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Isn't the fundamental problem here about communicating a product's quality guarantee to potential buyers? Apple never guarantees that you won't have a problem that annoys you or interrupts your work. Is there a detailed warranty for the computer that makes Apple liable to fix this specific problem? OP's problem obviously looks very real and quite annoying, but why should OP claim that Apple is obligated fix it? What if the problem was "the fan is too loud" or "I don't like the keyboard," or something more obviously frivolous like "I hate the OS X window manager" or "my PC games won't run on it"? Obviously, Apple won't fix those if the fan is working at normal volumes and the keyboard is completely within their specs.
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I just finally realized what might already be a core facet of your idea.

This site could be used almost like a github or a dribbble for product design. Essentially, aspiring product designers can build a profile of constructive feedback which can be used to validate his or her skills.

Further, product designers can post concepts and prototypes to gather feedback from peers.

Building this community will be near impossible, but if marketed correctly it has great potential!
It's not scarce. Power isn't scarce, copper isn't scarce.

Access is scarce. This is not a scarcity problem, this is a distribution problem. Bandwidth inside of a Datacenter can be had for $.10 per mbit, but because access to your home is prohibitively expensive, you pay more.

Does that help? The key point is that it's a distribution problem, not scarcity.
The ISP's received lots of money from the government to build the "roads", except they didn't. They didn't invest in the required infrastructure and instead created monopolies and provided poor service and are now complaining they dont have the infrastructure. So now you have a country who invented internet and should be at the forefront of every aspect of it, lagging behind a lot of other countries in terms of infrastructure.
Just wait until he finds out about bitcoins.
On the trackpad issue, has anyone checked to see if it is the laptop battery expanding, putting pressure on the trackpad from below?

It took me a little while to track that down as the cause on one of my MacBooks.
Either trust what the upvotes tell you, even when you disagree, or manually curate the front page. We can eat your cake, or you can have it.
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but apparently not too cold for his son to make the walk... o_0
I have dropped my rMBP at least three times from a coffee table or bed height or so. It seems sturdier than the regular MBP in that I haven't any noticeable dents, though I believe I got lucky in that each impact seemed spread across the edge or the bottom, and not a corner. I also have the SSD version, for what it's worth.

After using it for 4 months daily travelling cross-continent for development, presentations, and running multiple virtual machines, it's the finest laptop I've owned - by far the fastest and most aesthetically pleasing.

For background, I've owned three Dell Inspirion or Latitudes, a Thinkpad T61, three MacBook Pros, a Macbook Air, and three PowerBook G3/G4s.

I'm a continuous early adopter of first gen Apple technology - I've had some mishaps (heat on the first MBP that needed a warranty repair; poor backlight on a pre-unibody Macbook Pro, poor signal reliability on the first AirPort Extreme, and case flex on the early PowerBook G4s and MacBook Pros) but nothing that made me curse their name. I was lucky to avoid the logic board issues on the iBook G3s which was the worst experience I know of based on my friends' experiences.
Yeah; I was in Iraq and some other places 04-07, and Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. 2008-2010.

Pakistan's influence primarily is a concern to India. The US has essentially no vital national interest in Afghanistan -- that ended as soon as AQ basing ended, approximately early 2002 (although maybe late 2001).

It is a horrible backwater, and we should allow Afghans who are reasonable, want to build a better life, etc. to emigrate to the US (and particularly now, those who assisted us 2001-2012), but should get out otherwise.

About 10% of the total US spending makes its way to AQ and Taliban, due to payments made for security and logistics to "militias". The central government is potentially even more corrupt and opposed to US interests.

The only good thing to say about Iraq was that it was a good distraction from the fundamental quagmire that is Afghanistan. The US could have gone into Iraq, decapitated the regime, and quickly withdrawn, similar to Panama. We chose to screw it up (assisted by Turkey, the "sometimes" NATO member...), but it wasn't fundamentally as predoomed as Afghanistan.
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I won't argue that other thread either, but we do have a good case about HN behavior that's on-topic here.

