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What would be the best time to buy the previous model of 15" MBP?

The slight bump in processor speed doesn't make up for the loss in connectivity to me. I don't think I could live without magsafe power and an integrated SD card reader.
I did a sad LOL at that line
Also killed the SD card slot. A lot of photographers are going to particularly pissed off about that.
"Fact-checking" doesn't work, because now you've got a single exploitable point of failure. All your ideological cronies have to do is get control of the fact-checking department.
Apple delivered meat and potatoes for ordinary users (albeit with a weird garnish), while Microsoft delivered a molecular gastronomy dessert that a tiny niche has any use for. I don't see how that is to Microsoft's credit, much less "embarrassing" to Apple.
They make sure to irritate everyone equally by having Control to the right of Fn.
Seeing this makes me want to go out and buy an 11" MBA (currently running a 2013 model), before they're gone. It reminds me of when the 12" Powerbook was retired.
Only for a year or a few years. Biomass doesn't really sequester that much carbon on a long-term scale.

You need to move CO2 from the atmosphere into the geosphere. Biomass can do that (e.g. hydrocarbons), but it's inefficient (a lot of it goes back to the atmosphere) and slow. Carbonate precipitation is much more permanent, and it's something we can force to happen at a high rate.
>F9, F10 and F11 have done this quite well for the last 20 years for me.

For what use? Keyboard shortcuts? That's not even half of what this is about.

F9, F10 and F11 can't replace a slider, or a color picker, or dialing in e.g. audio filter resonance, or sliding through frames.

>I can use those blindly while looking at the code

It's NOT for typing/coding. Think pro apps instead (and also lots of non pro, but not text-based apps).
they did break the ESC key.

i upgraded to sierra on monday. vim wasn't working. just thought it was some new vim setting that came over from sierra.

then the following day i tried hitting escape to exit out of the search interface in sublime. didn't work. figured out that my esc key was broken. the fix was to kill siri which gave me back access to the ESC key.

i was wondering why QA, developers, product never ran into this problem when they were building out sierra.

then i saw those leaked version of the MacBook Pro, and then it made a lot more sense.
I thought they will align touch bar buttons to 0-9. At least, this way power users had a chance.
If any of what you claim is true, I am an idiot and you are a genius.

>when there is no way to become a moderator, people seek status and power elsewhere

This is such an odd way to look at the world, I would need quite a bit more explanation. Not everyone is ambitious and competitive.

>HN survives because of similar aspiration to be seen as that smart person in front of a VC audience

Many of us (you included) participate here without any connection to our 'real' identities.

>Facebook and Twitter are waning not because of trolls, but because they have signaled a nannying supervisory role

I haven't seen this study, and my own anecdotal evidence says the novelty is wearing off.
1. They have, new Apple laptops are now using USB-C.

I don't think you understood the question.
>> desktop PC in an era when nobody uses desktops anymore

Gee, I guess that confirms I'm nobody.
It doesn't have a desktop version, which makes me think it's not really. I'd release a desktop first version with a video editor for creating nice loops.
Yeah you can. put a USB port on it.
Getting women together to get their perspective on things, sounds good.

Asking them about things that pretty much all women are asked about, as if that's the only thing they are qualified to talk about, seems counter.
Hurry. I need to buy previous generation macbook pro while supplies last. Three years more!
Practice what he says, nothing to lose except your worries, if he is right.
More like "MacBook Blow".

I mean really. They are trying to innovate but this thing still has a giant Caps Lock key, yet no Esc key? And who wants to use those tiny up and down arrows? I think the touch bar is a fine idea, it is actually way over due, but why make is so thin? And honestly I hate touch pads, force or no force. How about Leap Motion instead -- that would be innovative.

And then there's the price. I guess people in San Fran can afford it. But it's certainly not a computer for the rest of us.
Ask HN: Kanban or Scrum?
Which does your team prefer? Personally, Scrum is far too regimented, compartmentalized and proceduralized. Kanban feels like it lets teams self-organize better and is thus truer to the original Agile Manifesto goals.
> but the Surface Studio makes me wish I were

Have you used Surface before? Asking because when I picked one up about a month ago, I had an awful time with it. Makes me think their announcement won't really do anything but look interesting. I could be missing something, though.
I've worked at places that allowed many of the flexibilities mentioned.

