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Yes I understand that. But in my case, even being into computers, and wanting privacy, I dind't even know where to begin. A friend of mine told me he is in that exact position right now: he doesn't bother, because he does not have a full picture, and thinks he won't be safe should the government decide to target him. Here's another case: someone I know needed to protect some data and store it. I gave him fool-proof steps on how to do that, and explained how it worked. How did it end? He just stored everything unsafely in a pendrive and took it with him everywhere, he even sleeped with it. Granted, he was safe from a warrant to confiscate his PC, I concede that. But it was a pain and he probably had deleted the files from the PC insecurely, so it was in vane.

Security and "being able to sleep" is more about understanding, and less about installing things on your PC. If everyone suddenly started encrypting their emails, of course we would be safer. But nobody is going to bother doing that, if they don't really feel safe (because they don't understand how safe they are, or which risks they are taking).

TL;DR - To sum up, even if you get people to want privacy, there is quite more work to do after that. People have lives to live, and if the cost of privacy is becoming a security expert, in most cases they won't bother.
I've had my 24" iMacs apart to replace hard drives, fix CD drives, and above all to clean out dust.

You cannot even clean the dust out of the fan easily!
You access the hood of your car to fix it, not to upgrade it.

Solid state technology is much more reliable than the mechanical components of a car; especially over it's lifetime (cars are expected to last > 10 years, computers < 5). Those constraints lead to vastly different optimizations made in the design.
If it doesn't matter to you that a hood is inaccessible, it also shouldn't matter to you that a hood is accessible. For other people it does matter. So the question is: who wants the hood to be inaccessible, and why? Clearly none of the customers want it inaccessible, they either want it accessible (and I don't think they care all that strongly if they're already set on an Apple product), or in the majority case are indifferent. So Apple must know their bottom line is better this way (there are some obvious ways why it can be) and is perfectly happy telling people "put up or don't do business with us." Unless Apple's shown to be wrong, I wouldn't expect a change.
> There is a special place in hell for people who override [...] the arrow keys in their webpages.

Except for game developers, maps developers, in-browser document editors, presentation viewers, etc. The web isn't just hypertext any more, and part of making the browser a powerful platform is having features that could be misused.
I've lived almost all my life in Singapore and don't feel incredibly connected locally anyway. Most of my friends have no particular interest in tech/coding. A few are interested in entrepreneurship, though.

Shoutout to anyone else here. HN meetup sometime?
"It's like buying a Jaguar" is probably more accurate.
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Can't say I know the first thing about the current automotive startup scene (well besides the ride sharing scene which I guess competes in a disruptive way), so perhaps dangrossman has a point in that for someone in the know the comparison could explain it.
I find the creepiest search ads are ones that direct me right back to the context of a site I was already surfing on a few minutes earlier. E.g. I was looking at the Amazon Sci Fi book section for example. Then, via google adsense on some other blog page I'll now see an adsense ad for Sci Fi books on Amazon. This has happened to me a couple of times now.
Yeah, I think we fundamentally agree that they haven't paid nearly enough attention to the political end of things.

I guess I just have trouble seeing how you can effectively grow a startup at half speed. PG recently wrote a very persuasive article on growth being pretty much the only metric that matters for a startup: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html, and the accepted model seems to be break-neck growth at all cost.

Granted the minefield-like political/regulatory environment may make this a special circumstance, and I definitely understand and respect your reasoning, but I still have trouble seeing "slow and steady" as Uber's path to victory.
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Those things are hard to do, which screws up the analogy. RAM in laptops I've had is behind a single screw and pops in in seconds.
High upvote:comment ratio is a quality indicator, IMO.
> You access the hood of your car to fix it, not to upgrade it.

Your perspective on auto-mobiles is bizarrely limited. Of course people upgrade their cars... There is an entire industry built around doing just that.
Though I have yet to come across book titled "Effective Python", books like "Python Essential Reference" by David Beazly and "Python Cook Book" covers lot of ares that you mention above.
If this was a pure PR move, then Apple might have announced and shown the factory, people, facility some time ago.
I'm not saying it's better that the hood is inaccessible. I'm saying it doesn't move the needle for me.

Sure, if all things were equal, then yes, I'd prefer an accessible hood. But all things aren't equal. There are design tradeoffs. What if there were a seamless car with no breaks for the hood to open/close? And that really looked nice to you?
Where the analogy fails is that being able to upgrade a computer can well increase it's lifespan more than it would a car. People don't generally need faster and faster cars each year to keep using the roads in the same way they might with a computer.

