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Penny Arcade's Mike Krahulik has been using one for a week and compared it to his Cintiq:

> Tycho asked me to compare it to my Cintiq, and I told him that drawing on the Cintiq now felt like drawing on a piece of dirty plexiglass hovering over a CRT monitor from 1997.

A bit hyperbolic, but you get the idea. https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2016/10/26/the-surfac...
I also got a call too, I knew it was a scam as soon as he asked for my name and address. I tried to string him on and get some information but he hung up on me. I called back and he answered "Hello IRS" and hung up a moment later.

I had no idea this scamming was so prevalent. I feel like I should check with my mother to see if she got any strange calls.
Why would that matter? What kind of useable communications platform prevents third parties from conversing about a separate person?
Why Every New Macbook Needs A Different Goddamn Charger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyTA33HQZLA
Grocers Feel Chill from Millennials
Linux is by programmers, for programmers, and also for power users who are programmers in the making.

Windows' target audience is average users and these users are their main source of revenue. A while ago, I said in another thread that their open source efforts are a means to an end and nothing else. I also see their recent subsystem for Linux as an halfhearted effort.
Your dad might have an em dash addiction.
> Also sales tax isn't dishonest.

I didn't say sales tax was dishonest, I said converting back a tax included price into USD was, and explained why. Aside from US sales tax being much lower than european ones (as low as 0%) US prices are pretty much always displayed without taxes, so you're making the machine look 20% more expensive than it actually is as far as american viewers understand it. A fair quote would have been to provide the regular USD price ($4300 maxxed out, or $3500 for 1TB).
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That 1%, though, are

1. probably more likely to be in Apple's target demographic,
2. buy the machines with the highest margins.
If your a professional using your computer all day, then you shouldn't be using the crappy built-in keyboard or crappy built-in display in the first place. The Macbook is your computer - add the display and keyboard and mouse that make you productive.
It is if you're making a critique of the manufacturer. Apple has no control over where you choose to buy the machine.
> you have to carry around an awkward dongle adapter

Huh? It's not a dongle, it's just a cable. You do need a cable to connect your phone to your laptop.
That's going to be awesome when they release that 4 years from now.
I never thought I could move to a touch only phone because I do a lot of "proper" typing on my phone, which is why I stuck to my Blackberry until my first iPhone which was a 5 (yes that long). Which is to say, I don't think we will miss the tactile escape and function keys. And same goes for dedicated HDMI port and microsd card slot (seriously how often does one use the latter)

Remember when apple got rid of the floppy drive and then the disk drive? Do we still complain about those?

Headphone jack on iPhone is a different concern, since bluetooth headphones are still not as ubiquitous and having something else to charge a headache.

But none of these concerns (except for maybe the absence of Magsafe) is really a dealbreaker.
Isn't that more or less what I said?
And also made them incompatible with practically all existing USB devices.
I have had to clean out the port a bit with a qtip.. little tiny bits of metal (or something) has gotten in there.
This requires a large amount of co-ordination, teamwork, and communication – exactly the qualities that 25 employees together are often most required to have in order to work efficiently.

I'd think the raise would be warranted :)
Awww... Can I get "ESC" key on Touch Bar kind of permanent? Does anybody know that?
Agreed. A person who has unnaturally high self esteem will be more surprised by failure than someone with moderate or low self esteem. Losing a job, going through a failed relationship, flunking out of school, or any number of other personal "failures" may be that much more devestating to a person who places unwarranted expectations of success on themselves.
Ok, now from my point of view: slower CPU (I don't edit video, I don't need 4 cores), new keyboard layout (I don't have any issues with current trackpad), same screen (100% brightness level? never), no USB-A port, no HDMI port (and I hate adapters hell). And 15" version is not even an option because it doesn't have Esc button and F-buttons - I use them every 5 minutes in IDE.
No adapters in the box.
Is suicide among kids any more common than it ever was?
Advertising is more than just paying actors to pretend to like something. News articles rephrasing press releases are often also adds. Video game reviews are usually not simply handing money to someone. That does not make them unbiased.

