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> I'm still wondering if we will have a radio brick that you can use with either a 'tablet' type device, a laptop like device, or a phone like device.

Seems like the mobile carriers would be very much against this. They are currently charging per device.
I have a macbook and an xps. I like the xps better for several reasons.

It is difficult if not impossible to output a macbook to a tv over hdmi and also send audio. Also the dongle that does hdmi conversion breaks all the time. Our office has gone through like 4-5 of them.

It is/was very difficult to disable your laptop display when plugged into a monitor in MacOS(I doubt they have fixed this issue). Also the macbook is crazily overpriced.
The "AT&T" of 2015 is the "Southwest Bell" of 1995 - SBC bought out the failed husk of the original AT&T in 2005.

This article doesn't even begin to address where the AT&T that made the "You Will" commercials went wrong. There's many reasons: http://dailyreckoning.com/att-out-of-business-2/

I've also read an article that claimed that the proximal cause of the original AT&T's failure was software delivery failure: http://www.cio.com/article/2439700/project-management/projec...

But in any case, new AT&T is not old AT&T, and therefore has many new sins to atone for.
I agree, that is the theory. However we might be at least a year from such hubs being affordable.

I guess what I am saying is, I wouldn't want to be queued outside the Apple store for one of these. The supporting accessories aren't there yet (yes, even with Apple's two hubs/adapters).

However when they do the refresh on this line, one or two years from now, the supporting hubs, wires, and so on will be available and it will be a very fun experience.
Well to be fair it's a Macbook, not a Macbook Pro. If you need multiple ports and are doing "productive" things then you still have the Pro.

This is meant to be a sleek, fun machine that's portable and powerful.

Side note, what line of work are you in where you need so many ports? I could see if you're a photographer, where you have a camera, the charging cable, an SD card, and an external, but I can't really think of too many other use cases where you'd need multiple ports at once.

Just noticed you program OSX apps. Why do you need so many ports?
not when you do `tar xvzf jdk.tar.gz` which most enterpirse worlds will do as they manage their own estates.
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I'm not sure that Wikipedia should really be considered a historical post.
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I am not sure how familiar you are with the Thiel fellowship but the application process is designed to make sure that applicants think twice about what they want to accomplish. You can't realistically get accepted without convincing the admission committee that you are not this kind of person.

If she made it to the fellowship she must have lied on her intentions to be an Entrepreneur. Don't be naive.

She gamed the system, fair enough. Let's just not pretend that all of this happened by chance and that she did not know what was going on.
Oracle could have made a fantastic app ecosystem, with a great AppStore application, given how their vm is installed on very many PCs around the world. They could have done the 30/70 split and potentially gotten heaps of money out of it. Sun was even up to it at some point, but it was horrible, the way that only Sun could make UX horrible. But still, the potential is so enormous that I cannot fathom how they miss it.

And this Ask-crap is what they do instead, making pretty much every user in the world hate them. (Not to mention the insanity of how they handled the security problems they found themselves in right after acquiring Sun and Java)
For someone who can't watch videos, can you summarise?
If they did so... the fallout would be interesting. Does anyone know what proportion of modern memory has this flaw? Would it result in tens of thousands of customers returning stick after stick of DRAM until they were able to get a reliable one?
It would not be bad, but the adapter that gives me two ports will be a part of my trip.

At airports for example I'm carrying only my MacBook and usually put in there charger and the my phone, now I have to also carry an adapter to do that.
Most work is what you make of it but don't fool yourself into thinking that you are going to learn and grow at an optimum rate in an industrial setting. Your emotional reaction to the reality of the situation does not change the fact that learning is maximized in an academic setting.
I'd like to see them do some analysis and attempt to include licenses in READMEs. That seems to be VERY common amount projects on GitHub.
I understand, but it still greatly ameliorates the problem, to the point where cost is no longer the main issue when going to a top school (again, assuming you have the money now). The long term payoff is certainly worth it.
Do you need research to appreciate vertical screen real-estate? I have two 16:10 monitors and love the extra space. I loved it enough that I then flipped one of my 16:10s into portrait.

It's occasionally problematic in that pages I make sometimes pack the perfect amount in on my display, and get cut off on 16:9s.
This is great, one off day, and I can ruin my chances at a whole bunch of companies!
Stuxnet was a complicated maneuver that was directed at Iranian civilian facilities and wasn't retaliatory or relatable to the layman at all.

