skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, no doubt Jobs was driven by his demons and desire to prove himself ... but layered on top of that seemed to be some kind of genuine ideology and good taste. Say what you want about him but if the choice was between earning a little more or doing what he thought was "right" I think he'd go with the later... and he probably believed it led to the former.

Big companies are so difficult to steer and be allowed to do so, and in an increasingly complex world it's only getting worse. I'm not sure it's feasible for much longer for a person to have the amount of power and charisma needed to steer a company off the beaten path. The ever increasing entropy of modern time complexity is not all encouraging.
So you see a high developer attrition rate, and go, I know, I'll fill it with 3 month code bootcamp graduates?

No wonder their attrition is so high. Apparently they are incapable of observing the fact they are just an awful place to work, and instead of fixing that, they just shovel more developers into their meat grinder.
The trucking companies themselves stand to save the most money, initially.
The Chief XXX Officer Syndrome
I agree the Spectre looks good, and I'd be delighted to find it's reliable, but I've had too many incidents with HP over the last 15 years or so to feel confident... Whether it's my own kit or fixing that bought by others (friends & family). But perhaps it's time to give them a shot again
What can Slack TV ad teach you about your startup?
The OP's advice wasn't meant for VCs, it was for the founders. Their role is very different and the advice looks sound to me. Or do you disagree with it from founders' perspective?
First, OS X isn't "Unix-y"; it literally is Unix. Second, you actually can say with a straight face that the MBP 2006 design was "purely an accident"? No. It wasn't. It was the result of hundreds of small and correct choices, not all of which were obvious at the time.

How precisely is the new MBP a regression? I think it's telling that you cited two examples to back this up—but oddly, neither of them were about the MB Pro. They were about iOS devices.
The Esc key is annoying but not a big deal for me. What I am worried about is the new butterfly switches. I have used a MacBook with butterfly switches quite a bit and it is not a nice writing experience. It feels like I am using a Blackberry or old Nokia phone.

With Bash on Ubuntu on Windows I think my next machine will be a Dell XPS 15 or ThinkPad T560. Probably the Dell as it comes with a quad-core for like £50 more. Plus a nicer screen (according to reviews).
I'm just amazed at what a bad name that is. "Comma One"... Did they never think that it would be called the The Coma One after even the slightest inevitable incident? Or that a segment of people will be innocently misspelling it as "Coma" everywhere? and how quickly it could catch on?

It's so obvious it seems almost Freudian ...
IMHO the best deal for immigrant founders right now is that if you're in the fortunate position where your spouse has their I-140, then that'll qualify you for an EAD that you can use to start your startup.

The terrible thing about that is that puts considerable onus on your spouse to stay employed.
Ah, what I do with programming. But I'm actually trying to gain deeper knowledge.
X-Keys Programmable Keypads, Sticks and Keyboards
I love jk, been using that one for at least 8 years. I even got in the habit of tapping it a few times while thinking, sort of like how you might sometimes shake your leg or whatever. I trained myself off of that though when I had to use Eclipse more and more -- edits or undoes to a file can bring Eclipse to its knees....
I agree that people in the startup world do undervalue proper planning "on paper".

But let's not kid ourselves, DoD projects are low risk because when they inevitably go over budget, the tax payer is always there to keep pumping more money into the project. When the F-35 goes into full service, are you going to include that project in your "low risk" success story column?
Not everyone wants to read through life like Nathan Lane.
> Obviously, because Apple hadn't shipped a single USB-C product at the time the iPhone 7 was released, so it would be idiotic to give folks a USB-C cable.

Except for the Retina MacBook released in April 2015 which has a single USB-C port and nothing else?
If you stay some places for a long period, it is not as easy as you think to move, not even to another country.

For young people, I strongly suggest to look for other opportunities. If you look at the value and price for US visa, probably price is the highest in history, the value certainly not.(my opinion. I am Chinese.)

For the visa reported in the news, If you look at it carefully, it is joke.
Pretty much. Ever notice that anytime anyone wants to "fix" hiring they end up developing systems that are just cancer.

If you can't figure out if you want to hire someone in < 1 hr talking to them, you suck at hiring.
Ditto.

Living room judgements cost you nothing.
I'm a developer with a 2-year-old macbook pro right now, and while I'm not going to run out and buy a brand new one right now, I wouldn't have a problem with the new ones if it were time to upgrade today. I'd have to replace my thunderbolt 2 dock with a thunderbolt 3 one (or maybe just a dongle?), and I'd probably want at least one USB-A dongle, but meh... it doesn't seem like a big deal to me.

I rarely use the function keys, and aside from exiting full-screen youtube videos, I don't use escape all that often either. I can imagine I'd use the new touch bar at least as much as I use that current row of buttons.

