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Couldn't agree more. Not launching the game controller or talking up some big new release, like Oceanhorn, whilst teasing the Apple TV gaming could have really put a dent in the somewhat-weak line-ups of gaming systems that are going big this holiday.

What a waste, Apple.
Among the apple products, the 11" air seems like a oddball option to me. Two things

1. For people who say it is like an iPad with a keyboard, I find that the iOS apps I use (games, camera, touch based things) are very different than those on the MBA (Developer tools + Adobe stuff). So not sure what the connection to the iPad is. It is not even touch enabled. How can you say you are getting an iPad/Tablet experience without touch??

2. I find the 11" pretty cramped (keyboard space and screen size) to be honest. Especially if you spend more than a few minutes working. Looks like you find it too, given you have to put in additional paraphernalia (keyboards, external disks etc.) to make it work. It also has a much poorer battery life compared to the 13" counterpart.
Single electrons make waves
For what it is worth, that is what Debian[0] seems to call it as well.

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
But Bitcoin isn't a currency for vendors, that is how the problem was solved. It is an investment strategy for consumers and a transaction method for vendors, but not truly a currency.

He was talking about whether Bitcoin will ever become a currency not backed by USD (or whatever) and postulating why that will never be the case.

Bitcoin is currently surviving off its liquidity, not its value as a currency.
And this is why I cringe every time someone puts:

#!/usr/bin/python

...at the top of their script instead of being specific like:

#!/usr/bin/python2.6

Developers need to stop assuming that /usr/bin/python is a specific version!

As long as that's done, and the packaging is done right, there shouldn't be any major issues for the vast majority of programs.
A MBP can be brought around to show how cool you are, a Dell Workstation not so much. Maybe if somene builds a handle for the Mac Pro borg cylinder. ;)
Man, I've been in your exact position before. It sucks. That's just an understatement. I hated it. When all you're holding on to is the comfort of money then I'd say it's over. My suggestion is to be open and honest with your client. Maybe they know you feel that way too. Since you're the only developer they know they need you. But I think if you both enter a conversation on how to improve the situation, you'll both be happier in the long term.

The best thing that has worked for me when I'm just spinning my wheels is to travel. Enjoy life and appreciate what it has to offer. Changing up your routine will allow your mind to do that. Think hard about what you want to do and live your life now. It's short.
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Not sure what you mean exactly, but in any case I know nothing about Java; my LAMP stack is :

Linux, Apache, Mod_perl, Postgresql

All very pleasant to work with (1) and stable; mod_perl has a rather steep learning curve, but worth it for web work. Very powerful _and_ low cost.

( 1 : if you like Perl, obviously )

[Edit] asterik in note caused weird formatting; replaced with 1
It feels to me like they highlighted the minimum amount of stuff they needed to get out the door before the holidays. Lets be fair - there was a _ton_ of stuff announced. Maybe too much which lead to the lack of flair and detail.

I do think they've announced major refreshes - it seems to me that many products brought in features that have been years in development (e.g. Touch ID, 0.5 lb off the Air, Mac Pro, etc). I'm not saying these things were huge - it's just that any kind of getting any kind of multi year effort to line up while still keeping the normal plane flying is really hard work.

I personally think the current lineup is really good. Sure there's a few bits missing (notably there are apps in Mavericks which missed polish and touch id needs to be everywhere), but it feels to me like each of their hardware lines are now at a really rock solid iteration.

Software wise, the lineup feels even more integrated if you're an all apple customer.

TL;DR - it feels like they're getting their lineup up to a solid level baseline before using that as the base for the next set of awesome stuff, but hey - I could be wrong :)
Here is a rule for how to level up your shell/editing game. If you ever touch your arrow keys, you are doing something wrong.

> ctrl + left arrow	Moves the cursor to the left by one word
> ctrl + right arrow	Moves the cursor to the right by one word

Alt + b and Alt + f are also aliases for the same action.
Your site has really weird scrolling on an iPhone 5S. Any idea what's going on?
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I'd post some comparisons, but it doesn't even exist on the Chile store. Crazy.
On a related note: It boggles my mind when people bring up Bitcoin as a way of doing distributed work, it is nearly the exact opposite of how you would want to do distributed work, increasing the duplicated workload tremendously.
That's an interesting thought. I think the missing piece is really the Apple TV playing games, and for whatever reason (maybe storage?), they just can't or don't want to make it happen.
I think there is something else coming still yet, maybe Q1 2014, maybe it was supposed to be ready now, but wasnt.
I do consider myself conservative. But I don't understand why some feel the need to "progress". Why not just live and enjoy your life instead of constantly wanting to progress to the future. Are you that depressed about your current life that you need to strive for technological improvements to make it bearable?

