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Yes

Also, the SSD makes you need less memory, since reading from it is so fast

So 16Gb will go a long way really.
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Well for a pro laptop... my pro laptop (Thinkpad) is hooked into a docking station right now. My external monitor, some USB drives, and ethernet are plugged into the dock. When I undock, I'm going mobile so I don't need an external monitor, USB hard drives, and I can work on wifi. In my ~3000 person office, this is by far the norm. Access to some systems are locked down on an IP address basis, assuming you'll be plugged into the wall that gives a static address.

So the point is, it might be called the MacBook Pro, but is it really geared towards professional users? Not even AV professionals anymore, with no Firewire and no disc drive.

Finally, if it really is a problem, buy the Thunderbolt to GigE adaptor.

You shouldn't have to buy accessories on a $2200 laptop which come standard on even a $200 netbook.
Not only RAM, SSD is SATA III, but using a different form factor and a proprietary connector, a la Macbook Air. The new Air also changed the already proprietary connector from the 2011 models, rendering unusable the existing third party SSD upgrade options. Wondering if MacbookPro SSD connector are the same as the new Air's or not...
terrible title* (not chosen by OP, mind you), that almost put me off - but a very good article. *it should be more along the lines of: what you can learn matters more than what you can do
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For the workplace I'd say what you do is infinitely more important than what you know, although there is a clear relationship between the two. At the end of the day, people can qualify and measure what you do. Trying to externally measure what someone knows is pretty much impossible to the same extent. Whether you're known as the guy the broke the build, or the guy that automated the build process, you're known by what you do, know what you know, you know?
With apologies to scientists who automatically read "Extraterrestrial" and think "beyond earth"...

Did anyone else see this title and expect to see a story about a flying saucer crash and little green men? :)
"after few years"

Apple expects consumers to replace hardware every two to three years. Often this is encouraged by their practice of only supporting a single version of their operating system and their practice of making new versions of their operating systems incompatible with hardware more than a few years old.

To put it another way, Apple doesn't want you to keep your Macbook for three years because there's no money in that, just support costs.
The flash ssd is not soldered in from what I can tell. It's probably like the MBA where it has some kind of connector and is probably the only user serviceable part.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Unite... states that only Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar. Who are the other two?
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Yep, had the exact same reaction.
From what I heard it's not soldered to the mainboard but a custom SSD-Like chip similar to the ones in the Macbook Air.
Yeah, you can do that if you want. That's (one of) the reason hitchhiking is considered "unsafe" and strongly discouraged to most peoples daughters.

The OP demonstrating quite a bit of hubris assuming HN is broken just because they aren't getting their email - there's quite likely a very easy way for HN (is pg doing all this himself?) to see many many password reset emails going out every day and successful logins from those accounts shortly after. If _I_ were seeing that at my end, and still having someone insist my end's "broken", I'd hover between assuming they're either not competent enough to be worth spending (free service) customer service time on, or they're trying to social engineer access to someone elses's account. And I'd politely brush them off - just as HN did…
“High-performance teams should be at each other’s throats” is how one person with relationships with multiple Apple executives summarized the culture. “You don’t get to the right trade-off without each person advocating aggressively for his position.”

How ironic -- when I was at Apple in the 90s, our meetings were scattered creampuff things and this is how I imagined Microsoft would be. Now that I'm at Microsoft it's the other way around . . . :-)
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Sorry, I missed this, but hopefully you will see it.

A hash is fixed, but at a long length. Now, because of geometric growth, the shorter lengths are basically irrelevant (since there are 10s times more 19 character passwords than 18 character ones, 100s or 1000s times more 19 than 17, and so on)

On the second point, yes, exactly, you need a word list of all hexadecimal strings of length x. Again, in the case of MD5 (128 bits), this is all the 32 character hexadecimal strings (since 32 characters * 4 bits per hexadecimal character is 128 bits). Such a list has a length of 2 to the power of 128 by definition - 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 items (about 10^38).

Making a list 10^38 items long is not impossible since that's well below the number of atoms in the earth (about 10^50). It is probably impractical however. Suppose you could store the numbers in iron (the most abundant element), you'd need to store each item of the list in about 0.01 nanograms.
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It's a matter of budget. When you think a 8 GB RAM Macbook Pro is cheap, maybe you should shop at sgi.com.
From the Wall Street Journal: "However, I found the iPhone 4S worked better than the Galaxy Nexus in noisier environments. For instance, in a crowded shopping-mall food court, while neither phone was perfect, the iPhone understood me to say: "I am dictating this email from the very noisy Court at Montgomery Mall on the iPhone"—missing only the word "food" and capitalizing "Court." The Android phone mangled a very similar sentence as: "I am dictating this email on droid phone from the bearing noise for it montgomery mall."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230377290457733...

