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My theory is that you are going to need a new laptop every five years, minimum.

If you choose the Apple experience (or a high-class PC laptop for that matter), that will be at least $1000/five years. If you choose a Gateway laptop that will be $400/five years.

From mine and my friend's experiences I would not say that a more expensive laptop will last longer than a cheaper laptop. Most of my friends who are Apple users have had their laptops replaced at least once due to hardware failure. They had AppleCare and usually ended up with a new laptop for free. After seeing their rate of replacement I would never own an Apple laptop without AppleCare because the difference between being stuck with a brick and having Apple replace it with a newer model free of charge is worth the money.
I meant rating for age restrictions by the App Store, not end-user ratings.

This is done on a game-by-game basis by a government agency in South Africa, and requires an additional fee, but, based on what I've read, other manufacturers have gotten their internal rating systems approved, so this fee is not applicable. Apple hasn't bothered. They just don't let South Africans buy games.
This is what white sugru is for.

You want to make it look nice and it breaks quicker? FINE. Just don't complain when I bulk it up with gobs of putty to make sure I get my money's worth out of it.
Providence IS totally whack. but in a good way. definitely a little less stiff than b-town.
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Read benbsholz's comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3243628)...

It really doesn't hurt to remind people about this and make sure they take action. The future of open source software is at the core of HN, and it could really get affected by this legislation.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/04/twitter-drops-ruby...
It's often hard to see a bright side of something as broken as the US educational system, and perhaps I'm just a weird kid, but the mindless bureaucratic nature of school actually caused me to seek out more interesting subjects and read more books whenever possible because school never left me "satisfied."

I used all of my high school "elective" blocks to attend a specialty school to study CIT (graduated high school A+ and NET+ certified!) and spent all of my free time doing IT consulting and building websites for clients. It taught me a TON, but I'm almost positive that if school was mentally fulfilling each day I probably would have just gone home and watched TV and socialized like everyone else.

It is strange, though, that while most most of the messages and predictions of dystopian/Cyberpunk novels and films tend to be vastly over-exaggerated, the underlying principals and ideas seem to have come true. One of the nearly universal themes tends to be an extremely bureaucratic and systematic world and when you compare most aspects of 21st century life to 50 years ago, it's a little frightening.
> Now if you’re Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, then Exfoliate is an absolute nightmare
Is there anything to say that deletion on FB isn't just setting is_deleted=true ?
Any European laws on this?
I can't consider leaving Instapaper until Readability sends things to my Kindle weekly. Without that feature I'm unlikely to bookmark in Readability but quite likely to using Instapaper. I don't see how it can be done with the paywall they've set up, though.
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Hard drives? Any laptop hard drive will do. I put a 500GB Seagate hybrid drive in my 2010 Macbook Pro. The installation is much easier on the plastic MacBooks of recent years, where the hard drive is accessible through the battery compartment.

If they're using MacBook Airs the disks are expensive because they're flash, not because of Apple.
Scoble isn't telling you how to create a successful startup. He's telling you how to create something that he'll use and in turn hype and recommend. If that's what you want, then listen to his advice. Otherwise, just forget it.
Are there online petitions in the US?
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I moved from Philly. Providence keeps surprising me--good energy, nascent but strong start-up community and a solid core of peeps driving it forward. pretty irreverant place, too, which i love.
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I don't see any mention of this chip doing DGEMM at 1TF. Just that it's sustaining 1TF performance, but you can write assembler code that get's within 1% of theoretical peak flops if your not trying to get anything done but, if you have a source feel free to give it. (Not that that even means much, AMD's getting 80% of theoretical max FLOPS on that benchmark and I assume Intel would pick the optimum benchmark for it's chip even if they had to design the chip around the benchmark.)

Also, I don't see anything that suggests it's anywhere close to a production chip. More important, Knights Ferry chips may help engineers build the next generation of supercomputing systems, which Intel and its partners hope to delivery by 2018. Not to mention your comparing a preproduction chip with a year old chip that's running on a 2 year old process when AMD, Intel, and Nvidia are about to do a die shrink.
>if you really are a 100x programmer, it is difficult to fully capitalize on that skill

Only if you work at xyz corp!
Yes this is true, and that is what the HFT developers say to themselves as well. Just a point of data.
How much xml based configuration is used in Play? I am currently using Spring and slowly all the xml configs are starting to haunt me.
For me, it is a web developer who decide his web apps are to be working with chrome browsers only, since the number of chrome installations today is nothing comparing to what it will be in 5 years from now, and simply ignoring safari, firefox (and even ie, oops).

