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Costco - Best return policy on the planet. But anything confidently, return anything no questions asked. Solid support line too.

Fry's - Knowledgeable service for consumer goods and online price matching. Apple Stores are full of pretty idiots who love to make you wait.

Dell - Enterprise hardware, and support is great. Apple phone support is painful, if turning it on and off again doesn't help you are out of luck unless you have Apple Care and can wait a week for a replacement.

EDIT:

Buffalo - Great call line. People on the other end know their stuff.
I said the same thing myself, having witnessed a number of miracles in my Pentecostal world. Once I lost my faith I was shocked to realize that nothing I'd witnessed was conclusive. Far from it, in fact. Having had a lot of 'backstage' access as the son of the pastor, more than one miracle turned out to have not been a miracle at all.
Under the Consumer Laws I mentioned, manufacturers have more leeway, but a business cannot require you to deal with the manufacturer.

Apple is required, and does if you point out their obligations, to provide a new device if you purchased a new device.

As phones are also guaranteed a "reasonable lifetime" of 5 years, this has led to replacing 4s with 5s and the like.

However, as you mention ATT, you might be American, in which case, almost none of these guarantees applies to you.
The conformance test page[0] is always a good one to play with if you're interested in what parts of Wine are working well.

[0] http://test.winehq.org/data/
Physical contests (sports, racing, wrestling), knowledge contests ("Do you know x?"), practice based games (as you mentioned, some board, chess, etc).

Essentially anything where "I've consumed more calories that you have" or "I've had more years to think that you have" are an unfair advantage for purposes of fun.
I absolutely support reform of the legal and court system so that it's affordable for normal people. Large companies routinely bully small innovators with legal threats and dubious suits, which the smaller groups can't fight because they don't have the money; they would go bankrupt first (and do when they try to fight anyway). It's not even legal for the founder of a company to try to represent himself in court (companies cannot be pro se litigants). That badly needs to be repaired.

However, let's not forget that there are many consumers looking to screw over companies too. There are many consumers who would drop/damage their device and then try to pass the damage off as a manufacturer defect. Laws that require companies to accept a return and furnish a full refund and/or new replacement based solely on the consumer's belief that there's an issue, like the one quoted above, incur large losses in fraudulent claims. In the US, the issue is voluntary; it's possible for companies to sell things without warranty, and it's possible for the consumer to make the choice to buy from such a vendor, and IMO that's how it should be.

There may not be a lot of sympathy for a big conglomerate like Google getting hit with false defect claims, but it doesn't just affect them. Most small businesses deal with many obstinate customers daily, and the policies that have been formulated to allow consumers to ding large companies out of spite are much more damaging to a new company starting out. This is the case with credit card chargebacks, for example, which are a massive source of fraud against businesses (which cost more than a full refund, because they also incur a chargeback fee from the card processor).
The link points to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Sorry if that wasn't clear.
I do embedded Linux porting. The big job is writing drivers and building the device tree. This would be so much simpler if schematics could be annotated with scrapable clues about pin connections and device parameters (e.g. device tree fragments). Its all derivable from the schematic and chip specs, but that part could be automated almost completely.

It would put me out of a job, but better than shooting myself in the head next time I have to face 40 hours of slogging through data sheets.
That gives a larger/richer entity the power to use litigation as threat/bullying only by having deeper pockets.
It means there is a legal advantage of having more money. That's insane.

As I usually say re the US "How is THIS not an issue in the election?"

If I was reasonably sure I had the law on my side I'd dare go to court against an entity of any size, relying on the convention that the loser pays, and the rulings are nearly always in favor of an employee.
>We don't happen to have the resources to pay someone else to do that for us.

Typical AMD bullshit. They do have resources for developing garbage like 'Gaming Evolved App' just to abandon it 6 months later tho.
When I had a motherboard issue with a dell laptop, Dell sent a representative to my home office to take it apart, clean it, and replace the motherboard.

I've also had laptops and monitors replaced by other companies on a "we'll send you a replacement, you send the defective one back in that box with this prepaid shipping label, and thanks for buying our products" basis.

I haven't heard of that from Apple.
All good thoughts someone should consider before investing in a smart house, building or buying.
Without a doubt Dell has much better customer focus for technical people. The 4 year support contact w/ accidentally costs the same as 4 years of apple care, but Dell's covers everything except lost and wore down batteries.

Apple requires that you book an appointment at one of their stores, go there, wait on line anyway because there are people who don't want to book online, have someone who can't fix hardware problems look at it, and then say they'll take it but you must give them your file vault password first.

