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It's worse than ever—have a look at some of the screenshots[1]. My favourite is the tweet dialog[2]

Actually there's nothing of the "bad skeuomorphic UI" about the tweet dialog --it's just that its' background resembles a lined notepad.

Other than that, it looks and behaves like any other text entry box and has non skeuomorphic send etc buttons.

So, "worse than ever"? Hardly.
Well, MG Siegler managed to get access to Chrome for Android before it was public and he's hardly a Google fanboy.
It looks like an enormous distraction box. They should top it off with a widget for HN ;)
Yep, OS releases have a lot of lead time vs. physical products.

OS X Lion was demoed on stage in October 2010, made available as a developer preview in February 2011, and launched to the public in July 2011.
They removed Spaces? Huh? Browser, Chat/Mail, Emacs & Terminals, Illustrator & Pages; I'd go nuts if I couldn't get my workspace set up that way, the way it's been since I had to buy virtual desktops as a third party app before 10.5.

It works exactly the same way in Lion. Better, from the perspective of moving apps from Space to Space.

The only thing I see different in Lion is that you can't do two-dimensional layouts of Spaces.
It seems like the OS is either defaulting to allowing only only App Store applications or at least only (Apple-)signed applications: http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/security.html

It's still possible to turn this off, but I have a feeling that we should enjoy our freedom to run GNU grep instead of BSD grep for as long as it lasts.
proves that you don't need massive or custom setups to get ridiculous amounts of work done

unless you're running 3d rendering farm or massive biologic/physics simulations, why would you?

most stuff most people do can be done with any <10year old machine.
> The funny thing is, if James Bond would do something similar in a movie, everybody would fall in love with the technique.

Well, James Bond saves the world and doing something like sneaking into a party is probably a 2/10 on his list of skills. All this guy does is desperately seek attention, religiously look up to money and then he seeks more approval and attention about it online.
Even if this is the case I believe this would mean that the third setting will allow you to run anything just fine, but I believe this will only apply to .app folders that are the bundled applications.
Many around these parts will make glib insinuations about the "Gatekeeper" feature heralding Apple's clawing away the freedoms of it's users, one-by-one, until we are all prisoners of "the computer as a jail made cool".

However, it seems to me that Gatekeeper's presence embodies a rather more embarrassing admission that, yes, Mac OS is on the verge of needing some kind of malware protection; in the wake of the Mac Defender malware surfacing last year, it was really only a matter of time.
My favorite:

Absolute GASH

Won't work on a rooted DHD. Or any rooted fone for that matter. Why? Its my fone and my money....poofs. I guess a banking app by Barclays will be the same. Don't bother with this one.
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Yeah, well, until that happens, this is great and I'm all for it. What a simple way to improve dealing with the open attack vector that is "the user being able to install their own software". I wish they had this flexibility on iOS.
Indeed - I've heard it argued that the real reason that VHS won out over the technically superior Betamax format, was that Sony refused to license the Betamax technology to adult video vendors. Never dug into it, but it seems plausible.
Of all the exciting new features that must be contained in this release, I am most excited about Notification Center (finally) being ported to the desktop. It's kind of a sad thing to say, because Growl was for many years a fine notifications platform. However I always wondered why there was no standard provided by Apple. It didn't matter much until Growl's development took a radical new direction. No, I'm not referring to charging for the product, the app would have been worth the $2. But I am disgruntled about its bugginess and backwards-incompatibility. Presently Growl is crippled on my system. It works for apps that have updated to the new protocol. For others it doesn't. And it still suffers from bugs. So my hope is that Notification Center will prove to be a unifying standard for Mac apps.
I wish anything that uses Growl can use notifications out of the box. it's just not going to happen is it?
And you thought people were spending time on Facebook eh....
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Notification Center seems like something that will work better on OS X than it does on iOS.
Nope, you'll be able to run it: "Finally, it’s important to note that because Gatekeeper uses the File Quarantine system, it only works the very first time you try to launch an app, and even then only when it’s been downloaded from an app on your Mac like a web browser or email program. And once an app has been launched once, it’s beyond the reach of Gatekeeper." (http://www.macworld.com/article/165408/2012/02/mountain_lion...)
I’m running Lion on a four year old MBP and never had any stability problems, not even with any of the developer previews. Safari used to behave strangely and still kind of does (once in a blue moon it will reload every single page you have open, which can be very annoying and even disastrous). That’s the most egregious issue I had with Lion.
You're right, but Gatekeeper does something else: It marks the line in the sand. So long as that choice is there as an option in settings for me to make, Apple is in the right. If they ever take that choice away, and they start dictating what I can run or not run, they will have crossed that line, and lost me as a customer forever.

