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> The argument doesn't really hold up, as we're only given two choices: Upgradable, or amazing screen. If there was a third, "Upgradable and amazing screen" with the applicable price/weight tradeoffs, then the "we can choose" view would be more tenable.

Well, the point of the article is that there was a choice between the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro, and the outcome of that choice resulted in the current evolution. He is saying wouldn’t like that choice made again.
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Ask HN: Why do devs feel a MacBook Pro is required for development?
I'm curious why the trend over the past few years has resulted in engineers feeling like owning a MBP is a requirement? The vast majority of the tech startup scene seems to only tote around these machines and are very willing to defend their choice in hardware + OS. I often will hear the argument that it's impossible for them to be productive on anything other than Apple hardware running an Apple OS.

There are excellent text editors and IDEs available cross platform. Having a local dev environment that matches production is very easy due to VM software. Viewing the resulting product (most often a website) depends on the cross-platform browser, not a particular OS choice.

Would love to hear HN's stance and viewpoint on this peculiarity.
Some of them are. Some of them are truly pointless. Neal Stephenson apparently had a giant map of 18th century London on the wall of the room where he wrote it, and as such apparently feels compelled, on certain occasions when a character goes from one place to another, to name every street he passes on the way. That's not atmospheric or interesting, it's just filler.
> Several jurors were crying as they left the courtroom.

What's up with this?
The only sad thing about reading this, is the incredible expense of creating such a response. In my experience, response letters such as these littered with appropriate references can easily cost several thousand dollars. I guess just the 'cost of doing business' on the internet.
if you take a picture at the mall, the picture stays at the mall, and other people that go to that mall will see the picture.
From what's been said in the forums and implied in that email they sent to API users, they're leaving the functionality in and just no longer creating the folder on install.

My question is: How long is that functionality going to stick around for legacy users after it's been hidden by default?

EDIT: Indefinitely. I wonder if that's according to the modern usage or the dictionary one...
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=62424&replies=8#p...

And to answer your original question, I was wrong and new users won't get access at all: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?page=2&id=62381&...
The factor you cite of 2-3x more profitable is enormous. Most of the "Tell HN" posts I have seen had a factor of about 30-40% more.
Honestly, that food looks quite a bit better than my school offered. There are some nutritionally-very-questionable combinations occasionally, but by and large they seem among the more reasonable options I tend to see.

Which, yes, is terrifying. More focus on the crap we feed our kids is fantastic.
I have to agree with you here. Since using CS my code got far more functional because I could create functions that create functions really easy and the implicit returns make it feel like a functional language.
It is too easy to characterize the issue as creators vs distributors. There is something oddly different about the case at hand.

Pirate Bay/Youtube vs Sony/Viacom have one thing in common: content creator doesn't understand new means of distributions, gets angry, sues the platform, pisses the internet off.

The Oatmeal acted differently. When he got angry at the new means of distributions, he didn't sue, he didn't even threaten to do it. He accepted the situation, made a funny/angry comment about it (where he didn't lie nor even exaggerate the situation), and went back to his comic drawing business. Is it unfair? probably. But his "moving-on" attitude draws respect.

We're all cheering for The Oatmeal because he didn't attack, he got attacked. The internet is generally favorable for artists who don't make a big deal out of freely copying their work. Once they get attacked, at least, the internet always got their back (and as the IndieGoGo campaign showed, those freeloaders are more than willing to spend the big bucks to protect their proteges).
I was a 5-year-old with a penchant for opening electronics, so I'm fairly sure they exist. However, I'd be more worried about adults doing more harm than good by taking apart/putting things back together in an attempt to 'fix' it before going to someone that knows what they're doing.

Also, many people ignore that most of those crazy looking screw drives also have benefits such as better cam-out resistance.
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X-Tag was just added as an official Mozilla repo on Github - it's a small, JS-only polyfill that enables the Custom Element portion of the W3 Web Components spec (https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/explainer/...) and other convenient mechanisms to generate awesome components. X-Tag has broad support coverage for a huge percentage of browsers in active used today on both mobile and desktop - Firefox 5+ desktop/mobile, Chrome 4+ desktop/mobile, Safari 4+ desktop/mobile, IE10 desktop, Opera 12 desktop, and all Android 2.0+ stock browsers.
Similarly, Valve Software was recently estimated to be worth around $3 billion...and they have a money-printing machine with Steam.

