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The business is doing fine, I just decided to leave. Scarred, yes. Wealthy to boot, for what little good that does me.

It's hard to build a support network when you've moved every 18 months since infancy - everywhere and everyone is always new. Started the business when I was 22, come from a very atomised background - like a lot of entrepreneurs. People either start businesses because they're very secure and content with their lives, or the complete opposite.

I had friends when I started the businesss, but when there's no time to be made, people inevitably drift away. It's also hard for them when they see their goofy friend who everybody knew was going to fail, succeed. Nobody likes to admit they were wrong, and envy is a wedge that will drive apart the closest of friends. At this point I know nobody.

Not everyone comes from a small community they've lived within their entire lives. Many don't in fact. What I present is the grim reality of starting an intensive 24/7 business.
I write almost everything on a 12" MacBook these days. Coming from a previous 15" MBP it was jarring at first, but I got used to it very quickly (a day later I wasn't thinking about it at all).
IMHO, Apple removing headphone jack and legacy ports is exactly the kind of things that opposite of having "toner heads" running the company. If "toner heads" are really running Apple they will be scared taking the risk and moving forward because they know it will hurt sales. If "toner heads" are really running Apple they will not take the risks of creating a new interaction model with unproven reception among customers.

I love Apple for this and I am buying the new Macbook Pro tomorrow. :)
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Thanks Toast! You rock!
> or now the normal MacBook

Which also has the same Butterfly keyboard, or rather the previous version of it; and according to Apple, a less "better" version of it.
If it's so bad then why did you keep doing it for 10 years?

I'm willing to bet it wasn't all bad and that you didn't always feel that it was pointless and a waste of time. You left the business a month ago, I bet the sore is still fresh and no doubt it was sore for a long time before you decided to stop.

In time the pain will fade and you will have both the good and the bad memories.

For me, doing business stuff, is neither good nor bad. It just is. It lets me do shit I like, and sometimes - often - that involves shit I don't like. But all in all it's fun as hell.
By how much though? Knowing Apple, it might be larger by only 0.1mm. That wouldn't afford any noticeable benefit though.
Yes, next month its out at the AIE. I should be there, I want to playtest my next game. Would love you to come and give it a try.
To drag this debate down, I find it interesting that in the Marvel universe you could have put "a static, unchanging reality that we are only able to perceive in a limited way due to our fundamental limitations as finite humans" into the mouth of Doctor Doom word for word and it would fit right in ("Books of Doom" has him saying pretty much exactly that to his physics teacher as a teen), perhaps with a few minor changes ("our" to "your", probably, as the character would not want to include himself amongst mere "finite humans").

When the right writers get hold of one of the more interesting characters, there's a surprising amount of nods to philosophy to be found.
Yup. And I blocked Taboola and Outbrain in my hosts file years ago after some particularly unpleasant ads of rotting teeth. To me they're a symbol of low-quality misleading advertising.

I think there might be a place for good cross-advertising of articles, but that seems to not be what the public clicks on.
> Dell Precision and HP EliteBook W

... were (and are) big-ass mobile workstations. MBPr were much lighter and thinner but still super-powerful - there was no competition in that weight/volume segment. Today, with Dell XPS, Razer, Surface and so on (even the Purism Librem is basically the same shape), we have plenty of alternatives in that segment, so there were two options really: move into the Air segment, or raise the bar for performance again. They chose the former, people complaining were expecting the latter.
And RAS syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
Well, okay, I admit. That they finally decided to build own hardware IS brave (it's very expensive) and I think they will have success if they find consumers who need it. The Surface line still lacks streamlined designs, the products feel disconnected from each other. The only thing that connects them is Windows 10 and that's also their weakness at the same time. So much Microsoft wants me to love it, I just don't. Now that Microsoft build their own hardware, they should start re-thinking their software business. Office? Ugh.
IRC (not focused).
Thanks for the feedback, and the list of ideas for the product :) .. Journally does not (Yet) have import or export options. However, a lot of improvements are coming in the near future as this is still a new product.
Heh, tough crowd. I like the idea :) If I hadn't just dropped money on a keyboard recently I'd be strongly considering. The potential integrations with emacs and the keys changing would be fun.
So the big reveal here is that there may have been some neopotism in the rush to unfuck the Obamacare website instead of the usual federal hiring procedure? Based only on the text seen it looks like "hey, this Mike guy is good. Get this him on it and we can promise him a campaign position later on to sweeten the deal".

