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I had a MBP a few years ago. I installed the Boot Camp beta. When it went out of beta it locked up with no ability to change the configuration or installed OSs. The solution was to upgrade (30$) to the latest version of OS X. Which meant I lost all the software that came with the laptop since I didn't want to pay for it again.

I had an iPod touch. When I was using it on a certain network it couldn't hit the NTP servers. This set the time to 1970, and I couldn't change it manually due to some integer overflow bug. Trying to scroll those wheel things to the current date, it would start skipping 30 years forward and backward. The time not being set meant I couldn't use the app store, upgrade the OS, etc., rendering the device useless.

I'll stick to Linux and Android. At least I can fix those when they break.
If it freed the slaves without bloodshed then yes. The English approach was much better than the American approach.
http://terrain.party/ (currently down): lets you turn freely available geodata into a PNG that the game accepts.

It doesn't handle the roads, that was almost certainly done by hand.
I don't know anything about that company, but I think he was talking about price.
My understanding, which should not be relied on, is that the market is composed of traders expecting other traders to bid it up in anticipation of CenturyLink bidding it up, so they're bidding it up.
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That also includes Reshaper, PyCharm, Webstorm, and CLion. These tools are awesome for students.

Somewhere else mentioned if students really need these kinds of tools? To write code? Probably not, it's better if they spent the time to use Vim/Emacs or just got going with Atom/VSCode/Sublime. But none of those editors support the ease of clicking on something and seeing what that is. A class, a function, etc. Jetbrain's support for this in any language they support is probably the best anywhere and the editor itself is damn good. I try my very best to get rid of it and I always find myself coming back. Rarely can anything match it's features which once you learn how to use them you'll often need on a day to day basis.
I'm not entirely sure the Cold War ever ended, we just don't use that phrase anymore so that people don't think about it or know how to refer to the arms race of continual production of nuclear weaponry around the world.
One of the stunning things to me was discovering that Edge uses Outbrain and Taboola type links on the browser's New Tab page... And you could get malicious fake virus pages right off the home screen of Windows 10's default browser.
The difference in value should be the "synergies" that combining the companies will yield.
It is not a matter about feeling bad, but about getting the right result. If we don't buy out the oil and other carbon owners then they will continue to fight us doing anything about carbon emissions. It is better to pay the Danegeld and move on.
Those macs, trace their history back to devices also targetted at this same niche of users, and after iteration lead to the macbooks you use today.
The most straightforward reason why the stock price jumps is because the acquirer generally makes a bid at a premium to the potential acquiree's stock value in order for the deal to make sense.

Market participants know this, especially professional traders, so when the news comes out the fastest players will hop on the stock to make a quick profit. Those who get in on it the fastest when the news breaks enjoy an increase of several percent (or sometimes significantly higher, such as in Linkedin's case!).

The long term reasons and implications are more complex, but from a short term game theoretic perspective if you can quickly act on the knowledge of an acquisition, you can make quite a bit of money. Most people don't have the savvy or infrastructure in place to do this, but if you're drinking coffee in the morning and you see this pop up on your Bloomberg terminal, you'll want to buy within seconds/minutes if you believe the stock is going to jump. You can go so far as to automate the process and place orders for the stock as soon as an algorithm recognizes an acquisition announcement.

There is also the phenomenon where you can reasonably assume that M&A announcements were leaked in hindsight by looking at the option trading history for the stock. Very often you see that in the week or days prior to an announcement, extraordinarily lucky "bets" are placed in the form of call options, indicating that someone knew and acted on the information. Matt Levine has a great Bloomsberg column article on this with several examples.
Or that another suitor will step in and cause an intense bidding war ala Isilon/Data Domain/etc.
Cities:Skylines is a great game for this kind of thing, because it has tremendous support for mods. It even has a built-in "asset editor" that lets you define buildings, maps and road junctions. All of which can then be shared on the Steam workshop.

You do need quite a few mods to remove restrictions on road and building placement, and then allow manual control of buildings rather than letting them "grow" according to the game mechanics.
I almost did a coffee spit when I read their comment. Fortunately I was able to contain it.
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Source on the ozone hole? Last I heard that was actually shrinking dramatically as a direct result of the CRC ban.
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Great writeup, I remember the excitement around TouchID at WWDC that year. Any technical limitations/issues you've come across with the Touch Bar yet? Interested in diving into the api's to see what can be done but there's always some gotchas, especially when trying to debug on simulated hardware!
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IP transit is probably cheaper if you own the IP transit company. Conceptually this makes sense. Has that Rockefeller vertical integration feel to it.

