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>What do you think of Facebook-owned products? IG started out like a mobile Flickr in the early days, a place for personal creativity and documentation, but now has become an ad-filled place to peacock, gather likes, and promote. I wonder about the psychological impact on people.

His response:

>Plenty of studies have confirmed that Instagram is having a terrible effect on the psychology of many people. Also, Instagram gave us The Influencer. That's gotta be up there in the top 10 of worst gifts to the world.

TIL that apparently IG used to be a mobile Flickr. But even if that line of thought advanced, would it not have still turned into "an ad-filled place to peacock, gather likes, and promote" personal creativity and documentation?
AWS literally sells IT. That’s the point I was trying to make.
A modest declaration. FB, and some of its properties, is worser than this.
>Subscriptions are €5.99/month, or €4.99/month if choose a yearly subscription. Both are free to try for a week.

The pricing is not hidden. Just click "subscription" and there it is.

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Looks like OP updated the product page. Sounds like you made a good suggestion then. :)
The usb C issue on surface laptops is annoying and trackpad is a joke compared to MacBook Pro, also the scaling of the ui on windows is just ridiculous, I hate using it because of these factors ( have both surface laptop and MacBook Pro )
> The Commission, which monitors competition, said that Mastercard's rules prior to 2015 forced retailers to pay certain bank fees in the country they are located rather than let them shop around.

Meanwhile I can’t get a debit card from my bank that defaults to a language I speak at POS terminals because that’s not the official language of the country I opened it in.

The logic and connection being that is the country in which I signed the terms of service and agreed to x, y, and z (one of those being the language and another being fees).

So I, as a consumer, am stuck with the terms of the country I reside in, but the bank, as a merchant, shouldn’t be?
GitHub Pages, Google Forms, WordPress, Mailchimp.

Angular, Spring Boot and PostgreSQL if it actually turns out to be something for which there’s sufficient demand.
> the hard edge at the front is a killer on my wrists

I'm not sure it's recommended to be resting your wrists on the laptop at all. You're going to injure yourself like that. Every recommendation I've ever seen is to have your wrists in the air so that they're straight and level.
Maybe that's related to Twitter starting as a Rails project, so in the eyes of this particular tweeter, it may at least get an asterisk.
Dyson to Move HQ from UK to Singapore
A Focal Any-Angle Path-Finding Algorithm Based on A* on Visibility Graphs [pdf]
New Zealand academic offers new explanation for Alexander the Great's death
There was a quote by a British general or high ranking officer saying how depressed he was that Britian's next generation of poets, scientists, mathematicians, etc were buried in Western Europe
> When will people finally realize that Apple hardware is a status symbol, and not indicative of quality any more?

In my practical experience it is higher quality than other hardware.
As much as I dislike using my Macbook Pro (2015 vintage), it has easily the best on lap and typing experiencing of any laptop I've had or used in the last 10 years. It has that hard edge but for whatever reason I don't find it an issue.
Makes me chuckle, since my comment on the HN post yesterday that highlighted that someone will be bitten if security principles are ignored got downvoted.
Its even more stark when you look at University of California. My first year at UCI in 1990 tuition was $80, 5 years later my last year of tuition had leaped to $10,000. By the time all my student loans were paid I had paid off $750,000, there's a lot a person could do with that money. Baby Boomers with their $80 a year tuition were able to buy homes, invest in the market. There was a decision made in the 90s to transform education from an investment in society from the top down to a system of indentured servitude.
Sorta, it had filters you could add to pictures iirc was the biggest thing going for IG. I can't recall if those came from the getgo or after the fact it looked like Flickr.
Companies would probably prefer paying their employees in one lump sum every year (think of all the interest you could make investing their wages throughout the year!) The shutdown doesn't really affect corporations that much. Many govt employees still have to go to work so most things get done and for the ones that are furloughed, companies might get off easy on skipping inspections and doing proper paperwork because there is no one checking. Everyone will get paid someday but its hard going for weeks with delayed income, especially low-level govt employees who aren't exactly rolling in the dough. At least the ones on furlough have the time to go find some temporary work. The CBP workers should actually organize something, they can't fire everyone.
I have not looked at Pharo, but the Lisp development environment on my Symbolics computers is amazingly integrated, so this is a very high bar to surpass if true.
I hadn't thought of it like this before, but the cargo cult metaphor is spot on. It reminds me of when I was studying sculpture and one of the tutors said that there were plenty of people "making things that look like art," but those things weren't true artworks, as if they lacked a soul of some kind. It now feels like Apple are "making things that look like Apple products," but aren't delivering the deep quality which that used to entail.
Hardware reliability != hardware specs.
pipe junkies might like to know about the following tools:

