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Nobody in this discussion is likely to work for you; it is unknown to us whether you are actually hiring; and it's not obvious if you are going to enforce your own "rule" even if the stars would meet.

So your position is amusing. Why is it about hiring? Why not "I would not sleep with you if you have weak stance on piracy"? Or "I would not shit in the same toilet"? Why is it about hiring? I would propose it tells something about you. It tells us you're an authoritarian person. It tells that you are likely to try and force your world views over your subordinates or colleagues and/or demand extra, not work-related, activities from them. When rejected you would then use your leverage as a more senior leading to strife.

And this, as one well-known site likes to recite, is The Real WTF.
Are you referring to the usual trademark protection racket?

Any multi-national brand will do this and I wouldn't call it extortion when they're not asking for money.

You can argue it's heavy handed or even bullying, but it's not extortion.
> (If you believe the purpose of all things is economic optimization then this won't concern you, but many consider news/television/radio to be valuable for their own sakes)

I do not consider news/television/radio to be inherently valuable - it's creation and distribution of content that I consider to be valuable.
I don't think he said that. Probably he just said people should have woken up long back.
Is a BS Degree really worth it?
From my understanding of the comment, he wasn't blaming the customer. Rather, he's trying to say that people shouldn't rush to buy the revision A (or version 1 or 1st generation or whatever) of an Apple product. Instead, wait for the initial (and what are now expected) flaws to be fixed and then buy them. However, I think this is a problem that is likely to happen with any company, not just Apple.
This is one of the things I love about go. If he wants the return value but doesn't want to address the errors, he has to actively do it. It makes you think twice when you are putting a _ for an error return. And now to another programmer coming in to maintain it, they stick out like a sore thumb.
Just to clarify, None of the investors mentioned here are including the start fund!
Did we read the same article? The stuff about lack of visual clues sounds like substantive criticism to me.
It's more along the lines that really, you shouldn't be surprised that something which has been happening for 15 years or so with no end in sight still happens.
Ask HN: How do I find a CMO/Marketing Expert/Consultant for my startup?
We're a 3 people startup currently in Beta and bootstrapped. We're looking to get someone on board for Marketing. How does one go about finding the right person/team? Most of the folks we know are developers.

1. Would giving just (sizable)equity work? We're not yet in a position to pay.
2. If we are to get a 4th person(CMO), how & where does one find marketing experts?
3. Do Consultants and Consulting Firms do marketing/branding for equity? If not, do you know anyone who is affordable.

Any tips/help welcome. Thanks a bunch.
Some of the best investigative journalism I've seen has come from "bloggers" who can make a few phone calls.

Traditional media is not doing a good job of this. They can stick a reporter out in a hurricane or a war zone or the White House briefing room, but how often does that produce useful data? So often we get nothing but shallow, misleading information, or a dutiful transcription of statements from "both sides".

Professional journalism will survive, but hopefully it won't look the same.
Agreed. I use python a lot and I hadn't seen that dict comprehensions had been back-ported to 2.7. So while the rest of it wasn't super useful to me, that was.
> I think you missed the whole point of the article.

> The point isn't with the fact that there is an issue, its that Apple is seemingly trying to sweep it under the rug.

I think you missed the whole point of OP post: That is exactly what Apple has a reputation for doing. For example: The Antenna Fiasco -

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/apple-responds-over-iphon...
Maybe it has to do with the new guy who was summarily booted from the company in a year? One can hope that Cook is course-correcting.
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I had the exact same issue ("ghosting"), found it was an LG screen (which are known to have this issue), went to the Apple Store, and got it replaced under the guarantee. Just had to show the issue once, no further questions asked. Got it back with new screen after 3 days.

