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Oh, please. This letter is sickening. Why are we asking Apple to do those things? They are a small part of the 'problem' you are addressing. If Apple did them then it would just be an opportunity for the author to get deeper into fanboyism.

1. "A very easy first step that Apple can take would be to receive old Apple electronics for various use or recycling."

http://www.apple.com/recycling/

2. "Apple’s going to take his “old” iPad and, together with several thousand others, set up a school in Uganda using the latest tech for eLearning available. Apple’s new Responsibility Division is going to charter this school and make sure that it gets great teachers and training and blog about this over at apple.com/cares."

Why? You want Apple to be some dirigiste state-like actor similar to France that does everything. Why should Apple be setting up a school and running it? Why not donate your used Apple products to some other group that can use them for this purpose already?

3. "If Joe’s iPad is just too mauled to give away, it’ll ship the iPad to it’s Recycling facilities in Texas, where job-craving Americans will disassemble and responsibly recycle the electronics, emitting little to no pollution and saving Pakistai lives."

Apple already does this. From their recycling page: "All e-waste collected by Apple-controlled voluntary and regulatory programs worldwide is processed in the region in which it was collected. Nothing is shipped overseas for recycling or disposal."

4. "I see an Apple that cares for humanity and let’s its customers know it and perhaps even participate in it through volunteer programs chartered by Apple through human rights organizations."

!&$$£.....

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It's interesting that the author just assumed Apple didn't do this, even going so far as writing a public letter to the CEO without doing a basic web search first.
It depends on where the electricity and the gasoline come from, clearly.

If the electricity comes from burning coal, not so great, if it comes from wind turbines, great! You can even use the car batteries as storage.

And if the gasoline is made from biological materials (3rd generation or above, which means that food production doesn't suffer for it) - great! If it's made from oil, however.. never mind global warming, we'll run out of cheap oil soon enough.

All these things are being considered, and the most economic solution will win, I hope. How is this not a rational conclusion base on real evidence?
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Investigation and exploration is directly related to imagination and emotion.

Let me try and rephrase that: Funding is directly related to politics, which to a large degree is emotion.

Because of the great political impact involved, we need to have plans in place to directly image these planets.

I would guesstimate that paying a top political consultant (maybe Carl Rowe himself) to sell more science funding is approximately One Thousand times cheaper and easier than imaging a plant over 30 light years away.

So the strategy I would propose is a lobby group, which would lobby politicians of both parties at all levels of government, to get more science funding.

And if we can't get enough people together to agree and fund this group, then we as a people do not deserve more discovery and exploration.
> It's not a problem with the science itself, but potential implications if one were to accept the science.

Actually, it's skepticism about "the science" as well. I'm pointing out that AGW advocates don't care about the science, that they're just looking for an excuse to do what they want to do.

Every time I've pushed, I've found holes, overreaching, etc, in the science. AGW advocates don't care - they just jump to another "data point".

When someone says "X proves Y", you then prove not X and their position doesn't change, it's pretty safe to assume that they're shilling for Y and that reasons don't matter.
My first knee jerk reaction was similiar - to grandparent - this app looks so simple, that with $15 price it seems you want to break even with 20 copies sold.

Nothin wrong with that, but it just seems too expansive for the effort it seems to take to make something like that.

Probably it's my inner optimistic programmer speaking, I can believe it was much more difficult to make this than I predict, but that was my first reaction - maybe it would be usefult to you to know.

Anyway, good luck. I wish I finish my game someday, and will have my shot at being entrepreneur.

BTW: for developer in small Polish city $15 is 2-3 hours of work
Just a shout out to Apple Recycling. This is not a "bring in your old computer, get $10 off" promotion. They will give you serious money for your ageing Apple hardware. Bought a new iMac last year, a third of the cost being paid by my three-year-old MacBook. It's a classy program, thanks Apple.
Could you give me an example of both types of product please. It would help me think about it better.
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For transiting exoplanets at least, we should be able to measure spectra pretty soon. That'll mean getting some kind of chemical information, hopefully.
I'm not surprised that this got through as it is more likely to offend Apple than a user.

Apple's control of the App Store is not without good reason. It seeks to protect users (and their children) from malware, pornography and offence (and protect Apple from bad publicity and legal action by selling such things to its users).

While an overzealous employee might take it onto themselves to try to protect Apple from criticism in this way: it is not Apple policy to do so.

