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I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.

Easy, remember a few years ago when some guys at NASA proposed that the first guys to Mars should be in their early 60s?

That's because getting there is not the problem, the problem are the copious amounts of radiation you would absorb on the way which means that even if you make it back you probably wont live much more.

So what those guys proposed was sending old astronauts on a one-way trip.
Controlling the supply of money.
I love my Retina. I haven't noticed problems with scrolling, I have my resolution set higher than 'Best for Retina'.

I upgraded the SSD with ease, pops in an out once you remove the pentile screws to open it up. It's easy to do and your point about "None of the components can be upgraded" is incorrect. I don't believe anything else can so it is limited but this was enough for me.

Source for one way to upgrade: http://twit.tv/show/know-how/10
NPR clearly has a world view that they are posturing, It's just hard to nail down. They tend towards being liberal, and intellectual eliteness, but I've heard balanced stories on abortion, israel, and even gun rights - so they throw me off. NPR reminds me of Justice Kennedy. The majority of the time (as in, 90%+) I can tell you where Scalia, Roberts, Alito, Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan, Sotomayor and Thomas will vote on a constitutional issue before them. That's not to say that Roberts won't throw me a curve ball and vote differently on an initiative than I expect (Health Care) - but, in general - I know where they will fall.

I'm no better than tossing a coin at guessing Kennedy.

I'm not saying he isn't trying to push his biased world view on me, I just haven't nailed it down yet. Same goes for NPR.
Yes. I'm rather shocked and appalled at how quickly people here have chosen (without evidence) to dis FB's development efforts. The OP's message was an informed, specific, actionable, and well-reasoned critique of the mobile browser environment for ALL APPs. And it seems clear that FB was trying really hard to make it work, but ran up against some very real browser and tooling limitations.
First line says

usefulPing pools your site every minute and tells you if it goes down.

Do you mean to say polls ?
The smart thing for Valve to do, in the course of releasing their own platform, would be to artificially handicap Steam games on Windows. Regardless of the relative merits of Windows versus the Linux distro on the Steambox, Valve could make sure that their first-party titles never break 59.2 FPS on Windows.

It's no secret that Valve is worried about Microsoft's strategy with Windows 8, but Microsoft should be batshit terrified of Valve's strategy. They could lose ground in both the console gaming and consumer OS spaces if they aren't careful.

Whatever happens, in any contest between Steve Ballmer and Gabe Newell, I know who my money's on. If Ballmer were smart he would look to what made Microsoft successful in the first place, and choose incompetent enemies.
I agree with this, because it's something I've done for a while, but for different reasons (primarily to do with mental health).

But as an addendum to that it's also important to know and accept that, as a result, you are more ignorant. This isn't a bad thing, for as long as you know that you're willingly less informed. As stated, this is the opportunity cost for pursuing things more important to you.

As an aside, I'd like to recommend Flat Earth News[0] to anyone who wants a journalist's insight into how the news isn't always truthful.

As another one, I saw a comment saying Americans are how they are because they don't watch the news. I disagree. Watching the news does not make you culturally sensitive.

[0] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Flat-Earth-News-Award-winning-Distor...
Yes. I was watching Community while writing the copy and was a bit distracted. I corrected it, thanks!
Funny how history seems to be repeating itself. Seems like Mac OS vs. Windows all over again, on phones.

To go down that tangent for a minute -- I've been wanting to bounce these thoughts of HN for awhile.

I always heard people argue (when I was a wee lad) that Apple not licensing their OS freely like Microsoft did was a terrible mistake, as proven by their rapidly diminishing market share.

You could argue that, well, they're doing better now, but I wonder if this is a short term aberration. Their recent success seems to have been propelled by their innovation in the mobile space (much as their early desktop success was propelled by... their innovation in the desktop space), but I wonder if history will repeat itself: Apple does well at first, until competitors roughly catch up in terms of features, for cheaper, and with a more thriving market of third-party apps, and more and more people switch to the new platform and Apple's marketshare shrinks.

I'm sure many people have made this observation before, and have much more insight into the situation than I do.
I think the fact they have pirated Google apps tells you all you need to know about this Chinese company.
This is something I've been silently observing and thinking about for a long time and I know I definitely have at least part of the answer.

It's that people use their social network of choice to make others believe they have interesting, fascinating, exciting lives whether it's true or not. The more effort a person puts into this the less interesting they actually are in real life but you wouldn't know it by looking at their Facebook page. Insecurity plays a big part in this. Some of the most shallow, hollow, unhappy people I know have Facebook timelines that make them seem as though they are living the dream when in reality they truly hate themselves. I'm not trying to disparage them - they really do hate themselves, they've told me so and see therapists about it.

