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Large companies in well established industries sometimes operate with near monopoly power and are only threatened when the entire industry undergoes a long term, permanent change. Most people don't consider such a situation a functioning, healthy market. Healthcare and banking are two great examples of industries whose dynamics tend to result in a small number of powerful entities calling the shots, the former due to legal reasons and the latter due to economies of scale.
The digitizer is actually a separate layer in most cases. There are lots of products that have both a digitizer and a capacitive touch layer. The lack of a digitizer isn't what makes the iPad more responsive. If Apple wanted to do it, it would be trivial.

Wacom fucked up this particular product, because they opted to use a large rubber tip. It might be more precise than a normal dumb stylus, but its still terrible. Trying to write like a normal person, or draw thin lines is absolutely horrible with a fat-tipped stylus.
I dunno. Five weeks? I mean, you have the drawings right there, can't you just like...scan them in, or something? That shouldn't take long, right?

(just kidding, great work and a good read!)
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> It starts with flashing your BIOS and it doesn't get any better afterwards.

Not true at all. Maybe if you're using old or unsupported hardware.

At most you'll need to set your BIOS to Optimized Defaults.
None of that matters to me enough to make me spend hundreds of dollars more and be content with a laptop that does less.

> hot

Only when you're actually running a game or using all the CPU cores.

> feels cheap

I don't like spending money unnecessarily. I regard my laptop with pride. Not just because it's a practical tool for day-to-day work and play. Not just because the specs give me bragging rights. But also because it's a symbol of how good I am at bargain hunting.

Your MacBook is tiny, insubstantial, and would make me feel like a sucker if I'd shelled out an entire grand for it.
Real-time communication - IRC and google hangouts

Start-stop: Whenever you feel like it. I start around 10, work until 4 or so, and usually run a couple hours later in the day (11-2 at night often)

Schedule projects: Stop thinking about hours on the clock, start thinking about iterations on a calendar. Look at past work, consider the difficulty, extrapolate to the future with a hedge factor.

Supporting equipment: I do, it's a tax writeoff and I get to pick what I want. I've worked at companies that paid for everything - that's fine too.
You may not be aware of this, but there has been a years-long practice of people making claims about outrageous markup of Apple hardware versus BYO systems, and not actually using the same hardware. It's irritating. (There certainly are cases of outrageous markup, but in this case, we don't really know yet, and the prices for Xeons are high.)
If they can cope with the UI, absolutely. Computers are a commodity. Personally I know very few people that even upgrade windows. They just buy a new machine (which like their current machine, already comes with windows preinstalled).
I like "bootup".
I wouldn't describe Microsoft or Nokia's tablets as high-volume, low-margin...
Interesting point about resale value. iPads resell for insane prices on eBay. A lot of what might get chalked up as unit sales of cheap tablets in the Apple ecosystem involve second-hand sales of older models.
Why your next computer will run...Unix?
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So I'm doing the upgrade on an mbp with filevault2. The installer "reboots" the machine and goes into the rest of the installation. But I'm never prompted for a disk password. So... how'd that happen?
Don't proxy it through friends who don't use software audited and compiled by you/people-you-trust then.
no. this is me pointing out how ridiculous this comment starting with "apart from..." is. using monty python's life of brian, which is brilliant in 28 different ways.
Really? For a fully functional install? Gotta wonder what the rest of that is doing there on my drive...
It's not as much effort as it sounds. My home laptop has had Ubuntu, Mint, Mageia, Suse, Fedora, Arch, Windows 7, 8, OS X 10.7, 10.8, and just today, 10.9 on it in about a month (it's a mac).

I have an external hard drive with all my documents, projects, music, movies, etc. on it. What's absolutely essential is recopied to my hard drive each time. It's kind of addictive to dive into a new operating system and learn it every so often. That's why there's a term for it - distro hopping.

It's good for some things. It gets you very good at doing rote computer tasks because you do them over and over in slightly different environments each time - install homebrew, update ruby, install rvm, configure common programs, tweak preferences and small aspects of the OS, etc.

As a result, I can wipe my entire hard drive and bring it back up to my workflow speed in less than 3 hours on a linux distro I roll myself via Arch.

All that said, I like OS X, so I'll be sticking with Mavericks for a while now.
> Or even better, just start your own shop with people you trust...

I really, really wish I could do this. I feel like there needs to be some sort of guild structure for programming that would enable this.
I'm curious about the decision to not use Cocos2d, which would include a nice GUI for quickly designing 2D game scenes (CocosBuilder). Are there any particular downsides to it, or was it just not considered at all?