I think a lot of people think that Apple taking away that choice is inevitable. I don't think so- I think it would be completely out of character.

But if I'm wrong, I'm gone.
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Bookmarking and retweeting.

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I hope it'll be a free update.
I don't want to disagree with your core point, because you're right; to a certain extent, OS X has always needed more defenses against malware than it has owned up to.

But you can't find a large-scale Windows deployment anywhere that hasn't had to deal with an actual in-the-wild malware outbreak. Security people in corporate America do malware cleanups for Windows several times a week.

At the same time, you'll have a hard time finding anyone in the real world that got hit by "Mac Defender".
problem is you can't tell your boss: "well youporn uses it" when he looks dubious about using redis for his trading system.
Yikes, I'm sorry I pasted incorrectly. I meant to post:

What does this mean:

Just another /[a-z]{3,4}/i hacker

I understand the re but I am curious about the context.
Well, Ubuntu does this every 6 months. They also pick another silly name every 12. Maybe Ubuntu is becoming the role model here?
The article explains that in full

(everying apart from <=ie7)
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I think it’s right to make very clear that Apple overstepping that line would be inexcusable and evil, or else they might think people would be ok with that. So a bit of outrage isn’t altogether a bad thing, really.

(Although it’s pretty obvious that acting like Apple already overstepped that line or will certainly overstep that line in the future is very childish.)
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> He spent a month with Linux and didn't notice NetBeans or Eclipse?

I grew up on Linux. It was my primary desktop OS for many years. A few years ago, though, I found myself needing to move for personal reasons, and the best job offer I could get in short order was a Windows development one. I very quickly switched platforms for all my hobby projects. Visual Studio really is that good.

I can see the opposite opinion, too, of course. At least to the extent that other people prefer NetBeans or Eclipse, and that I'm not some sort of blind VS fanboy who thinks the only reason someone could have a different preference from me is because they're uninformed or unintelligent. It's not an opinion that I hold, but it's an opinion held by others I know and they're smart people so I trust it's for reasons that are every bit as valid to them as my reasons are to me. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they also like different ice cream flavors from me, too. They might even have tasted my favorite flavor, only to find it wasn't to their liking.
It's a sensible feature, and there's no reasonable way to implement it without that settings option, and the options they've chosen make total sense.

I agree with you: not having the option would be very bad... but it's very unlikely they'll ever take the option away.

Why would they? The overwhelming majority of their users will never touch it.
I wasn't complaining at all. I was ironic, but as I got downvoted for that too, then irony i guess, is also not welcome here...
First, if you want to just use objects-as-prefixes, the way require(...) works in node today, that's easy to do:

module m at "blah.com";
... references to m go here ...

We also want to support other use cases, like binding the exports to names available in your local scope. We understand that not everyone likes that style, but I don't think the language should mandate a particular side in that fight.

Second, the `module m at "URL"` form above is a definition of `m`. It's just that you're allowed to refer to that binding as an object too. Would you rather have:

module m at "example.com";
import m;

That just seems like unnecessary typing to me.
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Really? Because I can't, at all, and I'd rather not be proven wrong as I'd loathe it as much as you would (but it sounds like it's not like you'd upgrade anyway).
The actual article you just read, for one.

The way code signing is implemented today, for another.
What Mac Defender malware? The one that affected 0.1% of OS X users?

Not to mention: Mac Defender was a TROJAN. You HAD to install it yourself for it to work.

From Wikipedia: "Mac Defender (also known as Mac Protector, Mac Security,[1]Mac Guard,[2] and Mac Shield)[3] is an internet rogue security program that can be installed by unwitting users of computers running the Mac OS X operating system". The exact same thing can happen to any operating system. You can install malware YOURSELF even in OpenBSD.
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There has been malware protection since Snow Leopard and Lion in the form of Xprotect. However, it can't hurt to offer an extra layer of protection with signing apps.
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Fascinating. I'm still on 10.6: no compelling reason to upgrade.

By the time I _do_ upgrade I'm in for some future shock: like dropping a Victorian gentleman into Haight-Ashbury in 1968.
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"For some reason I always imagine porn sites to be run by guys in cheap suits and lots of hair gel."

