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I'm also probably in the minority, but I just use the desktop site in mobile Safari, despite being a heavy Reddit user. It's an information-dense design, and I can read the small text without a lot of zooming, so it's probably more efficient for me, or at least I never saw a reason to switch. I should test out Alien Blue, though.
They couldn't use the same panels for a thunderbolt display. Thunderbolt 2 has a max data rate of 20Gb/s, but the 5k monitor they announced has a data rate of

5120 x 2880 x (24 bits per pixel) x (60fps) = 21Gb/s

Just over the limit for Thunderbolt 2 unless they want to do 4:2:2 or some other compression technique.
No, there are a set of ipads that cover the price range from $249 to $800+, every 50 or $100. Every step up has a clear benefit -- Faster, bigger, more storage, cellular.

I'm more worried about the original iPad Air still in the lineup. I've got an ipad2, and it's feeling old and slow (without having a newer one to compare to). That's not going to be a long term good purchase.
Nice, but thoroughly uninteresting.

Not that Apple has any obligation to make their product announcements interesting every time.
>I appreciate Gates' analysis of Piketty, but Gates is still blind to an important point- he came from a middle-class background and therefore had enough capital to gain a footing in the world and to be able to write his initial code without worrying about the basic needs of survival.

the BASIC needs of survival
There is a community-contributed EditorConfig NetBeans plugin but it doesn't have a license or installation instructions: https://github.com/geertjanw/editorconfig-netbeans
Wow, I was excited to be upgrading to a 4k monitor soon, and before I even get one I'm obsolete. I can't wait to try out the new display. Hopefully DP1.3 will be out soon with good video card support as well.
> It's an unpopular opinion, but I don't think that everyone should have a roughly equal say in how things go.

So something that comes up in any discussion like this (economics, politics, global climate change) is that there are several layers of questions to the debate. Some of the questions are matters of preference, some are matters of fact or science. For instance, on the topic of inequality & a wealth tax, we could have these questions:

* Is a democratic society desirable? (a matter of preference)
* Does inequality (in wealth) distort the democratic process? (a matter of fact)
* Does a wealth tax correct the inequality in a way which solves the problem? (a
matter of fact)
* Is the wealth tax the best way to solve the problem? (a matter of preference)

For more fun, different people could have different questions, but it still makes for plenty of hilarity when one person is arguing whether a wealth tax is effective and another is arguing whether it is desirable and another is arguing whether it is necessary, and no one understands why they aren't making any headway.

Now, to tie this around to your comment, I would clarify that what I mean by "a democratic society" is one where every person has an equal say in matters of preference. In a rational society, these are the only disagreements. I am happy to debate whether, if climate change is happening, we should do something about it. I have neither the desire nor the time to argue whether it is happening or whether it is man-made; these are matters of science and my preference matters not one bit.

The problem we have now is that both matters of fact and matters of preference are up for debate, and the extremely wealthy have a disproportionate say in both.
it's underpowered compared to NUC's (and similar) in it's price range, even after adding hdd's and ram to the NUC kit if you don't buy it pre-made.

the top $1k model still is only a dual core cpu.

it comes with a slow 5400 rpm drive instead of a ssd. even the pro $1k model has a slow 5400 rpm mechanical drive unless you pay extra for the upgrade.

not to mention thunderbolt ports have not really caught on outside the apple-peripheral community, would have liked to see more USB3's than thunderbolts.

(also not sure about their claim of "lowest power computer in the world", guess it depends what your definition of a computer is, because RPi takes 700mW. None-the-less, some of the NUC kits sip only 8W or less, while the new Mini is rated at 83W)
Actually, Comcast would love to be able to ditch the local networks. They currently have to pay local station owners for distribution rights in the form of retransmission agreements.

This way, CBS will be paying for a commercial CDN because, well, that's what you have to do when you distribute video over the Internet if you want decent performance (and there are lots of business and technical reasons for this). Most commercial CDNs have had interconnect agreements with all the large ISPs for over a decade.
Also check out Hitlist for a similar offering, recently featured in new and noteworthy:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hitlist-cheap-flights-travel...
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I think Gates bungled the 3 wealth types. There's a fourth that is most common: a wealthy person who puts a bunch of cash into PE and hedge funds which basically just lines the pockets of the fund managers. I'm not nearly as concerned with a wealthy person who actually consumes. At least those dollars are getting cycled through the positive economy.
I see what you mean. There is a tough balance to be struck, so what then would you call realistic? If you're trying to explain to someone the potential of becoming a developer, and committing yourself to that learning and industry how would you position it?

And to be clear I don't mean it in a marketing sense so much as I mean how would you actually reword what you just called "not remotely common". I think its a totally relevant point, and while Lauren positions the ideal outcome, isn't that what we're all striving for...?

