hackcrafter

> The Tech Backlash

If there is a tech backlash, I don't see how more tech is the solution.

I downloaded WeCroak, after reading an Atlantic article about it being an anti-app to remind you about your impending death, and it works as advertised. By which I mean, after reading a quote about death, I feel less inclined to pick up my phone for a couple hours!

Be warned of the time sink that is trying to get mods running on desktop Minecraft.

Each version update breaks compatibility and your kids have a hard time understanding why they can’t use that cool mod their friend told them about at school where they portal to the moon!

> Personally I tried BASIC...

JavaScript is the new BASIC, in the sense that it is universally available and a great first language to pick up.

It is easy to forget that self-taught programming is motivated by that intrinsic discovery factor, and JS feeds the dopamine loop!

With high dimensionality data (think many columns), plotting the first two eigenvectors provides a fantastic clustering of the rows.

In genetics for example, this plot may separate samples with different ethnicities (see PCA on SNPs).

But it does prevent a business trying to run off of free supercharger power from just buying up used Teslas...

They called him on this potentially happening too during the pitch.

I hope they bought all the Teslas they need!

I was thinking that too, then I realized he was wrapping the code in `DB.transaction` blocks, which rollback on any type of exception, so that all those staged/checkpoint entries only persistent if the block cleanly executes.

Pretty neat...

Really, the iPhone 7 was just the 6SS. The 'S' revision was spec and camera bumps, but no major case changes and the 7 made no case differences over the 6S.

But probably a 6SS or whatever wouldn't have sold as well, so they shipped a 7, and now the 8 actually does change the case significantly (glass back) and so thats not a 'S' revision.

No product cycle will play out perfectly in a versioning scheme, and your only surprised about the missing 'S' because they have had a naming scheme that has been surprisingly consistent for this long!

Next year will be the iPhone A...

My first thought is are they adding enough value to take a 30% cut off a digital subscription service?

But then I flipped the question to whether as a consumer, I would be more likely to be a digital subscription with a "Subscribe with Amazon" button.

Hell yes!

I just logged into my Economist account to try and cancel my subscription and failed to find any way to do that. Emailed support, they said "we would be happy to help you, call us during business hours...".

I would love all my subscriptions to be managed by Amazon under a single interface.

I would also be more likely to "try out a subscription" knowing I could easily get out of it without dancing through hoops.

This is really cool!

I have been using Exponent (Expo) on a side project for 5 months and love it.

Can I ask what editor this is built on? I've been considering for another project having a "live editor" for writing extensions, and this is the best ES6 + linter I've seen!

Is any of this app open source?

Awesome to hear!

Do you have a general timeframe?

I'm going to be deciding between Azure Mobile Center and AWS Mobile Hub in the next couple months for a personal project.

Well, brick is too harsh. I got mine up and running after redoing first-time setup routine.

But most people seeing a blinking blue light are not going to think "oh, I'll just open the WiFi app and a new network in setup mode..."