Would you still be able to live a happy fulfilled life if absolutely NO "progress" was made during it? I would.
Good thoughts here. I am optimistic due to things like raspberry pi and arduino becoming popular, but at the same time these things just feel like this generations version of building radio kits and model airplanes. Ultimately it's the data rather than the computation that's important.
dell workstation, HP notebook
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Better than newer T series? I've been looking into Lenovos because the keyboard is the main differentiator I care about on a laptop.
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Do you suggest to apply the Bayes' theorem to verify the result's validity? As compilers: TCC, LLVM Clang and GCC come into my mind.
It's worth noting that his name is pronounced "man-CHEE-nee", not "man-SEE-nee" (or at least that's how they pronounced it when I would watch the games last year).
They are still doing Steve Notes. Give them a bit of a chance to learn to do it another way. If anything, it shows how good Steve Jobs was at these things.

I know there is a "CEO must do these" thing, but I would prefer if they left the keynotes to Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi. The rest can appear in the videos.
Dropping a 4-16 byte identifier string into an unused portion of a binary is world's away from reading source code, solving the halting problem to determine exactly which part you want to backdoor, and then outputting a backdoor binary. Shit, gcc embeds its version string in every object file, that doesn't mean it's a trap.
LinkedIn just seems overwhelmingly sleezy to me. How do they keep getting away with this stuff?
I think the ambition on HN is generally

* Make another useless timewasting webapp
* Sell it for billions
* Solve world hunger, philanthropy, make the world all better again
I loved this comment, why is it being downvoted?
As far back and PowerBooks and my LC630 it was cheaper for me to fly from Australia to the US, buy one and spend a week there.

It's always been the case.
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i assume the context is "so i can make it and get rich".
>If people searching for Southwest Airlines on Google aren't ending up on the Southwest Airlines website without a huge great banner ad (despite it being ranked at the top of the results) then something is going badly wrong on the Google search results page.

Or maybe they are, and this is simply an example of a branding bonus/partnership for big spenders. We have no idea what the economics are and why.
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The speech slips really stood out for me at this event, kinda like they all had a quick beer before the show started.
Came here to say this too. It is this kind of in depth investigative work, that has genuinely taken time and smarts to achieve, is what I come to HN to enjoy reading. All credit to the author.
The lack of a new Thunderbolt (which I've been waiting for over a year) was the biggest disappointment for me, I'm not sure how much longer I'll have to wait but I definitely wont be getting their current obsolete models. If it doesn't come in December along-side the new Mac Pro's then I'll be shopping around for one.

But the new iPad's do look amazing. I was destined to get a new iPad mini if it came with Retina display and now it does at the same resolution (and even A7 chip) as the 10" no less! But then now the iPad Air is much lighter and smaller (which were my main issues with it), so now I have buyers uncertainty and have to physically go into the Apple Store to see which one I prefer. I generally prefer going for the 'best experience' Apple has to offer, and if the 10" stayed the same size and weight the iPad mini would've been a no-brainer - now not so sure.

The same with the MacBook Pro, I was going to get the new 15" MBP, but it looks like the 13" got the biggest upgrade and is the better value, and then if you're considering a 13" you'll also have to consider ultra portable 13" Air for max portability.

Personally my "un-ease" with the new products is that it seems to be less clear which products have the best value (well other than the iPad2-filler). It's nicer when the products you want get the best upgrades re-enforcing your decision, not-so-nice when the alternative models get the value/feature bumps - increasing the fear you might get the wrong one!
So the bait-and-switch begins.

There are a number of startups including Nitrogram, Olapic and Pixlee who seem to be doing well selling analytics, user-generated content, customer service tools and branded contests based on Instagram. Those business models seem like a much better fit for the platform.

Sad to see Instagram take the lazy route.
It's true for the entire developed world.
it was the size of the iPhone image. Reload :)
I readily agree that Australians generally pay high premiums for a lot of goods (having lived there myself at one point).

However, the cost of doing business in all countries is not the same. Doing business in Australia definitely costs more than the US. I know; I've done both.

There's also still the question of whether they would assemble the Mac Pros in the US and then ship them to Australia (if so, that would obviously cost more).

I understand the desire to have equivalent pricing, but that's choice by the company to eat additional costs or avoid market cannibalization.

I'm not claiming the 30% difference is entirely justified; but I suspect a 10-15% difference might be. In the end, if you believe it's not a fair price, don't buy it, or get your elected officials to fix it (which I believe they're looking into in general).
It seems like they realised that Craig's jokes went down well at WWDC/iPhone events so another presenter should try it too.

