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More than a single event, it is the string of events which create the disappointment. While Apple is indeed bound by Intels schedule for CPU upgrades, this would not prevent Apple from regular other components in their devices.

A computer like the Mini should get yearly updates - and there is no good reason to solder in the memory. While it kept the very same design, it went from a quad-core i7 to a dual-core, with fixed memory. Which then stopped to be upgraded.

The versatile Mac Pro got replaced with the current can-like design, limiting the choices and then never got upgraded. If you make a machine which cannot be user-upgraded, please upgrade it every year. There is no good reason, there is no option for the current NVidia or AMD cards available.

The iMac is still one of the better offerings - I got the 5k after the last refresh. However, while this gives you the fastest CPU, it only offers mobile graphics performance. There is no good reason why its internals, especially the drive bay are not user-accessible. While having a gorgeous display, why for all its expensiveness does it not offer any kind of video-in? If it had the ability to accept HDMI or DisplayPort input and display them in a special application window, that would be just great.

Especially, if Apple does not focus on the desktop, why are they so reluctant to sell a more traditional desktop machine? Where the user can change the hardware, if Apple cannot be bothered to do it?

All of this just adds up - and while power users in the pre-can age had at least an expensive but powerful alternative, this does not longer exist. And the other choices also get more and more limited. So it should not come as a surprise, when even the most faithful supporters get frustrated.
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Whenever you look at a XPS you should always peek at the equivalent Precision machine (e.g. Precision 5510), there might be deals available. Also, although perhaps not applicable to your situation, the Precisions are usually more configurable than the XPS.
OneNote. I use it on all my devices, work laptop (ThinkPad), Surface Pro 3, and Galaxy Note 5. I prefer to take notes using a stylus.
Thanks, its an interesting topic but as I read it I started to think about someone coming along with a startup or a side project actually thinking this is something they would want to put effort into prematurely rather than putting more effort into more (cost and time) productive optimizations or the product itself.

I'm definitely going to store the techniques away in my mental toolbox for later though and hope I get an opportunity to say "Procrustean load shedding" in a standup sometime.
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Probably too late to reply, but I mean things like :ets.method or :queue.whatever.
The Dell site is absolutely terrible. For a while, perhaps still, there was no way to show the tech specs for at least the XPS laptop I was looking at. The marketing speak would say something like "XPS 13 with 6th Generation Intel Core processors" and then just a series of prices. You couldn't tell what CPU it had, how much memory, nothing. There's a Q/A box on the page, and there were dozens of unanswered questions like "how big is the hard drive" with no answers.

I bought my XPS 13 from Costco, which was a nicer experience in pretty much every way.
I'm having trouble finding information about what laws cover "click fraud" or "ad fraud". The article mentioned that this was illegal behavior, but never provided any more detail. The closest I've gotten is US Title 18 - 1030, though I'm not sure if the article is even talking about US law. I did stumble across an article from 2014 arguing in favor of making click fraud a federal crime, which cited this advertisement:

http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/click-fraud.ht...
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A lot of it is that they think they need to create unique art projects for things that have absolutely no need for that.

Bike-shedding to the max.

They seriously don't need to make the Mac Pro an art product.

But, I believe that there is no better personal computer experience out there right now than the Mac Book Pro.
Clojure generally doesn't use monads and has its own way of dealing with mutable state. Clojure doesn't prevent side-effects, but it does make them somewhat unidiomatic in most cases. In any case, Clojure makes it pretty easy to write pure-functional code and carefully manage the mutable state and side-effects that you have.

Having said that, I don't know anything about Arcadia and how the Clojure code interacts with Unity and how clean the paradigm separation is...
Small and Medium Business(es)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_and_medium-sized_enterpr...
There's probably a (hypothetical API) way to get a _fetch_ to be cancellable, even though it returns a promise, without altering the API of general promise. Some way to get a reference to the request going on and cancel it, which would result in the promise failing (assuming it hadn't completed yet) with a FetchCancelledError or something. One could certainly imagine building such an API if one were polyfilling fetch onself built on XMLHTTPRequest (which can be cancelled).

I won't bother trying to think it through though cause it's clearly pointless except as an intellectual exersize!

I actually like that fetch returns a Promise, I find it convenient, I don't think it was a bad choice at all. To make Promise part of ES6 as a general-purpose async primitive, and to make Fetch return one. I also see how it would be nice to allow fetches to be cancelled -- although I'm not sure I've ever needed/wanted to do that, I could see how I might in the future.

