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True... but every phone out there has a plethora of cases available for it. Customers have accepted that a case is a necessary accessory and indeed it's a way to personalize their devices. That's why someone can make a living selling cases in a kiosk at the mall.
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The Notes are plastic. They'd flex but would be unlikely to deform in any permanent way unless held like that for a long time I'd imagine.
I have a lot of bones to pick with Samsung, but one thing they excel at is rugged devices. They use hardy materials and thick glass.

I have a 3-year-old device that's incredibly slippery and have dropped it hundreds of times without a scratch on the glass. For comparison, I shattered a Moto G inside of a month.
We have seen this before. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/260526?tstart=0 Put a think computer in your pocket, bend, and it will bend. Get a case or protect it. I have had an iPhone since the 3, never used a case, only broken one iPhone by being extra careful.
And certainly not load it over http.
I agree that a Free Tier is the best way to get you to adopt a tool. I'd love to build and test at very small scale, then start paying when I've launched and scaling.
Thanks so much for the explanation!
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Seems they're taking a page from Loblaws and PCFinancial.

http://pcfinancial.ca

I havent worked at Loblaws for a long time, but I still use them.
ruby-lang.org does not mention an explicit 2.1.4 release. This is a "stable-snapshot".
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Is the back plate on that metal or plastic? It's the metal back that is bending and then staying bent, while plastic will bend and then return back.
I thought iPhones were normally designed to feel heavier (and therefore more expensive) than other phones. The 6 and 6+ both weigh more than the 5s, although I'm not sure how it "feels" given the bigger size (I haven't held one yet).
> The entire internet community

I wouldn't call some bored internet-addicted teens and college cynics "the entire internet community." Just because some opinion is upvoted on sites like reddit, doesn't mean its some sample of the general population or the general internet population. College identity politics and extreme political correctness rules the internet, because that's the politics of those who spend the most time on the internet posting opinions. Its not a mainstream view, in my experience. I think you'll find a lot of ISRO fandom and well-wishers out here. The idea that the developing world shouldn't be performing "great works" is asinine and anti-progress.

Unfortunately, acting cynical and world-weary is going to be popular with young people because it imitates wisdom, but imo, its probably the worst attitude a young person can have. If you're not enthused and motivated you're just not going to be accomplishing anything. I often need to aggressively park my inner critic and gen-x "who cares" or "that's stupid" attitudes. These attitudes been a huge disservice to me my whole life. When I see others engaging in this type of cynicism, I really do pity them because life has so much to offer if you look at it the right way.

>I am a very proud Indian today.

You guys should be proud. This is an incredible achievement, especially when you consider the cost and difficulty of the mission.
The use of "smart" to mean "act like a complete dick" is something that makes me incredibly angry when I encounter it.
Or adds the wrong thing. Go team A, we're better than team B stuff is not that productive.
for #1, it could be fast, but the problem they're running up against is that the data appears to be held up by a single bottleneck, similar to pre-sharded database setups. in this case, their filesystemdb is hitting the limits of too many connections saturating much of their disk's i/o.

a possible way of approaching that problem is a divide and conquer approach with a reverse proxy that assigned manageable chunks of their content across numerous machines each serving less than millions of pages. the nyt already has a /<yyyy>/<mm>/<dd>/<section>/<subsection>/<slug> url scheme which would make this less painful.

I'm not sure how inefficient this would be, though, certainly a time investment, but it ends up offloading your disk i/o/ issues by creating more and more s3 buckets (or what have you) and routing via a proxy. i'd be curious to see when s3+cloudfront-as-host becomes too slow simply because of disk i/o limitations, although s3 almost certainly has its own abstraction above the bucket i'm not aware of which mitigates that.

it still doesn't address the serious and complex frontend issues they were facing, which seemed much more onerous to be honest. their server rendering seems to be pretty lean though, it looks like dom processing and client rendering make up easily 80% of their 3.6s pageload time.
The article has been updated to say front or back trouser pockets, I quote:

"Even the most recent smartphones are not designed to be put in trouser pockets - front or back - where they are going to be under the most chassis strain. And this just illustrates the fact that the public's desire for manufacturers to strive for ever thinner and lighter devices means that we are getting ever more fragile devices.
> Joke aside, this is something that Apple needs to quickly address without putting customers at fault. You cannot just tell the customers not to put their phones in their pocket.

