feralchimp
I don't have a list of specific examples to back up that claim, but I encourage other apple devs here to think about recent releases from that perspective.
a) it provides readers with a laundry list of things to go study independently
b) the book author can, given time and inclination, do the same study and improve the book
One of the first jokes I ever heard at a startup was "We'll give the product away and make it up on volume!" Changing the joke to "We'll pay people to take the product and make it up on volume!" doesn't make it less obviously ridiculous.
I'm amazed they were able to hire employees, let alone find investors. Doesn't make the guy's death any less tragic though.
The market already well served by iOS, Android, etc., is people who want to terminal OUT OF their phone and onto a real computer someplace.
What are the real-world tasks you expect to do with the former that you couldn't do, or couldn't do as well, with the latter?
Glad to hear Facebook ads resulted in greater than zero hits, but I'm guessing so would CL, posters in coffee shops, a sign taped to the back window of a car...
But how much else is there to say, really?
Whenever I get the urge to write something like that, I ask myself: "Am I in the target market for this?"
A product built to these tolerances is not one that a rational person (even a competent one, with experience fixing computers) should want to crack open. Make the professionals worry about getting in and out of it, and enjoy the fact that they'll be liable for anything they break in the process.
"Not user serviceable by design" != "disposable by design." You're not wandering across a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland with this thing; take it to a f'ing Apple Store and grab a coffee while the infrastructure wrenches on it.
But I'll understand if that's not very satisfying, so...
Interpersonal connections just do not exist in some sort of static and immutable categorical hierarchy, wherein all those that share in the Platonic ideal of WORTH KEEPING are definitely kept above some threshold of positive health and repair, and those that do not are just as destined to fade naturally. If you're "sure that" you would recognize and maintain any connection that is worth keeping, then you're only correct insofar as the connection might not be worth maintaining for the other person. :)
The reason for this is that, in short, you can't see as far into the future as you think you can.
As you get older, you (hopefully) gain some perspectives that retroactively change the past. You occasionally notice important, even semi-profound things about people you used to know; things you had never really noticed before, that you could not have possibly noticed before because circumstances had not yet unearthed those facets of their character. High school isn't life. College isn't life. The first ten years of your career aren't life.
"Life changing" experience can come at any time, and it doesn't just change your life after the experience, but also reaches back into your experience of things that occured before.
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My wife recently convinced me to give it another try. I didn't use my complete name, and was judicious about the information I associated with my profile. And yet, I proceeded to connect in a deep and healthy way with some people that I'd fallen out of touch with, and nurtured some newer relationships.
It's a tool that has a Tendency to be dangerous, prying, and abusive to its members. But even as a field of vast moral hazard, I've come to view it as "navigable and worth the risks."
Perhaps not the most glowing endorsement, but if they can convince me they're more valuable than they are dangerous, they've really done some things right in the last few years.
If that's indeed their attitude, then they deserve to burn long and hot over this shit. And nothing excuses a shutdown in communication, period.
The lesson (to me) is "don't rely on AdSense for any make/break percentage of your revenue."
yeesh
For example, nuclear/EMP attacks kill all the comm satellites and force what's left of humanity deep underground...where luckily some superpower or three has tucked away big particle accelerators in addition to MREs.
Or perhaps off-planet, trying to send messages to mining operators, or through asteroid fields...work with me here.
You just won't be able to get them on Amazon, for 4-figures.
You are in fact preaching, just not from direct experience raising children.
Please do not give your future 2-year-old marbles to learn physics with. Choking hazard. Harder to swallow an iPad.
"Surely"? Let's start with "hopefully" and rigorously work our way up to "probably."
RDARs have been filed. Actions will be taken. The mothership will come back up. Haters will still hate code signing and provisioning profiles.
In order to extract these programs from most of the DSPs, we had to decap the chips, scan them in with an electron microscope, and 'tweak' the processors to allow us to dump their protected program ROMs.
As you can imagine, this kind of work costs a substantial amount of money. Professional firms that do this can charge upwards of $100,000 per processor for this kind of work.
Thankfully, Lord Nightmare from the MAME/MESS project was in contact with a savant named Dr. Decapitator, with the necessary knowledge and hardware to make this possible. Even better, he was willing to do it just for the cost of the donor cartridges and supplies. This worked out to $250 per coprocessor.