Anyone serious about making music on iOS already has an external audio interface. Not to say dropping the port is well timed, but it's not a major issue for most pro iOS musicians.
The fear of clones diminishing the value of Ethereum seems odd to me, considering we have many alt coins that are derived from BTC but none have come close to supplanting BTC. Once the technology is openly available it might be easy to spool up a clone, but then marketing and gaining mindshare are needed and they are much more difficult.
Yea this is really good advise! I've struggled with weight all my life and setting an extreme goal like that is an easy trap to fall into. When you have a big goal and don't make it, you keep yourself from feeling good about the slow but positive progress. I often feel bad about this and just fall back into old habits again and end up where I started or worse. Slow and steady definitely wins the race.
This article causes me to question my trust in BoingBoing and Cory Doctorow. The extruder is not the only open source component Makerbot is trying to patent, here's another one http://www.openbeamusa.com/blog/2014/5/22/stay-classy-makerb... Seems the open spirit of Makerbot has been run aground by their new corporate owner.
I don't think the "in business to make profits" part is entirely true. Apple and Tesla are both leading examples of companies that are out for something other than profits first. You can say that shareholder interests and publicly traded companies require ... but at the end of the day those are two companies that don't let capitalist dogma drive their path. I wish there were more than a handful.
I'm surprised by the perceived mystery of this deal to most people, It seems pretty straight forward to me. Seems there are two parts, Headphones and then the Beats Music licensing with record labels. I think Apple will leave the hardware to run on it's own, It's a valuable brand and can continue to bring in some profit for Apple as is. I think Apple will take the licensing deal built into Beats Music and merge that into iTunes Radio. Both of those services are small / starting out and combining them will make them both stronger.
I've been finding it to be an interesting koan to replace Beats with Oculus and Apple with Facebook, In a way these two deals feel like they have misplaced partners.
I've felt a bit similar to yourself in my evaluation of my skills in the past. I think we are often our own harshest critic. Here are three books I'm reading that many here and in other nerdy online hangouts have recommended to become a better programmer.
Programming Pearls by John Bently
Design Patterns by "the gang of 4" Erich Gamma, Richard Helm , Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides
Beautiful Code edited by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson
Surprised this isn't the top comment, So few people seem to know about Parallella and it is exactly what the OP was going for. Looking at their site though they seem temporarily sold out, happy to see they are doing well post Kickstarter.