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Yeah, pretty much this. If you get macOS to pop out an error that it can't find Finder (especially on 10.11>, which has SIP), you dun pretty goofed. macOS (especially with SIP) is by far the most stable of the big three OSes. Windows its shortcomings are known, but as far as Linux goes (numbering is only for clarity):

1. No default power management. Why isn't TLP installed and activated by default on systems that are known to work with it? Macbooks get 12-13h on macOS vs 5h on Linux. The XPS13 gets 22h on Windows vs 11h(!) on Linux. Ubuntu 16.04 on my MBP 13" 2015 gets 7h with TLP and Powertop configured, so even with those tools there's still a very large discrepancy.

2. Package hell. Yes, shared libraries have advantages. No, they don't outweigh the benefits of containerizing. By now (with 'Snappy Packages' and 'Flatpak' getting bigger) its finally getting fixed, but still.

3. There is no unified repo, and no unified package manager. There's Pacman, RPM, apt, etc. etc. and if you switch distro's you have to re-learn. Now I understand that this is due to each distro being like a micro-country, but imagine this: 3x3 unified repos (free, non-free and community) each with 3 levels (bleeding edge, testing, stable). All distros could(would) tap into these repos, so you combine the efforts of every distro its maintainers. Same for the package manager development. For distro-specific stuff the distros could just use a separate repo

4. UI. There's 2 different UI toolkits (QT and GTK) that both are configured differently, behave slightly differently and thus something (usually the QT apps since GTK is used more often) feels 'off'. This split also gives issues with scaling sometimes. macOS does this perfectly with pretty much everything using Cocoa and having all options on the menubar. Saving is always under 'file', and 'file' is always in the same location. Same for 'Edit', 'View', etc. So far only Ubuntu replicates this, and they do it for a good reason.

And those are only a few of my pet peeves. Here's a full list by someone that has much better knowledge of Linux than me. Quite staggering really.[0]

[0]https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...
That's such an inethical way to do it. You're suggesting that we just let it learn from wrecks in the real world, instead of trying to prevent those wrecks by other means? This, the Tesla strategy, feels despicable.
I've had various issues on two separate clean installs of Windows 10 in the last two weeks, one of which was the start menu being broken, and the user profile being damaged to the point where I had to do a full reinstall. Official App Store apps don't install for various reasons (Onedrive) or become damaged etc.

I guess this may be a case of 'grass being greener' as suggested by someone else in this thread. I just don't seem to remember having any of these issues on my 2010 Macbook Pro running El Capitan. Then again, this is purely anecdotal.
The bag of microwavable popcorn that I get from Advanced Circuits in CO did get me to mention them to other people. It's a good strategy.
That makes sense. When you're moving around the house when working then a laptop is a necessity.
It's an interesting point you bring up - no street cred and actually that's the whole basis of my question here. Given no 'street cred', how do we get our first clients. And your comment makes sense but then we do have industry experience working in 'big firms'. Maybe we can leverage that in some way? I mean what all can we do to have some street cred before actually having a first client? What do you think? Any street smart ways to do that? :)
Saving The World might be Thiel's biggest mistake.
It switched back in a later version
Moon landing truthers get pretty much almost no time with anyone of consequence, so they are already well black listed. Rogan at least lets you see what is inside of the minds of these people, which is fascinating in itself. No subject, no matter how distasteful or apparently false, should be completely eradicated from the human dialog, even if only to reconfirm your distaste for it.
In english you can use the male form for cases where gender isn't specified. This still works for either a man or a woman.
:) yes, I thought so, that's why I used soccer to make the distinction... but I didn't knew football allowed such intense communication during the game, and it would be funny to see a quarterback trying to read his pulse while he's being tackled.
Never before have so many Mac users switched to Microsoft Surface Pros
LIGO Black Hole Echoes Hint at General-Relativity Breakdown
It's nice to see that private individuals are stepping in to make a difference. The Obama administration was terrible at picking winners to back; I think tech types will do a much better job, especially considering it's their money.
The numbers point to China first, how does that not worry you? You say they can do massive changes in a few decades, you could say that about anyone even the U. S. and we're still far from where we should be. Just because current policy looks like they "heading" that direction this doesn't hold much weight.