The broad point of the article was that FizzBuzz (still) reveals an amazing number of unqualified applicants. "Why, look what happens when we do FizzBuzz... You should too."

I did not disagree that FizzBuzz does that very thing. My objection was this: "Only 40% of programmers could correctly write out a FizzBuzz program on paper during our timed test in the middle of a job interview" is not equivalent to "Only 40% of applicants even have the skill to code FizzBuzz." The difference between the two is vital in a way many people here don't see, or at least won't acknowledge. That was the subject of my comment.

Maybe entrepreneurial types are fundamentally more at ease with that kind of thing than coders who aren't wired that way. I don't know how to enable you to see into that blind spot. I could try, in a meaningful back-and-forth with those who disagree with me. But to simply dismiss my initial objection outright, as something that doesn't even belong in the conversation? To employ HN moderation that sidelines it so it won't be seen? That leaves nowhere to begin.

I value being able to argue with intelligent, tech-minded people who disagree with me. It matters so much to me that there be an online venue like HN to meet unfamiliar points of view, to test my own biases, to figure out how I actually see things by engaging in meaningful debate. But we can't have such a low tolerance for disagreement and for challenges to biases that a whiff of a problem with someone's tone makes that person's words seem "mean." We can't be so quick to silence people at square one just because we don't (yet) see their point.

Please believe me that this is sincere and not pedantic. I just want to be clear: When you compare the first set of three comments above with the second, you really see the first as more valuable to HN than the second? Let's agree that no submission or comment is going to be all bad or all good and that we won't quibble about details. On balance, you would say the second set is unwelcome when compared with the first?
Soliciting donations for something you made using someone else's IP without permission seems like it is absolutely crossing the line. This is a cool demo and I like the trend of people porting classic games to the browser, but you absolutely shouldn't have a 'give me money for this' button sitting there. It's just asking for trouble.
Ok, may I humbly ask you as to what's wrong with Dan accusing of start-ups like Gourmet which add no value/solve very little problems? (For your Reference: Gourmet is to find gourmet food and have it shipped across the country to your doorstep, started by a couple of Standfords)

>Dan Lyons has no evidence of it himself.

Dan Lyons needs no special evidence. The evidence are the shitty start-ups that don't solve any real problems you come across everyday, promoting their launches on TechCrunch (and on others). He is just talking about this painful trend, I hate to say this, but, which is noticeable within YCombinator itself(no offence), off-late.

Great Start-ups look like bad ideas initially, but when they remain as bad ideas forever, its an entirely different story, which is what Dan is talking about, too, I believe.

with great respect, may I ask you, why did you have to kill this article? (I feel you are abusing your power) Why not let others know of this painful trend?? I'm not asking for my personal benefit, I'm just curious, it's a genuinely heart-felt written article.

Sincerely,

Neya
But how do you force a publicly traded company to become a utility when it's in their best interests not to?
A little off-topic, but is anyone else really dumbfounded by the amount of websites lately that use a top notification header that pushes content down? It's really jarring and annoying.
One point that should worry Intel is, if enthusiasts move to ARM, and begin to take their friends and family with them...

I've never upgraded a chip, but I've built plenty of computers, and mixing and matching was important for me.

I worry if we'll have less options down the road.
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This is beyond intriguing. If only I had an audience to sell to..
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This article is misleading. The "originator" refers to the sender of any traffic in any direction. Google and Netflix already pay an enormous amount of money to push their traffic to users. They don't freeload on the backs of local providers as those lobbying would have you believe.

They're just upset that as local providers they don't get money directly from Google. Instead they get a lot of money from their user base because their user base wants to get to Google.
> (The crazy tricks I won't even try, because that kind of agility doesn't go well with my body weight/motor coordination - I'm one of those kids who could never do ollies :P)

While I have no doubt that this is a carefully considered evaluation, I think one has to be careful making this kind of remark; just imagine the student who says "The crazy mathematics I won't even try, because that kind of thinking doesn't go well with my mindset --I'm one of those kids who could never do algebra."
See this is only with an even playing field. You're thinking about how you'd design a network in a world that didn't have all the embedded rules and dogma that we have in the US.

