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I don't see this being useful for real programs, but it could be amazing for interactive use in a shell. I use iPython for all sorts of quick data manipulation daily, and being able to just quickly type an idea and get it would be amazing.
Full disclosure: I switched to Ubuntu on my 2009 MacBook Pro in 2012 or so. That's why I included a winky face in the original reply ;)

But since then I've found myself on Arch Linux on a ThinkPad X220. I love Arch! Default packages configurations are great. Although it requires some significant knowledge of the system to install & maintain, it's very stable and documentation is great. I find it to be much more stable than Ubuntu, in the sense that if something goes unexpectedly, there's going to be detailed documentation about what exactly is going on. With Ubuntu, the changes in the underpinnings of the system are enshrouded in a certain amount of mystery outside of the developer circle.

Upgrading by a major version means that your whole system might switch, for example, from upstart to systemd. This is something you will likely find out through trial and error when something does wrong. Whereas in Arch, everything is transparent.

I'm using Gnome 3, which has matured quite a bit and is very nice with the touch screen.
I would recommend Elementary OS to non powerusers because of the easy look and feel. KDE neon is also based on Ubuntu (Xenial LTS) but has way more stuff and tweaks. Just try both
I'm pretty happy with Debian on my ASUS ZenBook UX305FA (for the past week). Refurbished one for ~$500.

Everything more-or-less "just worked" after installing.
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I'm not the person who opined that Steve Jobs became a billionaire because he won the sociopath lottery.

I'm not sure what was passive or aggressive about my reply. Feel free to explain it to me.
> I'm saying it's not a useful method to change an adult's behavior.

I disagree. I think the only thing that really changes adult behavior is showing them that their behavior violates moral standards that they agree with. (Well, or that it's financially better for them to change...)
Personally, I'm kind of amused by the appalled and horrified tech bloggers I see posting about the sky falling. I keep reading about "life long" Apple users threatening to switch ecosystems because of an SD card slot. Or function keys. I mean, people must step through A LOT OF CODE to have that impact this kind of decision.

My perspective is biased by my moving in the opposite direction. I'm just in the process of considering a transition TO Apple after being a lifelong windows user. My current build is a top of the line XPS 15 (2015). It's... disappointing. The touchpad already broke. I went through at least 3 warranty visits before the wifi finally worked halfway decent. Windows is becoming less and less what I want it to be. I use it purely for coding, but when I do jump online for a few minutes it manages to be slower than my ipad. Basically, I want a simple, fast, productivity OS that just works (sorry). I don't want it to show me ads and I'm beyond the point where I derive any satisfaction whatsoever from tinkering or configuring it to be perfect. I just want it to work well and work consistently.

Although consensus seems to be that their software is getting worse, from what I see it feels like Apple is the one making the devices that can accomplish what I'm looking for - and a big part of that is the hardware. Still, I'm interested to hear what people say about elementary OS.
That's a fair point. On the other hand, should I be able to sue the travel agency through which I bought my tickets if the airline company is found to be discriminatory?
I will choose the non-Apple laptop, because I already have a late 2013 rMBP, which still runs fine and I find in many ways superior to the new MBP.

Hopefully it will be a Dell XPS 15"or Lenovo ThinkPad P50, as I just can't stand working with any screen smaller than 15". And then I'll dual boot Windows + Linux or even triple boot Windows + Linux + *BSD.
They already did, it's the Windows Store
But back then, Siberia hadn't melted yet. Neither had the polar ice cap. Nor every significant glacier on the planet. We hadn't entered a series of unstable record-setting years wet/dry/hot/cold without ceasing.

So yea it seems funny or harmless if you ignore what's happened since.
This is awesome. But how is `time_delay` used?
Yes. Why would developers optimize for the platform that the majority of users use? Truly a question for the ages.
Yeah, I moved here about two years ago.

