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Fraud Apple Care Warranty: "Liquid Damage" Lie
Hey guys,

Has anyone else had a bad experience with Apple Support? My Macbook Air stopped working one fine day, and the Repair Centers refuse to honor the warranty, claiming that there's "Liquid Damage". If I had known about such false claims earlier, I would asked the engineer to open the laptop in front of me. The repair cost asked for is 90% of the cost of the laptop.

How can Apple get away with such outright fraud? I'm 100% sure not a drop of water entered the laptop.

I've read reports on how Apple recently lost a lawsuit[1] because of this "Liquid Damage" bullshit. But, repair centers continue to use this excuse.

What do you guys suggest?

[1]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57586562-37/apple-settles-iphone-water-damage-lawsuit-for-$53m/
"At the end of the day, whatever "innovation" happens with companies like Youtube or Spotify, they make their money selling someone else's creative works"

Not that I necessarily disagree, but the exact same thing could be said about the media companies.

"I think new school media technology companies need to accept that their sole revenue source is derived not from their "innovation" but other peoples' hard work"

Again, it's the same with all media companies. Also, even if Spotify would be value-less without music it does not mean that they don't add any value.
How did you find these? Just curious.
Very timely, congrats, and thanks for the insights! It's quite hard core to go all the way self-published with self-built architecture.

I keep churning a couple of book ideas over in my head, and probably should put them out for testing, to see which one would work in practice.
One about physics in the "Learn X the Hard Way" style, one about Facebook page/group management since that's what I was doing with a bunch of side projects, but it's a very quicksand topic.
https://leanpub.com/u/imrehg

In the meantime, trying to help a friend to turn his paper-book into ebook, which comes with its own can of worms. How to Start a Business in Taiwan https://leanpub.com/startabusinessintaiwan
I want to use this for football! This is a fresh start indeed, to all the sports freaks out there, I think this is something new and exciting.
> Honest question, does 4K and up really make sense for private use ?

For big monitors I think it does. Even if 4k doesn't make sense, the increased bandwidth is a win as the previous HDMI spec couldn't drive a 2560x1440 or 2560x1600 monitor at 60hz, and those resolutions definitely make sense to me for computer monitors.
Cool, now I can go repurchase all my cables. At least they're cheap, right?
Do you mean a next generation rendering technology?
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I'm not too impressed honestly.

120 fps is the minimum for me when it comes to playing games. Then again I was used to 120hz monitors on CRTs in the early 2000s with 0 input lag.

I would only ever consider 4k for normal desktop usage but there's no way I would pay anything for 60 fps and we all know 4k monitors will be stupidly expensive for at least 10 years.
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Does this mean that at some point the calculation of pi digits is halted because they construe a form of copyright infringement?
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I noticed and LOL'd.
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I'd like to see something like this for an authenticated POST, PUT or DELETE request.
"As soon as you get someone who’s never been an engineer making hiring decisions, you need to set up proxies for aptitude. Because these proxies need to be easily detectable, things like a CS degree from a top school become paramount."

No doubt this is true to a some extent, and perhaps even to a large one. But let's not give the HR drones too much credit here.

How many of us have ever had to sift through a stack of 100 resumes or more in, say, a week or less? It's not an easy task. It's especially difficult for hiring managers, because they have day jobs to perform. They may not mean for things like "Google," or "Harvard," or "L33t CS Degree" to become proxies for our honest, thorough, intellectually rigorous analysis of every resume in the pile. But these things become a sort of shorthand.

HR types seem more prone to overemphasizing the letter of the law, to putting pedigree on a pedestal, and to thinking as un-differently as possible. But given a thick stack and a few measly hours, I doubt most of us fare significantly better.

If we're serious about moving toward a better hiring process, we need to start by recognizing the limitations of the resume itself as a normative tool.
I'm not interested in so much finding Mr./Mrs. right. I'm interested in the business problem.

The waves I see coming are: a shift from long term romantic involvement to a trend toward shorter term interactions among my generation, a cultural lack of social stigma in smartphone apps vs. websites for dating, and an opportunity to use data that wasn't explicitly entered by the user for the purposes of impressing a prospective date.

And while no program can predict love, it can reduce transaction costs, from e.g. distance, lack of social network, social anxiety upon meeting new people, etc. That friction is leading a lot of people to sit home alone when two apartments over there's a lovely person who would be thrilled to be out on a date with them. What type of commitment they make from there is beyond the purview of the technology.

All the best to you, your wife, and family. It's fascinating and wonderful to me there are little humans running around very may not have existed without the communication the internet enables :)
Watson inaugurated its first class of social and tech entrepreneurs
Congratulations on launching.

