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Especially useful for laptops, I've had mine fail after the first-year warranty period.

But afaik, you can purchase AppleCare anytime within the first year (and not just at the time of purchase).
I was in a Watertown MA supermarket at about 5 when my mother, who lives an hour away, called to tell me she saw this on TV and Watertown was affected.

I went to the bottled water aisle to get water for my family. It was mostly large packs of bottles. I managed to get 15 gallons in big jugs by going in the direction I saw a guy with jugs come from. They wheeled a cart with water out, and people were pulling it in boxes straight from the cart. At first, maybe 3-4 people were loading up on water, but that was it.

Within the 20 minutes I was there, I watched the shelves almost empty completely of water.

One nice thing--the supermarket manager, before I even got to the checkout, had discounted all the water--thank you Shaws!

The psychology of it was interesting. I felt bad about the jugs (I am I hording? should I share) but then thought how I would feel if I didn't have enough clean water for my pregnant wife and child, and family who is visiting for the birth. I calculated that I would feel like a bigger jerk if I didn't look out for them, so I went with it. I also called several friends and gave them a heads up on the run on water. One of them didn't know, and was able to find some at a CVS. So that is my story so far.

The article I just read said that the pipe was a "custom pipe" that burst, so they have no replacement ready and can't even give a timeframe.

edit: on the news they now think it was just a "connector" so it may be an easier fix.
The pipe was only 6 or 7 years old:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/23337764/detail.html

It's more apt to rant about corruption in construction contracts in Boston union jobs
For laptops, always. It's a certainty that something that would otherwise cost > $300 to repair will break in three years.
Nope, just an example of me trying to get the title to fit in 80 chars... Sorry.
I used to be one of those who didn't. Now it is my policy to get AppleCare and a case for everything I buy from Apple. Why? Because items from Apple protected with a case and still under warranty have much higher resale value.
It's been a godsend for me. AppleCare is great support, and has absolutely paid off for me in the past.
Having an opinion is quite different from being biased though. The author has in the past been quite critical of Google maps (it seems like half the posts on that blog are complaints about some bit of Google maps visualization or another), so I don't think your original claim of bias was very fair.
I've gotten it for my last two laptops. It's a little spendy, but I find the peace of mind more than worth it, particularly after my partner's experience with her iBook some years back. That particular model had some notorious hardware problems, which in her case didn't pop up until her laptop was (just barely) out of warranty. She ended up needing to use her AppleCare several times before everything was finally resolved. If she hadn't had it, it would have ended up being quite expensive. Apple's QA has improved quite a bit since then, but still...
No. Assuming the seller isn't stupid, insurance has a negative expected value. You should still buy it if the loss you're protecting against would catastrophic, which is the case for health and homeowner's insurance, and is absolutely not the case for a Mac.

I've owned around 10 Macs in the last 15 years. Foregoing AppleCare has "saved" me over $2000, and the damage that would have been covered had I bought it is less than $500.
But the ability to do so still doesn't matter unless the code gets improved in the first place...

As an aside, there won't be an "HTML6." HTML will become versionless from here on out.
Comparing to Facebook is like comparing to people who breath air. Facebook is ginormous, if you're 1/100th their size you are doing well.

And users are not everything (and people searching google are NOTHING). Twitter has had huge impact News and News gathering. Facebook is/has revolutionized the game industry (or created the casual games industry) POV.
Really good read, abeit a bit long. It has a lot more details about the Xerox Parc days then the movies like "Triumph of the nerds had". It was interesting to hear a deeper understanding of the actor model in Smalltalk and simula
Currently we're trying to come up with a generic ecommerce platform. Turkish market is underserved in this area, we think.
That sword is amazing. I wouldn't want to to have one of those guys mad at me, ouch--LOL.
10% is my limit for any warranty.

If you're worried it'll die, and you won't be able to afford to replace it, scale back. you can add ram later, you can improve the hd later.

