, I'll try. :-)

In essence, maven comes from Yiddish, and it means "one who accumulates knowledge". Economists spend a lot of time studying mavens and their habits.

Mavens are the people who will analyze every big screen TV on the market, pouring over data, correcting consumer report articles on minutia, and looking for the best deal. They're also the ones who analyze flight itineraries looking for the best combination of layovers and low fare, and they are the tiny fraction of people who actually read the prices on goods in a supermarket and will complain when the supermarket writes "special offer" on something without actually lowering the price, thus holding the market to account.

The interesting thing about mavens is that they not only pour over this data for their own purposes, but they actively share it with the world (even if 'world' only means 'other people they talk to directly') at large in order to help others, consciously or unconsciously.

The work of the few obsessors benefits everyone because markets don't "get away" with conning us.
I would assume that they are working closer with companies that they trust to feed in information. Having that on an what will eventually be a public API is recipe for disaster.
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I guess it really is a huge(proud-able) accomplishment to pay your taxes on time
It seems to me that a big risk in IBM's strategy is losing the technological foundation on which most of its current revenues are based and/or not communicating a strategy for that technological base to its customers.

The importance of "big data"/cognitive computing cannot be overstated but it needs hardware on which to run. The neuromorphic computing research is interesting but for the time being the real advances in the field are being made with more conventional hardware and I'm not convinced we yet have a good enough understanding of this field to create an effective new hardware architecture for it.

As for cloud computing it certainly has advantages for many types of customers but I think many of the large businesses that represent the lion's share of IBM's customer base will be wanting to maintain their own computing infrastructure for the foreseeable future. They simply will not be willing to trust 3rd parties with their sensitive data, especially in light of the lack of legal protections in the US for data that is in the hands of 3rd parties.

So where does this leave IBM's current (or prospective) customers ? x86 is gone. If IBM's strategy is to push POWER as the way forward, that would be great, but are they really doing that or are they going to let POWER wither ? Will customers need to put Lenovo hardware in their data center to manage their POWER systems ? Some customers probably won't be willing to do that (in the US, at least, for other countries trusting Chinese vs. US companies may look like comparable risks).

I suspect that a major selling point for IBM's software and services has been its ability to provide the full range of hardware needed to run a data center, from servers to SAN storage. If their transition plans involve giving up this advantage then I think this transition will be a very rocky and risky one that will result in many of their customers looking elsewhere.
I agree. Still, there's a difference between saying that our competitors fail in this-and-this way, while we have managed to avoid their mistakes, and our competition sucks while we're special. Calling them "FooCorps's of the world" isn't nice either. I'm not trying to nit-pick here, it's the whole tone of the letter that irks me.

That letter feels devoid of any factual comparison with competitors while still managing to insult them. I tend to steer away from companies that give such messages.
It's still interesting to have a feel as to the point at which you have to drop out of idiomatic code.

Generally there is a complexity cost associated with performance tuning so there's value in avoiding it if possible.

Whether or not that value trumps other factors e.g. convenience, expressivity will depend on your usage but I think it's a useful data point.
Chandrayaan contained payloads from NASA and ESA already. PSLV has sucessfully launched satellites from various countries.

It has already begun.
>This is a problem with any object of similar proportions and rigidity when sufficient pressure is applied.

Well they need to change their design then. It's a design flaw.
The glass breaks when you bend it back apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwM4ypi3at0
Hopefully no one will downvote you for this comment.

Tighter pants would lead to more force being exerted from multiple angles.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/19/travel/reif-la...
Auto fare may be a bit more, because they charge 1.5 times the metered cost when running at night :P
To expand on this, the protagonist writes personal letters for other people, not because of penmanship but because of wordsmanship.
The galaxy note is made out of plastic, it wouldn't bend, it would break, if subjected to the same forces.

This is like antenna gate-- typical Apple bashing pretending like there's some sort of defect when there isn't. And like antenna gate, if you analyze other phones on the market, you'll find they too don't have super human strength.

In fact, the fact that they bent, instead of breaking, is pretty strong evidence that they are the best built phones on the market.

Subject any competing phone to 300pounds of force differential between the center and the edges (or whatever they used to get these to bend) and I'm pretty certain they will be destroyed.