China is going to do what is best for them economically, while I'd say it's probably smart to invest and make strides now they might not see it that way. I also don't blame them because we had years throughout the industrial revolution with no penalty to get booming. They could view this as it's their turn to crank out everything they can.
There's plenty of entry level employees "read single males" who are putting in 12 x 5 at work then, going home and pursue whatever hobby they now suddenly have money to pursue until 1am every day. It's still less of a time commitment than raising young kids.
I think 'one' would be better than 'their' as one is undoubtedly singular, where 'their' hints at being plural.

The entire sentence could be rewritten to use 'their', but I think simply swapping our 'his' with 'their' could change what is being said.
The Dover facility (which in case of an imminent all-out nuclear exchange supposedly would've accommodated the Royal Family as well) was shut down (or never really commissioned) in the early 1970s because someone found out that chalk rock is permeable to nuclear fallout ...

So, I'm sure that despite the effort the UK Government was well aware of its futility.
Onsite engineers for UAT and rapid bug fix turnaround. Most bugs reported from customers, during UAT, are fixed by the next morning for another round of testing. This is not always the case, but for most issues, we turn them around in less than 12 hours and the customer is blown away.

This happens ~4 times/year for major releases.
Full fledged intellisense in visual studio for dynamic languages. I typically use static languages so it isn't much of a problem but when using something like Boo it becomes much more noticeable pain
Can you explain how you reach the 30 year figure? There's a lot of evidence suggesting that they will be available in some places under certain conditions in 3 years or less. Google and Tesla seem to think so, and they're the current experts on this.
Yeah, I got the feeling that they fake news author was feeding his agenda with that narrative. It was really strange to see so many people taking the statements of a confessed liar at face value.

Naivity and foolishness are not partisan traits.
... all this happening, and people are driving around in 1960's supercharged sports cars.

Umm, yeah.
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I'm glad you're having a good experience with the new MBP.

However, I wouldn't plug a $.70 adapter into a $3000 computer. Maybe you should splurge and spend $10 on the Apple adapter.
At my last job, my title was "Vice President" (against my preference). There were five of us. I was Vice President over nobody, and spent all my time doing the same things I do (programming computers) at my current job with the title "software architect". If titles didn't used to be meaningless, startup culture has rendered them so.
I'd imagine its more on explosive yields. 178 detonations in 1962 spaced out versus 50 weapons of the multi-megaton variety within short succession.
I second this. I've got one at home and one at my office; it's a solid display all-around and excellent for dev work. The value for the price is outstanding, especially if you get one from Amazon Warehouse Deals for about $50 off new, as I managed to do twice without the slightest imperfections. (I bought "Used - Very Good" condition.)

Edit: I have the 24" version of this display, what's linked is the 27". I imagine the quality is comparable; whether the value is better or worse may depend on how many centimeters you want between your nose and your monitor. ;-)
Fantastic machines, even better Linuxed-up :-)
The thing that bugs me is that companies are mindlessly copying Apple.

PC makers are basically copying Apple's implementation of trackpads without consideration to the execution. They spend a lot of time copying the superficial features of the Apple track pads, but no time on the actual functionality of the trackpads.
I considered all these issues and just ordered the new XPS 13 Dev Edition. I'm a bit nervous about making the change (and the rest of my ecosystem is macOS/iOS), but kinda excited.
What do you mean by "attitude towards customers"? This has always been a selling point for me. Especially if I have an issue with a device, I can get it solved quickly without being made to feel stupid by a CSR.
Additionally, I feel they present opposing opinions with proper weight and fairness (before arguing against these points), so you never quite feel totally in the dark about the full controversy.
If you're on iOS 10 you can 'remove' (more akin to the 'disable' function on Android) them. However, this also kills functionality associated with that app. You can't say 'hey Siri what song am I hearing' if you have removed the Music app.
Yes, basically try to do all things that build up confidence in you and your team. Thanks for your reply!
With the open office concept, meeting rooms are impossible for us as well no matter what time it is :)
I guess I was hiding under a rock. I did not see the original post nor the comment that ended the experiment. But I can go days without looking at HN. I try not let is be days but life gets in the way.

