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I've been very happy with the Dell XPS 9650 thus far. I've used it as my primary development machine for nearly a year. The 4k screen is simply gorgeous; Linux support is fantastic, with everything working out of the box with Ubuntu (particularly 18.04).

I also use a 2017 MacBook Pro with touchbar for iOS development. And while I've long recommended the MacBook Pro to others without hesitation, that began to change sometime in the past 2-3 years.

The MacBook Pro screen actually looks blurry by comparison to the XPS 4k. Text isn't as sharp, and the colors are less vibrant (although the P3 color space is a nice improvement). It's a bit disappointing that Apple has yet to fundamentally improve upon the once unbeatable 2013 MacBook Pro "retina" screen, despite a few tweaks along the way.

However, the XPS 9550 definitely suffered from the annoying coil whine. Moreover, I was never satisfied with the touchpad, especially the palm rejection. There was even a slight delay after tapping, which was just enough to be frustrating during daily use. The fans also came on more than expected, likely due to lackluster power management support for the novel Skylake architecture.

And perhaps strangest of all was the repeating "W" key issue. Without rhyme or reason, the "W" key would sometimes repeat, as if being held down (despite not being stuck). Interestingly, there were BIOS updates to address this issue, and based on the Dell's forums, the "W" key issue has affected numerous laptop models over the years.

Fortunately, it seems that Dell has finally managed to iron out these growing pains with the 9560. After purchasing it, I quickly upgraded to 32GB of memory, installed a Samsung 960 Pro SSD, and swapped out the Wifi chip for a better performing Intel model. You'd be hard pressed to find a better spec'd machine for linux / software development.

I'll be curious to see if Apple can up their game with the 2018 MacBook Pro.
I’ve been thinking of doing this as well. While I do occasionally get hit up by internal recruiters, which I don’t mind, that happens infrequently. For the most part it is just 3rd party recruiters seizing on a keyword hit pertaining to something I did 10 years ago (“I have a great .Net role I think you’d be perfect for”).
Some people seem to think that people will lie about small things, but not big things. I kind of think that if you are willing to compromise your integrity for something small, you are definitely going to lie on the big things when the stakes are higher.
In that case: local resolvers involve actually installing and configuring a recursive dns server, which isn't everyone's idea of fun, whereas 1.1/8.8.8.8 can be set up with a one line config file edit and then forgotten about.
Even if it were true that no residential waste program has ever accepted for compost food-soiled paper (nor ever will) and that even the vast majority of people discard the vast majority of their waste at home, it would not follow that this means it's not too difficult for them to remember which rules apply where.

Is it even true that people stay put an average of 5+ years in the same home or locality?

I can personally attest to the recycling rules changing more often than every 5 years in every locality I've lived in.
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We're discussing this in the context of people who can't afford market-rate apartments. If the government doesn't step in, then some fraction of these people will work harder and strive, and make it on their own. A different fraction will die on the street.

I don't want people dying on the street. I think more permissive zoning laws would solve a lot of our housing affordability crisis, but not all of it. For the rest, I think subsidies for market-rate housing (like Section 8) are the most efficient and transparent solution, and much less USSR-like than what the linked article describes. What do you think?
Mac keyboard shortcoming
This is incorrect. It takes very few people to start an information cascade. The wrong side can win just as easily as the right one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_cascade
I'm not sure what this is? Is it a rebrand of Google Drive?

EDIT: Yep, with more features! https://www.techradar.com/news/everything-you-need-to-know-a...
I've got one of these: http://apollo-core.com/index.htm in an Amiga. It's an insane amount of fun.

"Apollo Core 68080 is the natural and modern evolution of latest 68000 processors. It's 100% code compatible, corrects bugs of 680x0 designs and adds on top most of the cool features which were invented the years after."
Just my $0.02... I have worked some jobs as an employee, some as a contractor, and in my experience there is really no difference between the two, other than how taxes (and social security, etc) are handled. My contracting jobs did not give me any more flexibility (and probably all had this "don't use a subcontractor" clause). How much leeway I had in choosing "the time, place, and manner of my work" depended entirely on the company, not on my status as an employee vs a contractor.
> Programmers are lucky in that they can take code they've written, and say "see, here's my proof that I can do the job"

Most of the code I write ss closed source and owned by my employer. I never get to show off the cool things I've done. As for doing side projects to show potential employers, I have very little 'personal' time on any given day between work and family life. I no longer code for fun. Now I do chores, read, and maybe sleep a little.
This would be an alternative of Google Drive?
So I disagree with the thesis that debate doesn't bring us closer to truth. I think it does, just astronomically slowly. For example, I often get in arguments where I vigorously debate one side, and then realize I might be wrong, and I may continue to argue in order to "win", but deep down after the argument my beliefs have changed slightly in the opponent's direction. I feel like this process over time has gradually approximated to some sort of truth, the truth believed by all of the people I've ever interacted with. Even after this noisy process, there is still a thread of reality left where people have at least concluded internally what is truth, and there is only one set of axioms which allow all of the parties to arrive at their separate conclusions. In short, as the number of people you debate approaches infinity, I think the truth emerges.