Detailed review by owner of both: "Siri is handy for sending quick messages and looking up basic information, but Dictation is the real winner in my book. I use dictation on the iPhone 4S to write entire articles with enough accuracy that only minimal editing is needed."

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/05/15/6-months-with-the-ip...
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You can always buy the standard macbook pro which does offer all that you wish for (regular ram, GigE, serviceable harddisk) at about the same price point but at an additional 400g weight.

I currently use a Macbook Air which does not offer a GigE port either and I'm doing just fine.
Interesting that the title of the blog post is "What you know matters more then what you do". I would say this thesis is incomplete. The author talks about how him and his colleagues were trying to figure out the secret sauce of a high achieving researcher.

FTA:

I hypothesize two things. First, ultra-learning is difficult but it can be cultivated. Second, it might be one of the most important skills for consistently generating impact. Those who are able and willing to continually master hard new knowledge and techniques are playing on a different field than those who are wary of anything that can’t be picked up from a blog post

I would possibly agree with his hypothesis at the end of the post, but not the title. I think its likely that this person is a high achiever not just because he is learning quickly and thoroughly, hard topics. He is also applying the requisite work and determination required to be a success.

So IMO what you do has to be at least as important as the things you know because that is the only way we have in which to judge your success.
My guess is that this isn't a macbook pro. Not for long. A fuckup or a compromise, but either way a departure from Apple's normally impeccably simple naming & branding of product lines. This is just a macbook. If all goes well and Apple can get prices down there might not be pros or airs anymore, just macbooks. In three sizes.

I think Apple have somewhat of an aversion to having price be the only or main differentiator between products. That's why the old macbooks were scrapped. Pros were more powerful & Airs were more portable. Macbooks were only cheaper. Cheaper models can exist, but they have to have some unique advantage that'd make some users buy them regardless of price.

The existence of a Macbook pro & a Macbook pro retina bends this rule. If a 13" air and a just-as-thin 13" pro retina both existed, it would break it.
Is hackerne.ws an official alias for news.ycombinator.com? I'm a bit wary of logging in to two different sessions/domains.
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I don't understand. Why can't it cool down more than ambient air? You put in X amount of power, and you get out 2X amount of power as light -- therefore additional energy is being taken in as heat and converted to light. Say you direct that light AWAY from the area through mirrors or something so it doesn't heat anything nearby up. Then, by simple energy thermodynamics, you can show that X amount of energy IS being taken away from this local system and deposited elsewhere as light.

Unless you claim that the LED stops producing the >100% efficiency levels at room temperature, I don't see why you're claiming it can't cool anything down.
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I'm not certain what constitutes a pro these days, but I do some pretty intensive tasks (building large scala projects, data aggregation, etc) and I think this MacBook is just what I need. With thunderbolt I'll be able to dock the laptop to disk arrays, an external monitor/keyboard/mouse, and Ethernet with a single connector. And being thinner and lighter, I won't think twice about taking it on the road.
Sort of. The SSD is a custom board with a custom connector but it uses standard SSD components, pretty much the same as the AIR does. There are currently no third-party modules available but for the Air it didn't take long for some Vendors to sell some.
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Go whine about something else. On GPUs RAM is soldered for performance reasons, this has been the case since ever. RAM nowadays is very reliable, so it makes sense to solder it. This leaves SSD as probably the least reliable part and that's why its replaceable.
Usually not an Apple apologist, but...

Even though there's probably no technical reason to prevent older devices from receiving these new features, I can't help but be quite surprised by the sense of entitlement everyone here puts on display.

When you bought your old iPhone 3GS / 4, did you expect to be delivered Flyover, Turn-by-turn and Facetime over 3G after a year? Or are you just mad that after Apple spent $X million in R&D, you're not getting a free ride?

The only thing that's quite annoying with iOS6 is the end-of-life'ing of the iPad 1. Which means that app developers can't move on to the latest and the greatest SDK without either doing a lot of testing and weak linking, or deciding to cut off old device owners. That kind of "fragmentation" is nothing compared to Android, though!
I understand the part about the budget. I don't understand the part about the psychological effect. I don't even know what to call it. I find it curious.
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I went down this path a few weeks ago when I needed it for my own single-user site.

