It can take 15 seconds for my iPad to connect to the store over wifi. Similar results on my Windows desktop and my Apple laptop.

A download will fail at least a third of the time. If I'm downloading more than one thing, or the download is large, say a movie, I almost always have to restart the download.

Television shows continually reset themselves as unwatched, or split themselves into two seasons.

Items that are downloaded to the computers or devices suddenly make themselves "unavailable" and have to be downloaded again.

I happen to have a router running dnsmasq, so I could use different upstream DNS servers depending upon the query (i.e. route CDN domain queries to my ISP and everything else to Google), but I found it not worth the trouble. TWC's DNS isn't that bad... I do override their search page for non-existant domains with NXDOMAIN however.

Also I have no problems with YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon instant video, etc.

EDIT: Before anybody suggests that I try different DNS servers, I have.

This year Apple has usually maxed out at 20-30 Mbyte/s instead of the 100+ Mbyte/s I get from some servers.

Move to KC — we also have great BBQ!

iMessage, on the other hand, has mandatory delivery confirmation (so you can at least know if a message is going to be problematic) and optional read receipts.

It's not a connection issue. On several occasions after running into this iMessage issue, I have emailed the picture full-res without problems.

That said, I don't think iMessage is terrible. I love it when it works as expected.

Yes, more or less. Traffic can flow Apple->some backbone->Comcast or Apple->Comcast. The latter path is less congested.

It cant be hard for Apple to build a CDN of its own when they have a worldwide reach in Mobile Network, and most Mobile Network are owned by a Local Telecom ISP.

I hope their next Keynote will be running on their own CDN.

I can download and play at work almost instantaneously.

uploading this to match was not fun.. http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4778167

It's largely random which version of a story ends up making the front page. We're working on that, but our driving concern is not who the submitter is, but improving the story quality of the front page. So for the foreseeable future, it will still be a lottery who gets the credit/karma for submitting a story. The best way to win the lottery is to enter it often with high-quality submissions.

The original article was poorly written and harder to follow.

I would arguably say you made the front page worse by switching the link.

The current article may not be well-written, but its claim to primacy is obvious. I have a hard time justifying massively lifted content on the HN front page.

Ars practices journalism, which means they take a primary source and then enrich it with useful information while also making it easier to understand.

You're absolutely right in that many blogs simply regurgitate someone else's content, but Ars is not one of those sites.

If you want to be heavy handed in your moderation and become a content curator, you'll need to get better at distinguishing the two.

this is one of the reasons we shied away from heavy handed moderation at reddit -- it's just too difficult to do it well.

Also, primacy doesn't always mean it is better.