The other big difference between LA and SF is like, the penalty for not working close to where you live is absolutely brutal. Taking BART or the subway is moderately annoying, but driving from the Silver Lake to Venice every day is absolutely horrifying.

So in Venice you got Google and Snapchat, although apparently most of Google is getting moved down to Playa Vista, you got a handful of small startups, lots of VR companies led by people with media rather than technical backgrounds (maybe that's fine?), and that's about it.

Nearby you got EA in Playa del Rey (kill me), you got some old companies in Santa Monica and a couple more startups that don't seem interesting necessarily.

Even SpaceX is a pretty far cruise from the Santa Monica/Venice area, but there are a bunch more companies that hire engineers in that El Segundo area, but not necessarily ones that you would want to work at.

It's interesting, certainly, and I think the Snapchat IPO will lead to a lot of rich guys suddenly turning angel and so on. LA has basically never had any real exits until very recently (dollar shave, snapchat), which has limited the development of the ecosystem. Every old guy in LA is like "did you know I founded Myspace?" Based on my time in LA, I would have to estimate the number of founders of Myspace around 3-500. Also stamps dot com.

In summary, I would say LA is pretty much like New York City circa 2005.

The complete secret weapon of LA though is UCLA. The quality of graduates coming out of UCLA computer science is staggering, and from the hiring side, they're not competed for or recruited as heavily as say Stanford kids.
Or maybe they knew all that, being the communication gurus that they claim to be, and it was a desperate move to be bought, essentially saying: "hey MS you got cash and loads of engineers but you can still fail at that because _reasons_; we have the know-how, consider buying us too". J/k, but who knows.
Nice idea with Jasonette, but it only works for UI rendering, nothing more complex beyond that, right?
If anyone here wants to grab a $BEVERAGE sometime, hit me up. I just moved here and I'm looking for like minded people. Email is in my profile.
The outrageous price increase is my only problem with the new hardware. I just saved $450 by buying a refurbished 2015 Macbook which has the exact same computing power as the new model.
It seems like it's you who have painted me in black and white. Who says I can't recognize flaws in the democrats? But it seems obvious that the flaws in the Republican party are much, much worse.
This is more like the corporate legend of McDonald's. It actually has very little to do with what McDonald's became when Ray Kroc got his hands on it, and that's literally only introduced in the last line of the article.
They provided a way with the Windows Store
Wow - I never thought I'd see the day when someone said I need a mac to use Excel :)

I understand your point - Calc is great for opening spreadsheets and doing minor spreadsheet stuff, but can be a major pain for anything more.
> I think the easiest solution would be just not to use web fonts at all.

Here's another option: plain text.

That's right. You can have webpages that are plain text without any HTML formatting, and they will render.

Here is an example file:

This is text.

This is the absolute best way of presenting web content. No one will complain.
That doesn't make them right, or me wrong.
A company that built lasting products of high quality wouldn't earn profits? Hmmmmmm[0]

[0] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAAPL&fstype=ii&ei=...
Also not an employee, but the major difference between udacity and the ITT (sh*t school that it was) is the vendor created nano-degrees, the pay-as-you-go structure, and the ability to learn real world things.
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"Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile"

Yeah, you guys (who, exactly?) keep saying that, and it keeps walking further away from the truth, no matter the pressure (from whom, exactly?) to make the World swallow it.

Everytime this subject comes to light I can only picture one technology in my mind: Java Applets.
That looks like a decline and stagnation to me.
On a 4 yo Retina and couldn't be happier. I'd be paying to upgrade a fraction of a Ghz. It's Intel's fault not Apple's, but still don't see the need I did 4 years ago.

I've been using my laptop a bunch in my bed though, the Surface Book is detachable, and a Razer Core could give me multiple monitors when I need it.

It's probably going to be a year before another Apple innovation, and at this point the only thing holding me back from switching is the feeling that these other options have some sort of catch. Instability that will make me throw it out a window, or being ignored by the largely Apple development community.

