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> So, if it is divisive, why not make both kinds? Why does there need to be a single compromise across the entire line?

I’m guessing because it’s probably cheaper and easier to produce fewer models, and not enough benefit to producing more. It obviously rubs some people the wrong way, but perhaps not nearly enough, no matter how vocal they may be.
Unsurprisingly Yandex say that this was detected early, no damage was done and no user data was accessed via the hacking.

Obviously that rings hollow... but, I wonder, what kind of security protocol do high gov officials in RU use, do they follow better security hygiene than the West?

This release coincides with G20 meetings. Intentional or happenstance?
This is highly personal. Best would be to have an IDE that shows the concrete types if desired by the user. In VS you can hover over a variable but permanent display would be nice too
I always hated the MagSafe connectors because I almost always used my laptop with the power connected but not on a table or other hard surface (eg a bed), and it would invariably fall off constantly.
soon - Tesla as client too
Steve let some awful designs out. Remember the hockey puck mouse? He even released his own awful expensive failure of a speaker.
Immigrants contributing 'greatly' is not an established fact.

Here's a meta analysis saying that at best the economic impact is minor, and worse still only the mega-rich benefit, while poor people actually suffer from it:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w16736

If the birth rate is too 'low' then why not pay more benefits for having kids? Or raise the retirement age, as we obviously need to before our pensions all go bankrupt?

Worse still, mass-migration is just shunting the problem down the line a generation or two, while most countries using it aren't investing enough in houses, hospitals, infrastructure, etc. to cater for the mass migration.
What would be awesome is USB-C in a magsafe connector. Would the magnet interfere with the signal transmission at all?
Where can I find a nice article about the design and the terminology?
But in the real world he is definitely not the wealthiest person in the world.
Surface Go has the best of both worlds. You can use a usb-c charger if you chose to, but it also has a magnetic cable.

I find it a great compromise. During travel, I only take a usb-c charger. But for home/work, where it is plugged most of the time and at most risk of accidental cable-kicking, I use the magnetic charger.
I've got a thin and light Mac that still has the ports.
Fuchsia.dev
Controversial opinion: Microsoft is making better hardware design decisions and better hardware design overall than Apple atm.

It’s the software which continues to be the issue for me.
We (Microsoft) did that for a while. It doesn't work as well as the paginated flow. Users without a password get to the page and leave, claiming they don't have a password and are stuck, because they don't try to type in their email.
The real tragedy of this is that nobody will know who Mister Rogers is by that time.
LN does not either.
Um, yeah :-]

Actually, I think Steve and Jony together were really where the magic happened. Since Steve passed away, form has often trumped function at Apple.
One thing I really miss from mainframes is their stability.

Case a) Lots of years ago IBM changed CPU architecture on their System i. Every program we made was transparently recompiled to the new instruction set on first run, and just worked after that.

Case b) Legacy technologies are taken very seriously. Decades old programs made in obsolete versions of COBOL can still be compiled without issues on the modern systems. No unexpected side effects, no new bugs, it just works. It provides a comfortable path to gradual upgrade.

Case c) The tech stack builds upon itself, which means you can devote years to learn the stack and still enjoy the fruits of your effort for decades. You just have to keep up with the changes, not relearn everything every five years.

Case d) The manuals and reference are exhaustive and absolutely superb, you can become an expert just by reading them. How many questions about mainframe development are created daily in Stack Overflow?

Their biggest drawback is their cost. Mainframe as a Service exist, but it needs to be affordable enough to run cheap experiments, otherwise it won't be attractive to startups.
Where it can be done with H5 and CSS3 we use those things, we don't invite complexity for the sake of it, but it's really very easy to run into the limitations of CSS3 when doing something even slightly unusual.

Vue replaces the dom of wherever the app is, so the choice is between having everything within a single app div or having a ton of apps talking to each other. Given that the ton of apps solution still breaks fairly essential functionality (for online shopping) and requires a fair amount more structure it's a bit hard to see the benefits.
Running experiments would give us data on whether it is personal or not, and to what degree.

I know a lot of teams that conduct code reviews outside of the IDE, so your suggestion wouldn’t help those cases.
Something like this maybe?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/russia-reverts...

