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> The autoupdates load garbage onto your computer (Candy Crush Soda Saga?)

I've been using Windows 10 before it had a public release and I've never seen anything like this on my machines. It seems like you really have a mess on yours.

I also removed anything that I didn't want from the Start menu. I don't understand why you wouldn't do the same.

It sounds like the problem here is not really Windows 10.
I'm a rMBP 15" 2015 entry level machine owner who was looking forward to a Skylake version of the $2K machine. It would have been more battery efficient and lighter which are both important for my work. It would have been wonderful if they would have updated the machine with Skylake, with the new thinner, brighter, better color gamut screens.

As it is, the AMD models will probably consume more power than the entry level Skylake model would have with the iris pro graphics.
I have a device that works exactly that way, and it's fine. I don't know what failure mode you have in mind.
Yes, love the navigation in my Audi. Console and in dash display, Google Maps with traffic. No nannying "you can't enter a destination unless the park brake is on", and additional nice integrations like "65 mi to empty, next fuel is 48mi, redirect to gas station now?"

Oh, AND I can use either Android or Car Play in my car, as well.
isn't this a laughable metric for what is a small sized family car?
It's not just fractional reserve that's the issue. Even metalists et. al. miss the fundamental issue that debt is simply a means of control. You put someone into debt to make them slaves. Debt is also the product of war. It's been toned down in the modern western world with mergers and acquisitions, but deep down it's all the same.

Read: Debt The First 5,000 Years. It's a life changing book that helps all this stuff make a lot more sense.
I bought a Dell XPS-13 a couple of years ago with Ubuntu pre-installed. It seemed like a good idea to try out something new and give Dell the business to reward their support for desktop Linux.

Boy was that a mistake.

As I recall the laptop was only about $200 cheaper than an equivalent Macbook Air. In return I got a non-functioning trackpad [1], flaky Wifi NIC, and a lid that takes two hands to open. Oh, and the same non-replaceable hardware and limited port selection that people complain about on Macs. It would have been far better to get a Macbook and just install Ubuntu on it. Say what you will, but Apple hardware is really great.

p.s., The Dell laptop and I made our peace after I propitiated it with a USB Mouse. I still use it.

[1] http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/...
Try setting up a virtualenv on windows, linux, mac and then tell me there are no issues. Sometimes the versions won't even line up for some libraries because whatever works on windows will not work on linux will not work on mac. Same with ruby gems and npm modules that require compilation.
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Yes, I am 100% claiming the US Civil war was not fought over the issue of slavery. Lincoln said he would have dropped the issue entirely to keep the union together. Many whites were against slavery but not enough to pick up a gun and go to war.

We don't worry about "further ill will" when we execute mass murderers. And slavers are worse than Charles Manson.

But a country doesn't benefit from brutality. A fair compromise would be to execute them quickly, with no torture.
I was under the impression this is what vendors and contractors did; or even outsourcing companies.
I would honestly just buy a used Oct 2013 15" MBP instead. A used one should run you under $1000 now that the new MBPs are coming out.

I currently have one that I bought in 2014, and I can drive a 4k display (Dell P2715Q) with a large storyboard file open in xcode, along with the laptop display itself at the highest scaled resolution. I think this is a pretty good benchmark for whether or not a system is good enough.
You mean he released a paper renaming vactrains to hyperloop.
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You can also get a refurbished macbook pro or imac straight from apple for less than a new macbook air http://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/mac
JSYK, it's probably better in the long run to use a rental or fly for that 800+ mile trip (depends on how long you stay). At a minimum, you might want to consider a good roadside assistance policy, if you don't already have one.
You can hold your phone upside down connected to the lightning connector -- it's really quite impressive. USB connectors are much more fiddly.

The advantage of USB-C isn't so much in physical connection but the actual capabilities of the interface. Lightning isn't very powerful by comparison.
What do you think about the book Debt: The First 5,000 Years?
Do you have a source for that? I can't find any information on it anywhere.
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It depends on your taste, and where will this be located.

As an ancedote, I got the Das Keyboard brought it to work. I literally felt daggers in my back. Until I was kindly asked to remove the keyboard as it was disturbing the work environment. So keep in mind the sound it outputs. When I worked tech support, everyone had mechanical keyboards so sound wasn't an issue.

I remedied this by getting

http://matias.ca/quietpro/pc/

At home I used the Unicomp which is buckling spring instead of switch. This is by far my favorite keyboard I've used.
https://www.pckeyboard.com/

My friend has a Kinesis, and constantly tells me it's helped his hands significantly.
https://www.kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/

So how much resistance do you want, a solid click feel, and audible sound? Something older fashioned. Do you need backlight, ports, etc.
It is not, I will look into that. Maybe there are some synergies.
This is my first NPM package, so let me know if I did anything wrong ^_^
This will change when people can make some money off charging. If you can fill up 200 miles of range for $10 in 30 minutes, then you might consider an EV even without a home charger.
Don't know if it's the 'best' but I've got El Capitan working smoothly on my second-hand Thinkpad T440. The trackpad and display are crap compared to a MacBook Pro, but hey, it was less than a sixth of the price for similar specs.