I think you'll get more peace of mind by doing some math. Computers are the tools i use for work, so i tend to buy new ones fairly frequently. The odds of me using any given computer for more that 2 years are pretty low. So, how much of a hardship would it be to replace that earlier?

If it's really a budget stretch, you might think about moving to the cheaper end of the spectrum. What if it gets stolen? applecare is no help.

Also, the first 30 days come with applecare. Usually if hardware is going to die, it'll die quick. Flexing the motherboard for years will kill a laptop eventually, but meh.
No. YOU ARE with me. I deleted my FB sometimes back and lived happily ever after.
It would be really interesting to look at some other sources comparing crime and punishment in Norway and in other countries.
In case it helps any, here's a mirror I put up long ago, without the MIME issue AFAIK:

http://accesscom.com/~darius/EarlyHistoryST.html

(I did it to be able to read the paper without all the distracting OCR errors/typos in the OP's version; perhaps they've been fixed since then, though they weren't at the time I sent him this.)
No. Laptops are replaced every 18-24 months. AppleCare and any other warranty for laptops is completely worthless. When I went to buy my current MacBook the salesman actually refused to sell me one after I told him I wasn't going to buy the warranty since I'd just be replacing it again next year.
Nimbyism. People want it. Just not near them. Near someone else is fine. The word "nuclear" has too many negative connotations for it to be near them.

A perfect example of this is the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island in the 70's. LILCO (local power company/monopoly) spent around $6 billion building a nuclear power plant that could generate 820MW of power on the edge of the Long Island Sound.

And then decommissioned the plant without so much as generating any commercial electricity. Why? NY Governor Mario Cuomo refused to approve any evacuation plans. Reason for that? To prevent the plant from opening due to public pressure after Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

Result of all this? $6 billion in building costs passed off from LILCO to the public. And instead of generating its own power, Long Island had to lay out a 330MW submarine power cable to obtain extra power from Connecticut after that big blackout a few years back. And a 100MW Gas Turbine plant was built on the site instead. Also after the blackout.

Oh. And can't forget about the 50 kilowatts of power generated by the two 100ft wind turbines were built. Really.
I wasn't singling out LSD. If dementia can cause similar effects, it makes just as much sense to prevent people with a history of any dementia, or something that will reliably cause dementia, from becoming LEO's.
Have had 3 Macs, all laptops, and never bought the warranty. Had one laptop need in warranty service, but all mostly trouble-free.

Also if you buy with your American Express card, they cover up to an additional year of your original warranty.
For RevA products: yes. Everything else, no.

RevA Apple products are guaranteed to die right after year 1, in my (limited && anecdotal) experience. I had to take in my Rev A Macbook when they just switched to intel 5 times, got the bezel & mother board replaced. So, if you're getting an iPad now or new gen macbooks, then yes.
Devil's advocate: If you have a facebook account you really can't stop people from tagging you in "implicating pictures" and the like. You can un-tag yourself after the face or delete things on your wall but there's no guarantee you'll get to that before someone else sees it.
The article has map samples for comparison at the bottom. I made one for OpenStreetMap, and tried my best to make it a fair comparison.

- Approximately the same zoom level, judged by distance between cities and size of land masses.

- 387x387 pixels (same as images in article)

- Map of approximately the same location

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/3999/screenshot20100501at...

Here is a second image, zoomed-in by one notch. The level of detail provided is more comparable, but arguably I shouldn't have to zoom in to get this. http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/5959/screenshot20100501at92...
opensocial isn't doing too bad. It is supported by Yahoo, Google, MySpace, LinkedIn, and many more networks.
But are they equally prevalent? What if they are equivalent, when all things are equal, but HFCS is deleterious simply because of its cost induced amount and ubiquity?
You can get completely valid warranties for half price on eBay, which makes it a pretty unambiguously good idea, in my opinion.
The contractor who built this water supply tunnel, which was finished only 7 years ago, is Modern Continental.

http://www.mwra.com/osu/1003mwtfacts.html

They were the Big Dig's largest contractor and are in Chapter 11 bankruptcy because federal prosecutors brought 49 charges against them including allegations that it knew about bolts coming loose in the ceiling of the Big Dig tunnel years before a ceiling collapse killed a motorist.