I do think it's funny that Macbooks are now standardized on USB-C + headphones, while iPhones aren't.
I bought a Macbook Pro in 2015 and I really, really had to train myself not to touch the display, despite no previous laptop having a touch display in my whole life. Don't ask me why, but the Macbook display already feels like it should be touchable for years it seems.
In the same way we don't say "signboard" or "billboard" but say "Kanban"? Or for the same reason we say "jujitsu" but not "gentle, soft, supple, flexible, pliable, or yielding art or technique".(see also Judo: "gentle way").

I'll take a stab at this though. The use of "jugyokenkyu" most likely expresses not just a "lesson plan", but also a philosophy and system that a literal translation to "lesson plan" can't express.
In your experience getting actual work done with the new touch bar, what was your personal feedback on how it felt not to have the tactile feedback?
That's not revolutionary at all. You can do that already with tons of environments. Here's one for Javascript, based on Markdown: https://github.com/jostylr/litpro
I always got the feeling coders/programmers/developers were second class citizens in Wall Street compared to the traders, bankers, quants etc...

Why join at all if Silicon Valley and core tech jobs have competitive pay? What's the justification given equal hours of work/effort put on both sides.
The EU tax rates are not that high, though, as is the difference in prices. There was such a difference even in years, when EUR performed way better than USD.
Do you think there's a better way I could have handled that user, given what was attempted by myself and others to no result?
RunV 0.7 released
But when you say that the new design is bad for everybody...

It's a little funny, considering the inverse of this is basically a core plot point in "Silicon Valley". Life imitates art imitates life.
I would also add what the general hours are that most of the team is available and if there are flex hours.
It's Mathematically Impossible to Vote Between More Than Two Candidates
That is a very thoughtful comment and by no means I want to accuse you personally of anything.

But is there any possibility that you may be biased and see your girlfriend in a more positive light than your coworkers? Given that "objective assessment" of a coworker is hard to define, yet alone hard to enforce, I don't find it very unusual if other colleagues cast aspersions on her motives in such case.
Exactly. The NHTSA memo seems extremely reasonable to me. If you're going to put to market a product where the smallest malfunction could easily kill many people (both those using your product and those around them), answering a couple regulation questions seems like a small hurdle to pass. Nothing here is saying "we want to shut you down", it's saying "we want to make sure you pass the most basic safety standards". That's an obvious part of a government's duty to keep it's citizens safe.
I'm seeing a huge number of assumptions and assertions, but this is still "developing news". I think it's equally likely that this device will be brought to market at a later point when the start-up gathers the resources, test results, and the lawyers that can handle the regulators.
I won't say which, but one of my previous employers had a policy of only using frameworks and libraries that were invented at the org to reduce the likelihood of employees developing transferable skills. I learned about the policy after I wrote a detailed write-up of a specific bug class that was affecting all of our apps, and recommending switching libraries, and sent it to the leads of all of the development teams across the org. Learning this was a contributing factor in my leaving the place :/
Your Startup's Competitive Advantage / Tomasz Tunguz
The processor speed is less important to me. But the lack of more than 16 GB of RAM is a serious problem. As a developer, I frequently run a large number of VMs at once. My current laptop has 16 GB of RAM, and I frequently need more to run all of the VMs that I need, so I wind up having to use my workstation with has 32 GB of RAM, and just connect to that remotely when I'm on my laptop. That's cumbersome and doesn't work well when I'm on the road in places with flaky connectivity (I travel a lot, as I work remotely and come into the office, so being able to do all of my work on my laptop would be a big win).

The escape key issue doesn't bother me as much, but I'm not a Vim user and I already have Caps Lock mapped to escape or control depending on whether it's a modifier or not. I do use the function keys occasionally in cross-platform development tools like gitk, but I'm sure that other keybindings can be substituted and I'd be able to deal with that.

But the lack of RAM beyond 16 GB pretty much means there's no reason for me to upgrade from my 3 year old laptop. I would have considered upgrading this cycle if they offered more RAM, but as it is I'll probably hold off. Maybe if they release another in a year or so with more RAM I'll upgrade; if not, I may just switch to a Lenovo or other laptop that has more expansion room.

3 years without a bump in RAM capacity seems like an awful lot. I realize that Moore's Law is flattening out, but stagnating for 3 years like this seems like a long time.
GDP is a measure of income, not wealth. It makes sense that wealth matters more for house prices than income, because it's a ~ one time purchase.
One thing constantly said to founders here is "don't let a vocal minority come in, tell you they love your product, and then turn into bullies that tell you how you should make said product. You never made it for them; they aren't your market. Don't get confused into thinking they are, just because they're loud." I think that about sums up the relationship between Apple and software developers who use their hardware.
What could ever go wrong with this....
Also check the power plug the power adapter comes with.
It is possible to run X programs with Bash on Windows. You need to run a Windows port of an X server, like Xming[1]. Even programs like Firefox work, though it's a bit laggy. It's good enough to run gvim, though.

