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My current MacBook has over 2,000 hours use. I probably paid an extra $500 to get it over a similar dell, so it's cost me 25 cents an hour more. What did I get for that?

1) The ability to run 3 operating systems, and the best laptop operating system, MacOSX. I mostly run MacOSX, but still write shell scripts, use Unix applications, and occasionally run Windows 10 when I have an application that's not on the Mac, but only under protest because MacOSX is so good.

2) Excellent build quality, I've dropped it numerous times without a chip, crack or problem.

3) Retina screen, high resolution that is easy on my eyes, no tiny fonts or misshapen images. Plus while I have Retina on my main screen I'm coding on two 24 inch monitors connected to it.

4) Magsafe.

5) Excellent ergonomics. Trackpad, keyboard are top notch.

6) Far fewer worries about viruses.

7) Far from being quickly obsolescent, Apple computers retain their value far better and longer than other manufacturers. Mine is three years old and I'm no where near considering replacing it.

8) etc. etc

I bill $85 an hour. Has my productivity been enhanced more than 1/4 of 1%? Way more. Have I gotten more work because of the quality of my projects? you betcha.

Any professional who requires a computer to do their job should always buy the best possible computer to do it with. The extra cost is trivial in comparison to professional wages, the benefits in higher performance are always easily justifiable.

If you work a minimum wage job, sure, get the cheapest computer that meets your needs, that makes sense to.
Just a note, to work on the port you don't need a device to run in the simulator and you don't need to pay the $100 until you want to submit to the store. As of last year you can install on personal devices without paying the $100 either.
>> not its speed changes, but spacetime is warped

No, in water, the spacetime is not significantly warped, certainly not warped enough to slow down light. The different speed of light in a medium compared to vacuum comes from the interaction between the photons and the medium. The photon then, effectively, becomes a hybrid "photon-medium excitation" which is an effective particle with an effective speed lower than the vacuum speed of light.
all fortune 500 companies I worked on that had only PM doing both jobs it went like:

PM promises some project worked out with a designer that only knows the how to wireframe generic screens, both lack understanding of the product and tech. usually because the PM just moved from another place 3 months ago.

PM show up every day at standup and fail to understand the current priorities, push the new project, the enginners see how pointless but easier than real priorities it is. Then remember it is a fortune 500 company so the easier the better. Everyone works on the useless project, try to explain the product to the PM but he will have none of that, after all the wireframes are done! Agile is actually used as an excuse "don't worry, we will iterate later". The PM will now disappear until close to the deadline when you will get constant meeting invites to assess progress, which will never be the standup. Project goes live shoved into actual product and it is a complete failure but everyone mentions it on their accomplishments so management starts to see it as a success. Everyone involved gets a promotion. PM moves over to help troubled team. Some engineers stay and are tasked with maintenance. A year later execs see the numbers and blame the current team, labels them as a troubled team so they get a new PM (remember they had none because the other one left to help another team labeled troubled).

And that's the circle of life in a fortune 500.
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>Which makes me curious what other art/media are important enough to stand in as a cultural literacy requirement?

The cultural cannon is rather large and you're likely steeped in it whether you realize or not! Pierre Bayard rather humourously explores this in "How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read" https://www.amazon.com/Talk-About-Books-Havent-Read/dp/15969..., to wit:

The important thing behind the cannon isn't that you necessarily have consumed every bit of the media but that you at least know what position it occupies in the culture and your position relative to it - what signals your peers send when they discuss a given piece of art.

The most accessible example of this is watching The Simpsons or Family Guy: most of the time you see them make pop cultural references they're, arguably, pointing to entries in the cannon.
Or if you don't want to fiddle with very fragile things just buy 2D glasses, I won't link because I do not want to spam but they exist and they do the job.

As an aside, this reminds of the prime example of "people are so stupid you can't even imagine": I checked some epilepsy forum when Avatar came out because I suspected it's dangerous and yes, people said it is not advisable and some got auras and some even seizures from the movie so I decided 3D movies are not for me. Not everyone though -- there was someone who posted "yeah, I saw the warnings here and went to see Avatar 3D and got a seizure" and I am like "you can't be real".
Pinned tabs would be an easy solution for this.

"Don't throttle pinned tabs"
This is their plan. Google will charge companies for extra processing time on your own computer.
I'm curious as to what you find as well. I did some hardware stuff in college, and would love to get back into it.
It's not everything you asked for, but as it stands Chrome does have a task manager (Shift + Esc) that shows CPU usage, Memory, and also how the tabs are grouped process-wise.
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It is a pure SPA, you just have the option of opening multiple instances at the same time. Like I can open gmail in two tabs, but it's still an SPA.

