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I enjoy seeing the latest fad being burned at the stake as much as the next guy, but I don't think we should blow this out of proportions.

Atom is a text editor, and text editors have an insanely high bar to clear in terms of performance and responsiveness. Users will abandon a text editor if the cursor takes a bit too long to move. On top of that, Atom has been criticized about its slowness since the very first announcement. They don't have any margin for error there (and to be honest, I think their technical choice of going for Javascript will be their ultimate downfall, but that's a discussion for another day).

Also, as it was pointed out, Atom didn't really embrace much of React to start with (which is to their credit: always be very conservative when you're adopting a bleeding edge, unproven technology).

I think React has potential. It's at about the same stage of maturity that Angular was five years ago, and if it's as successful, we can expect it to enjoy five years of being the new darling in the Javascript world, until the Next Big Framework comes around.

I'm really enjoying how fast Javascript frameworks and practices are churning, it makes me feel like I'm witnessing the birth of a brand new software field with my very eyes.
We devoted about a year to developing machine teaching techniques for a project. Our goal was to optimize not just the learning rate but also retention. When the subject matter is a good fit for machine teaching it can work very well.

One of the problems with the human effectively limiting the rate at which the fitness function can be evaluated is that the "teaching solution" converges very slowly. This is where a-priory rules can make it more dynamic and make the difference between usable and unusable.
I still love my iPad 2. I read flipboard, ibooks and kindle on it in bed. That said, its still an iPad 2, I don't need to upgrade it for 4-5 years (which makes me due for an upgrade soon).

I'd be more interested in a bigger iPad Pro if it could retain the design and lightness of the iPad air.
Well, Korolev also spent some months in GULAG. But I believe the point in article was not that people in system were "suddenly" agreeing with system - rather that system's concepts lead them to some discoveries.
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Have you tried using a touch-pad to rotate or move something lately? Twist your wrist in all kinds of unnatural directions, slide your fingers at unintuitive rates, and maintain the perfect amount of pressure as you drag something without dropping it in a location you can't easily 'undo' from...

No thanks.
As the article says, there is little reason to ever replace tablets. Consider that Apple is still selling the first-gen iPad mini, which is on par with the iPad 2 from 2011! And if someone bought an Android tablet in 2011, it probably still makes for a good mobile movie player.

> Not long ago, we were assured the iPad and its ilk were destined to dominate our everyday lives.

I find it really hard to estimate how much people do use tablets since most tablets (I assume) only have Wi-Fi and are left at home. All we have as a proxy are sales numbers and web statistics. My iPad certainly has its spot in my everyday life.
Most likely reason is the same reason I haven't bought a new tablet for some time: tablets have a longer life span. The things it could do several years ago are the same things I'm having it do now. Nothing has changed. So why spend money on a new tablet that will be used for something my existing tablet does now?

Are they falling out of favor, or do people just not need to buy a new one every year or two?
That sounded like your wife was going to leave you because you were underwater doing what you wanted, and she changed her mind because you were solvent again. If that's case, assuming you already knew the kind of person you were married to, the quit-and-focus option was quite a gamble. I'm glad it paid out.
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When React Native gets released you'll definitely see the hype train start up again.
> and to be honest, I think their technical choice of going for Javascript will be their ultimate downfall, but that's a discussion for another day

I'd like to see this discussion today ;)
Thanks for that informative link about the number of providers and the speed links. I wonder what the velocity of those numbers is, or how fast the average speed available is increasing. Also, I am enjoying my advancing years quite a bit. <you need to read this next part in the Ernest P. Worrell lecturing mode (look him up)> You kids and your making a federal issue about only having one provider of 25Mbps for your you-tubes, and your corporately produced circuses. Talk about a first world problem. Back in my day we had 9600bps, and by golly we were grateful to have that. Get off my lawn ;-)
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> ISPs trying to charge to (de)prioritize packets

I'm still not getting it. Isn't this like saying restaurants are charging to provide more flavorful, healthier food? The cost burden may appear to fall on the suppliers in the ISP case, but they just pass that onto the consumer, just like the price you see next to the menu item.

Problem 1 only appears to be a problem because of problem 2. It's a competition issue. Are we really closer to solving problem 2 now? How so?
I waited a long time to buy a tablet, because I had a phone, a netbook, a Kindle, and a laptop. I couldn't figure out where it fit into that equation.

But, since getting a Nexus 7 on sale (partly because I wanted to tinker with making mobile apps and wanted to have a tablet sized device to test on) I've found a number of use cases that I didn't realize I had.

