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I'm sure it would benefit people in a few generations time. The issue I have with it is that I don't want to be forced to pay for it by my government.

I would rather not force the public to fund scientific research.
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Just in case someone (like me) is not familiar with the concept of deterministic builds, this is a good read:

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-o...

Synopsis:

"deterministic builds" -- packages which are byte-for-byte identical no matter who actually builds them, or what hardware they use.
The retina display on the 13" MBP actually results in less application real estate at native resolution than the 1440x900 on the MBA. It's also half a pound heavier, more expensive and with significantly poorer battery life. In my opinion, the 13" MBA is the best laptop Apple makes, and is the best computer I've ever owned.
Oh god, not this conversation again.
why would I want an ad for the term "Southwest Airlines"?

If it pushes southwestsucks.com or something similar off the first page of google results it has some value.
Here's the best "malicious" reasoning behind this that I could come up with. Consider the following list of _hypothetical_ statements (as I have no research to back it up):

1. Users tend to ignore the small ads on the right (anecdote: I do)

2. Users do notice and click on search results beneath the top query, even when they originally intended to arrive at their exact branded query

3. Search results beneath the top result are for competitors

Solution: Put in huge "ad" to draw attention and also to knock competitors listings to the very bottom of the screen or off the fold completely

If 1-3 hold true, then I could see it making sense competitively to shove those other results down the page.

Edit: aresant pointed out a good article that could explain the intent. Yay! Also, it wasn't my intent to hate on Google, just a thought experiment.
At this point, I wouldn't mind them coming out with a new form factor for the MacBook Air with the same screen from the iPad Air. Lots of pixels and a 3:4 ratio[1].

1) Truthfully, a retina 11 1/4" 3:4 Macbook Air would be a dream
but the video is so loud!
At this point in the game, I'm expecting battery life to become the primary point of the Air, rather than weight and size alone.

Many people don't need all the high-end specs of the Pro, but they definitely want battery life.

I'm anticipating that the future of the MBA line either includes a shift to Intel Atom processors or a line of Apple ARM chips.

If they go with ARM, my gut tells me that they will either run iOS on these new MBAs or a version of OS X that only runs apps sold via the App Store. That's why I'm guessing they'll go with Atom (or whatever Intel is offering at the power-sipping end).
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You are implicitly basing your argument on the assumption that the 84% the poor are NOT spending on food is not mostly going to other necessary things, such as housing, clothing, heating, transportation, or medical care.
That is an interesting note, but if the business is using Gmail (http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/products.html) maybe that's because they trust Google's services. Trusting one third party doesn't imply that you trust all third parties.
I still use Facebook on old iPad 2. And it goes faster as the same day I've bought it.
Because the author is critical of Apple, it's link-bait? The title is hardly sensational.
Is the battery life that big of a deal? It's something like 9 hours to 12 hours (or something close) for MBP vs MBA. I just don't see that as a major difference - it's not like a 1.7g vs 2.8g CPU.
Stuff like this was my concern, as well. What if my 3 year old and I are Googling "Apple" while we go through the alphabet? Or what if I'm looking for airlines that service the southwest? If I'm a teenager searching for Tesla as part of a school project, should a car brand get to own the majority of that initial experience? (Answer, yes, if the price is right for Google.)

This is Google selling out their initial vision (the little that's left of it) just a little bit more. Which is disappointing to me personally, but they certainly don't owe anyone anything. They can do with their SERPs as they please, just as I can do with my search queries what I please. They were so good for so long, but ask any SEO worth their salt what they think of Google. They'll tell you those days have been over for some years now.
The author is a moron. The MBA is a much better machine for the average user and their pricing reflects that. As a developer, I would take the 13" MBA over the MBP. Also the author forgets the 11" Macbook Air.

This is just dumb. I don't think the author understands how business works, or more specifically how Apple works.
The main difference seems to be that today even getting the top organic search result doesn't provide enough clicks for advertisers, so they feel obliged to purchase ads for their own brand names even when they already rank first.

It should be noted that this instance is simply a test and should not be taken as an indication of how these ads will be purchased. While I'm sure there will be numerous advertisers who feel the need to have a large banner when their specific brand is searched for, I expect them to be in the minority. The real question is will I be seeing a banner for Southwest when I search for JetBlue.
I'd like to hear more about your experience working on the 11", when you're away from the external display. Are you cramped because of the resolution? Keyboard and trackpad?
If you travel a lot, every half-pound matters.
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Pixel art is a disaster on Retina. It's rare but I could see an indie gamer/game programmer going for the bigger pixels of the Air.

I'm sure there are other applications that also don't translate well.
>Jeez.