One of the reasons I buy Apple products is that they are built to be durable in a way that very few of their competitors are.
1) Because I like to eat. Take out is boring (even in London so many options, but you get stuck). Don't know what goes in the food. Plus the fun of making something yourself that tastes way better. I guess primary reason is for quality/taste.

2) Kind of, a weekly meal plan where we roughly think ahead of what food we are going to eat each day. Like chicken one day, cod the next etc.

3) Meat pretty much, and some veggies

4) Keto usually

5) I love the good eats series, some nice hacks in there. Get a cast iron pan and never wash it. Best thing to cook meat with.
Depends on what you're doing. If it's data capture on some kind of competition page, then a more complicated email regex can increase data quality a lot.

I have built quite a lot of data capture forms, and while no or limited regex increased number of entries, a more complicated regex combined with checking MX records improved conversion rate, because there were fewer junk entries. I used `\b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b` (taken from regular-expressions.info).

It has a few false positives and a few false negatives, but overall, it optimises conversion rates, which is what I was being paid for.

YMMV.
I'm not sure the two view points really contradict. While early microcomputers, BackRub and early Facebook may have seemed like toys I sure some of those folks were aware they could become "important." I think Gates and the Apple guys were aware microcomputers would become widespread and the Google guys were aware better search could be a big deal. I think from interviews Zuckerberg was a bit surprised by how theFacebook took off though. Although subsequently he's got the "For us, it is this vision of connecting the world," thing going on.
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It doesn't make the word meaningless at all. There are many orders of granularity in "close association" and the diversity of the usage of the word reflects this. For example a google search for "proud to be human" turns up nearly a million hits. The phrase "proud to be alive" returns yields almost two million. Even "proud to be from the milky way" returns six results.
I was wondering the same thing, going back in the previous slides, trying to find the definition of it.
You can sell the phone in China for $3000, that is why.
It's not really a pocketable phone. Even in my sweatpants (trendy!) it proved so heavy it ended up dragging them down past my ass in the style many kids are rocking nowadays, except I don't rock the underwear or have the ass definition to pull off the look.

Like an iPad, it's better placed in a bag. With everything else, really. Carrying stuff in your pockets is a pain in the arse and a great way to lose stuff.
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These are not typical usage scenarios. These are standard issue "put it in a bench press and pretend it happened in my pocket" anti-iphone hysteria.

Just like the claim that the finger print scanner didn't work, the entirety of antenna gate and, naturally, all the pictures of shattered glass we see every time a new model comes out.

"oh, it was just sitting on the night stand and fell about 6 inches into a pillow and the glass shattered!"

I predict we'll get "my iPhone caught on fire!" and "man in china electrocuted by genuine apple power adapter[1]!" stories in the next couple months.

[1] Actually cheap poorly made knockoff but the press won't mention that.
You hit on it. IBM has a legacy of great financial engineering and sales. This isn't all that bad, if they admit that they're a value company rather than a growth company, the best thing to do is provide sales and service while returning money to shareholders.

From the article:

Ginni’s Rules
1. Don’t protect the past.
2. Never be defined by your product.
3. Always transform yourself.

#2 seems to lock them in as a Finance, Sales and Services company.
But will the galaxy S4 bend in your pocket and still be bent when you take it out?
It may be called infringement, but the process and outcome is really the same as theft. These companies have something they own, they have the right to control how it's distributed, they intend to distribute it to you under specific terms involving the exchange of currency, and instead of going along with that or choosing not to consume it, you're just stealing it.

I'm clearly not a legal scholar but I am not sure infringement is really the term for this anyway - I tend to think that applies more when you copy something and then begin to pass it off as yours for redistribution or whatever.

I think where people get hung up on this is that it's hard to say what a copy of an idea is worth. It's so trivial to copy a movie that it's easy to say it's worth nothing. But I don't think the value of something controls whether it can be stolen, only the severity of the theft.
It doesn't matter how tough it is, if i can't put it in my pocket while sitting... It's kinda useless to me.
tell me, did you google for "isro scam" or do you actually understand spectrum pricing and antitrust laws?
Did you read the article or the headline? It doesn't mention any bending tests, but does mention tests with spills and scratches explicitly. In other words, it seems like the article has zero relevance to this particular issue.

