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It's not a question of architecture. The real issue is batteries are expensive, heavy, and few people buy laptops based on battery life. So, while a you can take an ultra thin laptop w/ SSD add 2 lb's of battery's and be good to go it's now just a normal laptop with poor specs and a long battery life that few people actually care about when they can just plug in or use an external battery.

iPad's on the other hand are highly dependent on battery life. And they get to sacrifice a lot of specs and get to use worse hardware than a typical 'ultra portable' without people really noticing as it's a different type of device. Still, you will find plenty of Android tablets that get stuck in the spec wars and end up with terrible battery life.
Which puts you in a very small niche among computer users. Most people want an appliance, like their TV.
No, nothing missing. Except that the knowledge that we couldn't sustain his work was not available when we made the offer.

That is life. That is risk. That is startups.

If you want to do something great, risk is a necessary condition, because everything ordinary could be done by just hard work and no risk..
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What does that mean? I can't make heads or tails of it.
If something inside breaks, you can get it fixed. For free, if it's under warranty. Most people have neither the time nor the technical ability to fix something themselves anyway, so this is a non-issue.

For me, I've had an iMac for 5 years and I upgraded both the RAM and the HDD (to an SSD) myself with no issues. And it shows no signs of slowing down and is better than the day I bought it, and is probably one of the best investments I've made. Hell, at the time, and this is still true, buying a monitor of comparable quality would've cost half what I paid for the entire computer.
While I have sympathy with your point, I haven't seen evidence is that Google is subsidizing (as I think Amazon is) rather than just selling at cost. The reason this is an important distinction is that it highlights how much the other handset makers, especially Apple, have been gouging their customers.

Google's disconnect from the hardware also shows how you actually can have performance on older hardware - apparently the new real-time Google Voice is on older iOS devices that Apple said couldn't handle Siri - if you don't have an interest in the upgrade cycle.
You do know that AWS did not go down during Sandy, right?

/me knocks on wood
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Self timing toothbrushes are already a thing. I'm sure one that posts it to facebook can't be that far behind (pretty sure there's a market for that actually). I think the real money is in tracking how long people's children brush their teeth though.
Fair enough. We seem to disagree on almost all of the details, but both of us love vim.
The sheer speed of it.

Maybe I'm wrong but I'm getting near instant voice recognition off a poor wifi connection linking to a slow internet connection.
I'd say they wouldn't be so careless as to show a profit if that value was the result of Hollywood accounting

1.1B should be about it. But on paper for the tax man it's mostly like 500Mi loss
Not to mention no mess of cables.
what's the difference with dropbox?
I think that if you have a good grasp of the commands in an editor such as vim, having "real-time" feedback isn't as important as with other UI paradigms (as long as it's not too slow, you do need a few fps). Though I'm not sure. It will take some getting used to. The nice thing about E-ink is that looking a the screen is very relaxed, as it doesn't emit light. I'd love to buy an E-ink monitor to try out, when they are available and affordable enough.
A world where most fail and a few succeed brilliantly is a far better world than one where mediocre is the norm.

Choose which world you want to live in, then make your argument to get there,
Go is revolutionary
Except that your Retina "aware" apps can display at a native 2560x1600. Aperture (the latest version), for instance.

But yes, it's sad how the Retina MacBook Pro has the capability, but other than doing really, really sharp fonts (when it's using the built in font renderer) - it goes unused in most situations.

That will change. Somebody needs to write a Retina aware Terminal App.
I bought the first generation MacBook Pro, a 17", for that reason. Other resolutions were just too small for what I was doing, and 1680 seemed like just enough. Eventually when they started offering the resolution upgrades on 15" models I upgraded to my current machine. The way I see it, there's no way I can be disappointed by the resolution of my next machine. No more pains over spending $100-300 for just a small bump to make things usable. Of course, the downside is that I can't let myself even try out the retina MacBook in store for fear that I won't look back– I'll wait until I can afford it.
This is pretty nice for only $99, but I wouldn't be surprised if the map came from a stock icon set.
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Seems like this guy is not bothered about battery. I have a 1366*768 display which just works fine. Most of the times I'm just running a terminal and this resolution saves quite some battery.
It was a script for invoking a C program stored in all of the machines forming a cluster of 16: the whole point of the thing was to generate traffic between the PCs in a structured fashion, measuring the bandwidth and latency results.
Consider the contrary: what do you get with a thicker computer? These iMacs already have performance (top-end: 3.4 GHz i7, 32 GB RAM, GTX 680MX with 2 GB GDDR5, thunderbolt and USB 3). If they said, "okay, instead of making it thinner, let's keep it the same size and make it better," what exactly do you expect?

