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The list of source files include avfsession.mm which is likely a C++ wrapper around AVCaptureSession[0], Cocoa's audio and video capture class.

[0]https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AVFoun...

This cannot be stressed enough. I can't tell you how many useless things websites have suggested I would be interested in because I purchased a gift for someone's kid 5 years ago, or whatever.

Also, consider that data isn't necessarily properly associated with who you think it is. I often see suggestions that are clearly due to my wife's browsing on her own computer (which is nearly identical to mine in terms of browser fingerprinting). Obviously we have the same IP to the outside world and we share some interests, but not everything!

Ever lived in a condo with an HOA (Home Owner's Association)? You get the opposite problem. One person, household, or small set of owners wants to be in power so they can make changes that benefit them, and everyone else wants nothing to do with the HOA so they can't be blamed when something goes wrong and because they're too busy with their lives. So a vote is held, most people don't show up, and even if they do, they don't want to do the jobs themselves so they vote for the people who want it, and the result is usually terrible.

Can't we look at places where that is the case today and see? I always hear about how in places like Russia, every student learns much harder math than here in the US, and they learn it better. But I don't see other countries like Russia producing better engineered products or better science than we do here. Same with China or Japan, or whoever is supposedly the best this year.

I agree wholeheartedly! It reminds me of when I was studying music. When the teacher wanted you to perform a piece for a recital or concert, you'd always play a piece that was a level or two below where you were at because you could nail it. You didn't play the piece you were currently working on because it's already hard enough to play during practice, without the added stress of doing it in front of an audience.

Are they, though? I suspect most butcher shops and restaurants are using antibacterial soap at this point. I go out of my way to try to buy non-antibacterial soap and it's often impossible to find. I imagine most businesses just order whatever's the first thing they see in the catalog/web site, and it's probably antibacterial because that's what most people think they want at home.

I concur. They have flags for which apps have in-app purchases. If it's anything more than "get rid of ads" I don't buy it. I would love a flag that says, "ad supported" or something similar. Great idea!

FWIW, I use Cleartune [0]. I think I bought it around iOS 5 or 6 and it's been continually updated. It's current $4US.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cleartune-chromatic-tuner/id...

I recommend doing a few things:

1) Read papers about this stuff, attend conferences about this stuff, and try to implement some of it yourself. For this particular set of techniques, SIGGRAPH is a good conference to attend and their proceedings are full of good papers to read.

2) Make a project that uses some of these techniques on your own. It can be open source, or it can be an app you sell on your favorite app store, or whatever. It doesn't really matter.

3) Look for a new job that uses some of this stuff. You don't have to jump right into working at Facebook or Google. There are smaller companies out there that do this type of stuff.

My story is that I was working for a company that sold large database services to large retailers. It paid pretty well, but was boring as hell. After working for a few years and saving up, I looked for a job doing the stuff I was interested in. I found one. It didn't work out and I quit after 4 months. But the next one! The next one worked out! It was a bunch of image processing stuff. They were a small company and needed someone with some graphics experience. I had never shipped anything graphics related, but I had written a bunch of graphics tools for fun for myself to learn how it all worked. It was enough to get the job. My pay probably stayed the same for 2 years as I went from job to job, but my happiness increased. After 3 or 4 years at the company, I left and started my own company doing graphics work. I did that for about 5 years and eventually decided to go work for one of the big companies that's doing cool stuff with this.

You can do this. It just takes time and effort.

If I double-click on the globe, it zooms in, and then I can't rotate the globe anymore. I also don't see how to zoom back out!

Back when I ran a mail server for a small business, I would see the spammers literally going through all the permutations of email addresses for a domain. In the logs you'd see:

failure to send to a@example.com

failure to send to b@example.com

...

failure to send to aa@example.com

etc.

"Booking fees have long been something that consumers grumble about–but pay."

Not exactly. I mean yeah, I sometimes pay them, but I simply go out far less because of them. So choose wisely if you're going to go that route!

There's a great episode of Crap From The Past[0] about pop songs that started out as commercial jingles[1]. The most surprising one to me was the Carpenter's hit "We've only Just Begun".

[0] http://www.crapfromthepast.com/ [1] https://archive.org/details/cftp-2015-11-20

I have to disagree with your assessment of people in California. Having lived in the MidWest, New England, the South, and out West, I can say that the people in California (at least in Los Angeles where I am) are very friendly. I chat with them in the store and at the pump all the time. I can also say that it is the place where it matters the least what you look like when you talk to people you don't know. Skin color, clothing, etc. don't really seem to change people's attitudes too much here, whereas those other places all had very strict expectations of how people doing certain things should look.

I've also found that people here are far less afraid to try new and different combinations of just about anything - clothing, food, working with people from different disciplines. It's fascinating.

I'd bet that most of our impressions just come down to the luck of who we met when we lived in these different places. But my experiences definitely don't match yours. (My experiences in Arizona have been unmemorable. People seemed "normal" to me - neither rude nor overly friendly. I'll be going back next month, so we'll see if my impressions change one way or the other.)

Exactly! And living in California, I can't tell you what a pain in the ass it is to try to send a friend in another state a bottle of wine. Whenever you visit a vineyard or even a wine specialty shop, they have a list of states they can't send anything to, and states they can stuff to with restrictions. It's kind of a mess!

