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Agreed. Keep in mind the liability aspects as well. From what I understand, payroll mistakes are not easily forgiven. That is part of the reason there are so many HR outsourcing companies.
Instead of disabling Aero, I just installed a custom theme and turned off all the transparency. I too found Aero to be too much of visual distraction; too many different colored elements with no consistency.

However, a subtle Aero theme is a considerable improvement of classic.
Yeah, my apologies; I didn't realize this was a duplicate post. I thought there was an automated filter based on the URL, but I guess a quick Google search would've shown that there were previous submissions of this same item.
From Yes Minister:

The Napoleon prize.... It's for the statesman who's made the biggest contribution to European unity.

Sir Humphrey: Since Napoleon, that is, if you don't count Hitler.
As BluRay continues to be used and is allowed to run custom code, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case.
I can't find any details regarding the existence of an optical drive on the new MacBook Pro. Has it been removed? Also, does anyone know how MagSafe2 differs from MagSafe?
Could you be specific about what swayed you?

Such announcements provide opportunity for a pivot point. It isn't so much the announcement itself as that the announcement provides a claimed justification for changing positions.

I bought my first Apple product ever a few months back (an iPad 3rd generation). Then I added an Apple TV (ridiculously good value).

I still use Android for my smartphone (and have no plans on changing that anytime soon, considering iOS a serious downgrade on the smartphone side), however I have to confess that this release provides me such a pivot point for my desktop/laptop use. I'd long considered getting a Mac but could never justify it. Microsoft is so rudderless and ill-directed now, and Apple is so large and in charge, this product such a technical powerhouse, that I will likely grab a new MBP "Air".
So the Air do not have the retina display? The 15" pro would be good, but can not go back to a mechanical hdd.
I'm waiting for them to rename the MacBook Air to MacBook.
I'm really hoping it can drive three external monitors... Looks somewhat promising:

* Two Thunderbolt[/DisplayPort?] ports
* One HDMI port
* A Geforce 650M (capable of driving 4 active displays [1]).

[1] http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-650M.71887.0....

EDIT: "Up to two external displays" (thanks dsirijus)
IOS 6: Expanded iCloud, Silver UI, Apple Maps, And A Baked-In Facebook
Criticizing individual library functions independently from the language as a whole seems fair to me.
Yes, I agree that history will treat RMS kindly. He's a curious creature. Jobs was right for his time at the crucible of personal computing, but I think RMS will be right for many times in the future, and his mark will be clearer and longer lasting.
I really like your design (:

And yes, I'll be changing design and button placement in the coming weeks, that's a valid point.
Using it at its native 2880x1800 resolution would be great though. Possibly hard to read, but I'd love to see it.
I run Windows on my MBA for when I'm travelling. Apple make fantastic hardware; but their saccharine UIs make me retch.

One constant, though: over the past 10 years, I've moved my life further and further into the Cygwin command line, so that I'm insulated from the frippery going on at the edges; with my setup, I'm approximately as at home on Linux, Solaris, Mac and Windows. I'm not optimistic based on what I've seen of Windows 8's direction.
Audi R8 2012
The Founder’s Dilemmas [Review]
Apple Announces iOS6
It would be native, it'd be 1:1.
Storm now has a website
What's your method for making the ePub version of your books? I'm considering writing a custom program for my own stuff, but I'd love to be able to use something off the shelf.
They all behave the same? I have one movie in particular, Gamers: Dorkness Rising, that has a section on piracy. It says that they encourage people to share this movie with their friends, burn it, copy it, whatever.

So, there are some companies that do allow for the movies to be shared.

Oh, now here's a fun situation we find ourselves in. The movie company themselves openly encourage people to share the movie. Now people are sharing the movie. Are you going to pay for the movie as well, to encourage them to make more movies so that they can continue their share the movie practice? Hm...
Clarified the thread, I was exactly referring to that, as I personally find it annoying not being able to maximize a window.
Apple’s Mountain Lion preview focuses on iCloud and apps
> and since there is not negative feedback mechanism everyone just charges more and more.

