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Re portability with the Retina MacBookPro: I've had mine (15") for about 3 months now, and I have to say it's absolutely great.

The Air is very thin, and weighs in at 1.35Kg, but has a weak CPU and Intel graphics.

The rMBP is not that extremely thin, but it's amazingly thin as well, a lot thinner that the old MBPs and other laptops. It weighs only 2Kg which still makes it very light to carry around.
I'd say that for portability, the new 15" rMBP is great. Light and small enough to carry but still powerful enough to work on. Given that it has a i7 CPU, GF 640 graphics card, 16GB RAM, a retina display, and almost the same battery life as the air, which is 6-7 hours.

You can host your VM's on a remote server if you like, but as far as choosing Air vs rMBP, the rMBP is an obvious winner, except if you mind the higher price tag.
Nice - is it possible to combine it with existing SRS-systems? (I'm using Mnemosyne, so it would need to be possible to export the data in the mnemosyne xml format or as a tab separated text file)
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Thomas already wrote down a quick analysis of the potential IPO: http://tropicalconsiderations.com/2013/01/05/rocket-unleashe...
I've been learning to talk French using CD's from Pimlseurs that uses spaced repititon to help you memorizing words.

You're constantly beeing asked by a english voice to say something in french, and after an hour it asks you to repeat the new words you've learned.
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Looking at your responses, I see you are a guy with very straightforward stereotypic thinking, you are aggressive, and your little taunt is also childishly primitive and straightforward. Does it make sense to talk to you at all? So the answer is 'no', of course, I do not 'have this a lot', as I usually simply ignore this kind of people, but unfortunately there is an option to downvote a comment for the benefit of the stupid.
I would say two things in response to this.

Firstly, think of the plight of the screenwriter who has to a) adapt a story that will take most people about a week to read into a three hour film; and b) has to create something that will make lots of money. I can completely understand the resentment felt at a beloved book being turned into a very different film - I have seen a number of well liked stories turned into something completely different (see my next point). I think you just have to view film adaptations as a completely different product.

Secondly, there is a long history of books being turned into films that do not bear much relation to the original work. A few examples from my own life. The Stephen King novella "The Running Man" was turned into a film that contained the same themes, but was a very different story. The film "The Lawnmower Man" was also taken from a Stephen King short story of the same name. The story of the film bore absolutely no relation to the film, and to this day I can't work out how they could possibly draw any relation between the two. A long time ago I hired a video of a Dean R Koontz story called "Watchers". I had enjoyed the book and jumped at the chance to see a film adaptation. I was to be disappointed. What I watched, whilst having the name of the book was not an adaptation of that book - the story was completely different. I can only think that they wanted the name of a popular author to help sell their shoddy film.
> I do wish the documentation convention included not only a brief description each function, etc., but also a brief example.

It is getting there. If you run godoc locally with tip, you will find many more examples than there were previously.

See http://golang.org/pkg/path/ for a current example. And the source for those examples can be found here: http://golang.org/src/pkg/path/example_test.go. Note that this technique will work for your own packages as well.

The technology is there, the implementation is still incomplete; but more progress has been made than is easily visible.
Because in this case their self interest runs against the interest of the grandchildren, or at least so they have been made to believe by the wealthy industrialist lobby.
Nursing is also one of the few fields where gender is actually relevant to the job - think about some of the more unpleasant parts of nursing (e.g., washing people's genitals).
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Keyboard, browser, internet connection: sum total of the barriers to entry for the recruiting industry.

I'm an architect. The sort with NCARB certification. Last I checked, data warehouses don't require building permits. It takes a certain level of cluelessness to hit my resume with a keyword search...or maybe just ignoring the relevance ratings at the bottom of a mediocre search since I regularly get recruiting emails completely at odds with my resume.

I could run through the list of war stories about recruiters with relevant positions in my industry, but one will serve my purposes.

I was looking, because, like tech, switching jobs during the boom is the best way to boost salary in AEC. We were on our third phone conversation. The position sounded interesting. An interview was dangling. He was about to reveal the name of the company.

Even in big cities, architecture firms are all interbred. There just aren't that many. "It's Harvard Jolly," he said. "Have you heard of them?"

"They're listed on my resume. One of my references is an Executive VP."