As for your second point, fair enough, I'd like to see more testing, too. But it's already been replicated numerous times, even on unedited video. All looks pretty reliable to me.
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Glad to help. Feel free if you need any more pointers from my experience with this solution!
>The galaxy note is made out of plastic, it wouldn't bend, it would break, if subjected to the same forces.

This video says different:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwM4ypi3at0
I strongly agree. That one-liner of yours is almost perfect. Just let me describe you my exact business needs and tell me how your product can fulfill them, being honest when the competition actually covers something better than you, and I'm yours.'

What happened to honest, straight-forward business?
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True, but is it something you actually want to accept?
Can wait for dialog "it is a feature" and response from competitors "our phones do not bend" :-)
Plastic can also suffer similar effects, enough pressure and it'll crack or start showing the bend point but it'll return to shape more than metal.
Can you bend a flagship plastic phone with your hands though? Cause I just saw someone doing that with an Apple 6 plus.

And what about antenna gate, did that turn out to be false? I'm genuinely curious, as all I've seen is that it was a serious issue that was later corrected by Apple. i.e. these people had all the right to complain. Let me know if you've seen other info.
Pretty sure a pants pocket doesn't exert the kind of force required to break a plastic phone. Bend slightly - sure, but fortunately plastic returns to it's original shape once the tension has eased. Metal... not so much.
Not really notes, but off the top of my head:
1) We pull up Mint, categorize anything that isn't and look at how last week's spending compares with the budget.
2) We talk day by day over the week - special events, working late, etc. We dedicate Thursday to having people over for dinner, so we talk about who and what to make for them.
3) We've got a not-nearly-enough-organized list of 'the usual' meals, and we do a sketchy job of lining that up against what's in the fridge/pantry, and against what we haven't had in awhile. If it's Fall/Winter, we usually make a stew or soup or casserole or two for lunch/dinner Sunday and leftovers/lunches the rest of the week. We'll decide Sunday morning, and make it that afternoon, or the following week if we're missing some key ingredient. We buy bulk stuff on our Saturday runs to Costco, produce and such on Sunday afternoons, and there's sometimes a Wednesday or Thursday trip to fill in bits for Thursday dinner.

Hope that helps... I'm sure someone's put more thought into it than we have.
Cheap 5" chinese phone did not bend or break. Perhaps expand your market a bit...
The rationale is that most people will never approach those kind of number of P/E cycles

The flip side of that is most people could now have drives that don't cost all that much more, but last much longer. Most SLC tends to be rated for 100K cycles and 10 years of retention; assuming a roughly inverse correlation, at 10K or 1K cycles the retention goes up considerably to a century or more.

The consumer market is similar: Most people don't ever buy replacements for failed drives - they buy a newer computer.

That is true, but the long-term implications are more subtle; the fact is that most people don't backup, and quite a few of them keep the old drives (that were still working when they were replaced) around as "backup", with the implicit assumption that the data on them will likely still be there if they ever decide e.g. that they wanted to find an older version of some file they had. With flash memory, this assumption no longer holds.

On a longer timescale, we've been able to "recover data" from stone tablets, ancient scrolls and books, this being a very valuable source of historical information; and most if not all of that data was probably never considered to be worth archiving or preserving at the time. More recently, rare software has been recovered from old disks ( http://www.chrisfenton.com/cray-1-digital-archeology/ ). Only the default, robust nature of the media made this possible.

Despite modern technology increasing amount of storage available, and the potential to have it persist for a very long time, it seems we've shifted from "data will persist unless explicitly destroyed" to "data will NOT persist unless explicitly preserved", which agrees well with the notion that we may be living in one of the most forgettable periods in history. It's a little sad, I think.
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Yes it is proud-able accomplishment, and I am serious.

Government plays ads on local TV channels because a lot of people hide their real income and skip paying taxes, but I digress.
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Already heard one today: 'Apple phones at this pressure bend, Android phones at this pressure break'. i.e. it's a feature.