The only improvements you could get with a thicker computer are things that would also negatively affect the amount of power it requires. Thinness is just a pleasant consequence of power-concious design.
So the college student is a moral imbecile? Incapable of taking the evidence provided, seeking advice and making an informed and independent decision? Then what of the idiot, moron or imbecile. What freedoms must we take from them?

If being free means anything, it must be the freedom of those who chose the path least worn. Those who take the most risk, in opposition to the dictates of society. The Wright Brothers, for example, who chose to turn down Harvad and MIT and instead spent years upon years in their bicycle until the y finally took us to the skies.

Where would we be without people like these... who gave up a family life because there are greater things to reach for in this world?
yes, they are functional, but they are not "Haskell relatives" at all... Clojure is a Lisp (and I still have some reluctance imagining it being effectively used in a team of more than 3 programmers with more than 10 points IQ difference between them...) ...and Scala is a "weird beast" - I dunno, but the "businessy" side of my mind tells me it's far from a silver bullet and may end up being too "complicated" for the problems I need to solve, and I don't like it when the tools I'm using are more complex than the problems I'm solving...
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Older thinkpads had these as an option http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/product-and-parts/detail.pag... It's not 10 years but they are pretty cheap now anyways (although getting your hands on the WUXGA or even WSXGA+ isn't the easiest task)
> We only build the iOS and Android FB apps. You should check in with Microsoft on anything related to Windows 8.

Maybe I'm just reading a bit too much into the particular phrasing (esp. the definite article used), but this sounds more like "not my department" than "we don't do that." Though "not my department" is admittedly an odd thing to hear from a "manager of corporate communications"... unless it was bubbled up the chain of communication, without editorial reinterpretation, from somewhere in the mobile apps department.
so who is the mystery "third party payment provider"?
Google Now vs Siri will be the next great battleground
Mac Pros are due for a significant update. That aside, I think it's disingenuous to say that they're not investing anything into their desktop line. These are the most powerful, most power efficient, computers they've ever released. How different do you really think they'd be if the iPhone/iPad didn't exist? The iMac has never had good expansion options, all the way back to its inception, so this should come as no surprise.
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Might be good, but I can't use this until they support canned responses again.
Good to see that PR is on the job of trying to convince people that they don't really want what they really want. It's funny that even verbatim search asks me if I'm sure that I spelt something correctly. I guess our definitions over verbatim differ but to me, in this context, it means "do this and stop second guessing me kthnx." It's also annoying that I have to switch to another mode every time I want to search. There appears to be no setting to set verbatim as the default and even if there was, one would either need to always be on the same computer (if the preference is saved in a cookie) or always signed in (if it's set on the account).

A suggestion - provide a subdomain with the old search, e.g. old.google.com. All of the mainstream customers get whatever UX/marketing think is best for them and everyone else gets to keep using a tool which they find useful - everyone wins!

Oh, and since you might be the right person to ask, why is Quora still turning up in search results when they censor most of the thread? They're even worse than Experts Exchange (and why are they still turning up in results too?).
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Thanks for the correction. Seems that I confused the dates with libev that came after.
THIS

Pixar was the success coming from the genius and hard work of three people:

- Ed Catmull for all the tech

- Steve Jobs for the money, the vision through a dark maze and negotiating the first deal with Disney (Toy Story). Yes, he had second guesses, yes, Pixar almost became a division of Philips, etc

- John Lasseter. CalArts. Kicked out of Disney for believing computers were the future, 'hanged in there' at Pixar, as an 'Interface Designer', responsible for giving the human touch to Pixar movies, even the first ones (Luxo Jr, Adventures of Andre and Wally B - pre Pixar) probably helped Steve Jobs 'see the light' on Pixar
I'll see your iPhone hardware and raise you Nokia.
I wince a little at calling it price gouging. It's true that over the long term prices should be near marginal cost of production. But these are short term products. They need to cover their R&D costs. Costs that come with a risk that needs to be covered too. I feel a little milked when I buy a mac and kind of annoyed because I don't feel like I have an alternative (This is obviously an illusion. I don't like Windows or Linux personally, but they are both very reasonable alternatives). But macs are much older and they are still getting better (but not cheaper aargh!) ever year.

On tablets and phone, these high profits have been driving wonderful innovation bringing us better devices at lower prices every year. It's not like we're getting overcharged for stagnant products. This December's devices would have been an incredible last year.

