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It is ridiculous to say that Apple hasn't introduced any new ideas or improvements to the smartwatch space.
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Useful for seeing what changed, not so useful for merging unless the images are extremely simple.
There was no indication given that ESA had presented arguments any more nuanced than "hacking is illegal", nor was there a link to ESA's argument. Your comment, too, is a bit... uncharitable in its assessment of our intelligence.

Here is EFF's chosen title for this article:

Videogame Publishers: No Preserving Abandoned Games, Even for Museums and Archives, Because All "Hacking" is Illegal

Well, that, and about thirty other things.

Later, summarizing EFF's own article, is this sentence, which is its own graf:

Behind this hyperbole, ESA (along with MPAA and RIAA) seem to be opposing anyone who bypasses game DRM for any reason, no matter how limited or important.

This appeal to "hyperbole" is a straw man.
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Network of Thought is a fantastic place to start, and the text is available online: http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-tex...
Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, Ruby on Rails, PlayFramework, Linux, OSX, PostgreSQL, git

Résumé/CV: http://bit.ly/eantonini

Email: through linkedin
Yes, they said "all hacking is illegal", and given the definition they're using for "hacking", that's a perfectly reasonable thing to claim. The real debate is whether modifying computer games counts as "hacking" under that definition. Debates just about definitions aren't interesting.
My grandfather's watch only lasts a day between windings.
> I don't understand why the ESA cares at all about this.

Simple. They are control freaks and have paranoid fear of DRM dying out. That's because DRM + anticircumvention were never about copyright. It's for controlling markets and stifling technological progress.
Monkeyfighting snakes on a Monday-to-Friday plane ain't got nothing on autocorrect censorship: "pain in the arose", "what the duck?", "you're gonna see some serious shot".
Sounds a lot like Google's behavior on GTalk amounts to 'embrace, extend, extinguish'... except that they failed.
For the routing, this seems like the traditional server-side routing where you have a 1 to 1 relationship between a page and a URL (as opposed to a relationship between an URL and a state). If that premise is correct, does this mean Skit would have difficulty doing things like deep linking?
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I wonder if OOB data is ever going to be fixed to allow more than one byte.

I can't quite comprehend how the implementation got so screwed up in the first place. A two byte field in every header, supposed to be a pointer to designate a range of data, OBVIOUSLY when it's set it should transmit exactly one byte of information.
I do this everyday also. I'm gone by 3:15 and my coworkers are there until 6-7. I prefer going in before rush hour and leaving before rush hour and get the most of the day light. It is nice not having hard work hours so we can work on our own schedule. Now if I could just get to work from home a day or two.
Stuff that's close to the hardware:

- Embedded software to control any kind of interesting device in real time (industrial machinery, vehicles, robots, disk drives, etc.).

- Operating system kernel code.

I had a little bit of experience doing this in school (took some hardware classes; hacked a Unix device driver), but that was a long time ago and I haven't done anything like that since then.
map takes a function and returns a function that takes a list and returns a list. It has a type like: (a->b) -> [a] -> [b] (I take a function from type a to type b and return a function from list of a to list of b)

define

double_list_elements = map (*2)

and

> double_list_elements [1, 2, 3, 4]

gives you [2, 4, 6, 8]
What new ideas and improvements would those be? Honest and non-argumentative question. I mean of course besides the beautiful engineering (I like the appearance of the Apple Watch) and digital crown.
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In the end, all those arguments basically say "any exemption to hackers legitimizes hacking and helps pirates" along with a few tired arguments about disappearace not equaling disappearance, which is the same rule that keeps so many old books locked away decades after the rights owners have all but vanished.

It's the same song the ESA has sung for years to step in the way of legitimate hacking, and is not too far away from "won't someone think of the children!"
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We turned on largefiles extension almost a year ago and have come to regret that decision. The major pain point is with integrations, from Eclipse plugin to most any repository management/hosting solution tend to either have bugs or full-on don't support those repos. With plain mercurial workflow it works in most situations, but still rears its ugly head. The maintainers of mercurial classify it as a "feature of last resort" (Read http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FeaturesOfLastResort).

Switching off largefiles requires rebuilding the repository which rebuilds the entire repository. Orchestrating the migration to a new repository for engineering department is also painful which is why we're stuck for the near future (for example ongoing support for a version that's built from largefiles repo with ongoing feature work in non-largefiles repo).