EDIT: I also think it is really ironic that she is using reason to say that reason doesn't actually let us arrive any closer to the truth: why write the article at all then?
Cloud and the Era of AR/VR Technology: What's Next
I'd expect that once people get to those, it's too late. They've already done as much sorting as they're going to do.

However, I've never lived anywhere with that arrangement, so maybe I'm missing something.
Exactly, this person is clearly terrible at their job.
Here's my own anecdote: There's a person living in my country that has exactly the same name and surname as me, and the same degree. I don't know how this happened, as my name/surname combo is fairly unusual. When further details are not present (ie family names, tax identification etc), which is the usual case for google, you can't tell if a document talks about me or him.

I dread the day that something negative pops up about him in the first pages of Google.

Then all the self-righteous and arrogant interviewers, distant family and potential friends or lovers, they'll all think that "they got me" by searching my name on Google. They all think they're right with little proof for it. And the worst part is, that just like the guy in the article, they won't tell you. They're silently wrong, thinking they're right. That kind of attitude really pisses me off.
Hi there. It's been a while :D
I've hunted for a Sancerre, Vouvray, or Samur that compares to the 5 euro bottles I found in the bargain bin of a Carrefour in central France, to no avail. I've also never found Israeli or Greek wines here (the Greek wines can be so-so, but Israeli wine is amazing) and the Spanish choices over here are often disappointing. Trying to find any real sake is even more difficult.

However, I think that if you bargain hunt and don't go for "favorite bottles" you should never have to spend more than $25 for a really good wine. If you divorce yourself from reviews and labels, and pick the wine solely based on region, varietal, grower/producer, and year, there are great wines all over the place, and you end up finding new things you never would have tried before.
With space shared between family members! Yay!
I've never thought my boss was a "fucking moron". While there have been things that have made me frustrated or irritated, I believe I have enough maturity, and so does he, that we can talk like adults and either come to a compromise or better understand their actions/decisions and them understand mine.

I don't know what kind of world you live in where not blurting out the first insulting comment is considering lying...
So, they've made Google One and Google Drive, in an effort to have Google OneDrive in series instead of in parallel.
I know! The video was like 2:30 long and maybe 30 seconds actually had pictures or videos....
that was already struck down by california voters who value sparse, low populous neighborhoods more than the environment.

https://sf.curbed.com/2018/4/18/17250876/california-senate-b...
Google loves talking about things they're not ready to actually start doing yet.
That's true in the sense that many well-known Scottish distilleries are owned by some large corporation, but some of those distilleries make their whisky the same way they did a hundred years ago.

The American whiskey scene is much as you describe though. The indie scene is fairly new, and they have to do something while they're waiting for the barrels to age. But some are producing their own offbeat whiskeys; for example, Balcones makes one from blue corn, and another with malt smoked by mesquite.
The author references reddits "Change my View" subreddit, and dismisses it as a failed experiment, "the instances of the original poster actually changing their view were discouragingly few."

I think this is an unnecessarily dismal take on an interesting community. While out-and-out 180 degree reversals of viewpoint are comparatively rare, a very notable portion of posters approach the debate in good faith, and often the discussion results in a softening of views, and an admission of "maybe it wasn't quite so black-and-white or extreme as I originally thought".

i.e., where the author of this article asserts

> Today, the fundamental orientation of online debate culture is toward universals, which are more likely to spark a reaction. There is a heavy reliance on words like “always” and “never,” as well as a tendency towards extreme responses to perceived social ills:

I think the CMV community, on occasion, manages the miracle of pulling away from universal absolutes, and towards an empathetic understanding of concrete situations.
Great book, really enjoyed. For people who wanna learn more about Functional Programming (Haskell,Purescript) from 101 to building product, I recommend this resources:

FP Resources:https://github.com/functionalflow/brains/projects/9
Ardbeg 10 has always been my go to cheaper Islay whisky.
“Be among the first to know when Google One is available in your area” made me think why they're rolling out the service based on Area?

Wonder if it is due to technical reasons or demographic reasons, or it is still in the process of "beta" and needs to be tweaked more for releasing to all areas at once?
No more cloud space required! Please stop marketing and selling cloud space.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067466

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067168
I have wondered how many people don't realize how important it is to literally inhale their food if they really want to taste it. I was raised so heavily on keeping my mouth closed when I eat that it wasn't until I was in adulthood that I was properly tasting food. Coke and Pepsi are night and day if you take the time to inhale their aromas and taste them, as an active verb involving deliberate effort. They're the fizzy sugary battery acid that people sometimes claim they are if you just straight-up chug them.
In my experience, few good employees quit because they are unhappy. People are good at enduring unhappiness for money,opportunities or acheiving a goal.

