It’s getting increasingly difficult to move devices across borders. Coupled with other advice that recommends using “burner” phones to prevent unwarranted invasions of privacy, the key thing is to not carry any important data physically at all. Put everything in the cloud.
The Chromebook model is looking stronger and stronger with each passing year.
Via Jeffrey J Davis
The trickiest aspect of Apple’s pricing strategy is running with lower prices while at the same time, becoming more of a luxury brand. In essence, Apple is redefining luxury. While other luxury brands have utilized lower-priced items to serve as brand entry points, Apple is taking the practice to an entirely new level by pricing products below the competition. Apple is making luxury much more accessible with the idea that low-priced gadgets can create an experience just as luxurious as that of premium gadgets. It’s going to be difficult for other consumer tech companies to play in this game.
Elm was the inspiration behind Redux which is currently sweeping through the JavaScript UI community.
Elm is typed and succinct and it has a lot of expressive power as a functional language (more similar in style to Haskell than JavaScript). I don’t claim to have mastered it but I will say that the Elm approach has been well and truly vindicated through thousands of Redux, RxJs/store and Vuex implementations which all refer back to Elm. Once you strip out all the ceremony and boilerplate from Javascript frameworks (yes, I’m looking at you Angular2) there’s not much left that can’t be more compactly expressed in Elm.
My only quibble with the language, apart from the unfamiliarity of the syntax is the not very simple way it interacts with Javascript libraries. This is by necessity but it means there’s a bit more work bridging the gap.
As implemented, Sonic Screwdriver obviously required what’s been referred to as an “evil maid” attack—someone has to gain access to the targeted device for an extended period of time to perform the installation.
I was thinking more along the lines of a Black Tie Infiltration. A very popular Hollywood trope.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BlackTieInfiltration
Andrea Giammarchi thinks all these front-end libraries are too slow. Virtual DOM, you name it. His solution is tiny and super fast.
Because you never know when you might need to cook one.
I took a new job today.
setState() in React is kind of confusing. The best way to use it is to not at all. Use Redux.
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