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  1. I'm on a keto diet. I need fat and protein not carbohydrates.

  2. Recently Senator Heitkamp deliberately used private information from women without their consent in a campaign ad. Would this bill apply to her and put her in jail? Or is there a loophole for politicians?

  3. The proof is in the pudding. It is really really hard to make a quality app, one that launches fast, has smooth animations, reviews well, shows an understanding of interface factors...

    What do you judge applicants on? Certifications? GPA? Whether they have a degree in an unrelated field like Computer Science?

  4. To the extent I help out with hiring iOS developers, my primary concern is apps in the store, and their quality. How you learned how to make a quality app is less important.

  5. I don't if it's the regulatory environment or what driving the trend towards privately owned companies, but every time one goes private there's less ability for common small investors to benefit from wealth generation. I'm just a worker with a 401K, and I'd like to get the returns needed to retire on my investment income. Events like this make it slightly harder to do.

  6. The Xcode Simulator Works Well on Apple Brings iOS Apps Into Mac, But Won't Merge Platforms (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    As a long time iOS developer, I disagree with your assertion that you need to be constantly tethering a device. I do 90% of my work via the simulator, and only hook up a device when I'm debugging gestures or other similar features late in the development cycle when I want to make sure the user experience is good.

  7. People say that on Fed Up With Apple's Policies, App Developers Form a 'Union' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The android developer here spent a fair amount of time making an ad-free upgrade option for some (fairly well selling) android game. He sold 6 copies.

  8. Re: Multinationals Only Ones With Your Data on Facebook CEO Says Not Planning To Extend European Privacy Law Globally (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    OK this was not part of my training, but this apparently is what you mean.

    GDPR will also apply to small businesses under 250 employees if the processing carried out is likely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of data subjects, the processing is not occasional, or the processing includes special categories of data as defined in GDPR Article 9.

    So, I have no idea based on that (which I guess is technically in English) what constitutes a small business exception. I'd have to hire a specialist to know.

  9. Re:Multinationals Only Ones With Your Data on Facebook CEO Says Not Planning To Extend European Privacy Law Globally (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And the whatever is larger is 10 million Euros. Please imagine being a sole proprietor faced with doing business in an environment where a single mistake would lead to a 10 million Euro fine. Oh, I get to rely on the well known compassion of bureaucrats.

  10. Multinationals Only Ones With Your Data on Facebook CEO Says Not Planning To Extend European Privacy Law Globally (reuters.com) · · Score: 3

    After taking my corporate training on the European privacy law, I can say that only multinationals will have the legal departments and resources able to so much as keep a copy of their user's email addresses. I am concerned that I'm going to have to suspend email support for my side apps. I really really can't pay a 10M Euro fine for the $100 a year I make in app sales to Europe. I don't have a dedicated privacy officer; there's only me writing apps. My apps don't even collect any data, but I do give out my email address so people do write me. If that's what you want. Only large multinationals able to make software that keeps track of a user's private data; that's what you are getting in Europe.

  11. So, They Approve Of Everything Else on YouTube on YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1, Redundant

    So, if YouTube's management won't allow content they find offensive, then they must approve of everything currently on YouTube. Wow, what a bunch of misogynistic sadists work for YouTube.

  12. NASA Trying Something Space X Can't on NASA Funds Designs for a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Rocket (space.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering if part of the impulse for doing this is that it would be nearly inconceivable for Space X to get the permitting to do this, while NASA being the government can get the government's permission to do this. Is this a push back against commercial space exploration?

  13. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? on iFixit's iPhone X Teardown Reveals Two Battery Cells, 'Unprecedented' Logic Board (macrumors.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It sort of strange that gold and diamonds, which have very limited usage in large quantities, are considered intrinsicly valuable, while a pocket computer with thousands of man-years of effort behind it, and craftsmanship down to the nanometer is thought of as something that should be dirt cheap.

  14. James Bond Was "Buried" in Hong Kong Harbor on Hong Kong Has No Space Left for the Dead (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In You Only Live Twice, Her Royal Navy buried James Bond at sea, the sea being Hong Kong harbor, and he wasn't actually dead.

  15. 7+ Already supports Fast Charging on iPhone 8 and iPhone X Will Support Fast Charging, But Only If You Buy a New USB-C Charger (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    I have a 29W power supply that charges my wife's 7+ noticeably quicker. Same power supply also fast charges the new iPad Pro 12.9.

  16. Look at the Results of Our Carelessness on Despite Well Known Risks, Survey Finds Most People Use Smartphones While Driving (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Here are the deaths per million miles driven in the U.S. over the years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  17. A Year of My Life Lost on NPAPI on Mozilla To Drop Support For All NPAPI Plugins In Firefox 52 Except Flash (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    5 years ago, part of my job was keeping an NPAPI plugin running on the Mac. Apple had transitioned their support to a new graphics and event model and it was a lot of work refactoring our plugin. And of course, that ended up being wasted time we should have spent transitioning to writing a Javascript version of our app.

  18. I wonder what a list of minor countries would look like.

  19. I guess the Matrix was right... on Las Vegas Gets "Kinetic Tiles" That Power Lights With Foot Traffic (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ...if human beings are an efficient source of energy for electronics.

  20. So the high performance iPhone is the 7+ 256GB SIM Free with its faster SSD, more RAM, and faster modem.

  21. Apps are Useless, But not the Watch on Apple's Smartwatch Draws Competition And A Very Bad Review (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Apps take too long to launch to be useful, but features such as calendar display, notifications, find my phone, ApplePay, temperature make it worth putting on every work day.

  22. By Default on Google Paid $1 Billion To Keep Search On iPhone (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And it's good that you can change this when traveling to China, as the Great Firewall prevents reliable use of Google, but Bing (at least last time I was there) worked.

  23. Changing the License to GPLv3 on The Swift Programming Language's Most Commonly Rejected Changes (github.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a lively comment thread on Swift.org which was shut down under the organization's code of conduct regarding a pull request replacing the Apache license with GPLv3. Hilarious.

  24. 2008? on The Winner-Take-All Trend In Tech (newyorker.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Crazy Libertarians caused government created entities like Fannie Mae and the FHA to get people to take out mortgages they couldn't afford to pay?

  25. Anandtech for the Quantitative Results on Apple Looks To Introduce OLED Displays In iPhone Models From 2018 (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Here is the display section of Anandtech's iPhone 6S and 6S+ review.
    http://anandtech.com/show/9686...
    There is something for everyone there, depending on what metric you think is most important. It seems as though the iPhone 6 has one of the best screens in terms of accuracy, but probably the Samsung Galaxy 6 Edge is the best overall screen.
    Here is the Anandtech iPhone 6 review from last year:
    http://anandtech.com/show/8554...
    At that time, the iPhone had easily the best display on a phone in display accuracy and was quite good at every other characteristic.
    The lesson here is that it is probably a good time for Apple to jump off the IPS train.