Price gouging implies overcharging on essential items because the consumer has no choice. The only power Apple have over their consumers is that they really really want the stuff Apple makes, right now.
Yours isn't very complex and wouldn't pass for a complete download. Looks like it was part of a collection of artwork like this: http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-63245905/stock-vector-locati...

You could have received something like this: http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-89416879/stock-vector-paper-...

or tis one:
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This one looks cool:
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Remember, this is vector. Each and every part of this can be altered. Something I would really advice.
I think it's mostly because the interfacing controller thingie is so redicilously cheap - "thanks to" to the "flat screen revolution". Same controllers can be used everywhere, costing next to nothing.
Any time Google (or any other major corporation) sells hardware at under a 20% margin, they are subsidizing their sales with revenue profit from other divisions, or the future potential of profit. It's important to note that you need to cover R&D, G&A, Marketing, etc... beyond that marginal cost. The exception would be in situations where you could make up the lost margin in huge volume (commodity sales, wholesaling, retailing other people's product). Google's average margin from other units of their business is 30%+, so it would make sense for them to invest in those business lines, unless their are some strategic reasons to focus on the tablet market - which, I'm sure, we all recognize there is.

To put it more clearly - Google is not selling tablets to make a profit on hardware. They are selling tablets so they can profit from search/advertising through those tablets.

Re: Google Voice on older IOS equipment. I installed it on my iPhone 4 today - it runs significantly faster than Siri on an iPhone 4S. Search results are instant, as well. Completely agree with you that this is an example of where the disconnect from hardware greatly benefits the consumer.
I was going to post the same thing, but I'm just going to hook onto your post. I've been roaming the web for a good high res desktop monitor for development purposes for a couple of months and there's simply nothing out there. Based on my research, there hasn't been enough motivation for monitor makers to increase the resolution.

I think, and I might be missing a very obvious demographic, that developers trying to cram in 12 vim buffers on one screen would be the main use-case, and that's just not large enough of a market to justify developing ultra-high-res panels at 24" or 27" at an affordable cost. I'm sure you can make and outrageously expensive monitor of that quality, similar to that 28" that John Carmack paid 10k for in 1995, but not that many people would be able to justify the purchase.
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...upvoted you for the pure and refreshing "geek power" spirit of the comment :) ...really miss this attitude lately, too much "business-think" everywhere ...now back to real work
I'm obviously biased here. I don't think Patrick made errors because the outcome for a personal standpoint will be greater due to the choices he made.
it just misses pr0n and few animated gifs, then is the clone
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I love this setup. After the new ARM chromebook came out I got all excited and looked about for a way to dual boot a full OS on my old series 5. It turns out it's easy now (http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/chrubuntu-1204-n...) There is a lot of pleasure in using such a small machine.

I am definitely looking forward to an e-ink laptop. As I get older my eyes grow more weary, but the e-ink display on my kindle is a joy to look at.
Agreed, screens need to gain higher resolution across all form factors. I would be ok with terrible frame rate for 1-2 years while the hardware catches up with 4x the pixels.
If the outlook is short-term than I agree. You will always be able to hack out a quick solution in PHP/Ruby/Lisp much faster than Haskell. But this advantage is only unmitigated if you fail and the code goes away before it has to be maintained. If the code is going to be around for a while it's going to need to be maintained, and here the advantage of Haskell grows with the code base size. It's a bit deceiving because the type of bugs that Haskell will catch automatically are not so much of a burden in a greenfield Ruby project, rather it's years later after bitrot and layers of iteration and no one really understands the whole system anymore that the advantages of Haskell really shine.

Granted, if you don't know Haskell then it's not worth the cost to learn with everything else you need to juggle when doing a startup, but if you can, I believe there are significant long-term advantages.
640x480 for SparrowOS. God said that at one point. Might not be set in stone, but actually with no GPU, it's a good idea to stick to 640x480

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No matter. Helicopter Ben can print up the shortfall for Citi.
I would say this is subjective but even if it were the case 100% of the time surely you will agree this doesn't mean it is an improvement, in this case the choice of form has a functional penalty. This is like making a thinner refrigerator, looks amazing but it is much less useful and practical.
"The Fox network alone has animated sitcoms that make fun of Fox News"

The alternative is likely to get them sued. This is not surprising.
Who knows maybe the new MySpace will be the death of Facebook.
I purchased the Motorola F3 and still have it. Battery life is terrific. If you're used to smartphones it's a downer, but for a cheap functional mobile it's great. It is hard to find replacement batteries though, and the phone does not have US or Canadian network settings. For Europe and Asia it's great. Is color that big a deal? I'd rather have an E-Ink smartphone with great battery life than color. Or at least offer E-Ink on some models.
> Does anyone know why they have a separate disk IO system

It would be very interesting if they could describe all their general design decisions, such as this

> ... when they could more easily just plug drives into each node/motherboard for higher aggregate throughout, less complexity, and a lower overall cost?

doesn't the fact that they haven't put the drives on the compute nodes make you question your claim that it would have been 'easier' and 'better' and 'cheaper'?
"This guy" is Linus Torvalds. I assume he's often running a terminal as well... ;)
Hum, brazilians are out as always...

