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They made GPUs, and they are getting back into it, but any review of the hd 4000 graphics vs anything from the Trinity line reinforces that Intel is still way behind in the graphics front.

They are saying Haswell will be an improvement, but AMD has the architecture cohesion to be able to pair discrete and integrated cards in their hybrid crossfire x, and they just have a decades worth of gpu experience from the ATI acquisition, that they are better positioned to exploit heterogeneous cores. Same way Nvidia Tegra in the mobile world is a gaming / video powerhouse because the gpu is so strong.

Also, x86-64 was / is a specification extension by AMD, not an instruction set, so I don't think Intel licenses it. They even spent a few years calling them AMD 64 and Intel 64 even though they were written to the same spec. AMD still licenses x86 from Intel though. It is like how SSE and other instruction set extensions are not cross licensed between the two. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X64#History_of_Intel_64
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You'll have lots of fun picking up Clojure. I'd recommend 'Clojure programming' by Chas Emerick... or 'Programming Clojure' by Stuart Halloway.. to get started and then 'The Joy of Clojure' by Fogus. My advice would be to not immediately get bogged down by taking on a large project (like an existing rails app) if you don't already have some experience with functional programming. You'll have a much nicer perspective on the Clojure way of doing things after you work through those books.
I guess I assume that's a given. I'm getting one of those cheap 27" super high res displays off ebay to compliment my MBA. It handles everything I do, but I also have a server that I run my heavy code on because it's where my data is. At the same time, I pretty much constantly have a VM running on here and I get good enough battery life.

I also have a monitor though of course. I would go crazy alt+tabbing. Even now the width of my display can't handle my open tabs in Sublime.

edit: though... now that I sit here and realize what I'm saying, 80% of the time I code, I do it on the MBA. The DPI is such that I prefer the font when coding. This will change when I get my new display though. The laptop will sit on a dock and be my doc-dock or my stream a movie while I work-dock.
A job well done. Absolutely astonishing !!!

Also: Nice music!
This portrays exactly the wonder i feel and almost spiritual mindset i am in when looking up in a cloud-free sky at night, being aware of the mind boggling structure surrounding the earth :)

Some kind of automatic travel through the animation with a manually settable speed would be very nice in my opinion.

An awesome interactive feature would be:

-> Little symbol on every depicted thing/structure to fold out a short definition of the object with a link leading to more detailed descriptions (e.g. Wikipedia articles).

This way it would be especially a great exploring tool for children

And big thanks for making it available in different languages!
If something "sounds" suspicious, it usually is. I had one of the early "truly unlimited" mobile data plans w/VZ. They actually honored it until I made the blunder of changing my plan. I was grandfathered in, but they kept sending me teasers to get me to switch. Once I did, going back was not an option. They got what they wanted . . .
This is very old and has been posted many times
For what tasks? Call someone on Skype? Maybe. Change the order of two paragraphs in a text, browsing hn or reddit? No way in hell
Slight critique here - I feel like he's using this to push an agenda rather than just telling us in detail what tools and software he uses to get his job done.
He mentions a few things but in far less detail than anyone else I've read on usesthis. Instead he gives paragraph after paragraph of "world view" about moving things to the cloud...interesting, yes, but not what I'm after when I read usesthis posts... :-/
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In context the parent asked why you would need a full cold boot outside of the Restart command. The Restart option does a "full shutdown, followed by a cold boot". There is no need to throw command line flags around, at least not in the scenario you gave.
Sorry but none of what you said is true.

There may be bugs and bugs in the past. But there is no systemic "this FS will lose data under heavy use" design fault. If there was then millions of people would have been affected.

And of course Apple is pushing SSD to fix a FS bug not because it is 10x faster and 1/4 the size of a mobile HDD.
It's interesting to me that api's vague attack on the leadership of certain companies is pushing your buttons - going so far as to call his comment 'drastic' and 'absurd'.

