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As someone who was literally in the very classroom that Serge is discussing, I didn't see the problem that he's pointing to.

First of all, several of my classmates were stumped by the end of the class because we were doing the problems essentially by rote — we had a very limited set of 'tools' presented to us and not a lot of the theory behind those tools. I came in with experience in other languages, so I could figure things out a bit more on my own, but several of my classmates were completely able to finish the work for the class without actually being able to translate that into doing anything else.

As I recall, "Dave" happened to ask a few pointed questions about that underlying information — stuff that would be useful to these prospective programmers in order to go further than retyping code and swapping in different variables. Yes, it slowed down the class, which was very basic, but it wasn't a problem. Those questions came after most of us had been sitting in front of our computers for five hours plus. About that time, we all ran up against a problem in the project we were working on because we were working off of old instructions. I'm willing to bet there were other factors in why the class slowed down at that point.

I'm speaking up because I think that this is very much an issue of perspective. Everyone in that classroom probably has a different opinion. But I got a huge amount out of attending the PyLadies class and I want to make that clear. It was an incredibly valuable experience and I know that several of the other women who attended said similar things.
I'm sure you could manage between CandyBar (http://panic.com/candybar/) and whatever else is out there

EDIT: CandyBar doesn't seem to help much; however there are already many fonts and icons that can be scaled through preferences. I don't have an answer yet for toolbars, etc. I wonder if there's something that can be changed in the terminal (com.apple.?)
Some commenters say the post is wrong to complain when the author is making money through amazon's distribution, or when amazon takes a loss on selling kindles.

I disagree with both sentiments.

Main point: It does not cost amazon an average of $2.58 to deliver the author's pdf. Amazon is being dishonest by calling this a delivery cost. I consider it unethical to name a fee something that it is not.

"Be grateful for what you do get" is not a valid argument against dishonesty. If Amazon makes a business decision to take a loss on kindles, this also does not justify dishonesty.
That seems like obvious nonsense - eg. mile-wide asteroid impacts, which are much larger in terms of energy release than all nuclear arsenals combined, don't cause mass extinctions. But it at least gets credit for being a specific claim. Just saying "collapse" is vague, and could arguably apply to just about anything.
Enjoy your $2200 15" notebook.

In contrast, with this announcement, I've probably bought my last Apple product.
You are the one who is not understanding. What you say is correct about window chrome and OS widgets, but those are not what uses the bulk of the screen real estate for most activities, such as writing code in any editor using a terminal program, or creating diagrams. The user is in charge of the font size or zoom ratio in those cases, and with decent eyesight you can see a LOT more text in the same area on this new high-density screen.

If, on the other hand, your work involves mainly pressing OK or Cancel in modal system dialogs, then you are right.
If there is anything as good as Siri in 2.3, I can't say I've ever seen an Android wielding friend use it.

Maps was a unique case: They were paying the price of having partnered with Google in the beginning. A steep price to pay, but ultimately their solution is quite elegant. The combination of 3d+yelp+inhouse traffic is almost an all-in-one replacement of what Google provides. I guess we saw the beginning of that with Siri + Yelp already.

But you're right, Apple has some catch up to do.

But more so than I ever I feel that owning an Apple device isn't just a device, but it's buying into entire ecosystem. I'm digging their conservative, metered approach to rolling out features. I like the consistent, timely updates that the userbase is adopting in mass, reliably.

No one can deny that this is a good groove they've got: yearly updates with occasional feature updates that 70%+ of their userbase is adopting. It reminds me of the update model that Chrome and now Firefox use.
Good points. The changing keyboard layout can definitely be a source of frustration. My current Edge 11 has Insert/Delete/Home/End at the upper right corner. In the latest refresh, Lenovo changed the order to be Home/End/Insert/Delete, which in my opinion is less programming friendly.

Anyway, I am getting a E530 with full keypads so hopefully this won't be a problem.
I can't see much benefit to Apple though they obviously already make heaps on markup of the current Mac Pro's. Selling OS X standalone I imagine would devalue the rest of OS X products.
I think you're confused about how models work in a scientific sense. They can be used for prediction, and if they couldn't they wouldn't have any value at all. Of course they sometimes don't line up with the real world; why do you think there are a metric shit-ton of scientists in Antarctica?

In terms of the article, the theory of climate is pretty well understood at this stage, and the models are sound at the macro scale. The hard parts are now in factoring in relatively small changes to make the numbers line up even better, and working through the implications of their predictions... which is what the article seems to be doing.
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I agree. I immediately thought of this: http://techland.time.com/2012/02/01/watch-swarm-of-autonomou...
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Dell has nearly $14b in cash and $4.8b in long term investments (which can probably be quickly liquidated ala the way Apple stores its long term investments).

