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Sure, I don't dispute any of that. And, in fact, I mentioned Anna Karenina partly because I bought a copy a few months ago because it is on my list of books to read. But I do question whether or not it has any particular value which exceeds any of the innumerable other works I could read with that time instead.

Of course that might lead you ask "then why are you planning to read it"? To which I can only say "because it sounds interesting and exactly because I haven't read much Russian literature and I want to broaden my horizons a bit". But I'm not reading it because I want to be able to impress some hipster pseudo-intellectuals, or because it's something you're "supposed" to read. I just want to see what it's all about. Same with Crime and Punishment, which I started recently (but got distracted from and set aside temporarily).

Mostly I would read Tolstoy for the same reason I would read Nietzsche - to break through our regrettable tendency to take the past and its people for granted.

I agree with that, but I find that fiction from (and set in) Victorian era England has been my primary outlet for thinking about and appreciating the past in that regard. That's certainly not to discredit the Russian stuff you speak of, just saying that reading Tolstoy or Dostoevsky or whatever, isn't the only way to tap into that historical perspective.

It's one thing to read about the ideas Nietzsche developed on a Wikipedia article, it's wholly another to read him in his own words and suddenly find yourself thrust into contact with a whole mind, a living, breathing bundle of thoughts and anxieties and dream, a human being palpably aching to find meaning, caught in the middle of one of the greatest social upheavals of human history.

Indeed. I greatly enjoyed reading Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra and have quite a few of his other works on my list.
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I'm pointing out Apple have a long history of doing this with Revision A products, which the Retina MBA is. It's not new, it's not unusual and it shouldn't be unexpected.
"Things are always breaking at YC, because our strategy is to find bottlenecks by hitting them."

Can you share the details of what broke and how?

Even if you won't share your strategies for detecting & fixing the bottlenecks, I'd love some background on what they are.
There isn't really any irony there; it's a direct consequence of the nature of Anonymous.

It's a mistake to attribute any sort of persistent ideology or identity to Anonymous, because Anonymous isn't really a persistent movement or organization. It's really just a label that people often choose to adopt when rallying together anonymously over the Internet. There's absolutely nothing stopping people from using the label for whatever hacktivist cause they want to advance. . . but there's also absolutely nothing stopping people from using it for whatever immature or antisocial behavior they want to get involved in.
You sound like an addict.
Sorry, not sure if you're talking about grabbing the second-hand mini when the time comes or talking about my laptop purchase.

In both cases it's not an issue of price it's an issue of Apple doesn't deserve my money and any transactions that I have to do with them will be solely based on accessing iOS users.
Couldn't you say that of any site though? If you're getting most of your news from a single source...
I'm almost completely sure the Nexus 4 also does wireless charging. The kind of wireless charging where the phone must be on the charging pad.

Is this article discussing the "across the room" type of wireless charging?
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So because they do it all the time ignoring a legitimate issue is now acceptable?
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I think flyinRyan was referring to the second hand mini rather than the Lenovo?
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Kinda defeats the purpose.
When batteries for my 2006 MBP's model had problems, Apple issued a recall. I got a new one in a UPS box that I could use to send the old one back. This cost apple parts and shipping, not even a technician's time. Service like this is much harder to provide if the computers you build are not repairable at all. They created a situation where fixing one problem means exchanging the whole unit. That is their own fault. Are you seriously blaming the customer for wanting a fault fixed in his 3kUSD computer with paid warranty extension?
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When I went to have it looked at, the Apple store employee was fairly sympathetic even though it failed the test (he told me that people do fail it, but that more often than not it's just below the threshold). He told me to keep trying the test at the store until it fails. Whether other Apple store employees will be as sympathetic, I don't know.