Considering how doing things the proper way led to the Obamacare website kerfuffle in the first place, this is the type of corruption I'd actually want more of.
A single-connector world is not an end in itself. The reason anyone finds it appealing is because it means people won't have to carry a forest of adapters and connectors, or worry about incompatible devices.

But that's what Apple is now forcing us to do if we buy their new laptop. USB-A is going to be around for years to come, as is HDMI. I'm not going to throw out my extremely expensive Thunderbolt display because it uses a heretical connector. I am not going to refuse to speak at a conference because the projector doesn't work with my new machine.

The basic requirement of a professional machine is that it let us get our work done. This is just design wank.
Not all of us developers are complaining.
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I'm happily on a T460s as well. The nice thing about the T4x0 series is that they're used by lots of Redhat employees so driver issues tend to be resolved quickly.
> Is it bravery when you have no other choice?

If you're a student of - particularly - the last 50 years of tech industry history, then you understand there is always another choice: established tech companies have frequently chosen to stubbornly die off tightly clinging to their own past, rather than attempt something else. Microsoft was previously well on its way to that land of eroded or dead tech giants.
I use Lenovo P50 - 64GB RAM, 4K display, nice keyboard, card reader, Ethernet port(!), and Quadro M2000. Especially nice thing about is that it supports 2 SSDs + 2.5" harddrive (all easily removable and upgradable). This means I can keep my Linux installation completely separate from Windows on separate drive without having to partition anything. All these at a fraction of price. I can keep old MBP around for iOS stuff but these days much of the computer vision and deep learning development happens in Linux so configuration like about works great as main machine.
So the margin of error is greater than the discovered difference? And because of that it could actually be lower not higher? Strange.
This is a great idea, and was something I was searching for when I became VP of Engineering at PipelineDeals. Alongside ctomentor.network, there are other useful resources for engineering leaders as well:

* CTOschool in NYC (http://www.meetup.com/ctoschool/). They have over 2k members, monthly meetups and an active, relevant mailing list. I recommend joining for the mailing list alone.

* I live in Philly so I was tired of commuting to NYC for this meetup, so I co-founded CTOSchool in Philly (http://meetup.com/CTO-School-Philadelphia/). We have over 200 members now and growing.

Both groups focus on engineering leadership topics like hiring, onboarding, software delivery process, team structure, dealing with c-level team, etc. It really made a huge difference in my career.
>This focus may also be the reason they're so 'brave' to provide a small set of ports which is completely disjoint from the previous model?

By the time USB C is widely used they will move on to a different standard which means the hassle of dealing with adapters has been for nothing. USB D will probably out by then. I look forward to the day I can power a kettle with a laptop. Since the MBP only supports USB 3.1 Gen 2 and Thunderbolt 3 users will be fed up with being constrained to only 8 4k displays. Heck, even if they keep USB C for the next MPB and support display port 1.4 it can only drive a 8k display at 60hz per port. But what about the power users with their 16k display? Sure, they could get away with using all 4 ports but that is a hacky solution. Apple is clearly not thinking ahead.

