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my main machine is a 4gb 13" MBA, I do heavy web development with music playing and photoshop open all day long, along with skype, and the thing never skips a beat. 6 hours of battery even after 9 months, weighs less than 3 pounds.

It's the best computer I've ever owned. And it's my first Mac, I'm not much of a fanboy.
"It should also be noted that Glitter uses HTTPS S3 URLs to eliminate the need for the maintiance of public/private keys for Sparkle"

Eliminate? That assumes you can trust both Amazon and the CAs. For some products (Tor, Bitcoin...), that's insane.
I've noticed more and more over the last decade a confusion between race and culture. Race != culture. Perhaps youngsters are being taught that criticising a culture is racism. It is not.

I'm perfectly comfortable with criticising a culture.
That actually matches what I've observed. Namely that after 2 years of heavy use my magsafe has not had any issues with the connection.

I always remove the connector by tilting it first, instead of pulling. In fact I think there was something in the manual about this - though I can't find it at the moment.
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It needn't be a shower. Meditation, yoga, and some forms of martial art work just this way. Each of them trains you to accept discomfort without reacting to it.

There's a Buddhist story where a student asks a teacher about the secret of correct practice. The answer: "Don't move." Meditation hurts. A lot. Your legs ache and often fall asleep, your lower back gets stiff. But you're not supposed to move. Over time you do become more flexible, but more importantly you learn to accept the pain without needing to fix it. It turns out that if you can focus on the moment, the pain isn't so bad - it's actually the fear of the pain lasting into the future that causes you stress. As Shunryu Suzuki (founder of SF Zen Center) said: "Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save you now because you have only this moment."

But there's nothing uniquely buddhist about this... My Berkeley tai chi instructor loves to have students hold postures for extended periods to the same effect. You move past this point where you think you're going to collapse and suddenly find a way to relax further into the form. And any serious yoga student will tell you that holding yoga poses for them accomplishes the same thing. Sounds like the cold shower had a similar effect for Jason.

It's not macho, magical, or new agey - it's just a practice - though one that may seem odd in our can-do, fix-it-now culture. As we grow we learn that not every problem can be fixed, and devoting time to practices like these can teach you to be okay with that.
I think it’s completely wrong to say there’s no user experience on cables. What about the fact that my sofa has to be a full four inches away from the wall because of the strain relief on the cord of the lamp I need to plug in behind it? There is no reason the cord actually needs that four inches of horizontal space—it’s just poor, thoughtless design that results in a poor user experience. Whoever designed the lamp should have put as much thought into the cord as they did into the rest of it, but instead it’s just an afterthought. To my way of thinking at least Apple has the guts to experiment with a different approach and see what happens instead of just applying the same good-enough solution everyone else mindlessly does.
There are over hundreds of thousands of packages. When I look up something like python to use for development, I'm getting a lot of non-main packages.
Since you're here, how is this distinct from the 'foaminess' visible in a newtbasin [1], if at all?

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_fractal also enormously fun to do with chains of actual magnets
You may not need the power, but you're going to get it. :) The new MBA will be much faster than your old MBP.
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It is called "irrational exuberance".

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

Not really misinformation, just a suspension of judgement.

Forget 2000, what about the real estate bubble? That didn't happen that long ago, yet nobody remembered 2000, and nobody remembers the last couple of years.

The main difference now is that the average person is not really gung-ho into the stock market, or hasn't been for the last few years, particularly with regard to buying/selling individual stocks.

Most of this stuff today seems to be 401k and IRA fund managers being fleeced by this and HFT.

PS

Keep in mind, most of the 'investors' who didn't get too badly burned off of the dot com stuff after 2000, moved their money into real estate since the NASDAQ was comparatively 'in the shitter'.

Check out these great dotcom documentaries (both show meteoric rise and epic failure):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262021/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/

and this AWESOME business sci-fi book about the same time period:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1887128905/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
The used the word sync several times.

It's not magic: it's syncing in the background.
More to the point...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_strategy
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Maybe. But why not address his points before knocking someone that did full disclosure?
This is an evented proxy around OpenSSL's async interface. It has a totally reasonably ring buffer library it uses to buffer the data it's proxying, and virtually no other logic. It's so simple it doesn't really even present many obvious opportunities for security bugs.

My only complaint is that Jamie didn't tap us to look at it too. I feel slighted!

Apart from that, this is great stuff. I have clients that can use it immediately. Thanks!
By machines, he mostly means simulated brains. I've always thought that a robotic singularity would result in an concentration of income in the hands of the capitalist/owner/shareholder since demand for human labor would diminish.

