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No, it’s not, not really, at any rate. (The way Apple defines it, a retina resolution is simply a resolution where individual pixels are not visible to someone with normal sight at a typical working distance. I think it’s a quite useful definition and I really want to use it outside the context of Apple products. I want to steal this trademark from Apple by turning it into a generic term. For example, at typical viewing distances 1080p TVs are retina screens. That means going to 4k for TVs isn’t really worth it unless you plan on getting a much bigger TV or sitting closer to your TV. But the following text will focus more on the technical aspects of actually making retina happen with OS X than this nifty definition of retina.)

Apple does quadrupling of the size of its UI (on their MacBooks and iOS devices) when switching from non-retina to retina.

Consequently even 4k is not really enough if they want to replace their 27" display. That 27" has a higher (physical and logical) resolution than 1080p and quadrupling turns a 4k display merely into (about) a 1080p display when it comes to its logical resolution.

You gain all that resolution but lose all that space. That’s in many ways an icky tradeoff. Yeah, Apple has a hacky way that increases the logical resolution, but it’s also an icky tradeoff. The UI is rendered at an higher resolution (quadrupled in size and all) than the display can show and then down sampled to display size – but that costs performance and also leads to slight blurriness.

Both are not very big issues (the Mac Pro should have enough performance to handle it and this is really more an issue on portable devices – but maybe you can cause issues by connecting multiple 4k displays; the resolution of those displays is so high that the slight blurriness is not very visible) but are also not optimal.

OS X simply is not dynamically scalable. It’s quadrupling or nothing. And that works very well, but it’s not as flexible as dynamic scaling.

Realistically Apple could go for a 4k 24" screen (where having merely about 1080p logical resolution would be acceptable) but I’m not sure if they want to.

But going even higher than 4k? To 5120×2880 (that would replicate the logical resolution of their current 27" at retina resolution)? I’m not sure whether that’s realistic or even possible on that machine.

As can be seen on the 13" retina MacBook Pro, Apple is willing to make icky tradeoffs in favour of less logical resolution (despite being their top of the line 13" it has a lower logical resolution than the non-retina 13" MacBook Air).

But it just seems that when it comes to the Mac Pro they currently don’t want to play ball at all. It will be interesting to see how they handle this.
To be sure about who knows what when you use TOR, there is this excellent EFF article [1].

[1] https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https
I'd love to see MBA programs require a class called something along the lines of "Minimum Viable Business Guy". Coming out of that, an MBA grad would be able to pass the following standard "MVB" test from any potential partner:

1) Open up Github for Mac </question>
2) What does MVC stand for, and why will you never touch
M or C until you can demonstrate you won't f*ck up V

</test>
Another stupid NSA comment. Well, since you made the joke... I would bet that it is legally easier for the Chinese govt to get to your data, and they might be willing to share some of it with our govt for the right favors.
There's a legal agreement to even look at the images.
Basic guidelines of "no using the old UI widgets (grey keyboard, old tabs, old back arrows)" and, old by now, supporting iPhone 4 and iPhone 5+ screen sizes with optimized graphics. Same goes for iPad except there's only one resolution to support even though it comes in two resolutions across two sizes.
Can you explain your workflow? I don't understand why people would use tabs in a text editor. Do you open a file, edit it, and then close it after you're done?

I currently have more than 4,000 buffers open in Emacs and I switch between them instantly using fuzzy matching. I rarely kill buffers. I just leave them open.

I'm interested in other workflows and I'd appreciate it if someone would help me understand how tabs can be used effectively. Thanks.
Then there's also humidity, altitude and who knows what else.
You are right, it does better: it discovers the goal on its own.
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It's disappointing to see that cstross feels the way he does about certain things. He's one of my favourite authors, and I just hope that knowing how far apart we are on some issues doesn't diminish my ability to appreciate his fiction. At least it's nothing like Orson Scott Card, where my disagreements with some of his opinions mean that I basically have no longer have any interest in reading his works at all.

