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Actually, I wouldn't tell the mathematicians how to write proofs; I would tell them how to write code.

I'm not a math guy, but I've at least seen math proofs. It's remarkable how much English is there. It's like there's a paragraph or two explaining what they're after, and then there's a mathematical equation. After the equation, there's more text, explaining some more, and then another equation. A math proof is replete with English.

But then you get some of these guys writing code and it's like, "Great! No English!" There's not a comment to be found.

Or, take variables. "Let i represent column and j represent row" -- because, you know, it would simply just aggravate their carpal tunnel syndrome to have to type out c-o-l-u-m-n and r-o-w. A real math he-man doesn't bother with descriptive variable names! That's for liberal arts majors!

I just don't get it.
Have you seriously never written a 1000 line routine in C from scratch?
If I remember correctly, in the original iPhone 6+ bend video[1], the force was applied both at the top and bottom. Wouldn't that produce more torque (with respect to centre of mass) and maybe result in quicker bending? The ConsumerReport machine applies force only at the centre.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znK652H6yQM
MS Office is a big one, Excel is pretty much un-rivalved when it comes to the spreadsheet game. Open/Libre Office are nice but not as good as MS Office, plus everyone already knows how to use it so businesses don't have to spend money retraining them on it.

Don't get me wrong I use OS X/Ubuntu daily and die when I have to use Windows with it's lack of POSIX compliance and abomination of a shell but that doesn't mean it's the right choice for the masses.
Every dev should be senior, in my experience is a result of dumb hierarchies and skewed goals. Where I work (as a manager), we're given a certain number of "heads" (headcount) each quarter. As managers, we get to decide what level we want to hire at. There's no tradeoffs presented to us. We're basically asked, "would you like a junior, senior or staff level engineer?" Most managers just try to hire as senior as possible because it increases the size of their fiefdom and gives them more clout. A staff engineer will command more respect in meetings and will get his/her way more often. It's a toxic culture of unaligned goals where managers aren't penalized for spending too much on their teams and are rewarded political successes rather than shipping code. If I wasn't resting-n-vesting, I'd be out of there.

The beauty of Docker is that it, to some extent, does turn average engineers into devops specialists. They just specialize in a very specific, somewhat abstract/virtual environment. Then the real devops specialists can write tooling around that virtual environment that doesn't require detailed knowledge of what's inside the black box. It's an interface between application and deployment engineers that obviates the need to coordinate on deployment process.
Ideal gamed answer, both true and good enough to satisfy AirBnB: "no I would spend all my savings traveling around the world to exotic and unusual places, and hacking on open source projects as time and net access permitted."
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Due to how my email service provider works, it can take up to one hour until you receive the download link (after clicking the confirmation link).

If you still haven't got it, please write me a short email and I will give you the link.
Perhaps the instruction set is undocumented? (it happens). Alternative chipsets cost x10 (also happens, and is probably correlated to documentation quality).

Price is an important factor, and the messy choice is often not unreasonable.
Inlining it means that you're still executing the exact same code. If it had problems as a function, it still has problems when inlined.

But if it's inlined, it's no longer a function. ;)

What he's saying here is that the function itself was fine and free of bugs but that there is a problem for the programmer. The programmer's understanding and expectation of what the function does isn't in that it affects state in a way the programmer didn't know or expect. What the function does becomes much more obvious and controllable when you inline the function's body.
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First off, their own results show that the 6 series is considerable weaker than the 5 series.

Secondly, they applied that force for 30 seconds and got significant deformation. I'm fairly sure that, given more time, they'd reach the less significant deformation reported and shown by others, with less force.
If you don't hate the code you wrote six months ago you're stagnating.
don't you just have to turn off chrony to fix that?
This is an awesome comment. Thank you for posting it.
Wow. glad to know my Note 3, as big as it is, is class leading in this particular test. It's definitely a top-notch piece of hardware in every other way.

From specs to hardware build the iPhone 6 just seems really behind the curve and very "blah".

The iPhone 5 was definitely a class leading phone in the hand before this test, feeling like a beautiful instrument. This test is proving it too is a fantastically put together device from a durability POV.

The 6 is very ho hum and I'm adding this to my list of ho hum things about it. It's not a bad phone, but not a great, class leading one in any way either.

I never really thought I'd see the day that a Korean phone designed by a completely anonymous corporate industrial design drone really beat the socks off of Apple's offering, and yet it appears to have happened this year.

