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Maybe I'm cynical, but paying $80 for 3 years of coverage is a no-brainer for me.

I mean, heck, my battery died after 2 years of usage and they replaced it for free. As a result, I've already "made" $20 off of it, and that's without any major repairs (which I've definitely had them do under AppleCare before).

Of course, my machine and maybe my TV ($50 for 3 years) are the only warranties I've purchased. I think I agree with your philosophy, but I don't think that's ever stopped me from buying a warranty on nearly anything.
I am not only with you, I am ahead of you. I deleted my account(with some effort and patience)when I read that Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, had declared that"Privacy is Dead".
Well he may think so but a of lot of people, including myself think otherwise.
Ditto on the case. I once tried to sell a Powerbook G4 that had a big dent on one of the corners, when the going rate on Craigslist was ~$500. I couldn't find a buyer for more than 300.

The MBP that replaced it has lived its entire life in a case.
yep. $80 each. a known problem, they said.

yeah, that new design looks a lot more robust
I'm using Callcentric and am very happy -- have also switched over my parents. I'm traveling the world and their call-forwarding feature (to my local SIM card in country X) works very well. http://www.callcentric.com/
Yeah, hence my ten-year estimate. Sooner or later I'll end up designing my own language for fun; continuations will probably click then.

(Actually, I'm already designing my own language for fun, but it compiles to Perl, so continuations are still not really on the table.)
That kind of flippant response is part of the reason depression and other mental health problems are still widely misunderstood.
Industry leading is not the same as perfect. They get a lot of stuff right, they make some fantastic innovations, I love AS3 and make most of my income from building games in Flash.

But if you use Adobe software you'll nod your head at a lot of stuff here: http://dearadobe.com/top_rated.php
Always, for any Mac with an LCD.
It's saved my butt more than once.
I believe it's the only extended warranty that Consumer Reports says is worth getting.
Another +! for Cambridge, only area in the region not effected.
Agreed, in Western Europe nothing is sweetened with HFCS and there are plenty of obese people. The problem isn't that soda is sweetened with HFCS, it's that people drink loads of soda and that it's deceptively calorific.

I hate HFCS's bitter aftertaste and I'm amazed that nobody I've met in the USA seems to notice how awful it tastes. I can hardly bring myself to drink anything but diet soft drinks since I moved here.
Ask HN: How much can you spend on IT w/o getting approval?
A lot of people on HN are selling website subscriptions and/or software to corporations.

If we're selling directly to corporate users, it's important that the user be able to charge the purchase to their corporate credit card without having to track down someone higher-up with purchasing authority.

At your day job, what is the most that you can charge to your corporate credit card for an IT purchase without having to get approval from your manager?

I've being doing some Googling on "purchasing authority" and the max limit on buying IT products without approval seems to be either $500 or $5,000. Which one is it?

Thanks!
My post above is meant to summarize the changes suggested in the reform proposal, not current law. Sorry if my uae of the present tense resulted in confusion; I thought the context was obvious.
What's bad about it?
Yes. Bonus points for increasing its resale value when I buy a new laptop 18-24 months later.

If you still have your student ID, bring it along and get the educational discount on the Apple Care. 15" MBP Apple Care for $239 instead of $349 retail price.
Yeah, the web-server continuation thing rings a bell; I should probably look that up again.
The codec excuse is kind of bogus. Chromium itself comes with a separate package that contain patented codecs. Adobe could easily break down the code into separate parts, the whole open source part and a small codec package containing the patented parts. Of course it should also offer one full package for general use like Google does with Chrome Vs Chromium+ffmpeg-nonfree-codecs.
I have drawing a straight line for all my CC transactions for the past two years and no one has bothered about it.

I think this will automatically phase out automatically with new technologies like RFID...
Yes. I buy AppleCare on eBay (at the moment 130€ vs. 350€ from Apple for a MacBook Pro). It’s not a scam, it worked twice for me already.

I probably wouldn’t buy it for Apple’s price, but considering my screen was replaced twice, my mainboard once, my battery three times and my keyboard once it would have been worth it even for 350€.

(Would be nice if someone could explain how those eBay sellers can sell AppleCare so cheaply. Buying it in the US would bring down the price only to a bit more than 260€. Even if they manage to get a educational discount the price only goes down to 180€.)
From their language, the seem surprisingly uneducated about drugs in general.

Also, I think the efficacy of SSRIs is still quite questionable. I'd love for someone who really understands the statistics and medical scales to do the comparison and tell us their opinion about Lexapro vs Placebo for depression or anxiety disorders.

