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I apologize for sounding outraged; I wasn't outraged at the actual events, but the story telling. It's as if someone leaves out critical parts of a story, and you're so engrossed in it that you think: wait a minute, how did that happen? I want to know more, dammit! :-)
> I have no idea why the calendar is in German although the rest is in English

I had the same issue (with a different language). I really hope it's a bug because it makes no sense. Here goes:

In General > International, you can set "language" to english. So far so good. Then you can set "region format" for things like date and time formatting to use a sensible local format instead of e.g. the crazy US date format.

But when you go into Region Format, it turns out to be some sort of weird mix of countries and languages.

If you select a country — e.g. Germany, Finland, Croatia — , you'll get the english dates in the region's format but if you select a language (and possibly a territory for the language) — Chinese > Singapore, Cherokee (United States) or Lingala > Congo Brazzaville, you'll get the date formatted in that language instead, with your specified system-wide language ignored.

By default, you probably have a language selected — I had anyway. I think it's the same setting as in iOS6 but the semantics have changed.

edit: after checking, it worked the exact same way in iOS6 and a colleague (who also updated to iOS7) had the right setting without changing anything, so I guess both TFAA and I had the "wrong" setting in iOS6 and it got ported over to iOS7. Yet as TFAA I was kind-of shocked to see dates in a language different than the rest of the OS in iOS7 even though I apparently did not notice it in 6.
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I've seen my son do it.

But you're clearly a troll.
I dont remember the exact numbers but this reminds of a story in Norway recently where overnight they went from 30% of the population being vitamin D deficient to 90%. The cause of this was a change in the official definition of vitamin D deficiency
at what point does Apple deploy their lawyers
We actually didn't encourage people to choose Macs until very recently, and the ones who have previously made the switch had to fight hard for it internally, since it requires significant expenditure - we basically ditched £2,500 of equipment for each person.

They were just fed up with not being able to use many of our standard internal tools, which were largely built for
Mac. Having to debug and adapt each one for a new OS gets old pretty quickly.
As a study in starting an airline, Richard Branson's biography is well worth a read.
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You pay a delivery delay every time somebody with an Apple device tries to send you an SMS... not great.
Only if you pretend your user is an idiot.

Far better to test, watch, measure and iterate.
On point 2), humans are still very much "social animals", and time and time again I see that business works a lot better face to face, and trust is much more easily gained.

That has been repeatedly established, and there are very strong reasons why people with very limited time still travel a lot of hours to conduct their business.

Not everyone is the same, but it is the norm rather than the exception.

http://www.iacconline.org/content/files/WhyFace-to-FaceBusin...

From the paper:
"From a psychological perspective there are a number of positive features about faceto-face meetings that cannot always be achieved as well via other forms of
communication.

Face-to-face meetings allow members to engage in and observe verbal and nonverbal behavioral styles not captured in most computer mediated communication
devises. There are nuances associated with hand gestures, voice quality and
volume, facial expressions, and so forth that are simply not captured in email
discussion, chat rooms, and the like. Even videoconferencing does not capture all of
the dynamics of group members (e.g. the expression of others while one member is
talking, etc.).

A further advantage of face-to-face meetings is that they occur in “real time” as
opposed to non-synchronized time. Computer mediated communications often are
delayed because of a variety of reasons, not always received, and sometimes
disrupted because of technical problems.

Another feature is simply the fact that face-to-face business meetings provide human
contact among members. Human contact is a primitive need among human beings.

We are social creatures and isolation is harmful. A recent article in the New Yorker
magazine8
discussed the impact of social isolation and concluded that “simply to
exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people” (p. 36). There
is much psychological research affirming this proposition—that individuals need
personal contact with others to satisfy deep primitive psychological needs. Face-toface business meetings help meet these needs. Emailing and even teleconferences
are not as likely to meet these needs, notwithstanding the enormous popularity of
Facebook which basically provides electronic connections between social “friends”.
However, the popularity of this website suggests that people might be even hungrier
for social friends than can be satisfied in their present day-to-day work and personal
lives.

Similarly, business meetings allow participants opportunities to develop important
exchange relationships among themselves. These exchanges can be in the form of
business negotiations, personal favors, promises, understandings, etc. that cannot
often be achieved via other forms of communication because of their personal and
informal nature. One psychological theory that emphasizes this notion is “social
exchange theory” where human relations are viewed as an exchange of rewards
among individuals or achieving equity between “what you put in” compared to “what
you get out” of relationships."

http://www.forbes.com/forbesinsights/Business_Meetings_FaceT...

http://online.wsj.com/ad/article/globaltravel-face
Doctors are overwhelmingly not the reason that this happens. Some are being risk averse (heading off unlikely 2ary bacterial infections to prevent lawsuites) and some are taking the path of least resistance with patients (who will doctor shop until they get some medicine).