The tooling for mercurial tends to lack behind git's, likely due to git's enormous popularity - so I personally would recommend avoiding largefiles extension.
He probably meant to say Ruby (and Rails)? Didn't Rails contribute greatly to the popularity of Ruby itself though - I think it would hard to argue otherwise.
I wish I still had your high estimation of tech support customers.
Again, it works the same way. The map function takes the argument (*2) and returns a function, which is then applied to the list.
itunes is an absolute cunt
Just consider this list of ~250 dead mmos:

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/show/dead/Cancelled-MMORP...

Also consider the case of games like Starsiege: Tribes, where, to my recollection, it was perfectly possible to set up online game servers, but the master server was hard-coded in the executable, so anyone wishing to play this game nowadays must "hack" it.

On consoles the case is even worse. Take for example the case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny_of_Spirits , a game for which the servers will be shut down on June 30, 2015. There is currently not even a feasible way to gain any kind of access to the executable itself to redirect it somehow, since despite the fact of it being "free", it's on an incredibly locked-down platform. Further, despite it being free, it has microtransactions and there will likely be a good number of people who spent preposterous amounts on it, who will be locked out of it entirely.

Frankly, there is a myriad of games out there with online components who are at this date straight-up broken and unusable pieces of software, and as far as i am concerned any attempt to portray this as anything other than fact is a bald-faced lie.

Edit: Also, as for you being boxed into something, you're making the age-old mistake of saying "don't", without providing an alternative "do". (In this case the "do" would be concrete examples of what the EFF should've said instead.) It's too late to fix that now, but maybe keep that in mind next time.

EditEdit: Also consider that effectively the two games SC2 and D3 are abandoned as far as customers are concerned who naively bought them to play as single player games and have no internet connectivity. A similar case is also Elite: Dangerous, which was promised as an offline- and online-game, but in which the offline- component was cut mid-development despite many of the kickstarter investors having invested based entirely around the premise of obtaining a working singleplayer product.
The last statement reminds me of Linus saying

we do not break user space

If an application is utilizing a bug, it is not a bug but a feature
In the time since I got my current phone (an S3), my wife's gone through 3 of them (though all S3s, and primarily through insurance replacement). The primary reason I haven't replaced my phone (as this is my third or fourth "smartphone") is because my carrier changed their hardware policies, making a new phone more expensive unless I move to an older phone (though I could still get a newer model than the S3 for a fairly low price). My particular S3 has been great, while my wife's have been less resilient.

As for anything really keeping me from upgrading, other than a slight fear that the new phone might not be as good as the current phone, I'm really not afraid of losing contacts or anything else. I think I've gotten to the point where the new models aren't really offering a compelling reason to upgrade (other than planned obsolescence as apps get more bloated and OS versions become unsupported).

As for the Apple Watch (and competitors), I think there are three primary demographics:
1. Boomers who look at it as the "Dick Tracy" accessory.
2. Those who like to wear a large, expensive watch primarily as a showpiece (especially since so many people stopped wearing watches when they started using their phones as a timepiece).
3. Those interested in the tech.
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You want to have lots of links so you rank high, but you can't do that by buying links. They're fairly worthless. A good alternative is all the linking you get from press, guest posts on external sites (though I feel like that ship has probably sailed since when I found it effective a few years back), and generally making sure there's a lot of organic seeming backlinks to an array of sites with diversity in anchor text as well.

So if I had $5k now to spend:

0. Do an audit or have someone do an audit to see that you're not screwing something up completely.
1. AdWords, if you know that you convert well enough to turn a profit.
2. Internal content stuff: a blog, whitepapers, whatever.
3. External content stuff: 20 backlinks on >PR3 sites should move the needle for sure.

$5k may also do nearly nothing at all depending on what you're trying to rank for. Even medium-sized eCommerce folks probably spend $20k a month on getting backlinks from external sites.
Good grief how did I not even mention them! They are literally my favorite thing ever. I've got like, 30 slides on them here: https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-...

;-)
A place I used to work at would do catered lunch once a month for everyone. Except for night shift, we got the left overs from day shifts lunch. Every month.
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function open_st2 {
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}
Discussion from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9330734
If you sign an agreement with your friend behind your girlfriend's back you're looking out for your own interests. You're in effect controlling or limiting her choice without her knowledge.
I've got 200GB+ of photos,maybe 10 times that in video, all because I have kids and I'll probably never look at most of them again , yet I NEED to save them somewhere!
tosh, I have become more and more interested in Dart recently and was wondering where you use it in the company?