Note that Lexapro is the drug they're advocating, which is an SSRI, but there are plenty of other anxiety drugs (like any benzo) which are clearly effective.
some lives are more easily changed than others :-)
All my Mac laptops have been covered for 3 years under a different agreement so I've never purchased AppleCare for them. I won't have this option with my next machine so I will be purchasing AppleCare — why? My Apple laptop history is as follows:

* replacement logic board on a 15" PowerBook

* replacement top-housing and fan on a black MacBook

* replacement logic board on a 15" MacBook Pro

2 of the above cropped up after the initial warranty period and would no doubt have cost more than AppleCare. If it's a laptop and you intend to keep it well beyond a year, in my experience AppleCare is worth considering.

EDIT: Also had a power brick replaced on the 15" MacBook Pro due to a frayed cord outside warranty period.
The thing I don't like about all these ways to "improve" HTML/CSS is that they all seem to assume the rest of the webapp ecosystem doesn't exist.

Take SASS's variables and arithmetic, for instance. I agree that CSS desperately needs some way to abstract out common values. But any decent webapp will already be using some sort of template system, and the template system will have some sort of variable. Why not use it and be consistent with the rest of your UI? If you introduce SASS into the mix, you just have to do things one way in your CSS and another way in your markup.

Same thing with Zen Coding. Instead of using an editor plugin that expands abbreviations (which then have to be maintained), why not use your template system and avoid writing all that code in the first place? If I were writing the example listed here, it'd look something like this:

<div id=menu>
<table>
<tr>
{{#CELL}}<td><a href="" class=nav></a>{{/CELL}}
</table>
</div>

(That's using google-ctemplates because it's what I work with daily, but substitute in Django, Cheetah, Mako, or erb as necessary.)

Yes, there's still room for improvement, and yes, I wish my editor were more aware of available template variables. But I also don't have to maintain the 5 separate <td> tags once I've typed them out, I can change one and have its updates be reflected across all the generated code. I can avoid those pesky closing tags by simply not typing them; the HTML spec doesn't require them, all browsers handle it fine, and it saves end-user latency as well. And I don't need to learn a new tool, I just have to use my existing tools better.
I'm a pretty big advocate of privacy, but in order to protect mine, I take certain steps in order to avoid letting people use any of my personal information.

For starters, any social media I use, I use one of my many nicknames. I never use my real name, birthdate, and none of the information I use in any of these sites is accurate. My address, my age, my DOB - NOTHING is real in my profile. Even the picture I use isn't me.

This way, I control who gets my information and what they use it for. If Facebook is using my information, it certainly doesn't represent me in anyway.

If you really want to control the information, you can.
Come on, if it was really as certain as all that, Apple would be making a loss on AppleCare. (I guess it's possible that they are running it at a loss, but it seems unlikely.)
That may be true, but perhaps not? The Broad (in Kendall Square) just sent out this email: Dear Colleagues, As many of you may be aware, there has been a catastrophic leak in the water supply serving Greater Boston, and at present is dumping approximately 8 million gallons of water per hour into the Charles River.

Governor Deval Patrick has declared a State of Emergency, and has issued a "boil water" order for some 30 cities and towns. Even though the City of Cambridge maintains its own water supply, there are cross-connects, and as such you should not consume any of the water, including the coffee, at any of the Broad's facilities until further
notice.
No. The past and future do not exist except as ideas. The only time is 'now'.
>dumping eight million gallons of water per hour into the Charles River.

I can't wait to see the Big Picture cover this.
I had thought the main difference was indenting with 2 spaces instead of 4, but this style guide says 4 spaces, too. I guess Google deliberately brought themselves in sync with the Python mainstream.

This style guide looks like a superset of PEP 8 -- where PEP 8 describes what Python code should look like, this guide goes through every Python feature and lays out exactly where a sizable group of top-notch Python hackers were willing to draw the line on maintainability vs. whipupitude for large, long-running projects.
Someone spilled wine on my 4-month-old, AppleCare-covered MacBook while it was being used for a live show. It stayed alive to the end of the show, then immediately died. Apple charged me $800 to have it fixed. I had to have it repaired twice again after that (both of those were free, since the previous two repairs had been wrong.) During and after that, the battery failed and needed replacement four times. The last time, the Apple Genius told me that batteries are not covered after the first year, so I would have to pay for it myself. He looked at the repair history on the laptop and had sympathy, and replaced it for free.

To this day, the laptop does not work correctly, even though every individual component has been replaced at least once. Also, they made a typo when setting the serial number on the motherboard, which I had to tell Apple each time I had it serviced, since it didn't match the one on my AppleCare plan (replaced a B with an 8.)

Of course, the laptop had been working fine until a drunk hipster dumped box wine all over it. I wish the repairs had been perfect and free, but they weren't. I've gone through a lot of Apple products over the years, and this is the only one where I've had problems. All of the ones before and after have been fine, and this one had been fine until the wine.

