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Two biggest new things for developers:

* OpenGL ES 3.0 support (things like true HDR rendering, etc. will finally be possible)

* 64-bit support. For most app developers, this will just be a recompile. The tricky part is that any closed-source 3rd party SDKs/libraries/frameworks used will also have to be rebuilt first by their authors.
Apple’s iPhone 4S Remains In Lineup As ‘Free’ Model
Actually, imposter syndrome as presented here, is not real. Just a handy political fiction.

Sometimes people feel like they do not know what they are doing, and generally, such feelings are accurate.

Claiming despite any evidence to the contrary that they are actually geniuses seems to be all the rage with womyn_in_tech right now, and I find it pretty silly.

They do seem to feel that men are better programmers than them:

> Struggling with the course work, perceiving her peers (mostly male) as doing much better with much less effort, feeling a misfit between herself and a cultural norm that associates success with an all-consuming love of computing, she questions whether she belongs in the department. [1]

But this difference is not a false belief implanted in their minds by a male conspiracy, this difference is real, and kind of obvious. If anything, people chronically overestimate their competence [2].

1. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/gendergap/www/p...

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
can't wait to hear people bragging that their phone has a 64bit processor.

also wait for mainstream media to catch up, we'll see titles like: 'apple invented the first 64 bit processor'.
Actually, there are gloves that you can get that let you use your phone with them on. So no, it's not the same thing.
They say that applications don't have access to it and it is never uploaded online, but until the device is out there is no way to verify it.
You may want to look into using GNU parallel with that.
Running Beta might not reflect the true battery impact on the device. But 4x more battery consumption sounds pretty bad.
TokuMX vs MongoDB on in-memory sysbench benchmark
Great site. Good resource!!
Actually, without installing extra software, you can drop all the root CAs and do Trust-on-First-Use (TOFU) with a limited set of browsers. It's possible with Firefox desktop, for example. Painful and error-prone, but doable. As with the SSH model, as long as you trust your initial authentication, future authNs where the pubkey changes will give you a warning because it will necessarily be a new cert.
This is what bothers me about iOS devices the most.

Unlike the Mac OSX upgrades, iOS upgrades seem to slow down the devices. iOS upgrades turned my 3G into an unusable mess. The same happened with my iPad 1.

My iPhone 4 slowed down noticeably with iOS 6.0, and even though I stopped upgrading after 6.0.1, it's been getting progressively slower-- and 95% of what I do on my phone is email, rss and browsing.
FCC to consider allowing licensed WiFi frequency
http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/circ_items.cgi

"Terrestrial Use of the 2473-2495 MHz Band for Low-Power Mobile Broadband Networks; Amendments to Rules for the Ancillary Terrestrial Component of Mobile Satellite Service Systems"

It is related to this satellite company's spectrum

http://www.globalstar.com/en/index.php?cid=6201
Apple store iPhone 5c & 5s
Looks like it took you 22 minutes? :)
Programming Language. It's a bit odd, because they mostly implement runtimes, but PL stuck :).
Fingerprint is (currently) about as secure as a personal passphrase while providing much better user experience.
Fingerprint unlock - killer feature, other things - meh...
http://allthingsd.com/20130626/ballmer-at-build-microsoft-mo...
Do yourself a favor: unzip the source for ascii.7 and change the order of the tables: hex, then decimal, then octal.

You'll thank me later.
My "is it new?" test works this way: how would I explain what's new to my father (who is 74 years old and knows not much about tech). A7, M7, iOS 7, better camera and flash: not much to say. Touch ID OK that's new, but that's not much.
Good thing that one doesn't have to go looking for a CD case - there are probably prints on the touchscreen :)
I fear for my sanity if my GF buys another iPhone and complains that the battery lasts even less.
Anyone know what happens if your laptop is dead when you go through border control? I mean, they probably don't keep laptop chargers for every model around.

