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I'm really grateful to a cousin for pointing this out to me when I was 17 or so. I was at a family wedding, and he asked me if I was going to dance with my mother. Being the self-conscious teenager that I was, I told him I wasn't planning on it. His response was, "Well, you know, she isn't going to be around forever. One day you'll look back and wish you had more time with her."

I think it's important to become your own person, and you need to spend time away from your parents to do that. But I make sure the time I spend with my parents is quality time, and I don't waste it texting or whatever.

One thing I've heard is that the biggest regret most men have at the end of their life is prioritizing work over time with their family. I constantly need to remind myself of this, and I think it is something that other people on HN need to remind themselves of as well. I notice that a lot of companies try to play off the existential fear of being forgotten when we are gone by telling us we are part of something bigger than ourselves. I think that expecting the work you do at a company to create any sort of meaningful legacy is foolish.
I just want to meet the consumer [...]

I don't think consumers care at all. I have some non-tech family members/friends who buy a new MacBook every two or three years. Not because they have specific new features that they want. They are happy with a Mac and want to have the latest and greatest, just because plus high resale value after that time period. Though, I expect that many consumers will skip this generation, simply because they don't want to drop 79 Euro on Apple's USB-C to VGA/HDMI connector.

As for compromising features for thinness and weight: the 2nd generation Air was very popular and had relatively weak CPUs and only 2GB RAM in the base models.
Neither Microsoft nor Apple are "brave". Both have tons of cash and recognition. Neither are taking a company-threatening risk to release their weird attempts at paradigm shifts in technology. Stop calling it "brave" dammit or that word is going to become as meaningless as "pivot".
Agreed. Even people who have nav systems built into their cars still use their phones instead.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/10/autos/car-navigation-frustra...

The phone navigation apps are made by software companies who actually have to compete with each other to make the best system. Compare to car nav systems where you only have one option, and the comparison of navigation systems between different cars is going to be a very very small factor in which car you end up buying. You buy the car you want and take whatever you get for navigation.

Car manufacturers (to generalize a bit) are not particularly good at software, and do not have much incentive to get better at it.
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Keep in mind that the max TDP is only 35W this generation (down from 50W in the M370X). Don't hold me to it, but I suspect battery life will be better than 2 hours.
My iMac with 32G of memory sometimes gives me even out of memory dialogs because Safari has leaked about 30 gigabytes of memory by sitting idle with many tabs open. Reopening Safari fixes this, but it shows that these days even web browsing can put an enormous pressure onto the memory usage. And if you are running VMs on your machine you can use up 32G fast.

The thing is, the macbook pro is Apples "workstation" machine, by price and by the fact that they don't offer many alternatives. So people expect it to support workstation loads, and 32G and 8 cores is not excessive for that today.
> never purchased or used an iphone because of my stubborn indignation over the lack of plain old USB for charging.

I reached that conclusion over the "can't install apps without the manufacturer's permission" thing. I've always been surprised more developers didn't feel the same way.
I just had a look, and found Infinite + all DLC very easily in a torrent index. Dozens of seeds, too.

The number of people stopped from pirating the thing is effectively zero. The number of people willing to pay for a DRM free version demonstrably exceeds that.
The actual Libertarian in the presidential race is a lot better than Thiel and Trump:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/29/opinions/making-legal-immigrat...

I still won't be voting for him, but he's got some good points of view. I wish he'd been Hillary's opposition; perhaps we would have had a more substantive debate about ideas, and the size of government.
You're right that is a mistake.

Knowingly or not, Trump has played the media like a fiddle, giving them tons of useless grist in which to spin their wheels in exchange for the equivalent of a Billion dollars in media time which he has used shrewdly to build up his base.
I've just shared my spreadsheet comparing 2016 Laptops.

There's a column listing Gflops, which is relevant to this thread:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nnmI9pN9rBMBJHE1gqYA...
I'm very much ready to jump on the hype train for Android Auto, but sadly there's still a long list of countries they don't serve[1]

> The Android Auto app is currently available in the following countries: Argentina Australia Austria Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominican Republic Ecuador France Germany Guatemala India Ireland Italy Japan Mexico New Zealand Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Russia Spain Switzerland United Kingdom United States Uruguay Venezuela

[1]: https://www.android.com/auto/
40km per hour of charge time, 9 hours for a full charge.[1] It doesn't look like it has the ability to use superchargers, or charge quickly in any way.

[1] http://www.chevrolet.ca/bolt-ev-electric-vehicle.html

edit: I am wrong, the article mentions quick charging, but the official website doesn't.
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I'm in the middle of completing my open enrollment forms for this year and I gotta say - my health insurance options are kind of crap. And it was the same at the previous startup I worked at it.

