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God/creation doesn't solve any of the mysteries we still have left, fewer than you seem to think.

All it does is create an infinite regress of what created god.
At the same time, developers are often power users that are willing to shed a good amount of money for a decent laptop, and will recommend Macs to friends and famility. It was around 2009-2012 that about 50% of laptops at most developer conferences were Macbook/Macbook pros; I've seen the (perceived) percentage declining since.

Do you really think the "average user" would spend $1500-2500 for a laptop? The Macbook Pro is for Pro users. Let them work as pros.
It's also 17.3" and 3.5kg

Not sure what the battery is like, but that thing is huge.
Can confirm. They've brought in desktop sharing and it's a lot more stable.

Now just need a 'stop sharing my desktop' button.
In fact, the only thing I don't like about this utterly brilliant piece is that it revolves only around developers. It would have been a much stronger statement if only :%s/developers/professionals.
Of course. The only 'natural right' to property is the right to physical control over the things you are presently holding in your hands. As soon as you set them down, you lose every natural right over them and some social system has to step in.
Well the 17.3" model comes at 3,4kg. But there is also a 14.0" inch model with very powerful specs and a 4k screen which weights less than 2kgs

http://www.razerzone.com/eu-en/gaming-systems/razer-blade-20...
Compile and run your own kernel in 60 mins
But world does revolve around developers. We are reason why companies like Apple are successful.

And if even cheap Chromebook provides better experience, than it is time to move on. MacBook Pro today actually has some competition, Dell XPS is very nice machine.
Slight tangent, but how does one with SWE/product skills get involved in climate work? There seems to be some research every other day indicating how disastrous global warming is going to be, but a dearth of jobs outside of solar installation or academia.
This is the "toner-head" argument that Steve Jobs railed against as the reason that Xerox never successfully marketed a GUI based machine.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1orCiYdwyo
> These are basics that will just work with OS X, very, very, reliably.

That's fine, you are paying a premium for all this, it better "just" works. Elementary OS is free of charge.
Great idea, I've signed up.

Seems like it might be useful to ask for a website on your sign up form so that you have some idea what people are working on.
My dreams are simple. I want to be able to put movies and TV shows on a thumb drive, and put that in a TV and play it.

I want to not have to buy a new computer because I tripped over a power cable.

I want to be able to type for more than a few minutes without my hands hurting.

I believe I share these dreams with a lot of people who aren't developers.
Luckily the article does not say that the Surface Studio is in competition with the MacBook Pro. The author says that what Microsoft and Apple unveiled at their respective events heavily favoured Microsoft.
Dell XPS are very nice.
>> I believe that action against climate change cannot be effective at an individual level

I believe it as well. Unfortunately on any other level you have players caring more about the own money / power than the	well-being of the masses and players being deeply involved in the human driven climate change. Sometimes the latter pays the former. Sometimes?

It is a windmill fight.
In Windows 8 at least, you had a "desktop" Windows Update accessible from the control panel and a "modern" Windows Update accessible from the Start Screen.

From memory they beefed up the "modern" one then ditched the "desktop" one in Windows 10 sometime around the Anniversary Update.
"Are professional users really a "vocal minority" of the MacBook Pro?". NO!!! They are the target of this machine. After all it is called Macbook Pro for a reason.

Consumers don't need Macbook Pros, they need at max Macbook Airs. A lot of them can be served by iPad Pros. And the vast majority by iPhones.

So yes, Apple is shooting itself in the foot.
Can I used the Matlab system generator with this board? I love the idea of hardware overlays, but if I want to get deep into the VHDL design, will it support? In my college we used to use system generator tool for generating the vhdl codes.
Except that Mr. Button is reviewing in reverse chronological order of history.
I still like Apple products.

Will I buy a new Apple product--probally not, but will buy used.

I look at the shiny, miniminslistic Apple Stores. I look at their products, and I just get this picture in my mind.

