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I wouldn't want to have to use my fingerprint every time I unlock an iPad.
Wow, great response! I was wondering when someone was going to bring that up.
Not just yet, but that's on the roadmap for sure:
https://github.com/facebook/regenerator/issues/18
yes, once you download it, you can copy over the .app installer on a USB disk and use it to install on your other machines. You can also make a bootable USB installer from the .app

http://povolotski.me/2013/10/12/osx-mavericks-gm-out-bootabl...
While many people like to block Flash for content reasons, Apple's motivation is more about security and performance.

Or, more specifically, Adobe's lack of interest in addressing such issues in a timely manner; at least on OSX.
It's still kind of new for a lot of products. Macbook Pros that were released before the Retina MBP (16 months ago) could be upgraded.
Whereas the massive weight reduction is what will enable me to buy an iPad air instead of an iPad mini.

The larger device is far more usable for collaborative work than the mini, and the weight difference makes it far more portable.
“Before the end of the year” is important in this case not for holiday sales, but for 2013 tax reasons. I doubt even seriously rich people would be buying this as a gift ;-)
Meh. Takes too long. Plus the parts are to a fairly rare car so the market is not large.
OS X exists entirely to facilitate selling more Apple hardware. Apple has zero interest in giving anyone a reason to buy anything other than Apple computers (broadly defined from Mac Pro to iPod Shuffle).
Oh yes, you're right. They don't work just as well, they work better.

AirParrot has additional features like sending only one specific application window to the ATV and control over quality.

Beamer lets you seamlessly stream any kind of movie format you want and also gives control over subtitles.

Both work all the way back on 10.6. I don't suppose you could give me any advantages of Apple-branded AirPlay Mirroring huh?
I'm surprised you rate "The Spirit Level". I think it's a pack of lies, partly because of Chris Snowden's book but mainly Tino Sanandaji's many posts about it on his blog. The most devastating criticisms are

1. They use data from a UN report from a particular year. Except for one reference, they use a report from a different year. It turns out that this report contains data which supports their argument, but all the other years disprove it.

2. They use a mysterious sample of countries. When a larger sample is used, the effect goes away or reverses.

More generally, the whole argument is nutty. If you spot an apparent correlation, you have to come up with some causal mechanism. Inequality is supposed to somehow make people unhealthy, through envy or something... nuts.
I don't buy it - I don't know where the 500M lines of code came from but it seems absurdly high. Those are 33 linux kernels and a change.

I am not sure if so many LoC is even possible to be produced at such short time.
If you look back at their last decade or so, Apple only rarely releases revolutionary things. The bulk of Apple product releases have been incremental upgrades. We just forget about those more easily.
Lots of people have reported having to install that thing more than once.

When you installed it, after reboot, did you absolutely get a window saying it was successful? (for me, the window took 45-60 seconds to pop up, and it failed twice before it worked (didn't want to install on battery)).

Try reloading the updates section of the Mac App Store again, and again.
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Touch covers are a bad idea. That's why Apple isn't fooling around with them.
I take any "official" numbers from Apple with a gra...no, the entire shaker of salt.

There's probably enough external data to confirm that the iPad owns the real lion's share though.
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> And yet Bitcoin value continue to raise. If history repeats itself, we should see 1 Bitcoin levels at around $2,000.

It's 2007 I have a house I bought for $300,000 which is now worth $600,000, would you like to buy my house and in two years you will make another $600,000? If there's one thing about real estate in the last 10 years it's that it's proven all those naysayers like Shiller wrong.
If it's bugging you now, it'll bug you in the future. IMO you should deal with it head-on, soon.

Curious - why would you not have created a new company when you started working with this person, instead of joining their legacy company with the long-gone co-founders holding equity? What is the existing company organization bringing to the table if there was no product released, and now there is a product released with 100% your IP?
145g is about one-and-a-half iPhone5s.

People will notice.
Sadly first Core Duo's sucked so much that I spent way more time on G4 than on CD.
No problem where there are so many Apple Stores around with so many demo units they encourage you to use at length.

Who cares what it's called, walk into the store and play with them all until you find the one you like best.
Has anybody had any issues with homebrew, virtualenv, or prezto (zsh) after a Mavericks install?
Confirmed; the Canadian contingent of Automattic is a good-looking bunch.
But the iPad Air is still 40% heavier than the Mini. When you're holding it in your finger, the larger length levers it to feel much heavier from an angular pressure perspective.

It is an amazing device in either form, it just seems like at most they should be the same price when the more compact variant is every bit as capable.
Welcome to development with open source technology. It takes time and effort to figure out the best practices. There is no magic bullet, sorry. That's not meant to be snarky it's just the way the process works.
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I kind of like the idea of every government function has two independent providers that compete for funding, and citizens could choose which provider to use.