* vipe (part of https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ - lets you edit text part way through a complex series of piped commands)

* pv (http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml - lets you visualise the flow of data through a pipe)
As a Surface Pro 4 owner, I gotta say that Microsoft is arguably even worse than Apple on this issue, because their machines can't be repaired at all. They can't even replace the battery! All they can do is swap out a defective unit with a refurb. And if you're out of warranty, you'll be paying $400+ to do it.
Not much, actually. But you have to keep in mind that adding anything extra to something that is going to be massively produced cuts into margins quite noticeably. Mass manufacturing is a relentless exercise of cutting corners and this is not the only place where Apple did that. It's just the place where they cut one too many.

As mentioned in other comments here Apple products may be designed to look "sexy", but from "where do we cut the costs" point of view it is no different from Dell or Lenovo. In fact, from this article it seems like both quality and serviceability of Apple products are definitely worse, and unless the looks and thinness are #1 and #2 considerations in a laptop -- you shouldn't buy Apple.
I am not sure the downvotes are from people who disagree with you. I think more likely they are from people who take issue with the way you said it. Just food for thought...
Just like Tesla would be easily replaceable with "horse" and "buggy".
>It feels like an alien world moving into the Smalltalk live environments

Yes -- it's advanced alien technology. Vim, pfffft!

(Joking of course, but there's no reason a Smalltalk environment could have a Vim-behave-alike editor, but even better, e.g. with semantic knowledge of the code instead of just words and chars).
It's a Smalltalk. It's half language, half environment. The language itself is one of the inspirations for Ruby, and you will find in Pharo a purer expression of much of Ruby. The whole, 'everything is an object' applies, but so does 'everything is message passing,' and in a much more thorough way. The language's syntax is almost reminiscent of LISP in its simplicity (not its actual form, but there is so little of it that you start to feel like you're working directly with the objects, rather than programming them).

The other half is the environment. It's possible to run Pharo code, e.g., from the command line, but if you do all of your Pharo coding and debugging from a traditional editor+terminal combo, you're missing out on most of the reason to use the environment in the first place.

The environment is 'live' while you code. The objects are live, and the environment itself is an object you can interact with. When you add code, your code executes within that very same environment. There is no separate runtime. The runtime and the codetime are the same. Your code simply gets saved as part of a Pharo 'image' you are editing, and this image can be reloaded and resumed from where you left off.

The most common idiom is to program with a "TDD on steroids" approach. You create a skeleton of a few tests, and start it running. The debugger will stop and tell you the object you are sending Message X doesn't respond to that message. So while the debugger has paused the environment, you add the method with the help of the integrated GUI. Smalltalk (the original Smalltalk) pioneered the use of a 'class browser,' which does what it says on the tin. Pharo includes and extends this concept. Once you've added your method (or even, added the class entire), just hit resume and the (incredible) debugger will take you to the next bit that needs fixed. This is a more powerful edit-and-continue that actually works.

Having said that, while I enjoy playing around with the environment and using it to prototype some class hierarchies, I've had a tough time finding a professional use for it. The very qualities that make it mind-expanding to learn and play with, seem to limit its use "in production," so to speak. Who knows, maybe I'm unique, but I couldn't see myself in a hundred years being able to convince my employer to use it.

