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Just a note, I use Node across Linux, OSX, and Cygwin on windows. I have zero problems with a NPM lib of 40+ modules. Everything from connect to bcrypt.
It works quite well on the Roku, but their interface for browsing is horrible. There's also no recommendations based on previous viewing/rating, as far as I can tell.

I use Amazon video far more to rent recent releases than I use it for the free Prime videos. Most, if not all, of them are already available on Netflix streaming.
But not everyone in Princeton is complicit. The 12-year-old me is now fucked, because the town I live in becomes a shithole.
Well the Macbook at the store probably don't have SSD's installed.

I would assume that if I replaced the HD with an SSD, the MBP would be faster because then it'd have the processing advantage.
Does anyone know how they would go about observing the gravitational waves? Through lensing effects? Or are they just depending on the orbital decay to demonstrate something?
I doubt it, since Boot Camp is a native OS X feature.
For what it's worth, anchorites would wall themselves into a small room -- the folks who lived atop a pillar were called stylites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylites
Being in India right now, I couldn't help but laugh at the disclaimer. Nicely worded :)
Versions of Xcode have always been tied to versions of OS X. They actually did release Xcode 4 for Snow Leopard, which is more than they've done with any previous version, so complaining now of all times seems pretty odd.
> Today even the poorest Americans likely end up short more
> than 2.4 percent (effective annual rate)

That really depends, due to the complexity of the tax code. In particular, depends on whether you're married, whether you have children, etc.

You can see some historical data for 4-person families at the median, half median, and twice median income levels at <http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/Content/PDF/family_i.... Note the negative numbers in the "average tax rate" column in recent years for the half-median level (due to the making work pay tax credit, in addition to the preexisting earned income tax credit and child tax credit). But yes, before that the average rate was higher than 2.4%. And this is federal only, not counting state and local taxes. (And the part that really makes me mad about the numbers in this chart is the marginal rate on the half-median income level, by the way.)

Of course if you're not married with children, your tax burden is definitely higher. For a single California resident in 2007 you can see a simple marginal tax rate graph at <http://www.dbaron.org/views/taxes-2007.html>; the average rate would just be the integral of the graph, which gets to be higher than 2.5% pretty early on.
Thanks. I could never guess it could be optimized out.
This is an incredibly lame piece. The best I can find to say for it is that he spelt Myhrvold's name right. Otherwise it is crummy rant. He couldn't even do research a 4th grader would find simple - look up his target in Wikipedia and take the trouble to read enough to find out that M is indeed smart so he doesn't have to take the word of others for it.

The first para in Wikipedia would give him a clue.
"Myhrvold attended Mirman School,[6] and began college at age 14.[7] He studied mathematics, geophysics, and space physics at UCLA (BSc, Masters). He was awarded a Hertz Foundation Fellowship for graduate study and he chose to study at Princeton University, where he earned a master's degree in mathematical economics and completed a PhD in theoretical and mathematical physics by age 23. He also attended Santa Monica College. For one year, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cambridge working under Stephen Hawking, studying cosmology, quantum field theory in curved space time and quantum theories of gravitation."

So if this is his level of research why on earth would anyone in their right minds who is not already a patent hater take this chump seriously?
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OTR can be trivially faked. So if you have a transcript of me saying "I did not commit the crime.", you can easily manufacture "I did commit the crime." And that's how it should be.
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We keep an older Mac Mini around running 10.4, 10.5 (and soon to include 10.6) for support of these older systems. We've also found that our universal binary has no issues whatsoever running on Lion, which is a relief as we still prefer Xcode 3.
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I would think so. It seems like they are being genuine.
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This. It is impolite to link users to spammy wiki-scrapers, unless your post is: "Hey, someone made another spammy wiki-scraper!"
Not quite that simple. They also work with leading scientists to innovate.
The reason Twisted is available on Win32 is because (a) there are developers willing to test and maintain the OS-specific support for Win32, and (b) some people deploy apps which use Twisted as their general networking stack. (Deluge is one popular example of a Twisted-powered GUI app.)

I bet the former is the big reason; I don't think people write full user apps with GUIs in Node very often.
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You might also be able to partition the place. I'd prefer planes, trains, restaurants etc with child-free areas, for the same reason I prefer restaurants with smoke-free areas. You'd just need to control the noise rather than the airflow.
I think I see the fundamental point where we disagree. I try to keep as much business logic in the database as possible. That's more of a DBA perspective, I guess: don't trust these pesky app developers, always assume they'll try to put broken data in your DB.

