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I thought about building a Hackintosh a few times over the last couple of years but honestly, since the Fall update of Windows 10 came out, I stopped thinking about it.

WSL offers a very reasonable Linux environment under Windows nowadays.

And since it's a Windows box, you are still free to build it up from components yourself.

I have a feeling a lot of people build Hackintoshes because they like assembling their own box (with the freedom to upgrade when they want), don't want to pay the 400% Apple tax and want a nice development environment. I'd say it's worth looking into using Windows 10 + WSL, because you can do Linux based web development, audio / video editing and gaming all with 1 machine, without compromises.
I think WeWork positions itself as a startup champion because that makes it seem far 'cooler'. The reality is I meet more people in my WeWork working for established companies or one/two person businesses than I do startups. Personally I'd worked from home for ~5 years and was more than happy to pay for somewhere that does _everything_ just to get out. And I've covered more than I've spent on rent in money I've made from people I met in or because I was there.
My current Macbook has TouchID. It's just about the most useless thing they could do to a programmer's keyboard. The keyboard action sucks too. I wanted to go with the most recent release though, so I kept it.

::message typed from a glorious clicky-clicky keyboard with well broken-in MX blues::
Sex work is quite legal, and pretty well -- even if not ideally -- regulated.
You're adopting the micro perspective to a macro problem of a finite supply of coins.

Finite supply means that on average, net coin-profit of a business is zero coins. With such poor odds, why should someone go into business? Inflation incentivizes investment since you know that on average, a business opportunity has better ROI than saving.
Why do i keep finding myself thinking of Accelerando?
Are you sure none of those 100 were gifted one?
> Amount of non-IITians running/starting industries far exceeds in number. And they don't get the same funding...

Can you give me a source on this? One that compares the economic contribution of students from the next-10 colleges in India and finds it to be more than that of the IITs. Because otherwise, you're comparing different sample sizes and your statement becomes trivially true as a result.

> But by and large most IITs are largely places to train people, and send them to foreign countries.

Try looking up statistics of what % of students go abroad immediately after graduating from an IIT. Perhaps that might help you revisit this assertion.

> An argument could be made to spend this money to improve public schooling infrastructure in India.

The government's already spending 10x on that than they are on Higher Education. (2009) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_India#Budget
How much would an extra 0.5x help.
> worth a change in regulations?

Why? The regulations are there for a reason. In Netherlands the rail safety system has to be heavily improved before automation is possible. What apparently is the cause of the outdated safety system is that the system was (when built) ahead of its time, but nowadays other systems are much better.

They're now going to test with automated trains on specialized goods-only train lines.

In this case the regulation is there to ensure safety. If improvements cost a lot it'll have to be spread out over multiple years, or e.g. not automate away drivers. What's to me seems utterly strange is immediately jump to just allowing such changes and assume regulation is the problem.
As a software engineer, there is a lot to be learned from overclocking, itself.
Understanding hardware is important for any non-trivial job requiring performance, that's not immediately related to how well database optimizer understand your SQL.

Even more if you build try your hand at stress tests.
> In summary, I would never recommend to anybody to build a hackintosh unless he has the time and energy to make it work.

The name HACKintosh kind of tells you that, right? Sorry, but this was a pointless and non informative post.

I ran a Hackintosh from 2009 to 2013. It was extremely stable, but a bit cumbersome when doing updates. Things might have evolved since then.
Generally is not a problem, as Flash needs to check a file called "crossdomain.xml" that is served from the destination server, which specifies how Flash can communicate with it.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/articles/crossdomain_policy_file...
The author casually asserts there are no alternatives to the LG 5K when the Dell UP2715K AFAIK is just as good -- and it just needs two normal DisplayPort inputs.
...which is important, as it's just 1.12 square miles. It's about the same as the southern 5% of Manhattan.
The title is correct: the article, and the previous article it refers to [0], are about Wework's presence of 17 buildings all across London, not just in the City.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-06/wework-be...
Is it? I'm under the impression that cgi-bin is a way to serve requests from the local computer, while Zerg is a way to spawn _other_ server instances to handle the request (and in Erlang, specifically).
I think that computation expressions would allow him to do the same in F#?
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I have a property in France and we use a combination of AirBnB and until now, Booking.com; on AirBnB we have it set to instant book— we essentially have a small hotel type property so we don’t go through the that whole “approval” theater. However I agree AirBnB IS annoying because most people trying to book us always want to ask dumb questions like “is your property still available” — well yes, that’s why you can instantly book. If it weren’t available then why would it be bookable? Presumably this is because most AirBnB hosts are non professional and don’t manage their availability calendar correctly (I suppose..)

