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Ah, if only that worked for OSS stuff like Gnome.
Correct, the cloud is just an option which is off as standard.
I use a 2013 MBPro and own a 2015 Mac Mini, but wanted something portable to play video games. I had all of the main requirements you had too, with the added requirement that it could power a 2k monitor on Fallout 4 at the highest setting.

The only thing I found that let me configure it online, and met the requirements (would have preferred more than 16GB of RAM though), was the HP Omen.

Edit: It comes with a 4k screen, which I downgraded to 1080p (Mostly used on monitor), but also wish it had a 2k downgrade option. Mac's Retina resolution is just about perfect, and not really a fan of 4k yet, also on a 15 inch screen it seems a waste.
When I was in college, Microsoft had DreamSpark, which was a similar kind of thing (use your school email, get a bunch of free licenses to VS, SQL Server, etc). I don't know if they still do it, but especially in those days, it was great, because the free Express editions hadn't quite come out yet, and when they did, they were pretty gimped. Using a real version of Visual C++ was head and shoulders better than trying to fight with Eclipse, or CodeBlocks, or DevC++ in those days.
String#concat,Array#concat and String#prepend take multiple arguments in Ruby2.4
Assume that Qwest invests $1B in copper wire, telephone poles and central offices in 1970. The accountants write that off over the next X years because, for accounting and tax purposes its getting old and will need to be replaced. In the year 2000 all that copper and those poles have zero value on the books (called book value) but it's obvious that it still has some value.

Century Link comes along and looks at the value of all the copper in the ground and says that they will pay $1B for it even though on the books it has zero book value. That excess paid becomes good will on Century Link because they paid more for it than book value.
Sebastian Thrun went to Udacity, where he's started development on an open source self-driving car project (unlike Google's proprietary system), and Chris Urmson seems to have not announced any new projects at this point. I haven't followed details on some of the lesser known entities, but I wouldn't be shocked if they eventually gravitated towards Thrun's project.
What about the code you wrote that earned you a living and perhaps some savings? And helped you explore your talents?
Seems a repeat of what we have seen at Microsoft, HP, and many other companies.

Apple has become too reliant on iPhone and unsure how to look beyond it.

Either they would have to shake the leadership team up like Microsoft or split the company up.
I work mostly on the electrical side but we do interact a lot with the software devs (I can code but only in C++), it's not gospel but I think the scope for the software is an open API.
Someone has been reading Bhandari and Weiss' "Corporate Bankruptcy'. This view ignores a very important aspect of who/what carries the liability of say violations made by the corporation.
Someone now please make a list of applications built with PHP and Ruby on Rails.
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Ugly Eclipse keeps pulling me away from shiny IntelliJ.

I've been switching to Java from C# for the last year or so. At my company, the Java developers that I most admire use Eclipse.

Coming from Visual Studio, the weirdest thing about Eclipse was having multiple projects loaded in the same Eclipse instance. But as I get used to it, switching back to IntelliJ confuses me. I get lost with the multiple instances.
You don't matter to 2K. The number of people who would ttly pay for a DRM free version is way smaller than the number of people who would be stopped from just pirating the thing by the DRM.

This is why DRM is a fact of life. Adjust or do without.
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The second unit is an attachable numpad that can be used as a standalone or connects magnetically.
While the idea of hiring all the writers is cute, the "known" writers all have deals in place already. So Apple would be effectively taking a gamble on all unknown talent. That may or may not pay off.

Buying TWC is a monumentally stupid idea for Apple that I won't even go into.

Apple is obviously working on things (including self driving car systems), it just doesn't announce them and it doesn't hesitate to cancel them if it doesn't like the results. Those are, IMHO, good qualities about Apple.

The idea that Apple has to get into a new category is kind of ridiculous. It doesn't have to do anything. It has solid profits and tons of money on hand. They can coast. The stock value will go down or stall for a bit if they do, but so what? When they release another great product, if it is successful, the stock price will reflect it at that time.
As another poster mentioned, in this case the asset values of the acquirer are bigger.

But smaller companies buy bigger companies even without that. In general they just need somebody to fund the acquisition either through debt (they borrow the money) or equity (they issue more stock). Generally it has to be done with debt. The reason it can work in telecom is that business tends to be very recurring revenue so people are willing to lend them money. (Their recurring revenue looks like a bond) An investor can see that two companies have similar businesses and economies of scale, and they want the more efficiently run one to be the acquirer, even if it's the smaller one.
Unless you are extremely lucky chances are fifty years from now, nobody will care. Everything you think is time will cease to be useful to them. Your Great Grand Children won't know you as a person. Hell they won't even remember your name.

