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I'm dual-booting Fedora 17 (with the KDE desktop) on my second generation X1 Carbon.

I don't remember having any serious trouble with any of the hardware, including the wifi (which can be a pain point). Connecting an external monitor also worked fine- I think that's another common pain point.

I couldn't find a clickpad driver that would support gestures as well as the proprietary Synaptics driver on Windows (but I tend not to use gestures anyway), and the battery seemed to drain faster on Linux than on Windows, but that's about it.

If memory serves (I've had this machine for a while) the only complain I had was that booting into grub2 was noticeably slower than booting into the Windows boot manager.

I also got the fourth generation model a couple of months ago but haven't yet installed Linux on it, mostly because I can find so little to grumble about. Either Windows is getting better or I'm getting old :)
I doubt any of those would be trade secrets that he can't talk about.
Apparently Linux is a bit finicky on it?

I use a Surface Book as my main computer and it's absolutely wonderful. I get a PC in tablet form with a pressure-sensitive stylus when I want a tablet and I get a moderately beefy laptop with a dedicated GPU when I want a laptop.
I don't object to the veracity of your claims but I would note that "it's what everyone around me is using" doesn't scale very well. For example, if you're from the U.S. you might not know anyone who uses WhatsApp nevertheless it has over a billion users and is the default messenger app in many countries.
That's what I had in mind with the ASUS wave. I've heard nothing but good things.
Yes, I've wondered that.

Why not provide a joystick for translation motion, rudder pedals for rotation, and a lever for ascending and descending? Allow the human to provide simple inputs, like: tilt the stick forward to go forward. No other inputs required. Aircraft will remain at the same altitude while it tilts forward and gains airspeed.

The computer consumes all of these controls, understands what the human wants to do, and then makes the necessary low-level adjustments. I suppose one obstacle to this plan is that the helicopter would need to be entirely fly-by-wire, and there would be no fallback to manual control. This would likely make the helicopter more complex and expensive.
discussion of original article
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074587
The book covers that. The average size of new homes has increased by 40 percent, but that's just new homes, a minority of the housing stock.

"In fact, the size and amenities of the average middle-class family home have increased only modestly. The median owner-occupied home grew from 5.7 rooms in 1975 to 6.1 rooms in the late 1990s—an increase of less than half of a room in more than two decades. What was this half a room used for? Was it an “exercise room,” a “media room,” or any of the other exotic uses of space that critics have so widely mocked? Nope. The data show that most often that extra room was a second bathroom or a third bedroom.

The wealthy may be living in spacious new digs, but middle-class families are not. The proportion of families living in older homes has increased by nearly 50 percent over the past generation, leaving a growing number of homeowners grappling with deteriorating roofs, peeling paint, and old wiring. Today, nearly six out of ten families own a home that is more than 25 years old, and nearly a quarter own a home that is more than 50 years old."
I was going to ask the same - I read their Privacy Policy (https://www.gettoby.com/privacy) and it made me a bit uneasy. I decided not to install.
Some time ago at University, we had to develop a puzzle solver in FP. In the report's introduction, I wrote something like "In this project, we must code imperatively in the functional programming language OCaml". The joke was well received.
A lot of people ask why Instagram took off and get a lot of different answers; I think that's the beauty of it.

I wasn't much of an Instagram user for a long time until I started getting into photography. I'm still a total photography noob, but now my feed of pictures is a combination of friends and amazing photographers that serve as inspiration. I deleted my Facebook account a couple months ago and haven't looked back. Whereas I spent time on Facebook scrolling through vitriol, my time on Instragram is a constant stream of friends lives and beautiful pictures.

I've realized a shallow social network is all the social network I need.
> Let's not forget using $30 USB cords to charge your phone/mouse.

Both devices come with a Lighting cable, an Apple first party Lighting cable costs $20 not $30, and third party Lighting cables cost as little as $5.
right, but the same people I mentioned before wouldn't be able to move their email around either.

I'm not for slack either, just meant to say that it currently offers more consistent short term upgrade over lowest-denominator email clients.
Thanks for your comment.

I'll see for the source code, it is something which I've been thinking. I may eventually push it to github but I've not yet made my mind over this.
I think you have an inconsistent threshold for civility. The post I replied to had it's fair share of snarkiness, insincerity, exaggerations, and patronizing.
Why do you think the airspace won't have traffic?

You want to end traffic with modern accessible tech?

Build ten layer freeways.
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Yes we do! That's one of the things that is slowing down the whole civilization -- inability to quickly and efficiently travel especially into the places when we need to gather to do work.

Opening a new dimension will be like switching from a horse to a first Ford car - day and night in terms of speed. Practically no more traffic jams because you can always travel at higher/lower travel channels.

