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I have a similar problem, I have a hard time getting focused on a laptop. There are too many distractions, the inputs are too convenient, and it's only getting worse as more things move to the browser. I get so distracted on my laptop that I can completely forget I was working on something and now it's lost, sitting there waiting for me to return to something I don't remember working on.

For example, I never worry about rebooting my iPad for updates. Never. Any time it asks, as long as I'm not actively doing something, I let it. It's 10 minutes, I'll get up and get a cup of coffee no problem. But rebooting my laptop for updates? I have no idea what all is running in the background. I've got five Excel documents, a Powerpoint, and two Word docs I'm working on. Plus a probably an SSH connection to somewhere, plus who knows if Slack is going to come back properly or if it will make me log in again, plus I'll lose my browser sessions and have to log in again to all my work stuff, I need to manually re-establish my VPN connection, and as it all comes back from the reboot, now I have startup crap popping up on boot that I forgot about from last time. Ah shit, and now I find out this update broke some of my software so now I have to find new versions manually for that. And now I've again forgotten what I was supposed to be working on.

I have the same problem you have on a phone, it's too easy to switch between apps and be unproductive. But I've found that (for me) working on an iPad is perfect. I don't have multiple windows open, most apps are expecting to be shut down in the background so they save their state really well, minor OS updates never break app functionality and if something changes, the apps update themselves. And even switching browser tabs is just a tiny bit of a minor inconvenience that I'd rather finish what I'm working on and then get distracted.

Right now on my laptop I have five windows visible, and each one can draw my attention at any moment. That's just not possible on a mobile device, and unlike a phone, an iPad is not designed to fit neatly in your hand with your fingers on the app switcher at all times. For me, it's perfect. If only I could run XCode on it...
Apparantly these have their new "3rd Generation" butterfly keyboard, whatever that means.
They updated the keyboard (Yay!) but max RAM for the 13" models is still 16GB (Boo!)

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Not every startup needs engineers. Not every valuable business has an engineering problem at it's heart. VC is fundamentally about capital allocation - funds don't necessarily need scalable or innovative internal tech to do a really great job at this. I know a fund of 6 people with no particular tech skills who are killing it because they're really smart investors.

There's a huge bias in the Valley (and obviously on here) towards hiring rockstar engineers and then trying to figure out problems to point them at. Isn't it way better to actually figure out a valuable problem first, and then hire the right mix of people (including engineers, but all the other skills also) to solve that problem?

Just in case you think I'm anti-engineer: I have been a software engineer my whole working life. My father is a chemical engineer and his father was a mechanical engineer. I love engineers, but sheesh - not everyone has to be an engineer, and not all value is created by engineers.
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Sure, but the view that it's just sugar that's bad, is even more overly simplistic, and in fact harmful. Obesity is always more deeply rooted in habits, comfort, stress and the way a person deals with things, than it is with just sugar---it's a behavioral issue that needs to be tackled at a deeper level. One calorie is one calorie, regardless of were it comes from.

You'd find very little actual scientific backing for your statement, from papers that haven't been debunked[0]. That sugar itself is bad is an age old meme that needs to die. Similarly, that kids get hyperactive with sugar is also a myth[1].

Now, your other argument that you might "feel" hungrier, is something else. You have still gotten the energy you needed, it just doesn't feel as filling, perhaps.

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-016-1229-6

[1] http://www.mortenelsoe.com/blog/sukkeroghyperaktivitet great write up if you can read Danish or translate it, or just check the sources in the bottom
I personally know one. Conversations about the topic are impossible. His arguments for the earth being flat are made of half truths and broken logic. Any debate brands you as a NASA shill. He doesn't believe the earth orbits the sun.

I have had doubts as to whether he actually believes and just uses this to make money off of his semi-successful youtube channel.
Did you... read the link... at all?

Right at the very top of the article:

> Now Featuring Up to 6-Core Processors and 32GB of Memory, True Tone Display and the Apple T2 Chip
If your Cloud Service Provider doesn't support Communicating Sequential Processes, would their Customer Service Personnel handle a Constraint Satisfaction Problem?
It's pretty clear its well-being is not just as important as ours — as a society we have decided this; we don't give cats open-heart surgery, it's not illegal to kill a cat, and cats also have no rights.

Cats seem pretty alright with "lifetime seclusion", anyways. As with other domesticated pets, the only reason they exist is because they are, on the whole, happy being domesticated; if they all hated their lives (in a way that we were aware of), we wouldn't breed them to begin with.
If only they might restore the escape key in the 15 inch model...
Ars said they didn't know the status of a 15-inch without Touch Bar. I take it we'll never see a 15-inch without it?
32gb MAX ram is a nice change, and the true-tone display is a positive. Really wish Apple were in the nVidia camp instead of the ATI camp.
Maybe it was the Russians with their sonic listening devices.

