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Zappos has given me one of my best customer service experiences ever. $135 sandals, pit-lab puppy chewed one of them (only a chunk, still wearable). I emailed them asking if I could buy one sandal... they actually sent me a new pair, told me to keep the old ones, and even upgraded me to their premium class where it's free one-day shipping. I never hesitate to recommend them to everyone.
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Yes, it also works for questions phrased in the negative, and 对/不对 (dui / bu dui) ("that's right"/"that's not right") does not make any sense as a response to that question, you need to use 会/不会 (hui/ bu hui) ("I can"/"I can't"). It's all very explicit compared to most languages.

But another, perhaps more natural way of negatively phrasing the question would be "你不会说中文，是吗？" or "你不会说中文，对吗？" or even the odd formulation that you mention "你不会说中文，对不对？" (You don't speak Chinese, right?), in which case you could respond with 对/不对 ("that's right"/"that's not right").
Please down voter(s), leave a note.. :)
Apple's business model is selling devices at a premium. Every choice they make is guided by that. In order to sell at a premium (as opposed to competing on price) their products have to be differentiated. This means no generic back-ends. No Android apps. The unlimited storage I guess they could do, but their customers self-select to be more willing than the average consumer to pay for value, so why should they?
And really Google's thank you is a fuck you. Try working in Europe or Australia: none of that 9pm nonsense. That is when I go to sleep after spending time with my family.

Edit: OK I see from other comments that those Googlers are doing 12pm to 9pm and it is flexible so doesn't sound so bad.
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Does this mean I can block all the annotations? (As I typed this it hit me that I hadn't even checked if that was possible from the settings)
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Can anyone recommend a good tool for exploring and decoding other binary formats? I am interested in analysis of non-code binary data.
Hmm, I didn't consider fast food because I so rarely eat it, but that's a good point.
Why reinvent the same thing? What were the technical deficiencies of git-annex that necessitated this? Or is this NIH syndrome? I think these are all reasonable questions.
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Sort of. Enter-PSSession is backed by http or https [1] and is not as good as ssh. You can interact with PowerShell, but you can't interact with command-line programs launched from PS.

[1] Grep for "http" on this page: http://ss64.com/ps/enter-pssession.html
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No, that's exactly right.
Don't know where you got that. The 'free' part of free market means the seller can set their price any way they wish - the market prices are not set by any authority. In such a market "let the buyer beware" is the norm. The information available to the consumer is another issue entirely, and no assumption of perfect knowledge is assumed.
From the same author: https://github.com/ardagnir/pterosaur
Which does absolutely nothing on Patch Tuesday updates that require a reboot.
It supports hotpatching, but there're nuances like everything that is being updates has to support it, otherwise reboot will be required.
Nor is HBO Now or the MacBook.
5,888x...here is the math I used:

MySQL Time: 588.86 seconds
BigObject Time: 0.1 second

588.86/0.1 = 5888.6 which is 5888.6x :)

Hope this helps!
Yes the silver fox is IT's best kept secret.
Yes, here's a post by bradfitz https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-dev/nMWoEAG55v8/iJGgu...
Well for safety it's a logical AND, not an OR. But for liveness you'd most likely you'd have some threshold. For example, you might that at least 34 of the 50 are honest.
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Do hackers find visualizations helpful even though a lot of them seem to be at home with abstract thinking?
Your $500 Movado uses a cheap Quartz movement that costs about $5 anyway, so it's as reliable and accurate as any $5 POS :)

Only mechanical watches require maintenance and are less accurate.
The optimal arrangement for both companies is no poaching.

As soon as someone pulls the trigger and starts poaching it gets exponentially more expensive for these companies to operate.

This is the Prisoner's Dilemma, plain and simple.
Glassdoor makes for interesting reading :).
Acqui-hires, amigo... swallow a company, fire the bottom 10%, give the rest offers, see who sticks around after 1-2 years. They're gobbling up companies so fast that they're running out of office space to house them all.
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I'm not too confident powershell is really good enough to compete with the ancient unix shell. I've tried using it to automate windows machines, but it's certainly not a smooth experience.

Part of that is the lack of a history of automation - basic things to do with processes and I/O are kind of schizophrenic. All of the basics are clearly unix inspired (standard streams, processes, redirection - this is all unix-like), but many windows tools use different conventions to exchange data and control channels - powershell has a real object model.

