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I can live without the legacy USB ports but the lack of HDMI and a magnetic charging port is harder.
> He will start twitter wars while in office with heads of other states.

why only wars? How about a bit of bromance with the other "strong leaders" like Putin?
No, my next computer won't be Mac.

I'll wait till my Macbook dies and then it is Windows time again.

Touch screen & VR here I come!
I work for a particular search engine and I support the other candidate.

A small group of people here are very vocal about who they support, but probably 90+% of people never mention politics and don't seem to like to talk about it at work.
You can actually have both, Tesla Model S P100D http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=38172
Anyone willing to pay for them, can buy a commercial AOT compiler for Java today, there are quite a few available.

This is significant for those that want to AOT Java without paying for it.
there are so many cognitive bias we see them on the street, in popular music, homeless people, university professors, alcoholics, politicians... everyone exhibits more than a few of these.

So many in fact, I just look at the list overwhelmed and curl in bed and suck my thumb
But titles are just arbitrary anyway. If you're saying that two people with the same role shouldn't have more than 10% difference in pay, that makes a bit more sense, although it's still quite difficult to define "role."
You guys are looking at it all wrong. A sick kid room is like a little workout gym for their immune systems.

EDIT: while this is somewhat true, I was trying to make a joke
It may very well be awesome, just pointing to concerns, I don't look at the keyboard all that much.

Keyboard shortcuts are precise and are unchanging.

Trackpad is precise because your fat finger isn't covering the result, same issue on tablets/pads if they don't offset selection from your finger, hard to get exact placement.

The touchbar demos they conveniently remove the persons fat finger. Larger sliders are fine like the Premiere timeline movement but trackpad and arrow keys work for that as well quite nicely.

From a button perspective it could be nice, I like customizing my keyboard.

I just wonder about the other things, I don't see myself changing browser tabs or sliders much on it.

I agree though that Apple doesn't usually throw in a gimmick that isn't well thought out but on the fence until I try it.
You can use it with both hands on the home row, though. Left pinkie down to Ctrl, right pinkie up to ]. You don't need to move your hand up or rotate at the wrist. So in a sense it's actually kind of an improvement.
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> I have been using Caps lock for escape for years

I didn't knew people were doing that :O, whats the benefit?, and how do you turn on caps?
I've seen slower scrolling done to improve the "mouth feel" of the website. It's usually a designer wanting to do it without considering the full ramifications of their whimsy.
But you can't FEEL them. So you can't use them without looking down at your keyboard. Which is a pretty horrible proposition for touch typists.
Ok, great. Then let's all go back to 2001 and use 10Mbps first-generation USB for everything. Oops! It won't supply enough power, it's now FOUR THOUSAND times slower than modern interfaces, it can't drive monitors, etc.

Maybe your idea isn't so great.
The more I think about services like this, the more I think everyone is thinking about this problem the wrong way.

People are thinking about the problem, as a)it costs money to produce great content, b) great content should be supported by people who enjoy that content, and c) ads and other current monetization efforts are annoying/bad/potentially dangerous for users.

So, the obvious solution, which from my perspective (has not and will not work at scale) is, "have people pay to block ads and give the money to publishers, or have publishers offer premium ad-free content.

The thing that all of these ideas are missing is the switching cost to find other interesting content is next to nothing.

There is already too much content bombarding us, and I have no problem reading someone elses content for free. Even if it means missing out on a headline that caught my attention. All I need to do is go back to my facebook newsfeed, or HN, and find 50 other articles I am interested in reading.

I do think there is a solution out there, but I don't think it will come from paying to block ads (which feels like an exortion racket) or paying for article you like.

As counter-intuitive as it sounds, I think a great solution for everyone involved would be to charge money to share the content. Charging for distribution and licensing content has always been a money maker for publishers, why not charge for social distribution.

My idea: Donate between $0.05 and $100 to share an article. Your post would say, "I just paid $1.25 to share this article, it's that good!"

This solves multiple problems. a)the quality of what gets shared will go up, which in turn would make the shares much more valuable in terms of building an engaged audience and your own social cred and validation that you are seeking when you share.

b)the amount you pay to share would reflect how much you liked the content. (i.e. an incredibly funny video that I want all my friends to see would be worth a few bucks to share, whereas a semi interesting one would be only $0.05...and in turn, my friends will learn to only watch my large donation shares... and the ratings of the content can be quantified by the audience. (i.e. this article generated $3450 in shares tells me much more than 34,500 people shared it.)

Making this frictionless would be difficult and getting publishers to risk their "virality" would be hard to sell...but, it's a crazy enough idea it just might work.