I have read Quire's (http://www.quire.io) article on using Dart to develop their application and it seemed very positive. I just wondered about your experience.
It seems that maybe they were manufacturing mind games just to edge him out, for various reasons. But if Apple is so good at making bold moves and quick decisions, it's weird that his superiors would act so childishly toward him.
Windows has always been super-visual. For many tasks there isn't even a CLI way to do it short of editing the registry.
Cutler is a f'n genius. He was 47 when Bill Gates called him up in the late 80s and poached him from DEC. He was one of the core architects of VMS and brought all his A-team with him to Microsoft. NT was engineered to be a high performance OS from day one, and it is evident throughout the architecture of the kernel and executive.

Linus was 22 and implemented enough system calls such that he could run bash, mocking a UNIX-like system, which, again, VMS ran rings around in the day.

Linux's success has absolutely nothing to do with technical superiority.
Unlikely. Almost nothing uses OOB data (and it's unclear what it's even useful for!), so there's no demand to fix it.

More likely, I suspect, would be a gradual move to deprecate OOB data. It's a poorly designed wart on TCP.
This seems like a useful tool for managing a complex service configuration problem. Nice work.
What happens when the companies go out of business? I suppose at that point if you break the law to get the game working there's no one left to sue you. Just like how you can circumvent existing abandonware's copyright restrictions to get the game working, (or even to restore multiplayer), acting illegally, and be practically fine.
Business Insider did a few stories last year, and I seem to have lost a pretty long blog post by three or four former executives that illustrated the Apple life.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-employees-confess-all-t...

As a person with direct experience of being affected, these stories ring true to me.
Moving the space app centric is a pretty big deal for me at least. Even if it requires teathering to a phone, and with the performance issues, it's a big step above the notification centric nature of Android Wear. Plus the ability to run on wifi and stay connected with the phone.

Not saying the device isn't worthy of most of its criticisms, but let's not pretend this is and iOS-ified version of Android Wear.
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It's ok :)

If it gets to be too much, we'll quickly see 'pay to keep your videos afloat if they're not receiving over X number of views after X number of days' or something else to that effect.

The days of everything free are an early stage, short-lived move in order to gain massive market-share. Once near-monopoly position is established, it'll be time to monetize.

That's why the older generation shakes their head at walled gardens that gain massive momentum - they know what's most certainly going to come of it in due time.
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The idea that an employee does not deserve a major payday for being an early employee at a startup misses the entire point of the practice: by substituting options for cash, the employer shifts a quantifiable risk from itself to the employee.

Stock options aren't simply an alternative/substitutable form of payment; an employee who takes options at a startup over cash from Google/Apple/etc takes a gamble. By "re-negotiating" the stock options, Zynga pulled the proverbial carpet out from under the employees who stood to lose the most. They were effectively punished for betting well.
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A few things I noticed while reading through the readme:

* For me to consider using a PHP library in 2015, it must support Composer.

* Currently, a lot of the API is static. This makes it hard to inject the template engine as a helper into some other code. Personally, I would prefer a non-static API.

* The template and cache paths seem to be fixed to the location of the library. If this becomes a Composer package, they must be configurable.

* From looking at the syntax, how does your library compare to Twig? Sure, the setup process for Twig (initializing the environment, template loader, cache and stuff) is a bit more work, but after that, it's as easy as ``$twig->render('mytemplate.twig', [...data...])``. (Plus, Twig has some nice syntactic sugar, like an else-clause for loops.)

* Is there automatic HTML encoding? This is one of the most compelling reasons for me to use a template engine. Whether or not stuff is automatically encoded, this should be mentioned prominently in the readme so that users don't create insecure templates.

* On a really completely personal note: I don't like ``.tpl`` as a file extension. It's too generic. It's like naming my PHP class files ``.class`` -- IMO the extension should indicate the file syntax/type, not the file's purpose. Plus if I look at your roadmap, using .tpl might be a problem when you support JavaScript as well.

[Edit] I just noticed how negative this all reads. Please take it as constructive cristicism rather than me bashing your work. :)
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What's the best way to get in touch? More than happy to share whatever I can on the subject.
Just to be clear, a Pipe counts as a channel for me; like I said, it requires a goroutine. Don't get me wrong, this is definitely the "right" go implementation, and what GHC does internally with thunks is way worse than goroutines.

The point is it no longer looks so superior to the Haskell version, especially since there were many LOC in the haskell version just defining the Key datatype which go never does.
Driver bug probably. Or hardware bug. re isn't especially popular, and there's about about 2 dozen revisions of the chip. Look at about line 679 in the driver. Maybe one of those switch cases is wrong.