"Oh."

Most recruiters have no ongoing relationship with the potential employer. They are hoping to insert themselves between the candidate and the job and extract a fee. In many cases this reduces the candidate's odds of landing the position. If the firm was advertising the position, they weren't planning for the fee. The candidate is tainted with sleazy association. And if the company doesn't want to pay up, the recruiter cuts the candidate off.

However, I landed two career advancing jobs via cold calls from professional recruiters. On two other occasions, recruiters have introduced me to interesting positions which at the end of the interview process didn't fit. It is easy to sift the good from the bad.

"Do you have a contract?" is all you need to know.
Pinging my existing Hetzner servers is around 45ms which is acceptable latency for me. Reliability from Hetzner hasn't been great for our servers but for what I need it for it is reliable enough.
"Why? It's a factor that helps bring more audience in."

So let the market fix it, no need for affirmative action. It's just targeted advertising to move your product, at the end of the day.
He's soon going to unveil a new ruby VM, to replace MRI.
Courts adopt aggressive approach in cross-border Internet jurisdiction cases
These kind of popularity metrics really leave a sour taste in my mouth, regardless of the results. They're just so lacking in rigor of even the mildest degree that it's not even worth considering what they "discover".

If any language is to be the "language of the decade", it ought to be C, and possibly C++. C or C++ still power basically every piece of truly important software, even today in 2013. The major operating system kernels, userlands, compilers, interpreters (including Python's main implementation!), network servers, and web browsers, are all written in one or both of them, for example. And that's not including the many embedded and industrial uses of C that aren't very visible at all.

Until some other languages offer the same full-stack experience, and are actually used for writing critical, widely-used software, I don't think we can label any languages but C and C++ as the "language of the year", or "language of the decade", or even "language of the century" and beyond.
Creating the Altmann Tera Player [Portable DAP]
If you wanted mobility around the house while avoiding WAN latency and reliability issues, you could buy a server and keep it in your house, rather than renting it and accessing remotely. Then get the Air and use that to RDP, SSH, etc. to the server.
Pretty good analysis. I disagree about the last validation point though - no matter how much money they raise, they are still non-profitable. I think the only way they're going to get real validation is when they're well out of the red. Applies to any business...

I guess there will be 'validation' in lots of interesting in the company from random people looking to get some of that extra free flowing cash for themselves?
A programmer has a problem which requires parsing.

He decides to use regex.

Now he has two problems.
You mean it is easier for women to wash men's genitals than for men to wash women's genitals, and easier for men to accept women washing their genitals and easier for women to accept women washing their genitals? Or what exactly is the gender relevant aspect?
Have you tried searching for some and submitting them?
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This is what I've been doing when traveling and the Logitech Ultrathin is relatively nice to type on.

Normally when I travel I need internet access anyways to do all my tasks (fix and/or deploy something), so a local environment isn't very important to me. I guess if I was some coffee house coder doing dev work I'd go for laptop
That's a big assumption. I've been a software developer for 12 years and have yet to work on anything worthwhile. And Dilbert probably exists for a reason, too - most jobs are crap.
I am saying neither of those things -- you seem to be pulling a straw-man argument here! I used the analogy of "not knowing the door is there" rather than "not being smart enough to see the door".

What I am saying is that due to reasons such as social selection, bias, expectations of what women should do, discrimination etc less women are interested in software.
Let me see if I get this straight.

Sexist women will choose conferences based on the gender of the speaker. Due to greed, and because these women are so desirable to have at conferences (why?), we should therefore discriminate in speaker choice.

Have I missed anything?
Thanks. This is actually a really nice insight to see how employers may read someone's GitHub profile.
Thanks, I remember that article too. For Windows development it wouldn't work well but I do envy that battery life!
A Stock Market for digital media
Ok, there seems to be plenty of issues stated about this book, and I am going to guess that there are excellent alternatives to this book.