After all, the switching costs of not sharing an article you really want to share is much greater than paying to see content in the first place or paying a monthly fee when the problem is not gnawing at you in the moment.
Of course it was a personal opinion. Few are lucky enough to have as nice a setup as I do.

That people get anything done at all on these little midget laptops is, quite frankly, amazing to me.
I think what the previous user was hinting was that if you're so uncomfortable with the prospect of accidentally collecting a tracker cookie you'd be happy for websites to "die off for all I care" the option of simply not using the internet exists (beyond a whitelist of trusted sites, I suppose). This both satisfies your personal desire to eliminate all possibility of accidentally collecting a tracker cookie without eliminating the ad-supported internet for the average person that is happy with uBlock or actually enjoys punching monkeys or downloading CometCursors.
I found it mind boggling that they dropped the older screen size in the first place instead of having 3 screen sizes like they do now.
Professionals use desktops.

You cannot seriously expect anyone edit a 4k video on a laptop with 16 GB or RAM, no matter how hard Apple is pushing their ridiculous onstage demos.

You cannot seriously expect serious developers run multiple VMs, for example, on 16 GB RAM on a laptop.

The list goes on and on.
You can get one of these USB-C cables with magnetic locks
https://griffintechnology.com/us/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-po...
I don't really see the cycle. I just see it as languages getting closer and closer to Lisp, as per usual. Turns out the static languages had a lot more growing up to do than the dynamic languages, so you're seeing 'big' changes like Java 7 through 9, C++0x through C++1y, new languages like Go, Rust, Nim, Scala... Meanwhile the only recent dynamic languages worth talking about are Clojure, and maybe Julia and Elixir. Across the field of dynamic languages though you see a little more movement to optional typing (and more powerful typing semantics like schema or protocol conformance or other things you can do with dependent types) and maybe some concurrency or JIT or AOT trinkets from other implementations that all boil down to performance improvements of some sort. The language design on the dynamic end has changed much less because they have less to change.
+1 To me it was more about saving mouse movements than hiding UI. Don't mouse all the way to the top of the screen to click that. Press this dynamic, context aware, button on your toolbar instead. If you'd still rather use hot keys, go for it!
I was also scared about the removal of MagSafe when I first got my Macbook 12", but in reality what happens when you trip on your power cable is that it will come out from the plug in the wall since the cable is not attached to the transformer.
Geographically once you get outside of major tech hubs, the Mac's market share as a developer workstation is quite tiny. I remember one time I was sent out on site to a big corp in an office park in New Jersey and everyone in the cubicles around me came up and cracked jokes about my MacBook, tried to challenge me because I wasn't a "real developer" since I used a Mac etc.

Honestly I'd guess the main people keeping the Mac line afloat at Apple are probably their own engineering staff. Imagine having to develop Apple products on another OS, how frustrating that would be
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It depends on if the Secure Enclave processor added to these laptops is being used to materially improve the security of the system. That would actually be a pretty big deal.
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Dell XPS 15.

- Build quality is excellent

- The form factor is terrific (physical size of a 14-incher)

- You can get it with the latest desktop i7s and a boatload of RAM

- Good battery life (skip the 4k screen)
Any word yet on whether it still has Mini Toslink support?
Serenity now, insanity later.
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I think my personal one came out pretty well :D

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> Some specs now have an explicit "does your UA say you are Gecko, or does it say you are WebKit"

woah! that's truly tragic.

at the risk of ruining the rest of my week, may i ask where?
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I don't see why avoiding open companies would be the smartest move. I'd say just avoid all companies except the one that gives you the best deal (balancing salary, benefits, quality of life, enjoyment of the work, etc.). If that company has open salaries, fine, and if not, fine.
The first wave of JVMs had it, but they eventually dropped because it wasn't worthwhile for the type of Java workloads.

The language specification doesn't state anything about how threads should be scheduled.

There are actually a few embedded JVMs that might still offer it.
No, I hope that linux distro will become better, hope for a better touchpad, hope for better fonts. for a better alternative to mac
Time to remap control to ESC then!
What about dangerous information? What about bleeding out our secrets to our enemies?

We need more kludge in our information networks, not less, to stop aggressive AI. Our hydro dams should be air gapped and only semi-automated. Our self driving cars should not be exposed to the public internet. All of our major services, especially those from the government, should be over SSL.

I agree that the Snowden revelations showed a scary avenue for abuse of power, but the solution is to encourage oversight and to keep elected government officials as responsible for breaches of trust. This is why Bill C-51 in Canada was so scary until they updated it to include more oversight.
People who use Vim usually re-map caps-lock to ESC at a minimum, and possibly other uses. Mine is esc by itself, ctrl with any other key.

