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I don't want to presume to tell you how to use twitter but to me, it seems to be clearly geared as a one to many broadcast channel. It is much more akin to a protocol that allows people to subscribe to events/ideas/movements/news and get succinct updates about them. It is a terrible place for discussion objectively, but I believe this was by design-- and a feature.

I agree that if is hypocritical however clearly the scale is substantially different. Subreddits are typically echochambers especially small niche non-defaults.

Twitter is a platform. Your analogy would be more akin to Reddit banning a subreddit-- which happens. I personally disagree with platforms like google, reddit & twtr editoralizing & policing things like ideology & expression. I certainly lean more libertarian here, but actions like this certainly are a slippery slope. It appears like favoritism in a benevolent view and censorship in a more hard line stance

I am going to check my preconceived notion this is 1) A horrible idea/product 2) false-- and be opened minded. I ask the following questions of anyone knowledgeable of the space or otherwise having a strong bg in EE:

- Is it possible to power a device like this for > 8 hours?

- How difficult would it be to create a device like "promised". By that I mean, a fully fleshed out google glass, one that conceptually delivers things like object recog, nightvision, camera, HUD.

Google glass failed (imo) for 2 major reasons, and I only see one of them has changed.

1) The interface was terrible. Apple can solve this with a combo of offloading processor & peripheral interfaces with the watch & an iphone. The phone has a more robust processor & the interface is not voice, but potentially 2 different devices.

2) Hardware. As alluded to, interfacing with the device was painful, but the device itself didnt deliver due to HW limits. Apple can bypass some computing by offloading to a phone or secondary device, but battery life is still a limit...for both devices.

If apple shifts-- and they have; from the hub being a computer, to the cloud and now ultimately the phone; can they deliver the battery power? Not only will the phone be the brain of potentially 2 devices on top of its own functionality, but the conputing power, graphic processing power, networking and battery life need to increase both for the phone-- the hub, but all peripherals.

Can Apple (or anyone) deliver on this with current tech, or do we need better battery tech & smaller cpu / networking?

At first I thought these books were not free-- and was a bit miffed. However, they are quite free in HTML form, and you may support the offer via LeanPub for offline purchase. So thank you too the author, these look like great resources and I will dig into them. When/If my checking account displays a positive number I will certainly consider purchasing. Thanks!

Can you not understand how that is not only ibtellectually dishonest, but a terrible analogy

On mobile I think it is a paywall.

I havent double checked, however I believe the same batch came from the US State Dept

This is the same stupid shit as the election. My point is that there is apparent proof of dubious tactics in the wikileaks disclosures, their failure to call te election polling close, and the immeadiate dismissal of the comey announcement.

You can disagree with this evidence, but telling me "you feel" im wrong isnt intellectual.

I am no trump supporter, but their coverage was borderline dangerous. In the best case, wildly incompetent. Worst: bought & paid for propaganda.

Hint: the receipts are in podesta & abedin's seized emails

I am on mobile, however I will amend with sources. The NYT dileberately held back stories and pushed forward the views if the Clinton campaign. If you accept that wikileaks emails are authentic, you can not accept NYT as legit. Maybe we can assume it was incompetence that their polling numbers (85-15) we wrong, and that is subjective admittedly. I personally feel this too was intentional.

Edit: not to mention, like most media, it cant serve over https because of advertising refferers.

How Their Polling Numbers Changed:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/796209661456347136

How the HRC campaign used media to influence RNC and promote weakest candidates:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks

Op Ed on why Wikileaks isn't whistleblowing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/what-were-missing-...

here are some screencaps of various media companies front page and politics pages:

http://imgur.com/a/v2huv

I have to find the actual links to the wikileaks NYT stoiry placement emails, but this at least points out the narrative that was being crafted and why I dislike NYT. The fact that they were part of the reason we had Trump v. Cointon is enough for me to drp them. Trump & clinton are terrible people and the media (namely NYT) is the reason this was even possible.

True. However, it gave a much better view of the election. Wikileaks emails show NYT, CNN, huffpo, The Economist, ect all tailoring coverage for HRC/the democratic party. Knowing this publication is Russian makes it easier to spot bias, than the supposedly more objective outlets. Even polljng data was heavily inacurate.

RT may not be great, but I will never trust the above sources again. I was so disappointed in the coverage of Comey and their united front of pro Hillary bullshit. She rigged the RNC with pied piper bullshit and used leverage in DNC to oust Bernie. All major news outlets were complicit. Except Fox, which is equally shit

For me I try to read state sponsored/official news of several nations in publications like:

- rt

- bbc

- ny times

- xinhuanet

This gives each countries official position and the delta between them is usually useful info.

I also use twitter for curated feeds, which can be useful.