From what I have seen, it is usually some political or administrative mistreatment that ends up being "the straw that broke the camel's back".

I will accept low pay, a bad manager ,cruel colleagues and a ridiculous work environment so long as I get to do the technical work I have passion for, I don't get treated unequally (except where objective meritocracy applies) and I don't get lied to by my manager. Of course, it should go without saying -- if the competition scouts me and offers better conditions I wouldn't reject that offer.

Corporate america plays too many "games" against rank and file workers.

It makes me a bit envious of all the Enterpreneurs and employees of new startups. The
Business hasn't gotten old enough to think up all these devious schemes to save a buck by mistreating workers. I wonder,Is it like getting into a brand new marriage?

Sorry for my pessimistic post, can only speak from my own personal experience. I get attached to coworkers easily and had to quit a few jobs because of b.s.
Maybe they can use them to start complying with local laws.
Wow, this is great. Where can I find more of your poetry?
The reason whois has been preserved is the intellectual property lawyers that want to threaten website owners, so yeah, fuck them.
>> After all the uproar over Brochet's "The Color of Odors", I did a tasting with a few friends where I chilled red and white wines down to the same temperature, and had them try the wines blindfolded. Across 6 people who all considered themselves wine enthusiasts, it was pretty dicey even being able to tell a Merlot from a Sauv Blanc. Maybe it was my just my lame friends, or maybe I chose bad wines. Or maybe not.

I'd bet taht neither your friends are "lame" (tut-tut) neither the wines bad, but I think it's mostly an issue of what wines you happened to compare. In Greece where I'm from, I often drink house wines - I'll go to a taverna and they'll have a couple of barrels in the back, one red, one white. The white always has a distinct sweet twang, which is never there in the red that tends to be on the dry side (which I prefer for this reason). Both types of wine are often drinked chilled anyway (unless you go to some fancy place where they have ideas about the ideal temperature to drink their wine).

And of course, there is no way in hell that anyone could mistake retsina for Merlot... :)
The wrong side can win, but not just as easily. I claimed that the true side has an edge, not that the true side wins every time.
The data is only encrypted during network transit; the "clouds" decrypt it in order to perform requested data-munging and unrequested snooping.
i don't think it's as inaccurate as you're suggesting, though.

i've recently taken upper-division/graduate courses in math, stats, EE and CS at three different US universities. 100% of the courses used piazza, because professors and TAs don't want to pollute their inboxes with questions and most questions end up being answered by students. it's not great, but it supports latex math (!) and its discussion features are much better than canvas (which tends to be the default, officially-blessed system these days).

membership in courses (and hence institutions) is usually managed by the instructors based on university email. "social network" features are pretty basic (based on courses, institutions, and contacts) but definitely exist.

i imagine the main draw for employers is that it's a nearly universal pool (for certain majors) of opted-in university leads with relatively reliable major/institution/coursework data for filtering.

"raid" might not be the best word choice, but given that students "have to" sign up to get course help and will probably manage to click on the opt-in careers button at some point, i can kind of see how people can see this pivot as skeevy.
> One doesn't need to be a wine enthusiast to tell a red wine from a white.

Ever tried? A study famously found that tasters don't notice the difference - when given a white wine with red food coloring, their evaluations were typical of evaluations of red wines.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0093934X0...
I am doing this now. I just took a Discrete Math class and I am taking a calc refresher in the Fall. I have been reading several text books as well for practice and reinforcement.
I guess they will eventually phase out Google Drive, which was actually a perfectly descriptive name. What a shame.
Any wine aged in wooden barrels is also made of wood. Alcohol reacts with various components of the wood to make all sorts of interesting flavor compounds.
Why would anyone buy a Tesla now? From my understanding, it’s impossible to get parts or work done on these cars. Yes, they’re solid state and shouldn’t need it but we live in the real world...
I'm a sample of one, but I was kind of in your shoes. I'm a huge baseball fan and spent lots of time programming tools to help me perform better in my fantasy leagues. From there, I thought, "why not program my own baseball simulator?"

So, I started but I kept running into "I wonder how they do....?" interface questions because I didn't like gaming, so I started playing a baseball simulator.

To say I was fucking amazed would be an incredible understatement. The complexity and depth they achieved was so far out of my league that I wanted to keep playing, partly as a tribute and partly in hopes of figuring out their secrets. But, if you'd asked me then, I still would have said, "Yeah, i don't like games."

And, then for Christmas a few years ago, we got our kids a PS4. At first, I was a fuddy duddy who didn't like games, but then my stepdaughter taught me how to play Minecraft...

