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As the story itself says, Apple offers recycling programs. I don't particularly care about the ease with which I could disassemble my own laptop, since I'm never going to do that, and as long as Apple is willing to recycle the machine for me I'm happy.
IMHO:

A -> Always be learning. Always.

B -> Books. Books are good. O'Reilly is great. Other books can be great too.

C -> Competence -> Comprehension -> Confidence

(ok, i'm cheating. this is four things)

4 -> in my opinion, competence is simply a process where you keep trying new things over time. you keep learning as you go. always.
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Exactly my thoughts. Just imagine how this vehicle can cut down your commute. Luckily I have the best commute in the world right now (takes me 8 minutes on a motorcycle and 10 minutes in a car), but that won't necessarily always be the case. Some of my friends commute to the big city and it takes them over 1 hour. This Pal-V One would cut that down to 30 minutes, including takeoff/landing and putting on all that riding/flying gear!
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I just don't care any more. this site is not for old startup people to wax anything. I want to start something. I know or know about these stories already. I'm not excited for this culture to get all pseudo-nostalgic.
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imo, keep asking questions. direct, honest questions can be scary, but they can be remarkably effective.

also, start learning python and don't stop until you can actually build something you like. experiment.
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I think Gruber's response was pretty compelling: Apple will recycle any PC/Mac/Phone/iPod at their store or by mail free of charge. http://www.apple.com/recycling/
They said it: Facebook has one worker for every 300.000 customers, witch is exactly what lets them provide their service "free" or cheap(you pay with your personal information).

A significant part of the population(more than 10%) have real problems in their life. The median number of friends per American is 0.7, one of the lowest in the world. People need someone to hear them, they will use anything as a excuse for calling.

So you go to the bank and you see people talking about their lives most of the time. It makes it human contact, but is very expensive, in money and in time, as it makes other people wait.

If only 10% customers called facebook for support over their lifetime, that means 30.000 customers per employee to handle!!

What NYTimes expects? Multiplying the labor force(and cost of facebook, Google, Amazon,vimeo...) by 100?.
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If they can achieve two seconds with diamonds, you have to wonder what they will be able to achieve with graphene, another allotrope of carbon. Maybe they will be able to find metamaterials that can store information in qubits indefinitely. This is indeed an exciting development.
A group of people is stronger than a single person. The simple concept behind gr:)interest is to use the wisdom of crowds to figure out what needs to happen, then do what we can to help make it happen.

Please take a look and give any feedback you might have, pro or con. Thank you.
"They did not earn it. _______ charge exorbitant prices because they can -- they have you by the balls, and you don't really have an option not to pay them -- not because their services are actually worth ______."

I've heard this sort of statement from just about anyone looking from the outside into any other profession.

Developers, Photographers, Architects, Plumbers, Lawyers whoever don't actually earn their rates. Their services aren't actually worth $$$. They charge exorbitant prices because they can. Sorry - it's all hogwash.

Someone's services are worth something to you, otherwise you wouldn't be paying them. It's a business decision. You can pay to have your car fixed so you can get to work, you can pay to get your stove fixed so you can cook, you can pay to have your toilet fixed so your feces go to the sewage treatment plant instead of spewing all over your floor, you can pay to have a building designed so you can build it or live in it, you can pay for a non-stop flight so you can be there in time for the meeting with PG, and so on.

Google made $2.89B profit on $10.645B revenue in their most recently reported quarter. An additional $14M in legal expenses per quarter is no doubt far less than they normally spend on a regular basis for legal. In fact, Google has no less than 70 openings for legal positions posted on their website.

~$4.5M a month in legal fees is an extraordinary sum to the average HN commenter (including me), it is not an extraordinary sum for a company the size of google, but merely a regular cost of doing business.
sigh

I was an intern at Tellme, which used door-desks early employees had to build themselves. I built a desk in pretty much the same style as the Tellme desks (although structurally more sound… I can jump up and down on mine thanks to an extra 2x4), which were based on the Amazon desks.

My desk, which I have used since 2003, is a 30" x 80" x 1-3/8" hollow core white door, on four cut to order 27.5" 4x4's from Home Depot. It cost less than $50 to make and is a very nice desk. It took me less than two hours to build, from leaving my house to driving to Home Depot to building the final product.