The picture is Steve Jobs throwing phones/computers/watches right against his glass office windows. (He know the windows are shatterproof). His blood pressure is off the charts. He knows he needs to calm down, and make a bunch of changes at his company.

He is so upset with the hardware; he isn't even yelling about the software bugs, or the weird direction the company is going in. I picture him yelling, "We are not a democracy here--you listen to me. We are not Google. We are not a company with too many chiefs. I'm the chief! We do it this way! Oh, yea--we do listen to some of our customers. We are not in the 90's. People have changed. Let's not irritate our better customers?"

I picture employees tip-toeing around that office--until they produce a produce a product that is up to Apple standards. They know they need to produce the perfect product. A device, even Job's, won't find fault in. They know Apple bugs are just expected to be fixed quickly. They know Apple only produces the best devices. And then, and only then can Apple put a huge price on the package.
Sure, there are limits to out knowledge, atheists are a lot happier to say they don't know than most religious folk I've come across.

But what your describing is very different to most creationist, you've pushed the god of gaps back to a level where it's largely irrelevant. Most creationist are the 6000 year old earth kind, which has been disproven by several major branches of science.
I use an android tablet when in public transport, to develop with quite everything in my projects, going from python to c++ including java, c# etc.. Using Quoda IDE and Termux as the terminal for compilation and git project sync.
Apple refuses to refund customer unless he proves he is not Saddam Hussein
My why was about why one should design a language in that way and not think harder and make it look better, but in the early days of Python there weren't many other OO languages around, so I can understand that it could have been natural to go somewhat low level and mimic C (even with all those __s). Maybe some language went more high level and died because of that. Python passed the test of time so that (self): probably was a good idea at the end of the 80s / early 90s.

In the case of Ruby, you can't name a function (which is a method) without executing it. That's why () don't matter much. The optional () also make Ruby a good language to write DSLs. By the way, if you want to get a reference to a method, you must prepend it with a &, pretty much like in C. Ha! :-) This demonstrates that every language has its quirks. Or you can call a method by sending a message to its object like object.send(:method) using a symbol named after the method. That's more or less a reference to it, which can be metaprogrammed because symbols can be built from strings ("something".to_sym). Is that the "defining the names of things procedurally" you don't like? On the other side, I find stressful that in Python you have to enumerate all your imports, like in Java. It's the same in Ruby, but I'm almost always programming in Rails and it auto imports everything. All those imports in Django and Web2py are tiresome. I got naming clashes with Rails only a couple of times in 10 years but I missed imports many times in Django yesterday.

I learned Python after Ruby. My trajectory was BASIC in the 80s, Pascal, C, Perl, a little TCL, Java and JavaScript since their beginning, Ruby since Rails, a little Python and PHP a few years later, much less Perl now and almost nothing of what preceded it, some Elixir. I keep using Ruby and JS, I'm using Python now. I insist that compared to Pascal, Java and Ruby Python looks illogical and unnecessarily complex, but I can understand why people with a different history can feel like Ruby is eccentric. I remember when I demoed it to some PHP developer many years ago, he said it was like writing in English, which was surprising because it is not how it looks to me, but it felt flattering.
You're right—point taken!
I don't know what is wrong at facebook, but I have zero image
(note: I use the nvidia shield k1 ~200€)
Ask HN: Disappointed by the new Macbook, what alternatives do we have?
I've been very happy with my 2012 Macbook Pro Retina and was looking forward to a worthy successor. However the unveiling of the new Macbook was a big letdown for me. Everything that made the Macbook "Pro" seems to be removed. Enough has been said about the topic already what I want to do here is look at what alternatives there are.

So my question for you is; Which laptops, around the price point of your average Macbook Pro, come close to the build quality of the Macbook and use hardware that's greatly supported in Linux.

