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I agree with you here. Unfortunately I will still be buying one as I don't believe bash on windows is there yet. However it was a painful choice and if I hadn't dropped my old 2012 rMbP repeatedly I'd be holding out. I think in a year or two Windows is going to look far more compelling.

So apple won me with software. For now. The hardware is a step back though that I'm disappointed in. I'm strongly considering simply purchasing the latest rMBP release and use it for another couple years to see if anything meets my requirements then. That's a bad sign if you're Apple with a willing customer wanting to give you money whose primary driver is not cost.

I'm actually all for the move to USB-C, but that was enough. A HDMI port at a minimum is a requirement for a pro series laptop in today's business world. It's either resign myself to carrying a dongle around, or buy the older generation of hardware. Sounds trivial but it's the overhead of a mental tax that simply doesn't need to be there.

I run Windows 10 at home and it's getting pretty stellar as far as UI and features like high DPI. It sounds like they are rapidly making inroads on battery life (if not already surpassing Apple - the reason I switched to OSX in 2012 to begin with) on the same hardware, and as soon as they get some competent software like a terminal emulator that doesn't suck (assuming the linux subsystem development push continues) Apple really loses it's moat for this market segment. As far as I can tell though in the past couple years - they just don't care.

At this point the largest missing piece for me switching back to Windows is lack of a stellar terminal emulator. Everything I've tried so far on the desktop (@4k) still either annoys me for closed source reasons, or just does not look as good as iterm2 on the retina. It's a silly thing, but something I don't want to have to worry about. It's also an incredibly shallow moat.
The key is how and why they got there. They're diversified across platforms and entry points. It also allows them to fund their other "bets" which they don't individually report. Cloud as well.
>This is complete nonsense. I used to think this when I used a MacBook full time. I still do but buying a touchscreen PC has worked wonderfully and I never hover my hand long enough to do anything tiring.

I never hover my hand period, so that's one better. Not that hot about touching the screen either...

>It's great for doing quick touches or scrolling / zooming in with precision.

With my hands on the keyboard and my thumbs close to the touchpad, I don't see the appeal of suddenly raising my hands to the screen, especially for general things like zooming, scrolling. It could make sense to manipulate something like an object directly, but to raise hands just for zooming or scrolling?
> it isn't far from profitability

Twitter came to being back in 2006.

That's a long time to wait for the first profit.
Put 100 mathematicians, math educators, and policy makers into a room and ask them to come up with a good mathematics curriculum. They'll come out with 101 proposals. That's not a problem, really. Mathematics is not merely about mathematical substance, but also mathematical process (the two are intimately related), and not just process, but the process of discovering processes. Curricula, standards, directives, are all substance. Policy makers want to put their name on a thing, a substance and give it to everyone else and hope that process develops... somehow.

I think you have to contextualize mathematical in the broader problem with american public schools: they're awful, awful places for many students including me. I ended up studying higher mathematics in college and still study on my own for my own pleasure (and I get to apply some really high powered ideas to programming once in a while which grants a satisfaction that lingers). I think my math education could have been advanced 5 or even 10 years if public school weren't such a soul-crushing stultifying nightmare of procedure and compliance.
Why not just let him enjoy hacking? Why clutter that up with "best practices"?

Don't complain to the flower that it has too few branches to be a tree someday.
Everyone believes they are bad at maths, so they are. It applies just as much to the UK. My youngest believes this strongly, yet when we were quizzing, or helping with homework, she didn't seem to find it too hard, just believed it so. She certainly didn't get those beliefs from home!

Looking at my kids maths lessons, especially in late Junior, so much effort was spent to actually hide the maths that I wonder they learnt anything!
We do a great job with the extreme students. The top 5% of private and public schools in the country produce more than enough folks capable in mathematics. It's the rest of the country that struggles.

There are a lot of reasons why the US does well in Universities and poorer up until then relative to the rest of the world:

1 - In much of the world, the school you get into matters more than what you did there. (The lowest University of Tokyo graduate is considered higher than the top grad of any other school - so getting in there is the hard part)

2 - In the US we invest more in higher ed than K-12 relative to the rest of the world on a per-pupil basis - especially at the top schools. (Look at the Harvard or Yale endowment on a per-student basis)

3 - In the US, college professors are at the top of their peer group academically. It's a mixed bad in K-12.
I suspect each person truly needs different supports.

I have fallen in love with the material from Eric Goodman. His company is called Foundation Training, and he has a lot of freebies on YouTube.