I don't see the problem with dealing with adapters. In the current status quo you already have to deal with adapters. The only way is to add a native port which is going to make the device larger and it still may have the wrong port. There are only three choices. Support all ports (DVI, VGA, HDM, DP) or support only port X with an active adapter to the other ports. The former is clearly not desirable and the latter is what is already happening anyway. USB C with Thunderbolt 3 and DP 1.4 is probably going to be the last physical port we will ever need unless we suddenly have a need to go beyond 8k.
As a counter point, my wife and I have both been using hackintoshes for the past four years and I do very little, if any at all, work to maintain them. Setting up a machine from scratch is made easier now with Clover. Even moving to each new version of OSX has been just as easy as my MBP which I use when travelling. That's not to say it's without it's cons, iMessage/Handoff/Facetime don't work, but that doesn't bother me as I don't really use them and when I do it's on my iPhone or iPad.
Good to hear that. I've sent it via www.overleaf.com/contact and I hope this would help your team figure out why.
I wonder how much propaganda do we read every day ?
Tip: A lot.

I think that almost every piece of information which is not pure art or mathematical formulas - is some sort of propaganda..

Meaning someone somewhere is pushing his own agenda, directly or indirectly.

It is strategically wise for Apple competitors to put out all kinds of negative articles right now.

Apple does something unpopular - use that as a lever to swing the opinion - that's when some customers fall into your own nets.

After all, competition is not messiah - they desperately want to push their own products and inflict as much damage as possible to the top dog, which happens to be Apple right now..

I don't know about this particular article, but I'm just saying - I've seen so much negativity and wining about the MacBook Pros - that the "pro" people are left behind, there's no ESC key and so on - I'm really curious to actually try it for myself..

What if I like it ? Is that a strategy too ?

I find it harder and harder to believe anything on the Internet now, because it's all twisted and bended and distorted.. It's a war out there and the battlefield is our minds.
Yes I'm aware. I live in the UK. Guns are used for sport, pest control, shooting laptops, etc.
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People who work on pro machines do a lot of writing. I'm ready to bet that everyone in this thread does a lot of writing.

Note that the keyboard on the MacBook is even worse than the one on the new MBP.
Response from the creator: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/593ei7/san_francisc...

"Traffic is ok, thanks to tram, cable car and BART. I play in sandbox mod (unlimited money mod on) because if not, it's impossible to build a city like this. It does not avoid to deal with services such as garbage and deathcare. I have huge deathwaves, and I had to hid my landfills because they are not existing in the area I built IRL."
Production of the low-end model was fine though, uh? How convenient! This is exactly the same that happened with the 2012 redesign. I'm sure it's all a coincidence though. Uh-uh.

(btw: "I'm certain that's probably" says it all, really.)
Can this kind of map be used for GTA? Would love to run around the famous cities of the world with a rocket launcher.
As a wag on twitter said -- let's call it a courage of cables that we can haul around with us!
Maybe they just decided that the prosumer market is larger than the pro one and they can charge the same prices. They don't build many models so they're placing theirs in the larger market and leaving the smaller one.
I wonder if this is related to the streak of big earthquakes happening currently in Italy.
There was nothing wrong with keeping a magsafe port, or throwing one thunderbolt 2 connector in there. That doesn't preclude a bunch of usbc ports.

ps -- for me personally, we're discussing a bonus $500 of cables/adapters/chargers that Apple is blithely demanding I replace.
What is going to happen imho:

Apple is doing and will do a shitload of money anyway.

People will buy Apple stuff anyway because people already are: unless you are an Apple user, you should know how "religious" (I'm being kind here) Apple users are. They have been consciously been buying outdated and overpriced hardware until now, and they have been super proud about this too.

So this is going to last anything from five to ten years at least, still imho.

I have no true idea whether newer apple stuff is so bad or not (besides the idiotic drop of the audio jack on the iPhone). But Apple users have been subject to this Apple-isy for literally decades.

I have a suspicion that now that Apple Macbook Pros are so widespread, complaining about Apple is the new hipsteria.