My next desk will be a built-to-order sit-stand adjustable desk, but that's because I'm currently able to earn enough money (and am concerned enough about my health) to justify the cost. If I were still 23 and concerned about costs, I'd build a desk identical to my current one in a heartbeat.
The depressing but true fact is that the U.S. wields more military power than the rest of the world combined. Not everyone thinks this is a bad thing: there are some cogent arguments that the lengthy peace enjoyed in Europe since WWII has been largely due to the constantly present American military force and economic hegemony. Countries in Europe and Asia are willing to stomach U.S. presence because the U.S. has not been an imperial power since Palau in 1947 (and, excluding Liberia circa 1840-something, it has never had a mainland colony).

It's obvious that the U.S. will never try to wrest sovereignty from a stable Western-style representative government, so countries are willing to let the U.S. solve the so-called "Security Dilemma" for them. If this means giving them effective veto power over U.N. resolutions for such time as they retain a military hegemony, so be it. There are a lot of benefits to having a hegemon in power, and as Empires go, the American Empire is relatively benign unless you think that American cultural influence will destroy the world or something.
I agree. But let's say that you have a list of lots of files that are to be copied from the server to your machine. If one "frees" each file after copying, then at least the biggest harm done would be the size of the biggest file.

Now the copying itself could've been done by using NO_BUFFERING, but if it's done by program you don't have access (or it's not straightforward copying, but say rsync (DeltaCopy) or something like that).

It's not the same really as you are saying, but related somehow.

We had to do this at our studio, there was a process copying lots of fresh sound banks for the game, and it was trashing the cache which is normally filled with the game assets that are used during level building. Originally we though of directly copying files using NO_BUFFERING, but because the app was written in #C, it was a bit harder (and we didn't want to introduce insecurities). So the programmer in charge, just added one more Open/Close after the file was copied which was done with NO_BUFFERING - this purged the file from the cache.

Obviously not going to work, if instead of many sound banks, it was one huge taking all space. But since that was not the case, we took the opportunity.
As long as patents are part of the problem the solution is not more property rights.
Any word on how much money Yale will receive in exchange for this dilution of their brand?
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my take: a nice demo/tutorial would be nice. i went to http://lax.kpasa.co/ and didn't know what i was supposed to do. how do i use it?

+1 if you can demonstrate within the demo why your service would add value to me as a user. sell the service to me. tell me what i can get if i use this service.
This project is completely ridiculous. Those people completely underestimate how extremely difficult it is to even land on Mars. Nearly two-thirds of all Mars missions have failed in some way, and yet these people are convinced they can simply put humans on Mars? Right.

You don't have to take my word for it, though. Take a look at what they say at their own site, and see if it actually makes sense. A few examples:

"In addition to this, the elements needed for a viable living system are already present on Mars, so we can keep the number of launches down. For example, the location Mars One has chosen contains water ice in the ground which can be extracted through heat and used to drink, bathe with, or used to feed crops, but can also be manipulated to create oxygen. Mars even has natural sources of nitrogen, another element of the air we breathe."

And we will extract these resources how? We theoretically know how to build such systems, but that's not the same as actually being able to build them on Mars. Are they just going to experiment during the project, and if it doesn't work then "oops, well, I guess you're all going to die"?

But, most ridiculously:
"Of course most of the elements we need are not yet exactly in the form we would like, but crucially: no brand new inventions have to be conceived, designed, tested and built for the mission to become reality."

That's like saying we can also build a colony on Venus right now. Or Mercurius. Or Jupiter. Because we have a theoretical understanding of how to launch rockets there and how to build space colonies, and of course the technology to do both these things already exist. What these people fail to see is not that we don't have a theoretical understanding of how we might do all this, but that without any practical experiments in several areas AND many failed tests the chances of this project going perfectly as planned (which almost never happens to begin with) are VERY slim.

</rant>
Looser pays always sounds good in theory and is hell in practice. We have it in Germany (IANAL and there are exceptions and so on) and the result is that companies can do almost anything without getting sued. The risk of paying the whole case is too high for individuals.
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I would argue that hiring lawyers is like hiring developers in SV. There are many developers but if you want to hire A class developers, you have to pay A class rates and compete with everyone else trying to hire A class developers.
Lawyers are no different. If you want to hire A class lawyers, you're going to pay A class rates.
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Nine women can't make a baby in one month. The robots would still be limited by the surface area of the moon.