Extra kudos if somebody can recommend me a terminal on-par with iTerm. Out of all my apps I think I would miss iTerm the most.
It's not more or less UNIX, it is a UNIX. It's certified by the Open Group. See http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3627.htm
> Some people seem to think that the MacBook is only for developers and Apple is obliged to listen to only their feedback

Sure, and developers should stop buying a brand that don't care about them too. That way everybody is happy. Apple can sell luxury goods and developers can shop elsewhere. Nothing of value will be lost.
>the hardware is high-quality.

On the outside, maybe? The internal components of Apple products are notoriously planned and built for obsolescence and failure to keep you trendy folk giving them money, line after line (and then charge you to fix the failures!)

>it's UNIX

People would use Linux if the platform had the money to bribe software makers to support them. That's a "forced-reason", and not a positive design point of Apple itself.

>made-up justifications

Call everything you don't agree with "made-up"?

But seriously though, the reasons that devs use macs are mostly forced/non-reasons:

a) Earn a tonne of money and terrible value is not a problem for them

b) Need it since the thing they are developing needs to be tested on macs

c) Need UNIX and software that supports running on it.

d) etc.

After a while, you realise most of the reasons why any developer ever buys Apple starts with "need", which, hopefully, you should understand is a statement to the marketing, underhand, and monopolistic tactics of Apple (forcing you to "need" their products, rather than want them)
It could be literally anything. The lawsuit by RealNetworks against Streambox over the Streambox VCR software established as legal precedent that one single bit, undocumented, is adequate to qualify as a "copyright control mechanism" and that if you ignore that bit, whose purpose you need not even be capable of knowing, you have circumvented it and broken federal law. (There is some sweet irony in the fact that the DMCA, which the Realnetworks v Streambox suit first established the legitimacy of in the courts (due solely to Streambox running out of money - they won every case until they could not afford to respond to an appeal, handing Realnetworks a default judgement) was later used against Realnetworks when they enabled their users to backup DVD movies.)
Thanks! I wanted to keep it simple for now as this is literally an MVP I cobbled together in 43 minutes. I will ask the people who signed up for details later on, to put them in the best-matching groups.
I really do think we're seeing a lot of people who either A) despite furiously posting about how they're "done with Apple" and this was "the last straw", etc. (and doing this at literally every product refresh) are still going to buy iPhones and Macbook laptops, or B) mostly only used a Mac because it was issued to them at work and now are going to demand something different because they think they can make a case against Apple.
I signed up. It's worth a gamble from my Cloudflare email address. Worst case I end up with spam for Google's filters, best case interesting discussions.
To me, the touch bar is the lesser of the two sins that Apple committed with these pro models.

So many of your 'typical' mac users need a proper keyboard. People writing long articles or novels, developers, obviously, even people working on writing reports or theses they all need a good keyboard. Typing is fundamental, and key travel makes a huge difference in the feel of it. Every review I've read of the single-port macbook suggests that while you can get sort of used to it, it's never as good as the older macbooks.
\o/ https://github.com/sqreen/awesome-nodejs-projects
Throwback Thursday: Game Boy Camera
A mention of Heraclitus is not complete without also mentioning Parmenides[0]. Together, these two are the champions of their respective sides in the millennia old Being vs Becoming [1] debate. Being took a few blows at the hands of modern philosophers but I think there's plenty of room to explore the idea in the contemporary setting. The ideas we have access to now concerning relativity, quantum mechanics, space-time, and the holographic universe make it fun to explore Parmenides's idea of a static, unchanging reality that we are only able to perceive in a limited way due to our fundamental limitations as finite humans.

As a side note, I find it amusing how closely this debate parallels one of our own debates in the programming community: functional vs imperative programming.

[0] http://seop.illc.uva.nl/entries/parmenides/

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_(philosophy)
> ... trust users have placed in the (more) honest scammers.

> Sometimes the way they keep the dishonest guys in line is by attacking others who try to get in on the scheme.

