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Sorry, can you elaborate on why you can't justify buying Macs anymore? It sounds like you're interested in local storage and you're okay with buying old machines if it means you don't deal with cloud, so how come Macs don't fall under this?
This will never happen, and the reason is that School (Elementary, Middle, and to some extent even High School) isn't really about educating our children; evidence suggests that people who start school in 5th or 9th grade end up doing as well (or even better) by 12th.

School is socialized daycare, so parents can work. If a country can accept that, and stop forcing children to learn things at absurdly young ages, then maybe we can reach the point where children who need rest can simply arrive at school and sleep some more, comfortably and unreproachably. But I highly doubt that will ever happen in America.
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It's not offensive. It just doesn't add anything interesting.

Naturally this post is from a man's perspective and a mother's perspective would be different. Is there an interesting train of thought that these sentences provoke, or are they simply the obvious statements they appear to be?
One of my favorite things I've learned during my time studying Esperanto is the word "volapukaĵo", which is constructed from "volapuk" as the root and means "nonsense".

"Tio estas volapukaĵo al mi" is the Esperanto equivalent of "It's all Greek to me!"
For you, yeah, RAM might be to limited, but for the most of us it's fine.

The quote from the article is bogus:

>People that buy Apple products do so because they want the best; in hardware terms, at least

No, people buy them for the brand/perceived lifestyle/design/MacOS. Only the professionals by it for the "best hardware", the majority of their customers doesn't care, they just assume that the hardware is fine.

The majority of Apples customer will NEVER use their laptop for other than browsing, email and light word processing and for that purpose it's absolutely fine. In fact it's overkill.

Even for a person like me that do Python/Django development, it's still a fine laptop and it will continue to be fine for a long time.

It's a little expensive though. It seems like the price should have come down a little by now.

Honestly there's nothing wrong with the current line of Apple hardware, in terms of performance (and excluding the Mac Pro, which doesn't make any sense at all, given it's target audience)
The thing that is bad about this is that you see a statistic like 95% of VCs don't give a reasonable return and there is a good chance that is your money or the money of someone in your family that is being wasted. Pension funds, private equity funds that you or someone you know may be holding as part of their retirement funds.
I didn't read a single technology or feature any ultra modern computer has that the 4 years old MBP doesn't have, nor about anything you can't do on it any newer computer does.

People are interpreting "PCs are extremely good and capable now" as "PC is dead".
That's precisely what VCs aim to do.
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Good points. This is a productivity app, but I'd like an answer to the original question, please: how many billions of dollars of revenue does the Mac generate for all developers across all categories of apps? Windows?
> Anyone who buys a Macbook Pro today, before they're updated in the fall, will be able to use it for the next 3 years without issue.

It kind of depresses me that three years is considered a long lifetime for a computer.
Lenovo p50 allows 64GB of ECC memory with Xeon (i7 and non-ECC supported too at substantially lower price). I badly need this configuration, and really hope the next MBPs support it.
Yes, I considered that, but it doesn't work for the particular app I'm thinking of.
Some people point to the limited improvements in Skylake and Broadwell as an argument why it doesn't matter that Mac updates have faltered. I respectfully disagree.

Look at the 12" Macbook. This, to me, is just too much compromise. Only one port and it's USB-C and it's the power?? Compare this to the healthy amount of ports on the HP Spectre in what is still a small form factor. Add in the terrible (IMHO) keyboard, pointless Force Touch and lack of tactile feedback on the trackpad.

Yet the Macbook Air remains with a relatively crappy display. For year it was suggested it wasn't economical/possible to add a retina display to this form factor. The Macbook is proof to the contrary.

Plus with the 12" Macbook, 13" Retina MBP and 11" and 13" Macbook Airs, it seems clear that not all these SKUs are going to survive.

I have a 2011 13" Macbook Air as my personal laptop. At the time I considered it to be about perfect in terms of portability and power.

But the design is getting pretty long in the tooth now. Crappy (relatively) display. Look at the Dell XPS 13 and 15s as inspiration. For one, they have really thin bezels.

The Mac Pro? Introduced with much fanfare 3 years ago and hasn't been updated since.

Mac mini? Coming up on 2 years without an update. And we lost the quad core options.

This all comes as Apple has pushed the iPad Pro as a laptop replacement.

My point is that with the Apple ecosystem (and many others) there's a halo effect. People buy into part of it based on the complete range, regardless of whether or ot they'll buy into the rest. They have the option.

The sense I get from Apple is they're no longer interested in the PC/laptop segments. They seem to no longer care about power users even though power users are influencers.

Also, it seems like the days of only horrible trackpads on PCs might finally be over. At least it seems like some models might have decent trackpads.