I think you're absolutely right that many, maybe most, perhaps even pretty-much-all bootcamps don't effectively teach students to problem solve, to self perpetuate learning. They don't even talk thoroughly about the commitment to their courses, much less the commitment to becoming a developer.

We're in a position where for instance, we sell the "dream" as you like to call, to bring as much initial interest as possible. But the commitment is definitely more than just an ideal, not something that converts a signup.

To be fair though, in our experience over 90% of our students do a call with us before actual enrollment in a course. That is to say a "purchase", and if there is anything we're clear about in that call its what they're really getting into. We don't have a sales team for that, Martin and I do the calls because we designed the courses and did the career leg work.

Why? Well because most students who don't have the stamina and understanding to become a developer over time drop out of our course within the fist 3 weeks, which is terrible. Not only does that just suck, but we're an education company, drop outs are simply the worst thing in our lives.

Now, could you assume I'm just trying to sell you with what I want you to hear, of course, but I want to be clear I totally agree with you. Actually we're just still trying to find our answer to it.

Lauren wrote an article from the perspective of capturing interest, and I think as a piece of content she did that beautifully and, even more to the point it triggered discussions like this one which we can learn from.

Interested in your continued thoughts, but thanks again for responding.
...which would mean L2013 Mac Pro users would be left out in the cold.
Why are there three links for the same exact news item? It's not like the different sites are providing any extra commentary. Could the mods consolidate them?
I'm guessing that criminals move in a little different circles than most people and it's their perception of "an average member of the community" that may be skewed rather than perception of self.
Look for new MBPs with Thunderbolt 3 next year, along with a Thunderbolt 5k display.
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FWIW, the only other 5k monitor I can find is from Dell. It's also $2500.[1]

In other words, buy a Retina Cinema Display, get the computer to power it for free.

[1]: http://www.maximumpc.com/dells_5k_monitor_pre_reviewed_2014
Couldn't they just use both thunderbolt ports?
The question may have been better phrased as "How unreliable is the internet" . TCP and UDP packets will be dropped at just about the same rate across any network, the only difference is that TCP keeps track, and re-sends any packets that did not arrive.

Each protocol has its own place (and uses)...
Can someone please explain Apple's "thinness" arms race? I never heard so much as a suggestion that the previous iPad Air was too thin, while battery life is something that could be (literally) infinitely improved.

Why did they not keep the device the same thin-ness and double the battery? Surely that would increased the product's value and utility?
Actually, it's clipped _and_ it's overlapping with 'current risk'. I also see the same on the other end of the chart with blood pressure: http://imgur.com/jaJHErm

(I'm also unclear as to why '90' systolic blood pressure is at an unexpected end of the graph, but...)
Beware of letting your excitement about your idea work against you.

Your marketing effort should start BEFORE the product gets built. If you start with the product, you run the risk of building something that almost nobody needs.

It's that "almost" that will get you.

You can build just about anything and find people who think it's great. The feedback from this group of early adopters will be infectious but it may not be a market.

The trick is to find something that a lot of people think is great, that's a market and you can build a company on that.

http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/resources/stop-perfuming-t...
Definitely. Do you think, however, that educational systems should be working to fix this? Or that the industry relies (and is ok relying) on private training resources like bootcamps, and the self taught wonders of the world?
The 980M is twice as fast as the graphics offered. Disappointing.
It has 2 thunderbolts and 4 USB 3.0 ports...

http://www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs/
You also missed the extra intellectual property rights for pharmaceuticals in Addendum II. Those are controversial, and in the previous draft, were in the main document. Now they've been moved down to an addendum and are different for different countries.

There's also *
[US/JP propose; CL/MY/PE/SG/VN/BN/AU/NZ/CA/MX oppose: 2bis. For greater certainty, a Party may not deny a patent solely on the basis that the product did not result in an enhanced efficacy of the known product when the applicant has set forth distinguishing features establishing that the invention is new, involves an inventive step, and is capable of industrial application.]*

That's a gimme for Big Pharma's "me too" drugs, where it's no better, but slightly different. Clarinex is an example.
> But then do you have a different term for what I'm talking about? What would you call someone who comes from a well known family lineage, speaks with a refined accent, was privately educated, went to Harvard, listens to classical music, collects french poetry first editions, but earns a pittance as faculty in the classics department at a college somewhere and has no savings or investments?

He'd be middle class in the US, mostly because of his income. He's got connections but still middle class. A fast food worker would be lower class. A fast food worker who went to Harvard, with all those connections and hobbies, would largely be the same. But that's an incredibly contrived example. Class distinctions work because of general income-hobby-family background correlations that generally exist.

Also, there isn't much of a "refined accent" in the US that I'm aware of. At least nothing as marked as cockney vs british.
"Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."

"Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"

"Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."

"Ok, I'll tell you a TCP joke."