Dell on the other hand after ten minutes of hardware troubleshooting on the phone comes on site with replacement parts. If they can't fix it they send it back for you, and you can request that they give you the hard drive in the machine before they send it. It's very excellent.
CIA says Russia helped Trump win the White House. . . by leaking emails showing the extreme corruption going on in the Clinton campaign and doing the job the media organizations should have been doing all along were they not just puppets for the establishment.
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Classic mistake. To boost service they added 24/7 support and remote sceeen sharing. They confused technology with experience. You could offer 5 minute response time on Christmas day and still damage your brand with the kind of service OP received.
Also, I couldn't get the original documents at the time, but you reminded me of this:

>'The simplest assumption about dice as random-number generators is that each face is equally likely, and therefore the event “five or six” will occur with probability 1/3 and the number of successes out of 12 will be distributed according to the binomial distribution. When the data are compared to this “fair binomial” hypothesis using Pearson’s 2 test without any binning, Pearson found a p-value of 0.000016, or “the odds are 62,499 to 1 against such a system of deviations on a random selection.”'
https://galton.uchicago.edu/about/docs/2009/2009_dice_zac_la...

The point is you will always find deviations (with extremely low p-values) if you look hard enough. It is about collecting data as carefully as possible, and determining which model fits best, not which fits perfectly.
It's too bad the python 3.x fans can't see this as feedback about how difficult it for users of 2.x to upgrade to the latest and greatest. Many 2.x folks have sprawling code bases and complex operational needs. The 3.x advocates seems to consistently ignore that.

Shoot the 2.8 messenger all you want for choosing to call it Python 2.8, but don't dismiss the issue that drives thoughtful people to get value out of this strategy.
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we use Github issues + Zenhub for that (though Github has recently implemented a lot of Zenhub's features). Managers mainly use the 'boards' and 'milestones' views; devs use 'boards' and whatever else. Messages are included in emails and you can reply by email.
Not 100% what you are looking for, since you specify "installed in apps as a package", but we are using https://redash.io/ and love it. They are open source and very easy to run ad-hoc queries, save/schedule queries and alerts, and build dashboards.
> You don't quite understand Joel's point. Regardless of whether you are legally right, a larger company could sue you for the sake of suing, and make your life very miserable. And if the fight continues and you run out of money, what then?

Don't work for companies that are dicks. If there's crap about them wanting to own you or your thoughts, don't sign it and get a different job elsewhere.

Remember when little kids would die in factories doing dangerous jobs? No? Me neither. Know why? Because at some point people had enough, went on strike, attitudes and laws changed. If you live in an area where your employer can make your life miserable for no apparent reason, or where your employer can own you outside of work, then you need to help put a stop to that madness.
Let's say you sell $9 billion of shares, and build a massive fab with it. You believe it'll have a working life of about 15 years, before changing technology makes it worthless.

Each year you spend $100 million on salaries, rent, and materials, and you earn $500 million in sales, leaving you with $400 million in the bank at the end of year 1, $800 million after year 2, $1.6 billion after year 4, etc.

Pretty good, right? Not really.

You're cash flow positive to the tune of $400 million/year, but you're not profitable. You spent $9 billion on that fab; since it'll last for 15 years that means each year costs about $600 million. Or to put it another way, at the end of 15 years you'll have $6 billion in the bank, but you started with $9 billion. Turning $9 billion into $6 billion is the opposite of a profit. And since it's not enough to build a new fab, it's also the opposite of "having a functional business".

Another example might be selling off a profitable business for an injection of cash. The cash helps you pay salaries and keep the lights on, but if that's all you do with it you're now even less profitable than when you started. Or as in AMDs case, you could sell off your headquarters, then lease it back. You get a pile of cash initially, but you then have to pay it all back and more just to keep using your headquarters, and the increased costs will lower profits.

Similarly, if you can convince people to keep investing, you can run keep running a loss but not run out of cash.

(All numbers utterly hypothetical. I'm also simplifying a lot.)
My friends Grandpa (I know, hearsay) couldn't wear a regular watch, because the innards would become green goo in a couple of weeks and the watch would be ruined. So some people may just be out of luck on this one.
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This argument is a reasonable one and is why we all support IE6 for web dev.

However, at a certain point it is worth your time to move forward instead of doing nothing, you gain a little time savings now and you run into few moments of "Oh @#$%^!!" later. Real world example: You don't bother updating ssl to deal with weak DHE and suddenly chrome users can't see your payment site.

