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After opening thousands of iPads, there is no question whether you are opening an iPad sealed by Apple, or if has had a prior repair and been resealed.

Independent repair screen swaps can be very good, especially when 100% of the old adhesive is removed, the frame cleaned, and the aftermarket adhesive is of original quality. But even with this, the pressure required to remove the sealed screen is less than an original screen. The dust seal between the LCD and digitizer can't be replicated (or isn't replicated) by independent repair. The dust seal in this mini was intact.

There is no question, from experience, that this mini was an Apple refurb. Also, I don't know of any other shop that would replace the iPad mini PMIC. We only do it under duress since the effort required to CNC drill out the old chip, combined with the cost of the new chip is not amenable to profitable board repair compared the market value of a used iPad mini first gen.

There is no question that this board was an Apple refurb, and it's not the first one that I've seen that is like it. In reality, it is a very good refurb. Those damaged caps are not likely to cause any practical problems, and replacing the PMIC underfill was probably deemed not that important--which I would agree with.

I have no problem with Apple putting out refurbs like this, it is a great environmental move. But own it. It is what it is. I'd like to see Apple say "You betcha, that's our work and we're damn proud of it."
How to Become a 10x Boring Developer
I recently bought a domain name under one of the newer TLDs. I hadn't really paid much attention to how these work, but the registry is Donuts and they seem to be using some kind of market-based pricing scheme. As a result the names I wanted were available on namecheap.com, they cost significantly more than what a .com or .org would have cost, but were not unaffordable. That seems to be working to diminish squatters, since it's too expensive to buy a bunch of names and then hope you can resell them.
Oh yeah, agreed, but capitalism doesn't care, just throw shit at the wall and see what sticks...

Probably building something in grad school helps.
Some, probably most, "unicorns" aren't really private. They have shares held by "qualified investors", which can include mutual funds. Fidelity and T. Rowe Price funds own sizable chunks of Uber and Space-X. Fidelity Contrafund owns Uber stock, and anybody can buy shares in Fidelity Contrafund. So, in a sense, ownership in the company is already publicly traded. The SEC allows a mutual fund to put up to 15% of its capital in illiquid securities such as Uber. This was intended as an exception to provide capital to small companies, not a way for a company with a $60 billion market cap to avoid disclosure.

That's what concerns the SEC. When a "private" company gets big enough to be a significant part of mutual fund portfolios, should it have to start reporting as a public company?
I started at 10.853, and with very little effort brought it down to 0.003

The slowdown isn't in assigning the bool; If you pass in 10000000 into that function, it's going to get isPrime set to true on the first iteration, but if you early out, you save all of those values. Again, this isn't really the point of the exercise, it's supposed to be comparing the performance of the same piece of code ran on different hardware.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/c6d5bae04334cbc7ef9583ebb7...
>Floating point is

>Rather fast to calculate; addition is mostly trivial and multiplication is reasonable...

Is that true? Having coded a softfloat I have to respectfully disagree.

> So slow the values need to be cached (which works for 8-bit values, but not anything bigger),

I think you're misinterpreting the description: The values don't need to be cached, caching is chosen specifically to get O(1) calculation.
In my experience I also met the following types of S/W engs:

- 'Pioneers' - hackers that pave the way, create amazing prototypes and whose code you can't use in production

- 'Architects' - who see the work of pioneers and see the bigger picture and build the structure that is needed

- 'dogmatists' - who see beauty in the art and educate their peers and don't create much code, and act as cult(ural) leaders

- 'Workers' - who implement, work 9 to 5 and go home and implement solidly and don't need passion, but have lots of discipline.

The last group is really important and is rarely talked about.
It really depends on what you are promoting. Niche, high priced products do well. I have a niche site that earns $80+ per sale averaging 30 sales per month. Adsense on that same site earns less than $200/mo.
8 bit palette means trying to match the colour against 256 possibilities instead of 16.
I think it depends on the context, and that context has shifted a lot over the past ten years. I can deploy an app to Heroku that scales tremendously well (if expensively) and have almost zero knowledge of configuring a web server or the tools it uses.

