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What would your list look like with apps you owned removed?

8. FartApp
10. Flashlight

or

8. FartApp
9. Flashlight

In the first, with 9. Angry Birds removed, it looks like the data hasn't loaded properly.

In the second, Flashlight has been promoted from number 10 to number 9, falsely inflating its ranking.

You could solve this by leaving a gap or indicator where 9. Angry Birds should have been but then the user's wondering "what isn't it showing me in that gap?".

So maybe you should just call the Top 10, "Your Personalized Top 10". But then it's not personalized really, all they've done is remove apps you already own. The user thinks, "Why are Apple showing me fart apps? Don't they think I have taste? Can't they see I only download Twitter clients and podcast apps?".

For the marginal benefit of not showing apps you already own, which are indicated as such, you are opening a whole can of UI worms.
"The things that people used to believe made this country great" mostly took place in the second half of the 20th century, in the post-war boom period.

Look, all across Europe there are economic problems, but America (and to a lesser extent the UK) is the only country that's actually just scrapping large parts of its own landmass into Third World substates.
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I make HTML5 gambling apps for a living.

You can certainly do that but be prepared to write special code on each platform to handle some things. Like IOS < 8 doesn't do WebGl and without WebGL you are not going to get very much smooth graphics.

Also forget supporting the earlier models, forget retina graphics (at least pre webGL).

If you are just making games go with Unity and develop for all the platforms.
You've made a mistake there. He says the 49ers are 3:1 favourites to win. Those a strange odds for are favourite team, but maybe they think a draw is most likely...

Or more likely he just pulled some dodgy odds out of thin air and forgot that if you have a team at 3:1 odds, they probably aren't the favourites. Either way, his maths is fine. Just not his odds.
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The only issue with AWS is that it is an American company. If you are an EU citizen as me and worry about data security, I would not trust an American company.
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A good portion of it might be with people simply forgetting to pay bills and/or not caring.
For those wondering, they've upped the base specs and dropped the prices slightly. Nothing completely 'new', per se.
This is a good one: "rather make a 100 users really happy, than making more people a little happy."

Hypothesis beyond that:

Spreadability of an idea / product is function of the intensity of the users' emotions it produces
I'm also working on database encryption for Bitmessage, such that the data at rest always remains encrypted, regardless of whether the underlying file system is.
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And then you need to get a deactivation code from the government to disable the implant to conceive. So the government gets the power to decide who can have children. This concept sounds very enticing and I think it would actually be a good idea,if not for the fact that I don't think anyone should hold that power over other people, even if it's in best intentions.
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Does anyone know what the previous prices were?
I hope they will release 12" Macbook Air this year.
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summary of changes from macrumors.com:

The new notebooks feature faster versions of Intel's Haswell processors, as all 13-inch models now come with 8GB of RAM standard while all 15-inch models now feature 16GB of RAM. The high end 15-inch model also received a $100 price cut, going from $2599 to $2499.

and this analysis:

Today's minor refresh is primarily a stopgap measure until Apple can launch a more significant update to its Retina MacBook Pro line once Intel's next-generation Broadwell processors hit the market.
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I find it seriously scary how many Americans on the internet are totally brainwashed into thinking the free market is the greatest thing ever and there are absolutely no problems with it.

Medical care is not free, however in every country that has socialised healthcare (i.e. every developed country except the us) it is free at the point of use.

And if you're going to complain that it's more expensive because everyone's paying out of taxes, in 2012 the US actually spent more in taxes per person than e.g. the UK on healthcare[1]

Healthcare in the US is fucked up, and free markets are not the solution to every problem.

[1] http://wdi.worldbank.org/table/2.15
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> Yes, Linux distros build gcc and ant using a binary gcc and a binary ant. But it is always the previous build, so at some point in the chain it ends with sources and not with binaries.

I don't think so. The first versions of GCC were built with the C compilers from commercial UNIX from AT&T or the like. The first Linux systems were cross-built under Minix. At some point you'll go back to a program someone toggled in on the front panel, but we don't have the source for all the intermediate steps, nor any kind of chain of signatures stretching back that far.

> And this is not about Maven's idea and concept. If it had depended on a few libraries and a simple way of building itself instead of needing the binaries of half of the stuff it is supposed to build in the first place (hundreds), just to build itself.

Any nontrivial program should be written modularly, using existing (and, where necessary, new) libraries. Having a dependency manager to help keep track of those is a good thing. I don't see that it makes the bootstrap any more "binary"; gcc is built with a binary gcc for which source is available. Maven is built with a binary maven and a bunch of binary libraries, source for all of which is available.
£200 more for 128 -> 256GB SSD on the 13" stings a bit
Archive.org does: https://web.archive.org/web/20140722172840/http://www.apple....