There IS a negative feedback mechanism. Occupancy rates. Once people stop paying the asking rates for listings the prices will fall. It is called "what the market will bear".
It doesn't even make sense inside a country. The economy of Milan has nothing to do with Sicily.

That was one of the UK's arguments against the Euro - that the economy of different Eu countries was far too different to have a single currency. And yet it was perfectly reasonable that the city of London had exactly the same financial needs as an ex-mining village in the North of England.
It's flash based, up to 768GB.
Finally they removed the DVD driver.
Clickable links: https://bitbucket.org/trikita/obsqr/wiki/Home
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=trikita.obsqr
Nice job guys! This is amazing!
Welfare is important, but I'm treating it as a separate issue here.

Beyond the issue of privileging corporations, a 100% inheritance tax leads to a bunch of strange behavior (with trusts, etc.), and doesn't handle well the possibility of people living a very, very long time.

By taxing wealth at 2% yearly, in combination with inflation, irresponsible/prodigal children will soon be out of money if they don't create value with their assets.

Furthermore, by using inflation as the "wealth tax", people are motivated to put their money into assets that match inflation (e.g. real estate) without necessarily making productive use of those assets.
Update: It's not but they sell a $9.99 adapter "The MagSafe to MagSafe 2 Converter allows you to use the MagSafe connector on your LED Cinema Display, Thunderbolt Display, or MagSafe Power Adapter to charge your MagSafe 2-equipped Mac computer."

It looks and I would guess it would be magsafe 1 compatible. Maybe it has extra features or power to it. Pretty much any MB* can be charged on any power adapter albeit slower (or not at all if heavily using it).
I love my Mac (as I said in my reply to OP), but I agree that Mac OS takes some getting used to. Luckily I had some Linux experience before switching so I felt right at home at the terminal. But some things still feel odd to me, even after several years.

- The unified menu bar makes sense and saves space, but it's still somewhat disconcerting to someone who is used to their menus having some spatial context with what they are controlling.

- I've always hated the "three gumballs". I much prefer Windows' minimize, maximize, and quit windows controls. Again, the "maximum useful size" feature makes sense, but it's almost never what I want. I really miss Aero snap. There are some programs that will help you out for this stuff. I'm pretty partial to Moom myself. UPDATE: Moom JUST got updated with a "snap to corners" feature. I like it!

- The Finder is still pretty brain-dead. Windows explorer is much better for a power-user.

- And then there's XCode. Oh how I miss Visual Studio. Yes, XCode is getting nicer by the year, but I also do Windows development on my Parallels VM so I'm constantly reminded of how much nicer it is to code C# in Visual Studio than Objective-C in XCode (and I don't even mind Objective-C as a language).
where do you see the 1680x1050 option?
The 15" Pro with the retina display is SSD.
Letter to the FTC: review Google's paid inclusion
Im wondering if it charges faster, the keynote only mentions that it is thinner..
I guess the “Retina Display” is the admission that they never figured out how to do decent font rendering?
Nah, memcpy shouldn't exist (just not for buffer overflow reasons). memcpy is there because someone got their knickers in a twist over possibly being a few cycles faster than memmove, even though the chances that actually matters is tiny, while the chances that you'll accidentally use memcpy when your memory overlaps is much larger.
The retina display is 2880 x 1800 resolution.
Let’s talk about password storage; Mozilla's password hashing standards
> It's intended to be used with a specific hardware configuration

It's that way because the Boeing CST has its own software, as does the Lockheed's Orion and the Soyuz and every unmanned spacecraft ever developed. Development costs and quality could be greatly improved if all of them shared a single codebase.

If more designs shared the codebase, it would end more modular, more maintainable and better tested.
This is a wonderful explanation to why people love stories (of their friends, foes or fiction of any kind). Is this a well established theory? Would love to see some more details.
Force Dell to give the user a choice of Ubuntu or Windows on all desktops...
Thanks for the suggestion. When I initially starting brainstorming on the idea, I had some Twitter integration included: auto-adding videos from your timeline (stolen from the Boxee folks) and hashtag "subscriptions"... but it started getting more convoluted to explain to people, so I thought I'd start more simply with just allowing folks to subscribe to "shows".