I've gone through airport security with a dead laptop before at a time when they would occasionally ask people to turn on their laptop. They just waved me through.
Homeboy flew out and delivered homemade cookies and a trophy to his 10,000th user. Awesome.
I like how this article assumes all startups are in California.
I wonder how the people claiming plastic in those Android-phones feels "cheap" is going to react to this.
I used to get super excited about these because something new, bigger (and smaller) and nicer looking would get announced. The 5 and now the 5s announcements were more like looking at update notes on an app.

-Improved Security
-Increased Speed
-Updated to version 7

I'm sure the fingerprint scanning will be great from a UX point of view, but I was really hoping for an edge to edge screen, a built in 3D printer, or something that makes me go "wow, I didn't think you could do that".
I would surmise that is likely due to the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5 having very similar specs. A free iPhone 5 would cannibalize the 5C sales. Why pay 100 dollars for a color case? Then again, a number of people paid the "black tax" for their macbook a number of years back.
I think that the general US News College Rankings are useless. The rankings more specific to the major are more useful.

College is what you make of it. Learning should not stop after college - it should be an ongoing quest.
Intel announces Quark system on a chip, the company's smallest to date
Things to note: 1/5 the size of atom, 1/10th the power. What instruction set it runs is not stated. Note that Quark is "is built upon an open architecture meant so spur its use". Hopefully this hits the train wreck that the ARM ecosystem has with its closed GPUs.
are you sure that this is in the world where Showden exists?
That would be a fairer dig if:

* he were free to actually purchase catastrophic health care coverage instead of the bureaucratic "minimum" politically-acceptable coverage

* he was free to pay for said insurance at a rate approximating his actual risk, i.e. he's actually buying insurance, not something that's insurance plus a government-mandated wealth-transfer mechanism from the young and healthy to the elderly and infirm

But even so, who's to say that people shouldn't be allowed to take risks with their own life and limb? Meh.
It is sub-epidermal, so maybe it is really more complex then just pressing photocopy of a fingerprint in front. Also, I think the steel ring around the button detects capacitance. Pretty sure, these cases have been evaluated by their engineers.
Afterall, Apple will know about it, their ipad was used in MI to get into Kremlin. Ha.
The fingerprint is kept locally only. Presumably when it uses it to authenticate a purchase it's actually validating locally and sending up your password (or other auth token) rather than sending the biometrics directly.
The NSA now will have a database of everybody's fingerprints!! Great :D
No one in government considers it to be an abuse. That's the problem.
Open source the M7 and then we'll trust them. Where's the backdoor at?
Okay maybe massive isn't appropriate here, but they had an exit. Compared to the hundreds of startups that just go out of business that's still a good resume booster.
This is what I don't like about apple the 5s $199 version has 16GB and the 5c $199 version has 32GB. They should have at-lease giving us 24GB for 5s $199.

Apple being apple trying to keep margins high.

The new colors kind of suck but great for high school girls.
And so the people who are currently not using a lock screen because it's too much trouble are going to instead set up their phones so that they have to either use their fingerprint or enter a password, based on whether they have gloves on? I don't think so. They'll probably just turn this off and use the swipe-to-unlock method (which is quite confusing and unintuitive in iOS 7, by the way: http://cdn.andrewmunsell.com/img/articles/ios7-design/xlock....).
does make me wonder what Google has up it's sleeve for the new Nexus release (end of October from what I gather).
They could just remotely access your phone, through specially engineered apps or potential back-doors, or download it during a routine security search. Depending on how accurate the sensor is, how much of the finger is captures, and how the software stores and compares the data, they could potentially get every person who has used your phone's home button. It would be similar to remotely turning on laptop webcams. (I think i'm starting to make myself paranoid.)
SSH keys need to be stored somewhere if they are to be useful. Perhaps the safest bet is to move the keys to a smartcard, carry that with you while you travel, then destroy the card before re-entering the USA.
Apparently, the fingerprint data is stored directly on the A7 and is not accessible to non-OS software; also, not backed up to iCloud.