Five years ago, when Chrome didn't even exist, someone could've said the same thing about Firefox. Funny how fast things change, eh?
How do they think they are helping us children by stuffing us with hours upon hours of mindless work, following instructions on textbooks almost verbatim, whether it’s Computer Science or Math or Chemistry or Literature?
This is because it is too hard to grade otherwise. I agree with you, it stinks, but the first step to solving a problem is understanding it. We “need” these types of assignments to gauge the progress of the students. Maybe the instrument is wrong, but all things considered, it’s the best we have. Ideally we’d have more teachers to reduce class size & these teachers will have the skills to make children explore. Instead, we have standardized tests that only really measure how well you can prepare for standardized test.
Hm, is that you up in Barnet?
Generally it's batteries and hard drives with occasional RAM upgrades too. None of these people have the knowledge or confidence to change these themselves so they see the Apple store as the only option. This of course only multiplies parts and labour costs.
I'd suggest that if there's 100 users entering the query [how to pronounce resig], there are a lot more of them that have dropped the "n" from resign than are looking for the pronunciation of resig. And even more queries overall where "resig" was supposed to be "resign". I admit it's unfortunate that sites have to guess based on the behavior of the group (rather than knowing, for example, that you usually don't misspell things) but I'm not sure any of us individually has enough query history to make those kinds of guesses.
Is this your speculation, or do you have a citation to back this up.

As I wrote, "I don't have any references around to back this up."

I used Perl for a few years about 10 years ago; was quite the perl evangelist at that job. Then I found Ruby, which won my heart. But I have a pick-cover copy of the book perl (yes, all lower case). And I've read the whole thing and liked Wall's jokes. :)

Python's glory is fading pretty quickly. The web crowd is going to the next cool framework. Ruby tends to be pretty famous these days.

Pure trolling.

Because whatever tries to replace them, ultimately ends up looking up very similar to them.

That's an amazing assertion for which I would like to see proof. FWIW, I don't think Haskell looks like any of those, a passing resemblance to Lisp notwithstanding.

Perl, et al may have been done right, but it's myopic to think they are some sort of end point of perfection, if only because we don't know all the things we want to do, so we don't know all the things we need to have, "done right" or otherwise.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Nice. Another way to deal (at least partially) with the Bursty IO issue is to turn on the option that forces whisper to do synchronous IO. This patch has been in graphite since 0.9.8: https://bugs.launchpad.net/graphite/+bug/710269/
Software development is not an art, it is craftsmanship to make a tool. That isn't meant to demean development -- it just isn't the case that your code is making a statement on humanity or causing a user to ponder the meaning of existence.
Biden on Internet Freedom = Anti-SOPA
Yes and anyone can see my license plate # as I drive by. That doesn't mean I'd be comfortable having my car tracked.
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Marco is not currently listed in the advisor team at the bottom of their about page (https://www.readability.com/about). Would seem like a conflict at this point and makes sense for them to move in separate directions.
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1. So, how does this "solution" affect networks they've already mapped? It seems odd this would be proposed after the fact.

2. Why should I have to change my name to not be mapped? From a rights perspective, if you're doing something with my info, shouldn't the onus of changing primarily be on you?
I opted out at a scanner in Milwaukee (not as much for health as just generally disagreeing with the concept) it was one of the active millimeter scanners. When I did he proceeded to tell me it wasn't an x-ray scanner, but used radio waves "like your cell phone". At first I was going to comment on the frequency difference, but instead i decided to say "oh i see, so it's radiowaves like my microwave oven?".
These mostly sound more like issues with South Africa than Apple.

Not really. People in countries like Australia can buy games, even through they have a similar classifications regime. Based on what I've read, Apple hasn't even bothered to approach the South African Film and Publications Board to apply for self-rating:

http://www.thyon.com/blog-entry/items/apples-lack-of-games-m...
They could just use the embedded code from americancensorship.org that http://techdirt.com seems to be using as well. It seems pretty effective (and scary) to me.
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Here's the question. Is it editorializing when your own existence is put in question?

Under SOPA, HN could be taken down with a simple link. One could create an account, post a link to some copyrighted material and then ask that HN be removed blocked at the DNS level.

