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If you don't make a decision, people might suffer, too.
I don't know how to service my own car either, but I'm pretty glad the hood isn't welded shut as I do like that I can get it serviced cheaply by a professional (whether a third-party or the original dealer): even if you don't want to take something apart yourself, the fact that simple repairs or upgrades will take hours of risky (as in, possibility of destruction of the device) labor or require replacing large expensive parts unrelated to your goal is not magically irrelevant.
Or like buying the few cars which needed the engine to be removed to replace the spark plugs. It's simply a bad design choice.
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Yet mechanics continue to make excellent livings changing oil, repairing transmissions, and replacing brakes. Not because car companies conspire with mechanics' unions (are those a thing?), but because consumers don't want to or don't know how to do those things themselves.

For a massive percentage of Apple's customers (and customers of other computer makers as well, I'm sure), the same applies. The wailings of a handful of nerds, despite their volume, will never change that.
I'm having a hard time reconciling "[C++] never needed hype" with the quotes from Ken Thompson in http://gigamonkeys.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/coders-c-plus-pl....
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As an Android developer, its really exciting to see good examples of the tools in action. The documentation on how to debug problems beyond crashes/ANRs is a bit thin.

That being said, I do have one gripe. There are some chasms between the different tools. It is a bit painful to operate all the different performance tools and deal with switching contexts for the same problem. Systrace -> traceview and back and forth.

Also, it would be nice if traceview had a text based api/interface. I know that the graph visualization must be valuable for something, but I spend the majority of my time looking for particular methods and signs of excessive consumption/trouble. Now that I think of it, this sounds like a fun weekend project :)
Regardless of whether a state exists or not, the only meaningful definition of "property" includes a threat of violence. It is not meaningful to say "this is mine" without the implied threat of violence against those who would take it - whether carried out by the individual themselves or outsourced to the local emperor.

Without property there is not commerce, there is not agriculture, no civil growth and development to speak of.
I think this is really a shame.

With things at apple going this direction it seems that they don't want to make technology as long lived as it could be. I know people don't buy new products with the long run in mind in many cases, leaving folks with little alternative to a full upgrade after the warranty has expired and something goes wrong.

I myself have always enjoyed getting every last drop of life out of my computers. There is some joy in getting usefulness out of technology ten years out of date.
pretty damn cool!
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The real goal of YC is likely to create a great productive and interesting life for the organizers. If the previous number was too hectic and they're scaling back, congratulations to them for choosing quality over volume.

Paul Graham's recent essays on growth and startup ideas reflect a much deeper and more nuanced insight into the startup process than you give him credit.
I think his deflection of your question suggests he was using them as rhetorical literary devices.
OK, a few things

1) sea level rises have always been one of the trickier predictions to make, and the IPCC has never been cagey about this. It's subject to a large number of secondary and tertiary feedbacks, which can cause huge variances in what the models say, and should not be a proxy for how correct models from the 80s and 90s were. Notice that the Wikipedia article actually summarizes the report as saying "6 cm per decade over the next century (with an uncertainty range of 3 – 10 cm per decade)". In other words, there is a lot of variability here, but the best guess (22 years ago...think of the kinds of computers those models were running on) was that the average rise over the next century would be 6cm per decade.

This is quite different than the current article, which is of course about actual measurements and what they mean for the models, which is presumably exactly the kind of verification (one way or the other) that we should be looking for. If the models were wrong (as undoubtedly some were since there are a number of different models and we have to try to reconcile them) then we can go back and figure out why our models were wrong; not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

2) according to your claim, the reality was 11mm (or less) over the last two decades, "over a factor of 100 miss". Now, I'm an American and the metric system confuses me, but isn't half of 11mm 5.5mm, which is .55cm, which would only be a factor of 10 off from 6cm?

3) According to current data (check here[1] for sources and raw data), the sea level actually rose 3.1mm per year from 1993 to 2003. I don't know where you got your 11mm for the last two decades, but the reality adds up to 3.1cm over that decade, only a factor of two off and well within the prediction from 1990, which has of course been supplanted by several reports since then.

The last IPCC assessment even explicitly stated that they can't be certain if the acceleration of sea level rise seen in the last two decades can be expected to continue or if other dynamics will become dominant, as they don't have enough data (for the current trend) and their models might not be sophisticated enough yet. Their best guess in 2007 was 18 to 59cm by 2100, but I believe that's been revised since then.

Hey, what do you know: scientists being scientists. If you actually take time to take a look, they include their confidence intervals every time.

