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If you trouble yourself over regret on how you didn't get rich that one time, while still living a life that is probably in the upper 90th percentile comfort-wise, you aren't doing yourself any favors. Money is just numbers, and in the end we are all dead, so spending your days regretting not winning the lottery has to be one of the most stupid things to trouble your mind with. A dose of some traditional values would probably help.

There are good and bad redesigns and there's hyperbole. Most of Windows/Facebook/iOS outcries are hyperbole. Reddit's new design is just bad. For a good example of a slick modern redesign look at new Gmail.

> Health and tolerance provides creativity for the future.

This one is classified bullshit, although I think it makes at least somewhat sense.

Well said. It can be very sobering, that’s why I personally have no intentions of quitting the startup / freelance life.

Javascript is just a platform to run transcompiled stuff on these days, not unlike the name giver's JVM

Just typical zealotry. So instead of globals we should use DependencyInjection, and now the app is magically better? For many projects it hardly matters, and I'm not going to over complicate things when there's no practical reason for it.

Yes I'm not that naive to not realize there are very good reasons the world works this way :). But I think its good to sometimes think about the big picture, how we ended up with these structures in place, and how we can improve for future generations - or at the very least try not go backwards.

The concept of citizenship and passports always seemed so archaic to me. I never signed a contract with anybody, yet the place I was born in ultimately decides the boundaries of the space I'm allowed to live in.

Thankfully there is a lot of freedom of movement if you're lucky enough to have a "good" passport, but recently we've seen the trend reverse a bit due to the refugee-scare. Hopefully one day everything will be open for anybody.

But just hypothetically, if I want to grab a bike, ride to some isolated forest in France, build a cabin and live the hermit life, I can not to that. I'd be forcefully removed and placed back into my designated space. And force really is the only thing that gives basis to the claim of land. Seems kinda weird. Animals don't care and just move where ever they want to.

Remember when Instant Messaging protocols used to be open? When there was a multitude of clients for any given service to chose from?

Now IM has left its early adopter stage and became an integral part of everybody's life, but in doing so we became stuck with 100% proprietary WhatsApp. Not undeserved, it works very well with billions of users, and is probably the most usable IM service ever made.

But it became so big and "essential", that it doesn't seem right that a large part of human communication is bound exclusively through their apps.

I think in the long run there would be a real benefit to opening up their protocol.

Is he's talking about this thing?

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/611149H28WL...

Because I absolutely love it, been coding on it for years.

That's very cool, could be a interesting problem for using machine learning. Train it with all the pictures of tree rings with known age, and then see if it can reliably guess the age of something it hasn't seen.

The whole package this year looks pretty good. A great step towards modernizing the clusterf*ck that has been Android Development.

JetPack is thoughtful collection of APIs along documentation, essentially providing solid guidelines on "how to write a modern android app". Good to see Google embarrassing Single Activity as well as reactive binding/view model patterns, and providing a standard way to implement it.

Then you have Auto.. I mean ConstraintLayout replacing all the other layouts, which is a good step forward too.

Android KTX looks good too, although it does seem to be a bit a odds with Anko? Or maybe not at odds, but looks like it has the same goal as Anko, to provide syntax sugar for Android Development in Kotlin. Could be interpreted as a "no" from Google in regards to Anko. As I really like Anko I wish there was more clear stance of what the future of Anko is.

Also very simple but highly useful Extension: Cookie AutoDelete

Deletes cookies & local storage after you leave a website. You can whitelist a few domains like Github etc. for convenience. The only downside is you'll get "privacy reminder / cookie accept" popups every time anew.

This is a good thing. While very similar, UIKit blows AppKit away in terms of API usability and design. Also, I think it's perfectly fine to write macOS apps using UIKit, would be similar to making iPad apps. It needs a few Desktop/Mouse related adjustments but Apple is probably going to be smart about that.

Definitely not gonna be like what happened with Windows Metro apps

Wow this looks really good. Apple still the master of eye candy IMHO. Not gonna install the beta tomorrow though, you just know by now it's gonna be unusable at first.

Also I hope the editor gets a lot of improvements. I'm convinced now that one large reason why Kotlin feels so much better then Swift is simply the IDE. It's just magic compared to Xcode.

Doing some Objective C recently, I was disappointed to notice Xcode was much snappier and less buggy handling large ObjC codebases then Swift ones.

