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The original Air had a normal Intel ULV processor in a smaller-than-usual package. Whether this was something Intel came up with and shopped around or something that Apple requested isn’t known.
"It’s sad, really, that the state-of-the-art in the PC world is attempting to copy Apple. Why isn’t Asus trying to blow the MacBook Air out of the water with something radically better?".

I have an answer for this. I don't think they can create something that blows the MacBook Air out of the water. The bar has been set too high for the PC manufacturers to properly compete in design, at least for the moment.
I couldn't agree more. The above pretty much expresses why I've been a serial Thinkpad user for years now.
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Gestures are really nice. Switching spaces with swipes is very nice. Also having Mission Control for an overview makes things a lot easier.

What I miss when having to deal with Windows, is to, spread my work like I do on OS X. Also, I miss being able to scroll in Windows currently not selected (of any application kind). So I can code in an IDE and scroll through a PDF (only mouse over it) without having to leave the focus of the IDE.

The touchpad makes scrolling easy with the two finger swipe.
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Surely Asus make enough laptops to amortise the cost of designing a decent trackpad over them? I think the problem here is the same thing that manufacturers still haven't gotten; the quality of the build is important, even though it isn't a number that you can put into a spreadsheet for a $/MHz comparison.
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Not only do they seem to lack basic probability skills. They also cannot cite the original material correctly. Kahneman and Tversky tested something else completely. Namely, that people tend to ignore base rates when making probability estimates. From Kahneman's book:

"In one experimental condition, subjects were told that the group from which the descriptions had been drawn consisted of 70 engineers and 30 lawyers. In another condition subjects were told that the group consisted of 30 engineers and 70 lawyerss. [..] In sharp violation of Bayes' rule, the subjects in the two conditions produced essentially the same probability judgements."

There is also a blatant error in the OP article: Answer No. 2 (Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement.) is by no means "logically impossible".

EDIT: wording
I have the same gripe with the word "revolutionary". It seems every other day I come across some business touting their product as "a revolutionary new... blah blah".

Sorry, your product or service isn't revolutionary until you ACTUALLY create a revolution.
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The best feature of the trackpoint is scrolling. You can scroll with it by pressing the middle button and move the trackpoint around. I'm using this all the time and i like it more than two finger scrolling.
You were actively asking Google to add those people, it was the polar opposite of "without asking".
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Well it's back to some e-commerce programming for me.
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Apples trackpads really are one of the main selling points for me. I got my first Macbook Pro in 2009, liked it, got used to it but somehow wanted to go back to a rigid business laptop where i dont have the fear of scratching it etc. So i sold the MBP and got a Dell Latitude only do realize how much of a difference the trackpad on a MBP makes and how much i got used to its awesomeness.
Today i use a MBP again ;)
I was just trying to figure out a stored procedure that queries one table, loops over the rows, and within the loop queries another table using the values from the first query. Now, looping over these rows, it has a third query and a corresponding loop over those rows.

And all that for inserting the values taken from the three tables into a 4th table. This could have been done with a simple 3-table join query. Hell, it could even have been done with a single insert statement! I wonder how people fail to recognize an N+1 selects problem when it's staring them in the face.

Well, to be fair, this problem I described isn't exactly an N+1 problem is it? More like an N(M(L+1)+1)+1 selects problem. ;-) (Unless I've got my math all wrong there?)

How I hate working with PL/SQL stored procedures! :(
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And why the half-assery that is google docs? That is something that with nothing but hard slog-work could be awesome... but it's like an awkard notepad.exe + features.

So far, the only thing they have succeeded in is search. Analytics is the best free analytics service out there that I know, with an interface like spaghetti. Adwords? Ugh... it's hideously banal to work with. Rant over.
This is true, he asked google to add those people. Anyway, I sometimes wish it would be easier to see who already is a Google+ user and who is not.
Also, I don't think this feature would be a problem in Germany (or here in Austria for that matter). I don't think google needs your permission to use their address book in one of their services that is tightly coupled with gmail.
There are two sides to this:

The theoretical - yes, you're right. It may be that the contract isn't airtight, though given that this appears to have been a genuine mistake rather than malice or profiteering on Amazon's part my suspicion is that the damage waiver isn't that unreasonable.