> They are probably less efficient because you have to overcome gravity

Yes but eventually it might get narrow. At least you wont be stuck in traffic burning gas but constantly moving.

> they are probably going to be pretty noisy

If you plan a picnic on a silver cloud 10k feet above the ground then yes. For majority of people living in cities on the ground, it won't. I can imagine first flying cars will be very noisy just like first cars were pollution monsters... but let the Government impose fines and never-ending restrictions that will make sure car makers invest large chunks into quieting them down.

> falling out of the sky and smashing into the ground is a new failure mode

First and foremost, the only way you will fly in a car when it is 100% autonomous. There will never be a car that you can control manually. Perhaps only military/LEOs/etc, but for us civilians it won't do. Most likely by the time they fly above your heads - 10-15 years from now? most street cars will be automatic as well.

You will never own the car by the way. You won't be able to make any modifications etc. You will pay equivalent to your current car payment but you will only rent (good thing is you can always get new model without hassle of selling your old one).

In terms of smashing, I bet the first design to fly human will be made with airbags covering the whole thing, similar to the recent rover flying to the Mars. By the time you "smash" to the ground, you will be one huge bouncing ball of air.

Flying cars will move us into another lap of human evolution! No doubt about it.
Can, in theory. But in practice, it's much more likely to use politics and bureaucracy. (Source: The last two hundred years of government behavior.)
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Quite a few medicines (especially antidepressants) state something like "we don't really know why this stuff works, only that it does."
Yeah, they should lower the threshold from Detroit to Cleveland.
> 2) Trying to make a moral case for stealing money from pensioners and giving it to the wealthy in the form of tax cuts is hard, but you gave it your best shot.

He did not say that, as you know. The usual argument in these cases is not to take away pensions from people who have earned them, but rather to cease offering this benefit going forward to new city employees.
Good article but disagree strongly with the title, why have sex twice when you have experience the full spectrum? :P
"Google lets you get up to 10 free data sims"

Tell me more. What exactly do you mean by "up to 10 free data sims" ?
> If a single engine on a quadcopter loses power, it crashes

If one motor fails, the quadcopter could turn off the opposite motor and reverse the direction of one of the remaining motors, so that it is left with two opposing motors spinning in opposite direction. The torque of two motors might be enough to keep it flying. Some steering would be possible with the assistance of the third working motor which could spin in either direction as needed.
I think the definitively typed [0] can be leveraged here for AOT compilation.

Looking forward to more details.

https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Since you noted Wifi issues and Windows 10 - is it only flaky when you're on battery power? If so, open the Start menu, type "Power Options" for that control panel, edit your plan settings, Advanced settings, and check the Wireless Adapter settings - Windows has a tendency to lower those for power savings, and I've seen having them even down at Medium cause dropouts on a laptop 20 feet from the access point.
Yeah that's accounted for as part of productivity as defined by the researchers. Still it's a good point since I didn't mention it.
IMO the "rational" approach is to treat the claims as a bunch of pointless lies until there's a repeatable demonstration. Remarkable claims demand at least some evidence before wild speculation commences. As it is, Harry Potter is just as credible a theory of reality.

After all, they've made the same claim repeatedly for 15 years after their first experiments were demonstrably not what they claimed.
If sticking yubikey into dongle to connect to your laptop is such a big deal for you, for the love of thigs why did you go full usb-c? Why did you get the touchbar model?

Seems like bad research on your end than poor execution.

As for keyboard, I really do enjoy it more then the sponginess of lterally any other laptop (including pre2016 mbp)

I do agree on the trackpad, seems overkill. But I didn't use it long enough to make judgement yet.
> I also got into tiling window managers, which killed every going back to Mac/Windows.

I'm also a tiling WM fan. I found amethyst a resonable comprise when using macOS though.
This is theatre. Were Congress to expand tort law to mandate standards and consequences similar to products liability regulations for other products, then the attack surface available to state and non-state actors would meaningfully shrink.

If there is one thing the plaintiff's lawyers excel at, it is inflicting extensive expenses and pain on parties who negligently or fraudulently create, fund creation, or use products that injure property or person; thereby creating effective incentives to harden products.

You will know the USGOV is serious about INFOSEC when they stop issuing reports and start legislating, regulating and enforcing meaningful standards, as they already do for automobiles, drugs, machinery, etc.
If sticking yubikey into dongle to connect to your laptop is such a big deal for you, for the love of thigs why did you go full usb-c? Why did you get the touchbar model?

Seems like bad research on your end than poor execution.

As for keyboard, I really do enjoy it more then the sponginess of literally any other laptop (including pre2016 mbp)

I do agree on the trackpad, seems overkill. But I didn't use it long enough to make judgement yet.
Funny thing is that when he asked Rajeev why he had failed, Rajeev had probably been asking himself the same question for years. A lifetime dedicated to cyclotomic fiber bundles that will probably end up in the dustbin of history.