The key point here, I think, is to be very careful to distinguish between a failure to build sustainability, and willful maneuvering for maximum personal gain at the expense of sustainability. The former is a noble failure, the later is deeply unethical (if not illegal) and ne'er the twain shall meet!
a macbook air is in no way similar to a netbook other than in physical dimensions.
A surprisingly ideological interview. Combined with my run-ins with the go-nuts, I have to imagine there's some sort of general cultural coding cohort I've not fully understood yet.

This intersection between an obsession with minimalism of a particular sort and dispossession is unknown to me. Seems common to the Go programmers I talk to.
I'm absolutely psyched about HTC's J Butterfly and DLX devices. Can't wait to see that 1080p phone screen in person.
This site is screaming at my face.
People were making booking on 3-4 flights per day, on the same route, and just showing up to the one that suited them best on the day.
I wonder if it's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Response_Technology

Oh, it's probably not, because that page says the maximum size is 64GB.

(I work @ Intel and have no inside knowledge about this feature at all.)
I get that it was not a replacement for a desktop. That's a given. but I don't get "not a replacement for iPad" part. I don't see why it is not a replacement for iPad for doing most of what people do on iPad, browse, game, read, watch, listen, etc. If you consider broad app ecosystem, nothing is going to be a replacement for iPad except iPad. Agreed Windows8 doesn't have a whole lot of apps at this point but its not even released yet.
As long as Google exists, commodity hardware has a place on a massive scale that can somewhat eclipse any decline in consumer sales by how datacenters are using this stuff in massive deployments for server farms.

Also consider the ingredients of the modern PC. The chipsets and motherboards are Intel / AMD, and Intel won't slow down since it basically owns business workstations. AMD is kind of stuck. The motherboard makers already have entire product lines of extremely niche products (see the x79 chipset) and sata disks / DDR memory are used in mobile devices, just at different form factors. They still need wireless / usb controllers, maybe the cases get more expensive?

Point is, the two markets are very tightly coupled, and there is a diverse enough pc component market that consumer demand dropping doesn't phase it too much. Worst case scenario is less R&D goes into high end parts since there is less demand for them, which is already happening (look at Ivy Bridge, barely upped performance but cut power consumption a ton).
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Isn't Microsoft planning to release an iOS version of Office sometime soon? Seems there was some leaked screenshots shown last month.

If this is the case, it makes the office integration less of a selling point.
So their (real) excuse for using a lower resolution is that they didn't use a more powerful chip? Ok, but the problem remains that they're using a chip that can go in $200 tablets as well, a lower resolution display, and also a much smaller battery than the iPad, and yet it still costs $500.

The extra storage is irrelevant, since they need that for cover for the greater size of Windows and Office, and they shouldn't make the user pay for it. Also how do they explain the fact that Google will use a much more powerful chip (Exynos 5 Dual) and a much higher resolution (2560x1600) in their upcoming Nexus 10 tablet, and yet will still cost $500 or less? Not to mention this entire review is not made for the $500 device, but for the $600 device, with they keyboard.

It seems Microsoft's fans promote TheVerge's reviews only when it suits them. I think TheVerge's Surface review is a lot more objective:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/23/3540550/microsoft-surface...
Aw, sorry about that. I guess it's a nice break from the normality, maybe? :)
It does seem like a smart buyer would take into account the difficulties Bill Nguyen has had handing over companies to new owners and keeping them healthy. It's not necessarily malice, but something is going wrong. If a smart buyer sees it, then a smart investor is going to anticipate this, and perhaps be more cautious investing.

But we do not see this behavior, and hence the mild outrage of this post.

