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Sony crams an i7, a gorgeous 1920x1080 high-gamut display, quad RAIDed SSDs, and an optical drive into a 13.1" 3-lb. package with great battery life. That's impressive.

http://www.jp.sonystyle.com/Special/Computer/Vaio/Z/index.ht... (quad SSDs available only in Japan)

I love OS X, but I feel like a retard for sticking with Apple hardware when they're outfitting "the next generation of Macs" with the previous generation of processors.
Apple feels most threatened by Flash.
Personally I see reddit more as a liability than a commercial asset.

The community is the loveliest on the internet, but also extremely self-conscious and suspicious of change, much less one dictated from the top. Whoever owns reddit will have to foot the development, support and hosting fees, while remaining subservient to a moody and very sophisticated user-base.

Better cash out and be a community hero.
It will become the de facto way people look for applications and if yours isn't there, then it may as well not exist.
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I hooked it up with WebSockets and got a very nice real time collaborative web app in a few lines of code: http://github.com/carlhoerberg/knockout-websocket-example
But I bet you are allowed investments, sit on boards, and draw funds from a trust. If so, what a horrible throw back to ancient times. Are you sanctioned to work during vacations?

While creative accountancy can sidestep some of your restrictions -- say, pay yourself a dividend, take a director's loan -- this hardly solves the entrepreneurial issue at hand. Unless, of course, Cambridge students are expected to legitimately subvert the regulations, thereby preparing themselves for a lifetime of sailing close to the wind :)
Ah ok. My usage is business and development so I suppose the cpu matters much more to me, as do open source reliable drivers. I see the point for a fast GPU for entertainment usage, but going all the way down to a 1.4 gighz core 2 duo seems like it would cancel out a lot of the gaming potential that the GPU gains.
The existing netbook niche is dominated by low-end components. The idea is: low cost, low performing computers that don't do much more than run a browser.

However, there has always been a huge gap in the netbook market for a premium netbook line. Not a dime-store almost-laptop but rather a slimmed down efficient laptop, filled with quality components. High performance SSD (better than spinning drives in every respect except total capacity), elided components that aren't used often such as the DVD drive, network ports, PC Card adapter slots, maybe even usb ports, overall smaller and lighter form factor, etc. The end result of that evolution is a sub-notebook or a premium netbook, capable of running more than just a browser but unburdened of all the clunky kitchen-sink bits of bigger laptops.

I think Jobs objected to the first category of products, and I'm inclined to say that this new batch of Macbooks doesn't fit that product category well.
I am with you here. The manufacturers should not be allowed to call their phones open if they lock the bootloader so you cannot install unsigned images.

But Android as a platform is still open. The same way that Linux is still open.
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How do average people think compared to dumb people? Extrapolate to geniuses.
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Video chat with people who have new iPhones and are connected to WiFi is a thing lots of people want to do?
This is why I love Transmit's update popup. It has three options:

* Don't Install
* Install Update Now
* Install Update on Quit

The third option is perfect. I wish more apps did this.
I'm a little disappointed with the battery life. I recently bought a 13-inch ASUS and regularly get 12+ hours of battery life out of it. 5-7 hours sounds less than impressive especially if you are on the move/hate looking around for an outlet wherever you go. But there is no denying that the MBA looks considerably better/thinner/lighter...
I see you're a real one.
Come ooon. We just went through the name calling thing with the parent, and now you're being his dialectic-opposite with the 'apple-basher' label.
>The community is the loveliest on the internet

I hope you're being sarcastic. reddit's been a sordid mix of conspiracy theorists, political extremists, and 4chan users for the last year or two.
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You touched on a good point that I haven't seen brought up elsewhere yet. If Apple brings the same kind of Big Brother censorship to the content of Mac apps as they currently do to iOS apps, that's going to have a chilling effect. There are plenty of big companies and small shops that sell media and software with 'adult' content, and if the Mac becomes locked down for them, that's going to suck. Both by reducing consumer choice, and reducing developer & vendor freedom.
It's a knee jerk reaction based on some prior misbehavior on a different platform from the same company.

The more realistic outcome out of this is that the App Store will be so popular that it marginalizes any developer who uses any other method of distribution.

That, I see as a negative, and more likely outcome than a complete application lockdown on the OS.
My bad - that was for HTTP Live Streaming. FTTM.
The profit motive should drive the use, not the implementation of a trading system that effects the world economy so directly.