I think it's probably more accurate to define "full stack" as being able to make and launch a web application on your own. Servers and databases are just tremendously easier than they used to be, so the bar has been lowered a lot.

Knowing the steps of what happens after typing in "google.com" in your browser is only relevant to people working on projects of massive size, in which there is no need for a "full stack developer" in many cases, or you're doing something completely removed from just a web application.
I've never written any Perl 6, so this comment could be badly foolish.

As you point out, the suggested `∑` is just sugar (for some value of 'sugar') for `[+]`. In Perl 5, one could easily alias subroutines using, for example, `* a = \&b` (space inserted to fool Markdown). Is there any analogue in Perl 6, so that, say, `* ∑ = \&[+]` or its modern variant would automatically inherit the parsing semantics without having to go through the cumbersome process of declaring a new sub just to pass its arguments unchanged to an old one?
Excellent point. All cell phone sites have a GPS reference clock source for each provider. The clock source is critical for everything from RF tuning to handoff timing between sites.

You'll see this type of antenna mounted typically right on top of the equipment housing structure. Each one you see will tell you how many providers are there.

http://www.antenna.com/media/GPSL1-TMG-SPI-40NCB-thumb.png

(Note that it is small, about 6 inches in height. And different variations abound, but they are typically painted white and mounted right on the structure for LOS view to the sky)
Thanks for the links, foolshdropout. I've read most of those, and they tend to the make the same points over again.

I called it a "side door" to make the point that we need a compromise between the front and back. The pro-encryption crowd doesn't want a back door, and the anti-encryption crowd doesn't want a front door. As Amnesty International recommends, we need some compromise.

Given that you think I'm clueless on many fundamental levels, I presume you disagree with Amnesty International.
I'm surprised you kept "engineers" as part of the title. Is a guy writing only CSS an engineer?
Much as I hate the rockstar and ninja tags, this article itself is pretty arrogant. It makes some fairly unfounded assumptions about other professions like librarianship, while really doing them down a bit.
If you read Linus Torvalds' Q&A posted up a while ago, you'll see that Linus Torvalds doesn't think he's a rockstar either! http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/linux-at-25-qa-w...

"I’m not a big visionary. I’m a very plodding pedestrian engineer, and I try to keep my eyes firmly on the ground."
The Animal Farm is basically Trotsky's "The Revolution Betrayed" done with animals.
Talk about over-reacting. Not only is there a legal power maximum for private use of regulated spectrum, but there are plenty of areas of the US where you won't interrupt anyone else's service. If you're really concerned, get a Ham license.

There are plenty of areas where you can play with this on low power without pissing off the feds or ILECs. The creators of OpenBTS did this to provide service where it doesn't exist - in the middle of a desert, providing service to 30,000 people over a 7 square kilometer area, for example.

It should go without saying that broadcasting a pirate signal in a populated area is a bad idea.
Show HN: GoSNMPinquirer – A simple SNMP v2c poller using JSON configuration
>However, the United States has proven that it is possible to create a society of checks and balances with a sufficient justice system that works in favor of the citizen. Home search and seizure seems to generally go well. Why aren't there groups speaking up about it?

Wow!? What makes you think any of that? Or did you miss a negative there? :)

Yes, I am against the assumption that backdoors are a good idea, whoever puts it forward, and whatever you try to call them.
goSNMPinquirer was written to do SNMP polling from multiple platforms in a highly-distributed global environment with low resource usage that is simple to run / manage. It is designed to be leveraged via CRON jobs which can be used to schedule the polling preventing issues you find with long running daemons which can freeze, die or leak memory over time.