If your only measure of success is to do something truly transformative, well, you've got Copernicus, Newton, Einstein, and then everyone else who has tried and failed, so good luck. Wall Street was probably the better choice. And it could have turned into a Swiss patent office thing that formal academia would have denied anyway.

Grass is always greener on the other side.
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I'm sorry, but I don't see what phishing Podesta has to do with fleitz's claim that the DNC rigged the primaries.
One more time: The claim is that minds are not just physics. Claiming that we could use unusual physics doesn't address the issue.

The idea that the physical universe is all that exists is so deeply ingrained that it's really hard to get people to even see that they're thinking inside a box...
Lenovo X1 usually has good support for Linux.

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/X1%20Car...
Read the original CloudStrike report. Not the government report but the private security firm report. The government report is really just a restatement of that report. You don't track hackers for a decade to suddenly be wrong because of a governments political stance.
How long did you try cutting corners? They could have years of experience cuttings corners, and you only have a few days, so of course they should be faster as they are more experienced at cutting corners than you are.

Try a few simple projects (eg: making flappy bird clone, or a simple HTTP server) as fast as possible and screen record all the time you work on the project. Then review the project and recording for things that slowed you down (eg: going down rabbit holes, or your tool-chain is too complex for the task at hand).

After that, do the project over (or a similar project) and try to beat your previous time. The only thing that should matter is the amount of wall-clock time until the project is minimally useful, eg: time to a browser accepting a static webpage, or the game minimally playable.

If you have trouble parting from the book way, an HTTP server might be the better option as there is the "book way" on how its supposed to be done, and what browsers will not vomit all over. Go for the browser rendering a page or two with no visible errors with dev tools closed rather than passing a comprehensive test suite as in the end the only thing that matters is "did the user notice the missing corners".
But batteries are a significant source of weight.
Symbol versioning can solve this at the linker layer without modifying the source. One possibility is to use --default-symver when compiling OpenSSL and libmd, then when they are linked the appropriately the soname is used as a version tag for any unversioned symbols.

An example:
http://www.rkeene.org/viewer/tmp/linking-troubles/log.html.h...

If you are a library maintainer and export a stable ABI, it might also be good to provide a version or every symbol if for no other reason than to avoid issues with the flat namespace.
Asus ZenBook working well for me with linux for the last 3 years. I've always had good linux support from thinkpads too. The Asus replaced an apple macbook pro, the model where apple shipped broken GPUs and didn't recall, so that one is a very expensive web-browser that constantly panics and reboots, giving me the opportunity to write a sentence to apple about how I feel about their miserable company that I'm sure nobody will ever read. "The Donald Trump of Computing Companies." Apple really are amazing though. Top comment is an apple fan boy desperate to continue to believe in apple and affronted by the existence of other laptops while other kool-aid drinkers up vote even though it's got stuff all to do with the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Probably hasn't even got an apple logo shaved into his head!
X1 has gone back and forth between upgradable and soldered on. Occasionally I will see an X1 at a price I'm willing to pay only to find out that I can't upgrade.
I certainly think "flying buses" should come before flying cars.
> I dont want to spend $10

Pennywise dollar dumb. You're making a $800+ device worse to save $10.
> It's pretty obvious that cities and states should start eliminating pensions, but the beneficiaries of those same pensions are the people that need to do that.

There's an easy way around that. "All existing pension-holders will continue receiving benefits as defined. All new public employees will receive investment-based retirement plans funded during their employment." Then existing pension-holders have no reason to vote against it. This also seems far more ethical, as it retains the guarantees given to existing recipients.

The company I worked for phased out its guaranteed-minimum-benefit retirement program, in favor of its standard investment-based retirement program, by doing exactly this: limiting eligibility based on initial hire date.
I believe that's still the case -- which is why we get all those commercials with happy people having family moments while a voice in the background quickly announces "if you have experience any of the following symptoms head to the ER immediately."
I've been a thinkpad user since 386 days, and love my x201 and x220, but I prefer the Dell Rugged Extreme (price notwithstanding) -- feels like an old school bombproof (literally in this case) thinkpad...

but I really miss the UltraNav.
We published a small collection of Python-related anti-patterns a while ago under a creative commons license, feel free to check it out:

http://docs.quantifiedcode.com/python-code-patterns/
I desperately want exactly this in a Macbook Pro: "The X1 Carbon delivers up to 15.5 hours of battery life. And if you’re running low, the rapid charging feature provides 80% capacity in just an hour."

Specifically the rapid charging. Hell I'd be fine with current battery life (6-10 hrs depending on usage) if it could recharge fast.

