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Pretty much everything Apple makes is obsolete within a year, but that's not due to Apple's design choices, it's due to technological progress. What you're trying to say is that Apple's products are garbage in 2-3 years, but that's obviously not true - other than batteries (which to my knowledge can all be replaced for a fee at the very least), all Apple products can be expected to have useful lifetimes in excess of 5 years.

As for your cracked iPad screen, just because Apple may not have refurbished it in the way you think they should have does not mean it ended up in a landfill. It's quite possible that it's cheaper for them to recycle the case and logic board than to re-validate the machine after putting a new screen on it.
Also - upon sign up why not just log the user in and take them to the dashboard instead of requiring them to log in again.

Seems pretty straightforward and I was able to figure it out easily - you sign up, set up buildings, add units, publish a site, and then voila people come to your site and search, request building units for rent or lease or whatever.

However I suspect your average building landlord or property manager might have a harder time figuring it out. Lots of tabs, lots of fields to fill out, and the navigation is a bit clunky.

In summary - I got the crux of the service and it seems pretty solid for an MVP. The design and ux need a lot of work and your landing page should do a better job of summarizing what the web site does.

Cheers
Suggestion: put a link to your main site on your blog site. Or buy referly.com.

I couldn't get there from the blog, typed in referly.com, got a Yahoo Under Construction page, and just about dismissed my barely-piqued interest before going back and noticing you are using one of those cutesy two letter TLD's
Not about websites, but cool anyway:

http://www.halfbakery.com/
Languages built with Xtext
http://www.3quarksdaily.com/
And how do you configure it? most lcd manufacturers put wrong info on labels and dmp info
Honestly, I'd be surprised if the total number of studies on gender balance in open-source projects was higher than single digits.

This is probably true, because open-source development doesn't seem to be a well-studied phenomenon in social science; but the effects of diversity on group dynamics in general have been studied extensively. While you may disagree, I'm willing to make the provisional assumption that working and personal relationships among open-source developers are not substantially different from groups which are more commonly studied.

(I currently don't have much in the way of academic access, but a few Google Scholar searches and reading some abstracts will at least reveal a large volume of research on these topics. i.e., http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=group+diversity+positive...)

More interesting, I think, is the idea that there must be some "real-world measure of goodness" (market share? lines of code?) which is improved by diversity, in order for pursuing diversity to be worthwhile. I'd be willing to argue that even if better diversity led to a persistent decrease in technical quality, it would be worthwhile in terms of positive external effects on society. While "low barriers to entry for all demographic groups" might not be an advantage to the group looking for developers, it could benefit society in the same ways as wheelchair ramps, good employee working conditions, regulation of animal medical testing, and other things we encourage in spite of their cost.

In other words -- diversity and fairness can be valued for their own sake, just as much as code quality is a value.

(I actually don't think increased diversity would have any negative effects on technical quality, in the long term: instead I'd expect a null effect or a slight positive. I wouldn't be surprised by a short-term negative blip as potentially-biased education and training learns to cope with different people, but I don't see that as a real barrier given the societal positives.)

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The posts are excruciatingly long, but fascinating and thought-provoking whether you agree or not:

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/12/gold-an...
Yeah, we've written our own REST framework also which is actually surprisingly similar (and small, ~1k lines) to AFIncrementalStore which does all the things I mentioned except in a leakier abstraction completely outside of the CoreData store. It works well, but it pains me that there isn't a cleaner way.
500,000 survey responses, what now?
Here's the blog post TechCrunch flamed me about (called me a liar and whatnot). I wrote it after I tried the alpha of diggv4, but before it was released to the public; I have no idea what happened internally, but the resulting product was indeed pretty devastating -- the final self-inflicted wound after years of encouraging power users and sacrificing the best interests of the userbase: http://alexisohanian.com/an-open-letter-to-kevin-rose
'Disrupt' now means 'force adverts and consumerism instead of create value' in case you didn't know.

The author has a grim view of the future and wants to run toward it... is this normal?
But you can't upgrade them. I just added 4 GB of RAM and an SSD to my mom's 4-year-old MBP, ensuring it'll last another 3-4 years. 2 GB RAM and a 5400rpm drive just wasn't cutting it anymore. Several of my friends extended the lives of their MacBooks by replacing the DVD with a secondary SSD.

Apple's new generation design of Macs have soldered-in RAM and a proprietary disk. Will we be able to upgrade them in 4 years?

edit: Imagine if you could upgrade the RAM in an iPad. I could still have used my original iPad now instead of it being junk.
the part about the difficulties notes that it holds nuke-scale energies

Nuke scale energies get dissipated in the atmosphere on a regular basis by thunderstorms. I suspect it may be possible to ensure that most of the mass burns up in the atmosphere and is dispersed.