I've maintained that the standard increment for trades should be hours or days, not microseconds. This way liquidity is maintained on a macro scale, and parasitic orders based on micro manipulations of the system are eliminated.
I'd imagine that facebook would not be pleased ;)
Actually, Conde Nast is not footing any of the costs. Reddit is entirely self-sufficient.
Reddit's community is dependent upon what subreddits you're part of.
If you consider the size of the community, it's relatively miraculous. But you're of course right in an absolute sense.
works in EVERY grocery store in germany.
The codes can only be generated in very limited quantities as they're intended (I think) for reviewers and testers.
I would be shocked if 10.7's CPU requirements were anything more stringent than a 64-bit capable CPU (ie. Core 2 or later). There's a chance that they might drop support for low-end GPUs like then Intel GMA950, but it seems too soon for them to require an OpenCL-capable GPU, so they'll probably keep Intel graphics support around until they're ready to make that jump.
I have a fork of Sparkle that does that http://github.com/fileability/resparkle
I think he was talking more about all the feel good reddit stories...i.e. all the money they raised for all the different charities, having that girl who got bullied get a all you can buy day at a toy store etc.
New 11.6" MacBook Air starts at $999 with 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo
A publisher is someone who aggregates titles from smaller developers and helps market/distribute the application. Chillingo/others like them usually have had some success with apps before and are able to reach out to their massive base as soon as a game is released to enable the apps to rise through rankings faster.
Also, developers who live in countries where the app store is not available are able to work with publishers to get their apps distributed across the world.
HN community is ultra-cautious about upvoting humorous comments. This is likely because these types of comments quickly devolve into and encourage low-quality discussions. The exception is when the comment is extremely witty and contextual.

Actually, it would be interesting if someone did an analysis of the top 100 humorous comments on HN - it would be very fascinating.

Edit: I kinda had a fear that I would be downvoted for explaining.. oh well
My girlfriend has the ability to slit my throat at night without me having any way to resist, but I still think being around her is less risky than, say, walking across the freeway. A hopeless situation that is extremely unlikely to occur is less of a risk than a slightly-less-bad situation that is very likely.

In practice, it seems like the difficulty of getting eyeballs and converting them into sales is generally much more likely to kill your app than having Apple reject it. Optimizing for the latter case is not rational unless you have a strong reason to believe your app will be rejected.
Apple keeps your mobile device safe

Which sounds like a pretty good selling point for future Macs, no?
> I'm not so excited about this... this might be the first step in locking down the platform.

Of course you're not excited about this. You're a brilliant nerd who founded a startup that invented a new programming language. This isn't for you. Or for me.

Getting to be Nerd Jesus every time a computer runs into trouble is gratifying. We get to be important. We get to trick out our gear to do all kinds of goofy, custom stuff. We get to build things that are neat.

Serving our needs is certainly important. It's important, also, to understand that we are the minority. Everyone else just wants a tool that works. The majority of human beings on earth find computers to be mystifying, frustrating, even scary things. Absent Nerd Jesus, the computer just seems to have a mind of its own. It has its own agenda and interacting with it is an exercise in guesswork and black magic.

What the iPad, and the iPhone before it, has taught us is simple: people want a computer they understand. They want technology, but optimizing for Nerd Jesus has given them shit technology that doesn't respect them, so they're used to being defensive around it.

This is all a long way of saying that I agree with you – this could be a first step in "locking down the platform" for you and me. And streamlining it so it's actually useful for everyone else who doesn't fetishize the Terminal, kernel extensions or compilers.

I think there will always be a place for Nerd Jesus to do his thing. But instead of being the focus of the market, we're finally going to focus on the vast majority of what most people actually care about doing.

We'll see what it costs us from a nerd perspective. I suspect it's less than we think – aside from the high of our indispensability as troubleshooters, of course.
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I find the market salaries bit odd. I can't remember who it was, but I distinctly remember one of the admins being quite sarcastic with a "we're not here for the money" comment.
If you're paying on credit, you also have to factor in the interest... It's no long just about the up-front cost.
The US Dollar is backed by F-16s.
FWIW the X301 has since been discontinued, w/ the T410s being the closest equivalent.
It's usually a revenue split of around 60-40 in favor of the developer.
February 17, 2010? So he hasn't used the RTM build? He probably one saw screenshots and blurry videos. Next!
The only ones I can think of are space, military, and maybe medical robotics.
No, you're just spreading FUD, and it is a dead horse. One thing Apple has over most other businesses is a much higher level of integrity.
That is, frankly, a poor design.
Apple actually lowered the barriers to entry on Mac devs. They recently dropped the price to the premium developer access to $99, iirc.
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I wouldn't go as far as depressing, but I agree that it's not a great show. But at least it raises awareness.
Reddit raises money for people in need. They might dabble in their fun kiddie pool subreddits, but they have consistently walked the walk when and where it matters.

Let me say that I have only yesterday signed up to reddit, for the first time, under my own name. And that I would happily go elsewhere for intelligent feedback. But if I was wronged by a bigger adversary (government, business, etc.) Reddit would be the first place to air my grievance.