Despite the critical reviews here, you've built something that seems to be attracting users. How long has the site been online, and if that user-count on your homepage is legitimate - what methods have you used to attract your first 100,000 users?
The argument is that there were previous "hook-up"s between Google and vile companies before Nestle, namely Samsung.
Yeah you are right, id definately adore it for computer monitors. Still, mainstream is stuck with 22 inch TN panel 1080p screens which are miserable, but consumer dont seem to really care. Theres only a handful of models that offer more than 1080p resolution in todays market.
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Well, either we find a way to give people what they want, through efficiency or new energy sources, or America keeps bombing the Middle East. And I expect viable fusion to be easier to solve than the politics of a world running out of energy.
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Anecdotally, when I read the copy to my girlfriend, I changed cute/handsome to "attractive."
I think it's a mistake to assume the existing sizes and viewing distances will remain the same into the future. Yes 1080p is just fine when the thing you're viewing takes up 10 degrees of your vision. However, as screens get larger and/or closer, it's actually pretty easy to tell the difference between 1080p and 4k.

I'm really looking forward to getting a 4k computer monitor in the near future, and a 4k tv that's >100 inches in the middle future.
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LevelDB has very few good use cases and this certainly isn't one of them. http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/ http://symas.com/mdb/hyperdex/
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Also, sports has never really been an imperative part of the lives of people. There are plenty of reasons for that. We want to change this status quo in Sports from the grass root level. Playerify is a humble effort from our side to achieve this!
TBH no. But in the livingroom, sitting a couple of meters away from my 42 inch 1080P tv, i can hardly see a difference between 720p and 1080p content. It would make sense for computer monitors though!
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>Help us spread the word [...] make the first move towards a job interview in a discreet way.

That might be a bit contradictory.

Also, it's not clear from your website – do you contact the people I select in step 1 out of band (by e-mail or something) and ask them if they are interested in interviewing any of their LinkedIn connections? How does this actually work, end-to-end?

If you're relying on my contacts also signing up for jobrupt, then, to a close approximation, that's never going to happen.

In a two-sided market like this, and with the anonymity constraint on top, it's really hard to see how it can succeed. Some ideas:

Focus on a niche you can target to get reasonable usage [1][2] (ideally >50% of users who might be selected, but at least 10% might be good enough).

Provide a concierge-type services to job-seekers – track down the people they select then find out if they are offering jobs (its possible but not clear if this is already what you are doing.)

[1] http://joel.is/post/39659497239/how-to-gain-traction-in-two-...

[2] http://cdixon.org/2010/08/21/the-bowling-pin-strategy/
This article barely mentions the incredible efforts of conservationists to maintain the forests. We don't have a lot of people up here who think the best thing for the environment is to leave it alone. We cringe every time we hear of people who call themselves "environmentalists" protest against much-needed preventative fires in California.
this is an extraordinary claim.

stop and think about it for a second.

if it's true, then whatever trait leads one to being punctilious about spelling also makes one a great engineer.

forget the guy who's really good at linear algebra or can write his own compiler ... the guy who is perfect with his spelling will be the better engineer.

I'd love to see more research on this because it would be really fascinating result if true.
Yeah... I'm not usually one to "mean" online, but this is a case where people are really getting ahead of themselves. I mean, throwing up a poorly themed Wordpress template with poor English and disregarding web standards.... then expecting me to trust that you'll do a good job?

I mean, I suppose if I had some random idea I knew I would never develop then 10% of MAYBE something is better than 10% of nothing....
Go ahead and create your Sports persona on Playerify! Feed backs and suggestions are most welcome.
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Call it 20 years.

I'm not saying it would be a necessarily desirable lifestyle mind, but if you're young and all your friends are in the same boat, that much plus a little part-time work was enough to live on, certainly.

The point it, tho', we in the UK could afford that level of minimum income guarantee, as in that's what the welfare state costs right now. If we need more then we'd need to decide where that money was going to come from.
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With stacked navigation allowing lots of open tabs, I hope we can also have efficient maintenance of those tabs. I don't need them to keep running javascript in the background. My machine shouldn't sag under the weight of a few hundred open tabs. After they've been inactive for a while, archive their state to disk and replace the view with a screenshot. Pull everything back into ram when I go back to the tab. If I take a second or two to look at the page before I try to interact with it, I won't notice a difference.

Let me whitelist a few exceptions, like gmail.

Built-in buttons to save/bookmark all open tabs would be nice too. And when saving a page, if there's a page title use that as the filename.

Optional feature: insert a meta tag to the html that gives the url of the page, so when I mention it online I can dig up a link to it, without having to bookmark in addition to saving.