Even if they do, it won't matter to you because you will cease to exist.
> Come to think of it, our news sources write bigger lies every day

Unfortunately they are also cut throat with regard to each other. The first paper that does this risks the rest of them running stories about that source scare mongering and deliberately spreading panic on behalf of [insert conspiracy theory and/or unpopular agency here].
Makes sense. So, the only fuzzy part seems to be: what is property, and I guess that's up to social norms?
As an American, I would agree with this. I wish I'd stuck with a sport beyond what my parents made me do as a 7-year-old. While it may not have been my favorite thing to do, there's a lot I missed out on. When I was a kid, being a nerd wasn't cool. You didn't make friends that way. That took a toll on self-confidence until my mid-20s when suddenly my nerd tendencies became really profitable and appreciated. Before that, I just accepted that people thought I was a little weird.

But more than that, I realized that there were many life lessons regarding self-discipline, training, and teamwork that I missed as well. I ended up working for a startup founded by college athletes (not your stereotypical jocks, but smart, driven people) and you could see that their leadership, discipline, and motivational skills were already well-developed from their soccer days. For me, working on software teams was my first real collaborative team experience, and I could tell they were leagues beyond me in understanding and developing team dynamics.
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What stories to include is also a matter of viewpoint. Note how complicated the line between "good story for HN" and "not right for HN" is. Sometimes I'd call that a matter of bias, but the great majority of the time it's just viewpoint.

I also think "crazy things said by leaders of the EU" is an odd thing to ask for, as it is basically asking them to import your bias as to what's "crazy". I certainly see them printing things from EU leaders that I'd call crazy, if that helps. I also wouldn't call them deferential toward anybody; they're on average quite skeptical of politicians' claims.

I note that you didn't answer my question. Maybe you could? And let me ask another: you only respond here on a relatively small set of stories. Is that because you are biased? Or just because you have a viewpoint?
You can only learn from critical analysis, we like a tough crowd.
The ARM acquisition had a similar premium of around 40%. If you picture buying all those shares one trade at a time though you can easily imaginr the price pressure pushing it 20 or 30 pct higher. The rest is synergy or whatever you want to call it.
I wonder if you could use some sort of clustering algorithm and create something like 4 unique laptops.
For personal use, I decided to move away from a laptop entirely. I'm very much enjoying having a workstation that enforces me going to a specific place to do work. If that appeals to you, then it's very easy to find 100% compatible hardware.

If not, then I can vouch that my wife's Thinkpad runs Ubuntu with no issues. I concur with others that kernel compiling and X11 configuration have long been non-issues.
>three times the price

It's only 30% more than the iMac of comparable size (which is last year's model, to boot)
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> Back when I used Linux, my solution was to avoid the desktops entirely

I used to do that for a very long time, too, but it's getting unpleasant. A lot of things get upset if you don't have a "proper" session running behind the scenes. It requires me to learn more about xdg and systemd than I can learn without giving in to existential dread about my profession, and frankly, it's a shame to see decades of progress in the GUI go wasted on me just because the Linux community won't get its act together.

In some ways, I think I'm more or less like the proverbial dinosaur in this regard. Virtually no one developing for Linux cares about the desktop anymore. The Linux "community" is, increasingly, a bunch of huge hardware manufacturers, automotive consortiums and a few companies with large datacenters to run. This is where the money -- and most of the development effort -- is. Most of the people who were interested in, and could meaningfully contribute to usability-related efforts and desktops have long gone to web or Apple land.

Edit: in fact, I think virtually everyone I know has moved to macOS, OpenBSD or Windows. Can't blame them.
Just read this thread and I'm also comfortable recommending the hardware for three or four years easily. Also, the top level comment describes a small amount of what I went through about 10 years ago that made me switch back to Apple, though I built a hackintosh instead of a laptop.
Given it's all multiplied it doesn't matter if the luck is from 0-1000 or 0-1, it has the same effect on the outcome.

a * (b * 1000) = (a * 1000) * b

Sorry, I hate bad maths, I realise it is just trying to imply that luck is more important, but in that case it should be * luck^n.
Being only a few miles from Palantir's headquarters, I can confirm that no war is going on. JK. People here are talking about the issues all the time, and I'm curious to see what happens.
From a comment on the article, that could be applied to a future quad-core Mac Mini derivative:

"I would love to seem them cannibalize their lack luster, overpriced iCloud by introducing a “personal cloud” home server product (that would also be the hub for HomeKit, and all that other stuff). Apple getting back to their roots as a high-margin value added hardware company. NAS systems are terrible, especially when trying to integrate them into a macOS and iOS network."
dupe, please check before submitting... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12805920
I think with any problem define your problem as specific as you can?
"PM2.5" is a standard term[1,2], along with "PM10".