Also, the moon would not disappear. In the end, there would be an entire moon, made out of robots.
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Currently the usage of the Parse SDK for Android is marginal:

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This fascinates me. What does Exchange do that standard protocols don't? (In terms of email, I mean. I suppose Exchange also has calendaring and some workflow, right?)
I started in the catalog department at Amazon in 1997, right as Glennf left. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that the desks were made out of doors. It just seemed like giant clunky desk to me.

One thing I do remember distinctly about Glenn's time in the catalog department was this terrifying 60k Perl script I inherited from him called sitecounts.pl. This script examined all the various catalogs (books, reviews, etc) and attempted to generate some interesting stats about them. One day it just broke, and since it was used in the catalog build process to verify that things were sane, it needed to get fixed pronto. The code was plenty confusing, but what was the worst part was the extent of the right margin creep, I'm talking 150+ character lines -- not exactly easy reading on my crappy 15" X-terminal. I felt like a character in a HP Lovecraft story, slowly descending into madness as I learned more about the horrors of this script.

I ended up maintaining and adding to this script my entire first stint at Amazon. Eventually as I added features and changed things, it slowly got made sane over time, save for a little bit of madness that I kept in there just so I'd have a reminder of what it was like.

Ah the 90s. Good times.
> The median number of friends per American is 0.7

I think you might have gotten a bit confused here. I don't understand how a median can be a non-integer.
I wonder if Heroku will lower the prices in SSL now -> https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/why-does-ip-based-ssl-...
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She raised ten times more than she wanted already, so they are anready distressed and uncomfortable. Push some harsh responses on them and they'd break.

Note that complaining about harassment is the WRONG response.
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Where did you get the idea that "free speech is not a right in Germany"? Free speech _is_ a right[1]. But, following the principle outlined by Riesling it is not an absolute right.

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The manager I least appreciated had banners hung about with the slogan "Is it good for the company?", from office space. Working for him was depressing and, in my opinion, an incredible setback to my career. If anecodotal evidence is ever accepted as proof that shallow attempts at fostering corporate culture is detrimental, I shall more than ablige in providing my input.
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I went a bit off track, but I did want to make a relevant point: For my use case, the features you enumerated aren't competitive advantages because they're locked away in a single client on a single machine. Thus, for me, there are entire classes of features where native clients can't innovate, because I can't rely on those features being available in more than one place.

So from my perspective, Mail.app isn't "way behind" Thunderbird. Rather, they're at parity, and Thunderbird has a lot of other stuff that I can't use.
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According to what NatGeo and a few others dug up (literally) Apple hardly recycles anything. The glue alone makes recycling an impossible task. They ship most of it off in containers to be sold in India, Pakistan, and Indonesia, where the lower castes and children strip out the precious metals by burning or cooking (highly toxic, but easiest way to remove the glue) or scraping the components by hand. The plastic and glass remnants are dumped in available spaces.

And before anyone says the glue is a new thing, try to take apart a PSU from a Powerbook.
To my shame, sometimes I write the headline of a draft of a post weeks before actually finish it. I'd actually planned to change it, but basically spaced it during my furious 2AM writing session. Please note I didn't submit it to HN or anything, and I typically bristle at linkbait headlines.

But if there's any meat to the "myth" moniker, it's in the growing notion that culture can be cargo-culted by bringing in no-track vacation policies or nerf guns.
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"In the last twenty years, the craft of safe cracking has tragically declined."

No kidding, bank accounts with proliferation of various ways money is transferred and stored - budding criminals and kids who want to play mischief - look to the internet now. Cracking safes is so quaint.
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This is a great point. I think the big difference in 'culture' at BigCos is that when you're thinking about scales of thousands of employees, its impossible to try and really instill cultural values at a micro level, especially with things like bean bag chairs. It occurs at a much smaller level -- the team.
I think it's a shame you were downvoted, because you seem to be asking an honest question: is this possible, or not? I've ranted a bit about why this isn't possible here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4210984

But, if you want to know exactly why going to Mars is so difficult, and why so many projects have failed, start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars#Probing_dif...

