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Lenovo's laptops generally have some of the best supported components for linux.

This has been true for quite a while now.

Most office environments where developers run Linux are full of Thinkpad T4xx, X2xx, and X1s.
> why Apple Mail can pull Gmail only every 15 minutes is beyond me ...

It used to work, but Google removed Activesync support for free users a while back. you need to use the Gmail app or upgrade to a paid Google Apps plan if you want push support.
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Sure their packaging could be better, but in my anecdotal evidence, it's generally enough. I've order dozens of "fragile" items from Amazon, including two hard drives and a graphics card, and none of them were DOA or showed any signs of damage. Regarding them nuking accounts, if you're returning so much that they nuke you, you're probably return an obscene amount.
This is not the first time reputable organisations have wrongly inferred sluggish iPhone sales numbers. In Apple's 2013 Q1, Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, warned against reading too much into any rumors about order cuts gleaned from supply chain data after an incorrect story in the Wall Street Journal [1]. I've seen more of these stories that later proved wrong than that were correct.

[1] http://www.imore.com/tim-cook-addresses-rumors-about-apple-c...
I run Umatrix where I disable Javascript by default and allow portions on approved sites, BGR doesn't require Javascript to display the articles so no issue reading here, but I do agree that many sites are just horrible at launch ad placement.
Have you tried using a completely different keyboard layout like Dvorak? The change might force your muscle memory to reset.

That, and like jsz0 recommended, a different keyboard might help.
It probably means a crime where there is also a drug related indictment (or conviction, not sure which). Your example would be a crime of robbery, plus possession.

I wonder how many cases of 'drug related crime' are just defendants who were arrested for another crime while they had small time possession?
Good software requires teams, and teams will always vary in the member's skill levels. Some programmers are better than others -- that's just a fact of life. But even if you are not one of the best coders, that doesn't mean you shouldn't be a coder or that you shouldn't be considered a valuable member of a team, so long as you provide a meaningful contribution. You may get paid less, but that's okay. You shouldn't beat yourself up over it. Do you enjoy the work? Do you at least get stuff done, even if it is not as much as your coworker in the same period of time? Then your okay. And that's okay. You just need to find the right niche. Not every coding job is with a startup or contract firm that needs to pump out the code a mile per minute.
Usually I have upgraded, but I currently have no intention of buying an iPhone 7 or later, unless they fix something!

For me it's a double whammy. I don't like the lack of headphone jack, and whereas I feel like I could manage grumpily ... for me it kills the excitement of buying the new device, and I think that is important. (My standard listening headphones are Etymotic ER-4Ps; there is no way I am going to downgrade to AirPods).

But the bigger part of the whammy is iOS. iOS is completely terrible at this point. I just can't consistently control the phone. A large percentage of taps or swipes do things I did not intend (how many I'm not sure -- 20%? 33%?) It's just completely crazy. They need to get rid of 3D touch, get rid of double-tap one-hand accessibility mode whatever it's called, get rid of weird swipes from the edge, fix the horrible inconsistencies in the way autocorrect works (or, please, offer a system that just underlines words-thought-to-be-wrong without changing them, and let me tap on them to change them, or use the current autocorrect system but let me tap on a word to un-"correct" it, the fact that the current system just changes what I typed and gives me no recourse to fix it apart from laborious deletions and re-typings, which I often have to do 2 or 3 times, is just haughty and offensive)... and in the meantime, might as well redesign the rest of the UI. Because right now the phone is not a joy to use, it's a constant exercise in frustration. I haven't felt good about using iOS since sometime back around iOS5 or 6.

So it's no mystery to me why sales might be slowing ... I don't want a new one if it's going to continue the downward trend.
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The dystopian nightmare novel probably ends up with the genius resenting their pre-destined career choice and taking out revenge on the corporation in question though ;-)

Unlike the many non-geniuses born over many centuries whose career choices were pre-determined by the social status of the family they grew up in, and the fact neither they nor [later] their parents would have anything to eat if they left the village to seek their fortune elsewhere...
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Just wanted to encourage many of you to start writing... just get started. There's no science to it. Just start.