The guardian and intercept are also pretty good. I no longer trust the economist. While obviously biased, I do like ZeroHedge

Sorry, yes am getting them confused. Trying to figure out what is going on with little sleep and email data. I am embarassed I made those mistakes but it is also telling.

I am not contending there is a blackout-- that was an over reaction, but all major networks are barely mentioning much of the disclosures or even showing HRC in that bad of a light. If this was Gary Johnson-- who most people dont know; would ve surprised if state dept & WL werent front page.

Bloomberg, CNN, NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC are running with blatant propaganda. Just because I find HRC to be a dangerous, doeNt mean I support T.

The state dept/FBI are releasing data dumps on a former senator & secretary of state as well as pursuing her investigation of criminal activity. None of these papers allude to that scary fact, or the scarrier fact that there is a schism internally as well.

Comcerned.

0 mention of wikileaks. NYT hasn't weighed in, had to fire a staff member for feeding HRC intel. In fact, there is virtually no mention that wikileaks is actively disclosing emails. One article indicating "voters already made up their minds". I think they are both scumbags, it's just that it is absurd that NYT isn't even trying to spin, just pretending it didn't happen.

I have been getting updates via a fucking uncharged fugitive seeking asylum from my country and reading updates via RT (Russian News). I feel sick to my stomach and I am very cynical.

Polling data is lagging, but the state department just released >300 emails.

Not unlikely U.S is source of leak not Russia. Total media blackout. NYT, Bloomberg, CNN, WaPo, ect.

538 has a 3.1 popular vote margin and in the last 24ish hours Trump has gone from 80/20 to 60/40. Many sides manipulating information, so both amplify their candidate. Going to be very close

I am not the architect of any large scale system-- that said, I wouldn't expect developers to reach out to GitHub.

However, it isn't bad etiquette and I'm sure Microsoft could get in touch with the devs. Interesting thought.

I will take cynicism out of this equation and still disagree. Highlevel the ability to strike & defend the country (not simply project) is hugely important. However, having a technically proficient group building tooling to increase efficiency, speed, transparency and collaboration-- not to mention technical security, is certainly important. So yes, I would like a more efficient government && hope we can leverage technology to improve it.

Is 18F delivering on this? I don't know, but it is conceptually much more important than 1/19000th of military spending.

Eh, NPM is a pretty core service and both sides probably should have done things a bit differently. I don't neccessarily think vscode needed to reach out to NPM to let them know they were going to be consuming their public API. Both teams appear to be in communication as a result however-- which is good.

This will likely lead to more fault tolerant systems on both projects and hopefully more collaboration & features in the future.

This is data a lot of people have wanted for a lot of good reasons. While this could flatten the labor market and even out a corps advantage from asymmetrical info dist-- I would've rather anyone but linkedin be successful here. Other than extremely tiny sample sets, no one has actually succeeded in this space/featureset. I can barely see peoples profiles without getting signups shoved down my throat.

Fuck linkedin. It is a closed service which disproportionately provides value in a way that makes it nearly useless, while simultaneosly selling data to recruiters and companies. So this wont help anyone as much as linkedin and I am skeptical this data will be open.

interesting project, would like to check it out. I recently upgraded from MacOS to Yosemite and have been quite happy. That said it would be nice to see other options.

Almost no one can be intellectually honest & disagree with your statement. However, when both candidates are indisputably criminals who are self-serving, dishonest and utterly treacherous, the debate is what is "less wrong". I honestly go back and forth and will probably write in vote "No Confidence" as it is the only morally justifiable thing I find possible.

Thanks, going to look into grass hopper. You can port a number to Google voice for $20. I don't support much of what Google is doing and am trying to limit my reliance on it-- however it would be a pretty good solution. Skype does not allow porting in, but it does integrate with callkit so it will use the new iOS native call screen instead of banners.

> I would be willing to bet that within a decade you HAPPILY buy a phone without a headphone jack,

I bet within a decade we will all happily buy autonomous cars without a steering wheel. This is because in a decade, battery life, software, connectivity and manufacturing experience will provide a large benefit and will be normalized.

I find it extremely difficult to believe that this will provide a 10x better experience. Here is what Apple is doing:

* The Computer is the Hub for all devices

* the cloud is the Hub

* the phone is the Hub

That's fine. Except that if my phone is using bluetooth to be constantly connected to my headphons & iwatch, as well as occasionally my computer; AND it can power my headphones it really dosn't matter if you give me 2x the previous phones battery I am running 4x the amount of devices off it. Apple needed to deliver a phone that lasts >3 days and headphones that aren't a chopped up earbud that can max out at 2 hours.

the iphone 7s will probably be awesome, this is the bridge model as Walt Mossberg put it, and it doesn't seem realistic to even consider buying it.