In principle powershell's richer object model is a boon to automation - it's so much easier not to make mistakes if you don't need to massage your data through lots of slightly different text-based hacks, but the object model just isn't nearly pervasive enough. Sometimes you still need plain text/binary streams, and the transition isn't great. More fundamentally, the object model isn't well thought out - it's built on .NET, but that's clearly a single-process focused world view, and for a inter-process management tool, that poses problems. Even if sending objects between processes would work smoothly, there's the issue that objects don't compose or reflect as smoothly as text. It's hard to put your finger on, but for example, you can use things like regex's to do fairly fancy pattern matching on strings, and the equivalent for objects just isn't there in powershell. As a result, things work great if you're doing something that the underlying processes "want" you to do - but if you're trying to hack around some limitation, or try something novel, it's much more painful than in bash.

I think it's also worth mentioning some practical problems: Powershell is really slow and heavy. You can cheaply pipe and juggle data in a unix shell, but by doing that in powershell I've seen machines grind to a halt. A fresh powershell instance has a working set of 100MB on my machine; bash: 5MB. That's a problem. Startup time, similarly, is slow. This isn't a problem if you're working purely interactively - no human is going to notice an extra 10ms here or there, but in scripting, you can easily start so many processes that the difference becomes very noticable.

Powershell isn't terrible, but it just doesn't work as well as the unix shell, despite all the warts that has. Maybe some day everything will speak powershell, and it'll faster, smaller, and have a better story concerning pattern matching, but right now it's relatively ineffective compared to a plain unix shell, in my experience (which is windows centric).
How much thrust would you need to move a person up hill on skis? I wonder if a paragliding motor might work?
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They're amoral entities that are effectively programmed to make the most money. So really they're working as intended if they do that shit because it allows them to make more money.
I don't like to talk about it, but some tech giants are going the same path as investment banks. I left my quant job to get freedom in the Valley, but it turned out to not be so different.
> I presume it's nice that you can actually customize xmonad with code. So an appropriate DSL would be a programming language so using Haskell makes sense. Any other DSL would be more limiting.

You've hit the nail on the head here --- the problem is that xmonad offers an unlimited scope for configuration, including extensions to the behavior of xmonad. I'd rather see a clear separation between mechanisms for configuration and extension, even if that reduces the power of configuration.
I'm not talking of happiness in that context. You are never truly free if as long as you have to work to make a living.

Once you have financial independence you can do anything you want, take unlimited vacations, learn music, go hiking, ride a motorcycle all day, heck you can even code all day and work on interesting projects without the fear of getting fired, denied a raise or whatever.

Work you like makes you happy, but not free.
This history misses many important board games. If this topic interests you check out Tom Vasel's board gaming channel on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/user/thedicetower/search?query=best+...

These guys seem to know more about board gaming then anyone I've ever encountered. And I've been playing board games for ~30 years.
> "He wasn't doing anything to hold down salaries"

Wow. That's... ballsy.

Sure, holding down salaries might not have been the primary motivation.

Doesn't change the fact that collusive no-hire agreements hold down salaries, and Cook and Jobs are smart enough to know this.
Most stuff I use have PS cmdlets so its not really an issue with me.
> Uber and Lyft, for example, are dead as soon as self-driving cars become viable

True, if they're not nimble enough to adapt. But think about that statement applied to Netflix 10 years ago. "Netflix is dead as soon as video streaming becomes viable" (i.e. They were a DVD rental business).

I could see Uber and Lyft adding a fleet of self-driving cars for people to call on-demand. Or even closer to their current model: maybe they sign up owners of those cards to sublet them in the middle of the day while they're at the office.

I don't think most of us—me included—can fully appreciate the massive shift that will come if and when cars are fully autonomous, driving about with no occupants.
Samsung made phones long before the iPhone existed.
And this is why google sucks: even technically apt people can get suckered. Google bears responsibility for what's in the chrome web store, except they (as standard) duck it and dump all responsibility onto the users. If even sophisticated users can get fooled, what hope do most folks have?

The answer is for google to own what is in their store, but that costs money.
Wasn't Zappos one?
It's a bummer that video plays at 30fps. This is a case where 60 (does YouTube do higher framerates?) would pay off.
> Apple could re-introduce the Newton and Gruber would be writing about it's "elegant simplicity" and "thoughtful processing".

Hmmm... that's a reasonably fair assessment of the Newton. Did you ever use one? Perhaps you could have picked a better sarcastic description.
Nitpick: they gave four examples of large binary files: audio samples, datasets, graphics, and videos. Diffs would be meaningful in every case.
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You can now access your photos through icloud.com.

Yes, their free tier should be much larger.
They've never served lunch here. Maybe we should have more funerals...

>> Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife. -- Obligatory Four Yorkshiremen[1] Python reference

Not to poke fun at folks suffering, we've all been there and it's not healthy.

The question is, what system could we put in place that would reward a positive work culture and penalize *hattery? I know Glassdoor tries, but is there a way to measure this that won't be gamed out of shape?