The new base model has double the RAM and a .2ghz bump for the same price.
Is that what it is, a BitMessage client? The package is not signed, so I am reluctant to open it.
Bitcoin is centralized to a certain extent. Think GHash, etc

See how silly this sounds?
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Now base 15" model has 16 gigs of RAM, that's actually pretty sweet improvement
Apparently the Canadian government didn't have to make the maternity ward Netherlands territory - they simply had to make it "not Canada":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Margriet_of_the_Nether...
For those of you in the Python world concerned about such a thing, check out Peep: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/peep

It's a pip wrapper that expects you to provide hashes for your dependencies in requirements.txt.

There was a lightning talk at PyCon this year, it seems super easy to use (though admittedly I'm not using it regularly yet).
But as I said, MVC already has unidirectional data flow. An MVC View doesn't make changes to the Model, so can't lead to cascading updates of other Views.
Not sure if the poster is also the author but why is the application connecting to a server? Is it using a centralised point to connect to the Bitmessage network?

Edit: It also appears to connect to Tor. Perhaps a quick overview of what's happening under the hood could be useful.
No one yet has voted up, 1 hour in, so you're in luck :-)

I don't think the article paints Nokia as awesome, I think it further paints them in the way you mentioned - which how I assumed people would interpret it. If anything, it shows a company with lots of innovation from the staff, but a lack of direction from the management (much like Xerox in the early days of desktop computing).
For those of you who choose Pros over Airs; why does a Pro serve you better than an Air? Is it because it's your only machine, and you need the hardware to be beefy?
battery life isn't improved?
Retina. Once you stop seeing pixels, it's painful to start seeing them again.
> on the downside seems to introduce additional artefacts

It definitely introduces a form of ghosting visible near the rear end of the motorcycle.

As for lag, I can already see John Carmack cringing! There may be an interesting effect though, in that the increase in apparent resolution is quadratic when the increase in computation is linear. Hardware-wise this possibly could be done straight in the double-buffering phase without additional lag if it can be made to race the beam.
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Looks like you can get the 13" at close to the specs of the 15" now. Seriously considering downsizing on my next one.
Am I right in thinking you need to buy the top ($2500) model if you want to do any CUDA work? Or am I misreading the table and all the MBP models have both the Intel and nvidia GPUs?
I'm seriously wondering what my upgrade path is supposed to be.

I have an ancient 2011 15" MBP, which was also the last user-upgradeable Apple laptop ever, but I remain hesitant to buy a new model. There is just not enough storage in the new ones, or in models that come close to my old one (1TB+) it's prohibitively expensive.

At some point soon, my old MBP will probably disintegrate or get stolen, and it has features I'm not going to get back. I'm used to having my music, my ebooks, my documents, my photos, and my code with me at all times. It's really convenient.
It could just show the ten best selling apps that don't include the one you already have installed. So instead of 1, 3, 4, it would push 3 up to 2 and 4 up to 3.

I'd also like if the store didn't keep showing things it's shown me a dozen times before. If I haven't downloaded them after seeing them advertised this many times, I'm never going to download them.
wow, I bought one less then a week ago for £2200 and now it costs £1999 and has more stuff... did I just gifted them £200 or if I complain I might at least get the new model?

EDIT: thanks all, yes I remember asking the return policy is 14 days. I will do that.
No, you are right. Only the higher end MBP comes with a separate discrete nvidia card.
*distinguishing
Does anybody have an estimate for when Airs will get their next refresh?
I don't understand the "at will" thing. Why can't other rockets launch at will? I'm assuming "at will" means "whenever you want"?
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I got an Air, then I got a Pro and "forgot" to return my Air. My wife reminds me every day.
It requires macos X 10.9. Really frustrating not being able to try out the app (it seems to have a better interface) while bitmessage runs on 10.6.8.

I suppose it uses bitmessage as a daemon and the app is a UX layer over it.
For CUDA HPC work, you really need a desktop/server Linux machine that you can use remotely from your laptop. Only the highest end MBP has a discrete nvidia GPU.
Are you sure that reams of special-use syntax and the "there's more than one way to do it" philosophy to language design don't play some role? While it's perfectly possible to write beautiful code in Perl and ugly code in Python, it seems a stretch to claim that it's just as easy as doing the reverse.
I like my European-style socialized healthcare system; but I'd just like to point out that there's nothing free about the US healthcare market.

