I picked up one of these in a previous sale. The coffee it makes is decent if I remember to give it a few gentle shakes while brewing, though I did end up with more fine sediment than I liked. That’s probably more to blame on my grinder (a low-end burr grinder).

I picked up one of these in a previous sale. The coffee it makes is decent if I remember to give it a few gentle…

I’ve seen a diaper machine in person (had an internship at a facility that produced them) and can confirm it is a total blur. They use xray cameras hooked to a computer to analyzer/examine each diaper as it flies by, and when one is out of spec, a high speed air valve opens to blast that diaper out of the production…

Oh, ok. I figured it was a gimmick from the gif so I came in with lower expectations.

Yes, so?

Poor David Filo is walking away with $2 cash (among other benefits). Yahoo could save a check and pay him with a two dollar bill.

Yeah totally, I took the same point about Lenovo doing better to enable its customers to do their own repairs, but that still doesn’t lead me to the conclusion that all Apple users are spoiled babies who can’t do anything. It’s too great a leap and is clearly fed by bias.

A consumer can also do all of their own car maintenance, mix their own laundry detergent, sew their own clothing, and heck even start a farm to raise their own livestock. Choosing not to do those things, or choosing to purchase a different computer that doesn’t meet your (edu-petrolhead) specific criteria of what is a…

It’s maybe not so black and white as that. Sometimes a user base wants a feature that comes at the expense of another feature (e.g. replaceable battery versus totally waterproof is a current trade-off, or a thinner/lighter body versus a bigger battery). Also there could be a popular status quo that is overcome, like…

Why even comment?

Just curious, why did you start your comment with “Uh, ...”?

The “It’s not a hoverboard!” folks are a great example of “Everything has been said but not everyone has said it yet”