Shouldn't there be some kind of lifetime ban on them doing engineering work?
I read most of my Hacker News from an iPhone. I feel less guilty not "dedicating" too much time to it, and I get in my fix a little more often.
No, I haven't because I don't like to pay a premium for something that should come with the product. In the EU, in my case the Netherlands, anyone who sells a product is responsible for its reliability during the time a customer can reasonably expect it to work. When it breaks after more than two years I will have replaced it anyway.

In my case they have covered the repair of an iMac that broke a few months after their 'warranty' of one year expired. One of my interns, however, was refused support in a similar situation with a faulty PowerBook screen. His uncle, a lawyer, wrote some angry letters to Apple on his behalf, but if I remember correctly they decided that it wasn't worth the costs of going to court.
I'm on the several twitter streams, totaling to around 20% of all the tweets. During a month I've got 8 million active users.
It was 2 spaces indeed when I first saw these guidelines (about a month ago)
No.

My thoughts are warranties/insurance are the following:

* If having to repurchase/cover the item would seriously hurt my financials, then I buy it (car insurance, rental insurance, etc are good examples).

* For everything else, I skip it.

I figure that by self-insuring, I come out ahead in the end. Sure, there's always some gadgets that fail past the end date of the manufacturers warranty. However, replacing those items tends to cost less than buying warranties for everything. Besides, if they fail past the manufacturer's warranty, there's usually some improved version of it I've been eying anyways.
Especially one that contrasts immigration rates and sources.
This site is called Hacker News. Please put posts like this on a site like Reddit and not on HN. And also please re-read the guidelines of Hacker News.
It's also somewhat cruel to whoever has to read your "clever" message.
Well, the "it's for cool kids" selling point took a big hit when they started letting high schoolers on it, and lost all credibility when I started getting friend requests from senior citizens and friends' parents.

And most of my friends don't actively use it, though most of us at least have a FaceBook account. I find that I'm getting bombarded by sheep from weak connections that aren't really doing anything with their lives, while most of the people that I actually care about, I either see in person or they have busy lives and don't spend much time on FaceBook either.
I'm with you. Although my personal problem wasn't with how they managed privacy but with how they used social links between friends and exploited it for marketing purposes. Plus, on facebook everyone is a fan of something and that's all they are and the people that claim their facebook page gives others a sense of what they are like in real life are delusional.
No, it took a few minutes to find the LP64 slipup in qmail. It took years and years before someone (a) looked for it, and (b) looked in the right place.

Sloccount tells me that the entire Tarsnap protocol stack, from event-driven networking up to request/response construction/parsing, is 2732 lines of code. I'm sure that wouldn't take very long to inspect.
We are going to be doing these (and possible sending a bunch of kids to startup weekend for free too ;-)

We are hoping to do something more cause there still exists a void at Tech.

Business Plan Competition - focus is on the BP and not on doing anything

Inventure - Focus is on inventing something - not startups or the business side - more on making a (physical) product to sell

Social entrepreneurship - same as business plan

Hack week - The closest thing to what I am hoping for but with more focus on making money ;-)
Facebook made the decision for me yesterday. I declined to link all my profile data to business Pages, so everything I'd bothered to maintain was wiped out. It was clear I'm no longer part of their intended user base.

It's fine. I have no interest in participating in an ad network, so I wiped out the rest (friends, photos, etc) and publicized alternate contact info. Gotta keep the account for some of my clients' Pages.