My own experience with Cocos2d is very positive, but I've only used it for some game prototypes, not full projects. (Cocos2d-html5 on browser and Cocos2d-x/js on native, sharing common JavaScript codebase.)
There isn't that much variation in diaper and formula across brands...
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Speculating, that China has more to gain from Bitcoin adoption than not.

* The Bitcoin mining industry is based on Chinese manufacturers (AFAIK... I'm no expert on mining).

* Bitcoin is a honey badger. Might as well accept it sooner than later.
I wonder if it's because they anticipate capital flight - from America, and the dollar. They would dearly love a de-dollar-ized world.
Exactly, the `wrapGenerator` function provides a small runtime that (among other things) handles uncaught exceptions: https://github.com/facebook/regenerator/blob/master/runtime/...
Companies often buy Windows upgrades without new hardware. But basically, as long as you hold a license for an OS already, upgrades ought to be free?
Seems pretty goofy compared to just using Incanter in the Clojure REPL (or something similar).
Winner seems to take all so far in terms of network hash rate. No alt-coin has anywhere near the security that BTC does.
IIRC it was not legal to install on multiple machines (perhaps it was legal for multiple personal machines?).
There's the Geeksphone Peak+ (http://shop.geeksphone.com/en/phones/8-peak.html), which is a Firefox OS phone with decent specs. Unfortunately, I can't find any real info or reviews on it.
It's possible to do a warm reboot into a new kernel without ever powering down and re-initializing RAM.

Also, it may not even be fully rebooting, but instead doing something like killing all processes except init (launchd) which then starts up the installer. I haven't run it, so I don't know exactly what it's doing, but there are several ways to "reboot" without fully rebooting.
I only miss GPS and flash light

This is about where I was too. Bought a car GPS which is good enough for me and has no monthly service fees, and mounted a couple flashlights inside my car.
I think you'd need a lot more than 2. It's hard to get meaningful competition from only a smaller number because it ends up being much easier and profitble to collude (see telcos/cable companies/etc).
Quick facts:

- Two of the rare oarfish washed up on California shores this week.

- An old Japanese legend says oarfish beachings are a sign of an impending earthquake.
Does anyone know of distributors for either of the Firefox OS's in Canada, been googling to no avail.
I'm not sure we've waiting long enough for Shiller to be proved correct.

If monetary policy wasn't blowing the roof out on equity valuations, we'd be seeing mean-reversion as we should.
Linux has had this for well over 5 years now, the major change is that it is being moved into the kernel itself as opposed to a kernel module.
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Bitcoin is fiat, it's not backed by anything of real value and doesn't have a government or a strong (and I mean national-government-kind strong) player behind it that is willing to devote actual resources to prop it up (which is what all other fiat monies have and which is why they usually stay around for a century or so, after that they either become obsolete or their value greatly diminishes due to inflation). It has all of the Aristotelian properties of money (durable, portable, fungible), and some extra ones too, except intrinsic value. So it's not money according to Aristotle. When a better system comes along (and it would be trivially easy for that to eventuate, imagine, e.g. China or a major corporation or - even better - an industry association offering an altcoin backed by gold, agricultural land, shares, face time with celebrities, mentoring time - hey these are good ones! etc.), the value of bitcoins will go to zero as everybody will want the new, better altcoin that has at least some intrinsic value. The same death spiral cannot happen in the case of government-backed fiats when a new fiat is introduced, for a number of reasons. Bitcoin is inertia-backed fiat. I'll take the government-backed variety any time.
Amazon has lobbyists and Obama has given speeches in Amazon fulfillment centers...
Strictly speaking, you are right. It is theoretically possible that 11,999,999 coins are hoarded, and only 1 coins is being exchanged many time.

I should have said simply that because the market is very liquid, it does not seem to suffer from hoarding and/or hoarding does not matter.
No cell phone entirely?

life without GPS made it an absolutely requisite to study the route to your destination before departing

I've found this has helped me learn more about the layout of the towns. When I follow GPS, I may as well be in a maze with the lights off- I get to my destination, but I don't know where I am or where anything is.
Home building also follows the same analogy. Our house was one of the first completed in our neighborhood, and we moved in before most of the others began construction. The foundation, framing, roofing, and siding all go up pretty quickly. As the house nears (visual) completion, the detail work and coordinating the subcontractors and inspectors stretches out the timeline.
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Anyone here used PhpEd and then switched to PhpStorm in the last few years?