The LinkedIn/Slack stuff is nice, but Microsoft should just invest hundreds of millions on improving Windows dev projects like VSCode.
The Wikipedia page seems like it gives a good overview of Whiley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiley_(programming_language)
This is so funny. Kudos to the author!
Always the latest and greatest KDE applications und OS updates based on a rolling release (but the core is Ubuntu Xenial LTS). I guess there is no easy way to migrate a whole macOS system to a Linux based one (like having a iOS app that states "Click here and all data is being migrated to iOS from your old Android phone")
Do not do that then.
Mattermark has had so much turnover that they took the team page down.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160903075336/https://mattermar...
> I won't reiterate my complaints with my GoPro camera because I've bitched enough already on HN.

Yeah. Too much of that and they might issue another fraudulent DMCA takedown.
In the end the only way to fix this is probably to leave the company if you can. If senior leadership doesn't see a problem there isn't much you can do.
What else would you expect? The CEO took his money when the stock hit ~100 [1]. He didn't even wait for the lockup period to expire. The suckers left holding the stock have ridden it to the bottom, expecting it to takeoff any moment now... but if the CEO thought it would reach ~100, wouldn't he have waited?

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/02/investing/gopro-charity-shar...
Is there any useful data on web vs mobile app usage? I remember reading http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/28/think-the-web-vs-mobile-ap... (it might have been posted here), that suggested only in the USA was the mobile app king, and the much larger markets of East Asia preferred to browse the web. But not sure how representative their data source is.
In this case, the Chinese originally were not copying anything, GoPro just sourced the cameras from a CM here in Shenzhen, putting the GoPro name on it. I suspect the relationship stayed much the same through Hero 2 & 3, with the CM driving the design improvements in the camera.
You're right, maybe it is better for prototyping, but as I've experienced, for better or worse what you prototype sometimes becomes production.
I had removed it only from the displayed apps. A minute later I real8zed and properly uninstalled it, then the ad stopped. There is no doubt that it was this app, it fronted itself every time the ad displayed.
Will Incentives Kill the P2P Revolution?
Aren't Australians encouraged to not write "fuck you" and things on the ballots as people sarcastically participate? [0]

Couldn't you just do the exact same thing with "valid votes" and say the same thing that the parent has said?

[0] - http://www.techly.com.au/2016/06/30/australia-votes-whats-do...
I don't plan on moving away from Apple hardware. Apple hardware isn't always the best bang for the buck, but the software ecosystem seems much more usable to me. Occasionally Apple makes changes that irritate me, but none have been so horrible as to chase me off. Yet, anyway.
Anyone else tinkering with / armchair philosophizing about ways of making stuff like this practical for regular use?
Chrome for Android is only open source as of a few months ago. Before that, the UI was entirely proprietary.
It's not. The windows store is limited to their provider. The linux system allow any provider to plug itself.
The new MacBook Pro refresh is too expensive. $700 CAD more than the equivalent 2013 model. I'm not going to pay that much for a Touch Bar that is a neat addition, but is not something I would opt into as an optional paid upgrade.

I will be waiting for the next model, and if pricing doesn't drop by then, it will likely be the moment I need to look elsewhere.

$2799 + tax = $3200 for my 2013 was right at the boundary of what I am willing to pay. $3499 + tax = $4000 is going too far.

To answer the OP's direct question: if it's an employer paying, then yes I am taking a MacBook over anything else.
Syria is next to Turkey (which is itself populated by a lot of Central Asians; Turkmen are not native of Turkey), which is next to Europe. These two countries and Lebanon are on the morphological boundary between "Europeans" and "Arabs". (This is a gross simplification.)
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With so much changing, old "lock-in" factors don't really apply. New power cord. New monitor adapters. I think the switching cost feels like getting a different brand already, so it's natural to investigate alternatives

Plus, I would like more memory. 32 gigs specifically. My dev environment plus all of these electron apps like slack are filling up 16 gigs fairly consistently.
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It's complicated.