In fact, the only time I had good health insurance options was when I was at Caterpillar (obviously much larger / corporate).

What options do I have, living & working in the US, to improve my situation -- short of changing employers?

I mean, can you even compare startup insurance plans without asking HR during an interview/at the offer stage?

FYI - my insurance options are determined via a co-employer (common for startups with under 50 employees)
Thanks for the feedback!

It's not that functional programs have imperative elements or not. That's kind of besides the point.

The point is that putting functional components into workflows that deal with arbitrarily mutable data is reducing the potential we have with the functional model.

The article is simply an open-ended invitation for a discussion on how to do this (and it spark a little bit of that conversation) with some of the proposed options on the same blog.
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Why not sit on the iPhone?

Because I think (IMHO) the smartphone industry is about to hit the same problem that Microsoft hit with Office. How do you impress your customer base year after year? Do you hit a point were adding more features to your product is making it more complicated and worse off because of it? Has your competition caught up just enough that in the eyes of the consumer, the difference between best and second best in your product category is small - and price becomes the most important item on the feature list?

Product category churn is something all companies need to keep their finger on. Eventually, everything becomes a commodity and price is the only thing you can improve on. And profit margins become the casualty.

And yes, I do think the auto industry is about to hit the foothills of this curve.
If you are a professional app developer (you make a living out of it) then Hackintosh is a bad alternative. It can get your developer account, and apps, banned by Apple. On top of that, you can get sued.
Interesting, I thought "tells it like it is" was his whole appeal. As soon as he's in hot water, though, he was being sarcastic! It was just locker room talk!
And get one adapter for each set of headphones. And if you then use those headphones with nay other device and unplug the adapter just hope you don't set it somewhere and forget it.

It adds too many unnecessary steps.
> attitude toward the press

Just because Trump hates the media doesn't mean the media isn't completely obsolete and irrelevant. I thought we were all in agreement that the U.S. media is long overdue to be replaced with reddit/Twitter/HN.
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One of the first things EV manufacturers will have to take care of is standardization of their fast charging networks so that the network of one manufacturer can be used by cars from another. If they don't get that worked out it will be a huge stumbling block to EV adoption.

It's being worked on (there were some talks between Tesla and a French manufacturer) but it isn't there yet.
I prefer Linux to both, but the desktops universally suck. The closest one to being decent is Ubuntu, but forcing the app bar to be on the side of the screen is a non-starter to me, and every single third party bar in existence is terrible.
Really appreciated how he espoused how Boomers' optimism borne out of an exceptionally easy and comfortable life has been dangerous for the country. I've long felt the same about American optimism, but have been happy to see that it's become much more mainstream to admit America needs a managed decline of its empire this year thanks to Trump and Sanders. Boomers have pushed the American culture of blind optimism into a reality distortion field which draws the country into various bubbles: stock market bubble, housing bubble, war bubble, etc.

Also enjoyed his statement that America needs to be a "normal country again." I have been trying to convey this sentiment due to my understanding of other countries. Most Americans probably don't understand how abnormal the US and its government are in many ways. He says, a "normal country doesn't run a $500 billion trade deficit, intentionally run a broken government, five simultaneous wars."
TL;DR dont throw out the ad networks with the bad advertisers. Its often a precursor to a better solution for everyone involved.

All you really need to know is that when ad networks work, the first people to exploit are bad actors taking advantage of little competition. The networks need these guys to survive, so they tolerate it until they can afford to kick them out.

As the network matures, it kicks out the bad actors amd it becomes a healthy and effective medium for brands to communicate with consumers in a win-win-win way.
I think that your parent was making precisely that point as a joke.
"A tracking warrant also allowed the SPVM to activate the GPS chip in the iPhone to know exactly where Lagacé was, admitted two investigators in charge of the file."

How is this possible? You carrier can activate your GPS chip? And then the GPS sends its coordinates to your carrier?
Unfortunately, this leaves me with no way to distinguish between genuinely alarming sentiments and exaggerations. I can't support blurring that line.

For example, you can say that Trump didn't really mean you should vote twice, and perhaps he didn't. On the other hand, that isn't stopping some of his supporters from voting twice. So did he mean it? Or is he just accidentally encouraging it because some people are taking him literally? Either way is bad.

Trump's staff didn't kick the guy chanting "Jew-S-A" out of his rally. Conway says she would have kicked him out, which is nice, but nobody on the ground did it. Does that mean Trump thinks the chanter was just over-exaggerating his racism? Would it be OK for Trump to chant the same thing, since we're not supposed to take him literally?

