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>great way of squashing those pesky product leaks from contractors

They will still not be doing the manufacturing themselves - so there will still be contractors just that they will be a new set of US based contractors that can be better controlled because they are based in US vs China.
I got 50GB for signing up with my android a while back, and I haven't seen a bill yet.
And to add a contrarian-contrarian voice: Similar day-time photos make the earth look almost entirely uninhabited. Not trying to make a point either way, but I find the contrast fascinating.
The biggest hope for US manufacturing repatriation is robotics. Unfortunately, it's not going to help with our unemployment issues. Even Foxconn made some noise recently about replacing their employees with robots, & if the math works for them over there, you can easily see why it would be a no-brainer over here.

I'd be curious to hear how many units those lines will produce & how many employees will be needed to man them.
in the discussed context, Ubuntu is the only example.
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As has been discussed multiple times on here and the original link, revenue != profit. Given the margins a company like Best Buy has to run to maintain competitive, it's almost assured that they made less than $27MM in profit off the program. Let's not forget that $5MM of that is non-compensatory damages, which are designed solely to punish the perpetrator (hence the term punitive).
I think that is very wise. I grew up in Toronto, where programmer salaries were low and cost of living was middle-to-high. There used to be a wall around 60-80K per year. I moved to the US to regions where salaries go north of 100K easily. In the grand scheme of things, this was not an improvement. My cost of living increased drastically (paying 2700 in rent for an apartment). I always imagined having a house and kids at this stage in life. Financially, both seem like stretching it.
Nice writeup, I'm a fan of FreshBooks on the web. You guys should add better keywords for your app so your customers can find you:

vat,gst,bill,receipt,budget,report,finance,income,customer,profit,business,money,crm,ocr,pdf,bookkeeping,estimate

I'd generated these keyword suggestions with a tool we'd built for my startup at https://appstorerankings.net
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Sell it before it depreciates further, buy a ThinkPad with half the change and go on holiday for a couple of days?
This is what I want to see. I really think the reliance on Asia as a centre for manufacturing is a mistake in the long run.
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I'm willing to bet the $5MM in punitive damages put Best Buy squarely in the red if they weren't there just after the $22MM.
> All I'm saying is that I don't see any value in reading it, particularly not in the context of HN.

OT: Do not read the article. Furthermore, do not comment on the article, nor should yo up vote it. If you feel the article violates some aspect of HN, flag it.

However, if your reason for commenting is to just say: "I don't see any value in reading it, particularly not in the context of HN." then you are not contributing. You are, by admission, contributing less than the article you are commenting on.

This is not an attack. Merely an observation. You value the quality of HN. Be the quality. Don't be the problem.

On another note. You say:

"I'm not one to judge opinions."

But then you go on to judge the article, an opinion, and it's worthiness:

"All I'm saying is that I don't see any value in reading it, particularly not in the context of HN."

> Or, maybe it's just me, and other people really feel enlightened and satisfied after reading this article... :-/

People enjoy different things. You do not want to judge, so don't. =) The best thing you can do to promote what you want to see on HN is to promote those very things. Spending time contributing to things you don't enjoy does not help.
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Most of the implementing in software is not conducted as engineering, it's conducted more like research. "Reinventing the wheel" actually means a (potentially better) retake on the same problem. It means the fact of questioning the existing things which is never bad, it only gives the chance of changing them with new better ones or just to validate their existing value.
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> I'd say any government willing to break so many of it's own laws is the problem.

And when the breaking of laws becomes too onerous or attracts too much attention, they simply change the law to make their behavior legal, e.g. NDAA in the USA.
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Why shouldn't Apple protect its intellectual property? The game is what it is until Congress changes it, not Apple.
Emergency doors (not "exterior doors" as a whole) are to open out because there might be a barrage on them in an emergency. Your house door isn't likely to experience a barrage (or rather, the fire code forbids you from having too many people in your house, partly because it isn't fitted with proper emergency exits for crowds).

This has nothing, what so ever, to do with whether or not a door is intuitively designed. Also, whether or not you lose a second opening a door is irrelevant (and you've just given the excuse for 1990's enterprise software UX - as long as it's possible to complete a task, who cares if it's easy or intuitive. Everyone, it turns out, but it took a while to hammer that point int).

The point is that "we" have the knowledge to design a door that is clearly and immediately usable (without losing a second) by anyone who's ever used a door - but sometimes "we" apparently chose not to use it. That is the conundrum outlined.
The RIM situation was even worse than you describe. It was actually very similar to Nextel's earlier fast rise and collapse.

They saw erosion in their enterprise sales, but missed the fact that the superior web browsing experience and eventually applications on the iPhone was driving folks away. They honestly thought that their keyboard was still a key differentiator that folks cared about.

