YellowRex

A top-spec Mac Mini is pretty beastly at $1500. I have no doubt it would chew up and spit out the vast majority of workstation use cases. 2.6 GHz Quad-core i7, 16 GB RAM, SSD.

The only thing I can possibly imagine would be some seriously high-end 3D rendering or massively parallel simulation software.

To the OPs point, there is zero reason to get the Mac Pro over even a Mac Mini.

Seems like there's a hole in Apple's lineup. You can't get a discrete GPU without a monitor attached (iMac) or spending >$3000. Not that it matters much for Illustrator, Photoshop, etc. which are not GPU-parallelizable anyway. At least not yet.

These best part of the post is Tim Bray's response, where he says he would keep PUT and DELETE because they're idempotent, but declined to defend the rest.

I write tons of Java in my day job, and at this point it only hurts when I laugh.

I just wrote a REST API for my company and used PUT and DELETE (Tomcat doesn't support PATCH yet).

Plenty of DELETE in Stripe's API: https://stripe.com/docs/api#delete_recipient

Github uses HEAD, PATCH, PUT, and DELETE: http://developer.github.com/v3/#http-verbs

Twilio supports PUT and DELETE: http://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/request

There are all darlings of the HK community with highly praised, widely used REST APIs. Have you read through the developer docs for most APIs?

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90% of it is print statement -> function. I got pretty tired of scrolling past all that to try and find the interesting bits.

From the announcement blog post:

-Cool looking dark theme, because that’s trendy these days

Grrr, the Boing Boing article just links to Forbes.

I hate Forbes - interstitial ads and persistent headers are super annoying. Can we stop posting Forbes links?

Boing Boing has the same coverage with a much more reader-friendly site design: http://boingboing.net/2013/07/31/nsa-capo-heckled-at-black-h...

HeroLight is hard to read on that background and looks rough around the edges on a non-retina screen.

Click through to the "Quip Business" page - they use a Thinkpad instead. Subtle bit of "take us seriously" marketing to business types.

So who is writing an app to trigger streaming from a local network file share?

Other side of an airtight hatchway? For this to be at all relevant, you're already got me running your binary with my user's permissions.

It's trendy and easier to do an okay job with than the kind of baroque skeuomorphism prevalent in iOS.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5698352

One of the courses I took as an elective in my first semester in a Master's in CS program was a course in Human-Computer Interaction, which included user testing off-campus.

It was the second-most useful course I took, after a great "studio-format" software engineering course, which itself emphasized a number of soft skills such as writing and presenting.

A train company did this in North Carolina instead of raising the height of their trestle: http://11foot8.com/