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Seems like there are a few different, not-necessarily overlapping use cases for Mac Pros.

There's the people who need lots of CPU.
There's the people who need lots of RAM.
There's people who want lots of fast disk.
There's people who need to use specialized cards.

Trying to serve all at the same time dictates the shape of the machine. (For example, reduce space for cards, and you can make a 1U rack mount.)

Thunderbolt opens up the possibility of replacing the Mac Pro with something akin to a beefed up iMac or maybe a stretched shoebox-shape Mac Mini, with high-end CPUs, lots of RAM slots, and basic graphics and disk, with external Thunderbolt chassis available for disks or expansion cards.

If the main unit + disk chassis + card chassis cost the same as a similar Mac Pro, this would be a significant savings for those customers who only need the main unit and zero or one external chassis.
>That's debatable. I'd argue the opposite.

Go for it :)

>solution: get Google to supply the updates by buying from the Nexus range and ensuring you're running the Google ROM

I don't think it's fair to expect the average joe on the street to be armed with that knowledge. It's something they don't even have to think about with iOS.

>Underpowered - which is rubbish.

I disagree. Samsung et al. have managed to flood the
mobile phone market with cheap and cheerful phones like the galaxy mini which purport to be smart phones except that the hardware is so overwhelmed by the software, they don't even do the basics right like SMS or telephony that a €50 Nokia feature phone can do. It damages the reputation of the phone manufacturer, Google and lumps the customer with a crappy phone that struggles to do something a phone half the price can do in its sleep.
Why is there a $10 difference between "Jetpack/Netbooks/Notebooks/USBs" and tablets? You're paying for the data separately; there shouldn't be another fee, let alone a $10 difference between device types.

And why is a smartphone $10 more than a "basic" phone when the difference, again, is data, which you're paying for separately and at an outrageous rate at that? This is baffling and completely unreasonable.

On a positive note, even they couldn't live with the absurdity of charging a tethering fee for metered data. But they're still eager to tell you that a feature of your phone (not their service) is "included at no additional cost".
Santorum may be a better (or worse) example.
"I don't want to appear as a stiff who won't fit in with the culture."

I do not think that just by wearing a suit, you would give that impression. everyone understands that interviews are always a little more formal than the actual job. Even if the startup company where you will interview has dress code which includes shorts or jeans, I suggest you go in a simple business suit. The worst that could happen ? The interviewers will tell you that they are not that formal but thats ok. If you go without a suit, it may not hurt your chances either especially at a startup but why take a chance.
My suggestion: go with a business suit. You have nothing to lose with that.
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Remembering shortcuts for Sublime would be no different to remembering shortcuts for Emacs/vim/whatever. I agree with the 'no modes' sentiment which is why I find Emacs more natural than vim for the bulk of my work.

If you forget the short-cut for a command in Emacs, you can hit M-x, type in the name of the command (with completion to help you) and once you execute the command Emacs will TELL you the shortcut for next time (if there is one assigned). Best feature ever.
Regarding fragmentation, as a developer, I'd rather have all my users on the same API version, even if it means that iOS 6 on the 3GS doesn't include Siri and turn-by-turn nav. That's the difference between iOS 'fragmentation' and Android fragmentation.
It's like the tethering charge. You pay for data and then you pay again to access the data you pay for. Because they can.
That's technically true, but they don't need to. You can use the same markup as the @1x splash screens and target retina devices with media queries. I wrote a blog post explaining exactly how to do it: http://taylor.fausak.me/2012/03/27/ios-web-app-icons-and-sta...
Selling the default search position to Google is just about Mozilla's entire cash flow. It amounts to several hundred million a year.
Here, go and have a read of this article: http://skepticalscience.com/how-do-climate-models-work.html - they talk in great detail about how the models work, starting with one equation.

Also look at this image further down the page: http://www.skepticalscience.com/pics/sea_ice_prediction.jpg

The glacier model is wrong, but wrong in the wrong direction (Actually I think that's combined results from multiple models, but anyway...). How do they know? Because there are climatologists out on the ice, or in satellites taking measurements-1. Testing the model - you know, all that stuff that is supposedly impossible to do.