This was in Switzerland. Would be surprised, though, if they had such drastically different replacement or repair policies for such an obvious issue.
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With all due respect, you have to keep in mind that Apple is producing millions of units and, for its own sake, can't be beholden to a single supplier. If they were, that supplier would have enormous leverage ("pay us $5b now, or we will stop shipping you screens for your flagship laptop."). Aside from that, they'd also be susceptible to production issues - imagine if Samsung's factory had a fire/flood/hurricane and had to stop production. Supply chain management at Apple's scale is unbelievably hard. It's certainly not excusable for the issues you're encountering, but from what I've seen / heard, Apple has a top notch supply chain management team pretty much unrivaled by any other company.

I'm sure Apple would be happy to refund you. If the Apple store won't help, try shooting an email to tcook@.
A quote: "... As if this wasn't enough, he [i.e.Tukey] also invented what is probably the most influential algorithm of all time." (emphasis added)

No, Tukey did not "invent" the FFT. He rediscovered it, as did a number of others over the years since -- who else? -- Gauss first created it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform

A quote: "This method (and the general idea of an FFT) was popularized by a publication of J. W. Cooley and J. W. Tukey in 1965,[2] but it was later discovered (Heideman & Burrus, 1984) that those two authors had independently re-invented an algorithm known to Carl Friedrich Gauss around 1805 (and subsequently rediscovered several times in limited forms)."
Kinda, which is why it's your job as reader to expand the scope of your reading material.
You're arguing with a Karma 30 account.

It took some time before the trolls woke up in this thread.

(I'd love to get access to the HN logs and check IPs, to see if the trolls where sloppy with using alternative access and can be identified.)
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Yes, legally the US constitution is king. However the US constitution was not the source of the idea that "all men are created equal" or that "no-one shall be imprisoned unless they get a fair trial", these ideas predate the US consitution.
I dunno, If i saw someone drinking Budweiser I'd be quite judgmental.

ahem, in all seriousness, in my part of the world Drinking is a huge part of the working and business culture. Does that apply in the US too? I work with some partners who pride themselves on getting you the most drunk they can
The moral of the story? Hope that your Apple computer ships with Samsung components so you get a better display and a faster SSD.
Microsoft claims £3.6m piracy scalp in China
You do realize they sell truckloads of these products and any flaws in them will be publicized due to the staggering volumes involved, right?

Companies like Dell can hide behind several factors, like their notebooks are usually priced a lot lower, quality expectations aren't as high, and they make such a dizzying number of models that any problems are diluted.

I do hope it gets more press so that the problem can be properly addressed, Apple does pay attention to the squeaky wheels after all, but don't get all crazy now. Nobody's dying because their screen has a ghosting issue.
Some tools adjust their output based on it going to a terminal or not. Try 'ls' versus 'ls | cat'.
These stories are getting tired. Google is too big to investigate every single exception to their machine rules. We know. We get it. When you have 100 accounts, you can devote time to every exception. When you have 100,000,000 accounts you can't. You have to automate it and with 100,000,000 accounts there are going to be a lot of exceptions to the rules. Even a failure rate of 0.0001% would be enough to fill that cheap blog poach, I mean post, with examples of failures -- some of which were actually successes.

Even at that rate, youtube/google implemented an automated success rate of 99.9999%. Let's get some articles about how they accomplished that. That'd be more interesting than this sensationalist drivel.
I think Gruber is wrong here. Blaming the channel is silly, since if the Times' content was good enough, he'd go to it and move Newsstand back to the front page. I don't necessarily agree with Apple in locking all apps like this to Newsstand, but for the ones I want to read, I open it.

Frankly, I like it. It makes sense to me to group all of those apps together, and if Apple didn't force me in to it, I'd have done it anyway. But that's just my perspective.
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NetApp's dangerous dance with killer brontosaurus - Amazon
>> he sorts automatically to the top of the page. Which then gets him more karma, etc etc.

Patio11 gets high karma for his comments because he consistently posts insightful comments and people (myself included) search out what he had to say:
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11
"How is that not playing by the same rules as everyone else?"

