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Probably for ease of design and manufacturing. Apple raids the corporate parts bin: the lowest SKU, like the base iMac, is a MacBook Air in a box. The mid and high tier SKUs are repackaged 13" MacBook Pros.
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Where do you think you went wrong and who do you think you can avoid that in the future?
I have had a long standing cultural fascination with Japan, that included over a dozen trips, and 9 months of living there. Some observations:

1) He's true on who to hire. At one firm I worked for, the women were MUCH more competent than the men. Why? Because they couldn't compete for the male top graduates with Sony, Phillips and Toyota, but they could get the top women. They also have their share of misfits and a group of folks who flip between multinationals. It seems to work.

2) You can never be Japanese if you aren't born Japanese in Japan, so the large company policies just won't make sense. As others have stated, best to work for multinationals.

3) The stereotypes become less and less true over time. Are the business steretypes of the US in the 70s and 80s still true today?
Uber-hackers of the future will write code for nanobots that cause them to self-assemble in to an android, the android will then write a program that generates a system like this that describes a new programming paradigm.

Or, something.

This reminds me of the Newton-Liebniz debate on creation.
> Consequently, all the 3rd party keyboards currently available on iOS feel like some sort of jailbreak hack.

This broad-stroke characterization is a little heavy-handed... one of the really powerful things about writing software on jailbroken devices is that you actually can, easily, just modify the system keyboard to add functionality, instead of having to build an "alien" work-a-like: the power of development on jailbroken systems is just how absolutely native and integrated you can be. Sure, the things that might be most memorable to you are the things that looked the most out of place, but I have seriously had people who own an iPhone as their main device--people who have their iPhone in their hand at that moment--look at me with disbelief when I show them extensions like my Cyntact (which adds contact photos to all native address book lists; iOS 7 finally added this to the Favorites list, but this story is from a time when none of the lists had this seemingly obvious feature), insisting that their iPhone also has the same feature, only to be shocked when they pull it out of their pocket and it actually doesn't. Things that blend in to their surroundings just aren't memorable in the same way as disturbing mistakes, leading to this skewed impression.
That's exactly right. See the comment at the bottom of the article with two photos, it describes it in detail (confirming what you said).
From the credits:

IBM 360/67 Computer

Stromberg Datagraphix 4060 Graphic Recorder

And then from http://datagraphix.us/DX-history.html

"The heart of the Charactron shaped beam tube is the character matrix. A highly advanced photoengraving process etches minute openings in the shape of alphanumeric characters (letters and numbers) and other symbols in a thin metal disc. These characters are transferred to the screen area of the CRT and then photographed on film (as part of the computer output microfilm process) or displayed on a terminal (as in our 132-column display products). This Charactron shaped beam tube forms the heart of most of Datagraphix' products."

So the COM recorders rendered each frame to a CRT and then a film frame is shot. It sounds like the CRT was a storage-type (with a persistent phosphor). Now this describes character graphics while all of the animations were vector. But the 4060 is a "graphic recorder" which sounds like it could do vector drawings. The colors probably came from a filter put over the lens. You could do different shades by either changing the beam power or the drawing speed.

I'm more stumped with how they produced the multi-color animations at 13 & 22 minutes. I'm guessing they had to stack multiple shots onto the same film with different color filters over the film camera lens.
i worked at a startup with a couple of failed founders -- basically you grab the next best engineering job you can find and lick your wounds until you're either ready to start again or give up completely
There are a few different kinds of issues that come up.

Software updates are a pain. Most of the time they work fine (especially now that Apple has more commodity hardware and public OS betas). Sometimes there are issues though and it is just always smart to wait a few months while they are figured out. If you are the sort that always wants to be running the latest OS version you'll find this frustrating or you'll spend a lot of time updating. My MacBook Pro was running Yosemite from day one. My hackintosh is still on 10.9.5. There are a few other minor software issues that come up.. iMessage is always a chore to get working.

On the hardware end you get much greater build to order flexibility. You are limited in hardware to largely things that Apple uses somewhere in their product line but this still gives you quite a few options since there are a few very useful combos that Apple just doesn't sell. My configuration is basically an iMac without a screen and with the Mac Pro graphics card. A Mac Pro would require me to buy ~$2000 of Xeon hardware and a second GPU, neither of which I need. An iMac would saddle me with a mobile GPU and non-replacable glossy screen. As a bonus I have 5 different internal SATA drives (with room for more) and a Blu-Ray burner.

