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> Upgradability was a defect of technology not being good enough for long periods

The other thing to consider is that the same applies to repairing technology. Why are we putting resource into catering for the tiny minority of a given product which experience mechanical failures which we can fix?

90% of BlackBerry users will never change the battery on their device. 100% of BlackBerries have a stupid door on the back which allows you to remove the battery and eventually becomes very loose and slides off.

80% of MacBook Retinas (at least) will never have a hardware problem (as long as Apple has finally learned how to correctly apply thermal paste). The ones who do we replace.

The economics of replacing an entire device are finally starting to make sense. That's the really exciting thing about this. It is no longer cheaper for Apple to pay technical people in stores and service centres to cater for failure rates in hardware. It is now cheaper to throw the broken thing away and get a new one, and take a chance on not having two successive one-chance-in-a-million failures for the user.
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Not just you. Also it reminds me of Eliza...
Dropbox has a website?

(Yes I knew Dropbox had a website. I'm speaking for all those users who downloaded it once and now use it to synchronize their computers, never realizing there is a website too. And yes, these people do use the public folders: they right click & send the link to someone, but don't connect that to the idea they can see their own files on the web)
Fixed for the copy text. I didn't check that on more screens yet. Thanks.
I think most people buying a $2000+ laptop keep it for more than 18 months. I know I would.
Looks very cool, but it also looks this is running into some memory issues with rendering (the black blocks rendering in). I wonder if it runs better/worse on iPads with varying amounts of ram to devote to Mobile Safari.
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If this sort of trend continues unabated (see also UK "snooper's charter" etc), VPN companies will soon make more money than Apple.

(unless VPN software is also covered by this legislation, which the article doesn't say).
They need to incorporate location of the wristband with some sort of triangulation between transmitters. Then they can make it an actual display. I'm sure this will happen in the not too distant future and I'm excited to see it.
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Yeah, but really, the thing is, the growth curve is bending down

Processors have barely became faster in the last couple of years. Even a 5 year computer (with some upgrades) is good for doing what 99% of the people do today (internet)

So chances are upgrades today are moot. Unless you're hitting the limits constantly like video editing, compiling software, etc
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Terrible idea. Having the public directory there to just drop files into and knowing that it is all "Public" is one of the features that differentiated Dropbox from its many competitors.
This is ridiculous. Self driving cars not innovate? Project Glass is not innovative? Google Books, while not particularly innovate, is one of the most massive undertakings of human kind - storing digital copies of every book in existence! This is a win for humanity.

You act like Google targeted Dropbox in a recently concerted effort to take over the space. In doing so you are ignoring the fact that GDrive has been talked about since shortly after the release of Gmail. In fact according to Steven Levy's "In the Plex" it was once even ready for customer release a few years before Dropbox was in existence.

Google+ is the re-imaging of Google. It's not some Big Brother gestapo your post makes it out to be.
Yes, that will follow, also other international ones, of course. German, French, Spanish, and Dvorak will probably come as the next ones. Do you think Colemak is better than Dvorak?
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No, they are targeting consumers who call their "bank".

The service life of modern computers is more than 3 years. So instead of buying a 16GB memory upgrade for $29 in 2015 to rejuvenate your laptop, you're looking at buying another $2,000 device. (Assuming that Apple doesn't decide that you only need an iPad 8)
No they wont. They wont complain about it, because they wont know or care about it. It's not worth it for Facebook to sink billions of dollars to appease a handful of people who actually care about their privacy.
Did you read the article? It's clear they understand that.
>To compete with Facebook, Google must integrate Google+ with its other killer services so tightly that leaving the Google property you're in and going to Facebook becomes a hassle.

Google+ can win by making it difficult to leave.

>Google makes it relatively easy to permanently delete the data you’ve banked at Google+, and walk away. You accomplish this through a Google+ tool called Google Takeout; with just a few clicks, you can download data from your Picasa Web Albums, Google profile, Google+ stream, Buzz, and contacts.

Google+ can win by making it easy to leave.
Thanks! It was interesting
Can't both Western laws and Ethiopian laws be bad? Why is it a must that the West fix their laws before Ethiopia consider fixing theirs? Isn't Hacker News for everyone, not just western readers?
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90% of BlackBerry users will never change the battery on their device. 100% of BlackBerries have a stupid door on the back which allows you to remove the battery and eventually becomes very loose and slides off.

True, but it was sometimes the only way you could do a hard reboot on those things!
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I know if someone had pulled that cell phone signal conversation parroting trick on me, I'd have gone into a murderous rage. Everybody's different.

