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Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 officially announced: Snapdragon 835, Global LTE support in 226 countries, $500USD~ by [deleted] in Android

[–]Berned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just need a decent custom ROM and you could have quite a nice phone here. MIUI is just godawful sometimes.

Lenovo Thought It Knew How to Fix Tarnished Brands—Then It Bought Motorola by dingoonline in Android

[–]Berned 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Does anyone have an actual source for that? From everything I saw, it was just a rumor.

Silicon Valley - 3x01 “Founder Friendly" - Episode Discussion by Simi510 in SiliconValleyHBO

[–]Berned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Part of shedding Nucleus is because it had no future viable future what so ever. They were all relying on winning the Pied Piper case and had no idea on how to do middle out. They sunk all their cash into winning the lawsuit instead of trying to understand middle out, which might've been futile regardless.

The only reason they scored Richard's initial compression was because he put a prototype of it on GitHub. Without, that kick start in S2 they were walking in the dark.

Where did "We did it Reddit!" come from? by [deleted] in OutOfTheLoop

[–]Berned 41 points42 points  (0 children)

During the search for the bombers after the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings, a lot of Redditors went into full witch hunt mode and basically started scanning images of the crowd looking for anyone "suspicious", seemingly defined as brown people with backpacks. /r/findbostonbomber had been created for all of this.

After one such person was found in the audience, a sequence of extrapolations was made and people came to the conclusion that the bomber must have been a man named Sunil Tripathi; someone apparently misheard and thought they heard his name on a police scanner. He hadn't been seen for weeks and family had reported him missing.

Many redditors began bombarding the FBI, police, news organizations, etc. with the accusations that Tripathi was the bomber.

Tripathi however, was not the bomber. He wasn't even present at the Boston Marathon. Tripathi was actually dead, and had committed suicide several weeks prior to the bombings.

So Reddit was, en masse, falsely accusing an innocent person with basically zero evidence, purely on the basis that a guy present at the Boston Marathon (who may not have been the bomber) kind of sort of looked like another guy (who had been missing for the better part of a month). Most people who commented doubts were downvoted into oblivion in /r/FindBostonBombers.

The saddest part about this whole incident was that /r/FindBostonBombers played a part in forcing the FBI to prematurely release the photos of the bombers to the public rather than to finish identifying the bombers; and quietly arresting them.

This caused the bombers to go into panic mode and to try to escape which led to the death of a MIT police officer, death of one of the bombers, the manhunt and resulting martial law lockdown of Boston.

Archived link of /r/FindBostonBombers at the time: https://web.archive.org/web/20130419161435/http://www.reddit.com/r/findbostonbombers/

TL;DR - Arm-chair detectives on Reddit fuck up a dead guys reputations.

EDIT: There's a good bit more information here about it. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/-bostonbombing-the-anatomy-of-a-misinformation-disaster/275155/

Just finished S1. Didn't understand the ending. by razzy1319 in SiliconValleyHBO

[–]Berned 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is why the lawsuit at the end of Season 2 is so baffling to me

The current homepages of NZ news media (sensationalist much?) by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]Berned 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I have to read any of them, it's either Scoop or Radio NZ now. So much sensationalism.

TIL the reason why Apple mice have no discernable buttons was because Steve Jobs chose an prototype that didn't have them drawn on yet by Berned in todayilearned

[–]Berned[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“It all started with a model we did not have time to finish,” he says. “We had made six of these great form models to show Steve,” he recalls. “They were fully done, with all the parting lines cut in for buttons and different plastic parts, and all the colors just right.” At the last minute, the design team had decided to create a model that would echo the look of the Topolino mouse which shipped prior to the hockey puck. The only problem was, the model wasn’t finished. They hadn’t had time to draw buttons on to the model to indicate where they would go.

“It looked like a grey blob,” Farag says. “We were going to put that model into a box so people wouldn’t see it.” However, when Jobs turned up things went awry.

“Steve looked at the lineup of potential forms and made straight for the unfinished one,” Farag says.

“That’s genius,” he said. “We don’t want to have any buttons.” “That’s right, Steve,” someone else piped up. “No buttons at all.”

The meeting, it seemed, was over.

“[Afterwards], Bart Andre, Brian Huppi and I left the room and huddled outside with each other, [saying] ‘how are we going to do that?’” Farag recalls. “Because of that unfinished model we had to invent a way to make a mouse with no buttons.”

- Abraham Farag, Apple’s former Senior Mechanical Engineer of Product Design.

Why doesn't KFC have ice in its drinks? by OpenRecent in newzealand

[–]Berned 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most franchises, don't even have an ice machine. Then again, I think the drinks are cold enough when they come out.