That said, there are a lot of things about Apple hardware that I miss. I don't have any Thunderbolt ports though and the graphics card is full of legacy DVI ports instead of useful DisplayPort ones. The machine is large and uses way more power and throws off way more heat than an Apple machine. I had to do some careful design work to get something quiet and it is still not as quiet as Apple hardware. Sleep has never worked reliably. Boot screen support for my graphics card doesn't exist so I have to physically unplug video cables if I want to see what is happening during boot up (say if I want to reboot in Linux or Windows or from a recovery partition). The audio ports don't have the third contact for a headset like Apple's do so I need a USB headset.

Overall, as a desktop solution for home use, non-commercial software development, and gaming it lets you be more cost efficient with your computing hardware at the price of time spent researching and tinkering. Particularly so if your use case is one that Apple doesn't cater to like gaming or anything that thinness isn't a top priority. Once it was set up I don't tend to have problems. My hardware was ordered with Hackintosh compatibility in mind though. Problems typically tend to be clustered around OS upgrades or hardware changes rather than day to day issues (except for issues due to hardware constraints like sleep/wake and boot screens). It is otherwise pretty stable.

I'd never recommend it for a laptop, a non-technical person, anyone who has more money than time, or anyone who needs something reliable/with manufacturer support/help. I wish I could justify a Mac Pro for my use case but I can't at 3-4x the price. I have a MacBook Pro for serious work which lets me take on more risk of having the desktop out of commission due to any issues.
I don't think the parent deserved to be downvoted. I wouldn't personally go as far as just using a generic font-family for most projects, but it is blatantly true that a lot of web fonts, even some popular ones from supposedly high-end font-as-a-service outfits, have rendering that looks worse under some conditions than tried-and-tested designed-for-screen fonts like Georgia, Verdana, and the more recent Microsoft "C fonts".

The web design industry, fad-driven as it so often is, seems to be in collective denial about this. It's like everyone waited so long to get some variety into their sites that now they'll use anything that isn't one of the handful of long-standing, widely available screen fonts. Unfortunately, being different does not necessarily mean being better.

(Edit: Just to be clear, the above isn't intended as a criticism of all web fonts, nor any reflection of the fonts shown in the linked examples, several of which render very nicely and show the technology of web fonts to much better effect. I just thought ogig's point that many web fonts render poorly on some OS/browser combinations was a fair one.)
In the last couple of years, I've turned into a complete energy fascist, especially after getting my own home and being eaten alive by my first few PGE bills.

Ever since then, I converted to LED lights for everything, and bought a Kill-A-Watt meter to figure out where the biggest hogs were. I even selected components for my desktop based on energy efficiency (90+% efficient power supply, low wattage CPU, graphics card, etc). I also had a dual CPU Xeon processor VMWare server that was using 200W idle, so I shut that down and replaced it with a couple of Intel NUCs. I figure that the Xeon server was costing me about $50/month in electricity alone, and could have easily been replaced by a couple of cloud VMs had I realized sooner.

Also, it turned out that my 2005 LCD tv and my PS3 together drew something like 400W when on. Needless to say I haven't turned on my PS3 in a while, and I've been eyeing a Roku for whenever I do want to watch Amazon Video.

I've cut my energy usage from 700 kWh per month to just over 300 kWh, and I haven't noticed any difference whatsoever in my lifestyle. I just cut out the wasteful electricity usage, and I now have my LED lights programmed to be on almost all night long around the house, turning off late a night automatically. I'm seriously toying with the idea of getting an electric car, since I don't think it would push me into Tier 3 even if I was recharging every night.
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> No user-defined objects, just structs.

The way structs are supported, it feels much more like objects than C structs. I prefer it much more than say, OOP classes. It's something you need to immerse yourself in to appreciate, IMO.

What about "user created objects" would you miss?
I clicked the See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog

I'm kind of bummed out from that one.
My ATT Uverse uses about 30 watts.

I personally don't believe that a set top box could use 500 watts (thats more than 4A draw - probably more than most 2U rack servers loaded with CPU's and Hard Drives).
Not as such, http://urbit.org stands. If people still want to explore unofficially, github is their oyster.
I'm curious - why branch for new companies? Your resume represents the linear flow of time, it's not like we get to try out alternate versions of ourselves :)
Sorry. I really did write a semi-complete explanation, but then erased it because everything I was saying seemed so obvious that it came across as mocking.

To me, the definition of a "general purpose" item is that it is suitable for a variety of uses, but not ideal for any of them. By contrast, a "special purpose" item is very good at one task, but performs poorly outside of that arena. For example, a "general purpose glue" is good to have around, since it will stick many things together adequately. But if you are joining aluminum to aluminum and want a permanent bond, you'd want to use a special purpose epoxy that is designed for this application.