It's often not possible to model all business rules in SQL, but the more you manage to cram into the database, the less probable it is you'll end up with inconsistent data.

Often there are dozens of applications (or independent modules) using the database. Keeping the business rules (like "every user has to have a first name" or "no two customers can rent the same car at the same time") in a centralised place helps a lot with keeping everything in order. It's often not possible to limit the interaction with the database to a one-and-only system (imagine different teams writing different parts of the system, app changes, outsourced integrations, etc)

So, if a label can't have spaces in it, that's easy - slap on a check constraint that enforces it. Then you know that even if the new hire writes a "change my label" funcionality and forgets to enforce the no spaces rule, she won't screw up your data.

If a user can have at most three labels, things get more interesting. Offhand I'm not sure how I'd model that and it actually is a difficult problem, best solved with triggers IMHO, as you have better control over locking and can guard yourself against concurrency issues.

Anyway, the discussion on "all logic in DB" vs "all logic in the app" is part of the neverending struggle between DBAs and app programmers...
The reasoning was that they couldn't release Xcode 4 free for Snow Leopard because of Apple's extremely conservative interpretation of Sarbanes-Oxley. Xcode has always been free with new OS versions. They were only charging extra if you wanted to get it for the old OS.

(An extremely low price point like $5 is generally a tip-off that Apple is just charging a nominal fee to satisfy accounting rules.)
Any good recommendations for a sleeve or messenger bag that is good for the 13" MBA and is form fitting so it doesn't slide around inside the bag/sleeve?
Anyone know if this will be available though developer.apple.com?
Is that one mac mini per version or is there an easy way to set up multiple installs?
I would add that kicking people out of a restaurant creates a scene (that the people getting kicked out often make worse) that is uncomfortable for the remaining customers.
I was talking about "Commit charge" which is the memory actually used by the processes. You can see it by enabling the Commit size column in task manager. Which doesn't even include all the memory process actually uses. Check this for details on Windows if you're interested
http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/1...
In business communications the onus is usually on the speaker to frame things in such a way that the audience can understand them. When employees misinterpret managers then it can be assumed that managers misspoke.
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"The software could not be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading."

Not off to a great start here... Anybody else having this problem?

[edit: deleted it; downloaded it again from my employers network (completely different ISP just in case a particular CDN had a bad copy. Same problem! Starting to think there's a bug in the installer or something...]
Wow. I am genuinely shocked that they decided to kill off the white MacBook. All the development costs were already recouped, and I was under the impression that white MacBooks were the majority of laptops sold. It takes a very brave company to kill off a cash machine like that.(The $70B in the bank probably helps.)
At the lowest level there are three RAID groups in each pod. Each RAID group is made of 15 drives configured in software RAID 6 with 2 parity drives. This means you can lose 2 dives and the data is entirely safe and intact. If 3 or more drives completely fail simultaneously (not just pop out of the RAID group or power down, but where that drive is lost forever, like it will never power up again) you will lose at least some of the data on that RAID group. Layered on top of the 15 drive RAID group is LVM. The specifics of the LVM config are there is one PV (Physical Volume) spanning the 15 drives, then on top of that are one VG (Volume Group) spanning the same exact 15 drives. Then on top of that are as many LV (Logical Volumes) as it takes to keep each logical volume under the ext4 limit of 16 TB. With 3 TB Hitachi drives, there are 3 separate LV on top of the same exact 15 drives. Finally, there is one ext4 file system sitting on top of each of the LV (one to one with the LV). Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze, but datacenter and pods aren't my main area of focus.
Slight correction - pre Mac OSX you could only resize from the bottom right, but you could move a window by dragging from the border on any edge (the idea being that windows were equivalent to pieces of paper, so people would rather move them out of the way rather than resize them, which had no physical analogue). But OSX took a step back - resize from the corner and move from the title bar only.
The technology is pretty cool and all but I fail to understand why I need a 3D view of a 2D world.
For regular computer stuff, my 2nd-gen Macbook Air works like a dream, and in day-to-day use it's the SSD that makes it so much faster than my work computer with a normal HD.

In the SSD era, if you don't use videogames or do video rendering, I don't think processor speed matters that much anymore. (Cue mobs with torches...)
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It's as if anyone can say anything and get published in HBR these days.
The 3D dimension provides an additional data point: nesting level.
dammit, my mbp2,2 apparently doesn't make the cut. too bad. will have to go buy a new one :)
Woah. I actually reported an erratum and John responded within 10 minutes for clarification and subsequently updated the article.