I would say, with no hyperbole, his simple exercises have changed the way I walk, stand, and move in general, and they have been the antidote to my hours at a desk.

Maybe it will be valuable for you!
I think that it's possible you don't understand the meaning of the word "political".
I've wondered about that. The imperial system is positively awkward. What about other countries that also use the imperial system instead of metric? Are they also behind?
I don't have cookies disabled but I do have adblock and I get the paywall, but if I open it in an incognito window it shows so I'm guessing its also triggered by ABP (or some other condition).
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I love math and I think I'm pretty good at it
Anytime two people compare salaries, at least one person gets angry. Sometimes two.
> I'd say the tech to go from detailed specs to reliable or secure systems isn't necessarily straight-forward except in the easy cases. It can take some serious work by smart people, esp if it's formal verification or spotting unknowns.

I was being a little facetious. Of course the technical work is highly complex -- some of the brightest minds of our time work on DARPA related projects on foundational mathematics related to automated theorem proving. (Looking at you HoTT crew and related projects!) Why is DARPA funding automated theorem proving? Because they want to create high assurance software for government infrastructure to counter the threat of AI-based cyberwarfare, and our current mathematical techniques aren't up to muster.

However, we've made tremendous progress on that problem in the span of around 100 years. By contrast, the problem of how to not incentivize your workers to do a shitty job, causing you problems later on... has been with us, I think it's safe to say, for thousands of years. (And it too, has attracted some of the brightest minds over the years.)

So in a relative way, the technical aspects are "straight-forward" to address, compared to the underlying political problem. And the more technical methods only add some assurance that you've correctly implemented the spec as defined, not that you're doing the right thing. It's certainly good to, eg, check that you're using total functions or not misassigning memory, but it's not magic. So while they catch a lot of dangerous problems, they can also lead to false confidence about the existence of other classes of problems.

> they say you can't engineer software, it takes ridiculous skill, or it would cost what NASA's team spends

It mostly just requires that we consistently act with discipline and professionalism, which are both tiring compared to not doing them, so by and large, people just don't bother. I know I don't when I can get away with not doing it (even if I know that's a bad habit).
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A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. A recovery is when Barack Obama loses his.
The UK uses their own screwy imperial units for some measures
Ever heard of a UI element called the "toolbar"?
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And for Java it's actually much less of an issue thanks to the crazy manhours put into developing fast GC for Java. I suspect Azul Systems's pauseless GC is probably quite popular in HFT.
Couldn't those rocks have come to us as well?
All Cocoa APIs use that prefix.
This is absolutely correct. I learnt this fast with 1st/2nd grade homework - I do more harm than good by actively participating. Sure I know what 32-29=3 but I do not know how that is being taught in the classroom and if I start sticking my oar in it goes sideways quickly. It's far more constructive to be supportive in exactly the way you mention.
More realistically, some developer fucked up some logic in the new algorithm which is supposed to ignore most of /r/The_Donald for the election.
I used ESC as a M- prefix, of course. Also I use the command key. It's a mix of whatever is convenient and whatever my fingers have learned over a few decades.

Maybe Apple has decided to kill off the pesky Emacs and vim users. Yeah. :-)
Well, as all of us in Silicon Valley know, regulations are nothing more than irksome impediments to the march of progress. Let's roll 'em all back.
> I would feel better about them if their power was more directly checked by the Executive branch.

They can. The executive can always modify or repeal the act that defines their constitution and authority.
If they would teach kids to play with math (or any form of knowledge, for that matter), and not just run through 10,000 rote problems, maybe we'd rank better.

Especially word problems -- most of them felt like they were written for students wearing intellectual blinders... if you had any modicum of relevant knowledge outside of the lesson oftentimes word problems were impossible to solve
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It's a very small group: apart from the US, the only other non-metric countries are Burma and Liberia. It would be very difficult, I'd imagine, to do a meaningful comparison between these countries.
You sound like a nihilist, except for the part about appearing to have "concern for everyone else."
Something making sense and having supporting evidence is not the same thing. The Star Wars story makes sense (e.g. no major plot holes etc), but not only there's no supporting evidence, it's also totally made up.

Second, theories in fiction (especially fiction with mutants, telepathy, mind control, and other things besides) don't need "supporting evidence" to fit in.
Great getting a perspective from the trenches, thank you. Never heard of forking code for each migration.
> It is the equivalent of linking to a paid book on Amazon and having a discussion about the book's content.

I'd wager, without proof for the moment, that the majority of books discussed on HN are 'paid books' at Amazon or elsewhere.
> But they shoulda kept a standard USB port.