But it really is an eye-opening experience to learn. Just like learning LISP pushed my personal boundaries although I don't use LISP at work, similarly Pharo has pushed my boundaries in a way that I highly recommend experiencing.
Minimalism gone made. They'll soon be so minimal that they won't have a working device and we'll need to shift to a non-Apple device.

They have decided that form over function is the way to go. I was considering purchasing a Macbook - not any more!
I don't think the first line is even valid, it translates to

a.(foo.duh.meh)

in e.g. ruby.
> ... especially that merchants can't make customers pay the fees ...

Why not? Is that due to contract terms that prevent you from charging more for card transactions vs other payment methods?

I vaguely remember clauses like that were recently thrown out in the USA. I’d imagine the EU would be even more consumer friendly.
I just made up the $7k, but the OP mentioned he'd be willing to pay more for that, I already think the MBPs are overpriced so I was curious how much more he'd be willing to pay for a functional laptop again. I wasn't being snarky and it was a real question. How much would an Apple user be willing to pay for a laptop that had what they wanted in it.
Here in Denmark, the story is a bit different. Many consumers here use a Dankort, which is a national debit card. The fees are low and regulated by the government. It is usually combined with a Visa so that it can be used abroad as well.
Yeah, in the same way that a washing machine can be replaced by a river and a piece of wood.

As the parent comment explains, nearly every electronic money system in Europe uses Visa or Mastercard as a backend, creating a unhealthy duopoly. The free market needs some competition so it can thrive.
I’ve always found the difference between cash and credit to be a wash in terms of ease of use. For cash you need to always make sure you stop by an ATM. For credit you have to wait for a receipt after nearly every transaction, and sign (this is changing with chipped cards).

But ApplePay is actually more pleasant than both. I can pay with my phone and my watch. It is a faster transaction than both cash and credit, and no need to pull my wallet out.

With one big exception! There are a few places in the city that are starting to only accept credit/applepay/etc., but when their terminals go offline, they’re screwed. I saw this exact thing, for some reason they had no backup system to accept cash. I assume this is a rare issue, but still, I couldn’t believe they couldn’t resort to cash.
Skyrim has worked via wine pretty much since it was released, as you can confirm on Wine AppDb here: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?bShowAll=true&bIs...
Kind of misses the point. I'd rather like to charge and use my earphones at the same time. It's not an unobvious use case!
There are (were?) specific versions of windows that only allow software to be installed from the Microsoft store. Generally, the come on really low-end cheap laptops, with the note that it's for improved security (and I'm sure there's a discount on the cost of Windows, which is what makes it attractive to manufacturers).
> But hey who the hell thinks that way?

AJ Jacobs.

https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/aj-jacobs-thanks-a-thousand...
GREAT WALL OF CHINA BUILT FACT and HISTORY
Tunnel of Samos
For early stage and hackathon-style API mocking, JSON Server is pretty cool. You implement a JSON file of objects that gets inferred as endpoints and served up as an API.

https://github.com/typicode/json-server

For a fancier solution, Swagger / OpenAPI spec is useful. It has a feature called API Auto Mocking which you can serve with SwaggerHub. [The free tier includes this feature by the way.]

https://app.swaggerhub.com/help/integrations/api-auto-mockin...

https://swagger.io/tools/swaggerhub/

You can also use Swagger Codegen to generate server stubs and API clients as code in various languages once you're ready to break out of the mock API.

https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen

That's the route I'd go personally as this tooling is available for free, is fairly mature, and has a strong community behind it at this point.

There are a few other similar alternatives that I know less about such as WireMock (http://wiremock.org/) and Stoplight (https://stoplight.io/). Postman also has a mock server feature if you happen to already use that.
People search for Trello more.
> Sure there are. Doctors and actors, to name just a couple. In both cases the "union" actively works to create barriers to entry.