The best, most useful, thing is that I use it to work on my Spanish language learning. For the first time in my life, I practice my Spanish every day; for a few minutes before sleep, for a few minutes after waking up, and it replaces my Kindle for restroom visits. I've found my reading comprehension is better than it's ever been, even better than when I spent two years in Spanish class in high school and when I spent more than a month traveling deep in Mexico (where nobody speaks English) after just a short time. Duolingo and Memrise are great tools...so great that in a few more months, when I'm confident in my Spanish, I plan to focus on French. You can use both tools on a laptop, but I don't take my laptop to bed or to the restroom. And, the phone is just a little too small to be effective for this purpose, IMHO.

Likewise, I've found more time for doing online classes...the screen is big enough for videos, but switching between tabs or apps is tedious enough that I don't get distracted the way I do on my laptop or desktop. Again, a use case I discovered after getting the tablet.

I am a bit slow to adopt new stuff like this (but an early adopter of other things; I had a pager for years after everyone else has switched to cell phones, but then got a Sidekick very early in the smart phone story, because there was finally a thing I would want to use a phone for: Browsing the Internet and reading mail), so I dunno what that means for the general case, but I really like my tablet. It gets more use than my phone (because I literally hate phone calls, so my tablet does everything the phone does only better, except fit in my pocket and work without wifi).

"Eventually they end up on the nightstand, and used for reading news and looking at pictures in bed at night, before falling asleep"

Which is a pretty good use case, too. I won't buy a new Kindle when my current one dies (if it ever dies...my first Kindle lasted five+ years before I dropped it on the tile bathroom floor one too many times and cracked the screen), because a tablet works just as well for that use case and has many other uses.
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Yeah unbundling the last mile has worked quite well in the UK. The wires to the phone socket my London flat were put in by British Telecom but now used by Plus Net to provide me broadband at about half BTs rates. I'm not quite sure how the deal works between the companies - I guess Plus Net rents the line from BT at some government fixed price? I pay like £13 a month line rental.
I'm completely the opposite. When I wake up via alarm clock for work (at about 7:30) I feel irritated and unhappy. My brain is a complete fog and it's difficult to concentrate on anything until about ten or so. Even getting dressed is a chore. My whole morning a struggle to go through the motions and I don't really start firing on all cylinders until after lunch.

When I wake up naturally (on the weekends) it's between 9 and 10. I read a book in bed for about an hour or so, get up, shower and have coffee and feel like I can kick the world's ass by 11. I read, work on math problems or my various projects until about 2-3 am when I fall asleep naturally, unless I have to go to work the next day in which case I try to force myself to fall asleep between midnight and 1.
Only because you have so much karma...

Automation won't destroy jobs because technology and society change faster than automation can keep up. Think of all the job titles that didn't exist 30 years ago (social media marketer, seo specialist, etc). By the time those are automated away, they will be replaced another set of jobs that we can't even conceive of. It's tempting to think that it's different this time, but it probably isn't.

Secondly, the number of jobs and job titles is entirely arbitrary. We often think of the world as though there are a fixed number of jobs and once machines take them all then we're out of luck. But there is no limit or constraint of any kind on what a human can be hired to do. If you've ever worked at a growing startup you'll understand the impact of Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill the time and resources allotted. In practice, companies tend to use the savings from automation to hire more people. And they should, it usually turns out to be a smart investment in human capital.

Ultimately, very few managers will say "I have enough people working for me and I don't need to hire anyone else". Those words have been uttered maybe 5 times in all of human history, including when I typed them just now. People like hiring, and the numbers just don't support the hypothesis of technology destroying jobs. The US unemployment rate now is similar to what it was in 1920. Despite automation in factories, Ford employs a similar number of people now to what it did in 1970, albeit no longer in factory jobs. If the advance of technology was truly putting people out of work, don't you think it would be evident by now?
Just in case you don't know about it. If you are looking for an editor written, and extensible, in (j)ruby then there is always http://redcareditor.com/

Project is dead but the program is a pretty fully-fledged text editor from what I have heard.
I totally agree with the recommedation of Red Plenty. It's really a lucid set of stories about the Soviet system. I can't say I really knew a lot going into it, but it doesn't fall into the trap of saying "damn commies" every few pages.

The scene with the Gosplan planner trying to solve the problem of allocation of resources is a particularly damning indictment of central planning.
Of course it makes sense for some countries. Some countries (IE: the US) have the money to put up for research and development..and are willing to take the risk. Once it's been proven, other countries (that don't have the money or are unwilling to risk it), benefit from it.
Your assumption is wrong, IE is usually the last browser I test. In my experience the rendering of Webkit and Gecko have more issues than Trident.