Can Apple really think tablets are the future? Maybe they aren't but we're a long way from that. The UX on an iPad Pro with a keyboard is as terrible as Steve Jobs used to say it was (Jobs famously called touchscreens with keyboards terrible).

So even if Apple does update their lineup later this year I'm not sure I'm going to buy in because the writing seems to be on the wall.

At this point a Dell XPS 13 or 15 seems like the way to go.
I speak both languages, and AFAIK neither is nearly as artificial as Volapuk or Esperanto.
Greetings, Hackernews. Jason Scott, guy adding these to the collection right now. Great work by the team (they'll all get credited in the Internet Archive announcement when it goes up).

All together now:

* Still adding items (we're at 10,380)
* AWS instances are screenshotting these to find issues
* A notable amount of issues
* Yes, we're using AROS kickstarter ROMs.
* The emulator (Scripted Amiga Emulator) is excellent and will be improved over time
* Enjoy what works
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That is cool.

I hope the authors of Samorost and Botanicula get to see this article, I'm sure they'll be interested.
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That you are knowledgeable about hard drive speeds, solid state technology, and the virtues (or pitfalls) of OS upgrades means your needs far outstrip the average consumer.

The computer you're running is 6 years old. Apple doesn't sell it anymore. It's also possible to replace the HDD with a new SSD.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iMac+Intel+21.5-Inch+EMC+2389+H...

Even so, most people would use your 2010 iMac with much satisfaction.
I miss something between a MacBook and a MBP.

Something light with a Retina display, minimum 13" and a good CPU. Basically a Thinkpad X1 Carbon with OSX.
I cannot justify them because they are old and we keep computers for a long time. If we buy an old computer now, its useful lifetime is reduced. We want new, always. The local storage is a requirement for new computers. The only Mac we will purchase currently is the MacBook. If MacRumors says don't buy then we don't buy.
That would be done by providing four RAM slots in a laptop, and only the larger MacBook Pros are likely to support it if Apple bothers at all.
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Sure it has, just make the connection slow (but usable). Enough people will get hooked and want faster Internet. Aircel did this in India. There were some other programs that did similar things and were successful IIRC.
You may be doubly confused. VC here does refer to venture capital firms - sometimes they're no more than a few people running the firm, in which case you could refer to the individuals as venture capitalists. These firms invest in startups, businesses which create a product. Their job is to "choose winners." But where do the individuals making up a VC firm get that money to invest? It's very rarely their own wealth. Instead, they get it from LPs - endowments, pension funds, big banks, family offices (which manage multi-millionaires' money), all of whom want to get on the Silicon Valley wave. And those LPs certainly expect to get better returns than if they just put it in the bank, or into the stock market. So there are two levels at which a "company" must "raise" money - the startup from the VCs, and the VC from the LPs.
As a boy who hated early-morning school and was consistently tardy, then switched to the joys of an afternoon schedule in high school, this rings pretty true. My grades didn't change much (pretty good, not great, before and after), but my enjoyment of school did.
Debhelper felt a bit too "low-level" when I first tried it. After learning a lot about Debian packages it might be a good choice now. Maybe I'll have another look. Thanks!
If they just updated the CPU, people would complain about such things such as the amount of on-board memory (which often cannot be upgraded in recent Apple hardware), the video card, external ports, etc.

So, my guess would be that their replacement hardware isn't ready. Follow-up question is: why is the hardware not ready?

Possible answers (with varying degrees of realism) include:

- they don't think they need it yet.

- they wanted to have it ready, but hit some snag designing or producing it.

- they are designing their own ARM CPUs, and want some more room to ensure that they will be faster than the old hardware.

- they are designing their own ARM CPUs, and hit snags doing so.

I would think it is one of the first two, but it would be more interesting if it were one of the last two.
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No offense but you sound delusional
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I don't quite agree with the math and illustrations.

If they put in 10M, get 25%, and exit is at 50M, that approximately zero growth over valuation (probably down from series B)
This is why VCs don't always take series B, and series A is much smaller so they can place more investments and see which ones are worth it.
A 100M series A fund with only 10 deals seems unrealistic.

Six years is not enough to IPO for most startups. Much less 4, if the A comes towards the end of the placement phase. That's not a change that helps anyone.
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That's just survivorship bias. You remember all the good stuff that survived, but don't realize all the junk your grandma bought and threw out that you never saw.
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I get the sense that the comment was implying that something was less about the man's perspective and that the mother's would be of more value.
Probably...but in what way?
I get that. I have the same problem. And it's not just the ressources, what you need are skilled enough ressources, and that's even harder.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. A VC fund started in 2006 would have gotten around 4.5% return on a 10 year bond.

