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I just received a new MacBook Air and my MagSafe connection is pretty much the same as the last two notebooks. It sounds to me like Pogue has a physical problem with the magnet. He should get it looked at by Apple.

I can drag the 11" Air across my desk by pulling on the power cord. It doesn't disconnect unless I pull up or down.
>Changing yourself is easy; getting others to want to change themselves is not.

Yes, and why should we want to change to be like you?
But as a society, we refuse to let our male CEO's work less. Why?

There are people fighting traditional gender roles. But then you get called a feminazi by people who don't want change.

Come over to feminism. We're fighting for everyone to have the same opertunities.
This part of the manual lists several advantages as compared to simply packaging MySQL and memcached together, the first two probably being the most significant.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-memcached-bene...
I found the following to be the main point of the article:

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You might think that puts us in an impossible position when it comes to deciding how to run teams. But consider why software development is not a regular environment, and why it is so hard to run experiments, to acquire skills, and to measure which practices and decisions lead to success, and which to failure. The root cause in all these cases – the reason the environment is not regular – is that the feedback loop between making a change and understanding the result of that change is too long. The word “change” here should be understood very generally to mean change in requirements, change in methodology, change in development practices, change in business plan, or code or configuration change.

There are many benefits to reducing cycle time – it’s one of the most important principles that emerges when we apply Lean Thinking to software development. Short cycle times are certainly essential for creating great products: as Bret Victor says in his mind-blowing video Inventing on Principle, “so much of creation is discovery, and you can’t discover anything if you can’t see what you’re doing.”

But for me this is the clincher: It’s virtually impossible for us to practice continuous improvement, to learn how to get better as teams or as individuals, and to acquire the skills that enable the successful creation of great products and services – unless we focus on getting that feedback loop as short as possible so we can actually detect correlations, and discern cause and effect.

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Jez seems to believe that Development Methodologies suck when they reach the point of getting in the way of developers creating things and when you have long cycle times before you can see the fruits of your labor, wonderful ideas are potentially lost. One of the important aspects of Continuous Delivery is to reduce that feedback loop as much as possible - people start to do amazing things and create wonderful ideas with immediate results to the changes they are making.
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I don't have kids yet. But I would have a big beef with a relationship in which one person does 80% of the work.

I am mentioning this because you make it appear as if you sit idle while your wife does the work. In our home I take care of the handywork and the nasty work (home maintenance, getting plumbing and sewage to work,...).

If I was working overtime or 2nd job to help support the family I would set that right next to my wives work with the housewife stuff (if that was the arrangement). On the other hand "working overtime" just to hide from doing your part or to "go out with friends" on a regular basis to get away from your family, I consider pretty weak and immature.
They're not integrated into the motherboards, they're built directly into the CPU. This reduces power consumption and allows the motherboard to shrink, no separate component needed.

The HD4000 isn't the most capable chipset on the market but for most applications, light-duty use, it's fine. Even the basic versions of this chipset could support two 24" screens without much trouble. Just don't expect benchmark-shattering 3D performance.
> Right-Click -> View Source is what made the web so successful and it's awesome that we now have this for 3D graphics as well.

That can't be serious. I bet he didn't try it on GMail.
> I wrote this thing called Celluloid and I can assure you this isn't true. Ruby has "abort_on_exception" for threads, but the default is most assuredly false.

I'm talking about CPU instruction level crashes, not language level crashes. Things like writing to an invalid memory address or heap corruption.

> Good luck debugging concurrency bugs in a callback-driven system!

Actually I already mentioned concurrency bugs in evented systems in the article.
> total number of clients = total number of workers, since each client permanently ties up a connection forever

Totally up to your application server. Actual formula is number of clients = total number of threads. It is up to app server to handle parallel requests.
"Shift"? I'd go for "emergence." The classic use cases are still alive and well.
Couldn't agree more. If you're going after the iPad, you have to compete on price. There's no way enough people will choose Surface over the iPad for the same amount.

The bigger question, for me, is the pricing on the Pro model. While the RT model is more comparable to the iPad, the Pro model could be the real gem of the tablet space. I really want one, but it's possible they will price it higher than is reasonable.
Not all views are shared. http://www.quora.com/Views-on-Quora/Which-of-my-views-will-a...

If you are too afraid to visit that link, try this one:
http://pastebin.com/T2s9Vjxn
"Google didn't respond to a request for comment from me."

And there is Google's major problem in a nutshell.
"jwz" and "Get off my lawn" are practically synonymous at this point. He's a great hacker, and a fantastic writer, but his priorities are entirely different from most developers.
The fact that the likelihood of you seeing your instruments report a particle in a given place is proportional to the square of the waveform's magnitude at that place.
Well, speaking of the Unix philosophy, this could possibly blow your mind. It's tens of Unix command line tools (well, the gist of them, not every functionality), implemented in a few lines of Haskell:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Simple_unix_tools
Coheed and Cambria Countdown Clock
Variations of transportation vehicles can provide a better cost-optimized solutions for different scenarios.

