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I don’t see this as an artifact of Steve Jobs’ absence as much as I see it as an artifact of any company that gets so successful behind just a handful of products. Eventually to drive revenue growth you start needing to focus on gimmicky bullshit instead of just power and features, like absurd thinness and the natural consequence is flexible iPads and unrepairable MacBooks.
I always thought of Ritalin as a thing for kids. Then I went to law school on the east coast of the US. What totally changed my perspective was the large number of adult students (mid-20s/30s) still on Ritalin. I was no slouch, but many of them were getting better grades than me. At what point did Ritalin shift from being something to correct a legitimate deficiency into something meant to increase performance? If you are getting strait As in a graduate program, maybe you don't need it as much as you think.
> True, but the problem is the final price doesn't include the cost of recycling and environmental impact (extremely hard to price it correctly).

At least for recycling Apple charges a $5 (for 13") or $6 (for 15") recycling fee when buying a MacBook in California. Not sure about other states.
Core parts of my stack at the moment:

Groovy/Grails, Bootstrap, jQuery, Postgresql, AWS, Stripe, Mailchimp, Github

Apereo CAS for Single-Sign-On

Activiti for workflow management / BPM

We also have a core suite of internal services that are mostly built using Java + Spring Boot.
I'm not sure it's that simple. The Mac line is still doing very well, especially compared to other PC manufacturers. It appears that Apple mostly views the critique of people like us as outliers or else they would have changed this focus on thinness if they saw it was affecting sales.

I think it really comes down to software -- MacOS -- which is still significantly better for certain kind of work than Windows or even Linux. Until that changes, people are going to continue to tolerate these hardware problems with Apple computers. I'm definitely one of them.

Just for the record, I have two Touchbar laptops. One from 2016 and one from 2017. The 2016 one, when I first bought it, had the busted keyboard on day one, right from the Apple Store. I went back and swapped it for another one and that had the same issue but with different keys. The third one worked but it started having issues about a year into use. I had that one repaired and now it's having issues again, not even a year after (the symptoms show once the laptop has heated up a bit). It's comical how atrociously bad these laptops are in the reliability department.

My 2017 one was slightly better, in that it worked when I bought it, but it also started having keyboard issues about a year after. Several of my friends who bought the same laptop around the same time also had to take theirs in for service for keyboard issues.
I have a 2012 rMBP, one of the first revisions. I genuinely don't know what I'm gonna do when this thing eventually dies on me. It's been a great piece of hardware and I use all the ports on a consistent basis, even hdmi.
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Apple has great hardware and they are known for it. It one of the reason why HN likes their stuff. We demand a quality product not a status symbol.

Do you think we would be discussing this article if it was Dell, HP, or Lenovo? I doubt the larger tech blogs would’ve even picked it up or even cared.
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You're technically correct, but real humans are subject to temptation and have limited willpower. I don't think it's a great idea for employers to make it convenient for employees with sedentary jobs to eat more.
It's a totally separate domain. Pharo/Smalltalk is essentially pure OOP in the way that Scheme is pure FP/LISP. So for me personally, I've used to increase the depth of my understanding of programming. It can also be good for prototyping class hierarchies and the like.

You can find examples of people using Pharo in production (and far more examples of people using other, more industrial-grade Smalltalk dialects), but I personally haven't been able to think of a way to use it on real projects. But that doesn't mean that it isn't worth studying.
> I saw this exact thing, for some reason they had no backup system to accept cash

To accept cash as a back up you have to have all the items in place to accept it all the time basically. You need the register and to have enough cash on hand to cover giving change plus the accounting and tracking at the end of the day to make sure cash hasn't walked. So if a place has the ability to accept cash intermittently they might as well accept it always.
Wood type has little effect on guitars’ sound, study
Lempel-Ziv data compression algorithm can be very unstable
In the same boat, the weight and lightness does matter to me and I'd be really pleased with an even lighter 15" - but it shouldn't come at the expense of reliability, obviously!
As someone who regularly fasts for a variety of reasons, I would agree -- it's nearly impossible to gain muscle while fasting anyway, and without working out in any way I can't imagine how that could happen at all.

But most likely the tool is measuring inaccurately.
Possibly they're not talked about because, other than the notion of cohesiveness, they're relatively unimportant compared with "fits perceived image of company", and sometimes entirely the wrong thing to prioritise.