It will be interesting to see just how secure that data is.
Right, because it's not as if tech companies have given us any reasons to doubt their claims in the past few months.
No one mentioned that stealing an iPhone is much more difficult now. Thieves need to be careful not to touch the sensor!
Even after the device is out it would be very hard(if not impossible) to verify it doesn't send fingerprint or hash of fingerprint online. There's plenty of places they can hide this.
Are you kidding me?

1. That phone is NOT old. Who says we should buy a new phone every time some company wants to make some cash? The thing worked great and there was absolutely nothing that needed to be changed.

2. I do NOT want to be part of a throw-away society that benefits nobody but some company. Our planet does NOT have unlimited resources, yet we keep throwing away electronics like there's no tomorrow.

This STINKS!
Finally! Can't wait for jailbreaks for 4S and 5 to come out now... :)
This is great until someone removes your finger so they can access your phone.
Whether you can follow all the code in random.c (few can), you can probably get through the comments and have a better understanding of how random number generation works in a Linux environment. Start right after the line:

> (now, with legal B.S. out of the way.....)

and continue until your brain hurts, rinse, and repeat. Peck away at a couple functions here and there. This is a really good exercise for most developers.
Right but the question was how did he get to be a CTO? Not necessarily "How did he get to be a great CTO with an excellent track record?".
I don't mind that. What bothers me is not knowing what a service actually does. Either no summary on their website, or what is much more common -- in follow-up e-mails.

I sign up for a service, or an invite for a service, or even just for a launch announcement, and weeks or months later get an e-mail that makes no mention of what is being touted.

But it's a plague in general. It's very common that Wikipedia has better descriptions of companies or software projects, even their commercial offering than the official website.

Try looking up which language some piece of software is written in. Often, googling it + github and then clicking on the repo breakdown is the easiest way to find out.
>There's definitely a technical reason for it (game code is often hacky and not that reusable), but I've observed that it has to do more with the sense of pride of the developers ("my code is too ugly people are going to think I am a bad developer").

Or maybe that they just don't want to compete with people building on --or even outright cloning-- their products. Of course, they're perfectly happy building on others' work.
this is a great move. Future OpenForge integration with other cloud stacks and api tiers opens up the competition with Appcelerator Titanium, and Phone Gap Cordova. Well played Trigger.
They probably are fully aware that nobody reads the clickwrap, that's an interesting point. It would be interesting to hear what a lawyer says about that. I don't think it's a truly reasonable defense and I wouldn't want to rely on it. (If we're thinking "ideal legal world", then I'd like clickwraps to be human-readable and people to actually read them.)

But I think there's a very clear distinction between a simple agreement with the original and with altering the DOM. If you are clever enough to alter the DOM you definitely know that the alterations are not going to be sent back to the server. You also know that agreeing will let you use the service because the server will think you agreed to the original. That seems like a clear-cut case of fraud to me. I don't see why an agreement to the original contract is invalidated because you weren't offered the opportunity to make a counter-offer (I agree that's a shitty situation, though). That's why I think it's like a contract in the mail; you get an offer and you can agree to that or not. You can make a counter-offer but it will be binned.

Consideration isn't solely concerned with monetary purchases, is it? I imagine they can construe your incoming data as valuable. It would be interesting to know if sites like Reddit can claim user interaction has inherent value for the site and for the users. I guess the EULA would be granting you license to use the software, but would not give any additional value to the developer so consideration does seem to invalidate that.

You're probably right that a ToS is going to be hard to uphold in civil court.