I think it's preferable if people running for President make it clear when they're being sincere.
Is it? Tesla has been mass producing cars with that range since 2012 now.

GM being able to put the same range on a $30k car is just batteries getting cheaper.
The lightening connector is so much better than micro-USB that it's really hard to fault them for that. But I imagine even the iPhone will go USB-C in the next iteration.
I still can't fathom how any thinks the touch bar is anything but ridiculous.
And all through this, they kept selling macbook pros that were competitive in term of specs. The first macbook pro retina could already be ordered with 16GB ram.

This time, they do not have a single laptop with competitive specs. This time, they do not have a single laptop that has enough horsepower to be good upgrade for a lot of professionals. The new graphic card is average at best and there's only 16GB ram.

There's actually only one decision from your list I'd love to reverse. I liked the 17 inch macbook pro and I'd love to have one again... I have a macbook for when I need portability, my macbook pro is my work machine and just needs to go from my desk to my client's office.
I've compared a load of new laptops on my spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nnmI9pN9rBMBJHE1gqYA...

Compares CPU Passmark score, GPU Flops, Display gamut Rec 2020.

Might be of interest.
They're in the same class in size and price, but not in power or performance.

I assume you want power and performance out of a laptop labeled "Pro" - correct?
It's a shame you weren't around 15 years ago to tell Robert Nozick he was an idiot for calling himself a libertarian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy,_State,_and_Utopia

(I'm not going to argue etymology with you, and I'm not inclined to defend libertarianism per se, I just think your condescension is gross).
Then you simply do not use this module :-)

Unless you have Time and RAM to waste.
On a deeper level, good writing is like mind control. You are trying to create a specific mental state in the reader. Rules like the ones you stated are good guides for a beginning writer, but they shouldn't be viewed as gospel. For example, indirection is necessary if you're trying to surprise the reader, and semicolons highlight the connection between clauses that might be missed with a period. Keeping sentences short (i.e. maximizing information content of your words) is the right thing to do, unless you're trying to confuse your reader.
That's because magsafe is magical, and they removed all the other ports. I have heard nobody complain about the charging situation on macbooks; GP's point is specifically about cell phones.
That's an important point of learning C++... and one I would agree needs to be learned for that level/line of programming.

Does a Web Developer or a LoB developer (which is mainly my pervue) - who is never going to go that deep - need to know linking and header files? That experience is vital for C/C++... but for PHP or Javascript?

I've always meant to learn a little more of C/C++ and maybe even learn some Assembly - but in my years of work I've never personally NEEDED that knowledge to get paid.

As a .Net/C# programmer, I've only touched those lower levels as an educational exercise or many years ago during entry level classes I've since long forgotten.

All of my important work has been in two core places: SSMS (or a couple other database IDEs) and Visual Studio (2005 through "15"). I've never used the command line to build a project - although I know that exists.

Does that make me a bad programmer? I don't think so. That would be a different answer if I was a C/C++ programmer.
The allergies (and the associated damage from them) got worse. :-) :-(

More detailed: I thought "There seems to be problems when I eat peanuts?" I bought a bag and ate. And was sick for a week. Then I started experimenting with anti histamines etc.

(The doctor talked about "food intolerances" and not "allergies". It seems weird to be so sensitive for an "intolerance", but ok -- I'm not a specialist doctor.)
Thiel is an interesting character but not the best speaker. I wonder how comes is she so successful despite looking not very convincing, neither dominative and confident person.

When the (boring) interviewer asked about the Gawker sex tape, he was literally sweating and looking for water with his shaking hands.

A bit disappointing talk, nothing too interesting. Basically, he says media takes Trump literally. Gawker's case has nothing to do with the first amendment and he talks about the case from a very personal perspective -- destroyed lives, mobs attacking people -- doesn't really answer from the law point of view.

Other answers were kind of dull, it's difficult to understand his ideas. But I still feel like I would like to hear more. Maybe a better interviewer could open him up.
My point is that "Well, there seems to be tremendous support behind what he is saying. The chat is exploding." doesn't tell us much. Who cares if the chat is exploding? It's exploding with comments like that.
It's still an apology. You're adding constraints the OP never had.
38k MSRP isn't exactly cheap. You could get Merc GLA 250 for that kind of money
The motor and drivetrain is significantly less complex than an engine. A Tesla has a dozen moving parts in the drivetrain. Your gas car has thousands. Not only does a Tesla not have fuel injectors, it doesn't have a fuel pump, or spark plugs, or valves, or piston rings or pistons or connecting rods or rod bearings or a cam shaft... The electric powertrain is magnitudes simpler.
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With the rise of terrestrial plants and animals approximately 400 Myr ago, the major functions of CYPs expanded to encompass the detoxification of dietary phytochemicals via a coevolutionary process involving dozens of gene duplication events (Nelson 1999; Lewis 2001). There are approximately 76 CYP families known in animals, with 57 of these present in humans (Nelson et al. 2004).