They cannot address the issues for existing devices and all devices that are in the pipeline. Users on backorder could cancel their orders, but most won't do that, so why should they bother? In a year people will be joking about not buying first generation Apple devices and that's it.
Not completely. The first set of APIs won't let you provide your own content - it will let you play with the Q&A API (and also do a lot of other fun things not directly related Q&A). The instance you will get access to through the application will let you provide your own content. We are working hard to make that available as self-service but that's going to take a little more time.
The trend is towards thinner and lighter.

The trend is towards a comfortable size, beyond which thinness stopped being a big selling point. The Galaxy S5, for example, is thicker than the Galaxy S4. The Note 4 is thicker than the Note 3.

Contrary to common notions, Apple occasionally chases specs, and the thin and light thing seems to be one of them (just as unobtanium type materials often make a big presence in Apple devices -- material specs -- regardless of suitability for purpose).

Apple makes fantastic devices, but just as some other manufacturers chase irrelevant things like octal core processors and truly absurd pixel densities, Apple does the same "not for your benefit, but for our bragging" pursuits.
Why the heck shouldn't I classify this as discrimination? He tried Hans, an Italian female name, and his own, I believe is Karim. And he gets less replies than any other.

He probably wrote a pretty darn good e-mail saying how educated and well-behaved he is, bla bla from Paris have degrees etc, but guess what, no replies. Just because of his name! That is what I call discrimination, and in Germany it is pretty common.
Not necessarily, "checking if the user exists on the server" is ambiguous. You could check /etc/passwd, but the mail system may use virtual users for "local" delivery, where "local" is defined in this case as not requiring a domain portion. The only way to even check if a user exists even locally is to try to send it mail.
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If a metal phone is bending why couldn't a metal case?

It's not the material, it's the construction. The case could be made of plastic so long as it had something along the long sides preventing it flexing.
It seems to be only affecting the iPhone 6 Plus though, i.e. the largest model.
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It would be an interesting marketing experiment if Apple released an alternative model that was fatter, e.g. the iPhone 6 Plus "Big Mac" Edition.

This unit could have a fatter battery, a sturdier chassis, a USB socket or two, and a memory slot. See how much acceptance of a thicker handset there is.

Apple's so secretive and protective of their devices that they're clearly reluctant to field test interesting new models, except maybe internally in a controlled environment. But this is precisely what they, and all manufacturers, ought to be doing.
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I wonder to what extent this (and the antenna issue before it) are a result of Apple being so secretive. Because they don't take prototypes out for real world testing, or encase them in bulky facades if they do, they don't understand how real people are going to use it.

Still think it's stupid - just because this behavior didn't result in a bent iPhone before doesn't mean it was good.
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If you have less than $x balance or $y/mo in direct deposits, most banks charge a fee. Because what someone who makes less than $1,000/mo really needs is to pay over $100/year for a checking account. That's not including all the likely overdraft/returned item fees someone with an average balance of less than $1,000 is likely to achieve.

How it doesn't violate usury laws to charge someone $35 for a $5 overdraft, I'll never understand.
This won't be popular, but "discrimination" can be for good reasons and for bad reasons.
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Assuming your description is accurate, you should have had %95-%98 of the equity of that startup, and all ownership of the code. She was defrauding you (says she's taking class, so you enroll, turns out it was a lie, says she'll meet with you, doesn't show up, claims she should get %100 despite doing less than %5 of the work, etc.) and gas lighting you attempting to emotionally manipulate you into thinking you were the bad guy.

My response would have been to give her none of the code, she didn't deserve any.

But I really expect that she'll get nowhere with this app anyway... she can't get traction with just an initial release, it will need constant work.

Her actions are very typical of the "clueless business type" that has no respect for the effort of software development (just pointing out functions not yet done is a prime indicator- they can't be bothered to dig into the project and think there's some value in pointing out the obvious?)

Which means she will be a failure with this startup.

You would have been better off, I think, taking your software and shopping it around to other MBAs in this class and seeing if you can find someone who will give you a real offer.

You could work on the app on the side, and you don't have to give up your permanent job, but even if you didn't work on the app, you should have still owned a chunk in the company that developed it further (assuming it was worth developing further.)

But owning a chunk in a company run by someone who is clueless and trying to defraud you is not worth anything.
There are a number of magnesium alloys which while not as tanky as titanium would be I think would be viable contenders to construct the chassis out of. You could still use an aluminium skin as it's much more attractive usually.
People can write bad code in any language. I don't know that "forcing" people to know about it will do anything other than force people to make a possibly bad decision... such as simply marking all values as mutable.

