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It is. There are a lot of really bad programmers out there.

However, you're probably not looking at the places where such programmers would apply... try an entry-level job here in Uruguay (pay: about U$ 800 / month after taxes), you'll get a lot of people that fail fizz-buzz .

The original poster (Imran Ghory) was from the UK, and Reginald is from Canada. Neither are Silicon Valley.

http://imranontech.com/2007/01/24/using-fizzbuzz-to-find-dev...

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/01/dont-overthink-fizzbuzz....
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They did put a better product at that price point -- the new iPad Mini.
I think Apple leaves the number on the iPhone because carrier contracts make it a naturally cyclical purchase: When users come off contract, Apple wants them to know that there's a new phone available with a big +1 number.

Conversely, Apple wants you to buy a new iPad as soon as you want one, and not sit around waiting for the N+1 model. Spreading out purchases over the device lifecycle gives them better margins as manufacturing and components get cheaper.
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Can you? The CPU alone is unbelievably expensive. Two high-end GPUs are not cheap either. I would be interested in seeing the cost of a truly equivalent generic PC build. ("Truly" equivalent meaning no non-Xeon CPUs and other "almost as good" parts, something that's all too commonly done with Mac Pro comparisons.)
I'm currently working through my first Udacity course (computer graphics). The problem sets at the end of each lecture are open-ended, leading to the same problem-solving pattern that I use for self-education: Google, StackOverflow, Wikipedia, etc. I believe students who complete that course will be prepared for continued self-education, unless they skip the problem sets, but perhaps other courses aren't as well designed.
Of course.

The competition is already free and Apple has still a high security prison as far as the lock-in effect of its technology is concerned, so they're still safe.
Here is the App Store link to upgrade now...

https://itunes.apple.com/app/os-x-mavericks/id675248567?mt=1...
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A long time given that it's nowhere near as efficient as a dedicated bitcoin-mining ASIC.
People say that too, but the amount of crap alt-coins demonstrate just how far ahead of the curve Bitcoin is, and by the network effect it is the one that really matters.

Litecoin is good for getting in and out of Bitcoin w/o staying in cash, when you suspect sudden movements in Bitcoin.

Remember Ripple? Mindshare keeps falling on that one.
This has been coming a long time. The updates were already very cheap (20something Euros) compared to the old days (> 100 Euro if I remember correctly) and it fits in with the iOS strategy of having the latest version on every device.

OS X upgrade revenue is now such a minuscule piece of the pie that it probably doesn't matter anymore.
The second category he defined has a pretty good name: small and medium business.

He even mentions it in passing (as "SMBs").
Planned obsolescence has been Apple's standard operating procedure since the beginning.
Refurbished 13 inch Retina with 8GB of RAM - $1.059 (http://store.apple.com/us/product/FD212LL/A/refurbished-macb...
)

Refurbished 15 inch Retina with dedicated graphics - $1.599 (http://store.apple.com/us/product/FC975LL/A/refurbished-macb...)
I highly value education, but nothing beats jumping into the mix.
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Bundling the subpar pip actually solidifies the status quo and is in no way improving the situation. I think what made both Ruby and Node.js great is the flexible package management.
I haven't frankly, I was just going by their notes which state that it does not. I might give PHPStorm a go with the trail version on the Open JDK.
Maybe the Air is on the way out, being replaced by the iPad? The new one is called iPad Air after all..

With the recent price cuts and other changes to make the MBP more appealing to the general public instead of power users (no way to upgrade it, integrated graphics, thinner/lightweight), that seems like a reasonable strategy in a post-PC world.
If you're concerned about application compatibility, you can check out RoaringApps. They have a new table for Mavericks compatibility.

http://roaringapps.com/apps
Download the installer from MAS, it's a .app within which you'll find a `createinstallmedia` binary. As its name indicates, that binary can be used to create a bootable install media. Not sure it can create a DVD, but it can create a bootable USB key.
> Asics? There will be a flood of new coins.*

the rate of production is fixed, so no one would have predicted that.

asic would increase the difficulty level significantly though.
Dead code takes down another system. A perfect storm of failures that they made themselves. My gut feeling is that most trading firms could suffer a similar loss. Having worked for a 3rd party accounting management firm that kept logs for smaller traders I really realized how borked the whole system is. 60s era pen and paper stuff moving at the speed of light.