The whole presentation seemed too scripted. Most of the presenters are usually good but they were saying the wrong words and backtracking (your gor -beautiful example) all over the place.
When you start collage, you normally get a new computer. But otherwise I agree with your premise. A high powered desktop PC is no longer a status symbol for anyone compared with laptops, tablets, or phones.
Great idea. Is this focused on developers or newbies?
I redesigned the UI for managing domain names
Yes, it makes perfect sense, but it still feels wrong for me. I guess it is just related to the fact that I grew up with Matlab and not Python. I was kind of hoping I will get used to it but even after several years of writing image processing stuff in Python I am still not a 100% convinced.
Before Apple, Field was VP of Design & Engineering and CTO at Segway.
Not really. Some people call it "skunking" when one keeps changing the temperature of bottled beer, but it's harmless. Real skunking is exposure to light.
Aren't there laws in place about selling/sharing individualized personal information?

If not, then I think there should be so apps that simply want to use aggregated data will be allowed and will be guaranteed to be safe.
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The rated CPU speed is nearly meaningless for machine responsiveness or even bursts of heavy usage (Photoshop edits; compiling changed files) given the dynamic voltage and frequency scaling ("Turbo"). Both the "1.7 GHz" 4650U in the Air and the "2.8 GHz" turbo to the same peak of 3.3 GHz, have the same sized cache, same memory interface, same base GPU clock, nearly the same peak turbo GPU clock, and cost the exact same number of dollars. They are the "same" CPU, with different tuning for sustained thermal allowances.
No[1].

SPDY support would be a nice-to-have, but the problem with today's websites is that the vast majority of your resources are external; ad networks, like buttons, and so on. It's is great in the optimal case, but in the typical case it doesn't make a significant enough difference to bother supporting[2].

The other two issues (NavTiming and WebRTC) would be really useful, but for a minimum of web developers or applications, so I can understand them not focussing developer time on it. It'll come soon, but the Safari team was pretty small last time I checked so it's no surprise it's not a priority.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
[2] http://www.guypo.com/technical/not-as-spdy-as-you-thought/
I'm surprised anyone was expecting an Apple 4k announcement. The tech is not affordable yet. Apple is premium, but not that premium. They're not going to release a $3,400 monitor and hype about it at their event, when only 1% of people are going to be able to afford it. The monitor will be branded Retina, and their current Retina mobile displays aren't exclusive to the 1%, regular consumers can afford them.
will give it a shot today!

also--
the main "cloudcat" text in your <h1> is being cut off on the end. take the font weight of 500 and turning it off or just making it bold will stop it from being cut off.
I think what Marco is missing is Mavericks. Sure developers have known about it for a while as have the tech press but to the average consumer Apple announced a brand new operating system version yesterday, released it the same day AND made it completely free. That's a pretty huge announcement. Especially when it was alongside lots of updated and now free software, new iPad's and new Mac's.
I am just shooting into darkness, but would not it be easier to compile it twice and diff outcomes to find found out what parts are being changed so those can be ruled out?
ugh, yeah, I'm just a bit associated with it :)

I think our social media coordinator got a little happy with the options. For now disable JS to get a nice read, I'll see about getting that fixed.

EDIT: fixed, looks like last update of WP-Socializer introduced the bug. Disabled for the time being. Thank you and sibling poster for pointing it out.
So what part about the rMBP upgrade was fantastic? The part where they reduced the amount of RAM, or the part where they used Iris/Iris Pro graphics like every other PC manufacturer is going to be doing pretty soon? When Intel releases new CPUs, everyone starts using them soon after, how is that in any way remarkable?

If a person's in the market for a super high-res laptop, the new rMBP is still one of the best options, but personally I found this upgrade underwhelming.

So far Tim Cook is to Apple as Bobby Kotick was to Blizzard. He may be increasing profit margins, but he is clearly doing so to the detriment of the company's reputation, and to the detriment of the customers that made them what they are.
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Good reference on this technique:
http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
Change is often incremental. No one is suggesting you should replace your <1 year old iPad mini with the new model. To see how much tablets have improved, compare an original iPad with its original software to the new retina iPad mini running the current OS and apps.

NB: ‘What’s-his-name’ is Justin Long.
seriously? this is what Intro is? how is it not a bigger deal?people get upset over the littlest Facebook changes, but something this big barely shows up?
Deterministic builds are hard...really hard.

I'd have thought that deterministic builds are really simple unless your toolkit ecosystem is FUBAR. After all, a compiler is a simple function from input to output (unless the FUBAR ecosystem syndrome arises, as I said).
Good thing I use gmail.
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I have a 13 inch Acer I purchased in early 2011. Despite its low cost, the thing has run like a charm since day 1. I literally have zero desire to replace this thing at any time in the foreseeable future. It still runs 4+ hours on a battery, which is remarkable, since I use this machine more than 5 hours a day.

I have a desktop with twice the processing speed and twice the ram, but for all intents and purposes, it runs almost exactly the same as the little Acer. Unless I am playing a game or running illustrator, I simply don't need the power.
If you can't achieve C, you sure can use your money to achieve A or B.
9 to 12 hours in year one, vs 6.5 to 9.5 in year 3
"We know that effectively nobody browses the web on their Android tablets full of stretched-out phone apps."