So they stuffed the channel in the low end of the market, and pushed the cheap text messaging of BBM as the core offering. Suddenly sketchy cell phone kiosks are pushing BlackBerries, and they became the new T-Mobile Sidekick. Just like with Nextel, that low end push tainted the brand, as thugs and drug dealers learned quickly that BBM (like DirectConnect) was initially not interceptable.
One possibility is that they know they can dominate the supply chain so effectively, they can make more per unit than a competitor could if they (the competitor) followed suit.

Similar to when Gmail came out and people were blown away that they offered 100MB of storage, and everyone (Yahoo, Hotmail) had to step up despite their far larger userbase. Then, when they finally matched Google, Google raised their cap to 1GB.

In this case, manufacturers will have to work hard to match Apple's bring-mfg-to-the-US actions, but won't even be on the same playing field, since Apple's worked so hard to maximize the efficiency of their supply chain.
Lets address the "facts" you posit.

1. Recent releases of OSX have sucked more than earlier releases? Can't agree with that. I've used OSX since the beta days, and both Lion and ML are far more polished and usable. OSX was like a breath of fresh air compared to OS9, so of course it "felt" better. But there were tons of bugs that have slowly been stomped out. You may not like some of the current features of OSX ML, but the previous versions aren't unequivocally better.

2. Hardware lockdown. I have fond memories of using a kitchen knife to open up a Mac mini to replace memory. Yesterday I bumped my 2012 mini to 16GB with a simple twist. The Mac Pro is the same as it was when released. Some of the notebooks are more accessible, some less so. Replacing the hard drive on my wife's G4 powerbook involved something like 30 screws, and hoping that I didn't bend anything out of tolerance. Today that's far different; even the MacBook air has fewer parts and steps involved.
I agree that Github offers superb code browsing, and their issue tracker seems to be reasonably usable for small projects.

However, I fear that Github's issue tracker might not work at scale. I closely follow just one "large"[1] project that's hosted on Github; most of the developers on that project are accustomed to Bugzilla. Now I've never even used Bugzilla myself, but here are some things off of the top of my head that I remember them longing for:

1) The ability to attach files to issues.

2) The ability to denote dependencies between issues and generate dependency diagrams.

3) The ability to assign priority to issues (achievable using tags, but perhaps there's some advanced functionality I'm not aware of).

4) Ability for users to vote on which issues are most important.

5) Advanced search options (sometimes just having even basic search would be nice... half the time I have better luck searching their issues via Google than using Github's own search tool[2]).

6) A responsive web front-end.

The reason that they use Github's built-in issue tracker in the first place is because everyone and their mother has a Github account, so it lowers the barriers to entry for filing a bug report. And there's no question that they've benefited enormously from this, and the user-engagement that it enables. But the detriments to productivity are real, and the advantage of Github's network effect hasn't stopped them from repeatedly considering migrating their issues to Bugzilla.

And I don't think it would kill Github to abandon their "tags fulfill EVERY USE CASE" position and bake in some more features for advanced users, especially if they hope to capture a bigger share of the more "serious"[2] projects out there (which would only be to their benefit, considering that "serious" projects are the ones that are willing to buy paid accounts for all the users in their organization).

[1] "Large" in this case meaning: hundreds of Github forks, thousands of Github stars, hundreds of thousands of lines of code, a half-dozen full-time developers, and, most pertinently, several thousand issues (and growing at an increasing rate).

[2] Case in point: I just now tried to search for the issue wherein I offered to do the legwork of migrating their database to Bugzilla should it come to that. The title of the issue contains the word "Bugzilla". The text of the issue itself contains the word "Bugzilla" multiple times. Several of the comments contain "Bugzilla". And yet a search for "Bugzilla" using Github's issue search tool reveals only one issue, completely unrelated to the issue I was looking for.

[3] "Serious" in this case meaning: a codebase with hundreds of thousands to millions of users, dozens of full-time developers, and hundreds of thousands of issues.[4]

[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=800000 [5]

[5] Help I've gone mad with footnote power [5]

[6] While you're here, fun fact: I once went looking for the Github project with the largest number of total issues, and here's what I eventually settled upon: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues
Missing from the list: cross-border "information sharing."

If your data lives in "the cloud" (and possibly another country), a mutual exchange of information on each nations' person of interest need not violate any local laws. I don't have any statistics at hand for this one, but hey, if it works for torture why not data?
> they /really/ lost me at the drop of the MacbookPro17"

I feel your pain! It was the only laptop with enough screen real estate and power to work as a desktop on the road.