As a parallel, consider the statement "the minivan is not a general purpose vehicle, as the existence of race cars (including F1 racers) indicates that all attempts thus far at building a general-purpose vehicle have failed." I feel this claim would be nonsense, because (obviously?) a vehicle that has been specifically designed for a particular purpose will perform better at this purpose than a vehicle designed with many other higher priorities.

I also tried variations of "a vice-grips is not a general purpose tool because it makes a lousy hammer", "Webster's is not a general purpose dictionary because it lacks full coverage of Latin medical terminology", and "a pencil is not a general purpose writing instrument because it will not scribe metal". But these all seemed so ridiculous that no one would claim they made any sense. So I removed them.

How did you find it insightful? Maybe "general purpose" is used differently between American and British English?
Keep in mind this depends on when you fail.

What happens when you take 10million in VC and then fail?

Compare to a 100k angel round and then fail?
Firefox doesn't even work on the desktop and they want to run it on the cloud?

I promptly uninstalled the latest version because of the black screen bug.
"nicer case" is subjective, although I will agree that official Apple models do have far better support and far better resale value.

That said, I don't think the average Hackintosher really cares about those things -- there's a reason why "hack" is in the name. It's a hacky and fun way to get OS X running on unofficially supported hardware, and I don't think support and resale value are high on a Hackintosher's priority list.
That's a bit like careening down the road narrowly missing a terrible collision a few times and saying "My driving is improving." Nuclear weapons are the most reliable way we have to destroy our civilization. We need to get rid of them as soon as possible.
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This work occupies an odd niche that piques my curiosity. I knew Ed Belbruno slightly, and I'm cordial with Martin Lo. I'm trying to figure out how to say this neutrally: the people like the ones I mentioned do not seem to have much influence on the actual world of mission trajectory design. They're off on their own.

Yet when I read the summaries of their methods, they don't discuss any drawbacks besides the large transit times required. I'm left thinking that either there is something political/historical going on that I don't know about, or that the large times in fact totally kill the idea, rendering the theory moot. Come to think of it, another option is that reducing delta-v to zero is not worth going to so much trouble over (from a mission design viewpoint).

On the other hand, the scientific angle (that these trajectories can allow long-range mass circulation in the solar system) is very interesting and something I was not aware of. Thanks for your interesting reply.
So they literally stamped a PG13 warning label on it, and people who went for R rated content were surprised and disappointed?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7109345
>> But that means you really need five variants of the sin function and you need to dynamically dispatch between them based on the current rounding mode

Just define a rounding behavior for the language and implement it that way. Don't claim full 754 support, just specify the strategy used by the language. A sin function should behave according to the design of that function and should be able to ignore any previous state of the FP hardware. I have not seen a language that directly supports setting the rounding modes, so any language libraries can do what they like - you don't need to preserve or worry about something you don't offer the option to modify.
I can't say we were expecting this, but it's nice to see that people are still interested in what we're working on. Thanks!

What we're brewing in the lab has diverged quite a bit from what's publicly available. Even these docs are quite out of date.

If you're interested in keeping up with what we're doing: either sign up at http://urbit.org or send me an email, galen at tlon.io.
Here are the slides he's using (I think):

http://www.ttic.edu/dl/dark14.pdf

And here is Caruana's 2006 "Model Compression" paper he mentions:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1150464

(Note the actual citation is Buciluǎ, Caruana, and Niculescu-Mizil 2006.)
the average internet user could care less about your fancy fonts
Considering the very large distances, I suppose it would require very little in the way of manual intervention or energy. But I wonder how safe it will be unless at least one or two crew members are left awake to attend to the rest in case of emergencies.

That also leaves the question of what method to use for hibernation. Many mammals already do, but we may require a drastic change in our physiology or dive into genetic engineering (without knowing long-term effects, it could be dangerous) or discover some substance to inject into our blood or replace it altogether so we may lower our metabolism.
@TOS linked from sign up page (https://www.visualcv.com/www/site_information/professional_t...): 404...

@CV samples (https://www.visualcv.com/cv-templates/best/resume-samples): layout borked in horizontal view on chrome 38.0.2125.114 for android 4.4.4. Ref: http://imgur.com/x105xgA

General thoughts: it wasn't (or rather isn't) immediately obvious for tipsy-me what payment model you are going for (subscription I persume?) or how much this service is going to cost me. I'd rather not have to sign up to acquire this information. If this service is free, please state it clearly on the sign up page and tell me what your business model is. If on the contrary it is not, tell me what you plan to charge me before I sign up.
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You can see 'em on video on Democracy Now! - "Bank Whistleblower Alayne Fleischmann & Matt Taibbi on How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck the Economy"

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> Of course, if you did so, the fact that you ended up with the same API means you have removed any expressive portions, and are left with purely functional constructs and short names.