The reveal of Stuxnet was before the reveal of the reach our surveillance apparatus has. The narrative was one of plausible deniability and a nod to the fact that nations were engaging in offensive online attacks.

The NK hack was an attack on American culture and values. It was symbolic in a way that attacking Iranian civilian nuclear power plants isn't. It also doesn't involve exposing and admitting to running offensive campaigns on civilians of countries we aren't at war with.

NK hack says that we need cyber defense front, since the internet is the new land bridge across the Atlantic and Pacific for anti-American extremists to attack us directly.

It fits the narrative that the measures we are taking regarding near total electronic surveillance are justified and warranted. It also is a call for more funding and power to the agencies that are engaging in the activities.
It does, but it's at the bottom right of the screen. It's actually a pretty neat design and I didn't notice much difference from the youtube video I saw.
Very interesting blog post. I wouldn't have thought that so less projects on GitHub provide a proper license! I'm working on https://www.versioneye.com and we track currently more than 500K open source projects in package managers. I just did a quick lookup in our database about Ruby licenses. Currently we have licenses for 56803 Ruby projects (RubyGems) and 49842 of them are MIT! That means 87% of all Ruby projects who provide a license at all, provide an MIT license! I will do a couple more queries and write a blog post to this!
Just to clarify what you said, Alternate Mode allows two directly connected devices to negotiate what the SS lanes and a few other wires are used for. The signaling that happens over the wires after negotiation is totally outside of the USB spec as the signals are simply MUXed onto the wires. In theory you could MUX anything over the wires as long as the signaling parameter fell within the specs defines for the cabling.
Different strokes, different folks. I love my MB Air and this looks even better; I almost never plug anything into it, just my iPhone or a HD occasionally.

It does seem a little insane to not be able to e.g., run a harddrive to backup the computer while it's plugged in...
The prevalence of "chat with us!" and "take a quick survey?" website popups encapsulates everything that is wrong with non-Apple computer hardware manufacturers.
"academia is the only place that true learning happens." That is one of the most delusional perspectives I have ever encountered my good sir. I'm saying this after spending time in academia.
Want a legit answer? They lack power isolation. I had a device surge/short while attached to a USB hub (it was a branded one), and everything else attached died: Keyboard, Mouse, motherboard, and a phone.

This was back pre-USB 3, and the power limit of USB has only increased since then (USB 3, USB-C, etc). This means the wires get hotter, the hub gets hotter, and any short/surge will have an even more dramatic effect (e.g. fire?).

Honestly USB hubs should be up to the same spec as a surge-protector/multi-tap, but they aren't, even though they carry enough electricity to kill someone.
You will probably be able to buy a charger with a hub.
High heels are surprisingly destructive: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/JackGreen.shtml
It's good to see MIT and GPLv2 in the top 3, with BSD* and LGPL* in the top 10.

The MIT license is also known as the X11 License: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#X11License

In the age secure boot functionality of UEFI (BIOS replacement) to hinder or outright prevent the installation of alternative operating systems and locked firmwares on common smartphone and tablet hardware. The source code license has a strategic value, especially with high profile open source projects like operating systems. Examples: Android based on GPLv2 Linux, OSX/iOS and many routers based *BSD operating system source code that ship on a closed down hardware.
Freedom fighter? Maybe after he got caught. Before that he was a capitalist. (assuming he's DPR, which is says he's not ... in which case he's just a falsely accused nobody)
This is a complex situation made up of multiple inputs that in turn denies you the simply answer you wish for.
No only that, but clipping power is much safer than a data stream in mid transfer.
Usually my intention writing software is to build something useful for the people.

I'm not interested in the legal mumbo-jumbo and MIT is a license which it's easier to understand for non-lawyers like me.
Looking at the number of comments left on news article sites. It used to be in the 500's within an hour, now it's around 10-30. That's what I'm basing my judgement on...Again, maybe I'm wrong.
This is such a French thing to do.
A mid-to-high end ARM SoC is $20 these days, there's really no reason to NOT have a CPU in anything that has a monitor in it. Especially since the CPU in a phone has to deal with a power/thermal profile that most laptops have a little more leeway on. It's such a false economy.
i'd guess the investor is the sort of company with standard policies and practices that include signing of NDAs for even potentially sensitive information to protect themselves in a paranoid way. lots of people 'just doing their jobs' will ask you to sign an NDA without much thought about what it might mean.

never attribute to malice, that which is more simply explained as incompetence.

if its not that sort of company, negotiate it away... although it sounds to me like you aren't keen anyway.
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No, i'm a freelance international spy, and i'm worried this will blow my cover. I need something more subtle.
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I don't think magsafe is totally ruled out. They could simply have the new USB connector, a short wire to the brick, and magsafe off the other side of that to the wall. The brick would also act as a device hub.