We gnash our teeth and tear our hair because of the irrationality of buyers and investors, because if only they were rational they'd invest in my idea, not his! :)
Checkout the surface Pro or many other similar products that came out recently (a windows 8 tablet that docks into a keyboard) The only tradeoff there is the smallish screen size and possibly price but those are to be expected I think.
Meta-comment: I've read the article in english and norwegian side-by-side, and I'm impressed by google's translation.
The site seems to be down already. Google Cache works:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Aahmet...
> Every Chromebook you own dies in a fire? Unbox a new one, boot up, everything is identical.

unless of course some algorithm at Google decided that you are a bot and/or spammer. At that point, all your Chromebooks are useless and all your data is gone without any way for you to get it back.

See the Amazon Kindle post from a cole of days ago.

Don't get me wrong. In general I love the idea of having my data somewhere in the cloud where somebody else is working on keeping it save. But in case of emergencies, I would love to have somebody to talk to who is willing (and able) to help me.

Unfortunately all services coming close to this vision are too big to be able to afford any customer support it seems.
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Rob Pike doesn't want a dumb terminal. He wants a powerful new infrastructure.

My dream setup, then, is a computing world where I don't have to carry at least three computers - laptop, tablet, phone, not even counting cameras and iPod and other oddments - around with me in order to function in the modern world.

I can relate to what he wants: he cares about his data, not about what his data is on. Every time I upgrade machines or move to a different machine, I have to either reconstruct my environment or I have to tolerate an absence of some data that would be nice to have. How amazing would it be if I can could use any 'terminal' anywhere and have complete access to all of my personal data without having to tote around a physical piece of hardware that's 'mine'.

Any geek's 'bat-cave' is testament to this need: a Mac Plus sitting underneath a table next to Commodore 64. On top of the table lays a 486 DX/2 PC with Super VGA and a Soundblaster compatible card decaying inside. Everywhere strings of SCSI, RS-232, Ethernet spaghetti encircle cases of floppies (both 5.25 and 3.5). Where's the data? Anything precious has made it's way through different formats to whatever you're on now. Everything else is slowly rotting away.

Outsourcing the batcave to this ubiquitous seems much more appetizing to me. Plus it leaves me room for my 1st and 2nd gen Transformer collection.
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I haven't yet seen a product that emulates a disk over the network with acceptable latency over anything other than LAN. Until this happens, networked storage (except backup) is a no-go for me.
There seems to be a redirection. Site isn't down: http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/the-5-saas/
He mentioned the github $5 plan however I always pays $7 each month since the beginning. I checked github pricing[1] and it's showing the micro plan starts at $7/mo. Is there a lower plan by buying in bulk, paying annually or else?

[1]https://github.com/plans
Thanks Orangethirty. The make magazine is certainly looks great to follow. Hackaday is a really interesting one. I was really amazed by the post on "How a kenyan with no education has developed a flashing led light to keep lions away from attacking his livestocks". Here is the link. http://hackaday.com/2012/10/06/flashing-leds-protect-livesto....
(note: I work for Microsoft. but I certainly don't represent them and in fact I think they'd probably rather I didn't run my mouth here :) Also just because I work for Microsoft doesn't mean I know what I'm talking about when I talk about Microsoft either, it's hard enough to even keep track of what the specific team I'm on is really doing sometimes let alone the whole company so keep that in mind :) also I'm drunk :) )

The frustrating thing about reading Daniel Dilger's articles is that he's actually a good deal more knowledgeable than most tech pundits and occasionally even insightful, but his worldview is so Apple-centric that he's blind to having any idea what his blind spots are. This article is a case in point, almost everything factual in it about Microsoft is wrong, to wit:

* Zune wasn't a low-budget project (it was actually funded fairly lavishly, in part because it was meant partly as a kind of pilot project for developing new Microsoft design aesthetics / patterns / practices)

* Zune wasn't based on web technologies (it used Yet Another Internal UI Framework). Neither is Windows 8 really (there is a web-based UI framework, along with a native one, but they both sit on top of native APIs)

Windows 8 has nothing in common with Zune codebase-wise, and UI/design-wise though there's a family lineage between them it was developed independently from the Zune->Windows Phone line (which itself has changed a lot over the years) and diverged quite a bit

* he still apparently thinks the new Windows UI is a "thin layer" on top of old Windows, which I think he still imagines as Windows XP or whatever. in previous posts he was having fun comparing it to Bob. I think that's fundamentally wrong - while the new environment isn't really separate from existing Windows it's imo misleading to think of it as a "thin upper layer", because developing it involved making deeper changes & refactorings to every layer of the system (ARM support, window hardening, MoCOM, PLM, app model, async, etc.)