Is corporate trying to sweep it under the rug? Maybe. But this is a costly repair for a part that is in incredibly high demand. It's not right and I'm frustrated about it, but I'm not surprised.
This is why I stopped reading MetaFilter comments; it was the same people getting upvoted simply because they had been upvoted before with little to do with the quality or even correctness of their comment. If they came into a post with an opposing view than the previous posters, it all of a sudden became an apology fest and comments began skewing to that user's perspective. When I saw the effect it was having on propagating misinformation and misconceptions, I had to put the keyboard down and walk away.
In any failure or lack of success, it is not the individual who is a failure. It was the event / activity or effort that failed or did not succeed. Similarly the success can be attributed to timing, luck, team, as well as hard work. I feel people to often impose a failed effort on themselves. In my opinion, the real failure is failing to try. Success is when you get up and start again with the pieces you like.
> it's easy (easier than many languages) to slip into
> writing bad Perl

Bad programmers will write bad code no matter the language. I don't like this idea that the language can somehow force people to write better code, or that it should.
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11px should be readable by default. If you zoomed you should change your default settings or get your eyes checked.

Edit: I would also like to point out that HN uses font-size:10pt see: http://ycombinator.com/news.css
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Can you substantiate this claim at all? I'd love to hear how Apple is trying to extort money from coffee shops and grocery stores.
Support? It's a laptop, not an API. The only real support I expect after purchase is warranty replacement for faulty hardware.
> 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 don't think that's quite it. Apple realises there's a problem, and that's why they have the standardised test. I think the real problem here is that Apple's test is insufficient, but they don't know that, so they don't believe their customers when they say they're having still having issues. And that's not reassuring for someone who's just spent a lot of money on a new machine.

Personally, I've never had this issue with my rMBP, but I'm sympathetic with those that do.
Really, I've found the case to be just the opposite.
I have a friend who had a 15" MBP, prob circa 2009. He kept complaining that a pixel would be missing on the screen on occassion. He tried to point it out to me, but it's something I never noticed. He took it to the Apple store multiple times, and they said they fixed it, but nothing was ever changed according to him. Finally, when he took it back one final time, they just replaced it with the newest 15" MBP available at the time.
I was a bit surprised.
Although you might have requirements that aren't met by Apple's products, such as wanting a removable battery, to call them "expensive trinkets" with "no engineering" is absurd.

Apple's work on the unibody case is but one example of how they're pushing manufacturing technology as far as it can go today. Other vendors are content to stamp out the same old plastic clamshell, to fit in the same old motherboard and optical drive, whatever's cheapest and quickest.

With the exception of Sony and HP, few companies even try to do what Apple's doing.
What is the main difference from Twilio? In my perception both services are fairly similar, with Twilio having the first-mover benefits.
I thought Apple got this concept but PR is more than just spinning half-truths on TV to make the company look good. The highest calling of PR is the ability to say "it will cost more than we made selling this thing to fix it, but we need to do it anyway."

Companies that care about their reputations have guys like that head their PR departments and listen to them when they say this.

Frankly, you expect this kind of behavior from companies that are costing on autopilot with no one willing to take responsibility for anything at the helm. It is surprising to see it from Apple.
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>So yes, I think the tax laws need to be better written - but it's very difficult to do so given the historical developments and judicial attitude towards tax.

I think you're hanging too much on the courts. The quote you provided is what courts are supposed to do. The fact that they don't do it in other cases is more of an attestation to the lack of justice available to those accused who lack economic and political power than to anything wrong with what they do with tax law.

The real trouble is that profit-based tax accounting is highly subjective. If it costs you $90 to provide a service that you sell for $100 then you're supposed to pay tax on the $10 of profit. But things only cost what you pay for them. If you're selling for $100 and buying your raw materials from a corporate sibling in a lower tax jurisdiction, what is the "cost" of those materials? The customers are willing to pay about $100 for them; that seems like a reasonable total for the sum of your costs -- if you were making anything more then your powerful multinational supplier/franchisor could squeeze it out of you if you were independent, so the same goes for you as a subsidiary.

Take an example: Suppose you're a franchisee who owns a coffee shop. You have to pay Multinational, Inc. to use their trademark and fly you to their location to get some training. They're in Ireland (or whatever) and pay tax on that money there. By the time you pay them and pay your employees and rent and utilities and all that, you have just enough to pay your own salary. Then you have nothing left as taxable income for Starbucks on Third Street, Inc., but that's perfectly alright with you because you're happy to be making a steady salary, so indefinite corporate break-even is a stable equilibrium.