It is standard isn't it? I thought the port was fully compatible with the USB-C standard?
> I hardly ever look down at my keyboard

I was thinking the same - If i need extra controls for my app then the app provides them and use my trackpad with my eyes fixed on my screen, like this isn't hard. Seems gadgetry for gadgets sake, disappointing.

If I'm paying hundreds of dollars extra for this to, which seems to be the case, then I think I'll pass unfortunately.
Looks like https://www.reddit.com/ isn't affected, but https://www.reddit.com/r/all is, regardless of whether you're logged in or not.

edit: looks like it's fixed now.
Didn't you see? Their marketing department made a video with someone in a chair so it's obvious that they super duper care about teh disables
I think you missed the point I was making: diversity of ecosystems is important. Microsoft provides diversity to many of the ecosystems above. Having 2-3 competitors is much better than a single one, and Microsoft has shown that they need to win developers by providing value to the community.

I think we agree that diversity is good, I disagree that their is enough. OS's might be the only one I think is diversified enough because between Google, Win, OS X & numerous flavors of linux there are a lot of choices. There is also "the web" and Solaris & BSD as well. Google is peerless for search. Leaving aside email, apps & core other services like web infrastructure, there is no replacement for google. It is important to realize that not only is Google peerless, but that all search engines run PageRank. By that I mean, they copy pagerank by creating extremely similar algorithims and using all of the ideas google pioneered. No one has innovated in the search space except google. backlink totals is an utterly meaningless metric and authority/reputation are subjective.

Google has adjusted to their original thesis of course, however everyone else adjusts to google. If you are selling something in a market that speaks English, you want to be at the top of Google. That is it. SEO means google optimization. No one can be better at being google than google, but I would likek to see someone try and be better than them at search.
The no touch bar option is only available as the weakest of the lot. Too bad if you like your CPU and memory.
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You need an adapter/new cable to plug your iPhone into the new MacBook Pros
> If they would teach kids to play with math (or any form of knowledge, for that matter), and not just run through 10,000 rote problems, maybe we'd rank better.

Don't the countries that rank better use the rote method even more?
My guess is that as with most things people need to feel that what they are learning is relevant. Start teaching finance in high school and math will become a lot more useful, quick.
As a long time macOS developer and user I too went down this road and ended up pretty frustrated. Even when you get things working perfectly (tackling iCloud services, driver issues, custom boot options, etc...) you're left with an installation that feels static.

Updates are slower to roll-out to the hackintoshes, major OS upgrades can be quite a bit slower to come. This can include security fixes too.

I ended up installing Linux and never looked back. It turns out most of what I used on macOS was just the unix-like subsystem. Having Linux was just as good, if not better than being on macOS.

Of course this doesn't help if you're doing iOS development, or need to use Xcode. I've moved away, myself, but have talked to others who have used a Mac Mini as a build machine. You could also install OS X in a Virtual Machine under Linux and use it for development, which requires its own set of hacks but fewer.

Linux distributions I would recommend:

* Solus, I really like where this project is going and it's my daily driver now.

* Arch, allows/forces a truly custom setup, you end up learning a lot about your system, but might be too distracted with your system to get work done ;)

* Antergos, an Arch alternative w/ batteries included.

* elementary OS, it's the Linux distro made by the folks who loved macOS. It's beautiful and you might like it more than macOS itself.
The implicit subtext here is "for production". It's an excellent rule of thumb since it's highly likely that one already exists that is already battle tested. It's better to use that one. It's not a high horse it's just good horse sense.

He's not talking about rolling your own for fun or learning reasons which anyone should feel free to do.
> how much can random external events like that be relied on to provide recurring revenue in the future?

That's the entire function of a newspaper, to transform random events into revenue via an engaged readership.

It worked on me. In my case, BLM was what turned me into a never-miss-a-day Twitter user. There was a whole set of American voices I wasn't hearing through my normal sources. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
> Everyone believes they are bad at maths, so they are.

Everyone? I love math.
Or today's trading is different enough from yesterday's that your app hits perf issues. Black swan, anyone?
>> with the terrible butterfly implementation coming over from the 12" MacBook

You missed the part where Tim mentioned that the butterfly mechanism is a second-generation upgrade with more travel time on the keys. It remains to be seen just how large of an improvement it is.

>> People still use SD-cards Apple!

I'm fine with the SD slot being gone. Just another space-wasting component most of us haven't used in a decade.