Anyway, thank you for elaborating, I'm glad to get a better understanding of your perspective and contract law.
The older glue yellows in exactly that way.
[Press Release] Apple Announces iPhone 5s
That latter article says "It’s a non-immigrant visa and so has nothing at all to do with staying in the USA, becoming a citizen, or starting a business." which is incorrect. It's a dual intent visa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_intent). I didn't really read past that.
Historically, Apple is only above specs when the specs they're talking about are inferior to the rest of the market. When they've got something better, there's no end to the bragging.
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iPhone 5c
It needs to be contextualized and explained for practical usage. They had the same problem with Siri, which was pretty awesome, but presented very gimmicky.
Objective: Be who I am [image & text]
I kind of like how the hex and char columns are next to each other though. Makes it easier to read those two columns together quickly.
An increase in processor word size has been part of Apple's marketing materials in the past, as was the transition from PowerPC to Intel. Apple tends to not get hung up on speed and capacity, which is just always regularly increasing, but step-wise jumps like word size are a different type of change since they require substantial technical hurdles and, as is the case here, can double the speed of certain applications in a single generation.
Exactly, orange isn't the issue (although they definitely need to use a lighter orange, #f[a-c] range to convey a more refreshing vibe). I will add that orange is very difficult to get right in any design--it comes off as being too strong for many users. Notice that over time even at&t has used less and less of it.

For inspiration the OP can also checkout http://inspirationfeed.com/inspiration/websites-inspiration/...
As one of my favorite colors most of those sites would annoy me if I had to view them regularly.
I don't agree. There were Apple products that truly impressed me and got me exited:

- The original iPhone / iPod Touch.

- The iPhone 4.

- The MacBook Air (the generation that introduced the 11").

The 4S/5/5S not so much, and I don't plan to buy any of these.
Apple iPhone 5S
The real security this provides is that now your access polices for firewall are much simplified. You can maintain a very reasonable back end network of hosts that aren't exposed to the public Internet and spin up a droplet to be your jump/bastion box, run certificates and lock SSH down to a sane source to an individual host (only the jump/bastion and not public).

Beyond that it adds no functional security - in fact port scanning on the inside will be much more fruitful with regard to services that default to starting on 0.0.0.0. With that in mind - make sure you're not exposing things that you don't mean to be on the backend.
> At private schools, the percentage of students receiving need-based aid has actually declined!

..from 43% to 42%. This is not a significant amount. If the trend holds, we have something to worry about.
It's a pretty straightforward tradeoff: lower premiums = higher cost of care. Bronze plans are not inferior, just priced differently.
What corresation said. It's also as if there are vast, vast, vast parts of the world where gloves are not required wear during the winter...
> iOS upgrades turned my 3G into an unusable mess

It's their strategy to push us to consume ever more goddamn iPhones. We need to stop that.
Supposedly the data is encrypted, stored in the A7, and never leaves the phone.
Address space isn't just about ram. Memory mapped files are used extensively in iOS, 64 bit means basically no limits on memory mapping size from file in flash.
This is a marketing nightmare in the making... it's only a matter of time before the phone is jailbroken and the biometric data made accessible.
IPhone 5C and iPhone 5S ship on 9/20, iPhone 5 discontinued, iPhone 4S goes free
thanks, didn't realise the launch hadn't finished, the news articles are popping up exactly as it is happening!

So I guess add around another $350-400 to each of those of offline/without contract prices.
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Don't you think this would be a huge scandal, if it was revealed? Considering they specifically say it is not uploaded? Just saying.

Why would they take such a risk?
You should give an example of what would cut it.
IPhone 5S
I am still waiting for the same processor and camera in a smaller size with a longer battery life.
You shouldn't use any fingerprint scanner, if something like that worries you.
I am sure you can find a way to explain, it is not that hard.

Touch ID is a lot! No more password entering on iTunes. A godsend for someone who has a 26 characters passphrase like me.
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Your 3GS has nothing to do with the iPhone 5S. iOS 7 was probably designed with the iPhone 5 in mind. The 3GS probably had support hacked together.

I think that at this point, you can stop using a 4 year old phone. Or, if you insist on using it, you shouldn't complain if modern software doesn't run 100% on it.
It took quite some time for me to fill up the 16GB. I'm more of a power user now, so I'll be upgrading to the 32GB but, for most 16GB is plenty.
I think he meant ColorSync[1] or ICC support for color management. An image that uses a color space other than sRGB (like Adobe RGB or CMYK) will look different on iOS than it does on OS X.