Also, as I was putting together my "Top Posts from 2016" I came across a mind-blowing statistic: 90% of the Top 10 came from previous years! Only 1 blog post came from 2016 (and that one was stupid).

https://john.do/top-posts-2016/

The point is that it's a marathon, NOT a sprint, and like any decent activity, it takes a while to build up skill and expertise. And then, only then, you'll start reaping some of the reward.

Just thought I'd share.
I remember how impossible searching was before Google. DDG at its worst is infinitely better than that.
That's the point. Rigging an election consists of stuffing ballot boxes or intimidating voters or something like that. Phishing John Podesta is the sort of thing that used to be called "opposition research" (assuming arguendo that the phishing party actually cared who won).
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I can't imagine anyone accepting a downpayment when you have a downpayment's worth of revolving debt.
Has anyone installed Linux on this machine? If so, how has your experience been with respect to driver support, etc.? Thanks in advance.
I got this idea of using my twitter follower graph and extracting out entities like movies, restaurants, books and people they talk about.

I have noticed that I end up eating at places, go to coffee shops, read book and watch movies/shows people I follow talk about. If there was a simpler way to browse that, it might be useful.
A "rack rate" is not a typical rate, so he'd presumably take in less money than you're assuming. He lives in Japan and most of his customers would probably be in the USA, so if he wants to be able to function he should be flying business class. He also needs somewhere to stay, transportation, and food while in the customer's city; and it is the nature of consultancies to not have anywhere approaching 100% utilization, due to time spent on research, promotion, and networking, and the fact that gigs never fall neatly into your schedule.

I'd guess that "full time consulting" would work out roughly along the lines of

* Average billing per week of consulting: $15k

* Round trip business class airfare: $3k

* Hotel, food, transportation at destination: $2k

* Profit per week of consulting: $10k

* Weeks spent doing consulting per year: 20

* Take-home (gross) salary: $200k

I'd guess this is more than Stripe pays him, but not dramatically more; and if I had a wife and child I would certainly prefer to not spend half the year away from them.
> (And the chicken came before the egg here. Violent crime started going up in the 1960s, but it wasn't until the late 1990s that the incarceration rate had gone up by the same proportion as the violent crime rate.)

Did the incarceration rate for violent crime go up, or was it the total incarceration rate due to e.g. increased prosecution of drug arrests? If it's the former, then it's great that more violent criminals are being caught and sentenced, but if it's the latter then it's just compounding the problem.
PM building the VSCode react native extension here. Glad that you could get breakpoints working. There are also other features like syntax completion and simply trying out react native without and installation using exponent that nasty be interesting.

Would love to hear any other feedback you may have on the authoring experience.
Unfortunately the right is also popular among former voters of the social democrats in urban areas.
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Still running my 2012 x1 carbon... One thing that has kept it going is that it's very serviceable. I hope the new model is as friendly towards component replacement, as I've had to swap out the DC power harness and cooling assembly so far.
Fremd actually means foreign, referring to the external source of the shame (schämen).
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Everyone think they're pretty experienced. People can't evaluate themselves, they don't know what they don't know ;)
It's well and good to point out that analysis based on supply chain sources may draw inaccurate conclusions and definitely to demonstrate that such analysis has been wrong in the past (it certainly has, for Apple and others). I do not claim to know whether this analysis will bear out in reality or not.

I'm merely pointing out that it is nonsensical to blithely dismiss it or claim it may simply be "made up" when it is at least based on primary sources and real journalism.