But I think he is saying that it's likely these robotic-simulated-brain-people would multiply rapidly and would displace us fleshy-brain-people, much like humans displaced their humanoid for-bearers.
What had you done differently prior to Colin's feedback? Inquiring minds &c &c.
Facebook overtaking Google? Not if their ads aren't relevant.
For me it's the conversation views, the shortcuts and the labels -- and search, of course. You're right, neither yahoo nor gmx.com seem to get it, never mind how "polished" they got their HTML outlook clones.
It was in part a response to your suggestion that the author might be toeing the line of an NDA violation. The idea that a company would make you sign an NDA prohibiting you from discussing the development methodologies in use is a bit ridiculous to me. (Not that I don't believe that it could happen, but it's not a company I'd want to work for.)

Also, the "because you don't want future collaborators and employers thinking you're a Chatty Cathy who's going to tell everyone about your secret sauce" bit rubbed me the wrong way. I mean... really? I feel like that rates high on the unwarranted paranoia scale.
Adventures of a Bystander by Peter Drucker.

Jane Jacobs's three city books:
The Death and Life of Great American Cities,
The Economy of Cities, and
Cities and the Wealth of Nations.
Yeah for some reason oreilly doesn't use the same system for final books and rough cuts. Rough cuts are on safari, their online book library service, while regular books are just available from oreilly.com. I think it's because each rough cut is generated for one user.

I wish they could unify those a little. At least have Safari generate books in multiple formats.
On a full Macbook Pro, Windows is unable to force the use of the integrated graphics card, and thus always uses the dedicated. This results in a much warmer piece of aluminum and decreased battery life. I despised using Bootcamp for the while I did.

Ubuntu is limited as well. I'm not sure if this will change with Window 7's ability to boot from EFI or with GRUB2 now supporting EFI. If I recall there are several bits of the Apple/MBP EFI implementation that causes things to not work as smoothly as they should... some things that Apple either cut corners with or did intentionally to force you to keep OS X on the hard drive, not sure which.
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Why not quote Wikipedia's article on "Touch Screen": "A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. The term generally refers to touching the display of the device with a finger or hand. Touchscreens can also sense other passive objects, such as a stylus."

Oh wait, because it doesn't suit your purposes either.
I like Apple's hardware, but they seem to be useless at power cables and batteries for their laptops. What makes matters worse is the replacement parts are so expensive. I ended up removing the battery permanently because it grew too big for the compartment. I also cut open the power cable so that the wires could be rejoined and taped again. I never had these problems with ThinkPads... sigh.
That tech isn't really DRM. It in no way reduces or inhibits current functionality. All it does is provide something extra that content providers may choose to use (for streaming hd video). You aren't forced into using it, and if you don't have it you simply won't be able to take advantage of those kinds of streams.

Much unlike HDCP which virtually all computers have nowadays and actually does inhibit normal functionality.
Why? I don't mind Netflix securing their content that they deliver to my device. It doesn't force me to use it by any means. As for the "vPro" technology, that has been available in many modern Intel computers and is obviously only used if intentionally utilized by a corporate IT environment.

I don't see anything there that would prevent me from easily choose Sandy Bridge, despite not really liking the idea of DRM.

I don't know why people are surprised by this. I try to explain how the DRM components of Netflix work and why they're able to be used in Linux devices with hardware security. Android has DRM providers that are backed all the way to hardware, I'm assuming this Netflix Chrome extension will leverage some new DRM framework that will be part of Chrome (maybe, maybe not Chromium). And really, in terms of everything, I think it's reasonable.
1) I don't use any of those services you assume I use because we both frequent the same website.

2) 95% of Apple's customers don't have an iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV (or a Mac). In fact, I would wager than the number of Apple customers who have more than 1 Apple product is south of 40%, the number with more than 2 south of 20%. Those who are entirely sold into the ecosystem, an extreme minority. Those people, the ones who might stand to gain from this service are the oddballs.
>The entire point of the Chromebook is that your OS is constantly updated, and you're complaining about it updating when you start it for the first time? Also: rich coming from someone that works for Microsoft. A fresh install of Windows has nearly a gig of updates to download.

Chromebook was touted as something that doesn't need updates(especially the ones that need full reboots) in the media. The MS guy might have wondered how that was possible, and boom, gets hit by a long update that needed a reboot. How is that rich?

>I honestly didn't think it was possible for someone to physically complain about getting a free taste of 3G service, but there you go on your silly little rant.

He is right to complain about the really low limit of 100MB when it takes all your personal info(and gets stuck in a loop!).

>Or don't, because you clearly already made your mind up about the product before even laying a finger on it.

Huh, he did lay a finger on it, he used it. Did we read the same article? And you were calling his blog post stupid. Now that's rich.
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There's no reason completion notifications can't occur in an async API. It sounds like oracle calls polling "asynchronous", which is not particularly accurate. If the polling operations also involve network round trips to check for query completion, that is a tremendously stupid API.
I agree. I won't even consider a Windows laptop because of this.