When I was a teenager I made reasonable pocket money upgrading peoples computers from 16 to 32/64MB of RAM because it saved quite a bit vs the cost of buying a whole new computer and made a significant difference when running Windows 98.
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How much of this is a result of an actual design consideration rather than an active attempt to prevent modding? That is, is the decision to use glue instead of magnets out of an engineering concern? It just seems by now, Apple is making fistfuls of money and the average customer is so fine with letting AppleCare fix anything that only a small pct of users would ever try to take it apart to add third party upgrades.

I guess there is a strong incentive to force users to replace computers after 3 years...but that seems shortsighted...a lot of people were loyal to Macs because they lasted longer than PCs...a customer who is using the same Mac body for 6 years may not be spending as much on hardware in the short term, but they'll have basically become a customer for life from then on.
I was responding to your statement that you shouldn't be doing byte-level manipulation unless you're writing a device driver or compression library. The fact that C and assembly are used for some of my examples does not take away from them.

I agree that there is a ton of code being written where byte-level manipulation is not needed and is not appropriate. But there is still a ton of code where it is needed or appropriate, and you misrepresent that when you say you shouldn't be doing it unless you're writing a device driver or compression library.
You've never put an aftermarket air filter or platinum spark plugs in a car? There is a whole mess of people who like to tinker with and upgrade their cars without having to fix anything.

A RAM upgrade isn't about a RAM replacement because of failure. It's because as computing progresses, you need more RAM to remain performant. A RAM upgrade is the single most effective way to revitalize older hardware - that 8GB that is more than enough today may be not nearly enough tomorrow.
Is anyone surprised? Apple is shifting to building appliances, it makes complete sense for them to do so.
I'm so far from the right person to leave a remark on this it's not even funny, but it looks to me like someone noticed that category theoretic "arrow-chasing" diagrams for supersymmetry happen to look reminiscent of this West African artform. I brought a book on category theory ("Conceptual Mathematics") to a coffee group last week and someone there expressed a lack of interest in it because it seemed to him like "some kind of advanced geometry," which isn't it at all, but category theory relies quite heavily on this particular visual structure and I can see why someone glancing at the book would come away with that impression.
The overwhelming majority of game projects that ask for $500,000 would get $0. That's the core of the problem.
> A state is a violent organization that has managed to convince the vast majority of society that its violent actions are acceptable.

Got that a bit backwards there. A state is a violent organization formed by society meant to enforce the rules of said society. We prefer the state to criminals generally because we have some say in how the state works or find its rules preferrable to the criminals.
You are mistaken. Have a look under the hood of a Boxster. Oops, no engine there. Check the trunk? Nope, not there either.

You can't get to the engine without pulling it out from underneath, and yet Porsche owners and mechanics are both perfectly happy with the situation.
It's just a demo. It's for fun.
Exactly. I'm working on something right now that wouldn't be possible without preventDefault(). Don't blame the tool, blame the people who misuse it.
In general, social networks tend to settle at establishing a norm of either pseudonymity or verinymity. The two don't mix very well; users either feel cloistered or overexposed based on the normative behavior they observe.
This was a really great talk. Thanks so much for posting it! Lots of things I had not ever considered before, and the OTR model is really neat.
The way AC dumps out moisture and can build up dust, I definitely want to be able to get in there. With a microwave, well, overall it's not that important but if it's actually possible to buy single parts at a suitable price then I'd certainly like the ability to pop it open and replace a bulb in less time than it takes to drag a new microwave in.
I understand from your comment that times are changing, and I agree on that. Is it that Facebook is popular, or it is the Internet itself?

In any case, I keep on my previous statement. It usually blows my mind, and is something I would have thought impossible 10 years ago.
I really think it would just ruin the simple, anonymous beauty of reddit to start involving identities. Leave that for IAmA :)

People go to reddit to get away from reality.
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As an emacs user, I don't think modal is the one true way. Nothing in emacs is modal (though focus will switch on its own when required, you can move back to where you were if needed).
I don't know what the original poster meant but I understand it to be that if it is cyclic phenomena and/or was/can be triggered by human activity, it has already entered into a phase that make it unlikely to be reversed no matter what humans do in say one to tens of humans lifetimes (say 100 to 1000 years). The system might correct itself or cycle back but it would be on very large time scales.

The main gist from the articles is that the perma frost echo system is an amplifier for climate change. So it is like positive feedback. For maybe for what seems like a small change contributed by human activity, the permafrost echo system might respond and amplify that by some large factor.

Anyway I don't know enough about the issue but that is what I understood from the article.
Life: To get a early realization, that money is the most important thing in life.