So if HN is not willing to stand for that, what is willing to stand for?
Which is a real shame because the unibody systems are one of the easiest laptops to open up and get to the HD and RAM. It's even documented in the Getting Started guide that comes with the system. Now if they'd just let us change that big ol' battery that's sitting right there it would be a dream.
I hope this is for running android on bigger devices, and not switching smaller devices to intel...
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You can buy generic replacement batteries for about a third of the price.
Presumably the same would be true if they were using a PC laptop or netbook, and they'd pay someone to do the install, thus raising the price?

Pretty much any technically capable person with the requisite torx drivers can install RAM or disk in a Macbook. They are user-installable, so any PC repair type person ought to be able to do it, not just the Apple store.
For one of the largest and most important sites containing user generated content out there, Wikipedia has been strangely quiet on this issue.

Go to eff.org or mozilla.org, for example, and you'll find prominent banners raising awareness to the issue. Go to en.wikipedia.org and the only thing you'll find is a huge picture of Jimmy Wales asking for your money. Surely if they can plaster his picture on every single Wikipedia page for months on end like they also did last year, they could also spare a day or two to run an unobtrusive banner on SOPA. Especially since, as Jay Walsh correctly states, the bill could have "disastrous effects for Wikipedia and its sister projects"
Doesn't work for me either.
Won't play in VLC or Quicktime.

[Edit] Kept trying and it ended up working
"you have a right to ask for support"

Having the right to ask for support doesn't immediately imply you'll get support.

Even then, while you ask and wait, and wait, and wait, then maybe talk to lawyer to start legal proceedings, with all those juicy billable hours, your client base is slowly ebbing away...
That depends on which networks and current dynamics.

As a rule of thumb you can assume the rates on our ad store (http://influads.com/adstore) - 22%.
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Works for me, open with VLC. Audio is only in my right ear though.
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Marco doesn't seem to think Apple's service will challenge his business model for Instapaper much. Do you think Readability feels differently?
Although I agree with the sentiment, this is a logical fallacy. Does an art critic need to be an artist themselves to be taken seriously?

Robert isn't telling us what makes a great company, he's telling us what has become a minimum standard.
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I don't understand why they are talking about counterfit medicine. Is that covered under the DMCA? OR SOPA?
Providence is a good bet, especially if you want to keep ur costs down while building an east coast presence. The community there is very supportive.
> The TSA agent told me, "you know these are completely safe and no human sees the pictures anymore, right?"

Wouldn't the obvious response be, "If nobody sees the results of the detector, why are we walking through it?"
I feel you ...
I have French, Dutch and American accounts and having to log in/log out is a real pain ...
The irony there is that moving people through the line faster when it's busy is actually the right security decision... It's just also the right decision other times.
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I'd prefer you share the poster's assertion with us and provide commentary as to whether you agree or think the commenter is paranoid.

Just posting a link doesn't add much.
"Of course, you stop worrying about that and wonder how the cable has managed to fray on this barely used drive:"

This is because Apple cables miss the so called "strain relief".

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/hvuhg/apple_why/c1yuah...

it is a design choice.
Perhaps, but I think determining the wireless MAC address of your router would be a much more difficult technical challenge compared to changing the SSID.
If you're in the US, contact your representatives.

Email from EFF's site:

http://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?a...

Email from OpenCongress:

http://www.opencongress.org/contact_congress_letters/new?bil...

Snailmail from SendWrite:

https://sendwrite.com/sopa/

Petition from DemandProgress:

http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/pipa_house/

And there's good, old-fashioned phone calls: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Great comment.

I worked in the library industry for a very short while. An industry whose specialists are all trained metadata experts can't figure this stuff out. Of course, that is also part of the problem, but it isn't going to get easier in industries where people don't understand metadata.

I lost interest when the OP hand-waved managing the metadata as just a trivial practical concern that somebody would surely magic into existence. These problems are why companies like Attensity[0] exist today.

[0] http://www.attensity.com/
He is telling you how to create a successful startup (see: the ordered list under "Some advice:"). He just also sprinkles in little hints on how to wow him personally. He talks about how he scolds CEOs/entrepreneurs because he doesn't agree with how they're doing things or what they think will make them succeed. Yet he can only speculate on what might make you succeed.

That's the same as Darren Rowse (problogger.net) not having a blog and never having blogged before but still giving you advice on how to become a pro blogger.
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Great story, and nice work! This happened because you decided to push ahead and make something you saw the need for clearly.