Sure, Nike and adidas and McDonalds have logos which are easily hand drawn from memory, as does the average geometric shape stuck above the text in a half-assed 99designs submission. On the other hand, Coca Cola and KFC are really, really hard to draw properly and yet equally widely remembered and admired (an easy to draw shape also matters a lot less for a logo mostly printed on bottle labels and boxes and meant to convey fidelity to tradition than it does for one cut out of shoe leather and meant to look sleek in motion)

Being remarkable is nice to aspire to, and yet there's nothing remarkable about the Nike or Pepsi logos cited
(and whilst you could definitely make a case that the McDonalds "golden arches" logo is, most people familiar with the brand have never seen the architecture of the outlet that inspires it)

And of course, founder CEOs can be as self-aware about the relative unimportance of their own sense of aesthetics as manager CEOs
I somewhat disagree with his assessment of influencers. Can they be annoying? Yes. Are they providing real value for companies to be able to connect with tribes of people? Yes. The influencer has single handedly upended the advertisement industry and taken money away from traditional media is a big way. I think it's given more jobs to people who don't work on Madison Avenue and maybe don't have technical skills, but can connect with a large audience of people.
Check out ngrok. It's absolutely brilliant for what you're describing.
Wow. Humans are affecting _everything_ en masse... even in the oceans where we don't live.

We better be careful with our actions.
Those are hardly directly comparable products (as in a commodity product), as a product includes branding, OS, support, etc. You can't just look at hardware specs and think that two consumers would find the products directly comparable.

Sure, you could design a multivariate survey to figure out the willingness to pay and so on, but that's pretty complex, so that's why I'm just asking here for personal opinions.

PS: I'm not claiming that the products are not in the same level, or one is better than the other, just that such a comparison is made on a personal consumer basis and is largely subjective.
I switchd to a HP touchscreen. Sounds like a gimmick, but it gives you a much faster way of working for big buttons (new mail, etc)

Check out the Spectres for quality and value. I've been impressed.
You're downvoted. Maybe because of your snarky tone, but I think you have a point. Twitter is a cesspool with all of the same problems as Facebook.
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only took 8 month to get a xiaomi with the same form factor, if you go to more obscure non reputable brands there were some even faster https://www.gizmochina.com/2018/03/06/top-iphone-x-clones-fr...
I'm really happy to see so much development around multi-platform game support on PCs. I use Macs for work and almost all personal computing but I still have to keep a Windows 10 PC around just for gaming. The moment that PC can be upgraded to some variety of desktop Linux while keeping all my games playable is the moment I truly become happy in life! :)
I have never attempted this particular use case but, as far as I can tell this isn’t possible. While it is possible to grant privileges to change another user’s password, you would have to either make the team admin a super user (this grant all possible privileges) or by granting the Create Role privilege (which would allow them to create a new role with privileges they aren’t intended to have and switch to that role) so neither of these options are really any good.

A clarification on my previous comment:
The way I’ve used Postgres RBAC is to create roles for each service in my application that needs DB access. For example say you have a service (in my case typically a lambda function) that only ever reads data from the DB and only from specific tables. I would create a role that only grants SELECT privileges for those specific tables. This also disallows UPDATE, DELETE, ALTER etc. privileges. Then assign this service that role. This mitigates the possible damage done if that service is compromised and shrinks your applications attack surface.
paywalled, but I've seen this in action.
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Latest Mac Mini is no better. The decision to bundle the power adapter within the housing has added to the already poor thermal performance leading to throttling [1].

Then again people say "Apple is a design company" in air quotes.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8DOzr7G82U
There's plenty of noble points that can be made about not playing God and handling the essence of life responsibly, and so on, but I think there's also some risk of losing sight of the fact that we're not just doing this for fun- we're doing it because people are literally dying and we're trying to stop it. If you have a parent or a child of yours that gets cancer, you're not going to be terribly concerned that the cure was created using CRISPR, or that there isn't 100% certainty about what all the side-effects could be.

The fact is that there is not a single medical treatment available that is fully understood; we regularly learn new things about aspirin, which is one of the most studied medications ever, and which has been in use in some form or another since a medieval wise woman chewed on some willow bark. Applying the sort of standards you're trying to hold genetic engineering to would take away every tool in the medical repertoire, aside from perhaps the bone-saw.
But Tesla doesnt have a monopoly...
Ironic, given the previous discussion on why apt shouldn't use HTTPS connections. With full end-to-end SSL validation, this kind of vulnerability can't exist. Should be interesting to see how the community reacta to this.
> Avoiding bank runs and the collapse of financial institutions is a pretty massive social benefit, even if it does turn into "bailing out wall street" memes.

In the immediate crash, I agree, but in the years after as QE kept being needed to stabilize the system, there were other choices. There could have been a different program to inject money directly to the people who took out mortgages, requiring lenders to take a principal write down at the same time. This would have left more wealth in peoples hands, instead of funneling more wealth and assets into bank hands. And in large part it was fear of deficits that prevented consideration of these options.