You're right about current yields, but they're also at all-time historical lows right now.
Oh man, I loved this game. I still have the original cart + my old gameboy from when I was a kid. Having your own pet Metroid was so cool.
The current Macbook Pro was updated in 2015. And I was being conservative, I'd imagine you'd realistically get 6 years with it.
Especially if dual booting.

I dual boot Windows 10 even Windows 8/8.1 my 17 inch Macbook Pro 8,3 even with 2.3GHz i7 CPU 8GB RAM and 512 SSD is like a hair dryer fans on constantly never stopping but not when using OS X.

It's fine with Yosemite 10.10.5 but I am hesitant to upgrade to El Capitan 10.11.6 anytime soon. I may even downgrade to Win 7 if I can but I hear MS is insistent on people using Win 10 even if they will not push it out you can still get it.
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...as if I don't live in a country with "Sheridan Circle" in its capital city...

Anyway, false equivalence of Bandera and Hitler is also from the troll playbook.
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"We had to write ‘ordinary posts’, about making cakes or music tracks we liked, but then every now and then throw in a political post about how the Kiev government is fascist, or that sort of thing."
Looks good! Additionally, there's fpm-cookery, which comes pretty close to what I want: https://github.com/bernd/fpm-cookery
Somebody also created a Docker container for that: https://github.com/andytinycat/fpm-dockery

Now combining this tool with Jenkins, which triggers a build whenever I change the recipe would be all I need for now.
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By then the CPU in the rMBP will be 9 years old.
Often feels like everyone is a VC today.
Obviously yes. Trick question?
Tech enthusiasts (as I assume most people on this forum are) want different things out of their computers than the average person. Today's MBP can be used for three years by tech enthusiasts, which is indeed impressive.

It can probably last over ten years for the average person, if good care is taken.
The software stability in the California-series of OSX / macOS is going down, and we aren't really seeing a major difference between Windows 7 and OS X. Plus, they keep changing how things work in every release and cutting support for hardware earlier relative to when they last sold it. When we upgrade in the next 6 months to Windows 10, then I might see a reverse.
but how does this approach scale? it might be possible to find 10-20 incorruptible people in a reasonable amount of time. how long will it take to make an agency the size of the fbi, with every employee hand chosen using a super strict criteria?

its not just the agents either. I had a neighbor who was a lawyer and was going to be a legal clerk for the dea. I had to do an interview with an fbi agent, as did all of her family and friends. they already have a process in place to pick trustworthy people, and while I guess it isnt perfect, why would you be so confidant you can do it better?
Some really good points here for sure. I wish the author would refrain from speaking so negatively about themselves though, that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. What you say about yourself can really shape how you see yourself. The truth is, I think most of the people we interact with day to day have the same feelings of self doubt that we do.
Video Toaster was a hardware expansion card. The Specific software likely wouldn't work without it, since it went through the video input/output. It doesn't have lightwave3d either, but does seem to have some model packs for it.
Waiting for that book :-)

A data breach should be equivalent to having paper documents stolen from a safe, unless there is negligence. Did you check with a lawyer, right?
>and will buy old machines rather than deal with problems in that area

Assuming that you don't find another alternative, then I assume buying old Macs would then be okay?

I'm not sure what the rationale is for not buying one year old laptops if performance is about level (Skylake was not that earth shattering).
The only thing I saw was Marc's tweet about India being better under British rule.
I think that is the real question, "Why do people still buy ..." and it speaks to that percentage of Apple's base that want a machine with an optical drive. So for that segment they will pay for the drive and sub-par display performance.

If you look at Apple's product releases over the years, and with overlapping products, you can really see Apple market research at work. iPad Pro 9.7 vs iPad Pro vs iPad 9.7. How many people want pro/not-pro, how many people want pencil/not-pencil, how many people want big/little. One of the Apple product managers said "I survey customers by counting how much money they will give me for a feature." His point was that customer surveys of people who aren't buying are aspirational, but what people actually pay for, that is actionable.

The question is no doubt being pondered, "If we offered a retina MBP with a built in optical drive, how many people might buy it?" The tooling of the body cavity its clearly an investment that you don't make for less than a million or so machines.

But I agree that the fundamental question is flawed, there is no reason to "upgrade" a product that is meeting all of its customer requirements. But customers asking the question suggests that requirements may have shifted.
I suspect that this question was covered in the HN entry for firejail earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12239840 - but in our case, it's just that it's lighter.

If I'm not mistaken, containers come with their own userland, if you want a useful graphical container you're in for a few hundred megabytes of dependencies, whereas sandboxing approaches (firejail, projectatomic/bubblewrap - used by flatpak for example) just try and limit what a process in the same user space has access to.