I agree. I learned a bunch of tech and then used it to socialize, make friends, meet women, etc. I don't feel I missed out on either the teenage part or the learning part.

>To a product manager, even four weeks of technical debt reduction sounds like "no new features for a month."

Yeah, but if you can't implement new features in under a month because the code is such a mess, then maybe spending a month cleaning it up will allow you to do more features in a shorter amount of time, thus increasing revenue faster than just hacking more features into the existing crappy codebase. Obviously it depends on the codebase, but you have to look at both long and short term goals to make good decisions.

That's weird to me as a lifelong Mac user because that's what I experience using Windows. My father needed help with something on his Windows machine, so I sat down and double clicked on an app. I got the hourglass for about 2 seconds and then ... nothing. The computer looked like it wasn't doing anything. No feedback. No icon in the dock-like window at the bottom, just nothing. I double clicked a few more times, and eventually the first instance showed a window. I think other instances may have started up in the meantime, slowing things down even more.

This is fascinating research! It's one of those things that seems obvious in retrospect, but if it was obvious, why has nobody addressed it before?

I have to say, though, the example security alert they show looks like spam to me. I'm not a regular user of Chrome, so maybe that's how they all look, but it looks like it's trying to sell me some seedy 3rd party tool that will "clean up" my settings while really installing malware to show me more ads.

> “If such requests did begin to trend,” explained a representative from the Wyndham Hotel Group, “we would evaluate our brand standards and offerings.”

Isn't Wyndham the same group that had a major security breach and the pleaded to congress that it's not their job to keep customer data safe from thieves?

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/06/ftc-f...

So I wouldn't expect them to understand anything that customers actually think.

I totally understand why they're doing this. Their comments section was terrible. I'm not at all surprised by the findings that a couple hundred to low few thousand commenters are posting the vast majority of comments.

I'm really surprised at the energy that the trolls on NPR spend. You'll see the same account posting rude comments on just about every article. Who has that kind of time?

What makes you think that? I hate ads and am more than happy to pay to not see them and to support things I use. I do this all the time with, for example, Netflix, iTunes, and a few others. I even pay for the NPR I listen to in my car where they can't track me or force me to subscribe or pay.

I think the reality is that most users get very little value out of the web sites and apps they use and would be just as happy to not use them if they disappeared due to low ad revenue. For those that they would actually miss, some large percentage might be willing to pay for them.

In fact, Hulu [1] just announced that they are no longer offering an ad-supported version. That's pretty telling. Either their service was so bad that they couldn't even give it away (doubtful given that they've kept the paid version), or users actually do hate ads and are willing to pay for content that's actually good.

[1]http://betanews.com/2016/08/08/end-of-free-hulu/

Not in architecture circles. See for example Dwell magazine[1].

[1] https://www.dwell.com

Yeah, I don't know. I work on a team where there are 1 or 2 people who can't ever be gotten ahold of because they're never in the office during normal hours. Our stand-up starts at 11:50AM, and they can't get to it on time. We have some people who commute from far away and leave earlier than standard to avoid traffic and be able to spend time with family. There has to be some time where they can find each other and talk. What's the solution? IF we can't all be there for at least 1 hour a day, how can we reasonably interact? I'm all for flexible schedules, but "come in and leave whenever you like" doesn't work in reality. People sometimes need to interact live with each other, even if it's via chat.

For me, I just despise everything about working out in the usual ways. Gyms are pretty disgusting for a number of reasons. People who don't wipe down the machines, people judging each other, the smell, etc. It's also boring AF. I can listen to music or a podcast, but they usually have 3 TVs on all tuned to either sports, which I don't enjoy, or politics, which I don't really want to share with people at the gym. And the 24 hour news channels are basically just death and yelling 24 hours a day. Don't need that.

Working out at home means either buying a big expensive piece of equipment I don't have room for, or prancing around the neighborhood. I'd rather not do either.

Also, it makes me feel gross. I'm not at all out-of-shape. My weight/BMI/whatever is in the "good" zone. My eating habits are reasonable and my cholesterol and other levels are fine. I walk regularly, use a standing desk for a portion of the day, etc. I don't like how I feel when or after working out.

Doing it or discussing it with other people makes me sad. So much pseudoscience, so much bad technique, so much judgement. Fuck it. I've got better things to do.

I quit my first job because I had other aspirations. I quit my next 2 jobs because of management. This article certainly feels true to my experiences.

The author writes:

> Research shows that people who are given instructions for how to lie less in their day-to-day lives are actually able to lie less, and when they do, their physical health improves.

Perhaps you could, you know, link to such a study for those of us interested? OR maybe point out the author so we can look it up ourselves? Searching for "instructions on how to lie less" produces results like "Instructions for filling out IRS Form 1040." Great.

And as that happens they'll lose users who have become accustomed to the conveniences of ad blocking and open web pages.

What's the current market penetration of 4K video? I work in the industry and have no need for a 4K device. How many normal people even want, let alone have 4K capabilities?

Not to mention, when learning programming there's absolutely no reason to introduce the command line. Set them up with an IDE and GUI for source control. You can still use llvm or gcc and git or svn behind the scenes, but it's absolutely absurd to say, "Well before you can start learning to program, you have to learn these several other domain specific languages and you have to type them, and it has to look awful."

I think Apple's new playgrounds and the stuff they showed for kids at WWDC is the future, personally.