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> Except for the parts that fail and can't be easily repaired...?

And there aren't parts like that on a more open PC? I mean, if your USB port or display stops working, it's going to be a bit of an undertaking fixing it, glue or no glue.

> Incidentally, I know many people who are still using machines in the 6-8-year-old range, and it fits their use cases perfectly well. We're long past the days of multiple-times improvements in efficiency with each new generation of CPU, the improvements are much smaller now.

Indeed, I still have a very old laptop kicking around. But it's not my daily machine or even free from dust for that matter. I think there's a bit of masochism involved in using a machine WAAAY past its expiration date (6 years isn't, but 10 certainly is) when it's likely that a $299 Walmart special will smoke it.

> ...do you think you could do the same with this Macbook in 2045? For what tasks would it still be useful if you could?

The repairing part would be much more difficult, yes. But unless you're interested in antique computing, are you seriously going to make a go at using this thing on a day to day basis in 30 years? I really don't think that's the standard by which you should judge this thing.

And for the record, this thing would be much more equipped to handle computing 30 years from now than a machine from 30 years ago is at handling today's computing. But that's not saying much.
In my opinion (and I have worked on large scale development in Scala in the past) it is just unnecessarily complicated.

Random annoyances off the top of my head - you can't necessarily understand an isolated function unless you know what implicits are being used, crazy overuse of operator overloading and slow compilation times (this has improved over the years).

You don't have to learn Scala, you could learn Clojure, F#, OCaml or Haskell. They would all teach you interesting aspects of programming and then you could come back and examine Scala with a broader perspective.
Next thing you know, someone will be asking how to do it with JQuery.

Not JS, JQuery
>Could you please turn your emails public so we can review them in case you might be doing something wrong? No? Thought so.

Personally, I wouldn't have a problem making my work emails public.
I don't like Scala for the same reason as C++. Scala has an incredible semantic complexity with a Perl-like syntax. Too much magic going on.
It's not necessarily unsafe, but it is very difficult to do safely. The design suggested is certainly unsafe, however---there's no way to ensure that the values don't lie about their self-reported type and so using that to trigger a coercion is liable to explore things.

If the compiler provides a couple things:

data TypeRepr
typeReprEq :: TypeRepr -> TypeRepr -> Bool

typeOf :: Typeable a => a -> TypeRepr

such that TypeRepr cannot be generated (e.g. faked) by users, typeOf is guaranteed to be genuine, and (this is the hardest) such a thing doesn't violate parametricity then you can use that interface to write

safeCoerce :: (Typeable a, Typeable b) => a -> Maybe b

which is guaranteed to only allow the coercion when `a` and `b` actually happen to be the same type.
Spiderweb can't compete with the likes of Supercell because their games are niche.

It's an old-school 2D party-based rpg, it looks dated and they recycle the engine year after year to release more games, as their loyal fanbase is more interested in the new storylines and quests than they are in gameplay updates.

I love spiderweb games, but you could spend millions marketing them and they would still be niche, I don't think the discovery issue is the only challenge here; casual management games are the Call of Duty of mobile gaming.
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Yeah, my MacBook Air's battery is dying, and instead of getting a new battery, I have to hand it to a certified shop and fork over $300.

It just seems dumb to me not to be cognizant of the fact that batteries tend to kick it after 3-5 years. Same thing happened to my ThinkPad, but the battery was easily replaceable.
i want to tell you my story. i started my first startup at 20 my first product totally failed, i lost more than i have in my life, at the fail time i started new product it's about clustering news system for some president election i sell it and get more than 200K after that i was happy really happy i met someone(girl) and i lose my mind and focused on her and finally i lost my money again obviously and the girl leave me now im 24 with no money but i started again with a lot of experience, btw be strong, f... negative thing, you already have great experience (sorry about my language)
>> I'm saying - no, there is something more going on here than just standard reputation assignment. Why? Well - as I said before - because for every negative headline that is supposed to prove Bitcoin's low reputation, we can produce a fact about the traditional system that completely trumps the negative bitcoin headline.

I don't think this is as powerful as you do. Particularly when coupled with the fact that Joe Average uses American Dollars every single day, and has done for his whole life. Trust is conditioned in, it's implicit at that point.

Why should he use a new thing? Especially with all the dodgy stuff he sees around it?

>>So the reputation assignments here are odd to say the least. They certainly aren't consistent.

I don't think humans are consistent or rational all that often, and I do think people are going to be very, very conservative when it comes to money. Don't underestimate the power of incumbency.

The perception of risk is very important. I understand BTC in a way that very few non-technical people can, though probably only around an average level for a techie, and I'm afraid I wouldn't trust it. The protocol, sure, the community and businesses that have arisen from it, my legal protections when using it etc etc? No way in hell.
There are few questions to ask yourself:

1. Has your partner given up? If he has walk way.

2. Is your partner invested? He's the chicken and you're the pig in this restaurant. If he's not giving it his all you need to walk.

