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Women will buy thinner phones. Fat phone makes you look fat. A delicate slim phone feels better! (kind of joking, but who knows)

Some people, not just women, might think that thinner means more advanced. After all, it's always been somewhat the case in general - remember the old 5kg monitors? Now you have flat LCDs.

I, however, am uncomfortable with thin laptop. I don't feel it's safe to put it in the backpack with other things. After all, what if I have to run? Will it endure the jolting? What if somebody bumps into me from behind in a crowded place? Probably it will be fine, but it is still somewhat unnerving.

But manufacturers want to make stuff that breaks. If it doesn't the you sell little. It can't be really bad, because then you'll get bad reputation, but if it's too good then you'll be outcompeted. I think it's possible to make a laptop that most likely will never break and will remain upgradeable for the next 50 years. But it would require cooperation from many hardware manufacturers because every part would have to be made with quality in mind, instead of profit and scalability.

We will not cooperate because we don't really need high quality laptops. What we have is good enough.

Gimmicks are easy to add. Some of the most annoying are touchscreens. Why on earth would you need a touchscreen on a laptop? Touching screens makes you look like an idiot. Remember those silly stock images of high tech where people touch holograms? I never liked them. It's like trying to sell electronics to apes. You don't explain, you show with gestures how you can interact with this thingy.

Actually annoying is not the right word. They make me feel uncomfortably superior. I don't know why.
It looks like it just releases the little arms which are spring-loaded. It shouldn't even open in your pocket.
Mounting a seldom-modified and highly sensitive and critical filesystem r/w by default, when the existence of buggy implementations is known, is a deeply irresponsible decision. Blaming the rest of the world for the fallout from their crappy design decisions is a pattern of behaviour among some systemd developers.

Fortunately you don't have to use systemd. I'm happily running Void Linux.
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I have found it to be remarkable over the last few years. I keep coming back to Debian although I've used OpenSuse Tumbleweed in recent times, and some other flavours before that.

With Debian, I've used a very old Dell Latitude (circa 2010, Core2Duo, DDR2, i3wm or XFCE) and newer Dell Inspiron (2017, i5 7th Gen, DDR4, full HD touchscreen display, KDE/XFCE+i3wm) and never had trouble with either sleep/wakeup or with wifi. Touch isn't as great as Windows, so it detects only "left click", not right click, zoom, etc. but I never use touch so it's something I can live with.

Incidentally, I installed Linux because the Windows 10 that came preinstalled had some hardware issue and the fan was always on, so I was getting around 1 hour of battery life. Switching to Tumbleweed (Linux 4.x at that time) gave me amazing battery life, around 5-6 hours. And when Debian 9 (kernel 4.x) got released, I quickly moved to it, and still get around 4-5 hours if I'm doing text editing, browsing and little bit of compiling.
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Spectacle is nice, but may I direct you toward hammerspoon (general purpose OS X workflow 'wrangler'), e.g window management: http://thume.ca/2016/07/16/advanced-hackery-with-the-hammers...
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Desktop Linux never became significantly better than Mac OS or Windows, that's why it failed to grow. It's worse in a lot of aspects except ideology.

Firefox is arguably better than Chrome and has a much nicer ideology as well, but it's not so much better than Chrome that the majority of users is switching by default.

Non technical people need a reason other than ideology to switch. The product needs to provide a new value that doesn't exist or be so much better that it's obvious to everybody who tries it.
At the acknowledgement the only big name from the field is Peter Sarnak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sarnak. If Peter Sarnak vouch for the result it might be correct.
A bit too quiet sometimes, to the point of melting my lap. There's even an app to set the fan speed and prevent overheating.
Are you sure Apple covers those two years? Over here it's the seller that adds the second year.
This sounds really expensive! Are all contracts similar in the US?
In Italy I pay EUR 5.99/mo for 30gb and unlimited calls including to any European country and some international countries too.
Databases all use some kind of write-ahead logging so you'll be safe as long as that file is safe, and they're even capable of recovering the file all the way up to any corrupt records that may have been appended at the end.

You shouldn't use multiple servers writing to the same volume for database drives, but other than that it's no different than any other disk that might lose connection. Most VMs "local" disks are still attached over the network anyway, emulating a PCIe bus interface instead of NFS.
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Wow, Clean up trash before we throw it?

We're throwing away our time is all we're doing. Looks like no one here values time. Sorting into 13 bins, etc. We need govt to get out of the way so someone can figure this out and make money (their incentive to figure it out).