[1] http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/article/2009/climate-change...
I don't buy that argument for all devices, maybe for you it's OK.

A clogged PCV valve, a small one-way valve for engine gasses, is a common problem the part is about $5.00 and you remove/install with a socket wrench. Or the air filter which in wintery climates will fluff up from salt when it gets wet, a simple fix. Or corroded points on a distributor, or a loose battery cable, dead battery, bad spark plug wires etc..

A computer with dusty CPU heat sync, maybe a RAM stick needs to be reseated or has failed, graphics card needs to be reseated, graphics card heat sync needs dusting, hard drives replaced with larger capacity, more RAM etc..

As much as engineers or designers like to think they are perfect there isn't any device made by a human which will work perfectly without some some of updating, adjustment, maintenance or tinkering.
Don't be so sure. What do you want to bet that the 27" display isn't also glued in place?

Yeah, you can upgrade the RAM, but how do you replace a failing drive?
Perhaps a good intuition pump is how we react when this breaks down. If some group within a state's borders is using violence (i.e. sending soldiers to attack skyscrapers in another country), the attacked country has a cassus belli against the harboring country.

This feature is so critical to how the modern system treats territorial integrity that we sometimes refer to states which can't control violent groups within their own borders as "failed states."
Upgrading RAM in an iMac is honestly probably more like replacing the carb with a Holley 4-barrell (in an older car), or swapping in a larger turbo, or something similar, than any of the examples you listed above. Although we may be waist deep in the silly analogy weeds at this point... The number of people who will be impacted by this limitation is probably a rounding error versus the number of iMacs sold.
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Few people in the US are shown how to study. People end up doing a wide range of things. But most of the methods that work seem to be something along the lines of: Clunking things so you use about 2/3 of your natural attention span 'studying' then review and repeat as needed. Get a good rhythm going and you can loose track of time. So, it's a good idea to take regular short breaks, just get back to it when your done.

You need to cover enough material that reviewing is not quite trivial, but no so much that your mind starts to wonder.
Game... maybe
HFT... maybe
High performance server... sure
OS... most are not (C++ != C, C++ != assembly)
Implementing a language... maybe
Database... sure
Numerical library... most are not
Crypto library... most are not
VM... maybe
Browser... maybe the rendering engine

Again, you need to wrap your mind around:

(1) Some things will be written in C++

(2) C++ is not a synonym for "low-level." Many of your examples are really referring to C and assembly. Why would you prefer a C++ implementation of a crypto library to a C one?

(3) The vast majority of computer code written today is not for any of these systems. Lots of code uses these systems, but most people are happy with language bindings for a crypto API. Or to a numerical processing library. Or running on a VM running on an OS.

Does anyone have empirical data that the C++ fraction of software written today is increasing? If so, then you have a case. I'm going to guess that that fraction has been falling for quite some time, and will continue to fall.
Look at the example pages.

Because the exploit pages are lists of leaked passwords, or cc#s. So to check if their password has been leaked they would naturally search for their password.

This is just a very slick implementation of the old "enter your credit card number to see if it's been stolen" technique, except the end-users don't realize that they've given anything away.

Here's an analogy: you get a phone call from someone telling you that your bank account has been hijacked and you need to visit your local branch right away to fix it. So you drive to your bank, enter, and you go talk to a bank employee. As he sits at a computer he asks you for your bank account number, home address, and social security number. After typing them in and hitting a few buttons he tells you that your account has actually not been hijacked and you're safe, so you head home and go watch tv. Meanwhile, what actually happened is that you didn't realize that it was a bank holiday and con-men had broken into the bank and dressed up as bank employees to trick you into giving out your personal information.
Curious about this. You have no local friends there and spend most of your time coding or making music. Why the heck would you do this in Singapore rather than its various 3-5x cheaper neighboring countries?.. money no object?
From the article:

"Besides built-to-order machines, the 21.5-inch iMacs are some of the first known examples of an Apple computer being assembled in the U.S., according to Fortune."

That's incorrect. For more than ten years, all Apple computers used to be assembled in the US of A [0].

http://www.strategosinc.com/articles/apple-foxconn-strategy-...

[0] Except perhaps for Apple Is sold outside of the US, as customers were expected to assemble that model themselves.
sorry, it was autocorrect, meant to type 'password' became 'browser'
Oh come on, this is pure lies.

There is zero enforcement or oversight for this, they cannot even sue Monsanto, how could government stop this.