> Sadly, the primary cause was found to be a piece of software which had been retained from the previous launchers systems and which was not required during the flight of Ariane 5.

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/stephen_marshall/SE/Failures/SE_A...
Kindle HDX 8.9" a similar size, but 0.82 lbs (20% lighter)
Do you really need hundreds of GB of multimedia on your SSD at all times? When I got my first 60 GB SSD, it was painful, but cloud services are so much better these days. You can even get huge portable HDDs for hardly anything now.
I would argue that PPC does not have better features than BTC. But yes, either way, BTC for now is good enough.
I am quite excited to see another Iris Pro laptop. I have been disappointed in what I have read about the Clevo w740su (http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/721987-clevo-w74...). Hopefully we'll see more dropping on the market.
I think that it's most likely they want everyone on the latest OSX for the same reasons that it's good to have everyone on the latest iOS.

Whatever they're planning, getting everyone on board is obviously an important part of that.

I think the biggest thing over the last two keynotes is the iWork update - MS have been ridicuslously slow in the one area they could have won, which was bringing Office to iOS. I'm pretty sure this is the nail in the coffin.
I love SL and I was really hesitant to upgrade to Lion. When I did, it was weird but I got over it. Lion and ML feel so much faster.
Apple now only sells one laptop with discrete graphics - the highest end 15" retina MacBook Pro which starts at $2599. I didn't think we'd get here so fast.
do note that PCI-E flash storage is significantly faster than previous versions.

The only issue I have is, not Nvidia graphics options for the 13 inch models
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It's not data that fills the iPad, it's the all those 2048x1536 resources.

Retina apps are big, and are the reason why my iPad 2 is stuck on iOS 5 and that I've not upgraded a lot of apps. They're too big.
Another thing to consider-- older people may prefer a physically larger screen and not care about the resolution. That way, they get the "cheaper" iPad, with a 10 inch screen.
> The whole free OS which can only run upon hardware they have already sold you is reminding me of how IBM used to sell AIX and moved into giving it away free as it would only run upon hardware only they made and sold you.

On the other hand, once upon a time Apple made you pay for software which also run upon hardware only they made and sold you. Back before Snow Leopard, that was $129 per user (though installable on an unlimited number of machines)
I can easily justify spending upwards of $1500 on a machine I will heavily use for several years. But it's much harder to justify buying a $1500 laptop that could be stolen or spilled on any time I take it out of the house. (Just one "incident" is enough to finish my investment.)
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Why is the TSA magically exempt from sound systems-engineering concepts? You never explained that.
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I've wondered this for years as well. I would much rather see improvements in other areas then constant boasts about "thinnest" XYZ product.
You really think so? I think that implies that it remains unsuccessful, which (given its current trajectory) seems unlikely.

Oops. I meant "seen technically", not "seen socially".

I think it's more likely that in 10 years, Go will be the new Java.

I'd rather think of Go as the new C. :-)

Also, as far the "do more with less" and "no nonsense" stuff is concerned - have you seen the spec of Java on one side, and the specs for Go and Oberon on the other? There's quite some difference.
PCIe SSD.
The speed of the SSD is pretty fast. I've only got 4GB in my 2010 MacBook Pro and it's a lot quicker than my 2010 27" iMac with a faster processor, 1TB hard drive, and 4GB of RAM. Having said that, I would definitely get the 8GB.
Let's be honest: how many Thiels per Musk do we get? Somehow I fail to see the beauty in this alleged springboard.
First, PC/Notebook Industry hasn't been on the performance tracks for a few years already. Peformance/Watts is what matters.

Faster CPU with Higher IPC at Lower Power.
Much Faster Graphics. Intel HD 3000 is Shit. Even the 4000 is crap. Only Iris Started to be good. ( But not Great )
PCI-E SSD. I believe 2011 MBP doesn't have SSD as Standard yet. And this new PCI-E SSD is likely to be based on PCI-E 3.0 rather then 2.0 as in previous MBPr.

