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That's a great idea. My son (also four) really needs to see the consequences of candy eating. I'm pretty convinced that he would try to live exclusively on candy if we would buy it for him.

My daughter was a thumb sucker, but she stopped when I showed her a few pictures of what could happen to her teeth if she kept it up. I was actually very surprised at how much impact it had. She was three at the time, and I wasn't sure if she was old enough to make that connection. One of the things I've slowly learned from them is that kids have a lot more ability to reason through consequences than most people give them credit for; the trick is to present it in the right way.
Far more 'for the masses' than the Surface Studio which is three times the price, though. And, of course, at those prices, three times is a LOT. Everyone seems to be of the opinion that home desktops 'for the masses' are on the way out anyway, so those who will be buying iMacs (if they continue to exist) in future are likely to be in the 1%; the Surface Studio buyers will probably be in the 0.1%, though.
In my place, animals die if they wander in places with seaweed (the sprawl of which is caused by industrial agriculture and breeding), because those produce toxic gases when they rot.
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I thought this was going to be about OSS, Linux on Windows, S2016 docker containers, etc. That's where MS has been moving in an innovative direction. Instead it's making gross over-predictions based on the release of a very large tablet.
When was the last time you took a walk and came back to your Apple computer threatening to restart in 10 minutes to update itself? This happened to me several times in Windows 10 ever since the Anniversary update which removed the option to have windows merely notify the user to schedule a restart (even for the "Professional" edition -- https://gbatemp.net/threads/windows-10-anniversary-update-no...). Eventually I got tired of MS insisting it be in the driver's seat of my computer and switched to Linux. Fedora 24 works quite well and is fortunately quite adequate for my usual needs.
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Why had I not heard of this game before?

I used to love playing VGA Planets (and Stars!) is this in any way an evolution of that genre?
The point is not the temperature itself, although my simplified description implied that. It's the fact that human activities are causing and have caused the natural environment to lose its homeostatic balance and to do so very quickly. This fact generates the catastrophic effects, not the resting temperature of the planet.
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I had (well, I still have it) a Mac Mini and used it between 2007 and 2009. I was pretty dissatisfied with its performance (then again, that was around the time when Tiger got obsolete and the Leopard moved in, and the Mini was already slow and old by that time) but, overall, I think it's the most productive platform I used, short of my old WindowMaker setup which has aged too much to be useful by now.

So I know what to expect right now. Frankly, what I'm afraid of is that I don't know what to expect next year. 2K for an experiment is ok if I could run it for three or four years. Right now, it looks like if Apple has a document called "Roadmap for Mac Computers, 2016-2020", there's a good chance that it's a four-page summary of another document called "How to convince all our customers to just get an iPad already for fun and profit".
Perhaps this can help: http://www.hovding.com/how_hovding_works

Or this:
https://www.hit-air.info/index.php/en/
> I'm not entirely sure the Cold War ever ended

The 70% nuclear arms reduction from the late 1980s [1] and the collapse of the Soviet Union are pretty definitive.

http://www.nukestrat.com/WorldNuclearStockpiles.jpg
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Doh We forgot to decide how we'd make the decision
For Java I'd say yes, students do need an IDE (or to be more specific their life would be very difficult without an IDE). It is really difficult to write java, even trivial programs without an IDE (because of Java's long package and class names).

Since IntelliJ Studio is the defacto standard in Java IDEs (having surpassed Eclipse and Netbeans) I think that it is really great for students to be able use that IDE for their student projects.

Of course the usage of the IDE must not prevent then from familiaring themselves with classpaths and compiling a Java program with more than one packages through the command line!
But try to put yourself in Apple's shoes - they know exactly who their customers are and what products sell how well. I'd argue that >90% of MBP sold never even come close to being fully utilized.

I can't imagine the market of people needings 64gb RAM being significant enough to warrant its own product category.

The only way to offer this would be the f1 racing / supercar comparison made in a different article's comments on HN today. I think the new Mac Pro was an attempt at that and apparently failed.
They got bashed for removal of options (that could be hidden from average user), also they changed a lot of things and more or less reimplemented things that they didn't want to do at the beginning (and where bashed for lack of), so I'd say they made a lot of mistakes - for me gnome is usable without heavy tweaking since last year.

Which means it took 4 years to get it to usable state where i don't have to download tons of plugins to make it effective environment for work and multitasking.
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I'm a writer. I write around about 2000 words a day, and I'll be getting the new MacBook Pro for a few reasons:

- The screen is better than the Air. That matters when you're staring at it for 8 hours a day.

- However over-priced the MacBook Pro is, that goes double for the small MacBook. It's just too expensive for what you get.

- I want to be able to run photoshop and have it deal with the RAW files from my Sony A6000, My current machine — a 2012 MBA — can't manage it without becoming a noisy radiator.