All that being said, #bendgate is seriously overblown, just like antenna-gate. This is most likely a desire to hit Apple where it hurts the most, image, in order to extract free stuff/lower price/whatever like what happened last time with antenna-gate.
Seems like you're suggesting running a completely separate parallel build platform for one project. The parent seems to have taken the pragmatic, but messier choice.

Sometimes, there just aren't good clean solutions, and you have to be messy and pragmatic. That, of course, is often used as an excuse for being lazy as well.
boot times are the least important reason to use systemd.
Broken laptops are certainly overlooked as an option, but you also have to be aware of your use-case. RAID is generally not available, and if you want to crunch lots of data as in the article, CPU and RAM aren't usually much to write home about. Horses for courses.
Thank you. Excellent.
Redmi 1S.
I did not know this; thanks! I think I still prefer Scala's structural style, but I'll definitely have good use for this when I wander back into the Java universe.
IIRC 7-bit refresh. Good for 4116's; 4164's needed extra logic.
Apple Rebuts Complaints of Bending iPhones
That doesn't sound right. If you look at their tests of the iPhone 5, the LG G3 and the Galaxy Note 3, they clearly bend off centre, where I assume there is a weak point.

This whole thing is stupid. I have an iPhone 6 and it just barely fit comfortably in my front pocket. If it's just a bit off I find it awkward and uncomfortable.

I would love to see tests involving the real people who are bending their phones in their pockets. a) to measure the forces in their pockets and b) to see how they can stand that sort of discomfort.

Edit: I'll be specific. When I am standing the phone fits fine in my jeans. It's not great when I try and sit. In some positions it's ok. But in my head I was implying that if it's uncomfortable, I take it out of my pocket. The 6 is definitely the limit of any phone I'd buy.
Your second point is a valid good one to at least consider.

However just playing devil's advocate: 9 returns to Apple (assuming that figure is true) is absolutely trivial relative to the units shipped.

I think it will be interesting to see where we stand in 6 months time. Will we see tons more phones return?
Thank you and appreciate your issue submission on github. We'll fix this right away.
We aren't removing human reflection from the operations of our economy. High frequency traders don't make decisions about the allocation of capital. They _can't_, because they don't hold positions overnight; they sell their inventory by the end of the day. Actual investment decisions -- which bonds or stocks to buy -- are still almost entirely made by human beings. HFT and algos only comes up when it's time to implement these decisions, and even then play a very minor role in the financial system.

If you want to understand how minor, compare the cash piles HFT companies manage with cash piles real economic players manage: The biggest HFT firms I know of are Virtu & Knight/GETCO, which both have a bit over $1 billion under management. Compare that the CALPERS pension fund's $300 billion, or with Goldman Sachs or Norways' sovereign wealth fund, both of which have about $900 billion in assets, or with PIMCO's bond fund ($2000 billion) or BlackRock's total AUM ($4500 billion).
"Which, to put it mildly, is something of a credibility boost. So I finished the article."

Yes, but then when he repeated the line with "this reminds me of my days with perl", suddenly I started hearing the entire post in grandpa simpsons voice...
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You are ignoring survivor bias.

Old code is mostly good code. It's new code that has varying quality.
45kg? Put your phone in your back pocket and sit down... if you're a bit more fat than usual, 45kg is easily achieved.

I killed four phones to date simply by accidentally sitting down on them.
Don't see why I'm getting downvoted here, honestly. Even NASA management has admitted that the Shuttle program fell well short of the planned goals, and left us with much worse capabilities than if we had followed the "reusable thingy with wings" pipedream.
> From specs to hardware build the iPhone 6 just seems really behind the curve

Obviously people see what they want to see, but: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8559/iphone-6-and-iphone-6-plu...
> I wanted to make this comment long partly out of spite

But it's clear that most of it is due to ego.
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An app that further abstracts the problem of simply being alerted to interesting things happening in the world that you might be interested in. This sort of thing seems like an inevitable consequence of a rapidly expanding network filled with free, lightweight content that is usually not very important. People can't even be bothered to visit Buzzfeed or Upworthy anymore, even on a feed reader. Don't blame them.
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Stop sitting on your phone. Would you put your laptop of the edge of a chair and sit on it?
> Most programming concepts are really about code organization and not expressiveness or the ability to express an algorithm clearly.