So Please. go and troll somewhere else.
I'll try it on Fedora on the Open JDK and see how it goes. Right now I'm using Sublime and love it, but many of my colleagues are encouraging me to try PHPStorm.
Interesting, not sure if its enough to make be upgrade but still. Weirdly when the 'ipad air' moniker leaked I figured they were going to a do an iOS version of the Macbook Air to capture the 'appliance laptop' market that the Chromebook and Surface 2 are gunning for.

The graphics and cpu boosts are nice (and nice that they are accompanied by a run time boost) but what about the camera? What about the sensors? Looking forward to the full appraisal post event.
Specifically a test a few days before launch when "It crashed after a simulation in which just a few hundred people tried to log on simultaneously."

But the government bureaucrats and perhaps political appointees in HHS' CMMS, which took on the role of integration including testing, evidently including this level of testing, launched anyway, after which the site locked up shortly after midnight....
Or Apple knew, but it didn't affect their timing at all. Apple only announces on Tuesdays, and there are only 5 Tuesdays in October - and we've known this announcement was coming this month for a very, very long time.

I sincerely doubt Apple gives one tiny hoot about Windows tablets when it comes to timing their announcements. A flagship Android tablet maybe.
>Can someone explain to me the obsession with "thinner"?

To explain this to you one would have to explain the concept of marketing.
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Agreed. Also lighter (0.7 pounds http://www.apple.com/au/ipad/compare/). It does mess up their line-up to push the mini two generations ahead. Maybe sales were lagging? Maybe they really wanted to standardize on A7 64 bit and rogue graphics? Regardless of line-up problems, it's a fantastic device.

I think the reason to buy an iPad 2 (or indeed an iPad 5) is for the larger display.
If you know of a shorter, more useful review, or are willing to tl;dr this for non-fanboys, please share.
Honest question: does it really matter? If you're obliquely referencing the holiday season, I have to think that the number of people for whom giving this as a gift is a viable option is basically a rounding error in Apple's customer base. I could be wrong, though.
It can: take a look at Tech Specs, it's listed (for 30hz): http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/
This is definitely for enterprise and school purchases. We have an educational app, Kodable, and a huge number of our users are still on iPad 2s. When you buy in volume, that extra $100 goes a long way, and, for better or worse, schools and enterprise don't always want cutting edge tech.
Bruno Iskill is just the scapegoat (of JP Morgan Chase).
No, because third party alternatives like AirParrot or Beamer work just as well and without the hardware restriction.
First i heard this i immidiately gone to apple.com/osx looked for iso download.

Yes i am naive like that.
I love how it's free for the "first time ever"...

... except before... I think it was... System 7.5? All new OSes used to be free for Mac and Apple II.
Sadly the first Core Duo's were 32 bit.

With that in mind, I can understand Apples motivation to move the whole line to 64 as soon as is possible.
The parent commenter isn't arguing the engineering feats required to achieve the extra bit of "thin-ness"; They're asking why that extra 2mm is so desirable in the first place. At the risk of sounding small-minded, I really don't see why today's phones and tablets should need to be much thinner than they already are. Sure, keep miniaturizing the internal components, but use the saved space for extra battery cells or storage. I'm not trying to fit a second phone in my pocket.
I think CodeCombat.com would do the trick, they just got accepted into YC w'12.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6593993

> No. FASB changes revenue recognition principles in 2010 to allow this type of update.
In years past there have been reviews of this review, would that count?
It's also not as useful on a tablet, so there's less hurry.

A phone is often in public spaces, and unlocked dozens of times a day. That's rare for a tablet.
These seem to be equivalent for the 13-inch:
http://www.asus.com/News/HdaKeDLi5GFAIrkE
What did I just read lol. I don't want to spoil my own fun... those fonts...
I think that's true for all the market, not particular to Mac. I don't think most people usually keep their computers for more than 2-5 years.
I totally agree. The new Mac Pro is plenty expandable, the expansion just happens on the outside.