;)
There are so many outages in us-east-1. I've heard the reason is because that's where they roll out maintenance first or something along those lines. Just look at this list of outages on Wikipedia [1] and scan for US-east-1, North Virginia, or "Northeast" (all the same places).

Just don't use US-EAST-1 as your region.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Service...
YMMV I guess, but I work as a programmer at a company where all the programmers carry these around and spend their whole days in emacs or tmux+vim. There are about a hundred of us in our local office. I haven’t found anyone who doesn’t hate this thing, and it all comes down to that stupid butterfly keyboard. We’re a company of super-efficient touch typists, and the 2015 MacBook pros with their scissor switches are coveted and traded.
One can hope, but I’m sure his decisions were not based off design quirkiness entirely. Apple must have a department that shows people want thinner and thinner laptops and that’s what they aim for. Right?
Heh. But do they stay true to that protocol?
it’s a good idea in theory, if every programmer in the world adopted the methodology right now. practically though, if you tried to implement it, it’d just be added on top of all of the formatting strategies that already exist, adding more confusion and noise to the problem.

Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/927/
LA ran into many of these issues in it’s electric bus pilot program, as reported in the LA times last year: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-electric-buses-201...
Not really. Orbit isn't just about getting up there. It's about moving fast enough when you are up there.

To destroy something in orbit, you just need to get the projectile up there. You don't also have to get it up to escape velocity.
It's just that, for me and a bunch of other people, we would be happy to test a preview if we could compare it against our current browsers. We can't, because

advertising is an abomination that destroys the utility of the internet

and so there's no fair comparison.
Why not? "not a small city" probably means their overall inventory is on the order of dozens or hundreds of buses.
Suffering that does not respond to effort is definitely stunting. The thesis motivating my muskeg boot-camp concept is that participants exit the wilderness under their own power and therefore develop agency.

My perspective on this is somewhat unusual; I chose to canoe across Manitoba because I felt like I was a weakling who had never truly confronted necessity. It took three weeks, and I remember thinking, many times, "this absolutely and completely sucks, but I'm going to remember this as a great experience." Sure enough, that is the case.

There is a lot of masochism in my life because I depend on it to keep depression away. It is for my spirit what gravity is for my body - in the sense that long term zero-G exposure is unhealthy. I can't help but think a persevering experience would help these folks, whose lives are apparently so unchallenged that the mundane necessities of day-to-day existence grow untenable.

That's a result of my perspective, which is the perspective of a masochist. I am aware that pain and pleasure are linked for me to an unusual degree. I feel like it should be that way for everyone, and they're really missing out! I guess I'd be a pretty terrible therapist.

If only we all had suffering as an immediate consequence of not living up to our potential, you know? It would be better. So I'm prescribing shock collar controlled by an iOS/Android app that monitors subject behavior... It could really help these people realize that they were correct to think that they ought to be happy with their non-shock-collar lives! And they would be!
That's funny, because nearly all the Apple fans I know (myself included) are extremely jaded with their laptops since the touchbar model came out. Throwing out the ports and making the keyboard awful in favor of becoming thinner doesn't exactly read as a "Pro" product to me.
That seems radical. You really think Ive is going? He’s been there for decades.
It is usually the cheapest region though. Maybe this is why
Okay, did you look at the age and the comment activity of these accounts? Because they're not sockpuppets accounts.

You're making a textbook No True Scotsman.
No. If your projectile reaches altitude of target satellite with 0 velocity, hangs for a moment and starts to fall down, but then is impacted at relative velocity of kilometers per second by a satellite, your weapon (or Kessler syndrome trigger) works. It doesn't need orbital velocity at altitude, only the altitude. That is a lot lower energy!
On desktop or mobile?
This doesn't stop them from copying what China does.

China has the same problem in Shanghai. The solution they use is overhead wires to charge busses while they are driving for parts of downtown that busses can connect to and disconnect from at will.
At least he borrowed some nice designs. For me, the iphone 4 was a great design.

The hockey puck mouse was horrible though. Was that an Ive design?
no https?
Why did I hope that app.adjust.com was somewhere that I could get the .apk without having anything to do with the Play Store?
It doesn't matter whether it's unique. I'd find it outrageous if a book disappeared from my bookshelf on a publisher's whim even if the physical book was otherwise unimpressive -- even if, in fact, it wasn't a very good book to begin with. The book is mine. The publisher cannot decide when it stops working. Only a force of nature, like a fire, can take my books away from me.