People spreading Viral Videos are often unpaid paid, even if they are a critical part of a marketing campaign. Hand someone some free hardware and they don't think is this worth X, just is X cool.
I'm reminded of all the people who think saying they'll leave the US if a given person is elected president is actually meaningful
Fortunately, a third-party solution already exists: https://griffintechnology.com/us/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-po...
All my iOS dev. is now done with Xamarin on Visual Studio on Windows with a headless Mac Mini sitting in the background.
I have one as well. I'm looking at the Dell XPS or Surface Book since I mostly run linux, and I do not like the new macbook pro.
Brain is very active when you sleep, a lot is happening. Imagine sleep is just a mutex on big set of data on which computation needs to be made, compression, data reorganization, index optimizing. Data that you received that day is segregated , decisions are made which data to keep and which to delete. After that lock is freed and you wake up. If you don't sleep your system will run slower and slower over time and will timeout more and more queries until it will start to return corrupted data. You need to sleep to keep the system healthy.
Yes, it's called the MacBook Pro. It runs Windows, natively, just fine. In fact, PC World once ranked it as the best Windows laptop.
The fact that the new iPhone doesn't use USB C and they are trying to push headphone manufacturers to make lightning headphones kind of goes against this _assumed plan_
The best dating advice I've received was from a guy much better looking than me. Being good looking helps one get the right mindset (but is not the key in itself).

Still, there are plenty of good looking people who can't get laid and plenty of rich people who are unhappy.
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To clarify, it's not my site. I'm just a passerby who clicked the tiny URL so others wouldn't have to. :-)
Surface Studio perhaps? ;)
>There seems to be some discontinuity between the Macbook and iPhone lines.

I wouldn't say that, the use case is different. I think wireless makes significantly more sense on mobile.

Laptops are "mobile" but in a different way. they are not meant to be used while on the subway or working out, you sit down pull out your laptop, and if you want to listen to music you can plug in headphones. having to walk away from the laptop while listening to music isn't as important
>A new MacBook with all day battery life and even thinner design.

And I want a 700hp car that does 80mpg.

Pick one.
> But I agree, I'm not sure I agree with their all-in strategy on Thunderbolt/USB-C either

Same thing people said when they went all-in on USB 1.0. It will be rough for some people for a while but the new port has some obvious benefits. In two years everyone will take it for granted that most new laptops/desktops come with at least some USB C ports.
I have been facebook clean for almost 3 years. Never felt better!
I've had a presentation about this a short while ago. It's easy to do both ways with MobX. You can have smart components and dump components however you want them. You have this with Redux too, but the most standard way in Redux is to use connect() and that makes components dump anyway.
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my bets are, major devs (corps like Adobe) are going to integrate with the surface dial, a few more devs are going to integrate with the touchbar (and that will probably increase over time) but in my opinion, both are going to be relatively niche devices for the next few years (one more so, than the other)
Mozilla engineer Bill McCloskey describes how Quantum DOM will use both multiple OS processes and cooperatively-scheduled, user-space threads to preempt and throttle iframes and background tabs:

https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/mozillas-quan...
There are some organisations that build open source software and hire developers. We only have one open position right now, but we keep expanding our team.
http://akvo.org/about-us/working-at-akvo/
Well if US sales taxes are as low as 0% then I think it IS a fair comparison.

Feature-wise, it feels like the 2013 device is worth the 2016 price and the 2016 device is worth the 2013 price.
Invision is (supposedly) developing a prototyping tool that plugs directly into Sketch. If it ever gets released, I think it's going to be really awesome.
Delta will give you 10k status miles per year if you get their AmEx Platinum card and meet a spending bar.
It will be interesting to see if Apple decides to try to respond to that thing. It's pretty impressive in quite a few ways.
Y Combinator, the company that owns and runs Hacker News, is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA. There are plenty of people who participate in discussion here that are not from nor in the US. But, yes, it skews US-centric.
Yeah if someone worked out how to use less memory in a VM we could use it in normal machines too ;)
I wager that most posts headlining something like "[Corporate Entity], this time you [past tense verb]" after an announcement of [Corporate Entity] are of relatively poor quality.
Have a 2013 MBA with 4GB ram and 1.8ghz i5. Not upgrading until my startup is profitable ;)
That would have been nice. I was hoping for Mac mini update too. I still have mine from 2012, and the newer versions don't really offer much over that version.