I won't be switching yet, because all my Apple kit is <2 years old. Barring some sort of disaster, I'll have it for another couple years at least.

But they're definitely on watch, as far as I'm concerned. It's not just that I'm disappointed by the new hardware. It's that their software - the real thing that got me to switch to Apple in the first place - is getting increasingly bad. The bundled apps, both for OS X and iOS, are a UX basket case of early 2000s Windows Media Player proportions. I wish I could go back to the skeuomorphic era; those apps were goofy but at least they didn't do shit like quietly deleting music from my phone "to free up space" when I still have 8 gigabytes to spare.

And I'm getting more and more pissed at Apple for harassing me 5+ times a day to upgrade iOS, which I am not going to do because, seriously, now is not a good time for me to do any OS upgrades and I really wish they could understand that I do not live my life by their schedule. But Microsoft sure doesn't do great on that latter point either, and I have definitely lost work when my Win 8 VM decided to reboot itself without my permission. At least Apple is polite about being a dick to me over the OS upgrades.

That said, 2 years is a while, and both companies could go either way from here. And as far as I'm concerned, Unix running Windows in a VM is no less functional than Windows running Unix in a VM.

But Microsoft is shipping hardware I care about, whereas Apple seems like it's ready to charge back into the hockey puck mouse era. I switched to Apple as my primary platform at home just after that period ended, so it'd be fitting to switch away when it starts again.

About the only thing I'm confident is unlikely to happen is that I go back to Linux as my primary OS, because, seriously, Linux as a desktop OS is like something out of a Samuel Beckett play.
Question: if other groups are so proud of rejecting people in tech, why should people in tech be expected to be welcoming towards outsiders. The way I see it, if you get to have your cool hip location for yourself, we should get to have our trillion dollar industry for ourselves.
Technically, those utilities were originally BSD, but Apple took them and modified them and did not release the sources back into BSD. So they're not really BSD anymore.
Edits get reviewed before being published.
"I want someone who can do everything."
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Went to a Microsoft store to buy a Surface Book. They are very expensive and have roughly same specs as a MacBook Pro. I really like the look and feel of the Surface Book and I was hoping it would replace my MacBook Pro + iPad Pro. I'm still mulling over the purchase since the keyboard froze up when I was checking it out and it reminded me why I went to Macs 10 years ago.
If google were nefarious, they can secretly ship a new version that supports both versions of the protocol, wait weeks, months, or even years for it to become installed almost everywhere, and then silently remove support for the old version from their servers.

That would give microG zero time to prevent their software from working uninterrupted.
No, I still run Adobe apps frequently and have switched back and forth between Macs and Windows a couple times; have settled on the Mac mostly for build quality (especially touchpad performance), nicer OS experience, and Time Machine.
its filled with vitamin a.
wait, are you saying that bill mitchell is now a better analyst because of that?
> But is it a bad thing for the population to not be fully in charge? Isn't the point of "tyranny of the majority" that sometimes the majority can/will make the wrong decision?

People have very different opinions on this. I think if you're going to take away peoples' natural freedom and subject them to the yoke of government,[1] it is a moral imperative that they, not holy men, control that apparatus.

[1] Which I think is necessary--I have no anarchist leanings.
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What was the last version of MySQL you gave a serious shot? Have you used the replication features of both? What kind of scale have you run postgres at?

Postgres certainly wins in terms of features, though most of those features aren't required by the vast majority of web apps, so "more features" isn't necessarily a reason for most people to favor Postgres by default. Which features of postgres which aren't present in MySQL would you not want to live without?

You also called MySQL a toy in terms of stability compared to Postgres. What experiences shaped this opinion?