Take this with a grain of salt, but from what I've gathered doing IP transit related work, Level3 has something of a reputation of being higher quality transit than many of their competitors. They tend to cost more and people seem to be paying it.
Are you really claiming that the US civil war was not fought over the issue of slavery?

What would have healed the issue of racial divide is for all sides to have approached the problem with good will and compromise. One side imposing their will at the point of a gun only creates further ill will.
So, if you're willing to drop 2k on an experiment, i'd say go for it. I'm leery of the new models because i use vim, and my fingers get cold and sweaty. Touch devices don't respond perfectly and i have fear about `esc` working reliably.

I've gone through my own versions of your frustrations, but i'll spare you the war stories.

my 2 cents. macos is bsd, hacked up in odd ways. if you want to edit something in /etc, you're doing something wrong. It's a little off putting figuring out where stuff is. /Library/Frameworks is common. There's no C compiler, without installing (part of) xcode.

You've got 2 choices for package management. macports is a shared nothing approach, everything is compiled against libraries compiled to /opt/local/. Or homebrew. brew tries to share everything with the built in libraries. Just be consistent, i lost some time to libiconv, postgress and haskell the other day. If i'd been consistent i'd have avoided the problem entirely. I've never used brew seriously, but lots of people like it. I swear fealty to macports.

The biggest loss for me was no tiling window manager (although i think some hacks exist to get the same effect).

osx is different. it will trip you up from time to time. a whole bunch of stuff is reliable in ways that were not reliable for me in linux. (take that with some salt, i haven't used linux as my desktop in quite a few years, and i think things have come a long, long way).

If it sucks, you can always go back to linux. That touchbar support might take a while to work right though, and no esc key till it does. ctrl-] will probably be your friend.

You're looking at a different set of tradeoffs. you're a programmer, odds are very good everything you want is there. You can always run a VM if you get stuck. But it's not all sunshine and rainbows. I do think rainbow free days are a little less frequent than either windows or linux, so it has generally been a win for me.
The 42% increase was CenturyLink's offer over last week's stock price. The actual stock price is only at $54 (15% above last week).

Why would CenturyLink offer such a large premium? Beats me, I'm not an expert.
Or more precisely, it insists that MacBook are for when you're travelling (and on battery), and that you MUST buy an iMac for working at a desk.

So instead of spending 2500-3000 for just a laptop that you will use 99% of the time on the desk with the power cord hooked, you have to spend 5000-8000 on them.
Especially this financial magic "The deal also promises to help CenturyLink by giving it access to about $10 billion in tax credits that Level 3 is carrying on its books"
> Do students need enterprise Java IDEs (and IDEs for other languages designed by enterpirse Java developers)?

Yes, there was a software project that we as students built with Java EE (we used Eclipse at that time) - we had to build on legacy code that another student wrote for his diploma thesis in Java EE. This is surely not typical, but sometimes it happens.

I also like Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise, which one can get by the Dreamspark Premium program (I use it mostly for C++ and C# development), though there are many features that were once Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate only that are now also included in the Professional/Community Edition, too (for example Static Code Analysis in C++). So the difference is much smaller than in earlier times, but some testing tools, which I use, (in particular Code Coverage) are still Enterprise only:

> https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/compare/
By the time USB C is widely used they will move on to a different standard

This appears to be an argument for never adopting any new connector, ever. You think we should have stuck with RS232?
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Thanks for your comments. This is the side of entrepreneurship that rarely gets told, and you seem to have got most of the possible downsides while still keeping the company running well enough. There's a lot to learn from what you say.
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The industrial revolution is the point at which we began to use a lot of fossil fuel, first coal and later petrol. It may be different times in different places but it's more or less equivalent to the "before petrol" I was replying to. That was also different times in different places.

And I bet those colder northern countries import much of their meat these days, so it's not much use to make this about local matters only.
The part that I find increasingly unpleasant (and unsettling) is that, overall, the quality of the entire experience has been declining.

Four years ago, suspend/resume was pretty much a solved problem on regular, run-of-the mill hardware. It worked out of the box, hardly needed any tuning, hardly had any performance problems. It was messy when it was introduced but by 2011 or so, we pretty much took it for granted.

Nowadays, it feels like the year is 2003 again (only I have a lot less hair so it's a weird kind of 2003). I bring my system out of suspend and the text on my desktop icons is corrupted (!?) and some network connections are mysteriously failing (this one is particularly nasty, and I have no idea what to trace it to; ICMP works fine, but TCP connections to some systems just don't work anymore because the SYN/ACK never gets to me. I initially thought this was my ISP doing something funky with their routing, but alas, my Windows laptop doesn't have this problem).