Pretty much the exact opposite actually. Porn industry guys tend to be 30 - 40 on average and super cool and laid back, though in an LA sort of way. I'm sure there's a lot of crap going on beneath the surface, but at least from the outside it seems like a much nicer work culture than silicon valley.
I think we might be seeing is Apple acknowledging that journalists are going to have "blind men and an elephant"[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant] problems, and arranging to have a sufficient number of blind men feel the elephant to get the whole description, and all tell their stories at once only makes sense.

You've got Gruber talking about only on the most visible features, but spending more thought on corporate communication strategy and iCloud directions.

Jason Snell articulates new features as clearly as I'd expect from an Apple "New in Mountain Lion" page.

Edward Mendelson I think covers even more features, but not as clearly as Jason Snell, and I think his vision of "AirPlay display to TV" -> "Mac is video game console" is fatally doomed by latency.[1] But it's ok. We have enough people touching the elephant and describing it to dilute that.

So here you have the new strategy for non-event announcements. Arrange for simultaneous views from multiple, competent sources. Let the first sounds in the echo chamber be accurate and well informed to keep the erroneous speculation to a minimum.

EOM

[1] I could also be wrong here. With gigabit 802.11ac just around the corner, one could conceive of a TV device that optimized the latency from wifi to screen. You know, by tearing apart the industry's entrenched model and doing their own vision. But I'm just groping an elephant here.
Marco Arment says stick with Snow Leopard. Just said it last week, in fact. I like Lion, but it has been a little wonky.
For some reason I doubt that this runs all the way down to the UNIX level of things. It's probably just the restriction to only run signed .app bundles, and maybe signed installer packages. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Is there any way to discover how much selection effect occurs here? I wonder how many people apply insights from study in one field to another, and utterly fail because they weren't applicable at all.
People were lobbying for IE to change in order to make it consistent with the rest of the browsers, not necessarily because it was worse.
You could say the same about MacWorld.
Not to mention that once you've seen one 60 Minutes episode, you've seen them all. It's a legendary formula, but tired as hell.
OK, thanks. Looking back at the reports of instability, they all seem to have come from people who have installed Lion on top of Snow Leopard and seem to involve problems with the graphics drivers. I'll likely wait and see how ML performs before making a decision.
The W3C box model spec forms a set of consistent rules that make sense. It's not the spec that's wrong. Just because it doesn't fit with your original intuition doesn't make it wrong.
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Or you can use a virtualenv, like you already do for all your python projects.. right?
I still don't see a "Clear All" button for clearing notifications...
What about Game Center[1]?

[1]: http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/953451/Screen_Shot_2012-02...
You're misunderstanding. An app can be freely available outside of the App Store but still be signed: http://www.macworld.com/article/165408/2012/02/mountain_lion...
I'm not sure if this matters or not, but the submitted title calls it "Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion", and 10.8 is indeed the version number I would expect; yet this number is nowhere to be found, neither on Apple's page nor in Gruber's announcement. Instead, it's just called "OS X Mountain Lion" everywhere. I wonder if they dropped the version number, or are downplaying it? But for what reason?
Growl gets a lot of things wrong and stagnated for years with (until recently) no sign of improvement. It was ripe for disruption. Maybe Apple's implementation will be less depressing.
I'm surprised there wasn't a China Twitter equivalent baked in. Or do they just use Twitter?
They might make it harder to select the third option, but they won't ever remove it -- they're not suicidal.

And it's not like the signing process is particularly onerous -- it won't represent even the slightest barrier or inconvenience to shareware, freeware or open source app distribution.
The default is the middle one - no unsigned apps, but they don't have to come from the App Store. Apple is going to start offering "Gatekeeper" certificates for non-App Store developers. The idea being that they can revoke a certificate if an app turns out to be malicious.
My work laptop is on 10.5.8...
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"And then the reveal: Mac OS X — sorry, OS X — is going on an iOS-esque one-major-update-per-year development schedule. This year’s update is scheduled for release in the summer, and is ready now for a developer preview release. Its name is Mountain Lion."

Yearly updates? Most exciting nugget of news in the post, IMO.