1- there are even high resolution GPS modules in Greenland which can estimate ice loss by how far up the crust lifts (as well as detecting plate tectonics).
Everything can be gamed to suppress free speech. The same logic says we should do away with fraud statutes. You think this is an insightful and important point, but it's really a banal point.
It's not going to be blurry, because it's still 2800x1800, only scaled to match 1920x1200.
There's some risk to this, but one option is to use a different path/account that will still demonstrate the functionality to the audience. Of course, there's the chance of having it fail on you again, but if you have a feeling what's causing the issue and know how to work around it, then it might help the perception of your app from "not working at all" to "not fully tested".

If you have a team behind the scenes that can fix it within the presentation time, that might be a good demonstration of your ability to recover from the inevitable issues that will arise.
I love the concept.

Design-wise, I see a lot of things that remind me of svbtle (not trying to imply anything, just thought it was interesting)
The 400 series implies that there was an error on the client side, when there clearly isn't one. The client has made a valid request that a middleman refuses to honor.

This better fits into the 300 series as a permanent addition.
"I have a rule that I will never wear a suit and a tie to interviews."
I like that rule but it unfortunately does not work for certain industries like finance, investment banking etc. where I work. Even if you go for a developer at one of thse banks, they expect you to be fully dressed. Heck, even during your actual work weeks once hired, we do no wear jeans on wall street (exceptions are there).
Good advice here. I would like to add two things:

When Apple demoes desktop applications, they have multiple computers linked to a keyboard-mouse-monitor switch. If the demo fails on one computer, the presenter can quickly switch to a fresh system. IIRC there some videos that show Jobs doing just this.

If you can't afford redundant systems or it would be unelegant to have them around, make sure to make a video or a bunch of screenshots of the planned demo. One of the most fluid "demos" I have ever seen was just a sequence of screenshots. Because the presenter was pointing out things on the screen and clicking on where he would actually have to click to make the next action happen, it somehow felt more like a demo than a slideshow.
Because it doesn't upscale, it downscales.
You can't get much cheaper than Amazon SES. I find it's just as good as SendGrid, MailGun, etc.
> 7. The stolen info is sent out by infecting USB sticks that are used in an infected machine and copying an encrypted SQLLite database to the sticks, to be sent when they are used outside of the closed environment. This way data can be exfiltrated even from a high-security environment with no network connectivity.

> "Agent.BTZ did something like this already in 2008. Flame is lame."

Flame's approach is different and more impressive. Agent.BTZ copied itself and used an easy-to-discover autorun.inf file in the root directory of attached disks or network shares. Flame exports its database by encrypting it and then writing it to the USB disk as a file called '.' (just a period, meaning 'current directory')

When you run a directory listing you can't see it. You can't open it. The windows API doesn't allow you to create a file with that name and Flame accomplishes this by opening the disk as a raw device and directly writing to the FAT partition. Impressive, right.

While a lot of these individual features alone are not impressive the sum of the parts, combined with the collision attack on the certificate signature are very impressive.

As for the main point of Mikko's post, I have never understood why so many folks in the netsec industry are arrogantly pessimistic about the innovation of others. I found Flame jaw-droppingly amazing.

Nobody knew about it for years, yet it was derided when discovered and documented.
You can do this easily with Freeciv (Civ2-ish clone), unfortunately the AI is not as interesting (what I've seen).
It should be ready just in time for Photoshop CS7.
As someone who hasn't been following the news in these last few days, I got very depressed after reading this headline - which of course (silly me) turned out to be complete and utter sensationalistic bullshit.

I agree the silent almost-not upgrade is not a good sign, but it may simply be due to the release schedule of Intel's server chip. Anyway, the Mac Pro still exists and it's still a good machine. By these standards I have an ancient 2008 Mac Pro and it's absolutely good enough for anything I can throw at it.
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Someone who suffers from depression and has ADHD should probably be extremely closely monitored by their parents/carers. It's not for the government to directly intervene in things like this. If a certain message is going to trigger someone to committing suicide, then connecting them to the internet is probably a very bad idea.

> Just in the same way you can't harass someone in the street

It happens all the time. People harass other people, begging, wanting you to fill out surveys, trying to sell you stuff. Go down a pub... Look at football supporters harassing each other. People need to grow far thicker skin when it comes to words.

> there shouldn't be carte blanche for bullying just because it happens to be online

Online "bullying" isn't really bullying though. It's your computer telling you that some human being apparently said something. You should take that with a huge grain of salt. It could as likely be a bot. It's parents place to educate their children into the mindset of assuming nothing is real online. People are not who they say they are. People may not exist.