Though it is a shame that Apple has a gimped touchpad driver in Windows. The touchpad in OS X and Windows isn't even comparable.
I'm cross posting because I was late to the discussion last time, but the audio is stereo and is based on where on the string you strum. I found that a nice little detail.
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It's still consuming my time.

I don't think I can get "Chopsticks" any more polished than this: http://goo.gl/doodle/uAEhv
Well, I know for myself: email is enough of a distraction without adding twitter to it. Rapportive provides a useful service by providing me more information about my contacts. By adding the ability to reply to twitter, though, it becomes more than service providing information; It ends up becoming another possible distraction. No, I don't have ADHD. I just have little self control when it comes to things that pull me out of writing. My brain resists work.

Also, of course, there's the fear of inevitable feature bloat. A service that works well at one thing should continue improving in that area without adding unnecessary features.
It's best to have more than one project on your plate. Otherwise it'd be boring to work on the same thing day in day out. But if you'd rather focus on one project at a time, work on getting a prototype out with no more than one feature or functionality (MVP). Then you'll know via feedback if it's something you want to put more effort into.

Regards
I have an older MBP, so I don't know if it's still an issue, but they get SO FUCKING HOT.

MBA's stay icy cold.
Yeah. Even after a full analysis, if you only analyze the differences between each later version after that, you could still easily miss a Black Sunday attack. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/revisiting-the-blac...
There are such conventions. Take a look at an algorithms textbook, or a theory paper. That some people are semantically lazy does not change these terms have established definitions within computer science.
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So how does this get hacked? More regulation? Enticing drug makers to make off patent drugs? Less regulation? Allowing foreign drug manufacturers to import supply?

All I know is that this is absolutely unacceptable.
At least Italy can put a name on their guy.
Hollywood Spurs Surge in Computer Science Majors
Will people actually stick with it this time around, even if it blows up, or will is CS just a fad all over again?
I almost always wait until I get a working prototype. Otherwise I end up with a domain name that has no connection with the purpose of the app. An alternative would be to reverse regular words to see if something interesting comes up.

Regards
Hmm, "Get out of your comfort zone."

That might be the case for a few days. However, after a few weeks taking cold showers becomes a habit and part of someones new comfort zone. I guess randomly replacing one shower a week with a cold shower might take longer to get used to, but it's still meaningless IMO.

PS: As someone that used to regularly swim in water colder than most peoples tap water I can say it's not really that big a deal until your core temperature drops and a normal shower is not going to do that.
I guess you could combine the methods. ;p
Currently some differentiators between the 13" air and 13" mbp:

* size

* weight

* screen resolution

* nvidia graphics in the air supposedly perform better than the intel graphics in the mbp

* air uses core2duo, pro uses corei5/i7 (would change with hardware refresh)

* i have heard (unsubstantiated) that the mbp can get fairly hot, while the air seems to remain a bit cooler.

* hard drive and ram are user replaceable on the mbp. not so in the air.

* air comes with onboard ssd (default build). mbp does not (upgradeable)

* mbp has firewire, thunderbolt, sdxc reader, superdrive, backlit keyboard

If (when) the air does get a hardware refresh to include the i5/i7 series processors, I do wonder where that leaves the 13" mbp model.

From a market segmentation standpoint, I don't see why two models that are so very similar continue to be offered. I can see why they still offer the non-pro 13" macbook (low end / entry level), and the larger pro models, but the 13" air and the 13" pro offer a potentially confusing choice to customers, and I would think this is a bad thing -- the "i can't decide so I will get neither" syndrome. Perhaps apple is waiting until they get thunderbolt onto the air before killing off the 13" pro.

In addition to segmentation, I would think it is advantageous to apple to prefer 'sealed' machines like the air, ipad, iphone, ipod, etc. These sealed machines put you on a faster upgrade cycle, because you have to refresh to replace or upgrade the ram/hard-drive. I would think this forced early upgrade cycle, along with the lean towards more utility computing, would move apple in this direction.

I am sure apple has historical metrics to support their offerings though, having had similar models offered in the past. So I am probably just 'talking out my ass' on the market segmentation issue....

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Are you referring to Zyguild? I checked it out on your website, and it sounds intriguing. How do you plan on providing "quality filtering, education, certification and alumni networking"? I'd love to know more.
Some hacks:

Getting healthier so people don't need so many drugs. Non-drug alternatives.
Ah, thanks for exposing the keyboard interface!

You equipped me for this rendition of "Chopsticks": http://goo.gl/doodle/uAEhv

I made 9 takes trying to make the two parts sync as well as possible and to move at a good tempo. This is my best one.
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What good is karma if you can't use it?
You lose so much running Windows via bootcamp that I don't bother anymore and just use VMware fusion. Only having access to the nvidia graphics makes the laptop too damn hot & drains more battery. Having to manually dink around with the fans is annoying as well. The deal breaker is the gimped functionality of the trackpad.