I'm sure that system would blow up in some other way, however.
The significant rise of the value of Bitcoin despite its volatility, for the last 4 years, has proven that the market doesn't care that much about volatility. Bitcoin is being adopted and growing regardless.
I suppose looking it up is completely out of the question.

(It's not a joke.)
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Recognizing scanned handwriting is much harder than allowing handwriting as direct input from a touchscreen.

"Online" handwriting recognition takes as input pen locations over time (strokes), and outputs the corresponding words. "Offline" handwriting recognition takes an image of handwriting. It is much harder, since it has much less information.
But that's hardly revolutionary, given that the HDX is ~20% smaller.
>Question is though, what about support. You have a 3 year old Mac of some flavour and upgrade to this OS, what about issues you may have.

I have a Macbook Pro 5,1 and only about three weeks ago did I upgrade to Mountain Lion from Lion. I typically wait a couple of point releases to make sure all the beachballs are resolved.

I do need real multi-monitor support though...
More materials and more battery. That's what you are paying the extra for. The larger device is better for collaboration and creative use whereas the smaller one is better for casual use and reading, but both are equally capable when it comes to choice of software.
That's similar to the stat that showed people with iPhones used their browsers more than people with Android phones. Apple may be pulling it out of their ass, but its not like there's not a precedent for it.
Maybe the extra step in the workflow prohibits HFT?
SSH on an iOS device is too slow to run something like video playback over. I'm hoping that IPSec will help fix that but there seems to be a lack of any good documentation of setting up IPSec in a roadwarrior config (using racoon).
We take pretty much everybody:
http://automattic.com/map/

(There are 14 Canadian Automatticians as of this writing.)
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Because some people have eyeballs to attract.

Just treat such discussion as a "tell" that someone is much more interested in having people listen to them than in having anything worth saying.
My thinking is that people don't carry their iPads around every single day like their iPhones.

You're much more likely to lose, or have your iPhone stolen than your iPad.
Like mobile operating system usage stats, whilst Apple with their iOS don't hold the largest market share, what they do hold is far, far more profitable to them.
Why do you think that an Apple stylus would be any less expensive or clunky?
"convincing enough people that the variant coins are worth something is hard. Very hard."

Somehow, people managed to be convinced that Bitcoin was worth something back in 2009. What makes the current situation different? Whatever convinced people that Bitcoin had any value in the first place might convince people that some new alternative you started this morning has some value.
"plugs partially inserted into non-recessed sockets present a shock hazard"

A definite plus! I like it.
Now brace yourself because this might blow your mind. How about switching it off.
I downvoted you because your comment adds nothing to the conversation. This is a rehash of comments you can find anywhere else on the Internet. Your subjective opinion is that you don't care for these products or find them interesting, therefore Apple products are a gimmick/scam/whatever?

And then you follow it up with the suggestion that people who disagree with you are "zealots" who are "suppressing criticism?" How the heck else would you have expected people to respond to an ad hominem like that?

You are of course entitled to your opinions. Feel free to post them. But as long as they continue to add little value to the conversation they'll probably get downvoted, at least until you say something with more nuance or insight.
"...the iWork update..."

This seems to be really powerful. I've been surprised, during the last two demos of iWork, at the lack of oohs and aahs in the audience when things like (last time) the web-based editing, and (this time) the collaboration on live documents were demo'ed.
The article mentions doing multiple passes with a box blur of different sizes. The author didn't see any performance improvement, though.
I'll second this one, I spent five years at a major consulting company working in large banks and insurance companies, and there was NOTHING agile about development.
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It would be great if the author has specified what kind of advice isn't applicable to non-VC-backed companies. IMHO a part of it is still relevant even if you don't shoot for the stars. After all every business (even the "lifestyle" one) needs some good practices to (at least) stay on the market and avoid the fate of an expensive hobby. Yesterday I had a similar discussion on the workshop with a group of SMB owners/managers (mostly experienced people running the business for many yrs - up to 30, but there were also a few startups). All of them were in real need for an actual change to either grow or keep up with the evolving market. We were working on their business models and I was using well known examples of companies as illustrations. One of the guys suddenly asked "Why are we talking about such big companies? We are not them." The answer was pretty simple - if you want to learn and get inspired there's only one direction to look - up.
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Apple is likely just quoting third party numbers which have been widely circulated and it's likely they're showing the more favorable NA numbers.

E.g. http://gigaom.com/2013/07/23/the-ipad-accounted-for-84-3-per...
I am not sure why there has to be a "war". McDonalds may be the largest burger 'restaurant' but that doesn't mean they are the best. I have a feeling anyone can make a better burger (or tofu burger) than McDonalds.

Sure, the "war" helps drive innovation. But, sometimes it's just innovation for innovation sake and not really providing value. Such as HDMI output on smartphones. I'm guessing less than 0.01% of people care about that one.