"Yammer sold for 1/3 of one of the most successful digital distribution platforms."
It's the blue-green square here:
http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/IAbJlQbhPUYnQMOS.huge

I'd say it looks roughly equivalent to two 8GB DIMMs.
Thanks for the article, I enjoyed it thoroughly. Also YGL seems to nicely bridge the gap between imperative programming and FP.
Yeah, but The Golden Compass wound up being just a bad movie. I loved the books.
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The style of writing was near-future, not the actual tech :)
I'm certainly glad to have kids like this, but I'm also glad to have parents like hers. I know many parents who would, as long as it started getting some attention, told their kids to "stop looking for trouble".

There's a lot of bad parenting going on in the world, and her dad looks like a pretty balanced person.
Official announcement: http://syncapse.com/syncapse-acquires-clickable-integrates-s...

Notably, Clickable has raised $32.5M: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/clickable
So, one question that I had initially was addressed in the response, namely: does FunnyJunk actually qualify for DMCA fair harbor status?

From what I've read, it's a pretty simple and strict guideline - register an agent with the US Copyright Office so that you can receive notices of infringement. If you do that, you're protected from user-uploaded content.

In the response, Venkat alludes to the lack of a registered agent, so I went and looked it up (http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/f_agents.html). I can't see Funny Junk listed anywhere. If this is the case, they should consider themselves very lucky that they aren't getting counter-sued into oblivion.

Am I correct in the need for an agent? Am I looking in the right place?
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If you're interested in providing a web-based map without locking in a mapping vendor, try the Mapstraction library (http://mapstraction.com/).
Wouldn't that make it easier for the Oatmeal to claim damages?
I ditched Facebook, and while I miss the ease of social engagement (getting invited to events via friend-spam was nice, since most people never invite me personally) i'm glad for no longer needing to constantly check my feed.

However, I noticed that Twitter and Hacker News tend to replace Facebook in that way, so I may follow your lead and ditch those too. But I sometimes find myself in a bar, searching through the internet, trying to find something to read rather than make conversation with a stranger. So i'm going to go one step further and ditch my smartphone. (Protip: Google supports syncing contacts/calendars using SyncML and S60 devices)

I'm not sure how well I will do without Google Maps and GPS to be my Hitchiker's Guidebook, but something tells me that not knowing where your going will lead to a more interesting destination. Or, since I live in Baltimore, getting shot. Either way it's an adventure.
Okay, then maybe you should have said that in the first place.
You kinda did gloss over, well, everything that makes this letter good.

The letter is powerful because of how it said what it wanted to say. The examples and imagery are vivid; the message consistent.

What you wrote: "The real reason that most people cheat is because they don't feel loved" is right there, wonderfully articulated, in this letter.

The hard part of being married, and the hard won wisdom contained in this letter, is the realization that most of the time people fail us because we've failed them first. It's a recursive nightmare and the only escape is to forgive and continue to commit.

Easy to boil down to a tl:dr of "don't cheat" and dismiss. Knowing is not the same as doing (day after day), though.
The text of the original statement is here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4115852

This is the version that patio11 is quoting.

After this, the shitstorm intensified, and the council leader appeared on Radio 4 to state that this would be reversed. Shortly after that, a version of the statement was put out that was pretty much the opposite of the original one.
Your "point" isn't actually a point if it is unrelated to the discussion. The issue is one of rejecting legit RMAs on the grounds that "you installed an operating system". Again, you are welcome to shop where you like. Just stop telling those of us who have told newegg "that's not acceptable and I won't be doing business with you" that we're doing something wrong.
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Yes - most of our problems have been our provider = "we decided to process your office move from 6months ago AGAIN and have disconnected you!"

But unthinkingly deciding that having `N` systems means your risk of failure is `1/N` when you don't know how they are connected is a classic way of getting on the front page of the dailywtf.com !
And you've noted the EXACT use case for the cloud. If you are a new app, or a hot start-up and get tons of sporadic traffic, the cloud is absolutely where you need to be. To do anything else is beyond foolish.

Now, what I think the original post there is speaking about is for mid to large size enterprise companies that have stable, but significant traffic. In cases like this they must do a cost-benefit calculation because you risk a lot if you don't. Then the cloud might very well not be the right solution, because costs could be 10x more than anything else... so the answer in my mind is not always clear.
What about SP and Yammer joint market-share?
I think you are overreacting. Are you serious about using the public folder for "rapidly iterating front end mock ups"? Why would you want to put sensitive and confidential data for everyone in the world to see?
Nolan's made some of the most inventive movies of the past decade. Memento, The Dark Knight, and Inception were pinnacles of the form.

