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For a different experience, I received a Lumia 640 as a gift, but I gave it away, as the experience was inferior to Android. I tried liking it for about 2-3 weeks, but eventually I gave up. My wife then tried to use it and gave up as well.

For example I don't like the design of the front-screen with the animated tiles. I find them to be very distracting and I prefer Android's model - static icons plus widgets for whenever I feel the need for some shiny stuff, but widgets don't survive for long. The notifications experience on Android is of course superior. That flat design in Windows Phone has also been annoying as it doesn't give clues on what can be touched. And as far as the experience goes, the new material design in Android kicks ass IMHO. The only serious usability issue it has are the up-front permissions system, but they are fixing that in the next version.

The other issue I had is a lack of control. Microsoft went the Apple way in restricting their phones. So apparently with my Lumia I had to ask permission from my operator in order to do tethering. I've never met an Android phone that disallowed tethering based on the whims of these operators. Google Play is also superior, even to the iTunes Store IMHO, but beyond that, I like how Android lets me install apps from third-party sources if I want it - it's just a configuration change and this Apple-style grandfathering doesn't work so well for Microsoft - their store is filled with shit, malware and trademark infringing apps. I also tried being a good citizen in Microsoft's store and tried reporting a scammy app for trademark infringement - they asked for "papers" to prove I'm the rights holder.

There's also one pet peeve I have with Microsoft - so Windows Phone still doesn't support CalDAV / CardDAV, insisting of course on Microsoft's own proprietary Exchange. You also can't change Bing's search as the default (at least in the version I had). Android doesn't do CalDAV / CardDAV by default, but you've got providers available. And Android also lets you change most things, like the search interface. Great going Microsoft, you've changed a lot.

As for the apps available, there is no contest. Like Google Maps / Waze in combination with Google Now are awesome. Nokia's Here is pretty cool, but lo and behold, they've released it for Android as well. The experience with most popular services like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube is inferior on Windows Phone. Even Skype seems to suck less on my Android.

In terms of hardware, the Lumia phones have a good price, but I want phones with good resolution. Couldn't find a high-end phone like the ones made by LG. And for a good price-quality ratio, in Android land you can also go with the Nexus devices, or OnePlus One. You can still find Nexus 5 devices and they've got a better price and better hardware than those Lumia devices.
Some quick googling suggests they take delivery of several-many dozen planes a year (based on various order/delivery/etc. coverage), which would absolutely cause a step function in the number of passenger seats.

I expect there's growth on all of these:

- Total planes

- Total flights

- Number of routes

- Number of passengers

- Passenger utilization of electronic boarding

- Passenger utilization of reservation modification (seat
changes, upgrades, etc.)

- Passenger utilization of in-flight electronic amenities (wifi, in flight entertainment, etc.) that are billed through the system (United has a proprietary WiFi that's tied to your frequent flier account)

- Online booking

- Travel agent/reseller pricing queries

- Travel agent/reseller booking

I'm not saying any of these are dramatically increasing, but I'd bet they're all going up slowly, which will add more and more load to the system.
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For stock markets in the two countries, no, they are different.

The stock market in China was remarked as 'worse than a casino' by a Chinese economist, Wu Jinglian.
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Good reasoning is not a blasé attitude. It's an approach of setting aside personal feelings and instead having a discussion to get to the root of the problem and discuss the merits of opinion.

The fact is that anyone who simply goes around arguing that something is morally good or bad better have solid reasons for doing so.
I wonder how unifying all devices around Windows 10 relates to this number. After all, it makes sense to reduce the workforce when you only have one core, one API and one set of bundled universal apps to maintain and develop.

Though I doubt the 7,800 were all engineering and design.
more like: Programmers Are Arrogant
Of course. Look at the San Francisco to Vancouver (return) example:

Regular: SFO - YVR: $385
Tripdelta: Oakland - Bellingham (two tickets): $164

You save $221 by picking two airports that are, by locals, considered good airports (I live in Vancouver, we all use Bellingham!)

The great thing is: Even when you're not a local, you just enter Vancouver, and we know about it!
I got a 630 to play around with WinRT and C++/CX development.

It is quite quite, specially if one compares the whole development experience with the Android wild west (e.g. NDK experience).

Sadly it has only catched on in countries as alternative to Android, where the majority of the population is not able to afford iPhones even on subsided contracts.

Their decision to provide Android and iOS bridges in WP 10 will eventually backfire in OS/2 style.
Signed types have a worse problem. They typically wrap around, but the behavior is undefined. That means the compiler can assume it never happens and optimize your code accordingly, which can lead to all sorts of entertaining misbehavior.
Conspiracy aside. It's easier to vilify a single group than explain the true more complex story.

