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I had a thinkpad running ubuntu for a couple of years, around 2010-2013, but I was forced to switch to a mbp for one simple reason:

About 1/10 of the time when I would be at a coffee shop or something and would try to connect to the wi-fi router, ubuntu simply wouldn't be able to connect. This thinkpad had one of the officially supported wifi chips in it, and it still didn't work.

Lots of forum posts told me to downgrade driver versions or some such thing, I wasted a bunch of time trying many different solutions and nothing ever fixed it.

I'm a web dev, and without internet I can't get anything done- I had to eventually get rid of it. Too bad, because the build quality was nice and it's a much better deal than a mbp, but unreliable internet is a deal-breaker.

(If there had been some way for me to pay someone with driver knowledge to diagnose and patch the driver problem I would have done that!)
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I would love to see a documentary / an interview of the developer (team?) behind these Chinese crappy products. Are they really that incompetent or is it just totally different culture?

I mean, after all they are capable of bundling the all FOSS together, writing some code by their own, and even shipping a working product, but they don't realize that running commands as root from query string is horrible idea? That's hard to buy.
Decade old heavy Linux user who got his first Macbook a few months ago. I agree that Homebrew is not as good as most package managers. However, it's good enough and doesn't get in the way. It does what it needs to do and because of that, I don't think it's fair to use that as a reason to claim that OS X is worse than Linux for developers.
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a fucking startup in San Francisco that drops vowels out of its name and ends in "io". Choose a NoSQL database that doesn't support joins, and a constantly crashing backend that the founder wrote in a weekend in the trendy web framework of the week. Choose a starter apartment in the Tenderloin that's smaller and smellier than the carboard boxes the homeless live in on Market Street. Choose a fucking "unlimited vacation" plan that means that the first employee who tries to take a vacation gets a permanent one. Choose a facial hair style that makes you look like a Confederate general, and granny glasses. Choose an open plan office with no walls or dividers that's noisier and more distracting than a call center in Bangladesh. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?
Wow talk about a nuclear facepalm. I'd bet Uber doesn't make it through the crash if this is how their thinking process works at the top level.
Yes, but you still need to encode the questions and decode the answers. Existing libraries that do this are pretty dismal.

(Dismal enough that I ended up writing my own DNS encoding/decoding library (https://github.com/spc476/SPCDNS) with the aim of being easy to use as well as safe. It assumes nothing about the incoming packet and does extensive validation (enough that it found bugs in other DNS libraries). It also avoids dynamic memory allocations. It's used at work in two projects that get heavy use (millions of DNS queries a day) and so far has performed without incident, so well written C code is possible.)
My company used Zenefits for a while, mainly because one of our execs is friends with one of theirs. We had many, many problems with payroll. When you have employees repeatedly coming to you because their paychecks are screwed up, you've got to do something. We ended up switching away, and now use ADP for payroll instead. We've had no problems since. (This was before the big public slap fight between Zenefits and ADP, which was made even more amusing given our experience.)

I would not recommend anyone use Zenefits for any reason, regardless of whether it turns out they complied with legally-mandated training requirements or not. The fact that they were so incredibly sloppy is just inexcusable. You cannot mess around with people's pay like that.

(Posted with a throwaway account for hopefully obvious reasons.)
The lookup thing only happens during compilation to byte code or intermediate code, I believe. Once in byte code, there are no variable names, only addresses.
IQ tests attempt to measure how many "contexts", human "constructs" across various disciplines, a person is familiar with and fluidly capable in...

The fewer the contexts...well, I'll leave that to individual interpretation....
The lookup thing only happens during compilation to byte code or intermediate code, I believe. Once in VM, there are no variable names. Only addresses.
I went from Windows to using Ubuntu for years then to Mac only a few years ago. I really disliked the packaged management as well. Homebrew and seeing individual apps give me "an update is available!" pop-ups felt like such a step backwards.

However...what specifically are you wanting to install and update on Mac that a better package manager would significantly help with? I find on Mac I'm rarely installing or updating new packages so it doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would. As long as I can easily install and update Python, Node, Vagrant, Chrome and a few other things I'm happy.

I'd love a laptop that had a long life battery, good screen, good build, was light, ran an open source OS that supported all the software I need etc. but you have to compromise unfortunately and I can compromise on package management.
So with biometrics being adopted by the mainstream population, would the law eventually be expanded to include our DNA?
Laptops do not make desktops redundant. You will not be able to strap on a 6" tower H/S or better to cool down the highest performance processors, let alone be able to pack a battery to run said processor and a HP GPU into any laptop form factor.