The practical - $13,000 is nothing in the world of legal fees, no-one in their right mind would sue a multi-billion dollar company over such an amount, especially with a case that's not clear cut and that's the absolute maximum financial loss you can assign to it and there's a reasonable argument that the figure would be lower.

Personally I think that Amazon should come to a goodwill settlement of a few thousand dollars with him but I suspect that's why I'm the one who hands over silly amounts of money to Jeff Bezos each month rather than the other way around.
Actually, USAA is open to anyone. You have to be military to access some of their loan products, but not for the basic stuff.
God, at the very least get rid of the enormous justified text everywhere. And maybe the weirdly shaped pink background images on your homepage. What on Earth...
I'm not sure what you're getting at here, other than that trying to treat an array of arrays as an array of Hashes is a bad idea.
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The former doesn't work on iPad.
One the one hand, Apple takes pride in copying and enhancing themselves (then claim they did it but ok)

On the other hand there are radically differently designed ultrabooks, so don't take Asus for the general norm?

Oh and as many on this page I'm typing from a Vaio Z21 running Linux and of course, everything just works.
Of course its way faster, yet lighter than the MBA. And while you may hate Sony because "its not hype to have a Sony dude!" its well built and works perfectly well, 20h a day so far.
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I don't need to propose an alternative in order to state that the imposed one child policy is evil, along with its forced abortions and forced sterilizations.

Second, you can't prove overpopulation is as serious as the government claims, nor can you prove their "solution" fixes it.

Third, if it is as serious as is claimed, it will affect the world (anthropogenic environmental impact, immigration, etc...), so it's everyone's worry.
My brother once proposed a very easy solution. For each billion in bail out money someone has to do a year in prison. This is distributed equitably through the board of directors.
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Footnote to (a): except for the slides which are intended to be unreadable because they are about the shape of the code rather than the content. An effect that works very well across a room but which is rather lost when viewing the slides on the web and without narration.
I consider getting a second notebook for Win and Linux because sometimes you have to work with them. I love Thinkpads for having a Zen influence (just like Apples hardware) and it's sturdiness. Vaios look awesome but sometimes they get the details wrong. The WLAN button on the front broke of my Vaio broke, why did they put it on the front, where it has always contact with my belly when sitting in bed?)

But I will always need OS X for my main machine. It's all the little details helping me to get work done. I adjusted my workflow to Exposé and Spaces and it's the most well designed OS, so I love it's consistency, scrolling in windows off focus, CMD not CTRL for shortcuts (so I can use my thumb and don't need to move my hand or use the little finger), taking advantage of more shortcuts in general (but they killed some in Lion) etc.

And many of those little helpers are only possible because of the great trackpad. It's no problem for Win7, because it does not rely on gestures, but it would be great they would include something like that. (do some artful linux devs work on those things?)
> I think the conservative approach is faster, but it introduces more errors

interesting. i use 'conservative' and sometimes get surprised how could i write and send such non-corellated or repeated sentences so close to each other.
I'm using Org-S5 (https://github.com/sigma/org-s5) with some rather kludgey HTML and a heavily hacked-up stylesheet.
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well, unfortunately, legally they need that permission. they probably informed me throughout the process somewhere in the terms, which, i of course skipped. I am just trying to make the point that this is less about legal implications but merely a call for better user guidance and being nice to your customers. i consider myself an advanced user (i make websites, i run a company, i've worked for it corporations) and yet even I 'accidentally' spam a lot of my friends because they showed up in a nicely prepared circle on Google+ that says here are your friends, add them to your circles.
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Really sucks it do not work for ipad..
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How is it that when someone takes inspiration from an Apple product it's stealing, but when Apple does the same thing it's either genius (to the point of being one mans creation) or the importance of original invention is trivilized? Being inspired is the foundation of creating new things, as almost everything new is actually taking one or more known things and combining them. What bothers me is when you take inspiration from something, claim it's your own unique invention and try to prevent anyone else from doing something with it.
The original Mali tech was developed by a startup in Norway (Phalanx, or something) and purchased by ARM somewhere in 2006 IIRC.