* see, not only does his ignorance lead taking jabs at MSFT that don't make sense, it leads to him missing out on potential avenues of attack that WOULD make sense - he could make fun of the ridiculous UI framework fragmentation problem Microsoft has, which is an area where Apple actually has its shit together and has for some time.
For our CEO and GM, that's true. Add a citrix client and it could be an only computer for the rest of our staff except for me.
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Netflix is not at $5 but almost there. So is Hulu+.
Does the Xbox music have subscription or is it free?
For pushing buttons, sure. For any fine manipulation like an FPS or editing text a mouse beats a touch screen hands down.
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If you get an student discount which is $7 off every month for 2 years, and buy a $12 plan, you pay $5. At least that was the case for me, maybe he forgot to mention. I'm not sure.
I liked it. It's nice to see a guy's thoughts on how he thinks computing should be. Especially if its someone like Rob Pike. (Better than the usual stream of Macbook-Pro-with-24"-Cinema-Display which is what everyone seems to be using)
Time to tie a soft toy to the front of mine, then!
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My general take from observing their culture is dogmatic vs pragmatic. plan9 and go are dogmatic, they exist because the status quo is bad and something must be done.

This is not to say their ideas are bad! Some of them are great but many of the great ones are brought into the mainstream thru unix (procfs, utf-8) and C (unnamed substructures) :)

I just wished they focused on making the mainstream better instead of this more indirect route...
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>The "PC is dead" line is usually referring to general consumers. Obviously it doesn't apply to power users (which are a very small %).

That may be a small percentage of home users, but virtually everyone who works in a cube farm will be better off with a mouse, keyboard, and a large display area.
TheVerge's Microsoft Surface review
The current incarnation of XBox music, the Zune service, is only 10 bucks a month, but no free option.
"The world should provide me my computing environment and maintain it for me and make it available everywhere."

Reminds me of the mini glass that Tony Stark is carrying with him all around the 2nd Iron Man movie, see here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9694286/iron-man-computer.jpeg

In the movie Tony (Iron Man) can control the infrastructure around him with this device, just like Rob Pike described.
so, adding a painfulness metric is not a right when the incentives are huge.
Last.fm also runs on XBOX very well and widely used.
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>And looking at the games I've enjoyed in the last 12 months - Skyrim and MW3 (for purely multiplayer funsies) I don't feel like I've missed anything having an ancient machine.

As a PC gamer this is what pisses me off. You aren't missing anything because publishers won't write games that don't run on consoles. The graphics and CPU power on my desktop dwarfs a console, but it's all wasted power.
Appreciate your comment. I think I was unclear earlier in my post. Was not trying to talk about the supply of > undifferentiated bits per-se. Those are trivial to scale, in minor orders. The micro cost is in the acquisition of <unique> bit sets. In your example, its not the cost to send or replicate the e-mail with a 2 mb attachment. Its the cost to acquire, verify, etc the contetents of the 2mb file have any value. [1]

You can't create more <valuable> data per-se by making X copies of the same data (in the sense of it having value for marketing/analytics). that is just monetizing existing data. ie, The marginal cost to relicate a set, provided it was given to you for free...just assumes away a non-trivial part of the equation....getting the data.