Even in their most sordid humor, they're both clever and humane. I just get the feeling they're nice people. People post pictures of their kids, their pets, their hand-drawings, hobbies, even their own private parts (if you know where to look.) I think Reddit covers the whole spectrum of the human experience .. if all humans were charitable, fairly well educated, suburbanite, closet-Marxists with short attention span (which I emphatically identify with :-)
4GB RAM at last! Let's see if Santa gets me this one or a Dell Adamo. The Dell still doesn't have 4GB, but perhaps that will change before December.
I see... I suppose the efficiency of the presumed software-based floating point library can be factored along with the parallelization then.
I really like your site. I want to completely switch to your site. But..

1. Some stories are Missing: For example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1787019 ("When Intel’s Hyper Threading goes bad") was posted on Oct 13, 2010. But it is missing your list.

2. How often do you update #Points & #Comments? I mean if I just post a comment or upvote any OLD story on news.combinator.com & then if I browse back to that day on your site. Its not showing the updated values. I guess you are storing the stories but not updating them. What is your criterion for updating the #Points & #Comments?

3. What is your criterion for "top" in top 10, 20, 50%? Its definitely not points.

PS: How are you getting the stories from news.ycombinator.com? Scraping or do they offer some JSON API?
A three month window that started last month?

Seems like this bill was custom crafted for some specific person that has already made his move. It seems very unlikely that many investors hearing about this bill today will be able to change their strategy in such a short time period, it would only affect deals where they have the agreement made and paperwork and financing all ready to go with just the final signatures remaining.

Therefore it is not a bill to encourage investment. It is a bill to help out some specific person.
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The fearful comments are not from Apple developers, but from freetards who have hated apple for the past 20 years and been making the same kinds of comments for that same period.

Meanwhile, those of us who have been developers for apple platforms during that time have never seen apple screw us over and find this kind of fear to be asinine.

It makes for good press to boost your page views, though, and so any burp eminating from cupertino is used to rationalize wild speculation and assertiosn that it is proof that steve jobs is a control freak who wants to run your life.

Apple introduced App signing in Leopard. You've been able to produce signed apps since around that time. That's all the appstore on the mac needs. Apple won't care what toolchain you use...
I work in a startup in SF. I've been using video chat for awhile. We go out of our way to find good quality stable video chat solutions. Everyone on our floor of startups use video chat.

People not able to video chat with us are now equal to people asking us to fax something in.
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There are nice people on reddit, of course. You might be able to say that some subcommunity of reddit maximizes `lambda subcommunity: f(subcommunity.size) * g(subcommity.loveliness)` over all possible subcommunities of all community websites (and for some reasonable weighting functions f and g), but if you're generalizing to the entire reddit community then I can't help thinking you're mistaken.
He said pay market salaries. Sounds to me like he was paying his employees standard wages, as opposed to having them take pay cuts to make ends meet.
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Really? Because I update libraries all the time on CentOS, Debian, etc. and very rarely does that require an update of all the packages that depend on it. With glibc, you occasionally have to restart services (cron, ssh, etc), but that's about it.

Not sure what the Gentoo guys are doing differently.
let nthbit (bitContainer:'T) nth : bool = (bitContainer &&& ((1 :> 'T) <<<nth))

let bitstream (bitContainerSeq:seq<'T>) : seq<bool> =
let sz = sizeof<'T>
bitContainerSeq
|> Seq.map (fun b -> [0..sz]
|> nthbit b
|> Seq.ofArray )
|> Seq.concat

I think that should do it unfortunatley I'm away from an F# compiler
That would be childal control, then :)
Delegation is of great interest to anyone who runs their own web site but prefers to not run their own openid server.

(Won't touch the other trolling.)
The problem is that the users of my Google group aren't necessarily tech savvy. Now they'll have to remember that files are at one url and messages are at another. I'm pretty sure I'll have to repeatedly remind them of this.

Besides, who's to say Google won't pull the plug on those other services in a year? It seems unlikely, but I also thought it was unlikely they'd remove those features from Groups.
I agree. But surely "the [reddit] community" without qualifiers refers to the entire community, not some subset thereof.
I'm confused...Why is a publisher necessary for Angry Birds? Can't Rovio just code -> publish straight to App Store?
I'm definitely not suggesting that Facetime is, or will be, a failure.

Thinking about it, however, reminded me of a passage from Infinite Jest about the failure of video chat.

(1) It turned out there there was something terribly stressful about visual telephone interfaces that hadn’t been stressful at all about voice-only interfaces. Videophone consumers seemed suddenly to realize that they’d been subject to an insidious but wholly marvelous delusion about conventional voice-only telephony.

...

EDIT: Instead of that wall of text, here's a link to the rest of that passage. Sorry about that. http://stevereads.com/weblog/2010/06/07/iphone-4-facetimeinf...
What is the purpose of a game publishing company on the app store? Feels to me like a remnant of the software-in-a-box distribution model.
I see some potential negatives for developers (arguably positive for consumers).