For us, AirBnB is just another booking source but it’s fairly annoying.. I can definitely agree with you — just on the opposite site of the table (the property owner.)
It's similar in intention, but "serverless is just `cgi-bin`" misses a lot of nuance. Zerg and cgi-bin are solving different problems and with different implementations. It's extremely difficult, if not impossible in some environments, to get the same kind of isolation with cgi-bin that you do out of a VM.
There are 3 types of companies here in India.

1. The likes of TCS, Wipro and Infosys. These have a huge workforce and literally hire in wholesale. Even this month, Wipro hired something like 50 students from a nearby college. They don't look for your programming skills or even CS theory knowledge. Nope. They hire based on marks, group discussion, English skills and even looks. Basically, anything that is not related to CS. Hell, they even hire mechanical engineers. In my college, students got placed this year because, a. They had good relations with faculty. b. Looks(for women) c. Acting "friendly" to a middleman(applies to women)
If you deal with these companies, I guarantee you, you'd get a poor product.

2. smaller outsourcing companies. Some of these are good, some of these are bad. Again, some manager might hire a student because she looks hot, while some other might genuinely look for skilled students. I'd suggest dealing with these companies, after getting good feedback about them from someone.

3. Startups. These are few, but the number is growing. I hope to get selected in one of these.
>>For almost all programmers who will eventually work with this thing, they will mostly use some frameworks to do it.

Frameworks only provide part of it. In the case of AI, they just provide a general way to represent neural networks. Each use case need a different type of network with hundreds of parameters fine tuned and trained. Of course you can download pre-built algorithms and model zoos, but they are at best couple of years old.

Also do you think that the best things will be available under a framework? There are open source frameworks (like Tensorflow), but you will be surprised at the amount of research under progress and what portion of it is available for public. For e.g. look at the amount of work that China is doing in the field (And available for public scrutiny) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhp47v5OBXQ.

India (or any other Country) could do proper research in the area or end up buying these stuff from other countries, provided they give state of art technology to others. Just imagine a drone or an army of drones equipped with such AI technology can survey 24/7 and instantly take down your enemy even across a country.
It's not because of the IT dominance per say, it this:
"Apple's mound of cash and cash equivalents continued to scrape the cloudline this quarter, coming in at $268.9 billion in the company's quarterly earnings report."
(https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/02/how-much-cash-does-apple-hav...)

He is betting that in some shape or form, they will put that cash to work or issue a nice dividend.
Isn't this around 18 months old now?

GANs should be able to do a lot better now.
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That‘s not sexism though.
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Ever been involved in a project that constantly gets its funding cut?

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What I would really like is a Hackintosh VM that I can run in the cloud for the few times that I need test something on macOS.

There are hosting companies out there but I'd rather spin up an EC2 instance or equivalent.
There's such a thing a state continuity though -- and oftentimes cultural continuity. It's not implausible to imagine a ruling AfD in the next 15-20 years.
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Just FYI, it is: „Der Junge trinkt die Milch.“ German quotes are weird, Junge and Milch are capitalized, and Milch is spelled with ch, not sch.
> There is really no good alternative to a 5K LG dispay at the moment.

Oh please. I have been using 1920×1080 displays for a while and there's nothing wrong with them. To claim that 4k is not good enough and you absolutely need 5k, that's just ludicrous.

I agree with the conclusion that a Hackintosh misses the entire point of a Macintosh, but for different reasons.

I'm not an Apple fanboy. I have owned 3 MacBooks in the past, but lately I have switched over to Lenovo laptops running various flavors of Linux.

That being said, Apple's hardware is undeniably well engineered and aesthetically pleasing, to a degree IMHO unrivaled in the industry.

It features a deep integration of hardware and software, meaning that they are developed by the "team next door," that allows Macs to excel in areas considered "difficult" in other OSs, such as battery usage and fast and reliable standby/wakeup. This level of integration between hardware and software is again unrivaled, except in the smartphone and tablet industry, which closely followed Apple's lead with the iPhone and iPad.

Finally, Apple's software has traditionally been very user-friendly, intuitive and bug-free (IMHO this was true 10 years ago, less so now.)

This is what people are paying for when they buy a Macintosh and it's something a Hackintosh misses completely (except for the last point, I guess.) Not the 5k display.
> I tried to leave a negative review for a hotel on booking.com and the overall result was 3.5 out 5!

Do you mean tripadvisor? Booking.com works on a scale of 1-10.
“Cache line sizes have not significantly increased since 2009, so 8 should still be optimal for 𝑟.”

