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> Financial innovation...

This vague phrase is very misleading. It is certainly not true that all "Financial Innovation" makes our lives more predictable and less sensitive to chance. Please see 2008 for reference.

Sure, there are some benefits to basic finance and lending, but "basic finance and lending" are not really "Financial Innovation" at this point either. I think we would all benefit if you defined your terms better.
Our of curiosity, what got you buying MS phones? My sense was that by the time they had a decent phone available, most people were too invested in Android or iOS to readily consider a change. Were you a late adopter of smart phones or did you make the switch at some point?
> And poor people do not have an excuse to steal anymore than the rich have.

Where did I suggest that?

Poor person steals -> penalty $250.
Rich person steals -> penalty $75

Same crime, lesser penalty simply for having money.

It beggars belief how people continue to support this ridiculous favouritism of the well-off with "well, shouldn't be doing that anyway" handwave.
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You can make that debt collector pay you with small effort.
You can't change functional programmers.
And HTC, which, despite making very good flagship-competitive phones, is losing money.
Easy to explain. I made a mistake in my math. The equation I needed to solve was

40/60 * erfc( x / sqrt(2))/2 = erfc( sqrt( variance_ratio ) * x / sqrt(2))/2
This is a pretty common problem, but it comes with the territory. As we used to say when I was mostly in the mobile space: "everyone has the next great app idea."
Are the airlines using systems that modern?

I was guessing something a bit more

01 OUTAGE-DATE-DATA.

05 OUTAGE-DATE.

10 OUTAGE-YEAR PIC 9(04).

10 OUTAGE-MONTH PIC 9(02).

10 OUTAGE-DAY PIC 9(02).

05 OUTAGE-TIME.

10 OUTAGE-HOURS PIC 9(02).

10 OUTAGE-MINUTE PIC 9(02).

10 OUTAGE-SECOND PIC 9(02).

10 OUTAGE-MILLISECONDS PIC 9(02).

05 OUTAGE-DIFF-FROM-GMT PIC S9(04).

MOVE FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE TO OUTAGE-DATE-DATA

I always kinda liked the meme from that language of "variable as picture". Calling something a picture has inherent and obvious implications WRT call by value vs call by name.

On the other hand intrinsic functions like FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE are not as logically amusing.
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Satya Nadella email to employees on sharpening business focus
No. The Tokyo stock exchange crash in the 80s didn't, nor did the Asian financial crisis in the 90s. It's a local issue. Unless you or your company have direct exposure to China you should be fine. For the USA and Europe, Greece is a much, much bigger deal because it's much more heavily integrated into our financial systems.
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The timeline for the rise and fall of prices has been very fast. For example, if the US stock market indices double in price tomorrow then fall by 50% a week later how much worse off are we? Yes some people are getting hurt by this, but not as much as if the run-up in prices had been more reasonable.
There are all sorts of "special club" mentalities in programming. Linux users, vim users, functional programmers, never-touch-the-mouse-power-users... the list goes on. Someone asked me why I used Linux and I half-jokingly answered, "Because then I can be pretentious about hating both Windows and OSX!"

Tis human nature, I guess, always trying to find a way to distinguish yourself from the masses. A bit of a Star Belly Sneetches phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Storie...
Swings and roundabouts, no worries. If a comment seems unfairly 'greyed out', usually someone else will come along and at least nudge it back to neutral.
> It’s been told the best way is to reach out to classmates and co-workers. However, that seems severely limiting as I’m sure there’s opportunities outside of my personal network (especially since I graduated a while back).

One of the very important features in co-founders is knowledge of work-ethic and trust in each other. That's why it's often recommended that you co-found with people already in your circles. There are just so many additional unknowns when you're dealing with potential co-founders that you have no history with.
I reckon business + value customers are their best bet right now. To compete for high-end customers, they need to plug the app-gap. But yes it does seem odd, they seem to be reducing their work-force but they're being more ambitious.

I'm actually a high-end Windows Phone owner - I love it, but there are a few annoying gaps in apps, not so much the big apps, just the niche apps. Having Win10 universal apps could help if Win10 takes off; if you're going to make a Win10 app, you may as well make it work on mobile too...
So the title is a little misleading, the author does not believe arrogance is a real problem in the community and claims to have to look hard to find arrogance.

I'm not a big fan of the social justice community, but they are right about arrogant programmers. They aren't racist or misogynist, they're equal opportunity assholes.

In my experience most people who are oblivious to the arrogance of the programming community are themselves the arrogant ones. There are a lot of friendly people, but if you're a real noob and try to contribute shitty code to a big open source project with real programmers, you're gonna get your ass handed to you.