But lately with the increasingly draconian carry-on restrictions I've downsized my luggage, and turns out my MPB17 just barely doesn't fit in a 16x13x7 bag (that fits in the new commuter jet regs). The MBPr15 fits, has more screen res, and is lighter. So I had been planning an upgrade. If the new MBPr13 had dual graphics I'd be willing to even go with that as it would fit in my puddle jumper bag's outside pocket.

But... This past year the outsized MBP17 had me trying out my iPad 3 instead, and now I'm not sure I need a laptop for travel at all.
Don't let your product passion be silenced
The split-apply-combine framework dealing with group by tasks (http://www.jstatsoft.org/v40/i01/paper, not that there aren't other precedents) for one. But generally, Wes has used R to figure out what people want to do, and then ported an elegant interface to python.
Lenovo exec: We didn't realize how big touch would be
Box.net runs this type of promotion regularly. I remember, I got 50GB free lifetime (till company survives) account by signing up using their iPad app.
That sounds amazing. Could you explain how you set up your hedge, and why it doesn't cost you anything? I'm just starting to learn about option strategies.
I read about it in one of Steve Yegge's Emacs posts. Now I use it everywhere!
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Polarized comments? Usually it's all the apologists and me in there. I didn't know there was anyone else who wasn't an apologist for copyright infringement. Nice to meet you
It's like any time Anita Sarkeesian is mentioned on reddit, and people take 7000 rageful comments to convince themselves a problem does not exist.
Votes of interest, not necessarily approval of the thesis. That's what's wrong with HN voting ;-)
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Don't forget "10% of a UNIX manpage typed out in hipster compatible phraseology and intimated like it's forbidden knowledge."
Or the the rising wages in China means that building a fully automated line isn't as cost-prohibitive as it was in the past. And with states/cities throwing tax incentives at companies it doesn't matter where the automated line is so long as it can be integrated into the supply chain easily.

It's likely a combination of lower volume, like you state, cheaper automation, rising wages and some political incentives like tax breaks, etc.
Filling my car up never bothered me personally.

I suppose my thinking is just that while most of the time it will be fine, you won't have to look that far or try that hard to find a journey that would need a recharge to complete. Visiting friends, let's say. Now, what are your options? You could visit the super charger, which could work, but that assumes there is one nearby! (There are currently all of six, and all in California as far as I can tell. Yes, there will be 150 in 2015, they say - but it is 2012.)

You could find a car charge point. They're also somewhat rare, though certainly more common than the super charger, and, currently, have inevitably lower throughput than a petrol station. So it may take longer to find a free one.

You could use a plug. Better hope you're visiting somebody who doesn't live in a flat, or who has nearby parking on the street! Also, now you're hitting up your hosts for the cost of your transport. And let's hope it's not a big get-together, and everybody else lives nearby :)

(Or, if you're staying at a hotel, expect to pay for the use of their electricity the same way you pay for the use of their phone and their drinks cabinet. If you're taking your children somewhere child-friendly, you should probably expect similar mistreatment. And so on.)

I am vaguely negative based on the current situation, and I don't really trust grand claims about the future. But should the outlook change, I will be sure to change my tune accordingly. I have no particular desire to spend more on transport than required, nor do I have any specific emotional attachment to the internal combustion engine.
The big limitation is that each file can't have a size larger than 100 megabyte.
that's going to be the extra extra premium pricing line?
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Some comments are mean because the poster is a jerk. But some of the most valuable comments you will get are angry diatribes from people who probably saw potential in your idea but were disappointed for some reason. These are well worth tuning into. The worst type of comment is the one that wasn't made because no one gave a damn one way or the other.
It will almost certainly be the iMac. They already assemble and build some of their 21.5" iMacs in the U.S.
With a traditional IDE, you have to install it everywhere. With me, that would be a half-dozen computers, with 500MB lost on each one. With Cloud9, it's installed on the server and I can access it anywhere there's a net connection. Updates are centralized, you only need to do it once.

And it's funny, but the IDE is actually more performant in the browser. Well, I was using Aptana before, which is essentially Eclipse and that's known to be slow.

