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Doesn't matter. Having a good to decent SAT score enables one to get into a better college/university. As long as you don't spend more than 1 summer prepping for it, it's worth the time investment.
Then you just need to know the right people. Otherwise, don't do it.
It's a good thing that John Legere places customer care/service as a high priority, but it seems like you didn't take the time to figure out the problem yourself.
Instead of "getting frustrated" and taking the issue to the CEO, you could have spent some time and effort to resolve it yourself.
Also, this post doesn't provide enough information about your issue and why you had a misunderstanding. If it did, then it would be more meaningful.
Update: I think HN may want to implement the scoring system used on Slashdot to evaluate posts/comments based on relevance, usefulness, information, or insight. This way, there will be no need to post meta-comments to attempt to correct negative behavior that results in the degradation of the community and the decreasing insight and relevance of posts.
My karma level has no relation to his behavior. And Spongle, if you really aren't new to HN, then you should know which types of comments are useful and informative and which ones are not.
Why not use the trace keyboard? I know Sense 5 on the HTC One comes with a trace keyboard option. It might take a bit of learning to get used to, but using trace keyboards seems to be a lot faster and more efficient than clicking on small physical keyboard buttons. Then again, they don't provide the tactile feedback that a physical keyboard does, so you can't really type with muscle memory and have to look at the screen when trace-typing.
Calm down new user. No need to get emotional and swear. And this story isn't very useful; the original submission is off-topic as well.
This is off-topic, and Hacker News is not the place to go to for medical advice.
Please don't post submissions like this in the future.
Not a very good article. The author implies that there will be a mass migration of users to another service if Facebook remains stagnant in terms of carrying out acquisitions. But Facebook continues to improve and update the user experience, so there is little incentive for users to move to a would-be competitor. Not when they already have connections with family members, close friends, and many others. Facebook has very much become a part of many users daily lives like using the Internet, and users have already invested a lot into Facebook; it's like a sunk cost. FB may remain static (in the same niche market) if they don't carry out more acquisitions, but that's (may be) fine. They can't be "doomed" just because other companies are carrying out more acquisitions.
I mainly browse HN to read good/stimulating discussions and submissions, to expand my knowledge, to see other users' reasoning, to develop and maintain a improvement/scientist attitude, and to try to maintain a good quality experience for other users. I'm not here to "have a good time" - if that's what you mean.
But I'm noticing a trend in decreasing submission and comment quality, and I don't know if other users realize that or if they are ignorant of it. HN is becoming more "average" everyday, and I feel that more and more readers are commenting with ignorance, unfounded assumptions, and generally bad arguments overall. In short, a lot of the comments are useless/inaccurate/invalid. I'm sure you notice it as well? How are we supposed to address this issue?
If it's frowned upon to post meta-comments (on HN or any forum or article), then I wish there was a service or feature (not restricted to HN) that allows people to submit/receive feedback and constructive criticism on their comments and diction.
You see many people using words such as "obviously", "only", "completely", but this category of words (degree/intensifier adverbs) is improper/inaccurate to use many times because of the unfounded/unsupported assumptions that they imply. It make me cringe every time I see that. It's an identifying feature of a bad comment, or one that could be better if more effective diction were used.
And improperly using those words puts a severe hole in the argument, but people still treat these types of comments the same way as valid ones when they shouldn't.
Why not drop a mention of the NSA/CIA's spying and hacking on other countries and American citizens? Seems that it's only news for the media when China does it. Bunch of hypocrites.
This is an empty, useless comment full of hot air, and using swear words does nothing to support the poor assumptions and reasoning that you made.
The "best" devices will never sell without marketing. And if RIM does move to Android, that signals that they gave up and tried to stave off their decline/death by exploiting the Android market. Not to mention that with the competition, RIM has even less of a chance.
I recommend thinking of a unique comment/argument that doesn't repeat what is already said. If you cannot think of one, then please don't post a useless comment that turns this into a Reddit thread.
Useless comment, fade away.
This is a nice article. I think this longform format provides a lot more substantial and stimulating topics/content than any other online websites or digital magazines. This (Aeon) and Nautilus (http://nautil.us) are probably the only two online magazines that are worthwhile to read.
This isn't even a valid comparison.
No, it's not unfortunate at all. Please continue this kind of explanation and clarification [in the future]. Accurate and precise usage of terms helps maintain specific definitions for each idea/term, and retaining specific denotations (and reducing connotations) for more words will allow one to express more easily and clearly, so there won't be multiple connotations or inspecific, colloquial terms that dilute the meaning of what one wants to say.
The iPhone 5 will most likely be discontinued and the iPhone 4S will be made free with contract.
Please stop using snark. Use snide, sarcastic, or cynical instead. Snark is a word that's better off being forgotten in some dictionary of colloquial terms.
Calm down and stop posting inane comments. It'd be much more healthy for this community.
If you have doubts about the scanner, then don't buy an iPhone 5S. There's nothing much more that can be done besides what's being done already. And for others who know and don't care, that's their decision.
Useless post should be dead. Already irrelevant after release of iPhone 4S.
Also, you shouldn't even be using md5 anyways. It's essentially broken and has serious vulnerabilities. Use sha2 or sha3.
^except that's wrong. The best of the Kwangtung army stationed in Manchuria was already shifted to Kyushu and the southern islands of Japan to prepare for the possible US invasion.
>"Most of Japan's best troops had been shifted to the southern part of the home islands. Japan's military had correctly guessed that the likely first target of an American invasion would be the southernmost island of Kyushu. The once proud Kwangtung army in Manchuria, for example, was a shell of its former self because its best units had been shifted away to defend Japan itself."
It wasn't that the best troops were defeated; just that Japan couldn't fight a war on two fronts. Once the Soviet Union invaded, they had no other viable options other than surrender or fight a losing battle.
However, even if the author's analysis is correct, I still think it best to believe that the nuclear weapons were the main cause but the other variables also influenced the outcome.
Such articles like the OP's seem to cater to alarmism and hyperbole as these kind of events occur all the time. The difference here is that the US gov is being quite unprofessional by resorting to publicizing these events. Also, it's quite trivial/foolish to care whether or not any country will overtake the US (or another country). The way I see it - decreasing the US' influence may actually be beneficial. Rather than a unipolar/bipolar world, there can be a multipolar world. Maybe it'll reduce the crap that the US gov does/causes domestically and internationally, as it seems the fed believes it can ignore accountability because of supposed exceptionalism.
Don't repost (http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1adcv8/video_chin...) stuff from the front page of Reddit. Also, politics doesn't belong on HN, so please stop.