The argument isn't to "government spend way more money", it's to make a more balanced consideration of how we actually use the power of currency for beneficial purposes in the long term.
I wonder if Apple's hardware design troubles would be ameliorated if ICs had to buy their own work machines using their own post-tax money.

EDIT: And could only use machines in the workplace that are release+12 months old?
Overall, nothing, but when you have an organization that prioritizes thinness and people are promoted based on their contributions to thinness you do what you can to make the laptop thin. A company that prioritizes modularity to the same extent will end up with laptops the size of micro ATX cases.
It looks like they are pretty aware of it too. There are a few issues in their tracker meant for hashicorp's consul and they directed them over to the right github project.
Sorry, but Rust is much better language. It's extremely hard to switch back.
For the general consumer stuff it matters less, but I wish the pro line of devices worried less the "sex" factor and more on being actual professional tools.
Pharo does have commandline functionality, but that won't demonstrate its value as a first experience. For an interactive tutorial... open Pharo, then left-click background, Tools > Playground, type & highlight 'ProStef go', right-click & 'do it'.

Then try these one-liners in the Playground... https://medium.com/concerning-pharo/elegant-pharo-code-bb590....

Then (and I know its a video) but maybe serverless PharoLambda would interest you... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUbd0-FX6pI
I think it's a fragile position, it's like the critic of the rock band always producing the same music album after album, and then they evolve their stye and now they are not the same and it was better before. You can take both position depending on the weather, and there is no absolute truth.

What I feel is a stronger and more measurable critique is that the quality of Apple has gone down (i.e. I might be wrong, but there are numbers to decide).
Their data shows that's what sells to the mass market. You are not a representation of the mass market. You are an early adopter. Your needs are not their main priority.
This is yet another consequence of Apple's new approach to design, "Reality Distortion Field 2.0".

I posted this here a few days ago, but seems relevant to this discussion: https://github.com/geophile/reality-distortion-field
Well, I understand that the GP is saying that expecting the same person to have the same productivity as a chemical engineer after and before a graduation on that area is ridiculous.

Claiming that high education has only signaling value is ridiculous. (It's even more ridiculous than claiming it has no signaling value.)
Would be interesting to also have metrics on failure per TB storage.
We use both TF and Ansible and have been very happy with the choice. TF is used for cloud resources (network, IAM, vms, etc), Ansible is used for runtime provisioning. We also use Packer+Ansible for creating AMIs that are later used in TF and have runtime info (ex. IPs) injected into the process via Ansible.

You probably can't replace TF completely with Ansible, but it makes for a great partner. I've used SaltStack in the past for a TF/Ansible replacement, if you are looking to move to a single dependency.
Anecdotally, I see lots of small businesses in the US which explicitly charge slightly more for credit card transactions.

This is extremely common at gas stations and coffee shops, for example.
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I am currently reverse-engineering my recent-model Honda vehicle's camera system. It is not fun. It is delicate (in terms of hardware AND software).

tl;dr: Just buy a cheap, high-rated $60-ish dollar dashcam off of Amazon.
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It seems that the Bauhaus were trying to make a political point as much as an engineering point.

Also, where's the evidence that the simpler geometric forms and use of cheap materials (concrete in Brutalism) resulted in anything cheaper, more functional, better-looking or long-lasting? How much of it is just a fad?

They "Bauhaus"ed the Windows GUI to remove all the ornamentation, and people didn't report it was any easier, more usable (no shadows for buttons, so you don't know what you can click on), or more pleasing to look at (many, including myself, found it childish). Some people say it's faster for the computer, but I suspect that the improvements are very marginal.
Google is the worst by far. Page rank has horribly distorted the content and structure. It affects the way people write and think e.g. I have to reuse my title in post for google ranking! I have to include these keywords! I can’t link because I want to keep my “juice”. I’d guess a majority of all content on the internet is fake, created to manipulate page rankings. And that’s just the beginning, people believe a 30 second video needs to be stretched to at least 10 minutes because that’s want YouTube wants to rank in search. Amp? At least many of Facebooks worst features are locked inside their own garden. The page rank effect follows me into real life! I get emails every day, and even periodic phone calls from people trying to pay me to put their content on my site just so they can get back links.
Just a point on the population of Manhattan, it’s be careful with those numbers and applying them to modern day. People used to cram into death trap tenements 10 to one windowless room in some cases.

Hundreds of thousands would live on a street that now houses a thousand people.

I don’t think that density is coming back or desirable.
I've straddled and blurred the line between being in IT and an educator. I've seen home schooling go horribly wrong and incredibly right. From my observations of the few dozen families I've watched, it seems to mostly depend on the motivation of the parents, and how much time they're willing to put into it.