Anyway, this is just an anecdote. Don't expect your own fuckups to be covered under AppleCare. It's an extended warranty, not insurance. If the parent is telling the truth, then he's an exception, not the rule.
As someone who's just removed all my pages, likes, and interests from Facebook -- I just don't think they have my best interests in mind -- a network like this is, of course, a wet dream.

But there is a tradeoff between privacy and network effects. The network relies on its members connecting and conversing; that's how the network derives its value. Facebook's network is valuable because it is the de facto online identity for many millions of people. And to engender and promote network effects, Facebook must necessarily expose information about you to other users. How else would anyone connect with you?

Sure, it'd be nice for you to make yourself invisible at a moment's notice. But it's a terrible user experience for anyone trying to find or converse with you.
Roll your own computer science masters
See also: Are Prozac And Other Psychiatric Drugs Causing The Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

http://www.alternet.org/health/146659/are_prozac_and_other_p...
Look at the source of what dojo.hitch does or google.bind. It is the exact same thing. Whoever down-voted me obviously doesn't know JavaScript. Voting on comments is such a dumb idea. Popularity does not equal right. Right is simply right.
>Fan, keyboard and logic board failures are very common with Macs.

This could be an argument for Applecare, but it could also be an argument against buying a Mac.
Anything under $25 no longer requires a signature anyways. I suspect that number will just keep getting larger.

All my credit cards are disabled the instant I take them out of my normal buying pattern, and even RedBox makes me enter my zipcode to rent a $1. movie on the CC, so there are clearly more effective mechanisms to preventing fraud than signature verification.
And me leaving Facebook solves that problem how? At least now I see when that kind of stuff happens.
Agreed. Not to mention countless other problems with using Google Trends numbers as a proxy for "market adoption".
There's a newer design that they're using on the new laptops, similar to (but sleeker than) the air adapter pictured above.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/typo3temp/pics/d4598c4081.jpg
You realize you're commenting on a thread about a buffer overflow in a network card firmware image, right?
It seems like they invest in companies that have already proven themselves in their own markets.

From a traditional business sense, its interesting seeing a Russian company invest in Valley companies at this magnitude.

I'm interested to see what their impact is outside of being able to provide large amounts of capital at favourable rates.
The people implementing these images don't even care enough to have their code reviewed (the vulnerability here appears to have been trivially fuzzable). They aren't switching to Smalltalk to deal with a problem they haven't even considered.
As I mentioned, you wouldn't try to compete with Facebook, since they're the de facto standard. This would be for people who want something different (like Jones Soda). It would likely work best by enhancing the attraction to something existing, like Posterous or like Google's other offerings (including Android).

As for discoverability vs invisibility, you're right, discoverable is more valuable to the network. I think most people would opt for more discoverability than invisibility, but invisibility is a logical setting among a level of settings. And it allows a small group of people who are only interested in staying connected with each other to do only that.
Nope, like many others here, I use Facebook as a public communication medium, which means I don't post private things there. It is not a tool for intimacy; it's a resume that I am handing out to perfect strangers.

Perhaps, over time, had they not compromised their privacy standings, I would have treated it more as a tool for intimate conversations with friends and family. I certainly will not do so now, or ever again. I will treat them forever like a public billboard.
I think Goldman ignored the counterparty risk they had with AIG because they knew it was systematic, and that the government would bail AIG out and protect them.

I think that the stage for this collapse was set with the collapse of Long Term Capital. That's when all the banks learned that if the bets were big enough, they couldn't lose.
There's a reason why C compilers aren't implemented as editor macros that convert what you type into assembly, as you type it. It's because a high-level programmer never wants to work at that low level; he should never see the lower level. Ideally, he shouldn't even know that the lower level exists. (When was the last time you debugged your CPU microcode?)

If something is so cumbersome that it needs to be abstracted away, do it right. It's really fun to press a few keys and watch a bunch of code show up, but it's even more fun to not watch it show up. Because then you have something that's not a write-once operation.
"Websites like Facebook and Myspace are shunning the simple advertisement model."

? Every one of my facebook pages (feed and profile) always has two or three prominent ads over on the right.
I really disapprove of what Facebook has done in the past year or two with privacy. It's disgusting.

However, I don't really "use" Facebook. I have an account but I rarely post anything on it, and I don't use any of the apps. I just use it to see what my real life friends are up to, including many that I don't actually see anymore because they have moved away.

So, their new privacy stuff doesn't really affect me, since I really only use Facebook on a passive level. So I am not deleting my account. But I still strongly disapprove of what they are doing.
Those replacements would be around $315 compared to $249 I paid for it. Also, more things can break. It also saved time.

If one has to do dollar-to-dollar comparison for $10/mo service, they aren't ready to buy a $1200 laptop.

Just because I can rip apart my laptop and can reapair it myself doesn't mean I shouldn't buy service which cover failure of it's components. That's like saying a doctor shouldn't buy medical insurance for his family.
We're an all Mac shop, and we buy roughly one machine every month of the year. We skip AppleCare.