Neither the SAG nor the AMA are unions in the traditional sense. In many ways, the AMA actively works against worker quality of life (consider that the horrible conditions for med students/residents and the high suicide rate among MDs) to artificially reduce supply.

>Why do doctors form a union to increase wages, if as you say, they would be better off without it?

The AMA is mainly a lobbying organization, not a union. Since a significant percentage of doctors are in private practices or small practices, they don't have representation with the government. So sure, the AMA does collectively bargain with the US Government. But by that same token, since 53% of MDs are self employed, the AMA can't do "normal" union things like set wages, because there's no one to bargain with except the doctors themselves.

And interestingly, the AMA actually admitted that its intentional supply-reduction is hurting the medical industry as a whole. To answer your question, "because they thought it would be better". But in hindsight, they probably weren't.
Only tangentially related, but it’s the same in the US. Sure Discover and Amex exist, but fees for merchants are usually high and adoption is lower.

I’ve travelled quite a lot, but everywhere I’ve been there has been the same - Visa, MC, and a local alternative or two that might be popular within the country but don’t extend elsewhere.

Is there actually any other network elsewhere in the world that is of a similar scale? I assume China must have something?
The Mitsubishi Pedion had this exact same design flaw almost 20 years ago. I stupidly spent $400 on a replacement screen only to have it happen 6 months later.
Another important one:

The "faxable" criteria. This really means that it degrades well, down to single color, poor resolution, with noise, and yet still retains its recognition. Even if we intend the logo to only be used on screens, it helps distill the simplicity into something the brain easily remembers.

I'll disagree with the article about the ability of users to reproduce it. Logos are about branding, mental association and to some degree, identification between the person and the brand. Many popular logos have strong mind presence in people who are yet completely unable to reproduce it; "they know it when they see it".
In Australia the CCL means that if Apple cause a problem like this, they have to repair the product. There's a good chance that they might get a 4 year old Macbook Air and have to fix it for this issue.
Wasn't "education and intellectual curiosity" a way to increase people's productivity? (Not even a way, wans't it supposed to be the best way?) Because that's the reason colleges are funded by the government.

There's something very broken with our modern society.
Nowadays credit and debit card fees are limited by the EU. Around 0.3% per transaction. A 10x reduction to before.
Since then adoption of credit card payment has spread widely in German supermarkets.
Every iPhone since the 6 has been thicker than its predecessor.
“not enough money to go around”

Where do people get this strange idea that if someone else makes money it somehow precludes others from doing it? Bill Gates got rich with an invention that also generated probably a trillion dollars in economic growth for everyone. Including most people on this sites income.
It is possible to be ad-filled without the peacocking or like gathering or promoting. The addition and promotion of social features is a choice that aligns with various KPIs but has huge negative externalities
Why concentrate that criticism on MMT? It applies to all of economics - neither MMT nor prevailing economic deficit frameworks come out ahead there. Though I would say MMT is making more fundamental observations than the "deficits must be cut" side of things which feel more like cargo cult tradition.
Likewise, I've a late 2013, i7 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.

Things have moved on, it's been 5 years, but not that much. And my MBP still works. I only intended on having it for 2-3 years before upgrading - it's paid for by my business and is critical to my work.

And yet what's putting me off a new purchase is that the new models are vastly less attractive propositions than they would have been had they just followed pace without touchbars, butterfly keyboards, T2 chips and thin wires you can't replace.

Apple today seem lost with respect to Macbooks and I can't see things improving. I fear I'm going Linux on a Dell XPS at some point this year and I hated the last Dell I had.
I bought an iMac because I needed an upgrade and couldn't stand the 2016+ laptops models.

Before the iMac I bought a 2015 MBP and sold it a couple of months later because the integrated GPU was seriously lacking and the 4th gen CPU got extremely hot and loud.