1 - Price deflation. There is a bit of a connotation that App Store means lots of 99 cents apps. Yes, it's not the same platform as the iPhone, but people jumping from the iPhone App Store are going to have some preconceived expectations.

2 - Family licensing. You normally pay a premium for family licensing of a lot of Mac software. This is going to disappear as a pricing tier, so how are developers going to react, given item #1, above?

3 - Marginalization of devs who don't want to participate in the App Store. App Store will be a major way for users to find software. If you're not in there (whether by your choice or Apple's choice), your revenue opportunities could head south.

Having said that, I think the App Store is going to be great for the more non-technical users who use the Mac.
What's interesting to me is that this is done in Chrome, which has given eg, Adblock some trouble since it does not really allow extensions to change the page content, only hide parts of it. Would be interested in a technical look at how it's managing to filter out the facebook bugs given that limitation -- or has Chrome been updated to give extensions more power?
I hope your friend managed to get her data back. That makes my blood boil.
If you're a registered Mac Developer, everything you need to know is already up at developer.apple.com

This includes submission and approval processes, documentation, etc.
Maybe the admins could be coasting at some big company for the same salary but a small fraction of the responsibility.
Original link:

http://xianblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/coincidence-in-lott...
408-996-1010 is the corporate switchboard for the past 30 years. Buildings around Bandley Drive used to be warehouses. My old boss at Apple told me back in the day if you wanted a job you just showed up at the door ready to work. A few weeks later if you lasted you're hired.
Also June, July, August, and about half of September.

Really, Boston is only tolerable for that one glorious week each in the spring and fall.

I do miss Boston. But not the weather. It'd be nice if we got an occasional thunder storm out here, though.
Absolutely, I understand I'm in the minority. I just hope if it does happen there will be a suitable replacement to switch to by then (and no, Linux is not there yet). That means both hardware and software, since by then all Apple hardware will likely only run Apple software.
FaceTime is based on numerous technologies:

* H.264 and AAC – video and audio codecs respectively
* SIP – IETF signaling protocol for VoIP
* STUN, TURN and ICE – IETF technologies for traversing firewalls and NAT
* RTP and SRTP – IETF standards for delivering real-time and encrypted media streams for VoIP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facetime

Sounds very similar to iChat videoconferencing, which also uses h.264, AAC, SIP, RTP and SRTP. The only difference I could find is in the way iChat traverses firewalls and NAT, which it does via SNATMAP.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1507
> However, there has always been a huge gap in the netbook market for a premium netbook line.

Which has been filled quite nicely by the Thinkpad X series.
As far as I know, this is incorrect. In fact, before the introduction of reddit gold reddit was so self-insufficient they were not allowed to hire because they were not making enough base revenue for Conde Nast to consider it worth growing in staff. Not profit, revenue.

It might have changed post Gold, but I'm not so sure about that.
IT is amazing that I can't go a week without seeing mainstream FUD about how apple is boiling a toad, meanwhile the countries economy is just shy of "roiling" and half the people are shouting "Turn up the heat!"

Too much worry about Apple- which has been treating people well and going above and beyond the call of duty for decades, and no worry about the government which has just blown up the biggest bubble the country has seen and then blamed it on bankers.
I believe you have to be a C corp...we're an LLC and we've talked about converting before the end of the year specifically for this.
I wasn't contending that. I was wondering if the commenter had an knowledge that integration was difficult.
Wonder if Lion will come on a USB dongle instead of a DVD.
It's obvious how much the design of the iPad/iPhone OS has informed this. It's very 'app' centric, which is funny to me because the public's perception of what an 'app' is is pretty weird.

You'd have a hard time describing what a program or an application is to someone, but if you said the word 'app' they'd immediately know what you are talking about, because apps are these little icons that live on their phone.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone looking at Launchpad for the first time would be surprised that their macbook "has apps now", even though they are looking at the same applications that have already been on their mac for months.

'App' is definitely a better term than 'application' or 'program' from a UI perspective if more people can so easily understand it, but I don't understand why or how this happened. They're the same thing! It's strange.
How many malware writers are going to pay $99 a year to Apple for the privelege of trying to sneak malware into Apple's store under the guise of something useful?
We'll find out in 90 days.
Actually, if reddit is truly self-sufficient, it's a relatively new development. Reddit was bought four years ago, and repeatedly told to not worry about money for the first 2.5 of those years and was accordingly not self-sufficient.
You don't get to criticize me about name calling when you did so in the post I was responding to. If you don't want to be called an apple basher, don't say asinine things like "android device with the same specs for half the price."
I agree with that, but it's hard to believe something is important if you have no concept of it. (People know that "math" exists, but until they've studied specific areas, they probably will have never been exposed to those concepts or ways of thinking.)