I would only consider something like Typescript mandatory, because static typing is just so hugely important for any maintainable project. But beyond that, it's a little more work to come up with a clean MVC pattern yourself, but also perfectly feasible to not use React/Angular/etc.

Depends on scope and number of developers I guess.

This is unacceptable, Apple will have to give in on that one. I hope Valve is going to fight them with everything they can do, so this gets resolved in a timely manner. Many people were looking forward to use the app.

Man i gotta disagree with almost all points in this article.

Name-Shadowing is confusing? Should be common sense to not have multiple variables with the same name in the same scope.

Optionals are ugly in Java-Interop, so we decided to just use Java instead. Great reasoning.

Damn that sounds even more dystopian, can you imaging it

"Hello how can I help you? - Hi, beep, I like to reserve a table? - Ok, beep, beep, on second - Mhm-mm beep, beep, sceech, 011000101010...."

This is so opinionated.

What's so hard to understand about Bitcoin as an alternative to fiat currencies?

Yes, its real, its a store of value, and you can use it for payment if the seller is willing to accept Bitcoin.

And yes giving your private keys to some offshore exchange or invest all your money into some dubious altcoin is probably a bad idea.

Doesn't change the fact that Bitcoin's promise is very simple and clear and no part of this is a scam.

Well usually IMF throws out some loans to keep the boat floating, but Venezuela would need to be open for that path first. Some people think that comes at the cost of sovereignty, but what can you do markets are markets for a reason.

Haha yes users are idiots.

But as someone making mobile apps for over decade, "being elitist about it" is not going to accomplish anything. You'd think any rational mind would have no trouble figuring it out, and compared to what you're dealing with on a day to day basis as a developer, it should be a piece of cake. But people are stupid and are not magically going to wise up, and you're not going to change that.

UIs for the masses need to be as simple and foolproof as humanly possible, that's just the reality of it. Apple and everything they do is the best example of this.

ARC an be a real pain with closures though. I'm often discouraged to use them in Swift, because I can't be bothered to figure out if I have all my references correctly set. GC lets you not worry about it. It comes with its own disadvantages, but does it really matter in most cases? Optimizing for productivity seems way more important then pure performance these days.

I think server side Kotlin will steal all the thunder from Swift. It's very similar in style, but JVM stack makes it more versatile, IntelliJ tooling is leaps ahead, and the language seems to a bit more smarter designed overall.

We'll see, but some technologies have the potential to change the face of the planet in ways we can barley imagine.

If nuclear fusion takes off, we have more power then we ever need, and mass pumping Co2 out of the atmosphere could be a viable thing suddenly.

Then there are looming miracles in food production. Lab grown meat and indoor farming in high rise buildings could massively raise food supply.

And lastly, autonomous robots doing construction & logistic work, and beyond that replacing basically every heavy lifting job on the planet. There are ~50 millions or so car produced annually, what if we started to pump these kind of numbers in robots? There could be "landscaping projects".

Throw all these technologies together and earth might look like Coruscant sooner then we think.

Only getting a white flag using this:

https://thepiratebay.org/static/img/tpb.jpg

This is good news, but also shows how little we actually understand the complexity of our bodies and our brain in particular. We have good antidepressants, but besides observing the positive effects, there doesn't seem much of a consensus on what exactly these psychoactive molecules are doing to help.

So no surprise that something seemly simple like sleep deprivation can have a massive effect on the issue. It's not like we understand all the mysteries of sleep either.

The involved mechanism and chemistry are so complex, and we barley scrap the surface, even with all the advances in medicine. So many people arguing about what depression is, what it's causes are, but it would be foolish to assume we have this even remotely figured out, and I would be very open-minded to anything on this issue.

Maybe they want to do DiamondCoin, a crypto currency backed by diamonds, could be neat.

Its a date? What else would follow after the words "Available starting", month is first since it's US locale. Whats so confusing about it.

That's just all the hyperbole Apple gets. Security is one of the biggest strongpoints of Apple. Look at recent Meltdown/Spectre issue, macOS, iOS, tvOS all got fixes deployed immediately, just press a button to install. Meanwhile how many vulnerable Android phones and unpatched Linux boxes are out there.

Vulnerabilities come and go on every system, but Apples is actually very good at mass deploying fixes to their whole product line very fast.