Now that we have Internet celebrities who've built a brand everyone wants to do it too. And it's not hard. All you need is any common smartphone. It's about building a fantasy life. On the web it's easy to play pretend and give off certain impressions. Some people take it to the point where they believe their own myths. These are the most uninteresting people in the world with, ironically, the most interesting social network profiles in the world.
I'm surprised they were able to spec out the iPhone 5 since, to my knowledge, Apple hasn't stated some of the specs they list (like RAM).
-- Something that supports but does not propel your career.
why should i care that the content i create is accessible to all?

Lots of reasons, depending on what you are doing. You don't have to though, and if you don't care then the advice on that site isn't for you. But that doesn't mean it isn't useful advice.

If I was setting up something like a global payment network, or any other service where accessing people with minimal browsers would be useful, then I would care about it a lot.
Have you ever grown an Apple without sunlight?
>"Almost all of their problems are due to them expecting mobile phones to behave exactly like desktop computers. And then they're unwilling to change anything on their side when they run into problems."

Do you have any* evidence for this wild claim? It seems like your second paragraph is an attempt to infer some evidence for a much narrower claim, that FB has unrealistic expectations of browsers, but even that doesn't pan out.

Infinite scroll in a web page, mobile or otherwise, is a valid UI choice, and if the browser can't support that, then it's the browser's fault.

Your last paragraph also doesn't make any sense. Nowhere did the OP claim to be sending the entire timeline to show 3 entries. This is, at best, an exageration, and at worst a fabrication designed to harm. But your use of the word "whining" implies more of the latter, and therefore that your hatred of FB is actively affecting your judgement.

Because you're post is information-free and shows evidence of a strong negative bias, I'm down-voting it.
We read about this at work at google a few months ago in a reading group. (perks of the job) And we spent almost the entire time talking about the timestamps. It is perhaps the most important piece of this paper. Fault tolerant time is right.
"After a couple of days" he noticed that "it's a disposable machine" and "none of its components can be upgraded"? Those are valid complaints, but they're public knowledge. If he didn't do the research before buying it, it's a little silly to be complaining about those two things now.
I would also be interested in a longer, elaborated answer.
Ignoring news outlets leaves you without a chance though. Yeah, there's lots of news coming out of many mainstream outlets but if you tune then out completely then you leave yourself without even the chance to filter signal from noise. It doesn't take that much effort that it becomes not even worth trying anymore. Just because there's lots of noise in your signal doesn't mean you throw away the signal with the noise (or the baby out with the bath water).
Think it through a bit farther. How exactly do they "control the supply of money?"

Hint: try printing your own, and see how that goes.
I have one of these I haven't noticed any of those problems you mentioned but I do have 1 dead pixel that is starting to drive me nuts. Anyone else notice any dead pixels on theirs? Other then that I love it, fastest most beautiful machine I've ever used.
I bet none of the creators of any of the social networks today predicted this kind of side effect. Now imagine what a social network that seriously takes this into effect would look like.

Not going to lie, the places online where I feel most social are anonymous boards like 4chan. Which is the polar opposite of a social network.
It's kind of funny that he recommends: "Awakening Joy: 10 Steps That Will Put You on the Road to Real Happiness"

Step 1: Be worth billions of dollars

On a serious note, I realize that money doesn't buy happiness. Proven scientifically over and over again, people get used to their situations usually within 6 months, good or bad, and get back to their "normal" happiness levels regardless.
C* 2012: Titan - Big Graph Data With Cassandra (Matthias Broecheler, Aurelius)
I started college when I was 20, having spent an extra year in high school (startup high school, they didn't have a graduating class the year I was supposed to graduate) and then worked at a dot-com run exclusively by teenagers for a year. Or actually, I worked at a dot-com run exclusively by teenagers for 3 months, then our funding got pulled and I worked as a software engineer for the parent company for 3 months, then the parent company realized their was no money in its primary line of business and pivoted to a completely different idea, then I continued working for them for another 6 months.

Had I not done that, I probably would've stayed a physics major in college, done well, gone to physics grad school, and then realized I hated it when I was around 26 and suddenly ended up with no experience doing anything else and no clue what I wanted to do, a far worse outcome.

I think that there is, in general, far too much fear in contemporary American culture. Fear that if you don't do everything perfectly and don't follow the sequence laid out as a "safe" career track, you will end up screwed for life. Yes, if you end up following your own path, you will get burnt by bad decisions at time, and you'll have to scramble to fix them, and some opportunities will close themselves off to you because you didn't pursue them. But you will also gain practice & confidence in dealing with those bad decisions, and learn how to fix them and that there will be other opportunities that open themselves up to you because you screwed up with what you thought you wanted.
What is exactly wrong with Windows itself that leads to these problems? And even if there is, it doesn't mean that it is as simple as that.
Have the retina. It's an awesome machine, and his points are correct:

* A lot of them suffer from burn-in, mine doesn't (I have a samsung display). I'm lucky!