And yeah tabs in JS are possible and I might go down that route, it'll just be a lot of extra work to replicate a UI that already exists fine.
I reside in London, and not even as a youngster but even as a mid 50s you have to live in the suburbs.

Housing is so expensive in the city I don't think many people can afford it.

1 bedroom apartment in bad areas where your car insurance will be at the highest cause of thefts etc costs around £250k.

Towards central London you are looking at around £750-900k for an 1 bedroom apartment.

Also I'd argue that London hasn't fixed crime, or schools, certainly there are less gun crimes but thats it really, everything else is the same.
How do you know what another person would complain about? I've seen the Hobbit films in both 24 and 48 FPS, and the higher frame rate looked better. Period. I also don't watch soap operas or sports, so I have no aversion to a technically superior image.
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> (And function keys ARE grouped in four!!!)

Ah, looks like just the 30 series lacked the grouping, they brought it back on the 40 series.
I don't disagree that knowledge is different from intelligence, but surely there's a connection between the two.

It seems to me that intelligence has more to do with the acquisition of knowledge, than whatever you have in possession. If we define intelligence as possession of knowledge, then a dog is more intelligent than humans in many aspects (eg. it can smell a lot better, so it can recognize who was recently in a room that it enters). But if we define intelligence as the ability to acquire new knowledge, then humans are vastly superior to all other species.

In that way, it seems possession of knowledge is more like a symptom of intelligence, rather than being intelligence itself.
health is an industry where you have the potential for "hard capture" of consumers. the "choice" is pay-or-die in the worst cases, pay-or-physically-suffer in others.

price gouging can in effect become a sort of extortion.

yes, one can find comparable situations elsewhere, but the hard "choices" rarely achieve the dire potential of healthcare i suspect.
You don't have enough tests and you never will
It's a zero sum game though. Raising the price of the drug literally just pulls money out of the system and puts it in his pocket at the expense of everyone else.

It's easy to argue the action is parasitic and adds no value.
I read that, but I was expecting something (new) that disgraced to be an event focused by the article since the events mentioned in that sentence have already happened. While those events could cause someone to be disgraced, he hasn't seemed disgraced in the slightest.
Put two of them in two iframes on the same page? No code changes should be needed
We did a user survey a year and a half ago, got a flood of feedback, and overwhelmingly users asked us to invest in the Google Voice standalone experience. It didn't mean that there aren't passionate users who want the Hangouts version.

Despite what a lot of the threads here are saying, honestly we did this based on user feedback and user research. Most people wanted this, even if they're not all on HN.
I suspect it was a deliberate usage based on the expansion of the NAACP acronym, rather than a term one would normally use. In _this_ case, that seems relatively harmless.
Yes. And to people saying "well, but premiums will increase", the number of people who use Daraprim is so small, it won't affect insurance companies or premiums in any meaningful way whatsoever. And that's not even accounting that anyone who has no insurance can just get the drug for free.
> mostly because of the lack of "family-centric" housing stock --whether detached units or multi-bedroom condos and apartment units

So...what kind of housing stock accommodates people living with roommates? The exact same 2/3/4 bedroom apartments that young single people share are the ones that families need. If the issue is that 4 single people with jobs can outcompete a couple with 3 kids, then the problem is with the total quantity of housing stock, not the mix.
Shkreli very much reminds me of Yiannopoulos; they are both trolls in real-life, and their only strength is yielded from driving up notoriety in the media and online and staying relevant due to that. Yiannopoulos does however have what looks like a stable platform (Breitbart), but this article implies that Shkreli doesn't, so if people really want to oppose him, the best way is to ignore him and let his ejection from the Pharma circle be complete.
You're doing something wrong. I use Chrome on Windows as my main now and I usually have more than 100 tabs open. I just switched a few months ago from Firefox on Linux, also usually with 100 tabs or more open. Both are very stable. Chrome is worse with handling tons of tabs, but I certainly don't have daily crashes.

People who have extremely unstable/inconsistent experiences with these platforms usually have a rogue extension or some other problem lurking beneath the surface.

Also consider occasionally VACUUMing your browser's DBs, and on Firefox, taking advantage of the profile reset option.
With a couple of notable exceptions schools and crime aren't really problems in most American cities. NYC, for example, is one of the safest places in the world and has very good schools. People leave when they have families because of the cost of housing.
I think it's much more likely to go the other direction (using a TV as a monitor if you happen to need a huge screen).

This got me curious and there are a couple of options, most from a brand called Sceptre that I haven't heard of. Here's one with 4k, 65" and no smart features: http://amzn.to/2kpcIqy
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Many big American ISPs are too greedy. Even worse is that most people have no clue how much a gigabyte of data is.