Facebook was great for me ca. 2004-5. Now its goals and policies are very different. Maybe more people will get shocked away when tagging + image recognition start imposing on their family photos.
AppleCare is the only kind of extended warranty I have ever bought. I'm glad I did -- my Macbook Pro needed multiple repairs within the last few years, including logic board replacement. I'll buy AppleCare again for my upcoming MBP update.
I'd like to know the same as anuleczka
I didn't mean that defending a company implies intregity, but rather that Buffett's intregity implies that he will defend the company. A statement doesn't imply its converse, and there is absolutely no reason to jump to conclusions.

"Caveat emptor" is usually a bad principle with which to run an economy, but when it comes to financial people buying, selling, and trading assets, "caveat emptor" is the way things are done and many respectable people think this is probably the only correct way to do things, at least on the micro and meso scales. Whining about clients getting screwed is like whining about people showing up to Fight Club and getting punched. And Buffett and Munger even express a degree of distaste for the deals in question, lawful or not, which is more than most financial people would allow themselves.

Your quote doesn't even imply Buffett thinks it's "OK", merely that it's difficult to feel sympathy for those on the wrong end of the deal. Those clients aren't random consumers, they were financial guys who were supposed to know better.
absolutely. And it has paid off royally. I've gotten my power plug thingy replaced twice and my hard drive replaced once and they also replaced the cracked keyboard surround thingy. Not a bad return for $250.

Personally, the peace of mind that things will be handled when something goes wrong is worth the extra $50 for two additional years. Thats just $2.50 a week, even if nothing were fixed.

When they fixed my hard drive, they installed the OS and I restored my data from time machine and I was back in business.

Figure out what your time is worth after taxes and then figure out how much time you would spend just trying to assess what the best course is to handle a problem. That cost is gone when you can just hand it to Apple and they return it to you whole.
The Internet in 1969
It's true, but by that time, they were so big and huge that it didn't really matter.

I don't actually log on to Facebook that much either. I do have my Twitter hooked up to post status updates, and I generally get as much engagement as I do on Twitter itself, so I log in to continue discussions with people commenting on my status. But that's about it.

If you're getting bombarded by sheep, try clicking the 'block updates from this application' button next time. I've been happily bullshit-notification free for a while now.
What about using a language immune to buffer overflow for the embedded controller?

I don't do anything with embedded controllers; but on FreeBSD I'd say that buffer overflows are responsible for at most 10% of the security issues we run into.

Eliminating buffer overflows is good, but make sure that you don't miss the pine forest because you're spending all your time looking for oak trees.
Kinda clever idea, don't think my younger sisters would find it fun enough. It seems a bit too overdone ;/ I used to be in a stock market club in school, I think this is a great idea just not the best execution.
Yeah, cause the Eurozone is working out so well.
That and criminal charges if possible...
I did buy it for mine. I am curious about the plan though. Lately, the temperature of my mbp has been going higher than I'm used to and I'd like to get it cleaned. Does anyone know if apple care covers that? Normally I'd do it myself but since I have the first gen of the non-replaceable battery, I don't know if the the warrantee terms will allow it.
Yeah, even if HFCS is shown to be no worse than sugar, I'm disturbed by the idea of this country getting fat off of corn subsidies and price protection for domestic sugar.
mine has a problem with a plug that costs $80 to replace. and it happened twice and may even happen once more before apple care expires in 2 months
> which should inherit from the built-in Exception class

I hate that. should inherit from StandardError IMNSHO. It's a quibble though and a pointless one until the standard library follows that. (which it never will...)

> Use the "implicit" false if at all possible.

Is so wrong, for the listed caveat reasons and more. It's the opposite of readability to me. Similar issues with the use default iterators. If my loop is expecting a dictionary and to iterate over it's keys I really want the "foo has no method keys" error rather than looping over a list and creating hard to discover/understand bug.
Yes, I have.

I inherited a company (I'm their newish CTO) that is entirely Windows/.NET based.