With respect to your specific example, I'd say the WSJ article which the article you linked is referring to appears to have actually borne out with the benefit of hindsight. Q1'13 production supply orders affect supply in subsequent quarters, and a reduction in orders means there is less expected growth. The article you linked expresses skepticism that this is the case, but it appears that it was. iPhone sales growth YoY slowed dramatically subsequent to Q1'13... For example Q1'14 saw ~10% sales growth over Q1'13 versus ~30% YoY growth the year prior and ~100% the year preceding that. To the extent the article indicates that demand and production are falling off from previous growth rates, it appears to have been accurate.

The above doesn't mean that this new report will be proven out. Nor even necessarily that the previous reporting you cited was actually correct. But it doesn't appear to be a clear whiff either.
I've been trying to stay away from Angular development. I've heard that ecosystem is just in a tizzy right now.
For anyone interested in listening to the interview, I believe aroman is referring to "How I Built This" from NPR: https://www.npr.org/player/embed/493923357/494083296
Cheers, I'll make some adjustments :) appreciate the feedback!
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It all depends on the relative probability of those two scenarios occurring, though. And the problem with ZFS is that each time you are scrubbing you are essentially rolling the dice, so you are rolling them a lot more times.

Let's say that you have a 99.9% chance of the scrub running correctly on a big pool with non-ECC memory (0.1% chance of a bit-flip during the scrub). Any single scrub is extraordinarily likely to succeed, but if you run a scrub every day then over the course of a year then your chance of your pool surviving falls to 0.999^365 = 69.4%.

Pick your favorite numbers here, 0.1% failure chance per scrub is probably way high. With five nines your yearly survival rate is 99.6%. But do remember that soft errors are fairly rare in modern servers mostly because they use ECC RAM, you can't look at data with ECC and assume you'll get comparable results by using non-ECC RAM.

In general, if you scrub infrequently you are probably going to be OK. (but then why are you using ZFS instead of LVM?) If you live at high altitude, however - let's say in Denver - you are also facing significantly increased soft error rates. The extra atmosphere at sea level does make a strong difference in shielding, something around 5x reduction in strike events.

On the plus side - the SRAM and some parts of the processor do use ECC internally, which is good because fault rates increase with reduced feature size and increased number of transistors. The CPU is potentially the most sensitive part of the system per unit area, so it's very important to protect against errors there.

And on the other hand - disk corruption or failure probably outweigh those kinds of concerns in practice. But it's not like it's expensive to get a system with ECC. An Avoton C2550 runs like $250. So why take the risk anyway? Your data's worth an extra $100 in hardware.

Heck, you can run ECC RAM on the Athlon 5350 and the Asus AM1M-A motherboard. Boom, ECC mobo/CPU combo for under $100. It's just a little thin on SATA channels. It's a shame there's no "server" version of this board with dual NICs, IPMI, and an extra SATA controller tossed on there.
Who cares? SJW identity politics is not an argument, it's a trolling opinion.
Ironic that people continued upgrading for years when relatively few changes were made, and Android continued to improve.

Then, shortly after they finally made significant changes (e.g. expanded form factor choices), upgrades begin to slow.
I use a T460s with a Google Fi SIM card in it running Debian. It works really well and Google lets you get up to 10 free data sims so you don't need another account.
I switched (back) from Android to iPhone because of security settings. I found Android to be a nightmare. Compared that to iOS's ability to set per-application permissions and Apple's stated commitment to privacy and I'm not going back to Android any time soon.

Nor will I be upgrading my iPhone any time soon. I plug in the headphone jack in my car and have found no decent bluetooth receivers to replace that wired connection.
That is a good question. I feel most companies do it out of habit (or because everyone else is doing it) and few have stopped to ask themselves whether the literature in the contract makes sense or not.

