To be fair, the 5th avenue New York store consistently "over-indexes" (as the article puts it) with shoppers of Asian heritage. Until recently at least, it was not very easy to buy an iPhone of any type in many Asian countries, and as a result, many tourists on vacation to the US would buy multiple devices to take home. Even now many Asian countries are among the last to have new Apple products roll out to them. Certainly don't have data to back this up, but I lived in New York for 6 years and took more than the occasional trip to the Apple store and witnessed these types of bulk purchases. Point is, even the "data" this article introduces doesn't necessarily have anything to do with gold.
I feel like the mention of the NSA and PRISM in this article is so tangential to the issue as to be misplaced. Why mention the NSA here when there's no evidence or reason to suppose that they'd want to mass-collect our fingerprint data specifically? I mean, I suppose anything that is sent over the internet might be intercepted and stored/analyzed by the government but it's getting to the point where NSA and PRISM are just popular buzz words adopted by anyone and everyone trying to make a name for themselves in the tech community ("check out my app that pokes fun at the NSA and PRISM issue", "5 reasons I will be protecting my data from NSA/PRISM").
I'm not saying there's no threat to privacy here just that there are a lot of reasons other than the NSA and PRISM that make data privacy important and that we should be focused on the larger issues.
The first assumption the author makes, that "1. Everything Google does is open (either because Gruber believes this a priori, or because Google says so or someone somewhere believes this or something)" is missing the point. The point, to me, is that Google is not entirely open and no one should expect them to be as they are a for profit company. The problem is that Google tries to create the perception in the public eye that they are open and create products that are open and free when the reality is that they are an advertising company, not a non-profit aid society.
I absolutely agree with your point. I actually didn't realize pinboard was a sharing service at all for the first few months that I had it. I wound up following one or two tech writers that I follow elsewhere but I've since forgotten about it and haven't really even looked to see what they're saving to pinboard.
I'm not, but I'll definitely check it out. Since this application is so simple, it only requires one curl request and I just use the http authentication method. Working on this small project (and the comments here on HN) have definitely opened my eyes to greater possibilities though, so I'm sure I'll have need for a php client in the future.
That's cool. I hadn't thought of using a tag for this. As I said below in another reply, I just don't fill in the extended text or I mark an article as private in order to keep it out of the feed. A tag seems like it might be better though. Thanks for the comment.
Yes, I should have mentioned that only articles that are shared (public) and that have extended description text are processed by my script. That way I don't wind up with any articles that have no body content and just a title and tags.
I definitely understand the feeling that the podcast has become stale. I still enjoy it very much, but topics have had to become more and more specific lately and as such I feel the show runs the risk of losing its "timeless" quality. However, I do hope that Marco considers staying with 5by5 when he does decide what he wants to do next. Mule Radio is great too but I really love the dynamic that Dan brings to all of his podcasts.
Apple's real or fictitious woes aside, if the stock closed up 2.06 to 527.68 on Friday, how is Friday's close the lowest Apple has been in 6 months? Wouldn't that be Thursday's close of 525.62?
Does anyone ales feel as though the majority of questions like the example in the article are asked by children? I almost always assume it is a young child asking a question like that and one who is still in the process of "learning how to learn".
Eh, don't bank with them yet if that's what you think. This industry needs pioneers and anything with the scale and complexity of a bank is going to have some bugs no matter how much testing is done in a private beta.
Yeah, it's scary to think that your money is being managed by beta software, but it was also scary for Chuck Yeager to break the sound barrier.
I think it's one thing for the bank handling the IPO to cut revenue estimates and another thing to have to restate actual earnings because of a material weakness in your accounting practices.
Granted, this is a bit shady, but bankers are a bit shady. A company that is shady with their earnings is what would be really worrying.
Totally agreed. I know views are split on Gruber and I fell on the side of genuinely liking his blog and The Talk Show, but I think I'm done with both.
I was thinking the same thing. If you send out 100 resumes a week, how great a quality can any of them be? If only because of how exhausted and frustrated you get after sending out 100 resumes. Take your time, research some companies where you'd be a good fit and REALLY do your best to write an excellent cover letter and a tailored resume.
I feel the pain, but I also don't think there's much else someone in an HR department can do for you. There are no jobs and especially no entry-level jobs since they are the lowest priority to fill/create. What do you propose they do for you?
It's frustrating and wrong but it's not HR that put everyone in this mess. Edit: and it's definitely not HR that's going to get everyone out.
Yes, but then he won't have to pay additional capital gains tax on the stock if it happens to skyrocket in the years following his renunciation of citizenship. You only pay tax on the profit you make on stock investments, so any profit he stands to make in the years following his renunciation will be tax free.
The complaint is so vague as to be meaningless. Let's give a specific instance in which google has acted unlawfully, not just that they deleted your account an you're pissed, which is what this sounds like.