Anyone want to suggest some?
: I think it would be better if mathematicians
: started writing their theorems and proofs in
: a machine readable way

And software would be more reliable if people used the correctness-proving systems that have been developed.
What kind of drama is DHH known for besides being opinionated? And you're saying he's better known for such drama than he is for Rails?
Thanks prody, thats really helpful. I've also got an awful habit of consuming media content on my laptop whilst lying back in bed and on the sofa etc. Do you ever do this and find the 15" cumbersome or heavy in these situations?
This is big. Rocket Internet is a perfect example of what's wrong with the European startup ecosystem. I don't doubt they'll have a successful IPO, but it will leave a foul taste in the mouth of Europeans, especially Germans and Swedes.
Facebook’s Stance On Protecting User Data Challenged In Oregon Murder Case
My criticism of their user base was not suppose to be a given point in my argument and so most of that statement dealt with personal details instead of things that would effect others as well.
I have asked myself the same question as I would like to upgrade my machine. I currently run a MBA 2011 with 4GB of RAM. It is by far my best computer purchase. When I'm at a desk, it's plugged into an external monitor. Until Mountain Lion, I never had a problem with RAM, but I've adjusted how I do things on my laptop to fix the issue. I wrote up a PrOACT and found that it came down to 1 point for me.

- Do I require the dedicated video card and is that video card worth $1000+ increased bill

So if you're only looking to do development, go for the MBA since it's better cost for use. The Retina doesn't matter if you're always plugged in like I am.

Your only question you should ask yourself is, do you either want to use multiple monitors which the MBA can not do or do you want to be able to play games that require the video card?

Latency to me is not a problem. I live in asia and there is internet everywhere. Would it really make that much of a difference for you?
Far as I can tell, Google is actually trying to move away from the 'we sell adverts' business model currently. In the case of Android, they don't give away their gmail/market/maps, but charge a fee for them. With the purchase of Motorola, it hints that Google will be selling hardware in future. Google's push into driverless cars will also be in the form of a percentage of car cost (apparently). It looks like Google Glass will be a sold product and not sponsored by adverts as well.

So I'm guessing Google understands the problem here as well as anybody.
Startups are run by founders. Mature companies are run by management teams
Thanks, I already have the server capacity available and paid for so I wouldn't incur any additional cost. You may be right about that resolution though, I've never seen it. Thanks for the advice.
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What is the usual process for organizing such an event? Is it calling for participation and then picking the best speakers for the deck (candidates -> organizers) OR is it a sort of organizers choice of speakers who are then contacted (organizers -> candidates)?

In either case, shouldn't organizers have the right to pick whatever they think is most interesting and then let their auditory choose, whether to participate or not in their event? By the very same logic, shouldn't editors have their right to choose what content they publish, with their readership voting for that choice using their wallets? I think in the end, if it is really important enough, underrepresented parts of community are still able organize their own conference, with all the right speakers.
A little watch that I could program with Lua to do pub/sub to my phone events would be great.
At work we all use the higher spec 13" air's - keeping our dev environment inside linux vm's that run locally.. I run a few windows vm's for front end testing but we do have a beautiful windows machine sat in the corner too - as long as I don't try and run everything at once its fine, with the benefit of having the lightweight machine to take around the place..

Do you always stay connected to the internet when you need to work / how much would it affect your productivity if you weren't able to access a remote server? I imagine the latency would get annoying, even if it were minor.
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Two points:

1) Diversity is valuable when it represents diversity of life experience and problem-solving methods, not when it represents some external characteristic like skin color or gender. To substitute these terms out is to be prejudiced, that is, to believe that we can look at someone externally and make informed decisions about their internal makeup. We cannot.

Two, you do not manage complex systems by simple statistics. If you could, then all the billions being spent in root cause analysis and so forth would be unneeded. Complex systems, such as those involving people, are, well, complex. For example, if the inputs to the system are heavily skewed, that is, if applicants for speakers come in at a heavily skewed ratio, then the process itself can't be responsible for the outcome. Of course, if the process only serves to facilitate an outcome, then that's fine, but it's no longer a process optimized for finding the best speaker or whatever. You can't have it both ways.

I can provide more examples of how trying to reason about these systems in a simplistic fashion is not only a waste of time, but can actually lead to counter-productive results.