Am I being online "bullied" by the automated spam process sending me emails suggesting I need penis enlargement devices?
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I don't know what this fix included but I can't see part of the text in my browser (about 1100 width). There should probably be some margin on the right side as well so text doesn't touch the border (or overflow).
This is an advantage of hiDPI screens that hadn't quite clicked for me before - a throwback to one of the advantages of CRTs, allowing multiple resolutions to look good on a single display.
This was how I thought it would work too (I haven't seen the docs yet). I figured that you would specify either when you build your app or somewhere in iTunes connect and when the app store itself will tell safari what sites it should show the notification banner for.
You know what? Grapes grow in clusters.

But yeah, I still want Raspberry Pi
I figure eventually we'll have to deal with lawsuits from monied interests as a very real threat to freedom of speech.

The ability to sue anyone for anything at any time will become mutually exclusive with the right to speak publicly without fear of government enforced persecution. We'll have to look at our founding principles and decide what's most important to us. The current patent mess does not leave me optimistic.
There are lots of tools that let you adjust the system fonts, TinkerTool and Onyx come to mind. You may see quirks in some apps that expect the standard font and sizes.
One note on your point about changing return behaviour: That's the ONE case a goto is IMO warranted. If I have to choose between a dummy function, code duplication and a goto, I choose goto.
That footer with the About Us link needs to be on every single page of your website.
This looks absolutely terrible, and my contract is coming up in July. Does anyone have a better alternative that is not AT&T?
It was true that the Mac Pro didn't receive any updates in the prior two years because there simply wasn't a new Intel chipset to update to...

But Intel's Sandy Bridge Xeon chipset and new E5 processors have now been put for a few months, with Dell's Precisions and other workstations now using them.
I apologize for the curt reply. There have been a number of these "Linux" threads lately on HN and the disinformation (on both sides) bugs me to no end. Clearly you've had some troubles and you have a right to be annoyed.

For reference, and perhaps for the use of others, Canonical maintains a list of hardware that works, along with information about what doesn't work. I have found it handy in the past. It can be found here: http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/
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->> Well, there's your problem.
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Indeed. I think most pro's who would need a computer like this would want to get the 512GB option on the laptop just to secure themselves over the next few years, specifically because one can't upgrade the internal hard drive themselves like the old MacBook Pro.

Though it's possible Apple figured that if they offered such option on the 'lower' model, most people wouldn't bother with the highest end because the processor bump is marginal.
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How are they investing in startups? I've read the announcement and specifics, and it's just a line of credit with favorable terms. And in order to qualify, you have to have already raised a round.

The title of the post and press release are misleading. There's no real investment being made here, that I can tell, other than just making the credit process easier and slightly more lax.
As mentioned by others, syte currently requires javascript to view blog posts.

For my projects, I have a little trouble deciding when it is ok to require javascript be enabled. What is the general consensus? Is progressive enhancement no longer a concern? How do you start new web projects, with javascript added after basic functionality is established or with it at the core?
>If you can't look beyond the technique and see the underlying point

It's a weak technique usually employed by those who have nothing of substance to say. Why resort to a cheap appeal to emotion right out the gate? What's the point? What is your point?
Is it feasible for one party to successfully sue another for the decisions made by Google, a third party? Is there another example where this currently occurs?
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Maybe there is a bigger update in the works and Sandy Bridge wasn't worth the investment, so Apple is holding out for the next step. I don't know Intel's roadmap. But I do know Apple has no problems throwing out products it deems superfluous, so I've been worried about the Mac Pro's future for quite a while. As a multi-screen kind of guy, I will definitely leave the platform once the only upgrade path left is the iMac.

The headline wrongly suggests that the Mac Pro was canceled. It wasn't.
Let's be honest with ourselves here. This is a tired, tired, worn cliche about Apple, as well as a misunderstanding of fashion for real people. Top it off with rhetorical tricks that don't do your argument justice; "And sure, you might argue that not everyone does that..."

This is just a variation on the "Apple only succeeds because of marketing, or shiny iObjects, or consumer stupidity." That if consumers were only intelligently informed, they'd all run either Linux on home built desktops or something other than what is currently popular.

Why is it so hard to accept that sometimes things become popular because they are good?
There is also a niche research area of lock-free data structures and algorithms.

On a more practical side, check out http://www.liblfds.org/ -- it is a library of lock free data structures in C. (I am not the author). I have successfully used this library in some realtime projects.
hehe, except that Greece might not be under those obligations for long...

