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Part of the reason I have the occasional suicidal thought is because I'm physically dying right now because nature is killing me. If you took that away I'd actually be quite a bit happier.

"Fast enough" creates a lowest common denominator which then becomes the standard to cater to. If technology companies (Apple in this case) made an effort to push technology along, then it'd raise the standard and user experiences would be richer due to allowing programmers to increase computational complexity of their software.

I think perhaps that getting defrauded so much money that it sent them bankrupt must feel a bit like failure to them

What is so crazy about it? (this is a genuine question)

It gives a month's free trial where it fully functions. Then it says it requires payment when it starts up after that. Though if you don't pay anything it actually continues working. So you have plenty of time to try it out.

I work in backup (this has become a core part of my business: http://macdaddy.io/mac-backup-software/) and part of the reason I wrote that is because of the continual reports of Time Machine backups failing to restore when people needed them. The numbers are huge. I wouldn't touch Time Machine in any conditions. I would manually backup before using that. This may be anecdotal evidence, but if you want to see some of the issues people run into with Time Machine just read through some of the posts people make about it: https://www.google.com/search?q=time+machine+backup+failure&...

Most of this is indeed directly related to directory backups. I also do Snapshots of sorts, but it only makes hardlinks to files, not directories. That proves to be remarkably more reliable.

It's long overdue, but having spent months developing an implementation of bootable snapshots on os x that works with HFS+, (http://macdaddy.io/mac-backup-software/) this kind of stings.

It amused me that they were comparing the cost of mass producing a chip to the cost of producing a single plane.

That's a good point and it also brings to mind a way to fight it.

This http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.1897v4.pdf could be one way. You could generate images which are not of someone who wants to protect his privacy, but tweak them to strongly correlate to an image of that person by the neural net, whereas it could be a picture of anything you have just optimized (the images could be just noise, or another person, etc). You could generate batches of those and upload them, and confirm to Facebook that they are indeed photos of the person who wants their privacy back. You could repeat this (automatically) and corrupt the weights in FB's neural net, which would overcome their face detection abilities for the individual in question.

>not how you might imagine

Then I imagine they're "deleted" off of their servers, but not before being copied to another database that they use internally which isn't attached to the original servers directly.

Recently I've found myself a bit lonely at times due to changing circumstances and a lack of being introduced to other people that would like some more friends.

I have gone to a few meetups. Which is a technology based product. It has helped me meet people and end loneliness.

This has nothing to do with the evolution of society, as you put it.

I have tried open sourcing other stuff, and it's been completely overlooked. I guess you have to promote it somehow. But I've tried putting stuff on GitHub, and I don't think anyone ever looked at it. If it were to have an audience I'd do it.

oh, and I dont really have any idea how quickly the revenue will decline. I'm surprised it's still making some money now actually. The market may take another decade to completely dry up though. The data recovery stuff does work on digital cameras / SD cards, external hard disks, USB sticks, etc. I'm not sure what people currently buy it for generally.

I did publish it, but it didn't sell well, because our marketing sucked. I'd give you the source code if you asked for it I think. I don't think it's really worth open sourcing at this point, I doubt there's much interest in it.

I did retain all the rights, but other companies published it under their branding. I ended up getting somewhere between 20-30% all up. I'm not rich, I still have to work for a living. They burnt through all the revenue. The main company that was publishing it moved to San Francisco, hired offices and staff, and burnt through all the capital almost instantly. I just banked mine and used it for travel (for a decade).

I wrote a data recovery POSIX compliant command line app in C in 2003 that runs under OS X, Windows, and linux. It's still selling well, and has been all these years. Over time it's generated millions in revenue as it's been used by several different competing apps, and I have only recompiled it about twice in the last 15 years, each time only making a (very) minor change. It went a good decade without a recompile and continued selling well and being widely used.

The reason I'm happy to say this publicly is because

a) it took years to write, full time. Data recovery is a hell of a lot more complex then I'd ever imagined.

b) data recovery is no longer possible on SSD's (if they have TRIM enabled, as they do in all major OS's) so it's a declining market. Anyone would be nuts to be trying to enter it at this point.

