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Having been a long time laptop user, I've had several incidents where one of my large dogs get wrapped up in a cord and runs off with either my computer crashing to the floor or me hanging onto it while the charging pin breaks or bends. It is a big annoyance when that happens with magsafe still, I'll have to get up and fetch the cord again.. but i'd trade that annoyance with the alternative any day.

This new MacBook has nice battery life and if I had one I can see using it without needing to plug it in while i'm on the couch or something.

What worries me though is a precedent being set. I am not in the market for a MacBook or MacBook Air, however I do buy MacBook Pros. I do everything on them from software dev, video editing, playing games. Much of that use is not battery friendly so I will _need_ to plug those in while i'm on the couch or in a high traffic area. I love the idea of USB-C I just hope Apple keeps MagSafe around for form factors they are not trying to reduce to sheets of paper thickness.
I had no idea they were still doing that. The last time I purchased a laptop for personal use was the ~2007 Inspiron 1420n Ubuntu Edition. I generally prefer to work on desktops, but having the option for portability is nice.

I still actually used that laptop until recently. Now I'm in the market and have been eying the XPS 13 and waiting for details about the Macbook Air.

Any idea/rumors about when the Ubuntu edition will launch?

I'd really like to spend less than a thousand bucks, because I just want something light that I can carry in addition to my work Macbook Pro. I like to use my commute-time on the train for side projects, but I'm concerned about using my work machine for various reasons.

The new offerings from Apple today are certainly appealing, but I'm still on the fence. I don't draw arbitrary allegiances with corporations, so I have no blind brand loyalty...
Maybe I should be able to leave feedback on a position or a recruiter saying that, even though the job listing said they offered X, I was only offered Y. Maybe it would show some basic info about you, so we can tell if you simply applied for a job out of your range, or if they tried to lowball you.
I think one subtle change is the Apple icon will no longer glow, it's been chromed like it is on all the iDevices. No need to cut a plastic translucent Apple logo => fewer parts? (Furthermore, how will I know what computers people are using in a dark room now?)
"Sitting in a rape room" - careful, your bias is showing.
The specs list 8gb as the only option which is a bit of a disappointment. I was hoping they would offer 16gb and up the rMPBs to 32gb. Otherwise it looks fantastic. I can't wait to try it.
The ultimate example that the cure of X also come from programmers, not solely doctors.
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Yes but I am getting the sport watch this year since I think these technologies will move very quickly. I might buy one of the higher end models in a year or two depending on usefulness.
This seems like an obvious prelude to ARM CPUs in MacBooks.
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With regards to sharing of files: it's a natural progression for Apple. They are moving everything to iCloud. In Mavericks, for example, they disabled syncing of notes/calendar/address book through the cable with iTunes. It feels like this is just one step further.

Needless to say, I'm not very happy about no USB just as I wasn't happy about syncing.
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For what it's worth, you can replace the SSD in a Retina MacBook Pro with third party hardware.

https://www.google.com/shopping/product/12203990123520892001

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/macbook-pr...
...that for an additional fee (paid to your carrier), can broadcast a local wifi signal
You seem to have confused "Is this the end of Thunderbolt as well?" with "I hate Apple forever for changing things." It's a simple question with a simple answer. (Yes.)
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Not really farther at all. Examples? Dell, HP, and Lenovo all have notebooks out there that are as good as any Apple notebook.
True, though you can always loan equipment to participants.

This study uses iPads for cognitive training in patients with Schizophrenia:

http://woolleylab.ucsf.edu/forecast

Personal use of the iPad is one of the perks of participating.
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Nope, although I'm sure they'll have many takers, the prices are high but not outrageous. Except for the $10,000 gold one - I don't see them selling many of those and think that will backfire badly on them, and will become a symbol of excess rather than class. They should have just alluded to its existence and said 'price available on request.'
> In a meeting with the investor they have informed us of a market opportunity, a specific niche, where our product could be adapted

So what? Anyone can come up with ideas of market opportunity.

> there's many things about the investor that make it an undesirable partner (some parts are good, but most are bad)

As others have said on this thread: trust your gut! It's simple, really.

> We are afraid that this NDA could be wrongly leveraged in the future, if we end up pursuing and reaching this market.

Exactly, because you already don't trust this investor. Your gut tells you they are wrong for your idea, and your gut is telling you they'll hurt you in the long run.

I think what's really going on is this "investor" doesn't really have solid leads (maybe just some emails, maybe just some casual contacts at some companies). They will bring no value to your idea. As they have no value, they go for old-fashioned contracts to attach themselves to whatever newbie entrepreneur will trust them.