3. Do you have a business model that works and just not enough customers or no customers. If you've been at this this long with out customers it's time to bail.

4. Can you do this anymore regardless? You sound like you've run out of steam, might be time to find something else for a while. You can start another company later.
I think it is okay for Google to send you that one answer so that you no longer need to do anymore searching. They scour the web and extract the simple answers that you require. (Google Customer Service: Did you find what you were looking for?) YES!

There are other websites that do this as well, and do it better, but they should be leaping to more complicated stuff once they have "plucked the low hanging fruits" for the establishment of their services.

This is the kind of democratization of knowledge and resource that the open web is all about.
I think we've already had this conversation. It would be legal, yes; it wouldn't necessarily be "ok" from a moral/ethical/philosophical/whatever point of view, in the same way as cutting a thief's hand is legal in Saudi Arabia.

It doesn't matter anyway, bringing in the NSA on this is a red herring.
I love Zed cause even when he's sincerely offering help to someone struggling, he's still 100% Zed; can't even offer help without mentioning how badass he is. Whether you like him or not, being completely and utterly yourself is an admirable trait I think.
So basically the only government they bent over backwards for was the Russian government. Wish they actually showed some spine like they did with China.
Searching for e-mails and documents related to BitTorrent: https://search.wikileaks.org/advanced?q=bittorrent&exclude_w...
Slots take up space, panels take up space. It wouldn't be the same size as before, I imagine those two things would add depth more so than width or length.
The entire software industry relies on changes in hardware and breaking changes in operating systems and libraries to create opportunity. Without the constant drumbeat of change, there's no need for new anything.
Have you actually used Slack? Where I currently work, we have gone through two other chat products in the past two years: Campfire followed by Flowdock. They all fizzled out and died - people just stopped using them for some reason.

Then we tried Slack, and it's the first time the entire team has adopted 100% and maintained it. Slack mobile has even replaced text messaging/GroupMe for a lot of us as well.

Don't hand-wave away their success by giving credit to investors. It makes you sound bitter and insecure, or at least uninformed. They've done a great job building their product and deserve the position they're in. Whether or not $2.8B is an accurate valuation is beyond me, but it does seem like they're minting money over there.
They certainly don't at the time of purchase, but many regret that decision when they need expensive repairs.

There's a reason why large enterprises still issue Lenovo/Dell/HP business class notebooks. A field technician with minimal training can fully rebuild one in an hour. That's not possible with anything from Apple.
Sure, but then it's a bad argument as defense of the military. Their purpose is not to help in disasters, that they happen to be there is secondary.
I believe Google will answer "baby steps."

Until then, go and google up that elsewhere.
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I dabbled in scala for a while a few years ago and ultimately decided not to invest the time becoming an expert in it for the following reasons.
1) Slow compile times, I really value fast feedback and if it takes me over a second to compile and run a unit test that just doesn't cut it for me.
2) No clear idiomatic style and having many different ways of doing things each of which can imply different behaviour in different contexts.
I only agree with the first sentence.
The economy can grow significantly by discovering new things to do, and by discovering new ways to do old things.
You misread that chart; The video game industry pulled in $887M in the US in One Month (February) of 2014. For scale, bear in mind that GTA5 made worldwide revenue of $1billion in it's first three days.

If we go by Gartner[1], the games industry was predicted at $93billion in 2013. That's over 21%, so a couple of orders of magnitude more than 0.21%.

[1]:http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2614915
Mine were all older than that when they went, IIRC they were 8, 11 and 13. I don't think there are many kids under 7 there right now. I'm surprised by that Neill quote tbh, I'd have thought that the worst part of schooling occurs when you're older.

As for going for just a year or two - not sure I can give advice on that. Zoe Readhead, the principal, is very approachable - she could help you there.

If you've any questions you want to ask me offline, I'm at <hn user name>@gmail.com.
> Creating products that will be useful for 10+ years instead of until the next model cycle.

I've had my current Apple laptop for three years, and see no need to replace it any time soon. The Apple laptop I had before that lasted me five years, and a relative is still using it (so, eight years). The HP laptop I had before that lasted about a year and a half before literally beginning to fall apart.

If anything, I would have said that Apple, along with Lenovo, are about the _best_ for longevity in this space.
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That's not enough due diligence then.

Further I guess I didn't make things clear - Joe Average (hell, let's say it's me) sees investments, particularly rich-people investments, as a separate class of transaction from his day to day use of money. There is risk involved. You have to take care of what you're doing.