If Starbucks International then comes in and offers to buy your franchise, it makes no sense for that to change your now-subsidiary's corporate tax liability. And if it did, it just wouldn't happen -- instead of having subsidiaries they would continue to have franchisees "owned" by managers who make no more from the franchise than they could be expected to draw as salary from the manager position.

They call this problem "transfer pricing" -- you get to deduct costs from taxable income, and you get to decide (within reason) how much your costs are. But when profit margins are thin, a (very reasonable) couple of percentage points difference in the cost paid to a corporate sibling can easily erase all of your in-country profits.

I haven't heard anyone come up with a reasonable solution to it, other than to stop trying to tax profit and tax something else instead.
It sounds like you had some bad experiences, but do you really think that Apple makes products with "no engineering applied past experience"? Surely Apple's products have had faults, and it sounds like you've been bitten more than once. I don't blame you for not liking the company or its products. However, there are lots of satisfied customers, and I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who believed that their build process and supply chain is not top notch.

FWIW, whenever I've had any trouble with getting support for Apple products, an email to sjobs@apple.com (now tcook@) solved the problem promptly. In my experience, the company does screw up, but if you bring a problem to their attention, they'll make it right.
Had this happen to my Retina MacBook Pro too. Went to the Apple store and after some pleading was able to get them to place an order for a new one. Two weeks of glazing over staring at ghosts later I go to pick it up. They upgraded the replacement to the largest size SSD for free! It was all down hill after that.

I had to transfer my data from the lemon. The Geniuses on staff were clearly unfamiliar with some of the quirks of Migration Assistant. I offered to do the migration myself if they gave me a Thunderbolt cable. That ends up forcing me to spend another hour in the store, which of course I use to check for signs of ghosting on the new machine.

I run the following command:

ioreg -lw0 | grep \"EDID\" | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6

Like the lemon, the new one is an LG panel as well. Word on the forums is that only the LG panels have the ghosting issue. I ask the Genius if I can swap once more before leaving the store. He says no. I head home anxiously, hoping my screen is pure.

Nope. While it is still one of the best computers I have ever used, it is just unacceptable to be gambling $4000 for hardware I rely on. I will be trying for another exchange soon because there is really no other option, but the standards for "it just works" have noticeably slipped across the company.
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I have the Macbook Pro that keeps making a constant white noise right after the machine boots up. The sound is loud enough when I am by myself that it totally distracts me. I have had 3 mac laptops before and this is the loudest one by bar. After I compared my machine with a close friend who has an exact machine (same late October last year generation), I realized that the machine had some issues.

I took it to the apple store. They said they tested it and could not "hear" the noise. So they wouldn't do anything about it. Yet when I put my macbook pro next to any laptop, everyone can tell my laptop is the loudest.

I have become one of their disappointed customers.
Your assuming based on the title that they have no new ideas. Chances are there is something novel about the patent.
ah thanks for answering the other questions I hadn't gotten around to asking (the reason why it's an orthonormal basis).

I think I need to go home and have a play with this now!
I wonder if they invested beyond the Start Fund
I had honestly never considered such a notion. Considering hard goods for a moment: when I order something from a foreign merchant, I sometimes need to pay import duty. I suppose this line of thinking would have the U.S. collecting the same duty from me as well as levying a tax on the merchant for the privilege of having me delivered as an educated, well-heeled-enough customer?

There aren't (generally!) duties on "imports" of intangible products and services worldwide, but the hard good example makes the notion sound even more absurd. This all reminds me of the crazy "Amazon" rules U.S. states have been setting so as to define affiliates as nexuses for sales tax purposes.
Why can't you get it fixed under warranty?
I can't wait until we get public participate into the patent process. Not that I will participate, but that corporations will have an army of paid people fighting and defending for the public good (and their own good).
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our designer had the same problem: after 2 weeks of usage some dead pixels appeared right in the middle of the retina display. unfortunatly in austria we don't have a apple store - just resellers. he was told that he should try to send it back but that there is a tolerance of pixels that are allowed to be dead, so actually those few dead pixels are tolerable. he decided to send it back anyway, i wonder what will happen...
Apple seems to have pulled back on the whole positive customer experience in store this year, I've had issues with marking below the display surface and they instantly said "not a defect, £350 please", except it looks like the tolerance on my Air is off. It's a shame, they're starting to reduce customer satisfaction in maximisation of profits, rather than increasing profits through customer satisfaction.
Why is it people get all frothing at the mouth angry about Apple's mistakes when they just shrug indifferently the mis-steps of other companies?