Really? I use my Android tablet all the time and love it. So much so, I'm switching from an iPhone to and Android phone. In turn, this also makes using a Mac computer far less important for me.
> None of the pricing was a surprise.

I personally was very surprised that the raised the price of the iPad mini.
Jobs always seemed to express a genuine sense of wonder about what he presented on stage. And, given his personal history in technology, he could kind of pull it off in a sort of "who knew we could ever get here from two guys in a garage with a soldering iron?" sort of way. While I respect the current team, I'm not sure they can pull of that tone as well, and so I think these product presentations suffer a bit.

Otherwise, I didn't watch live, but I wasn't particularly disappointed or anything. Despite the hype, Apple events are always kind mostly dry affairs you can catch up on later with just a few minutes of reading. With the exception of new product line launches, which obviously can't happen three times a year.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to play cliche bingo as you so eloquently put it, nor was I attempting to start a religious war - because I don't honestly feel there is a religious war worth having. I think there's plenty of room in the market for Linux, and I think it deserves to be there. Desktop just needs its awkward corners knocked off and polished up a bit.

...and yes, I have programmed in C in my 20 year programming career - albeit closer to the beginning end of it than the present end of it... that doesn't make Linux any more user friendly.

...also, I never said I hate Linux, I don't hate it at all. I am just finding it remarkably frustrating as I don't find that anything is easily discoverable without a ton of digging and reading reams of information and blog posts - if, indeed, you can find the relevant items. If I hated it, I wouldn't be on my 4th distro in 2 months, I'd have given up and gone back to Windows... or bought myself a Mac.
10% more just for GST, some buffer for exchange rate fluctuations, and they also need extra to cover the more onerous warranty requirements in Australia. I'd expect all these costs to be around 25-30%.
They allow native res access now?
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"We know that effectively nobody browses the web on their Android tablets full of stretched-out phone apps."

this is false. android tablet browsing is substantial and growing fast. Looks like 25% in july 2013 in this graph, up from 15% in july 2012.

http://www.tech-thoughts.net/2013/08/reality-android-tablet-...
ah, i see, didn't realise the inbetween scaling was blurry. on the 15 i find the inbetween scaling pretty good myself.
Further to this point: the iPhone 5S event last month also had nothing but already known and completely predictable updates. There was no "one more thing". It even featured pretty much the entire same cast of presenters. It even had the more difficult task of selling prices that were much higher than the media and the market had expected.

But no-one seemed to think it was odd.

Plenty of people griped about the lack of the wondrous "one more thing"s they'd invented in their own fevered imaginations -- but it didn't leave people mumbling to one another, "did that seem weird to you?"
What's the difference between this and using an app such as Mailbox?
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This has been my project for the past few months, in one form or another. I'm planning on making a video to show just how easy and extensible this system is, as well as launching to a few small companies in the coming weeks. I'd love to answer any questions/take any criticism. Crocker's Rules (but that's a given around here :)
Right now newbies.

But the same principle applies. I want to broaden a bunch of programming skills (especially algorithms) largely on my own time but I'd like a human voice to guide and motivate me from time to time.

If this works out, we'll keep expanding.
Stayaway from Layaway
>> "An actuary finds a link between late night cell phone usage and mental illness X. They determine that given your cell phone usage pattern, you have an 50% chance of illness X. Such information is sold to insurance companies, employment background check companies, yada yada"

What scares me about this is that there is a place in the world having an illness affects your employment prospects and costs you money (insurance).
Yes that is a good step towards fully deterministic build.
There are ways to manipulate the PE file though to achieve slightly different behaviour.
If you want to be thorough and make sure that your binary was not infected by malware for example then comparing the binaries makes sense.
Apple's 30 inch cinema display originally retailed for $3200.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/06/28Apple-Unveils-30-C...
In soviet russia...

SCNR
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That's exactly what I'm disappointed with on everything new. The Thinkpad T60p, from 2006 remains superior on both points to everything new from my point of view.

While a very fine machine in it's day, the screen, battery life, processing power, disk speed, size, and lack of heat on a modern machine like the 13" Retina MacBook Pro are on another level. You're talking about 7 years of evolution.
Cool ... best of luck. As an intermediate/expert programmer in one language, it would be great to get access to an expert in language B. Certainly worth $100!
Intro doesn't have a waiting list.
Apple has never treated games much of a priority and it's always felt to me that the success of games on the iPhone/iPad has been a happy accident and they have no idea what to do about it, other than to continue to build great hardware and improve graphics tech.

If Apple was more of a games oriented company and concerned itself with the market I think we would have seen the controller API years earlier, actual gamepad hardware from Apple and a more powerful Apple TV with a games oriented App Store.