Great quote from your article: There is a "universal tendency for poverty to be explained in terms of the personal failings of the poor."
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We use Vagrant for dev and Consul in our deployment and I still have no real idea of what Atlas is.
iOS has that, for numbers in your address book.
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That's essentially how buy to let works. As a renter I am paying for someone else's mortgage. If I could get a zero interest (or even normal interest) mortgage guaranteed by the government I wouldn't have to rent and I could retain that value that I have generated for myself. As it stands I work my ass off and make someone else rich in exchange for keeping my chin just above the water line. Housing is a necessity and its profitization is unethical. It amplifies wealth disparities and destroys value in society.
The two things are inseparable at this point. So I don't really understand the distinction you're making, it isn't as if people buying a Lumia don't know it will be running Windows Mobile.
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Here's my experience: my first smartphone was a Nokia with Windows Phone 7, which I bought when my Nokia N95 was too broken to be used in public. It lasted for around 6 months until it fell off my pocket and cracked, because changing the screen was just as expensive as a new phone.

I was pretty mad at some issues (the camera would hang the phone under certain circumstances, dev tools were painful, Zune as a requirement for sync), so I got myself an Android phone. That one lasted a couple years, until the USB connector broke - since the battery was non-removable, there was no way for me to keep using it.

After having experienced both, I have to say: the experience in Windows Phone feels much smoother than Android. Yes, the development tools are still annoying, but using the phone itself has a nicer "feeling" to it.

I now have the cheapest WP 8 I could find, and so far I'm happy with it. It also seems to be more resistant to drops than its older brother.
You are assuming the slide is going to stop today and/or that they can pull their money out today. If there is a huge rush to pull money out of the market it will accelerate the decline. A classic bubble pop.
> I've never met an Android phone that disallowed tethering based on the whims of these operators.

My Galaxy S4 on AT&T did not allow me to turn on tethering until I switched to a plan which included it.
I want to say that this was Channel 4 instead. I think it aired last year.
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I must be missing some context here, because the whole article seems to boil down to "someone I like said something I don't like :(". He spends a fantastic amount of time scolding Martin for disagreeing with him and almost no time actually commenting on whether the accusation is really true. Wha?
If there is a particular case which you think should work but doesn't, please file an issue on the coffee-react-transform repo and I'll look into it.
Of course then you're sacrificing some of the authentication, potentially.
Same with my current place of employment. Do they also ask any kind of behavioral or fit questions? Was there anything you thought the interview was lacking?
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It's not just if you try to contribute bad code, just asking the wrong kind of question can get a lot of crap back at you.

Of course, if you're genuinely a beginner you don't know you're asking the wrong kind of question.

Yes, it's frustrating to help someone who is strugging to run/consume Foo only to eventually find out what they actually wanted to do was Bar and that consuming Baz would have been a much simpler solution.

But if you don't have the patience to help, don't try to! Too much programmers think they can fix the world and go around trying to correct beginners[1] when they should just get out of the way.

[1] Many high rep stackoverflow users suffer from this, they've seen the same shit too many times and rather get out of the way and let others help the beginners they'll shut down those beginner questions. If a question was valid 5 years ago it should still be valid today, but they seem to forget what it's like to be a beginner.
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Well, it's a very small sample, but Florida was one of the hardest hit by the housing bubble a few years ago, while Texas had relatively stable housing prices. California also was heavily impacted by the housing bubble and it has Prop 13.
I bet you don't own an iPhone (because the explanations were solely for that specific category of people)!

</sarcasm>
I think it's worth not saying "arrogant" when you mean "asshole". The reason is that there are people who will politely imply that anything but functional programming is worse, and they're different from the people who will do that while acting like you're scum or stupid for not realizing it.

There's a fine line as to whether any statement is arrogant and a lot of it actually comes down to presentation. To what extent do you act like your views are obvious, or abuse the word "objective"?

Is the person who maintains that FP is better arrogant or not? I think that comes down to a mixture of framing (let's be clear about which things are "objective" and which are opinion), and intellectual humility. In any case, I think we should separate that from the fact that there are at least a couple of true assholes out there.
I consider a modern, secular definition of "real" evil to be based in the malicious or intentional "taking" of something from someone else for your own gain. That could be stealing for profit or taking life for non-defensive reasons or it could be forcible rape or other coercion that takes away someone's right to control what is done to their person.

Not a complete or concise definition but the general theme I notice when I think about what I personally consider "evil" is the elevation of your own desires over the safety or well-being of others. In a way, evil (for me) is based on what helps humanity/society or hurts it. It's based in our natural instincts for empathy and the ignoring of those "higher" motives in favor of more primitive drives to take, hurt, kill, rape, or enslave.

