jgeorge

The road to innovation is paved with the detritus of millions of dead worthless gadgets. I, personally, have a closet full of technology that will never live again. Thus is the price of being an early adopter.

I feel bad for the guy that he dropped that kind of scratch less than a month ago, but I haven't seen anything yet that says existing Glass devices will spontaneously combust, so he should still be able to live the glorious jetsetting lifestyle of a Glass user anyway.

He'll just have to put up with the inevitable comments about using a "dead product" which I presume detracts from the exciting experience of being an Explorer.

Non-hackers who want to be hackers have to learn somewhere/somehow. Non-hackers that want to get information on technical subjects could do far worse than get their news here. Personally, I welcome anyone here as long as they understand the conversation here should remain technically focused.

I lament the people ("hackers" and "non-hackers" alike) that seem to try to convert HN into their other non-technical favorite discussion forum.

I guess we'll find out June 30th! :-)

No questions here either, just condolences and thanks for everything.

I used to play an old Windows game called Tracon that was very similar, that I would get totally lost playing way longer than I ever intended. Good job! I prefer my ATC simulators with a little more realism than the bsdgames one. I like actual callsigns instead of letters.

I live near the site (AFP 67) where they were developing the nuclear powered aircraft. The site currently is a fenced-off area in the middle of a National Forest. There are still radiation detectors mounted here and there around the area monitoring for who-knows-what since I don't think there are any materials left there, and haven't been for decades. They filled the entrance to the mostly-underground complex with concrete, there's not much to see above ground (and not sure there ever was much in the first place).

A good page with discussion of how to built a 10,000 year warning monument is at http://www.wipp.energy.gov/picsprog/articles/wipp%20exhibit%... - I remember seeing this link a while ago and it's creepily interesting, it's a collection of ideas on how to mark Yucca Mountain for the long haul.

When they start pulling out the "for the children" defense, you know you're doing something right.

I remember playing this as Pandemic on one of those flash gaming sites at least 6 or 7 years ago, or longer. It's a little odd that the article complains about the "timing" of the game.

I'm not a "hater" because he steals from Whole Foods. That's his karma, not mine.

I'm not a "hater" because he posted tips and tricks on how to shoplift from there. WF now has a checklist of things to fix.

I guess I'm a "hater" because his own sense of entitled self-importance is so high that he can justify, with a straight face, shoplifting from Whole Foods instead of buying groceries elsewhere, somewhere he could afford, albeit alongside the Unwashed Masses.

And they say Silicon Valley folks are out of touch. Pish!

I still don't think I'd like to be the person to test that.

>There is no conceptual difference between Alexa and Siri, Google Now or Cortana.

Yes there is. Alexa is always listening, even when I'm not saying anything it needs to hear. And by "listening," I mean "sending audio data back to Amazon Cloud for processing.

No, thank you.

Matias once threatened to kick my ass for messing with one of his UI widgets many years ago. It's a badge of honor I still wear to this day. :)

Unlock 'em and put them on Ebay. If you assume some risk of shipping them overseas to countries that don't have easy access to them, you'll get bidders who are willing to pay a premium for previous-generation devices. I sold an unlocked iPhone 4 to someone in a remote South Pacific island for nearly the price I paid for the new iPhone 5 that replaced it.

I don't actually have any use for this app at all (sorry) but if you ever make squishy foam promo items for your logo I will send you all of my money.

That currency is offensive to the increasingly large number of Americans who do not or can not "work", or choose not to participate in the soul-destroying crapitalistic exchange of slave labour for artifically-backed so-called "currency".

(Please don't downvote me, I don't actually feel that way, but that's the reaction I would expect from the current culture of the easily-offended.)

I rather like them myself, though I agree they're a little on the impractical side. I do wish we'd consider something more radical of a design change one of these days, if for no other reason than to at least make the current counterfeiters have to go out and get new equipment.

It doesn't say it leaks transaction history, the text says it will tell the bank if you have a long history of purchases. I presume this purchase record is to validate the authenticity of the card (if you've made a lot of purchases on the card over a period of time, it's pretty safe to say it is indeed your card). I can't see how the /contents/ of those transations are leaked via this route, or even what remote stretch of reasoning would indicate it. No bank cares what apps and music I buy, but the bank would care if I've only used it for the last 15 minutes or if I've used it for the last 5 years as a risk-calculation element.

I've responded to that with "Cocaine. I hate the stuff but I love the way it smells."

Creation dates are from the most recent domain creation record, and can be reset from a domain ownership transfer. I lost my precious domain creation date of September 1993 when I transfered my domain from the ISP who registered it /in their own name/ (argh) to my own ownership in 1998.

I spent the night in the hospital a few months ago for observation (there wasn't actually anything wrong with me other than a case of food poisoning) and my bill worked out to well over $1,000/hr.

He wasn't an WHO doctor. Grammar nitpicking aside I think "The Doctor Who Discovered..." would have cleared Tom Baker of any affiliation with the disease.

Grammar fail: The first time I read this headline I had to think which Doctor it was in 1976 that would have discovered Ebola, and came up with Tom Baker. :-)

Vector CRTs are all kinds of neat technology. I own a Tempest arcade cabinet, which is a color vector CRT, and it's such a huge difference from using regular raster CRTs.

hold down command+r when booting, you don't need that DVD, the recovery partition is on the disk already. you should be able to launch a terminal from there and fix your problem.

I look forward to never doing this.

Purchased new? Or refurbished? It'd be interesting to get the history of that device serial# from Apple to see if it was perhaps a return or something, and was returned with a fake charger. Granted the store may be on the hook for not verifying it was a legit accessory before reselling it, but that IS a pretty good looking clone so I'm not sure I'd really fault anyone too much for overlooking it.

It's time to break out Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's new Guide to Future Domain Names.

For a work from home, remote location anywhere job, it's not bad. I assume a lot of the criticism of this salary comes from tech-centered locations like SV or Boston or the like. Get out of the bubble economies and $23k isn't a bad starting salary for remote work. The same job in an office in a lot of places (in the US even) isn't a ton more.

As outlined in Oolon Coluphid's latest blockbuster, "Well, That About Sums It Up For Yelp"

No worries, I have a local copy I keep handy for just such an emergency. Didn't take long at all, only a few seconds.