Are you really trying to frame some extortionists/scammers as honest and some as dishonest? How about they all are criminals, extorting money as they do from random people, they don't care about?
Maybe it is time to charge companies for resources they use to run their apps.
I also liked the Bureau, but it took a while to do so. The start was a little bit slow and hard, so I guess if you didn't forced yourself to keep on playing it might have made a far worse impression than it actually was.
There's no real underdog now. Microsoft has a pretty consistent track record of looking at other companies making money, and making a microsoft version of that. Bing, xbox, azure, and zune are pretty obvious examples. Surface doesn't seem to fit that mold at all. They're giving every indication of doing something new.

I can't think of a real underdog right now. Apple had this sort of desperation to do something good, right now, or die. Microsoft can throw a lot of money at something and still be ok. The surface looks very good, and it's a unique vision.

I wish someone would found the equivalent of BeOS, and sell BeBoxes for it. A linux laptop with flawless hardware support. A slot for a stepper driver card would be pretty cool. Maybe a geek port, or maybe a clever way to integrate a breadboard or FPGA, or both.

Things feel really stable right now. Google will keep selling ads, Apple will keep cranking out consumer electronics, Microsoft will keep selling its windows/office pair to the universe, Amazon will keep getting better at logistics, and Facebook will keep growing the social graph. None of them are going to bet the farm on anything. And, really, they're all big clunky slow organizations they rebelled against.

I hope there will be a big wave of innovation, I don't think it's going to come from the big 5. But i'd agree, yes microsoft is some percentage more innovative than apple. Big, radical, disruptive, change the world ideas? No, none of the big 5 are capable anymore.
Show HN: Browser puzzle – get your slice of brain workout
Fingerprints can be separated from their owner and fingers can be controlled by others. They are also duplicable, depending on the sophistication of the sensor.
Browser game "Slice"
I'm sceptical about Microsoft innovations, especially adding touch screen to laptops and AI/VR, but at least they're still interested in desktops, unlike Apple and Google that are thinking that everyone need only Instagram and Clash of kings.
It's definitely closed. That's the first time I've ever heard of "PAPL", though.

A quick search brings up a PDF of a contract with NSW RMS (formerly RTA). I wonder if that's supposed to be public.

Looks like it was a slow, dedicated link to the exchange, still in use right up to 2009. Ah, Australian Internet.
WordPress vs. Wix – The Story Behind the Headlines?
OP's dubious math aside, the US tax dollar doesn't really feel like it goes as far as it does in many European countries. Public transportation prices are extremely high nationwide, infrastructure is lacking, healthcare and education expenses will break the bank, and welfare programs don't really cut the mustard. Yes, a majority of Americans don't pay any income taxes; but a ~50% income tax in a country like Sweden feels like a fairer deal than an equivalent tax rate (and it does get this high for upper-middle-class incomes in many states) in the US.
If it's about switching modes on vim, can't you just use Ctrl-[?
That might be so, but the macbook air is the ultrabook series and the mac book pro should be the work horse series.
I have a Surface Pro 3, and love it to death, but a word of caution would be that the keyboard on it is "adequate" but certainly not suited for development. The surface book, I gather, is better, but you could probably find better specs for less if you don't really need a convertible.
Wikileaks tweets: Google boss Eric Schmidt on secret project
Correct, did not know it got removed for the Anniversary Update. At least they're cleaning up the OS, which is odd, they should of done that before the OS was released in my opinion.
The question isn't how trivial it is (fairly), but how much work it is compared to the money it would bring in. From my limted experience if could well be < $5,000. That doesn't buy a lot of developer time.
It sounds like a very cheap laptop would work great for those requirements. Perhaps a used older generation MacBook Air or MacBook Pro.
16 is great, but 32 would be perfect if I wanted a few more VMs running.
Guessing so since that's what Yubikey appears to do: https://www.yubico.com/support/knowledge-base/categories/art...
yeah and it collects those ad avoiding users' data easier than any conent network could. way to go. I mean, that's what I'd suspect.
DRM tends to thwart piracy for, what, 24 hours after release, usually? The crackers are very good, and they usually break any kind of DRM, no matter how onerous and convoluted, in short order.
Fixed wing drones can do the same, but it's hard to get the necessary permits. (In fact the data could even be merged with truck mounted lidar)
Just chiming in to suggest the Asus UX305F laptop or similar. Mine is very portable (important to me in a laptop), works great with my linux install (everything out of the box goes great except brightness keys which require re-assigning to work), is passively cooled and has a nice SSD.

