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In my experience that was only true of the Ivy Bridge models. I've used both the 13 & 15 inch Haswell Pros, and neither seems to have any appreciable GUI lag, with the possible exception of scrolling/resizing sites with very complex layouts in Chrome.

It will be interesting to see how that aspect ratio feels. I definitely like the 4:3 ratio on the iPad, and hate the fact that Android devices are all 16:9 or 16:10, which is a terrible tablet ratio for anything other than watching widescreen video content. I would also prefer a laptop with a taller display. 3:2 might be a really good sweet spot.

I completely agree about the keyboard cover. That accessory is critical to the experience of using the device. Without it the Surface is an oversized tablet with a diminutive app store (yes, I know that it is a lot better than it used to be). The ability to switch it into "laptop-mode" is the key selling point, and has appeared in every demonstration of the device I've ever seen. It should be included, and they need to figure out a way to do it for less than the effective price of $930. If, as you say, you could get it bundled with the device for $799, the Surface starts to look more compelling.

I've had to run a Windows VM on a Mac because I needed to run SSMS, but if I were doing .NET development in Visual Studio and heavily using PowerShell on the command-line, I'd probably prefer to just have a Windows computer rather than having so much of my workflow inside a VM.

Because I currently work mostly on the command-line, having a rich command-line environment with access to a powerful shell and great tools is really important to me, and I wouldn't want that to be restricted to a VM.

Well, the Republicans voted against it because they believe that ANY regulation of broadband is unnecessary and beyond the FCC's power anyway.

The Democrats believe that the federal government, acting through the FCC, should regulate broadband.

Both sides seem to accept the idea of an "internet fast-lane," they just disagree about how to get there. None of them are on our side.

I also typically look outside the app store first for a couple of reasons:

1. I've gotten burned more than once when developers have placed major updates to their apps in the app store as separate products, requiring me to pay full price for an update to an app I already own, whereas I would have been able to purchase them for an upgrade price if I'd bought it directly from the developer.

2. I prefer the flexibility of purchasing through the developer. I use homebrew cask and love being able to install things that way. Also, developers occasionally sell cross-platform licenses if you buy from them directly.

Out of curiosity, how are you able to work as little as you do?

Interesting, the per-ride fair on the subway is cheaper but the monthly pass is actually more expensive at (I think, I don't have one) $130/mo. However, the subway does truly feel like transportation for everyone, and it makes the city feel many times more accessible than SF.

> This is one of the few fields left in tech where men outnumber / outperform women

Outnumber, yes, but outperform? You seem to be implying that female developers are worse at their jobs than their male counterparts, which is terribly unfair.

> How are we supposed to respond to this sort of problem?

We shouldn't respond by assuming she made it all up. Yes, we need to give GitHub an opportunity to respond to these allegations, but Julie Ann Horvath is a well-respected member of the tech community, and we need to take her complaints seriously.

It does seem like an awful lot.

There are furniture boutiques in Manhattan where you could easily spend $87,000 outfitting your apartment, but then if you were spending that kind of money, why on earth would you put your place on Airbnb?

Airbnb will almost certainly cover the damages: https://www.airbnb.com/guarantee.

He might not have as much luck getting them to pay his relocation costs, since I'm sure that renting out his apartment was against his lease anyway.

The real problem for this guy is going to be finding another landlord in Manhattan who will rent to him, unless he is extremely wealthy, of course.

Yea, it is illegal. Even if you are allowed to sublet your apartment, renting it out for any period of time less than 29 days is classified as running a hotel, which you aren't allowed to do in an apartment.

Update: I am not entirely correct. It is only illegal if you are not present in the apartment at the time, so people renting out rooms in a multi-room apartment can do so legally, although they are likely still in violation of their lease.

Duck typing in dynamic languages can allow you to do some pretty cool things.

Very good to know. At first I was irritated at having to shell out for another upgrade less than a year after 12, but it sounds like this is a worthy update.

For Mac or Linux noders who would prefer an IDE to a simple editor + command line tools, IntelliJ with the Node plugin is pretty good. It has code assist and debugging built in, and IntelliJ is just generally a very good IDE.

Edit: WebStorm from the same company (JetBrains) is cheaper if you don't need all the java tools support.

There is a big difference between allowing devs to do "whatever the fuck they want" and the degree of standardization you are talking about. Every team I've worked on has adopted tools and coding standards that everyone has agreed to follow (and been held accountable for following), but coders were allowed to tweak their machines and editor settings to their liking.

Unless you don't trust the basic competence of your team (in which case, it is probably time to find a new team), I don't see the need for that degree of uniformity.

Oh, that might be. I was only trying to make a general point about how ad placement like that could easily go too far, at least in the eyes of some. I actually try to avoid flying Southwest whenever possible just because I hate having to queue up at the gate.

I've used the Air as a full-time development machine in the past. It can be great if it fits how you write code. I write code in emacs or vim, so I would run that in a fullscreen terminal window under tmux, which allowed me to quickly switch between my editor and various zsh prompts.

I'd also have Chrome open in another fullscreen window, and use the four finger swipe gesture to navigate between the two.

For other apps I'd use hotkey combinations and Alfred to do as much navigation as possible to minimize using the cursor.

The biggest downside of the setup was when I needed to use a web page or video for reference while coding, which I basically couldn't do. I know a lot of coders like to have two monitors up so they can have a browser visible at the same time they are working in their editor, and none of them could understand how I could use the 11 for my main machine.

The resolution was a bit constrained for working in an IDE with a lot of information in frames, so it isn't idea, at least for me, of using IntelliJ or similar programs.

And that beings said, what really ended up killing it for me, is that the screen resolution is fairly high for the display size, or at least I thought so. Basically, type wound up being just a little smaller than I was comfortable with, and making it larger did leave me with too little space on the screen.

I was worried when I saw this headline, and then very relieved when I saw what was actually going on.

So long as Google only returns these sponsored ads for searches for the company name, I don't see this as being a problem at all, given the fact that many users are using the address bar integrated search in place of bookmarking or typing URLs.

Where this would become a problem is if they start expanding this to searches beyond simply the company name, and I think there is a bit of a gray area there. As someone else pointed out in this thread, showing the Southwest banner in response to a search for "cheap airfare" pretty unambiguously crosses a line, but what abut something like "book southwest airlines flights." One could argue that the user was attempting to get to the southwest airlines website to book a flight, so showing the Southwest banner would be appropriate, however, companies like Expedia, Kayak, and so on, whose links would now be much further down the page, would likely disagree.

Few of these points are particularly compelling.

The problem with Bizspark is that it does eventually run out, and once it does you have to license all of those Windows Server/SQL Server installs just like everyone else, which isn't cheap. When that day comes, you'd better have the margins to support a sudden rise in software costs.

That said, if everyone else where you live is doing MS development, it is going to be a lot easier to hire people if you do the same.

So this time next year we will have the Microsoft Surface 4, the Surface 4E (or some other letter that really means "the cheaper one" and comes in fun colors), the Surface 10.1, and the Surface 10.1 Professional Edition.

Supply chain yes, but not the patents. Microsoft receives a 10-year license to Nokia's patents, but ownership of those patents will remain with Nokia.

Also, MSMQ while I'm at it.

Looks like this is getting updated, so... No ActiveMQ?