So, Charles Stross hates Bitcoin because he things a market for drugs is "hideous". sigh. I think that a market for drugs is, while not necessarily desirable, inevitable, and that free individuals should be able to choose what they do or don't put into their own bodies.

Assassination and child pornography are Bad Things to be sure, but Bitcoin doesn't cause either and both are going to exist with or without Bitcoin. I don't get arguing against a mechanism that supports basic free market exchanges, just because a few bad actors can use it to do bad things. You can't engineer your way to a perfect world, given human nature.

Tax evasion? Good. Taxation is theft. If I need to employ technological solutions to protect my money from the government, then so be it.
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unless your following lean startup the business guy has an idea expects the "computer" guy to put in tons of hours upfront why he adds little to the equation.
I've had to rewrite lots of SQL queries (for Postgres) that an intelligent database should have just handled for me. I'd prematurely exclude certain columns that it could be mathematically proven from the query I would never need and see amazing speed-ups.

(I'm not picking on Postgres, it's a wonderful DB, but you need to understand how your tools are working.)
And when you burn the algae sourced synthetic kerosene and algae sourced O2 in your rocket engine (or whatever you're doing with it) you'll run out of water. And its dumb to ship unprocessed water up into space if you can use cheap earth based refineries to ship the same weight of highly refined fuel. Keep those heavy refineries at the bottom of the gravity well unless you have a really good reason to hoist them up.

So that was the origin of my idea that this isn't going to scale in space "in general". I'm told Europa has a lot of water, other than the whole lack of sunlight thing, I could see Europa as the "fuel tank of the solar system" in the future. Maybe it could be economically viable to mine comets and turn them into fuel while they're near the sun? Or mine icy asteroids?

I think you're going to overall have more trouble finding water in space than energy.
If you don't use capital letters at the start of sentences, it makes it much more difficult to read. People who read a lot, tend to read whole sentences at a time, so clearly marking the beginning and end of a sentence is important.

I didn't bother reading through what you had to say simply because I'm a little tired and you deliberately made it more difficult for me.
Personally, I really enjoy just building my own computer.

It's very easy, much cheaper, and extremely fun.

For $3,000 (Mac Pro base price) you can build a beast of a computer.

$2,500 with a Nvidia Titan GPU http://www.tested.com/tech/pcs/454052-small-quiet-fast-build...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XnU8MPjp1Y (Tested - How To Build a Kick-Ass Gaming PC 2013)
I think I just decided to use TOR as often as possible.
Likewise, this is super handy. I really missed this from Textmate.
The constant churn of web technologies make this really frustrating, because you have an entire ecosystem of people that doesn't know what their tools do. "Just run re-war again, dude, that will fix it."
oh the whole inside is silica and paper towels which are changed (probably should be more frequently)
So is HP. My point is that it's not uncommon for a workstation class computer to have 64GB memory limit in 2013.
What if I built my wealth exploiting child labor in Malaysia? What if it wasn't half a world away, but there was a source of similarly cheap labor in my neighborhood? I suppose that you are saying that the people working 12 hours/day for maybe 1 USD are getting more wealthy themselves than before, so a rising tide is lifting all boats?
The hazard here is not inside a fully parallel blinded trial with controls in the same environment, but in comparison and replication of studies, as well as sequential studies where the lab temperature changed. If quite minor, to human senses, changes in temperature significantly affect tumor formation, then up until now that's been a huge noise source in cross-study comparison, and temperature should be at least recorded precisely over time for all future tox studies.
This comment makes me dream of putting together an Indiegogo campaign for the project so that we can stop using our workstations and finally get some proper 10 gigabit Ethernet hardware. It sure would be nice if the JSON and Plaintext tests weren't network-limited.
Pure unadulterated arrogance.
Stross is wrong- bitcoin is extremely traceable. There is a public record of all transactions ever.
But the OS can't be raided, since it's on the single, internal SSD.