Most large tech companies run investment funds of one sort or another, so I guess it's not surprising Dell would. They certainly have enough capital to do so.

Am I the only one that thinks Michael Dell should just take the company private? $20b market cap, a 6.5 pe ratio, and you could probably finance 1/3 of it with the cash alone. Maybe he doesn't want to risk his wealth at this juncture in life, but Dell seems like a strong candidate for going private.
My view is just that increases in equity of firms held overseas, where the US firm holds a controlling share (i.e. greater than 50% of voting shares) should be subject to taxes as corporate income taxes. It also neatly avoids the problem of double taxation on the basis of dividend payments. Dividend payments would be deducted for overseas holdings before taxes, meaning that the dividend payment gets taxed as income but so does the post-dividend retained earnings. For overseas holdings of less than a controlling share it seems to me that whatever rules exist for capital gains would apply. If that's not enough offer a tax credit equal to foreign taxes paid.

I also think our approach to capital gains needs to be rethought. I understand why taxing capital gains as straight income is undesirable especially where the middle class is involved and where gains off home sales may be a factor. However, I wonder if a better option would be to allow capital gains to be folded into income going forward, amortized for the period of time the asset was held. So if you live in your home for 10 years and sell it at a capital gain of $500000, then you would add $50k to your reported income for the next 10 years following the sale. This would also privilege retirement accounts because at some point the amortization period would exceed life expectancy.

This would neatly address the issue of the super-wealthy paying a lower tax rate than the middle class, while continuing to favor retirement-oriented and long-held assets.
The old city has higher GDP per captica than HongKong. And the city looks like crap. That's why they've built a new one nearby.
5 1/4", that one was. Mislabeled in the video.
When it comes to a developer laptop I can really care less about design, slimness, even weight.

The most important things for me are

A matte screen
Excellent keyboard
Large resolution for large amount of screen real estate
SSD
Good CPU & RAM
And built solid/well

That being said it's really difficult to find that sort of combination in anything other than a Mac
How often is this guy going to keep posting his own articles on here? It seems that almost as often as he WRITES articles they are posted here.

Protip: None are really very good.
I'm guessing not. This isn't exactly the kind of publicity they need.
I thought that, too. 'Bad publicity is still publicity'?
Easy reply messages / reminders accessible when you have an incoming call? Passbook? (this one is huge)
The main issue seems to be with application dialogues; those will be bounded by the 1440x900 resolution.
Your mother sounds like she's using tabs like you would in Excel, where you have different spreadsheets for different types of transactions. You see that quite a lot with users who are experts in one area and try to carry over their skills to another area - rather than adapting to new ideas.

As for forward and back, yeah I use them a lot too. Normally via extra mouse buttons or keyboard though.
I like bitmap fonts, but I prefer them not to be so tiny that my nose touches the screen.
Also remember that Amazon either takes a loss or is barely above breakeven for the Kindle hardware including the Fire. It is like the game console model. Go independent and make money on the PC, but if you want access to the millions of willing buyers and predictable hardware requirements, you either charge your customers more or make it up in volume.
"Transitions" is way too vague to mean anything. What will "transition"? The climate? Another climate transition on the order of the most recent interglacial beginning seems reasonable (+3-5 C over centuries), but if that's what "critical transition" means, we've been through dozens over the last million years and are none the worse for wear. (At least if you just look at species count.)

What would the actual negative consequences of such a transition be? Would they outweigh the positive consequences? Would they outweigh the cost of avoidance measures, taking into account the probability that those avoidance measures won't work? The avoidance measures here are extreme even by extreme standards - we're talking a comparable cost to a global thermonuclear war (large decrease in population, large semi-permanent decrease in global GDP). We need numbers here, guys. Numbers.
There's always a chance, but if so they're very poor marketers. This is the modern world - there IS such a thing as bad publicity. They just got a mountain of it, and The Oatmeal came out smelling like roses.

And raised what, $40k for charity in a few hours?
super thin, light?

The new mbps hardly qualify as thin or light.

4.5lbs has never been considered "light" (Well, maybe back in the 90s)

And thin? It got like 15% thinner. You could fit 2 Airs or 3 vaios in its thickness.

I'm not trying to be a hater. I really really wanted to upgrade mac today but I was hoping for thin + light + retina and sadly that wasn't this time.
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What is the opposite of "If you are an outlier, Macs are not for you"? Is it, "If you are average, you should buy a Mac"? That doesn't sound like a very good marketing tactic.
Exactly. My primary device is a daily updated (with aptitude) Debian testing on a T410 and have exactly none of the specified problems, though I too don't run a dual-mode graphics card. Not sure where the parent post got their info.

Lenovo took a big step down from IBM when they took over the brand, but for my money they are still the best non-mac laptops out there for a Linux user.
I don't own a mac, are there no system-wide font settings like there are in Windows?
Of course by default any non-retina enhanced Mac app will just be pixel doubled.

