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The main reason to keep selling old models is a logistical one: what Apple actually wants is to get rid of all their pipelined stock. That doesn't mean that they produced too many 2012 MBPs; but rather, they have a bunch of last-gen components they've already irrevocably taken receipt of, and are now stuck integrating, manufacturing, and warehousing; and those components can go together to make (among other things) a 2012-MBP. Which still sells. So making and selling those is one strategy for getting rid of those components.

Adding a channel for using up last-gen stock has, after all, been stated as the main reason for the existence of the iPod Touch.
I'm fluent in English, know a fair bit of German and some very basic French and I can't understand any Volapük. If Europe's ever going to speak the same language it's going to be through the languages growing closer, eliminating different spellings of existing loanwords and creating new ones that are universal. None of the knowledge I have of European languages carry over to Volapük, at least in terms of vocabulary. That, to me, looks like a mistake on Volapük's part.
Our modern industrialised economy's overproduction does take a severe toll on the environment (and thus we get global climate change, severe pollution, etc.), and it'll probably hurt us down the line to have expended all these finite resources now.
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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. My Macbook Air was purchased in 2012 and is still fast enough that I probably won't replace it for another 2 years. People keep their computers longer now because they're fast enough. This has been true for the PC industry for at least 5 years now and it's why sales have been declining since they peaked in 2011 [1]. The year over year changes from Intel/AMD are incremental and I suspect Apple has decided they're not going to buy every iteration. It's even less important to get every chip now that Intel has stretched their development cycle from Tick-Tock to Process-Architecture-Optimization [2].

[1] http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/56968e64c08a80492c8...

[2] http://www.anandtech.com/show/10183/intels-tick-tock-seeming...
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So, the first ten minutes of War Games?
> Most of the companies which target specific schools do so only for new grads.

Ok, so their new hires go through a filter that has some serious diversity problems. This means that the culture of the company skews towards the demographic they are hiring.

> Once you have a decent résumé in the industry, it doesn't really matter where you went to school, or even if you did.

How exactly does one get that decent resume when the bigger players are off limits? How does the culture of the company favor more new hires from selected institutions versus these upstarts. Let's also remember that our industry has a rather large ageist streak. A person who starts at Google is going to have a lot better prospects than someone working their way through smaller, probably local to their state, players.
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I think the middle road is the painted lanes. This gives a little more security to get more cyclists out. As those cyclists grow, then there is enough usage to promote those to dedicated lanes.

While I'm arguing for the need of the desired endstate, I do realize that we have to go through some iteration on the path to get there. (Starting to sound like software development)
It's not about nannying, it's about Apple doing damage to their brand. They are the largest publicly held corporation in the world, yet a lot of their important brands are languishing and have become terrible values for the money because they haven't been updated in four years. I know very few people who have bought Apple PCs recently.

I'm using a Macbook Pro Retina that I got in the 2013 refresh cycle, and if it were to get stolen tomorrow I'd buy a Windows PC to replace it because buying essentially the same laptop three years later for the same price makes no sense when the rest of the industry has moved on a lot more. As the "tech guy" in my extended family and friends group, a lot of people come to me for laptop-buying advice, and I haven't been able to recommend anything Apple in over a year.
Is anyone here using Turi's software in production? I've come across GraphLab as it was used for a MOOC I was taking, but otherwise I'd not heard of the company.
mod_http2 is still considered experimental, and the source of 2 of the 3 vulnerabilities announced for 2.4 this year.
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A friend of mine made SmartSim, which is very similar. I believe it's in the Raspberry Pi repos.

http://smartsim.org.uk/

See also the examples page for some fun stuff, including a 16 Bit One Instruction Set Computer.

http://smartsim.org.uk/index.php?page=examples
It was just 6 months ago the internet was singing the praises of the "outdated" 12-inch MacBook Pro: https://marco.org/2016/01/04/md101ll-a
I do live in the US. I have owned MBPs for years, and with or without AppleCare I have always received good service from Apple. My only complaint is they often have to send the computer away to do a mainboard fix, and it takes a few days.
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We've 'switched back' at our office. Developers now have PCs because they need NVIDIA for Cuda programming.
I've never heard of any restrictions suing a company in small claims. It looks like it does happen from time to time:

https://consumerist.com/2010/04/09/judge-forces-comcast-to-p...
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Haskell, the language, is theoretically built more on the lambda calculus and logic. Category Theory has served a fruitful source of inspiration in the design of some languages (and in some places provides a common vocabulary).
To add to your point, facebook's whole internet.org thing didn't help them in India as well. Majority of the tech-literate population was against that.
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In this event, there's clearly a demand, so developers can build parking garages. What we do now is make the costs of parking invisible by putting it in everyone's rent (even those who don't own cars), instead of letting people show how much they want parking via their willingness to pay for it.