I've had two Mac Pros so far. They're great, and I love the internal expansion... in theory. In practice, they never got any PCI cards beyond the graphics cards that came with them, and I used the hard drive bays more because I could than because I really needed it (e.g. keeping the old drive in the machine when upgrading storage and using it for secondary stuff).

About the only problem will be GPU upgrades a few years down the line. TB2 is not quite fast enough to make that a good option. But most Mac Pro owners don't upgrade that, and it's plenty good for storage and other PCI cards.
10.1 was also free for 10.0 users, though mostly because 10.0 wasn't really finished (some would argue 10.1 was not either)
Agree that I've had enough of Linux on the desktop. Windows is hit-or-miss for development, depending on language. Programming in Windows in C# is great. C and Java seem fine too. Programming Ruby on Rails in Windows is a tricky minefield, where things mostly work right until you hit a gem that doesn't build or run the same or something, or the 3 different pseudo-linuxes that you need are different in subtle ways.

What really turns me off from it, though, is the way Windows 8 is evolving, the small selection of really nice hardware, and the updating. Even now, there are still like 30 different apps and OS subsystems that all have their own update infrastructure and all want to update themselves on their own timeline, with assorted random app restart and system reboot demands. That's the main thing that I was really hoping Chrome OS could get me away from, but Mac OS may be worth a try - I haven't really used it in years.
Beautiful. Enough to make anyone want to become a manufacturing engineer.
Does anyone know what the airplane game they're showing here is? http://images.apple.com/ipad-air/features/images/performance...

I'd like to get it.
The iPhone login process is so broken it's sad. We can read about BlackBerry's grand strategic errors, but maybe it's simpler: they just forgot how to execute.
Apple still makes money selling the computers that are running free OS X Mavericks. Microsoft makes no money by giving away Windows 8.1 for free to consumers.
There are a couple of downsides which can you fix if you are aware of them.

One is overwork, because you are remote it's easy to work more hours than necessary trying to fix a problem. To fix this set a convenient and flexible work schedule for yourself. Try to maintain those hours, so you know you are off work anytime after those hours. You can also mix it up, work long hours some days and less hours on other days.

Another downside is friends and family will think you have all the time in the world, even though they mean well, they will often try to fit some favor into your schedule, like pick up the niece, the friend from the airport, help me move etc. You need to know how much you can help your friends and still be productive.
That's the argument I make when people say my Lumia 920 is too thick and too heavy compared to their iPhone or Galaxy, then proceed to take the case off their phone to show me the difference. The real difference is, my Lumia has been naked since day 1, and dropped many times over. It's a Nokia. Yeah, it's thick and heavy compared to an iPhone, but it also doesn't need a case. An iPhone with a normal case is thicker and heavier.
Each release I'm as excited (or more) to read Siracusa's review as I am to actually try the new OS. Keep up the good work.
Right. But the number seems very interesting. Almost every update you see a similar number. Power of Morse Law.
My understanding is that more RAM is a noticeable drain on battery life, if you don't need it... so making a (profitable, optional) upgrade for power-users keeps the baseline battery-life numbers and satisfaction higher for normals.
"Papers please" will disappear as they gradually roll out the bar code tattoos. Starting next year.
Revolution and innovation don't happy everyday, that's what makes them special and amazing. Expecting one company to be revolutionary and innovative once a year is expecting too much, once every ten years is probably expecting too much. Good incremental steps is not only expected, it's probably all that's possible.

Most people go through their entire life without thinking up something innovative, much less making it.
Initial reports from the GM tell of many improvements, especially the memory subsystem which aside from the possibly gimmicky memory compression finally stopped sucking and swapping for no reason because it couldn't handle its own caches correctly. Users on even high-RAM configurations (16~32GB) which would still end up swapping in previous versions due to memleaks and memory mismanagement report 0 swapping.
Yeah, all that's different is:

* new processor architecture (counting GHz isn't too useful any more, and it bursts to 3GHz+ anyway)
* faster memory (1600 vs 1333) (DDR3 vs DDR3L (whatever that is)) (edit: DDR3L sounds like lower-power-usage DDR3)
* newer graphics cards (intel 4000, "iris( pro)?", beefier nvidia)

Not saying they shouldn't have done more - I'm simply avoiding that debate entirely. But you're not comparing Apples to Apples, and even if you were they're still upgraded.
Inflation accounts for ~2/3 of the increase
With all due respect, I really hope HN doesn't end up turning into an Apple fanatic site as was the case on certain tech blogs a few years ago.