What if it's assembled by machines in a US territory with a handful of people working at below minimum wage? They can still label it "assembled in the usa".
it's never referred to as anonymity. in fact it's the opposite - it's "meet people".
A woman in Halifax bought a SMART car she was the second owner, the engine failed and she was told it was unserviceable since the engine had to be replaced entirely it was a single unit.

The replacement engine was $14,000 for a $5,000 car!

http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/74442-smart-car-not-so...
That's my problem with the whole situation. The headline paints it as a technical flaw, where in reality it's human error.
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- no email
- no im
- no texting or phone calls

- knowing _exactly_ what I want to achieve, no exceptions (this doesn't include the how part but only the what part)
- repeatedly playing the same music for hours, closing out every noise that makes me think about anything else but the task
- not engaging in any other activities on the computer I'm working on before I start working because I find myself going back to those activities from time to time which is a huge distraction
- last but not least a bottle of water or a cup of tea
I wasn't the downvoter, but I suspect they may have been pointing out you are missing the forest for the trees.

"The people" don't need detailed explanations about why one form of technology is "more secure" than another. Instead they need motivation to care about security from their government.
the more I learn about daus, and the people that hate him, the more _i_ like him...
Yes, it is. There are ways to build authentic engagement and attention. The only usable situation for this is for prototyping at scale: if youre software needed to stress test reading through a fan page with x number of fans or likes in order to understand how it works.

Otherwise it's no different than fixing your books, cheating on your taxes, modding your console so you can have better performance in leaderboards, etc. And activity like this will put a black mark against your startu for years to come.
I'd say its considerably more common than a carb conversion.
At the end of a Mac's life I typically keep bunging RAM in to keep it as powerful as possible. I know several people who do the same.
I believe they pony-uped $800 in the final seconds according to the reports.
I don't remember the reason for the first one, but in regards to the second line item, I am told that again, their legal process simply does not allow them to make such promises.

Honestly, to me it looks a lot like Assange's argument boils down to, "I've asked for special treatment, but they won't give it to me. Clearly, they are conspiring against me."
This xkcd strip was never more on-topic than now.

http://xkcd.com/538/
Honestly, if you want to send a signal about user upgradability you should probably avoid buying a Mac entirely.
You could always look up Trivers' work.

Apparently some other people think that they do understand what I'm saying but they don't like it and have consequently downgraded my post!

It's the old "nature vs nurture" thing: those who don't like my posting are "nurturists" and believe that we're born as tabulae rasae, empty slates that learn all behavior; I'm seen as the "naturist" who believes that we're totally gene-controlled.
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thanks. researched and can't find any in either category.
Rarely, however, does one need to spend extra time memorizing things. Memorization happens naturally as you solve problems, and see and use the same things over and over.
Apple clearly don't believe the marginal profit hit involved in appealing to nerds is required to maintain their market position. I do hope they're wrong.

I realize many nerds are quite comfortable with the commoditization of computing equiment, and I appreciate many livelihoods depend on the shoehorning of new software through a requisite Apple ID and profit share with the app store, but somehow I still hope there are enough technology advocates left that have yet to sell their souls, to have some counterbearing on this brave new world of shitty, locked down, for-commercially-approved-consumption-and-entertainment-purposes-only overpriced disposable hardware.

Fuck the church of Apple and everything it stands for.
Wow, thanks! I very nearly bought one of those.
From the article: "The not-yet-available 27-in. iMac will continue to sport four external memory slots."

Another source: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/10/23/21-5-imac-has-no-user-up...
agreed. except that a) we have lawyers, b) i'm not asking for legal advice, just best practices.
So it's just like my Mac Book Air, that is a shame. Personal irony noted.
Thinness vs upgradability! Such a huge tradeoff.

I really don't see the point in making desktop products super thin (there by making it inaccessible). Thinness is probably one of the last innovation area that customer may be excited for a desktop product. I would hope for better R&D direction in the future from Apple.

This was evident in the Apple stores this weekend, where I saw iMac tables failing to draw any crowd.
He's not talking about the hard drive. Yes, the 27" will have the same epoxy around the rim of the display, but the RAM is very-much user-accessible via a port on the back of the 27" model. It's both marketed and intended to be user-replaceable. The hard drive is not user-replaceable on the 27" though it is possible if you're willing to assume the risk/liability of doing so.

A number of users on popular Mac forums have opened up their 21" iMac cases. It's definitely not ideal, and not something I'd recommend risk-adverse people to try, but from their descriptions, it hasn't been too difficult if you follow the procedures online. One guy used a knife and scratched the black off of the display. Most use a guitar pick and it doesn't have that problem.