(Previously, page 18 stated that "The old lock screen didn't allow account switching." Turns out it has, since at least Panther back in 2004.)
Xcode can always target one or two versions back. As for testing, you have two options:

1. Buy old hardware as a dedicated testing server and run the older operating systems on different partitions

2. Run the older versions in VMWare (10.6 can do this, but I'm not positive about 10.5)

If you don't have 10.6, it's still available for free through the Mac Developer Program.
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I don't disagree, I just think the limitations should be stated.
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We had a federal "yacht tax" (literally) from 1991 to 1993. It didn't work very well. See http://www.thecitizen.com/blogs/lance-mcmillian/07-12-2011/t... for the gory details, but the summary is that people bought many fewer yachts, a bunch of yacht-making companies went bankrupt, 25,000 employees of said companies were laid off, and revenue from the tax was far below projections (because the purchase volume fell). Now it's possible that one issue here was credibility of the tax: maybe people figured it would be repealed soon and just tried to wait it out. But it's hard to tell, and even if that's the issue any proposal to introduce taxes like this needs to take that factor into account.
True, to be honest I had a spell of checking the difference for products before buying them and if it was too high I'd give the product a bad review on Amazon. Felt good :P

Out of interest are you aware of a site that does this sort of comparison?
I agree completely. I've been spoiled rotten, and now realize I can never go back to any other laptop. They just seem like heavy, slow relics from a previous decade. Damn you, Apple!

I also run virtual copies of Windows, and it all runs like a dream.
I grabbed the GM release of Xcode for 10.7 from developer.apple.com. Will installing this from the App Store cause issues?
I had been eyeing up a Samsung series 9 laptop, but the Air now has a faster processor, larger ssd drive and a lower price.

Competitors are going to be VERY hard pressed to compete with this device I think.
Local would defeat the purpose of a web app, as I'd have three different copies on my iPad, iPhone, and laptop.

He's already storing login info, so associating a few hundred bytes of text with that shouldn't be too difficult.
In old MacOS it was called "zoom", not "maximize" and the application developer was supposed to swap between the "ideal small size window" and the "ideal large size window".

In this age of cross-platform apps, and people who are used to "maximize" instead of "zoom" it is a concept that has been long forgotten
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I haven't used this myself, but the Macbook Air has always been able to boot from a remote DVD drive straight from EFI.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10329287-263.html?tag=m...

Perhaps this works in a similar way?
In Chrome, it takes you to a page of Google results, where the first result is yahoo.com :)
No but it only takes about 30 seconds in a spreadsheet :)
It's quite easy to set it up to boot of an external drive; I've done that and had 10.4/10.5/10.6 all bootable off of one external drive (split into three partitions).
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With the new version of Macbook Air out, I was thinking there may be some people wanting to upgrade. I may be interested in buying your previous version Macbook Air.
I'm very sceptical of this Mac App Store. As much as I like the idea (apt anyone? :-D) I am very disappointed by it's performance. Neither on SL nor on Lion does it let me update bought apps. Doing the "drag app to trash, click `install', empty trash" mumbo is not really my idea of "working".

If anyone has similar issues, or a fix, that would truly be great!
Remember the marshmallow experiment? They gave kids the option of a marshmallow now, or wait for some time and the researcher will give you two.

What was the most interesting was that the kids who didn't eat it didn't just sit there looking at it, dreaming of how good it would be to eat it but took steps to distract themselves from the temptation.

This is much more powerful than self discipline.
I suppose it depends on what exactly you're doing with the virtualization, but if it's just IE testing, I've found 4GB to be plenty -- performance is fine with small amounts of memory in the virtual machines, which I assume is because their usage of virtual disk-based memory is quite fast due to the SSD.
What problems have you run into? I recently switched over to 2-factor auth and while it's working fabulously I'd be interested to learn about any problems I could run into.
Millions of developers have been able to play with it since the first release - Node likely ran under Cygwin just fine from the start.