Note also that Apple has always reacted sensibly to any accusations of abuse and/or suicide in it's supplier's factories. Plus, Foxconn's suicide rate is far below both China's and the US's rate for a similar demographic.
I ussually make it work first, then slowly begin to understand the tools through working with them.

I'm of the school that in many things, if you have to teach someone how to use it, you've done it wrong. Let the user learn by doing.

Probably can't apply to everything, but we should work as had as we can to try to get there.
Fab! This is the kind of feedback I am looking for. Will get in contact with you regarding a/b testing. Too bad I can't AB test pricing on the app store :)
Your question is rather broad, and I know nothing of the theater system in India.

Depending on your budget, I would use Magento Commerece (http://www.magentocommerce.com/). I have used in the past and they have a large variety of extensions, some community driven and some commercially driven. It is written in PHP and uses the MVC pattern.
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I started working on this after attending a 3-day iOS SDK workshop. Basically I wanted to make something small, niche, but that I myself could really get some use out of, as well as something aimed at a community I feel very much a part of. It's been a bit daunting being my first public software release (3rd year CS student), but a great learning experience.
"Warner proposed to Hotfile an affiliate deal where content that was taken down would be replaced with links to movie stores where users could buy Warner movies."

wow... I thought they were focused on removing the 1-click-hosting-sites, but no, those sites are actually means of driving revenues.
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I do something very similar with my iPhone/Kindle reading setup. Turn the brightness on the phone down to a really low setting.

A nice side benefit is that it lets my wife sleep as there doesn't need to be a light on to read at night.
I think that's the point. This app wasn't made to make people feel good and have a fun time playing a game. It's to alert them to the consequences of their economic decisions. By making a game of the sad reality of overworked factory workers committing suicide, it draws attention to what it is that allows us to play games on this device. Thus there is a connection established between game and death.
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You can ask these same questions about a lot of things we use every day. Do you have deep knowledge of how your car works, or just a superficial understanding of the basics to keep it running? How about your refrigerator? Household plumbing? Your computer? And how deep is "superficial"?

Another question to ask yourself is, "If it breaks, could you fix it?" And what is fixing it? Swapping parts, fiddling with function params, without knowing exactly what went wrong at a deep level? Paying someone to fix it for you? Is it "understanding" to know whom to pay for what repair?

I believe it is possible to have a thorough understanding of every aspect of every tool we use, but this would tend to limit the extent most of us would build up from it, as time spent learning these fundamentals is no longer available for deriving from them. If we assume humans have limited time and capacity for understanding what already is, it's by necessity that we use certain inventions as black boxes in order to build from them.

Or maybe the question is, "Should you be able to build your own toaster?"

http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toast...
How many non-geek people sideload? On how many phones is it impossible to do so because of a locked bootloader or other technological impediment?

I do agree that it's a manufacturer issue - specifically with a revenue model that give no reward for staying up to date (which is also horrible for device security...).
I try to understand as much as I can. Recently, I tried to deploy a rails app without capistrano (the manual way). But, People are saying, like why are you even doing that?

I don't know. I want to know what is going on? Know it first, automate next, thats what I try to do most of the times.
I agree that "online crime will continue to grow stronger and we might risk losing all the great benefits the Net has brought to us". But an international police presence is just another incarnation of a large and complicated "security patch" with a human element - patch it and pray it works. The legal implications and the countless variables (e.g., distinguishing legitimate vs illigitimate users - and more importantly the source of the latter - is just too monumental a task!) Geez, we have enough trouble as it is trying to stop the drug cartel - and at the very least we know the 'who' and the 'where' (relatively speaking).....
I really did not want to respond to this, but the issue here is that programmers writing software does not justify re-learning problems that have already been solved.
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The 1.5 million you cite includes franchised employees, while the 60K revenue/employee number does not.
In fact, 60 percent of all scientific studies done have been wrong.

84% of all statistics are pulled from thin air.
Not sure I can follow,

"Anyone familiar with python will realize that if this is the only functionality you need, than a bare string could be used instead, eliminating this code entirely."

Your argument was: the LOC is too high compared to Java because a class is used instead of a String? Or is there a shorter syntax for constructors, methods and attributes?
Like this: http://imgur.com/rGvFW

The example you give falls into the 'multiple pie chart' nightmare where it's hard to compare the percentages across charts. At the same time I can easily see how far from a majority each group is and also the pattern in abstaining from the question.
In my experience it's going to be very hard to make moving elements around performant, unless you're using multiple canvases (which is basically just using the DOM) or you use WebGL. How are you going to solve this problem?
(I think) the parent poster was making a subtle reference to access for handicapped persons when he made the ramps vs. stairs comment. I believe his point was that there are times when keeping a seldom-used feature is the right thing to do.