If they can reuse the shuttle a couple of times in space before they have to take it back to earth - that could be a cost saver. They use the dragon capsule (or boeing equivalent) to take people up to the station and use the shuttle to transport them around them in space.

I can see a lot of cost savings doing this.

Less weight = less fuel = more money saved.
This is a great article. This is what feminism is about. We should not hold modern people to out dated, and wrong ideas of what people can and can't do just because of their gender. Society has moved on a bit and we now no longer have discussions about whether a woman can be a CEO, we're starting to move towards this way with men & parenting.

If you're a man and you agree with this article, just watch for the next person to complain about "feminists" or "feminazis" or "political correctness gone mad". That person wants to keep you in a box and doesn't think you can be a father.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"In Comments

Be civil."
I'm not much of an Apple fan, but I do have a used MBA and I have to say, the old style magsafe adapter is one of the greatest features of any laptop I've ever seen. If having a laptop that is 10mm thicker meant leaving this brilliant bit of engineering alone than it's no question to go with the thicker machine.
Thanks, I'll check it out. This could solve a big problem for me!
I hope he figures this out. I received the same "spam" letter from Google regarding my apps saying I had 7 days to figure it out or possibly have my apps or account shut down.

It turned out I had used the word "dice" too many times in a description of my simple "dice" game because I described all the rules in the description. I had to mutilate my description and remove about 80% of the times I used the word "dice".

I emailed Google telling them what I had done, and that I fixed that problem, and that I really hoped that WAS the problem, and I begged them not to remove my apps because I was diligently trying to figure out what I had done wrong, and that I WOULD fix it - I'm a reputable developer, and I play by the rules.

I did receive 2 real-human emails back from Google in the process saying "thank you" and now months later my apps are all still online, so it appears I found the right problem.

I can certainly understand the frustration however. If there is literally nothing throwing up a red flag and you don't know what you have done wrong, and Google doesn't appear to give specifics, it can be scary.

The way I approached the problem was that Google probably didn't have a live human poking through my apps to find a violation, and it was most likely a "robot" that found the problem. This means it most likely had to come from a textual description or there was a potential IP situation. The email mentioned "spam", so I looked for the former first and found the over-use of the word "dice". Sure enough, that was it. Or at least I assume that was it, because my apps are still online now - months later.
Some additional stuff on Backbone's router and the history api support:

Essentially the history is "hashless hash url". This is fine, and a convenient use-case. It makes moving to the history api smooth, and allows some cool stuff on the backend too. However, if you want your app to go with the "progressive enhancement" style, rather than the "graceful degradation" style of development, you will have to essentially write your own router. This is because Backbone will revert to hash urls if pushState is not supported.

This is not a bad thing, but it is sort of a gotcha. It would be nice to see an alternate router that does "gradual enhancement" style handling[1].

I understand the argument that Backbone is really really aimed at single page apps, but at the same time, it is so useful as a general app framework that this use-case can't be uncommon.

[1] So what I mean is: you have a page that has content that you would like to pull from an api - click a link and the javascript gets the data. It renders the content and pushState()'s the url to the correct place -- bookmarkable etc. But if someone is browsing the site sans javascript or pushState, I don't want the link to be to a hash, I just want it to do a full page request from the server. Links and urls don't change, just some details of how the client handles them. Further, if you want to do this style of development, but have some extra features (e.g. for admins, certain users, whatever) that make sense with hash urls and requiring javascript, you now have a total mess with the router, unless you manually do the gradual enhancement anyway.
This was indeed a genius idea.

It sort of reminds us how a TV camera and a TV itself overpowers the Web, and proves that TV is still a very powerful medium. Just look at the Internet as a whole and look at what we see through those TV cameras. The poverty of the Internet is so obvious.

Whatever may be the outcome of NBC's time-delayed prime-time broadcast of Olympics, one thing is obvious....they have clearly used the latest technology of Internet and the latest technology of Cameras, integrating the drama-creation aspect (Hollywood's legacy) to present something to the US audience (don't know about the world) a very captivating and powerful experience. The Ads here are only complementing the process.
"We can not both live balanced lives and keep the prestige and power we are used to."

Isn't that a double edged sword? That prestige and power is an attraction and sometimes necessity for men to court women. While I know it does happen, it's rare to find women who marry 'down' in the status ladder (be it race, income, or position). And as a marginalized male minority in the U.S., I know for certain that even good well-adjusted women wouldn't have given me the time of day if I wasn't earning a certain amount or at a high level or at a great company.
Hi, fellow CPM fan here.