I sometimes felt that it was more socially acceptable for men and women with kids to use the WFH and leave early flexibilities than it was for those of us who are child-free.
>> For the same price as the new Surface Book i7, I can get an MBP 15" with bigger screen and quad-core CPU, and it's Microsoft that hit it out of the park?!

While they are alike in many respects, the Surface Book is an orange in comparison the the Macbook Pro in three important ways:

1 - It's a convertible

2 - It's got a touch screen

3 - It's got a pen digitizer
"Windows is only free if your time is worth nothing"
It's really not a matter of money. It's getting something at least comparable to eight year old hardware. I don't need 8 cores, but more RAM, and disk space should be realistic eight years later.
Regarding goals, I've personally found them to be counterproductive unless they're simply achieved and a matter of habit. For instance, "go to the gym and do nothing" became "go to the gym and walk on the treadmill" when I became habituated to showing up at the gym. Now I'm lifting regularly and I feel off if I don't get a chance to go work out.

Audacious goals, on the other hand, are demotivating because there's too much chance of failure. If I hold myself to lifting certain weights, I may even end up getting injured. But now I'm happy simply showing up, doing what I have the capacity for, whether it's walking, stretching, or lifting. I can (and will) come back if I have an off day.

Scott Adams talks about something similar in Goals vs Systems[1]. A goal of writing a book is much harder to achieve than a goal of typing a little bit in the morning. Ironically, the latter may be the best route to the former...as long as you don't think about it too much :)

[1]: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/102964992706/goals-vs-systems
Yeah it's an extinction event in the evolutionary cycle of computing. Im not sure when was the last one.

I think that excessive dynamism is getting less attractive when you account for all the costs it brings with it and that the vast majority of the benefits can be achieved with static metaprogramming, in a more readable and safer manner.
How is that a bad outcome? I'd suspect the purpose is less about personal sharing and openness, and more about the company not getting sued when people do things they shouldn't.
He's not talking about the crappy consumer-class Inspiron, he's talking about the business-class Latitude laptops. Apples are just cheap, consumer crap compared to those.

You're comparing apples to oranges.
It's not someone else's cloud.
> Far as I'm concerned anyone who fucks a coworker is a retard who should be canned for having piss poor judgement.

It worked out OK for Bill Gates, who together with Melinda went on to create the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world.

I suspect for some people, working well together means just that, and can extend to other relationships. You call it shitting where you eat, they call it forming the world's best power couple.

In more mundane terms, it works out OK, I suspect, for many of the couples who decide to found businesses together, from startups to bakeries.
Scrum or Kanban?
Which does your team prefer? Personally, Scrum is far too regimented, compartmentalized and proceduralized. Kanban feels like it lets teams self-organize better and is thus truer to the original Agile Manifesto goals.
But what do I do with a MacBook Air 11" for ultra portability and no desktop yet because old PC broke, and I wanted to get a Mini because no money but I don't know what to do now...?
How come you compare Django - a full-blown web development framework with Go - just a language? You should mention some Go frameworks which go well with React, I'm really curious to hear those.
Completely agreed. Speaking of Microsoft, I wonder how the touch bar will operate in Boot Camp. I would hope that they'll at least leave the default F keys on there.
I'm fascinated by the graph Manoogian created. Does anyone know what specific tools were used to create it, or which could be used to create similar ontologies?

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*71TzKnr7bzXU_l_pU...

I'm working with a largish ontology of my own I'd like to present to 2-3 and possibly more levels of depth. GraphViz isn't cutting it.