I haven't heard people losing their shit because their $4,000 Sony laptop webcam isn't as amazing as Sony promised.
I'm glad the word is getting out about this. Google's abuse of content creators on AdSense has been going on since before they acquired YouTube. As usual, the only way to make any headway with them is to get some media attention.

For anyone considering anything resembling a professional relationship with Google (i.e. you are relying on them for income), make absolutely sure that you have real alternatives that you can move to if/when they screw you. You might think "I'm totally above board here, and have no intention of violating their TOS, so I won't ever have a problem", and you would be wrong. It isn't under your control, so you need to make sure you have a backup plan.

In fact, ideally you need to already have non-Google sources of revenue, so that if Google drops you, you aren't left high and dry until you can switch to something else.
That depends on what you want to show, of course. What kind of example do you have in mind? What kind of information are you showing?

Here are some examples of non-button rectangles:

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/weather-clock/ec...

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/weather/171f3a75...

The differetiators here seems to be that 1) the rectangle is not a square 2) the rectangle has rounded corners

edit: and I guess 3) the rectangle is not "flat", it has a gradient, 4) it's not colored, it's transparent grey, unlike any clickable rectangle in the system. .... (basically, it's fairly easy to differentiate between a clickable square tile and a pure informational rectangle)
Minimisation and avoidance are of course different, for example when minimising or avoiding risk. Part of the issue here is the politically convenient conflating of the two descriptions.

Related to this is your second point, about profits. If indeed a company shows a profit on their yearly profit and loss account, then providing a false declaration to HMRC would be statutorily illegal. You can be sure that HMRC and Companies House will have a look at it, but it's going to be a waste of time for those hoping to find wrong doing, but if there were something wrong their accountants will find themselves with a letter of demand.

There is a great body of precedent in statutes pertaining to the Companies Act, and it is based on rulings not only within the UK, but also from other jurisdictions including the most similar in heritage such as Canada and Australia.

Companies have a duty to further the companies best interests. Usually this means as interpreted maximisation of profit. There are other factors though, including reputation. It is for that consideration that I describe Starbucks voluntary accounts adjustment as one of good will, a valid accounts classification in its own right.
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> I don't like this idea that the language can somehow force people to write better code

Why is this a bad idea? Do you also object to Perl Critic? Or say having a policy of using Perl Critic?
Blind faith in anything is bad. Do you really think only Apple products have (considerable) support?
Ahh yes the unibody which is basically a fucking big short circuit, hence why mine caught fire.

It's engineering, but it's not SOUND ENGINEERING.

I stand by my expensive trinket comment.

Buy a Lenovo T-series and you'll understand.
Keeping an eye on this. The post in question looks like this:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/58607934/Screen%20Shot%202012-12-03...

It has nailed a number of major accounts, including The Verge, USA Today, Reuters and The Daily Dot.

Buzzfeed has tips on how to keep safe: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/hacker-group-exploits-...

Update: The GNAA says that the hack was part of an anti-blogging campaign.

> This was just another part of our "anti-blogging" campaign. GNAA's stance on blogging in general has always been a negative one: in short, blogging is lowering journalistic standards to the point where the number of friends a murderer has on Facebook has become news.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/03/tumblr-cybe...
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The reaction expected from you is rage, and not frustration and helplessness. I don't know of any other company that would kick its customers in the nuts and that too the early adopters.
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msy is not making a value judgment on Apple, he's saying this is nothing new. In contrast to the article:

>I remember an Apple that bent over backwards to understand its customers’ point of view and stretched itself to meet the high expectations it sets.
Possibly, you are right that its in the fact that the test is insufficient. The question is if this is known by Apple or not.

I personally can't see how they could not know, this is not the kind of issue where ppl are going to be blowing there whistle for no reason. So Apple knows there is an issue, if there own tests do not match the numbers of complains(to some degree) even more red flags should be going up.

I am no conspiracy theorist, but there seems to be some valid points in the article.