[1] https://www3.epa.gov/ttn/amtic/amticpm.html

[2] https://cfpub.epa.gov/airnow/index.cfm?action=aqibasics.part...
They still do, I ued it to grab Windows 8 and 10, Visual Studio, Access and Visio. They rebranded it as Microsoft Imagine like a month ago though.
The following quote comes to mind: “One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.”

Equally valid for relationships, of course.
I no longer feel regret. It's not possible to regret something. If you are back to that moment you'll make the same choice with the information available to you.

You are not really regretting, you are just realizing the opportunities you lost as new information keeps coming to you.

So as new information kept going I realized:

1- Working for others doesn't help in building a personal growable wealth. It helps others.

2- Others will pay you market rates which are orders of magnitude less than what you'd be making have you worked for yourself.

3- You are afraid of executing your vision.

4- Success in your "social life" depends on the instant you are living on. The old memories are gone, they actually have more of a negative effect: If you had a great social life before and not now, you'll feel a bit worse. If you didn't have a great social life before and neither now, you'll feel like you have missed on something. If you didn't have a social life before but you have a great one now, well you won't care anyway about the past.

It's just your brain masturbating, a condition that happens when you don't have much to worry about.

5- Your first priority is your health. If your health necessitates that you stop an "urgent" client project, then do it. Remember, current Medicine still can't help you with most injuries that can happen in work. And probably it'll cost more in medical fees than whatever you'll make in a few years if that was possible.
It's userContent.css ; userChrome.css is used to style the browser itself (the "chrome" of the browser, that is to say what is around the content: location bar, menus, etc. Yes the collision with this other Google browser is confusing these days, but Firefox/IE usage of the term predates Google Chrome, it's actually Google Chrome that hogged the term, not the other way).

But be careful, Electrolysis (multi-process firefox) broke userContent.css, if you are running it you'll have to either disable Electrolysis, or use Stylish. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1046166

I like userContent.css, it's a single css file, easy to understand/sync. Hope a fix will arrive someday.
I've always hated Cringely's opinions on Apple and this article is no exception. He has simply been wrong about them time and time again, yet people looking for FUD disguised as thoughtful criticism keep giving him hits. Apple, by every known metric known to the financial world, is doing spectacularly well. They are innovating at the same pace the always have, which has always been a brand new product category every 3-5 years with a series of incremental improvements on existing products from year to year. They absolutely dominate the wealthiest subset of the consumer market, and as such, they can seek rent for the next 10-20 years and continue to make money hand-over-fist for themselves and their investors without ever introducing a new product again. But they're going to continue to innovate just like they always have, and that innovation is going to be met with skepticism, ridicule, and dismissiveness just as it always has been. Bet against Apple at your own peril. Having closely followed them since 2003 when I made the switch to OS X myself, I've yet to see a single indication that they have made anything but the best business decisions of any company during that same period (possibly ever).
Actually we needed such a list and we asked people about it, with close to zero answers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12786982

After looking arround for a while, we decided to make what we found public.
I'd expect it to pay off... eventually. This would be the sort of thing where I'd expect it to take a decade, easily -- the idea being, as you point out, to snap up all the new talent. Eventually someone will hit, but it might take a while. (Yes, some writers may well object, but that is orthogonal to which ones will write hits.)
It sounds like what he is saying is that it hasn't helped his creativity though, and he's been compromising his creativity up until now..
That's too hard. Let's just precision carpet bomb them and let God sort it out. Any problems 20 years from now will be the next incumbent's problem.
Wait till these companies get picked up by private equity. Them we'll see how long that loyalty to employees lasts. Heh, heh.
Don't they already do that with the Time Machine?
Apple has gone cheap. That's what is wrong. The Late 2012 Mac Mini I bought recently died for no apparent reason. It had upgradeable hard disks and memory. The 2014 version I just replaced it with has 4GB of RAM soldered onto the board and the case is designed not to be opened at all. That is just one small example, but a) the one I had shouldn't have died, and b) the replacement isn't anywhere as good as the old one.

Apple, I'm done. You fucked me and I'm done.
Rushing into marriage and not taking more chances with my career. Both I Attribute to depression.
Not kind of regret but yeah painful: I have been earning by writing software for more than a decade yet I never considered myself a professional programmer. I kept thinking I am some guy that fits well for RnD and Analysis kind of work thus did not dig deep in programming and polished which I am doing now, after a decade.
> And as IBM reported a couple weeks ago, even at higher prices, Macs tend to be cheaper to own. I’m writing this on a mid-2010 non-Retina 13-inch MacBook Pro I bought six years ago last June. Yes, over time I increased the memory to from four to 16 gigs, took the hard drive up from 240 gigs to a terabyte Fusion drive, replaced both the battery and the keyboard when they wore out, but that still puts me only about $1600 into this device with which I have so far generated well over $1 million in revenue.