I've really enjoyed using PhpEd myself, but sometimes it gets annoying that it has its own debugger (not XDebug) and that seems to cause issues with typical tools like PHPUnit and some of the features they have (like code coverage tests).
Kernel Caches that aren't cleared properly will do this, the display drivers changes significantly and they're stored in PRAM
The government will often request an RFP that basically entails doing the entire project so that the vendor can do the 5 minute demonstration to show that they are capable of completing the project. This greatly inflates prices, since the stakes for the vendors are so ridiculously high.
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And I commute by bicycle, so I have no need to buy a Hyundai, but that doesn't mean a Hyundai is overpriced.
Apple releases iOS 7.0.3 with iCloud Keychain, Touch ID improvements and more
I think the large rubber tip is not optional, as the iPad sensor is looking for a particular shape: a fingertip.
I might recommend against the additional complexity for most use cases, since the generated code is only 1.5x slower, but I fully expect/hope that Facebook will decide to bite that complexity bullet for the speed gains in newer browsers. Betting on the future of JS is very much the ethos here.
I experienced similar frustration when trying to buy bitcoins. I ended up using localbitcoins.com, and had an excellent experience.

The site matches up private users (by geographic location by default) wishing to buy bitcoins with those wishing to sell. It offers "feedback" ratings for traders, and an escrow system where the site confirms your coins have been sent to it and placed in reserve, and these get released to you once the seller confirms receipt of your funds, either by texting a code from their phone or by using the website. There were no onerous fees, and my entire trade was completed within hours. Typical trading methods would include internet bank transfer (which is what I did), or even meeting in person with cash (riskier but more anonymous I guess).

>Also someone explain to me how that is anonymous when they have all my information if I had uploaded my driver's license and my bank account information.

Nobody claimed it was anonymous. And companies acting as "money transmitters" (or who the feds decide to consider as such) have a bunch of AML/KYC regulations they are required to follow, hence the whole ID thing. You can enhance the anonymity of your coins in various ways, typically by services which chop them up and shuffle them between many addresses to obfuscate their trail in the blockchain (so-called "mixers").

>And this fluctuating price isn't very impressive either

What concerns you about it? For many people I guess the short-term fluctuations aren't such an issue (e.g. those playing the long game with their bitcoin investment; or those only holding coins for a short time to make a specific purchase, particularly where the sales platform offers a hedging feature like Silk Road apparently did).
An alternative would be to find one that has been assigned to a now defunct company. Then you'd only have to worry about historical devices and if you are lucky you could come up with a list of those PIDs and exclude them.
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By pointing me to other sites, you're both making the impression that the news I care about doesn't belong here and implying that I'm not wanted.
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It shouldn't be too surprising given the similarities between Clojure and Racket.

Typed Clojure and Typed Racket are very closely related in theory and implementation.
I read all that, I was more interested in information on the "eggs are dead" assertion.
If Brits hate their banks so much, why don’t they ever switch?
Earlier this year I've purchased Geeksphone Peak, which was just sitting on my desk doing nothing special... Few weeks ago a friend of mine sent me a tutorial on how to install Android on Peak, I did it and it works stable and great since then :) To be honest, in some situations it works better then my Galaxy S3 with stock ROM (probably my storage on s3 got slower over time, since I own it for more than 1 year)

http://blowakening.wordpress.com/2013/07/23/convierte-tu-gee...

(I used google translate, it translates great)
Au contraire: The opening five paragraphs set the stage for everything that follows by providing context. This is eloquent and lively writing from a master practitioner.
Pareto Principle

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
Aha, but did your general laziness prevent you from properly storing the keys?
Campaigns are private entities designed buy a couple people to win

Governments are huge entities, with laws that look like they're there to protect public trust, but are really written to often reward key players (for this area of government).
No, but there was no technological measure preventing you (serial number or phoning home) that would stop you as far as I can recall.

You can buy a single copy or a family pack for five computers.

http://www.amazon.com/Mac-10-4-Tiger-Family-Pack/dp/B0007LW1...

http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Mac-10-4-Tiger-VERSION/dp/B0002G...
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Nobody is suggesting that Bitcoin will replace the USD (yet). For now, some people are going into Bitcoin because it cannot be confiscated. And govt default is correlated with crazy taxation measures. Take a look at what France is doing now.
The ideal of a self-effacing tool that disappears in every way physically manageable. A weightless window that is, physically, almost not there at all. The antithesis of a heavy brick that never lets you forget its physical dimensions. That is the ideal Apple inches toward.

Many people use these devices without cases, as they were designed to be used. Some don't, for reasons that make sense for them. Many will appreciate the less obtrusive dimensions. Others will never give a crap. Can you explain an obsession with sweets to someone without a sweet tooth? As usual in threads like this, people argue about idiosyncratic tastes.
Completely awesome. I was going to use Continuum just because I wanted generators client side, but it was too slow.

Thanks for doing this!
How to search Google for a negative number? (You can't.)
That article agrees with Touche, unless I'm missing something.