There are a few examples, but one was with tracking their travel with GPS instead of the approved meter that others were required to use:

http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/mcafee/2012/08/bostons-uber-ruling-...

Uber was banned in Boston for awhile, and eventually the ban was overturned, but the fact remains that they did ignore (intentionally or unintentionally) the existing regulations for metering travel. I'm all for forward-thinking solutions to problems, and personally I think GPS is a better solution - but I grow tired of companies that repeatedly ask for forgiveness rather than permission as their modus-operandi.
A 30 year-old one line BASIC program is the subject of a new book
He is a "person of interest". It's not clear how that's different from a suspect, but the Belize authorities sure want to interview him.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20315415
Is the Surface Pro overpriced? MacBook Air vs. Surface Pro: Tale of the tape
Our customers who come from other platforms tell us that it is about the depth of features and the simplicity of our APIs -
we allow you to bring your own carrier services. this is huge for enterprises and service providers -
our ability to register SIP devices, actually connect your IP phone or soft client -
our support team continues to get rave reviews from our customers…
Well, now that you put it like that, I'm going to collect karma (actually the downvote thing is helpful) like a mofo! :)
Well, they deleted the post.. Let's see if they really remove all Tumblr posts or if it was a sad little bluff (I hope the latter).
I'm plugging away on a service to allow mobile developers to add messaging and location services (and some simple online storage) to their apps without having to write the backend themselves - and provides high availablility.

Sadly I feel like its become moot, with some rather big players doing that as well. But I might be able to white label it in some fashion.
thanks. all, here's a demo of FRP in the browser from Clojure Conj 2012: http://alandipert.github.com/flapjax-demo/ (https://github.com/alandipert/flapjax-demo/blob/master/src/c...).
This piece leaves out the most important advice for staying respectable when drinking: EAT. There's a huge difference between 4 drinks on an empty stomach and 4 drinks on a full stomach.
My rMBP works now because I have a Samsung screen.

If they can’t reliably make a laptop without it being defect they can’t sell it. Make a recall and stop selling rMBPs until you nail the issue down. Problem solved. Wimping out with lame excuses is not the way to go.
I upvoted it because it reflects my current feelings for apple. I've been waiting for a DUNS number for 40 days now, I feel like arrrrg :D
Notice that with parallel, you don't need the -n 1, since that's the default.
> He is a "person of interest". It's not clear how that's different from a suspect ...

A witness to a crime could be a person of interest. A victim of a crime could be a person of interest. An investigator of a crime could be a person of interest. If the police wanted to say he was a suspect, there's a readily available word for that -- suspect.
I heard somewhere that if you give your name in Irish to a Garda (Irish police) and the case goes to court (say you are pulled over for speeding or something), the court case must be conducted through Irish (the Irish state has two official languages - English and Gaeilge/Irish).

This could be a hilariously clever way to run down the statute of limitations as barely anyone in the country speaks Irish, and that includes judges and barristers. I think the Gardai have to pass a certain minimum level of Irish to get into the Garda training college. This could be just an urban myth though, so take it with a pinch of salt.
Ah yes, reading about UI design flaws on blog with horrible UI design flaws. The irony... it burns.
A better HN submission would have been a JavaScript site that generates all those graphs for other HN users.
It does, but not as much as most every other culture. I've worked places where 2/3 or more of the employees would go out drinking 2+ nights a week and others where you'd think everyone was a recovering alcoholic.

I'd imagine positions that require a lot of networking and personal contacts (sales, Executive positions) would have more of this than your regular Joe grunt programmer.
To the register "journalist" who wrote this piece.

No I'm not, and id like to believe were not too. I don't care whether or not Apple, Google, or Any other company for that matter decides to do business as usual, and fight their interests in courts around the world.

However, I think, it matters to you. As this subject just instantly catches on fire in forums like this. Matters because you need our clicks to more easily sell your ads.

So please, keep your flaming articles off places like HN, and find your clicks elsewhere. We have more important business to discuss. Thanks.