* The scrolling is jittery at times. Yes I do notice.

* You can't really update anything inside.

None of these things bother me, at all. Update things inside? Last time I did that was to upgrade a 2GB to a 4GB for my previous laptop. It cost me as much as my Apple upgrade from 8GB to 16GB. When you upgrade you 'lose' the old components anyway, you might be able to sell them and recuperate a very low amount.

The jittery scrolling is definitely noticeable, but it's not really bothersome. I guess if it irks you then you're in for some frustration.

The burn-in is the one issue where Apple dropped the ball, but it's obviously not big enough to get the attention of major media (like the death grip issue of iphone 4). I'm still hoping Apple will get a firmware update or at the very least will fix the problem and allow replacements. Yes, I know it's a "hardware" problem, but tech like this is so complex it might very well be solvable through a firmware update.

But the screen. Oh the screen. It's like being reborn with new eyes. Everything looks so sharp and awesome. I've had it for a week now and I still sometimes just stare at text, and sigh. It really is great, and there's nothing like it out there right now. It's as if Steve Jobs is standing behind you massaging your face. Highly recommended, and completely worth these "hassles".

Anyway, this article is FUD. 3 out of 4 of his "issues" he could have predicted before buying the machine. The last one Apple will probably fix in the future. He doesn't talk about the other advantages, i.e. battery life, weight, compactness...
The lessons are pretty much the same as the ones functional programming have been trying to teach us for years: immutability and caching.

Beyond that I would rather not elaborate for reasons of confidentiality.
Stats on browser usage are in the original article ...
These kids are not foregoing college if you define "foregoing" as "giving up on". They are merely delaying it. All of them have the credentials to attend college anytime they want. And given that they are intelligent, if their projects fail to deliver, they will likely decide go to college. And they will be able to get others to pay for it. They can afford to hedge their bets against the usual path from high school to university.

Every young person who reads these PR pieces will also understand this, so there's no need to worry of anyone not similarly situated foregoing college, only to have their project fail and then realise they have made a tragic mistake.

Right.
I think that's more a factor of Google's scaling needs vs the rest of the world. We needed to invent it first so we did.
I think you're kind of implicitly arguing as if there's some sort of guaranteed path available to somebody against which they can compare their lives. There isn't, and there never was. We hear more kvetching about it today because it can punch a much larger hole in your net worth via loans, but dropping out of two years of college with nothing in your hands is not a new phenomenon. You have to put your chips down somewhere, and it is irreducibly a gamble. Presumably these people putting off college for a year or two are going to go do something; should they manage to completely fritter that year or two away with absolutely nothing to show for it, it's probably not fair to blame that on "not going to college".
It works best with 1440x900 resolution. So if you like 1680x1050, your GPU will have to do extra work.

The display's native resolution is 2880x1800. Why would you set it to half the native resolution? That defeats the whole point of having all those pixels! You might as well have a 1440x900 (non-retina) display.

Setting the display output to 1680x1050 is totally whacked - that is displaying each pixel in 1.7 native pixels. Mind. Boggles.
I just spent the last three months developing a mobile app for the South African market and I disagree. In South Africa, Android phones cost USD $200 and higher. I bought a Nokia X2-01 for USD $50. Android phones must drop into the USD $50 range before they will have traction and I am not sure this will be possible.
Haven't noticed any problems mentioned on my mbp retina.
The text and most images are so incredibly clear that other screens look pixelated to me.
I made it a point to make sure I mentioned that all news is biased. I meter said otherwise. But bias is not a bad thing like everyone wants to make us think. Sometimes bias is good. Not all opinions are created equal and this whole idea of two differing opinions both having equal merit is bullshit. Sometimes one opinion has merit and the other is just bullshit. I embrace bias.

You called yourself a news junkie. That right there is the problem. Being a news junkie is just as unhealthy as completely ignoring the media.

Watching the Daily Show is no different than consuming news from any other mainstream outlet. It may be satire but it's still news and it's still mainstream.

I don't know how you can say you're not better informed. If you consume news from anywhere at all then you're infinitely more informed than anyone who goes along with Joel's no-news-consumption advice.

I feel like you didn't read what I wrote because I do address some of what you say in my comment. I don't blame you though, I didn't realize it was such a long comment when I wrote it.
"I got rid of my retina macbook pro today."

While I can understand the issue being something that annoys you, deciding to simply rid yourself of it - despite the bug being as you state "not something that disturbs your normal workflow" - strikes me as rather silly.
>This is what happens in the private sector. I do not have to do business with you if I don't want to, and I don't want to do business with you if you've screwed me in the past.