About the time Chairman Wheeler was aiming for net neutrality, he was also looking at data caps and if they were bad. Within a month, Comcast increased theirs to 1 TB. Coincidence?

There's going to be a lot about how 'competitive' ISPs are in the next few years in America now that everything's Republican. But most people have two options: expensive cable ISP that's fast when it wants to be, and slow DSL that's also expensive and not getting better.
Yup. Works rather well, I'm told.

(I'm big on VR and less so on 3D movies so I've not tried it.)
Yeah, there were a few spots in my neighborhood that they gave up on trying to plow, but those of us with 4WD trucks were able to get through. Not sure how a self driving truck is going to know which snowbanks it can drive through/over and which it can't. Sometimes I couldn't tell until I tried. That was fun!

Now I really wish I had taken more photos that year specifically to illustrate this sort of thing.
Sure. I don't disagree with any of that.

I still think you'd just be trading one problem for another. In the case that you have to live close then you would have to be wealthy enough to live close to a school that has activities and after school functions, etc, worth going to. The only people who'd be OK with that are obviously the people who either (a) already live close, or (b) can easily afford to move close to the better schools (of course the rich can always just send their kids to private schools, as well).

Poor people would prefer randomness since they're unlikely to get a top tier education for their kids anyway. Randomness gives them a chance. People wealthy enough to care but not wealthy enough to send their kids to private schools, on the other hand obviously won't like this: they'd prefer to guarantee their kids educational security via money.
This sounds a lot like the problem Android had with background tasks.

Starting in KitKat, a batching mechanism was introduced, so that apps which declared that they wanted CPU or screen resources in the future didn't all have separate timers running, but instead became members of a class that wanted similar things.

One of the most effective features of Greenify, a battery-saving app, is to force all apps (or all apps minus a few that you designate) into the batching mechanism.
What's wrong with the code? It's just HTML. Do you expect some NodeJS responsive React Web 3.0 app for this? I think the format, layout and code for the website is entirely appropriate for this.
Congress could solve this problem tomorrow with the stroke of a pen, but they won't. Just set a ceiling on what their profit margins can be, like a public utility. Done.
The Intent to Ship [1] writes that all six platforms will be affected (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView). Yet how does this affect Chrome OS background tabs, which "work entirely in the background and run even after you close the Chrome browser"? [2]

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...
[2] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1184722?hl=en
Dismiss enough $0.50 costs and your annual costs will go up in a meaningful way.
And then there's the Wu-Tang thing.

His whole story even made him a character Watch Dogs 2.
I normally go with: "If you could do it from scratch how would you implement the infrastructure of X"

X being a currently widely known service (I'm usually going with Spotify). There is no "right answer" to this question but this shows you how the candidate thinks and how well they can protect their opinion if challenged
Hi, Bay area Farmer here. Aquaponics is a fantastic solution for greens (fast growing stuff like lettuce) and the systems can be highly automated. Demands for electricity are significant but offset with solar.

I enjoy using rpi computers all over the farm to automate things. The best thing I learned is that ally youf folks that live in clickville need to get ousstide and take your hands and get them in the soil. Leave your keyboard for some sunshine and give up your phone for the day and talk to people while you work.

While your question is about technology in agriculture what humans need is a better connection to reality and that begins outside.
Don't forget that with KeePass you can also use as many files as you want. I know that I've been slowly moving from a single password file to a small constellation of context-specific password files. It's an interesting tool in the toolbox and you can even use that to help do things like manage the sync characteristics per KeePass file (this file should never leave this device, this file is synced by Resilio Sync, I'm alright with this other file hanging out in my OneDrive for easy access on devices I only partially trust, etc).
Presumably they were "right click > copy link"'d by the author, who didn't realize facebook was inserting themselves before the destination URL.
In particular, the lack of pointers in Java would probably annoy the article author as much as Rust does.
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I don't know why it would be. Putting the question a second time doesn't seem especially authoritarian. Running the country as the representative parliamentary democracy it's supposed to be, rather than direct democracy where referenda have final say doesn't seem authoritarian either.
You end up with universally bad schools instead of good and bad schools. Most parents would see that as a bad thing and the very rich pull their kids out and send them to private schools (which cost $30k+/year). So now you're left with bad schools and the rich have exercised their escape option. The result is a high school population where 80% of students live in public housing. I'm not a classist, but that's not the diversity most parents look for.

To balance it out, you would need some sort of region wide tax on private school attendance. If you want to opt out, you gotta pay. That would never happen so...back to the drawing board.
An option to disable this would be nice. Some people are using PCs and don't care about battery/temperature.

I just can't imagine tons of games that are out there working nicely. New release is estimated to land on 31 January[0], how the hell are people supposed to update their codebases?