That was the case at the last company I worked for, management was cargo culting a lot of things because "successful companies do it". So we had these contracts to sign, the "if you're not the recipient of this email.." footers, absurd job titles, and the list goes on. Seeing Agile come in was a farce at best.
Aside from better battery life (better as in 3+ days of use) I can't think of much I'd want in a phone that isn't already there. Camera, display, speed etc are all fine for my needs.
It does suck. I've remedied it by using bluetooth earphones & also bringing an adapter (which is pretty small) in my wallet, along with a microusb-to-lightning adapter. And now I'm pretty happy with my phone.
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With a proper sandbox, and on multiple platforms, at the expense of resource usage and annoying dev experience (matter of taste admittedly). So I'm not sure where your Delphi comparison comes from, which IMHO was the opposite on all those 4 counts: quick and easy-to-dev, but windows only and you never knew if that .exe you downloaded was just a Todo app or a virus, a browser toolbar or...
Not to pick nits but there's a good chance he would have to liquidate some stock in order to do that, which if done improperly, would have the effect of depressing the FB stock price, thus affecting the board and all the other FB investors.
it's insanely competitive due to low barriers of entry and availability of leverage / capital. the phd part is incidental in the same way an mba is to a lot of the banking world: it's a hoop that demonstrates rational competence (they were accepted to such and such great program), and it's a base to begin selecting for personnel.
Samsung Gear VR. Unfortunately I'm returning it as the technology isn't to the point that prevents me from getting nauseous when using it.
It used to be the same for me, now I just pay for the 5-10 quality sites that I read often enough for me to miss them if they stop existing.
Could you elaborate more on your setup? What's in the ZFS pool that supports the performance of running a DB as well as a PB of data without breaking the bank?
yeah idk if it's just me but instagram ads seem so much more intrusive and personal than facebook ones. what creeps me out is that i hardly ever use the service yet they can target ads since i use facebook
Hey! Just wanted to say I did try Tabli and found it to be a solid extension. However it didn't quite fit into my workflow and there's enough features that it felt overkill for what I was trying to accomplish. The goal is to save a group of tabs with a minimal steps restore them later, just keeping it simple.
They didn't fully learn the lesson of the Superfish fiasco:

"X1 Carbon is available with Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Signature Edition. No more trialware or unwanted apps. No more distractions—and easy provisioning for IT pros."

So do that with every version, and stop feeding people "unwanted apps" altogether. You just admitted that nobody wants them, and this irresponsible attitude is exactly why you got bopped for pre-installing the Superfish MITM malware.
I still don't understand why Instagram took off, and I'm a millennial. You could already post pictures to Facebook when it came out. What advantage did Instagram offer over Facebook? Filters? I just don't understand my peers and I don't understand this industry sometimes.
Are you still a Wire fanboy after reading the report?! I much prefer Threema, not only for security reasons but also because of the interface. Wire looks like a design student's first project.
If you guys are trying react native, you could try mobile.azure.com for the devops pipeline.
OP should watch the documentary Silicon Valley, Season 2 Episode 10 :-)
"Disclaimer: AWS employee"

That's a disclosure. (But don't feel bad - even the attorney up top go that bit wrong!)
Homicide rates are the key number to track. Other crime statistics have big reporting problems. Police can easily not report a crime (especially when there is pressure to make the stats look good), people stop calling police if they think the police won't do anything, etc. But it is very hard to hide a body.

And homicide rates have risen substantially in the last two years (up 10.4% in 2015, and projected for 13.1% this year). These are the biggest increases in a generation.

http://www.copinthehood.com/2016/09/spin-this-biggest-murder...

http://www.copinthehood.com/2016/11/homicide-is-up-and-its-n...

I'm not sure if the de-incarceration is responsible for the rise in crime. From my following, it seems like the police backing off in response to protests, riots, and consent decrees has a bigger impact. And I'm not a fan of prison -- there are better ways to deter crime and to keep violent criminals away from normal people. But I do notice that most times when I see a murder in the news, and the suspect has been apprehended, the suspect has a disturbingly long wrap sheet and I've wondered to myself, "how was this person allowed back out into civilized society."
It's already happening. There's a large population of NEETs who have withdrawn from the work force.
Only 16GB, no Quad-Core option (i'd take an underclocked one at this point :( )... i need more threads and ram on the go, why is that not an option outside of the alienware 13 monstrosity?
Because I think it's really important people stop thinking healthcare is a fundamental human right: Somebody has to provide healthcare for you. There is limited supply. There is INFINITE demand. That's right, infinite demand. People demand exponentially more healthcare as they get closer to death, and the majority of a person's lifelong costs are incurred in the final year of their life. The entire healthcare sector couldn't keep one person alive forever, and there is a diminishing return on each dollar that is spent on keeping a dying person alive for another hour (measured in hours/$).
Just ran into this with the puma ruby gem's native extension. OpenSSL 1.1 should've been called OpenSSL 2.0.
>Why does America have such a greater drug fascination than perhaps every other country?