Apparently, iOS 4 did add ICC support in CoreGraphics for apps to use [2] but it seems to me that Apple’s apps don’t take advantage of it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorsync

[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/General...
My GF just said, "I can't wait for you to get the phone so I can install instagram while you're asleep."

I really hope apple figures out a way to solve this problem. I just want to point out that although this sounds sarcastic, there's some real concern here.
I think that this would be easily detectable by testing capacitance. The steel ring around the home button could potentially be used for that.
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Wait till you see the iPhone 6 :)
What happens if you injure your finger in an accident?

Or the sensor has a hardware failure?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorSync
I have to admit, I found it extremely refreshing how the last couple of OS upgrades for Android actually made my Nexus 7 faster.
I actually reported a security bug that MS fixed by making real IE6/IE7 match IE8's IE7 emulation:
http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2013/07/how-i-found-cve-2013-13...
Because those are the parts of the world where Apple makes most of its sales. Oh wait, no, outside of NA, EU, and Japan, their marketshare is now minuscule compared to Android.

But wait, there's a new "cheap" iPhone that's targeted at those other markets, right? Oh nevermind, that one doesn't have a fingerprint sensor.
Absolutely. I think Chartbeat does a good job of showing you the product before signing up https://chartbeat.com/demo and also https://www.intercom.io/ have a great gradual engagement flow (where they actually need data to work effectively).
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Leather gloves work just fine, in my experience.
I first ran into clipboard copy/paste on Mac. Discovered "xclip" on Linux. Aliased copy to 'xc' and paste to 'xp', later added 'xpc' to paste from the secondary (application) clipboard.

Makes all sorts of hackery possible.
I imagine it'd be good for enterprisey companies - would have to be better than "this exchange server requires a pin to unlock your phone" right?
The one thing they kept emphasizing was that the A7 was forward-looking. Presumably meaning, they have a roadmap for what they're going to do with it.
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I'm sad it seems most likely the 5S will be fingerprint OR pin/passphrase to unlock. I can imagine situations at borders or in interactions with police where compelling a fingerprint swipe is physically easier than compelling a passphrase entry, and I think it is also legally easier to compel later.

The ideal would be a 4-8 digit numeric PIN with strong "10 tries and it dies" plus fingerprint, and as a backup, a full length desktop-style passphrase (iCloud passphrase). And maybe some kind of "only works on pre-authorized devices" enrollment system requiring the passphrase to generate local keys, too.
Some fractals take a really long time
Then go the normal way of entering password. It still works.
Great links, though I admit when I saw the OP I was expecting content like that and was pleasantly surprised that they really were "Unix commands I wish I'd discovered years earlier", and not the standard array of unix tips+tricks that you can get by without for awhile but as you become more advanced become second-nature.

"Man ascii." The number of times that I wound up generating my own ascii table from whatever language I was working with...

"xxd" I always either used search in emacs hex-mode (which I find cumbersome and annoying but haven't taken the time to customize), or rolled my own search using a programming language. This would have come in handy SO many times back when I used to muck around with videogame save files and the like. I never even knew it existed nor how to discover that it did.

'cal' I learned about early on so never missed it and the 'ssh' stuff kind of fits into the regular "unix tips and tricks" category.
either use their fingerprint or enter a password

Yes. Absolutely. How is this so controversial?

My laptop lets me enter a password, or use a fingerscan. 99% of the time I use a fingerscan, but I have had it malfunction (the driver died or something) in which case I used the password. I very much imagine the iPhone 5S will try to drive a similar use.

It's "too much trouble" with a screen code when you have to do it every single time you grab your device. If you have a fingerprint alternative for the overwhelming majority of cases, yes it would make security more likely.
do it just so that tech could really take off.

That's not really a reason to do things.