Laptop > -(1-2 foot cable)- > Brick > Magsafe ---(full length cable)---> Wall
I mean, of course, posts about historical material, such as an early 90s game console.

It's true that original sources, when they can be found, are preferable to Wikipedia articles. But that applies to all kinds of posts.

The date (1990) shouldn't have been in the title for the Wikipedia page, though, since obviously it doesn't date from then. We missed that before. I took it out.
Also in my license file I always list licenses of dependencies. I glanced at the source of Licensee and it doesn't seem to weight the license that appears first which would help in this case.
...now if only there were a way to fake a sophisticated knowledge of Markov Chains with wine, I can think of at least one interview I would have enjoyed a lot more.
Those are not assumptions. Historical precedent is on my side and there is no shortage of examples: Feynman, Einstein, Grothendieck, Newton, Pierce, Hamming, Margaret Hamilton, Leslie Lamport, Barbara Liskov, Rich Hickey, and on and on. I think it would be foolish to argue that those individuals have not contributed in significant ways and they have all accomplished those contributions in academic and non-industrial settings. Rich Hickey even has a talk where he explicitly mentions the fact of needing long hours of solitude to think about things.
IMO trust in recruiters. Like any commission-sales role, there is a low barrier to entry and too many bad professionals give it a bad name, lead to skepticism, therefore creating challenges and inefficiencies for the minority that can make it a valuable experience for both candidates & hiring managers.
The author didn't mention the ISIS twitter app.

the app will post tweets to your account—the content of which is decided by someone in ISIS’s social-media operation. The tweets include links, hashtags, and images, and the same content is also tweeted by the accounts of everyone else who has signed up for the app, spaced out to avoid triggering Twitter’s spam-detection algorithms

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Fully agree. I just got a new MacBook pro in January, and I'm completely blown away by the UX.
You are correct, honestly Hung and I have played hot potato with the role and I don't think either of us truly want the role. I first fell into it and then as of late Hung has been more at the forefront but yes your perception is spot on, neither of us are totally comfortable in the role. Hence the constant talk about hiring for the position, but the reality is Hung and I pitch well when we are in the door because we are technologist, we tried an arrangement with a recruiter a while back and came to the conclusion that he just could not pitch the technology at the level we can. But we deal at a very technical to technical level, when we pitch to people that understand technology we always walk away with a contract. When we pitch to people who do not have technical staff we get locked into a rut where they are afraid to commit. We do not seem to have the sales skills to move non-technical individuals out of this rut, we don't know how to break out of this. I know it is due to not having the right sales skills on the team, but we tried an individual with strong closing skills but light on technical and that did not work out well.
It's really weird to me that Wal-Mart and other major B2B shippers haven't (at least visibly) been pushing regulators to allow for driverless cars/trucks. It's a little tricky to deliver pizza to my house when there's no guy to jump out of the car and make the actual exchange at my doorstep, but hauling stuff from a distribution center to a Wal-Mart that has staff on-hand to receive the merchandise? They should be upgrading their fleets _now_, and telling legislatures to remove any existing restrictions.

What happened to ruthless efficiency and abuse of excessive power? Wal-Mart forced suppliers to use barcodes and RFID tags. They forced video makers to shrink their packaging. Force us to accept self-driving cars already.
Wait, USB-C doesn't let you charge smartphones faster than at 2A? So it won't be any faster than what you can do right now? Why doesn't it let you charge at 10A? Is it because small batteries can't take so much energy so fast? What's the deal with those "charge half of your battery in 15 minutes" statements we see for some of the recent devices?
In the current era of ubiquitous saas/cloud services, abstracted file systems, multiple device types, large internal storage options, dropbox, box, drive, and icloud, there are many, many people who haven't used a USB drive in years (or ever) and have no use for one.
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Don't. The concerns about "an undesirable partner" will explode in your hand. Also it's the kind of move that could scare other investors. Money is nice but the wrong money is deadly. Please wait for the right money.
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I can't believe the new MacBook has no internal fans.