If you're content in the knowledge that you can buy your e-books again whenever a publisher decides to make them stop working for you, good for you. Me, I'm not happy letting publishers win and trample my rights. In fact, much like the original tweet, I find the notion outrageous.
Yes. At least some part of our 'intelligence' is once again focused on our enemies, as opposed to domestic politicians.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of no compete agreement (along with compensation)
It probably wouldn't be overly difficult to make simple clothing that renders these lasers useless.
The Mac Pro makes sense in a media production environment for very specific reasons. I work in filmmaking and motion design and you would sell your mother for that machine.
Surprised no ones mentioned these:

1. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

2. Clean Code

3. The Pragmatic Programmer

They've helped immensely from working with small functions to the organisation of systems and systems of systems.
Nokia 2 users can now upgrade to Android Oreo if they choose
Two problems with that: going up is only 3% of the energy that is required. The other 97% is "going fast enough sideways to stay up". The other problem, even if you angle your shot, is that you need to raise the perigee so that your orbit doesn't intersect the launch site anymore. These two things combined mean that you would have to railgun a rocket that is still about half the size of a rocket that takes of normally. And liquid filled rocket would NOT like or withstand a rail gun launch. But you have should bought yourself TWO major technological problems: rocketry and rail guns. That is not economical at all. Much easier to make the rocket a bit larger (you need to develop a rocket anyway) and get rid of the complexity introduced by the rail gun.
Best Buy’s USB-C offerings are lacking and almost entirely Apple related.

What other stores will I have to avoid if I buy a MacBook in 2019?
That speaker was GORGEOUS though.
The Bitter Truth About Olives
1. I strongly suggest therapists — one for your and one for you and your spouse. You may want someone more oriented towards coaching at the start. Note that a couples therapist is an advocate for the couple, while an individual therapist is for you. This will matter if your spouse might have some sort of trauma, personality disorder, etc.

2. Your wife seems to be in a place where she is asking herself a lot of challenging questions. You seem to know this cognitively, but you don’t seem to be accepting it emotionally. Given the situation you described in your post and some of the replies, I’m not surprised her behavior is erratic. That doesn’t make it “right”, but it does mean that one shouldn’t really be surprised.

3. Note that when she uses low blows like playing the feminist card (assuming that it’s an exaggeration), thats a sign of desperation and confusion on her side. Simply put, if you really are against her success, she should just leave — I imagine that’s not really what she wants.

4. I’m not sure where you are located, but dual incomes with kids to me suggests that some of that extra income should go into help around the house. This can be via a nanny, a house cleaner, someone to drive the kids around, etc. The amount you choose to spend has a potentially wide range, but the utility can be undeniably helpful. In many families this is done by extended family members, but if you don’t have that option, paying money works. I see lots of dual-income couples not near their families try to be superheroes and maintain a high-paced lifestyle all by themselves — that’s insane.

Best of luck!
I disagree on both points. It's not uncommon at all for people to negotiate 20%+ raises just by asking and making clear they are willing to leave if a significant raise isn't forthcoming (assuming, of course, that they are actually worth the raise and the company can pay it). On your second point, it's also not uncommon at all for people to very quickly raise their salary coming from a low point (just look at people who went from minimum wage to doing a code bootcamp and getting 3x what they were making previously). Tip on that - if the place you're interviewing with asks what your current salary is, tell them it's whatever your target salary is minus 5-10%. There's no downside to doing so, and no upside to telling them what you currently make.
Many corporate clients don't want you passing their users passwords through your backend, so full page navigation is required. You're also working with on-premises Auth servers that likely don't support whatever fancy front channel protocol you'd propose to make this happen.
> IT professionals should work in a mainframe environment at some point (2015)

... in order to experience and learn that:

* Max depth of your file system tree is 2

* Password must be changed every month

* Max password length is 8

* Alphanumeric chars only

* No upper/lower case distinction

* There's nothing wrong about using java 1.7 in 2019

* "if <customer == XYZ> then <feature>" is just fine as a code pattern.

* To release uncompiled & untested code is OK.

* To release code with compilation errors is OK, too.