With the i5/i7 processor and 8 gigs of ram, I haven't noticed a large difference in performance between running windows in bootcamp vs the VM. This was not the case on my old core 2 duo macbook. I only use windows on my laptop for development work though, if you are looking to run windows for games, obviously the performance won't be the same in a VM.
"Why? I don't mind Netflix securing their content that they deliver to my device."

DRM is like those websites which forbid you from right clicking on a picture, and incidentally break tabbed browsing. It's a stupid idea in principle to give someone else control over my computer so they can forbid me from doing something.

I understand why they want it, I don't understand why I want it.

Consider the present: text arrives on your computer, you can copy it, paste it, edit it. Unless you have Microsoft Office DRM modules, then the document author decides what you can do with it and to whom you can email it. Consider the future: Every email, document, website, video stream becomes an extension of the sender or author and your computer is reduced to a dumb view-only device.

Also, there's the argument that the current state is (people who pay, who are hassled by DRM) and (people who don't pay, who avoid the DRM hassles).Criminals get the better experience, people who pay get things they practically can't backup and use on other devices or sample to quote, even in jurisdictions where they have those rights.
I've tried rapportive around a month ago. Couldn't figure out what it does. All I see is a Rapportive menu item at the very top of my Gmail.

I tried it again now, same thing. I connected to Twitter and Facebook, that didn't do anything. I don't see any widgets or new features. I'm on Win7 + Chrome.

Seems useless.

Uninstalling...
Ok, but this lack of regulation could equally well make for some spectacular opportunities to get rich (or poor) quick, in a truly adrenaline-pumping style, which the current stock exchanges lack nowadays.
As I recall, back in the PowerBook days, Apple touted how their new hinge design reduced the overall height of the notebook when open. As compared with the previous PowerBooks (which had much thicker bases), the titanium PowerBooks had a much lower profile, without really sacrificing anything except the ability to bend the display all the way back.
So if you had their attention what would you tell them? If there is a solution to this problem that lets us all retire without the economy collapsing, I'd be curious to hear it. As it is we can put off that day for some time, but eventually you will get to the point where the "thinking machines" have all the knowledge of how to run our companies. Then the only jobs left will be those that can't be learned. I don't see all of us becoming artists, and even if we did, how would we con the machines into paying us for it?
NAND to Tetris

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/course/2006/nand2tet/
I imagine you've been downvoted (not by me) because it was an overly simplistic answer - it's obviously not as easy as "have everyone vote electronically". The various debacles with voting machines over the past few years have shown that you can't simply assume the software is trustworthy, let alone having people dialling in to vote on their own phone.

And the point of the article was that more technology may not always be the best solution...
In my mind, the value of this benchmark isn't to prove that V8 is absolutely faster than C but that there is intrinsic value in doing runtime compilation instead of / on top of compile-time optimizations.

It's a demonstration of why run time optimizing compilers/runtimes may one day become faster than compile time optimizing compilers.
That was an epic Google logo. Did it cause more productivity loss than the Pacman logo?
So impressive, I'll be following!
One thing that we'll see is that many people will just go looking for their drugs where they can get them - outside of the U.S.A., via webshops, for example.

Another concern is that due to the closures of many nuclear power plants certain radioactive isotopes, which are used in cancer radiation treatment, become unavailable.
I really like the idea of the Chromebook, but I actually think something like a WebOS netbook would be better potentially. Saying that everything IS a webapp is a bit stupid at this point. Forcing everything through the web browser is just as draconian as the rules on iOS frankly.

Of course Google wants everything to be on the web so that they can make more money with ads, and that is to be expected, but I kind of wish that there was a better app development story around HTML5 local storage.

Like, it would be great if say a game like Angry Birds could be downloaded and played offline on a Chromebook. iOS, Android, and every other platform gets this. Chromebook is clearly not designed for the offline world...yet. Not everywhere has wifi/3g/4g connectivity 100% of the time.
As far as I am aware all "Chrome apps" are available via good old URLs. Yes "installing" a "Chrome app" may give the client code access to more caching/offline functionality. But these apps should work just fine without that as well. It just seems odd to lament the dearth of chrome apps as a problem when the whole point of ChromeOS is to give you a web browser without anything extra. You just keep using all the same web apps you always have.
It is well known that some Tagalog (language of the Philippines) was spoken by the Ewoks. No doubt the surviving Ewok was familiar with Manila traffic...
Hmm... I dunno about that. People get cancer. Shit happens. There are many, many cases where the only way you are gonna live is if you get the right drug at the right time.
Thanks for the reply. I also have a full time so that keeps me very busy also - with lots of OT there. But good suggestion. There is a couple of small thjngs i could do for a change.