In most cases, you'd want this to be handled at the OS-level by setting your locale preferences to match your region. However, this would require the app to be properly internationalized (using number formatters, etc.) to work correctly.
So you bring up a neat idea. I'm not sure which OSs support it, but OpenType does have a `locale` feature, primarily for glyph variants (ex: same codepoint, but different glyph for Chinese vs. Japanese). I'm guessing it could be abused to accomplish what you want and not require an app to adopt i18n APIs.
I just finished a 10 week internship at Yahoo and while I can't say much about where the company is headed strategically, I can say that it's a super exciting time to be working there :)
I noticed this over the summer when I was in Beijing/Shanghai with the iOS 6 beta. As soon as I got on the Chinese cell network, the maps suddenly changed to the AutoNavi maps, which although they turned out to be significantly more useful, they weren't vector-based maps and you couldn't rotate them like Apple maps. I also noticed a few other things like I no longer had access maps of any other country and after comparing the maps to the Google Maps in China on my locked iOS 5 phone, the AutoNavi maps were SIGNIFICANTLY more useful (and even saved me when I was lost one time).
Thank you for this post. I recently got into MIT and have been torn and confused over whether or not it is worth going. All these anti-college posts on HN were not helping but this post shared some good perspective.
Unless you also have the choice of going to Stanford (which has better weather and startup scene), go to MIT if you got in. If you can't afford it, or decide to do something else, do a voluntary withdrawal, even without paying for the first semester.
In my experience, MIT dropout is about as good as MIT graduate for some purposes; better for a few and worse for more, but overall preferable to never having gone to college.
I would probably say finishing a STEM degree at a top university is worthwhile even now if it can be done without too much difficulty. The only argument against it, assuming you enjoy school and would like to attend, is if you have another time limited opportunity (a side project taking off, acting career, etc) which is incompatible with school. Otherwise, I'd do it.
The useless college programs are in soft majors at mediocre schools with unmotivated and marginal students, who have better options in skilled trades, or at least taking some time off rather than treating school as a mandatory step in a scripted life.
I think if you get an opportunity to go to MIT you should not turn it down!
You will probably regret it later if you do.
MIT is the #1 college in the world for CS/Engineering type studies, it would probably be worth it for the contacts you make alone, not to mention that if you get through the course you will probably be headhunted based on the institution alone.
Yes. Go to college. The only reason that I'm doing the (amazing, fun) things I'm doing now is because I went to college and met some amazing people. People I would not have met in a tiny town in North Carolina. Things I would not have learned. Challenges I would not have been able to rise to.
I hadn't thought about this before, but I wonder how many people on the anti-college bandwagon had the benefit of starting in an environment that provided some of those opportunities that you (and, by chance, I) didn't know about or have access to in small NC towns.
For the record: I just barely managed to finish college because it was too structured for me, so I'm by no means suggesting college is for everybody. It's just that, for some starting points, even the lowest-ranked university can be a big step up.
Go. By the time you start at MIT I hope there is no doubt in your mind that it was a good decision. Have you ever noticed that when you look at the 'About Us' page on so many start ups in the valley, they are filled with MIT grads/drop outs?
Just attending MIT for a few years puts you ahead of the pack. Do it.
There's a really big difference between going somewhere good (and MIT is very, very, good) to do proper studies; and going somewhere mediocre to major in something like "Media Studies" or "communications".
I would love the chance to study in MIT.
If you want to make college into the best 4 years, try to experience it.
Work in scientific projects, try the ACM Programming contest, do some human classes. Live four years for your school. After that, you will be ready to pursuit the entrepreneurial dream.
Thanks for the replies everyone. My main concern was that their courses are extremely rigorous and thus would consume a huge portion of time, possibly not leaving enough time to work on awesome side projects. Even still, I'm sure there are other opportunities. Will write a blog post on this soon.
> My main concern was that their courses are extremely rigorous and thus would consume a huge portion of time, possibly not leaving enough time to work on awesome side projects.
You will have the rest of your life to work on your awesome side projects. Chances are forfeiting your next iphone app to study compiling to continuations will be a more fulfilling accomplishment in the long term.
You will indeed have little time for side projects, socializing, or sleep. Many graduates find it to be worth it, but not all - I sincerely regret the lost opportunity to spend some time exploring my interests without intense pressure, before entering the workforce.
Do you realize how enormously an MIT degree will help you to "adventure" in future? You will be able to take on many more "awesome projects" for the rest of your life if you know you have secure employability to fall back on when things are rough.
While a lot of this accurate and something to consider, the author of this article fails to mention anything about Tesla's unique service/support model that they plan to roll out with the Model S. Tesla also mentions a "five-minute battery swap" available on their upcoming vehicles as well as "Tesla Rangers" that will come to your vehicle in the event that it dies. It seems to me like this is a small problem that the author is blowing out of proportion.
It seems this would be a small problem if Tesla informed their owners about it clearly (and adding a decent status display to the car to warn when it's not charging enough/how long until full battery depletion). As it seems now, Tesla owners are liable to the tune of $40K for doing something they don't know is bad.
There are a few but I'm confident we have one of the lowest price points per word (if not the lowest). A google search for "proofreading service" turns up a few.
You can also just boot your Mac in single-user mode (Command-S), then mount the main filesystem and type "passwd bob". Much easier and produces the same effect.
That risk level is not at all on par with this though. That won't help with filevault turned on, and it requires both a reboot and a physical presence at the machine. This can be done remotely with shell access, and discloses hashes from other accounts.
Enabling Open Firmware password protection disables the ability to boot a Mac into single use mode; it also disables booting from an external hard drive, flash drive, etc.: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352
Unless the Mac has a firmware password. You could just remove that by resetting the PRAM, unless you wanted to go undetected. In that case, you could remove the hard drive, mount it elsewhere, and change the password hash. Is FileVault plus a firmware password the only safe way to keep your Mac?
FileVault by itself is sufficient, at least with Lion. Even if you're able to boot the machine or mount the HD, you'll need the user's original password to decrypt the data. The Password Reset app is useless until you first unlock the encrypted drive.
(I'm pretty sure that pre-Lion's FileVault is in the same case, where you'll still need the user's old password to decrypt their home directory's encrypted dmg, but I'm not 100% certain.)
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