Good luck! :-)
SQL Server is probably one of the easiest "big" software systems available in the world. Without having much specialized knowledge you can setup a powerful HA cluster. It's mostly clicking next and following some basic instructions. Out of the box, it'll perform pretty well (just remember to click the "Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads" checkbox in the properties page).

SQL Server requires vastly less "specialized knowledge" than, say, Postgres. I would be surprised to find that most SQL Server installs come with someone with really in-depth knowledge.

The same applies to a lot of other things MS ships, like setting up AD. Sure, knowing what you're doing helps, but MS sorta built an empire on making a lot of that stuff pretty trivial to do. For another example, look at setting up IPSec. A cute little UI you click on, versus well, the process on Linux.
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There's nothing worse than being qualified and fitting in a company, but hearing "sorry, no visa sponsorship"
This is a beautiful machine. Once again, Apple excels at hardware.

But what the living hell is going wrong with Apple's desktop software? OS X and Apple's applications suite have been getting steadily worse with every release. Look at the App store: the latest releases of OS X, iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, and Numbers are (in stark contrast to earlier versins) all rated at 2.5/5 stars, with the plurality being 1-star reviews. People are LIVID -- and not just for trivial NOOB reasons, either: the quality of the work is frankly shoddy. Who's steering that part of the ship???
Well, if the hub has enough power, supports USB-PD, and the drive supports USB-PD, then it should be able to draw up to 100W of power.
So far we've been hesitant to go that route as the current 7m fingerprints come down to 42m+ documents in Lucene.
I.e. If we were to save 20 versions of each fingerprint in different bpms we'd quickly have about a billion+ documents on our hands to be searched on every query (with ~1000-2000 hashes per document)
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https://www.apple.com/macbook/

"Built on a rock-solid UNIX foundation"
So you should just accept it?
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So, would you all like to see an example of some really sophisticated ongoing twitter spam, that normally stays undetected?

On the one hand, it's our competitor (so I understand my motives could be questioned). On the other hand, I feel companies that employ these practices (and VC firms that support them) should be called out.

WDYT?
Background: 25+ years in startups, numerous financing rounds, more pitches than I could possibly remember

My perspective: Even the best investor- the one you're in love with that seems like a match made in heaven has a good chance of really hurting your company. In my experience the two causes of startup failure are bad decisions forced by investors, often involving forcing a co-founder out, or fights between the cofounders- often a result of an investor trying to force a bad decision on the company.

I would not take money from an investor who has identified "another client" with a specific niche, and this is even assuming they are desirable.

The reason: You're already going to know they are going to expect you to cater to their client and tailor your product just for that client.

Add onto that "many things that make it an undesirable partner".... walk away.

IF you're investable there are many choices. If this is your only choice- you'd be better focusing on what makes this your only choice and fixing that, than taking this money.
Clearly what is needed is a Type-C to magsafe-style thingy and back. You stick a short pigtale Type-C -> magthing into the Macbook, then another magthing -> Type C onto that, so that you effectively have a magnetic safety catch in the middle of your Type-C cable. Or maybe the magnetic end would connect directly to a hub, since with just one USB port, you'll probably be using a hub a lot.
I've been considering upgrading from an Air to a Pro for the retina display and was waiting for this update. Now this has me a bit confused because the new MacBook has a retina display.

It seems like Pro may yet be the best choice for anyone doing demanding work, because the processor is 2x+ faster. While the 13" Pro may be a brick compared to this new MacBook, it's still incredibly light.
I think the focus is more on the fact that there is hardware and protocol which will enable data transfer at that bandwidth and speed. I completely agree that everything is going into the cloud but that is usually personlized data. What this would allow is a massive pipeline of data transfer between actual hardware. For instance,a range of hardwares like a high res camera to maybe ssds or possibly holographic data storages, etc etc.
I see this more as an evolutionary step. They size the whole package down with lower battery life and lower performance, then as the technology catches up they will up the battery life and performance once it's possible. Same thing they did with the original Air and Pro. When the original Air came out people mocked it for giving up ports and optical drives for size, now it's the standard laptop that's recommended for most use cases.
I think passion is a function of success. If you are not seeing any signs of "success" it is really easy to lose "passion." I think if you keep a bigger picture in focus and can bare the pain from short-term failed experiments things will work out in the future. And a good thing is you can make decisions to change your direction. :)
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The k80 is weird, it behaves like 2 GPUs that need to be fed over the same interface. Unless you really, really need RAM you would have better performance from 2 cards.
I wonder if someone can come up with a "mag-breakaway" adaptor for USB-C? It's a "null" adaptor -- it has USB-C female and USB-C male -- but it splits down the center and is held together by magnets. You can just put one on the end of your USB power adaptor. There you go: you have your Magsafe back again.
Then your hub is not doing a good job of providing the 500 mA that it supposed to give to devices, or your USB powered hard drive actually requires more than 500 mA to do its thing.
Hah, I wish that were the case. Over the last decade, popular programming languages are just catching up to what existed in the 70s.
They still have competitors that are doing interesting things. I think apple just talks about it as part of their keynote, while their competitors might not have keynotes going into the manufacturing details and innovations that they have done.