I wanted a solution that was low-overhead enough that it was a no-brainer for users to turn it on. However, it's not perfect: our sandbox policy could use tightening (as long as it doesn't break too much stuff), and having an additional SUID binary around is definitely something to look out for.

I'm hoping that more interest gathers around sandboxes and that they become more mainstream in Linux ecosystems. "Trusting package maintainers" only goes so far, and doesn't really account for third-parties shipping binary packages!
Totally right. I'm hoping my pension funds are investing in Sequoia ;-)
> more or less despising the company and its manipulations

I will never understand why perfectly normal human beings do this, whether it be against Apple or Google. I have an Apple sticker on my car because I'm proud of where I work. On four separate occasions now Google fans have come up to me after I've parked and tried to convert me to an Android fan or make fun of me for being an "Apple fan," assuming the sticker represents my status as a demagogue for one side. (One guy asked me if I felt inferior for not having root on my phone and I had to resist answering the question honestly, but it would have been really fun and confusing for him.)

My own family gets sheepish and embarrassed when they buy an Android phone because their partisan friends have trained them to think that I'd react explosively to this grievous slight instead of the truth, which is that people should buy what works for them and it's not really any of my business. I don't actively sway people toward Apple products or discourage them from buying what they want. Sometimes a Mac is the answer, and sometimes it isn't. Their purchasing choice has arguably no effect on me personally, and this applies to other things too, like cars. As you're discovering, in general, people don't listen anyway and instead quietly form a negative opinion of you.

Speaking personally, there are things I dislike and like from Apple and there are things I dislike and like from Google. I simply cannot connect with the mindset of red vs. blue, us vs. them, vim-vs-emacs, all-or-nothing that people get frothed up like this about. It's your prerogative to despise Apple and I'm fully supportive of your decision to do so. I'm just saying it strikes me as weird to invest part of your humanity in despising an inanimate entity that creates products as opposed to just not buying the products. I'd say this about people who despise Google, too, and I'm only using that example because it seems like the war of our time (and because you probably carry an Android device, given the market).

Am I the only one who feels like it's just not worth it to hate a company? I don't even hate Comcast, and they've given me plenty of reasons. I don't even hate patent trolls; they've identified a strategy that is legal and shitty and exploit it. That's capitalism. Maybe it's just me and, before you think it's partisan, I felt like this before ever being personally vested. I've just got far better things into which to invest my hatred.

(Only my personal opinion, speaking for me alone.)
It's generally not better to artificially prop up a single company, no.
> It must be hard to sell adverts to Indian companies today ...

Not aware of the state of affairs presently but until a couple of years ago, I used to run AdSense on a handful of India-centric sites and while there were a good number of advertisers, I almost never got anything more than a crappy 1 or 2 cents per click out of it. (By contrast, on several other sites with a global audience, I used to easily average 12 to 15 cents per click.)
Basically when the Indians started to sway against him, his PR campaign boiled down to, "we know what's best for you."

It's not a popular stance for a rich white westerner to take towards a previously (abusively) colonized country. Well, or anyone else. But especially not them.
I made a separate user for using Steam (and other games), and it involved a little bit of routing when it comes to X11 and PulseAudio. My reason for doing so was primarily because of how games create many dotfiles, and I wanted my home folder clean.
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Name any (natural) language that's "pure". English is hardly unique in that respect.
First: yes you /can/

Second: you don't /have/ to have a /personal/ board seat

Third: funds typically have multiple partners

If there is one lead and five follows in a series A, do you really think there are six new board seats created?
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A lot of indians who come to this country never want to go back to india. They seem to kind of hate their country. So the fact Indians are celebrating someone who made it out is quite ironic.
There is chance that people can get hooked on Facebook and may not miss real internet at all since they don't even know what real internet is. There is a distinct issue with "Free", something that SaaS businesses have often struck themselves with. Once people are hooked on to the "Free", they don't really want to upgrade. A majority would try workarounds, create multiple accounts but not upgrade to pay.

I am very skeptical of a scenario in which people would find Internet important enough to upgrade to a paid plan. Quite likely, there would be a lot of free FB users who are content with limited Internet and that's the whole gist of the issue.
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Yup, that's literally the definition of VCs. Instead of a single LP having to choose one startup to invest their $10M into, they buy shares in the dozens of startups that the VC then invests in. The risk and reward is shared between all the LPs in that fund.
I do not see how adding redundancy to such a tiny part of the command chain would help much. You would have to make all parts of the system redundant. For example, were the messages sent in duplicate via two separate channels?

If not, Mallory (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob#Cast_of_charac...) could send launch codes to a bunker, all persons on duty would verify it to be correct, and they would launch their IBCMs.

The only thing this helps against is the single rogue soldier; that risk goes away, too, if you remove all soldiers from the chain.