It's probably not the best analogy, though. Maybe if this discussion were about alt tags on images then it would make more sense.
Saying an account is suspended for non-payment is perfectly fine and well-accepted among even very large web hosts. Linking to a competitor is crossing a line.
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Just saw this, and I'm sorry it didn't get more discussion on HN. Good find.
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Does buying existing bonds help prop up the Greek govt? Remember - they don't get any money from that transaction.

If you want to help prop up the Greek govt, you probably have to give it money, that is, buy new bonds from it. It's probably not offering to pay 74% on such loans. And, given the yield of current bonds, it's probably not even bothering to try to sell bonds.
From your own examples:
- original iPhone supported for less than 3 years
- 3GS supported for ~2 years

As much as one likes Apple, this is not something that I would call "long term support".
You suffer from selection bias. You'll believe any source, no matter how tenuous, when it detracts, but refuse to believe one that supports, citing some kind of nebulous conspiracy. You're behaving in a profoundly unscientific manner.
Did you ever consider the possibility that "Beau" is not actually a recruiter, but rather a mid-level troll with a creative cover story?
I had never considered it. I can't 'make it work' without understanding it, so I consider it a non-issue.

I mean, I suppose minimal projects could get completed, but I never work on minimal projects. Mine always have edge cases, and that requires knowledge.
GP was alluding to the .aap or whatever the extension was for DRM-laden tracks sold by ITMS.
So what if non-geeks can't upgrade? It doesn't matter how skilled or un-skilled you are. You can take the G1 to a shop and get them to upgrade it for you. You can't take an iPhone and do the same thing.
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The value of a feature is frequency of use * impact to those who use it.
Cutting a feature on frequency alone will lead you astray.

Comment #13 on the OP says it very well (aside from english errors):

"I bet 95% of all emails sent across the world doesn't have any files attached. Let's remove the ability to attach files to emails!!!"
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It should be noted that this puts a Theta(lg n) singly-linked list of Succ nodes at the top of the tree, thus doubling the effective height of the tree.
Pie charts are never fine. They're always useless chartjunk which serve little to no purpose. They're used all the time by people who should know better.

Even a case of comparing A vs B is better represented by bars than pie slices.
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Eventually, yeah. I'm going to just work on getting something done first, without adding extra difficulty. :)

But yeah, eventually, I need to set aside some 48-hour periods for practice... Or at least a few sets of hours that add up to 48. Not sure I can interrupt my life that often. Every 4 months is fine, but more than that is tough.
This really wouldn't be the first time.
Our product is similar to them but not the same. We both are trying to develop solutions to the same problem and trying to find the product market fit. Since they are not charging for their service and we are, do you think it would effect our chances of finding product market fit. Do you think we are making it harder for us to find product market fit.
Charging $700 per day...based in Asia and clients in the USA (West Coast)

Where in Asia? That rate could go a long way in the Philippines or Thailand, or not very far in Hong Kong or Singapore.
I'd be inclined to go $19 or even $29 - remember the target market isn't us, and doesn't typically use open source.

Professional CAD software costs thousands per seat, as does an Adobe live license.
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I don't think that's fair. You don't know how useful a feature will be until its implemented and in users' hands. You will have a guess, of course, which is why you implemented it in the first place. But you don't know. And surely, a certain percentage of the time, your guess will be wrong.
Setting aside the possibility that some workplace suicides are just suicides and not an artifact of capitalist oppression, sure. By that standard, there should be postage stamps emblazoned with the image of a disgruntled postal worker shooting his coworkers to death, just so we as consumers know what's at stake when we send a letter.
I have yet to see a single example of where a pie chart was superior to any of the obvious alternatives. They are particularly troublesome for those that have less than perfect RGB vision, and even then I often find myself trying to deduce which arbitrary shade of blue is which due to the fact they're sandwiched between two other random colors.

If you wanted to make a chart that looked impressive but contained as little information as possible, you'd have to work to do better than the pie chart.
Right. But Newton copied the grid of icons from Windows and the general concept of a tablet computer from the GRiDPad which launched a full two years before the Newton.
That.. I had no idea that kind of chart existed. I think.. I think i need to sit down.
Thnx for the feedback. You think I should do it instantly or wait until tomorrow?
Look up GRiDPad. That's where Apple took the idea for the Newton from (it launched a full two years before the Newton).
Time for the author to write another letter complimenting Apple on implementing his idea.
Handy, especially as I've moved to using touchpads most of the time. Seems like this should be a part of the OS itself. Site design is very clean.