However, one that is retina-aware can make decisions about UI element sizing that takes into account the screen being much more readable at small sizes. I am at WWDC and have seen the actual hardware cycling screenshots of the retina-enabled Final Cut UI, and they appear to be doing exactly this -- the screen just feels bigger than a naive 1440x900 screen doubling would accomplish.

Additionally, for any application whose content is tied to the font size of the content (think text editors, terminals, IDEs, etc), simply lowering said font size will directly increase the amount one can see on the same sized screen.

With that said, please explain to me how I am mistunderstanding screen real estate.
According to Jason Snell of MacWorld, it doesn't look blurry at non-native resolutions. https://twitter.com/jsnell/status/212321903740862465
Depending on pricing this could/would be quite useful. Would hesitate to implement it though until I knew long term pricing plans as I would hate to have to install it, then remove it if it was too expensive to be worth it.

Definitely needs to support more frameworks though - Rails would be an obvious one (from my heavily biased ruby point of view =)
The more annoying problem is the storage: the lowest end model only holds 256 GB with absolutely no option on checkout to upgrade. And because it's soldered on, one can't simply install an upgrade themselves. So, in order for me to just get double the amount, I have to spend a minimum $600 extra.
I think you're probably right - to give some context, the iPhone 3GS and iPad 1 have the same amount of RAM (256MB), but the iPad has to push roughly four times the amount of pixels as the 3GS.
Didn't know about the Samsung Series 9. Thanks for the tip!
The irony of this post is so hilarious to me, this is Apple coming full circle from its clone wars days.

Man, those were some shitty experiences.

Apple is an hardware company. They make money off the nuts and bolts pieced together with premium markup, software is but icing on top. They practically give away the results of their development costs on OSX.

You're encountering the cognitive dissonance as experienced in the 90's. Why, oh, why is Apple not courting customers that don't care about shiny enclosures and slick packaging?

Because that's not the Apple way.

I'm just waiting for Mac Pros to go the way of Xserves (which the group was ran for years just to break-even for the sake of pretension)
So does that mean that claims of OS X being resolution independent are incorrect? If OS X is truly resolution independent, couldn't an individual user choose the "effective" resolution at which they want the UI to be rendered in?

How does this affect machines in Bootcamp mode? Maybe this will easily sway me back to the even-more-portable Air. Sorry for the naive questions.
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Why is this shit on Hacker News, let alone any sort of scientific publication?
"... Don’t buy my book on Amazon. Or do buy it. Or don’t. I could sell the X through Y ..."

That's a new startup idea right there.
This situation sounds awfully familiar.

I remember in 2010 writing about how it was quite possibly the worst time to buy a Macbook Pro because they don't change the price even though the hardware was extremely old[1]. Then I did a followup story[2] when they updated the hardware and the internals were still not up to par for comparable machines.

I always thought it odd that they don't discount their outdated machines. Buying a MacBook Pro last week was a raw deal. Apple sells hardware that is two years old at higher-than-competing-modern-machine prices, but people buy them, so they must be "good enough" or enjoyable in some other aspect.

[1] http://simonsarris.com/blog/19-mac-envy

[2] http://simonsarris.com/blog/22-mac-envy-2
Are these OLED displays - is this a first for a laptop? I'm interested in any technology that makes it more comfortable to use the machine. Currently I read most web pages on my Kindle out of desperation.
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No. $50k.

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Did you read the blog post? The author specifically was comparing the cost of delivery via the Kindle service to using Amazon S3/EC2 to deliver the content. His specific comparison was that the price that he would pay to host and deliver the content using Amazon's own services, would be orders of magnitude smaller! In other words, the comparison you are making is the exact basis for his entirely justified claim that Amazon's delivery fee is complete ripoff.
The value of free speech is the sort of society it produces, not the speech its self.

With great respect, I urge you to think this kind of thing through very, very carefully. Consider freedom in the general sense, such as freedom to vote. Many post-colonial countries have freer citizens but worse economies. If freedom is useful only inasmuch as it is a means to some other practical end, we could say that these countries would be better off with colonial masters running them.

America threw off colonialism and prospered, but it is the exception. Freedom often has costs, ask anyone who has chosen to start a company instead of taking a job with BigCo. Some people, myself included, consider freedom a worthwhile thing whether it makes us rich or healthy or happy or not.
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Two misconceptions: 1) services are properly priced at what the market will bear, not the cost to deliver them. 2) Many Kindles get their content over a regular cellular network which the Kindle owner does not pay a monthly fee.
The t60 was the last model built when IBM still owned the laptop division. Spun off, Lenovo commoditized and did not keep up the QA. In my org, t60's were widely coveted, hand updated (ssd's, memory) and kept over newer offerings.

