basicallydan

As a Brit, I highly doubt that Ian sincerely believes that vehicle is a "lorry" - having said that, pickup trucks are not common in the UK so he might simply be unfamiliar with them and thought "lorry" was the accepted term.

Sorry, but can you please clarify what you mean by "It had cameras instead of windows"? Do you mean the actual windows of the car were screens displaying camera feeds? That doesn't seem like a good idea. Googling doesn't bring up much for me here!

This reminds me of You Suck at Photoshop

I, too, have listened to the latest episode of Planet Money

I haven't thought it through much, but on the face of it I like the idea of receiving some compensation whenever my data is _resold_, plus a way for me to see _where_ my data has been resold, maybe even a notification.

It's a bit like a songwriter receiving a royalty whenever their song is played on the radio or in public (see https://www.prsformusic.com/).

Obviously this would be a challenging thing to implement.

Mate I'm not even a CEO and I want my office back

Super helpful. Thanks @vitovito

Skype could do for the software, but I'm currently more interested in the hardware element. Thanks for the suggestion though :)

This post is a masterclass in buck-passing and spin.

Urgh. You got me, 719Ben. I saw it on my feed, too. Three people: defunkt, mojombo and paulirish.

Makes sense to me!

Q: "Which company is sufficient with its robots?" A: "Google should do. [with its robots]"

Probably yes, but consider this interpretation:

> Seventeen prominent roboticists think: "Google should do with its robots."

Doesn't matter what. They should just do.

Very cool, good job :)

Steve Donahoe?

I could absolutely believe someone would pay $10,000 for a genuine piece of North Korean propaganda and not some bit of tourist tat. But I also don't believe that someone did.

This is a sad story. Poor guy must be terrified.

Well, it's important in the sense that it is widely used and depended upon by the JavaScript community :)

What a great exchange so far, I love it when people in charge of important software work together cooperatively and without lots of arguments.

Force touch user here! Contrary to what many people here seem to believe, the 13 inch retina MBPR has had force touch since its release in early 2015, when it was first announced. They have only just put them into the 15 inch, and I imagine they left the "big announcement" until all MBPR users could get it so they didn't waste all the novelty before it was ripe for media excitement.

There's a good list of things you can do with force touch here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204352

Some personal opinions about force touch:

My favourite thing about it is that the trackpad is automatically more clickable. The clickable surface area is larger than on my previous Mac (13" Air late 2013), and since I turned off right click (opting for two-finger click instead) I am far more causal about clicking things. This was really, really noticeable when going back to my Air briefly while I was giving it some TLC, and finding I couldn't use the top-left corner to click.

About the "force" aspect of it though... the sensation of pressing it down and watching some on-screen element change in size (which is the case for the dictionary lookup feature) is pretty fun. That's one of my favourite things to show people. It's like watching people use an analogue stick for the first time. At first it's confusing and hard to get the balance of, but soon you become quite proficient with it.

Unfortunately support outside of stock OSX applications is quite limited at the moment. The features that are supported in Safari have not yet made their way to Chrome, and features in Quicktime (changing fast forward speed, mainly) are not in VLC. Stuff like that. Having buttons on the screen which act differently depending on how hard you click them could be quite powerful.

With time, however, I think we'll see developers doing more interesting things with this. It could be quite useful in artistic applications for instance, doing exactly what Wacom tablets (and their ilk) have been doing to simulate the pressure of a brush or pen.

Another good use is as a replacement for right click or CTRL+click, i.e. to open a context menu. This is how it works on the dock, and it's quite nice to use too.

One thing I find wrong with it is that all of a sudden, holding onto a draggable element while scrolling with two fingers (e.g., try moving a playlist around in Spotify when you have lots of playlists) appears to not longer be possible. This might be a software issue with whomever is responsible for the software in question, though.

Finally, the myth that the trackpad doesn't move at all is not true. It moves a little, and if you press hard (as one Apple store employee did when I took it in to get looked at last week, insisting that it "wasn't force touch") it will move down noticeably - so don't overdo it.

This, IMO, is the killer feature of the new MBPR.

They have. This is for the 15 inch.

He's just saying what we're all thinking, people!

Heh, I see your point but he does move on a little bit to other things :)

While it does appear that the perspective you're talking about has been repeated over and over, it's important to recognise that it's a perspective which applies to whatever time in which it was held. Therefore, it's relative. Maybe the past _was_ amazing and wonderful, and perhaps _that_ past's past was even _more_ amazing and wonderful. It's possible things _are_ getting worse and worse all the time, only society has failed to heed the "warning" of the doomsayers, leading even greater decline in "wonderfulness".

I'm a little surprised that this BBC article doesn't mention the ongoing DDoS attack on GitHub by China.

Does it seem like this programme could give US authorities the power to sanction the Chinese government over something like a DDoS attack?

EDIT: Ah, looks like GitHub is back to normal. Maybe the attacks are over now?

Ditto!

This is different from the "browser wars", because the thing that people are trying to access through their choice of messenger app does not look, feel, and function differently depending on which one they choose. The experience doesn't break because one chat application decides to implement one feature and others don't because they aren't supposed to work together.

It's similar, however, in that consumers have a lot of choice, with no one chat application really being that much better than any other in terms of features or experience, just that if we could just get everyone on one and for that one application to continue to improve, everything would be great, in theory.

This isn't going to stop any time soon.

Wahey!! Thanks! New best friends are the best! :D

They are, but not as common as in the USA. They have them in France, too. I can't report on any other places!

> "emergency survival social mode"

Man! I do this too. I like to travel alone too - not always, but maybe 30% of the time, and I find this exact thing. It's scary but exciting!

Really cool, man! I like it :) good job.

Bought a round-trip ticket to Asia which will kick off a trip spanning over 5 months. Longest trip I've ever taken, and I'm staying in Korea for 3 months, hopefully hacking a lot and working on freelance work and sideprojects when I'm not exploring and getting to know the locals! I know it's not really "achieved", but I've been building up to it for a while :)

P.S. Hit me up if you're in Seoul in July-October!