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Yes, it's true, it's already had a positive impact in this regard. I can't remember the exact CSS tweak that happened, but it's already done that one time.
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This makes me wonder: is it also considered a bad thing for rockstar developers to look on the internet (stackoverflow etc.) for hints or solutions?
The name reminds me of The Babadook, a critically acclaimed movie from last fall about postpartum depression / the horrors of childrearing. Not the greatest association, I'd think.
> That's because those people have no business being there.

Says who? Who are you to tell people where they have business being?

> Those mountains are for genuine climbers that can earn their ascent there, not idiots with too much money and no respect for a mountain, who have sherpas basically push them to the top.

Again, says who?

> I hate this ridiculously entitled attitude.

Like the one you're showing telling others what they should and shouldn't do?
which would be highly unlikely because when has Apple ever done that for its current consumer items? The iPod, iPad, and iPhone, have all been user pays the cost to replace when a new model drops.

I think some people are just trying to justify an expensive purchase they have already decided to buy. If it was a wholly stand alone device I might under stand its pricing but as it stands now I do not.

If the article prices are to be believe then this is pure pretentious pricing, going for the vain and honestly after owning Apple products for so long boy have I met some of the most vain people on Earth. (the number of gold colored phones that sold is amazing/depressing)
Here's the problem: I could easily make up another theory based on quantum mechanics and relativity, with the same amount of empirical support (none). The trivial other theory would not be in the form of math, but pure math is not a sufficient condition for scientific theories like quantum mechanics and relativity, and there would be no other meaningful difference.
Not sure I agree with putting doctors and cooks on that list. Providing services basic to life is not the same as supporting recreation, wealth, or luxury.

To put a finer point on it, doctors and cooks, along with farmers, builders, teachers, daycare workers, et al. existed ever since everyone started specializing. They directly support life needs.
The demo http://sites.layerswp.com/coffee/ is down.

Also, what am I downloading? A plugin to wordpress?
There are three [0] "America"s -- North, South, and United States of. Clarification is only required when context is inadequate to distinguish between them.

Similarly, "star" can refer to a shape, a celestial body, or a talented/lead performer or athlete. You wouldn't interrupt a conversation about sports to say "stars aren't just guys like LeBron James; Aldebaran is also a star." That would be asinine and obnoxious.

So please, out of respect for everyone's time and sanity, learn how to use contextual clues and stop trying to argue that "America isn't the US".

[0] OK, there are actually even more "America"s -- a band, multiple cities, ships, movies, etc. But the contextual clues in this post suggested we had "large regions of land" in mind, so I left the other forms of "America" for the footnote.
If the new new new (how many times has it been relaunched so far?) Google Wallet doesn't support the same kind of tokenization as Apple Pay, but instead continues to sell tracking data to merchants and banks and whatnot, then Wallet remains dead to me.
Came here thinking exactly this. Lot of us are in situations where time matters quite a bit. After trying some solutions, it is best to ask someone.

People asking how to do something when they haven't tried can get irritating sometimes.

The Akamai post you shared is interesting. Thanks for sharing.
To revive Wallet, Google needs to make it usable. I'm not exactly unsaavy to the ways of a phone, but on the last phone I had with NFC there was no explanation of how to get it to work at POS (and how to set it up it all isn't very clear). Does the phone need to be awake? Do I need to run an app? I tried it once, didn't work, never touched it again. Mobile payment is something I'm just not going to put a lot of effort into.

Contrast to Apple Pay. Held the phone up, prompted for fingerprint, done.
I think others have touched on how ridiculous this advice is already.

What stood out more to me though is that this person didn't get feedback until they applied for a promotion. Knowing how and when to ask for help should be one of the first things you learn at a new job or company, or as an engineer in general.
I was told early in my career that I could use to ask for help more often. I think that was actually good advice for me since the other team members all had 10+ years experience so I obviously didn't know everything at 23. To each his own I guess. And I can't believe that developers self reference themselves or others in the field as "rockstars" - I honestly thought that was a layman's term.
I think "never ask for help" is bad advice -- it's actually about asking good questions, not never asking for help.

What makes a "good question" is a topic unto itself. But if you make sure you have a good question first -- sometimes you realize that in formulating the question you've solved it for yourself anyway (rubber ducky), or know how to get the answer from documentation (or... google) without bothering a co-worker. (And yeah, part of a good question is being able to say "I tried X and Y first, and they didn't work because Z")

I think "learn how to ask good questions" is way better advice than "don't ask for help", with some of the same outcomes in terms of your own learning and resilience as well as reducing frequency of asking for help.