EDIT: OK, I suppose you could run it on an external drive.
I think it's because he was the only one accessing TOR on a monitored network during the specific time.
I'm still in college. I'd wake up at 6, eat and do some coding problems, go to class, come home, do homework, do phone interviews, code till midnight, and go to sleep.
Litecoin != Bitcoin. My argument doesn't apply to Litecoin, because by design it doesn't have the same vast disparity between the performance of the best available mining hardware and your average PC. In fact, if anything Litecoin is another reason why botnet miners are unlikely to drive out professional Bitcoin mining - it's much more profitable to mine Litecoin.
I think VoltDB could be huge, but the utter reliance I stored procedures is misguided in my opinion. The reasoning behind it is really to optimize database access at the database level, including targeting features like JIT compilation and leveraging zero-copy, but it's so hard to get this all to work right, unit test, debug, etc... On the other hand, his "NewSQL" approach can probably become a good replacement for many use cases where MongoDB would otherwise be used.
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Thanks for the comment.

That is my point exactly - technology seems to have created so many avenues of distraction that you cannot even take a dump without the temptation of some distraction!
Notice that's in the explanatory Notes section, not the normative Requirements section.
Of course. However, he had the foresight to use Tor and Guerrilla Mail. That is what doesn't make sense to me.
Have you ever tried arguing with a religious fundamentalist? There's really no point.
So if Guerilla Mail had a chron option to buffer mail and avoid temporal correlation he would have walked?
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The algae farms should make it carbon-neutral, at least.
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> That's why it has six external storage ports each capable of pushing 20GBps.

Is it just me or something gives me the creeps about running an OS off an external drive...

> Large, noisy, ugly

Since when did the requirements of a workstation class Xeon desktop become "Super-compact" and "beautiful"?!

I would agree on the noise, except no-one has actual heard these things running in a realistic environment so there is currently no comparison.
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I like a lot of what XP brought to the table, except pair programming. I find it's genuinely not effective most of the time. It is very effective when teaching someone. But in general I have found it to be slower, produce worse code, reduce accountability, and causes frustration. I'm currently working on a long blog post detailing my thoughts on it.
You can also download and run the ST3 in trial mode for free.
Thanks. I've been living with not having this for a LONG time. Just never had time to deal with it.
Agreed, but: I'm weary of Windows. I've run every version except Vista and 8 on my home machine. I've been a total fan of Windows. I'm just really weary of using it. I use Cygwin for scripting, but some things are really hard to do even in Cygwin. I'm seriously considering the new Pro, but I have issues (can't RAID1 the OS drive, what are those external enclosures really like? Noisy??) so I'm not sure.

Ironically, I probably would have definitely upgraded if they had not changed the form factor, since I know I'd be able to do what I want.
Hilarious video on "The Art Of Holiday Conversation Avoidance"
Easy to forget "Anonymous" strongly does not equal "Untraceable".
Using algae to make ethanol seems a much easier way to go and uses little energy eg. algenolbiofuels.com
There are negatives, no doubt, not the least of which is the TPP and its potential ramifications for an open web. But that doesn't deter my enthusiasm in the least for other two-thirds of the world to get online.

I'm sure there's a lot more untapped talent out there, and I'd like to believe the net sum of their innovations will see the positives outweigh the negatives.
JP Morgan launders hundreds of millions worth of USD. It happens with every currency; using it in an argument is a fallacy.
Good point. The best answer there is: that's what Time Machine backups are for. Time Machine backups lag your actual storage by 10 minutes to an hour, but it's okay for most uses.