At scales of 100m to a 1Billion...is not trivial or costless. Lastly, if you only have one set of data (say 5m users of data), that is a finite supply. You could have 2 sets (10m users). Thats not the same as having 2 copies of 1 set (of 5 million). A customer might pay per user for a lead, but wont pay twice for two copies of the same info. now, if somebody shows up with 100s million, it might impact supply/demand (depending on comparabilit/uniquenss). But those differences cannot be assumed away at zero cost, imho. Hope this make more sense, was not trying to argue just for the sake of it.

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[1] That scales with data entry, etc (if nothing else) at the origin (ie, this is a FB user cost == per user). Even if its non-cash its ~$0.85c per 15 minutes of time for a western eurpoean ABC1, back of the envelope. And that scales linearly.
Not sure who Kim Dotcom is?
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My friend did something similar to the concepts in this article, except he applied it to compression of audio. It was basically finding patterns in the audio and transforming these into equations. Interesting stuff.
All these esteemed people must be such individualists. They all use Macs.
Because there are sane people that prefer to take care of their precious data, instead of giving it to strangers.
How To Pitch Your Business Idea to Potential Investors
That's a very poignant picture, worth 1000 words.
those three letter .com addresses are sexy.
not certain how much of a market for chrome books there really is

I had previously heard rumours of sales of only 50000 units worldwide (Cannot source atm)

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/few-buy-chromebooks...
Kaggle transitioning competitors to become consultants
This seems like a logical next step for Kaggle. I wonder if Kaggle will successfully become the primary market-maker for this area, connecting data analysts and ML experts with corporations that need predictive analytics. Who are Kaggle's main competitors at this point?
We are still in the verrrrry early days of the internet. Yes, now in 2012. There will be bigger online companies/assets/entities than there are today. Just wait & see. Every new industry has its "pitchmen", and an anxious horde of "brilliant investors" who chase the supposed money(see: suckers) like a gold rush. History has way too many examples. Nguyen charmed the greedy masses, and everyone enjoyed their rôle. Only time highlights the mistakes by the start-up, the VC, and the eventual buyer. Tuesday morning QB-ing at it's best. In Silicon Valley, there will still be Nguyen adVoCates lining up for the next company . . . Black & White?
No matter what people say about the legality/morality of his businesses, I love this guy's oversized personality. He's one of those guys that keeps things interesting on the internet.
I agree. In addition to the concerns you brought up, I see other issues with Pike's proposal. If computers are infrastructure, I'm forced to deal with whatever computers others have. This is a problem, because most people don't use computers as much as me and aren't willing to spend as much on them. I'd rather carry a maxed-out 11" Air everywhere than put up with my friends' and relatives' computers. (In fact, I do this.)

Pike doesn't address security either. Would you log into Gmail on a public computer? Would you enter your credit card info or visit your bank's website? I sure wouldn't. Phones from 20 years ago didn't have any storage or computational abilities, so these security concerns didn't exist for them.

While I'm a huge fan of cloud-based storage and synchronization, there are just too many issues with using untrusted computers everywhere I go. Maybe it was due to the interview format, but I'm surprised such an intelligent, technical thinker managed to avoid discussing the downsides of his proposal.
unfortunately, these devices have no AD integration, or other Enterprise deployment stuff that typically makes windows appealing to businesses.
what's the different with using Bootstrap tour ( https://github.com/sorich87/bootstrap-tour ) or Joyride ( http://www.zurb.com/playground/jquery-joyride-feature-tour-p... ) for example?
The end game that I see, is that your tablet is your PC. We've had dockable laptops forever - a dockable tablet that hooks up with your wireless mouse and keyboard and your 27" monitor at home, and when you need to go you just pull it out and have all your stuff with you, I think only a small step away.

Sure, the hardware isn't quite there yet (especially if you want to be able to use it for gaming - gaming PCs are still monsters), but I think that's where PCs are headed, and where Microsoft thinks they're going also. It explains the surface, and Windows 8 perfectly - and if I (and they) are right, it gives them a huge head start.
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