I've been recently (December) upgraded to a similar rMBP (2GHz i7, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD), coming from an early 2008 MBP 15" it really feels great, everything is incredible fast, almost instantaneous, but... I'm experiencing two VERY annoying problems with OSX Mavericks:
1) 2/3 times a week the whole system freezes up and I need to reboot
2) once a week the sound output stops working and I need to reboot
Googling around it seems I'm not the only one experiencing these issues, too bad I can't go back to OSX Leopard.
What's amazing about newer machines + SSD + ample RAM is that you start to perceive software slowness more than ever. Whereas before I wouldn't care if my terminal took 0.3s to open a new tab, now I want to get it down to .05s (which, using zsh completions, doesn't seem to be possible).
The sound output thing I found to be an issue with headphones - it'd happen when I was on headphones, closed the mac, took out the headphones, then open the mac up and woke it up again.
Interestingly enough, I picked up a pair of bluetooth headphones and the issue has entirely ceased to reoccur.
Thanks! that's exactly what I'm doing every day, I use headphones too and plug/unplug them very frequently. I also never shutdown the mac, I just put it to sleep by closing the lid.
I've been doing the same for years with the old MBP (regularly coming to 30 days uptime without any itch) and always considered this the best feature (bulletproof sleep) that keeps me from going back to linux.
PS
Ironically enough, just after posting my first comment the mac freezed up again...
I fixed the audio problem on my new Macbook Air by going to the Audio Midi Setup app in the Utilities folder. Click on Built in Output you may need to click the gear icon for "use this device for output" and/or unclick the checkboxes for mute.
Regarding OSX Terminal, I'm an heavy user since Leopard but it's a shame that after upgrading to Mountain Lion (an now Mavericks) I discovered that they broke VIM vertical selection since control-shift does not generate a keycode anymore [1].
Anyone with the same problem? I tried iTerm recently and I don't like it! :-(
Everyone in the office has been playing a lot of Tetris – a Russian submission for the IBM PC. It’s a classic, like Breakout. But I don’t think Broderbund is going to publish it. The knaves.
October 31, 1986
I beat out Ed and Steve for the #1 spot on the Tetris high-score list.
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Thanks for this link, great reading! my best friend had a pc and prince of persia (and karateka) when we were young, great memories...
As you said there is probably more overlap with django than with twisted, tornado is a full fledged framework that happens to a have (thanks god) a new async web server, and I really like the self contained nature of tornado (and the no twisted dependency), if you do want twisted there are orbited/cometd already!
All this situation is getting pretty silly IMHO, opensource is about freedom to choice, they evaluated twisted and decided it was not the right path, everyone should accept this and get along. Before twisted there was async, before django there was zope, before python there was another language, before git there was svn, before svn there was cvs and so on... that's how opensource works, competition is the path to better things and I LOVE THIS!
I switched from bloglines to google reader two years ago, greader evolved in the wrong direction imho, I was expecting a gmail like experience but every new update adds nothing to usability... is there something new to try that let's me really focus on my feeds?
Ruby On Rails is a framework not a collection of third party libraries (like pypi), that said if you really want to compare RoR to something then that's http://www.djangoproject.com/
[1] http://vimcolors.com/307/moria/dark