That presupposes that there is nothing expressive in the structure of the API itself, beyond the names. But the combination and structure of calls in an API is an expression in and of itself, as evidenced by the fact that the same functionality (e.g. file access) can be expressed in many different ways.

> Sorry, but no. The fact that something is original and creative does not, by itself, make something copyrightable in any way, shape, or form.

I didn't say it was the only requirement for copyrightability. There's obviously the exclusions in 17 USC 102(b). But in addition to the "work of authorship" and "fixation" requirements in 17 USC 102(a), which I assume aren't in dispute, originality is what matters.

> It 100% is not indicative of this. It is hard work to compile address lists and phone numbers into the white pages.

Ditch-digging requires a lot of work too, and I'm not asserting that is creative, but I do think API design is a creative process that requires a lot of careful thought.

> However, as a concept, it is one completely and totally ineligible for copyright protection.

Sure, the concept of passing around file descriptors as small integers is not protectable in the abstract. But it's an expressive choice that, when weaved into an API, takes it beyond purely functional into a creative expression.
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What do governments in China and Russia use for high-security computing? There seems to be a valuable un-addressed market, or back doors in hardware don't exist, or back doors in hardware have been too hard to find, even for governments with the resources to conduct a search.
I built one 3 years ago and have been mostly pleased. It's a pain that with every point release I have to re-apply the patches for my audio to work, and migrating to new OS X versions can be nerve-wracking, but tonymac's site is an outstanding resource to help you through the process.
Pretty much. There's a strong anarchist culture in Berlin. And while I'm sure the people described in the article are very nice indeed, there are areas where any police intervention is very unhealthy for the police.

It sounds like for this particular story, people actually signed a (very cheap) lease with the owners after the fact, but there are quite a few buildings that are simply occupied.

(Keep in mind that a lot of buildings also have rather unclear ownership records. And if there's no clear owner, there's much less incentive to evict squatters. Why risk it when it then might turn out it's not even yours?)
The discussion here has been good, and the thread is already old, but I can't help myself!

Maps, filters, folds provide a vocabulary for manipulating entire collections. They allow you to write code for transforming the individual items of a collection without mixing it with code that deals with the shape of your collection. Maps, folds, and filters exist for trees and all kinds of other structures with interesting shapes that are more challenging to traverse and reason about than a simple array or list. Languages with first class support for these operations provide a common vocabulary for processing collections of any shape. This alone is a good enough reason for me to prefer such languages, even without bringing readability into the mix.

I also think that it is usually possible to write code with maps and filters that is at least as readable as its for loop equivalent, especially with the comprehension sugar commonly found in many functional languages.
I have a few over the years. My email is my profile. Feel free to get in touch.
The first time I picked the wrong co-founders (friends and all were engineers).
The second time I picked the wrong project.
The third time my co-founder died.
The fourth time I wanted to do it alone but I almost burned out before my family started to send the signal that it was time for a change but I still think the tech and project are excellent though.
Right, but those are standalone screens limited by available video cables/ports and their capabilities. This is integrated without concern for any of that.
> The list also includes designers of computer systems and programming languages

I'll sign it, too. - designer of the D programming language
Check out my other comment below. Factor has with-rounding-mode and you can nest these modes.

Example:

+round-up+ [
1.0 3.0 /f double>bits .h
+round-zero+ [
1.0 3.0 /f double>bits .h
] with-rounding-mode
] with-rounding-mode
! output
! 3fd5555555555556
! 3fd5555555555555
Notice that 300kWh/month still comes out to roughly 400 watts used at any given moment. Can you account for them?
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"That presupposes that there is nothing expressive in the structure of the API itself, beyond the names. But the combination and structure of calls in an API is an expression in and of itself, as evidenced by the fact that the same functionality (e.g. file access) can be expressed in many different ways."

By this argument, everything ever, including my shopping lists are creative expression and copyright eligible.

Copyright protection in software has never extended this far, and your argument is not particularly convincing (at least to me :P)

"Sure, the concept of passing around file descriptors as small integers is not protectable in the abstract. But it's an expressive choice that, when weaved into an API, takes it beyond purely functional into a creative expression."

We're going to have to agree to strongly disagree.

By your abstract arguing, almost everything can be found to be expressive as long as it's "an expressive choice". This would extend copyright far into the realm of methods and processes.