The article makes virtually no logical case for its own claim. The example that Larry Page should buy twitter because it is great, is immeadiately under cut by the follow up reason. Larry Page is Jewish and Twitter is an extremely vitriolic place, especially towards people of color or minority groups. The "Old Media" problem is that no-one wants to pay for content. Twitter is less of "content" and more real-time news pings-- closer to reuters than NYT. If the author were to make the case they should go the way of Reuters, I would at least entertain it, but Twitter as a b2c play seems like a stretch at this point.

Twitter has an extremely viable business. They should try this innovative model I was reading about called subscription billing. The hail mary play is to ask users for $1 a month. Users would churn and they would have to limit adverts so their current model would take a hit, but it makes sense.

I think users would pay $1 per month per 160 char addition to their monthly limit. At minimum advertisers would. kill adds, sell tweet length. I get it Jack, you want to preserve the arbitrary SMS thing, but it needs to go before your company does.

I think you missed the point I was making: diversity of ecosystems is important. Microsoft provides diversity to many of the ecosystems above. Having 2-3 competitors is much better than a single one, and Microsoft has shown that they need to win developers by providing value to the community.

I think we agree that diversity is good, I disagree that their is enough. OS's might be the only one I think is diversified enough because between Google, Win, OS X & numerous flavors of linux there are a lot of choices. There is also "the web" and Solaris & BSD as well. Google is peerless for search. Leaving aside email, apps & core other services like web infrastructure, there is no replacement for google. It is important to realize that not only is Google peerless, but that all search engines run PageRank. By that I mean, they copy pagerank by creating extremely similar algorithims and using all of the ideas google pioneered. No one has innovated in the search space except google. backlink totals is an utterly meaningless metric and authority/reputation are subjective.

Google has adjusted to their original thesis of course, however everyone else adjusts to google. If you are selling something in a market that speaks English, you want to be at the top of Google. That is it. SEO means google optimization. No one can be better at being google than google, but I would likek to see someone try and be better than them at search.

I agree with the sentiment in the article because of an important point you mentioned:

> Think about where we'd be today if Microsoft actually succeeded in what it set out to do

As DHH points out; and to a similar vein if we swap Google for Microsoft in your quote above, fragmenting the industry is the safest and best way to serve users. Google seems to have succeeded in it's goal to control the worlds information-- and whether you believe this or no; having 3 powerful entities competing with each other is much better than many small ones trying to dethrone a hostile winner.

Small startups will always try and innovate where they can, but there are now different inroads as a single leader can not always banish them.

I agree with you. I agree on the macro-scale. I do not want one company to have the ability to do the things you mentioned. I am sure Microsoft is doing much of this new initiative out of self-interest, but it is good for the community. I like vscode, they have an extremely easy to use && intuitive Azure interface and a massive amount of open courses and docs on how to use it, and tons of other code, docs, resources ect.

I don't want Amazon to be the only cloud provider.

I don't want google to be the only search engine.

I don't want os x/win to be the only 2 operating systems.

I don't want Apple to be the only vertically integrated handset maker.

I don't want a single option for payment/wallet

I don't want a single app store.

All these things are better addressed when there is competition, and the competition between several large players leaves room for smaller companies to enter and innovate.

This is what I was saying, and:

> it's a very expensive way to not solve a problem.

is a great way to put this. Google often seems to be technology in search of a problem or users.

I don't think the "internet's biggest flaw" is that it allows for free, unmoderated speech.

> What’s even more interesting is that Wikipedia seems to exert a moderating influence on its contributors.

This is a great concept, but usually is horrible in practice. It says that wikipedia was partisan and quite left, and has since become more balanced. However, this illustrates a positive outcome of a dangerous potential. This model works much worse for less authoritative sites, but I personally do not believe wikipedia should moderate based on anything other than "truth". Regardless, this is extremely subjective and difficult to do. I think it is working at wikipedia (compared to other places) and am optimistic, but I have seen this go wrong so many times.

I can't be sure, but it seems like they are just going to release a big Wacom tablet and add real-time collaboration for the price of a 2013 SMART car. That isn't a fair comparison, as it is unlikely corporations will be comparing a fleet of used smart cars to collaboration workstations in their budget. WTF is the usecase for this? 10-11k for people to draw on the same canvas in different locations? I think it is actually quite cool, but the pricepoint is absurd and it is an open question how the real-time sync will work between >1 device.

I am half serious when I say that this product seems to be exclusively marketed at apple engineers & designers to lazy to walk up the stairs to collaborate with each other.

It looks like they want to just eat bower. Tbh, if webpack or browserify can eat a tooling & dev stack, and yarn can eat bower and do package management, it would be a nice workflow.

I wouldn't want 1 tool to rule them all, but a single tooling/dev/task kit and a single dependency/pckg manager would be nice.