Govt's not going to figure this out for us. It has no incentive to.
First best is probably abstinence, assuming you can actually keep that up.
> This "totalitarian state" can be freely visited by most anybody (stop by Hong Kong to pick up a visa).

Funny. Many Hongkongers (in particular the democrats) have been denied access to not only Chinese mainland, but also Macau. Are Hongkongers not counted as "anybody"? Is this your version of "freedom with Chinese characteristics"?
Being told that others are better off than you rarely makes anybody better off.
I have no problem with the layout, design or lack of javascript, in fact i like it, but think I there are several real functional flaws in this site which are annoying.

Why is there no search function? You have to go to a third party site to search hacker news. Why can you only go back 3-4 pages of articles? Why is there no mention of the formatting available to you when writing a post? I think you have to browse the FAQs to get that data?

Even just now I had to login after writing this post and clicking "add comment", once I logged in the post I had written was no longer in the form! This is basic stuff guys.

Those are some issues which would be as true today as they were 10 or 20 years ago.
Glad I'm not the only one having an awesome experience with Linux on the XPS 15 (a 9560 running Fedora in my case). Some of the stuff I've come across on the internet seems to imply that it's impossible to run Linux on this thing and I've had no issues at all!
> The real ones, who believe fervently in open source etc etc

The people who really care about owning their tools, privacy etc. usually care more about the whole principle behind free/libre software, rather than merely open-source. But I think the OP was making a point that it is important for all of us to care about this, not just people who already do, because in the end, it impacts all.
I'm pretty sure marketers and designers really do know that. How light a device feels in the hand is pretty much the very first thing someone notices when picking up a new device, and sets the stage for the rest of their expectations.

We also know that in most cases (of course not every case) first impressions are a much bigger influence on the final decision to purchase than later analysis and consideration, regardless of what people think about their own decision making process. Pretty much every company that has ever sold anything cares about this stuff, and many of them have plenty of resources, so this has been studies to death for decades. A lot of super smart people have spent a huge amount of time devising very clever ways to test this stuff.
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What kind of database architecture could cause SELECT * to be slow?
> haven't had a hardware problem in linux since 2005

have you heard of GUI?
I used to love Louis CK, but after that that whole thing came out about him that he's fucking creep I can't even get myself to watch 1 min of his videos anymore. WHY LOUIS, WHY?!
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17412695
Unlike C compilers which have no NP-hard problems to solve /s
I (still) own a Lumia 830 from back then. It's incredible what my phone endured (drops from a car roof, down a few stairs, even a short dive in a kitchen sink), and I don't really know why the thing is so sturdy since it truly looks good. I recently bought a spare display for about 40$ and a battery for 20$, just so I can replace them if anything should happen in the future.
Ask HN: What makes a good solution architect?
I was recently tasked to architect and develop a solution, with limited time and human resources. I was only given 3 months although I speculate the project will need minimum 6 months. I never believe a good quality software can be deployed in such short period of time. I argued to no avail. I have 3 fairly experienced developers at my disposal.

Despite this, I proceeded designing the architecture. We need to develop an app server, a mobile client and a desktop client. I alone handled the architecture design, research, development, and deployment. We survived, unpleasantly. I believe I have then suffer with some level of depression.

As retrospective, I:

* failed at properly documenting the architecture

* failed at properly setting up the dev env so that the other developers can run their instances of the solution locally

* dwelled too much time to achieve the above point

* dwelled too much time to automate things, especially at trying to automate dev, staging, production setup

* failed to look at minor details (I need help with this, I'm a big picture guy, never the details)

* should have sticked to SDK provided by third party, instead I chose to go with something totally new to me just because the SDK is only available with COM Interop and I do not have any Windows machine with me.

I believe I have the knowledge, and not afraid of looking for the knowledge and the "proper" ways of things should be done. And maybe trying too hard.

Back to the topic, what makes a good solution architect, how can I improve myself?
The best example of this is BA pricing for business flights departing going through LHR. E.g. FRA-LHR-DFW is very competitively priced (to undercut LH) - on average 2800E return, however the exact same LHR-DFW return flight is nearly twice the price!
I found it interesting that he says that he doesn't usually wear a watch, to avoid being evaluated, but was happy to mention the brand iPhone. An implicit wealth-boast.

Why not just say 'phone'?

I have noticed the same behaviour from people who drive certain well-promoted brands of car, Audi and Mini being most common.
I remember drying after shower with my bedsheet in a hostel in Portugal where I would have had to pay for a towel, those were the times!
I’m sorry, are you talking about the facebook account with 129 connections, or the magazine with 29,000,000 readers?