And I think nobody should ever use the phrase 'rockstar developer' ever again.
Looks like they also removed a number of posts in the forum where the discussion started, including a post where a moderator wrote that customers asked Lenovo for this kind of service. The same moderator also pointed out that it was against the community rules to argue with moderators...
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> I was stuck in the public forums along with everyone else.

So... still asking for help. :b

I think the best phrasing of the applicable advice might still be in the original feedback:

"Spend more time trying to figure things out for yourself before asking for help."

This isn't the same thing as the title (though, as the author may well know, the chosen title has certain properties that probably make it superior along other axes than how well articulated the advice is).
That is all that was said, correlation between too-large financial sector and negative overall growth.
basically everything in traditional business atire is just demonstration of wealth if you really dig into it.

what about the other ten thousand solid/plated gold watches? rolex watches containing gold are probably all over wrists of people you would be happy to do business with.

don't get me wrong.. 5k for an iwatch is ridiculous
This is standard in the EU and I think that is a good thing.

Full contractual freedom is a B2B thing here.

And yes, having people sign that their communication will be monitored is an unreasonable thing in my opinion, cutting to the core of constitutional rights e.g. in Germany.

While we are at that, Germany has a constitutional right of privacy in your place of living - which is in an interesting juxtaposition to devices listening to what happens in your living room and sending it somewhere.

And finally, there is a non-negligible part of the population that cannot grasp those contracts - expecting them to keep track of all the things they signed in their life is an extreme burden.
There's a difference between not asking for help and asking for too much help though. Frequently a team member can save you hours by giving you a few minutes of help e.g. maybe they know about a useful library for something when you were about to implement your own one. That's not the same as asking for help every time within minutes of encountering a tiny problem like your example though. I agree that's not a good thing to do.
Please remove this link, it is paywalled and therefore useless for most people
It's one of the designs being discussed by NASA for a Europa probe, called a cyrobot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryobot
Like in football, teams don't run to win, then run when they're winning.
@Shivetya: All other Apple products have been priced appropriately given the lack of upgrading or service available for the product. Additionally, Watches are an entirely different product category from consumer electronics, and they carry different expectations on pricing + product longevity.

I have no plans to purchase an Edition, nor do I have any clue about how Apple plans to sell them. I'm just trying to provide insight into how Apple might make this work.
I think many sex workers with personal standards would be insulted by your comparison with physicians, who seem to be happy to take money (not your money, I guess) to push drugs that may or may not actually help you[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQZ2UeOTO3I
I was always under the impression that the backlight is a lot of the power that displays consume, which is why LED displays use so much less power than CCFC displays. That would remain constant with resolution, right? If that's the case, I'd think that the actual GPU work (or the RAM, like you say) is where the power difference was for me.

I could be wrong about how significant the backlight is on an LED display though.

I also thought that modern video cards (as in from the last 15-20 years) optimized 2D graphics so that regular desktop use didn't require pushing a screen full of pixels to the GPU on every frame. That would seem to diminish the significance of the actual number of pixels at QHD+.

I don't have a good answer.
>And then follows the "search the title on google", and so on and so on.

>It's from the Wall Street Journal, of course it's paywalled. Can we just have a macro that auto-pastes the same conversation thread for each wsj.com article, and save us all a lot of typing?

Is that attitude directed at me? I'm sorry if I was supposed to know that the WSJ is always paywalled.

Not that I can immediately think of any instances where I've read the WSJ recently.

If I have read it recently, it was probably using someone else's bypass that I was unaware of.

If you could make more plain exactly where you're directing that... exasperation... that'd be fantastic. As right now, it looks directed at me and frankly, I don't think it's deserved.
"Or, don't pay us and get used to getting your news/op-eds in GIF form through Buzzfeed"

What would you rather have?
Dunno for YCombinator, but 500startups (USA-Mountain View) has had already 4-6 startups founded by Mexicans (and a Mexican-cum-american, wait, that's me) You don't need to come to Silicon Valley for an accelerator, 500startups Mexico City is right there!
The argument that not asking for help results in resilience and therefore debugging prowess sounds like an X/Y problem to me. If the real goal is to have better debugging skills, then more direct advice might be "understand fully why your solution didn't work" instead of "don't ask for help".
Can you offer any insight based on your experiences in Japan as to why the crime rate is so low?
Does it count as a landing if the probes melts the ground?
Although, I agree that trying a lot before putting up your problem is an important aspect of a good developer, sometimes, after building up something, an experienced developer might suggest you a solution that makes you wonder if you should have asked for it before.