It is true that not every work load needs such a capable machine and you should only spend as much as you need.

That being said, I was working with a friend on a recent project and he told me that his MacBook was "burning up" while running through a build script that put together a a handful of Docker containers. My ~5 y/o Desktop barely even hiccuped on the same thing.

Desktops can do things laptops can't.
Yes the Polish code breaking was underplayed in The Imitation Game and reduced to just one line. Turing built a more complex version of the Polish Bombie machine to crack a more complex version of Enigma.
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All kidding about killer chairs aside, hacked self-parking chairs could potentially convoy over to a security door and pop it open, leading to a real robbery or industial espionage, or any number of other funny or embarrassing scenarios.
This is somewhat untruthful. If apt fails, it tends to leave detailed error reports, and does its best to leave things in a sane state. However, if you're using apt, you're doing it wrong - aptitude is where it's at.

Home brew, when things go wrong, goes wrong disastrously in my experience. You're never quite sure where you're left, and you have to spend a fair bit of time picking through what actually failed.
Also, don't use your actual fingerprint, since it's becoming harder to avoid giving it to the government, even if you're not a criminal.
Let's go off the deep end, shall we, and speculate? Consciousness (the process that manages your evidence) is already encrypted. It's encrypted by quantum events occurring in the brain. The going conjecture is that microtubules in brain cells provide a latticework to maintain and force collapse of quantum states which somehow drive neuron activity. Regardless if you believe that or not, it is now known that brains are storing information in DNA and that DNA processes appear to be governed by quantum events. It's a reasonably palatable conjecture which may be testable in the next few years, and it's speculation for the hell of it here anyway.

Having essentially hardware equipped encryption, you brain ends up being completely unique and probably uncopyable in total from a quantum level process, given it lives half here and, ahem, half there. Any connection to it by a non-quantum devices in reality, especially high speed ones, are probably a bad idea as it increases the exposure surface area beyond what nature has likely already secured. Given your brain is reprogrammable, it's probably not a good idea to hook up weird shit to it until we know more about how the universe and it work. That includes any shit a government asks you to hook up to yourself now and again when you pass through its borders.

The 5th amendment being out of date is the least of our problems. Our government in the US, in its valiant attempt to protect us, has somehow decided it needs to keep increasing the efficiency of protection in response to what appear to be escalating abilities with the bad guys. The problem is, of course, is that eliminating all suffering is completely impossible, and that the idea of what is a decent amount of suffering to endure is constantly shifting as it's being squabbled over by people infected with angry cooperative memes...memes which have forgotten that this country was founded on freedom to do whatever you wanted, when you wanted to do it, as long as you weren't shitting on your neighbor when you did it.

Frankly, I'm more concerned about cloud services nowadays than phones. Seems as if a phone is just a viewport to the cloud and with so many services and apps accessing my phone's data (seems like every day another apps asks for more data) that the exposure area of my phone's cloud footprint is probably easier to hack than the phone itself.
Someone pointed out that the device in question doesn't have all of the features described above as it is an iPhone 5c. My apologies. I'll leave my comment as some may still find it interesting. Relevant-ish, perhaps.
> If Alice punches Bob in the face, then is hit by a bus and dies, we don't go searching through all of Alice's stuff just in case there might have been someone else involved with the Bob-punching incident, right?

Wrong. If Alice announces that she's looking for people to attack then of course we go looking so see why she's doing that and if other are others involved.

This wasn't some random emotional attack like a bar fight. Stop setting up nonsensical strawmen for your arguments, argue the hard cases not the easy ones.

If your argument/objection can survive the hard cases then you have something, arguing the easy cases is meaningless.
I'm assuming you are referring to quantum computing for it's speed computations? That wouldn't make a different here. They have only X amount of tries before the phone locks them out. It is the number of tries that is the issue here.
The obvious connection to me is that when the numbers are excellent, you have to do something pretty egregious to attract scrutiny. But when the numbers are ok or bad, suddenly people become much more interested in the details.

I note that the Zenefits CEO was ousted after missing targets and during a time when I think we can all at least agree that the industry is less exuberant. Maybe he would have gotten sacked anyhow, but missing the numbers sure didn't help him.
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What regulation are Lyft and Uber allegedly skirting?
China's situation is a bit different to the US's in that given it's socialist leanings it will probably just keep lending and bailing out.
A startup could spend years perfecting its model and technology before going full force.