I see a lot of cool jobs (Scala and JS) listed on Angel list, I would love to be able to apply but without already having a H1B or Green card there is no way :(
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Does Y Combinator funding extend to Africa and if so how many African companies have got funding from Y Combinator ?
I was pretty impressed by Sublime Text 2 but cannot use it for 1 very simple reason, it has no ability to prevent auto updating of loaded files. Unlike for example Notepad++ which has the ability to prompt before updating a loaded file with any changes made outside the editor.

For my specific work, this is a deal breaker and I hope a toggle gets added at some point.
>Android users pay with their personal information and by looking at ads.

Are you suggesting ads are built into the Android software? I was considering getting a Nexus 7 but this would totally change my mind.
>by looking at ads

What a load of malarkey. You have full control over how much information you give Google when you use the device. You can even get apps with a throwaway gmail and give them no data at all. Further, there are no ads built in the OS and I never see any, period. It's just like on iOS, I don't know what on earth he's on about.
Yes, it is.

Let's talk about form. The iMac is integrated: it has one cable, you plug it in, turn it on, and it works. That's form. If I were not tech-savvy, I wouldn't need to know my VGA from my USB from my power cables and what goes where and why.

The iMac has a low footprint: I don't have room for a tower. That's form.

The iMac is practically silent: it doesn't distract simply by existing, that's form.

The iMac is accessible: you don't need to be able to build your own machine to get great performance. Look at the SSD + HDD system they have. It's not a cache system, there's no wasted space, the OS always writes to the SSD and transfers rarely-accessed date to the HDD and presents both as a hybrid drive. I don't know if I could replicate that on a custom box. I certainly know no ordinary person could. That's form.

All this form adds up to a hell of a lot of function.

"Form is function" means looking at a computer and seeing more than a list of tech specs.
That seems foolish, if true.
Well this guy clearly has questionable sense.

Myspace absolutely had a use. It just wasn't generic/clean enough for a mass audience. And as for his criticisms about Facebook. I personally have never experienced any of them.

Meanwhile the only 'mess' I see around is the Google+ feed. It's nothing but a geeky, low-brow clone of Reddit.
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The difference between visionary and simpleton is the scale of money involved.
I think one of the issues with using Microsoft tools is licensing.

The perception around Microsoft is that things can stay cheap (or even free), but at a certain point you're going to be expected to shell out the big bucks.

From our own experience, we find that Microsoft software sort-of works with other Microsoft software. However, when you want something that isn't MS to work, you're immediately into serious financial outlay.

For a start-up, this simply isn't feasible. Even a well-funded start-up has better things to spend their money on than sending it straight to Microsoft's bank account.
I'd be interested to know whether there has been a significant surge in demand for AWS since Sandy hit.

Having the cloud as your back up makes a lot of sense but if everyone did it could it cope with the additional demand? Sure the AWS infrastructure is massive but I'm guessing the load that would be dumped on it if a significant chunk of New York's web hosting was suddenly moved across would be massive.
Once you've gone SSD you'll be amazed you got by without it. It's the biggest single-part speed upgrade I've seen since the 90s. Even just a small on for a system partition, and data kept on a traditional HDD, you'll see great gains.

(And yes, also agree, it's a shame that monitor and laptop resolution seemed to stall at 'HD' for ages)
Windows is actually not too bad. I'm running Windows 8 on my Retina MBP in high-DPI mode, and it looks crisp and most apps degrade gracefully (some look absurdly small, but that's rarer).

Admittedly, this isn't something that could happen today. But Intel's IGP are the low end. In a few years, they'll be everywhere. It's difficult to argue that something that requires a modern integrated graphics chip is anything too demanding, when you look at how far ahead dedicated chips are.
So it's essentially a marketing problem. I get the feeling that you were trying to suggest that it's worthy because it's popular. If so, argumentum ad populum is irrational. If not, apologies.