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> a) Successful secrecy of new product development at Apple

Now days pretty much every Apple product leaks in some way prior to announcement. From manufacturing CAD schematics to actual hardware prototypes.
The web site does suck, but the umbrella design is explained.

It sounds like a really good design actually.
> The countries who loaned them money have a right to be mad about that

The countries that loaned them the money we're talking about lent them that money after it was already clear that Greece could not afford those loans. The original loans that Greece could not service were paid off by loans extended by the ECB and others, and Greece was given some assistance in paying off these new loans in exchange for certain austerity measures. These countries absolutely do NOT have a right to be mad if the very austerity measures they insisted on are causing the Greek GDP to shrink and making it harder for Greece to service these debts.

> The organizations that Greece borrowed money from are not "banker overlords". Greece chose to take the loans, and they can choose to default on them if they wish (and accept the consequences, like a person would, including ruining their credit rating).

Well, no, they can't. Because, again, the last time Greece came close to defaulting on their loans, these are the people who banded together to bail them out. The entire point here is that Greek shares a common currency with the rest of the Eurozone, and a Greek default has impacts on the rest of the Euro-using countries they would rather avoid. So they are trying to come to an agreement that avoids a Greek default.
This might be a sign that you have a tendency towards perfectionism. This is not the worst problem you can have and is manageable.

I suggest working on new features as WIP pull requests and have others review the code when it's feature complete. Not when you deem it ready. Then you can gage from others where you are spending unnecessarily much time, using quick learning cycles that will teach you to be faster without sacrificing quality to a large degree.
Were the deliverables fixed by the management or you were responsible for the estimate? If you are the one who consistently underestimates the time, maybe that's a legitimate point.

Ultimately, it is stupid if they'd favor giving a project to an intern over you despite your results/writing maintainable code etc. The company will pay for shit code accrued over time.
From the comments there seems to be negative sentiment towards this product. I believe it is a great endeavor and I would have funded the prototype and development entirely. The reason is not so much that it could be much more efficient than the current one, but that someone thinks he can improve something that most people have thought to be the solution for so many years. It takes guts, and observation to ask "is this the best we can do?"
Maybe there are 2,147,483,647 rows are in a table with the id signed int32? 2 billion isn't such a big number.
Retard-nigger logic:

It goes without saying, logically, that God cannot be proven or disproven.

(If God exists, well of course He can prove Himself. Bad logic.)
It's also likely that the electrosensitives have had this test run on them so many times by ordinary people where "I'll just hide this radio device here somewhere and see if they pick it up", that they get attuned to finding out the hidden object, rather than actual sensitivity.

It would have been more amusing if he had the phone switched off already or no phone at all and they asked him to switch it off.
This is another good resource

http://www.miek.nl/downloads/Go/Learning-Go-latest.pdf
Slow guy here.

First thing to check: do you want to make it more beautifull than you should? Sounds to me you want to release good products. But in my experience this can also lead to scope creep.

Then there is stable code. I also am one of the slowest engeneers but my manager knows this will result in less work after the deadline.

So my advice: stick to what should be done to keep the deadline and prove your code saves time after the deadline.
I'm not sure they cannot also do FM. The argument I usually see against FM is that demodulating FM is much more complicated, but that is not really true. Demodulating FM accurately is much more complicated, but if you'll accept a fairly distorted result then an AM demodulator can be used to demodulate FM.

You just tune the AM demodulator off center from the FM signal. This is called slope detection. If you have an SDR you can play around with this. Here's an article on slope detection [1].

I think this only works if the bandwidth of the AM detector is fairly small compared to the FM signal. I have no idea what the bandwidth of tooth filling receivers is.

[1] http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/rf-technology-design/f...
No, it wasn't. In fact, many of us were surprised at the outrage of people around here, since we thought it was common knowledge. Even the European Parliament had issued a report back in 2000 about the widespread communications/internet spying. See ECHELON.

See also Mark Klein's denouncement of their AT&T spying, which prompted a lawsuit by the EFF back in 2006, charging them with having created an "illegal and unconstitutional program of dragnet communications surveillance".

There had been plenty of leaks over the years.
You only need three people to form a conspiracy; two people to conspire against a third party. Tim, Taylor and the public.
"100 people to work on it, 24/7" sounds like manual data entry to me - who wants to bet against a loss of a db without usable backups available, and a bunch of people now hand entering hardcopy forms and data out of emails back into some critical database?
I have used Asciinema couple of weeks now and I am very happy with it.