Just to throw out some random thoughts on this:

-Historically a lot more expendable income, especially in the middle and working classes. The opportunity was there, especially during the 60s and 70s when a lot of countries were still rebuilding in an economic sense.

-Our culture seems to put a lot more into individualism, especially in regards to an individuals right to the 'pursuit of happiness'. Somewhere along the way the 'pursuit of happiness' started to become centered around personal pleasure and hedonism. Think of the rock-star (or hip-hop) lifestyle that was glamorized over the past half-century. It mostly boils down to hedonism and extravagant material wealth.

-The overwhelmingly authoritarian crack-down on drugs in America made it a cornerstone of the anti-establishment counter-culture movement. Though perhaps that's a bit backwards, the crack-down came about as a way to control and suppress the counter-culture. But that backfired in a big way. Drugs have practically become a rite of passage into being cool or rebellious. I bet half as many teenagers would try drugs if it weren't for that perception.

-Americans largely enjoy simplicity and convenience. We don't want to make huge lifestyle changes. Take a pill or something to make the problems go away. Simple, easy, don't have to think about it. Gib me my soma.

-The Media. A lot of TV shows and movies are centered around topics that are edgy, illegal, and/or borderline taboo because that's what people want to watch. We always have. Same way we rubberneck for a car crash. I think that's helped normalize drugs.
> > Salarymen work large amounts of overtime, although much of it is for appearance’s sake

> That's just stupid.

That's overtime. Almost all overtime, even in the US, is as much about the appearance of working hard rather than any real gains in productivity.

I've lost count of the number of times I've been involved with or seen a startup that "crushes code 100 hours a week because we're out to win, man", with most of those late nights spent with a room full of people online shopping or on HN.
I'm typing this on a Lenovo x230, having owned an x210 and x220. However, when such a statement above is made I was hoping that, like Dell, Lenovo had started to officially support Linux.

Hence the question.

Furthermore, Lenovo has been in the news late 2016 for not allowing Linux to run on some of their (Microsoft certified) laptops. And when the t460's and x260's came out early 2016, the Linux distros available at the time had all kinds of issues. Black screens, no Wifi, iirc.

So, again: is there any article that actually point to this laptop running Linux well? Or is it merely based on historical data and personal opinion?
Isn't it crazy to think you might have a great product, but the only reason it fails to go viral is the name
Could a third party release a shim that everyone agrees to use, sort of like Python six? http://pythonhosted.org/six/
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Are you planning to open source it so people can run it locally?
It would be great if you didn't post this with a click bait title. It might be stupid, but on principle I'm not going to read it.
I want to be excited by a good non-Apple laptop. But they're all just so terribly designed. They're always some sort of plastic, feel flimsy and bendy, have grills and screw holes and uneven surfaces and stickers everywhere.

I had a T530 for a few years at my first job and just hated it. It had fantastic specs but it felt awful and unreliable and like I had to babysit it. I got a 2015 MBP to replace it after IT damaged it (broke off a bunch of plastic bits from two grills) and while it was a migraine getting Windows and Ubuntu to dual boot, I don't think twice when closing the lid and slipping it into my backpack to go home. Tossing my backpack into my trunk, or in the overhead carry-on.

I would pay a fortune to have a solid chassis (not case) metal non-Apple laptop available.