Not only have I upgraded to 2010, I'm currently upgrading the whole shebang to Linux/Ruby/OSS mostly using Emacs.
I'm not sure if public schools had book fairs and a bookmobile, but the school district I grew up in did. Presumably because the school got a cut of the sales, and it's hard to argue getting kids to read.

I can't remember the book for the life of me, but I had something that explained much of home economics and some very basic economics concepts at a 3rd or 4th grade level, rife with illustrations.

There's still books available such as "The Everything Kids' Money Book" and whatnot. One would assume they're written to be engaging to at least some portion of kids.
It's the only warranty program I think is worth anything.
Seriously. I can't believe how differently others view facebook compared to me. I log in every now and then and talk to some old friends who I wouldn't be able to contact otherwise. What info is everyone so scared of getting out? What's the harm in targeted ads? Not like most of us are going to see them anyway.
have never bought any other warrantee either. but had a bad experience with my last pc laptop that could have been a black hole of wasted time and money if I'd decided to fix it.

Not to mention the lost time. If you enjoy tinkering, though, I guess you might just handle the problem yourself.
What almost everyone fails to realize is that Flash is already as open as it possibly can be. The SWF file specification and the player virtual machine are open and completely described here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/

The only thing that keeps Adobe from completely open-sourcing their own player is codec licenses, not Adobe's stubbornness. Adobe pays a lot of money to license codecs that are closed (like h.264) and therefore have to protect those interests within their player. If there were a common open standard for video/audio, this would be a possibility.

(edit) http://blogs.adobe.com/open/2010/02/following_the_open_trail...
Not sure why I wrote that ;-p. Fixed it now though. I think I might have been trying to add a bit of mystery to the whole thing.
I would give ruby or python a try, and skip PHP. There is no bad choice between python and ruby, IMO. They are just different. Spend an afternoon with each and make your can't-lose decision based on that.
Make A Dent In The Universe and Do So Profitably
I'm graduating from university next week at a school with twelve thousand kids and this happens all the time to everyone I know. It's so mundane to learn some new social goings-on around campus that it's cliche to mention you found out on the site. I hate it for the same reason. On graduation day, leaving facebook will signify a new phase of life.
I don't know if this is just me, but the page looks super ugly on Firefox.
They have electricity in Taiwan.
I thought it was possible to not allow tagging to your Wall in Settings?
Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign... all industry-leading software packages. They cant be too bad...
I don't understand why the focus of the anti-HFCS movement is on health. The problem with corn syrup is that it tastes bad and has lousy mouthfeel. If I'm going to consume empty calories, I want them to be delicious.
OnePlusOne, there was nothing deceptive. It's a fucking blog. It's someone's personal opinion.

I attempted to make clear what I said was purely my opinion and personal preference. The author gives the impression that he is doing an objective analysis when in fact he is just giving a personal opinion.

The author also attempted to make clear that what he said was purely his opinion and personal preference. From the 4th line of the post: ..."I analyze the merits of each of the different styles and discuss what I believe are the advantages and disadvantages of each"...

Your comments are completely out of line.
"navigational search"... I like that
Science is showing that it is more likely to cause weight gain than sugar:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/
Side note: As much as a I cringe at using google instead of the URL bar when you know the site you want to go to, I find myself doing it far more often on my phone. For example, on a mobile device, it's easier to google for "Hacker News" than type "news.ycombinator.com"
From the Preferred CEO to Facebook's Latest UX Fail
Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation.

http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
Just curious: What significant features could that be?
Open sourcing Flash would definitely be in Adobe's best interests. The only possible thing holding them back is shoddy coding practices (using security-through-obscurity) which would result in more exploits and the Flash player gaining an even worse reputation.
No.

Who's running that site anyways?
I would love to do something similar at Emory and eventually get a joint group going that includes the metro colleges. Please contact me asap. :)
Maybe a nice photoshop plugin would be a converter for images (small images, icon like) to css (like adobe with flash to ipod)