Obviously my execution is not resonating with people (great signup conversion rates, terrible usage rates), so when I have time I may reboot it as something more like what you're describing.

I still think there is something to the idea of improving the leanback and placeshifting experience for all this great long format web content that's out there (Rev3, This Week In, etc). I'm apparently just not smart enough to figure it out on my own ;p.
http://www.ideastorm.com/idea2ReadIdea?id=0877000000006ixAAA...
The link below is typical of Dell, 90% of their systems that are consumer facing and prominently displayed have large Windows logos featured. Dell also writes "Dell Recommends Windows 7" on this page. Not only do they recommend Windows, they also only feature Windows 7 64 bit as the sole OS option and only allow the user to include Microsoft Office. There is no option to have no OS installed and no option to opt-out of the Windows Logo marketing program for the consumer much less offer even Ubuntu.

See the system Inspiron 17R (N7110) as a great example of this practice...

Dell product page link:
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dncwy1...

The N7110 is an Ubuntu Certified system also:
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201101-6957/

Why does Dell refuse to offer Ubuntu for this system when it is verified to be supported by Ubuntu,? The Ubunut developers put alot of time and effort to make sure this Laptop works with Ubunut, so why doesn't Dell acknowledge the effort? Why does Dell force the user to select Windows 7? Why can't dell offer Windows XP, Ubuntu and Windows 7 if they are all certified to work with this machine and give the user the option from the very beginning?

There should be a program to opt-out of using Microsoft software and select Ubuntu or Red Hat for systems that have been certified by the Operating Systems developer and proven to be tested for compatibility.
Honestly, it's a culmination of things. Up until this point, a friend of mine have been comparing the top-of-the-line ultrabook offerings to the Mac lineups. I thought the Zenbooks looked really sexy and had the performance and construction that I wanted. The new Zenbook Prime announcement has had me salivating; 1080p IPS displays, new Ivy Bridge processors, etc.

After this announcement, though; the Retina display, awesome graphics, HDMI port (Macbook dongles turned me off for a while), 700MBPS read on the hard drive (I'll have to confirm this -- that just sounds too sexy) -- Even the 0.70 inch thickness (I've never really cared about thickness before, but holy hell that's really thin). There are probably some things I've misinterpreted from these announcements, but so far, this laptop far outweighs what I thought was possible through existing PC laptop vendors.
This looks pretty impressive. I think the cost is too much, even if it is a one-time cost.

Do you have any paying customers yet?
Remember right wing in Europe is different from the US.

Far-right in Europe means you want to keep 'socialist' free health care and schools - you just don't want to share them with anybody with darker skin.
> No one makes money selling web servers or compilers for Unix, because it's not possible to compete on price with "free".

That may or may not be the case. However, it certainly doesn't stop high-quality compilers and web servers being written for Unix.
I think they are all eventually going to be MacBook.
Fair enough. Clearly I misunderstood what I was looking at.
So I'm sitting here browsing HN with my iPad, as I often do in the morning. I click on one of the editable areas. Controls pop up, the rest of the screen dims, cool.

But how do I leave editing mode? I am betting hitting ESC would do it - but tablet and phone keyboards don't have that key.
So like built-in cell data? My Thinkpad from 5 years ago had that. Doesn't seem like it'd be too hard to find.
WWDC Keynote 2012
You seem to be saying that, with VAT, the devil is in the details, not that it is necessarily bad. The fact that many countries use a VAT, and it works fine (with much higher compliance than income taxes, e.g.), suggests that it's possible to implement VATs better.

Note that a VAT works differently from a sales tax, in that the retailer is strongly motivated to comply, because they get a refund for everything they have paid for the incoming goods.
>> Just look at what the data might look like for the 17 people. -They all sign up in a period of a few weeks. -They all review this one place and nothing else. -16 of the 17 never sign back in again.