If you're worried about important data, you'd want to use external storage arrays to store your pictures/videos/genome data. Then your redundancy is handled in individual storage chassis configurations. Promise and LaCie have popular faster-than-a-single-ssd thunderbolt arrays.
When I do something like this I thank the person for their time in reading my message, but I do not thank them in advance for acting on a request. The former is professional. The latter is presumptuous unless they are obligated to act on your request.
Why you won't buy Apple - too expensive for the specs or you had some other issues?
Will no one learn the lesson of the Palm Pre Creepy Woman ads?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3OfYkJbyLw
We used to run print production for a major advertising agency mailing millions of pieces per week using 8gb of ram with Dual Core G5s. This machine is aimed at designers/agencies with fat budgets that might need to do Video editing / light 3D work / After Effects every now and then. That was always the bread and butter of the previous Mac Pros, it's also why they tried to make it look nice on your desktop (though I think they failed)

Honestly, Apple is not worried about the segment of the market that needs 192GB of ram - I'm sure it's orders of magnitude smaller then the ones who need 64GB.
Whoops, yes I mean "arrow function syntax", not arrows.

As for style, using combinators is usually considered to be specific to functional programming, right?

IMO the interesting part is how the terse arrow function syntax in ES6 puts combinators on the same level of expressiveness as everything else. Contrast to ES5 you have to use the awkward `return function() {}` syntax, and you have to do something similar in go - `return func (param type) type { ... }`

Both styles are now almost equally terse and you can pick either depending whether you feel its more appropriate in the given situation.

Also: https://gist.github.com/Gozala/7242467
> Credit card thefts can be reversed.

Yeah, that's the only reason hosting companies don't mass harvest credit card numbers from their customer's websites
It's a $4000 workstation. You buy it to run big jobs. Your department buys 10 or 20. In 3 or 4 years, the amount of "big data" grows and now you need more RAM. Do you simply spend another $100k to buy all new machines? You are just thinking about today's needs but a few years out memory needs always grow.
It depends on how many Tor users there are on the Harvard wireless network. If he was the only person using Tor that year, or one of only a few dozen that could all be questioned, maybe not.
The problem is that algae is biomass. Thanks to conservation of mass, whatever amount of biomass you bring down from space needs to come from somewhere, and space is famously devoid of mass, let alone anything for algae to consume. That means that the problem of algae farms in space becomes one putting algae food into orbit.

I'm not sure how effective launching literally tons of material into space will be.
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still one of the greatest Mad TV sketches of all time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnnxvNJcx1U
Just to be clear, I believe this is from 2004.
I don't have the need for mobility anymore. I work from home. I can build myself a beast of a machine with 60% of the cost of this desktop or an iMac. Don't get me wrong, I love my iMac but it beachballs way too often; enough for me to notice - and it's an iMac from Feb 2013. To me that's sort of unacceptable given the price I paid for it.

I then built myself a desktop with $1000 and it's a beast, full SSD 16GB ram the works. Never stalls, always keeps up with my chain of thought. You would think it doesn't make the difference but it does and it's noticible.
> Burning caloric mass for energy when so much energy is around us is just plain ignorant.

No it isn't. What the algae does is exactly it: harness all that "energy around us", which is scattered around and hard to get, in a more efficient manner.
What is CDPATH?
Genuine question:

If that's the case why is it seen as (and indeed seem to be) such a great currency for illegal activity?
Yes it's too expensive for the specs.
It's the PR site, not the marketing site. The users of this site are folks looking for images to put in newspapers and magazines.
Also keep in mind that, from my understanding, he was confronted with this information and then admitted that it was him. This just reinforces the rule... never talk to the police.
Just love them, hug them, and keep them the fuck out of politics...
I agree with you, and this only highlights that bitcoin needs some level of regulation before it can be used commonly.

If bitcoin is going to become commonplace, it needs a lot of support, more infrastructure, and some regulation.
I'm having trouble finding anything "official", I think I may have just seen them in comments here and elsewhere. It's all a bit imprecise as well, since not all of the components are completely clear (e.g. the GPUs are some custom Apple-specific model, which appears to have a generic PC equivalent, but it's not completely solid).