Any feedback, questions, thoughts, or tips would be greatly appreciated to keep improving my skills and hopefully make this more useful for others as well! Thanks for taking a look!
This has already been posted by the same person at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11376894
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> (1) ... Contrary to the article, many people do need to fix their "natural" form

I'll second that. I'm not a natural athlete. I have very poor kinesthesia (our 6th sense). I accidentally walk into doorframes as I try to pass through. It wasn't until my wife told me that I realized my originally learned running pattern was bad for my joints.
I wonder why you feel the need to comment if you haven't understood the issue.
What worries me more than the evidence for water-damaged components is what seems to be a substantial amount of hair on that 'refurbished' board. It did not notice any hair on the 'factory-stock' board, so I assume that the source of the hair is not this repair shop. If this is the (lack of) quality of work Apple refurbishments get, Apple has some serious issues wrt. quality control. The other option is that this device was in fact repaired by a third party which used the proper adhesive procedure (which seems to be to apply more than one layer of adhesive).
I think a lot of the cause of talking about "rockstars" is that in America, we idealize pioneers. This tendency isn't all good or all bad (at least, until you apply it to a particular context), But sometimes it falls on its face because life is not a Walt Whitman poem.
There's a survival bias at play here. We remember the (very) few companies that survive to become tech giants. We don't remember - haven't even heard of, really - the vastly greater number of ventures that crash shortly after liftoff.
Or just acquisition by another group of investors, this time with a longer term outlook. The VCs can cash out without an IPO.
> Wow!? What makes you think any of that?

My experience living in the United States and researching other countries has given me that perspective.

> Yes, I am against the assumption that backdoors are a good idea, whoever puts it forward, and whatever you try to call them.

So, you do disagree with Amnesty International's recommendations for restricted encryption. That's fine, but I hope you also disagree with the government being allowed to enter our homes with a warrant.
Polymer is not a polyfill for the standards. It's just a library for creating web components in a less boilerplatey manner. The polyfill library is called webcomponents.js.
According to about page on his website, the author is "a 14-year old computer hobbyist."

Quite impressive!
Blech. I disagree that schools are responsible for any student's ability or inability to find him or herself. Schools are one of many gateways that are chosen by students. We all choose our own path. No need to lay responsibility at the feet of another.

Another thing Confucius said was if you don't want to do something, don't ask someone else to do it. If you don't want to find yourself, don't ask the world to do it for you.

> Confucius proposed another approach: “as if” rituals, that is, rituals meant to break us out of our own reality for a moment.

I wonder what the author thinks is the purpose of extracurriculars if not to give students the opportunity to practice this ritual.
Started, as in MVP. Additionally, some of those properties were built while in college by brilliant developers who dropped out to run their then growing companies. There have been many many many more companies started by kids who have failed miserably.
He's paid to say it.
Yes, Wizardry was the first game to ship that was written in Pascal UCSD if I recall correctly.

The boot sequence was pretty unmistakable (clear screen, switch to 80 columns, cursor in the upper left corner) but quite novel at the time.

Here it is, if you want to experience it yourself:

http://www.virtualapple.org/wizardrydisk.html
Ouch, Amiga with its flickering interlaced screen was never a good 'productivity' machine because it was painful to look at higher resolution documents. Its competitor, the Atari ST, had a high quality paper white monochrome monitor at 640x400 that was much better for those type of applications. And it was cheaper.

Amiga was definitely by far the better games and graphics machine tho.

EDIT: Had written 640x480, meant to write 640x400
I wonder what your response will be once Apple applies the walled garden approach to OS X. It hasn't happened yet, but the features they've been introducing these past few releases are a clear indication of where they see OS X in the future.
Ooh! I grew up with this game; someone brought a working Atari 800 to the Maker Faire a couple of years ago, and I was able to play a game from start to finish without referencing the manual. The Internet Archive has:

* the game in an emulator, so you can play it in your browser: https://archive.org/details/a8b_cart_Star_Raiders_1979_Atari...