Also I'd like a complete implementation of Vim and a pony.
Australian website, there's nothing forcing them to do anything.
You could set it up on a tablet.
It always seemed strange that monitors aim for 60fps. That seems like a recipe for input lag. They could aim for 90fps, because when they fail to meet that, at least they'll still achieve 60fps.

Then again, the audience of hardcore gamers who would notice that sort of thing is probably small, so I guess it makes economic sense.
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Sure - give it a try.
It would be great if you can bring along your pals.
Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, more than three layers deep is our highest priority, along with offline mode.

And you are right, I meant "depth-first"; makes more sense.
interesting concept of institutionalizing (to a degree) the development of entrepreneurship but in a different manner than classical upper education.
What exactly does "power emailing" mean to you? Is it the ability to send a lot of short emails quickly? Is it the ability to email while seeing emails come in?

From my perspective the new compose modal window removes power from the user. Instead of having all of the formatting tools and options open and ready to go, you've got to expand the window the see them. You've got less screen real estate to work with and even on the reply window you have to click on the formatting icon to get the formatting tools even though there is plenty of room to just show the tools in the first place.

Making users click more to complete a task is not bad if there is a good reason to do so. Forcing users to click more because you hid important functionality to save room that is not used for something else doesn't make sense. You've added load to the task for virtually no gain.

I guess if short, rapid fire emails are the primary mode of usage for a user the new compose UI works great. I'd imagine the vast majority of gmail users do not send a high volume of emails per day, and the old compose UI worked fine while surfacing all of the functionality they needed.
In my entire HN history I have never seen a sentence and a link posted more than this "no money changed hands" one.
It's true. I would not hire myself as an engineer for TrialPay.
I disagree. First, how do you think people usually decide to date other than by appearance? Most people in real life do not fill out a form to see if they are mutually compatible before they go out. "Hey, you're cute, I like you, let's go out."

Second, the wording is actually good as "cute/handsome". These are words that have a positive association with image without being sex-driven words, and aren't overly powerful towards seeming like a line.

Also keep in mind it's a mutual interest feature. Only once both people have listed each other as cute/handsome is a person notified, so it shouldn't result in negative behavior.

But you're right - there could be lots of reasons for interest other than attraction. Those can be individual features, like "There's someone who likes your taste in music" or "There's someone that wants to invite you to a FB event". The tool could probably be best served by allowing for a mix of these, so while Phil is attracted to Jackie's book smarts, Jackie is attracted to Phil's interest in social justice.
Unless, of course, you're doing polyphasic sleep, in which case eh, maybe?
Well, marketing works it seems.
This is esp. true for dynamically typed languages.

An IDE helps a lot more deterministically for a static typed language like Java.
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I picked up the Pragmatic Programmer some time ago and among the great lessons it had, the one that sticks with me every day at the code editor is: You spend far more time reading your code than you will writing it.

With that in mind, it makes it easy to write tests and more comprehensible variable names (still thinking and re-thinking how to best do documentation...was checking out github's Ruby guide and Tomdoc yesterday http://tomdoc.org/)
Your mileage may vary. I've never been a drag and drop sort of fellow, but I did start using three-finger swiping to move tabs around in my browser when that feature was introduced.
Most certainly right, but i really think sizes of >50 inches wont be mainstream for a long time, if ever. That means huge devices will be low volume and high price. You can see this in the PC monitor space already, as theres basically nothing happening as most people seem to be happy with their 1080p 22-24inch screens. My two 24inch 1920x1200 Dell from 2006 are still better than most of the TN panel Full-HD crap you can buy today, which is pretty sad.
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You are wrong. Jason's work discredits him rather well without any need for me or anyone to resort to personal insults.

As for substantial criticism of gmail's new UX, why rehash what has been already discussed over and over again here and everywhere? just google for 50+ well thought out blog posts and comments to those blog posts and google forum discussions.

I'm sorry if you are a googler and feel the need 'to circle the wagons' out of misplaced loyalty. Or if you fail to see that it is pertinent to mention the person responsible for the changes out of a perverse sense of 'white knighting'.

Now please downvote this to prove how intelligent you are.
You're young, motivated, and determined to forge your own path in life. That's a good thing. I will, however, gently remind you that you are still a teenager, and thus, you are not exactly alone in your desire to be a nonconformist. I can only advise you to learn how to conform, even if you don't want to, because, despite what you may currently think about success, you need more than desire. You need other people.
It came out a little while ago, so it only supports 30fps at 4k, but this 39 inch 4k monitor is decently reviewed, and only $700: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00DOPGO2G
I hope this is not going to be a trend because I find it ridiculous.
Frankly I'm surprised by the popularity of this post. :)

It seems there is a big demand for knowledge about how the web actually works under the hood. I will make some time to describe the other HTTP verbs, and not necessarily in the context of Shelly Cloud. It will probably be a longer blog post anyway, with diagrams to describe the concepts. Hmm, a good topic for a presentation perhaps?
A feature film could easily have a hundred different layers of audio at any given time, maybe more. The storage requirements would be INSANE.
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Azure has had a node.js CLI for awhile and it's awesome. It's advertised for Mac/Linux, but I use it on Windows all the time.