The "we're out of cereal" trick seems interesting though. But at what point are you not letting kids learn how to be confrontational? It's annoying, but it's an important life skill.
There is a simple solution that takes care of the problem entirely and has the added benefit of increasing general cleanliness around the operation's area and avoid any possible argument: just perform #1 seated.
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Gluing glass and aluminum most probably forbid recycling both of them, that's just a waste.

I doubt that's an insurmountable technical hurdle. Apple should take the machines back at the Apple store, though, and they should handle the separation.
Update:

"A council has overturned a ban which prevented British schoolgirl Martha Payne from posting pictures of her school dinners on her blog Neverseconds."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9333975/V...
The glue is designed to come apart, especially when heated. I'd understand you if they used expoxy resin or something like that, but that's not the case. Also, Apple has an incentive to make them recyclable since they offer a free recycling programme.

My biggest concern is the RAM, both because I've had RAM failures before which now becomes a motherboard swap, and because I'd rather max out the RAM later when it's cheap.
Average refresh cycle has historically been around 3 years. Today, most businesses are pushing to 4 for laptops, 6 for desktops.

Normal people tend to upgrade when the batteries become untenable to deal with.

An 18 month lifecycle for Apple kit is indicative that you spend between 3-6x than the average.
The second of those is exactly the approach I've taken in the couple client-side web apps that I've built. I initially generate and insert generic DOM fragments from templates, but only use the template to fill in values that I know will not change throughout the lifetime of the view (the "templates" often don't have parameters). After that, I use one code path both for the initial value setting and for subsequent updates.

If I'm not mistaken, this is more or less the approach used in Knockout and AngularJS.
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Thank God it only happens in third world countries! We sure know better than these savages
The only reason they get away with this is that it makes no difference to the day to day lives of the average Ethiopean. It's a bit like us in the west having legislation passed that says you are not allowed to go over Mach 2 in your private jet. I wouldn't expend energy fighting that, but take away my comms rights, and I'll burn your mansions to ashes.
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OR, buy a couple of monster 64GB+ RAM systems, add SSDs, and place in LA or Denver.

I have an ancient quad-900Mhz Xeon with 6GB RAM (customer does not want to migrate) that has an uptime of 1600 days, and for which total network issues during that period was a few hours (wonky power to switch).

Cloud is too often comparable to "vapor" in terms of the claims of redundancy and availability.
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I use dropbox a lot to send stuff to friends over IRC. Screenshots, save files, snippets of code. You can put up a HTML page that loads a SWF from your public folder, no worries. I have some music in there too and a HTML music player that points to the files so I have a simple music library on any computer with web access.

Sending you to a landing page instead of just serving up the content is unnecessary and disrupts all of these activities.
You need to sacrifice to be the best. You will never be the best at $x if there's someone who is willing to give up more and focus harder than you.
What would you recommend for persistent disk storage on AWS instead of EBS then? Assuming you need to put database files somewhere where they don't disappear when instances terminate, and your database can access them.
The time spent writing them my be similar to email. But, you could generally change your mind about sending them for much longer than email.
Oh god don't remind me. You'd hear a notification for a text message, unlock the device and you'd see

> JAVA MESSAGE ERROR

Which required removing the battery to do a hard reset (which took about 120 seconds).
that doesn't sound like such a great innovation from an environmental point of view. nor a sustainable use of resources.

is it easy to re-use parts from these failed devices?
What I hear you saying is that there's no way to know from the Dropbox app that a particular private file containing your SSN and porn collection is shared with the entire world.

Also, it's broken. When I click "Get Link" to get a shareable link for the file, I get this:

> "Error Creating Link There was an error creating your link. Please try again."
Mea culpa for the recycling part then. I think the upgrade point is still huge:

The MBP 2009 that I mention in my previous post has been upgraded twice (RAM and HD). That has allowed me to keep it for three years and in my opinion has justified spending that amount of money in a laptop (2000 euros at that time). I don't know if I would put the same amount if I knew I could not upgrade it.
I think this is proves Apple is going to continue holding design and user experience above all else even with Steve Jobs no longer at the helm. In reality you operate under a very fixed amount of constraints, and easier upgradeability would make the laptop bulkier in a way that is against Apple's design principles. They made a tough design decision given engineering constraints - just like they did when they removed the disc drive from the Air. I bet consumers respond in turn.
And they're charging 200$ for an 8GB upgrade, not the whole 16GB!
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What I find disappointing is their focus on photo uploads. I think users really just want to pick a best of breed provider for major features like this in their lives, and Facebook has photos sharing locked up.