It's a fair point if actually true, but I've seen people bend this iphone with their fingers. I haven't seen anyone break a flagship android phone with their fingers.

In any case, it's not relevant to me to do a competitor comparison, as when you make the comparison to the iphone 1,2,3,4,5, it's obviously worse.

edit: video of a note 4 bend test, seems the 6+ has a unique problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwM4ypi3at0
The galaxy note is made out of plastic, it wouldn't bend, it would break, if subjected to the same forces.

Based upon, apparently, your opinion?

they are built to be durable in a way that very few of their competitors are.

Material porn has absolutely nothing to do with actual suitability to purpose. iPhone devices are absolutely wonderful devices, but the narrative around the build materials, which people wrongly conflate with built "quality", is detached from reality.
> 4. Resist the temptation for something smarter

I worked on SaaS product with a largely non-technical audience, and we had a frequent issue with people mistyping their email addresses.

We tried several things. Turned out that both confirmation email and asking to type email twice hurt conversion rates badly (in our case - all audiences are different).

However, checking email for potential typos worked really well. We had a small set of rules:

1. Domain is very close to a popular email provider (@gnail.com, or @yaho.com, etc.).

2. Email contains a fragment very close to user name: pol@rodgers.tld for Poul Rodgers.

3. We had universities as customers, and a lot of students would enter "name@university-domain.com" instead of "name@university-domain.edu". We had a special check for it.

Overall, a couple lines of JavaScript helped us to get rid of 97% of mistyped email addresses.
Have you looked at ways to track what drugs people take and when? To examine interactions and efficacy?
He doesn't have to use much force to get the kind of bend that would be noticeable when the phone is put down on a flat surface. I can easily see that being possible in a fitted pair of jeans.
You should learn to admit when you're wrong.
I'm interested to know why you employ two spelling variations of ass/arse.

Does each cheek identify to different naming conventions?
Dont use google analytics or ads, dont rat out your neighbours to Stassi - modern form, dont snitch out your users habit to private nsa.
Sure, but it's not a normal phone, it's essentially a mini-tablet at that size. Yes, there's a pervading sense of 'you're pocketing it wrong', but there's been a few photos dug up and Apple will have sold somewhere between 1-3m iPhone 6 Plus' so far. Either it's limited to very specific circumstances, or they've got devices that have a specific structural weakness, or we've yet to hear the full extent.
So you're indicating a $250k salary, is that realistic?
While there is some level of faking in this world, I do not think that all claims are fake. Your absolute denial of every claim ever reads suspiciously like conspiracy theorism.
Yes. Or no.
I have no idea where they got that number from. I got a flat of 50m² last fall for ~850 €/month including heating. Top-level floor, close to the river, not too far from the underground, though not really in the city centre. I sent some emails and saw three flats, picking the second one.
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I wonder if they plan to change the mood of IBMers, it's dismal and it looks like in a death spiral.
It is the server by adding the "Received: from ..." header, not Thunderbird fault. It is indeed a standard configuration.
I regularly visit Port Aransas Texas, often fishing the shipping channel that goes to Corpus Christi. The channel can not handle the biggest of tankers, the supertankers. But even so, i can not overstate the size of these ships. It never ceases to amazes me. When you are in the channel you have to take into account them coming through the channel, and i dont mean simply getting out of there way, the channel is plenty wide to hold two(as they go both ways) with much space on both sides. I mean the effect they have on the channel, specifically when they are coming in (full of cargo). When full they draft a full 10-15' more of water. Displacing this much water causes mini tsunami in the channel. If you are to close to the bank you could either find yourself beached or slammed against something.

Its really a spectacle when they come by, even after seeing it hundreds of times i still stop and watch.

One thing not mentioned in this article which is a HUGE factor with moving these large ships is wind drift. Any boat /ship will act as a sail, but the bigger you get the harder it is to control. As anyone who has piloted any vessel can tell you it only takes seconds to get out of control. When moving these huge ships through such tight quarters i can only imagine how difficult it is to control.
I guess the graphs would then no longer fit on a single page ;)
Isn't it a basic right of an owner to rent his property to anyone he likes without explaining the decision (even if the decision is based on racial prejudice)?