I was just about to say that about your response. All I said was that if everyone adopted the "good enough" attitude, innovation might have stopped before we ever had computers. You somehow used that to call me a smarmy scumbag. Are you somehow related to the author?
iOS 7 is bad, but when you put it all on a page like this it becomes straight up nauseating.
I think people are pissed off with PCs.

They bought a windows machine for what to them is a lot of money (more than a iPad), it didn't last long before it slow and it's got extra toolbars and all sorts of rubbish. What's worse is that this happened last time they bought a PC and the time before and the time before that. They are not going to add a SSD because that's not how they think + they don't how + it's throwing good money after bad + they are dubious of the benefits.

The iPad in contrast exceeded expectations and in the year or two they've had it they had a better experience. They can't get excited about a another windows machine because it's expensive, more of the same and not worth it really.
Yes and was underwhelmed (though the UI is greatly improved). Does not appear to support PSD files at all, for one thing.
What made you think the author is critical of Apple? Apple cannibalizes themselves all the time. It's one of the great things about them, that they're not afraid to do it.
As the proverb says, "If you don't cannibalize yourself, your competitors will do."

Maybe off-topic. Sorry.
He is doing his compare against the 13", the 11" Air is 2.38 pounds. It matters for me. I had an Air and now have a Pro and it is a bit of a pain. Also, the whole bag is more weight since it is bigger than the 11" version.
I'm using Firefox 24 for OS X and the vertical bar with social media buttons floats over the center of that site's content, making it unreadable.
Dude, civility.
The battery life estimate on Apple's site is 9 hours for the 13" Retina MBP and 12 hours for the 13" Air. The Air will run longer, but they probably both run long enough.

Eric Griffin seems to have different needs than I do. The relevant comparison for me is 13" Air with 256GB flash, 8GB RAM, 1.7GHz i7, and 12 hours estimated battery life for $1,549.00 or the 13" RMBP 256GB flash, 16GB RAM, 2.4GHz i5, and 9 hours of estimated battery life for $1,699.00. (Haswell i5s have hyperthreading, so the upgrade to the i7 does very little). This is $150 for twice the RAM, a great display, and 3/4 the battery life. It really does make the 13" Air seem silly.
What are your specific reasons, why would you take the 13" MBA over the 13 MBP?
I like the commands, especially the ssh one, which I didn't know before and will certainly use in the future.

I also enjoyed the format of the article. A whole dev team each contributing their own piece to a blog post provides a lot of different voices and styles in a concise way.
This doesn't seem to be the case, and I kind of trust the EFF, given that they're a bunch of lawyers and have experience in this kind of thing. The "winner pays" thing alone seems like it would go a long way towards stopping frivolous patent lawsuits. Why do you think that it changes nothing?
so tell us, how does it work then?
Can't believe I didn't find any alternative before. This will be great for uploading assets when I just feel like blogging on iOS. Good job!
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I think the screen and trackpad are the same size for all MacBooks.
Yeah I know it's awful, if my Celeron 450Mhz could play DVDs at no effort, I don't know why this can't play videos on 5-10% CPU and not spin up the fan.
Hah, widgets is the feature which makes Android great for me. I don't need to open each and every app every time to see the state and I can see multiple things right on my homescreen at the same time. It's so much more than "lot of clocks". In fact lock screen widgets are even better since I don't even have to unlock my phone to see widgets and updates.

I suppose the app drawer concept is the same between iOS and Android and I get an option - (which is important) if you don't like having multiple homescreens, you can just disable it. I can arrange all work related apps and widgets on left homescreen, all personal on the right. And all the other apps remain in the drawer. On iOS, I don't get this option.
Well, I was pretty committed to getting an Air as my travel machine, as I am building a desktop at home but still need something portable, and the performance gains of the small Pro have me reconsidering, plus the Retina display is such an upgrade for me (although I am still leaning Air, mainly for the 11'inch model).
The weight and size difference is negligible.
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PHP changes were mostly, but not completely backwards compatible. There were a few corner cases were you'd get problems, but the majority of code would run fine on both systems.
> was most likely born
I take it you just posted this comment for fun and didn't RTFA? That was the whole point; the author answered the question of how the tradition was born, down to the person and year.
I'm not able to create the author's specced out 13" MBA on Apple's site right now, I can't find a way to get the 512GB SSD.

I also think the price comparison is disingenuous, as you have to opt for Apple's very expensive upgrades to get even close to the price of the MBP.

The MBP is also upgraded, but the SSD upgrade (most important IMO) comes stock in the MBA, and adds at a minimum $200 to the MBP. Much more if you actually go with the 512 GB as the author suggested.

