chucknelson

Yeah, we tried going to iPad for our kids but it’s so full of free to play junk.

Even with Amazon Kids, though, the games are still their free to play selves without purchases, so I still see these games where dopamine hits (get coins!) are a main mechanic :(

Woah, that is news to me!

What’s strange is that iOS gives you no indication of where that sound is coming from…I guess I expected to be able to pause it somehow. Interesting, though!

I'm surprised investors aren't more scared of the competition, particularly Microsoft and its Teams product that is part of Office 365.

Maybe it's not a huge deal because the overlap of Slack customers and Office 365 customers isn't that big?

Wow - if you're Type 1 and have an A1C in the "high threes"...you're definitely one of those exceptional patients. Your A1C is probably better than some non-diabetics!

I could see why you have a pretty high threshold for the quality of advice you want. Not sure it's a typical experience, though.

Would you consider non-trivial install scripts as an exception to this general rule? I mean, you wouldn't write some install script in ruby or python, right?

This is insane - is there any "expert" speculation out there on when this will all collapse? Before or after the new year...?

Definitely, but they keep it pretty vague. I'm assuming they're not just counting felonies, but also maybe someone who had some minor incident when they were a teenager.

I could see a lot of parents having some stupid minor on their record from when they were a bit more reckless.

While the actual change/patch is interesting, I found the long discussion and process to get it merged pretty interesting. It seemed to get bit tense at times in the "competition" between the two developers, but it seemed to have ended politely enough.

Source? I thought Google's cars used many sensors as well and weren't just a "follow this high-fidelity map and hope it's correct!" technology.

> ...the assumption that ML based products are all just magic and require no effort.

Yep, same experience here with both "Big Data" and the ML space. The decision makers need to see the sheer amount of Java, Scala and/or Python code you need to actually implement to do anything useful.

Nope...not magic.

I've always assumed Stevia hasn't taken off yet because that means companies have to spend money on trying to rework "flavor profiles" to work with Stevia.

I long for a Stevia-powered Coke Zero...until they realize Stevia also causes horrible things in humans :-/

I'd be more interested in understanding why they chose to implement their own file system instead of adopting something like ZFS.

No doubt there is reasoning in there besides the "we are an evil company" logic - Apple developers are people too...