For me, good versus evil is not so much about religious or Hollywood ideas of light vs. dark or god vs. devil but the more familiar battle between our "animal" side and our "human" side.
"It was like if Circuit City had purchased Radio Shack."

Better analogy would be as if Kmart purchased Sears, which they did back in '04, to pretty much the same outcome.

Sometimes I think terminally ill companies thrash around like this to generate transactional cash flow for friends and family, to help the leadership get jobs elsewhere after the ship finally sinks.
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> Google is also a software company with this reasoning.

And very few people own a phone made directly by Google or a company owned by Google. Lumia is a Nokia Phone which is owned by Microsoft.
I've heard an anecdote like :
US citizens are more likely to bet against the trend
Chinese citizens are more likely to bet with the trend

Is that what you mean?
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Generally referrals from existing engineers is the most common.

Outside of that I have seen a couple of stealth startups create a separate corporation and use it to recruit people. In some cases there are some advantages to having a separate corp to employ people and have its sole client be the stealth startup.

EDIT: Fixed some grammar.
I had a severe case of not being able to sleep if my mind was busy after dinner time e.g. coding, debugging, mentally solving a problem. Adjusting light temperature, using flux software etc. helped marginally, but never attacked the root of the problem. What really helped was meditation i.e. being able to take my mind away from everything & focus on /dev/null. It is like a magic button. I can fall asleep whenever I consciously wish to divert my attention. Just a single book & a month of practice.

Next challenge : Wake up whenever I feel like. Haven't found the magic button yet. All the fancy alarm clocks, sleep trackers, REM techniques aren't helping.
I wouldn't say that there will be no effect, but I don't think the US stock market is going to be too severely impacted. It's kind of crazy to think that because China is our largest trading partner and we manufacture so many goods over there, but most of what we do isn't tied that heavily into their stock market.
Sorry meant two's complement
I definitely agree that this is the right approach. The methods with stick with you much better, and you'll have an easier time with higher order rubiks cubes, or other turning-face type puzzles. I have an embarrassingly large collection of these kinds of puzzles now. They're a great way to wake up my brain after lunch.
Ha...it's true. I've just observed a lack of interviewing knowledge at a bunch of startups, and am trying to figure out if it is a trend. In my experience most startups nail the technical questions, but don't know what else to ask. For example, I was recently asked "How do you stay organized?" as one of the only questions that wasn't about my past job experience.

I think a great, brief handbook could go a long way.
It's called "8. Juli 2015" where I live. Use numbers, please.
The NY Times has a detailed explanation of how the market got into trouble, and why it's not likely to fix itself overnight: "Put all these pieces together, and here's what we have: a rise in Chinese share prices in the last year that seemed to be driven more by investor psychology than by anything fundamental."

Ouch. Stock prices follow fundamentals, if at all, only in the longest terms.
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> I think it's worth not saying "arrogant" when you mean "asshole".

Well, sure! But you have to recognize the sorts of people you're dealing with, yeah? Software developers, as a whole, are not exactly awesome at the interpersonal thing, especially when conflict comes up. So circumlocutions and euphemisms are kind of foreseeable there. Which is of course a really unfortunate thing, because it allows useful idiots to go "well, I don't see arrogance" in a way that lets them implicitly excuse the real rot in the pile, but there you have it.
While it doesn't add up to a terribly large amount of extra characters, you are missing the function keyword (ie. `handleDoubleTap: function(e)`) in the ES5 example.
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I've never used any of Hashicorps stuff (thought consul did arrive on my radar theother day..). Any recommendations? We use the Atlassian stack here (stash, bamboo, etc) and deploy to AWS (regular AMIs rather than any of that fancy docker stuff). Anything here we should look into?
I've been flying 1-2 times a month for the past year or so, mostly on US Air or American (same thing now) and I never saw anything approaching the level of problems United had on one trip.

Obviously, with travel sometimes things go wrong, but the quantity and severity of things going wrong at United makes me think there's something off about the way they're running their airline. For instance, the two times this year that they've had to ground all flights.
If you or I did this, we'd probably be put in jail. An affordable fine is pretty minor by comparison. Why should TWC get better treatment than we would?
Even if Uber had greased the right palms before, they're still a foreign owned country and at an inherent disadvantage in China. I expect them to be pushed out the same way they were pushed out of Paris in the near future.
If IRC required two separate accounts and ran on proprietary services.
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Amazing photos. Normally I can't make it through long picture streams, but your captions really seemed to keep me interested. I actually thought the lazy loading + scrolling worked very well.