My approach has always been to try to front load the work instead of doing it in crisis mode later. It sorta sucks but that's just how software is right now.
or leaking private communications slanted to look bad, thus creating fake news. But who cares right? As long as they won.
Another option is a game where you're both playing against "something" but not really against one another. For instance in Scrabble, your opponent is really the language and your knowledge of it, rather than the other person. Plus luck, of course.

Likewise the violin. There are "levels" to reach, and competitions, but ultimately it's down to you and the music and the instrument. The point where my daughter surpassed me on violin came remarkably quickly. Granted, I was trying to play along on the double bass.
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Google support and customer relationship is horrible.
One day I enabled Youtube partnership out of curiosity (it was enabled for my country so I enabled it than on my account to see what it is about). Few days later I tried to login to my adsense account only to find it disabled! Problem is I have never enabled adsense on any website, I do not have or post youtube videos, or have done anything to violate the terms.

I am paying customer of gsuit, gcloud, google music, adwords, etc.
I first tried with adsense complaint form, there are 2 of them, one if your account is disabled for invalid activity and one if you violated policies. I tried with invalid activity form because that is what my adsense login page says why my account is banned (evene when I do not have adsense enabled anywhere), but I get automated answer every time that the account is not disabled for invalid activity but for policy reasons and that is that. When I try the policy form, it sends automated answer that the account is disabled for invalid activity and that they can not investigate further...

Because I am paying customer of gsuit I tried support there. Guy from support tried for almost a week to get any human support from google regarding my case and he could not!!! Imagine that, support guy for a paying customer could not get help from inside his own company. That is such a fail for Google. He directed me in the end to the Youtube team to appeal there and wished me good luck.

Google must do something about it, this customer relationship is so bad. Why would I continue to pay for their other services if I can expect that they can ban me from them for no reason and without explanation or support?!
Let's make sure we unite to make these companies known yah?
I agree! One thing I loved about living in India was that politics and international issues could be discussed in most any forum, at least in the social/business circle I had there. People didn't feel that differences were bad, and people talked to learn and understand each other.
Sure, but if every other explanation is even less likely, random noise is still the best guess.
>I hate to break it to these people, but they said the same thing in the 1960s when their houses were being built.

This was an issue in my city recently too. People didn't want a medium-density condo project to go in, and the mayor came out and said "I lived here when your houses were built and people said the same thing... you wouldn't be here if we didn't build them".
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Neither is "incorrect"; the Standard Model and General Relativity are two of our best physical theories in that they both accord entirely with observational and experimental evidence to date.

Either or both may be incomplete, however. Correctness and completeness of any theory in mathematical physics are esentially orthogonal. You can have a complete theory that is just wrong, for example.

As I wrote a bit earlier in this thread, the most straightforward approach to quantizing General Relativity fails in strong gravity. Additionally, the classical field theory that is General Relativity is defined on a smooth manifold and yet so far we have been unable to escape the conclusion that some systems of mass-energy inevitably produce a non-smooth discontinuity. A completion of classical General Relativity requires the smoothing of these regions. Sharpening this, the problem with GR is the prediction of a gravitational singularity; if singularities are physical at all (even if they are in a region of spacetime that is inaccessible outside event horizons), then General Relativity is incomplete in its own terms.

The Standard Model as a paradigm of quantum field theory, on the other hand, is defined against a flat spacetime and thus relies on the result from General Relativity that the flat spacetime metric is induced on the tangent space of every point in a smooth spacetime. So if GR is incomplete, so is the Standard Model, in its own terms. (This is not just an academic point; any theory of gravity that does not reproduce the Poincaré invariance of flat spacetime in the energy scales of the Standard Model has a terrible correctness problem.) Additionally, the Standard Model is not especially well-defined at GUT energy scales. Additionally, the Standard Model does not describe the whole of the non-gravitational content of the universe; for example, it is silent on dark matter.

The Standard Model is highly correct, however, in the limits where it is effectively complete. It's a pity it has so many free parameters that have to be determined by experiment.

Likewise, General Relativity is both highly correct in the limits of present observability, and it is complete in its own terms if one admits the possibility that gravitational singularities only arise in our idealized models and that, for example, there are no exactly Schwarzschild black holes anywhere in the past, present or future of our universe. (One have to show that, and also that there are no other physically realizable systems of matter that can generate non-smoothness in our spacetime. That's not an easy ask. Although General Relativity has only one of the free paramaters complained about in the previous paragraph, it doesn't offer much guidance about how to show that you can't actually generate a low-Q Kerr-Newman metric in reality, and worse, some of that guidance must come from the high-energy behaviour of matter fields -- we can only be as complete as the Standard Model right now.)
We need a Software Union to protect creative freedoms.
Participate in discussions constructively and charitably

The problem is that invariably the amount of destruction and uncharitable discussion outweighs the constructive and charitable discussion in these threads.