Cache line sizes don’t change insignificantly — they change in powers of 2. Cache lines sizes for Intel x86_64 CPUs have not changed at all since 2009, it’s still 64 bytes.
Both Wiktionary and dictionary.com list definitions of "contact" as a verb. I don't have access to the OED at the moment, but I assume they would have it listed as a valid verb as well.
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I concur. I feel that these H1B restrictions will help India in the long run. Instead of doing some mediocre coding job in the U.S., the same people can stay in India and change the face of the country.
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Having ran Hackintosh for 6 years as my primary development workstation, I have to disagree. All the points are true, and it's been very frustrating. However, to me OS X is the only really viable OS at the moment (Unix base that runs mainstream software well like Adobe and MS Office), and I'd rather run that on a machine that I know, can upgrade, repair and take apart if needed. And Hackingtosh is that, and if it runs, it runs smoothly. 6 years of 32GB memory, quad core Xeon, GTX 770, 34" ultra-wide, and plenty of native IO and storage ... try beating that at the price point of a Mac Pro or iMac. But maybe 2018 will be finally the year I drop OS X altogether and use Linux on a laptop and my workstation. OS X is slipping, and the hardware is not what I need from PCs anyway. Windows is still a no go, though.
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It was a Dev from Ibm who used to develop for Alexa, but with its' unpredictable payouts , he has spent more time on the Google Home platform which allowed him to advertise his books through Google AdSense.
>To be honest I'm not an operations guy, and never have been, but I do work in management and my good friend who heads the IT department is struggling to find new roles for the operations people as we're heading into the cloud.

He ought to look at more security based roles to fill that gap, unless that's a separate department for you guys.
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As a final year undergraduate, this makes me happy. Finally the trimming that IT industry badly needs is happening.

And as a domino effect, admissions are also falling. I hope shitty colleges, like the one I belong from, close down.

Surely, I am having bad time too. I haven't found a job yet. And despite applying to 50-100 companies, hardly 1-2 replied. But I gotta keep trying, hopefully I'll find a job one day. If not, well, it's better not to worry about things out of control. One can always do something to pass that day, and hope for a better tomorrow.
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> 56k employees

They're laying people off at modem speed!
A long time ago I was a Linux user, and my then girlfriend was sick of Windows and curious about how "computers work", so I (barely) guided her in installing Gentoo (and once that was done we moved to Ubuntu for simplicity). She hated KDE but quite liked GNOME and XFCE. But then, I tried to install either Tiger or Leopard on a Dell XPS 12" laptop. No WiFi, VESA mode, but enough for a quick demo. She came back from class and instantly fell in love with Mac OS X, so much so that the very same day we bought her a 13" BlackBook. Soon enough I couldn't stand having to endlessly fiddle with and fix Linux as an OS and bought myself a 15" MacBook too, so that I could focus on fiddling and building actual things instead of merely making the OS behave.

Some years later, I was handed a Dell XPS 8300 desktop at work. Turns out I couldn't stand Windows, and I was constantly running a Linux VM in it, so I might as well jump to native. But it was a crapfest: unstable graphics driver which randomly failed to initialize, constant tearing that couldn't be dealt with, seemingly random CPU performance issues, GPU/screens that wouldn't respect DCC, power off then instantly power back on, endlessly blinking, AHCI glitches that would spam dmesg, not to mention your typical pulseaudio and bluez mess. And one day, just for kicks, I hackintoshed the thing. It booted right away, with zero glitches, full GPU support, and only ethernet and audio missing, which was quickly fixed by installing kexts that are basically ports from either Linux or FreeBSD drivers. To sum it up, Mac OS X was behaving much better than Linux on that specific non-Apple hardware. I was stumped. The productivity gain was astounding for me, so much so that I kept it around, and used it with increasing frequency. Soon enough, coworkers started to notice and asked me if it was a Linux theme or something. The word spread that Mac OS X was a good thing and that it integrated well into our work environment, the hackintosh was quickly retired in favour of legit Apple hardware, not just for me but for many people in the company as it became a possible option for whoever wanted to have one as a work machine instead of a PC.

I can understand Apple going after people trying to turn money on hackintoshed hardware, but I sincerely hope they continue to turn a blind eye on this, because enthusiasts hacking the shit out of this is definitely good for them.
The terminal emulator does not (and should not, according to my strong opinion) interpret the output of different programs differently.

In fact it's not currently technically possible for a terminal emulator to know which program is writing into it. It maybe many programs simulatenously, or it may be the kernel asynchronously, etc... If you want to change that you would have to make the architecture tremendously more complicated and less flexible.