This is what I feel, reading the news, on a foggy October, almost-November morning.
What an awesome product!
It's a very big problem, Cryptolocker in 2013 was able to score it's creators around $27 million. That was 3 years ago, it's a pretty dangerous and persistent threat.
I'm pretty sure that's a parody.

The market has only a specific size. If you sell as many games as the most successful games ever you really can't expect more. Besides, Bioshock Infinite had no special message, it was utterly trivial in that respect. The article is a joke on both fronts: That the sales projections must have been overblown since they indeed regarded the millions of copies sold as disappointing, and that they thought the story with its twist was great writing.
On the other hand, it's hard to argue with the track record of success of Twisted's approach to async programming in Python. It was at the point where enough people were clamoring for something to be blessed that it makes sense to pick the one whose approaches and patterns are as stable and battle-tested as Twisted's.
I don't remember being able to write for the Commodore while on my Timex, nor for the Amiga while on the PC, or for UNIX while on the PC....

Even UNIX developers are locked to their OSes APIs, unless they constrain themselves to command line POSIX tools.
...but that's the key point, isn't it? That the existing implementations don't really work. Just like there were plenty of "non-lame" MP3 players and plenty of smart phones and plenty of tablets...that all didn't really do the job.

Making something work great that already kinda exists, that people have tried and failed to really make great, isn't that exactly Apple's MO?

I think we agree entirely. Incremental innovation - fixing things that are broken.

The performance of Swift doesn't matter much to Apple. Swift is a demand-pull thing: Developers care about iOS, and will pay the horrible performance tax. The developer experience for iOS developers has always been horrible but it has one thing that matters more than that: users.
I know they merge with aerial scans, but I don't know if it's drone-based.
http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/1998-September/0352... has all the good sauce on papl
You don't need any of the things people are complaining about for developing iOS apps.
I find that Terminator solves this problem.

You can control it with the mouse and the keybindings are much closer in simplicity to iterm than tmux.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/terminator

Check it out :-)
wow! nice
I am a developer and really liked the new MBP.
For more background, Flask embodies a lot of what Armin likes about how to build things, and there's room to disagree with him on it.

(for example, Flask attaches the request to a magic thread-local variable, while Django -- to pick the one I prefer -- requires you to explicitly pass it around and write functions to take it as an argument; there's a parallel in Armin's complaints about asyncio requiring you to explicitly pass things around instead of accessing magic thread-local storage)
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> This is interesting but there is a lot more to .NET GC.

Yeah, but one post covering the entire .NET GC would be huge!! This post was only meant to cover GC Pauses and Safepoints.

> There is a concurrent GC, low-latency "pause-less" GC, etc.

I covered some of these topics in other posts, see:

- http://mattwarren.org/2016/02/04/learning-how-garbage-collec...
- http://mattwarren.org/2016/06/20/Visualising-the-dotNET-Garb...
- http://mattwarren.org/2016/08/16/Preventing-dotNET-Garbage-C...
>But we all know you won't. You'll buy this MacBook sooner or later

Try me.
Amazing product!
But creative pros are and always have been their market. I can only assume that Apple either knows what we need better than we do, and people are going to eventually really love these, or this really is a stumble.
Is Microsoft even trying to fix updating? IMO there is no problem with updating in it self, I update Arch everyday.
The way Windows takes so long to install updates AND the way the PC becomes unusable for that time are both horrible.
Ever heard about bitrot?
other data source:

OpenStreetMap : "San Francisco Building Height Import"

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Building_H...
Since at least two years ago I'm doing exactly that. Sorry that you only found out now ;D
You don't really need to cut their finger off. Just get them drunk enough to pass out.
Nobody types function keys blindly however
You already can't use your Razor mouse(not to the fullest, anyway) without signing in with your Razor account. And recently, Nvidia started requiring that you create an Nvidia account to use their GeForce Experience application. Super annoying.
You could go the alt+space m (window menu -> move) combined with whatever movements you want route if you can't find another way.
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The word "brave" still feels laughable in the corporate context. At most, a company has calculated it wants to take a larger risk.

