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Can’t wait for the, “Elvis operator” to land. Going to remove so much code!

There also seems to be zero analysis of the winners. Simple analytics would have raised concerns early on.

I guess the company just didn’t care, as long as someone won and the marketing worked.

I expect people said this about developers that just knew about TCP/IP and not how the PHY worked.

At every level of abstraction they is a boundary that people may not choose (or have time) to pass.

I'm not saying everyone should be forced to learn about every layer, but these knowledge boundaries exist everywhere, and I'm not sure what can be done to improve the situation...

SAA(F)S?

"With 40,000 technologists across 14 technology hubs around the world, there are endless opportunities to create what’s next"

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The concept is to make you see the world though someone else's eyes, to put you into someone else's shoes.

You are highlighting your inability to do this, and proving how you only want to consider the impact directly on yourself.

I have similar stories about acquaintance IT contractors using offshore tax schemes. Are they better or worse?

These anecdotes about complex systems only fuel peoples preconceived perceptions of systems that they fear benefit others more than them.

This is (unfortunately) a huge testament to patenting technology. I remember Shazam shutting down a lot of early iOS apps that provided music discovery services. The technology it’s self became relatively simple in the last 10 years, but their ownership of the patent has kept them on top.

I suspect it’s due to end soon, and they realised once it’s gone they would just become a feature of music streaming services. Good to get out now while there is still some exclusivity for Apple to milk.

It seems to be quite common in angular, even if used indirectly or via inspired libraries.

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=angular+redux&typ...

There is a certain paradox with teaching something like Redux, in that it's designed to make complex systems easy to understand and manageable. Yet when trying to demonstrate with a simple example, it appears hugely over complex and unnecessary.

I think a pre-requisite to learning something like Redux (or any micro-architecture) is to first try building something without it. Once you understand the pains of undisciplined, organically designed, spaghetti applications, the cynicism is replaced by excitement over how this will improve your job/life/application.

+1 for screen filter

Why not use a usb battery pack for your phone? Seems like one fewer thing to carry, and no extra 4G cellular contract.

This generally seems to be my conclusion when thinking about making something cool with a Pi or similar, wondering if I’m missing something?

Logging into a system that doesn't support your password manager, such as games consoles, shared computers, restricted work machines etc.

Copying over a really long generated password is much harder than an algo you can perform in your head.

Google reader highlighted this issue. I wonder how many finance apps there could have been if Google had never developed Google Finance.

I expect you could but perhaps not with a very good experience. I think a lot of the lighting modes rely heavily on doing that work in real time, rather than in post processing. It could be that it's just too laggy without the new processor.

That and Apple make their money from selling this hardware, so having software that only runs on new devices helps sell them.

I assume the depth is measured using the two cameras and the dot projection. So you couldn't use a 2D copy that was depth adjusted (if that was what you were suggesting).

I also assume the dots are tracked to identify, so static dots wouldn't be considered, although it could cause problems.

I could see how using 2 phones could cause problems, perhaps they need to strobe them to avoid clashes.

It's more in the translation step between your vision and your mental image.

If you ever stare at a single word it's never muddled or back to front, but when you scan a sentence and think back over what you have seen words may be in different orders, perhaps based on a typical grouping for those words.

For example if you scanned over your comment, it could come out as, "it does mix dynamical while reading". "It does" and your typo being corrected.

Try staring at a group of 5-6 words quickly, close your eyes, visualize them and read them back.

For me it's like there is a limited buffer, so when I parse a sentence and then read it back in context the start may have become corrupted.

The experience isn't the same, but I think the affect on someone without it would be similar.

In essence, it would take them a lot longer (or at a higher cognitive tax) to intemperate a page of text.

iPhone 7+ with AirPods, perhaps it's the BT LE or something?

I also forgot the worst point, when the headphone cord gets caught and rips the 3.5mm jack out of my device resulting in it blurting out (my secret love of the Moana soundtrack) at full volume to a train carriage of commuters...

I know, I was just adding balance.

People loved and still miss Micro SD slots on phones too.

Reasons I hate wired headphones:

1. I have to carry around a mass of wire that it always getting tangled with its self and other items in bags and pockets.

2. I have to fiddle around to plug a port into my phone, that often scratches the surrounding material.

3. I have a port that gets full of lint and I have to pick it out.

4. The headphone cord gets caught on things and rips the headphones out of my ears.

5. When ever I knock the cable it amplifies the noise into my ears (isolating earbuds).

6. The little remote dongle gets caught on my collar or buttons and rips the headphones out of my ears.

7. When I jog I get a cable bounding up and down, often tugging on my ears.

8. If I just want to use one bud, I have to have the other dangling around.

9. If I want to switch between devices I have to manually plug in and out, often scrabbling around on the floor for a desktop computer.

10. Cable connections ware, and can result in audio only coming out of one ear.

I have a set of wireless headphones that use the same cable to charge as my phone. I charge my phone once a day when I sleep, and my headphones about once a week. If I want to use wired headphone I have them permanently plugged into a free dongle that came with my phone, but I haven't in months... they are in my bag... tangling stuff...

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It will, there is normally a, "kick down" point where it will accelerate at max, for emergency situations. This also normally disengages the max limit.

Another feature is speed warnings, which "beep" at you when you exceed them. Currently they only seem to be singular, but it should be possible to integrate them with satnav and speed sign recognition. I expect these would be safer, especially if it linked up with a, "black box" to report excessive violations with a parent, insurance company, police etc.

Yes I did, sorry... getting confused with this and Flash ;)

I don't think any manufacturer will be (or want to be) selling ICE cars in 2020, but it gives those manufacturers a mandate to push ahead with deprecating ICEs without scaring share holders.

Perhaps in your retrospective opinion, but it was good enough for every major investment bank to invest millions in, and even enough for a company like Microsoft to try and copy...

This was such a poor go to argument from Flash developers (I was/am one of them). However in reality this wasn't just about revenue as many assumed (it's a tiny tiny tiny percentage of Apples turn over). The better argument was that Flash, even wrapped in a native container (cordova etc) was insecure, slower and out of their control. Forcing developers to use native toolkits and frameworks produced far better applications as a result.

Even today the best apps are still native.

I saw it as two main issues:

1. Apple couldn't improve the Flash player like they could with WebKit and Nitro to make Flash content run well on their phones.

2. Most of the complex content on the web was in Flash, by not supporting it the web was fast and light weight for a very low powered mobile device.

If you try and load a JS heavy website on an original iPhone now days it will likely crash.

At the key time JS couldn't achieve everything in the Flex scope, even now some of the less open features (DRM) are still missing.

Having said that 80% of my time is still spend writing AS3 in Flex ;)

A whole host of Single Dealer Trading platforms from major banks delivered on the web via flash (and Flex).

Quite an ambitious achievement for a simple animation tool.

As state by other commentators it was an open standard. However the main issues other vendors faced were Adobe's control of the standard (no TC39) and the use of patents in the technology (compression etc).