Looking at the 17 filtered reviews, 16 of them are 5-star reviews from people with 0 friends and less than 5 reviews (mostly only have 1 review). There's also a 1-star review from a person with 0 friends and 1 review.

It seems like to me that their filtering algorithm is working pretty well.
Will you be able to configure different DPI settings per monitor on OSX, or will there be some iOS-like implicit 2x scale on retina displays? Otherwise this MacBook might be somewhat awkward to use with a non-"retina" external monitor...
> Microsoft is so rudderless and ill-directed now, and Apple is so large and in charge

Uhh, are you joking? In the past few years, Microsoft has shown the most direction in 2 decades. Windows, Windows Phone, and Xbox are all converging on the Metro UI (which is a true breath of fresh air), and Microsoft has finally stopped allowing big business to hold back innovation on Windows. Windows 8 dumps the Start Menu, and on ARM, you won't even be able to install any traditional "Windows" software - everything will have to be in Metro.

Windows 8 tablets are going to be usable for actual productivity, rather than the consumption-focused nature of the iPad. Tablets that can convert into laptops and vice versa are going to become popular in the corporate world in a way that iPads never will, due to their lack of native support for Office.

OTOH, there are a lot of people that have grown tired of iOS. It's been out for 5 years now, and little true innovation has taken place since the release of the original iPhone. Upgrades to the iPhone have mostly consisted of adding features that should have been present all along, such as a proper notifications system (which still has problems) and support for 3rd party apps (which should have been present from the beginning). You still can't have widgets on the home screen, and the chance of Apple adding some kind of split-screen view, like you can get in Metro, is extremely slim.

As for OS X, it's an absolute nightmare. The window manager is horrific, and things are only going to get worse as Apple starts restricting the installation of software from non-approved sources, all in the name of a more "beautiful" experience.
Will you still be able to order a MacBook with the matte display? Or does the retina display preclude this?

I hate the glossy screen and was happy to pay extra for matte on my current MacBook.
Should work now, sorry for the inconvenience.
Welcome to the inside of the NSA, where a lot of bright math and compsci grads work.

How it should be, IMO. Seems to me the NSA is on the short list of places you would absolutely want to staff with (some of) your best-and-brightest.
What's "just fine"? Paying the bills?
Most editors drive me crazy. Especially when the bullets get all messed up. SnapEditor looks great.

Why limit the licenses by developer though? By domain makes more sense to me.
Defining the position is an interesting challenge. I've certainly been frustrated as a candidate in the past. I've been through eight hour technical interviews, going from dev to manager to dev for an hour each, solving math puzzles, traversing trees, coding up design patterns, optimizing sql, and realizing, at the end of the day, that after eight hours I actually have no idea what the company does beyond the questions I asked and the material I read on their website. Part of the problem was that the interviewers weren't coordinating well, so everyone was pretty much just hammering me with tech questions. Hell, at lunch someone thought it would be clever to ask me how to swap two integers without creating a third integer.

Here's the thing - I actually do understand why companies do this. Many well funded, established companies are just in a state of constant recruitment. If you can solve math problems, write efficient data structures, optimize sql, withstand the pressure of coding on the spot, and seem like a pleasant enough person to be around, they'll have something for you to do. Hire. Step 1 to tech recruitment is to constantly scan who is on the market, identify those who have good credentials and can withstand brutal technical screenings, and make sure you hire them before facebook and google do. You have a few weeks to do this. Step 2 is to define the position you are looking for, and if you wait too long, you won't have time to do step 1. It actually does make some sense.