I like the mostly reflective ability of HN users to analyze the situations. Very metacognition like. My opinion is that HN is better than many forums anyway.
The Russian Avant-Garde Rising in ‘A Revolutionary Impulse’
I dunno, maybe I've completely missed the point in his writing, but I just tried reading "The Wisdom of Insecurity" and it seemed like almost complete nonsense to me. There were definitely a few passages that were very insightful, but the other 90% (at least to me) was incoherent rambling.
This. "Time is money" is a two way street.
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The cloud key is $79 that they sell. It is the simplest solution by far.
Mind pointing out specifics of what is "namecalling and misinformation"?
> It's definitely something I'm trying to feel out.

Good on you. Knowing where where you want to go is a large part of the battle.
It reminds me of the XY problem [1] that plagues both our field and any other field where one can devise a solution to a problem without formalism or thoroughly understanding what's being solved.

> The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem. This leads to enormous amounts of wasted time and energy, both on the part of people asking for help, and on the part of those providing help.

> - User wants to do X.

> - User doesn't know how to do X, but thinks they can fumble their way to a solution if they can just manage to do Y.

> - User doesn't know how to do Y either.

> - User asks for help with Y.

> - Others try to help user with Y, but are confused because Y seems like a strange problem to want to solve.

> - After much interaction and wasted time, it finally becomes clear that the user really wants help with X, and that Y wasn't even a suitable solution for X.

I'm sure that's not the name of the phenomenon you are asking but it is certainly a closely related one.

[1] http://xyproblem.info/
Gotcha! thanks for your reply!
If you're doing full-cloud then a chromebook is the best value.
> The fundamental problem sounds like it's that SQLite insists on not running in its own thread.

Pretty much all apps DO have SQLite running on its own thread, or at least a background thread pool of some sort. Android gets very cranky at the developer if they don't do this - there's tons of warnings, both runtime and in the form of lint. Database access, or anything involving fsync(), is exceptionally rare on the UI thread or any user-latency-critical thread.
You're speculating about what's not possible. Considering that the upside of telomere breakthrough is so enormous, why don't we also speculate on what might be possible?

You can grow fresh skin, new legs, new arms, and a new heart by having a baby. A baby comes from your cells in which telomeres have been reset. If it possible for you to generate fresh skin, legs, etc. for a baby, there might be a way, hypothetically, for you to regenerate your own skin and legs using some similar mechanism.
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Sounds like you were looking for excuse to go back to Apple.
These matters come in degrees, so global warming is a credible threat with supporting evidence. Everlasting damnation is not a credible threat, since we've never had anyone come back to life and demonstrate the damages. I'm not holding my breath :)

So the answer to the question, "am i at risk of everlasting damnation?" would be at the top of the page: No we haven't seen any evidence to support everlasting damnation. Don't censor anything, just push it out of view to the degree it's damaging. Cancer claims made by religions go on page 2. You should have to work to get bad information, not the other way around.

Let them sue to have their story at the top, their argument is not going to hold up. You've used evidence (or lack thereof) to come to your conclusion. And what have they got, an appeal to emotion?

The truth is out their for people to see. Was I robbing the liquor store? No, work has me on camera at the time the robbery took place. Slam dunk. Will god cure my cancer? Not that we know of, but here is some medications you ought to take or you're likely to die. And here is our study showing that. And you've used these study standards before to great benefit when you've flown, used your cellphone and ate your food.
You wouldn't even need 100mph speedlimits if self-driving cars can avoid some of the common high-traffic pitfalls [eg traffic waves [1]]

It's likely that even at equal or higher density, self-driving cars will be able to have higher throughput with comparable speed limits.