Yours truly,
the wildranter.
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Are they too big to provide some basic customer support and an escalation path? Interestingly enough, if they did this, we wouldn't be seeing their .0001% failures either.
Maybe I haven't thought about this hard enough, but what's the distinction between a prollyfill and a library?
I’m ok with first gen products having issues. I’m not ok with the way with which Apple treats their customers when those issues appear.

Issues can appear, especially with first gen products. I can totally understand that. I cannot for the life of me understand how Apple decided to handle this issue. I’m just not used to Apple treating their customers with contempt and treating them like stupid idiots.
You're essentially saying that any computer with a metal case, or extensive metal shielding inside could suffer the same problem. HP makes a number of metal laptops, for instance, in an effort to make them more recyclable, the same reasoning behind Apple's materials decision.

Why would I buy a Lenovo T-series? It looks virtually indistinguishable from any laptop made in the late 1990s and still has that absurd red joystick. I hope they've improved the trackpad because those were nearly unusable before.

I know there's Lenovo fans, ThinkPad fanatics, but they look like junk and feel even crappier. The new Dell Ubuntu laptop is the only thing I can think of as a reasonable alternative to what Apple's doing.
history doesn't move in concrete steps.

people have been running lean start-ups and building products via a customer-centric approach way before either of these guys put pen to paper.
It's why 4chan, for all its ills, is still one of the best places to find really creative insight.
The real problem is that there are little if any ways to get your account reinstated. Sure, they have to rely on automation... but if people are banned automagically then people need to be able to appeal it and have an actual human being look into it.
Yes I do - they are shit, so is their engineering and I'm not afraid to go against the grain and say it.

I've never heard of a satisfied long term customer i.e. most of the praise comes from new users with shiny toys. My father has just been screwed by his 1st gen iPad because some of the apps will no longer install and IOS6 is not available (to the trash it goes), his white iPhone 4S has proximity sensor issues to the point it's unusable and they refuse to repair it, my boss's MBP LCD inverter melted, we've got a cupboard full of 7 dead Mac Minis in the office, the old optical mice just didn't work (the one with the little ball) or the logic board fell out inside and lets not even mention the time capsule saga or the OSX update which fucked the filesystems on lots of machines (10.5.3).

There is a whole million miles of these problems out there and so far it's usually kept covered by the reality distortion field.

Build process fine. Supply chain fine. But the inputs to those is unadulterated crap.

Fuck, I don't want to have to complain - I want something to just work with no problems. Screw sjobs@ / tcook@ pandering. Just make some shit that works.
Remember that apple sells millions of these things and we are <200 commenters on a website filled with edge case power users.

Odds are that a good amount of buyers either don't care or haven't noticed the problem. It's not kicking their customers in the nuts. They poorly structured the evaluation method to set a threshold for repair and are having to backtrack and fix an expensive quality control mistake.

They're not kicking me in the nuts. They're a company of humans that has to deal with a problem in a way that satisfies their suppliers, shareholders, and engineers. I've found greater success in approaching problems like this with rationality. With lots of noise, maybe the test will change (only 30 seconds on the grey screen will make a metric shit-ton of the units qualify for replacement).
I have seen this style of "account virus" post on Tumblr for months now. I have seen this exact post quite a few times in the past week. It's just like you see on Twitter or Facebook with people who get their accounts compromised and it auto-posts spam.