I do remap the function bar right now, though. That will take some getting used to.
Given the popularity of Macs for running Windows, I would not assume this. There's no reason why Microsoft can't write drivers for the Touch Bar.
That's probably a very grey area heading towards subliminal advertising (at least, some lawyer somewhere could claim so). I'm not sure on the legal status of that sort of thing.
> I mean sure it's good advice but a prohibition of romantic relationships doesn't actually work.

What do you mean "it doesn't actually work"? Do you mean it doesn't work every single time? Or do you mean it never works? Because a prohibition that substantially reduces the relationship count (thereby reducing corporate liability, damage to team structures, morale, culture, etc) might be a very successful policy indeed.
In France, for example, it costs 1415 eur (i.e. 1543 usd) plus taxes.
All technology adoption curves must go through a "wait, this will kill us" and "what about threats to our children!" phases before they reach widespread usage.
> pushing forward

forward to what ? design over usability ? surely you understand why a lot of people are pissed off. The touch bar is a gimmick, the lack of inputs make the MBP only PRO in name, this isn't a "PRO" machine. This is just a Macbook air rebranded as Pro. But to understand that you need to be able to read through Apple's bullshit, which is hard for Apple fans that see the brand as part of their own identity.
Every laptop I have seen with a fingerprint scanner has used one of those cheap swipe-your-finger-across-this-slit style devices. They are slow, unreliable, and insecure.

TouchID (at least on my iPhone) is 100% more usable and I would love to have it on my laptop as well.
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Your customers would be pretty annoyed at you if a display port in their $1000+ laptops broke after half a year of normal usage. On the other hand, $10 adapter is a throwaway item, so manufacturers have zero reasons to care.

Such is the disposable culture.
Apple's got me locked in until their OS runs on something else.
I'd rather not. 256GB SSD is a pretty unrealistic entry level for actual 'pro' usage.
Touch typing doesn't involve the Escape key, really, which is the only key that's relevant here.

For those who need it, Esc will be readily-mappable to a hardware key combo.

Also, it's simply false that you can't use a Touch Bar key without looking down. It's just a simple motor skill like anything else. Very very slightly harder than having a hardware Esc key. Trivial.
It's likely not even in full production since the roll out was announced a week ago.

Also no where does it says the speed and bandwidth they'll support, overall there isn't much performance difference between LPDDR3 or 4, or between DDR3 and 4 when the frequencies are off by only a few 100's of mhz.

That said I'm actually disappointed that the memory on the MBP especially the 15" is LPDDR, no reason to degrade memory performance on a machine which already has a pretty big battery, DDR4 is pretty darn power efficient as it is.

This to me looks more like another cost cutting decision set by Apple to simplify board design and the supply chain.

No 7th gen CPU's, low power memory for no reason, dumping of ports, and a pretty steep price hike.

I'm glad I bought my mid 2015 pretty fully upgraded MBP 15 with a dedicated GPU for 1480 GBP on sale last holiday season, this one is not even meh, it's a full on pass, the only feature I like is the touch ID, I still don't understand why Apple doesn't allow you to unlock your Mac with your phone, but now I know why.
I don't turn on caps. I usually only need it for a single letter, so the shift key does wonders.

I follow this setup[1], where caps lock can both function as ctrl and esc depending on how long you press/hold.

[1]: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/#cont...
> JNI will continue to be the way to accomplish it.

Not on Java 10 hopefully.
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I really like the idea of this concept, as it helps guide people to understand what's important to them. Having a grounding sense of goals, principles, and boundaries enables people to cultivate a productive self-worth that can be very powerful.

I feel like a lot of Hacker News readers can probably relate to this, as I've sensed a lot of self-directed joy has come from their time spent learning and using computers.

Looking back, other people's people evaluating/encouraging/criticising my math skills, swimming abilities, or self-esteem has done much worse for me than individually realising what's important to myself and wanting to work towards that. I really hope that we culturally have a change in attitude towards these things.
I've been holding on my 2012 non retina. I hate that every newer model comes with almost everything soldered.
What's wrong with a hybrid drive?
Apple discontinued Thunderbolt displays sometime beginning to early part of the year.
From what I've understood, on a German keyboard you type Control + Ü for ESC, instead of some three-key combo.
Not a knock here since I know this is not a majority case, but for marginally quick typists, I would say these wireless/bt keyboards are useless. Input lag is dreadful.
This sounds like it is just a modern gcj, then. Am I reading it wrong?
I heard about blendle, signed up for it....and than never used it!!!

As per my comment on this thread, I think the switching costs of finding other content to occupy my time is to low to cause me to even think about paying for actual content.
As I mentioned yesterday in a different thread, I have an option to upgrade my system every year at zero cost (sponsored by my company). This year, I'll be sitting it out. The benefits for a developer seem next to none. Thanks but No thanks on the Touch Bar too! Literally all bells and whistles but no major improvements on basic computing functionality.