It's always a net loss on these types of threads.

These types of threads always put a stain on the reputation of HN as a place of intelligent conversation. There's some really immoral and despicable lines of thought in this thread.
Oh, cow boxes. Unfortunately, my last memory of Gateway was after they'd declined to physical stores and a sales rep sold my mother a machine without an AGP slot as "perfect for gaming" as a surprise Christmas gift.
> with Google level service.

The one Google exception that I have seen is Project Fi.

They have (24/7?) live chat and email/phone support available. They also have CSR's on /r/projectfi who seem responsive. I've had to contact support several times and had every issue taken care of immediately. It was been a much better experience than Verizon ever was.
If there's a company with better Customer support than Apple I've yet to experience them.

I've had a few issues with devices in the last decade and after a quick check, if it's not a software issue that can be fixed, I'm leaving with a replacement device, even when on holiday it was painless to go into the nearest Apple store and get it replaced.

I rarely ever use the warranty on anything I buy as the process is usually not worth the effort but Apple Care is the only one I'd consider getting since I'll use it when I need, it's easy to find an Apple store and know they'll fix or replace anything with issues.
If it is not already happening, can we expect more arbitration clauses in purchase agreements, or does the law already rule that out? (There will be different answers in different jurisdictions, I expect.)
>Treatment "progress" is predicated on -- if not synonymous with -- submission.

This was my experience as well. When I was in holding, a sympathetic nurse told me that to get out of there as soon as possible, I needed to smile, go to all meetings, and do exactly as I'm told. There was a Bible study that I wasn't interested in going to, and another nurse heavily suggested that I attend, which I ended up doing. I felt very powerless throughout it.
No, annodized aluminum is very resistant to corrosion. Guitar strings are made out of steel, which rusts readily and plating doesn't adhere as well to flexible materials like wires.
There isn't much of a skill intersection really, other than the relatively simple process of decoding opcodes.

If you want to write a NES emulator, I'd suggest starting with writing a CHIP-8 emulator.
Well technically he said "cheapest" not "new". Bit of a moot point though.
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I really hate Apple Stores... wanted to go on a bit of a longer rant here...

I hate the physical stores, I hate the App Store.

1) Lost my power cord while traveling, so I thought I'd jump into the Apple Store and pick up a new one. Should be an in and out thing... took 1.5 hours of me just waiting around the store for them to sell me a power cord. This was in Sydney. Once I actually got to talk to someone, it still took 20 minutes. So painful. "Genius" is Apple for happy little idiot.

2) Tried to buy 8 laptops for a dev team. Bought them all online, went to pick them up... credit card cleared, no errors or messages on the website. Get to the store, "We're sorry, Sir. We can't give you more than 3 laptops per day." Uh? So you want me to come back once a day for 2 more days to pick up these laptops? "Yes Sir, that's our policy." It took a call to some regional corporate sales clown to get them to hand me 8 laptops the same day I paid for them.

3) Every try and roll out software to a team using the App Store as a source for any of that software? Is it the company Apple Account? Is it their Apple Account? Which account has the stupid software licenses bound to it, and how do I set it so I can use the company Apple Account to install the software, but not leave my master password for the company saved on their computer... I don't want to have to give them that password just so they can keep their system up-to-date... rather they just log in and expense software... nope, it's a cluster trying to keep it all updated once you have more than one account providing software. Apple does not care in the slightest about corporate users. I should have some sort of provisioning interface that lets me grant rights to use software licenses I own to their personal accounts... that's probably not pretty enough for Apple though.
By hypothesis (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13135385), the operation is effectively instant. If it weren't, a UI on its own thread could notice that and act accordingly.
>If they had have called Python 3.0 v2.9 instead everyone would have been clear they had to migrate.

Massive breakage of backwards compatibility in a minor release is bad form. They absolutely did the right thing by naming it Python 3.0.
The most positively life changing one for me was the Whole 30: http://whole30.com/
You keep saying things like this but numbers don't bear that out. Since we switch to Python 3.5 for new code, I can barely tolerate working in 2.7 now. It went from feeling "vibrant" to feeling "OMG this is legacy" in about a week. I would never voluntarily go back.
Yes because when contemplating about a person's life what is important is what they wrote on the facebook of their former partner in their 20's....

You do understand that "whitewashing" obituaries isn't for the dead, it's for the living when a person dies most socially adjusted people rather remember the good not the bad.
It's not to adjust history in anyone's favor it's to be able to grief in peace.