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> CPUs still have a forest of fragile pins on the bottom that can easily be bent or broken

Not really - the pins have been on the socket for some time now (for Intel at least - I haven't built anything AMD for some time I'm afraid) and are much, much harder to damage. The levers on the sockets have gotten much better, as have the HSF mountpoints, and inserting a CPU and attaching the HSF has not made me feel like I'm going to break the motherboard for many years (let alone actually broken it - I can remember boards where you had to jam a screwdriver into the heatsink retention bracket and apply pressure towards the motherboard... I'm getting cold sweats just thinking about it)

> You also have to manually add thermal protections like fans, heat sinks, thermal paste, etc., which all require selection and installation

Thermal paste is optional, if the CPU and heatsink make good contact it doesn't make so much difference. You don't have to select if you buy retail boxes instead of OEM, which come with HSFs already selected for you in the box, and with thermal gunk pre-applied.

I do agree that it's rare to upgrade the CPU and not motherboard, but you could say the same thing about most of the components in my PC (I tend to upgrade all at once).

As for trickiest, most delicate part of building your own pc... honestly if you're installing the CPU into the motherboard before putting into the case, I would have to disagree with you there.
Essentially ...

"Microsoft tried, but something isn't working. The platform is crumbling; the ecosystem isn't being capitalized upon. The worry is that the decline in PC sales could hit other areas of Microsoft's business. PC sales hit Windows sales and Office sales, therefore ultimately server software sales."
He was going to be a senior engineer and I was afraid he was not going to respect the other engineer's personal times. One of the many deal-killers he showed.
The suggestion of avoiding gen 1 products isn't to blame the customer, but warn them of trouble before purchasing. Whether you get a timely recall/replacement or the problem is ignored still means you have to go of your way to discover, troubleshoot, and resolve the problem. It's nice in many cases they've gone out of their way to fix the issue, but I would rather not have it in the first place. So I generally avoid gen 1 Apple products.
But didn't he agree to all this in the terms and conditions?
how many submissions did you have?
It's impossible due to regulatory and lobbying pressure. I believe Palo Alto, CA operates a network similar to this, but that kind of network isn't possible in a city like San Francisco or LA.

IMHO the incumbent carriers have no interest in competing if they can be a monopoly.
The OP says he "Only sells to people with significant positive feedback", "Only ships to CONFIRMED Paypal addresses", and "Requires Signature Confirmation for items over $250"

Does ebay policy allow this? I thought the seller had to sell to the winning bidder, regardless of buyer's feedback, etc.
I think learning it as a foreign language makes it difficult to truly internalize it. I recall reading that in some countries, they teach STEM classes all in English, but liberal arts/social science classes in their native language. You get to use both on a daily basis in both the spoken and written form, rather than only in one class.
You're most welcome. I hope it helps.

Just remember that you can totally finish your projects, but you do have to make a commitment to see them through to completion.
I regret clicking on the link, just like always. I don't want to even bother wasting my time on debunking this crap.

Just think about how much time you could have saved not reading it or writing an angry comment about it!
To me, it looks like Stuck Kyd (kid). The link underlinining combined with the lack of other vowels is messing with my brain. (Also, I tend to read things from the last syllable to first when learning how to pronounce.)
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Getting a truly talented developer is not easy, and given their productivity, you should offer both equity and a high salary, because you will get your money's worth from them tenfold.

You will know within 2 weeks if they are genuinely talented.
"others are not charging huge amounts"

This is completely false.
Ask HN: What is Y Combinator's ROI?
I'm sure this has been asked before, but I'm curious: what is YCombinator's return on investment? I understand that there are a few big one (Dropbox, AirBnB) that will exit eventually, but is YC profitable as of today?
I think it would depend on what kind of trade off he was offering James. Offering 120k and equity instead of 135k is a different thing to offering 80k and equity instead of 135k.
Sigh.
He paid through paypal, remember.
There is apparently also a credit card provider, and the credit card provider claims to have handled the dispute.
Which means they either heard from this guy, or ...

Again, it's just not this complicated.
It's expensive and time consuming, but rarely complicated.
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"Many existent states (like Canada) have relatively small military budgets. For them, wielding or even threatening to wield violence is not their primary reason for being. Their primary reason for being is to ensure the health and welfare of their citizens, and they do so not by threat of violence, but by collection and distribution of taxes and passing of laws."

The definition of a state as an institution which wields a geographic monopoly on violence is agnostic towards the "purpose" of the state. The definition concerns the means not the ends of the state. The goals of states are diverse and change over time, but their fundamental principles of operation do not.

"The vast majority of people in most democratic societies do not require the threat of arrest and imprisonment to follow the majority of laws."