Took about an evening of tinkering and reading the TonysMac86 forums (really helpful community) to set up and has been trouble-free since. Sleep/wake works with the lid and it even supports dual batteries. Battery life is good too.

Hackintoshing a laptop is harder than a custom-built desktop as you don't have much choice over the hardware. For example often the internal wifi and bluetooth cards aren't supported - I have to use a USB dongle on mine. However, there's some good resources on TonysMac on which laptops are the most compatible.
> CenturyLink is already one of the big players and they'll never enter markets that Comcast, ATT, or Verizon are already in.

They are entering Comcast's market in Seattle. A lot of places now have two options, where they only had one ~3 years ago.
My business runs on Toyotas. Hundreds of them. Not one single breakdown in an entire year.
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where does timing fit in?
Take a good look at the IDE running there. It's Vim. I use that all the time, and so do many other people on HN.

Do you need a button like this on your keyboard? No, you could set up a new Vim bind. But this is more dynamic; what if the test re-run buttons were only visible after having modified a file, and replaced with a deploy or commit button if tests succeed?

If you're vigorously opposed to it, don't buy a Mac. But some people can definitely see use in it. It's like your function row, but with visibly context-aware functions.
Mobile VR will drive up gesture and motion control technology
do both on the hackintosh

Risk, meet reward

You are debating over contract privileges that aren't even enforced and have very minimal consequences even if they were
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Kickstands are the worst. They just don't work that well and they take up so much extra space.
Mythical Man-Month is widely considered the #1 software engineering management book out there. I'd buy that one before anything else.
Thanks for clearing that up for me. English is my 3rd language and I must have picked up that idiomatic expression in the wrong context.
I feel like "A normal country doesn’t fight 5 simultaneous, undeclared wars" is a pretty good point.
It's in Japanese.
If you have another person in your car, you can easily do 14 hours, by switching off every 2-3.

When I'm on a long road trip, time is of the essence. I don't want to spend more time at gas stations then I have to.
i3 driver here. IMO, the Bolt looks better. And true four doors instead of suicide doors makes a big difference for the kids (mine still can't remember which door closes first.)

It looks like a normal car. As it should. Can't wait for the days of auto manufacturers bashing their EVs with the ugly stick to end.
Sat Nav apps are available and at reasonable pricing (Think I paid ~£20 for CoPilot a few years ago which included maps for all of the UK and Europe, worldwide could be acquired for a little more)

Edit: When I was in Uganda I used OsmAnd (open street map android) for offline navigation and it worked fine (especially considering the standard of mapping and roads available in Uganda).
I can't fathom where they got those numbers. They aren't close to anything from Tesla, Plugshare, or the US DoE.
You specifically mentioned Java, and I specifically mentioned reference-based languages, with Java being the most obvious example.
Not necessarily related, but having read several of Atul Gawande's books, I would highly recommend them. I think they all address about how to at least attempt to eliminate some errors from any workflow. (Though, I may be biased with some background in the Pharmaceutical field.)

I personally would recommend "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science"[1] , mainly because I like that he briefly addresses how it's sometimes hard to quantify knowing that something will go wrong, and that you almost have to acquire experience/a gut instinct of when to go the extra mile.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Complications-Surgeons-Notes-Imperfec...
I'll look for it. The media for some reason loves to hate on Tesla, so the follow up didn't get much attention.

You can check his twitter, also he checks in to Tesla charging stations all the time.
> Children are biologically designed to grow up in a culture of childhood.

By whom? I see nothing in the bible about it. I've not read the Quran or many other religious texts, so maybe thats what the author refers to?
Seems unlikely to me, considering the auth is taking place on a separate SoC running WatchOS...
See Microsoft as an example. They sat on Office which was making them money.

Then the market shifted and Microsoft had to scramble, change the leadership team, their structure, their goals, etc. Took a while.

Not saying Apple has to come up with amazing stuff all the time. Just need to look for opportunities outside of iPhone. Or even with the smartphone segment.

They are doing fine right now. But what about in 5 years?
If you're visting from the US:

T-Mobile ONE gives you unlimited* 4G LTE data in Canada and Mexico, and throttles you to 128kbps in ~140 other countries (enough to get basic maps).

Their previous plan, Simple Choice, would throttle you to 2G speeds when you were in Canada, but it was still enough to use Maps.

If you're a long-term visitor, then, yes, you should just get a local prepaid SIM from Rogers.