This is a portable series of laptops. If you're in a position that you are lugging around a DSLR camera and 5+ lenses (that's why you need SD reader, right?), and a host of other devices you seem to need USB for, you have enough space in your bag for a larger adapter[1] - it even has the SD card reader!

The kind of people who need so much aren't lugging around a laptop to a cafe. They're sitting in professional studios with million dollar hardware, and rendering their IMAX videos on external server clusters. Or at least at home/office with a proper desktop machine that better matches their profession.

Next I'll be hearing about how terrible it is that the Apple Watch can't edit 4k video.

[1] http://www.satechi.net/index.php/computer/connectivity/card-...
This seems like a real stretch. Why would the imperial system have any bearing on how into math students are?

It just doesn't add up.
I was referring to the MagSafe feature being removed. Seems small but it actually prevents accidents. As my colleague said today: "hope apple care includes drops"
Good point: "objective measures for performance of software devs" is a hard problem that is in a high demand.
Not for me...not my own front page nor /r/all.
Personally I would recommend Crusader Kings 2 as a good intro to the deeper grand strategies. It's more limited in scope regarding time frame however there's far more detail and politics involved.
I've made a point of keeping it clean ever since it started, but it doesn't seem to help much.

One time I noticed the connector was wobbly, and I found a very, very small piece of metal in there. I had hoped was the source of all my problems, but I think I caught it right when it happened because it didn't fix the problem.

Getting that metal out of there took a good half hour of trial and error. That magnet is powerful!
The Surface line uses magnetic chargers.
> It's a mixed bad in K-12

Your typo is very accurate :-)

I would say that our problem in K-12 is a self-perpetuating one. The teachers were taught math badly and so never really learned it (and learned to hate it into the bargain). So then they teach it badly.

I'm not sure there's any solution except for tuning the students in to Khan Academy and suchlike programs.
For "no apparent reason"? ESC is incredibly non-ergonomic. If you use vim and don't use capslock or jj you're setting yourself up for RSI.
And it's fixed now. I really wonder what caused this.
I don't see it on the front page (logged out), /r/all, mobile, etc. Did it get fixed?
The only thing I see from /r/the_donald at https://www.reddit.com/ or https://www.reddit.com/r/all is related to Pence's plane
It's a solution nobody asked for.
Maybe a relative perception. Apple has a historical relationship with content creation personal workstation landmarks, so a mild event is a let down; Microsoft is new in this, so triggering excitement there is a very positive surprise.
Looks like it is from a rpg book, not a computer game. My first guess was GURPS by Steve Jackson Games (General Universal Roleplaying System) - but I'm leaning towards one of the oldest roleplaying games (which AFAIK has been "computerized" several times): Traveller.

The "tech level" indicates which level of technology is needed for a particular piece of equipment to be available and/or normal (won't get you burned at the stake for using "magic") - in Traveller it is used to label different worlds in the universe AFAIK - with GURPS it also extends to cross-dimensinal travel, alternate realities, time travel etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller_%28role-playing_game...
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That's incredible. Thanks a million for those links as I try to collect these to get something close to significant data on them for analysis.
* MagSafe

* USB

* Not needing a $25 adapter just to charge my iPhone

* Thunderbolt for my two Thunderbolt displays

Hopefully the used supply of MBP will stay deep for years.
They just fixed it.
It doesn't, what he is saying is that the companies that do crash and burn after revealing salary information to their employees are the ones that should crash and burn. There is not an inherent evil in paying a lower salary. On the other hand,if the only reason they are able to pay a lower salary is because their employees do not know any better, they are more likely to be negatively affected by opening their salary information.
I liked it better when Ronald Reagan said it.

But yeah, still good.
Reading this comment as a programmer, I had the horrific thought that we treat our children the same way we treat our computers: programming them with algorithms, debugging them with failing grades, executing them for test scores. It's barbaric.

Leave the program execution to the computers, give the children critical thinking skills.
> anarchist/nihilist

You seem to be throwing these around as pejoratives, but neither of these terms has anything to do with this topic.

> doesn't care about state of the environment

Nobody but you said anything about not caring about the state of the environment.

> an old, grumpy person

You have no basis to make such remarks. Plenty of people care about the people around them, their immediate environment, and the circumstances they can personally and directly affect without getting caught up in fantasies about the future.

Wanting to send people to Mars for the good of the species is a fine idea, but your enthusiasm about it doesn't make you any more noble than someone who is simply more practically minded or not as optimistic as you are.

This kind of disrespect for the perspectives of others makes it that much more difficult to achieve the political compromises necessary to make any of these dreams a reality.