Consider if this statement would remain true (and if so, for how long) if the threat of state violence were not present.
I've had non-founder equity in four "startup" companies including a couple of which most people here would have heard of and some of them even had exits that were "publicly successful", and I've never seen a dime of money beyond my base pay.

In one case, the company simply failed to fully gain traction despite a good 6 year run, no harm no foul. In the other cases various forms of dilution and manipulation put everyone not in the preferred stock category underwater despite what were seen as positive exits. In the worst case I took a fairly substantial (though temporary) tax hit due to AMT on stock that was never worth a real penny at any time when I could legally sell it.

I'm still open to the idea of someday working for a startup at the founder level, but I'd advise all "James"-like engineers to avoid the situation he was trying to get hired for. Being an early stage employee but not a founder is the worst of all worlds and basically amounts to buying a $60k ($150k - $90k OP was looking to pay) lottery ticket, one where the rules of the lottery might be changed in all sorts of ways after you sign on the dotted line.
When you can buy something instantly with paypal on a competitor's site, it is too slow.
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Spanned monitors.
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Hence why I continued the conversation. But I couldn't ignore the other red-flags.
Maybe in an hour I'll calm down and agree with you. But right now I really wish he had the honesty to have simply called me a liar rather than trying to paper that over with sarcasm. And there is simply no way that his "advice" could not have been something that I didn't know.

According to his bio he's 24. There is a lot he doesn't know. Hopefully he will be a little more careful in the future about stepping into emotional minefields like this.
~500 give or take
I've had similar issues with Cinema Displays in mid 2000-s.
Multi-socket mobos and CPUs command a significant price premium. I, personally, when building a new system will probably just build a 6-core single socket system, rather than buy a two socket mobo that can take two quad-core processors. Maybe spend the money saved on more memory, faster hard drive, etc.
Is that from the private beta, or did I miss an announcement regarding wider distribution?
No idea if you should sue or not, but surely in this case it would be the credit card company who didn't investigate the chargeback who is the culprit, Paypal is somewhat beholden to their investigation. By just approving any chargeback and not doing any investigations to appeals they are abusing the system
If the OP were the merchant for the credit card transaction, he would have provided the extensive documentation described and I have no doubt at all that the chargeback would NOT have gone through. (The evidence of previous fraud would probably have led to closing the card account also.)

But the OP is NOT the merchant... PayPal is. I do not think that the fundamental problem in this case is the credit card system. (Although there certainly are OTHER problems with the credit card payment system that make it tempting to disrupt - but nearly impossible to disrupt because of entrenched powerful interests.)
Human Ownership is still legal.

Here's the Act showing how to do it in Canada:
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-20/FullText.html

Here's the act showing how to use the form:
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-85-846/FullTex...
You should teach him about backups :)
It was clearly a light hearted comment.

We disagree on what "clearly" means. Because to me it was not clearly a light hearted comment. At best, it was an ill thought out and dismissive one.
You can go look it up, but IIRC, the slingshot method (using a rare alignment of planets) produced a higher "speed" (so to speak) than would be reasonable to produce even with today's technology. (i.e taking the same budget today and doing everything we can to get a probe out at the same "speed" would be impossible).
I ended up getting a knockoff XBOX game and it was pretty painless to get it refunded from ebay.
I'm the same, just don't want the hassle of eBay/Paypal scams. Unless it is a very specialist item for which I need to reach a large audience, which I have very little of worth any value anyway.

You may say you get less for your money than through Craigslist(/Kijiji/Gumtree) but after eBay and Paypal have both taken their cut I often find it is not a huge amount of difference!
The same way AirBnB does it: verify everything (phone, email) and provide social context ("You and the seller have 2 friends in common on Facebook"). You could go a step further and remove as much anonymity as possible.

Of course, there are other ways to stop fraud which you'd want to do as well.
How exactly does self-hosting protect you from the government taking down the domain? Unless you run your own domain registrar, the government can just change the DNS servers for your domain. That doesn't give them the data but it takes it off of the internet (as far as they're concerned; depending on how dynamic your IP is, it could be a nightmare for anyone to try to find via IP address or IP address range).
surprised it's not mentioned there, but the perspectives plugin (chrome + firefox) is similar, if anyone wants automated checks now (only time i've noticed it fail, amusingly, was on eff's site)
In my circle, I would disagree. I'm using a 6 year old Mac Pro, have a 2006 Mac mini as an HTPC, another as a fileserver in the basement. Our household has an original iPad, an iPad 3G, two iPhone 3GS used as ersatz iPod Touches for the kids. I did recently upgrade to the iPhone 5 from the iPhone 3GS, but that's because I don't want to be on a two year treadmill.