Just upgraded the SSD in it from the fusion drive to a full on SSD, and it is incredibly fast now.
Can split brain patients do that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
They might believe it but their world market share in the personal computer space being around 5% clearly shows they're wrong.
That is PC thinking.

Macbook PROs are for PROfessionals. Multiple VMs. Big fast SSDs. Many cores. Better displays.
Lifetime: 30,000 years

wow.
>Take this one. It is a "hacker" that is spending time to try to improve biases held.

Funny, the other day there was a thread about Cialdini and his books (including Influence). He has a chapter on this phenomenon (I think he called it Social Proof).

We are more receptive to ideas if it comes from "one of us".
Nine pounds? Woah - I remember the days of lugging something that heavy through airports. Ugh.
Yeah, the $3100 sticker price just isn't enough, huh?
What a whiney, content-free blog post. The author complains about removing the function keys, MagSafe, HDMI, SD Card and the escape key but doesn't give any examples of how they used those in the past or how those features' absence will cripple their workflow.

Here are my thoughts:

Removing the function keys and replacing them with the touch bar is a step up. The function keys have been annoyingly inconsistent on macOS for a few years now, most programs don't make use of them like they could because by default you need to use an awkward chord with the fn key.

The addition of the fingerprint scanner alone is a win, but having proper context sensitive keys will be huge for discoverability and ease of use.

RIP MagSafe - it was such a great design. I would have kept it and ditched a thunderbolt port, but that's just me.

Having HDMI built-in was pretty good for connecting to projectors, but HDMI doesn't support many screen modes and is pretty out-dated these days. Buy a $10 adaptor if you need it.

SD Card readers are also not used much these days. Buy a $10 adaptor if you need it.

Lots of people are moaning about the escape key like it is their favorite member of One Direction. My guess is that the escape key will be available (as a touch bar icon) in any application that actually needs it.

I am not in the market for a new MacBook Pro, but I can see the appeal.
I use the Filco Minila Air. Bluetooth keyboard with all the different cherry switches available.
It isn't a dongle adapter, it is a usb cable with usb-c on one side and lightning on the other.
If your MBP is two years old, why would you upgrade? Macs are supposed to last way longer. I have a 2009 Mac mini, which may be due for an upgrade soon...
If Twitter doesn't think it can make enough money from it to justify keeping it alive having built massive mindshare and a social media sales operation it doesn't exactly augur well for the long term prospects of profitability of such a venture.

Not that I'd suggest for a moment that people here couldn't raise a lot of VC money for another viral video business to fill that niche, build it and sell it. Probably to Twitter...
Fun fact: The rules on coworker dating in the post-WWII era were originally intended to get the woman to quit.

Here's how it worked:

A company would hire a bunch of high school or college grads. Young women would get hired as secretaries at a salary of $X. Young men would get hired as salesmen, clerks, etc. at a salary of $X+Y. There would be plenty of time to socialize at the company cafeteria, office parties, and happy hour. Naturally, many of the young men and women would start dating. When they announced they were getting married, they'd get hauled in to the boss's office and told that one of them had to quit. It was then strongly implied that it should be the woman since her salary wasn't going to support both of them and she didn't have much upward mobility. This created openings so you could hire a new crop of young women ready to be paid poorly and marry the next crop of young men.
And yet forwards-compatible with practically all USB devices that will be made going forward.

In other words, they did what you must do in order to move forward to a new, superior standard which gives 40 Gbps performance plus power in AND out on all 4 ports.
Where does 99% come from?