It is boggling that a bunch of smart interested people haven't been able to figure out _some_ solution to this.
SMB = Small or Medium-sized Business
As a previous web developer, I had the most success with the 1 to 2 person companies and with companies that were 20+ employees. It was the SMB in the middle range there that were trouble. The small-town-successful companies.
Best i can tell, at least Mozilla still adhere to the notion that the web empowered individuals by allowing anyone to publish something online.
Did it revert, and after what time if yes?
5% YoY growth seems pretty small. The costs of storage are dropping at ~10% per year. As the cost falls, lithium ion storage is going to be the cheapest solution for more and more applications, and it's going to grow very quickly. Supply chains are going to be expanding soon...
SMBs used to more easily to show up for queries that did not have a locality modifier like "in Seattle". My experience is more around SMBs that aren't brick-and-mortar, but rather, online SMBs trying to sell nationally or globally.

Edit: A concrete example would be a seller that specialized in some niche. Like say, an online seller of thermal printers. Where they had specialized expertise, inventory, research, support, articles, and so on where there would be a valid reason to rank higher than Amazon for similar products.
Webfaction or Linode depending on project. For projects on Linode I still use Webfaction for email which works well for me. All my web stuff is Django/python
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Small/Medium businesses I believe.
Maybe they should adjust their state tax base and if the rest of the country is subsidizing CA than that's a problem.
>I'm just trying to find a high end laptop that will run Linux flawlessly.

My 2nd Gen Lenovo X2 carbon is high end and runs Ubuntu flawlessly.
A tiny serverless computing platform for ruby developers. You can Run/Schedule single-purpose ruby scripts on a REST endpoint. I used Redis, Sinatra, Sidekiq to develop the stack, Its running on unicorn & Nginx. Ruby version is 2.3.1p112. Let me know your views on it.
Not to mention the benefit of taking your own to the Apple store when needed. And the insane degree to which they bend over backwards to fix things free, even more so if you bought direct from Apple and have AppleCare.
That strange syntax with the arrow function is only needed so that the 'this' inside the function behaves the way one would expect it to in normal OOP language. It 'captures' the this for the object itself (like C++ would, etc). But that 'build()' function is what constructs a string that is the content for the dialog.
Why? Just buy something from newegg and call it "workstation."

Apple has two things going for them: top notch physical quality laptops and macOs. That's really it.

Who cares how shiny a desktop workstation is... ideally you don't even see it. the only reason to buy a desktop from Apple is macOs. And if that doesn't matter to you, why by from apple at all?

And for that matter why buy a desktop from anyone when you can put them together yourself like legos.
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For real?

I also think that prices are extremely inflated.

Even stuff which shows like hundred people a day costs you 8 dollar per click. No amount of selling will you get back the money.

Imho something is wrong there...
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Oh, but it was! As far back as I have followed this stuff, every new hardware category Apple has introduced, has been met with ridicule and dismissal from the experts. Every time the same: It does nothing new. It's underpowered. It's overpriced. It's just a [whatever] in a fancy box. It doesn't even [insert specialised use case].
Do computer systems in the Kingdom of Saud report date/times according the lunar calendar?

Or did they?
And it works. No flashy in your face features trying to impress you with bouncing balls or animations, it's just like an improved version of Windows 2000 interface.
I’ve never owned a PC. The first computer I ever used was a Macintosh II. The first desktop computer I bought was a Power Mac G3. My first laptop was that adorable little Powerbook G4. And I’ve been using an iPhone since 2007.

I’m not frustrated because of the hardware — I’m frustrated because 50% of the software on my phone is made by Google, who seems to actually still care about making useable, stable software that gets how I use multiple devices. The iOS ecosystem just keeps getting worse and worse, and I keep hiding or deleting their software on their hardware.
Not at all. If the Internet changes the way that other goods are produced, that is an impact of the Internet (so I do think the Internet can claim some influence on the growth of international trade, just not an overwhelming percentage).

My company does SaaS for logistics. We lower the cost of moving goods for our customers. I count that as economic impact. It's just that the impact is relatively limited. We can get you lower labor costs, faster planning, more optimal routing, and higher utilization, but we can't make a truck move twice as far in the same amount of time.
I did a new one here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13220937, Its not showing in the list. Any suggestion ?
The ad networks are held responsible by basic economics -- the higher the fraud on a network, the lower the observed utility of advertising on that network, and, therefore, over time the less people are willing to pay to advertise on that network.
Honestly it might be a deal killer for me. A regular USB with Thunderbolt isn't enough. I'm ready to move on from regular USB. Didn't the previous one have a Type C port?
The proprietary Nvidia driver supports Optimus with nvidia-prime. No need for Bumblebee. There are still a few bits missing there, though, like external display support in low-power mode. So, basically I agree - it is still PITA.
The gas tax is paid for by customers at the pump. It is not a tax being paid by the oil companies.
Wow, I don't even know what to say. If it gives you any consolation I probably need to get my blood pressure checked after reading that.
That's a realtime GC and yes, you can buy a JVM from IBM that has one, they call it the Metronome collector:

http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group_subpa...