In the end, I decided to run a tiny adserver with Redis and use Google analytics events/clicks tracking to handle the analysis side.
In advertising it is very important to keep the message simple and straightforward. Adding (too many) details makes the ad ineffective.

Most people who knows the big deal about size & weight can see it on the details page and in the movie ads.

The retina screen is what the competition can't match, not fully nor partially.
I've read that it's structurally pretty much the same as the existing MacBook Pro matte finish screen. As a matte user, I didn't realize it, but the glossy models have an extra pane of glass covering the entire display. The retina displays drop that extra pane of glass too (but are glossy).

This picture shows the difference:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/typo3temp/pics/23da9d8f6b.jpg
I can well imagine some pros who view upgrading RAM as a very important, even vital feature.

I can also view many pros who view the thinner size as far more important.

As it turns out Apple also makes a not thinner "pro" laptop you can upgrade the RAM on so what's the big deal?
It's definitely not soldered in.

OWC says that it is similar but probably not exactly the same as the one in the Macbook Air, they are looking at providing an upgrade model like they do for the Airs:

http://blog.macsales.com/14090-not-a-lot-of-options-for-macb...
What legal issues do you mean?
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You were never blamed for the possible bug (which might exist at hn or with the mail service, still not sure). If there is nothing that can be done, then there's nothing that can be done. That's what you were told in very simple and direct terms. I'm sorry for your loss.
Does the thinness of your computer really matter?
I am finding it hard to believe that this will be such a landgrab. The demand to already existing non .com TLDs doesn't indicate that there will be a huge demand for new ones.
Not to mention, the glaring problem people like to ignore when discussing this is the motherboard in the MBP is only going to support so much memory anyway (would not be surprised if it could only support 16gb), so talking about not being able to upgrade it to 32/64/whatever is common then is kind of moot.
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Guilty, ha. Recommend editing to: "New Evidence Supports Theory of Extraterrestrial (no, not aliens you fool) Impact"
I'm interested to know what their new architecture is, I believe that they are a Django shop. Does anyone know if they are still using Django and if so what method they used to do real time?
The new disqus feels very much like the users are actually disqus users that happen to be commenting on your site. Not your users talking on your site. I'd put this on a fun site or a site I did not care very much about, but on a business related site, I'd want to control my own users and not hand them all over to disqus.
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Oooh that looks good, thanks!
MacBook Pros from 2007 (and all Macs with 64 bit Intel processors) will work fine with Mountain Lion.
Yes I know but that wasn't the point. The point is that if I now buy the laptop with let's say 8GB because I think I don't need more than that because all I do is code. After 6 months I get assigned to doing work with BIG databases that easily eat 10GB memory. Now I'm stuck with 8GB because it's soldered and even Apple can't upgrade it.
This is exactly what I thought was happening, from the press headlines and the front page. (That it's a new macbook with retina display.)

Until I clicked the video and found out the extent of the reduction here. They have completely blown the announcement in my opinion. Even something as little as "The All-New Macbook with Retina Display" would have been enough to draw attention to it. ('all-new')

It's not everyday that something gets reengineered so thoroughly. they blew playing this up. apple fans live for these big announcements, and put up with a lot of crap that really shouldn't be press coverage but are (marginal bumps) just so they can get at the juicy unveilings. This is one of them - and should be presented as such.

it's not too late, and the front page should be changed to reflect the extent of this miraculous reengineering right in the 6-word announcement; at least add "all-new" (copout) or something more descriptive right in the blasé sentence "Introducing Macbook Pro with Retina display", which sounds like...a macbook with a Retina display.

The "It's a whole new vision for the notebook" underneath it in that ugly grey doesn't do justice to the redesign, since that's exactly what they would say about a bump to retina display with no other reengineering.
I think it's one of the best vim-emulations I've seen so far. It's not 100% but it has things like text-objects (cit, etc.), named buffers and bookmarks (which most of the other emulations miss).
Just riffing on the title which some below say is a horrible representation of the article, but "who you know, is more important than what you know."

As a old timer in the IT industry, I'd simply like to share that the connections that you make with people are much more important than what you know or what you do for your advancement within almost any company. Now you can't usually be totally incompetent, but the stronger your connections are with people above and around you in your organization, the more allowance you ate given for mistakes etc.