The nice thing about go is that there's just a lot less to know. You can learn everything in a weekend. There just aren't many dark corners in the language.
> I don't really understand why current accounts in the US cost $12-8/month.

Mostly, as a way of dissuading customers whose support costs exceed provided revenue; its not so much to make money on the fees as to make people who can't afford to do what the bank wants (do their main deposits by direct deposit, maintain a certain minimum balance, maintain a savings account with a certain minimum balance, etc.) choose, from the expense, not to have an account at all.

The US has for at least several decades had substantially greater wealth inequality than the UK (both before and after considering the effect of taxes and government assistance), and that has affected the way business approach the desirability of customers.
I'm one of the founders at OpenRent (UK rental site [1]), and loved your post. We face this kind of problem daily, and have tools in place to make sure our landlords reply to all tenants - even if it's to provide a reason why they're not suitable.

We're constantly looking at better ways to solve this problem and improve the tenant experience - and your post will prove an excellent bit of anecdotal insight for us. Our data is similar, showing even just a name can impact response rate!

To those suggesting all applicants should provide more data (facebook / linkedin / credit history), it's not always that simple. Still in the UK many renters don't have an online "presence". And whilst that may not be a problem for landlords with "hot" properties, putting off tenants for landlords with little demand is an absolute no go for us - sure, we want applicants to be of a high quality, but just because they don't have that information doesn't mean they aren't suitable.

We think allowing tenants to provide more information, whilst supporting all application levels is key - but making it clear that the more data you provide the higher your chances of success and a quick response (even if it's a simple no) isn't always easy.

[1] - https://www.openrent.co.uk
I have always kept both my iPhone 4 and then my iPhone 5 in my back pocket (usually in a case). I have very regularly sat on both on a variety of surfaces and have never had any problems. I weigh about 150lbs. I've not bought an iPhone 6 yet specifically because I'm worried it will be too big for my back pocket.
> People literally spend all their time doing this, if there was free money to be made someone would be making it:)

I agree with everything you said above, including this. I want to add though, that there is effectively free money in the stock market. For example, just by buying a low-fee index fund (e.g. something from Vanguard), you're almost guaranteed to do better than most investors and probably better than nearly all speculators. (And there are other investment strategies that typically outperform the indices as well). I guess the reason people do poorly in the stock market is similar to why people start dumb startups that don't really have any hope of being profitable: The idea of rapidly creating an enormous amount of money for very little effort in a very short amount of time is much more appealing than making 12+% per year indefinitely, even though this strategy is much more likely to net you a higher return in the long-run... plus you actually have to save money if you want to invest this way :)

Edit: It's also interesting to learn about how some of the big quant trading firms started. D.E. Shaw, for example, originally had some bond trading algorithms they used. It was very profitable and the hours were short compared to the rest of the Wall Street/Finance world. Then they got greedy and tried some more aggressive strategies, blew up, and nearly lost the fund. Fortunately for them they seem to be doing much better now, though I'm not sure what their current strategy is.
Here are some timestamped notes synced with the video: https://timelined.com/how-to-start-a-startup/lecture-1-how-t...
So I thought that http://imgur.com/gallery/FSXJp was a joke. Turns out, nope, it's a real problem. I wonder if Apple did have to fix it, how they'd go about it. I assume reenforcing the body of the phone externally is not really feasible, but manufacturing better bodies and swapping them out en masse would be very expensive and take a long time, no?
This new 1" release is for the entire planet, not just the US.
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IBM has been divesting from hardware for quite some time. I think that they have really learned from the "IBM compatible" commoditizing that occurred three decades ago. A similar trend has taken over the data center.

Yes, IBM's customer's need hardware. However, I think that the profit margins simply aren't that lucrative anymore, and IBM is right to be focusing on the high-margin software market.

There will always be some customers that want/need non-commodity big iron, but such use-cases are becoming more and more rare. It wouldn't surprise me if IBM sees its hardware offerings as little more than accessories they can offer to support their software offerings.
Upshot at the NYT did an article on checking fees through this lens recently:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/your-money/in-checking-acc...

Not sure if it's paywalled, so the gist is that for relatively affluent folks, the annual cost of a checking account is ~$18. For the "cash-strapped" it's closer to $500.