Disclaimer: I'm a T-mobile customer.
How much did it end up costing you?
FWIW macOS also requires reboot for system updates.
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The Thinkpad Helix 2 I'm currently sat at cost me 600 quid earlier this year (and is the 8Gb RAM model so not completely un-comparable to the lower end of the new macbooks)
Intentional I think
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Reminds me of Superbook kickstarter project to attach your phone to a laptop-shell, and use your phone like a desktop. The future looks more and more like Bring Your Own Device.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andromium/the-superbook...
I recently had to help someone out, and the randsomware was smart enough to be able to mess wit gDrive revisions :/
I like how the scripts look like a regular expression run in reverse!
I have a cradle for my phone that puts it right next to the map in my built-in nav system. I never use the nav system anymore, because it's so much easier to enter information on the phone, real time traffic is there, etc.

I still like the map, and I have it on most of the time, just because I like maps, but I'd never pay the extra for the nav system again.
That's a decent machine, but amusingly the Macbook Air has more ports and potentially a better keyboard. Depending on your actual needs, the 13" MBA may be quite sufficient for $500 less.

I wouldn't really want it as a primary computer if you're only doing iOS development, but as an ultraportable that can run Xcode, sure.
There's this Technet article, which also tells you how to dial it down or disable it: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/itpro/windows/manage/con...

I don't see the problem with ignoring the hosts file, if that is indeed what is happening. It's not really intended as a blocking mechanism.
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That's a great idea, and I'll definitely look into that for next time. When I started that command, I had no idea how long it would take :-) lucky for me, I could continue to work on a different machine.
> but I'll make it again just for you. Mac laptops are sturdy, well made devices

You misunderstood me. I agree that Apple products have the best build quality. But Apple was always something more than a well build luxury product. MacBook Pro was a tool used by professionals to create good things. Without professionals, it is just another luxury product. And ordinary luxury product won't have that high sales.
among the ten highest-spending lobbyists, the United States Chamber of Commerce is currently #1.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuels_lobby
Maybe it's convenient to have high quality headphones for high quality listening, but then also be able to use that with other devices?
> though, would be something less powerful, but roughly the size of a Square card reader

That might happen soon, since Thinderbolt 3 port has come to the mass with Kaby Lake CPUs (looks like no addition chips needed like it was with prev Intel's CPUs).
I think his book "The Checklist Manifesto" is too long. It feels as if he didn't really have more stuff than this article.
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It is unfortunate that the ‘desktop Linux’ groups all came from Windows backgrounds and ignored all the previous Unix windowing systems, most of which knew better than to screw up terminal emulation.

Qt has a flag to use the GUI key for shortcuts, but it's hard-wired to the platform. I keep hoping there will be enough OS X refugees to make it a user-configurable setting.
There is no relationship between "unaffordable" and "won't cost exactly as much as an equivalent hybrid until driven 450,000 miles." If you're equivocating, why not condemn the hybrid by comparing it with a traditional gas engine?

I thought the point was to stop polluting? If not polluting has to be cheaper and easier, too, none of these conversations will make any sense.
Except that (as I recall) the floppy drive was completely obsolete when they did that, so almost no one cared. And the CD drive was not very painful either. The story is completely different for the headphone jack. It is not in the least obsolete, and it being missing is a huge pain for a lot of people.

It was a completely bonehead move on Apple's part IMHO. I know they had their reasons for doing it, but I still think it was a big mistake.
> My current employer doesn’t let me work on Open Source projects or personal projects without prior permission, so let me be clear that this is something I developed prior to my current employment.

Err wait. How does this work?
My blackberry has micro AND mini usb. I live like a king. A king who doesn't carry a charger but whose phone is kept charged.
"sharknado"
To me, localization isn't a first order function. Just something Apple is in a position to demand of every app.

Sure there's a scale at which it probably matters for some apps. Other than choosing ASCII, it's hard to accumulate significantly more technical debt without it than by building it in the MVP...actually because sunk costs create inertia, there might be more technical debt building it in up front than leaving it out.

Or another way, IP address localization is the least effort that might possibly work. There are more corner cases, but the expectation of a web app in regard to location are lower than for an iOS app and if the rest of the system is good, users are likely to ignore it.
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But they didn't add a dedicated hardware video scrubber. They added a dedicated hardware input device that can present basically any type of input. Those are just examples of what's possible that wasn't possible before.
Hey thanks for mentioning Metabase, I work there. Not to hijack this thread, but I'm happy to answer any questions.

We do have raw SQL (and Mongo/Druid/etc) mode if that's your preference, or if you can't express something in our graphical query builder.

There's also a neat little feature that will translate your query builder query to the equivalent SQL to use as a starting point if you can't express something using the UI.

We also have parameters so you can parameterize questions (both graphical and SQL) on a dashboard.