The idea that someone might just run off with his bank account, either through operator fraud or through hacking of a service or his own machine, and there not being much anyone can do about it, is pretty terrifying.
Doesn't Paul Phillips still use Scala? He's actually forked the Scala compiler: https://github.com/paulp/policy

I think Paul Phillips agree with the overall direction of Scala and thinks it's the best programming language out there, but disagrees on design details and compiler inner workings.
Haha, even if that were something I was interested in at all, I'm honestly not sure what you could do to fix it at this point. I think that ship has sailed. Most of the issues are library issues (and are far deeper than my complaints about allocators). The language issues largely come from having too many features, and its not like any of them can be taken out.

FWIW, I'm currently pinning my hopes on JAI, even though it's a long shot.
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Yeah it's not quite got enough to beat an alias or ctrl+r - Butler is another cool little tool I'm going to keep forgetting to use.
They can just Google the answer.
1+2+3+4+ . . . = -1/12
Go was interesting me to up to the point that I found out there is no real debugger, and little interest in making one. I find it hard to get excited about being unable to properly debug my code.
What about http://hypothes.is/?
The search doesn't actually find pages with x * sin(y), though. Even on verbatim mode the best it does is x = sin(y).
Common market but different fiscal regimes. It seems absurd but it makes sense when you think that each country is jealous of its fiscal incomes because they are what keep them running. In no way an Italy would let an Ireland grab its share of taxes only because Italian companies prefer to incorporate in Ireland because of lower taxation. Only a common EU fiscal regime will solve that, but think about the impacts on those countries that are spending too much and will have to change their speding patterns (from no more useless expenses to laying out public workers).
That actually sounds like you encountered code that shouldn't have been or you had people using Scalaz (which has weird operators taken from Haskell, looking at you <*>.)
I wonder is the new Macbook actually heavy enough for magsafe to work properly. Certainly, with the Air, it's pretty marginal; if the surface isn't very grippy you can pull the laptop with the cable without the magsafe disengaging.
Are you seriously asking how revealing corruption in politics is in the public interest?

https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/135225
Data has qualities of the inverse of decay and what you see initially when looking at it on your own is only its half-life. This release shows very clearly to anyone but the absolute naysayer that the sony data has political and legal ramifications that deserve public attention. Now the public will have the chance to uncovering other kernels of interest and truth, which wikileaks could not possibly accomplish by sitting on the data. In light of blaring illegal activities I do not see how you could question this. Further, I don't see how one could find bringing the collusion between multinational corporations and governments to the light of day as not being worthwhile. Even if it may not always reveal illegal activity it enlightens the public. This is why regardless of what you see on the surface of a data trove erring in the direction of release is likely wise.
In 2015, XML is a first class citizen but JSON get a third class treatment. JSON parsing in Scala is ridiculous. http://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/2l7v5u/json_parsing_i...
You question the longevity of Java and Scala, and this is why you use mini niche languages? Seriously.
DanielBMarkham's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474454 in the thread Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474094
My 90 year old grandmother told me 2 weeks ago how young I am. I am 42. It is never too late to do something new.
I've got this comment from Jonathan Blow bookmarked and I like to read it from time to time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7789438
But how effective is Clojure in writing server side code? I've never used it so I have no way to know.
Thanks for the great insight and a really good point on the wording "market research". Would there be another specific term that you use to describe your task?

For your leaner research initiatives, do you ever leverage high-level customer or country profiles?
This is the same BBG where the huge hairball of C++ wrapped around C wrapped around Fortran makes up the crustry codebase? Where the interview process is still shitty pointer and char array questions? Where they implement their own borked version of the STL? Does anyone internally follow Lakos's books there? (if so or if not, why?)
You have no idea how young 30 is until you're, say, 40. :)
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I think that hits the nail pretty well. The handful of older adults I know who went into the service did it for those exact reasons, wanted to fly, wanted to go to college on the GI bill, wanted to become a surgeon but couldn't afford medical school, etc. I think part of this modern situation, is that the armed services have done an amazing PR job in the past decade and a half. We've gone from the notion of a citizen soldier to this warrior notion. You're no longer doing your duty, conscripted and fighting an evil empire. You're joining up to be a warrior!