The product benchmarking on the original Mali happened at the office where I worked. I remember being pretty jalous at the guys who appeared to play games all day.
What's battery life like with Linux on that Vaio?
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As the logic boards have to fit in the designs created by Ivy and team, and as far as I know, they design logic boards for themselves.

You can say, Intel describes how the components are connected, but the physical layout should be done by Apple.

And yes, they do this since the Apple I.

Edit: The guy above looks like he knows something, but I think Intel goes directly to Apple, not via an ODM.
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For me the whole point of working out is to take a complete break from the computer.

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Other than standing and stretching at regular intervals, I don't think it's productive to try and do both at the same time.
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> You have a physical reaction when you hear a sound

Only deaf people and psychopaths probably have no reaction to spoken words, the overwhelming majority of people, however, does - one of the reasons lie detectors are even possible.
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If I were to say "Every time I hear the f-word I stab myself in the leg with a pocket-knife while screaming the lord's prayer at the top of my lungs", I think we'd all agree that I have a fucking problem. But as long as I'm just "cringing", well then that's entirely normal behavior and the other person needs to stop whatever the fuck it is they are doing.
I don't know about gestures on Linux. I've heard there is a package but never bothered with it. I basically do two things on my computer: I browse the internet and I edit text (programming, writing, homework...). For both of these tasks--and most other things I do less commonly--I can just use the keyboard. All this means that I only use the mouse/trackpad if I really have to--it really slows me down.

In my experience, Mac OS is not the most well-designed OS at all. Whenever I have to use it, it manages to annoy me fairly consistently. It isn't bad, of course, but all modern operating systems--especially Linux--have improved drastically in the last several years.

CMD vs CTRL is not a function of Mac OS/Windows, it's a function of your keyboard layout and both proprietary solutions get it wrong: CTRL is actually the key labelled Caps Lock. Everything else you've mentioned is also present in Linux, at least with KDE--it's well designed, consistent and even lets you scroll windows off focus (I think the scrolling, as well as other window conventions date back to older Unix window managers that predate both KDE and Mac OS). KDE also lets you have some very useful key combinations. Particularly, I like being able to tile a window left or right with a single keystroke, which is trivial with KWin. That said, I'm going to take this idea to the next level and switch over to XMonad soon, which is a nice upgrade for OS X as well (a couple people I know have used it there successfully).

Coincidentally, why would you need to get another notebook for Windows and Linux? As far as I know, you can dual/triple boot with a Mac, or you could just get a virtual machine.

Ultimately though, the qualities of Mac OS are rather tangential here (and we're ignoring the philosophy behind it even more)--if you're not willing to use anything else, you're stuck with Apple. If, on the other hand, you're like me and see no reason to use it, the quality of hardware become important and finding the best lightweight notebook pertinent.
FWIW, everything works under Linux on this Macbook Pro, so I'm a little dubious that it's not a differentiating factor.

I will give you that the Vaio Z looks like a nice machine, but it costs double what the Air does. I think I'd probably rather have the Air and a desktop at home rather than one laptop and that Dock thing, but each to their own.
This sounds like a good example of why 'at-will' employment should be abolished and why there should be more employee rights.

There is a power inbalance here. Companies give stock, but that can be taken away if the company fires you. Even if you work hard and are a good worker, the dollar price of what they get if they fire you might be too high. The best way to stop this is rebalance the power. Prevent the company from being able to fire you for no reason.
It seems to me that the essence of this idea is that you attack a problem in stages, and that each stage should have completely prepared you for the next.

