New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Garbage collection is an issue too. However, a Cocoa re-write would be cool too.

silby: I’ve wondered this for a while, what do you do professionally? I feel like in many of these type of conversations, we’re the only participants. :D

I participate in a slightly more limited scope

I'm a programmer at a microbiology lab at UW, my job is to make sure sequences of the HIV genome don't get lost and keep the science going in general. I used to work for a Seattle-based ecommerce bookseller of note but it sucked and also I wasn't good at it.

Turning the keyboard into a trackpad is pretty cool

allen, and you? (seeing a mention of QuickCheck in this forum is sort of a... surprise :-P)

anyway, vis a vis "C++ is required to bootstrap LLVM" -- but LLVM is just fine at cross-compiling to whatever, no?

"play the song from selma"

Siri plays Imagine Dragons

This is my new favorite Apple keynote moment.

― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, June 8, 2015 3:17 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol fuc

the lovely Emma B is moving on from her old 11" Macbook Air.. she wants a bigger screen, with a lot of RAM and HD space and no hassles plugging things in at presentations and conferences

13" Macbook Pro is the way to go, right?

I have many good things to say about the 13" macbook pro

15" is... better

but a half kilo heavier, is the issue

retina 13" mbp is fine

don't get the normal one because it doesn't have a hdmi port

the normal one is the slowest mac I think I've used since the G4 days. Even the one in the Apple Store beachballs when you try to do anything.

the lovely Emma B is moving on from her old 11" Macbook Air.. she wants a bigger screen, with a lot of RAM and HD space and no hassles plugging things in at presentations and conferences

13" Macbook Pro is the way to go, right?

― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Thursday, July 9, 2015 9:50 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a 13" MBP has no ports that are going to solve the problems connecting to projectors that an MBA has

i would just get a 13" air. everyone should get a 13" air unless they want an optical drive or a 11/15" display.

Dell XPS13 is amazing.

i would imagine an hdmi port is something newer projectors might have? xp

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/images/ports_hero.jpg

actually thinking about getting a PC btw via http://www.newrepublic.com/article/121832/pleasure-do-it-yourself-slow-computing

Got a Surface 3 and really like it

the retinas have hdmi xp

http://i.imgur.com/j2s9pWk.jpg

ah ok

well you should still get a 13" air

if you have more than 2 ports on your computer you're basically richard stallman

work bought me a maxed out 13" MBPr and it sits unused in a drawer because non-airs are for dorks and i am not a dork

XPS13 is size of Air 11" but has a high-res 13" screen. Realize this is the Apple thread, and I'm a long-time Apple user, but I think my next computer will be a PC.

yup

certainly back to linux sooner rather than later. homebrew is magic and all, but so much nonsense to deal with. debian debian debian.

ignore the scientific computing goober, get a 13" retina mbp and love yr life

that ports pic 龜 posted is not from a new retina 13", they are much thinner and have no optical media slot

neither does that pic?

sorry I meant caek's pic, my bad

龜 infallible in quest for accuracy namaste

fuk a superdrive

i just got a toshiba chromebook 2, it's fine for p much everything i need a laptop for

gonna put ubuntu on it

disgusting

so help me I refuse to use Linux on the Desktop so long as my job includes dealing with Linux on the Server

Finally, updated iPods were announced today. The iPod Touch gets the same A8 and M8 processors used in the iPhone 6/6+ (albeit somewhat declocked), an 8MP rear camera, and a 128GB version ($399/£329). Also 3x faster wi-fi, an improved front camera, Bluetooth 4.1 (the first in an iOS device), and some new colors. Same 4" screen size. Disappointing lack of TouchID or the loop strap the previous gen had. Still, an impressive upgrade and 128GB will be great.

128GB? shiiiiiiiiiit nice.

So, um, is the Apple Watch a success? Failure? Both? Too soon to tell? Dead tech walking, a la Google Glass?

Only for apple would a $1B+ run rate in three months be anything close to a failure so…I'm gonna say it's big.

at least three  watches in this room irl

http://i.imgur.com/gO8gpPt.gif

Exactly

I counted one Apple Watch at the Pitchfork Music Festival this weekend. One.

i work at a tech startup in an office with ~50 ppl. one person has an apple watch and everyone bullies him for it.

the nerds have spoken

remember when ppl had tech devices and they were made fun as for being nerds, before everyone had smartphones that are little computers? then everyone had that shit later, arguably when it all worked better and the technology was more mature. feel like this might be one of those things, makes me feel way nostalgic

also I had a sweet Casio watch as a kid that had an address book and calculator and all that shit