Finally, we recently started added permissions and groups, so Metabase will be able to grow with your company. A lot more to come there too.
Agree to disagree I guess.

I always buy hubs/docking stations anyway - you can run 2 5k displays off that tiny macbook (don't think you can with the MBA, could be wrong) and thunderbolt has good speed for all your peripherals.

For me personally the deal killer is the touchpad and aspect ratio. PC touchpads are still mechanical and you still have to click on the bottom 2/3rds of the pad to get a crisp click. Similarly, there is only one 16:10 pc laptop out there that I know of which is the surface book. A nice machine, but I personally don't like the detachable/touch screen stuff yet.
Based on the last paragraph

> How bad do you want it to get? When you are ready to make the bleeding stop, payus, so we can move onto the next game. The game where you try to catch us cashing out! Swag us out!

it sounds intentional. "Swag us out" is pretty colloquial.
Can just use ubuntu xenial directly from Windows https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui...
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What does it for you? Are there any particular features, or is it just the "everythingness" of it?
No no, don't change the goalposts. The thing that I'm calling the parent on, is the prediction that I will like having no headphone ports. I have no idea what's going to happen with US smartphones sales in 2026, so I won't make a bet on that. I do know that I WILL NOT like not having a headphone port.
Market capitalization is the value of all the public shares, and is determined by investor sentiment about the medium/long-term prospects of the company as much as any other factor. The underlying assets are wholly owned by the company and have an intrinsic value that is easier to measure through accounting, but that alone doesn't take in to account the liabilities or debts on the books.
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Not so much size, but weight. If your carry-on allowance is 7kg and you don't check baggage, having a laptop that weighs 3kg like the Vostro 17" is a big deal. If you've got a heavy laptop, you've got to either bring less stuff with you on your trip, or go through the hassle of checking baggage.
Shame Apple don't go ahead and create a Macbook Developer Edition. Even if it had smaller margins, it seems like it would do a world of good for the community.

1. Larger body for bigger battery

2. Previous keyboard mech that devs seem to love

3. Up to 32gb

4. Graphic card options

5. Ports galore

Perhaps I don't realise just how expensive it would be to manufacture a line that has lower but more targeted sales.
> Too bad recent discoveries rule out Dark Energy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12783631

The methodology of that paper has been questioned by other researchers in the field[0]. Among other things, the paper claiming cosmic acceleration was not significant did not factor in constraints on cosmology from other types of observations (e.g., cosmic microwave background, baryon acoustic oscillations).

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08972
Please, please don't kill me - I know there are people who love the Mac Ecosystem (I have a macbook too!) and don't like linux, but I switched to Mint Linux with Cinnamon Desktop, and its pretty darn great. For people who live in containers, virtualenv, node, and many other types of dev, you will feel at home in no time. I bet there is a slider of where the things you like about mac go from unix like environment to "it just works" and if you are even a bit on the "it just works" side, don't go with linux, it will be an adventure. A worthy adventure, but maybe not profitable for everyone.
Ok, then how about MagSafe power connectors?
Or using the free Nokia navigation app, which works fine.
This is true. Without OAuth, I was not able to connect to individual user accounts. I wanted to allow users to display their own upvote/post history (see here: https://www.sizzleanalytics.com/reddit/)

I was unaware of the algolia api, that will help for future tasks I'm sure. Thanks!
I'm typing this on a Lenovo X200 and I don't know what you're on about. This is easily the best laptop I've ever used in terms of durability and sturdiness. Yeah, I can press on that lower bezel and get that flex, but who the hell does that? When I shut the laptop, that bezel is safely tucked away in a very solid case. The thinkpads know where it matters.

The macbook pro I used to use had a big dent in the front after only a year of use, and several scratches and dings. This X200 is over 10 years old and has _no_ signs of wear, and all of the hardware supports Linux _perfectly_ OOTB. It has a far better keyboard, too, plus a fingerprint reader and the famous little thinkpad light. I also used a Thinkpad T420 for a while, which has many of the same benefits and packs more of a punch.

Subconciously I take a professional with a good thinkpad more seriously than one with a Macbook.
> "EVs often require a warm-up period before they can deliver maximum regen braking. Tesla gives the driver a warning when full regenerative braking is unavailable. Chevrolet doesn’t do so. This can be alarming to the driver who lifts off the right pedal expecting significant deceleration and gets virtually none"

Whoa, inconsistent brake feel? That's kind of terrifying. You'd think Chevy would calibrate the brake feel across states.
Lightening sucks balls
Recently started driving a plug-in hybrid. I get 20 miles electric range, 500 miles hybrid range. I don't worry about range at all when I'm in that car. When I get into my gas-powered car, and realize I only have 50 miles of gas in the tank... I get range anxiety.

It won't take long for this entire 'range' question to invert.