Sometime soon I might share the story of how I made $100,000 on the (... what to call it?) browser while learning to code.
That isn't exactly how it works --

It is a valid argument for raises, especially early in your career. But at some point, you are no longer selling your personal value to your boss - you are competing with other programmers who are willing to give the same value for a lower salary.

To get past that point, you need to have specialized business knowledge so that outside programmers cannot compete with you.

The trick to getting very high salaries is to decrease the pool of competitors for work, by increasing specialized knowledge above and beyond your coding skills.
>"Our suggestions will come from users who have already read the books and have determined the bare minimum you will need to read to maximize knowledge."

1. How will you overcome the chicken and egg problem and attract users who have read the books?

2. How will you screen users to determine that they have the necessary domain expertise to determine "knowledge maximization?"

3. How can a generic list of materials be assumed to apply to individuals with diverse backgrounds?

Finally, as soon as you see reading two books on the same topic as a problem, you have somewhat divorced yourself from the kind of people who typically read books - particularly readers in pursuit of technical expertise.
Did you try holding the trackpad button during boot?
Content is, too, I imagine.
What turned you off of Lift?
They did something like that for a day on Italian Wikipedia when they discussed in the Italian Parliament a law which, in the case when someone is offended (even if the facts are true!), if a website doesn't respond in 48 hours to the request of removal, the website would have been given a 10,000 euro fine.
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Oh yes, completely agree. I was making a minor point about productivity, but this isn't the biggest issue at all in software development.

The biggest productivity difference between two programmers isn't that one of them produces more of the same thing as the other. Or that one of them produces more of a better thing that the other. Or even that one of them produces a more of a better, different thing than the other. It's that one of them actually grasps the thing that should to be done and does it. And it can take a long time to even realize or understand what it is the programmer is doing (often, the programmer doesn't fully understand it at first either).

My biggest problem with the 10x productivity claims is that it ignores the most relevant difference. The best programmers don't do the same things faster, they do completely different things.
So to stop Google recording our location and SSID we should give them our location and SSID?
Same here with VLC, although it's in my left ear ;-) Although now that I'm watching it, this is such a train wreck.
> There is no opt-out, as there is in the US.

This is actually not true.

When I flew through Schipol this summer I was indeed on a flight where the scanners were "required".

However, when it was my turn I stopped up and told the guy at the scanner that I wanted to opt-out.

At first he just looked puzzled and said he did not understand what I was saying. After first repeating, and then rephrasing "I do not want to go through those scanners", he told me to talk to his supervisor.

I then approached the metal detector (which was blocked by a mobile barrier) squeezed in between the two huge scanners. The guy on the other side then tried to wave me through the scanners again at which I simply pointed to the metal detector.

After then shouting to him that I wanted to go through there he finally approached me.
He removed the barrier and told me to then take off my shoes before going through (notably not a requirement in the scanners).

This is where it a bothersome experience turned into a really lousy experience.
Just as I passed through the detector when I was passing in between the two active scanners (imagine the radiation there) he came up to me face-to-face, at a really uncomfortably close distance.

He asked me angrily why I didn't want to go through the scanners. Was it privacy issues? Because those were accounted for. So what could I possibly be thinking? It really felt like an interrogation.

I told him I was concerned with the health risks associated with there scanners, and that a group of American academics had signed a letter stating that these scanners weren't actually proven safe.

This is then where it got really bizarre, because at this he said plain out "Oh yeah? What do they know about these machines? What about trusting European scientists instead??". *

At this point I was simply shocked and horrified. I believe I managed to ask him if he actually knew where the machines where from, before he finally just shrugged at me and let me escape from the scanners.

I was later told by another, much nicer guard at another security check (we all actually had to go through two checks within the span of an hour), that I sure had the option to opt-out, but only until the end of this year at which point they would become mandatory for everyone.

Notably, at no point in this security circus was I or any of the other passengers told that we even had the option of opt'ing-out.
And as soon as I was through the metal detector, they closed it up again, so no other passengers might get the idea that they too had the right not to be scanned.

* I do not believe these scanners have been tested for real in Europe or "by European scientists", before perhaps now.
Startups and India (Bangalore) don't go hand in hand (together)...

If you have any other opportunity to stay where you are, Please take that.

Anyways Bangalore is super cool place to stay and have fun. The Weather is Awesome and the people are friendly and the FOOD is delicious.
Ironically, the parser developed by Readability under the Apache license is now used by Apple and Amazon. So the technology has gone web scale, even if the business hasn't...

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/11/16/readability-focuses-on-fr...