I live in an apartment with no parking. However, some people in my neighborhood like having cars. Fortunately, the solution is simple - they pay for monthly parking at the garage around the corner, and I don't subsidize people's parking in my rent.
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Are you saying we looking the edge end of an Accretion Disk[0] ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disk

Two planets collide, forming a huge mess, that mess continues to collide with itself in a chain reaction. If the rings of saturn surrounded a star, what would that star look like when viewed edge on? Do the rings precess? What can we say about the size of the object in the ring and how will the ring structure evolve over time?
You "forget" that the "80%" was on an unofficial and illegal (currently on Court) poll/"referendum" with massive abstention, because supported mostly by Catalan nationalist parties, and not by constitutionalists (the ones supporting the Rule of Law). Real pro-independency support in Catalan regions is about 35-45%, being much less in industrial and touristic areas (you can find official statistics about the subject -INE and CEO-).

In my opinion, nationalist agitprop in Catalonia, more than reaching the independence from Spain, it will "break" Catalan region psychologically in two, because of the polarization, much like it happens in North Ireland or Belgium. I hope it doesn't happen in Barcelona, as it is a nice place to live and invest, with really nice and open minded people.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29478415
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Street parking is not a necessity, parking garages exist. When people are willing to pay the market rate for land to house their car then there will be a motive for people to build garages. Otherwise it's just parking welfare paid by those unable to afford cars to those who are.
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At this point this would likely involve a move to Skylake and DDR4.
I had been waiting for a hardware update from Apple for months. Recently, I broke down and just built a custom PC for exactly the reasons you're saying.
It's not unheard of for a plugin to exceed the base price, is it? Happens with graphics software I believe.
If what you are saying is true that sites that Indians want are not available on FB Basics, then FB won't get traction because it's not what Indian people want. Recall FB Basics is an on-ramp to give people a place to start so they can choose whether paying for Internet is something that's important for them.

I say let the users decide with their feet and not some government bureaucrat.

Also regarding what Google is doing, the key difference is scale. Google Wifi will be limited and reach relatively few.

So I ask is it better to have a few people served with everything or is it better to give a little to everyone?
> Thinking of single-factor determinants (or criticising arguments on that basis) is insipid. And yet somehow we accept it in other fields -- economics and its devolution of everything to simple matters of capital and labour comes to mind.

Agreed. The further you get from physics the more multi-factor everything becomes.

We know this yet I think our language and minds have difficulty expressing multifactor explanations in ways which seem convincing to most of us. That is a problem.

Strangely we are more confident with a single over-arching explanation. I can't explain why that should be so. Surely more analysis should give us more confidence and not less!

Intelligence analysts and other smart people put their efforts into building multiple scenarios, which is a good way to see things more multi-dimensionally. I picked up on something from Thiel, which is that he tends to run through multiple explanations e.g. from a liberal and conservative and libertarian and communist point of view before proceeding to make a political point. That's a pretty good mental habit!

Whether this gets you to the truth is a separate question I feel but this method will certainly prevent you from overlooking major lines of reasoning, and that in itself is a pretty profound improvement over single factor determinants.
OPINION: If your definition of a "grown up" is to let people ruin your work process then meh, that's your choice. Don't try to impose it on others. Keep your disliking of what terms people use for your local beer pub and not on HN. Deal?

ON TOPIC: I'd definitely call a timesheet "a workspace abuse", yes. Most of the programming is a very creative work. Do you pester a designer for a complex image for a PR campaign? Do you go to him/her on the top of every hour and ask "what's up, you done yet"? Do you check a building's architect monitor every hour?

I am currently having a subtle and a very hard-to-detect bug in an e-commerce shop I am maintaining. It leads to losing a few orders each day (out of 100+). The people I work for are wise enough to understand that pinpointing the cause of the bug is 90% of the work and yes, it may take days -- days during which I add more defensive coding on several places, increase logging statements, introduce several new integration tests, and what not.

If I was forced to use a timesheet in this situation I'd honestly wouldn't even know what to say in it on the top of every hour. I would strongly resemble the private detectives in those noir animations I guess. "Currently chasing clue X" -- "No wait, that's not it. Damn it, I am out of cigarettes. I must persevere!" -- "The owner of the bar knew nothing. Damn. Moving on."