Also 2mm thinner warrants the "Air" title? I seriously think Apple are parodying themselves sometimes...

Disclaimer: I am not any sort of "fanboy", I own an iPad and an android phone because they seem to be most suitable for me in those areas, I just feel as though HN is getting a bit caught up in the "hype" of Apple today.
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No kidding. You didn't buy your laptop/desktop from Microsoft, did you? Maybe you should take up your claim for free Windows 8 with Lenovo/Dell/HP/Toshiba.
Timely's bezier curve clock animation, reverse engineered in Objective-C.
In many ways, the containers and generic algorithms of C++ may not be necessarily that efficient: http://datadraw.sourceforge.net
Either you can or you can't, and I've never seen Apple sell hardware without significant markup. If I had a complete part list I'd be interested in seeing the difference as well.
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Games can easily kill 16GB of storage, no matter what other media you might have on the device, and apps in general are bigger than they used to be with Retina resources. And "the cloud" really does me no good on a plane or a road trip or anywhere else fast wifi may not be available.

16GB is small enough to require active storage management, even for fairly casual users. It's becoming a real issue.
The 12-core configuration is conspicuously absent. $10,000?
Yeah I'm running a MBP 8.2 also (released February 24, 2011).

16GB ram

512GB intel ssd

1TB sata instead of cdrom

1GB AMD Radeon HD 6770M

I always got the next best mbp but since this one I thought I was always going backwards on certain things so I have not upgraded.
So a 2.5 year old laptop still has these advantages that are important to me...

- non glossy display

- I have 1.5TB storage now ( and can go higher now ) compared to the max 1TB that is offered now.

- I'm still on snow leopard , primarily due to the multiple fullscreen idiocy in lion and mountain lion ( but that might change now in mavericks)

My only reason to upgrade is that I would like the fans to come on less when I'm plugged into an external 30" display.
It's a little disappointing that the last 3 mbp releases are not, or making me thing twice, about hitting the buy button.
Yeah if by breakthrough you mean shits the bed. The reason OSX works so well is because Apple has a limited set of hardware they have to support vs the wild west of hardware that windows has to support.
I'll enjoy watching...

Rule 34?
> 1) This is industry wide, look at Intel with the soldered cpu in the next generation.

Your flagship point is not really comparable. That whole story was overblown when initially posted and on further inspection makes perfect sense as more things move off the motherboard onto either the CPU or other modules anyway.
I think TouchID and the new Mac Pro are quite innovative in their functionality and design.
Do we really need a front page story about every updated Apple product with a link to Apple's marketing for said product? When the brand new Nokia devices were announced this morning, they were flagged off the front page with people saying it wasn't relevant to HN. How is a minor incremental upgrade to an old product any more relevant?
Please note that the memory is built into the computer, so if you think you may need more memory in the future, it is important to upgrade at the time of purchase.

Sigh. I know I shouldn't be surprised, but... sigh. Plus, flash memory isn't even an option- if you want 512GB you have to go with the upgraded CPU too.
There was a graphic they had up too that showed this - I think it was 8x over the iPad 2 but I could be wrong.
You wouldn't even have to make use of the VID. If a sizeable group would just agree that "we're going to view this range as set aside for open source and start using it", no company would want to accept being assigned a VID in this range.
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I see it as an anchoring point, to move users upstream. For $100, you can have the newest technology. Perhaps we will see an iPad C next time around.
In light of the recent NSA revelations, I'd want to use Linux, not Mac, for an ephemeral offline OS.

Of course, Schneider uses Windows, so to each his own.
There is a ipython emacs frontend, but I'm not familiar enough with emacs to say if it would help at all.