I refuse to be sexist or racist and I won't tolerate those around me who are sexist or racist. But I also refuse to continue to consume material that promotes this kind of mushy-headed way of looking at something as important as diversity. If you don't understand the problem and don't understand how to deal with it even if you could manage to identify it, then any resulting conversation or action is not going to be very productive.
Reliability problems with Hetzner? I was under the impression they're a very good host.
Thanks, I don't do any gaming but I would like the ability for multiple monitors. This article suggest that the latest 2012 models do support 2 external displays - http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/06/new-macbooks-can-manage...
Do you know what timestamp was on this file?
Yep, that's it. 100%. Bonus points for use of the neutral word "sexist".
Next event in huge font ?
I would love all my displays to be e-ink, meaning: My 24inch displays for programming, my phones, everything. Android would need to provide an e-ink mode, but that shouldn't be too hard to do. I honestly don't need that much animation or color, so I would be more than fine with switching to it completely. I can still use my old display if I ever really want to do some multimedia use, but for day to day use e-ink should be perfect.
Did anyone else see this as a piece of satire? Granted you had to read to the end for the punchline.
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No apple store to check out the macbooks? I just ordered the rMBP, 2.6 16 256(best value I think) for $2499. The SSD is way to expensive to justify for me, my data can be on an external hd or server. They are light and slim enough for me. Movies and photos are amazing and its fast enough to load up Starcraft2 or other games when I want.
Inside the clone factory (Rocket Internet)
While I agree that such metrics don't mean much, if anything at all, the notion that C/C++ should be "languages of the decade" because they "still power basically every piece of truly important software" doesn't make much sense. You might as well declare James Maxwell scientist of the decade because electricity still powers basically every piece of truly important equipment.
I have been doing this for years, no worries. Latency is rarely going to be an issue with remote desktop--you could get more than acceptable performance over a 56K modem line at MBA resolutions way back in ancient times. And depending on the Internet connection at the host performance may well be better than running locally because the data is moving over their big pipe and only the display is moving over your smaller pipe.

I would make sure to use virtualization software on my server that also runs on my laptop so I could easily grab a local copy of a VM to take with me on a flight, etc.
> You might as well declare James Maxwell scientist of the decade because electricity still powers basically every piece of truly important equipment.

I'm all for it.

Proponents of 'x' label 'x' the best thing in this decade is a lot less objective than your astute observation that electricity indeed still powers basically every piece of truly important equipment.
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The future is e-books
Mitochondrial Eve: a de facto deception?
I have never had a problem with hetzner doing this exact thing.
I didn't know the 2012 models support multiple monitors. Since that's the case and you do not want to game it's a no brainer.

8GB of ram + SSD will get you far!
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"Well that depends on their taste."

Here is the problem: a logo is designed for the general public, not some elite audience of art critics.

Their taste is THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS. It doesn't matter whether the designers like it. At all.

If you want to do that kind of thing where only your esthetic opinion matters, you should be doing fine art, not web design.
Have you ever tried scrolling with an e-ink display? Maybe the absolute latest ones are better but using the kindle web browser on my 2 year old kindle is an unpleasant experience.
In terms of latency, I've found that http://mosh.mit.edu/ pretty much delivers on its promises.
Wow, so Rachel encounters a sexist jerk, and then asks him a number of questions to let him hang himself, and it is Rachel who is the problem?

Given they have very few women interviewers, and the guy has to work in a team, any woman who has the unfortunate luck to work in the jerk's team is going to have their life made difficult. Rachel seems to have done a service to the company by flunking him, IMHO.
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HTML/EPUB as the format for eBooks open you up to every single one of those problems - and more! HTML/EPUB supports forms, scripting (try to find a web page w/o any JS), audio, video, 3D and more.
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Open webOS up and running on the Nexus 7
Chinese Startup Enables iOS App Piracy w/o a Jailbreak
When you have a 22:1 male to female ratio and a 23:0 white to non-white ratio, it'll take more than a tie-breaker to make it look as diverse as a PBS cartoon.
I cannot take seriously a programming language popularity index that states that Javascript has become significantly less popular in the last year. I'm no fanboy but given the sheer weight of evidence from language activity on sites like github to the incredible number of jobs and recruiters desperate for skilled javascript developers it just does not add up. Sometimes a metric producing an unexpected outlier means you've found something interesting but usually it means your metric is broken or meaningless. Searches for the word tutorial sounds like an increasingly meaningless metric the world of sites like stackoverflow.