Would you want that in timesheets if you were the manager? How would it help you?
As a teenager, I subscribed to MacAddict from 1997-2001. It was very exciting to watch the company transform over this time. Alas, since then my relationship to Apple has evolved dramatically, to the point of more or less despising the company and its manipulations. I am grateful for this journey. It has given me a sharp sense (distaste) for manipulative marketing tactics and branding in general. When my hard drive crashed badly in 2010, I quit for good, jumping over to Ubuntu full time. (More recently I installed Arch, which makes me excited about computers again!)

Anyway, It's completely frustrating to me even my most financially disabled friends will, to this day, look to spend $1200 as much on a Mac laptop or an iPhone when they could get an equally powerful, used machine for $150. A close friend of mine just spent $300 on a used G5 iMac from 2006... I told him not to but he didn't listen. He has had to learn the hard way that the computer is slow, won't accept updates, won't run any new software or drivers, etc. because Apple's branding black magic is that powerful, that it could completely trump the well reasoned advice of someone knowledgable about the subject that you've known for years.
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It probably didn't hurt. And it definitely didn't hurt as much as Zuckerberg's nearly colonialist attitude towards the Indian people and their government.
There was an article about its appeal: https://marco.org/2016/01/04/md101ll-a

Upgradable storage, memory, and an optical drive. It's cheap and not that outdated.
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Thanks, this was very informative. Based on this, I think the Indians had good reason to reject FB's offering.
Facebook could have done both (access to everything and from anywhere) but they didn't. That's their mistake...
If you buy something new, isn't it reasonable to expect something is new? Not four years old and soon to be antiquated?
Last time we tried Cox PH regression from statsmodel it gave a (very) different result than R's, and we weren't comfortable with the lack of tests. Will give another try.
"Making computers is hard. Let's just sell phones, apps, songs, ads, and whatever the hell people are paying us for icloud for!" -- Apple, probably.
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"Actually useable" is a little terse, and not very informative if you've already figured out radare2.
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Huh? What? This isn't remotely true at all, not in the least. You can sue a company in small claims court all you want, a company can and does also sue you in small claims court as well. My sister in law was sued in small claims court by a large company.

If that were true nobody would be allowed to sue their landlord since many (most?) landlords operate as LLCs. Small claims court is the primary way landlord-tenant laws are enforced.

Even if it was, nobody brings a small claims case in federal court, even if that was allowed. You bring a case in your State court and every single State has different rules and procedures for small claims court.

There are plenty of small claims against Comcast.

https://consumerist.com/2008/01/21/suing-big-companies-in-sm...
English is more of a mongrel than that even, there are substantial additions from Latin and Greek as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Origins_of_English_PieCha...
Get an iPad Pro! It's a Pro computer, according to the new commercials.

/s
Seconded from a 2012 Air. Still works fine.
Facebook was trying to offer access to a handful of websites. Google is giving Indians the whole Internet. So yeah, I'm not surprised.
If you read this before the article it may help: I always thought that VC meant "Venture Capitalist" or referred to the capital the investor invested (Venture Capital), this article doesn't mean either of those things, rather, it means the company that has accepted this money.
If you this before the article it may help: I always thought that VC meant "Venture Capitalist" or referred to the capital the investor invested (Venture Capital), this article doesn't mean either of those things, rather, it means the company that has accepted this money.
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Whoa. How is it nearly colonialist?
I was in some kind-of experimental programs as a kid. In middle school, we had a "team" that we all followed with. Basically same teachers and it covered multiple grades. I really liked it. I had good friends in a grade lower, and I could be a part of some classes a grade over. But I never had the awkward in-wrong-grade feeling.

I have no clue what difficulties that put on the teachers, but as a student it was pretty nice.
The ability of the human race to ignore existential disaster continues to amaze. The magnitude of the problem is HUGE, any rational mitigating actions have to be draconian, and the scale of the impending disaster is beyond the ability of a single human being to have a significant impact. It will require global cooperation and support.

Global warning and what to do about it should be the primary issue in the upcoming US elections, yet candidates continue to focus on inconsequential matters. Some politicians even deny that global warming is real.

Fact is, the human race is likely to be toast. It is already to late for us to evolve and adapt. And when it comes time to allocate blame, we did it to ourselves.
Why do you think it's Mac branding that makes your friends not heed your advice instead of the expectations that you would ask of them more effort than they are willing to expend? Most people are not willing to explore a lifestyle change when purchasing a computer.