Even the groups of programmers who claim to support "safe space" environments are chock-full of arrogance, they just don't use cuss words and belittle you in a more passive way. I assume it's pretty much the same in every profession when noobs make mistakes.
MS should push Visual Studio Code, as that's properly multi-platform, and forget Xamarin. Now that the .NET CoreCLR is open source.

Monodevelop is an awful piece of software.
It quickly becomes a deterrent if there are many victims that feel inspired by this decision.
Good luck with getting bill collectors and salesmen to observer courtesy. Hasn't happened in 5 centuries.
Why Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Are Not the Same
The government is panicking, the latest move being to forbid big holders (> 5%) to sell for 6 months. This is something real, if for nothing else the inept response of the authorities will poison the market for a long time as the regulatory incompetence needs to be priced in. And this is true no matter how much the international 50-cent brigade wants to diminish it.
I bought a MS phone because my nexus 4 kept crashing with the latest upgrades. The battery would last max 6 hours, using the camera had a 50% chance of restarting the OS, the touch functionality of the screen would work 50% of the time after reboot, when the battery was under 25%, the phone would act eradically ... etc. As for iphone, too expensive. I got my lumia for 60$ on amazon without contract.
tl;dr version: Functional Programming's reputation for arrogance does not match the author's own experience, having been welcomed from the time he first showed interest.
You can express them as a signal folded over time.
Same issue. I'm on the latest version of Chrome (mac).

Edit: Oops... just saw the reason why.
Imagine having control over the behavior of your code! That's the advantage of writing it. And I thought we were talking about replacing open source packages, not doing open-heart surgery on a faulty package?
I am currently recommending Lumias for a specific user group - non-technical users that need WhatsApp, maps and light browsing, and are on a tight budget.

A cheap Windows phone outperforms a cheap Android phone significantly (and is apparently much easier to learn the UI for that user group), and these users cannot afford an iPhone.

They lose out on the Android ecosystem and the Apple experience, but I currently believe they're the best choice at that price point (100 dollars or so). Of course, those things vary, if a new Android version is significantly better on low-end hardware I'll probably go back to recommending them (mostly because all apps in my country are Android-first).
You should have a master contract that a lawyer has looked over that you use as the basis for all contracts. There are plenty of services that you can use to get a lawyer to quickly eyeball any changes.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4567884
Does f.lux affect the brightness or does it just make everything look like a sodium lamp? Bright light is still a problem, regardless of how jaundiced you make it.
Not that this is constructive in any way, but I like the URL for this page :)
This is exactly what I was suggesting. The compiler definitely has that information.
Agree. This has nothing to do with tetris, and ironically, the 'researchers' ended up being the ones distracted by the colored blocks if they didn't realize it had nothing to do with the game and everything to do with the control sitting there doing nothing.
Oh, sure you can, you just need a side-effects monad. They're plentiful in the hardware world....
Currently the financial system generates profit while destroying value. It's out of control and only serves the interest of those who already have considerable amounts of capital.
Hey, I take offense to this comment ;)
Just kidding of course being rejected is a great motivator for some. Having devs reject ideas inspired me to learn to program, and realize that there are a ton of bad ideas, and only a few deserve the time it takes to build.
> "Microsoft will focus its phone efforts on three segments: Businesses, value-phone buyers and flagship phone customers, moving forward."

It looks like this part was edited out of the article.
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Theoretically that should be a really large user group. Especially outside of the US.
Definitely read "fiance". Maybe I'm just projecting.
This is incredible storytelling. I had never heard of Ordos before - it looks amazing.
yeah , I completely agree. However, I feel there has to be a way to do this outside of the standard school/day-job. Reason I'm saying this is because I've worked in numerous open source projects and have met many friends that I would love to work with. The world is just too big to limit myself to a small circle of people. Also, take for example folks who live outside of major tech areas (an basically all rural locations). Where can they go to find good people to even begin building these relationships?

I don't have the exact answers on how to build this "trust" system into a platform (still researching). However I think it's definitely possible.
> What if I was to tell you that all the money that you deposit in the banks is not used for anything.

Honestly? I'd say to take the facile conspiracy theories and go home.

In a regime where money is only money because people believe it is money, and in which money can be created from thin air (either via printing or via lending), the money in the central banks is used for little things like maintaining price stability, and preventing total economic collapse.
Uber forced to pay licensing fee, revenue tax to operate in Mexico
They are popular in some parts of Europe because of the Lumia (Nokia) brand, not because of Windows phone.
Have a look at redux, it showcased both creative approaches and solid examples with ES6/7 features.

https://github.com/gaearon/redux/tree/master/examples/todomv...
We talked to lawyers and think that tripdelta, as a combination of the (for us) important keyword trip and the math term delta to indicate savings, is a word creation in its own. Hope they’re right. Thank you for sharing your concerns
Best polling/quizzing tool that I know of, can't wait to see how they develop this year.
I'm not the original poster, but I bought a Lumia 925 out of pure nerdy curiosity. I'd tried iOS, I'd tried Android and just wanted to see what else was out there. And I have to say it's pretty fine piece of hardware running a pretty great OS.