Nitpicks:

- Web demo slider doesn't work in Safari 5.0.4, neither do any of the toggles, though cursor:pointer indicates that they should. Twitter dialog has a lower z-index than the precision slider handle.

- Why keep the strikethrough higher price? Seems to cheapen percieved value.
I thought top trees were a data structure for implementing "dynamic trees" or "link-cut trees". How can they be used for implementing search trees?

Do the logarithmic update times in top trees take into account the time to locate the node to update?
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Pirates are destroying the movie industry. They are also our best customers. We are suing file-sharing sites out of existence. Also, we'd like to be business partners with them.
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Purely from irrational perspective and coming from someone living in Canada, $15.99 is indeed too much for a small and simple utility. However $4.99 is too little, almost implying there is nothing in terms of engineering effort behind the app. I would say that anything in a range of $10 to $14.99 is a better looking price.
The metric is invalid on its own, and in Toggl's case, potentially disastrous. 5% use it? Who are they? What if a big chunk of those 5% are managers? What if the 5% is concentrated in your biggest customers?

Without a lot of research and care, you could potentially lose more than 5% of users with such a move.

And what happens if they find another feature that only 5% use? And another?

"Rarely used" is not the same thing as "not essential".
I think $15.99 could potentially be too cheap. There are a finite number of developers who actually pay for stuff. It would be an interesting experiment to raise the price up to $29.99 and see if the sales change.

With a higher price, you may be able to advertise in ways previously unthinkable because your margins will be so much higher on every sale.

Yes, I understand most people program games here, but this isn't a game. It is a tool, and Adobe has proven that people will pay a lot for a tool.

BTW, as far as competition is concerned, your primary competition is WACOM Tablets which are much, much better for editing than the mouse.

* I will concede that I do not know if it is too cheap or too expensive, but I will say that I have not read a valid argument on HN today that proves it is too expensive. I think it is just as valid to say it may be too cheap.
I'm seeing the right hand adverts chopped off on the right hand side. Both of them. That's not good business if you are relying on advertising revenue to support the financial costs of running a site.

That's one of the drawbacks of this responsive design drive, they don't take into account content that needs to be at a fixed and known size. When an advert gets chopped off or disappears from above the fold - that pushes down the value of advertising on that site. Too much of that and the revenue generated this way drops.

There's no point having the surprised face on declaring that I don't understand the web and it wasn't designed for pixel-specific rectangular spaces. That requirement drives the sustainability of a large number of organisations, there's no point pretending it doesn't exist.
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Ok, firstly:
"But how do you go from 'CO2 traps heat' to 'We're screwed!'"

Honestly, I don't know, that's why I didn't do that!

That said, with our current understanding, not just that CO2 traps heat, but how much heat a certain concentration of CO2 traps, we are able to anticipate a certain rise in temperature. Yes, there is maybe some unknown process that will interrupt this rise in temperature, but for the time being we know of no mechanism that will do so. Do you want to bet the planet on the idea that there is an unknown process, for which we have no evidence, that is going to stop the planet from warming up dramatically, as our models predict it will in the absence of such an unknown factor?

If I were to say to you "Hey, our current projections show that if we continue fishing Blue Fin Tuna at the current rate, they will go extinct in 15 years", do you consider it a reasonable response to say "Tuna population change is a complicated phenomenum. Maybe there's something that we've missed which means that the tuna population will bounce back, regardless of our fishing levels. Therefore, let's keep on fishing as we always have."? Because that's pretty much what you seem to be arguing for with respect to climate change.
There's also ethanol. It has the trifecta of govt support, a subsidy, an import restriction, and a mandated use.

This has significantly reduced the amount of US corn available for food and it also decreased the amount of other food grown as farmers switched to corn when possible.
I wouldn't say we've elevated form over content. Only that we require form to meet certain minimal standards. This requirement allows us to keep discussions productive and evidence-focused -- in other words, our standards for form result in improved content.

Ignoring those requirements leads to low-content discussion like, for example, this one.
When rolling over precision speed and the tooltip comes up, 'become' needs to be changed to 'becomes'.
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Nathan, good eye. It seemed unlikely that such a new and niche app had taken the step of federal registration, much less done so long enough ago to be registered.
> No. I just want to order stuff at a transparent and reasonable price. How hard is that?

Very hard, because the other side of the transaction wants to sell stuff at a non-transparent and very high price.