This is just my firsthand experience with doctors and anecdotes. _Every single doctor_ is aware know the (lack of) efficacy of antibiotics against viral infections. I'm am completely comfortable with the blanket assertion, and I'm pretty sure you are wrong if you think otherwise.
I wouldn't recommend using a vim distribution. They have some good features but they also tend to add bloat to your vim and make it slow. They also impose a certain workflow which might not be suitable for everyone. I have been using vim full time for more than an year now, I started with an empty vimrc. Now I have about 200 lines, and I added all of them on a need basis. Text editor is the most important piece of software in my workflow (or probably any developer's workflow), so I want it to behave exactly like I want.
To be totally honest, it wasn't until I saw the pronunciation guide that I realized it might be called "horsey books" instead.
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Food is also necessary, but the margins on staple foods are razor thin. It's Econ 101: profits in competitive industries tend towards zero. The only way to make consistent economic profits is to focus on industries where there is (relatively) little competition. One way to do that is ride the wave of a new industry before the competitors have time to pile in. Another is to enter industries where product differentiation plays a major role. E.g. wheat is wheat, but an iPhone and an Android phone aren't totally fungible.

Just look at the posted chart: http://centreforaviation.com/images/stories/2013/jul/05/ROIC....

What's at the bottom? Airlines, electrical utilities, paper, metals, construction materials, and trucking. These are all products that are highly standardized and fungible. You're never going to sell trucking services for 10x cost by making it a "lifestyle brand" the way Ralph Lauren sells jeans for huge margins.
Blackberry just wrote off $900M in unsold devices. That's a much bigger loss.
Sure but as the other poster notes, by the time Final Doom came out the world was already onto Quake.
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You're right, we should never question a business's decisions because they have more data than us and cannot possibly be wrong
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I'm not interested because they didn't make their point with an infographic.
You'll forgive me if I don't put reading someone's email on the same moral plane as the premeditated murder of 12 million people during the Holocaust.
It's more like you meticulously wrote down the contents of the lockers without taking anything at all and then sold the information about what types of clothes people at your gym wear to a marketing firm.
It shows a grounding in reality.

This guy may well be a perfectly responsible entrepreneur, but the fact is that common Chinese business practices can be pretty shocking. My wife in Chinese, her sister works for a bank over there and her husband is a cop. I could tell your stories that would make your hair stand on end, but I don't want to put anyone off ever going there again. I love China, but doing business over there's not for the faint hearted and it's just good sense to be realistic about it.
Same here, gmail addresses of our company were affected
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oh and the newsletter subscribe box is not showing up correctly on firefox. I hope you don't think I'm bashing the project. I criticize because I care :)
The truck analogy wasn’t about internal upgradability, it was about devices running a mobile OS versus devices with desktop OS (notebooks, desktops, etc.). In Jobs’ analogy, the upcoming Mac Pro is just as much a truck as the current one is. However, Steve Jobs didn’t say that Apple would continue selling trucks, just that companies would.

Here’s the full quote:

When you did your presentation on the iPad, you described it as a new category of device, says Walt [Mossberg]. But in order for it to succeed, people have to feel that it’s worth carrying around. Do you think the tablet will succeed the laptop, he asks.

“When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks, because that’s what you needed on the farm. But as vehicles started to be used in the urban centers, cars got more popular. Innovations like automatic transmission and power steering and things that you didn’t care about in a truck as much started to become paramount in cars. … PCs are going to be like trucks. They’re still going to be around, they’re still going to have a lot of value, but they’re going to be used by one out of X people. … I think that we’re embarked on that. Is the next step the iPad? Who knows? Will it happen next year or five years from now or seven years from now? Who knows? But I think we’re headed in that direction.”

http://allthingsd.com/20100601/steve-jobs-session/
I agree that the inclusion of Hammond and Kiriakou does a disservice to the article. Even Swartz gets little more than a cursory mention. Ludlow would have done better to focus exclusively on Manning and Snowden. I suppose he couldn't help citing some of his favorite but lesser-known characters.

But I don't think the author is trying to "thwart any effort to evaluate the impact of the leak as a whole". Maybe you're more familiar with the author's hidden agenda than I am, but this particular article just looks like an attempt to glorify Manning and Snowden's motivations without saying anything, whether positive or negative, about the consequences of their actions. It just isn't within the scope of the paper.