Like, a game developer, might be able to suggest "Object Pooling", "Dirty Bit" to optimize the game's performance, that a novice might not have much idea about.
Is there a reference somewhere about what functions are no longer used by modern Common Lisp programmers? That would be very valuable for someone wanting to learn more about the state of the language today, instead of accidentally stumbling upon outdated practices.
I don't use those because i don't trust the manufacturer-provided "system updater" to only download drivers. What's to prevent them from surreptitiously installing their add-on garbage.

Even if it currently does not do that, I just don't trust it to not do that in general.
I reject this terminology. Anyhow junior developers should ask for help. And senior developers should ask for help too when they're actually stumped. Let's not suffer in silence and make a mess to clean up later.
Phones were once something you bought once and rarely bought again, but that changed and now we all buy new phones once every 2'ish years.
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Bankers are middlemen and gatekeepers.

Unlike pool cleaners, doctors, cooks and gardeners.
+1 for "indecipherable turd"

That phrase is a gem
It's not just that the images will be better, it's that the sensors can get smaller. The silly bump that represents the camera on the iPhone6/Plus wouldn't be there if this existed. Google Glass could be far cheaper. Smaller SLRs, even! And everything will have far better quality than before. Truly revolutionary.
> In short, the finance sector lures away high-skilled workers from other industries. The finance sector then lends the money to businesses, but tends to favour those firms that have collateral they can pledge against the loan. This usually means builders and property developers. Businessmen are lured into this sector rather than into riskier projects that require high R&D spending and have less collateral to pledge.

The article doesn't explain the linkage. Why would poaching of high-skilled workers lead to investment in companies with collateral? Or, are they just saying that whenever finance becomes prominent it attempts to drive out risk ruthlessly?
I graduated High School with a 6.022 GPA[1]! Texas is Awesome!

1. Normal max is 4.0, school gave extra credit for Advanced Placement and college concurrent courses.
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I'm absolutely amazed that Gruber and the smart folks who read him have missed this.

My dad has a Rolex. It belonged to his dad. My eldest brother will likely inherit it one day.

That Rolex is a family heirloom. It's style is timeless (sorry) and it isn't going to run out of RAM or processing power anytime soon.
We don't have nearly enough health. The ability to spend more on medical research is enough reason all by itself to keep the economy growing.
No. The amount of fames you need depends on the distance an object moves per frame.

I really don't want to argue about this so I figured I just let you experience it yourself: http://jsbin.com/qizatugepo/1/edit?js,output

Frame drops are a different story entirely. The swap_control_tear extension for OpenGL takes care of that to some degree though.
"Light shining on it bends instantaneously, rather than gradually, while passing through." I don't think light bends gradually going through a normal lens. It bends at the surface.
> Also, if you hate programming, you will always be mediocre and unenthusiastic.

I like programming, I just hate php and java.
It's also important to ask questions well: "here's what I did and what I expected, but this happened instead. Here's what else I've tried and researched before asking you, and these are the things I'm not sure about".

Forming a good question often leads to the answer in of itself. By writing it down and emailing it instead, the person can answer it at their own leisure, and the response can be easily shared with the whole team to learn from.

Even better, if that fails, you now have a copy you can easily post to a github issue or mailing list (or stack overflow, if you prefer).

When I have trouble with something, instead of reaching for colleagues, google, or stack overflow, I just read the manual(s) top to bottom, multiple times if necessary, or the source code, or write prototyping test cases.

Even if it doesn't always solve my problem, the things I learned in the meantime always pays back later. The downside is I inevitably become the person to ask for help, and I'm always told "How do you know so much?", and I tell them exactly that, but they don't seem to get the hint, I'll see them again in the near future. I've even been previously termed as a kind of "real life stack overflow".

I suspect it may be a generational issue -- those of us who were left to solve difficult problems without the help of the internet have developed methods that do not include google and stack overflow.

Anyway, I do ask for help. I've studied destructive forces in software development teams, my current hypothesis is that ego is behind them all.
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He did what? Can you link a citation for that one please (pt is fine)?
You didn't try very hard, did you?

1. answered by readme & faq (predictable release cycles)

2. answered by readme & faq (open source governance)

3. nonsensical question (who said io.js is the only adequate solution?)

4. loaded question

5a. mostly, look at the ES6 page or just try it out

5b. obviously no simple answer

6. subjective question. It looks bright to me.
Sure, but also telescopes could be a lot smaller. The article mentions microscopes too.
Just a general observation of a long and oft repeating pattern. I'm dead serious about the macro, though.
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> means

Pun intended
That's a bold bet on the form factor itself. What's the guarantee that Apple won't launch a round face watch in the 3rd iteration?
Not always. Finance is a pretty big industry and its hard to make a sweeping generalization like this.