Just in case your preference for Warsow is solely based on the lack of promode in QL, I'm really glad to tell you that there is promode now in QL, and there's been for a couple of months now.
Granted, it's a premium feature and so on but there are some public promode servers (user-spawned), specially CA and CTF, and I've been having a lot of fun there.
I'm pretty sure the compiled graphics code is sandboxed making an actual crash (theoretically) impossible.
What do you mean "designed to run"? Most big studios have a layer between their application code and the OpenGL or D3D interface to make it portable. They're no more designed for DirectX than they are for OpenGL.
Lots of worse inbreeding problems - show dogs, fish etc.

I live in Iowa, sorry I haven't seen the mistreatment you mention. I'm sure its a problem, any time large amounts of animals become dollars. Puppy mills, fish farms. But compared to beef cattle, dairy have it made.

I'm not even sure humans are immune. Talk about a constant stream of antibiotics, low genetic diversity, inhumane living conditions, cancer rates.
They probably weakened the magnet to make it detach more easily to prevent the point where the plug connects to the wire from weakening over time, which is a battle that they (and other laptop producers) have now been fighting for many years. They've had multiple class action lawsuits about this same issue, and multiple recalls, and they still haven't been able to get it right. I personally owned multiple models that ended up producing sparks because the wires inside had gotten so badly frayed.

I reckon it's a genuinely tough engineering problem, since besides unintentional yanks, a laptop power cord gets plugged in and unplugged and hauled around in bags. But it's pretty surprising that they haven't been able to make this enough of a priority to solve it, given how much they charge for those adapters and how much they must have lost on recalls and lawsuits.

But honestly, the solution is simple enough: make the side that gets easily damaged replaceable, and let customers have free replacements every 6 months (and build that trivial cost into the original price of the adapter).
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As a technologist, I hope most people can see the real value being added by the Surface over the iPad, and I think the corporate / enterprise angle is being lost entirely in this analysis.

On the other hand, you're absolutely right about Microsoft taking a loss to gain market share. Xbox was first, and is now the most popular gaming console in the world. Then is Bing, which despite not yet turning profitable for Microsoft did prevent Google from attaining a monopoly and has made Microsoft the only other company with a legitimate index of the internet and reasonable market share in search. I can definitely see Microsoft taking some hardware losses on the Surface to plant the seeds for the Windows 8 ecosystem.
Just like with C++. That language is a horrible mostruosity, yet projects keep migrating to it, e.g., Id's game engines, GCC, etc.
Given that Boeing does not have a flying (in space) version of their capsule yet, I find it a little surprising that they are receiving more funding than SpaceX, who have demonstrated their vehicle already. Perhaps it's driven by the stage of development?
Zuckerberg Drops Out of Top Tech Billionaires
Can't really disagree, priced to move Kindle Fire sure bought amazon a place in the tablet world quickly.
Absolutely! Confronting the people who are abusing the system is much more effective and doesn't affect the group morale (the general email would effectively punish everyone because of those few). Managers should, y'know, manage.
That only transfers the decision to run it, doesn't make it any more safe. You can override anything, that doesn't "clean" it or make beneficial by default.
See comments below - PNaCl is not finished, and we don't know what performance and portability it will provide when it is. It is also not close to being standardizable since it is in flux.

Do you have numbers for the "unacceptable speed penalty" JavaScript imposes on compiled code? That's an honest question, I am curious to see benchmarks about that.
I just had the same question. I am sitting here working on a late 2008 MacBook Pro and the magsafe connector looks exactly like the 'new' magsafe connector pictured in the article.
Here here.

Back in the day it was seen as perfectly fine for the husband to take care of the money, and for him to give his wife a bit of money for shopping and things like that. Now we have moved on from that (thankfully!). However there are still people who think that men can't handle children.
My dad, a nerd himself (with a sweet reel-to-reel and turntable HiFi system, a television and electronics shop, a CB hobby, and later a career as an electrical and instrumentation engineer, to prove it), brought home a Commodore 64 and a 1541 disk drive from K-Mart when I was 8 years old (1982 or 1983). An MPS 801 dot matrix printer came home a year or so later.

When I was 12, a friend loaned me a 300 baud modem, and a list of local BBSes, while his C64 was broken. Instantly addicted. I was staying up all night and napping through school. Upgraded to a 1200 baud modem at a computer swap meet a couple months later. Bought Color 64 BBS software (which I still had the original disk and manual for up until I moved into a motorhome 3 years ago; I probably even still have it in the one box of books I saved), and wrote lots of customized code and simple games for (several gambling games, where the user gained download credits).

My entire career and most of the value I've created for the world can be traced back to that first C64. I also started my first business, when I was 12, buying broken C64s at garage sales and flea markets and repairing them using a symptom cheat sheet from The Grapevine Group that gave a list of malfunctions and which chips were responsible for that behavior. My friends always wondered how I seemed to have a lot more money than they did.