For an anecdote, I work at a relatively large SaaS company which runs over 300 MySQL servers in production, over 600 if you include QA. We specifically run percona-server because it's basically the enterprise version of MySQL, and percona makes some great tools. (We use the free version of percona and do not pay for percona support). We have a single DBA who manages all of those servers full time. I work in ops/SRE and touch MySQL here occasionally, but mostly just to touch the OS, monitoring systems, automation systems, etc on those machines. So overall, our ratio of admins to MySQL servers is basically 2:600, which makes me consider it not a toy (especially in comparison to the number of people it take to manage the other data services we run). As far as stability goes, we were rock solid on MySQL 5.6, but hit a few serious bugs on MySQL 5.7 (two memory leak bugs in plugins, and one in the core that caused a crash), all of which have been resolved as of 5.7.12. 5.7 is an extremely major release in terms of features and performance, so I'm willing to let a few bugs slide here.

We run many different types of data services, mysql/hadoop/hbase/kafka/redis/zookeeper/elasticsearch/etc, adding postgres to the mix has always been of interest to some devs who want a postgres feature here and there. I personally like both MySQL and postgres, but it seems that MySQL may be more mature in terms of operations (tooling and replication/HA) and performance. I love ops work, so to me, more services means more fun and I've advocated to add postgres in the past, but it's tough to find reasons to push for it.

Unfortunately, now I've gotten away from the topic of "boring" stack to use, but in general, I think the choice for a "boring" database would be MySQL, while postgres is shinier and more advanced. There are a lot more people using MySQL in the wild and virtually every language and framework supports it. I typically view postgres as a more hip open source database, due to its interesting features and niche of developers who really really love it, whereas MySQL is the popular option, that gets the job done, and mostly lacks enthusiastic supporters. People just use it because it's easy and works. That said, it's easy to see how people could have different opinions on which of these is the "boring" choice because both are perfectly reasonable choices. When not operating at a big scale, mostly default installations of both MySQL and postgres will get you quite far and are pretty comparable to manage.
Thanks for the response. Although not ideal, I am stuck with using crypto at the DB level. Based on what you said; running something like vault (running as a separate user from the DB) and accessing it using the HTTP API + TLS client cert seems like the way to go.
> Especially if it's not clear there's an option to say "idk".

There is: you don't go to vote.
> Many samples needed, especially in high dimensions

This isn't true. For Monte Carlo sampling, the convergence of unbiased estimators (for example the expectation) is independent of the dimension of the state space. In fact, this is exactly the reason to prefer Monte Carlo integration over, say, a Riemann sum.
Two questions:

(1) "Solid Academic Background" is defined... how, precisely?

(2) And the predictive power of "solid academic background" with respect to "about to grow fast" is based on... what, precisely? (Other than something vague like: "everyone knows that solid academic credentials correlates with success").
Awesome. Now we just need to integrate upwork with our IDE so I can just write the method signature and a bid price and my method will be magically implemented.
That's exactly my point. You are unwilling to accept the properties of your medium. You just say "it sucks" and fight with it. You're like an acrylic painter who complains that oil dries slowly and keeps designing for acrylics, and everything comes out smudgy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Technical_Institute

"By 1999, ITT Corporation (which had merged with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide the year before) had divested itself completely of ITT Tech's shares. The schools were allowed to continue using the "ITT" name under license."
Reagan getting almost 50% more votes than Mondale is close to you?
That'd also be a valuable-ish service - have someone with bad reviews apply very early to competitor's places during big events, for the sole purpose of getting denied and preventing actual costumers from renting from places that aren't yours.
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I think that Uber is organized per city, at least on the business side. I'm talking about cities as used in [1]. I'm not even sure that you can do inter-city rides using Uber.

1: https://www.uber.com/cities/
It gets better when you consider that Intel et al. depend on them.
Thinkpad x260 + whatever unbuntu
haha is this a joke? Apple basically forces you to upgrade your phone every two years, by releasing a mandatory OS update that makes older phones slow as dirt.

I'm talking about my mom's 1957 Ford pickup that still runs great today. I'm talking about the Ostrisizer can opener from the 1970s that my family still uses in their kitchen. 5 years lifetime for a $800 product is not "built to last".