It's not unlike the idea they won't learn to sew to save money on clothes, or learn to change their own oil to save car maintenance fees. Was your advice an offer of convenience for them, or an offer of lifestyle conformity?
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If it makes you feel any better, I'm on my laptop and immediately switched to instapaper "read it now" mode since the font was so small.
I'd be more worried about the game doing something accidentally bad to my system than deliberate hacking: https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671

By the time serious hacking is an issue through Steam, I'd expect containers will be that much better anyhow. For all they can be criticized, and regardless of whether you think some other approach would have been better, they're getting the "trial by fire" treatment. By hook or by crook, in another year or two I expect they'll be as secure as you could ask for.
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The Mac does make money though, about 13% of revenue in Q4 2015: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/10/27/q4-2015-earnings/

Yes, the iPhone delivers the lion's share of revenue, but the Mac is still an important product category.

To me, the problem seems to be one of focus. The extreme centralisation that Apple inherited from the Jobs era means that, when the leadership is focussed on a particular product or product category, be it the iPhone, the Apple Watch, or a new service like Apple Music, then progress in all other areas grinds to a halt.

I can understand that Apple wants to avoid the Microsoft problem of having multiple, independent business units that end up distrusting and working against one another, but the complete opposite situation isn't healthy either. A company of Apple's size and means should be able to do more than one thing at once.

A few years ago, Apple had a perfect opportunity to finally break the Mac out of its 5-10% niche of the PC market. Windows 8 was a dud, while Apple's brand and reputation were at their zenith, and their hardware had a huge edge in terms of quality and aesthetics over anything other PC vendors were putting out. The time was right for a huge push of the Mac. But they didn't do it.

Perhaps it was absent mindedness. Perhaps it was a lingering fear of taking on Microsoft in their own territory. Perhaps they genuinely believed the PC/laptop market was going to be disappear and be replaced by tablet computers. But for whatever reason, they blew their chance. And if I was an Apple shareholder, I'd be pissed about it.
The Netherlands has already done this perfectly. A third of the road is for cars, a third for bikes and a third for pedestrians.

Thanks to elaborate signage and colored pavement they have made riding a bike around cars actually safe. A bike can hold a lot of groceries!
Can you persist your stored filter items with something like bolt? The struct fields are all unexported.
Yes, except I hated that series :)
Chargers are the other thing, I've gotten way more replacements than I should have, pretty much no questions asked. Both in and out of warranty as its a design failure not a case of normal wear and tear.
Ding them for supposed planned obsolescence or tell them to stop selling 4 year old computers, take your pick :)
Same here, but I had to replace battery last year.
From the relevant Wikipedia article[0]:

> PE is a modified version of the Unix COFF (Common Object File Format). PE/COFF is an alternative term in Windows development.

However, there's little information on its license (it says it's a standard currently developed by Microsoft, but that's about it). And COFF is pretty much the same, but older and developed by AT&T[1].

Still, compared to other Microsoft "products of old"[2], there's a surprising ammount of documentation and analysis into the PE format.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COFF

[2] I don't compare it to the newer open source stuff because it'd be unfair.

[3] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms809762.aspx -- I was going to link a few other articles (some from the References section of Wikipedia) but most seem to be broken now. Still, there are some interesting paperes from digital forensics people that analyze in-depth the PE format, mostly for malware scenarios.
> That's a lot more powerful, and a lot more expensive.

It's not more powerful when Zuck wanted to limit it to Facebook.com and whatever other sites he felt like allowing Indians to access. It was just insulting and that's why it went down in flames.
I know you are joking, but the iPad Pro is my work horse now unless I need multiple side by side SSH shells, or an IDE for programming. It is great for writing, doing research, etc.
Caniuse.com + Modernizr + https://github.com/Polyfiller/polyfiller or Webshim?
We've been pretty loyal buying Macs, but at this point we just cannot justify it anymore. We had a brief flirtation with giving people iPads instead of PCs, and that is better from a support / update point of view. But, the desire for a "real computer" is pretty strong with the generation of people we have on staff. At this point, I'm reading up on Chrome books and Chrome boxes to see how simple IT things (e.g. network login, server storage) are managed and can we use them with local not cloud storage[1]. We might do more Win 10, but Microsoft sure isn't making it easy with their OS. I guess the Enterprise edition might be ok.

Creative arts will probably always be Mac, but we are an all Adobe institution after the Final Cut Pro X fiasco so even that is not a certainty.

1) I have to obey a couple of very un-fun local laws and will buy old machines rather than deal with problems in that area
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