About four years ago, I bought a C64 on eBay. I still use it for making music and other tinkering. It has a (currently broken) SD card reader for practically infinite storage (it's possible to store pretty much all of the software ever written for C64 on a single SD card), and a MSSIAH MIDI cartridge. I bought 8 SID chips a while back, with plans to put a SID2SID in the C64 for six channel stereo sound, as well as build a dedicated SID synth box, among other projects, but haven't done it yet. There's something magical about these old 8 bit machines, even today, for me. It's probably just nostalgia...I'm getting old enough to have occasionally painful bouts of it. But, I think there's also a lot of character and charm...my 8 year old nephew has developed a love of old video game machines, and seems on the verge of moving into old computers, too.
If mysql would throw flying pigs out of my server I still won't be using it. Not in a world where PostgreSQL exists.
Yes. When members of a firm create value for each other, they don't pay sales tax. It is huge unfair advantage for large firms.

There is also the huge savings where teams have an executive authority to settle disputes and prevent them from trying to rip each other off with unfair contracts and nonpaid bills.
Awesome read. It's hard to find accessible well-reasoned anti-capitalist literature outside of fringe radical contexts. Although, as he himself admits, holding up Valve as the ideal model for post-capitalist society seems like a bridge too far.
If you like that, you should also check out Nexuiz if you have not yet. It is my favorite of all the Open Source 3D shooters I have tried so far. It comes close to the very fast gameplay I liked so much in Quake3.

http://www.alientrap.org/games/nexuiz
It is actually easier to debug than C++ to x86 in my experience.
glenra - Good questions! On the display end of our technology we use two different 3-D glasses technologies to provide full-color 3-D video to viewers. When using a 3-D TV or projector, you simply wear the 3-D glasses that came with the 3-D TV or projector. When watching a 2-D TV or projector, whether it's CRT, LCD, plasma, DLP, or laser, we supply a special pair of RF shutter glasses. When watching a computer monitor or handheld device such as a smart phone, we supply our FullColor 3D glasses. These are not anaglyph glasses. We spent several years on research and development to develop complex notch filters that would work with every kind of display to provide full-color with no eyestrain or headaches. These glasses have been tested successfully by millions of people and, while not providing quite as good color as shutter glasses, the longer you wear them, the more the brain adjusts to provide a more natural looking color image. In addition, the output of your computer (VGA or HDMI) can be input to our converter, making it viewable on any 3-D TV or projector with our shutter glasses (or on a 3-D TV or projector using its 3-D glasses).
Our patented 2-D to 3-D conversion technology works in a unique way that is different from all other attempts to convert 2-D to 3-D. Our algorithm compares two frames at a time and presents stereo pair data that is designed to work hand-in-hand with the algorithms the human brain uses to create the 3-D experience. Our software makes use of the facts that objects further from the camera in a scene exhibit less brightness, sharpness, contrast, and color saturation, are located higher up in the frame, get smaller, and objects that occlude other objects generally move faster than the objects they occlude (telephone poles move by faster than buildings as seen from a moving car, for instance). I hope this is helpful in clarifying your excellent question.
Xonotic and its predecessor Nexuiz are also 100% free and open source (git.xonotic.org). Even the media like models and sounds are also released with source links, which considerably different from what Warsow is doing.

Disclosure: I'm on the Xonotic core team :)
Stage 3 of linked X-fire game on my super-duper 64bit laptop running latest FF is just plain laggy. Just saying.
As far as I can see the only true parallel between the Javascript/HTML/Whatever environment and Apple II basic is that it comes pre-installed on every computer. This does NOT mean that it is a good way to teach anyone. It's not. It's pretty horrible, compared to pretty much everything else.

IMHO it's a much bigger revolution in terms of being able to teach your kid from across the globe over skype (or whatever).
>if you assume locality, you can have hidden variables.

Are you sure you don't mean if you assume non locality? PBR tightens things up beyond Bell a bit with a requirement of wave function being real itself.

Also correct me if i'm wrong but I believe the assumption is not against entangled states but instead against entangled states via independent preparation.
Templar Assaults seems like a massive rip-off of Space Hulk. Even though there is no mention on it on their store page.
>There are people fighting traditional gender roles. But then you get called a feminazi by people who don't want change.

People who embrace our traditions get called "troglodytes" "fascists" "nazis" "sexists" and the like by cultural Marxists, moralistic activists, and other fanatics.

>Come over to feminism. We're fighting for everyone to have the same opertunities.

No thanks. Feminism, like religion, should be kept to one's self. Stop trying to proselytize. You may be surprised to learn how little many people care about your 20th century social ideologies.