Whether an actual free market would be better or worse than any of the current systems remains to be seen. But I'd rather have someone else try it :)
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> Replacing the HDD in MBPs is really easy to do. So you do what you should do with most Apple products if you're technically competent. Buy the minimum spec for memory and storage and upgrade it aftermarket.

Isn't the SSD soldered to the board now? Do the new models even have SATA connectors? Do normal drives even fit in that slim enclosure? I'm not even certain if the RAM is upgradeable anymore, are you sure about this?
If it's less than one week you could probably return it and get a refund or the new model.
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Not sure what the return policy is where you're located. But in the US, I'd just return it within the 14 days and get the new model.
I am sure it is still under warranty and you can bring it back to where you bought it and decide to get cash or beefier.
There's still a certain amount of victim-blaming inherent in that point of view, when you consider the all-pervasive apparatus of psychological manipulation that has been brought to bear upon generations of consumers.

Obviously people are complicit in this.
I'm still a few years away from replacing this 2012 Air, but when I do it'll be to something with a retina screen because of cramped gross asian characters.

http://i.imgur.com/1RgQSOc.png

http://blog.gatunka.com/2009/11/03/japanese-computers-still-...
You actually can upgrade the SSDs http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Air-Retina/Apple-MacB...
I use a 2008 15'' MBP, replacing the superdrive with an optibay + SSD and rolling-out my own fusion drive extended the lifespan of this machine to no ends.

I am just slowly starting to consider getting another laptop in 2015, but the fact that the new line of MBP adhere to the soldered-on-and-force-obsolescence philosophy is really putting me off this purchase.
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That was a voluntary settlement - details are here: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/feb/01/google-52m...

The bottom line is that Google would rather do business than not, and £52m is not a painful expense for them here. I'm pretty sure that no European court could rule a company was obliged to engage in a transaction against its will, and would be unable to enforce this. Google have shown with China that they are willing to drop a nation if the terms offered are too onerous. They're not a public utility.
Excusive me if I'm daft about this, but aren't these 480GB max? How is that going to help with anything?
Indeed, so let me word that slightly better. If I had a child with leukemia and he or she is prescribed tamoxifen, then should I avoid a night light?
That's basically my current setup.
For me yes, it's because it's my only machine and I need good hardware for game development. (13" MBP)
Nice but my next laptop will be some Chromebook + ElementaryOS rooted - if all you use is terminal/sublime and browser - Mac is a waste of money.
* The SSD is replaceable, but based on PCIe, not SATA. Replacements are available from Transcend ("Jetdrive") and others. "Normal drives" don't fit.

* RAM is soldered to the board
Why doesn't Apple ship MacBooks with optional anti-glare display anymore? Is a third party anti-glare matte screen protector useful?

I would like to use the notebook outside too. Using the iPad outside on a sunny day strains the eyes.
Wanted 15" and retina
If people are really interested in using DVDs for archival purposes, they should really consider these - http://www.mdisc.com/, rated for 1000+ years.
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I'll upgrade when I start seeing 32 GB RAM options.
While I ultimately understand your point, I don't believe the name explains your business in the least bit, I believe you found a middle road which is neither self-descriptive or abstract in the way the name 'Zynga' is.

The name you chose is not obscure or esoteric, but rather uses two words associated to information and relies on the reader to make the connection that your business has something to do with information. The problem, however, is that 'Genetics' refers to a specific domain of information -- this leads the reader to believe that the 'Data' (an ambiguous term for unordered knowledge) refers to datums regarding 'Genetics' (the specific form of data which biology/inheritance are so concerned).

The first thing that popped into my mind when reading the name was "Must be a biotech/bioinformatics group.".

I don't want to sound critical; i'm not trying to. I've been linked a few articles on that blog and enjoy the content -- just trying to give you some (probably) useless data on how John Q. Public may encounter the site.
The best time to buy a Mac is when you need one; if you wait forever you'll never end up buying one. My work machine died less than a month ago; a little bit annoying that this happened but there's always going to be a better, faster, cheaper Mac in the future.
I second that. My MBPr13, while natively having a screen equivalent to the 800x1280 of the old 13, is now configured to the 1050-line display once found on the 17 inch model and it still looks great.

Once you can't see the pixels, the display becomes infinitely flexible.
You make a good point. Falcon 9 pretty much launches at will; they go up almost monthly. In that case, it's just a matter of someone coughing up the $80M to schedule a launch. I imagine there is much more lead time necessary to build a Falcon 9 than there is to build an Electron. Dneppr could go up more frequently, since they have a stockpile of about 150 ICBMs to convert into launch vehicles, but for whatever reason, they don't go up more often. Maybe the $30M price tag? PSLV is much more about advancing the Indian space agency's interests than than pure commercialization, so that's why they don't go up more often. But your point still stands, if someone had the cash, they could commission anything to launch--though manufacturing lead time also plays an important part.
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"How can anyone run a production build where parts of your build are being downloaded from untrusted third party sources in real time? How do you ensure repeatable, reliable builds?"