I would love to read some well-reasoned and evidence-based analyses of the concrete consequences of Manning's and Snowden's leaks. But does every op-ed need to be so comprehensive and perfectly balanced? People who are concerned about the deadly consequences of recent leaks should write their own articles, I'd read them too. Even better if somebody posts a (nicely animated, responsive, HTML5, node.js-backed, CSS-only, etc.) infographic of excess deaths attributed to each leak. HN would love that! If the leakers are getting more public support than they deserve, it's only because their opponents have been unable (or unwilling) to publicize themselves effectively so far.
The + sign and nav buttons are "tinted" as red, as are the rest of the app's functions. When overlay UI appears, such color tints become grey. That's consistent throughout Apple's apps -- every app has a colour to tint with.

The green circles shown are the inconsistent buttons. They're trying to do too much, both compensating for the choice of red and encouraging you to click them. Their thick circle borders are redundant, and the lack of consistency on these custom buttons is indeed an issue.

The calendar is probably set to a different language/country's date formatting. That's a feature and is observable in other OSes. (English menu, arabic dates, for example)

The unique bit about alarms -- for iPad only -- is that table representation. They should have cut it out until the next iOS revision.
That is so rough. I don't know exactly what your situation is, but there might still be options. If you're at the dissertating stage, you might have a committee member that is more stoked with stuff you're doing. You might be able to use them as your unofficial mentor to cover for deficiencies in the relationship with your primary advisor.
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I couldn't disagree more. With your line of argument, start ups shouldn't exist because "a dude from his garage cannot be trusted with business info." Anyway The information being asked can very well be bought/scraped if somebody needs to.
Hey Tim, big phone geek here.

I'm assuming this is a quasi-call center environment. Have you thought about how you're going to implement manager eavesdrop and other things of that nature? What you've done is cool, I'm curious about where you're planning to go from here :).
What I liked best about this article, besides the link to the site where the maps are displayed by their creator, was the detailed discussion of how we find out what the geography of North America was millions of years ago, and how radically different it was at times. It was also interesting to learn that petroleum exploration is one of the big interests of people who pay for the maps to be produced.
Good point. Which is evidenced by the fact that many airports aren't really 'in' the cities they are named for. Example: Cincinnati's CVG airport is actually in rural Kentucky. Cheaper land.
Although going big is interesting, I am surprised no one has brought up http://www.surfair.com when thinking about starting an airlines. They seem to be doing well and although i do not have a membership (live on the east cost) I think it would be interesting to do the same thing from DC to NYC to Boston as I would be down for that!
Azure is already in Shanghai and inside of the firewall.
The legacy carriers in the United States (American, Delta, United, US Airways) all have some sort of improved-economy seat with more legroom and/or more recline, and charge a varying premium to book those seats.
You can also disable the simple pin (4-digit) and switch to a real passphrase as the alternative authentication mechanism. So if the touch ID fails for whatever reason, you need to enter that complex passphrase (which should be a rare occurrence). I think that's more secure than a 4 digit pin also, which a friend or attacker could witness you entering from a distance.
iOS7 apps are littered with this kind of stuff. In truth, I doubt iOS7 is any more confusing to a newbie than the original iOS was, and since there's so very little to do in most places, it doesn't take much experimenting to learn. The most grating thing to me at an intellectual level is the lack of consistency, but part of the smartphone experience is using apps which often have their own styles anyway (especially games).

I just tell myself it's all a giant A/B test and iOS8 will consolidate one specific set of styles.
Why do I have to hate infographics again? Let me counter these four points in basic form:

> #4. Most of them focus on form rather than substance

That's true for anything - a web page design, an iPhone UI, a newspaper ad. "Most" of the stuff out there is always going to be average to below average, and infographics are no different. Normal distribution et al.

> #3. One page to tell a story? Really?

I'm not expecting to learn the "story" when I look at an infographic, and I accept that it's condensing information for me so that it's easily consumable (when the infographic is good, at least). If I want to see the most Metallica songs played on tour, I'll check out an infographic about it. If I want the history of a particular song, I'll look elsewhere. Infographics aren't supposed to provide the full story, that's what makes them consumable!

> #2. Infographics ask too much to your brain

See point #4. Pointing to a bad example and treating it like the norm is a very poor way of making a point.

>#1. Infographics are not DYI

Sure, but here's your opportunity for a startup.
Based on the percentage of people I know who use GMail and/or Google Apps, I really feel like they're low-balling the effected population. Just my thoughts.
The difference is that Apple has the money and influence to get what they want, so they're not the ones upset when a particular partner or supplier doesn't play along. It's the supplier's loss.
Yeah, I'm inclined to think that Lenovo is surfing on Thinkpad's stellar reputation that predates the jump in quality Apple gave the industry.

Thinkpad used to be the best laptops on the market, and in many ways they're still kinda like the old thinkpads. But Apple raised the bar and Lenovo didn't bother following the bar up. I've actually found that some of the higher-end Dell devices are the best at being "apple for Win32 users" but the problem is nobody wants to trust Dell because they make so much utter crap.
> The only Thunderbolt port on my 2011 iMac is occupied.