I'm not saying he'd be ideal to direct Snow Crash, but your criticisms of his work are unfounded.
I was a news hound in the 80s which was great because TV news didn't suck.

Another 80s early 90s information device was the magazine, there were tons of magazines which were mostly killed off by the Internet.

Social media is a whole lot of everything and 1% substance on a good day. It's a habit it's like Entertainment Tonight you sit there and one day think "why am I watching this?". That actually happened to me in the late 80s I realized I had a half smile grin Joker sort of thing watching banal celebrity news. These days instead of a dumb smile it's my left elbow with osteoarthritis from leaning on it reading about cats, rage faces and other memes or arguing with strangers over things 5000km away.
Upgrade-by-replacement. In 2 years you'll still be able to sell this machine for about 70% of its original price. From there you can buy the latest & greatest model at basically a 70% discount. Factor in the price of the parts you would have upgraded and I bet it's a wash or pretty close to it.
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The passage you're talking about is specifically about the fact that Hiro feels a sense of relief from the fact that he will never be more badass than Raven. That's a very particular angle on the situation, and you can read it at least partially ironically, because in fact it doesn't stop Hiro from trying to be, well, a hero, and if anything causes him to be more badass in the future.

But the book is full of male characters who die because they are trying to be or think that they are badasses. Raven is held up as an an ironic sort of idol; he demonstrates how badass you actually have to be in order not to die, and it's a comically excessive amount. And yet he's the only one who seems not to be motivated by that desire at all; he's just trying to get something done.

I don't think it takes a particularly close reading to see this theme; you just need to be willing to entertain the possibility that it's not just adolescent fantasy.
This has confirmed all my worries. Whenever the intelligence agencies and the politicians lobby for "cyber-bills" and such, and it's almost never about "protecting US against threats", but about "attacking others".

So on one hand they keep drumming up the fear mongering about other countries attacking us through "cyberspace" and that they need "these bills" to stop that, when in fact the bills, and the bigger budgets, are all about US attacking others, and basically committing acts of war against them (their words, not mine).

If the US is really afraid of "cyber-threats", then they really need to ramp up the defense at home, not offense, and keep as much of the critical infrastructure off the Internet as possible.

Oh, and these are a couple of funny posts about the politicians' abuse of the word "cyber":

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120614/01590919314/cyberp...

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120615/03214619333/politi...
As often happens, the truth is more interesting than the satire...

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I understand the urge to keep away from facebook or twitter. However, Hacker News is very important resource for career and personal development IMHO.

Since I came to know about Hacker News, my life has changed. Not only I stay away from social media such as facebook, twitter, but also I am away from news websites such as cnn and bbc.And, let me say, it is very good for mind and body to not consume so much news.
Someone has already implemented a nudity algorithm in js. https://github.com/pa7/nude.js

One step closer to Pohl.. :)
Still down here, over 12 hours at this point. This is probably the second time we've been hit with something on AWS in the last three months -- and you have to pay them to talk to someone about it. We're definitely moving to Linode ASAP..
Nope, but thanks for the stereotype!
I'd have to disagree with you on citing a paralellism between this case and "Pirate Bay vs Sony etc". As there's quite a huge difference between hosting the copyrighted content yourself, and pointing to where one can find copyrighted content. This has been the torrent stand ever since: that pointing to content stolen or otherwise is no way violating any sane law.

And it's quite sad really how an insane US law, the DCMA, is being used to make link aggregators, search engines and the like bend over to media conglomerates.
The analogy is apt. His point was that to most Ethiopians, VOIP calls are a luxury that requires other attendant circumstances, i.e., wealth, similar to the circumstances in which a Westerner would have a private jet capable of going Mach 2.

Electricity, computers, and the internet are considered a necessity (or in Europe, even a right) by First World countries, but in Third World Countries like Ethiopia, whether you're going to have enough food to feed your family is still the biggest daily concern.
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I'm upvoting you, but I think your parallel falls apart at a certain level.

The Oatmeal provides his content freely available, a la carte, at his own website. There is no fundamental difference from consuming his "product" at http://www.theoatmeal.com vs http://www.funnyjunk.com. This is part of the general outrage, as FunnyJunk has provided no extra value for consumers, yet is still profiting.

However TPB/Youtube (arguably) provides value where the content creators (Sony/Viacom) don't, specifically in ease of distribution in the format/timeline the market demands.