Initially, though, it might be sufficient to "encourage" them by allowing them in commuter lanes. [this should even be trivial, because it should be pretty easy to find passengers uber-pool style if adding passengers would improve the trip]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_wave
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Gaming a metric your employer uses to evaluate you isn't inherently immoral or dishonest.
Quick q:
My understanding is that the unifi controller doesn't actually control anything actively, it just serves as UI to the APs. When my controller box goes down, I don't seem to notice any service difference with my 3 APs.

Is that true?
Ah! Gotya. Understood. Sorry for the mixup!
I was under the impression there is a doc someplace that talks about the local interface. My google foo failed me.
There's no real difference with what serde_codegen does, and what the compiler does for expanding macros. It's just expanding to source rather than raw AST.

The idea would be that these types would be put into a library (or just another module) that's used by the rest of the app. There wouldn't be duplication of these structures. It's not ideal, which is why we are working on stabilizing the compiler features to do away from codegen.
This type of thinking is exactly why we are where we are today with Trump.

It's not an endorsement to have a conversation, for God's sake. People seem to have forgotten that freedom of speech includes the freedom to sound as stupid as you want. If it's so glaringly obvious to you that it's dumb, then have the confidence that others will find it dumb too. Don't deny people the opportunity to even talk with them because they're interested in what others have to say. You end up driving people underground, which is even more dangerous, like what happened with the Trump supporters, who were too afraid to even talk about the issues that were motivating them.
I borrowed an i7 Surface Book to work on a project, and couldn't imagine making it my primary laptop. The worst part was having friends constantly share tips for making Windows approximate a *nix environment... I'd need to rethink everything from a Windows click-menu-checkbox perspective to make it work.
Indeed. They purchased FingerWorks[1], a maker of obscure touchpad-based keyboards, in order to get their touchpad experts.

Most other companies would just integrate Synaptic's reference design and call it a day.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
Similar boat, my 13" (not maxed out) touch bar MBP arrived last week.

The touch bar works really well. I didn't anticipate this, but it's really slippery. Feels almost like it's coated in teflon. Your finger just glides on it, moreso than the trackpad. Wouldn't have occurred to me, but the slightly rougher surface gives your finger a better feel for trackpad movement. On the touchbar, it's very wide and 1-dimensional, and the low friction is perfect.

The screen is impressive. DCI-P3 does great reds, and better greens than sRGB (but not quite as saturated green as Adobe RGB's). It's also very bright. I rarely feel like I have to set it for maximum brightness, even when I'm plugged in.

Keyboard is great. It took me maybe a few hours to get used to it, and I like it better than the previous MBP keyboards.

Being able to plug in the power cord on either side isn't the biggest deal, but it's nice to have. When your outlet is on the right side, you just plug it straight in. No more looping the cord around and into the far side.

My previous laptop is a 13" MBA (2011), and the new MBP is both smaller and faster.

Honestly, I don't use external devices that much, and when I do, I'm at my desk 99% of the time. USB-C is no big deal to me. Right now I'm still carrying USB-A cables because that's what my power bank is, so carry a one USB-A to USB-C cable that I can use to connect my iOS things to the laptop, or in case I need to connect to someone else's external drive or something. My personal flash drive has both types of connector.