I would recommend a happy medium, because I really didn't want to work for that company after a day of wind sprints, never knowing where I was going or why I was going there. I think that what they want, and get, is whip-smart people who live for technical problems, with perhaps less emphasis on the business context.
That is coming. But first of all, I need to implement a working category system :/

Thank you (:
That's the old non-retina MBP. Edit: Apparently you can configure the retina MBP in scaled 1680 mode; I'm not sure how sharp that will be.
I think the comparisons to the Macbook Air are misleading. At least for me, the distinct appeal of the Macbook Air is that it's light; either 2.38 or 2.96 pounds. The new model Macbook Pro may be a great laptop in many ways, but at 4.46 pounds it's not light. I'm going to notice that in my messenger bag to a much greater extent than I would an Air.
Dangerous Concessions: Red Hat, Fedora and the Secure Boot Shocker
Keep Watch On Accounts For Stolen Passwords
You can also get USB devices to add 3G support for pretty cheap.
The trick that I've found works is to use a password that I can remember on sites like Facebook. It's the only site I'm likely to log into on my phone. GMail should be a random password though, but it can be stored on your phone so you don't need to remember it. Everything else that doesn't require mobile access use a random password managed through a program like LastPass. If you're thinking about logging in to sites like your email from a public computer or something, well you shouldn't do that anyway.
You really think "fonts look better" is the main selling point for the Retina displays?
I'm sure as LTE gets going, you'll see 4g built in. I would bet you could fit 4 antennas in one. Which would give you some amazing throughput in a 4x8 MIMO setup. Of course the interference from the computer might cause a lot of issues?
I have no interest in such a discussion in this thread, but no, clearly I'm not joking and that rhetorical intro has no place on HN.

Microsoft is a disaster currently, their navigation being "react to where Apple was two years ago". It is telling that every Microsoft defense extrapolates some fantastic future of what will be in the world of Microsoft, never using what actually is. But yes, I'm sure your imagination of a Windows 8 tablet is vastly superior to an actual real-world iPad.
Hi Egypturnash,

Currently SnapEditor does not support the iPad yet though it will be there before production. We actually tried it out on Friday (when we officially launched the Beta site) and everything worked except for exiting the edit mode. We haven't run our unit tests on the iPad yet though. It will probably be very little work to get it to work on the iPad.

We also found that it seems to work on Android just fine though we haven't run our unit tests on either.

Finally, we will also be having support for Opera later. Currently it doesn't run at all on Opera but we have experience with making WYWISYWG editors for Opera so it should not be too difficult.

TheSunny
Where you'll be told "come back another day"?
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No, but if you want you can get 11" or 13" ultrabook from Asus with a 1080p resolution.
Wow, great job guys!! Looks fantastic and feels very impressive. Very slick.
Cool, thanks Ryan. I currently work remotely for a small company and lead a 4-person team. We use some of the tools that you mention and a handful of others to accomplish essentially the same thing. I think figuring out the tools is a big deal for a lot of companies going fully or partially remote, but after those are figured out, there still seems to be a very different management/process angle that I haven't seen addressed much. Definitely enjoyed reading about the tools, as well, though.
That practice sounds like a great way to get sued.
This seems pretty great. How difficult would it be to integrate into Mediawiki?
The entire design of the "next gen" MBP completes Apple's departure from everything Geeks expect in a laptop. Watching "The Verge" live stream, the presenter (don't remember who) said pretty specifically, "by not purchasing standard parts". If the parts aren't standard, then that pretty much locks out upgrades.

Apple is betting that most consumers don't really care if they ever open their laptop; even MBP customers. The trade off is that the laptop is now less than three-quarters of an inch thick, weighs just over four and a half pounds, and runs for most of a work day (7 hours) on a single charge. All of this with a high-performance processor and a display that you cannot get anywhere else. I know there's a lot of hyperbole thrown around, but that's pretty fucking amazing in a market with so little going on elsewhere.

I'm no great prognosticator, but Apple sure seems to be. I trust their vision for the future of computing far more than I do the armchair quarterbacks here on HN or at the tech blogs.
Apple and Microsoft have different philosophies on what is important when rendering fonts: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/font-rendering-resp...
Status: It's complicated...
Ask HN: Where can I find demo video creation service?
I did search search on google and found ranges between 3K to 7K for 1 minute video. I can probably have 2-3 MVP developed for that prices.

Does anyone know where can I find a service to create 30-45 second demo video for couple hundred bucks?
Integrated gigabit. There is apparently going to be a thunderbolt gigabit ethernet dongle, and thunderbolt can actually support gigabit speeds.