eddieplan9

this.

It's sad that a good portion of the hn community would rather looking for good stories that play with confirmation bias.

By whom? What do you think the public or the media would react when they see a young woman fighting with a multi-billion dollar company that is already in a PR crisis in a sexual harassment case? The truth is always more nuances than just true or false. If as a community we learn a good lesson, then all this is probably worth it.

As for Ms. Fowler, I don't expect her to be a neutral figure, and if you read her tweets, who called for boycott of her ex-employer based on false information, she clearly is not.

> people who are good at heart don't let their company's culture get like that

This kind of comment is too harsh and over-simplifies the kind of decisions that growth-phase startups have to face. You have many battles to fight, and sometimes you have to make a trade-off. In Uber's case, they prioritized hiring and firing people to manage performance over dealing with culture issues. Not saying the trade-off they make is right - I think they all realize now they cannot treat themselves as a startup any more - but claiming the management at the company are not good at heart is just totally unjustified. Do you also think startups that lay off people when they don't need them or move operations to cheap regions to also have bad heart?

Like Samsung, which has a fab all the way up to consumer facing phone business?

Excessive vertical integration is over-valued, unless you holds a monopoly position in at least one of the component of the vertical.

You mean like how all the cell phone makers caught up with Apple's iPhone?

Not saying TSLA has no risk: for one thing, they still have not figured out how to scale up production. But in general, I think we tend to overestimate the incumbents' advantage. Most incumbents have too many old interests that hold them back. There is an article [1] about German automakers' unwillingness to commit to EVs because the profit from ICEs are way way higher than that from electric ones because of ICE's complexity.

(Similarly, this is the reason why most of the wind farms in China are not connected to the national grid, because the existing power plants do not want to shut down and lay off workers.)

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/german-governme...

Average sales per order, I am guessing

It is already the case. In the keynote, they demoed Fast User Switch with a touch of finger. If multiple people share a single computer, switching to the right user account is a touch away.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think the problem is the sense of good enough. I have the option to purchase 100mbps but I am only paying for 20mbps because it is virtually good enough for everything I do: working from home, video chat, streaming HD videos, backing up to iCloud, etc. When I rent HD movies from iTunes, my wait time is 0.

Don't get me wrong. I like the idea of cheap super high-speed internet, just like I like my streets to be repaved nicely every year.

For those interested, Steve Jobs wrote the open letter titled Thoughts on Music

https://web.archive.org/web/20080517114107/http://www.apple....

It's not as simple as that. The market becomes more efficient as the volume goes up. The simple example is uberPOOL. Many driver subsidies kick in only when a driver does not earn enough.

This.

When the West moved toward a thriving ecosystem of web applications, the web scene in China was a complete mess. Not many people were confident enough to use the Web, let alone trust a random website with their bank account which has no dispute channel. Plus the web is full of malware and scams and almost all PC ran pirated Windows XP with abysmal if any antivirus software.

When most people equated internet with the IE icon, people in China did it with the dorminating IM software made by Tencent.

The explosion of mobile ecosystem speaks to the lackluster of a thriving web ecosystem and to some degree a clunky financial system and lack of meaningful consumer protection.

From the article:

> "(The deal reflects) our continued confidence in the long term in China’s economy," Cook said.

If this is not kowtowing, I don't know what is. This is very disappointing coming from a company like Apple.

The Family Sharing in iCloud works exceptionally well for us.

Remember pop-up ads? I am pretty sure websites depending on ad revenue will do fine. They will need to adjust their behavior and be more thoughtful about how to serve their ads instead of lazily copy-and-paste a dozen tracking scripts.

> On iOS, those ads are controlled by Apple.

I don't think that is true. My understanding is that Apple has certain policies about user tracking. It does not force ads to use iAd or take a cut from ad revenue.

You do realize Apple is also part of the effort?

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146064

Fish is optimized for interactive (the i in "fish") use. Not exactly the same as bash-compliance, but if you have bash-based tools (like virtualenv but without counterpart in fish land), check out https://github.com/edc/bass. Bass allows you to use a bash tool in fish, by running the tool in bash and transporting changes in environment variables back to fish shell.

> a logical functional UI API on top of messy imperative APIs

But without the "messy" imperative API, the functional UI cannot be built. This applies to all functional UI frameworks.

It's funny that one of React's core ideas is to ditch the now old functional/declarative paradigm that is template languages and allows you to use imperative JavaScript to directly build up a virtual DOM.

> that leaves shell-integration scripts: virtualenv, rbenv, etc. Supporting that stuff is one of the most common requests that the fish shell gets, and one of the most commonly cited reasons for not using fish.

shameless plug, but I made a utility to solve the problem: https://github.com/edc/bass

So you can write `bass source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh ';' mkvirtualenv env1`, which of course can be shortened with a function.

That is more of a debug menu.

Original article on author's own site:

http://www.ben-morris.com/why-rest-is-not-a-silver-bullet-fo...

Being the default is a huge deal. You only need to look at how many people are still on IE (8!).

Plus, search quality is a very subjective matter. I have Bing on my phone for a while (mostly to avoid Google's redirect links), and I hardly notice it any more.

You said it as if Windows Phone or Windows RT has been a good strategy since it entered the market when it was ripe thanks to Apple and Google who had been cultivating it for years. Imagine applying that "strategic advantage" to electrical car: one would sit back and wait for Tesla to do all the hard work and then enter as a full competitor. This does not sound right to me, and hugely discounts the immense value of the "dirtier works", such as actual goodwill from appreciative consumers and businesses and invaluable partners (rather than tech bloggers), not to mention first mover advantage.

And it's hard to praise someone for "seizing" it when they just "sit back".

The author is the creator of clojure-py [1]. Pixie looks like a follow-up effort with strong influence from PyPy. The following post of his from over 2 years ago might provide some insight: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure-py-dev/Lmhd0...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3649883

    user=> (doc vector?)
    -------------------------
    clojure.core/vector?
    ([x])
      Return true if x implements IPersistentVector
    nil

So `MapEntry` implements `IPersistentVector`, but is not a vector. It does not make sense to have an empty `MapEntry`, so IMHO the behavior implemented is valid.

He just described the _.debounce function in underscore.js

http://underscorejs.org/#debounce

Google's stock went up despite - not because - "they're trying new things and are doing everything they can to grow". The real reason the stock went up was because their core ad business is healthy and can support whatever crazy side projects they do.

You have way too much respect for the wall st folks if you think the short term stock price is rational in any meaningful way. Remember the original iPhone announcement that blowed everyone away? AAPL went down after that.

As if IQ is the only or the most important factor that can dictate whether someone will have a happy and prosperous life.

Second. I jumped from Rdio to Spotify just for that. I don't understand why people rate Rdio as the best app when basic things like search is broken: search for something, see some bad results, go back to change search, sorry, your search term is gone. Also, the Rdio is app is way too flat and there is big lack of context hint. Often time, I don't know where I am and how to get back to the "parent view", or if there is one.

Quite to the contrary, the whole point for iOS to be supported on "old" devices like iPhone 4 is reduce fragmentation: developers can focus on building for the latest iOS using the latest API and generate one binary. For god's sake, you can even target both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms with one build. You only need to deal with "availability of any API" when you hit hardware limit, like features that only work when there is Bluetooth LE or Dual Band Wi-Fi.