I'm not saying you're wrong prima facie, however it's important to note that TPB and YouTube provide much more value vs. the licensed offerings than FunnyJunk does vs The Oatmeal.
Almost all 60-70-80s SciFi is the adolescent fantasies of male badassitude of the author.
we have connection outages almost daily

Seriously? Is this considered acceptable for residential ISPs in California? Here I'd find one outage every month to be unacceptable, much less daily ones!
Baltimore, eh? Get to live your own Homicide - Life on the street moment.
I don't think allowing direct access to your files, within the limits of your data plan, is trying to offer everything to everyone. That is specializing in doing one thing well, allowing access to files. Trying to second guess what the purpose of the access is, and allowing some accesses and not others, on the other hand is invasive and trying to put the smarts in the middle instead of at the edges where it belongs.
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Wow. This is one of the more powerful essays I've read in a while. If you don't get why that is, please just think about it some more. Think about what you are telling yourself about it.
> I wasn't meaning for people - I meant 'the industry' as a whole (or a large segment) - standing on the shoulders of giants and all that.

Ruby and Python aren't very new. There are giants there as well. If you're going to make that argument, then Java has a bigger advantage.

> I think there's far more options for people with 'PHP' in the hosting arena.

As I've already said, I don't disagree. I just said that this advantage is going away. Personally I'd also rather go for host that's mid-ranged as opposed to hosts that are in the race to the bottom. I don't think paying $10 more a month is exorbitant especially if it buys you a lot of language power and it takes over more sysadmin duties from you.

> re: eval - do you have pointers to examples?

Every major PHP framework uses it. How do I know? To my knowledge you can't use any of them with Facebook's hiphop out of the box. I suspect this is one of the main reason's no one uses hiphop even though it gives you a good deal of performance gains for PHP.
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You can use data-* prefix for all the directives.

Btw, here's my point:
The reason, why you want valid html, is to be able to use some html validator, which is super helpful, when finding bugs like unclosed div etc.
However, if you prefix all the custom attributes with data-* you only get these attributes ignored, not validated. For example if you type data-ng-rrepeat="", the validator won't catch it.

So I would rather extend html validator to accept new tags/attributes in some format, say JSON, so that during the build process of your app, you can get all the directives your app defines and validate them. Then you get even your custom directives validated. I believe that's the way to go.
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This is a big deal, I think. Ten years from now we're going to look back and discover that Google quietly replaced HTTP without anybody complaining, or even noticing.
I wasn't trying to say it's a "smart book" per se; it's certainly an exercise in indulgent cyberpunk fan service, for better and for worse. Only that calling it a "dumb action movie" implies that the reader is not particularly aware of the state of action movies.

Personally, I'm a DFW man.
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It's really only required for iOS/Mac development. The hardware is solid and you don't often have to think about it but I think OS X is a hinderance and a time sink for serious programming work outside of the platform specific stuff.

It's especially painful (subjective) to, for instance, get a rails dev or any number of other environments up and running and it's really annoying to do some embedded systems work on macs. (I say this as someone who makes his living developing iOS apps on a mac right now btw)
It's pretty easy to pee standing in the dark, just stand over the toilet and aim straight down.
I have an early 2008 MBP, the max supported ram is 4gb. I haven't been able to find anyone that says otherwise.
I'm assuming it's because they're also punishing 4 children and a wife who were completely innocent.
One advantage not mentioned here is when you need to perform maintenance. Being able to take any single device offline without affecting the service means that you can perform software upgrades or hardware replacements with more flexibility (and often within working hours)
It doesn't really matter whether you installed a different OS on it though, they're going to need to wipe and restore the machine anyway. I imagine most laptop buyers aren't going to want a laptop full of someone else's porn and malware.

I'd imagine you just have a standard HDD disk image and when you re-furb a machine you just clone that onto the disk and then change the product key.
They need a computer for development, going to meetups and such make a laptop more useful than a desktop. Apple makes the nicest laptop hardware around, and a really usable Unix OS. MBP QED.

I often will hear the argument that it's impossible for them to be productive on anything other than Apple hardware running an Apple OS.

They have spent sometime learning all the keyboard shortcuts, going to a different OS, text editor, etc. means lost productivity until they retrain and catch back up. Any further than that they are being a prima donna.
It is in Amharic language written in Ge'ez script known as Fidel. Since you don't have the font installed, you weren't able to see it.

For those who are not familiar with the alphabet, it looks like this:
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I fell like Snow Crash would be much more successful as an animated movie. There's a lot of whimsical, somewhat silly stuff in there that works in a book and could work animated but doesn't translate well to live action.
Everything is custom built.
The parsing is the easy bit.
The architecture is what i find the hardest.