(I'd asked Manoogian himself, he vaguely pointed at some R graphics tools, which was as far as I've gotten.)
In my mind this is one of the cases where "Jr" and "Sr" titles can be useful.
I was trying to think of a more clever twist on it, like "put your mind where your money is."
I don't think advertisers would be happy with the 6-second format. If you could deliver a meaningful brand message in such a short amount of time, YouTube ads would look very different. (My proposition being that no-one ever watches more than the 5 seconds before the "Skip ad" button appears.)
Yes. At least Apple didn't "obsolete" my $300 headphones, or I would definitely be getting a Linux/Windows box for my next laptop.
It'll be interesting to see if Apple releases a new external USB-C keyboard with touch bar. I'd expect it to be priced around $150.
I'm with you, in that I rarely see anything worth paying for.

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/AdSupportedWebD...

> essentially all of the ad supported sites I visit are diversions

The internet existed and was great before ads, it'll exist and be great if ads die off.
> There isn't that much to innovate on the laptop.

Just imagine they would make the thing 5 mm thicker and fill all the space with battery. Instant 2-3 day non-stop runtime. That's what I'd like to see.
Another way to look at it is: Before salaries were revealed, the company managed to get their "good team dynamic" without paying for it.
http://arstechnica.com/staff/2014/01/stop-trying-to-innovate...
That's the beauty of Capitalism. It doesn't matter if someone, no matter the position in society, doesn't understand why someone would need 32GB. As long as there's sufficient demand, it'll be produced by some business.
Monoprice sells 'em on the cheap.
>> A lot of people have desktops, myself included. I'm not really sure where you got such an impression.

Not just that... If nobody uses desktops, why would Apple waste so much engineering and design resources on something like the iMac if there's no market?
I don't know? I'm interested in correcting your hyperbolic statement, not in "which computer will sell better to IT departments" predictions.
> Microsoft introduced a 28" desktop PC in an era when nobody uses desktops anymore.

"a 28" desktop PC" is a bit of an understatement. It's a huge low-latency touch display which works like a drafting table.

> nobody uses desktops anymore

There's a desktop on most desks in our office. A Macbook is certainly an alternative option but not if you're looking for a large touchscreen display.

> For the same price as the new Surface Book i7, I can get an MBP 15" with bigger screen and quad-core CPU

If there was really a performance problem I think a lot more people would be upset with what was announced. Last gen means more stability and likely cooler temperature hardware. Also, does the 15" MBP have a detachable/touch screen? Does it come with Windows? These are real considerations for potential Surface adopters.

The Macbook is simply a laptop. There's no problem with that, but Surface is selling more than that, so a direct comparison on cost and performance isn't really fair. Or are you suggesting Apple is the only company capable of putting newer hardware into a computer?
(or control ;))
I don't get it either. I'm a happy Dad engineer but I have no idea what I'm doing and could use this kind of testimonials/advice too!
The ESC on touch bar is really funny
What exactly are you looking for that they aren't making? I don't know about Windows, but Macintosh and iOS have all sorts of software features for accessibility, and they've had for years.
I have Ctrl mapped to my caps lock key :(
4 tabs.
They're not going to...
As a heavy Vim user, this might be my last Apple development machine. I can always remap Caps Lock to Esc, but years of muscle memory > a flashy feature I have little use for.

There's nothing I'd pay extra for in this new machine: touchbar is a meh, biometric authentication has been around since ~2005, the hardware specs are finally catching up with what everyone else has been shipping for a couple years, the new keyboard is horrible, Siri is the new ubiquitous feature nobody wants, USB C... meh.

I wonder if 2017 will finally be the year software developers go back to Linux machines? If only the story for mixed DPI displays was solid, I think it might finally be The Year of Desktop Linux :P.
I'm not sure that translates to full support for any random twitter user to be doing 'live' broadcasts. It may not be a huge impact on the infrastructure, but when cost-cutting comes up again, unless they're monetizing it somehow, I'd expect "random joe live-video broadcasting" to be on the chopping block.