1. http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/jokes/monty-python-four-yorkshi...
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That's fine. Then this release (and frankly, any MS product) is not for you.

But some enterprises use MS software, and this is a much needed option.

ObVote: I downvoted your complaint imaginary internet points has no bearing on the discussion at hand.
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That's true also chess is a game where all variables are known, poker is not. So I agree they don't line up well in comparison. Again this was just an oversimplification that just because luck is a part of a game it doesn't mean that skill doesn't play a factor.
Or Hyper-V, or VMWare Equivalent (Fusion/Workstation/etc)
You are completely right. Now think of an exact opposite case. You can do all the hard work and yet get treated unfairly.

Not all hardworking people are successful and not all successful people are hardworking.
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My hope that this finally signals Zynga's pivot back into the gambling world.
I don't get this. Rather, to rival Linux, they should make a beefed-up version of Windows that contains good accessory programs - currently my Windows installations need gnuwin32 or similar in order to have all the things that Windows is missing and that come with any Linux distro (textutils, powerful editors, etc).
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Jobs was a tyrant just like Tramiel. Working under either of them was apparently not pleasant, though sharing in their success when they had it must have been.

The big qualitative difference between the two is one was an aesthete and the other was not. Tramiel didn't care about elegance, he just wanted to sell.

That doesn't mean the people under him didn't care about such things, and the Atari ST actually is an elegant machine, but an incomplete elegant machine.

For example GEM (a Digital Research creation licensed by Atari) was incomplete. The API is elegant for the 80s. The AES in it was clearly designed for a multitasking system, and one with potentially more finesse than the Amiga had. But it wasn't truly finished -- while the API reflected concerns of multitasking the actual implementation was non-reentrant and the OS it was layered over was a crude DOS/CP/M-like OS.

The key designer on the GEM AES @ Digital Research apparently came from the Xerox Star project. He was obviously smart. The execution was flawed -- both at DR and at Atari.

But this did not concern Tramiel, he just wanted to ship.
You're not the only one - I still use it daily.
Yeah, but the interesting part is that for a while, Samsung was the only manufacturer capable of producing LCD screens that met Apple's specs. Apple outbid Samsung's mobile division on those parts, so that resulted in a situation where the iPhone had better screens than the Galaxy, even though the iPhone's screen was manufactured by Samsung. AFAIK Samsung still manufactures Apple's mobile CPUs (likely under heavy NDA; like when accounting firms audit each other).

But you're right, being such a critical component of Apple's supply chain has likely given Samsung inside knowledge of Apple's platforms. As a result, Apple has been diversifying their supply chain to avoid Samsung.

I don't know that plays into their dominance of the Android market though. Samsung was already the top consumer electronics brand in the world prior to the release of the iPhone, so it's not surprising that would carry over into mobile phones. It was certainly a factor, though probably not a large one.
Maybe binglide (https://github.com/wapiflapi/binglide). A few alternative are also detailed in its README
>Put another way: "don't have the choice any more"

An odd way to describe an optional feature.

>And its only hard to run a home file server because its hard and nobody has made it easier

You've heard of Back To My Mac, no? That's a thing that exists. Pretty simple to use. Free. Built right in to the OS.

It would have been much easier, from a technical standpoint, for Apple to have extended that sort of file sharing to Photos or iTunes, than to go around building huge datacenters and etcetera.

But it wouldn't have been what most people want. Most people don't have the home bandwidth to be hosting their own media. Most people don't want to have to leave a server running 24/7. Nearly all of the drawbacks to cloud storage you've cited in this thread would be considered by most people to be _features_.

(Privacy is the sole exception. It's also the reason I, personally, don't happen to use iCloud. But I don't think Apple is stupid for choosing to implement functionality for the majority of people, even if I don't happen to be part of that majority.)

>as it stands, this Cloud business is just another reason not to need a Mac.

Feel free to want what you want; I'm just pointing out that what you want is idiosyncratic.
Showing diffs for binary assets doesn't need to include things like "brightness 1%". GitHub currently supports image diffs, they're simply displayed side by side, or on top of each other.
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Awesome thanks for quoting. I haven't seen that book but I'll look into it.