Personally, I think the Macbook Pro 2012 was a beautiful, functional beast and since then it's been just going downhill.

On a related note, yesterday's Microsoft Launch made me think about upgrading my home rig after a long time! :)
I was waiting (cash in hand!) for a new Macbook Air model, so am disappointed that none materialized.
The first sentence in the description is "Not open source," and the license wouldn't qualify as open source or free software because of the limitation on use.
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That sounds more like an emacs thing to do.

Well, you could map control to escape then :-)
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What do you call a ribbon display that no one has ever done before?

Oh you mean like Windows VISTA's (yes, that one) "SideShow?"

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+vista+sideshow&biw=2...

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=windows+vista+sideshow&...

They have had big partners do this, like Logitech, on keyboards like the G15 and G19. It was also on laptops positions above the keyboard.
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You may want to check this out, too:
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But they didn't. One of their employees was already concerned about their low salary.

If anything this changed the situation from a developer leaving without notice for a higher paying role at a different company into a situation where the company could have retained them.
Except it doesn't work and is full of bugs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/59gcr9/who_is_u...
I am amused by all these comments of upgrading 2-3 year old laptops. I must be from an alternate world since I am using a 4 year old Lenovo carbon and it's awesome. I have no plans on replacing it until it just totally dies.
Here would be my 2 top options and I'd probably get the dell because it has a linux option which I'd like to support, as well as a better screen.

1. Dell precision 15 +IGZO screen, preloaded with ubuntu

2. Thinkpad T460p
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It's not about nobody finding out about it. It's about having enough people in key positions who are OK with doing it.
And if I'm not mistaken they killed it - because power users needed proper f1-f12 row
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Because it's still the port that nearly everything uses. USB-C is great and fast but I still have to replace all my cords and chargers because my new phone has USB-C and nothing else I own does. It's the same for a laptop, if everything I have expects USB-A USB-C for all it's great features is a hassle.
If I were in the market for a new one this year, yes.

Why? Touchbar looks useful. Wider gammut screen looks excellent. Apple's touchpad has always been an order of magnitude better than any other one on the market, and I'd love to have one on my MBP itself that was as large as my magic trackpad.

It's a nice upgrade over my current model, but I try to hold myself to a fixed upgrade cycle so I won't be jumping on board immediately.
Bash for Windows needs to hurry up and fix/implement the networking stack already so I can actually make a decent switch. That being said, once they fix all that crap then it will be an easy switch.
Already bought one! I have a Retina 13", early 2013 now.

Just excited to try what's new. I had a Macbook (one of the new ones) for work so I'd like to try it in this form factor and with a ton more speed. I got the 13" with 16GB. Should be great!

I always said, spend more on the things you spend a lot of time with. I splurged on my bed and I spend more time on my computer than anything else (probably even my bed) so I should have the top of the line - it's what makes me money anyway.
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If Rust is OO then the term is meaningless. No inheritance; dynamic dispatch only via explicit indirection (Boxed traits); methods are (therefore) just syntactic sugar for regular functions.
> Mac Pro: Buy. If you like paying 2013 prices for 2013 hardware.

It's even worse than that, if you're in the UK: the price of the 2013 Mac Pro has gone up by £500. Yes yes, Brexit and currency adjustment, and if it were new hardware I'd clench my teeth and bear it. But a £500 increase for hardware that's almost three years old is highway robbery.
> They're literally all the ports, currently with adapters,

If a notebook has got a HDMI port would you say it has a DVI port, because all you need is an adapter?

> eventually likely out of the box

Nope, only power cable and charger in the box.
I haven't really wanted a new laptop design in a long time.

A better announcement would have been "we've consolidated the Mac line and now all models will get their specs bumped regularly".

That's all I really want the same laptop or desktop but faster.
Really? -4 points? Valid question since I have a Macbook Pro from 2012 which does have user-serviceable memory. "Pro" should count for something.
as someone who has had a rotating schedule their entire life, I wonder what that would mean for my brain.
Your comment made me miss my Intellivision for some reason :(
Yeah I am another female here who doesn't get it either. I would much rather read "Ask an Engineer" posts that highlight women and men. When they do highlight women, make it about their engineering talents not this stuff. I feel these types of posts actually do a dis-service to female engineers and don't highlight their skills & talents. But what do I know?
sent simultaneously from 12 mac devices.
I agree with most of what you said but I really miss physical keyboards on smartphones and know I'm not alone. I think they went away because they're disproportionately expensive to design and manufacture and they make localization more difficult. Touch screen keyboards just aren't as good, though I don't think slide-out qwerty is the answer either. We need mobile tactile input!
They don't look cheap ...

Glad I could help :)