You could also separate your functions in different scripts with naming that is closely related. You've pretty much achieved code organization without the hidden scaffold that comes with OO codebase, only a chosen few with ridiculously large salary know about and newer developers largely having to pretend to praise with terminologies straight from CS text book because their monthly check comes from it.

Why do we need thousand different ways to write a simple CRUD web application in a language? Obviously OOP hasn't really done what it is advertised which is introduce a code organization to it's fully efficient state any better than functional coding.

If Java was supposedly so great with it's OOP as a core feature,where as humans we are supposed to model the extremely complex systems of reality into some fictional objects in our brain, where is Sun Microsystems now? It ended up as snake oil for a lucrative proprietary enterprise software company which is aimed at selling simple CRUD apps pleasing the business/government crowd. Have you seen the range of Oracle's suite of crap? It's literally insane, you have to pay to basically learn how to reinvent the wheel in their own terms and be pay a percentage back to them for speaking their language, as if landing business deals isn't hard enough already. Absolute garbage Java turned out to be. Even Android pisses me off. I used to hate on Objective C but I applaud Swift, there's no such innovation taking place because the JVM and Java is built entirely on a failing founding software philosophy, that the whole world is some simple interaction of objects interacting with each other, not it is not, there's quantum mechanics in play, with myriads of atoms that end up interacting with each other in a chaotic fashion that gives rise to some pattern our brain is supposedly good at finding.

Throw sand on a piece of blank paper, people will claim they see Jesus, and sell it on ebay.
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A few questions: Are there any good examples of code written in this style (e.g. by Carmack or Blow)? When I tried this style, I would frequently end up with 800+ line functions: is this what the code is supposed to look like in the end, or should I be refactoring earlier? When I do end up refactoring, it's often hard to switch to a functional style. There are complex dependencies between the different "minor" functions, and the easiest route forward seems to be to replace the function with a class: minor functions become methods, and the function-level local variables become instance variables, etc. Also, this is a small issue, but how do you deal with minor functions that "return" variables? I typically wrap the minor functions in brackets, and I declare the "returned" values as local variables right before opening bracket, but it looks strange.
>I killed four phones to date simply by accidentally sitting down on them.

Uh.

Don't sit on them? Who does this?
I would hope that any moderately popular site would implement popularity-based caching. Popularity counters with halflives are pretty easy to implement.
If you can independently get to the moon or an asteroid, I feel you can do what you want. Legal declarations from parent countries and kindoms always try to curtail or control what colonists in new lands do. While somewhat effective in the early years of settlements when external support is still needed, eventually the settlers have ideas of their own.
Putting your phone in your back pocket and sitting down is in the same class of abuse as jumping into a swimming pool with your phone in your pocket. I would never expect any phone to survive either.
First off, love it!

Second, when modifying the properties of a multiple options column you can't see text past a certain point, even though the row is clearly big enough: http://i.imgur.com/6ju4vCe.png
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Some comments on conferences.

When Sam talks about founders spending all of their time at conferences, I assume he means attending conferences rather than speaking/moderating, because these have totally different dynamics. We have an investment marketplace for agriculture & agtech (AgFunder) and so our success is measured by having thousands of investors rather than millions of users. For these kind of high-touch clients, speaking/moderating at conferences is the best way we've found to source new deal flow, investors (our customers), and potential channel partners outside of having major media coverage. Our deal team gets crushed when I return from a run of back-to-back conferences. I could imagine it would be the same thing for enterprise sales and healthcare IT.

In cases like ours, if you can speak/moderate at a conference you have the social proof to pitch to your customers horizontally rather than pitching up. Moreover, once you get one or two speaking/moderating gigs under your belt it's really easy to get more (Point to previous track record) as conference organizers are typically sourcing speakers/moderators from previous conferences. I also watch for new conferences like a hawk, and fire off emails offering to speak/moderate for anything that looks like it will have our audience. And the best thing about it is that you won't have to pay. Final tip, if you have a content marketing channel (We created AgFunderNews.com) you can offer to promote the conference in exchange for some media placement of your own. Again, a big $$ saver.
This test shows a severe lack of understanding of flexural strength testing. This test is a bastardization of the three point bending test that is commonly performed for peak bending strength analysis of materials.

Bending is a result of moments and moments are driven by moment arms. These tests should not be looking at point load required to induce deformation but rather the moment required to induce deformation. Each of these should have been converted into equivalent moments based on the size of the phone.