The ones that tend to go wrong are those parents whose primary motivation is to keep their children from learning things, usually on religious grounds. I'm not saying that parents who provide a religious education do a bad job, but if the goal is to avoid having kids learn certain basic level facts (like reproduction), they will have gaps. I've also seen where parents expect to throw their kid in front of a computer to do all their learning, which also goes bad. In these first few cases, I've seen situations that come close to neglect. A third path that can go either way are the single-issue families. This would be parents who want their child to focus on one specific talent in order to nurture it, like singing, dance, or a sport. In these cases, so long as there is other topics covered, the kids can turn out ok as well as be at the top of their field. There's also cases in this area that can look like abuse when the parent is a little too vested in their child's success.

The home-schooling stories that are super successful are usually where one parent (or ideally, both take turns) at turning every day activities into learning opportunities. One family took at least one trip per week to a museum, zoo, botanical garden, park, public government building, or conservation area. The kids had to research the location before the visit, write up a list of questions they had, had questions added by parents, find and record the answers during the visit, and write up a report afterwards. They would research an issue and write or visit government representatives to discuss the issue as a well-informed member of the public. In those families, it seemed the entire family was about daily and life-long learning. The parents also had the kids involved in a lot of outside activities like local plays, orchestras, sports. Just as busy as the public school kids, just a more holistic approach to learning.
> I don't use the touchbar but I don't mind it.

How do you press "Escape"? did you remap it to another key?
Super-thin things are great. Some people love them and will pay dearly to have them. The problem is not in building thin devices, it's with ONLY building thin devices. In a complete product line there should be an ultra-thin laptop, and a thicker "PRO" model that has a decent set of ports (bring back USB-A so that we can do our pro work without dongles please!), is reliable, has a good keyboard and battery life. I should be able to choose whether I need thinness or not (in my case, I don't much care).

The MacBook line is going through a dark age right now, where seemingly people who design them are not the same people that use them. My personal suspicion is that Jony Ive (whom I do not consider to be a "Pro" mac user) became too powerful and people can't oppose his taste and his decisions.

The worst thing about all of this is that Apple is (still) so far ahead of everybody else. I really, really wish there was a viable competitor. The problem is that with the lead that Apple has with MacOS and iOS and with the ridiculous amounts of money that they have it will be very difficult to catch up.
Do endangered woods make better guitars?
I have to say the best thing about credit cards in the U.S. is the massive point bonuses you get for signing up for cards. I have gamed the credit card bonus system for ~6 years and pay for 90%+ of my personal travel including international business and first class flights and high end hotels with points earned from opening multiple cards each year with almost no impact to my credit score (760+). Combined with the fact that points are not taxable it is probably the single most lucrative “side hustle” I have that requires almost no work.
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I never really associated the Unix philosophy with unix pipes, now it seems so obvious
China mostly uses WeChat's payment system and Alibaba's Alipay on mobile devices.
Could you get a cargo cult on the consumer side too?

Like the brand keeps its aura of quality longer than the quality as been maintained? That would just be a phase shift between the reality and perception.
Fully applies to Canada as well
This happened at my previous company when they had bad glassdoor reviews. Every new person through the door, was sort of forced to write a glassdoor review. They would be given a nice welcome, some schwag, sell them on the company. People inevitably wrote good reviews, alas once the honeymoon period ended, they were in for a rude shock.
It’s similar in Switzerland, almost every shop accepts PostCard
Meaning you were pressured by an employer? Would be interesting if Glassdoor periodically reached out to users to revise reviews and capture sentiment "before and after" working at a given company.
Can this work on yourself? That is, can you have your own self brainwashed in some way?
fees are also much cheaper in Europe. Interchange fees are capped at 0.3%, compared to 2%+ in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee
For 8+ hours a day? Sounds impossible to me...
All those bonuses are coming from somewhere, though. In this case, it mostly comes from higher fees on merchants, which leads to higher prices.

You're getting some points, sure, but everything you buy is a percent or two higher to pay for it.
Reading that article, they basically just say the same thing over and over each paragraph. Like echo echo echo. No real substance.
Considering the existence of crown copyright, I'm surprised you would expect anything from the UK gov to be open source or similar.

One of my favorite things about the US is that works of the Federal government are public domain. It speaks to the fact the government is representative of the people themselves, not a particular person.

Now granted, universities don't have to release their publicly funded work either in the US, but I think that should be changed.
same, 2012 15" rMBP (gen0 with the screen persistence issue) that I keep around just because it's hard to replace the easiness of certain video editing suites. not going to buy another because all the newer model just go into deep throttling at the first hint of a heavy workload. they're pro only in price.