I've always wanted to see what would happen if the government employed workers (maybe traffic cops) to take up each lane on the motorway, and form a line that you can't get passed, and drive at a speed just right to unclog traffic jams during peak hours.

I wonder how much more throughput and time saved we could get just by having lines of breakers every 50km or so on a highway during peak times.

I don't follow him on Twitter because I don't want to get hassled when I go through US customs since I'm from another country (NZ).

if you have something that interrupts the wave it blocks the whole wave. that's why the gauss on the microwave front door works yet you can see through it, because microwaves (the actual waves) are in the order of centimetres wide.

well, are you going to try it?

Since it's impossible to fully track the wealth of the worlds wealthiest people, I'm just going to go ahead and speculate.

0.0001% of 6 billion = 6000 people.

I would say that 6000 people easily control anywhere between 20% and 50% of the worlds wealth. Especially considering that if you research "How many billionaires are there?" You come up with something like this:

"A total of 1,645 people made the 2014 billionaire list, representing combined wealth of $6.4 trillion."

So taking the top 1000 billionaires, or perhaps even the top 100 or so, and then you have the families who really have enough money to control things. These would be the people that are impossible to get much information on, but who definitely hold a lot of sway over the planet.

I think these families are the ones we should be concerned with. Either them or once again a small proportion of them, numbering anywhere between 5 families and 100 families.

Actually, probably not. Sometimes I still make an app that doesn't do too well. I guess this is the downside. To get started you have to be prepared to make several apps (maybe even up to 10) to be reasonably sure you'll start getting a good income.

But when you do get one, it can generate revenue for a long time coming.

I think with some good market research you could probably be more sure though. And also going into partnership with somebody lowers the risk as you can churn out more apps then share the profits when you do get a successful one. Personally I have not had much luck with the Apple app stores because of their crowded/discovery issues etc, but I also have not put much effort into them due to their horrible restrictions (the sandbox is a killer with the way they've implemented it, and a lot of my software needs admin privs to run)

For me I tend to earn between 120k and 240k USD / year, but I only ever work part time on that job, I used to just spend about 3 months of the year on it, but during those 3 months I would do 100 hour weeks. I'd spend the rest the time traveling for fun. If I was working full time constantly it would be double or triple that by now I think. Right now the sales are slumping a little, but that's because I'm neglecting that work a bit while I pursue my side passion a little more (which will hopefully become profitable later).

Personally I made some websites and started selling my apps from then. I quickly started making more than most salaried jobs and get complete control without having to be horrible to anybody. I don't understand why more people don't do it.

If you're looking to train your neural net for a specific narrow category, then you cannot beat something like tensorflow and training it yourself (and it's very easy: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/master/how_tos/image_ret...). If you want a general image classifier (most people dont) then you'd probably want to use a service.

Right, Apple DID NOT make LLVM. They just hired the guy that did (Chris Lattner) well after it was fully established.

thought_alarm got it right. The experienced developers probably use open source editors / debuggers, unsuitable for the masses. Not an Apple-only tool, but still not XCode.

>I’m thoroughly convinced that Apple has an internal-only IDE that they use that is far better than Xcode and is actually functional, much like the internal Radar tool.

That's an interesting point and it makes a lot of sense. With the scale of the codebases a lot of them are working on I also don't see how they could be productive while working in XCode. And also XCode could not be this buggy and broken if it had internal developers working with it and constantly reporting bugs.

And although 3D Touch is almost entirely unused by almost everybody as far as I can tell, the actual physical implementation of it is brilliant. I wrote this: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/3d-touch-explorer/id10603467... to demonstrate it (source code here: https://github.com/benslaney/3D-Touch-Explorer). The amount of granularity and the sensitivity of it - equal all over the screen - is crazy.

Sorry for being unclear, I didn't mean to say that it was based on my kernel extension. I meant to say that we both based it off of the same kernel extension. The extension in question is called kAuthORama and is provided by Apple. (note: I'm not 100% sure that they did use that, that was just an educated guess).