For example, the M8 is shown as 146.3 mm (5.76 in) H; 70.6 mm (2.78 in) W; 9.4 mm (0.37 in) D and the iPhone 6 is 138.1 x 67 x 6.9 mm (5.44 x 2.64 x 0.27 in) and both are shown to "deform" at 70 lbs.

The M8 has an induced moment of 100 lb-in while the iPhone 6 has an induced moment of 95 lb-in. The resultant bending stress by assuming a linear stress distribution across the section is then 1575 psi for the M8 and 2950 psi for the iPhone 6.

Similar analyses should be undertaken for each of the other phones.

A more accurate test for the failure mode of concern would be a four point load test in which moment is constant across a portion of the phone. The three point load test induces a moment that is maximum at the point of load application. The four point load test is more likely to show you where the point of weakness in the phone is.
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And you're stupid for pretending that because vanilla has a chemical name therefore people shouldn't wonder what all the chemicals are doing in their food. QED.
None of the reliability or capability issues with the Space Shuttle were software-related, as far as I know, so I'm not sure how your objection is relevant. The Shuttle is generally regarded as having one of the most complex and quality-focused software design efforts in history.

http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
The results show that the 6 series is similar in strength to phones of that size from other manufacturers. It stands to reason that a smaller, thicker phone like the iPhone 5 will be more rigid (though it's interesting that it's easier to deform a 6 than a 6+).
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As far as I know folks should be able to continue to use the Cloudant project with CouchDB until it's merged. I personally haven't used it recently, but do work with CouchDB regularly.

http://bigcouch.cloudant.com/

Looking at the big picture though, the main project is committed to this direction, so it's definitely worth spending the time if interested in DynamoDB-style clustering (or clustering in general) in CouchDB.
Do CR consider this a real defense? They've proven that the iPhone6's physical weaknesses pair it with the lowest end of the spectrum (by a wide margin). It is indeed more scientific than the empirical 'viral' story, but their results do not bode well for Apple.
Thanks for pointing this out! We'll get it fixed.
Sony Xperia z2 & z3 are both waterproof. Quite amazing phones. A couple more generations and this could be the standard.
"Nearly the same" means translation is required.

Also, the point of Markdown is to look formatted as plaintext. The atx headers or == headers accomplish that. I like textile, but its headers don't accomplish the same goal.
Deformation depends a lot more on the force than on how long the force is applied. There is a critical point where a material will permanently deform rather than springing back. More here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_(engineering)
So what does this ultimately mean? Seems like you can bend any given modern smartphone, given enough force. Is the iPhone 6 more likely to bend under average conditions? Is there any substance to the hubbub about bending 6's? A lot of jargon in your response, is this lengthy response just to point out that their methodology is flawed or are you making a point about the case at hand?
Okay, but Office is not Windows. It runs on Macs, and there are plenty of virtualization options for businesses to run Office for people without a Windows desktop. RHEL 7 in particular is built for it. And Microsoft's web apps are getting better all the time. I wouldn't he surprised if the web app catches up to the desktop app in the near future. And everyone's grandma does not know how to use Excel.
Not for that, but because I write a bunch of one-off tools and with Groovy, I can contain everything in a single file - including external dependencies, - and this is like the simplicity and portability of Bash in a higher-level language. Of course, you need to have (Open)JDK and Groovy installed as a prerequisite.

P.S. I don't like Goorvy syntax much and that's why I'm looking for alternatives all the time.
As a bit of a disinterested observer (I'm mostly in the "just make it work" camp), I can't help but feel that if you pile up the problems that systemd seems to solve on one side, and pile up the enormous piles of code that are apparently necessary to solve the problem on the other, that systemd does not come out looking too good.

(Writing this in C was probably a silly idea.)
You are complaining that the big phone you bought doesn't fit comfortably in your pocket. I don't even know what to say.

With regard to a weak point, the phone would bend there first in these tests if such a thing existed. That's how weak points work.
Not to make this just a conversation about money, but if working 100 hours a week as the first hire at Airbnb (even for below market salary) is exploitation, then please exploit me! If you can identify a growth engine, and not have to take on the founder neonatal pre-funding risk, then that's a huge opportunity, not exploitation. You're probably not going to make that kind of money working at Google.
Try stacking multiple phones in your back pocket to increase their rigidity.
I wish I didn't have some issues - my life would be much happier now.
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CR isn't presenting a defense. They did a few tests and presented the results. They then suggest the #BENDGATE drama is overblown.