Anyway, I like my iPad/iPhone/OS X experience. I'm happy and that is all that matters to me in the end when I buy something. I had played with some Samsung products using Android (since I was going to port some of my iOS applications over) and I was completely disappointed. I passed that development onto someone else. :-)

Anyway, to each his/her own! I'm pretty sure more people buy Honda cars than BMW or Tesla and that doesn't mean BMW or Tesla are losing the car wars.
People love things to be a war, even if the "opposing sides" are playing a different game (quality & profit for Apple, market share for Google).
To type check Clojure idioms we use techniques that resemble light-weight dependent types. No particular attempt is made to go beyond the minimum required for checking certain idioms.

We can express lengths of sequences for example, but they only support explicit lengths: you can't put a type variable in the length position.
First hitch I've noticed with 10.9: "gdb" seems to be missing. Gcc is still there. I've looked around to see if there's another optional download that I'm missing (like a Command Line Tools for Mavericks), but I don't see one.

Looks like Xcode is using lldb for debugging, and I can use lldb on the command line. I guess lldb is now the standard 1st-party debugger? Guess I will be figuring out how to install gdb manually..
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Because every other tablet pc/tablet with a integrated pressure-sensitive stylus is much better than anything released thus far for the iPad by third parties.
There's a lot of focus on market share. Apple will never have the highest market share so it will never "win the tablet war" simply because of it's premium pricing. All the other competitors are essentially based on high-volume, low-margin strategies. Apple's strategy is based on low-volume, high-margin.
I actually got a recruiting email not too long ago from an agent that used AoL CaPs LiKe ThIs in his subject line.

I laughed. And then I deleted it.
Thank you for this response. If you don't mind me asking, why did you choose to start in Latin America? Was there some reason why your startup needed to be there?

I know that utility outages can be a problem, but I don't think it'll usually be that much of an issue. Guatemala has beautiful weather all year round (particularly the City; even high end houses rarely have air conditioning unless they're down near one of the oceans).

I understand not being able to surround myself with like-minded people. Honestly, though, I haven't really done that even in the States. If I moved to SF, then I might be able to do that kind of thing, but I'm not sure how important that would be.
Interesting experimentation doesn't mean a more useful product, and those devices do not match the build quality.

Whereas a 30% weight reduction and 100% performance improvement makes the iPad air far more useable in every situation
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I don't know what source they used for that or if the number is realistic, but even as an anti-Apple Android fanboy I find it pretty easy to believe there is a general truth to the idea that the sold to still-used ratio on Androids is likely much more divergent than it is on iOS.

Historically Android tablets have had support dropped much more quickly than iPads. I'm sure there are lots more Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich based tablets just sitting in a drawer somewhere replaced by shinier newer tablets running Jelly Bean than there are iPads which have a much higher "hand-me-down" or resell value even if the original owners move on to something newer.

Anecdotal:

I know a few people just now considering upgrading from their iPad gen 1, and not a single person who is still using a first gen Android tablet.
This dashboard is very nice to see what's happening in the bitcoin world, in real time : http://realtimebitcoin.info/
For what it's worth, the 'premium prices' argument is starting to sound a little dated.
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Speculating: maybe the Chinese like the audit train bitcoin naturally provides.
Ah, the old and false "holding" argument.

2 million coins have changed hands in the last 30 days: http://bitcoinity.org/markets/list?currency=ALL&span=30d And that is just on these exchanges, not even counting other places of exchanges (coinbase which is probably the 2nd largest coins seller in the US), or purchases (Bitpay signed up 10 thousand vendors!), etc.

If this rate is kept, the entire existent volume of bitcoins, a bit less than 12 million, would change hands in the next 6 months.

It doesn't matter if it is 1 coin changing hands 12 million times, or 12 million coins changing hands one time each. Volume is volume. And it proves that not that many coins are being hoarded.
Core i7s and Xeon E3s are actually very close in price. The E3 1275v3 is $353.99 and the i7 4771 (the same sans ECC) is $319.99, and the i7 4770K (no ECC but overclockable) is $339.99. The E3 1245v3 (100MHz slower) is only $289.99, and the i7 4770 (same base speed as the 1245v3 but one extra turbo bin) is $309.99. The E3 1225v3 (300MHz slower than the top i7s and E3s) is $224.99, only slightly more expensive than the i5 4570 ($199.99) which is clocked the same but lacks HyperThreading and ECC.