That would exclude the downtown-to-downtown feature.

A rocketplane could "rendevous" with the electromagnetic loop at high altitude and then be accelerated and decelerated for the bulk of the cross-ocean trip, then land at an airport.
Not directly (but of course you were not entirely serious). Look at, for instance, the letter chart. The letters at the bottom are turned into very sharp forms, but not all look like letters, and those that do might not be turned into the correct ones...

For instance, if they used this to "enhance" a picture with a piece of paper in someone's pocket, these letters would be enhanced based on other forms somewhere else in the picture -- so some vague letter shapes might become 'Burger King' just because the photo also contains a Burger King logo somewhere :)
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I have to agree.

I recently upgraded to a new tower after my old one worked dutifully (running ~95% of the time) for 7 years. And it still works OK; the videocard sometimes takes a few minutes to kick on both monitors, and the latest software/OS is sluggish on the older hardware, but otherwise it's fine.

I foresee it running headless for years to come. Perhaps running an older OS or another OS--but running nonetheless. Come to think of it, it will definitely be an older or other OS as it's one of the ones that isn't upgradable to Mountain Lion :P
But you can't use things like git from ISE because it doesn't support interactive console apps...
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love. i want to see your setup steli :) and if you have not already done so. see if you can find a way to add rapportive findings to your tool. being able to see who is emailing you and connect with them in realtime is an incredible sales edge.
I've been on the other side of that several times - having someone who we tried to hire back out at the last minute. You look like an ass from that side too. I'm not trying to pass judgement (you gotta do what you gotta do), but it's likely you've burnt your bridges permanently with that company.
If you're not in charge of their life, they're in charge of yours because there has to be a power gradient when money (taxes) is involved.

I don't want to be in charge of your life, but I don't want to be responsible for paying for it, either.
This is a great read by the way:

http://www.quora.com/AOL-History/How-much-did-it-cost-AOL-to...
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I'm shocked that no one has mentioned http://youarenotsosmart.com/

> The central theme of You Are Not So Smart is that you are unaware of how unaware you are. There is branch of psychology and an old-but-growing body of research with findings that suggest you have little idea why you act or think the way you do. Despite this, you continue to create narratives to explain your own feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, and these narratives – no matter how inaccurate – become the story of your life.
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'RightingBot' simulates the way lizards right themselves when falling
Schneier today:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/07/all-or-nothing...
http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2012/proceedings/a2_Hayashi.pdf

But: yes.

I'd like my phone to offer a few different "shells" of access:

- Emergency calls.

- "Share" or "play" mode. Selected photos or apps.

- "Mobile" -- ready access to stuff I need, but not distractions (the "Car Panel" on some Android phones is somewhat like this, but I'd appreciate if it didn't encourage use while driving).

- "Full" complete and potentially immersive access.
"World Domination Summit "? sounds like an interesting conference!
I really like BetterExplained (http://betterexplained.com/).
It made me a bit more interested in math, which i never liked.

I also love the whole StackExchange network, especially skeptics (http://skeptics.stackexchange.com). A great way to learn new stuff from common myth.
It sounds like your gripe is with companies who have created CRMs with additional features and packaged them all together as a do-all be-all 'Sales Software'. That is not the entire CRM market. Not all CRMs are marketed like this.

As a CRM, a CRM is useful as a CRM. CRMs are by no means 'scams' or 'not useful' when youre using them as they are intended.

Here is the first paragraph on the SugarCRM website:
"Sugar is an affordable and easy to use customer relationship management (CRM) platform, designed to help your business communicate with prospects, share sales information, close deals and keep customers happy."

See how they 2 of their 4 points are about sharing information and not sales? That is a properly marketed CRM. Can a CRM help you make sales? Absolutely. CRMs can help you get organized so you can stay on top of customers & know where youre at in your sales.

Should this be all your use to drive sales? Absolutely not. Why? Because it's a customer relationship manager and not a do-all be-all sales tool.
A: "What happened?"
B: "He took the seed round and bet it on black!"
That's an edge case, though. Why not make it a configurable option?
> How is this possibly true? Nothing Apple makes can be easily opened, upgraded, or have their batteries replaced. They are made to be obsolete in 2-3 years.

There are lots of facets to environmental friendliness.

Making everything out of aluminum and glass instead of hydrocarbon-based plastic, for example, or making higher quality devices that have a longer useful life than cheaply made ones.
You don't need to expand the air, just shove it out the back of the plane. Right now, one of the most powerful and efficient ways we have to do that is by burning fuel and causing massive thermal expansion in a nozzle that directs most of it backwards.
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Can we support 100 EMs? Would we run out of things to do?