There are millions of political groups on Facebook. What makes this one different from the SPLC or the UCLA? They all have quite clear political agendas. As a European, perhaps you don’t understand the concept, but freedom of expression comes with a responsibility to think for yourself.
You can get the best of both worlds by using e.g. jOOQ in Java (allows you to write e.g. db.select(MY_TABLE.MY_COL).from(MY_TABLE) where those values are generated from the database therefore they exist and are of the right type.

It maps 1:1 to the SQL statement that gets executed so there's no magic e.g. extra n+1 queries being introduced without you noticing.

But if you change your schema, re-generate, and immediate compile errors showing you where you're referencing something that's now been deleted, so it's not fragile like putting SQL in a String in your code (where if the schema changes, the compiler can't help you)
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If you fall with the device, the device thinks it's falling.

From the look of the speed that it opens, yes it would probably hurt if it opened in your pocket.
I am currently using this horrible keyboard. Hate this thing. Before I've been using a mechanical keyboard, but coworkers complained that it was too loud. I like loud keybords. The sound is so pleasant and satisfying I want it to be even more intense. I want to feel vibration every time I hit the key. And when I hit enter I want there to be a minor earthquake.

This apple trash keyboard doesn't have Shift+Insert. The alt is next to ctrl and it's place is taken by cmd. I had to change my bindings for i3. Caps lock isn't solid and instead of caps + f, I oftentimes type simply f, because caps is released too soon. (caps is rebinded to ctrl and caps + f means select suggested autocompletion). Enter is small.

Actually, I will apply for new keyboard this very day, right now. It will be regular mashed potatoes keyboard, but it's still going to be better than this.
what people need isn't an ORM but a DSL, if only there was a Domain Specific Language for Querying the database in a Structured manner.
If you want more facts like this I’d highly suggest anything but Steven Pinker especially:

https://www.amazon.com/Better-Angels-Our-Nature-Violence/dp/...
Are you sure it’s not also because the 2016 laptop is more performant?
> Take a really good look at DSM-IV or DSM-5. These are insurance billing codes for (classifications of) mental illness.

Technically, the billing codes are ICD-9 or -10; the DSM-IV and -5 include mappings of their respective diagnoses to ICD-9 (-IV) or both ICD-9 and -10 (-5) codes.
This is basically what Fossil call timeline or I'm missing something?

https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/timeline
Here is the system

www.gsxt.gov.cn

Everyone can query for enterprise basic info, executives info, shareholders name, annual reports (if any), and also, as the article says, credit and violations.

You can type "微软" for Microsoft as an example. (there might be a bullshit CAPTICHA where you must drag the tile to the missing place)

btw I hate articles that rambles about "some guy say" instead of some plain, direct hyperlink to the goddamn website. The reader should have basic Internet skills and judgement level.
It's there to save your life potentially. €299 seems cheap in that regard.
Silverpush, an Indian company, was already doing this 3 years ago:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/03/21/silve...
Arch community repo is the best, any obscure software you are looking for is there one command away of installing it.

Arch wiki is an endless source of information, not even Ubuntu has such support.

Also its highly recommended you follow the wiki install guide (if you have a couple of days) since it will teach you a lot about the different parts that make up your *nix operating system.

Once you have done that and you are feeling lazy i've found Antergos easy to install while keeping the same flexibility as vanilla Arch.

Also, finally, if you are a dev i'd recommend zsh + oh my zsh to have a sleek terminal.
These have become quite popular in Sweden. According to the manufacturer, they're not just smaller, but offer much better protection from head injuries than regular helmets. Insurance companies in Sweden seem to believe it; many of them will pay for the replacement if the airbag triggers due to a fall. This is one of the helmet's main selling points.
you could start with an EASY query that's guaranteed to work, then AI could figure out a fast way as your app keeps running. it could be a module for postgresql for example.
Nice - until you have kids and health problems... Then you appreciate how much Europe makes these a non-problem - at least financially.
To add another bullet to the reasons for reboot listed in the siblings, I prefer to poweroff in the evening because my disk is encrypted and I don't want the key lingering around in RAM when I don't need it. /me puts on more tinfoil
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C++ has a similar thing with sqlpp11: https://github.com/rbock/sqlpp11
Your children might not all be high income earners. You live somewhere like that and you're essentially condemning your (future) extended family apart and forcing yourself to stay on that same career track for a long time.