Your problem is in assuming that the Xeon E5s that are going into high-end workstations and servers are in any way comparable to the E3s and the consumer parts. They're not. The E5s have twice the memory bandwidth, more than twice as many PCIe lanes, and a minimum of 20% more cache (and cache sizes scale up with core count). The E5s admittedly don't have the integrated GPU, but nobody in that market misses it.
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When I was doing some development for some USB devices, I remember there was a VID/PID designated for development-only use. I can't remember what it was, however, and the company I was doing work for registered their own before the devices shipped.
When they announced the silly-sounding 'iPad Air' renaming I instantly got excited, hoping for some incredible, maybe 12", iPad Pro. While that left me a bit disappointed, it might be a clue that they're looking into making something bit bigger/more powerful - e.g. remember the iPad in the OR? I imagine there, for instance, a bigger/more powerful iPad could come in handy.

By the way, two (large-ish) hands fit on a 12" display beautifully.
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Perhaps the Linux kernel you already have installed, which presently has drivers for just about everything included and developed in a centralized, controlled fashion...

Whether this is actually better probably depends on your point of view. But loading (somehow OS-neutral?) drivers from a fixed store on the device seems like a great way to be stuck with out-of-date binary blobs forever.
Plus, the thing's the size of a grapefruit and usable as an impromptu flail.
The problem is not necessarily Waterfall, it's people's unimaginative approach to it. I've done plenty of projects for clients that wanted a Waterfall methodology, and I did it by writing the documentation and the prototyping code at the same time. In other words, Agile fits inside Waterfall. The requirements gathering phase in Waterfall projects is so incredibly long that you can definitely afford to make a prototype or 5. And you win huge points with your client when you're done with the requirements phase and get to say that development will take "only two months".

You have to treat prototyping as part of the requirements gather process. Then, when requirements phase is done, you have to treat "development" as really "testing". Because, for the types of clients that are going to insist on a Waterfall project, the final testing is really only a cursory user acceptance testing and they really don't have the skills necessary to determine if you've met their requirements or not.
Isn't 2.0.0-p247 the system ruby? My rvm install was p195; after running "rvm use system" it's now p247 (ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [universal.x86_64-darwin13])
s/pushback/moderation ? People not using technology is not really new, is it? Perhaps hyper-connectivity is, but people often ditch modern conveniences and "discover" life or whatever. I've used paper to design every piece of software I've written in the last few years.

I got my phone stolen a while back and ended up using a simple phone for a few days. It was amazingly refreshing to not constantly check email or read "news" when bored. Firing off quick emails all the time isn't any more efficient, and really detrimental to my mind. Unfortunately, I can't seem to convince other people to pace themselves.

Get a low-end Android phone and connect it to a separate email account (for travel documents or whatnot). Maps and Wikipedia will function, but it'll be generally useless as a time-wasting device.
If it's anything like the current offering, mirroring via AirPlay to an Apple TV, it will be useless. There's a very noticeable lag. OK for presentations but as a a second monitor it would be dysfunctional unless they put in a lot of latency work. I hope they have.
Why not use this cease and desist letter to file a RICO Act claim against them?

If they can't responsibly offer their product without revoking it for simply using it as intended, they are racketeers. The Open Source community has not broken any legal agreements in simply publicizing the idea of a shared VID. The USB Forum are completely in the wrong for their behavior.
I was just randomly traveling around, this was in 2005 and I was contracting and able to live anywhere I wanted, fell in love with this part of the world and a couple of the women, and had myself a half-nicaraguan, half-australian, costa rican daughter which is my main reason for opening my next office here.

I didn't "plan" to build a startup as such, I built something and it became popular.
Doing a quick look at Google Analytics for a few sites I manage and segmenting the traffic with Google's built in segment for Tablet traffic, I show that about 79% of the tablet traffic comes from iPads.
The firmware update gave me a success message after I had installed it, and I don't see it available again in the updates. So no luck there.
That couldn't be a less accurate description of Firefox OS.

aimed solely at content consumers: No. FxOS phones can't do as much as a Nexus 4 or iPhone, but they aren't meant to compete with those. Mozilla's targeting emerging markets where most people don't have smartphones or maybe even computers at all. At $80 unsubsidized, the ZTE Open is approaching feature-phone price and it can do a lot more than a feature phone (and will do more still once FxOS matures).

neutered only to run web browsers: It has full-fledged apps. Using web technology under the hood isn't the same as running in a browser.

NIH development environments: You can't get much less NIH than adopting the web itself, which everyone already uses and develops for, as your platform. If you look in the Firefox Marketplace, many of the apps you see now are web apps, written without FxOS in mind at all, with maybe 15-45 minutes of effort to package them for the marketplace.

tied down to specific languages: There are hundreds of languages that compile to JavaScript[1], and some, like ClojureScript, are already seeing real-world use in commercial apps[2]. With Emscripten, you can use any language that compiles to native. There are performance and debugging challenges but they're getting addressed with efforts like Asm.js and source maps. In 2013 you don't have to write JavaScript to use the web as a platform.

1. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

2. http://keminglabs.com/blog/angular-cljs-weather-app/