YES!, NO!

I'd love to see millions of Elons in the world, all pursuing the coolest most innovative solutions to society's problems. America proved that societal success isn't a zero sum game. The more people participating, the larger the overall pie of success gets.

Maybe all we need (can sustain) is a handful like him and the wealth they create will make all our lives markedly better, without us personally being involved ab initio?

No.

That's all we need is to put a few "masterminds" in control of everything so they can plan out our perfect little lives. Did you have some sort of test so that only the more ethical, intelligent, and successful few achieve those positions of power over us?

The question you're asking is really a version of an old one: "What form of power structure in society works better; bottom up or top down?"

Mark Levin has a decent read on the subject that goes into the history of the philosophy of Liberty vs Utopianism. http://www.amazon.com/Ameritopia-Unmaking-Mark-R-Levin/dp/14...
This question is asked here regularly and I've never seen a satisfactory answer. Feel free to dig through though: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=escrow&...
Why would this be cheating? (Maybe I am misunderstanding something?)
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I am having a hard time making a connection between my post and your response.
thank you so much, the is the best quality feedback yet. Yeah, its solid for an MVP. The design needs work.

I'm glad you found it straightforward - that is the most important thing. I agree that the average landlord will have a few issues. It needs lots more help icons/popovers (via bootstrap). Also it makes sense to hide some of the tabs until a user has data in there. The tabs are clunky, something I may be able to improve using bootstrap.

The biggest consensus is the landing page sucks. Not that I am hearing it I would agree - but I think it was a blind spot since I've focused on the code and functionality for so long. I have my list of priorities now, and improving the landing page is now #1.
How this affect things like buying offline maps for gps?

Also that page has an invalid ssl cert :)
Here's another good one: "The actual data that we have inside of Wolfram Alpha is now roughly comparable to the textual content of the internet"
This looks like a superb move by Google, I would pick one up if I was there, regardless.

Marketing wise, it looks great, and will be a wonderful way to put Chrome in front of people who wouldn't be the type to download or even show interest in software on the internet.

These same people are those who associate the Internet with the blue E. The same people who if they get into their heads that Chrome icon = nice experience, may shell out the money happily for a chromebook which gives them what they want.

For what must be a very cheap marketing move, I don't see any negatives to this.
Duly noted, we are working on both
Uh huh. Except, it's funny how little one hears about those other brands of fanboy.
Glad to see that Apple is listening to customer feedback and acting on it.
How is Quora not on there?
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Or maybe we could agree on something?
My guess (which I repeat is just a guess) is that it doesn't store any fuel at all (excepting some amount for emergencies) but relies on beamed power from the ground.

A fully-fueled 747 weighs something like 5x an empty 747 so you might get some real efficiencies from not having any at all.

That would be frickin amazing. For cargo flights, especially. Something like that could reduce the cost of air freight by a huge factor.
Apple sent takedown letters to retailers selling Galaxy Nexus
Fantastic. Just a 5 hour round-trip to my nearest apple store. Why would I want to service it when I have access to that level of convenience?
Junk!!??

I have a first generation iPad and it does more things than the first day it was purchased.

Not being updated will mean that it will do the same things it does now but no more. That's far from junk.
I don't think payday loan shops are ever constrained by the amount of capital they can loan out, though. If they were, it would be trivial for them to borrow money at normal rates (say 10%) from a traditional bank and solve that problem. I'm sure they are much more constrained by the physical locations/marketing/accessibility of customers/etc and no money at 3000+%/year is going to help them solve those constraints.
If EPEAT offered relevant standards for tablets and phones, they'd have to face up to the realities of the modern manufacturing methods necessary to make powerful devices compact. And if not, it would be harder to single out Apple, because there would be plenty of other tablets and phones not qualifying.
1 release new api to validate inapp purchases
2 nobody uses it
3 hire Russian hacker to show how to exploit old api. Everyone fears Russian hackers.
4 ???
5 profit
That's Dr. Dude to you.

Quetelet's work was reasonably appropriate for his time. One source I recall (cannot find it now) stated that he was looking for a rapid paper-and-pencil method for estimating aggregate troop strength. As a basic, good-enough first approximation, BMI works reasonably well. The problem is that it's now been grossly misapplied.

Quants (and economists) spend, I suspect, a lot of time chasing what turn out to be transitory relationships between various measurements. The relationships may very well be statistically valid, when first measured, but either changing real-world conditions, or, more likely in the financial world, adoption of the relationships by others seeking profits, rapidly erodes their validity.

