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Alternative title: "How long is too long: trench coats for the office"

i used to work as a genius, and left a few years back. When i left, the genius role basically became 60-70% display replacements for iphones, and no macs at all.

When you get a display replaced, the phone goes through 2 machines, one of which calibrates the phone by launching some weird firmware while in the machine (actually kinda neat, its like a DFU mode but it doesn't wipe the phone in the process)

Since every phone has to run through the machine, it creates a backlog of phones that are waiting. These phones work without being put through the machine, but sometimes the displays are fucked and the machine detects that (and the phone then gets a new display, etc etc).

The machine also pairs the display with the phone, so that Applecare have a record of what display is currently on what phone.

If you take your phone in again, they do a spot check to make sure that display matches and they're good to go. If it doesn't, then they're supposed to refuse service (cause its likely that it was done at a dodgy repairer).

HOWEVER! I've seen phones get stuck in weird loops as soon as they're restarted if they haven't been put through the machine yet. The phone basically is fucked at that point and needs replacement. Remember, this is a legit repair that has caused this, and happens way more than you think (maybe 1 in 20 when i left, its probably better now).

Therefore, they are probably taking this route because they can't be sure that they aren't the cause of the fuckups.

and here i was, thinking i would actually get some work done this afternoon. silly me.

nah I'm good thanks.

I once ate a watermelon seed and then 20 years later i have a paunch belly and am bad at sports. Coincidence? I think not!

I have never been more proud to have worked for Apple. Tim isn't afraid to give the government the old double forks when it counts!

discovering hackernews?

but seriously, probably thinking i had to "pay my dues" before I begun my career. Thinking I wasn't good enough to get a job, and I had to spend time at Uni first. It wasn't until I was mid way through my masters before I realised that a job wasn't going to magically appear the day I graduated. I dropped out and never looked back.

Also, thinking I had to shoehorn myself into the industry by working my way up to it from tech support. That was fruitless.

If it's the new Macbook, it doesn't have any fans.

too good for this world, too pure

it tends to just be a reply to something. like, you wouldn't say "chur, where everybody knows your name".

if you look at the comments, it turns out that the brain wasn't "revived", but instead was sliced and the researchers noticed that, upon inspection under an electron microscope, the connections were preserved.

but you know, that makes a terrible headline.

its not just U.S. based, news.com.au does it too.

i was hoping this would be about the kids band - I've been ignoring them my whole life

Really?

Can the GST apply to something purchased overseas? Especially weird because we have a tourist refund scheme where tourists can get the GST refunded when the leave the country.

"Chur" is another way to say "Thanks" or "Cheers", the usage of which is popular in New Zealand.

So, I read this as:

"Tea? Chur."

4, 6, and possibly 12 are retail.

Yelp, Zenefits and Paypal. What is going on?

not related to the story at all, but when fishburners put that wall up with all the quotes, it had so many spelling mistakes on it. if you look closely, you can see little squares around some words, where they've printed the right word and stuck it over it.

eg. the Steve Jobs quote was originally written "...drown out you're inner voice"

I used to take these books with me when I went on holidays to the country in Australia. There wasn't a computer there, so I would write down the code on sheets of paper so I could type them into my MicroBee when I got home.

These books are directly responsible for me being a programmer today!

on iOS, at a glance, the new app icon looks like an app when its updating. When i look at my home screen really quick, i see it out of the corner of my eye and think its updating.

you can, but shouldn't.

i got an email a few days ago saying that copy was closing my account due to inactivity. my lifetime account.

perhaps they tried to close as many accounts as they could to try and keep the service open?

this has been posted 13 times now

> "What if the next time I have 2 minutes at a traffic light, instead of checking Facebook, I say a prayer to the God of the universe?"

here we go...

90% of people guessed CGI. Author just lost a lot of bets.

purify specifically has a "comments" blocking option. Check if its on in Purify -> Preferences -> Enable/Disable Blocking Of: Comments. Remember to head to settings -> safari -> content blockers, and switch off/on the content blocker when you modify it, also.

then that would be the base level, and they would need to introduce a "lower power mode".

god I'm glad someone said it! i thought i was going nuts seeing 6 in a row!

okay, that makes more sense. thanks for the explanation!