I'm jealous of one branch of my extended family that lives in one medium-cost city with a diverse set of career options and can keep their family bonds strong.
> Some are advertised that way

As an example of this, the influential DHH of Basecamp blogged saying just that: https://m.signalvnoise.com/conceptual-compression-means-begi... "Basecamp 3 has about 42,000 lines of code, and not a single fully formed SQL statement as part of application logic!"
That assumes you have a project. Some people write scripts in Python to use in the shell.
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I think the main difference is kids. Daycare, healthcare and education is much cheaper in most of Europe (due to high taxes).

You can earn more in the US as a top earner, but you can have a more relaxed and care-free life in Europe while still making a good living and retire early if you're one of those top earners.
Not to counter your point, but I had that new remarkably stupid ":( Oops something went wrong" error popping up the morning I had to give a presentation. I have Windows 10 Home and it forced the updates, failed after an hour, and fucked up the boot partition, removing grub. So just before the presentation, I had to setup grub again and boot into Linux because windows was still stuck with updates. Thankfully my slides were on google drive.

On my office laptop though, Win 10 Pro has been pretty stable.

To get back to the main point, I usually have to spend a day with both Windows and Linux to install everything right from VLC to compilers. IMO setting up needs to be done on every machine, independently of the OS.
Exchange WS and Lync/Communicator would disagree with you re: eternal backward-compatibility.
How do you make time for your dev/tech projects?
This is only true if you let the ORM design the schema for you. I would hazard a guess that most people only use ORMs for queries (including mutating ones). In which case you very much do know which table a field is in.
The XPS line has a similar build than the MBP.

In regards to tools, you can usually find a distro that is "batteries included", try KDE as your DE - There's great tools like Okular, Dolphin... Insomnia is a pretty looking Paw alternative etc, however I think the advantage with Linux is that you can often build it how you want, without the junk that is there and you don't even know what it does, but it consumes CPU cycles. Moreover, with distros like Arch Linux, you get practically all the available tools, always up to date, never have to reinstall, updates take a minute as opposed to half an hour and you can mange everything, (not just brew packages), with an awesome package manager.
On the subject of what is known:

It displays some ignorance of this subject to blame it on systemd, when Matthew Garrett told people that it was really his fault.

* https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/693494314941288448

The people who relate the tale as if it were a systemd thing or something that the systemd people did are ill-informed. It was entirely a kernel thing. This was even stated outright at the time by the creator of that particular kernel mechanism.

To learn the real story, go and read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11152880 where Matthew Garrett xyrself can be found participating in the discussion.
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> Which begs the question: what good is an ORM if it does not prevent by design such issues?

This isn't as terrible as you make it out to be. For example, general purpose programing languages don't prevent the programmer writing a O(2^n) algorithm; yet they are useful.
No they can't. If you're a global company like an airline, you can't just choose to make more profits somewhere else instead of making them in China. Giving up a big chunk of international markets can be the difference between being able to compete with rivals, and not being able to and hence and going bust. Really.
It's not a UI feature, the UI feature has existed forever (it's the log and log graph). This is a cache for the graph so that it does not have to be rebuilt every time it's displayed.
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> give us back USB ports, give us back swappable batteries, and give us back SD card readers

also dvd, ethernet, hdmi, vga and floppy, yeah.

sorry, i want neither of these in my laptop. i want it to be lightweight, small, solid and durable body without moving parts or too many holes.

what you want is achievable with dock station.
Is it just me or do these articles about economic hardship always seem to use the most unsurprising examples for their prototypical struggling subject. The example they use here is freelance writer. Hasn't that job title always had poor prospects? I remember a similar article posted here about people struggling to find work after the 2008 crash and their example was a person who had been laid off but instead of trying to find a new job they purposely blew through their savings for a couple years and were then surprised when they went to look for work and something didn't immediately materialize.
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A friend owns a few "smart power strips", you connect them to a wifi network by installing a phone app, then when you're ready holding the phone screen up against a light sensor on the strip. The phone screen flashes a bunch to send the network info and whatever else over. It seemed like a non-techie friendly way of doing it while also being cheaper than either adding a bluetooth module and having the phone connect over that first, a central hub, or a little screen + keypad like printers.
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I'd agree with that, I run stock ubuntu on a thinkpad t460p. I have only one issue which is that display scaling is not fractional, its in set values which doesn't play well with resolutions above 1080p. Thats a gnome issue though and doesn't stop the screen working perfectly when the resolution is set to 1080p instead of 2550x1440 or whatever it is.
They're also doing it for news agencies, charities and other NGOs. These organisations including companies are made up of people, and if we care about the free speech of people, we should care about this.
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Cycling infrastructure in Ireland is woeful but there are great people working to improve it:
https://twitter.com/ibikedublin

They're eager for help ;-)