Dropbox has brought simple file synchronization between machines that are not necessarily on the same network, to the masses, but they need to do it in away that doesn't make you want to drop Dropbox when it goes wrong. I had a machine with Dropbox installed turned off for a year, and when I turned it on, it's clock was wrong, so when I updated the clock, Dropbox deleted all files in my Dropbox that were newer than the last time I had that machine running. What did it delete? Hard to tell. And Dropbox doesn't support restoration for folders, or points in time, just single files.
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A staffer (?) mentions further down that almost no one was using their Public folder, so I really doubt that the average Dropbox user wants any of the things you listed.

Dropbox is a file storage and sharing service, not a CDN or web host. Just because it could be hacked to make it a CDN or web host doesn't mean those things are highly desirable to customers or good for their actual business.
It's the same with power bricks. My sister had her netbook brick go and the price for a new one was nearly a third the price of a new netbook.
The browser will treat the link as a download instead of content. You click on an image link, it downloads the image instead of displaying the image.

Seriously breaks using the folder as a simple content server.
Self-indulgant angst. With an annoying mix of "I" and "i". Seems the author has a long history of self-promotion on HN.
For a while now Apple has operated a recycling programme which allows users to take their unwanted devices into their store and recycle them (usually incentivised with a discount a replacement device).

(I don't buy the anecdotal "Nobody can recycle aluminium with glass pressed into it" line from the article.)
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I've had my Acer Aspire 5670 since 2007 now, still serves me nicely.
Actually it's 200 for 8GB, which makes it more expensive in comparison.
The average person doesn't need 16GB of memory, and by the time they do, they need a new computer anyways.
The only way to beat Facebook is to disrupt this market and rethink the concept of social networking. Regardless of which service is better, G+ is not enough to make users switch. The problem with G+ is that the sole reason for its existence is to get to access the data that Facebook refuses to share. When that is your starting point, it usually forbears disaster.

The article itself is poorly thought out. I doubt that people trust Google that much more than they do Facebook and data portability is a feature that might please some users but it isn't a significant reason to join nor will most people take advantage of it.
> Processors have barely became faster in the last couple of years.

Funny you should mention that. I will be picking up one of the new MacBook Airs and when mulling over the 1.8 vs 2.0 GHz processors, I realized that my last three notebooks (including the new Air) have each had successively lower clock speeds while posting faster Geekbench scores.

2008 - Aluminum MacBook 2.4 GHz - 3374

2010 - MacBook Air 2.13 GHz - 3475

2012 - MacBook Air 1.8 GHz - 6398
This is a lot more serious that just Skype calls... they also make using email and any form of non-State-owned communication illegal, too.

Amazing to think somebody making an unsnooped call would get longer in prison than some murderers!
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We all do it (I assume), buy a domain name for the latest and greatest idea you have but never quite deliver, the domain ends up sitting there doing nothing.

What are yours and what was it you were thinking of doing with them?

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you simply should not use it without a very good reason

EBS is fine as long as you're aware of the constraints and plan accordingly.

you have to assume any given drive image will disappear at any moment

Duh! You mean it behaves exactly as documented? That is outrageous.
The most obvious improvement they could have made would be to vary the transmitter's power so that they could create a (very very approximate) circle of light around the transmitter point. Raise and lower the transmitter power, and you increase and decrease the size of this light circle. Great for pulsing, explosion style effects.

Different transmitters in different locations could trigger different colours.

Thinking further, they could have introduced multiple low power transmitters across the audience, or highly directional transmitters pointing at the audience from a central spot. You could then create colour clusters, rainbows, spinners, rather than just a uniform effect.
In most startups, the password should be encrypted, so no one would have "access" to your password. The developers would for sure have access to change your password and have access to your data.
Google+ is dead, just like Ping is dead. The "plus" is just a social network on top of Google products. Ping is a social network on top of iTunes and we know how well that went. People don't like "antisocial" social networks.
Countries without a state monopoly (e.g. UK) are talking about laws like this.
Increasingly disposable electronics aren't any great positive for the environment, but they are hardly high up on the list of negatives.
Am I the only person seeing G+ and Facebook as too orthogonal to directly compete? Yes, the tech side is nearly identical. But the communities are so diverse, that it doesn't even make sense comparing...