I don't remember every edge-case I have faced since ever, but for example, the following selector used to fail with Webkit browsers, and the response from Apple were "WONTFIX for performance reasons":

.checkbox:checked + .sibling + .second_sibling { display:block; }

Also, in my experience, the sites that look broken in IE11 (ex. Facebook) is because the website author (or the compatibility lists from MS) set an old/faulty document mode via X-UA-Compatible.

I'm not trying to claim that IE is a better browser than Firefox/Chrome, because this is subjective (and personally I prefer Opera), but I'm trying to say that you must not develop a website in Firefox/Chrome assuming they never have faults.

IE is not as broken as people claim, and there are edge cases where IE is right and the other browsers wrong.
It's really easy to dismiss React. My suggestion would be to give it a try... it's very easy to pick up (unlike Angular) and would suit most of the use cases where you would use Angular. Writing a state heavy code editor in React is definitely not a best use case for React.
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My tablet has been replaced by my Chromebook for everyday usage. I like my keyboard and not having to "set up" the screen for viewing. With a tablet you have to hold it in your hands or get a fancy case or prop it up against something. And I cannot escape my love for the tactile keyboard! Does anyone actually enjoy writing and editing emails or comments on a tablet versus a keyboard?
Please make more of them.
If NAND continues to function the way it does today, we would still need to standardize on some kind of interface to get traction. The advantage of SATA, SAS, PCIe, et. al. are their pervasiveness in the PC world. His proposal basically boils down to "NAND on SATA is kinda slow because of all the latency from stuff. We should just hook the NAND up to one of the upstream buses." It's unclear to me how this is different from what is already being done.
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It seems to arise out of several possible factors.

In the case of money, it's the statutory definition of value. Since specie has value independent of the nominal value (though usually below nominal, hence, seigniorage), where there's a positive, valuable metals are hoarded.

In most of the other instances noted, value determination is by other means, some set by market, some by difficulty in full value assessment.

But in all cases there's an informational asymmetry, where the party who's aware of the true value of a good (or service) may choose to act in ways which maximize benefits (or minimize losses) that are both 1) not fully captured in market value and 2) aren't accessible to the counterparty.
If you literally notice that your mind is fading during the day, and that feeling has started in the recent several months, often that is a sign of either vision problems or acute diabetes.
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Thanks. I'm not familiar with the specifics.
My thoughts exactly. I think anyone not familiar with the history of GCC/EGCS would do well to read up a bit...the current node.js/io.js situation almost an exact parallel. I also hope that Joyent takes note that EGCS was probably one of the best things to happen to GCC, and that the shift in governance model is likely one of the reasons for GCC's current success.
So do you see the light part of the dress as white? If so, what colors are the cow-print looking clothing just behind this one on the left?
How many guesses would you need for typical NAT gateway LAN side IP?

I'd say two.
The problem with theory papers like this is you an prove anything with the right model. Economics is not physics. It's very hard to create a model where you get out more than you put in. So if you have some plausible idea, it's almost certain you can formalize this as a mathematical model.

People attack classical economics as simplistic, but classical economics is actually a very rare case where you can get an interesting or even counter intuitive result from your assumptions.
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What's falling is the price of tablets. They're below $50 now on Amazon, with a 1-year warranty.[1] Low-end tablets are already starting to replace restaurant menus and TV remotes.

Phones are personal devices. Tablets are more place-oriented; they'll be in office conference rooms, hotel rooms, and restaurants for whomever needs to use them. They'll be too cheap to steal, and tied to a local WiFi key so they're useless elsewhere.

The main problem is keeping them charged. Phones have individual humans slaved to them to tend to their needs, but place-oriented tablets do not.
The wireless charging industry needs to get their act together, unify their three competing standards (Qi, Powermat, and A4WP), and get a charging unit into every business hotel room and airline tray table, then start on conference room tables.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N369KKY
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This dress looks white and gold to me, but Google says it's black and blue
I don't know why anyone hasn't done it yet, but heres the colour makeup from mspaint
http://i.imgur.com/6BuG9m7.jpg
I have a suspicion that every great Perl, Ruby, and Python developer can write reasonable JS, which actually makes it an even bigger community still.
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your server is vulnerable to a number of Xen security vulnerabilities:
http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/

Including this one from Oct 1, 2014 that allows guests to read up to 3KB of memory from the hypervisor or other guests:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7188

http://threatpost.com/serious-hypervisor-bug-fix-causes-unex...
Mostly written stuff - I'm a computational epidemiologist, so not heartbreaking works of art or the like. But for me, and actually "doing work", the iPad has the following really nice features:

- For whatever reason, the iPad does not do the thing normal computer screens do when reading papers, which is to make my eyes slide right off them. So while not content creation, it's way nicer than hauling around a stack of journals. I use Papers for this.