* the manual: https://archive.org/details/agm_star_raiders

* the unreleased sequel: https://archive.org/details/StarRaidersII_Wilmunder
That reminds me of one additional improvement suggestion: allow viewing the color values of the target pixels somehow.
It's funny, we've got the ability to do that at work, we track our time in 15 minute blocks and break each task down.

As an agency (maybe it's the same everywhere), I think there is wild external and internal pressure against giving accurate estimates.

When you get in the room with the project managers and the sales people, you can see their eyes rolling as the costs escalate.

"How long is implementing Google analytics going to take?" Maybe 3 days? "3 days really? That seems high, can we write in 2 days there?" Well we can, but it's still going to take the same amount of time.
Last supper: Like the pufferfish, wild mushrooms are for culinary daredevils
Neat! Would like my own editor though. This doesn't have a lot of text editing capabilities and is fixed size.

How well does this map to real x86 assembly programming?
New evidence and errors in previous trials are the only reasons for a new trial.
These unicorns are in a unique position to tell the shareholders -- whom are, let's face it, increasingly acting like a cartel across wide swathes of the economy because there are fewer and fewer of them each fiscal year -- to tell them to fuck off.

And that scares the regulators because they're paid to keep "everybody in the fold" by extolling the virtues of being publicly owned.

Here's a useful tidbit: the mysterious market forces -- the "shareholders" as they're known -- are actually a small group of individuals or groups that pull the levers of the economy. The regulators rely on these lever-pullers to play ball when need be.

Frankly I think these unicorns are right to fear buying into the US economy by going public, the overt assertions of power by the US government are definitely something to avoid.
Greece actually wants the IMF to leave, but i'm pretty sure that's not a good idea. Not sure if this "leak" is of any big surprise to anyone.
https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when#the-g-key-is-press...
It's 2016, Steam is available on Linux. I even managed to run AoE2 HD on Wine.

> Call of Duty

All you need is CS:GO. And you can get it on Linux. ;)
That's a good point. Pay should be enough for most people.
I assume everyone who argues that there's no right to employment is also arguing in favor of a guaranteed income - decoupling survival from employment.
Node.js non-cockblocking model
Apple at Forty: Steve Jobs Led Us to the Fourth Dimension
I didn't mean to suggest this can be done with C++'s existing type system.
The pro-encryption crowd knows that a 'side-door' is mathematically impossible and the 'side-door' crowd know the power of magical belief.
This is obviously a fine route to go if you want, but I've found simply booting into a text-mode Linux on its own partition (or something equivalent) gets the job done just as well, and means I don't have to have a bulky out-of-date machine just for creative writing. Going this route also means your creative writing workshop is portable, has wonderful battery life, and is trivial to backup--things I didn't have when I briefly tried hipstering myself with AppleWorks on a IIGS.

As a bonus, when whatever I'm writing is actually technical stuff that I need the Internet for (e.g. a post I've been working on about a one-stop enterprise Mercurial server setup), I can have exactly the same storage location and document creation/publishing workflow, but work from my normal, fully graphical session. I'm all for using the no-distractions mode for writing things that don't require research, but I think it's equally important to acknowledge that a lot of stuff most of the HN crowd writes every day require an Internet-connected research station with rich media support, and having that station be something I can cut and paste out of (as opposed to e.g. an external iPad or Android tablet) is a boon to my productivity, not a curse.
Hi Jessa! Thanks for making the video, and welcome to Hacker News.
i have to say. i actually have some respect for the greek people putting up with the shinanigans tsipras, that clown, is pulling off.
While I mostly agree with the context of what you are saying... Austin was segregated long before we had zoning or high paying tech jobs.

As for the shrinking population of black people I believe this is more due to culture than anything. Austin never has had a very large black population and as I said always been quite segregated. The culture in Austin is and has always been very white compared to cities that were much larger like Dallas and Houston. My friends that have moved away due to this have told me they just don't feel like there are enough places for them to go to on Friday/Saturday night. For us white folks there is an insane amount of things to do culture wise, especially if you are into music.