[1]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/
If it's not a single source food, you don't need it to be complete. An occasional gap filler can be substantially unbalanced on its own without affecting overall balance much.
I lost it at:

> There are ~ 19 million developers in the world. And Apple has managed to sell ~19 million Macs over the past 4 quarters. What a coincidence!
Please use the title to explain what makes ZCash special. Nobody cares about just another Bitcoin clone, so "Zcash begins" is not enough as a title.
Bet you $20k it won't happen in any country in the next 3 years. Does not apply if you artificially create them, has to be organic.
After working for half a decade with RFPs and SMEs, I'd like to politely clue you in that "knowing the answers" and "putting the answers to paper in a reasonable time" are two completely different monsters. I was paid a reasonable salary to deal with the gap between the two. It is one your comment so severely underestimates it's borderline farce. Sorry.
Some people are willing to accept higher variance pay that has a higher expected value. That does not make them suckers, that just makes them less risk averse than you.
Command-period on macOS.
My company-issued Lenovo X1 Carbon 2 has a touchbar. I hate it because it's so poorly executed. If I want to use a Function key, I have to cycle through the options to get to the Function key ... uhh ... functionality.

What's that? I need to disable/enable wireless adapter? Oh! Just cycle through a few screens and touch the utility panel.

Oh no!!!! I forgot to mute my speakers and now I have to cycle through the panels to get to my speaker mute button.

I can't really tell how Apple did theirs, but I sure hope that they did a better job than Lenovo.
You can just scroll back up and read it again.
Kind of like how everyone's favorite evil GMO company only serves non-GMO organic food in their company cafeteria.
I see no problem here. There aren't excluding certain races from purchasing their products, merely excluding them from seeing the advertising for it.

If I'm a white male, why would I want to see advertisements for skincare products designed for African-American women?

The advertisers would lose money as well, because instead of advertising to me, they could advertise it to someone that has a higher chance of clicking/buying.

I also find it a little hypocritical that users regularly use adblock toward websites they dislike (could be political or racial)..and this is allowed.
What web browser were you using that let them access the camera without a confirmation popup?
Well, if version 0.2.0 doesn't fit your enterprise software needs it probably isn't very interesting.
I started designing on a Mac II in the late 80s during the emergence of desktop publishing and over the years it became the defacto designer's tool. I have no idea what happened, but apple forgot where they came from and have completely lost touch with their creative roots. That MS have swooped in and delivered what has to be the most exciting design tool I've seen in over a decade only punctuates how bad things have become at Apple.

I can see them hemorrhaging all but their most hardcore customers in the next year.
The vitriol you're bringing to this thread is far beyond what I'd expect considering the topic. What has angered you so greatly?
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I'm not sure what are the alternatives though. You still need a mac as a developer for mobile app development or even checking out rendering.
Can you show me if Tesla's is fundamentally different? I'm sincerely curious.
Lack of physical escape key with vi is not a problem for me. An old trick is to remap caps lock (never used) to Ctrl (constantly used), which is easier to reach from "asdfhjkl" hand positioning. Then Ctrl-C is mapped to escape, and I never have to reach up to the fn row from the home row. Makes working with vi a bit more seamless and this lack of fn row is a moot point. So maybe we have to change few key bindings for ancient but still useful software. Really not a deal killer.
It doesn't even have decent scansion tho.
Command-period is the native Mac way to do it, though ESC works as well.
When Steve Jobs died, Apple was worth $300 billion. Now it is worth $600 billion.

So far, not only did Tim Cook live up to the expectations in Apple under Jobs (which would mean to keep the company value at the same level) but he even overperformed 100%.
Nobody who is familiar with George is surprised by this. It's unfortunate that his ego has a scapegoat, however. I guess this time he couldn't find anyone on IRC to finish the hard parts for him and let him take the credit.
Method count has nothing to do with size.

Nobody ever said that. It should still be obvious though that 30kB can't even remotely fit the method overhead you are claiming.

Look at your own link: Java => 16,306 Scala => 67,608 (Already in multidex territory)

I even read it! I suggest you do the same.

And if you do grow an app past the point of being trivial as that example is Proguard
gains will not be nearly as drastic

They are. Been there, done that.

You pay for exactly the stuff you are using, just like with every other library.

Your measure of "how long it takes to pick up a phone" is far from scientific", but
to compare, not a single app[sic] non-trivial app I've worked on is so simple that
installing a fully compiled APK over ADB would be less than a 5-10 second process.