"Ok, I will hear a TCP joke."

"Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?"

"Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke."

"Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke. It will last 10 seconds, it has two characters, it does not have a setting, it ends with a punchline."

"Ok, I am ready to get your TCP joke that will last 10 seconds, has two characters, does not have an explicit setting, and ends with a punchline."

"I'm sorry, your connection has timed out. Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"
> A popular example is the finding that most drivers think they are a better-than-average driver.

That one has always bugged me. How did this supposed poll define "average driver," if at all? Is the idea that you rank all drivers from best to worst, then see if you're in the top half of the list? Or is the idea to take some metric, like the average traffic tickets per driver, and see if you have more or fewer tickets than that average? If it's the former, I'm not sure how you distinguish between all the drivers with flawless driving records. If it's the latter, then I must be above average, since I've never had a traffic ticket.

The same questions apply to this poll, which asked people whether they are "more moral, kinder to others, more self-controlled, more law-abiding, more compassionate, more generous, more dependable, more trustworthy, and more honest" than average.
Because the money on one side of the sheet exactly balances the new ownership stake on the other. There is no goods or services gradient that makes the cash flow.

If a business is already bound by the abilities of its personnel rather than availability of resources, the investment won't do anything at all. If you buy 50% of a business with cash that makes it now worth twice as much as it was worth before, you haven't done anything more than move the cash you own in your own name to the cash you own in the name of your business.

That's not spending. That's just playing a shell game with yourself.

Loans are similar in that you are exchanging current cash for future cash of roughly equal value.

To create a cash flow in the economy, there has to be a gradient between producer and consumer. Food flows from farmer to eater, so cash flows back from eater to farmer. The eater cannot resell his food to someone else after he has eaten it. The eater has to produce something--some form of good or service that someone else can consume--in order to pay the farmer. Maybe the farmer gets sore feet. The eater could sell foot massages. Goods and services flow in one direction, and the cash flows in equal amounts in the opposite direction. And it mostly balances out.

Money can't just move around. It also has to change owners.
It's a good point. But are there always only two groups, the elite and the majority, or could we create more? It seems to me power works best for everyone when it is more distributed, less uniform, and exists on a gradient from the elites down to the majority. Maybe a government structure could enforce that. For example, instead of just America's, Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches, we might also have additional branches for Education, Finance, Security, Business, etc., each having some (but not always equal) constitutional power over other branches, and all trickling down in power to the majority that has voting rights.
As much as I'd love that display, I can not believe that a $2500 computer is shipping with 8GB of RAM in almost-2015.
I always find it interesting when people say "I love my dog/cat as much as people love their children!" This always prompts me to ask them "Would you die for your dog?", in which case the inevitable two second hesitation that follows and horror-struck look on their face answers my question. (Then again, there's a lot of people that wouldn't die for their kids either...)

I think that people can certainly form emotional connections to pets (I like cats myself), but biologically, there's a special attachment to humans. I mean, there's regions of the brain dedicated to specifically differentiating between human faces.
I am really curious about the technology behind the 5k iMac. I am not sure if there is any off the shelf GPU out there that can drive that display using retina type rendering.
It's interesting they did a custom controller for the display timing (Timing Controller (TCON)) . They must have had to do deep customizations to use the AMD R9 M290X (comparable to the Radeon HD 7870) to drive it.
If this is not innovative I am not sure what is, in terms of an engineering standpoint.
That's true. I've considered the possibility of creating an API based on a headless browser that will allow a user to login and actually make changes to a private diary, but the problem with that approach is that it would blatantly stepping on MFP's terms of service, and would raise red flags with the company as far as potentially compromising secure user data.
Our CTO was a project manager for 8 years. Picked up web development 2 years ago and now runs a major tech startup... anything is possible. He had a traditional engineering education, but CS has nothing to do with it. You might learn the fundamentals from a theoretical perspective, but a lot of our web dev students in Europe are CS grads looking for a way to access the tech industry.
>>But according to their sales pitch

Well, yes. It is a sales pitch! What did you expect exactly? "Learn to code and you might have a better shot at being hired as a junior-level developer, assuming you continue to develop your skills after the bootcamp ends"?
Ah yes, a job for "Anywhere in San Francisco" right on the front page.

edit: Make that four that say that. What is this I don't even.
Thunderbolt actually has up to 4x DisplayPort channels that are separate to the 20Gbps of Thunderbolt itself.
Eloquently put and very true. Agree on the point about India. Similar thing has recently happened in Australia where Abbott seems to be a stooge of Rupert Murdoch and few other big corporations - and his position as PM seems to be purely ceremonial. As always, the classic talk by Lawrence Lessig [1] makes a really passionate plea to reverse this trend.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...
I can't imagine it'll stay that way for long. 4k displays are already down to $300-500 at Amazon.
They still have economic power, and no political power to keep them somewhat in check. It's the Wild West.
The point driven home by this article is really about how to transition from being an agile problem solver to a product designer/manager.
I'm sure the "shock value" in this headline is the assumption that most people have in their heads: criminals in jail = bad people.