My girlfriend is a nursing student, not a programmer and has 8 gigs of ram on her laptop. She's constantly asking me to look at her laptop when it beachballs and slows to a crawl when she's doing homework and her memory is maxed. She only has chrome, Word, Excel and some online courses open.

I don't buy that figure one bit.
Because the inferior ports are used by almost everyone? If I just want to plug my laptop into a projector it doesn't matter that I have a technically superior port that I can't use.

Imagine they added a couple USB-C ports in place of the little used Thunderbolt ports and then waited a year to see the usage frequency... I bet the HDMI and USB-A ports would be used a ton more than USB-C.
> Well if US sales taxes are as low as 0% then I think it IS a fair comparison.

That's completely nonsensical, Apple doesn't decide where you live and they don't set how much VAT to apply, they've got a "manufacturer price" and add VAT on top.
If you're questioning things that much, why have keyboard shortcuts at all?

>Anything with sliders, precision will not be fun on that.

Why wouldn't it offer precision? People do the same with trackpads right now. And multitouch on this thing looks far more useful than with a trackpad.

>Placement changes, people know app dialogs/panels more than they will when having to look down at the changing buttons

Why wouldn't people learn positions of buttons? Hell I can type faster on my iPhone without looking than most people can type with a physical keyboard.

I'd have expected people here to be far more accepting of this feature. This thing looks far more useful on a laptop than a touch screen, particularly for people like us who make heavy use of the keyboard.

Apple doesn't tend to make gimmicky features of this level, especially not at a $4-500 premium. It's a defining feature of the new MBP and I trust it has had a lot of thought put into it.

There's incredible potential here, it's sad a lot of people here don't see that.
Just a note from another user - I bought a book when they first came out and was disappointed in the poor battery management and some serious driver issues. I returned it.

Recently I had a chance to use one for a week and ended up buying it. My big issues were all fixed and it has been a great daily driver for the last month or so. The linux susbsystem has been very useful if you play within it s boundaries and I'm happy with it as a development machine.
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Parentheses are easier to see than negative signs when scanning through large tables of numbers. Also, in the days when financial documents were transcribed or faxed, it was harder to lose a set of parentheses than a negative sign when sharing documents.
Desktop graphics cards are pretty heavy. LinusTechTips put one on someone's back as part of a VR-on-your-person build, though, and they said it was perfectly fine.
yes, it's a double standard. usually the people who make the rules have kids also, so this is how it plays out.
No. Microsoft introduced an entirely new kind of tool for digital artists. I'm not one myself, but the Surface Studio makes me wish I were.

I'd bet that one could make a revolutionary stats program with the new form factor/interface possibility.
The 960 pro 2TB costs between 1200 and 1300 EUR (depending on the country and store, or ~1100 GBP in the UK) that's 400-500 EUR difference and it's unlikely that you'll get an NVME drive faster than the 960 Pro, in fact it would not surprise me if it's the 960 pro in it, and if it's not in all honesty it's likely to be inferior.

1700 EUR for an upgrade is ridiculous even if the 960 Pro would cost 1700 EUR which it doesn't even remotely do the upgrade should've been it's price minus the price of the 512GB SSD.
Effectively Apple is charging you anywhere between 2100 and 2500 EUR (2100 if you use the 960 pro 512 price, 2500 if you use the "apple price") for that 2TB SSD.

This is by no shape or form acceptable, taxes or anything else be damned.
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How about they learn English? I don't mean a particular dialect of English, I'm just talking any English at all. About 10% of Americans can not only not speak a foreign language but they can't speak A language. 10 fucking percent. And this is legitimately the most powerful country on earth. Disgustingly pathetic is what it is.
Reminds me of a book I recently finished (Death's End by Cixin Liu). A major plot element is sending a human brain to intercept an alien civilization that is en-route to Earth with the hope that the aliens will resurrect the person and use his knowledge establish a better dialog with humanity.
GObject and SVG
Do you never enter apps like htop? Even without function keys for filter and search you at least would need an esc key to quit.