"Brave" probably makes sense in the context where a company is ready to literally bet it all on something they believe in when they're in a sustainable position.
Responsibility to my employees and my clients, and despite being increasingly miserable, I was damned good at what I did - left the company in great shape and might even be able to be friends with cofounder again.

It was the crushing responsibility that got me in the end - billions flowing through our systems, the thousands of livelihoods that directly or indirectly rely on your house of cards, unending anxiety and mistrust from clients erodes you into being anxious and not trusting yourself.

It was a blast in the early years, when I was getting my hands dirty and if it all went wrong it was just my shirt to lose, but the last five years have comprised shitty politics, and I just no longer had the will to go on dealing with it - my physical health started to severely suffer about two years ago - turns out relentless stress does subtle and Bad Things to your body.

I'm totally aware that I could have walked years ago, but there was always hope that it would get better, and at that point I don't think the business would have survived without me - it's only really in the last 18 months that I filled the final gaps and made myself redundant.

I made the decision to leave several years ago - it's just taken time to get to the point where I could.

It wasn't fun as hell, it was just hell :)
For what it's worth, I read Armin's critiques, but I take them with a grain of salt; it's clear that what he wants from a language, and what other people want from Python, diverged a while back and are probably irreconcilable at this point. That doesn't mean he doesn't have good points, but does mean that I read his articles through a lens of "the language he really wants probably is never going to be Python again".
This. I own a mid 2012 non-retina MBP as that's the only MacBook that I could justify buying. It's actually a serviceable and upgradable computer and not just an appliance. It's sad to think that for this reason it will most likely be my last Mac, as I genuinely like macOS and the trackpad alone beats any other laptop in usability on-the-go.
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Somewhat related: A while ago I saw a video online of a "cockpit" which was suspended in the middle of a big room from multiple cables. The cables would tension and release making the cockpit shoot around the room, so the user would get real sensations of acceleration while playing a VR game.

It seemed incredible and I'm surprised I haven't seen more of it since. Anyone know what this is called?
they're IDE's what?
> there's even a button for reseting the driver in the control panel

thank you for once again reminding me why I've never looked back after switching to Mac hardware back in 2006. I'd much rather "cope" with hardware that isn't absolutely top-of-the-line spec-wise than dealing with buttons to reset a f'ing input device driver.

I think our perception of the Mac slowly losing its "it just works" status is somewhat shifted as we're forgetting how bad the alternatives were and obviously still are.
> computers for the masses

At those prices, more like computers for the 1% - a niche almost as small as illustrators.
To be fair, if you are serving hundreds or thousands of customers, I hope you have some form of redundancy.
This - they're bought programmatically. The buyer submits metadata (headline, URL, image, etc) to a bidding exchange and they're formatted to look like they're part of the relevant site on the fly.
"Feels like typing on an iPad" is so far from the truth it's laughable. Maybe try actually using one (and for more than 30 seconds) before spouting off about it.

I'm typing this on a "butterfly-v1" right now. I (subjectively, I know) prefer it to the old MBP/Air keyboard. The travel is less but it has a very crisp and positive feel. It's not bad at all.
'Their', surely?
This looks to be the direction I'll be heading too.
I'd say it qualifies as Hollywood Accounting if the revenue exceeds the budget and yet the project is still deemed unprofitable. I haven't really heard of this in the games industry.

Typical Hollywood Accounting is when companies make up overhead figures. But in the games industry the costs seem too transparent to be able to get away with posting fictious overheads as most of the cost is dominated by marketing and salaries.
of course we're getting nothing, would you risk your career for a few points on here?
Looks cool! But what problem does it solve that sites like Imgur don't?
looks good.

What about an inverted look? Too much backlight bleeding through or looking OK at night? :)

And did you invent new key mechanics to keep the key clear all the way to the bottom?