MLB? NFL? NBA? I'm sure money's being exchanged to make it worthwhile to handle that.
It's not hard to bump into the 16 GB limit when doing video editing, photo editing, software development with virtual machines, etc. All of those tasks are commonly done by freelancers on-the-go, which necessitates a pro-level laptop. Instead we got a gimmicky touch bar and lost compatibility with decades of peripherals.
For the hard lock issue, check to see if the cpu is grinding to 200%+ utilization, especially spending most of the cpu on the kernel_task process. If it is, see if [1] will help. The tl;dr of that page is when the Mac laptops sense a high temperature, the quick and dirty fix Apple has in place is push kernel_task to eat up as much cpu as possible to slow down everything else enough to cool down the laptop.

I pointed my room air conditioner's vent directly against the bottom of my Mac laptop, and it happily drives my external monitors. Enclosure Bottomside temperature reads 18-20 degrees C, and CPU A Temperature Diode reads 60 degrees C while I'm cooling my laptop like this.

I agree with the great-grandparent's sentiment that the product polish for high-end Apple laptop products is definitely gone. It isn't that no one within Apple is unaware of these issues, it is too few are in a position to take actionable measures about these issues. The margin between picking a MacBook Pro and a high-end Dell/HP/Lenovo/System76 is as slim to me as back during the latter stages of the PowerBook days, the last time I switched back to non-Apple laptops for a few years.

Product marketing-wise, Cook is in a tough position that I don't envy. Apple is so big right now that every product revision has to support that "big", "successful" narrative, and he's getting painted into a corner to not jeopardize that story. This pushes severe compromises into product design decisions to go after the bulk of that bigness, and niches like influencer demographics get squashed in the process.

[1] http://www.rdoxenham.com/?p=259&cpage=2
The only reason it's worse is that we've let advertisers keep winning. There's more money in advertising on the web now than there was 20 years ago. If there was no money in it, they'd have gone away and things would be better.
This seems like generally terrible advice. Your 401(k) contribution is pretax, like most retirement contributions. So you're getting serious discount by avoiding taxes that you would otherwise have to pay.

And if your employer matches your 401(k) contribution in any way, this advice is worse than terrible.
That's not possible. Religious conservatives are fundamentally opposed to same-sex relationships and non-monogamous relationships. If they're not, then they're not really following their religion and they're not really conservative. You can't have it both ways.

People who are already and admittedly prejudiced against others, for things like skin color or relationship type, cannot be trusted to be impartial.
The whole point is that you could have contextual 'buttons' that are appropriate for what you're doing in <App>

But that sounds too much like an easy solution for Vim users, and what would they have to piss and moan about then?
I got downvoted for this comment from 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12783720 =>
I am expecting apple to drop both the headphone port and usb ports this time around. Maybe 2x USB C ports on either side
Yeah, one of those and one a bit newer. Have been waiting for one with 32G RAM since forever, but feared they would have time to bodge the entire line before getting around to it. Sometimes I hate being even _partially_ right.

From expensive tool to expensive toy.
This isn't a computer for excel\word\facebook.

The target market for this is people who buy a $1,800 wacom cintiq and pair it with a $1,000 computer.

The price is reasonable for the people it targets.
They do exist! I occasionally use a Varmilo VB87M that connects via BT and charges an internal battery with micro-USB.
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12808486
Agreed. Title doesn't really mean much, unless you force a ton of different titles.
Found them online and applied via e-mail :)
It's kind of amusing watching Apple fans replay "spec" and "niche" arguments they used to poo-poo. Kind of like watching them do a smooth about-face on the superiority of PowerPC processors back in the day.
The tracking of browsing is something I spent a long time agonizing about, especially also given our experiences at Root Markets back in 2006 with Root Vaults / AttentionTrust etc. An interesting failed experiment to write about at some point. Anyway we decided to switch to letting users just tip sites they like without doing an allocation model based on traffic. This is a new change for us but I think there will be room for a bunch of different models depending on what users are comfortable with. We also took pains with our other product, optimalblock.com for iOS to make sure that we will never use or share individual level-data, and wrote that into the privacy policy. It will limit our ability to pursue other revenue models but that's key in this space I think.
I don't know, I see emoji infiltrating my tools more and more. For example, I had to submit a PR to Yarn [1] to add a flag to disable the terrible things. GitHub uses emoji to indicate the type of commit [2].

I hate it.