[0]: https://www.chromium.org/developers/calendar
To me it seems like a tragedy of the commons, the issue is who will be first to stop extracting value this way. Since no one can be expected to, we need to fix the system that allows it, rather than expecting some altruistic behavior from outfits built to generate profit
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Yes, that is the market I expect self-driving cars to target.
thanks for the insights and the offer, I won't bother you for now but I'll stalk you on twitter :-)
AA isn't used to make things look more "lifelike", it's to make up for the fact that you're looking at a 1080p image (or lower) and since you're dealing with pixels shit looks jagged without it.

On that note, to hell with motion blur in games. The first thing I look for when I notice a game has it enabled by default is a way to turn it off, I'm not watching a film and responsiveness is much more important when I'm not sitting there mindlessly consuming content being played for me.
I see a few factors in my friends (mid to late 30s, east coast city) that leads me to believe there won't be a mass exodus to the burbs:

- They aren't having children at all

- They are having children very late, essentially already settling in the city

- They are having fewer children if any

- Since all of the jobs are in the city, they are optimizing commute times

- The burbs housing stock are all 40+ year old homes that need significant system updates

- I don't see the unbridled consumerism the boomers had, less stuff = less requirement of space
Isn't it a bit like the Jobs + Woz combination?
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Not very good optics if he really is planning on running for public office.
This is a very good one, my default is usually Instagram
Got there (although I never feel like I'm "there", always trying to improve) after 2 years of grunt work, a little bit of career planning, and a lot of luck. I'm currently a PM in a global trade software vendor.

After working in the same industry for 2 years in an entry level operational capacity, I was headhunted by my current company who was looking to build out product in that area.
Although I was very unmotivated during college and my degree in cognitive psychology is worth the paper it's printed on, I had programming experience and was self-learning on web development at the time. A combination of basic understanding of systems and software development, deep industry operational experience, and obvious enthusiasm for the job was enough to get hired.

While there are some direct paths to Product Management (often Business Analyst), most I've met seem to come from operations or development depending on the industry.

My advice for all of us that weren't top 1% at elite colleges and thus don't qualify for the PM path straight out of school is:

- Folks that know and care about the Tech AND the Business are unicorns are valuable and unique. Many technical folks I've worked care more about the stack they work with than the business problems that will make the company money. Many functional folks don't care about the tech. Pick an industry and work in a dev or operational capacity while learning the other side of it and absorbing excessive amounts of domain knowledge.

- Put yourself out there (LinkedIn, Medium, HN, whatever) as a domain expert.

- It's easier to make a horizontal move: another role in the same industry or the same role in another industry.

- Not everyone will be happy as a PM. There can be a lot of pressure to deliver yet you often don't personally implement anything. Communication skills are more important than technical skills.
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I've never used OneDrive or Amazon Cloud Drive, so I've not seen that.

Arq does have a button for validating data manually and a separate option for each backup destination that specifies how often (in days) backups should be validated. Whether that's a checksum or not, I don't know.
>Purchasing could be a voluntary decision but, here, we are talking about changing the definition of purchasing because it's not convenient for the seller.

This isn't really new. Major purchases often have contractual limitations. There was time in America where many houses had a restriction on their deed that prevented them from selling to African Americans.

The fundamental problem here is the method of contracting, and this change is sort of recent. Contract law has evolved to the point where you can enter a contract just by opening a box with very vague terms on it. I think that is ridiculous.

If Lexmark wants to have a program where you contractually promise to not resell in exchange for a discount, I'm fine with it. But slapping a warning label on the box shouldn't count as a contract.

But there really isn't any hope of courts changing the law on contracts. It's well settled now.
I don't like him but the fact that he's pointing out other sleazeballs now redeems him slightly in my eyes.
Ya, sounds like the same stuff that's being going on the whole time.
The term I've heard is 'asymmetric intimacy'.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I will think about it.

Most of the games I see nowadays sell what's basically shortcuts to success. This creates a very crooked sense of value especially in children that play these games. But selling environment and character skins and other non-functional stuff might be a good idea.
I think one major difference between the two will be that VR content should be much more accessible. A lot of computer games were already trying to be VR, just with clumsy controls and a fixed monitor. Taking a typical first-person game and VR-izing it is pretty easy, and there's a thriving indie game scene. 3D movies require quite a bit more effort and have much more room for stupid stuff like using parallax on an object that's supposed to be gigantic and distant.

Having the hardware be something totally different may well be helpful too. A 3D TV is just a regular TV with a weird feature tacked on. It's hard to justify a higher price, so there isn't much incentive to add that feature. VR headsets are seen as a totally different technology, so their price can be set independently.
Brexit isn't really a "British" issue; it's an issue that will have a huge impact all over Europe.