EULA: "[you are free] to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software."
Dead code (latent functionality) in both systems was reactivated without proper testing or knowledge and both systems failed as result. We need to be very weary of latent functionality.
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I think this is a great analogy. The reason why it works is that we tend to relate progress in one intuitive metric (distance travelled) to a less intuitive one: time. Why shouldn't 80% of the trip be done when 80% of the distance is covered? Likewise, a merely sketched-out project can look dangerously complete.

In both cases you get caught by complexity. It's easy enough to drive in a straight line for a while, and your app's login system will likely work the same as most others'. But the devil, in both the city and in your code, is in the details.
BHC - Butt-Head Connector

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/butt-head-astronomer.ht...
Gov't procurement is actually no different from any other bureaucratic procurement organization in Big Co. They are always seen as a blocker (rarely an enabler) and the people who sit in their roles usually hate their responsibilities. (I'm generalizing of course, but you get the point) The consulting company I used to work implemented techniques for procurement orgs based mainly on behaviors.[1] It's the first time I've seen such a thing and believe it is something very necessary to scaling procurement organizations.

[1]-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xgh-A1ZCfg
A cool idea and very impressive time management (though I am not sure how much time he spent every day). I liked the fact that he spent very little time in polishing the graphics by selecting a simple enough setting and refrained from creating his own music even when he knew how to. Often it is too easy to get sidetracked on such thing when one should be focussing on delivering a great gameplay which the author seems to have rightly done.
What about SSHing into each machine not manually, but automatically with OKing all the changes before reloading the configuration?

SSH is great at least in the sense that it's configuration-format-agnostic, mostly-OS-agnostic, client-side-automation-agnostic, and many other things like that.
Bitcoin is more useful than gold in a society that has the internet.

If you want to prepare for a situation where we no longer have the internet, then gold might be a viable option. But I don't care to consider that possibility, for the same reason I don't care to prepare for a nuclear holocaust. I believe my expected utility/happiness is greater this way.
They don't get oohs and aahs because exactly the same thing has been possible via google docs for several years. It's impressive, yes, but not groundbreaking.
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Seriously Apple ? Backdoors ?

It is really a sad state of world.
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It is ?

I traveled through Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen for weeks in November 2011 and was able to ssh anywhere I needed to ...

I was staying in nice, expensive, western chain hotels ... perhaps that made a difference ?
- If health insurance companies know you're sick, they won't insure you.

- If airline companies know you have a good reason to travel, they're going to rise the price.

...

So yes, privacy is an issue.
So much of the advertising industry is so entrenched in Flash. It's a big beast to turn, especially when you consider that not just the last mile delivery servers need to support CORS and videos need to be in a compatible format (webm, please), but also the entire production pipeline needs to evolve their processes and tooling.

I've been kicking and screaming to get more of our partners onto HTML5 for a couple of years now. I've met with some success, but there's an awful lot of hoop-jumping to get there. Many advertisers are still of the mindset that "HTML5 is only for mobile", if they're even aware of it.

Maybe once this battle is won we can look at a smarter VAST standard!
Not before System 7.1 released in 1992 though.
It very much is for the average home consumer. Normal users upgrade their version of windows when they buy a new computer, because the new version is what comes installed.
If you're doing longevity studies in Europe, then you should get huge differences between cohorts separated by a few years due to WW2 - there are significant long-term effects (such as changes in metabolism gene expression) caused by, say, near-starvation during pregnancy or infanthood; and current longevity studies all include people who were essentially born on a battlefield as well as those who weren't due to small differences of age or location.
I hope you guys have the rights for this...
Too small? Logitech makes a keyboard cover for the mini [1], they'll surely do one for the ipad air

[1] http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/ultrathin-keyboard-min...
The analogy is nice, but I'd enhance it a little bit to emphasize the responsibility of, ahem, driver and make all of this more useful.
Unless it isn't his first trip to the city, the driver needs to reduce his optimism about the arrival time. Especially at the beginning when he has a lot of time, he needs to avoid all those tempting things like: playing with his new GPS to design the best route; exploring the new and/or intriguing parts of suburbia, changing the cars for fun and so long ...
And yet I doubt any of these saw 40x YoY increases topping out at a $2.5 billion valuation.
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I've been very happy with my Samsung NP900X1B, which was much better value than an air for me at the time I bought it. (There's probably a newer equivalent model nowadays)
Amazon is a marketplace. It will charge what people are willing to pay.
You're sharp. That's exactly what I'm wondering right now. I think the answer is yes though.
"everything"?

I wonder when airplanes are going to be new again, or books, or cars. Maybe you mean everything related to computers? I am not sure of even that though...