And this isn't really new and shiny hardware that would sort of understandably have these problems, it's a five year-old desktop.
> experience the horror of a collapsing civilization.

Wait, what? Is there any serious prediction of global warming causing collapsing civilization? How would that happen? Hordes of starving Americans abandoning their jobs and storming Canada? We've had big famines before and they were localized to the countries they happened in. Sea level rise won't swamp many places. We've got Syria wrecked by war and civilization is doing just fine in Europe despite refugees.

Population explosion used to be going to cause collapsing civilization. So was nuclear war. Global warming is the panic of our generation. Something else we haven't thought of yet will surely be gripping people's fear 2 generations down the line.
JWZ's comments about "cascade of attention-deficit teenagers development" look very apposite here, sadly. The "Linux desktop" that's succeeded is Android, which is also a mess in different ways. Everything other than bunch-of-xterms-and-a-browser will ultimately be updated into nonfunctionality.
You realize an infographic involves opinion right? What data to use, what scale, etc. You can't just present one graph and say you win... Both sides could find a graph or 3.
Pandoc working with Markdown is a pretty good alternative especially if your needs are not complex.

Pandoc is a document converter. I can make a Markdown file and output to LaTex or just PDF. http://pandoc.org/

I have learned that I get things done faster and works 90% of the time for my needs.
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My neighbour came to me last week to ask for help. Exactly that had happened to him, from of all things a Facebook ad. It was a simple matter of killing the browser, but it had put up a phone number for "support" that he had already called, but which was busy... so I guess they were having a fair amount of success. Wish I'd taken a photo.
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Love the simplicity. Wish it was powered by RxJS https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS
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More debt?
Not necessarily. Editorial stances are as often driven by the desires of the proprietor as they are the readership. E.g. there were newspapers recently in the UK that took strong editorial stances against a particular political leader in spite of the fact that the majority of their readers preferred him. The proprietors had an agenda and they risked (and ultimately lost) subscribers to push it.

Hyperbole and sensationalism isn't driven solely by demand either, it's also driven by risk aversion. There's a high demand for thoughtful, well researched journalism, but the market demand often isn't fulfilled because that kind of journalism involves high up front investment and is risky whereas human interest stories and cats are cheap to churn out and their effect is consistent.
Thank you. A great start.
Thunderbolt 3 is still insanely expensive. The Akitio Thunder2 PCIe Box is $229.00, the Thunder3 Pcie Expansion Box is $299 and if you wanted to do a go-around by buying a converter, that's also $70 -- the StarTech.com Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt Adapter is $73.99. By economies of scale TB3 ought to be cheaper but it is not. Other docks are even more expensive, the Powercolor Devil Box is $375 and the Razer Core is $399 but only if you buy a Razer laptop otherwise $499. To compare, an M.2 to PCIe DIY solution from a noname company without warranty is roughly $100 so the $229 price is pretty OK. The TB3 box, however, needs to drop to half price and then we are talking.

And Thunderbolt of yore was not Apple only by far, HP, Dell, Lenovo all had mobile workstations sporting it. Heck, the Thinkpad T430s had it. Of course, it's all different now, practically all $1000 and over laptops have TB3.
Has that Rockefeller vertical integration feel to it.

Yeah, with the acquisitions they've been making, you can use your home CenturyLink connection, which goes over the CenturyLink backbone cabling, over to CenturyLink's IaaS provider, which hosts an app deployed using CenturyLink's PaaS.
> In 5 or 10 years every desktop computer will look like the Surface Studio.

Disagree. Maybe a lot of 'home' desktops will, but there will still be a need for alternative form factors. In fact, I think desktop computers will look a lot more diverse than maybe they ever have in 10 years time. I think we'll have a bunch that look more or less like the Surface studio, for use by illustrators, graphic designers, etc. But we'll also have computers that are optimised for writers, developers, etc. These will have great keyboards. They'll probably have a smaller, non-touch screen (I certainly don't want a touch interface on my desktop, and I hope that option remains). I hope they'll all have really, really good screens that are as 'flexible' as the studio (or the old iMac G4).
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I used to go to CTO events in London, and found them of variable quality.

Firstly, most CTOs were surprised I came from a coding background. Even more were surprised to hear I committed code regularly.

Secondly, most of the discussion was about how to deal with tactical issues in a strategic framework that was almost impossible to relate to.

I don't CTO any more (went back to being a humble dev because it made me happier), but 90% of CTO-only lists/networking events/activities are ego exercises first, useful only by accident.