The only issue I ever had was with a balky videocard in the Mac Pro that would die after about 4 months of World of Warcraft. Apple was quick to replace the card twice without any troubles.

So everyone's mileage varies.

Since I recently upgraded to an SSD in the Mac Pro, and bumped up the memory to 32GB, I see no need to replace this machine until it suffers a serious mechanical failure. The only downside is that it'll forever be stuck running Lion.
The attorney will make millions, the guy will walk away with a coupon for 5% of his next Ebay purchase.

There has been some success recently in suing corporations in small claims court. There is an argument that a genreal delivery address should not have been 'verified'.
Fair enough...

I probably disagree with your premise that you likely have to hire VC to go a more sales/marketing approach (hard to say w/o more context). Of all the jobs/areas, sales is the easiest to hire without a large cash outlay. If you had said, "We likely need VC money because we need to rewrite a huge chunk of the code", I would've bought that but to say you need that money to build a sales team doesn't make sense to me.

For example, let's say I have a $1m/yr enterprise software company and we have no sales staff. If I want to go hire a sales person, what is it they want out of the deal? They want a product that meets marketplace needs, is well supported, is easy to demo, has a track record, and then I want to get paid as much as possible for each sale. You've proven that you have a saleable product and a track record, it seems. The next important part is the last part: "for each sale". You pay them commission - maybe not 100% commission at the start but, by month six, they are likely no less than 50% commission. It's far from a no-risk strategy but it's far cheaper than hiring engineers and having to pay 100% salaries w/ no add-on to sales. You could hire a sales manager and three sales people who, after six months, are on 50% commission. Within a year, they're on 100% commission plus bonuses.

With all that being said, yes, I'm making it seem simpler than it is. But, at this stage (and without knowing more about your business), it seems like the above hasn't been considered. A good sales person will drive your marketing for you, at least initially. He/she will say, "I need x and I need y to sell this product." You can then contract out x and y. The big cash outlays are going to be buying lists for the sales people and sending them to conferences.

Lastly, I would say that, if you find it tough to hire/find salespeople willing to work on commission, that either (a) your product price isn't being seen as profitable from a commission salesperson's POV, or (b) they believe either your support or product/market fit are just not good enough for them to make a high commission.

Sorry - I just don't see that as a big deal for a company selling enterprise software.
You cannot really do full-speed PCIe buses on cable ports.

I expect that Intel will do what AMD and Nvidia are doing presently with GPUs, and what they used to do with their chipsets: Sell the CPUs into the various motherboard manufacturers, and let them sell the complete package to the consumer. They can implement any form factors they like.

Of course with a sufficiently punitive contract that Intel retains control of everything.
The fact that it wasn't actually stolen makes this seem a little risky.
Unfortunately, there is nothing requiring that DMCA takedown notifications not be mass produced. In fact, the law specifically allows a "physical or electronic signature"[1] (emphasis added) on takedown notices.

The bigger problem is the "knowingly" in "any person who knowingly materially misrepresents...that material or activity is infringing...shall be liable for any damages". Enforcement has no teeth because that is a barrier that almost no discovery process will be able to overcome.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512#c_3
It would be interesting to learn what hoops you needed to jump through to be a BF3 host. I know there are only "partners" allowed to do it; I would have hosted my own at the colo otherwise. (having <5ms ping times and decent peering or transit to everyone in the Bay Area on comcast and sonic and webpass...)
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At your going rate, I would expect some not much. The risk of start up failure is greater than the risk of lay offs and large company failure(in a time frame that would be relevant to an employee who values the safety of large company life.)
Well the ESA is going to send one, but the answer is simply budget. It takes money to run one of these missions, it competes with other missions. Not only is there the space craft cost, the launch cost, and the team cost, since its going to take a long time to get out there you've got to have 50 years of time reserved on the deep space network etc etc.

A good question would be "Why are the space sciences so under funded?" and that policy question is best addressed with your legislators. Lately I've been positioning space as a 'back up plan' [1] for the Global Warming crisis.

[1] Motivating politicians is hard, especially if they can't point at what they've done and say "See how impressive is that!" Space sounds like a 'waste' to a lot of voters, so I've been taking the tack, "Global Warming is a crisis, and we don't yet know how to control the climate on our planet, we may get to a point where we are seriously thinking about moving off planet and this information will be invaluable, there is also the asteroid threat which space craft "out there" where the most likely earth killing asteroids are hiding (the Ooort cloud) would be a tremendous early warning, you might be saving the entire human RACE by funding these projects at NASA, how cool is that?!"
Given you really need a CDN, the hosting will cost you a fortune anyway... ;)
This seems to have a huge chicken-or-the-egg problem: the site is only valuable to consumers if they know their requests could have some influence, but companies will only listen to requests from Pvsh users if there's a critical mass (say, thousands or millions of votes for one feature).