What am I really trying to say? Get to know people. Don't stay completely head down in your cube knocking out the best code. Get up every once in a while and build relationships with the people around you.
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Apple would make you buy a new machine just to install a new application, if they could. I have confidence they will figure it out, in due time. There is, after all, tremendous pressure to maintain their revenue.
> I'd love to develop apps like this for free

Many of us would, but we don't have time exactly because our houses and food aren't provided for us.
iPad 1 has the same amount of RAM as the 3GS, but it has 5x the number of pixels to push.
Well... as one who works solely in consulting, I'd advise you to not bid on contracts that you can't complete. It's going to give you a bad brand.

I'd take that back a step further though, who are you expecting to consult with? Small companies? Ruby isn't very common in the world of enterprises.
What I don't understand is why it is marketed as a MacBook Pro, and not as a 15" MacBook Air. It has much more in common with the Airs than the Pros.
I don't think it's quite as stark as you say.

This is a transition product just like the original Macbook Air was, which incidentally also looked like an odd duck compared to the clarity of having Macbook and Macbook Pro lines.

It's likely just a typo in your comment, but the Pro Retina is a 15.4" model, not 13".
That's the "slave" labor.
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Carrying around adapters is a solution buts its not fun or elegant. Especially when you don't always need them in the same place.

I think the point is valid. One of the things "pros" need is ports. Ports that hardware assumes you have because its standard on most machines. This thing about ports is that you don't need them unless you do. Maybe you never use ethernet, but a lot of people do. Maybe you need to plug in to set up a router. Maybe a hotel room only has ethernet. Maybe your office environment requires ethernet.

I've been using a mac at work for years and ports have always been a pain. Need to plug into a projector? Connect to a TV? More than 2 USBs? As often as puling out adapters, the solution is use someone else's machine.
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I actually think the issue here is that you don't need to provide any email details at all when you create an account.

This can be seen as an 'ease of use' benefit, but it really fails when problems like this arise.
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This was exactly my thought, and having followed the link I'm not clear how (or even whether) this gem solves it.

I currently use the Python/Twisted-based https://github.com/samuraisam/pyapns in production. It looks a bit abandoned, but it has a Ruby client and has been rock-solid for me.
After all, hipsters aren't imaginary animals and don't bite the heads off of chickens.

I wonder if there were pamphlets in old Europe decrying what those people on that island were doing to the language.
Installed this yesterday. Best QR code scanner software that I've found. Too many of them have pointless features that clutter them and require too many permissions I'm not willing to give up. 5 stars.
the places where these sql injections were happening wouldn't be prevented from traditional sql bindings which are applied to parts of the where clause or set values. in JDBC land i don't think you can do "SHOW TABLES FROM ? WHERE ...."
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Because it doesn't taper to a penny-edge and weighs several pounds more. It's not really what the "Air" was about.

If you say "15 inch air" people have expectations that you couldn't have fit all the muscle this thing has into.
I struggle to see this as anything but a planned obsolescence, anti-3rd party power grab given the minute additional space required to use a replaceable RAM stick. The SSD is on an add in board, also between the main board and base.
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"All-new" in advertising is so overused as to be meaningless. It would make 25% of those eight words into white noise.
The screen used to be a module that was encapsulated inside a metal shell and covered with a glass layer. This meant the module itself had to have at least some degree of self-containment as an independent module, with some form of backing (however thin/flimsy) and a layer of glass to hold the "LC" (liquid crystal) in.

Now the screen IS the display module. The metal shell is the actual backing of the LCD module, and the glass is the actual LC-retaining surface.

As for not touting improvements in depth & weight: there's only so much trumpeting of awesomeness that the audience can take before they glaze over. While not the only selling point, the screen is a major factor their advertising group is focusing on. Even without prominent declaration, you & I & others "get it" that it's lighter & thinner. It's not that Apple is neglecting a miracle of engineering, it's that flouting too many miracles at once numbs the audience and degrades the experience ... which methinks is why we did not see new iMacs: one piece of overwhelming awesomeness is enough for the month.
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They made a huge deal out of the fan, which was exactly what I was expecting from Apple.

But you're right, I read somewhere that it weighed almost as much as a macbook air. But didn't see that advertised on Apple's website. Which was for me the biggest news next to the new display.
Binding variables is prepared statements? AR does support that, how does that affect this vulnerability?
When I want to know things like this (and I usually do) I take a look at their Jobs listings, this usually reveals the technologies used, in this case I found:

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Why can't I clone your app? Who said the first person to do anything has the right to it forever?

Isn't Pepsi a clone of Coke? It's not exactly the same recipe, but functionally it's pretty damn close.
I can see people registering main keywords, or playful phrases that work.. eg: about.me etc.. However then those will just turn into cybersquatting and auctioning off in most cases. I can see it causing confusion in some situations as well.