- If I'm paying top dollar for a laptop, I want it to last for at least four years, and I don't see the small MacBook satisfying me for that length of time with its current resource limitations.

- The extra screen real estate might not seem like much, but when I want my work and a browser next to each other, it makes a difference.

Unusually for writers, I use Vim, and the lack of a hardware Escape is a small concern, but I've remapped it anyway, so I don't think it will pose much of a problem.

The keyboard also worries me, but I've played with the smaller MacBook and It's OK, not awesome but I can deal with it.

Edit: Of course, I could just buy a Windows laptop, but I haven't used Windows regularly for about fifteen years. I used Linux for about a decade, and then OS X. I won't move to Windows, and I'm too busy for the sort of fiddling Linux generally requires. Plus, I'm not a of fan of any current Linux UI — none have the polish of MacOS. So, in addition to everything else, MacOS is a big factor in my sticking with Apple.
They also just recently laid off 3000 employees due to a "loss of $600 million a year"...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/centurylink-lay-off-3-000-1305...

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As the article notes, goods would move a lot more when they're subjected to the G-forces of a hyperloop than the occasional rolling of a ship or even much milder G-forces of an aircraft taking off, which they have to be packed pretty carefully for as is. And whilst all transport methods have a weight limit and some degree of load-balancing requirement, it's much more of a restriction for the load of a capsule fired at supersonic speed through a curving tube that has to resist forces imposed upon it than a bigger lorry chugging along at a sedate 60mph.
If you're at the point where you have the need and the budget for a business intelligence tool, Looker is fantastic. Anyone who can pivot in Excel will pick up Looker quickly and be able to get actionable insights.
I definitely agree with you, my comment was simply to show that there are a lot of people who use Big-O as a metric at a level where it shouldn't be applied.
> Understanding history is important – to a point. But Apple’s obsessive naval gazing in the Mac event today speaks volumes. This is a company with no real vision for what its most creative users actually do with their most advanced machines. So, instead, they look into the past.

That was also my impression. The funny thing is that this is not the first time in their history, and they used this "our laptops of the past" thing to showcase some of the horrible examples of the 90s, which were just adding bloat and uglyness rather than innovating. Then they present the new model with a bloaty new feature.
The kettle part was a joke I guess, however USB Power Delivery already does 5A @ 20V. Now increasing either with that kind of connector would not be practical and/or safe, so I guess (the order of) 100W will be the max we will get on that kind of plug.
Not entirely true. The fact is they could have used SODIMM DDR4 which is 1.2v and has a power usage close to LPDDR3 (also 1.2v). But they would have to redesign and they would lose a very few mm in thinness.
The homepage lists 3 models, a 12", a 14" and a 17" one.
I have to had a TrackPoint (so no Dell for me), and I like smaller, 13 inches laptop. From what I have found, 16 GB is the maximum that exists.
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Uber sort of enters the ‘flying car’ game with a 99-page white paper
How many hours is "decent battery life"?
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You can compare previous product launch discussions on reddit/hn yourself and gauge the feelings at the time.

Furthermore, you can see the products yourself and decide what is a major improvement for yourself - without needing to relate to what someone says on an article.

It bears to remember that this is microsoft, the company which until 2012, had no hardware product of its own.

I use a surface today, and the new studio which was launched is a poor product because of its graphics card which is substandard compared to whats on the market now.

But its still a significant step ahead, and all these changes are happening along side getting one core together. The braver company today is Msft.
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I co-founded a startup that grew to about 180 people before being acquired (the whole multiple rounds of VC investment, going public etc.).

Looking back my level of happy memories is pretty much inversely related to the size of the company - when there was 2/3/4 of us it was deeply enjoyable even though we were living hand to mouth. I suspect most of the time we were over 100 I was utterly miserable to the extent of never really wanting to go down that particular route again.
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If you genuinely want how to change then the essential information you have to know is that this world operates by one fundamental principle which means that everything, including the Earth, makes results on the basis of what is in problems. To change yourself you first need to become properly aware of yourself and any problem you have, and then you need to formulate good problems for yourself through 'what is' in reality. Same process for changing others. Problem is that before being able to become aware of 'what is' correctly and precisely you either need an extremely long time of practicing good deeds or you need to learn from a truthful teacher who has already opened his own eyes to the world. Those teachers are extremely rare. However I found one about a decade ago. He talks about the coming changes to humanity only generally in public but he traveled to dozens of countries and has met and had recorded conversations with scientists at hundreds of the world's top universities. Here's an English website about his work. Sorry that it is so late. He passed away already in 2008, else you would have been able to personally ask him questions.

http://tathagata2000.tripod.com
When I hold my phone, I use my opposable thumb to hold the front of the phone. Anyone can lift it off there.
You did not just ask a question as a form of critical thinking. You asked a question leading into a lecture on the technology you prefer.