I go to Facebook, what do I see? Babies of my friends, party invitations, jokes that have left Reddit 3 years ago who someone translated a year ago into a native language and so on. I go to Google+ ,what do I see? Posts, by people I've never partied with, which actually tend to interest me. There's that lawyer stuff about evolution of tech-related law. There is some really cool hacking. Some random excerpts of science. And generally a lot of interesting stuff, that's not personal and would never make it on Facebook.
There is the Air line for light weight laptops for normal people. I would think that the word Pro signals that this computer is for people who want to do stuff with it beyond what is provided up front.
Mine is a mid-2009 13" MBP closing in to 3 years of age, with original battery (just crossed 600 cycles), swapped the 160GB hd with a 128GB Samsung ssd and inflated 2GB ram to 8GB, then down to 4GB because I did not use them and they were cheap RAM, so killing the battery (very noticeable on sleep) while the 4GB come from my iMac. I could have had those upgrades from the start (and not have to hack TRIM support on each upgrade) save from the money I simply did not have at the time I bought it.
Not digging the analogy. The Arab Spring reinforced the role of free communication in the process of overturning tyrannical regimes. All analogies are broken at some level, but the discord in relevance here is too much.

It may not be the case for the people of Ethiopia today, but mobile phones have proven to be a powerful disrupter in similar countries. Skype acts as a conceptual anchor for the reader in the article, but the law is not limited to Skype.

You can't downplay this legislation. It is an assault on the very foundation of freedom. Make no mistake about it.
swapsend.com:

This was going to be a file sharing service for businesses like design consultancies, it would enable them to Swap files with their clients and Send files to others.

designdown.com:

This has been planned for many things, a blog about design and UX, the over arching name of a group of other websites, a web design and development consultancy.

projectaur.com:

This was going to be a project management tool for engineering and design firms, using the idea of issue trackers from software development and applying it to physical product development.

flutterbox.com:

This is the project I have gotten furthest with, it was back in about 2007 I think, it was a social news aggregator along the same sort of lines a friendfeed.com. I actually launched this one but never attracted many users. I think I finally shut it down in about 2010.

cloudjs.co.uk (I thought I had the dot com but don’t seem to any more):

This was going to be what we now call a “platform as a service “, it never got further than me buying the domain name and researching SpiderMonkey (this was before V8).

If you are interested in any of them let me know, email is in my profile.
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Ok so say you're bashing out a HTML site with some other frontend people, so you throw it up on your Public folder, and they can access it at /u/8798798/whatever/index.html, and their browsers can access associated content (html, css).

This is used a LOT in the web design industry, and taking this out is going to piss a lot of people off.
They're good at it otherwise they would have died out long ago.

That is only a true conclusion if the hiring market is a Perfect Market.
I have the feeling Apple is going the exact way with Cook. They're replacing novelty and polish with more of the same and sloppy (the new iOS shows this all around)

(please beware, I'm not comparing Apples to Googles)
And what if you have a whole bunch of files to share? Will relative links still work?
The picture of the bear is substandard to the other work on his site.

It is intentionally petty and juvenile to draw the comparison that the letter from FunnyJunk's lawyer is petty and juvenile.
You seem to know a little bit about this gentleman than I (and the rest of HN probably) know, could you tell us more about his (correct) predictions ?
I went to their website to try to find pricing but they require contact info. Anyone have any idea on how much these thing cost when you're purchasing in bulk?
Worry is still warranted. Removing a feature for new accounts is a very clear step in the direction of completely removing the feature.

Yes, current accounts keep the feature the whole point of grandfathering features is to eventually phase them out entirely.
I guess it is not distributed (meaning I can run my own Quoddy server, and talk to users at friend's Quoddy server)?

Well... there's not exactly a notion of "distributedness" built in. That's on the wishlist (and, in fact, this project sprung out of a much older project that had that as it's core idea) but there is support for receiving and display messages from any other arbitrary system that supports the activitystrea.ms protocol. So modifying Quoddy to emit, as well as consume, activitystrea.ms messages would give you a way to achieve a degree of "distributedness." And that wouldn't be a hard change to make in and of itself.

The trickier part would be how to say "I want to receive updates from remote user $FOO when they come in" since $FOO is probably not a user on your local Quoddy instance. Once we have FOAF support implemented, it would be easier to talk about navigating the remote social graph and connect to non-local users... but a short-term way to achieve that could probably be hacked up.
> People prefer Bing results to Google's results when they are served in Google's template.

Source? Having compared Bing's results to Google's from time to time, Bing's seem much less relevant to the search term I'm using.
The screens are at the wrong angle for a standing customer, so customers will tilt the screen further back, starting the 'hands on' experience. Th reps re-set them when they aren't otherwise occupied.