Thank god I don't need portability anymore because Apple laptops have been nothing but disappointment for the past 4 years.
Cool, thanks for the honest answer!
Just wait, the next iPhone will be symmetrical with a notch and a lightning connector on each side.
The Wal-Mart of laptops: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/01181...

...instead of consistently asking suppliers for 1-3% wholesale discount per year, Apple is asking engineers for 0.3mm-1mm thinness reduction per year.
The cables don't look like they weigh more than a few grams.
Stuck with slow tests? Speed up your feedback loop
Very true. Never had any issues whatsoever. Not a single one in the last ten years.
I'd be curious to hear what people think are the top 3, because I feel like Twitter and Instagram are strong contenders. Or if indeed Twitter belongs in the top spot.
Good luck setting up AppleCare for your dishwasher mate.
Unfortunately ipfs:// didn't work, so I rolled back changes. I also don't have access to window.ipfs, so I don't know at the moment how to handle custom port.
1.5mm is way too thin for a consumer-aimed cord standard. I can imagine the headlines for "SnapGate" already...
The liveness of the environment is really stellar. Other languages have REPLs, but once you've entered your code, it gets compiled and saved in some internal format. In most languages I've tried, there's been no way to retrieve the originally written code. That's possible with Smalltalk.
I was just a kid coding his first space invaders game on a bbc micro when I saw my first demo on the Amiga.

It was like seeing in color for the first time, blew my tiny little mind and nothing was ever the same again. Kind of like when I went online the first time.*

*via compuserve dialing a London number (as it turned out, 12 year old me didn’t quite get that) for hundreds of hours and no free calls in UK, even local calls, calls to London were expensive. I got my arse tanned for that I tell you hwat!
Same here.

When the new macbook with 10nm Intel comes out. I am seriously considering looking up Louis Rossmann and commissioning him to put the guts of that machine into the old 2012 chassis and seeing if it would work and if it doesn't, what would it take to make it work...

Crazy I know. But Apple just isn't listening to people like us because there are people out there that buy the latest and surf all day lol.

My 2012 is just going great. With every OS upgrade the machine has just been better and better. For my dev workload and the amount of hours I am on it. This has been the best investment I ever made. This thing is an utter work horse and I have zero problems with it. Really happy.

I hate the butterfly keyboard and new each revision. Really, with a passion.
Not to mention that in Norway the VAT is included in the price, whereas in the U.S. the Sales Tax needs to be added on top. For a fairer comparison, you would actually need to add the appropriate sales tax for your state. That wont make up all of the the 25% difference but could easily add 7 to 9% to the cost of the U.S. price.
What are some good alternatives these days to MB-pros? I'm likely not going to get another, and don't mind giving up a little in size/weight for ports, simplicity, etc. Any good threads on the web to point me to to save me some research time?

I still think my 2014 11" MB AIR is the best laptop I've ever owned, despite the screen being woefully drab this day and age.
Wouldn't one of the things you test on a laptop design be how many times you can open and close the lid? Surely Apple has a robot already that does this? If not, why not? This seems like it would have been caught had they done this.
Many physics, engineering and maths departments are still perceived as "boys club" as well. All without Lenna. Food for thought.
Refer to Windows 10 S/Windows 10 S mode[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions#Discontinu...
I assume that MC is a US owned/headquartered business so this act by the Europeans is part of the strategy to get back some of the money the US prosecutors / US Gov't have sucked out of Volkswagen, Deutsche Bank, etc. for actual, real crimes they have committed.
That kitchen looks lovely in the still image, but is it functional? Its jars look hard to reach and dust-prone (unless the idea is to keep a smaller quantity of coffee in-reach and restock that every few days?) and the pull-out drawers look to serve a (negative) dual role of being suboptimal themselves (can only tall people look in them?) and make the over-cupboards slightly more inaccessible.
This is a discussion on Hacker News where nothing useful is said, and I am unapologetic for expressing this sentiment.
That limit is on the interchange fee, not what the merchant pays their payment processor, which is still significantly higher.