However, several years ago, before Matasano, we bought Erin a G3 iBook which went on the fritz, and AppleCare got her machine not only replaced, but replaced with a G4. So, I've had good experiences with it.
Sunshine is not the best disinfectant.

Last summer I had my first panic attack.

Saying that, I wonder how many people who say "I had a panic attack" have ever experienced a full on, face on the floor, depersonalizing / derealizing panic attack.

It felt like I was losing my mind.

$250,000 in debt, followed by the disillusion of an 8 year relationship, loss of a job, and a move across the country in a three month period. Chase that with years of outright poverty (earning less than $10,000 [net] over the course of two years.)

7 days of Xanax and the wounds inflicted by three years of prolonged anxiety began to heal.

I probably would have killed myself if it weren't for the seven tiny pills that let me keep coding.

My company launches in about two months.

[not my real account]
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It is. If you set the 'photos and videos of you' privacy option to just yourself, when you're tagged in a photo it appears on your Wall but only for you. Your friends looking at your wall don't see it. That said, I don't think you can block the actual tagging, which is a shame, although you can manually untag yourself, and once untagged you can't be re-tagged.

Incidentally, you can stop your friends posting to your wall, or commenting on any of your items, or even just block specific friends from commenting or posting.
You might be right. The only notebook that I ever had a fan issue was my MacBook. I own notebooks from Sony and Dell too.
I like how they accurately predicted a lot of the technology, but got the sociology all wrong. Was it really so difficult to predict in 1969 that women wouldn't all be stay at home mothers? Or (more realistically) just too controversial at the time to casually suggest that the wondrous world of the future would have women working, rather than spending all their time at home shopping online while their husbands are at work scowling at the bill?
Also, the education pricing gives a big discount on AppleCare. I've been looking at MBP's, and it's ~$300 for AppleCare normally but ~$200 for it with education pricing, which makes it a much better bet.

I'm purchasing a 15" MBP (with education pricing) as soon as the back-to-school sale starts, and I'm pretty sure I'll get AppleCare.
I wonder how many of the hackers here who want to remain private take chances and look to create innovative things that are out of the normal(i.e.Twitter/Blippy)? They seem adverse to change.
Very unique audio player visualization using canvas
I'm a member of MPowered at the University of Michigan. I can answer any questions anyone has.

It's not listed on the website, but I'm on MPowered's team that's launching a new program in the dorms that groups a bunch of entrepreneurial students together to live and work together and mentor each other.
Leverage that alum network. Host a forum. Invite successful entrepreneur alums to give keynote speeches and participate on panels. Invite vc / angel alums to network with students.
That's a seriously understated comment.
No, never have. I've been blessed to not have had any major weird issues with my machines, and by the time they start getting a little iffy, that's about the time I am looking to buy a new one anyway.
"What happens on the internet, sprays on the internet. Fast. And Forever."
Of course. My point was just that there's more to worry about than just buffer overflows, and switching to a language which help you avoid buffer overflows is a rather drastic step to take to address just one type of vulnerability.
exactly, why not leave H.264/nellymose/whatever module as a stub in the code, then open source the rest. I am pretty sure a third party custom build can come up with using alternative technologies.

But I doubt they are willing to open source their pixel blender in Flash 10 though.
I don't know where this presumption comes from that Trends numbers are an accurate proxy for such-and-such metric. Even the more skeptical posts here seem to admit that Trends for "twitter" vs. "facebook" would mirror those services' market shares if it weren't for those net-illiterates googling for the Facebook login page.
You're stereotyping facebook users pretty bad.

It's a great way to share photos. It's also an ad-hoc mailing list between you and your friends. Post what you want; it's literally up to you. I post photos and links to interesting stuff -- mostly nerdy but my friends aren't terribly surprised by that.

That's it. Seriously, it's not calling you at home and asking what you're doing every hour. You make it what you want.

People like to talk about their lives. You may not care, but it's no different than normal smalltalk.
5k most places I've worked.
Yes - I really like Asp.net MVC 2, .Net 4.0 and the new architect features. My job is about to switch everyone over... we'll see how it goes! We're also switching to TFS as well.
The issue with 99% of warranties is you have to send the item in for fixing. That is often not the case for apple items in the AppleCare cycle, which makes it a LOT more valuable.

Gateway warranties on the other hand, took my last laptop for 4 months to fix it.
The internet provides something like ACLs using something similar to a password capability model: I post stuff as "tbrownaw" or "Timothy Brownawell" and anyone can know it's me, but I also have logins to various message boards under pseudonyms, which you can only tie back to me if I tell you.
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I'm not quitting, I've just pared my data and I don't use it much, it's boring. To me.