The only problem is that iOS updates are free, while OS X updates are not. With one update per year, they run the risk of version fragmentation if users have to pay to keep up with the upgrade cycle.
Every 6-month Ubuntu release has a silly name.
I wonder how long it'll take crackers to get their hands on a master signing key.
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Gruber is not at all Apple exclusive, but he is clearly a fan.
Yeah, hah hah, the "pet" journalists are pampered by the Apple iCoffee, but in all seriousness I'm very glad that Gruber got this one-on-one treatment because his reporting is as much about the fact of the meeting and the way of the meeting as it is about the content of the meeting. And that's entirely relevant to the audience of Daring Fireball! I don't expect the NY Times to do more than report on the content of the meeting, but I love getting this well written and well thought out little "inside Apple" from Gruber. The other guy whose account I'd love to read would be Andy Ihnatko's take were he invited to such an event.
But they've already had a "Puma" release. Will "Cougar" be next?

Side note: panthers are technically black leopards or jaguars.
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Actually, yes. Comes from using LTS-releases only :).
Read what Gruber writes about that Gatekeep feature:

My favorite Mountain Lion feature, though, is one that hardly even has a visible interface. Apple is calling it “Gatekeeper”. It’s a system whereby developers can sign up for free-of-charge Apple developer IDs which they can then use to cryptographically sign their applications. If an app is found to be malware, Apple can revoke that developer’s certificate, rendering the app (along with any others from the same developer) inert on any Mac where it’s been installed. In effect, it offers all the security benefits of the App Store, except for the process of approving apps by Apple. Users have three choices which type of apps can run on Mountain Lion:

* Only those from the App Store
* Only those from the App Store or which are signed by a developer ID
* Any app, whether signed or unsigned

The default for this setting is, I say, exactly right: the one in the middle, disallowing only unsigned apps. This default setting benefits users by increasing practical security, and also benefits developers, preserving the freedom to ship whatever software they want for the Mac, with no approval process.
But where is the Mac Touch hardware ? you could see for a while where touch was it and we have these nice laptops and big iMac displays but we will use a mouse ?! I really want my next imac to be a docking station with a tear away tablet

Windows 8 is definately banking having this sort of hardware in laptops and displays being available. You dont do Metro on the desktop unless you think that kind of hardware will be available in some form at launch. Metro with a mouse is hideous, even for Microsoft...
Yeah, or 10.30, which will not even have a UI, just an OS-to-Mind interface.

Can we please stop repeating BS?

People like to make it sound like some kind of slippery slope, but including Mountain Lion, NOTHING has been taken away from users re: freedom, from OS X 10.0.1 to 10.8.

In addition to running whatever from whatever, 10.7 gave you the option to use an App repository. You know, like the one, say, Debian had from decades, only not restricted to OSS.

In addition to running whatever from whatever AND from the App Store, 10.8 adds the ability to only run signed apps. You, know, like the security solution that is considered one of most effective ones by security boffins.
Paul is there an answer to this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8421533/how-to-obtain-ctr...

You'll know, so I am asking it here. Or is it even a right question in the first place?
-I'd probably pay $30 for the Airplay feature alone.
-I don't know how Apple thinks they can push these web-enabled apps that only work on their platforms. A chat app that basically only lets you interact with Apple customers is kind of comical.
-Gatekeeper won't win over any Apple critics, but it's actually more flexible/open than what a lot of people feared was coming (ie "App Store apps only").
-Notifications and system-wide share buttons are nice touches. I wonder if the share button will be limited to a few Apple-approved services.
Are you assuming having root access to hardware you own to be a security flaw?
I also think that, prior to this, Apple was running into a problem of being unable to know when they were talking to developers and people in general, as we saw with large parts of the iTextbook presentation.

With this model, the developers will get their news in the same manner as always, and the keynotes can be reserved for a general audience.
I read it cover to cover. For most of the chapters I read the left side, answer the question in my head and then looked to the right to see if I was right.

Having just learned Clojure using "The Joy of Clojure", If there was anything I needed to verify, I translated the code into clj and pasted it into a Clojure REPL.
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Am I the only one who thinks gatekeeper is the most exciting new feature in Mountain Lion? I hope they take the concept even further! The best thing about the iPad is how it can't run untrusted code, and that no third party app can escape the sandbox. My goodness, since my parents got iPads, the number of support calls I've had to field has plummeted. If Apple can do the same for their iMac, I'll be forever grateful.

Of course I'll leave it switched off, thanks.
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Yeah, but why not lobby W3C to change their box model to a saner one?
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