Work: To work towards the 'Life' goal. To work smart, and make clever savings and investment moves.

I've read enough of the 'money is not everything' quotes. Its almost a given and keeps coming back to me from my own experiences and from what others tell, Money is definitely the most important thing in your life. Having lots of it means most of your needs, wants and requirements taken care of. You realize this more as you age, having lots of money to never work puts you in a far more better situation than getting up every day and running to work regardless sun, rain and cold. No matter what your work is, no matter how passionate it is.

Having financial security will alone change you life so drastically, you will never worry about having to take risks, failing and putting pieces together after that. You will never have to worry about getting fired, reporting to office despite your highest dislike on a day. You will never worry about 'What if' scenarios. You will never have to worry about paying your bills, sending your kids to school etc.

So the most important thing to realize in the early part of your life is to get to financial security.

And yes tool religion, micro optimization craze, technical pedantry isn't much of value while the other part of the world is building stuff and making millions with duct tape.

As a programmer your job is to worry about solving problems which people need solutions to, and then monetize it.
It wouldn't destroy Facebook, it would destroy Reddit.
I think the underscores standout better.
Sure, that industry exists but it is dwarfed by the automobile and maintenance industry. I'd bet 99% of modifications to cars are to increase it's reliability or to fix an existing issue.

The performance part industry caters to very specific niche of users analogously to gamers in the PC industry. This niche should avoid iMacs.
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Question is, will you need more than 8GB of memory in 3 years time if you are not doing something "intensive" like video editing (in which case Apple feels justified in charging you more for your computer)?

I remember the memory requirements for computers rising sharply in 2000 but this was mainly because people were making the switch over from single user systems like Win95 to proper multiuser systems like Win2000/XP and starting to do things like play video on their computers.
This is like using the average rent prices in Manhattan to represent the average rent prices of New York State.

The median prices would be much more interesting.
You're twisting the analogy in a way that clouds its real meaning.

The point is that authorized service shops are provided with the training to perform repairs on these things, so whether the display/glass is glued to the body or not, people are going to be able to take their machines to a shop, have it repaired, and receive it back in working condition. The iMac, if we're following the analogy in an honest way, doesn't have its hood welded shut. (Because iMac mechanics can, in fact, repair them, even if it is more difficult.)

Further, as far as the user is concerned, breaking out a heat gun is just as inaccessible as buying a Torx screwdriver (they don't own one, I promise) and suction cups to pull the glass and display off the old model. They're going to a repair shop or an Apple store 99% of the time.
It's called Gyu An and it's in Ginza. It will set you back about $100 for a kobe steak multi course meal but if you've never had real kobe wagyu, it's worth it at least once. It's the most affordable place to get real kobe in Tokyo and it's a very cool little family run place. The owner is from Kobe and gets the beef from his neighbor's (I think?) ranch. If you have unlimited money, Dons de la nature is apparently the best place for steak in Tokyo but it costs multiple hundreds for a steak.

Here's the tripadvisor for Gyu An: http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g1066444-d1677235...
I have a similar story but it ends differently. I dated a girl in college who was #1 in her high school. Similar to your ex, she studied like crazy, and extended studying sessions without end were routine.
She proceeded with college in the same way; and while it worked for the first ~2 years, she was completely burnt out and exhausted by graduation time, leaving her deeply depressed. While she had always intended on going to grad school, she instead gave up on that and is now working in a low paying, low intellectual demand manual job.

I'm not sure what the moral of the story is.
"Welding the hood shut" is just an imprecise way of saying "rendering the vehicle unserviceable by 3rd parties." The actual location of the engine is a pointless tangent.

In fact there are attempts to limit the serviceability of cars, and these attempts are harmful to independent mechanics.
Well ok what is the minimum then? Does epoxy gluing qualify? Plugin in ram module and glue case together?

At the same time I kind of doubt this is done much for PR purposes. Can't see really people dropping or picking Apple products in favor of alternatives because of the assembly origin.
Insightful. ;)

Yes, I was surprised by his responses, I thought his initial remark was great, but people mean quite different things by those lofty abstractions.
Africa is "dependent" on foreign aid simply because they nowadays their population desires colonial luxuries like education and running water, whereas before colonialism they didn't know such things existed.

I think there's a bit more to it than that. If African countries were governed competently, they would need much less foreign aid in order to have education and running water and mobile phones and antibiotics and so on. The reason they aren't governed competently is, as I said before, that the people who got rid of colonialism didn't put anything else working in its place.
Ill just do more texting on Viber. The app itself isnt anything special.
He really did come across as disappointed, and as if he'd still be so even if the project just barely met the funding threshold. But I wouldn't go as far as saying he was not too eager to continue the project. He sounds like this is his passion and he still wants it to see the light of day. He was probably dreaming big dreams of overfunding when he started the campaign--and this was a blow too hard to take. When $50k actually isn't half bad for an indie game.