The stock MBA is plenty powerful for your average user, and hundreds of dollars cheaper than the MBP.
Oh jeez. It's almost like there's a certain ... legendary source of charisma and showmanship missing. Give the hand-wringing a break. Steve Jobs could have changed his wardrobe and people would say it would have had an impact on the feel of the presentations. Now the guy's dead. Of course they're different.
It's arguable that queries like [southwest airlines] are even a search. The vast majority of instances are probably URL-illiterate users merely trying to get to Southwest Airlines' web site. (And Google must know rather precisely just how many.) For these users, search is really operating as a natural-language alternative to DNS so such a clickable banner will help them get there.

If Google would only show Southwest Airlines ads when I searched for [southwest airlines], I might agree. But they won't - they'll let Delta, Orbitz, or anyone else buy that spot (if Google's behavior with other flavors of AdWords is any guide).

Its an ad. No need to rationalize it away as actually being a good thing for the user. Its just a (huge) ad, which hopefully (for Google) won't damage the utility of their product enough to drive too many users away.
For me the most notable parts of the whole event were the software-related announcements. Nothing about any of the hardware was in the least bit surprising. My notes:

- The Mac Pro is still not available. I don't believe it's ever been like Apple to pre-announce something this far out.

- The iPad update was the first not to make me want the new one. I'm perfectly happy with my iPad 4 and see no reason to update yet.

- An iPad Mini with a Retina display is nice, but I've never been attracted to that screen size so it doesn't do much for me.

- There was no "One more thing..." or anything more surprising than them making all of their consumer software free.

- There were brief mentions of new versions of both Aperture and FCPX, but that was it. I only found out later that the Aperture update is just a small dot update and now requires Mavericks.
It was expected, especially after those articles showing how Instagram has been used as a selling platform on Middle East[0].

[0] Just one of them: http://www.digitalks.me/social-media-marketing/instagram/how...
Because "cannibal" has a negative connotation.
Some people prefer the 11' MBA for portability and perhaps the MBA still has more battery life: 12 hours potentially 14-15 hours with Mavericks while the rMBP is announced at 9 hours. However, I think you would eventually be right, rMBP and MBA might fuse into one product in further generations due to their rapproaching similarities.
Battery life is a way bigger deal than a 1.7g versus 2.8g CPU. My 2010 MBA with its circa-2008 CPU (Apple hung on to the Core 2 Duo for a long time) is plenty fast for me, even for development work. At this point, I'd much rather have a machine that I only had to charge once a week.
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It's true, there are some issues, but Retina is amazing for the day to day. Being able to see the pixels that constitute a glyph or image has become distasteful to me.
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Do you have any references for the approach that you recommended? You're saying that differentiation (not even just numerical differentiation) is "not something you want to apply to real-world data" ... This is surprising since differentiation obviously is used in the real-world in some very critical applications.
And if you read each, it says only when using CORS.
I'm still leaning Air for the battery life and 11" option, but the new Pro had me considering it, while before, it wasn't even on my radar. Adding a retina display to the Air would remove one of the things I'd like, but that likely won't come until there is substantial battery improvement elsewhere, I'd bet.
He's not wrong. The presenters kept saying slightly the wrong words and having to go back and correct themselves. The constant untucked-shirt comments were painful, and completely out of their usual presentation style.

The Mac Pro is absolutely hilarious in it's pricing. When converted back to USD, it's almost 30% more expensive in Australia for absolutely no understandable reason. The fact that it wasn't released is very strange too, along with it's very vague "December" date. Makes me feel like they expected to be releasing it but ran into problems with their process.
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Yes, everything can theoretically be reduced to statistics. Next time I build a web app, I'll first design it from the ground up using a Turing machine ticker tape, since all computation can theoretically be reduced to a Turing machine. What's the point of bothering with JavaScript?
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True, apologies, but my main point about the idiom still stands - it means to strive for, which means both wanting and trying.
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Android users in their mass are less willing to buy apps (pay for something they cannot touch and that is available for free via "alternative sources"). Especially in developing world, and that is a lot of the Android market share
I use an 11" Air as my full-time machine. The keyboard (and, I believe, the trackpad) are the same size as the 13". I rarely find myself cramped by the resolution. A little bit more vertical space would be nice, but I can comfortably fit two 80-column text buffers side-by-side or do light image editing work without any trouble.

Easily my favorite computer I've ever owned.
A half pound sounds like nothing, but the air is about 15% lighter than the 13" which is pretty significant.
How do you know that Google is not doing all this as part of the Android OS? Or any other app on your phone that requests network access?

Secondly, why would you care?
If you look at this from a retailer perspective this completely makes sense. Important boss man at 'Acme Widgets' wants to type 'Acme Widgets' into Google and see something impressive, with some control over it. He can now pay for the advert with Google rather than pay a bunch of SEO clowns and 'web designers' that typically go over-clever with the homepage design rendering the top search results useless.