Docker is just a simple wrapper that reduces the amount of knowledge needed to run a containerized process. It did not become hype because of any technological advantage, it became hype because this old technology became accessible not just for the kind of people/companies that don't (can't) run enterprise class Solaris deployments, but also the kind that don't have 20 years of experience in making robust well managed deployments.

Your process might seem easy and straightforward to you. But for the average developer and Linux enthousiast, there's not much that can the simplicity of the Dockerfile. Systemd or a more specialized system like Kubernetes to run the containers, and a simple script to provision your machine is all you need. You can pick all of this tech up in a few days and steadily grow into more advanced subjects like monitoring, logging, security.

Anyway, you're not helping anyone by just saying "SmartOS is better than Docker+(list of redundant and unrelated other tech)", maybe instead show us a one-page tutorial on how to set up a SmartOS system with a webapp stack (i.e. LAMP, MEAN or RoR) that can be executed by a newbie without a creditcard, registration, trial or phone call.
That is a perfectly sensible definition of actual professional use.

Not two days ago I presented at a conference where I had to plug an HDMI cable into my laptop, and in the middle of setting that up, I transferred over a backup copy of my presentation to the house laptop on a USB stick.

Now maybe I am not a professional in your eyes. But I was wearing a suit!
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Highly recommend Ransomwhere for MacOS users. It has actually stopped a ransomware attack on one of my work machines.
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It feels like this and the numerous other "awesome" lists which claim to be curated, are curated in only the most trivial sense: perhaps someone looked to see if each new entry in some plausible way is in the right general category of thing, i.e. is not a random unrelated link. For example, this one looks like a list of open source applications that could be found or were submitted so far for inclusion.

I don't see any evidence on this one or any other of any genuine curation, which would be characterized by saying "no" to some of the possible candidates.

Unfortunately the words awesome and curation have so little meaning among lists of programming-related things, that it would probably be a waste of time for someone to actually do that, and would possibly generate hard feelings from whatever projects end up in the "no" pile.

"No" is hard.
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I am starting to think fractional reserve banking was a bad idea
Pandora's radio is already superior to Spotify's. I'd jump all over that if it happened.
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no you can't. Unicode by default is a complete pain in the butt when working with libraries that want bytes. It's just a complete mess.
Many depictions of entrepreneurship are too rosy, but this strikes me as far too negative. This was not my experience at all.

I worked very hard, but never 20 hour days. I get along great with my cofounders. My wife and I just had our first child, joining the club with my other two cofounders.

Agree that the technology is generally still the easy part though.
Consider upgrading to Dell XPS 15 when it releases with Kaby Lake (expected December). The Dell XPS 13 went from 12 hours to 14 hours battery life in the Kaby Lake update.
It would be hard to consider that really "portable" at 7.8 lbs, it's almost 2x as heavy as the MBP. You do get a lot of power for that though.
It's interesting to compare Outbrain to Google.

Google has all my search history, a list of all the AdSense websites I visit, my YouTube history, my location history, ten years of my email history, my Android app history, my Play Store purchase history. They have a large number of PhD engineers working to develop the best internet advertising algorithms.

And yet when Time or Forbes want to display an ad that will generate the most money, Google is beaten by a company that is simply focused on catchy ads.

I realise that Google's higher standards (and perhaps higher commission) put their ads at a disadvantage in terms of publisher revenue, but I thought that their huge advantage in targeting ads would more than compensate.
You can get the rocket launcher as long as I get the Killdozer(TM).
I hope you are being sarcastic.
The hardware is solid. I have zero complaints about build quality. You are not obligated to upgrade to the latest OS (but you probably should...). I feel really comfortable saying you can get 4 years out of a mbp. If you really need the out, just in case you need to install windows or linux, wait 2-3 months, just to make sure other people have done it reliably.

There is always risk it's not the "optimal" choice, but it's certainly not the "wrong" choice. MacOS is fine. If you hate it just install something else. (but the brand new stuff might be flakey under windows/linux for a while)
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I like the website a lot, although I see two small issues with it:

1) sometimes things that are packs are uploaded as separate assets, so you can have few pages of art dump from some open source game project

2) some low-effort assets should be removed or put into some kind of staging area. By low effort I mean people using the MS Paint spray to paint some white dots on black background and call it "starry background", or some basic Perlin noise with colours pushed as "some colorful abstract background, maybe someone will find this useful".
IP transit seems to be a declining business as content moves towards customers. See "The death of transit?":

https://blog.apnic.net/2016/10/28/the-death-of-transit/
"but unless somebody has practice doing it"

I've seen this with my own eyes, you need a rather high end physical therapy gym and it'll come with a physical therapist. And the bill will be like $$$/hr because insurance is willing to pay that much, although the therapist only gets $/hr because there's a large enough oversupply of trained therapists, the remainder going into profit.