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/ic/re.c...
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You can take a look here: http://simonpai.github.io/2014/09/03/quire-building-with-dar...
> Modeling extremal events

http://www.amazon.com/dp/3540609318/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=...
An employee who was given an outsized grant that far exceeded the contributions of the employee.

You pays your money and you takes your chances.
For those who are interested in an actual example, GameRanger supports hundreds of games which have been abandoned by their publishers.

And it has north of 6 million registered users.
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For something that foundational, you have to move as one giant, lumbering beast. Recall that Apple had at least one (that we know of) false start. A fair bit of the OS (CoreServices; Carbon, and the apps that still rely on it) still relies on HFS+-specific data structures and features.

Core Storage is already moving forward as an effort to dissociate the bytes in logical storage from the bits on physical media. In the short term, we might be able to sandbox the evils of HFS+ by having it just be a software abstraction on top of a much more modern file-system-like-thing. Yosemite already moves any machine it upgrades to Core Storage, even if you don't use FileVault.
I find this kind of stuff fascinating, but lack the CS and/or mathematics background to understand the discussion beyond the basics. I think I grasp the concepts outlined in the graphic novel linked elsewhere in these comments, but the whitepaper is too deep for me.

Any pointers for someone looking to gain an amateur understanding of this, or is this a topic of sufficient complexity that it precludes an amateur understanding?
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Perhaps the reason Jobs has been convincing to so many followers is because of the power of his own self-delusion.

It is possible he was very good at deluding himself.

Perhaps that self-delusion is contagious.

If one wants to believe something strongly enough, then maybe one can believe it.

If people want to believe that the only way to produce great form factor and ease of use in a computer is to be Jobs-like and conduct "business" like Apple, then they might believe that, even if there is a good chance or evidence this behaviour is not necessary.

It seems people have a difficult time separating the Apple products from the organization that sells them.

One may be worthy of adoration, the other may not.
https://www.backblaze.com/ ?

Archive the older stuff. Simple suggestion.
> So a host can provide for all windows apps, or all linux apps, but not a mix.

While this is true I feel like at some point in the future we're going to be able to mix both. I've seen some rough ideas as to how it could happen but they sounded almost impossible to pull off. Still, if we had a way to mix containers it would be absolutely amazing.
> You’re 16.

And you, and your crush, each have both an iPhone, and an Apple Watch, both charged, both connected to the internet.

> You’re in school. You’re sitting in class.

Do, or will, many high schools actually allow students to use smartwatches while in class?

> You have a crush on another student — you’ve fallen hard. ... You’re afraid to just come right out and ask, verbally — afraid of the crushing weight of rejection.

But I assume you already have this crush's phone number or information in your contacts to send them a heartbeat or drawing?
I seem to remember seeing this someplace before, where an executive on the upslope is fired and the new guy gets the credit for good new projects soon to release.
> Anything under 16 GB is unacceptable to me.

Because you've set very high requirements, as you've stated.

> Developer edition? Nope, not really.

Yes, it still is.
This is certainly not true. One of the guys in charge of Apple store approval had a number of apps on the app store.

http://www.imore.com/director-app-store-apple-fart-wiz-apps
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> Linux has epoll. BSD has kqueue. Windows has... well, about five different mechanisms that cover differing subsets of usecases and you can only choose one.

Aren't I/O completion ports fairly analogous to kqueue?
I think that is a failure of (all the) companies that think that way. In my opinion customer support is a crucial part of any organisation big enough to merit one. Who else talks directly to your customers on a daily basis? Do you mine the data to find out where the biggest issues are and use that to inform your feature roadmap?

I have worked in a call centre. It was an odd job, for a government department, ended up creating a sort of call logging and ticketing system for them - still used today (11 years later - but that's more an artefact of sunkworks dev in a government department than a testament to my coding skillz ;)

Anyway, my point is, those employees were told, and felt, that their service mattered, that the higherups listened to feedback etc. Excellent place to work and a very good atmosphere.
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This is the fundamental problem with companies. Far too often we relegate Customer support to this minion role when in reality, they are our eyes and ears into the customer feedback loop. We should stop putting capable people into this role and put our exceptional people. Personally, I plan to put the customer service department under my UX Director's management. If we're to be better companies, we need empathy, and I see no better manager to instill empathy than a UX Manager.
You mean like the Atreus? ;)

(I'm quite keen to try it some day! Love your work in the Emacs community by the way.)