Our open source project contains a command line tool for Docker orchestration and Asciinema is a perfect solution to introduce its features and use cases (https://asciinema.org/~kontena).
Unless they always intended to pay them from the beginning and Taylor Swift (or her managers) jumped to conclusions.
Not necessarily; replacing the physical hardware is just one step of the process of getting a system back to normal operation. They could have a spare already, but they haven't been keep up their disaster recovery drills and now have to figure out how to setup it up again from scratch. It doesn't even have to be custom hardware, it could just be a hard drive failure on commodity server that was just never backed up properly.
Yep. And it appears that the Artists, like the music industry, really don't get that things have changed.

Hey, I'm old school. I can identify with them. I like to buy my music. I don't get subscriptions where if I stop playing I can't listen to anything.... but I find myself listening to podcasts-- 2 hour long podcast of EDM. My favorite one has several YEARS of podcasts and despite skipping months at a time I'm still over a year behind. I'm not paying them anything[1], they're not paying the artists anything (it's meant for promotion more than anything else.)

I did buy an album once.

So, even though my habits are different the industry has changed.

Apple is progressive. The whole point of the free trial is to get people addicted to the service. In the long run Taylor Swift will make more money from a free trial than if Apple offered the service without a free trial-- because more people will sign up and ultimately end up with royalties going to Taylor.

I think it's hilarious that Apple is (as ever, of course) portrayed as the bogeyman for trying to market a service that will make the artists more money.

Just like they are constantly derided for taking %30 of revenue (which is a huge improvement over the often %95 and worse terms that you had to accept before the iPhone came out).

Things have changed. I'll try this service and see if it changes my habits. If Tayler didn't make out from it in 6 months then go ahead, complain away and have some data to back it up.

But making a big to do about it now is kinda silly. Like people being mad that Apple gave them a free U2 album. Sure they handled it clunky and If they do it again I'm sure they will be better. But OH! Apple gave me free music! #FirstWorldProblems

[1] near as I can tell, it's a record label that puts out the podcast and I think it's their artists they're putting in it.
Anyone looking at the landing page and wondering whether the umbrella is "a joke or not", "what the design is" or thinking it's "highly suspect" etc., I agree with you but the videos on the video tab at the top right are far more informative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BLYLrdOXe8 has examples of the umbrella unfurling and the motivations behind the design.
I think it could have used an exclamation point myself!
I'm waiting for an advanced parole visa (moved to the US in January) and can't get a visa in time to travel intentionally to my best friends wedding in the UK. Applied in Feb. Got told last week they need another 2 months to process it - I wonder if this is why?
I don't know enough about your situation, but you should know that A) managers are just people and make errors in judgements and B) sometimes managers exaggerate stuff like that to get more from employees (12h days for instance).

For A, you could pull a bunny out of a hat - finish a project early (as early as possible) and make sure it is noticed (but don't brag about it).
For B - sometimes you have to compromise, and sometimes you don't have to. Can you find another job? Do you want to? Can you stand up to them? Depends on your situation...

Last but not least, "slow" is not the same as "not meeting the deadlines". Are you meeting them? Make sure this is noticed! I would rather have a "slow" member in my team who can reliably deliver good results in time than some "hotshot" who can delivers tons of (unusable) code in very fast time...

Bottom line: in companies what should matter is how much you contribute. Just make sure others notice it too.
> No Gimmicks

I don't like gimmicks.

> Pure Engineering

I do like engineering.

> The KAZbrella is an evolution of the conventional umbrella.

OK, tell me more.

> Through many years of research and engineering we have redesigned the mechanics of the umbrella whilst maintaining the familiar umbrella look.

I'm on the hook...

> The KAZbrella is a patented reverse folding umbrella.

And... letdown. It's an umbrella that folds the other way...

Sure, maybe the outside of it while folded won't "press up against your leg, soaking your trousers and bag and drips on the already wet floor", but this means the water stays trapped on the inside of the folded creases, leading to mildew and a musty smell, and the rest still "drips on the already wet floor".

I don't see this thing taking the world by storm anytime soon.
I've been using an osx native app [1], very fast and works on all browsers. (just a happy user)

[1] http://bananafishsoftware.com/products/spillo/
I'm confused because there doesn't seem to be any connection between the paradoxical statement, "I do not believe in anything" and the statement "I do not believe in any gods." Since the statement is not a god, there is no paradox here. It does not require an exception to allow itself to exist.

"I do not believe in any gods" is not a statement of "complete disbelief". Gods are not equivalent to all beliefs.
> The actual user experience for citing should be "just give me the link". Then wikipedia should do the rest.

You're absolutely right. And Wikipedia's Visual Editor[1] does just that:
http://i.imgur.com/0yM2koH.png
http://i.imgur.com/opVTplc.png

It isn't perfect, but it's constantly being improved. It was at one point rolled out as the default editing experience on the English Wikipedia[2], but was made opt-in after feedback from the community[3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor
[2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor#History
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/RFC
Germany enjoys the lowest unemployment rate in history, while Greece has a humanitarian crisis and Spain has also extremely high unemployment. That's not a coincidence.