You just need to change your password and/or see what apps have access ( https://www.tumblr.com/settings/applications ). Maybe clear your browser cookie/cache/etc. to be safe, as well. That's how my friend got rid of that auto-post junk of her Tumblr account.
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I've been doing the exact same thing for years. I now use a T61p. It's amazing that these things are around $200 on eBay. The Linux support is fantastic, and the laptop is powerful enough to even brand new games. The 1920x1200 resolution yields 147 PPI, which is as high as laptops go without getting Apple's retina display. I like having a fast laptop that I really don't have to fiddle with and costs a small fraction of what you buy an MBP for. And my warranty plan? If a laptop breaks (this has never happened, mind you), a replacement laptop is less than the cost of AppleCare itself.
More info http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/3/3722112/tumblr-hack-gnaa

Tumblr are suggesting you log out/clear cookies if you visited any of the hacked sites

> There is a viral post circulating on Tumblr which begins "Dearest 'Tumblr' users". If you have viewed this post, please log out of all browsers that may be using Tumblr immediately. Our engineers are working to resolve the issue as swiftly as possible. Thank you.
Still using/caring about their hardware even after they disappointed you so badly.
I can't help but think that the majority of comments here are the loud minority. Apple's products have had faults, I'll be the first to admit. But do we really think that even 5% of Apple's millions of customers are having issues with their purchases? If that were the case, we'd see class action lawsuits against the company, the NYTimes/WSJ covering Apple's shoddy manufacturing processes, and Apple's reputation taking an enormous hit. I've seen none of the above. To the contrary, articles covering Apple's manufacturing process, while critical of labor, seem to show a very well-managed ship, with little tolerance for errors or defects.

I'm also taken aback by the harsh tone of the comments:

"Ahh yes the unibody which is basically a fucking big short circuit, hence why mine caught fire."

"Fuck everything about this."

"it scares the shit out of me parting with that sort of cash and actually depending on it"

It's a little disappointing to see these hyperbolic comments on a site I normally associate with an educated, smart, logically-thinking group of people.
They do provide that. That's why accounts were suddenly re-enabled.

The advertisers are the customers and customers want to know they are paying for clicks from valid opportunities. Google is handling the customer appropriately by banning those that are committing fraud. If you're my sales guy and you defraud my customers I'm going to fire you too.
Changing rates of inflation has winners and loser. But steady inflation has little effect on actual wealth.

As in, property, gold, stocks, and bread.
Thanks for the note on parallel, it looks to be an excellently useful tool. I can find a lot of ways to save time with it.

FYI: On OSX, there is a Homebrew formula (brew install parallel).
I'm not that different from you. I also love coding and I love cleverness in coding. However, I also care about "product".

That doesn't mean I expect everything to be a "product". If you tell me, "Hey, look at this clever concept/technique/trick/idea/spike/prototype that I cobbled together", I'm not going to tell you "Damn, why is it so ugly/slow/buggy" (unless the idea was specifically to be pretty/fast/bug-free).

You and I basically disagree about the assumed purpose of Bret's site. If his site were a game, then I would be the dude who's disappointed because it's Quake III and not Dragon Age ;)

PS: Caring about "product" and UX doesn't mean you'll get burned out or go into management ;) I know you weren't generalizing, but talking about your specific case instead, but I just wanted to mention that caring about code and caring about users are things that don't work against each other.
You can dodge the SSD problem by buying a laptop with some specific SSD sizes. I did the same to dodge the issue, but I can't remember which worked. Anandtech has it covered, though.
Apple haters have really come out of the woodwork today.

The fact of the matter is that every first-gen product has had and will have issues regardless of the manufacturer. Apple just gets a lot of flak because they manufacture some of the best products out there and are very vocal about it. So the moment they make a slip, they get stoned by haters who were waiting in ambush.

I, too, have had some bad experiences with a few Apple products I've owned. My first iPad had two dead pixels, and my first MBA had a keyboard key not work intermittently. The staff at the Apple Store next to my campus were absolute retards about both issues. Instead of writing an angry blog post about it, you know what I did? I took my defective items to another Apple store, where they got fixed/replaced immediately.

Then again, I'm a practical person and am generally more interested in getting shit done. I understand some people are more interested in raising a ruckus for attention.
First time I saw it was with a touchscreen device and I didn't find out that it was touchable until I had googled how to add more users to WinRT device.

Therefore YMMV

EDIT:
Negative karma for pointing out an opposite experience with a device?