Yeah, that's really exactly it. The way I've put it before is that you choose the model that fits where you are in your lifecycle. Or you grow slow, until you choose to (try to) grow fast. I'm not opposed to VC per-se or anything, but our mindset has always been "do it when the time is right". We get a handful of paying customers, real revenue and feel convinced that we've nailed the whole "product /market fit" thing, then we might decide it's time to turn on the afterburners or whatever. But right now, while more money would make some things easier, I wouldn't feel good about taking that on.
Isn't the bigger issues China's structural draconian limits to freer movement of capital, external investment, the imaginary/real value of ghost cities and scale of holding illiquid foreign debt?
Hmm good point, I stand corrected.
For me, the beauty about Vulkan is in future work and libraries that will be based in it and I bet will start popping up over the next following months, if not sooner.
Did it actually write zeros to the flash memory or did it leave the data sitting around somewhere?
It is perhaps a silly requirement, considering that the salespeople still passed the required exam.

Supposing that the exam is supposed to test the candidate's actual knowledge -- i.e., their ability to correctly represent things and act in compliance with the law while engaged in conversation with potential customers -- I certainly can see a risk of someone just saying "eh, I'll skip the material, take the exam with a reference open on my desk, pass it and be fine" and then getting into major trouble later when it turns out they did actually need to know a lot of that stuff off the top of their head in order to do their job.
I think we are arguing for the same thing. I just don't want agencies to change regulations because a large company wants them too. Id rather an agency be smart enough to find out that companies are using a loophole, and then close that loophole. A company will always use all loopholes available to it, to not do so would be silly

'Making trainees watch a video' seems like silly regulations asking to be circumvented. Why not make the exams more stringent so people are forced to actually pay attention.
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They talk about their colo stuff quite a bit, with prices here and there inbetween:

http://www.servethehome.com/going-colo-series-part-1-decidin...

http://www.servethehome.com/colo-series-part-2-picking-coloc...

http://www.servethehome.com/colocation-years-learning-experi...
eh? I have a both and I far prefer developing on the MBP just because the computer is so great and I can use it anywhere hassle free. My ubuntu machine is hard to tab around the windows and generally has a bad UI and the fonts are terrible. I actually had an ubuntu machine before I ever used a mac computer, so if anything I should be bias towards the more familiar linux setup. The MBP totally blew me away. Linux package managers may be superior, but I don't actually spend most of my development time installing system packages thankfully. npm, maven, pip are identical experiences on both.
Link?

Best calculator I've found (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calc...), given standard values like a 4% mortgage with a 20% downpayment and a 5% investment return rate, shows your scenario break even at best over 30 years -- hardly "large and unambigouous margins".
very nice analysis...

I've written on this topic the other week:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/02/understanding...

Basically, in VM terms BigQuery lets you scale to thousands of cores in seconds, for just a few seconds, and you get per-second billing. Pretty cost-efficient :)
I'd say upgradability should be added to that list to make a better computer, otherwise it'd at best be equal to one from Apple.
He spent multiple paragraphs explaining how he has a System76 laptop.
'surprisingly usable' is not what we should have to settle for
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I think the trick is to have obese/chemo people to run before they become obese/chemo people, for preventative benefits and to engrain the habits early on.

In the case of obese people, there is an argument that due to the high impact nature of running, other forms of exercise may be preferable (imagine the force of a heavy bodyweight crashing down on a person's joints many,many times over the course of a run, ouch). Perhaps cycling or swimming would be more advantageous to the overweight population. Of course, the benefits of walking are often understated, but certainly the humble stroll could impart a myriad of benefits to those of ill-health.

I wonder if the same health benefits can be had from involuntary running :P
1: Yes.

2: Yes.

3: No, but they will probably be the ones asked anyway, and then yes, they would be legally required.

4: Apple.

5: What's the question? Is the question will they be compensated? Then yes.

6: They can't. They don't own their stock. Bad PR is not a good enough reason.

You are treating the court like a mathematical proof and finding edge cases. I used to as well. But courts don't work that way at all - they don't care in the slightest about your proof. They analyze things on a human level, not a mathematical level.
I've never used a Chromebook, but why can't you just wipe the harddrive with something like gparted and then install a Linux OS as you normally would?
No, the point I'm trying to make is that seemingly one of the only ways to get stupid laws changed is for them to be broken

The counterpoint is that civil disobedience requires harsh punishment of the disobedience in order to be effective. If somebody flagrantly violates a law because they claim it's bad, and walks away with little to no punishment for doing so, the public's impression will be "well, must not be such a bad law if that's all that happens", which will not serve to change things.
Here's an article on this that I posted a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11108410
A reasonable cost may still be $150 to $200 per hour. Engineering time charged to a third party is never cheap.
Well, that's just the analysis I was thinking about. Good looking charts there, nice work.
Technology changes over, you can't use the fear of replacing old remotes as the reason not to do it. If that was the case we'd all still be using CRT monitors and VGA only.