Important boss man also wants to get good results for 'acme blue widgets', 'tough widgets Alabama', 'naughty widgets' and whatever but only really cares about those secondary searches when someone else has told him to care about it. It is the main company name, in the search box that matters.

I think this is going to work well for all concerned and I don't share the cynicism most people seem to have about this.
I got a job offer from Google that started from them finding my LinkedIn profile. That said, I despise them more than any other major website. Their entire business model is holding the information for ransom that you provide them to make available to the business world. I'd love to see a YC company replace them, or do so myself.
This is a really good looking ad. Do you know what the problem with ads like this is? They don't work. Ads that don't stand out, that blend into a seamless UX that allows a person to navigate a content company's media platform quickly in a goal-orineted manner; they don't fucking work. They get ignored.

So the marketing company or the sales dept turns up the juice a little bit. They allow them to stand out a little more. They give them special bells and whistles the user created content doesn't have. They let them animate, float over content or auto play video or sound.

Why? Because it makes the product a little better for the customers: the advertisers. Instagram, just like their Facebook overlords, are now in the business of making their product as good as it can be for the advertisers while keeping the users just happy enough not to leave.

I really dislike this cycle in the startup world. I don't know a good way around it. I'd like to see someone disrupt that.
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The author does not do a fair comparison in price... The Air costs $1299 for 256 Gb SSD with ~12 hours battery life the 13-in Pro is $1299 with 128 GB flash and ~9 hours of battery life. The pro's advantage is Retina display and better processor, but let's get honest, who needs more than a dual core 1.3 GHz for most stuff? The battery life is worth the decrease.
I actually sold my 13" Retina MBP and bought an 11" Air and I'm happier. Hard to believe but the portability counts for a lot.
Not if you run your retina display in it's native resolution, which I do (2880x1800 and everything is tiny as hell!)
Can't believe nobody mentioned this, but for me the Air is still the winner because it has more usable screen space.

The 13" rMBP, while nice, only has an effective resolution of 1280x800, which I find to be unusable.

With the Air you get 1440x900 at a DPI that's still pretty nice.
I really don't see the need for the Air at this point except to go to the eleven inch size. The 13s are just to close in price with Pros and the Pro has such better resolution for very little more.

The disappointment I have with Apple is that I have to start with the top of the line FIFTEEN inch Pro to get discreet graphics. (non Intel).

That half pound difference won't even be noticeable to me, not with everything else I cram in my case.
The 11" Air is the ultimate hacker computer. I take it everywhere because it's so small and light. That I can be hacking within moments wherever I am is too appealing for me to consider anything else.
I completely agree. I wasn't trying to say that PCs aren't dying, I was just trying to contend the notion that power users make up a significant portion of the market we're talking about. In fact, I think tablets directly show that the vast majority of consumers don't need powerful hardware, because tablets aren't very powerful machines at all.
Does this mean we're any closer to New Relic support for Tornado's async api? Thus far, New Relic has only supported WSGI apps. [1]

[1]: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/python/python-agent-and-torna...
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Also the build is not deterministic yet, even on his own machine he got some differences in truecrypt.sys between successive builds. By definition the build is not (yet) fully deterministic then:

"Using the same source and same project directory results in the same pattern of difference in the block starting at 0002CBAC, as the pattern shown between my build from the correct project directory and the original file. This means that this difference is a normal result of the compilation process, and can be considered harmless from our point of view"
Kevin's great. I got to know him after he came to present at HackerDojo and did a heck of a job -- extremely helpful guy!
Part of the reason scans cost so much is that medical imaging businesses are essentially a cartel in many states, thanks to so-called "CON" laws. In states where these laws are in effect, you can't just buy a CT scanner and set up your own medical-imaging business; you have to get a "Certificate of Need" first that certifies that there's unmet demand for imaging services in the community. To get this certificate, you have to go to a local committee, whose membership is primarily made up of the existing medical-imaging businesses. This effectively allows the existing businesses to form a cartel in restraint of trade to keep prices up, a cartel which, if it were not protected by specific state law, would almost certainly be in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

This is only one example of how the medical industry has been ripping Americans off. And, before you say anything, PPACA does nothing to bring this system under control; in fact, it perpetuates and extends it.
For me - data entry. Form-based software takes too long to fill out. With a spreadsheet, I can import csv files or copy and paste data easily. Developers often talk about Excel being misused as a database, and I think the root cause is the same - spreadsheets provide a very friendly user interface for adding and editing data.
Do you even know what swapping is? The whole idea of swapping is that the OS pages out memory without the application being aware of what's happening!
My main complaint with the 4 is that it was too thick/heavy, and I'm glad that the iPad air (wtf, we're still going to call it iPad 5) is thinner/lighter.

I'm still using a 2, because it's Good Enough.