For example, the NEC LaVie Z HZ550 is 1.75lbs and the case is made out of a magnesium-lithium alloy. The keyboard is integrated into the case. It uses a processor that consumes more power (an i5), but they will probably release a new one in a while that will use the same 5W core M and get similar battery life. The laptop is a whole 3mm thicker than the new air, but you get ports as a result.
Total compensation need not be included as a single number, it may/should be separated into actual factual numbers like base salary, fair market value of stock options / RSUs at the time of grant, cash bonus, etc. probably with a statement that the candidate is willing to trade one component for another to find a suitable mix.

Startups and big companies follow different norms, I am unsure if the latter should be ignored.
Apple has a long history of completely disregarding the needs or desires of accessory manufacturers, and only started the MFi program after years of categorically responding with cease-and-desist letters. The program is primarily in serving Apple's interests in a level of reliability in the accessory ecosystem; it's an absolutely insignificant revenue stream.
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A search against the comments returns no results: 2304×1440 resolution and 16:10 aspect ratio?

Showing a few co-workers and a quick suggests what I thought: a bit of amazement at 16:10. Does anyone have any insight into why they didn't go with a 16:9 ratio?
> I haven't seen any indication that being addicting is bad in itself.

Per se, unnecessary dependence is simply inconvenient. This is a big part of why I never got into drinking coffee: I'd see friends and family who (for some reason or another) wouldn't be able to get their morning coffee on a given day and how shitty they would feel that morning. I don't like the lack of flexibility inherent in having a dependency on anything. I've always been a big fan of getting enough sleep (even throughout high school and college), so I never had occasion to get hooked in the first place.

To be clear, it's very possible that they find the benefits of routine caffeine consumption to be entirely worth the downside of dependence (particularly given how ubiquitous access is on an average day). My comment, and my experience, just provides a motivation (albeit a fairly minor one) for avoiding dependence per se.
You would be right only that the Air is thinner than the new Macbook in the Camera area =) (0.11 vs 0.14)
It also does benefit the employer. Your next employer will use your last salary in calculating your value.
It has a headphone jack.
Its still 96KB in base CSS format.. hardly "small" by any standard. Never tried it but at least Min ( http://mincss.com ) is proper small: 995 bytes to be exact, or 96 times smaller than SkyBlue if you will (which I'm sure is in another league feature wise, but I digress).
There are market segments (hint: china & others) that LOVE the gold color. You don't have to buy it.
I agree with the principle, but my uncertainty was more about the legal definition.
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In particular, a single address space means that if you copy a page on write, you also have to copy any page that points to it, so that you can fix up pointers to it. And that's not transparent to userspace. With virtual address spaces, you can copy a page in physical memory without changing its virtual address.

Then again, many of the same considerations apply when using ASLR.
I had to learn how to use gulp and npm and browserify and and and ohmygodthelistgoeson,...

My point is that you shouldn't have to learn a long list of tools in order to learn the underlying framework the project is trying to introduce.

I can easily remove stuff I don't need, even when I don't know how it works. But adding JS tooling myself? What a disaster.

Really? I've walked in on quite a few existing gulp/grunt/insert-latest-hotness setups and found them incredibly hard to follow (let alone unwind) without a solid understanding of these tools.
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Signing a unilaterally-written document is not "mutual", no matter how the other party wants to label it. Sure, the text inside says "we won't divulge each other's IP", but that's only one part of the agreement. Are the penalties equal? Are you forfeiting venue or agreeing to arbitration in a default?

If you do sign it without legal review, that's just foolish.
Thanks. We changed the url to that from http://www.apple.com/live/2015-mar-event/f407b6b3-5575-4069-....
Whenever I think of WebSockets/real-time I think of Socket.io but I would be interested to hear a response from the Socket.IO team in regards to Trello saying [0] they couldn't scale Socket.IO over 10K connections:

> We use a modified version* of the Socket.io client and server libraries that allows us to keep many thousands of open WebSockets on each of our servers at very little cost in terms of CPU or memory usage.