Also, it just feels natural to have your IDE right next to the end product. IDE in one tab, web app in the other.
Upgradeability != repairability.
I found it funny that your background was the opposite of mine. I was in love with Economics in high school and undergrad. But when I took my first programming course in undergrad, I slowly shifted away from a B.A. to B.Sc. Btw, my primary attraction to CS was that I could create things in software. In grad school, I tried to merge my love for econ with CS .. it made for good CS work but no contributions to Economics. Funny how life turns out :) Best of luck to you!
I would add regular expressions and anonymous functions to that list.
Also, I don't know, wouldn't somebody who built a sales channel (whatever that is) in the past have done so with completely outdated methods? Presumably fax machines and telephones?
An (fired) intern working on that process using xxx placeholder? Only thing I can think of that makes sense..
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Actually, even TAB should trigger auto-complete, but the server seems to be down. :-(
I suspect this will be the mac pro line. This is probably the reason for the 2013 mac pro quote from Tim Cook.
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I sort of agree with the inconvenience with pop-ups. Can't you selectively enable them for some web sites?
Balanced rocks. JW was super helpful and they are willing to work with us to fit our needs. Looking forward to launching with them....
This isn't my argument -- I've never taken this approach -- but if the need came up, it would never go into source control; it'd only be there long enough to run test suites locally and find the broken code that needed fixing.
"Show HN: Bluestrap, a Twitter Bootstrap theme with more blue"
Basic strategy (there are others): I own stocks in 100 chunk blocks. I then buy the exact same amount of -15-20% puts to cover my downside risk and simultaneously sell the same amount of ~+10-20% calls and use their premium to make the insurance free.

My portfolio value, if hedged perfectly and fully backed with cash is now locked to +/- ~20% (depending on IV) at little to no cost.

More here: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/optioninvestor/09/asset... || http://www.theoptionsguide.com/the-collar-strategy.aspx || http://www.theoptionsguide.com/costless-collar.aspx || http://www.advisorperspectives.com/newsletters10/Risk_Manage...

Mark Cuban used this to stay a billionaire through the dot-com crash: https://www.quora.com/How-did-Mark-Cuban-survive-the-dot-com...
Please stop with the "geeks and normals" meme. It does nothing but make you sound elitist.
Can you only access the 25 GB Box account via the Hoijoki dash or is it just a regular Box account?
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And I was being a bit silly.
Perhaps he found the clone and liked it. It is possible he had no idea what svbtle is. It's also possible he does not care.

Knowing he is not in svbtle does not make you smarter.
Slightly off topic: Are there no male executives left in the world? All that politically admirable use of 'she' was linguistically very jarring, and an unnecessary distraction from a fine article. Have we not pretty much agreed on 'they' as being the gender-neutral acceptable alternative to 'he'?
Don't forget, "Why all MBAs should be forcibly relocated to a deserted island with no food or water."
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The interesting part of this case for me is that it underscores the tremendous differences between the US justice system and those of the rest of the world. In New Zeland, Kim Dotcom seems to at least be getting a fair chance. Their government seems to be willing to admit when it makes mistakes, and their judges seem apt to attempt to make amends when mistakes occur.

By contrast, in the US, all of the issues he has brought up so far would be dismissed by judges claiming they were harmless error because they are unlikely to affect the question of guilt or innocence. Of course, there is also no possibility of someone being sentenced to life in prison for stealing a piece of pizza in NZ either, which has happened and does happen frequently here in the US. It's sad to say, but other countries are making the US look less and less civilized every day.
No. In the BusinessWeek interview this quote is pulled from [1], it's clear he's referring to wanting other companies to emulate Apple's increased transparency in supplier relationships and working conditions. In a follow-up question, he says:

"Our transparency in supplier responsibility is an example of recognizing that the more transparent we are, the bigger difference we would make. We want to be as innovative with supply responsibility as we are with our products. That’s a high bar. The more transparent we are, the more it’s in the public space. The more it’s in the public space, the more other companies will decide to do something similar. And the more everybody does it, the better everything gets.

It’s a recognition that we need to be supersecretive in one part about our products and our road maps. But there are other areas where we will be completely transparent so we can make the biggest difference."

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/85170-tim-cooks...
Indeed:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57556674/patriot-act-can...
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I bet it'll be the next Mac Pro. Low quantity, highly priced.
We were trying an idea, and thankfully we failed early.

I talked to a recruiter, had a job within a week or so. There are other start-ups that started about the time we did that are still slowly failing, so I think an early exit (even if it was a parachute) was a good one.
I could tell it was fake because the Elon Musk link wasn't in the top 3. ;)
Any reason this is limited to "large enterprise only?"
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Is this like Google Wave? I watched the video in the tour page and I'm still not exactly clear what it is.
> Someone posts a "Show HN" doesn't mean you get the right to walk all over it.

the right definitely exists and should be cherished. I agree that being nice is a nice goal but I also love unfiltered honest feedback like you can easily get from this community.
Direct link to the Bloomberg interview:

http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/85170-tim-cooks...
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There was an article posted here yesterday about General Electric moving home many manufacturing positions. Their plants which at their peak employed 20k people had dwindled to just 1,300 or so. In the process of moving the jobs back they've swelled up to 3k.

While moving these jobs home will never make the US a manufacturing giant again due to advances in productivity, robotics and other areas it certainly will create valuable jobs at home.

Though, that article argues that the real value of the move home is in the ability to get manufacturers, designers and others as close as possible.
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