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Apple: March 9th 'Spring Forward' Event
- PinnBrain 12y agoYes, tangent, but please support the movements in several states to abolish daylight savings time. Having time move out from under us has long been a pain for programming robust systems. Perhaps the 5th or 6th generation of Apple watch will not need to do such an archaic adjustment.
- spacehome 12y agoDaylight Savings Time has some ill effects, true, but if you think that making life easier for programmers is a point that should convince the general public, you're sorely out of touch. For one, it's not all that difficult in the scheme of things. For another, programmers dealing with dates in the past will always have to consider it. Lastly, the general perception is that programmers get paid quite well enough and can suck it up and deal with this minor annoyance.
- uptown 12y agoJust wait till we travel to other planets' timezones. That's when programmers will really earn their paychecks.
- happyscrappy 12y agoOr when timezones depend on how fast you are traveling.
- ecobiker 12y agoI have worked on a fairly large scale distributed system where we had to deal with DST. The week before the switch was always the craziest. Until... we switched the boxes and the database to UTC. Even if DST is abolished, leap second will be something to deal with. I have so many things I hate about DST - like switching all our cross timezone meetings but programming is not one of them - always set your machines and DB to UTC and do the conversion in your app.
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- padmanabhan01 12y ago//We have enough digits to print 1424978922 on a watch face - that is standard Unix time. Why humans can't just learn to read that simple number is beyond me You really think people should be using 1424978922 instead of 5:30 or 9:30? That kind of thinking is what's beyond me..
- schoen 12y agoThe parent commenter's post was definitely intended as satire.
- morcheeba 12y agoWhile we're at it, all roads should be straight. Hint: If your system depends on local time, it isn't going to be robust.
- asn0 12y agoPresumably announcing the Apple Watch is available to the huddled masses...
- gitah 12y agoI am looking forward to the outrage when the Apple Watch gold edition is priced at $5-10k. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/02/24/caldwell-edition http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/02/24/caldwell-edition
- listic 12y ago...while lasting about 3 hours on a single charge http://9to5mac.com/2015/01/22/apple-targets-for-apple-watch-battery-life-revealed-a5-caliber-cpu-inside/ http://9to5mac.com/2015/01/22/apple-targets-for-apple-watch-... Really, if they will get away with that, the world has surely gone crazy.
- bshimmin 12y agoI love how they reason it away in the article: "Considered separately, the active use app, clock, and fitness numbers sound very low, but the reality is that people will passively wear the Apple Watch for most of the day, actively interacting with it only for short periods of time." Essentially they're saying, "People will buy an expensive watch that does all this extra fancy stuff, but really they won't bother much with the extra fancy stuff - because who actually wants to fiddle around with something on their wrist for any protracted length of time?" I think Apple has enough die-hard fans, who will buy almost anything they make, for it to be hard for them to do something that will register as a genuine complete flop... but I think the Apple Watch really could struggle to get much traction amongst the masses, and I don't just mean the expensive gold model.
- wonderyak 12y agoSounds like a typical first generation new device from Apple. Generally, 1st generation new devices have low benefit to cost ratios, are trying to enter a market with the absolute minimum requirements, and the successive generations will include some kind of hardware bit that makes the device much more useful.
- zomg 12y agojust give me a retina mbair pleeeease!
- austenallred 12y agoI don't even care about new hardware or products. I just want it to all be incredibly stable and well-supported.
- serve_yay 12y agoFrom your lips to god's ears. But, I don't think "stability and support" are gonna make the agenda for March 9.
- AznHisoka 12y agoI don't even care about new software/upgrades either. Glad I'm not an iOS developer.
- cmelbye 12y agoProbably won't hear too much about that on March 9, but I have a feeling you'll be happy with what you hear at WWDC.
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- freehunter 12y agoIt's funny because not that long ago Apple was known for rock-solid stability compared to Windows. Apparently you don't think that's true anymore?
- Axsuul 12y agoI hope this is the new Macbook Pro
- ascendantlogic 12y agoMy early 2011 MBP finally gave up the ghost this past weekend and I bought a new 15" on Monday. I knew this was going to happen.
- masklinn 12y agoThe event's probably going to be all about the watch and none about the rest.
- ascendantlogic 12y agoYeah, I read that after the fact. I'd still give it an outside chance that they announce Broadwell MBP's but if Apple Watch is the star of the show, then that's somewhat unlikely.
- NDizzle 12y agoI believe that you can return it within 2 weeks with no questions asked.
- stonesam92 12y agoWhat happened to your 2011 MBP? If it was graphics card related, Apple just launched a repair program: https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/ https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/
- ascendantlogic 12y agoBattery is shot and the whole system has been slowing way down. It finally refused to boot this past weekend for a few hours. It's non-retina, non-SSD so I'm not sad about getting a new one. The new one is screamingly fast and wonderful. I just don't want to buy it a month before Broadwell MBPs roll off the production lines and then already have obsolete hardware.
- andrewhillman 12y agoWell, considering we change the clocks to "spring forward" 2 a.m on March 8, all signs point to some kind of watch being released. The Swiss must be shaking in their boots while frantically clicking through the Android SDK. ;)
- fdsary 12y agoI'm a programmer, and know very little about art (sadly). The picture in the background here is very beautiful. Someone who makes that kind of thing, how do they do it? How do they chose colours, and how would they go about making the shapes actually appear on a screen?
- higherpurpose 12y agoMagic. Or Photoshop.
- morcheeba 12y agoProbably Inkscape or Illustrator. But mostly a good sense for color and design.
- freehunter 12y agoIt looks like a small handful of semi-transparent shapes (they look like leaves to me) with different colors that are overlayed on each other. Since they're different semi-transparent colors, the colors blend to form a new shade where they have overlapped. Repeat this a few times with logic that rotates the leaf around the axis a little below the bottom center of the screen, and there you have it.
- derefr 12y agoYep. It's just a more gradated version of the iOS Photos app icon. It's pretty easy to see what makes the simpler version look the way it does, when you blow it up[1]: there are just eight translucent roundrects with gradients, and everything else emerges from how they overlap. (And from the fact that the gradients form a complete hue continuum. Look at the small triangles in the middle to see the destination colors, and see how they match the source colors of their neighbours.) [1] http://www.icreatemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Preview.png http://www.icreatemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Pr...
- wonderyak 12y agoPatterns, transperency and lots and lots of time.
- antoinevg 12y agoQuad core i7 on the mini's please. It would be nice to have parity with 2012 in 2015.
- allsystemsgo 12y agoI get that a retina macbook air would be great, but the big selling point of the macbook air is its battery life, and I don't anticipate them sacrificing that.
- joezydeco 12y agoThe refurbished Macbook Airs on Apple's web store are a pretty good indicator if there's a refresh coming. Usually the 15-18% refurb discount jumps to around 25-30% if those models are going to get discontinued. Not seeing that on the store (yet).
- joeblau 12y agoI was wondering why they were painting the Yerba Buena center yesterday. The railing and awning were yellow and I saw a bunch of painters out there painting everything gray. When I walked by today, almost everything was gray. I'm hoping for some retina macbook air, new macbook pro and of course the watch.
- BinaryIdiot 12y agoI've purchased a Pebble and, more recently, a Moto 360. I love the idea of smart watches but I feel like they need to be as passive as possible for the best user experience. So far the Apple Watch looks like it needs a lot of interaction to do different things. I'm excited to see a real demo of the interface to see if that's really the case.
- gldnspud 12y agoIf they're going to sell a watch, does this mean our iPhone alarms will forevermore work correctly during DST switchovers and calendar year increments?