Metronome has pause time in the hundreds of microseconds range. The tradeoff it makes is that, amongst other things, it requires read barriers i.e. every time you read a pointer from the heap you have to execute some extra code to interact with the GC subsystem. If you think about how often you read pointers from the heap in a typical program, well, that turns into a lot of barriers and a corresponding execution performance hit.
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First line of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Templeton_Foundation. It is just important to understand the possible motivations for the article.
Thanks, it actually wasn't a great example to make my point because that file contains actually a few things I do try to avoid, but it does demonstrate that "generated HTML" doesn't have to be ugly and hard to read, using TypeScript or even JavaScript if you have a consistent architecture for how it's done.
My Asus Zenbook UX305CA ran Fedora 25 out of the box with basically every peripheral including the touchscreen working perfectly. However it uses integrated (Intel i915) graphics.
Xubuntu.
> "as long as we're in the black, doesn't J/$ matter more than of J/J?"

The EROEI argument includes the observation that "in the black" for an industrial society is well above 1:1 and believed to be somewhere above 5:1. Going below that on average is expected to result in collapse.

In the short term, fossil fuels provide a high EROEI - but only until depletion (locally or globally). The overall fossil EROEI falls over time. This implies that it's necessary to install non-depleting or less-depleting sources before we reach critical depletion. But we're not clear on when that is; peak oil may only appear in the rear view mirror.

Essentially EROEI is an ecologist's view on the subject. "$" is not a resource that exists in nature and they would prefer a view from sufficiently high that it drops out of the analysis.

( http://www.theoildrum.com/ was a fantastic resource on this subject, and still is although no longer updated. For example, http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6871 : input of fossil calories allows one person to provide the food-caloric needs of 100 people. How can this continue past peak/unburnable oil?)
I don't think they are even that. If you look a the list they are are just tax deductions so if you hit oil you may pay the govt $1m instead of some larger sum. Most of the "subsidies" seem to be of that nature. I'd like to personally subsidise the oil industry by them sending me $1m as a discount from the $2m I would have really liked.
> The affordable and flexible Mac mini was last upgraded in 2014.

They made the Mac Mini a lot less flexible in 2014 than it had been.
I also have the same type of maxed-out 2011 17" MacBook Pro.

The replacement for that I am looking at costs $3500-$4200.
I think the argument would be drawn from regular rates vs surge pricing vs taxi rates (and cost due to traffic etc...)
Thanks! The tl;dr is you'd
expect register windows to be at their best for single-thread user programs, so I guess it makes sense for embedded stuff like the ESP32.
But his followers were all willing to die because they believed Jesus rose from the dead and they saw it. Seems unreasonable that they would die for something they know is a lie.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_Christian_martyrs
Alas, having no garbage collector at all is a blissful state of simplicity when performance matters. It's not very difficult to clean up one's objects manually in a well-thought-out codebase.
This is true but not even close to the same way.

The Netscape had a distribution called Communicator that shipped the browser 'Navigator' alongside a mediocre but serviceable WYSIWYG editor 'Composer'. Other products were included too: an email client, and for a while, a Calendar; the codebase lives on as Mozilla Seamonkey. This was a play towards small businesses, and not an 'Inspect Element' hook.

Meanwhile, integrated devtools started with Chrome in 2008, two years after Firebug was released in 2006. My guess is Chrome wanted to provide a browser experience that was noticeably superior to a variety of demographics, and gain marketshare on merits. Meanwhile, IE began a huge effort to prove that they're not an old dinosaur of a browser holding the web back, but they didn't have easily-installable addons, so they built it in. These factors created pressure on Mozilla [1] to improve their devtools and consider shipping them with the browser.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12042767#12044962
The problem with the Alienware 13R3 is that it's a great professional machine with the most incredibly stupid looking adornments.

I absolutely hate how the best machines are Gaming machines, which means you're stuck with all sorts of LED bling-crap.

The 13R3 looks like an absolutely killer machine for everyday work. OLED touch, quad core CPU (HQ series), fast GPU, physical touchpad buttons, ports out the wazoo, user serviceable RAM (up to 32!) and storage, etc.
I think there is a bit of a meme that Linux Intel graphics don't suck. They have broken desktops repeatedly and still have a lot of glitches on newer hardware, whereas everyone calls AMD bad but I haven't had a bad experience on their Mesa stack in over 5 years. Its generally that Intel is buggy / edge case broken and AMD is rock solid if not patching Windows drivers in performance.