That's where the confidence comes in; you can move forward knowing that your assumptions will hereafter always apply.

Upvote for NullObject pattern -- by far my favorite pattern. Unlike most 'Design Patterns', this is a useful and non-obvious idea no matter what language you work with.
“Stealing” isn’t used once in the linked article.
The design is for conversion not aesthetics.
you have both vesting schedules and at-will employment, your employer can fire you at any time and you will not get any unvested stock. Startups need to do this all the time when employees are underperforming or a bad fit.

I do not understand why you need at-will employment. If an employee is behaving badly or underperforming, then you have an excuse to fire them. If you got rid of at-will employment, you can still fire bad employees. Abolishing at-will employment will just make it hard for companies to screw over employees unfairly. This is not a bad thing IMO.
This is what Microsoft understands that Google doesn't. Your platform users come first, before anything else. Microsoft assured that their platforms were good because they used their own platforms themselves. For eg. all Microsoft windows software would use the same API's that third-party developers would use.

You look at Google and for them the platform and developers are secondary. API's are not only an afterthought (such as in Google+) but they are something that other people use, not Google.

They kill services and API's because they don't need them and it doesn't effect them - but it does effect the users. I can still run SimCity or Test Drive on Windows 7, which makes me, as a user, confident that Microsoft will never throw me under the bus. This means that if you are an IT manager, you can make multi-million dollar purchasing decisions knowing that the technology will still be around and supported since Microsoft use it themselves.

Google could kill any API, and they have, and it doesn't impact themselves because they don't use these API's themselves, but they are asking developers to.

Google will never become the Microsoft of the web until they start using their own API's and until they start respecting their customers with long-term support.
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Are you equating edw519's response to the stress involved of lying to the FBI on a lie detector test? I agree, that would be a very dangerous and absurd level of stress in response to hearing the word "fuck".

My point is that, unlike lying to the FBI, hearing the word "fuck" should elicit no more of a response than "potato".

Or were you saying that cringing is an entirely reasonable response to hearing the word "potato"?
I find the snide and cynical tone of this kind of post sad. We seem to be at the point where offering any competition to Apple in any category is tagged as as a "rip off" when a short time ago it was just seen as healthy, even essential competition. We the consumers are the beneficiaries of competition. Why we (or this class of person) have chosen to deride it I don't understand.
I really don't see why this is the case unless you have a very strong affinity for Apple. As I said earlier, the Vaio Z is really a much better machine overall, but has a price to match. The Lenovo X1 is also very good and I think looks better as well.

Of course, I'm probably a little biased against Apple--although I seriously considered getting an Air as my new laptop recently--and have found their recent laptop designs a little garish. There is a gigantic, light-up logo in the back! My roommate had a Mac Book Pro last year and it would light up our room if he used it at night. I favor a more minimalistic, muted aesthetic--if I could, I'd get an all matte black laptop with no labels at all (including the keyboard), but I do not think anything like that exists. The new Vaio Z is close though.
> Big share holders know that there is a time frame that they care about that is as short as they want it to be.

It's always said that the it's the "public" [through centralized funds like retirement funds] that get the short end of the stick at the end of a bubble. It seems to me these _are_ big share holders and they _should_ care.
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My other co-worker hates it that Chinese girls seem to prefer foreign boyfriends (albeit a stereotype, but who knows how reflective it is of reality?). He deems it particularly difficult because there are so many more men then women in China already.
Put "have read book X" on the buzz list.

I know plenty of people who have not read TID and are doing it just right.
A cynical answer would be that it generates pageviews and discussion. If the article was just "ASUS Zenbook--it's okay but not brilliant", it would not have gotten onto hn at all, and if it did I certainly wouldn't be discussing it quite as fervently. I doubt the author consciously planned it this way; however, it's perfectly reasonable that he subconsciously wanted to make a more striking point but unfortunately came over as overly antagonistic.
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