But just like the whole Cuban / China debacle where people currently believe there are multiple recordings of people getting brain damage (There is not) I doubt the story of people dying.

I go with over a month there were sporadic dancing episodes and as happens normally, some people small amount died from whatever, which was blamed on the dancing.

We can't even report Mass Hysteria correctly current day, I'm going with a 500 year old account is mostly rubbish.

Previous HN link -
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/05/bizarre-dance-...
Only 13" is limited to 16GB. 15" moved to DDR4 and 32GB max.
While there are issues with blindingly trust the consensus, I think that for most things you're better at least not being far from it

(Not to say the 'science' people are always right, but vaccines were a revolution, GW/CC relies fundamentally on a few, very verifiable premises and FE makes as much sense as saying the sky is red)
I don't see Javascript going away anytime soon, tbh. We've already reached the point where it's the first language for a mind-boggling number of developers, it absolutely dominates the frontend frameworks and it's been steadily becoming more popular on the server side.
While I can't speak to 'all parents', I can say that as a parent of five, kids develop significantly differently. We've been treating our oldest daughter as basically an adult since she was 13 or 14; the next-oldest is getting there, at 15. Next couple down the line we have to monitor more closely.
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As stated in this answer by Ian Lance - https://www.quora.com/Will-the-Golang-code-become-unmaintainable-for-large-code-bases
I wonder how's the battery life with an i9.
I don’t understand why he/she needs to sugercoat things so much and do things over lunch, drinks/beer? Imagine this is a female lead asking her male boss out for drinks so she can be the casual bearer of bad news?

That’s just bull.

If your organization isn’t willing to get real and is blaming people instead of processes, it’s the wrong org to be.

Just say things as they are. I’d just raise this in my 1:1 with boss and boss’s boss. “It’s highly likely that we’ll miss X deadline, because of Y reasons. Here are some options we have. Either cut scope to meet deadline, pull in more resources for Z work, that can be parallelized, or push back the deadline.”.
Any advice on getting my lemon 2017 (multiple faults) replaced with a new model rather than another 2017?
Ha! Sorry, I glossed over the 15" models, and looked at the 13" models, which are still stuck at 16GB.
> While I don't believe the earth is flat, i haven't done any real research, and i assume that's true for most of the people laughing at flat earthers.

The difference is that flat earthers have to go through such massive logical contortions to support their claims. Not to mention the idea that every technology company and government is coordinated on a massive cooperative conspiracy without any substantial leaks is laughable.

I'm not sure what research you are referring to. There's plenty of research I have available to me about astronomy and past endeavors to not only prove that the Earth is round, that people have been off the planet and that we have explored the galaxy enough to prove the earth is not flat. The only research I have not done is personally gone to space.

So are you saying that it's not real research unless I go to space and see for myself?
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Lol that main image showing the laptop with a USBC -> display dongle... at least they are being representative.
According to the article it's the same as 2017, thanks to a bigger battery.
I was thinking Avatar.
Put stores or offices in the ground floor. Or have a raised ground floor.
For the record, I believe the earth is a sphere and that evolution explains the origin of all life on this planet. That being said, in my opinion, being distrustful of the scientific consensus in a given field is a reasonable stance, in and of itself (though possibly not, once you start weighing evidence).

The fields of nutrition and exercise science are both fields where distrusting the scientific consensus is, in my opinion, the best epistemological stance. The reason being that researchers in these fields are making diet and exercise recommendations that cannot possibly be supported by the research they are doing. If you dig into these fields, you’ll find that the reason this happens is that scientists are just as susceptible to groupthink and politicization as any other group of people.
Good to see improvements in the keyboard, surprising they didn’t just go back to the pre 2015 version which has no issues at all though
Different parts of the industry have very different potential for political power.

If you wanted to influence a US presidential election, a 100% monopoly on the printing press would be much more useful than a 100% monopoly on zipper manufacturing.

The former is presumably what newspaper opinion writers are worried about.
Occasionally people talk about the "compliment sandwich".

1. Focus on something going well.
2. By the way, could you fix this little thing?
3. Return to positive stuff.

This formula can be applied to delivering honesty amid positivity. Ideally whoever you're communicating is mature enough to just take honest feedback straight, but if they aren't then this can be a safe(r) way to deliver it.
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IOKit predates anything resembling wide adoption of those C++ features. Exceptions are a particularly thorny subject when mixed with multithreading and (non-existent) memory model. And not to mention RTTI, which was always just a patch job.
Presumably not the "costing us a bunch of money in Applecare repairs" version.
Doubling down on the Meme Bar. Yikes. Did they at least add some kind of haptic response for the new generation touch bar?
> They updated the keyboard (Yay!)