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I can further this. I was in my 30s before I finally learnt how to skate. Kids dancing around me while I struggled just to stay upright and move, but I didn't care because I was actually learning to do something I'd wanted to do for a long time. I'm still not particularly graceful but at least I can do it and really enjoy the experience!
PT clarifies that the "Wall" DJT wants to build shouldn't be taken literally. It was just a metaphor (metaphor is my word not PT's) for a tougher immigration policy. Wow!

Are there really people still capable of holding an idealized model of DJT in their head while dismissing or spinning anything that doesn't fit that model ?

DJT was my childhood hero so I understand the desire to stay hopeful and avoid thinking. Never meet your heroes feels applicable here.

Edit: typos
Define "biased"

Its like saying the US media was biased against Hitler. He espouses hateful, racist, sexist, and violent ideas. Its not a case of bias but rather rational distaste and fear.
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I'd hate to have to live up to the spectre of Steve Jobs.

Maybe we shouldn't care about satisfying the dead. They're not around to care anymore. This post is the equivalent level of discourse as saying he's turning in his grave.
Good to know they are following Chromebook's lead.
Regardless of the rationality, people have range anxiety. (Cue stat about how majority of drivers go <40mi a day).

200mi+ is the threshold that will make a lot of people feel completely comfortable using an EV day-in and day-out.

Charging stations will go up when EV sales go up--this will help.
Yep, this is a mess:

> As of September 1, 2016, there were 1061 CCS fast-charging connectors in the United States, versus 2010 Tesla Supercharger hookups

Let's not do this.
> The touch bar is hardly revolutionary

But Apple claims it is
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Had a latitude 7440 before my Mac. The difference is still significant, sometimes I have to boot it back up and this makes me sad. The touchpad alone is worth upgrading for.
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>Scott Adams thinks he is a wizard whose voice has hypnotic mind-control powers

He thinks Trump is a good persuader. And he is. Trump's use of confirmation bias is very skillful and effective.
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I could imagine having a Mac Mini to do the publishing and the rest of your development on a more powerful Hackintosh. In fact I'll probably end up in that boat myself.
there's actually a sort of external Touch Bar in case you need one http://quadro.me
I disagree on the point that there's not more room for growth on mobile hardware. They're still miles below desktop performance. I still can't plop them into a desktop dock. The camera can definitely be upgraded continuously (not that I use it much). Otherwise I agree, the form factor feels pretty solidified. I doubt we'll see truly game changing innovation in mobile for some time to come.
Or, use an IDE and vim. (vim plugin)

The vim plugin is a good extension. You get all the automated viewing / searching / generation (if need be), plus the "hands planted on the keyboard" few-key-strokes low level editing.

E.g. - the "yank" (y) and "put" (p) command combos are nice for quickly rearranging a few small things - yank (N) word(s), yank (N) line(s), move a bit (N words/lines), put chunk in new place.
For what it's worth I went to an apple store this weekend and actually played around with the new entry level, non-touch screen, 1499 13" mac book pro in space gray.

Not sure what all the fuss is about: that machine is awesome and reasonably priced by apple standards. It even has the esc key that everyone is whining about. It is indeed missing a few ports, but the machine itself is so solidly built and fast from my first interactions, that I am considering buying one. I'm going to wait for the touch screen ones first though.

Also for the record, I've ordered the XPS's and Lenovo's people are mentioning here are alternatives. They are decent machines, but it takes 2-3 tries to get a fully functioning one without QA issues.
That is a lovely bit of abuse. Almost like BASIC.
Because we're taught to revere doctors instead of seeing them as just another professional that makes mistakes. I'm reminded of "the rabbit is running for its life, the fox just for its lunch". Not to suggest doctors don't care, but it's just a fact: they will make mistakes and they have to accept that in order to work effectively.
I don't understand the obsession with USB charging. This makes no sense at all to me. How would my life be materially better if my phone charged over USB? My last phone charged over USB and I can't say it felt better.

At this point, you might be tempted to claim that I would be able to use the same cables as other devices. To this, I'll point to the ongoing switch to USB-C and note that's you're buying new cables anyway.

Micro USB was a shitty plug. USB-C is better, but you can actually thank Apple for that, because it's a reaction to the Lightning plug.
If I was running network simulations I'd certainly run all those VMs on a server cluster and not my laptop.
The Bolt supports quick charging at CCS stations tho. It's right in the article.
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