For example, let's look at your checking account. A banker's not a middleman here - they're providing a service that allows you to keep you money safe for free while they invest it and assume the risk. Seems like a good service to me.
How much of the topic I know? That would be vanishingly small for any grade before college, and barely a blip for classes in my major at the end of college. No, I don't think that's useful.
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I have no problem with expensive goods, even gold watches. It's the part of "slap some gold on my Apple device" that is counter-intuitive.

There's no way Steve Jobs thought "what we're really missing is a gold version". It's not zen. It's gaudy.

The few extremely-successful people I've met that have impressed me have been very low key. Can you imagine PG wearing a gold iWatch???
This actually made me giggle.
What a ridiculously backward situation we find ourselves in.
TL;DR: Google trying to work with banks to get some sort of deal going on. Google trying to wrangle it's phone partners like Samsung who are trying to implement their own payment platform.

WTL;DR: Apple is superior because they have complete control over their ecosystem (WSJ's opinion, not my own)
Of course it is. Rockstar developers invent the solutions that lesser developers have to look up later.
Mississippi is the Albina neighborhood mentioned in the article. Used to be 90+ % black, now it's 50% or so and dropping pretty fast.
I was thinking about how long an Apple Watch could take to become obsolete, given how quickly electronics, and particularly mobile electronics, become obsolete.

I kept coming back to the idea that these things could last quite some time, possibly a very long time. The watch shouldn't need to do substantial processing, only has a limited number of pixels to push and shouldn't rely on substantial processing like graphics, crunching data, decoding a/v, and other things we push our smartphones to do.

It seems like if Apple launches with good enough hardware, that software updates can keep the watch hardware relevant for many times longer than software updates can keep phones relevant.
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Not unless you make a new question.
Thanks for the reply—exactly what I was hoping for!
Access to a photocopier was the holy grail for D&D kids in the 80s, even with all the non-repro blue maps TSR switched to.
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Yup.

I'm currently working on a React-like interface over WebGL, and everything is just "absolute positioned" - read, it's just GL matrices all the way down. It just works.
This. But this is not because "good students are mostly in private school", it is because public school is just bad.

I am a Quebec resident and I have been, for most of my high school, in a private school. I went one year to a public school: the level of education was SO poor and the students' motivation was the lowest I had ever seen.

There is an huge disrepency between public/private sector and people are trying to cut down private school funding[1].

I've seen both, and public school is a disgrace, no kid should have to go through this. I've seen teachers insulting students (and vice versa), teachers being hangover on a class day and telling the students to read their book, teachers raging against students (and vice versa) and just classes being generally content-less.

[FR] [1] http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/opinions/editoriaux/201407/...

EDIT: Not saying we should abolish public school, but it HAS to improve. My experience (and what I have seen of people going into higher eduction) was horrible. Private school has good students because it has (majorly) good teachers (and some selection, I admit), whereas public school has a dominance of bad teachers.
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Which would require interactive usage or for you to save your passphrase in a system keychain, no?
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Think Google Alerts or Think "Tell me when price reaches $X"
That's a great article that I hadn't seen. It's a good way of looking at it.

The original post is very wrong because he sees it as an absolute. The trick, as with many things, is that it's a balance to be struck. You'll never learn anything if you ask someone else every small question, and you miss out on the full benefit of everyone else's skills and experience if you never ask anything.
> I left a completely benign post that didn't go with the pro-Microsoft/anti-Google narrative

This is simply not true, that comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9076549) included "HN has seen a HUGE influx of Microsoft shills, and it's getting disconcerting." You're also being inconsistent with whether the post was on the front page or the second.

Given that, I'm not inclined to believe that you actually got -11 in less than 60 seconds.
I second this.

When you frame the question to ask so someone for help sometimes you tend to get the answer yourself. I've been practicing rubber duck debugging for a while and it has proved quite successful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
The $20k you pay for a Rolex is not for the watch. It's for the craftsmanship and the value of "legacy". A Rolex watch stays in the family. It gets passed around from generation to generation. My grandad had one. He gave it to my dad, who will give it to my brother, and so on.

Not really the same thing at all. Different value notions completely.
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I was depressed mostly by the very lame message, I just find it sad.
In theory, although our large financial sector creates some of those inefficiencies and lobbies for others. It's rather like the mafia in that respect.

Fraud at the heart of high finance, unsustainable lending, de-regulation of gambling activities and ZIRP all contribute to said inefficiencies.