I can't remember where I first heard the analogy. I believe it was a poker pro on a podcast or training video. It was many years ago.
Doesn't it seem a little weird that you adapt your life around your gadgets rather than vice versa?
I've head John Siracusa discuss this, but I can't find a good link at the moment. Yes, with cloud storage systems, there is a chance that with HFS+ you're just backing up garbage and possibly won't notice until you use the file. HFS+ is not really equivalent to its peers.
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> which are usually actually Apple leaks

That's really interesting. How do you know this?
Dart has a very talented team but they have not filled its potential yet if one is judging by popularity and perception.
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You can access them at icloud.com and they even have a tool for windows which syncs the photos to your hard drive
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Those type of jobs do exist. People working insane hours for about 5 years then cashing out. A lot of people say they would do it, but I wonder how many would survive that type of grind.
Down from 2.90 to 2.60 after hours on the news. I wish them well but I think it will be a tough road ahead.

I worked for a company called Corel in early 2000. We had some really great people but the biggest drag on us was the fact that in the late 90s Corel released some really shitty versions of their software.

it was tough to come back from that and I fear this is the same issue that Zynga faces. Once you've obtained a negative image in peoples minds its very tough to change that perception.

Looking back on what Zynga did, it looks like early apple. They had a first mover advantage in a growing market, and just couldn't make the transition from their earliest products to new streams of revenue very efficiently.

So I guess this places them in a position close to the late 80s apple.

In my opinion Zynga has 2 big issues:

1) What does Zynga do now that Facebook has cut off their main driver for viral growth

2) How do they get back the large group of people who have been introduced to casual gaming and then left after their first year.
Ah, ok. That makes more sense now.

Still, I would expect the massive heat output of a gas turbine to be another danger as well. You are, after all, spitting extremely hot gases out the back, which could pose a great danger to anyone behind and might also melt a large amount of snow. Probably depends greatly on the method of mounting it though...
I should add that from what I have heard the culture there is autocratic, and micromanaging at the top. The person I know who worked there was way down the chain working on remote and obscure stuff but had their work go across Steve's desk and be yay'd and nay'd.
They were getting paid around $20K a year (ref folklore.org) at a time when that wasn't exactly munificent. I'm not even sure they had stock grants either, just promises of greatness from Steve. Idiots.
I feel you are collapsing societal-scope with individual-scope.

Individuals choose whether or not to get pregnant when a man ejaculates inside a woman without protection. If you wish to do that, and bear the fetus to term, I do not wish to pay for your decision.

Individuals should bear the burden of their own decisions, not me.
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MS should really include something like this in Windows.

Hell, I (or you) should find the time and write it ourselves, node.js has great TLS support and has a Windows port.
If you're a sysadmin and someone brings in a consultant who gets root access and upgrades the whole OS to a new operating system which then almost takes out email.. wouldn't that be a problem?

If I were the sysadmin and that happened, I would need to have a meeting with some people. What's the point of being a sysadmin if he operating system is randomly going to be completely changed without someone telling you?

I have a fair amount of built up rage. This seems like one of those situations where it is actually your responsibility to rip people a new one.
and they have plenty of cash to keep at it forever
Ya I currently work 4 days a week. Because of this one simple thing about my current job it's very hard to consider leaving.
My favorite from the comments section "Maybe you were just holding your phone incorrectly."

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How the hell does this visual stuff help?
I think the point is that "Windows" is pretty thin with this server. If there's no GUI available that sounds like there will be no USER32 (good riddance btw); and if there's no USER32, many "Windows" programs won't work.
>Uber and Lyft, for example, are dead as soon as self-driving cars become viable.

Wouldn't they just replace drivers with self-driving cars but maintain the rest of their infrastructure? It has already been announced that Uber is working to develop automatic cars. http://money.cnn.com/2015/02/03/technology/innovationnation/...
Consulting companies / Body Shops often do.

I did get paid for those types of weeks a long while back (billed hourly - 50-80 hour weeks - nice rate). It does get painful after a year or two, and the winter in the northland is a bit harsh since you aren't seeing much sun.
Acqui-hiring cannot be a long term strategy to nurture and build a strong internal talent pool. Google simply has done an outstanding job at this. Most start-up founders/employees share YC startups' cultural ethos, and will get stifled under Apple. Many of them will get demotivated, lose steam and leave as soon as their golden handcuffs expire.
I've worked in several cost centres, and the idea that they want to fire jobs and are full of stupid managers is simply not true. Mostly, the ones I worked in were scrambling for hires. In the big open-plan customer support job for a telco I worked, it took a month to train up staff, and retention was the biggest issue.

When I worked in a neuro lab, us techs were the primary profit centre, while the neurologists themselves didn't pull in enough money to support their own wages. Yet we were constantly told that we were the ones losing money and had to rally round the flag in various ways - we were also paid 2/3rds market rate (young and dumb).

This idea that cost centres are treated poorly and profit centres are rewarded seems more idealistic than realistic, in my experience. It also seems to me that you're handwaving away the author's issues - everything he said is a problem, regardless of the kind of department he was in.
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