By not downloading everything from maven central in real time. Companies usually run their own repository and builds query that one. Central is queried only if the company run repository is missing some artifact or they want to update libraries. How much bureaucracy stands between you and company run repository upgrades depends on company and project needs.

As for production, does anyone compile stuff on production? I through everyone sends there compiled jars. You know what exact libs are contained in that jar, no information is missing.
The fact that you are still free to upgrade and mod it awesome. What kind of work do you do that would cause it to break? Just B E C A R E F U L. It's like owning a vintage car. Everybody will be envious.
Well, very true. I have graduaded in cultural anthropology which is not hot among employers over here (or most probably anywhere).

Most people I know (in Europe) with such degrees join the crowd of 25+ living with their parents, supporting the left, eat vegetarian food and promote eco/pacifist ideas ;)

But seriously - most people I know have had very difficult time finding their firs full-time jobs. There is such a surplus of graduees with only non-technical skills and the jobs out there are very unattractive with telemarketing being the worst (IMO). I've read somewhere that on average it takes at least 6 months to find any employment.

An Italian TV station broadcast a program on a fastfood chain organising recruitment at a marketplace in a small city (Viareggo?). There were 50 candidates per one job offer(!). And the recruitment process was rather hard and expectations from the candidates high. Italy is one of this countries where finding a job is a pain in the neck, especially for people with no experience or in their 40. and 50.

The common stratedy is to shoot your CV around anywhere and hope that someone will invite you for an interview, no matter which industry or salary. One cannot be very picky.

On the other hand, though, after I finally got my first job, I participated in the recruitment process from the other side and I was shocked to witness that so many pleople did not show up at the interviews, came late, did not know to whom they came, what the company is about, expected very high salaries or started off enumerating the tasks they are not willing to perform etc., etc. Most of these people were "unemployable" as our chief of analysis put it. I couldn't understand this and I still don't. The remaining 10% of the candidates were great and/or overqualified. And those who finally were employed were not necesarily the best ones, but those who were neat, calm and submissive.

Edit: in my opinion it is very important to narrow down your search to, say, 10 companies you would really want to work for, and try to get in for an interview no matter what - go the place the employees go for lunch break, practice your elevator pitch, if you don't know the name of the decision maker, try to get it from the news, blogs etc., and send them your CV by regular mail. Try to call them in their office - you have to be smart and lie a bit - if an office assistant picks up and asks why you want to speak to the director, tell her/him it's about the job add (although there was no job add).
Why do you need 32 GB RAM in a laptop? (not criticizing, just asking) I've found with the speed of these SSDs, memory swap is almost unnoticeable anyway.
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Those are elegant, I'll watch them as if they were new Seinfeld episodes. :-)

I didn't have a "slightly off impression", rather I didn't see a large reason to go Mojo.* instead of Catalyst (without a need for real time support.)
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Sigh... I'd still like to see real graphics on the 13".
Yes to the more reasonable px/performance of a desktop/server Linux backend for HPC. OTOH, if you were doing OpenCL instead of CUDA, the i5 would happily run that as an OpenCL target (albeit more slowly), so that you could do compilation/test dev on any newish laptop.
Lack of quad core is the only serious issue I have with the 13" now. Hopefully Broadwell will let Apple put a quad core into the 13".
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Note for application performance (as opposed to Data Usage), OS X seems to scale a lot better than my Windows 7 system (more effective use of shared libraries? I have no clue). I've got a Dell Desktop with 16 GB of Ram - and, when I have roughly the same app load as my MacBook Air with 8 GB of Ram - the Windows 7 system starts running low on memory (Google Earth is a common culprit), whereas I never seem to have memory pressure with my MacBook Air for baseline application usage.

Obviously, applications that need the data space (as opposed to executable), will greatly benefit (Oracle, Scientific Apps, Analytics, etc...) - but my 2010 MacBook Air continues to be a rock solid performer with an average of 20 Apps running. I will certainly benefit from the greatly increased SSD storage performance, but I'm not really that interested in a 16GB system anymore.

I used to say I was going to hold out for a 16 GB MacBook air to upgrade, but, the reality is 8GB is sufficient for my reasonably power-user-intensive ways.
Unlikely to have a major upgrade until the Broadwell is out in mid-2015.
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sublime runs on ARM?