> Germany's improvements have more to do with Germany's changes to industrial reform than to do with Southern Europe [...]

Then let Greece default (as a Greek I believe that's best for my country in the long term) and see how that plays out. BTW the lack of understanding of 101 macro-economics by Scheuble is disheartening[1]. Every time he speaks, he is comparing economy-wise countries to businesses and/or households, which coming from a FinMin is plain ridiculous[2].

[1] http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/04/03...

[2] COMPETITIVENESS - A DANGEROUS OBSESSION P. Krugman, 1994, Foreign Affairs Magazine http://www.pkarchive.org/global/pop.html
Indeed, placebos are not a good treatment for the vast majority of physical illnesses. There's a big difference between being better and feeling better.
I would be surprised if they didn't use OCR with possibly human checking.
I don't think she was bluffing as she has already withheld her album from Spotify. If the follow up is correct, she can still withhold it as they are not going to pay full royalties. This is attempted damage control for Apple on a Sunday night and it looks ill handled.
Caution that Lumo's site crashes Firefox. Could be due to the 25 or so trackers he employs or one of his plethora of bizarre adds or maybe the Ajax math typesetter he uses for notation.
Well, maybe. From a regulatory perspective, the radio users have more FCC clout than insouciant interference sources like Comcast and TW, neglecting whatever regulatory capture may exist.
Mimic sure, but it won't be quite the same. I won't deny you can't do a one off job possibly cheaper on aws. The thing is, these simulations run for weeks or months on end and these clusters are run and setup to run at 100% at all times.

They really are efficient power wise, which is the true test for things like this. I'm hitting towards nda things but needless to say keep an eye out for gpu technology in supercomputers. As well as what that top 500 chinese supercomputer has.

Note, its at the top mostly due to its accelerator cards. Most simulations don't need those.

I know 60 mill seems like a lot but when it runs for 5 years it really isn't that expensive. For a one off job sure go with aws, it'll take longer, but i'm not kidding when you get down to the detail of the cpu architecture and keep track of things like how cache misses affect a program.

It really is night and day difference in how things run. The avx comment is not a joke, reducing even cpu cost by 5% over months is a huge deal. These are just a few of the differences in how supercomputers operate. It is far less to do with the cpu and memory and more how they communicate amongst themselves. One node may compute a value, but another adjacent node then takes on that output to calculate more. This is the key differentiator, and if you aren't compiling fortran (not joking), its likely its not a very great simulation.

If you'd like to know more, i'd recommend getting a job at a supercomputer company. They've solved a lot of the overall cluster problems aws has many years ago. And it is really fun stuff where details matter. Something I can't say about most aws deployments. PS: I'm working on something that will make Titan look like a kid. :) Every 2-3 years this stuff gets pushed aside its fun.
The Hartz reforms did lower labour costs for some companies and created a huge new segment of low-income workers that have almost no chances to earn a a regular job and besides that temp work was legalized and is largely employed to lower wage costs.

This made the exports possible and made a few people rich.

A lot of people argue it's unhealthy and will bite Germany in the long term.

Besides that: The average german is still far better off than the average greek.
... which means that somebody somewhere didn't have backups of some database server that died.
It is common sense to think that the "common sense" of 2000 years ago was wrong. It should be common sense to think that common sense today is also likely wrong. :)

Oops.
And your proof of that is?
Given the situation, I don't think that Greece has anything to gain from staying in the common currency.

After ~ 8 years of Troika mismanagement the country is in dire situation and there has not been the slightest perception of improvement. So even if SYRIZA choose to blink, the next government wont.
Marketing Hacks of a new startup
Someone, Google or Microsoft will buy them out. Use their brand name instead of their own and put their cash behind it. Letting Apple dominate the music space is something I think anyone (other than Apple itself) desires...not even the music labels/musicians.
Wow, thanks for the reply! Sounds quite stressful.

Go get some sleep!
Apple Music changes policy after Taylor Swift stand
There's a lot of people who seem to feel like the Greeks made their own bed and now they should lie in it. Well, fine, except for a few decades now most of Europe has been in the same bed, the European Common Market. And with the introduction of the Euro everyone gets to share a blanket too. This is not just a problem for Greece, and insisting that Greece should bear all the costs of solving it puts petty moralizing ahead of actually trying to solve the problem for everybody.
Seems like you trade one problem for maybe a slightly lesser one... if the inside is wet, you still have to open it in the rain and thusly getting the dry side wet (but maybe not as wet).
My understanding is the rest of the pigs are, relative to Greece, much more viable and can avert defaults and likely would not need to exit the euro. They have a good industrial base.