Is there some way to re-jig the concept to get around this? Perhaps by focusing more directly on one particular product category and expanding outwards? Or by working with particular companies that are actively soliciting feature requests (in which case I'd know I'd be listened to)?
They have an intranet in N.Korea. They have some websites (e.g wikipedia) in it as local copies from the internet
When formulating this elaborate theory, did you stop to ask yourself why it would be in our interest to fund shitty startups when all the returns are concentrated in the most successful ones?
Be careful with point 2, "Let’s not even talk about job-security".

I know, I know, the startup ecosystem (more specifically, web startups, so I suppose the term engineer refers to that too) are booming right now and nobody can imagine how bad things could ever happen. Yet, often enough, bad and unforeseen things do happen, a boom ends rapidly, lots of people are without jobs. Don't scold the guy for wanting to know where he will be at in a couple of years.
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Same flaw for Russia.
Pretty sure its "Stock Yard"
I think it isn't that you end up getting scammed on craigslist, but that 9 out of ten replies are from scammers. It creates annoying overhead in sorting them out.

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Hi!
I am buying this as gift for my Son. Are you firm on the price? Email me back please,though, you may send me a text on the number below because I am hearing impaired but I think email is the best for me.
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Hello, i saw your listing on craigslist and Am wondering if the item is still for sale. Please do let me know if I'm still able to purchase as i am willing and ready to make purchase,get back to me with the condition asap.Thanks
the values it places on hacked up gimmicks

If you catch me using a butcher knife to get the cork out of a wine bottle, feel free to call me a fool. That shouldn't reflect badly on the makers of knives or corkscrews or wine bottles.

i've seen the products of people who write code professionally, with them having learned through years of coding perl, and it is not pretty. lots of them.

I've read a lot of code from people who've never learned a whit about programming. The lesson I take from that experience is that some languages make it easy for people who aren't interested in programming to get things done without having to learn much about programming or design or maintenance or coding standards.

That said, warnings and strictures should have been the language's default behavior for programs, not one-liners.
I haven't played OpenRA, but I know that getting the games to launch and multiplayer can be quite spotty with the originals on modern machines.
Swappa's great, but it still goes through Paypal. Probably a better crowd on there than EBay though and they allow negative feedback.
Don't scammers typically use some innocent person's address and pick up the shipment from their doorstep while they're at work?
Because it works for most people most of the time. That is why I continue to use eBay as a buyer.
When you have a family, I understand why you would be extra conservative. Admittedly, in the Bay Area it is a different environment. Engineers get hired by VC-backed startups at lighting speed. Try this: look at a company that just funding in Crunchbase, shoot them your resume, and see how fast they get back at you. You will be surprised.
Catch up and surpass something we launched decades ago, travelling (according to Wikipedia, entry was last edited .. today) 3.595 AU per year [1].

The question you're asking is hard to answer: When do you want to catch up? If we send a new object to space today, which travels 5% faster, is that good enough? It won't pass Voyager 1 for a looooong time, but will eventually.

Is that what you're aiming for? Why? Or are you asking for a magical way to cross that distance (35 years of traveling) 'instantly'?

1: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=3.595+AU+per+year&d...
@JackMorgan - what's the best way to contact you?
My first comment actually addresses each of your points.
Why such anger and hostility? All the profanity does is make me think that your less than rational about this.
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Maintenance finished. I would still appreciate an (approximate) due date when I can access my emails.
It would be considered a form of shoplifting wouldn't it? (Honestly curious here)
Actually, a large number of people were working on the light bulb at the same time, and Edison's patent probably slowed down the pace of innovation by making it harder for inventors in the USA (apparently 'the Board of Patent Control' filed over 600 lawsuits for patent infringement) to work on the problem and shrinking the size of the market for inventors working overseas.

Edison is a poor example anyway, since he was basically a patent troll in this case (found guilty of patent infringment in a UK court) and was only able to work because he had ignored a UK patent (Swan's). Had he been abided by it, he could have made no contribution (Shock! He 'stole' the idea!). He improved on Swans design, but at the same time Swan also improved on his design. When Edison had his breakthrough, Swan had already installed electric lighting in a number of houses and when the two finally collaborated, the joint company used Swans newer design which was the better of the two. Wikipedia has this to say:

"In America, Edison had been working on copies of the original light bulb patented by Swan, trying to make them more efficient. Though Swan had beaten him to this goal, Edison obtained patents in America for a fairly direct copy of the Swan light, and started an advertising campaign that claimed that he was the real inventor. Swan, who was less interested in making money from the invention, agreed that Edison could sell the lights in America while he retained the rights in Britain." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Swan