Today, roughly four years have gone by since I decided to build my own baseball simulation. As it stands, the simulation might be one of the worst pieces of software ever built, though I cant recall another project where I've flat out learned so much.
This read like a soft marketing material for Linkedin.
I never thought another tech company could be more awkward than Microsoft at branding. I guess it’s just hard to name things.
Casper: What Is Known About the New Ethereum’s Network Upgrade?
If a keyboard (and a decent-sized screen) can be added, definitely a mouse and a mouse-centric interface.

I have tried using an iPad Pro for productivity, and it's living hell.
This reminds me of RAID 6’s use of abstract algebra.
Even if you get the false positive rate low, the low prevalence of criminals versus innocents will lead to a large number of false positives.

Let's say one person in 1000 has an outstanding warrant. Let's say that when the camera sees this person, it has a 99% chance of recognising them correctly. Let's also say that it has only a 1% chance of recognising an innocent person as a suspect.

Under these generous conditions, 10 out of every 11 hits will be false positives. Put another way, if you run the hypothetical system on a football match with 60,000 people in the crowd, you'll find 59 or 60 of the ones with outstanding warrants, and several hundred without.

This is just the same math that was used to show how ineffective PRISM mass surveillance would be: https://bayesianbiologist.com/2013/06/06/how-likely-is-the-n...
After completely screwing so many of us over with that horrible File Stream "upgrade", I'll pass. I still have an orphaned local Google Drive folder that randomly stopped syncing to sort through and move to Dropbox.
"Google Drive" would be a good name for a self-driving car, too, though.
Those points are true of SF rent control, however rent control has the side-effect of leading to people being able to afford a bigger place than they would otherwise afford, which in turn reduces the number of people who can afford to live in the same number of units. Why bother taking on a roommate if your rent controlled price makes the unit affordable? So now that would-be room mate has to find somewhere else to live.
The author's examples are all moral issues. There is no "right answer" to a moral question. Morality is all just subjective personal feelings, biases and culture. But even in politics, there's an entire world of questions that do have objectively correct answers. You can't debate "should people be allowed guns" but you absolutely could debate whether guns statistically increase the murder rate. And there's all sorts of data and examples you can point to on that subject.

I do think you could make a more interesting argument for the author's view though. One thing that's always disturbed me is just how highly heritable political views are in twin studies. And that's after excluding the influence of family which share much of your genetics. If people's political beliefs are so predictable, then there can't be that much influence from reason and debate.

Perhaps this is just a consequence of the above. Perhaps most political issues are just about people's subjective moral feelings about things. And that could be mostly genetic.
Not a developer, but laughing at this statement:

> Public personas are a professional necessity, especially in our industry

If I wasn't on hacker news, I would assume you were an actor or a radio talk show host. Maybe you're right, and developers need to have a public persona today. But why does it need to be that way? You aren't performers. You aren't politicians.
A good example of how RAID 1 is not a backup.
Brain-computer-interface training helps tetraplegics win avatar race
I also don't think boxing is especially 'violent' but people do get hurt. I used to box competitively on a college team (NCBA) and almost every fighter on the team above ~140lbs had had at least one concussion, with the frequency of concussion increasing with the weight of the fighter. The coaches took every precaution with headgear and sparring only with 20oz gloves, and official fights had doctors ringside, but the rate of concussions was still insane. The personality changes can be drastic in the short/long term and several teammates mentioned failing exams days after their fight. I really miss it but won't ever compete again because I'm afraid of the long-term risks. The ironic thing is, getting hit in the body always hurt less for me than a head-shot.
I'm a sample of one, but I was kind of in your shoes. I'm a huge baseball fan and spent lots of time programming tools to help me perform better in my fantasy leagues. From there, I thought, "why not program my own baseball simulator?"

I started but kept running into "I wonder how they do....?" interface questions because I didn't like gaming, so I started playing a baseball simulator.

To say I was fucking amazed would be an incredible understatement. The complexity and depth they achieved was so far out of my league that I wanted to keep playing, partly as a tribute and partly in hopes of figuring out their secrets. But, if you'd asked me then, I still would have said, "Yeah, I don't like games."

And, then for Christmas a few years ago, we got our kids a PS4. At first, I was a fuddy duddy who didn't like games, but then my stepdaughter taught me how to play Minecraft...

Today, roughly four years have gone by since I decided to build my own baseball simulation. As it stands, the simulation might be one of the worst pieces of software ever built, though I learned so much when I was working on it.

But, the biggest difference is that now, I play games. I actually bought GTA5 a few months ago and can't believe how much fun I have playing it.

TL;DR - Go right ahead, even for a side project. However, if you don't play games, you'll likely end up playing a few, just to figure out how others present information and request input. Then, be very careful because once you get over the amazement at what people can accomplish, you might start having fun. :)
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