Same goes for the phones.
I have a roommate (which really means shared kitchen, separate bedrooms and bathrooms).

New york is a really expensive place to live, the conclusion is that people who are relying on only basic income shouldn't live there. Likewise living alone is expensive. The conclusion is people living only on basic income shouldn't (especially if they are living somewhere which is already well above average pricing wise). Basic income isn't "everyone lives a luxurious life", it's "everyone can afford food, clothes, and a roof over their heads".
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I question the importance of attribution on this issue. The Office of Personnel Management hack seems far worse than this report's conclusions, but there was a fraction of the outrage. Sadly, the problem is not confined to one state actor. INFOSEC is systemically broken and although the solution is starring Congress in the face, I suspect software/hardware lobbyists will prevent meaningful legislation.
Public awareness campaigns were key in stopping the ivory trade within the United States (before it was ramped up again by the Chinese). Demand is the real problem, and creating the image that ivory (or shark fin soup) isn't cool is extremely effective.
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I've been billing by the minute for about 6 years now. I find it quite liberating. I've got details of what I did for years. Months where I was productive, months where I crashed completely.

I love the details of it, I love how I build up detailed description of what I do as I'm doing it. I think I've had one bill quabbled with about 4 years ago which was me taking too long to write up the change log.

I khow getting time tracking forced on you from above would be frustrating, especially as management would probably abuse it. However I think that it's a shame, I love the transparency of it.
Curious: my 2012 X1 Carbon still runs about as long as ever from battery. (It never got 5 hours, more like 4.)
One thing no one has seemingly mentioned yet is the era of robo-investing ala betterment or wealthfront:

https://investorjunkie.com/35919/robo-advisors/
In theory, we might develop a vertical-liftoff flying fully-autonomous car, that starts anywhere and brings you to the free parking spot closest to the target. We would have to overcome some safety challenges, and convince society that it's safe (to even enable the needed reforms in airspace regulations).

Now even if we did all that, with current technology flight is both incredibly noisy and less fuel efficient than driving (commercial airliners are primarily efficient because hundreds of people travel in one vehicle).

It's not really a physical limitation, after all maglev trains gain fuel efficiency and noise reduction by floating. But our existing technologies for free flight just aren't good fits for cars.
Yeah I bought a pretty expensive Macbook Pro earlier this year and recently ended up switching from OSX to Ubuntu after I got tired of dealing with all sorts of random Docker issues. To my surprise, I've found Linux to feel faster and be somewhat more pleasant than OSX. Now I sometimes wish I had just spent half as much money getting a more powerful (bulkier) laptop that just ran Linux.
You can interpret "in the wild" is as places where the rangers might not be aware of all the specimen living in the reserve.

Even though some of these are technically reserves, some of them are pretty large

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsavo_East_National_Park is 13,747 km2/5,308 sq mi.

The park rangers have only a rough idea of how many elephants live in the reserve.
I think you have correctly identified a class of decisions in which PM's should have the final say:

ie. "What should the team be working on now"

But equally there are a class of decisions in which developers ought to have the final say:

"how should we implement this"
and sometimes "which technology should we use"

I think peer is about right. With an important caveat, that PMs are often ALSO people managers. But that role is separate.
I was pretty unhappy cleaning oil tanks at a refinery for a year where the average summer temperature is 100+ degrees fahrenheit. I was also pretty unhappy working retail at a big box hardware store and pulling mandatory monthly night-shift while working through college.

I can't tell you personally how to not be unhappy. But rather than looking at all the negative why don't you try to find the good things about your job? You're probably making more money than 95% of your peers from high school. You can likely pay bills, put food on the table, etc... I've had a lot of bad jobs over the years but none of them in tech compare to the dozen other non-tech jobs that paid less and worked me harder.

I'm married and have 2 children. They give me a reason to get up every day and work hard and look past all the negative little things in the day to day life. Set some goals, look to the future, and try not to worry about what makes you unhappy now. Push through it for a year then find something better knowing that you're making a good financial decision today. And, if you're still really that unhappy and money isn't important long or short term then quit. There are a lot of other worse places just waiting for your resume to hit the desk.
No.. but it is a tribe, "are you one of us" e.g. white boarding + algorithm/data structures. You may have better luck at slightly larger companies that are past the startup phase. Buy a whiteboard and have some (CS) friends over, practice. My experience has been that "experience" doesn't matter as much as the fundamentals do and being a nice reasonable person. The experience and degree get you the interview... the fundamentals land the job.

When explaining your accomplishments, put them in context they can understand. This isn't technical specific (unless shared) but rather at the more abstract (business) level.

There's the interview kickstart guy on here too. He runs a course that gets you in shape. You get interviewed by employees at the big companies which can only help. Triplebyte here also does a pre-screen for YC companies.

Good luck!