The latest T's and X's are better, but your average 60p has a better monitor than nearly all of the current tpad line.
Funny ... I haven't heard anyone crying.

Oh yeah, they're all developing HTML5 applications that will run on Chrome and Firefox and maybe Internet Explorer. Why worry about the OS' look and feel?
I go back and forth on how helpful RMS is. On one hand, where would we be without the GCC? This is something he helped get going.

On the other, I see him as someone who misinterprets a bunch of things because it is convenient for him politically to do so. The two examples are what happens when you dynamically link GPL software to proprietary software (static linking is arguably a bigger deal with the GPL v3 than the GPL v2), and taking extreme positions as to what the GPL versions require of developers bridging proprietary and GPL software.

The second is his view of what the BSD license allows and he makes false claims here he bases his view that the BSD and GPL v3 licenses are compatible on. The BSD license probably does not allow sublicensing in the opinion of most lawyers I have talked to (Eben Moglen being the sole exception!) and so if relicensing/sublicensing is a requirement for compatibility with the GPL v3, the BSD license is incompatible but the MIT license is compatible. Last I discussed this with Moglen he seemed to think it was safe just because the BSD author would lack standing or on other technical grounds. Every other lawyer I have talked to says "don't assume it's safe to take BSD code and add license restrictions without first making significant changes" (this is also the Software Freedom Law Center's official recommendation also) something the GPL v3 explicitly requires. (The counter-argument is that everyone involved in drafting the GPL v3 believed it to be compatible with the BSD license and this was a goal so BSD compatibility should be read into the license. This was what Richard Fontana argued when I brought this up on the OSI email lists).

I actually still use the GPL v2 and BSD licenses almost exclusively, and RMS is a big part of the reason I won't consider upgrading to the GPL v3.
Apple is what it is because they tightly control the end-to-end user experience, from the hardware to the software. You can't maintain that and open up the hardware ecosystem; it's an either/or choice. So far, their choice has worked out really, really well for them, so why should they mess with that?

I'm sure you're aware of Apple's fairly disastrous entry into the world of Mac clones back in the day. What you're arguing now is essentially the same theory back then: clones would benefit them by increasing the marketshare for their OS. Instead, clones just cannibalized Apple's own sales and diluted their brand with a bunch of crappy knock-offs. I'm not sure why anyone would expect it to play out differently now.

Sure, it might be in your interest as a consumer to have choice in hardware, but I don't see how it's in Apple's interest to do so. They seem to be doing pretty well precisely because of the choices they've made to lock things down, not in spite of them.
How does this bode in the terms of destroying evidence? Is there any legal ramifications of doing this after you've engaged in legal action?
What difference does it make? Humans obviously have the power to drastically alter the planet. Doing so in a sustainable way is just good sense.
C is a great language in the sense that a F1 racing car is a great car. C's minimalism and portability gives great power but with it comes great responsibility to use it properly. Just like you wouldn't give grandma the keys to the F1 to go to the shopping mall.

C is a great language to write an operating system and its utilities in. But that doesn't make it suitable to write an ERP system.
haven't we been living in hope in the last decade?
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I wonder if you can complain to the bar. Seems like a number of lawyers have taken up the "shakedown" model and been penalized for it. You should be able to complain to. The bar that this lawyer reflects badly on the profession for not doing his research.
Either way, they're dumb. Archives definitely had to be taken of the pages.
Whatever language you choose, I think you need to at least be able to work a little with javascript, since it's ubiquitous on the web.

As for myself, I picked Java and GWT for a first app since I'm familiar with Java. Going this route exposed me to the full stack of web development(front/back, server admin, security, databases, etc.) rather than staying confined to a language specific tutorial. In the process I found I needed to use javascript quite a bit (using Facebook APIs, integrating with Mixpanel for analytics, etc.) Now I'm looking to learn more javascript, as well as a sexier web language like python or ruby haha.

Anyway, the front-end of a web application will be HTML, CSS and javascript; the backend is what will have the other languages like php, ruby, etc.
Moore's Law doesn't apply to this situation because you aren't comparing CPUs designed for the same market and purpose. A low-power laptop CPU might very well be a year or more behind its desktop brethren.
I use the side of the touchpad if needed.

I'd recommend avoiding scrolling as much as you can. I prefer myself to page with the space bar - well at least on web pages. It's much nicer. (Shift and Space to go back up.)

Scrolling is tiring, in that it requires me having to do a lot of eye tracking.
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What percentage of MBP owners do you think regularly use wired Ethernet?

Personally, I'm surprised that the Thunderbolt<->GigE dongle is only $30. That's barely got to cover the cost of the TB chip in the thing.
That's not how fragmentation works.