- I use either iA Writer or Pages to actually write content, and cut away all the distractions of working on a laptop (like say, Hacker News...). Usually commentaries, discussion sections, introductions - things that need more writing and less clever table formatting. I also use this to write posts for my blog (www.variancehammer.com) which is about Warhammer 40K and my mostly data-driven musings on the game.

- iSSH for SSH access to the cluster, and the sweet, sweet computational power that follows. There's something thrilling about launching cluster jobs from my bedside.

- Keynote for presentations

- PythonMath and Textastic for some musing and prototyping.

- TouchDraw for brainstorming model flow diagrams and the like and having them on-hand later.
I see the photo as a dark blue and black, but my girlfriend sees it as white and gold, we are not color blind. Very strange. There is a guy on Vimeo that uses Photoshop to detect the colors too [1].

[1] https://vimeo.com/120762310
> I'm really enjoying how fast Javascript frameworks and practices are churning, it makes me feel like I'm witnessing the birth of a brand new software field with my very eyes.

I totally agree. A language or technology that doesn't change is dead. The JS world can get a crazy sometimes but we need to understand WHY certain frameworks/patterns may be better and when to apply them.

Kudos to the Atom team on making their product better.
thats great, wish the team best of luck for their future!!
You forgot separation of research and teaching.
WoW! All the best guys. You rock!!
I haven't read the code, but I can make an guess as to why (at least one reason): Atom is using one web-renderer. React supports many version of many renderers/browser. Drop all that cruft and just go directly to the 'native' code.
My Samsung tablet is a pain to hold because it's got buttons on the sides, and buttons on the bezel. I'm always trying to find a way to hold it that doesn't press a button.
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As another data point on your behalf, Netflix won't even serve 720p unless you have 5mbps service;

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306
One editor barely using React doesn't mean it's going to swing back the other way now. React actually has good ideas and breathes fresh air into the JS community.

Let's not forget how kick ass React is y'all.
Yeah this whole issue can even be interpreted as being passive-agressive. Not saying that it is, but it just has a weird feeling surrounding it, almost as if there is a huge grudge between each other, and being overly political (correct).

They are not really starting a discussion, this is more of a "you need to do everything different, or else..", as if they are now building up some evidence that they can later use to support their argument of "hey, /we/ tried to be compatible, but it is /their/ fault".

But I'm probably reading too much into this.
Such a coup does rest on most of the 359 working groups voting in agreeance according to the provisional and not yet entirely decided, declared, or ratified by-laws of the tentative constitution of the current committee's purview of the project, however.

My opinion? I shall say that, as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one thing with another in terms of the average of the will of the working groups, then in the final analysis it is probably true to say, that at the end of the day, in general terms, you would probably find that, not to put too fine a point on it, there probably isn't an easy way to tell if they'll vote one way or the other. As far as one can see, at this stage.

I do see that there is a real dilemma here. In that, while it has been the policy to regard policy as a responsibility of Joyent and administration as a responsibility of Joyent's officials, the questions of administrative policy can cause confusion between the policy of administration and the administration of policy, especially when responsibility for the administration of the policy of administration conflicts, or overlaps with, responsibility for the policy of the administration of policy.
I'm with you, it's like asking for the ability to read something is blasphemous. Never did either of us say we were against it, but the flood of downvotes. Oh my.
Are you in a position to negotiate four days/week with your employer?
I may be missing something here (it's really late) but I'm able to quite easily hold and type on my iPad quite easily, in fact its happening right now.

I've found that I moved most things to the iPad mini when I first got it. Dropbox + editorial (Python scripting!) + workflow and an updated IFTTT has me rarely reaching for my MacBook pro or heading to the iMac or Mac Pro.

Also Procreate (absolutely awesome app) has me sketching and painting again, now that I don't have to carve out space in my life for an easel and paint gear.

Hmm, this I guess has expanded beyond your comment and into being a bit of a reply to the no content creation mantra in a comment below, but there it is.
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That's my point. Earning a wage 5 or 6 times higher than average is still considered by the OP to be middle class. Something is wrong when the "middle" also includes professionals who earn far higher than average. Western society, particularly London, is too focused on the elites. Everyone who isn't a banker is balled up in the "middle class" catch-all.

For instance, a tax break by government to help "the middle class" shouldn't be helping lawyers and doctors. They aren't middle class. Progressive taxation or benefits should not aid those earning 200k/year.
Stalin purged so many military commanders it's doubtful USSR wouldn't have advantages in WW2 without Stalin. The war would likely be fought very differently - or not fought at all, as Hitler wouldn't be so careless with his Barbarossa plan.
I started off seeing white/gold but after looking at it for a while and playing with the images, I see blue/black.

Whipped up a simulation for it: https://grack.com/demos/dress/