I have esc remapped to capslock on my laptop, but how easy is it to remap keys in OSX?
32G :(

I'm going to replace my somewhat-aging Air because its 8G isn't really close to what I need, although it's been surprisingly capable.

The touch bar is gimmicky, but I want it--it's more versatile than the keyboard mapping/macro games I play now. I won't use it the way most consumers do, but I'll definitely use it.
I love Arch, personally. Have been using it for quite a few years now and love the rolling release paradigm.

That said, I'm looking at setting up a desktop machine for my Dad, and seriously considering using Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS[1]. He just wants to "use the damn thing" and I think that provides a much better ongoing maintenance story for machines that are less "pets" and more "tools".

[1] Yes, I much prefer KDE to GNOME. Can we all just get along?
That's probably going to change with the new touch bar.
> The addition of the fingerprint scanner alone is a win

1Password is going to rock on this machine.
I'm curious, does anyone else have examples of #1?
I hope the Touch ID reader w/ secure enclave can be used with 3rd party apps like LastPass. Could be more convenient than a Yubikey (that you now cannot connect without an adapter!).

My biggest worry is the new regular MacBook-style keyboard (which is complete rubbish), even if they claim it's improved. That's definitely something you'll want to try in person if you have a current MacBook Pro, at these prices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc

For a good laugh.
It is about retention and employee happiness.

Lots of people have kids. If a company is receptive of family issues, then those people will be happy and stay at the company.

If it is not then they will lose those valuable and expensive to replace employees.
Except that it increases utility.

I can now bring a single charger that can charge my MacBook Pro and my iPhone. I just need a USB-C to USB-C cable and a USB-C to Lightning cable.

Charge my laptop or charge my iPhone or charge both (use the laptop as a passthrough).

It will reduce the amount of stuff I carry, I tend to carry just an iPhone charger while traveling in case I want to bring it with me where I don't bring my laptop, extra space in luggage and weight.
Unikernels are one area of research, http://unikernel.org
I see a lot of comments about apple getting rid of USB. Thats not exactly true at all. They have removed the USB-A ports and replaced them with the updated USB-C ports. Which also double as charging ports, thunderbolt ports, and HDMI (with a dongle yes). I think its dishonest to say they did away with USB because they haven't they have done away with the port you are used to. Doesn't mean USB is gone. Its still there with a better connector!
Comparing FB and Google to totalitarian medias... It's scary, because you're probably right :/
I don't understand. Why is it that AT&T's patently illegal written instructions to law enforcement agencies, instructing them to hide Hemisphere, not clear evidence of conspiracy to violate federal law? How can the US Attorney General plausibly not charge all AT&T executives and law enforcement agency representatives that authorized or signed this bold, broad, illegal contract?

If the US Attorney General does not act, it's the duty of the EFF to sue and charge the office with complicity, perhaps under organized crime racketeering statutes.

Failing that, surely any rational person should avoid AT&T. Why invite home invasion?
a) you haven't used the Touch Bar. Seems a tad early to conclude that it sucks.
b) what transition to Lightning headphones? The MacBook Pro keeps the old headphone jack. Do your homework before reflexively criticizing, please.
There's a lot of dislike for the new machines in this thread. It's a good time to remember that previous gen machines are often found in the Refurbished [1] and Clearance [2] sections of the Apple site in the months following a launch. Clearance is empty right now, but there are plenty of rMBP in refurbished.

[1]: http://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/mac

[2]: http://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/clearance...
Mainly because I don't want to miss something and wind up in yet another database. Or get malware. And because I wish the ad companies in their current form would just die off.

I think there would be traction for an ad-free network you could subscribe to and direct the flow of your funds. I would be more inclined to subscribe to the service in that form rather than what CoinTent is currently proposing. But I doubt I'm in the majority.
Great answer fulfilling literally none of GP's wishes or requirements.