Something that just came into my head is that, out of my male friends, all but a two went Army/Marines with one going Air Force and the other going Navy, and my male friend who went Navy wanted to be (and is) a dental tech. A cursory check of Facebook confirms this, and interestingly, of the women I know from school who went into the service, all but one went Navy (the odd woman out went Marines). I think that notion of "Adult Scouts" and a stepping stone still applies to the Navy, Coast Guard, and Air Force to large part, no airmen or sailor is doing night raids in an Afghan village, you might get someone aiming for a Corpsman or a forward observer, and of course SEALs or Pararescue, but those are a small part of those branches.
Thanks for pointing it out. I'll have a look at it again in detail - I skimmed through the section towards the other phases.
Not sure exactly how it works but if you disconnect from the internet you can still change the x and y ranges and have it redraw so the render is client side.
We used Scala for major projects; love the language, hate the infrastructure / documentation / frameworks / sbt / attitudes of many in the community. I believe this is a pretty common sentiment.
> Worth noting that this device, typical for Apple, gets the worst "repairability" score:

Typical for Apple? The iPhone 6 gets a score of 7; the Galaxy S6 and HTC One M9 get a score of 3 and 2 respectively. The HTC One M7 got a score of 1 (they considered it impossible to open without damaging the case).
As to why you're downvoted: HN has become rather eager to downvote. I'd even say toxic, because a few months ago I were downvoted and I knew I deserved it. Nowadays it's because I or someone else has an unpopular (but well reasoned) opinion. It's frustrating, not because I care for my Karma but because I'd like to have a discourse beyond agreeing on the popular opinion.
- Asks me to sign in with github or gmail before telling me what the project is about

- Paying money so that people can leave comments on my site?

- No screenshots or graphics showing what it looks like on landing page of https://carnivalapp.io/

- Oh, It's an app? It's just a script isn't it?

- You put the whole thing on Github, yet, you ask for a monthly fee?

- So, this is basically like gitter, but for any site?
Bloated,complex, perl syntax, slow compilation times, bad attidude of the Scala community. Please, don't waste your time trying to learn Scala.
For me a startup needs 2 things at minimum: a product users want and a strategic advantage.

I assume you don't have at least one of these. If your users don't WANT what you offer, pivot or shut down. If your offering is commodity, pivot or shut down.

I assume you are depressed because you don't have a plan that offers a way out. Make this your job. Make it your friends job. If you can't figure it out, then your startup is dead, regardless of you admitting it or not.

Not taking action will make you even more depressed. You need progress. Whichever way, move.
Well, if they don't have money and someone wants to unlawfully sue or even imprison them or someone wants to collect health data, sexual preferences, etc., I am sure they would.

Other than that. Sony can freely use HTTPS Everywhere, Tor, Switzerland[software], etc., which are supported by EFF. Would be great if they did.
I've been even too lazy to type in more than need to identify the command: https://github.com/naquad/QuickRun
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No one knows, and I don't think there's been (a public) discussion about it by projects leads. The only guarantee is that 1.x will not break anything (according to some definition of "break").

There needs to be more experience with widespread use and multiple releases, to see how far that backcompat can be held. Perhaps after 10 releases, it should be a lot more clear whether or not a Rust 2.0 will be needed.
Try rock climbing/mountaineering. Being in the wall few hundred meters above the ground, your mind doesn't care if there is securing rope tying you to last quickdraw or not. You will be scared. You will be bathing in adrenaline. You will have to muster all your courage to move forward, to climb higher, to reach the top. Again and again.

You'll get all the excitement army guys get in deployment, without screwing you up and becoming permanent mental cripple. In fact, it will make you a better person in many many ways. Guaranteed.
Everyone agrees Scala is too complicated. Beyond that, there's a flexibility problem: Scala allows you to write a global mutableMonadFactoryFactoryMonad.

That said, nothing does exactly what Scala does. Fluently mixing imperative, lazy, OO and functional styles isn't really common. Neither is the wealth of concurrency constructs available to Scala programmers through the standard library and Akka.

I'm writing a compiler in (not for) Scala right now and it's pretty sweet.
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He's still someone one frequently encounters when looking for help or getting started with Scala. He's still pretty high-up in scalaz.
If you're wondering what to make, then pg's essay on startup ideas seems relevant:

http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
Lobbying, if it is clean and transparent, and there is good access from expert organizations that are not just a fig leaf for buying the government, is fine and healthy. But, in contrast, secret influence-buying to enshrine bad copyright law into a hard-to-modify treaty, is not so good.
Depending on what they trade, traders aren't going to be using anything else because of the messaging on Bloomberg. There are a lot of services popping up solely as a replacement for the messaging service due to that Bloomberg reporter really fucking up and letting people know that they snoop on things and the many bank collusion scandals.
Bundled with the mobile service (Reliance in India, for eg)
Will containers kill the virtual machine?
"little interest in making one" is a bit of a bold statement... Sure a lot of the early Go users thought/preached "gdb is good enough", but I don't feel that's the case anymore.

For example, mailgun's https://github.com/mailgun/godebug looks very promising.
Netbooks typically used Atom (OEM price: ~$30). This uses a Core M (OEM price: $281). That's more expensive than most netbooks all on its own; it's a slightly different class.
If ideas were worth nothing, YCombinator would be happy to tell us the ideas of all their latest startups.

Would someone buy this information for money? Yes, I would.