In general though I agree, (from the UK) I'm happy to buy stuff from EU places; I got my Das Keyboard and a Samsung phone (Galaxy Note, useless, sold on ebay) from Germany because it was cheaper (actually, it's also seemingly impossible to buy the Das anywhere in the UK.)

I also happily buy from the US and Canada though, as they make the funniest T-shirts, and the price ends up similar to custom printed in the UK even after import tax (not the £1.50 tax on a $20 t-shirt, but the £8 royal mail stick on any parcel with tax to pay), because of the exchange rate.
I've been thinking of moving to the Bay area for a while from the UK. Everyone I follow / engage with seems to be there so it seems like a good place to go.

One thing I'm hearing though is that companies are not that interested in hiring H1B candidates (at least for design) - I'm surprised that the increase in take-up is due to tech companies. Any Bay area companies able to comment on this?
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When do I stop doing customer interviews and start writing code?
If you disable the space race as a winning condition the chance of a nuclear holocaust over time approaches 1.

I'm not saying there are any lessons to be had from it. It's only a game.
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I agree. We need to recognize that increased efficiencies in personally-initiated communication are tearing apart the old truce between personal and commercial interests.
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One way to look at it is that Google is making decisions about ranking. Another way is that an algorithm doesn't count as a "decision", but crafting specific inputs that change Google's ranking algorithm's output in a known way is actionable.
300s indicate that client must take a follow-up action to fulfill the request. This would be misleading as the request is denied permanently.

Further, the closest match among the currently implemented statuses is a 403. As per the "Acknowledgements" section:

Thanks to Terence Eden, whose blog observed that the existing status code 403 was not really suitable for this situation, and suggested the creation of a new status code.
Well, it does have a lot more plausible deniability than a straightforward backdoor. Which, of course, proves absolutely nothing.
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My prediction: We can find a subset of proteins such that they do not interfere with each other, and still large enough that they can perform useful functions.

The tiny, tiny amount of bioinformatics knowledge I have makes me think the probability of your prediction is ~ 0.00000000000001%. For non-trivial values of "useful". :)

Can you tell me what experience or knowledge lead you to make that prediction?
Although the metal makes the mintBox heavier than other devices its size, it makes it feel really unique, robust and well engineered.

This sentence really turned me off. If you're going to sell something as well engineered then don't say it feels that way. Give the results of drop tests or heat dissipation tests.
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Right now, I'm giving nanoc (http://nanoc.stoneship.org/) a try. My goal is to leave WP behind.

But there are some things, that boggle me. But, i do this to learn and so it is quite interessting to research my problems, till I find a solution. And if I ever get stuck, the help on the google group is quite great.

So as it is not mentioned in the original posting, I thought I'd add it.
As was mentioned in the video, iWitness is open-source: https://github.com/adaptivepath/iWitness
Linux Mint user here: This was never a big issue for me. They explain it thoroughly at http://www.linuxmint.com/searchengines.php and let you click through to install Google (plain vanilla, non-custom Google) very easily. Plus, so far this only affects Firefox, their default browser. If you use Chrom[e|ium] like I do, it's even less of an issue.

I really think the parent comment is an overreaction.
Love the UI. Very clean design.

Note some bugs. I entered a bad URL (https://cleartax.in/badURL) and got this error:
Server Error in '/' Application.
The IControllerFactory 'AT.Web2.Infrastructure.NinjectControllerFactory' did not return a controller for the name 'badURL'.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.InvalidOperationException: The IControllerFactory 'AT.Web2.Infrastructure.NinjectControllerFactory' did not return a controller for the name 'badURL'
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Isn't it quite close to both 403 Forbidden, "request was a legal request, but the server is refusing to respond to it" and 401 Unauthorized? And now it's on the wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_status_codes , and that equates with being approved, right?
Well but that's an operating system that is designed to run on newer hardware running poorly on something that at least got the update.
It's using lame as a response to this article: http://xato.net/malware/flame-is-kind-of-lame/
Hackintosh is your answer.

Build the computer of your dreams, drop a bit of cash on a nice case if that matters to you, and install OS X.

It's really easy these days, especially if you have similar hardware to legit Macs.
As a former H1B, I would like to point out that there are two types of H1B candidates: ones who got a degree here or are switching a job from an outsourcing company and seeking a American employer and the ones who are placed as a part of a larger team by an outsourcing company. The former are a part of a self-selected pool of risk takers. If you are a running a start-up, you are better off with the them as they have the mental toughness to withstand risk.