If somebody can fix that, ace. There is nothing here that suggests this will actually be practically useful.
it depends on what qualifies as "innovation". The bar you set is so low that literally every new "feature" (Reversible iphone connector!) can qualify.

Watch OS has nothing innovative about it that Android Wear doesn't already have, and is not taking off in the market.

3D Touch is a technological marvel but a useless feature for usability. It hasn't taken anymore than Samsung's "hover over the phone" touch has.

I can't comment on the colour gamut tech or the screen digitiser tech, but what exactly is Apple doing there that is leaps and bounds ahead of other display/tablet manufacturers? Do you have any links that compare these?
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I thought I'd had to sign up for some kind of account to upgrade my graphics drivers a couple of weeks back but I'd convinced myself it was just a bad dream... Agreed it is indeed annoying - not to mention that the GeForce Experience "optimal" settings nearly always seem to be far from optimal on my hardware.
Kevin folta breaks down the flaws in the article pretty well:

"1. No genes for yield were ever installed. The current suite of biotech traits were not meant to improve yields, they were made to ensure yields. In other words, they help ag producers farm with lower costs, fewer insecticides, improved weed control and virus resistance in some cases. Same yield at lower cost = better for farmers."

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Two things:

1. CONTROL PREMIUM. Buyers pay more to control a company [1]. Control means you can directly effect changes through management. (The flip side is the minority discount.)

There is also the technical aspect of, when buying 100% of a company, needing to make an offer 70% or 90% or whatever (depending on the target's bylaws) of the company's stock will accept. The most willing sellers are reflected in the bid-ask. Less-willing sellers will need more to move. Since you make one bid to everyone, a premium emerges as the price the last least-willing seller you need will accept.

2. SYNERGIES. If you have a billing department and they have a billing department, you can probably do fine with just one billing department. The more similar the acquirer and target, the more of these cost savings and joint growth potentials (e.g. targeted ads over TV) emerge.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_premium
Keep in mind that the offer has to be good enough to get the majority of stock holders to sell.

The long term holders of the stock obviously believe the company will be worth more than its current trading value (otherwise they would have sold). So a buyer has to pick a value that convinces enough of these shareholders to cash out.

Imagine that you owned a condo in a building and each owner got to vote on whether to sell the whole building. If a buyer wanted to buy the whole building, they are going to have to make an offer with an amount per condo higher than any of the current listings to capture a majority of the condo owners' interest that weren't previously interested in selling.
The real secret to making money seems to be making more money (debt).
Would you mind elaborating on points 3-5 for me?

I haven't heard about #3, I guess I don't understand 3D Touch's hardware specs enough to know what you mean with #4, and I just don't believe #5.
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Which is available only to enterprises. Microsoft won't sell it to end customers or SOHOs.
I use linux on my laptop at work. It is running Red Hat. I have many issues and as always with Linux one of them is bad graphics drivers.

Basically every time I've tried desktop Linux (which is many times) I have always, always struggled with graphics drivers. Even if I get it to work fine, they always suck compared with a Windows installation. Last year I ran desktop Linux and first I had Linux installed and ran CS:Go, I had some issues with frame rate and when I installed Windows on the machine I got about 10-20 more fps which made a huge difference under heavy load.

I love the idea of desktop Linux but I've come to terms last year after about 8 years of trying that it will never be as polished, as good as Windows. At least for me as a gamer. I think a big part of the problem is that there is just too much choices and software out there. Either it's Gnome, Unity or KDE or 20 other window managers. Writing GUIs for Linux is hard compared to Windows/MacOS. Small issues in many appliations, errors that show up when you really try to replace programs with open source ones etc.

I love open source and of course I understand why things are the way they are, it's incredible hard for a smaller open source project to compete with a company that has lots of resources to throw at the issues.
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I don't think so.

If one is to assume R&D spending it roughly equatable with "non-public" innovation than historically Microsoft is more innovative than even Google, let alone Apple. This assumption may be weak but I think it would at least be somewhat correlated.
If they were so much trouble, why did IBM deploy them stating they are 3x less expensive overall including support?

http://www.businessinsider.com/an-ibm-it-guy-macs-are-300-ch...
I think of myself as a pretty regular software developer, and the new MBP sounds like it matches my priorities pretty well.

# Thinner and lighter
# Good specs
# Able to drive 5K monitors (QHD retina)
# Touch ID
# I love a large track-pad

Also I don't seem hit by the claimed negatives.

# I don't realistically use more than 16GB RAM in daily work
# I don't use function keys
# I don't use VI :). I do use ESC for modals though.

The price is a bit high, but I can wait a refresh-cycle for lower prices.