The biggest question is not network management policies, but last mile access. There are tons of ISPs with great bandwidth practices. Guess what? None of them have enough footprint to compete with the big guys.

The problem is not network management, it is edge distribution.
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Teespring does some really cool work with non-profits, launching kickstarter-esque campaigns for them (at no cost) and giving a cut of the proceeds to that organization. A few friends of mine who run an education non-profit in Philly (http://www.12plus.org/) did it a few months ago [1] and it really helped them out a lot. Coupled with this blog post, TeeSpring seems like good people.

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Except the CC license is explicit permission to copy. So even under the media's definition of piracy, this is not it.
We agree on older plants being not as safe as new ones. My original sentence was about things you just can't prepare for (with any reasonable means). After that I just wanted to say, that it is possible to build plane-safe NPP.
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Arrggg, more cold calls from recruiters....
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Mind blowing! Last night I thought of building the same thing with user submitted content. But, I was going to use the domain motivation.io (as in input/output).

Great minds think alike, I suppose :)
Without a doubt it's true that Apple's support services fail on many levels. When corporations lose sight of innovation and mainly focus energy on profits these things are inevitable. I've dealt with many such issues and can relate to the frustrations you have experienced. I personally try and solve every such problem myself; an absolute last resort would be having to get 'help' from someone else before expiring all other possibilities.

As far as your screen issues are concerned, It's quite common – and not specific to your particular display. I have a Cinema Display which does the exact same thing, and I've basically become immune to really noticing it much anymore. When I first became aware of it I tried just about everything to resolve the 'problem'. I was able to find a way to clear ghosting almost completely, and it's as simple as running a particular screensaver for the extended periods of time you're not using your system. The name of it is "LCD Scrub", and although I was skeptical it really does work. It doesn't get rid of the ghosting instantly, so you have to leave it running quite a while before you see any results. Good luck!
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This is just a side project which I basically did to find better movies in Netflix. I did not like the

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Haven't used cobbler in a while. Wonder how it compares these days to Foreman ( http://theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/Features ) and Razor ( https://github.com/puppetlabs/Razor )
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Hooray! Now that recruiter who really wants to offer me a world class position(tm)(r)(c) at a unnamed world class company(tm)(r)(c), just like Facebook but located in my metro area, can call me at dinner time to inform me of the good news!

Oh, I have to install an app to my phone for this to work. Phew, still safe! Just more cross-service account linking, nothing to see here, move along.
Over 13 years I have purchased 8 Apple laptops, three iMacs, five iPhones, and two iPads. With the Macs I have had three or four minor problems from time to time (covered under warranty), and have also had several iPhones replaced due to accidental damage (some for free). All were first gen purchases.

During this time I've also owned three Dell laptops, an Acer, and a Thinkpad. The Dells were mostly study though one's motherboard died. The Acer was also OK but was stolen so I didn't get a full life out of it.

In short, I'm quite happy with Apple quality, and have no desire to move away from them unless there's a very compelling alternative to come.
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Yeah, screw the suppliers that get you the screen you want.

Have some common sense.
> Either trust what the upvotes tell you, even when you disagree, or manually curate ...

Why the harsh dichotomy? Surely one can believe upvotes to be a good filtering method on average while still accepting that occasionally they do a poor job and require some intervention?

(Note: not taking a position on the article itself, but rather the practice of manual intervention)
A question for web developers.
It is not a secret that a huge problem has grown larger in the world of web development. And I'd like to hear your opinion about it.