One factor to note in this, is that there are a lot of people in jail who arguably shouldn't be there. People who are, in fact, not much different from you or I. I suspect on average, the people in jail aren't that different from the people outside of it in terms of morals & ethics.... on average.
I thought UDP is to TCP as C++ is to Java with regards to memory management. Meaning, TCP will do whatever it can to ensure packet integrity, while UDP pretty much leaves packet integrity up to you.

Is that correct? If so, then regardless of UDP actually appearing somewhat reliable, the spec makes no guarantees that it will be consistently reliable.
Whatever it is, my 2011 Macbook Pro despises it.
No, the solution is to separate the concerns, keep flat taxes (because they are more transparent and therefore more fair) and introduce direct subsidies to the working class (again, transparent and fair... I favor a guaranteed income or an earned income tax credit) so average citizens can buy necessities and even get ahead.

It's a fair point that a flat tax, in a vacuum, is harder on the poor, but we're not in a vacuum.
I agree, but as a counterpoint, part of the argument was that they couldn't afford to spread their design resources too thin.

Now they could afford to, but they don't. Yes, it takes effort to keep those old lines running, but the guys doing that needn't even talk to the ones designing the new versions and the software running on it (those older generations get left behind, OS-wise, don't they?)
From the Compare page http://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/, it looks like the "iPad Air 2" is the first iPad to carry a barometer as an additional sensor. I missed the keynote, did they discuss this? Doesn't seem as usable as a step-counter since it's in a tablet, how does Apple intend to use the barometer for this tablet?

Also, is there a single Technical Specifications page for the iPad Air 2? I can't find a list of sensors in the device, outside of the linked Compare page.

Edit: Here's the full specs page: http://www.apple.com/ipad-air-2/specs/
Can you buy the monitor separately? It looks like a dream display to me, assuming that it's glossy which is usual for Apple. It's very difficult to find glossy monitors these days. I just can't go back to matter after getting spoiled with glossy.
What do yo mean it was removed? disclaimer: I uploaded the paper.
An UDP packet may arrive as two copies. That's the joke.
>> ridiculous low res displays.

Like many people, my vision took a hit when I turned 40, so I have to disagree with that statement. While YMMV, 1080p on a 27" monitor is not ridiculously low res for the average person.

Anything between 100-130 dpi is more than fine enough with me at my viewing distances.

Speaking only for my use case -- when I'm doing work, I'd prefer a >= 4K resolution that gives me more real estate over one that gives me denser pixels, which is why I would choose a 40" 4K monitor over a 28" 4K monitor, because the pixels on the smaller monitor are simply wasted on my aging eyes.

To me, the main beneficiaries of the new 5K iMac are designers and people who work with (or care a lot about) video and photography. I left gamers out of the list, because I don't know if the R9 M290X is actually powerful enough to drive a game at native res at 60fps.
I like the mix of units on the front page: "6.1mm, 0.96 pounds". I guess the general US public can't really grasp small fractional sizes or thousandths?
Just wonder, do people know about kilograms, meters, international system of units?
This is an awesome comment. Is there documentation on the IMB model you describe? I'd love to see data on this!
I can really FEEL the retina with this page.

http://cl.ly/image/3L1b250W0o1r
http://cl.ly/image/1C421h22391Z
Said it before, say it again, thank you Mark. I wonder what our industry would look like if we spent less time reinventing the wheel all day long and more time working on the problems we love.
i don't understand where all this demonizing the rich rhetoric comes from. "or more so than the way the rich aquire their money." What? Did they steal their money? Or were they participating in a volunteer economy comprised of mutually beneficial exchanges (i.e. capitalism)? Maybe you live in China or Russia and that's where my misunderstanding comes from.
I'm a software developer in Ontario, Canada. I live with three roommates, which is why rent is cheap. I'm just shy of my thirties.

A few years ago I was looking to get out of my workplace where I also worked as a software developer. They had suffered five years of consecutive lay-offs and the environment had really suffered. Months of job hunting proved fruitless. So I made a return to university hoping to prop up my credentials. That's when I was making $1,000/mo (I was still working my other job - part time hours, full time load.) Fast forward a year, life events made it so I could no longer afford it, and I went back to work full-time.

A year later all the interviews came in. I changed companies, got a huge pay boost, and have been pretty happy since.
Shitty 4k displays have been cheap for a while. It's not a reasonable comparison. (My no-name brand Korean 27" IPS display was great until it frizzed out after 9 months.)
Think of it a a $2500 5k monitor shipping with a computer for free
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