And the same goes for shells. You don't want to complicate the architecture just so that a lawyer could attest you that "it was cat" who drew the image und some weird interpretation. Nothing would be gained, and nobody would be able to understand what's happening anymore.
OK so if you are not happy where you are and you make the leap and it doesn't work out then you can always go back to your old life. What have you lost? The thing is it doesn't have to be a giant leap into the unknown where all is lost if it doesn't work out - that's how people perceive it in their head. I've tried plenty of things that didn't work out, but you back up, regroup and try again from a different angle. I think what you'd regret more than anything is staying in a life that leaves you cold. If you live like that your hand will be forced eventually. Better off preparing for the inevitable.
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I have been using a hackintosh for around 6 years. I was never able to upgrade past 10.9.5 with my current build.

I had some long forgotten Bitcoin I found so I did this.

https://i.imgur.com/CBc7d2X.png

Took around a hour to get OS X installed. Only real catch was audio. But that only added another 30 minutes.

https://i.imgur.com/hYbHBhA.png

Everything works great. No problems with stability.

The funny thing is I initially installed windows on this build. I wanted to make sure everything worked. That was more difficult than getting OS X installed.

I do not recommend using a hackintosh if it pays your bills. It will eventually break and there might not be a fix.
I agree and I understand what the original comment means.

But "we" is first of all the plural of "I", so it means above all "people" and there is no "people continuity", at least not over 70 years.

In a sense he says that I (assuming he is German) started a war which is (AFAIK) not the case.

Assuming you are US-American, I shouldn't say that you invaded Iraq either, should I?
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> everything there is specifically designed to make you feel like you're on the first step to the fantastic Internet riches you've deserved all your life.

Interesting... how so? (I've never been to such a place)
I have long been amused by this — and it shows the dominance of marketing.

> Of course, there's only so many ways to draw a cloud, right?

Well into the early ‘00s I would draw the ‘cloud’ (typically on a white board) the way it appeared in the early TCP papers (the origin of the term): a more vaguely symmetrical or “round” shape, not something with a sharp straight bottom. A “dust cloud”, if you will, that obscured its inner workings.

But of course once they heard engineers use that words, marketers misunderstood the metaphor, drew a cumulus cloud, and ran with it. And now we have a metaphor that doesn’t actually mean anything. As usual.
> Now if you're a programmer doing native code, I'd still recommend doing a hackintosh; Apple has no hardware for you, so you might as well roll your own. For desktops, that is.

What's wrong with the higher-end iMacs? (My nitpicks are no dealbreakers: Glossy screen, height is not easily adjustable, I've heard of thermal issues.) The iMac always seemed like the only line of Apple computers where updates are both frequent and well-received.
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It sounds like AirBnB would benefit from a feature where you can personally and automatically contact the booking customer to confirm the reservation. A sort of automatic email with your brand confirming the dates and other information. Or maybe do so by pressing a button. Or maybe just a status on the reservation: "Host has seen reservation and confirmed".

I have never used AirBnB, but I am loathe to rely too much on entirely electronic information, without a real human confirming it. Case in point: several restaurants claimed they'd be open on Christmas day on their websites, so we planned to pick up food for a gathering. When we arrived at the restaurant on the day, they were closed, at a time which was at least 2 hours before their posted closing time (which did include holiday hours). This caused a last-minute scramble to arrange food for people at short notice on Christmas day. If we had tried to reach an actual person on the phone, presumably this mixup would have been avoided.

If my travel arrangements depended upon the availability of an AirBnB, then I'd probably want to confirm with the host too. A major hotel isn't going to lose my reservation, but with AirBnB who knows. Maybe the host will be "out of town" that day and forgot to mark their property unavailable, just like the restaurants that "forget" to mention when they'll be closed.

(Have I mentioned how much I hate hate hate when businesses don't keep to their posted hours?)
The open plan spaces are very noisy, personally I wouldn't be able to get anything done. If you can, get a separate unit and make sure to put a carpet on the floor, e.g. DEKOWE that can be made to measure, to dampen the echo cause by the glass walls and wooden floors.
Why is an extended holiday such a big ask? - would they rather give you that or lose you to ill health? What you could do is just quit, take a few months off then start applying for a new job. I would have thought someone with your level of experience could easily find a new gig. Only you know your exact situation.
To be honest skills have no easy monetization path if at all.

I’m not even sure skills really need to exist for anything that only uses the Alexa UI. For IOT devices it makes sense . The big issue is that you cant purchase skills and to get to using a skill is time consuming.

I made a skill called history facts and I don’t even use it. I never use skills at all.