And you don't need VMs to run Java-based IDEs on Windows - there is a native JDK you can download from Oracle and Windows runs Eclipse and Netbeans acceptably.
This is the main reason I use linux on my mbp instead of os x. Being unable to manipulate my monitors independently is asinine.
Totally agree, I was all set to have new-product envy... and then discovered they barely changed anything.
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10.6 and 10.5 (server version) will happily (well, for testing, at least) run in a Virtualbox VM. The host OS have to be OS X server too but with the 99$/year you got also server license for free. Using server instead of desktop is not a significant difference if you don't start the server daemons... somewhat remembers me of NT workstation and NT server (many years ago). :)
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Has everyone already forgotten the recent implosion of poker? I'm sure smaller companies can get away with this by flying under the radar, but should the biggest player in the game go down this road it'd be a short lived trip.
Others have answered most of this question, but I'll add a slight addition to supporting 10.5. Since PPC is an unsupported platform, Xcode 4 does not include support for it. I end up using Xcode 3 just for PPC support for one of my projects.
MAS always updates my purchased apps. I have however heard of it declining to do so if you have, on some attached hard drive, a newer or same-version binary or installer. But have had no problems with MAS myself. YMMV.
Agreed. All my dev books are focused on XCode 3 and there are only a couple of XCode 4 books that have been printed. Which is disappointing because now my old books are useless and I spend most of my time replaying the Apple XCode 4 videos to figure out how to do certain things.
The problem is the current lineup forces you to pick one or the other. For hardware accelerated video encoding and playback, I want both.
At least you can custom order the MBP a with non-glossy hi-res display (I'm quite happy with mine now). I don't think that option exists for the MBA.
Create multiple partitions on the HD - 10.4, 10.5, etc.
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TRIM support was added in 10.6.8:
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/27/mac-os-x-10-6-8-brings-t...
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I'm not sure if this is anything different from the Recovery partition that Lion installs on all Macs. If it's the same thing, there's basically just a small partition with a very minimal OS X install that you can boot into if your main system is hosed to reinstall the system software from Apple's servers.
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At our work we sometimes have unofficial rewards for reaching goals (e.g., as a team if we reach X number of bugs we get doughnuts).

I joke with my co-workers that we should immediately stop finding bugs once we reach X, since anything further than that is wasted effort (and sets the bar higher when the next doughnut offer comes around).
It was supposed to be totally tongue in cheek with a wink and smiley to make it obvious. I suppose that is still harassment. I am sorry.
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Xcode 4 was in the spring and I'm pretty sure we saw this due to releases of iOS along with iOS 5 beta.

Apple can't only tie Xcode releases to versions of OS X anymore, there's iOS they have to think about.
Yeah because that's the same. Young children are often an annoyance for people who want some silence or don't have them themselves. Not a 'I don't like the color of your skin' annoyance, but a 'I still can hear them scream hours after actually hearing them' annoyance. I cannot hear myself think annoyance. And that's fine, if you are parents or if you like that kind of thing, then that's great. I don't mind it often, but sometimes I do mind it and then it would be great to have the choice to go to a bar, restaurant, hotel, whatever, where there are no young children. I don't see how this is the same as discrimination against Asians etc; they never (actually 0 times and I go to Asian restaurants a lot) screamed in my ear, ran around throwing Coke all over me (luxury restaurant that happened in) etc.

I see your comparison more in a quite different light which I often encounter; if you let kids in, why not dogs? My dogs don't bark, whine, poop, pee on the floor, don't run around, don't break things, don't bite things, don't beg for food (or icecream) really loudly; something which I have seen young children all do (yep including the barking, seriously) in public places, including airlines and restaurants.
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I think you missed the point of the essay. You're comparing success to other people, just like Julius Caesar comparing himself to Alexander the Great. You're playing the game.

If you want to climb the corporate ladder, you better enjoy every day working late nights, striving for great reviews, etc. Your title means only as much as you want it to. Life doesn't have to be a race to the top. Your Startup doesn't have to have a billion dollar IPO for you to be happy. Enjoy refining your product, providing great service to people, the struggles and stress of acquiring funding, the ups and downs.
You can (at least since 10.6) just copy the disk image to a USB drive and install from that.
...and it's free again? I thought they'd gone to a 4.99$ price for some accounting reason with 4.0?
where does one find a 16 gb server for 1k?
haha I can see why we disagree. Same problems, different solutions.

Often there are dozens of applications (or independent
modules) using the database

I know! I always assume that someone will try to pull this on me, some shortsighted bugger always does, and I end up on crusde protecting my platform against this!

It is fundamentally bad design to have more than one application dependent on a database, and you're right, it's used everywhere. If I do a PhD one day, it will be on this topic. It's the number one stupid design in enterprise computing.

I've spent years trying to write a logic framework to surround schemas to make it possible to do the functionality of pl/sql, but with stateful sessions. Every eighteen months I have a new go at it and rewrite.

I have the ideas working, and use the patterns now, but haven't managed to create a framework of it that would be usable to anyone else.

Anyway, the discussion on "all logic in DB" vs "all
logic in the app" is part of the neverending struggle
between DBAs and app programmers...

Yeah. When I was doing a lot of relational work, I'd enforce these checks by having business logic layers around my ORM.
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"When managers fail to communicate" would be a better way of framing the topic.
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