I mostly saw kids using it. You can browbeat an adult in a wheelchair into "yeah you're gonna fall down and yeah its gonna hurt and the mats mean you won't die so toughen up and practice walking" but marine corps bootcamp motivational technique doesn't work well on little girls so I mostly saw them put wheelchair kids into the harness not adults or elderly.

Some problems:

1) Did not look terribly comfortable WRT "couple hours experience". More comfortable than falling onto a concrete floor every couple minutes but its no couch in front of a TV.

2) The physical therapy gym is full of exercise junk which doesn't matter if you're a little kid (re-)learning to walk but is a big deal if you're rollerblading at 30 mph and hit a squat rack or a wall head on. Or run into another patient.

3) Speed is not an issue for little kids (re-)learning to walk but the rig may not be built for rollerblade speeds.

4) Moving takes energy and stamina as you mention so being unable to be hurt doesn't mean the knees can tolerate it.
I'm underwhelmed by the newly-announced MacBook Pros, but this is just kind of where we're at.

There isn't much more CPU performance to be had. Intel doesn't really sell anything faster. A peek at current Thinkpads tells me you can drop $3,000-$4,000 on a 7.5lb luggable with a Xeon-branded CPU, which would have been cool to see in a Mac, but.... yeah.

Aside from the 16GB RAM limitation, Apple's not really holding out on us here. We've hit Moore's Law pretty hard.
The equation is not bad, however I have an improved version of

Startup = idea + execution + product + team + luck

I'd rather say:

Startup = idea * execution * product * team * connections * money

Each multiplier should be limited to 0 .. 1 range and thus the closest the left hand is to 1, the better the chances are you'll succeed.
No way, that's awesome. Thanks for the heads up.
Hey guys. I've been working on this as a side project on and off this year, and decided to finally polish it into a real product and share it publicly. It originally started as a way to explore Elixir & Phoenix. Would really appreciate any feedback!

I'm planning to write a blog post in the next few days about the development as my first foray into Elixir.

The idea for the app in general came from the fact that I'm working remotely from all over the place, doing the "digital nomad" thing, and thought something like this could be fun. But an app like this needs a critical mass to actually get off the ground and succeed, hence the dynamic growing and shrinking areas based on activity. The idea being it greatly increases the chance when you open up the app, you're there with someone else.

Anyway, I'm launching this from a cafe in Shibuya, wracked with nerves, but glad to have finished it. :)

Edit: I've also open-sourced the Swift Phoenix WebSockets client I wrote to build this here: https://github.com/sjrmanning/Birdsong
I own a perfectly fine iPad 1 and can't use apps for it anymore because Apple said so. This really irks me, at least let me install the latest usable version.

The iPad is still working nicely, but the behavior by Apple just sucks.
Depends on whether you stuff an entire android OS into it. With only the minimum in user amenities most of it should still be the battery for a drop of hardware.
Buy windows 10 pro and shut down auto-updates? I've opted out of basically everything except auto-update because I want to latest release. The possibility of shutting down auto update is probably the biggest sellpoint of Pro and Enterprise editions nowadays, together with encryption.

Windows 10 don't really spy on me more than Apple or Google, but for those who complain there is always Linux that is the only real true alternative to opting out of being spied upon.

I run Windows 10 Pro and love it auto-updates is wonderful as a programmer also because I know people will get the latest version automatically.
> What OS you prefer is a matter of taste and of choice, and there's no "better" or "worse" unless you're so narrow minded as to only measure an operating system's worth by the features that happen to put your chosen OS ahead.

> Don't lecture us on what OS is better, we've made a decision and it doesn't have to be the same as yours.con

I would agree with that but you don't have to be so harsh, he may actually convince people with arguments as to why Linux is actually "better" (i.e. privacy), rather than "lecturing" them.
Dang, that is actually pretty nice. Thanks for the mention. :)
It looks truly excellent in all areas - and I may have to go hunt one down. The website is somewhat confusing, however :)
Why do you think they are trying to reinvent threads? Looks to me like it is a basic nested event loop.
But do you need the hardware of the MBP for that or was it a personal choice?

If we are free to use anecdotes I will base my evaluation on two friends who are copywriters and another one who's a tech writer. All of them using an Air or a normal MacBook for the work they do.

I'm curious on what your usage is as a writer for paying a premium on the Pro, care to elaborate?

P.S.: English is not my native language and I'm really trying to not sound condescending, I'm genuinely curious.
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Probably a long, long shot, but do you have any plans to create ISO layout boards in the future?

Since most ISO boards only differ in keycap and not layout, it would theoretically be possible to create a massive number of configurations with just one layout, which would be amazing!