Albeit, I am biased, in that I intentionally avoid bleeding edge GPU hardware in general anywhere I can, but its hard to avoid Intel's latest because each year all the NUCs / notebooks / desktop platform switch to their latest CPUs. With AMD, since they have basically no market presence anywhere, I can get away with buying a 290 a year after it comes out for $240 and then having a great out of the box experience with it, whereas my 740SU notebook 4 years ago was only 6 months new when I got one and had massive Haswell GPU bugs on latest Mesa for about 6 months after buying it.

But even then, Intel and AMD are pretty much par for support times and when you should expect good stability in my experiences, but everyone memes AMD as being trash while Intel is the savior of consumer Linux.
Not just lack of hardware updates, but the lack of complete system categories. It's the height of hypocrisy to tout a green approach to things, while not even offering an upgradable machine, e.g. a tower. All-in-ones like the iMac are usually discarded if either the motherboard or the display goes south, whereas a tower is easily fixed.

Also, power users are left out in the cold, with the Mac Pro the only system fitting that category - and it's dated and deficient in many ways.

Apple should bite the bullet and license macOS for third-party hardware. The Hackintosh community has things working pretty well today, and Apple could charge substantial money per license (notionally at least $200). Pretty good for just selling bits. That move would completely revitalize the Mac landscape, and would be a giant boost to iDevice adoption. Think Different!

Sadly, I don't think current Apple management has the vision to do the right thing. Apple will likely continue a slow decline unless that changes.

(BTW, "ctrl-[" is an excellent alternative to the regular Escape key...personally I prefer it.)
This is nice! I've been looking for a way to schedule deployments of multiple code bases at the same time, with automatic rollback support. Does this support that?
Small/Medium Business. SME is the more usual abbreviation, here in the UK at least (Small/Medium Enterprise).
> fakebook [sic]

That name is meaningless and generally just juvenile. It makes it hard to take you seriously when you do this.

This is also not an appropriate use of "sic".

> Although, I've seen a few deals structured in a way to make it seem like a smaller company is buying a larger one to avoid a review [at&t <-> SBC, Sears Holdings <-> K-Mart].

Smaller companies buying larger companies don't skip regulatory scrutiny. It's a fairly common practice to structure mergers this way, but not because it changes the level of regulator involvement.
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As a teacher myself.

If they can't find multiple 2 week vacations in that summer they aren't being at all efficient in their planning.
I didn't say it wasn't.
I used to think that was what I wanted. But I think at this point a thin laptop can be good enough, and being able to get away from having a dev laptop and a travel netbook is a huge win. Moving all the ports onto a dock - provided it's a first-party fully-supported dock - is also a win, since it enables me to leave everything plugged in at home and take my computer travelling without having to unplug and replug everything.

/huge Surface Book fan
I switched from a MBP to a Surface, and eventually to a $500 generic "hybrid" laptop (with decent Linux support).

Turns out moving to the cloud for developer work and not playing videogames on my laptop really cuts down on my computer needs. (Also, saving that much money justifies more cell data to tether with, so it's actually more convenient at times.)

YMMV though, because I worked in ML, and so had to make the cloud move because no laptop was going to be a 4GPU, 32core machine, much less a cluster of them. Once that's your workflow anyway, the switch in hardware is pretty seamless.
It could simply imply it's "illegal" due to the contract those publisher sign with the SSPs and Exchanges that clear their inventory. i.e. "; iv) create "forced visit" traffic; v) create invisible or nested IFrames loading pages or ads; vi) intentionally falsify clicks: vii) modify or obscure display of ads; viii) fraudulently generate requests or clicks; or ix) use any means of artificially generating ad impressions or clicks, including third-party services such as paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, auto-surf, and click-exchange programs."
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I think that "discovery" is the part that is implied to be broken. But in my experience if you search for "indian food" and Google knows your location, it returns solid results.
It might be good, but it doesn't even remotely compare to the Nvidia GTX 1060 in the VR capable 13R3. Although battery life suffers immensely because of it.
The Islamic Calendar has had support in Java since 8 introduced the Date and Time API. I don't know if OS support was around, Wikipedia is sparse on the topic.

[#] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar#Computer_supp...
Go find your favorite busy coffee shop ( I know Seattle has good ones). Bring a real book and a magazine you like (not a kindle or an ipad). Sit in an open place or community table, and half read your book, making sure that people can see the cover/title. If you see a young woman who is doing the same thing, strike up a conversation.

Ask her about what she is reading. Talk about the article you are reading. Try to look for a common bond.

That is how my husband met me 17 years ago. Worked for us!

Good Luck.
PS bag tinder, go find real people in real places that you like.
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Traditionally, no. But they are the canaries in the coal mine. I remember the articles coming out about "alpha geeks" moving to Macs after Apple moved to a Unix desktop.

In truth, I'm happy to see the migration. It just means competition. Apple will need to step up their game. They can't rest on their laurels.