An unfortunate design flaw specifically on LaCie's part. As with FireWire before it, and SCSI before that, Thunderbolt is a daisy-chain interface. Single-port devices in such ecosystems are best considered defective.
I have a hard time believing these statistics. Unless of course the 1.5% happened to be every single person who happened to have a Twitter, HN, Facebook, or Reddit account and was willing to post about it.
Not everybody who owns an iPad has or uses a hardware keyboard. I think most people don't have one, and of those who do, many may hardly use it. I have a bluetooth keyboard for my iPad, but I really hardly use it. I bought it once for a longer vacation where I just wanted to bring the iPad but needed to be able to quickly respond to mails. In the end, I didn't even use it much during the vacation.

What kind of apps, except for text processing like word, number processing like excel, programming editors, or scientific like mathmatica are you thinking about? I think these are the categories where keyboards are really necessary for iPad, but for all others, I think touch input may be the better option (I'll probably have forgotten a couple of niche categories, like music trackers).
Are we still doing the M$ thing? I thought the 90's was more than a decade ago.
The number of people who:

1) Want a Mac

2) Want a desktop, not a laptop (surprisingly many)

3) Can't afford a Mac Pro and a Mac Mini is both scary (no screen? :O) and too small

is fairly large, methinks.

Also, an all-in-one desktop (a box you can plug into the wall that requires no other wires to act as a full machine - cf. laptops) is, from the experience I've had (anecdotal myself too, amongst friends and extended interaction) pretty commonly desirable. :/
Well then maybe if there was some kind of register of the doctors that did in fact practice science based medicine, public trust would be improved, although I imagine there's probably some legal or political obstacle standing in the way of that.
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I love that quote of his, where he says the easiest way to become a millionaire is to start out a billionaire and go into the airline business.
No, the author explicitly recommends against remote work. It's with a caveat of "early on", but in most places that will harden into a general unwritten "no remote workers" policy, as the organization grows and people are afraid to try something different than what has worked so far.

This post is pretty heavy on the "company culture" stuff -- more or less, the idea that you should want to go drinking with your co-workers. People who believe in this don't tend to believe in remote work. I should mention I completely disagree with all this, but I am biased.
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I do. You can't have a broad policy of "non-violent crimes = no jail time" if you do a case-by-case of "who we like" and "who we don't like." Because that's why Weev and other hackers are getting jail time.
I'm very comfortable with this, and find it un-controversial.

Obtaining intelligence on nuclear and space (AKA nuclear delivery systems) is a very valid goal for the NSA to pursue.

Frankly, if the NSA wasn't working for this data, I'd be shocked at their incompetence.
I believe Baldwin's plane was either still at the gate or parked on the runway at the time. He still could have turned it off prior to actual takeoff.
Note that they didn't say 1.5% of users, they said 1.5% of messages were affected.
So this was an account that posted random Tweets, and it somehow has 200,000 followers? Why? What am I missing?
> That's what people who blow up abortion clinics think.

That seems a bit hyperbolic. Blowing up an abortion clinic is a clear, obvious, and directly destructive and violent act. Leaking information may not always be done altruistically, but political motivations or not it's definitely more complex than that.

And while I can see your point, I think you have focused on, relatively speaking, the mundane issues of leaking information rather than the quite significant revelations that have resulted. These things which point to very serious and concerning issues. Not that I want to say the ends always justify the means, but regardless of the means you're going to have to deal with and acknowledge the ends. I can think of nothing less productive in the wake of these revelations than to attempt redirect the focus conversation back to the morality of the leaking itself or the intentions of the leakers. The conversation about what to do about what we now know seems to be magnitudes more important.
A lot of people think that, there are a ton of FAA regs related to seats. Everything has to be tested in crashes. That also why it takes airlines so long to change seats to the new entertainment ones with power and everything. Your seat is your number one safety in the event of a crash. You are actually supposed to use the seat in front of you to brace yourself. It has a certain give to it so you don't run in to a brick wall when you land hard. If seats were easily configurable, every possible combination would need to be tested. Also whenever you do any work on a plane, you must have all of the supporting documentation, just think how long that would take to turn around. Document each bolt that was removed, when it was replaced, where it was..etc.. a lot of hassle.
Exactly. Taxation without representation is extortion.
I stopped using the "Unread Message Icon" a while back because it would often get "stuck". How does a screw-up like this go unfixed for so long anyway? It's been at least a week. It's only a favicon!
Apple lost intuitive when it went to OSX. Things were just there, and worked, menus had understandable names dialogs were terse and to the point. Sometimes it was messy but you never felt lost.
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