My own experience with Apple's computers has been similar. The last Apple I purchased was a MacBook Pro back in 2006/7 that lasted me a solid eight years, including three in an extremely hot and dusty environment. The only problem it ever had was a faulty optical drive (and I did always have lots of trouble with Apple's laptop optical drives). But that is just one more individual experience.

Anyway, I don't know that "revenue generated while using the computer" really says anything at all. And I doubt Apple would come out ahead in that calculation industry wide.
In all seriousness I've often wondered if there is anything multiplicative in the semantics of the situations where people use the word "factor".
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Go Cringely! Very interesting proposition. I am a believer that when we free ourselves from surviving day to day (to which we are pretty close), that the creatives will be the people in the highest demand. Or at least I can dream of such a day.
I started climbing, people at the bouldering wall or at outdoor routes are awesome.

Why is it so great? The control over your body. The feeling awesome and powerful. It has made my life a whole lot less stressful as well, even though I do more.

If you don't have some kind of total physical exertion in your life I highly recommend getting one.
I didn't learn to play ball, but that didn't prevent me from having good friends (who also didn't play ball) and enjoying a rich sentimental life.
Quitting jobs.

I've quitted jobs without letting my employer that I was unhappy or disgruntled. In retrospect I should have let them know before I jumped ship; mainly because the grass is rarely greener on the other side and some of them could have changed.
May I ask what are you using to get media and crypto? As far as I know, Fedora doesn't ship media codecs (including mp3) and has limited cryptography, right?
They may be a darling of Wall Street, but they have jumped the shark technologically. You've already seen the peak.
I regret not structuring my life earlier. There is no way to accomplish something being carefree. It requires planning and dedication.
> You're only safe if you have offsite backups with drives that didn't mount to your computer recently.

Or doesn't mount to the source computer(s) at all.

My active machines push backups to intermediate locations, and the true backup locations pull from there and create snapshots. Status information used to verify the backup process is passed back the other way. The active machines don't (in fact can't) authenticate with the main backups and vice versa, reducing the likelihood that someone hacking into one can easily compromise the other at the same time.

I wouldn't expect the man on the street to muck around setting this up though, but many cloud backup solutions effectively do this if they don't have an easy "delete snapshot" API call or similar. I'm surprised that the "soft offline" backup side of it isn't marketed more actively. Maybe no one thinks they can adequately explain the benefit to the man on the street without putting them off by it being a little more complicated than a simple file copy.
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Just the opposite. The sort of person who straightfacedly uses the term "virtue signalling" is also likely to rail about how the SJWs are ruining civilization.
I really sucked at soccer and such (I was always the last one picked when making teams). It didn't prevent me from performing well in individual sports, and it had no incidence at all in my social life. You could always socialize with other kids that weren't into this type of sports. (I grew up in France too).
I've personally had those OWC drives die on me four times now.
What is going to happen imho:

Apple is doing and will do a shitload of money anyway.

People will buy Apple stuff anyway because people already are: unless you are an Apple user, you should know how "religious" (I'm being kind here) Apple users are. They have been consciously been buying outdated and overpriced hardware until now, and they have been super proud about this too.

Also, unless Apple software actively gets in the way of users doing their stuff it is all going to be "okay".

So this is going to last anything from five to ten years at least, still imho.

I have no true idea whether newer apple stuff is so bad or not (besides the idiotic drop of the audio jack on the iPhone). But Apple users have been subject to this Apple-isy for literally decades.

I have a suspicion that now that Apple Macbook Pros are so widespread, complaining about Apple is the new hipsteria.

This is what I feel, reading the news, on a foggy October, almost-November morning.
When OS X was released, this claim to fame was more exciting than it is today. Nowadays, Linux / GNU dominates what it means to be a mainstream Unix-like operating system.

The extent to which other *nixen deviate from this determines how much of an uphill battle one will face. And I say this as a lover of OpenBSD, and someone who wishes Linux weren't such a dominating de facto standard.

But the Open Group--I can't think of one reason why UNIX certification has mattered for a good number of years now.
RAM is pretty reliable so I'm not really worried. One thing I just realized though is that 20GB is probably the absolute max for this machine. Since there are 4GB on the board and the chipset can only do 32GB it's pretty likely that 4+16GB will end up being the maximum.

I've opened the machine and it's a shame they don't just give us 2 DIMM slots and 2 (or 4) M.2 slots so you can just splurge on some more RAM+SSD goodness.
Just offensive and very stupid article. Regret for the lost time.
You have to understand that anycast comes from ISP/networking people, who are biased towards network level solutions for anything and don't care about hard numbers, no matter how badly anycast looks there.

EDIT: Anyway, resilience, just like security, needs a threat model to avoid wasting resources on things that don't actually work, otherwise it's all just hype.
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Nice. I'll be buying.