All that being said, I'm probably going back to Android for my next phone, simply because WP keeps lagging further and further behind when it comes to apps. If WP had the same apps as Android I'd probably buy a new Windows Phone.
The 4 steps to any success, and how to use them in your own life
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Indian Windows phone admirer here. Loved the developer preview program. Frequent updates to the OS made me feel wanted as a user. The transition from WP 8 to WP 8.1 was especially noteworthy. Sadly I lost my Lumia 1320 and switched to a cheaper Android. Would like to go back and try Win 10, but the lack of new devices makes me apprehensive.
I used to take hours to fall asleep.
Some things that helped a lot:
1. Twilight on android and on my laptop
2. Thicker curtains.
3. "Meditating" in bed with my eyes closed.

My version of meditation is laying in bed with my eyes closed and actively trying to shut off all thoughts; at first it seems it's not working because I'm suddenly aware of everything around me and I feel more awake.
But after 5-10 minutes I no longer see the "noise" with my eyes closed but instead I start seeing images.
Once I start seeing images with my eyes closed I know I'll be asleep in a few minutes.
I own a Lumia icon and have been really happy with it. The cut on Windows Phone is the amount of apps available. Since they are such a small share of the market, developers aren't keen to build for the platform - even though its completely wide open right now with little if no competition.

If Windows Phone had closer to the amount of apps Android and IOS have in their stores, the phones would be doing much better. Nokia makes a solid handset and the Windows Phone platform is the first not to copy Apple's design.

As for Windows 10 on Windows Phone - I was using the developer preview for a few days and its still really really buggy. It does have tremendous potential though and I'm looking forward to seeing them work out some of the bugs, there are a ton of really cool things coming:

http://www.cnet.com/products/microsoft-windows-10-mobile/
Yeah, "glitch" seems to imply something minor, while this seems anything but.
You could omit the parenthesis and it starts to look a lot like HAML :-)
If you are expressing interest in functional programming the community is more than willing to lend a hand.

Where the reputation comes from is when someone talks about some problem they have in an imperative language and some Functional Programmer swoops in to tell them how it wouldn't be a problem if they simply rewrote their entire project in Erlang or something.

There is also a perception that functional programmers aren't willing to discuss potential downsides to functional programming. Haskell is the last language you'll ever need for anything you ever want to do and it is perfect for all purposes from embedded systems all the way up to business applications and realtime games.
The phones are great but quite heavy + thick (at least the phones I saw).
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The comment insinuates that Lebanon equates to Hezbollah. Most Lebanese would probably disagree...
I have some Lumia's (for work) and while I go in really liking them, I end up with a lot of small annoyances. I should really write them down in a blog post, but the endresult is that I pick up my Android (s4 with swappable battery) or iPhone and actually never touch the Lumia's again.

The way MS (or someone else!) would get me on board is when I can walk into the office, put my phone on my inductive loading plate, automatically triggering my monitoring to flick on and pairing with my mouse + keyboard, showing me, on the big screen, another (desktop) representation of the OS I use on the phone. I know some companies (and MS with Windows 10) are working towards that as I saw in demos, but it's still clunky and not what you want yet while the phones are fast enough (I often connect the above to my OpenPandora and work straight on it for days on end; most high end phones are a lot more capable than the OpenPandora...).
The board did change. Satya was hired by a different board composition than the one who approved the Nokia acquisition.
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I appreciate the clear, up front pricing. How does the pricing compare to the competition?
Convenience over Correctness (2008) [pdf]
I think perhaps partly because it's just not being told? It wouldn't be the first time, after all.

There's another great piece here on just how out-of-control the German narrative of events has become here: http://mainlymacro.blogspot.fi/2015/07/why-germany-wants-rid...

I think there's something to be said for the parallel he draws: It's essentially the typical local austerity narrative writ large. The poor/creditor are lazy and corrupt and their woes are all their fault (pay no attention to the Bugatti driving banker behind the curtain).
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I was a fan of the original Windows Phone 7 and since then used WP for years (until work requirements caused me to switch mostly to other platforms).

I've been trying the Windows 10 betas on a fairly high-end Lumia (1520), and I just can't understand what Microsoft is doing. The entire system has apparently been rewritten using the "Universal" APIs (the same thing as Windows RT/10 basically).