Choice is just as good as stability. There is also no reason you can't do both.
Nonsense. Absolute rubbish.

Being broken is a feature? Changing /usr/local instead of being sane? Leaving old versions of packages lying about instead of cleaning them up? Breaking when the Apple devs wonder if it would be fun to switch things up a bit under the hood without telling anyone?

The one thing I can think of that's a "feature" is that brew compiles locally, instead of pulling down a binary, but even that has some draw backs.

I'm all for product loyalty, but a spade's a spade.
What is Juno and why is it paying Uber drivers to track your rides?
Wow, you're getting ripped off.
Some vegetables can be overclocked, with a faster day/night cycle than 24 hours. Lettuce can be forced to grow about twice normal speed.
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I like and use Apple gear but I dont like untinkerable black boxes or opaque firmwares.

I think we need a beautiful, functional servers,computer, handheld and wearables with opensource desktop lithography and 3d material deposition. It would take about $20 million and the right people to get going, but it could be hw UNIX -> Linux.
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That makes sense. I didn't realize these had so few channels. What I was concerned about was possibly baseless market segmentation engineering, in the same way that they elide ECC from the "Core" line of CPUs.
I have a Lenova Yoga Pro and it's great. Nice build quality, silent, touch screen. My kid found it plays latest games at medium detail.
What about Vaios? The specs on it are impressive (WQHD, 16GB memory, 20h+ battery life) with a sleek build. Wondering if it goes along well with linux...
The synaptics driver on Linux is atrocious...
I would have thought, given the thrust of my post, that the "for me" with regards to redundancies was completely and wholly implied, no? Of course desktops can do things laptops can't; I've been careful to say nothing at all to the contrary and that's fortunate because that would be a stupid statement. And laptops can do things that desktops can't, too, and whether or not that matters depends wholly on you and your needs. Which is why the sneering you-don't-need-that of the post I originally replied to rustled my jimmies in the first place.
> I hear this type of argument a lot, but it's so important to include the cost in engineering and talent necessary to keep your datacenter humming.

I'm surprised how often I see arguments like this as well. If it takes even a few days of time for your employees to manage the hardware and you're only saving a few $100 a year buying the hardware yourself, you're already making a loss.
It's still at the mercy of Apple, Intel and all the other opaque firmware vendors and microcode updates. Plus, it's not nearly UNIX enough, the damn linker doesnt do linker scripts so good luck developing non-xnu kernels without compiling under something else. And the sources aren't always released in a timely manner. Why is Apple still not open sourcing more of the OS?

In the future, I'd like to be able to choose a design of laptop or tablet online, modify it, choose an open cpu core and so on and create an entire, beautiful computer at home. Not everyone will want to do that, but I think enough people will realize open source hw is the future especially in terms of supply-chain security and reducing or adding features. (More broadly: How cool would it be to have company-specific devices, designed and built just for them?)
I've bumped kernels but it still doesn't work for me... I'll put some more effort into it and will see if it works.
Assuming this headline is correct, what effects would that have on the global economy?
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When the data is consistent for several years you should already figure out that Seagate is not going to improve so fast, when they do improve in BackBlaze data you can start buying them again.

Large companies may buy Seagate due to the price advantage and the fact that their storage systems can better handle the drive failure rate.
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How is that different from the US situation? Isn't that exactly the US situation?
Yes, but with loans and debt there is already a more apt mechanism for handling exactly the nonpayment case: interest rates. Student loan interest rates would go up with more nonpayment, making them less affordable, making school tuitions grow more slowly, and other knock-on effects based on straightforward supply/demand. (Remember, price just means "willingness to pay", and schools are optimizing tuition pricing and other costs of attendance for which these student loans are taken out based on their own Laffer curve.)

Whereas kicking someone when they are down (i.e. already can't pay) is cruel and unusual, I agree that making an example of willful nonpayment makes sense, but that shouldn't be done at the expense of taxpayers(/no need for police involvement). That's why wage garnishment and other tools already exist for lenders to use with a simple court order. If the government foots the bill of enforcement, rather than the lenders footing the bill of wage garnishment intervention and court costs, then it will get represented in taxes rather than loan interest rates, which privatizes the gains (loan payments) and publicizes the losses (enforcement costs). The other side effect is that it subverts supply/demand based pricing of education based on student loan interest rates, which props up higher education price inflation.
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I am kinda frustrated to see no mention of Surface Book in your article though. I really suggest trying out Surface Book hands on in a store near you.