The rub is your warranty. If you break the epoxy seal and don't re-seal it with a suitable epoxy strip you're probably running the risk of any under-warranty claims being rejected by Apple should you need to have them service your machine. Not a problem for hard drives or RAM (you've probably opened it up to swap them out anyway) but definitely an issue for the main logic board.
Concentration is not a talent. It's a very specific practice, fundamental to anything you want to accomplish. Concentration itself is a skill that grows with daily practice.

When I was a kid, I had difficulty staying on the same task. My daydreams were (and still are) incredibly vivid. I had a lot of physical energy, and I wanted to run around as a kid. And when I can't, being stuck inside studying, I'd have near lucid daydreams of running around outside. Combined with being able to pick up many things up, I become more and more intolerant of my own mistakes and challenging situations. As I entered my early adulthood, my experiences of life started narrowing down as I avoided challenges. And when I try taking on those challenges, I'd run straight into them.

It was later in life that I learned the methods for concentration practice. There are no shortcuts to concentration. There are no clever hacks. Searching for a shortcut is precisely why most people have difficulty concentrating. Your mind does not want to accept what you are doing here and now. So you think you have to "force" yourself to concentrate, and end up burning a lot of energy keeping you on track. This is NOT how you concentrate.

Concentration grows a little bit each time you practice, and the more you practice, the more you learn about how your mind works.

Growing the raw skill of concentration as you learn your primary art is itself the reason other skills take years of practice to master. It is also why, without practice, talent does not blossom into mastery.

Someone asked me to post up a cheatsheet on how to practice concentration; maybe other people here will find it useful: http://www.quora.com/Meditation/Whats-a-nice-little-cheat-sh...
It's not a flaw in the strictest sense, but it is a sort of a shortcoming. Does anybody think websites remapping your basic hotkeys is a good idea?
A great deal of suffering can arise from this line of reasoning.
very possibly. :)
But that's because you know what a socket wrench is.

Take it to an industry you don't know anything about, and see if that interest holds up, because that's what it's like for the majority of customers in any particular industry.

Do you care if your AC unit has a user accessible panel rather than something that requires special tools? Do you care that your Microwave doesn't have any user serviceable parts? I don't care about either. It's not on my radar at all when I buy those things.
Wrong and wrong. AR1 predicted 5-14 cm over 20 years; the actual rise was 6 cm.

The reality? 11 mm or less over the last 2 decades!

The article claims 11 mm of water solely from melting ice sheets. It says the total increase was five times larger than that.

The increase over the last 19.5 years, 1993 to mid-2012, was between 53-68 mm. The average rate was 3.1 mm/year +/- 0.4.

http://sealevel.colorado.edu/content/2012rel4-global-mean-se...

The original IPCC report on global warming predicted an average rate of global mean sea level rise of about 6 cm per decade.

IPCC AR1 did not predict 6 cm/decade rate for this time; it predicted 6 cm/decade averaged over the century 2000-2100, starting slowly and then accelerating. (Rising CO2 levels accelerate melting; economic growth accelerates CO2 rise).

If you look at AR1's actual forecast,

http://i.imgur.com/2r67Z.png

What it predicted for the near-term, 1990-2010 was (eyeballing the graph): a 9 cm rise, lower range 5 cm, upper range 14 cm. A rate of 2.5-7 mm/year.

The graph is from page 277.

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_chapte...
Mechanics are only able to make a living because cars don't come with the hood welded shut.
I actually just finished assembling a SoftRock SDR ham radio receiver. http://imgur.com/a/K9SIg

The kit is $21 shipped from FiveDash.com

Build notes: http://www.wb5rvz.com/sdr/sr_lite_ii/

Some may wince at the idea of assembling a kit (esp one with SMT parts), but if you're not scared by those factors, check them out. No ham license needed, though if you use the stock crystal for the LO, you better brush up on your Morse Code! (I suggest using the 28.59MHz xtal)
Can you try stk-simply?
I'm not quite sure what you mean. Auto mechanics can make a living precisely because they can open the hood of a car and repair/change stuff inside.
God, those SMART cars, I used to think they were neat. Then I learned that the ONE THING you would think they could do well - fuel economy - isn't even that impressive. Something like 40mpg for the base model?
Oh, you'd like to upgrade from 1GB to 2GB in your new Mac? That will be $200.
Seems like a good candidate for an HTML5 app vs native. Not feeling the love here on android per usual sigh