I guess many people tend to look only into Kickstarter's huge successes and assume it's the norm. Really it's a small part of successful projects. I can tell this guy didn't dig much deeper into the Kickstarter dynamics when he has walls of text explaining pledges where simple "plus all previous tiers" would do--and would mean the difference of him getting funded, maybe even generously overfunded.
Why would I mention anything except boring stuff over an insecure channel? Why would I even assume that secure channels or trustworthy conversation partners truly exist? As for Arar, like it or not, it seems like his problem was that he was born Syrian.
A Porsche is probably a weird example. I'm assuming the put the engine there for some specific reason like increasing traction on the rear wheels that only really makes sense in a sports car. The performance gain justifies making maintenance more difficult.

The majority of cars are FWD and stick the engine in the under the hood where it's easy to get at because practicality is more important.
The best investors should understand this too, which is why you should pay special attention in the financial lens to go after only smart money. Otherwise, you could be pushed for more vain metrics rather than the real ones, like product & customers.
This is such a simple and entertaining idea, something I wish I thought of. Definitely going to try this out.
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Why would they buy this monstrosity? The only valid reason could be to convert it to proper XMPP, then I'd applaud them, but on the other hand Facebook's own IM service isn't federated, which defeats the purpose. So it doesn't look like it can improve Whatsapp in any way.
Apple probably figures that the number of users who firstly are willing to shell out big $$$ for a new iMac, but then also care about saving $150 or so by doing a 3rd party RAM upgrade (and voiding warranty?) is fairly minimal.
Two things that helped me:

1. The Pomodoro Technique. http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/get-to-work/

2. Reading The War of Art can help with issues of procrastination if the thing you're having trouble focusing on is a creative endeavor.
Microwave parts do seem readily available, yet it's not been something that has been on your radar. Are you suddenly going to become proficient in microwave repair, or will you simply acknowledge that it's not in the realm of your interest to pursue such things. Similarly, there are many people who don't have the time or care about the user-accessibility of their computer (or their car).
In most of my old laptops you could replace the memory with a standard philips screwdriver, a 5 minute job even for someone technologically unsavvy.

By requiring a ton of tools and time you are pointlessly making it more difficult (and therefor expensive), regardless of whether the end user repairs it themselves, gets the nerdy kid down the street to fix it or takes it to an Apple store.
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A practical demonstration of this BTW (in scala):

def otp(s: String, key: String): String = {
def base64decode(s: String): String = {
new String(new sun.misc.BASE64Decoder().decodeBuffer(s))
}
def xor(a: Char, b: Char): Char = (a ^ b).toChar

val s2 = base64decode(s)
val k2 = base64decode(key)

val sb = new StringBuilder()
for (i <- 0 to s2.length - 1) {
sb.append(xor(s2(i), k2(i)))
}
sb.toString
}

val ciphertext = "LQcGRC0HFR4ME0sjHhkOHBVSGB0ZGhIcWRUPQgsNFkYIHwdE"

val key1 = "YWJjZGVmZ2hpamtsbW5vcHFyc3R1dnd4eXphYmNkZWZnaGlq"
val key2 = "eW9jZF5vemoscCpOezlobno/OGlxfzJ7K3R8MXItfShnaGtq"

otp(ciphertext, key1)
otp(ciphertext, key2)

So releasing the ciphertext into the wild accomplishes nothing.
> For one thing those values support an industry that provides jobs to working class people

So does Uber. Restricted supply, and price fixing don't tend to create as many jobs. They are higher paid jobs, or would be if the drivers themselves owned the permits.

> Universal service

I've never been to New York, but I've never been on a Uber thread without hearing some New Yorker claim that taxis won't offer universal service (mostly refusing fares which take them out of Manhattan), but Uber does.

> My advice to Uber? Slow down.

Nope. They should keep their speed up, and hope they survive the political game of chicken. It's like Air-bnb - their best chance is to get the public on side, so the politicians won't screw them. It's not the right way to do things. It's dodgy. It might be illegal, and probably should be. But they aren't in a market where "should" wins.
I get your point, but there a lot of non-engineers in this business. I'm also not sure that engineers have that much of an edge in avoiding cargo cult behavior over other professions with a similar overall level of education and compensation. I'm talking about engineers as a class, not an idealized Engineer.