[0] Fanless architecture

The new MacBook is the first Mac notebook ever without a fan. Since the Intel Core M chip draws only 5 watts of power and therefore generates less heat, no fan or heat pipe is required. Instead, the logic board is seated on top of an anisotropic graphite sheet, which helps disperse any heat that is generated out to the sides, all while your Mac stays virtually silent.

I've had issues in the past with macbook pro fans failing, so it's great to remove that potential mechanical failure. But I've also had issues with my macbook pro outputting an unreasonable amount of heat. I'm curious if they've solved that issue, especially now with no internal fans.

[0] https://www.apple.com/macbook/design/
This is no longer true either. Intel has consumer desktop Celeron, Pentium, and i3 series chips that support ECC.

The i3's in particular are fairly popular with FreeNAS users.

http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?s=t&SocketsSupported=FC...
Imagine you are an editor, and get two proofs (500 pages each) of an unproven hypothesis. One is written by someone who's on top of the field, published 200 papers, and all his papers are cited hundreds of times. Another from an undergrad from a dinkytown's DinkyU. You have limited time. Who would you rather check?

And that's for a purely objective field, where you can logic your way through a proof. With art, you don't even know if the proofs are right or wrong. Given two papers with very similar content, and one genius in the field and one unknown, and very little means to tell which one is strictly 'objectively' better, how would you judge them?
That's fine for portability...except that it's a whopping $79.

What we also want is a hub into which we can plug our monitors and additional storage. For desktop use, this should have a longer cord, of course. (There are such hubs for USB 3, which can already be bought for ~$79 t0 ~$250 depending on what you want out of video compatibility.
iOS and Mac OS are closed systems with lots of open source components.
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Is a 6-figure education the only way to achieve those skills?

I don't believe that to be the case.
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Steve Jobs would never have done this shit. He designed like he believed there was a way in that moment to do something absolutely right. After he left Apple the first time they started doing this too.
That sounds really cool. I'd buy that.

Off the top of my head the only concern is: How do you turn on/off the flow as the magnets lose contact? Last thing you want is arching as it comes apart.
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With what end goal?
I could also never leave a library, ever, and maximize my learning that way. And I'd die alone and inexperienced. Of course there's some give and take...

I trade my "pure learning" opportunities to be able to still grow and develop while earning an income that empowers me to live my life as I desire. I get to solve real world problems and challenges, rather than open ended ones.

I'm not trying to take anything from academics, but the most useful result will always come from a combination of academia and business. Neither would exist without the other, and there's and endless amount to learn from either side.
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I'd like to see a magnetic near field adapter: no holes, no plugging. Call it an asexual connector?
Just a friendly reminder about what it means to not have a license in your repository. You can read about it here: http://choosealicense.com/no-license/

Essentially, by not including a license, you default to standard copyright protections and "you retain all rights to your source code and that nobody else may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from your work." However, GitHub's ToS say that "by setting your pages to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view your Content. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories."[1] If you go into the glossary you can see that the definition for fork "allow[s] you to freely make changes to a project without affecting the original."[2]

Since I'm not a lawyer, I'm not going to do any deeper analysis other than direct quotation here, but I can say that I personally like to submit pull requests with the MIT license to projects I wish to use which do not include a license, as well as a link to http://choosealicense.com/ before I will use them in my own project.

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#f-...

[2] https://help.github.com/articles/github-glossary/#fork
If you are looking to use the DP over Type=C ability, you'd likely have a monitor with a hub instead. Reason being the Alternate Modes cannot traverse hubs, it's PtP only.
It befuddles the mind that you would develop a laptop that defeats the entire point of being a thin laptop, by ensuring you must carry a bag full of adapters and dongles.

The MacBook Air may fit in envelope, but does all it's cables and adapters fit in that envelope with it?

Terrible design.
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According to anandtech, they are offering 512 GB at some point, and they have pricing. It's in the spec breakdown on the first page of their review[1]. It's not cheap to upgrade the drive, which is fairly standard with Dell.

1: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8983/dell-xps-13-review