Perhaps it has been replaced by a newer model with more RAM (mine only has 8GB) which would be good for VMs, but I don't keep up with the Jones' so I'm not sure. The thing works great for me at a fraction of the cost - it was $499 on one of the bit online shops when I got it.

I think laptops are quite a personal choice, and finding the 'perfect' one is very difficult. I couldn't quite justify spending as much as a Carbon X1/X3, or the top MBP, and a year down the track I'm very glad I didn't. YMMV etc : )
More like new hire Jony Ive, who is still prone to beginner's mistakes but starting to show signs of future talent.
That is indeed a problem in Finland! :)
I'd also miss iTerm.

Have you looked at the Dell XPS 13 Dev edition, the Razer Blade Pro, the Lenovo X1 Carbon, Lenovo T Series, or the Asus UX305F?
Hi there, I have been back and forth Apple for the past 10years (mainly because of Excel). I felt in love with the Thinkpad x200 back in the days, same story with the x240. I'm now working on a Thinkpad t440 (8gb, i5 2.26ghz, ssd) and I must admit it never let me down. It is super strong and extremely fast. Also the after sale for Thinkpad is amazing. The Gpu is crap though. If I had to buy a new one I'd not hesitate but probably use Linux.
Hope it helps.
Absolutly free?
I recommend including [WebFaction](https://www.webfaction.com/) as a candidate.
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Well, it is currently a fully moderated list, and we will do our best to maintain the guidelines so hopefully you won't get any spam at all!

Right now we are checking sign ups before approving, so if someone signs up with an obfuscated email and we can't find their linked in page etc (so that we can check that they are really a CTO/engineering director and not a spammer) they won't even be added to the list unless we follow up directly and get a bit more information.
2 years ago, while I still had just a Macbook Air, I built a gaming PC, but choose all the hardware from the tonymacx86 guide so I could use it also for iOS development.

Last year I bought a Broadwell rMBP and relegated the Gaming PC to just gaming.

Imho, too much work to mantain it updated and properly working. If I was still in high school, I could live with all the cons, but as a working freelancer, I won't.
I've used Windows 10 since just after RTM and it's only ever had one Windows Update tool. Could well be it was present in the beta releases?
Use your thumb print.
Are you on insider preview? They make a good progress. For example now you can have Ubuntu 16.04 and be able to call windows executables from bash.
In my opinion it is now much better experience than macOS offers
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TouchID sensor isn't that easy to fool with replicated fingerprints.

If you are afraid that some one will cut off your finger to unlock your computer don't use the touchID, that said if some one is willing to do that to unlock it i wouldn't want to imagine what they'll do to you to get the password.

;)
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Yeah, and depending on how the keyboard feels on this new beast, I might just stick with the old MBP.

But the thing is, it would be really cool to enjoy the technical improvements without giving up the basics. I played with a MacBook a few weeks ago, and the picture and built-in speakers were sensational. It was an amazing piece of engineering. And I had to return it because in their obsession with thinness, Apple had made it impossible for my gorilla hands to type on.

It would be nice to get a work laptop that had those strict improvements in it too, without having to sacrifice so much usability. That used to be the MBP upgrade experience. Once in a while you had to mourn something useful—the loss of an ethernet jack, for example. But mostly you got a lighter, faster machine with a better screen and battery life.

This upgrade is far more drastic and the first time the trade-off doesn't seem worthwhile. It's like design puritans took over the company.
I'm in the same situation and right now leaning towards a beefy hackintosh desktop + maybe one of the small macbooks. It's such a pain though.
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I witnessed a person unboxing it and installing Ubuntu - it took under an hour to complete