Thanks for the links, I've got some reading for later :)

An enterprise I had some association with in the past spent some years and considerable capital trying to establish a strongly predictive relationship between a physical property and a health measurement. It turns out that there was a relationship, but not one which could be reliably used to determine an accurate quantification of the health measurement. This didn't keep them from torturing the data extensively.

And Page's health is in the news today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/google-ceo-larry-pages-health-...
So you can recycle glass glued to aluminium easily? That is interesting news
Heh. This brings to mind the thought that a diverse culture is likely to produce monocultures. If some Indians develop a new game, then you'll probably end up with mostly Indians playing the game--if it takes off, then people from other cultures might start playing the game, but the best and the "serious" players would probably be Indians. Even serious non-Indian players would probably pick up more Indian culture than they transmitted their own culture to the sport, and it would at least be very slow to diversify.

No, wait, it occurs to me that "some Indians" would require an India, and therefore a kind of monoculture there to start with. Perhaps a "diverse culture" would mean there is no India--there would be equal proportions of all conceivable backgrounds and stuff everywhere, or at least something close to that.

But, now, wouldn't that society be a monoculture? A very serious monoculture, with the vulnerabilities that go with it (i.e. lacking the defenses that come with diversity). To give an example: if every city looks the same and has the same number of each kind of building and uses the same proportions of transportation methods and so on, then if a virus gains a mutation that makes it go very well through a particular kind of transportation, it'll be able to infect every city equally well. The situation goes from "virus no one cares about" to "virus able to infect everything". On the other hand, if you had rich cities in which one type of transportation dominated, poor cities in which another one dominated, some cities that were hubs of international travel and others that rarely got any visitors from more than 15 miles away--then you'd go from "virus no one cares about" to "some cities overrun, others barely affected", which makes it much easier to leisurely prepare a response with aid from the barely-affected cities.

(Genetic diversity is good for fighting disease, for similar reasons.)

Mmm, I have reached the conclusion that the goals of diversity at the level of individuals found in a group, and diversity at the level of groups found throughout civilization [you could define any number of group sizes if you wanted], cannot be simultaneously achieved to their fullest extent. If you have no monocultures, that puts some limits on how diverse your set of cultures can be. This meta-problem gives me a kind of zen feeling.
You're also dependent on Apple's purchasing servers to buy the content to begin with, so I'm not sure I see the point.
I have a theory that this could be accomplished in the NSPersistentStoreCoordinator by setting up sister contexts--one for network, one for SQLLite. Network is the master, and replicates to SQLite, which could be used for reads if the network is slow or down.
same here. running 0.6.19 and 0.8.0
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Reading your comment, I think reddit is like a moderated usenet.

I think the only thing that would really kill reddit is if the people in charge try too hard to monetize it, like Digg did.
So the alternative to PowerPoint is a flipchart huh? At least it's not proprietary.
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As long as we are agreeing that it is <what ever> regardless of who does it, I really don't care what you label it. That was my point. You can believe it is sexism. I will believe it is not. I don't have to believe it is sexism to think the behavior is bad. It is bad regardless. However, I believe labeling it as sexism is overly harsh due to what that label implies. I don't believe that label is deserved.
Surplus wealth, not fiat money, is necessary for investment. Investment is just surplus wealth that is spent to increase future production rather than for the present. This surplus wealth can be invested by the people through their voluntary savings, or can be extracted by deceit and force with fiat money. Deceit because people don't realize that they can buy less than they produce because their money is worth less. And force because people are forced by legal tender laws to use and accept debasable money.
Not true, only the Retina Macbook Pro and Airs have soldered-in batteries/RAM, just like ultrabooks made by other manufacturers (ASUS, Dell, Acer).

It's a design decision. If you want an ultra thin/light machine then you have to compromise. If servicing the machine yourself is an issue then buy one of the 'regular' Macbooks.
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Original iPad being junk? There's tons still in service. As a matter of fact, I'd imagine most who upgraded to the 2 or 3 did so due to additional features (camera, Retina), not the RAM.

Also, how do I upgrade the RAM in a Galaxy Tab or a Kindle Fire? I think the lack of upgradability is endemic to the tablet form-factor.
Thanks for the feedback. It's a careful tradeoff between scannability (when browsing, you don't actually want that description text too visible) and readability (when you settle in on a ride you ARE interested)

Having said that, we're going to try making that text slightly darker and see if that makes the overall experience better.
Every iOS update slows it down more and more and makes apps crash more as they run out of RAM and developers have only tested it with the latest device.
You happen to have a stack of unused screens/batteries handy in the attic?

If no, you need to take that trip anyway. And a 5 hour trip every 3 years is better than carrying 60 grams more in your backpack for 800 days (in that 3 year period).

I'm not saying it's ideal, and I don't like it myself that much. I'm just saying it's a compromise most people accept.