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/nodejs/how-to-guid...
Author of the original post here. I agree completely and recently wrote about this problem: http://blog.alinelerner.com/silicon-valley-hiring-is-not-a-m...

TL;DR It would be awesome if candidates had the option to do a coding assignment and submit a writing sample in lieu of a traditional resume/cover letter.
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It doesn't "just happen" to have the same table of contents, but was directly copied and is therefore a copyright infringement.
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Once upon a time I hacked something like that into TVTime (http://tvtime.sf.net) that constantly updated a delay effect I'd modified on my SB Live 5.1's emu10k1 DSP.
2 things:

- Jump Desktop works _a lot better_ than anything else in my experience (I live inside an iPad hooked up to XRDP)
- Android terminal bindings are perfectly OK in https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androi..., so I'm curious as to what exactly was the problem you had (I also have an ODROID-U2 which I use as both an RDP client and an SSH/tmux client with extra smarts)
90hz aiming for 60hz is terrible. You're either getting 45 (not 60) or horrible microstuttering.
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Most of the native apps that I use don't serve ads and they don't pull in third-party resources from the web.
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Yeah, right, I didn't see the external variable. I might as well go ahead and delete the comment :P
Seriously ? Another 60hz standard ? Even if you consider 60HZ enough, consider at the least 3D screens ... that needs 120HZ !
I thoroughly enjoyed it. So maybe I'm the target audience? Although honestly how anyone could not already be in love with the peanut butter Kit Kat chunky is frankly beyond my ability to comprehend.
Yes, a great interview question. And it's quite surprising how many devs do not know those things and still manage to build successful web applications, if not necessarily the most performant/secure/maintainable.
Tabs that are not visible are generally "frozen" (timers limited) by Chrome. I wonder if it's a Chrome or Content API feature. In any case, archiving tabs to disk makes a lot of sense!

A web-based implementation Vim is probably the hardest!
So, no visual difference. And no functional difference, as he took a shot and it went fine (so, I presume it synced before those 2 months passed?). That leaves a shorter expected life-without-malfunctions time for a cheaper price. Now, if they'd be only be properly labelled as clones...
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Don't forget about too and to! You wouldn't want that one to slip on through.
Thanks - well I can still use all the performance bumps from the add-ons even if I stay in 10.7, but I'll let you know how it goes with 10.8 to start with.
Great to see swarm robotics combined with crowd-sourcing - such a natural fit.
In an age where word processors highlight mistakes and offer suggestions, errors of the kind that would be caught automagically are akin to checking in code that doesn't compile.

I don't really care about email (esp. if written on a phone) but a CV is, as others have said, a formal document.
Edinburgh uses them quite a bit. The problem is that these mean a different way of traffic flow. Usually, you do asynchronous switching, meaning all in one direction, then all in the other etc. Here however, you have to switch differently. All directions pedestrians → Car direction 1 → Car direction 2 (or have loads of cars that want to turn block each other in the middle of a junction.)
Or print them out and store them in a bank safe...
This is also why most LCD manufacturers use low quality TN panels. A majority of people just can't tell the difference, don't care enough or they don't care about things like viewing angles.

LCD manufacturers in general are really crooked. They have been accused and found guilty of price fixing on multiple occasions.

They also love to release monitors with high quality panels initially so they get good reviews and swap in garbage panels without letting consumers know and then sell it for the same price as the same model.
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I moved to Firefox from IE in 2004 for the same reason I moved back from Chrome to Firefox recently. Chrome has increasingly agitated me as options and features were removed or hidden, then the stability and responsiveness took a nosedive. I wrote about it: http://mkronline.com/2013/03/28/i-switched-back-to-firefox-a...
I'm not sure I see this as anything more as a co-branding strategy.
I'd be curious to see what the opt-out rate on the new compose UI was. I like to adopt new UI improvements but that was one of the few that I immediately hated and switched back. I wonder if this feature was liked more or less than some of Google's other UI changes.

I get the feeling that Google is ignoring user feedback for some of these types of thing so they can push users towards their corporate goals. Youtube badgering people to switch to their Google+ username is a good example. Clearly a lot of people don't want to do that, yet they persist.
That's an astoundingly crap argument.

You are saying that using he as a default isn't sexist because it is a default.

However saying that a default position is a default position tells us very little indeed and nothing whatsoever about if that default position is sexist.