That must have sounded great on paper, but the reality is baffling. Everything that was working great in WP8 has been replaced with half-assed implementations that feel more like second-rate Android OEM apps.

Worse, there don't seem to be any new features in Windows 10 Mobile that could offset the pain of the UI downgrade... Except that weird new mode where you can connect your phone to a keyboard, mouse and display and use Windows Universal apps that way. Is there a single Windows Phone user that asked for that?!

I loved Windows Phone 7 because it was a holistically designed system that made perfect sense on a phone. All that seems to be gone in Windows 10 Mobile, replaced by Microsoft's traditional "Windows everywhere!" platform strategy bloopers.
Well...

China likes to make things easy on their own startups. Everyone should know that by now. If Uber has not made arrangements and structured the administration and ownership of their China business in a fashion consistent with that reality... I have to question the suitability of the leadership team at Uber.

This is all basic stuff at this point. China is not a mystery anymore. You shouldn't be getting the basic stuff wrong.
(1) "Athens' fondness for weaponry, and willingness of Germany and France to feed it, under fire as Greece struggles with debt crisis"
(2)

(1) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/19/greece-military...
(2) The Submarine Deals That Helped Sink Greecehttp://www.lepointinternational.com/it/politica/europa/550-t...
Why rely on Google when you can rely on people. Bestio is like a your own personal Product Hunt - that doubles as a favorites journal. It merges a Twitter style layout and streaming, with voting and a sophisticated search engine.
I bet they could have saved themselves untold numbers of telephone calls in the support queue, and thousands of in-person queries to ticket agents and other airport staff with one or two tweets and a facebook post or two.
I think quite a few has, but none of them happen to be tenure holding economists or similar that the MSM reach out to for "comments".

Frankly the MSM has been the bullhorns of the finance elite and their EU sockpuppets.
I think you're right, but if the hardware was good, it would sell. The reason they have no profitably is because no body cares.

Are you honestly going to tell me the greatest hardware in the world is not selling simply because MS doesn't "know how"?

Microsoft is a pig, and you can't put lipstick on a pig.
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Or you know, 2015-07-08, which is perfectly readable to me.
Just to be clear, I wasn't talking about co-founders with unrealistic/ridiculous ideas. I was mostly concerned about co-founders who only bring the idea to the table.

As a technical person, I'm mostly interested in finding a co-founder who would have solid domain knowledge, or have experience pitching to VCs, or any other skill that can actually contribute to the execution of the idea.

Ideas are cheap, everyone has ideas, a good co-founder will help with the execution and there is plenty to do apart from the technical aspect.
I can think of very few business ideas that need $2 billion+ worth of runway before they are self-financing. It certainly seems it should be possible to build a ride brokering service with a fraction of that.

But I assume they got it because they could and not because they needed it.
Pretty good shots. I was browsing the other Asian destinations in @Jack000's blog. Noticed that in the photo blog about Japan trip in 2014, he snapped a BMW i3 and called it "unreleased"[1]. That was inaccurate.

BMW i3 was long been rumored in the auto news. First i3 delivery took place in London November 2013 (mass production started in Sept 2013). Btw, the raw material of i3's carbon fiber unibody was made in Japan [2].

[1]: http://jack.ventures/japan-2014/09/2560.jpg
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_i3
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> I had made the right decision buying a Windows phone

No you didn't. Soon your device and its os will be discontinued, WP is a huge failure and it's over. You don't fire next to 8000 people when your product is a success.
I Googled stats to verify this claim and you're right. Last fall, Windows Phone was on par with iPhone sales in some European countries, and in fact beat Apple in Italy (TIL)

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/29/kantar-september-2014/

Though it sounds like some of those fortunes are turning since the iPhone 6

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/05/06/iphone-marketshare...
They really need to reduce the number of phones they produce. There are so many damn phones models and the numbers / names make no sense.

What they need is a surface phone. One phone, three variants.

Surface Phone - Low-Mid Range

Surface Pro Phone - High end w/continuum

Surface Pro+ Phone - High end Phablet w/continuum

That would match their naming for the tablet and cause little confusion about what they are in the minds of consumers.
Personally, I switched over to Windows Phone from a Nexus 4 after I bought a generic Windows 8 tablet and started using the live tiles. In my opinion, compared to the iOS and Android "grid of icons", live tiles are just superior in every way. I'm honestly surprised that neither Google nor Apple have copied Microsoft here.
You do not need to use Monodevelop, even on Windows or Mac to write Xamarin apps. Monodevelop is just the most obvious as it's packaged. And agreed, Monodevelop is not very good.