Well, it works without issues here. How many apps did you develop with the SBT-Android plugin to be so damn sure about its capabilities?

That would leave 0-5 seconds for the entire app to build, proguard, and predex (with
multidex). Not possible.

Perfectly possible. Used that for a while now.

To me the proof is in the pudding, if there were real gains to be had with Scala it'd
have more traction than it does.

That only seems to be a proof that good marketing is more important than good technology.
> you also don't have to deal with images if you don't want to -- runC just runs a rootfs

Which is an awesome and powerful thing! The ability to define a filesystem without any middle men simply makes some integrations possible.

Thank you and everyone on the runC team so much for your work.
I love the xps13 since I bought one in 2015. But I hope they improved their shipping experience vastly. I was really close to try to cancel my order and just get a mac again after waiting for almost 2 months without any updates to the tracking page besides the package leaving China within a couple of days, nor any helpful answers from dell or the delivery company. Initial eta was ~21 days.
Privatize the profits, socialize the failures.
I wonder if any of the people watched the demo. They showcased Terminal, and there was an escape key on the touch bar. They also specifically said pressing the "fn"'key would show function keys on the touch bar, which is exactly what you have to do on current Apple keyboards to use the function keys.

It seems like a non-issue to me unless people simply don't like the touch bar not being physical keys, which is fine, because they can just get the other Pro without it.
When was this? Wacom drivers come built into Ubuntu now. I use my tablet with MyPaint. I agree that the graphics suites could be better, but it works for my not-so-artistic pursuits.
I actually think that the government has been surprisingly open and helpful for self driving technology (and I'm a Libertarian so I don't say that lightly).

The media on the other hand... I am sure filling the 24x7 news cycle up every time one of these cars gets in an accident and never covering the advancements has a chilling effect.
KPIs are software
I agree and hate the "for humans" meme. It's insulting and doesn't help your case.
With good run I was mostly referring to asset prices.
Honestly I think this looks excellent for exposing children to programming.
It's a nice-to-have, but it's not a game changer, and there won't be many situations where it provides a big productivity boost over a mouse + keyboard.

I would have been much more impressed with better basic specs, and maybe a new separate keyboard with touchbar/trackpad features.

A keyboard with OLED keycaps would be awesome for creative applications and for developers, because you could see a full set of functions at the same time, and you could set them up to switch automatically as you switched applications.
Developer here. Dealbreaker for me. All my tools heavily use function keys and escape. If I had no other options I'd just deal with it, but Apple is competing with themselves: since they didn't bother to upgrade the actual performance, I have no incentive to move from my current macbook. And when I do, I'll probably just buy a different brand if they don't release a laptop that's actually useful for me.
... and cue the people emphatically trying to convince you that this one is more special than the other coins for silly, emotional reasons.
Why is our country so divided?
Looks really cool! I'm excited to test out a few programs.
》power to uplift millions of people

Haha. 10% premine to uplift the founders with millions, more like.
It was a privilege to work there and definitely the best period of my career. So many wonderful people and experiences in such a short time. I personally consider Brewster Kahle a severely underrated hero of our age. The Archive's work is extremely valuable but I think the value will be appreciated only by a future generation.

As for the book, I think if The Archive had novel for a totem, it'd be "A Canticle For Leibowitz". Very much affected my world view when I read it and this thread has just kindled my interest again. :)
I use the F keys a lot in Matlab, but I'd guess that Matlab users are just as much a minority of developers that developers are of Mac users, so I can see why it's not a big deal to Apple. Maybe Mathworks will add some of the functionality to the touch bar anyway.
> I guess this time he couldn't find anyone on IRC to finish the hard parts for him and let him take the credit.

I feel like there is some backstory here I've never heard.
A possible reason you were initially downvoted is that your interpretation doesn't seem terribly likely because the team gives off no air of looking down on anyone.

Your edit sure won't help anything, the aggression is just uncalled for.
Being employed via 1 or more companies is not protection. The UK government is persuing people who were hired as contractors via a staffing agency which then encouraged them to set up a personal Ltd company.

Typically these contractors pay themselves a mixture of dividends and normal paye pay to minimise tax, and the gov is saying the dividends were never really dividends so they need to pay tax and ni on them including the employers ni.

Currently this is limited to specific staffing agencies who actively instructed new contractors to create a personal company but I don't think it will stop there.

I've long felt most contractors are well within ir35 and it has been tollerated. This may be ending.
You're right; I had forgotten about that. I think the argument is still generally valid, though. By far, most of the installed base is still on USB-A. So you have to default to that cable for a while longer.
I live in Wilmington de, and intervewed with a number of the banks. It was a chore to get them to talk above 100k. Any more info on those rates?