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The potential is to replace computers. In its current version, it is basically an iPad on your face. Look a little forward and it is a laptop on your face. Imagine that the price c…

Telnet? That's the alternative I can remember.

My guess is that Apple was a vehicle to further his compiler and programming language plans. Now that he has done that, it becomes more mundane maintenance and incremental changes.…

Swift has its problems but keeps getting better. I only get to use it for my at-home projects, since at work the portion of the codebase that is for iOS is Objective-C with no plan…

I'm not sure I would say Swift is the kind of robust that is needed for safety critical software, but it is a nice step forward for application code. It mostly forces you to deal w…

Also sounds similar to M (aka MUMPS), see InterSystem's Cache (commercial) or GT.M (open source). It is an old programming language with a persistent key-value store that is basica…

Which he did, but then his defense was hampered by the secrecy around how the evidence was obtained. At least the article makes it sound like this.

Isn't Iceland going through a national financial crisis and also just booted their president for lying to them? That doesn't sound much better.

It would be interesting if candidates were not allowed to promise what they would do, but merely campaign on their morals and good standing in the community so we can pick people w…

Booted out by whom? The board of directors votes. Well, that is We the People who have to vote in this case.

Democracy is a form of government that can destroy itself. The French voted to put in an emperor their first time around. So we may have a good constitution but if the people vote …

The article has one sentence about the videos being on a beach house computer that someone else could have used. So just from this article it is unclear exactly how damming that ev…

Is this true across all economic levels or is this an average so it could be the rich and upper-middle class saving more.

It's kinda like adjusting the seat position in a car. If you could have each individual user's preferences saved somewhere and applied to every car/computer when you sit down to us…

Similarly some punctuation is moved on a Spanish keyboard, but often in Venezuela and Chile I ended up using an American keyboard with Spanish layout so I had to just know which ke…

The stay at home parent is childcare. You get personalized child care or you can outsource it for economies of scale and have the second parent work so long as that parent earns mo…

I agree with other posters that same-field is usually going to be blocked anyway. I've had non-competes at 2 of my 3 jobs which would prevent me from working at any competitor in t…

So a more realistic test would let the candidate use Wikipedia to refresh his/her memory, but then you would need more complex questions that require demonstrating understanding, l…

Misrepresenting abilities ... yes, I did that in my first job interview. The job posting said PHP, HTML, MySQL skills. Well, I knew HTML well enough but my PHP and MySQL skills wer…

The one time I tried a fizzbuzz in a series of interviews, one candidate was surprised and almost insulted. At the end of the day, I learned almost nothing about any of the candida…

Apple isn't usually about "locking people in" but more about controlling the experience. That can lead to the same thing, where they want everyone to use their API and not someone …

My first thought on seeing Vulkan is that it is basically Metal for everyone else. Is that not so? Then why would you expect Apple to support Vulkan given that they already have Me…

I don't know if people share this opinion, but to me speeding is due to the inadequacy and inconsistency of speed limits. Near my home there is a major thoroughfare with a 35 MPH s…

When I worked at Apple we used a native Mac issue tracker. It was much nicer than anything I've used before or since. I hate having to click-refresh-back-forward in a browser windo…

So we want unsupervised learning, huh. I think this line is rather important: > But there are lots of limitations of this approach. For one, to teach a person something new, you ty…