On one slide, you mention the locals setup a toll checkpoint. It looks like you just drive right through without paying. Is it just a one way 'courtesy' checkpoint?
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Considering just yesterday their flight system didn't believe they flew from SFO for 2+ hours in the morning (I have screenshots), i'm not all that shocked.
Does that make it somehow better or not worth fixing?
Thanks so much for the in-depth response! One of my best interviews was over coffee with 2 startup founders, so I agree that can be more effective than a typical job interview.

Have you ever hired someone who was great in the interview and on paper but didn't work out? Any idea why?
FP is largely defined by what it avoids, not by what it adds. All the other bits, monads, higher order functions, etc, are necessary to finding workable solutions to real problems while avoiding things that cause the badness. To people who use those things avoided, it comes off as arrogant.

It's like with vegetarians. "I don't eat meat; there are plenty of plant based sources of protein and I don't want to have to have animals killed on my behalf". Nothing about this is factually incorrect, none of it is arrogant, yet, because it's purposely avoiding something the listener consumes, the listener may take offense, and assume the vegetarian is taking a holier than thou attitude toward them. They assume that because the vegetarian views eating meat as something to be avoided, that the vegetarian must be judging them for eating meat.

Similarly, because the FP programmer views mutable state as a dangerous practice, the listener who uses mutable state views the FP's attitude as judgemental, "You're not using best practices!"

But, like the vegetarian who encounters someone who wants to try giving up meat, and is asking for recipes and ideas, FP programmers will, indeed, bend over backwards for someone who is trying to enter the functional world.
Many don't. They are buying Lumias, because they always bought Nokia. They haven't got the memo yet, that it's no longer Nokia.
Its sad that this is the top comment. When I visit European sites I don't demand they change things just for me. Maybe be more of a gracious visitor?
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"... but his economic analysis is terribly flawed."

I doubt that an analysis from the Mises institute is going to enlighten us here. Austrian economics is interesting but fails on long term analysis and deeper insights due to Mises flawed understanding of Money.

A former Austrian...
The simple problem at Microsoft and at most large organizations is that stock options and bonuses are paid out for new features, not fixing existing bugs.
Do you ever try to assess traits like motivation or curiosity? Do you allow those to just come out in regular conversation? Or do you just stick to the resume walkthroughs and technical questions?
Any plans on adding search functionality, tagging, or categorization?
Matteo Cantiello is wrong. The "public" generally lacks the knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science necessary to read and understand research. Moreover, many members of the public are encumbered by belief systems which make understanding impossible and which lead to unproductive arguments about whether global warming is real or whether evolution exists. What is needed is for there not to be a dichotomy between scientists and non-scientists; everyone should be a scientist.
As I understand it, they're not justice systems that carry the full legtimacy of the government (they can't put you in prison, for example). It's a system by which they can carry out administrative punishments like community service, suspension, or expulsion.

The potential for abuse is certainly there, but calling it a seperate justice system is a tad disingenuous. Most importantly, it seems that the standards for evidence and the rights of the accused are far less than in real courts.

But how do you solve this? My opinion is that severe things like expulsion should only be considered if found guilty of a felony (or even only a violent felony) in an actual court of law. The difficulty of conviction is a feature, not a bug, of the legitimate justice system. Administrative punishments should only be meted out for administrative "crimes" (cheating, violating housing agreements, etc) that have no corresponding crime in the criminal code.
No, I would bet most people buy them because it's a Nokia, regardless of the OS. Case in point, my mother who seems to only buy Nokias because they used to be the best brand. I told her to buy an Android phone and she somehow found and bought a Nokia Android phone (I didn't even know they existed). It had some weird Metro skin too so that it looks like a Windows Phone but is actually an Android.
AFAIK WP will be able to run Android apps on next release which is coming this summer.
I would never use a site to find a co-founder. It seems like a waste of time. How would you vet someone? There is so much noise in the space and these kind of sites attract a ton of people who are not prepared/knowledgeable to found a successful business. I will only ever co-found with people who are part of my network and I know well enough already. Usually people who I have had some experience working with already. From time to time I have tried to be more loose in my approach but it has never led anywhere.
If an individual did this, they wouldn't get the benefit of the doubt that it was simply due to incompetence, given an affordable fine, and otherwise left to go about their lives. They'd be put in jail. TWC got off lightly.
Do you try to look for specific nontechnical traits, like determination? Or do you just let that stuff come up naturally during conversation?
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Neither. A bigger problem we should all take more seriously.
Given all of the restrictions needed for good performance it's hard to see where I would use this instead of simply rewriting my program in C++.