> * The Socket.io server currently has some problems with scaling up to more than 10K simultaneous client connections when using multiple processes and the Redis store, and the client has some issues that can cause it to open multiple connections to the same server, or not know that its connection has been severed. There are some issues with submitting our fixes (hacks!) back to the project – in many cases they only work with WebSockets (the only Socket.io transport we use). We are working to get those changes which are fit for general consumption ready to submit back to the project.

I'd be interested to hear if those "hacks" got merged in or fixed some other way. Of course most of us aren't dealing with 10K simultaneous connections and Socket.IO is awesome so this is in no way a warning to keep away from it, I'm just interested.

[0] http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/#asterisk
Which is a smaller fee ($0-$20) than another sim for your laptop.
20v @ 5A to be precise
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For my needs I would say the Core M is a good compromise between performance and energy efficiency. E.g., the Dell XPS 13 some have mentioned this thread as alternative has a faster processor than I need.

Also, the fan is a big issue for me. You're not likely to see fanless systems with Haswell or the more powerful Broadwell processors. With Core M Broadwell, though, I expect fanless will be the norm. I expect I'll be getting the relatively new Asus UX305 soon; for me it compares favorably to new Macbook but is only $699. It's a little heavier (2.6 lbs), but has larger 13.3" 1080p screen, runs Windows and/or Linux well, quality aluminum build, same 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, etc. I suppose I'd prefer the new Macbook, but I'm not an OS X guy and the Asus is barely half the cost.
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Probably not iPhone 6S, but it could be iPhone 7, because of European Union regulations.

http://www.geek.com/apple/apple-will-be-forced-to-use-micro-...
I wasn't very clear about it, but I was thinking that they aren't necessarily so far behind strategically. Hybrids don't look so bad if there is no $25,000, 200+ mile range EV (with a good distance solution).
It's looking like this new MBAir will actually perform 20% worse than the current-gen Airs due to the Core M processor. If performance is at all a factor in what you do I don't think it's even worth considering.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=2465&cmp%5...
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Not really planning to, but I might need to get one for professional reasons (I'm a freelance iOS dev).
I mean there's nothing saying you can't have a break-away cable even now. Look at the Xbox, the controllers are USB and they break near the system if the cable is tripped on. It's perfectly possible to have USB type C and MagSafe at the same time.
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Stories like these remind me of Andy Tannenbaum's statement: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
I think I would far rather see this as a supplement to college than a replacement. I know it's in vogue today to claim that education is about "job training," but I worry that this attitude is short sighted and destructive. Saying that you're a "replacement" to a quality four year degree is also rather arrogant.
USB-PD is all about negotiating power usage. There's no reason the MB would be required or even able to provide 100W of power out.
Quite a lot of work went into it. It is designed for 10k insertion cycles. 2x stronger to wrenching forces than micro, and it is designed so the cables fail, not the machine side connector (because once factories get up to speed have similar costs to USB micro cables now at least for dumb cables). Have a slide deck as a pdf if you want more details:

https://intel.lanyonevents.com/sf14/connect/fileDownload/ses...
With all of those peripherals, I think it's clear you're not the intended market for this specific device and its single port strategy.
These types of programs represent a funny trend in the SV tech scene: While workers of every other sector are busy increasing the barrier of entry in order to reduce competition for jobs, every other week some new startup / bootcamp / code school wants to tear down the barriers and provide "CS for the masses". Of course a noble goal, but if it actually works, it also means the end of the privileged, six-figure-entry-salary, 20%-of-your-time-free tech jobs.
Thank god. The magsafe adapter is cool, but has some serious flaws to it. Namely: it's magnetic, so any sort of [ferrous] metal dust will accumulate inside of it, preventing you from getting a good seal on the connector.

If you work in any environment other than a sterile coffee shop, this will be a huge problem for you. I spend almost all of my time working in a hackerspace, and fiddling with my power connector on my less than 1 year old laptop is a constant annoyance.
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Hmm, the essay does sound like it was written by a 20 year old indeed. Unfortunate then that she is maximizing learning by going to Quora. What exactly is she going to learn at Quora? The industry has very little to offer in terms of learning unless you are in the top echelons of Google's, Microsoft's, and Facebook's research divisions. Most software and product engineering is mundane drudgery and even if there is room to learn and grow you still have to deal with workplace politics, credit stealing, jealousy, etc. All those things are detrimental to learning.

Within the first 3 months she is going to learn everything there is to learn about Quora. By her own admission she will then move on to the next learning experience until one day she will realize academia is the only place that true learning happens.
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I'm really happy that MIT is in the lead by such a wide margin. It's the best license in my opinion.