Obviously that's just checking accounts, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that many other things are more expensive for the poor as well.
The article reminds me of the "fitting a ladder around a corner" problem that I saw in numerical analysis class years ago. Expanded forms of this problem include the food trolley and sofa problems... take a look at

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/220154823_Moving_a_F...
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If size and weight didn't matter, the reviews wouldn't talk about it. Yet here we are.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/189762-iphone-6-vs-ipho...
>Some people are quite satisfied advancing their own lives and that of those who are close to them.

That is quite true, and that is the problem. It is an inherently different philosophy, whether one's work should advance humanity as a whole, the local subset of humanity, or the local subset of humanity at the expense of the whole.
Computers can imitate human handwriting styles as well:

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.cgi

Although a simple way would be to just have a human write the original and have a robot copy it.
Of course it's an accomplishment, even if others did it long ago. If I successfully run my first marathon (unlikely), it'll still be an accomplishment even though someone else first did it 2500 years ago. Getting a spacecraft into Mars orbit takes skill and careful work. I think it clearly warrants congratulations.

Also, by the way, the first Mars orbiter wasn't in 1965—that was the first successful flyby. The first successful orbiter was Mariner 9 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_9) in 1971.
5s? That's what I'm leaning towards upgrading from the 5.
What if the tenants have had more bad experiences with male arab tenants and more good experiences with female italians? Could it be called "science" instead of "discrimination"?
I have first-hand experience with a situation like this and can tell you this:

Keep the code.
Walk away.
Learn from it.
Don't look back.
Oh? I'm always seeing these tiny teenaged girls with cracked phones saying "I sat on it" which confuses me because it seems like they'd take that well. Thanks for confirming my confusion.
Now that you have me thinking about it, the only reason I would ever want my phone to be thin is so it doesn't bulge out of my front pockets. This is why the Razr was so awesome. Other than that, I can't think of any reason why thinner would be better.
Yes. Aluminum and stainless steel have very similar "Specific Strength" characteristics, though the steel is slightly stronger and has a much higher tensile strength. In a measure of stiffness, aluminum has a higher "Specific Modulus" than steel, and can often be constructed into forms that give it more "strength" (in the meaning overall rigidity) for a given weight.
This is massively inspiring. Huge PR boon for India, and they obviously deserve it.

Super happy about this. Welcome to the interplanetary club!
We used Azure SQL for our RDBMS requirements, and blob/table storage for our NoSQL stuff. Sure there's a server behind it, but it's transparent to us and it's geo-redundant and replicated. When i say "no servers" what I mean is, we don't need any system admins and very little ops folks. In fact at the moment, devs are pretty much ops since we need very little of it.

I also forgot to mention we have a build server, but thats just a virtual machine that we backup regularly. It's our only piece of static infrastructure. Everything else, except storage which is, again, transparent to us, is destroyed on a weekly, if not daily, basis for new releases.
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I think the issue is mainly with the iPhone 6 Plus, not the 6.
Well, kind of. Remember that these are some really smart kids. The salary mentioned in the salary is equivalent to $10,000 p.a (@exchange rate of 1$ = 60 rupess). Not a lot of money at all.
It is not really "open" if you have to pay, right?
We need to know the proportion of people this is happening to to understand whether this is a thing or not.

Apple supposedly sold 10 million phones on the weekend of release, more since. Apparently more of those are 6s than 6 Pluses but we don't know the exact numbers or breakdown right now. Similarly we know a few people have had problems but it doesn't seem clear whether it's a few, a few tens, a few hundred or many thousands.

Ultimately this may be bad design ignoring real world valid use cases, it may be dumbness on the part of a small number of vocal users, but without knowing what sort of numbers are seeing the problem and what that is as a proportion of sales it's almost impossible to say.

Right now all we can really say is some iPhone 6s and 6 Pluses have bent and based on that it's no wonder Apple haven't said anything.

Not a great story but probably all that we really know right now.
Respect. For sheer aplomb & perseverance. It is moments like these that make me want to put my head down and march on no matter what.
If somebody has the ability to change the script file, what's to stop them from changing that hash, too?
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Please, stop with the philosophical garbage. I'm not Indian, but I'm proud of them and very happy for them.
We at Hacker News tend to call ourselves hackers, programmers, techies, entrepreneurs, geeks, etc. Are we also being violent?
Most credit unions still give free checking accounts.

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/checking/want-free-checking-...

Meanwhile I got something in the mail enticing me with $300 to open a checking account at Capital One.
People like to defend their purchases, especially their $700 ones.
This is the 30" version, not the 1" one !
Engineers can learn business. There's very little that is difficult in business. Have yet to meet a business guy who could learn software development.