Probably won't be getting any of the fancy thunderbolt screens, but I may invest in a thunderbolt docking station to get power, ethernet, and my existing displayport screen all running on one cable. Awaiting reviews on any of those, and need to confirm that they handle DisplayPort multi-stream transport for 4K@60Hz.
Maybe it's my own experience, but I've only ever see a surfacebook at the MS flagship store.
Although price can sometimes be an indicator of quality, it doesn't necessarily mean quality. I think this is especially true when the alternative higher priced product has a lot of "Brand Value" that can be attributed to the higher price.
Inflammation = immune response, and isn't always detrimental

Yeah, you're right. I would say that one theory is that chronic inflammation can lead to Bad Things, but this is just areas of research at the moment and it's as diverse as types of inflammation.
If Norway indeed had the first endpoint, they surely would have opted to use Norsk Data computers rather than PDPs at the time, including coding up an IP ^H^H^H NCP stack for the SINTRAN OS (or its predecessor).
Park+ride combines more of the drawbacks of personal vehicles and public transportation than robocab+ride would. (Initial sunk cost, always having to return to your personal vehicle instead of free roaming using whatever mode and path available, requiring the personal vehicle being operational at all times)

Also, robocab+ride could work on both ends of the commute. Where I live, "office suburbs" tend to have transit connections just as bad as actual suburbs, or worse.
yea that's just not true.
I don't know enough to dispute this, but I'm curious what makes you so certain?
Great article! In Mexico the number one by far, is Whatsapp then Telegram. But Whatsapp is the best and the most popular, the telephone cariers give it for free.
Apple would love to release an upgraded MBP. Unfortunately, Intel's lack of support for low-power RAM is holding them back:

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/21/phil-schiller-again-breaks-do...
We already spend billions a year installing solar panels and windmills.

https://about.bnef.com/press-releases/clean-energy-investmen...
I feel like evolution would have weeded out significant waste from common systems shared among life. We may have been too quick to throw things we find in the junk pile instead of the "probably don't completely understand how this fits together yet" heap.
While I agree that it's more a minor annoyance than a dealbreaker (for me at least), the fact remains that there's a big difference between including a simple game or two and installing (or "suggestive-selling") a "freemium" money-sink from a third party.

Basically the way I look at it in order of annoyance/offensiveness:

- Free, standalone application made by same company (this is a free gift as far as I'm concerned)

- Free, standalone application made by another company (ok, this is starting to approach crapware but as long as it can be uninstalled and doesn't try to sell me anything, I'll deal)

- Link, installer, or preinstalled application that requires later purchase from same company (OK, this is an ad and pretty offensive)

- Link, installer, or preinstalled application requiring later purchase from third party (this is most certainly unwanted crapware that they were paid to include)
>Remember, the kind of people we have coming in government believe that one can electrocute the gay out of someone

Maybe he means it in the tongue in cheek "there's no disease that can't be treated with a 12ga slug" way. /s
I'm stuck working in Windows 10 right now due to VR only being supported by it. I spent around 8 hours getting AutoHotkey set up so that most of my shortcuts are back to Mac versions (I use mac keyboard, just can't beat it). The last missing link was Linux Subsystem for Windows. I now use my standard Vim setup and besides being limited to 16 colors (ugh), everything mostly just works.

I'd switch back to Mac given the choice, but the embarrassingly bad hardware specs make it a complete no-go for game development.

Edit: I also use Cmder to give me a very capable console window.
As a guy who uses the top bar of keys a lot, I wouldn't buy the new MBPs even for $500.

IMO that was a foolhardy decision; Macs are (were?) very popular amongst designers and programmers, why limit the accessibility of the keyboard? Do you realize how many strokes on the Esc key a VIM-using dev does per day?

It's as if Apple doesn't care about the professional audience anymore.

They should've offered a "touch bar" and "normal bar" variants for their laptops IMO.
I was a solid proponent of OSX for all development. I've only had to go through 2 macbooks in the better part of a decade, upgrading the OSX versions along the way ... and so, when it was time recently to buy macbook #3, I was actually a little sad that Apple's slipped so much recently and I had to go with an Asus zenbook (of course gutting windows 10 and running Ubuntu :-) Its running great, with none of the issues I was having with Mavericks.

yes, I would've liked to stick with Apple & OSX.
no, I don't feel I could and still be as productive as I need to be.