Greece has perennially been an underachiever and on top of that wants to live like the rest of europe. One of the biggest issues is tax corruption. They just don't get the tax revenue they need in order to support the lifestyle (retirement, social services, etc) they desire.

People with means had an easy time evading taxes --for some income brackets it was practically voluntary. That's not viable.

Bailing Greece out would be throwing good money after bad. At some point you have to realize there are better places to invest your money.
It's not good to work for people who see you as a liability. Consider working for someone else.
Actually they did not jump to conclusions, the trial wording about not paying artists was VERY clear when Apple wrote it the first time around.
I don't know enough to truly speak on this, but it honestly sounds to me as if you are someone who is very rational and thinks before acting. If this is a detriment to your employer...I don't know what to tell you.
And, as the airlines keep assuring us "the avionics are completely separate to the other on board systems":

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-comm...

Oh yeah, except for "some Boeing and Airbus planes"…

Somehow "industry reassurance" that this is "impossible" isn't to reassuring…
I make sure to focus on a high level understanding of problems, and learning from my mistakes as much as possible.

I am extremely efficient at problem solving - I still have a lot more to learn I find each day though.
Yeah, much older project. Looks like it intereprets some kind of IR code, it's not the case in MetaES, it just executes AST. I don't know either if it allows interoperate with surrounding interpreter. MetaES interops native code on purpose.
The professor (who literally wrote the reference book on patent law used by practitioners) said the patentee was a practicing patent attorney who drafted and filed it as a homework project with his child. The patentee has never asserted it, and almost certainly never will.
We do teach cooking in schools. At least in Europe. See my parent post, that class was mandatory.

There are plenty of classes that teach non-academic subjects, finance should be one of them, since we life in an money centered society.
The story then changes from "Taylor Swift making sure artists are compensated for their work" to "Taylor Swift wants more money". Apple was never going to pay royalty rates based on people that paid $10 a month for the service on people that were paying nothing, asking that they do would make Taylor Swift look poorly.
There are definitely ways to get faster. As long as you are paying attention and care about your work, you'll naturally get faster as your career progresses. But making a concerted effort pays off as well.

One thing that would eat up a lot of my time is trying to automate every last thing, and make it reproducible. I would do it with Python. I still believe in this goal, but I do things with shell and a smattering of Python now, which is way faster and actually more elegant. Shell is an unbelievably productive tool! Though it takes time and effort to learn properly.

Another thing I do is write down everything I plan do in a Wiki -- down to a very granular level. Always keep the end goal in mind when writing out the steps. It helps think of short hacky strategy first, in addition to the "right" strategy. Frequently the shortcut will give you some new information that changes the "right" strategy, or it might be good enough by itself.

Since it sounds like you have the tendency to do things right (like me), you won't fall into the trap of shipping sloppy and broken code like others (i.e. the state of the software industry). This is a trick to balance your natural tendency. You want to learn about "unknowns" earlier to reduce risk.

The third thing major is unit testing, though it sounds like you're already doing that. For me, it makes things faster, because I can switch between many projects at once. I think of it like putting state in your brain down into executable code. It takes me very little time to pick up where I left off on old code now, whereas I see a lot of people struggling to load the context into the brains. However, I also tend to write tests in shell now, which is way faster than lots of complicated unit test frameworks.
Microsoft stealthily backs away from free Windows 10 promise
Took 14 months with Congressional intervention just to get my partner a immigrant visa -- which is presumably the easiest.

America has been so obsessed with thinking of itself as the "best country in the world!(TM)" for so long, it has meanwhile regressed into a failed state.
> The simple fact is that states that have large differences in productivity / accumulated infrastructure / endowments must either

What happens if they don't?
we're about to find out!
Why would the water be trapped? You still store the umbrella upside down. And lots of people already use mini umbrellas with similar folds in them.
I found this user comment fascinating:

I am one such person. I am interested in Sunset and fully intent to play it, but have not yet purchased it, for the simple reason that there are many titles that I already own that I have yet to play; I am suffering from a massive backlog, and from what I can tell, this is the case for an overwhelming majority of RPS readers

Here is a person who likes the genre, but they already own so much product that they don't have time to play a new game. What that says to me is that game publishers are doing themselves a huge disservice by charging so little for their games. If you could imagine a fine art store where everything was $0.99, you might have dozens of paintings in your collection that you don't have wall space to put them on.

So rather than paying a lot of money for a game and valuing it such that it is played before the next one is purchases, people binge on a dozen different games which never satisfy and only a few are "worth it".

It is a sad place for game developers (charge more but get few sales as people work through the crap) or charge less and get few sales because nobody knows which are good and which are crap.