Also Austin never had jobs compared to other large metros in Texas until the tech jobs came. You either worked at the State, UT or pretty much waited tables.
> Their fundamental problem is (which they realize pretty well i seems) that they have lost developer's mind share. .NET may be a fine ecosystem and C# may be a great language but in all practical senses it is Windows-only. All these Mono/open source CLR games are not even the slightest blip on the radar for a practical day-to-day backend operations running cross platform (which is mostly Linux, but Windows as well).

The JVM has certainly had a lot of time to mature, and certainly has a fairly entrenched position, but when you look at all the developers who were willing to hop on board the Go train with no supporting infrastructure, it's pretty clear that support from powerful entities can go a long way.
http://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/cooper-kevin.htm

Has the first hand account of Joshua Ryen, who also experienced what it was like to almost get executed.

I'm personally not a fan of the death penalty - I generally don't think it's worth the risk in effort, except perhaps in the case for people (eg. terrorist leaders) such that keeping them alive could result in a hostage situation.

But I do think it's a little unfair to have a case like this presented in a completely one-sided way.
A chaotic system is by definition also beyond the reach of existing methods. With unums you’ll presumably get numbers that are less and less precise as you step through the computation, whereas with standard floats you get a “precise” answer which you know must be substantially wrong.

I’m not sure to what extent if any unums can help solving ODEs. I haven’t seen any ODE experts examine unums yet or write down their impressions.
I suspect a lot of them would pull the same sort of thing as the IRS did with Microsoft and pay millions for continued support specifically for them. Few organizations would stay so far behind the curve without having a business justification worth a substantial amount... or their IT costs are so outrageous for the most basic levels of operation it's not too bad to pay half your IT budget to avoid having to upgrade and retrain your likely demoralized IT workforce and employees to handle an already-archaic OS like Windows 7.
Surely you're getting the sense of the patterns of things you're doing.

Maybe something like "that's probably 3 loops and an email"

That's a couple hours for the loops... A couple more for the email, assuming HTML has to be dynamic based on a model with 5 values... Etc...

Sure it's not identical every time, but the patterns are the same.
What is “Life” about?
Can someone explain how those two capacitors exhibit "clearly water damage"? (about 6:25 onwards)

Is it the dull grey (not shiny silver) solder?
Confucius was an authoritarian. There, I said it. There are other sources of Chinese wisdom.
Greece is right, it should follow the steps of Ecuador or Iceland since the debt does not seem to be legit.
It's really no different from the stranglehold Microsoft has had on the Xbox line.

It's all a matter of expectations - much easier to start with walls than it is to build them 20+ years after the fact.
The entire point of financial markets is turning a huge amount of speculation into a small amount of productive liquidity.

It is not a bad idea by itself, and 7% is not an extraordinarily small number. In fact, it looks hight to me.

There are lots of problems to be found in the details, but the picture you paint isn't a dark one.
We don't have these.
It was not built by college kids. A prototype was built by college kids which was then commercialized by billionaires. The college kids got the credit, and some dough, and the billionaires got 70%+ of the profit. The stuff was built by a team of engineers, some young and some old.
Eschews certain labels, then proceeds to compare himself to a scientist, artist, and carpenter.
It does not surprise me that introduction of small particulates to any orifice on a daily basis would increase cancer risk. Household dust increases cancer risk.

The cover up orchestrated by Johnson&Johnson here, however, is the deplorable story.
> the features they've been introducing these past few releases are a clear indication of where they see OS X in the future.

What features has apple added that inevitably lead to a walled garden on OS X that can't be more easily attributed to improved security?
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And completely ignored by serious programmers/engineers. You want a rockstar, sure let's sign that million dollar contract and we'll be on our way. You want a ninja, sure I will assassinate anyone, that will be again be a million dollar contract. You want a engineering with a very specific set of skills, okay maybe we can work something out.