That goes in both directions in the IT services world. I run into plenty of procurement departments that are far less ethical than many contractors I've worked with. I have caught procurement officers flat out lying to me on what they have as competitive offers, playing incredibly puerile alpha dominance games, pulling bait and switch by tacking on a new deliverable as an afterthought in an email without prior discussion after a verbal agreement at the end of exhaustive negotiations, acting rude and imperious as if that was their sole strategy to browbeat me instead of negotiating like a professional business person...the list of eye-popping, unprofessional behavior would have been unbelievable to me when I started in business.

These customers go onto our blacklist that we graciously introduce to our less-capable competitors.
Web development freelancing can make good money, especially if you're good.
To be honest, at least for me, the best welcome email is no email at all. It clutters my inbox and I really don't crave the feeling of being your very much appreciated customer. It usually annoys me more than it helps.

If I have a problem and contact you, then your personal and prompt response is an entirely different matter. Then it is appreciated.
> Furthermore, despite the fact that small-screen phones with web browsers exist, that doesn't mean that people actually use them to browse the web.

Actually they do. Over 90% of African's use their mobile phone for internet access. Around 5% of African's have an internet connection and computer. For people in the developing world, a mobile phone is 'good enough'. It provides them will access to email, facebook, and google.

I understand that you do not intend on making your content to African's-- my website has not been optimized for these devices. But, keep in mind that by doing this, both you and I are restricting our content from roughly one billion people.
Salesforce soon to hit 1 bil. daily transactions (Kartick S. video interview)
This page has some maps: http://www.sfmta.com/cms/venf/truckbus.htm

Check: "Truck and Bus Restricted Streets Map (PDF)"
Yeah, I've been doing research in distributed systems and the timestamp part of this paper is incredibly interesting to me. It's awesome that I might actually get to cite something more recent than Lamport.
1680x1050 looks fine to my eyes. Certainly not retina quality, but as good as a non-retina display.
If I remember correctly though - there is a "happiness-threshold" of income, below which life-satisfaction and income are positively correlated.

I think that number for most of the US was around $70k or something. So below that number, income is correlated to happiness. Above that threshold, and the two are unrelated.

It makes sense. Different things start to matter once you have your basic physiological needs in place. But you have to secure that base.
Nah, make it available through a browser. For pre-paid users, SMS costs far more then data which is why WhatsApp is so popular in the developing world.
What did you expect? Most people are normal and normal people are boring.

The majority of folks' lives, outside the small percentage of people you would actually want to follow, are just: Eating, Shitting & Fucking.

Shitting == Too gross to document unless it's a prank.
Fucking == Too exhibitionistic for most & social networks' TOS seem to frown on that sorta stuff.

That leaves Eating... Nice, safe, normal. Boring.
Wow, that's kind of petty. The author is never going to find the perfect laptop. There are always going to be some issues, so deal with it. While I am always in favor of throwing out apple products (apple sucks), this article is just stupid.
If I upgrade my computer does Windows let me transfer my installation? I can't remember
Can anyone explain why their mobile site works so much better than their HTML5 app did?
This is precisely why I did not buy one. I know it's a brilliant machine, but it's also the first of its kind. Anyone who's ever been an apple early adopter knows that it doesn't always end pretty. v2.0 of the retina's are going to be solid, I have no doubts.
> The MPS approach that's deployed commercially is to use an unfashionable hardware read barrier

For those of us too lazy to dive into the code, can you say what this read barrier is?
The price is something you described. You prefer to learn from your friends and blogs rather than news outlets. The consensus is that media is useless and biased but it's not so bad that you're better off ignoring it all.

Your friends and those bloggers are the same kind of non-experts explaining complicated things as the guy who writes the editorials you just got done criticizing.

I'm not knocking your friends or your rss feed. Those are truly useful information sources that I use too but there's no substitute for real journalism. There's a lot of bullshit journalism out there but the good stuff isn't extinct yet. If everyone keeps being so jaded about the news then journalism as a profession is going to die and that's sad because we need those kinds of people in this world.
When it comes to Apple's Retina displays there's a bit more to it than what you're used to:

- when OP says 1440x900 he means the pixel doubled version. All GUI lengths / fonts have the size of their 1440x900 versions, but there are twice as many pixels, enabling high resolution graphics and fonts. It's basically a crotch because Apple never got around to make their OS resolution independent, however from a programmer's standpoint it's actually not that bad, you just have to specify images with @2x postfix in the filename.

- higher resolutions are not scaled in the same way you're used to. They're actually rendered internally at double the resolution after which they're overlayed with the screen's native grid for some interpolation-like process. The result is vastly better than what you know from usual screen interpolation, it's hardly noticeable actually.
A node module to manipulate images,maintain presets and upload them to rackspace
> The display's native resolution is 2880x1800. Why would you set it to half the native resolution?

That's one of the main use cases it is designed for. It looks spectacular - significantly better than any other display I have ever seen.

1680x1050 looks much better than my native 1680x1050 display.