My vague recollection is that the GPUs alone are something like $700 each, and you get two, and the rest goes from there. Depending on the assumptions you make, you can get a $3,000 Mac Pro costing more than $3,000 for an equivalent PC, or less. Just beware of people comparing the Mac Pro with builds using non-Xeon CPUs, gaming GPUs, etc. Not that there's anything wrong with that sort of configuration, and personally I wish Apple offered some middle ground with high-end consumer components, but it doesn't give a good guide to what this actual machine costs to put together.
Almost certainly.

I'm at reasonably large (~15000 students on-campus), and a friend using TOR to do ... something ... got caught not because he was the only one using TOR at the time, but because he was the only one using TOR, ever -- it was just too obvious.
I think this is a great lesson on testing. I'm excited to see what else he finds.
Is this the worst startup infographic ever?
> people like you

What kind of person do you think I am?
Loving aha.io's new features! Thanks for being responsive, guys! You're churning out really cool updates every few weeks.
The very BEST slideshow about using Tor to stay anonymous. You'll see his mistake in it.

http://www.slideshare.net/grugq/opsec-for-hackers
So if you use Tor there is a certain expectation to be questioned sooner or later.
>old by now, supporting iPhone 4 and iPhone 5+ screen sizes with optimized graphics

Yep. Starting from May of 2013, they will reject any app that letterboxes on an iPhone 5.
You don't have to run Windows, there's always Linux. Why are you weary of Windows?

I have used Windows 7 and 8 and use virtual machines with Debian for development. You could probably even install an OSX virtual machine if you wanted to.

Just keep your files organized and don't install every too much crap and it'll run beautifully.

I keep my files so that I can easily format the computer and start over fresh in a couple hours.

I also run a software firewall so that I can keep track of all connections in and out of my computer. Microsoft Security Essentials is sufficient for most Windows users for antivirus purposes, just be smart about what you install, or if you want to install lots of stuff run it in a virtual machine. I use Oracle VirtualBox, it's lightweight and fast.
There are only four ram slots. The largest ECC stick available now are single 16GB sticks. Just not enough room for slots on the board, is my guess.
Plus the price of computation has been dropping in half 18 months for the last 60 years, but people still seem to be buying rather than waiting it out.
And we wonder why TOR and other privacy tools are stereotyped as being for criminals. The better - and more immediately applicable - rule is "don't break the law".

Now I have the scene from "Liar, Liar" stuck in my head.
Personally I like to keep to about 10-15 tabs open with the files I am currently working between. This set of files changes every couple of hours to I can't hold them in memory and it is good to have a nice visual reminder of where what I am looking for might be (bearing in mind that a lot of the time I can't think of the name for what I'm looking for).
If anyone is looking for the dimensions like I was, they're in the status bar area along with the file size. I feel like this information should be a bit closer to the image, but I understand not wanting to break conventions.
"Kim told the FBI he trying to avoid taking a final exam."
I love pair programming. Frankly though, it takes several hours of committed time to be really useful. It's hard to get two production programmers to sit down together for a few hours to focus on this. To get around the time hurdle, I've proven to upper mgmt that the amount of bug fixes or efficiency improvements is easily greater than the amount of product the two alone could have achieved. There's a Tesla-ish resonance that occurs when two people are focusing on the exact same problem. LOVE IT.
Is it an absolute requirement that the machine on your desk is the powerful one? For example, lots of scientists and engineers rely on massive computing power to do their work, but that power is in a server room somewhere. They often have modest laptops on their desk.
Yes, the demand will only go up in relation to the total cost. (I am not sure making people wait and introducing hassle is a good way to regulate demand, though.)
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The only apps I have that have not been updated are Google's and the only annoying thing is that they use the old keyboard, which looks bad now.
I'm not arguing that it's easier or harder for the Chinese government to get your data in China than it is for GCHQ to get your data in Britain. I'm only pointing out that they are less likely to give all that data to the NSA.

This could be important if you care about which government is reading your data.
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