Edit: I mean GitHub the company, not the product. Atom is maintained by GitHub.

[1]: https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/pull/922

[2]: https://github.com/atom/atom/commits/master
Prediction markets work ... up to the point that skewing the message of the prediction market itself is an incentive and a party has sufficient resources to do that.

Information is used both to understand and to influence. It's a three-edged sword.
I'm doing fine thanks.

Have great day!
> Lastly, there may be 4 ports in total, but since 1 is used for charging

Only if you're using it exclusively for charging. They literally showed using it with a display that gets video out over the same cord it powers the laptop with.
Why? The religious conservatives freely admit to being prejudiced and discriminatory about things like homosexual relationships, and they are quite proud of it in fact. So if you're a homosexual yourself, how can you possibly rely on one of them to be impartial and to not actively discriminate against you? It's pure lunacy.
USB-C doesn't seem like a great replacement for their current solution though. I really like not having someone ruin my ports or having my computer fly off the table.
> Microsoft announced a laptop that gets 6 more hours of battery life than the MBP, while Apple used a chipset a full year behind Microsoft's.

Which means Microsoft has introduced a dual-core low-voltage part significantly less powerful than the one in the MBP. Let's not kid ourselves here, Apple was not going to use 15W LV KL in either MBP, and the 45W parts are will 4~6 months from release.
These professionals in several industries paid handsomely for the Adaptive keys on the 2nd generation Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon. So much so that Lenovo had to remove adaptive keys for the next iterations.
I don't forgive the sneaky and forced migration to 10 meaning I get family support calls for the first time in ages. Or the hours spent sorting the laptop that's not fully compatible but got upgraded anyway. Last I don't forgive you for not finding a way that 7 can't bloody ruin 10 via chkdsk. Yet more family support.

Just about everyone likes Aero, so they drop it, as it doesn't fit the failed one desktop, every platform cult. At least other flat gui's actually have some design rather than try to emulate Gem and just use 3 colours. Unlike Microsoft, I understand that's subjective.

Mind, I never really forgave the world for adopting cooperative multitasking and the most horrific API and programming model I've encountered and that was 3.1. Scared me back to *nix for the rest of my career. Trust? Not likely I need to reach neutral first.

I did quite like C# though, despite some wtf moments in the docs! :)
> So because FOSS has bugs it's OK for a multi-billion dollar corporation to have wanton disregard for quality?

That's not what he said. You said you hated Windows because of its vulnerabilities, and he was asking you if you apply that same standard to FOSS, and if not, why not.
Yes, satellites can be used when you're making a long distance calls.
idk seems very impressive to me. engineering is v hard so much respect to the teams at apple for continually pushing consumer electronics to the state of the art.

i think it's pretty obvious the macbooks aren't the big money makers at apple. that lil apple pay button is there to subsidize and justify continued development of the mac.

apple probably wants to kill the mac. but some guy at apple's like what if we put a lil thumb scanner on it and apple pay then can we keep it pls and then the cfo was like sure okay fine the mac can stay only if you add an apply pay button.

also pretty sure all-day battery life isn't innovation and thus probably not what they're working on. how about eternal battery life wherein a solar panel so efficient is able to pull light even in the darkest of situations. how about remote charging.

i'm sick of charging shit. that's what's next, no charging.
I'll take my desktops for doing real work. I don't know any laptop that can drive four and five screen setups and an area about 4' x 3' of display area.

The laptop is fine for fooling around, or "working" from home on the couch, but I'd lose my mind trying to do anything that small a screen, that few pixels, and a cramped, irregular keyboard with no travel. Plus trackpads. Fuck trackpads.
Surely you mean wet lab facilities? Otherwise, even in Cambridge (where commercial rents range from $35/sqft/yr to $80 (Google HQ in kendall), your per-employee office expenses ($400-$1000/mo) are hardly a limiting factor compared to salary and benefits. There are also plenty of low-priced co-working and incubator spaces that provide access to specialty facilities - Greentown, Artisans Asylum, Industry Lab, Lab Central, Bolt, etc. (to be fair, some of these have an admissions process).