Let's hope some of the mechanical issues cleared up.

Also, I really miss having real keys instead of a touchpad. I never knew how much I subconsciously relied upon a "thunk" from the ESC key. Remapping (my keys and muscle memory) is an arduous process.
I wouldn't say never, but they haven't given up on it yet.
A thousand times this.

At 14 my parents were like “you're sick? You know where the Dr. is, don't you?”. It helped me – introvert – tremendously functioning in the world.
> The new keyboard has the same dimensions and look as its two predecessors, but the keys feel just a little bit different. They're quieter, for one thing. They have a softer, less click-y feel that is a little closer to the pre-2016 models' chiclet keys. We found the new keyboard to be a little nicer to type on, but it's not a radical difference. It's unlikely to convert the detractors, but it's a welcome iteration for those who liked or didn't mind the previous butterfly keyboards.

I'm going to wait a year, maybe 18 months for feedback before I consider upgrading. Why they couldn't grab a 2012-2015 model and upgrade the guts? No touchbar, smaller touchpad than the newer macbooks, but updated specs? Call it Macbook Developer... We build the software for the "Pros" after all.

I just don't get it.
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> Have a quiet conversation with your boss over lunch or beers - not a meeting

If you do this, follow it up with an email outlining everything you said so you have a paper trail that you brought it up with your boss.
Right, sorry about that. I was looking at the 13" models; I didn't think they had supported different amounts of RAM previously.
As a developer the new keyboards have ruined macbooks for me - I find my macbook pro quite comfortable to type on for longer periods when I am away from my desk. I feel like the new keyboards are not practical for real use and it doesn't sound like the new models will greatly improve that which is a shame because I would love an upgrade.

I think those keyboards are great on the smaller more portable macbooks but I don't understand why the 'pro' models are favouring a couple of mm in size over a more practical keyboard designed for 'pro' use.
But did they fix the keyboard? I have a new MB Pro for work and two weeks of using the flat keys actually gave me horrible wrist pain. Now I use an external keyboard.

I use a 2015 MacBook Air at home that I can type on for hours without any wrist pain.
Facebook touts fake-news effort, but still hosts Infowars page
Sounds like another iteration of 'touchbar my way or the highway.'
Yes. But we have to be careful here. Investors want every quarter of every company they invest in to be better than the previous quarter. They don't care about your 5 year goals or your 10 year goals. They want returns now. Companies do what they can to make that happen. If we say this is just a Tech problem, we're wrong. Tech is just where most of the money has flown because, dare I say, it's relatively easy money.
Yes, I felt the same way! It is extraordinary to consider that the fungus is able to convince the trees to trade with it, seeming almost like it has plans to facilitate many such relationships over a network of exchange - like an underground market runner.
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There are hints in your question that you might be undergoing some major rewrite/refactoring across the board. If so, that has always failed insofar as I've experienced or seen experienced it.

FWIW a better approach would have been to break the entire thing down into smaller, more immediately achievable milestones. Ideally do so alongside enough exciting new stuff to keep your developers' morale high - be weary that some might already have low morale if they're noticing that the project they're working on is going nowhere.

At any rate, the time to bring up the problem is likely now. Have a candid discussion with your team. Explain what's going on; collect data points you might be less aware of and new ideas as you do. Sketch out a brief but equally candid status of your current situation (in writing) to let your manager and the product owner in the loop, along with an outline of next steps get things back on track.
Flat earthing is maybe a little more extreme than I am comfortable with, but it is easy to see how the same psychological mechanisms that produce flat earthers would also produce some truly original research.

The obvious parallel is the old story about hot water freezing faster than cold water [1]. An experimental character who notices this and gets laughed down by the vast and overwhelming majority of people who who only agree with consensus facts could logically end up in a /weird/ mental space.

They'd basically discover that they are surrounded by people who don't assess the facts directly, but do so through a lens of other people's opinions. It wouldn't take much to push them into conspiracy theories - clearly no-one around them is dealing directly with reality. Any who didn't take to conspiracies would probably be grounded enough to drive real change in the world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
No 15 inch pre-touchbar model: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/15-inch
Apple will swap a device for the latest model if it fails and is repaired for the same reason 3 times . It’s called “crewing” (or maybe “cruing”?) I don’t know the spelling. You have to get it repaired by Apple 3 times though.
Always be prepared. At the end of the day you are just a resource to a company. Someone who implements some spec for a bit of dough.
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I tackled this myself several years ago but the game was called Un-block Me on Android. Just did a basic BFS implementation in C#. Worked quite well.

https://github.com/JamesDunne/UnBlockMeSolver/blob/master/Un...
I don't see it. Why would it be selected for if Earth is a relatively radiation free environment? Wouldn't the "downside" be that cell energy could be better spent on more relevant issues?
Seems we share thoughts on this. I think a macbook developer model with the spec you mention would be quite popular.
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TL;DR: a terrifying amount of sites legitimately end up using these unsafe features without realizing it.