What problem am I speaking of?
The soon to become over-talked issue of web apps developed to work correctly only on one browser(Usually Chrome) without even a reliable fallback to other browsers. I've seen many flavors of this issue in the wild, ranging from the "Proof of concept" sites that make clear their content only works or shows on X Browser, to sites changing landing pages depending on the User-Agent browser where only the chosen browser will have all functionality and the others will simply avoid being "too ugly", and to the extreme case of websites not rendering at all if you do not use whatever browser you are told to.

This is not a new problem, I believe anyone who has developed for some time with MicroStrategy, Appian, SAP or any other JAVA based ERP, BI or BMP, has also encountered this quickly annoying issue of being FORCED to work with Internet Explorer.

However, I do believe there is another side to the coin. A side where, for example, developers that only work for Chrome are able to push the bounds of the available tools and create really neat new web apps.

What I'd like to know is not only your point of view of how good or how bad this issue is. But if you have any ideas on if and how it could be fixed.

Personally, I'm so tired of meeting with clients asking "Why can't we do it if everyone uses (EG) Chrome" or being too afraid to hire new developers because themselves or someone near them has a spooky story involving one of this developers.
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But your specs for what you repair have to be reasonable if you want to have customers think you deliver a high quality product (and if you want to actually do so).

Two dead pixels near the edge of the screen, okay, most of us think, that's still usable, I'll soon stop noticing. (How many is 'most of us'? Enough that a monitor company can do that, and still be considered to deliver a high quality product).

The ghosting OP describes and takes pictures of? I think would probably interfere with the use of most reasonable people. If those are Apple's specs, then Apple is willing to deliver a crappy product; either Apple made a mistake, their test isn't catching what they meant to catch, or Apple thinks it's going to have enough customers that keep buying Apple anyway even after getting a crappy product, I guess.
This has been a part-time labor of love, but the more we build/use it, the more we love it. We've recently applied to TechStars to see if we can #domorefaster as they say. Hopefully they take interest in our team. So far, the idea does seem pretty well received... at this point, we plan to pursue it regardless. We want v1 out within the first half of 2013.
Well, that one data point certainly disproves the entire argument.
Find a cofounder or continue as a single founder...decisions decisions. 
It seems that YC and Techstars put a lot of emphasis on avoiding single founders.
Ideally, this makes sense considering starting a business is a metric ton of work and many times, it’s too much for an individual.
However, it seems that the biggest problem that YC deals with is cofounder conflicts,. Many times these conflicts fatal to a business and ultimately cost YC money.
So where is the benefit?

I’m asking this as I’m curious about finding a cofounder. Briefly, I’m a very motivated and particular single founder (well, soon to be) that is starting a tech business in the near future. While I know I need help to bring my idea to fruition, I am more interested in hiring the right people than finding a cofounder to help with the business. In my limited experience, it seems that finding a cofounder is almost like dating. There is no “formula” that can predict a good cofounder, and even if you think you have someone great, they bang your best friend and take ½ your stuff.

So, I’d like to have a discussion about which is better for a single founder. Do you go on the dating websites (http://www.cofounderslab.com) and find your perfect cofounder or stand your ground as a single founder and hire good people.

What does HN think?
Maybe his logic is that people get more invested in a platform by spending more and thus don't want to switch.

Okay that doesn't make any more sense either, but it's a trademark Charlie Demerjian rant, logic goes out of the window. You should read some his anti-Nvidia rants, it's like Microsoft-Nvidia-Intel ran over his puppy or something.
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> That’s just stupid, I’m sorry, but it really is a stupid statement. It’s like saying: “This car is really fast, but it only gets 2MPG when in fast mode. That’s not a problem at all, but best to just turn off fast mode.”

Well, that's quite what happens in modern luxurious fast cars, like M-powers, AMGs, etc. After pressing a button, the gearbox gives a more agressive spin, the suspension lowers and stiffens, the bucket seat and seatbelt hold you more firmly; in short: it turns on all the things that would make the car a PITA while driving around the block. BTW there is an Android 'Power widget', where it has the option to automatically switch the phone to 2g when on wifi, etc. So, maybe that's not such a stupid idea after all?
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