Or simply do a quick search on the internet for 'Mars difficulties' or 'Mars curse'.
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My recollection is that Apple has not compared very favorable with their competitors in this respect for a while now. And now that their products are becoming increasingly difficult to repair/disassemble, perhaps the strategy is to bail now rather than face even poorer ratings in the future?
The key here is that you would eventually get caught. Then what? Those years add up fast.
I worked at Google for a brief period of time and put in a work order for a door desk, as it was part of the culture I read about in 'In the Plex' and more.

Sadly I was told that only senior VP's and up could have door desks. Maybe in 20 years :)
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As I stated, I'm not discussing document processing rates in my original comment. I don't contend that this is exorbitant. I also still don't believe your snippet is a sufficient basis upon which to accept there were really millions of documents in the sense of what most people would consider "documents".
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Do you have a link? If you're right I'm really bummed.

edit: I can't really find details on apple's site and I'm tired. This site [1] discusses apple's recycling, though since it isn't apple proper I'm not sure it's authoritative. The relevant details appear to be:

Apple's recycler for non-Apple product recycling is WeRecycle!, a certified
e-Steward. Certified e-Stewards are recyclers who have been audited by an
accredited auditor, and found to be conforming to the rigorous e-Stewards
standard.
If you are using Apple's trade-in system, this is a different vendor, called
Power-On. Power-On is not an e-Steward (and they don't disclose their
recycling partner), so this trade-in program therefore does not benefit from
independent auditing to high standards.

However, Apple has a very strong policy regarding responsible recycling of
e-waste, stating that all e-waste collected in their programs is handled in
the same region in which it is collected (and therefore not exported to
developing countries). They prohibit use of prison labor for recycling, as
well as incineration and landfilling of e-waste.

So that sound reasonable, but it would be much better if there were a direct statement on Apple's site.

[1] http://www.electronicstakeback.com/how-to-recycle-electronic...
Just for clarification purposes: EPEAT certification requires certain standards that make the machines easy to disassemble and recycle using common tools.
I had it brought to my attention recently, by a recently bar-certified attorney who has ethical qualms about it, that members of the American Bar Association and its state franchises have a monopoly on legal representation services in the US. You cannot be represented in court by someone not certified by the bar. Lawyers are the only privately licensed group that receive this level of market protection; doctors are similarly protected, but it is by a governmental entity (and one might argue that it's in even worse shape because of it).

One could very easily argue that these barriers to entry lead to pricing pressure and artificial scarcity that has no direct relationship to the "current market rate". I'm only recently becoming familiar with this topic, as it's one of those things that Just Is. But, the more I learn about it, the more hesitant I become to just write off high legal fees as a result of a free market. And, the more I wonder why it is that lawyers, of all people, receive such a strong defense against competition...it couldn't possibly be that the majority of politicians are also lawyers, many of whom will return to practice after holding office, could it?

Note that I'm not arguing against the idea that a great attorney is deserving of high rates, merely the idea that attorneys fees represent anything like an actual free market rate.
Corporations are temporal things, tools to achieve a purpose. Don't put your dreams in them or make it a goal to make one of them part of your identity in X timeyearthings.

Identify what you think is attractive and a positive value and pursue that in 5 years time.
>It makes me think, "Cause of death: thrown trying to ride a Ryno."

I mean, it won't appeal to the sort that will buy something that only goes 20mph, but you just wrote the advertising campaign for the thing.
I think that is partly in the same way roman numbers withstood the test of time: being well-known made them appear easier than they are. For example, one annoyance is the rule for what ends up in alt-tab. I work with XP at work and regularly cannot alt-tab to windows I alt-tabbed to seconds ago because they popped up some dialog (or is that only with alerts?)

The rule for what ends up in the task bar also is incomprehensible for mortals. For awhile, every new release of Office managed to introduce a new variation (yes, Word is MDI, but all its windows show up separately being one variation)

I guess that, if you ask users about these features, they will just say "yes, sometimes it does that".
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People do stupid stuff like taking pictures of plastic toys >because< they are having fun, which is a decent sign that the culture is good. Doing goofy shit isn't inherently fun just because its goofy. It certainly won't improve your corporate culture - it's the result not the cause.
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Again, my suggestion of a bumper sticker.

Given the realities of traffic stops, I think it is entirely to be expected that police will read bumper stickers when running plates etc. It gives fair notice. Every officer will read it. And one can verify at the beginning of the conversation.