The spec revisions are a little arduous, but in my experience the biggest problem is that any site big enough to start caring about CSP is also big enough to have a myriad of trackers and JS snippets that insist on using these unsafe features. Google Tag Manager might as well have been based on weaponized XSS payloads.

And now the technical problem is actually a human problem because some poor security schmuck has to convince a totally different team with a totally different reporting structure (those trackers likely go up into sales or marketing, possibly some random SEO contractor you've barely heard of!) to prioritize a pretty fundamental change.

Maybe the security person tries to walk up their reporting chain until the two converge, possibly at the CEO. But it sure sounds like you're trying to kill a feature for intangible goals (it may or may not prevent an XSS vuln, you say?). And the team that owns the feature will tell you they can directly attribute growth to the visibility they get from that feature.

Even when it isn't SEO's fault, a lot of sites legitimately use inline scripts in order to shovel some server-side JSON into the rendered HTML quickly where eventually some JS can access it for example. You can use DOM elements with data attributes, but that's probably not how it works today because that's not the obvious way to do it.
Especially in light of the Great Oxygenation Event, we really seem more like the only species to ever have the option of creating a global ecosystem collapse and also the option of maybe not! Those early photosynthetic microbes had no choice and no idea what they were doing.
the Usd is the de-facto reserve currency of the world, its how america is able to export its inflation and keep printing money without diluting the value of the dollar.
They did.

“an improved third-generation keyboard for quieter typing.”

Looking forward to reading the first reviews.
Still only 16GB of memory. Keyboard, this and lack of ports means I'm going to switch to a Thinkpad T480s for at least a year.
Either you're working in an unusually healthy environment, or you haven't done this often enough to see it backfire. If it's the first. You're very fortunate.
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After ongoing problems and repairs with my gen 2 butterfly, I switched to Linux (Ubuntu). After many months, I'm still a little shocked at how much worse the desktop experience is. 11 year old OS X Leopard is more consistent, intuitive and usable.

Hardware is slightly less polished, but no major complaints there (except for how poor the buying experience was).

Still, keyboard works. It would take something amazing to win me back (like a custom CPU that just completely redefines what we expect from battery life and performance)
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I know lots of people who do this - but in most cases it’s about frugality - for a family of four with two grown children paying ~$100/month (4pp family plan) vs. $220/month (2pp family plan, and two individual plans) it just makes sense
If they ever do decide to kill the touch bar, I'd expect it to occur along with a more significant rev where the whole design gets updated. This is more of an interim spec update -- not even announced at a keynote!
The 15-inch 2015 Retina model is no longer being sold on their website, too. It was there as an option for some time, but it appears this new update called for getting rid of it. I was planning on saving up to finance that as my next laptop purchase, but seems as if I'll have to go through a third party seller.
I really hope they don't retire 2015 models anytime soon. Those were the last usable MacBook Pros.
I think I'm pretty conflicted about this. On one hand, in this particular case it makes sense for the parents to get closure and find out if their daughter was suicidal.

On the other hand, it's their daughter's privacy. She surely wrote messages to people that she didn't want to share with her parents. And there might also be messages on this account that the parents don't want to find. People with psychological problems can write pretty dark stuff and she might also have talked about her parents in those messages. I'm not sure the parents will only get the closure they want, they might also dig up stuff, they later will wish they hadn't found.

So in the end, I'm not sure I agree with the judges decision. I think I share information with my parents the way I want to and definitely share other information with my friends in a group and 1on1 in messages. And I'm also sure I don't want my parents or another party not participating in some of those message groups to ever read that content.
For next week, get a list of things you can work on. Spend 30 minutes with the team monday morning deciding what is the most important to work on. Agree with the team these items will be done by Monday (if something can’t be done in a week break it down.) Execute.

Things cannot be* late. You are only on a week timeline. There is no other timeline. Forecasts outside the week are unpredictable and should be ignored.

This will give you a velocity (items done per week) and start quickly building team confidence. Things get done.

Don’t let anyone change or modify the week goals. If some one wants something they pitch for it Monday.
CRU-ing. Customer Replacement Unit.

There's no hard and fast 'three repairs' rule, but that's generally the rule of thumb that employees stick by.