* To use CVS could be a huge step forward. Because the thing you've been using can manage only code files but not configuration files. Albeit "manage" is a huuuge overstatement here.

* Print out the list of changes and stamp it with a rubber stamp is the way to fix it.

* Permanently.

* Permanently-Partially. Half of the team was printing the other half was copy-pasting the list of changes to a file.

* For years. On the PCs. Not on the mainframe.

* In MS Word documents, not as a plain-text. Because reasons.

* Ok, several months after my predecessor left I gained enough confidence to ask for the permission to abandon the printing in favor of the MS Word. I was injured at the time and I thought like the pitiful picture of me limping between the printer and the desk 4 times a day could help me in an argumentation.

* There are mainframe developers who don't even know how e.g. XML looks like. No kidding.

* And they won't get fired neither asked to learn anything new. And their salary has 6 digits.

* etc.
Probably. I liked my Surface Book, it was an amazingly solid piece of hardware with good design and some nice innovations. However, Windows killed the device for me. After a year of use, it felt more sluggish than 3+ years old macbooks, even after I did the factory reset.
> The question is “If it weren’t FB who would be doing it instead?” [...] “Should cheap digital cameras be illegal?”

Those are a complete non-sequitur.

Facebook (and Google) analyse every single photo that goes through their system with state-of-the-art ML (it's so good that it almost beat humans at matching faces ~5 years ago). This is a scale of surveillance which the human race has never encountered before in our history[+], and is a serious problem that we (as a society) need to make a decision on. In many countries, car license plates are OCR'd and automatically tracked whenever they travel on almost any main public road. Facial recognition in public places and on public transport is becoming a prevalent problem. And wearing masks is illegal in many countries -- meaning there is no way of "opting out" of the pervasive surveillance in the physical world. None of these things were nearly as commonplace (or even technologically plausible) ~30 years ago.

Cheap digital cameras are a completely unrelated topic. And if such large-scale surveillance was made illegal then nobody would be doing it legally, and those doing it would be held accountable for the public health risk they pose. We don't let people build buildings with asbestos any more.

[+] The Stazi and KGB only really had filing cabinets for tracking people and physical surveillance measures. The Gestapo didn't even have that (the Third Reich had census data which was tabulated using IBM machines in order to track who was Jewish within the Third Reich).
What’s wrong with the new Mac?
You know, the fact that their tools were originally Linux explains why the tools are so bloated and slow compared to the MS-DOS utilities I still use like EDIT, TREE, and MORE. It also explains why FreeDOS won't install on PCs I have which install and run DR-DOS and MS-DOS just fine.
>>>a subset of works would be onerous and somewhat annoying for 28 years, after which you could literally do whatever you want with them.

Unfortunately, what would probably happen is more like what is happening to video games now; they are no longer profitable to publish, don't exist in an easy-to-backup, easy-to-share format (like an epub file with no DRM, for example), and so are essentially lost to time. If an ebook that no one can access is suddenly in the public domain, that doesn't help anyone one iota.
Aljabar: Linear Algebra Framework in Rust
Failovers, man.
A VC pimping one of their investments? YC’s influence has spread far and wide.
I think such a commission is good. Any effort that better demonstrates the will of the voters like registration drives, mail-in options, etc is worth considering given other costs are adequate. As far as I've seen the CA commission is working as intended or at least better than before. I'm not for any groups, political or otherwise, getting any greater or lesser representation. It pushed me to want a more parliamentary system sometimes like vote for party or IRV for elections with specific candidates.
Thank goodness. I hope this means function can trump form more often.
This is some kind of tax/regulation dodge?
I'm with you on this, Firefox for osx is in very bad shape, i can only use it on my strong imac. Chrome had to stay on macbook :(
Presumably US law applies because a US company / citizen can buy Japanese shares.
So... you're genuinely advocating against the use of public transit? Seriously?
I was onto a very similar idea recently! I used split to split a large CSV file and then used disk.frame (https://github.com/xiaodaigh/disk.frame), which is my package, to read in a large file. Not 25TB though!
I think it’s fine they made it this way but they still should have kept the ACTUAL Pro line - ie a more versatile machine. The new MacBook Pro’s just don’t cut it as much for professional applications as they used to (at least in my field of filmmaking/multimedia)
NASA will send new lander to Titan
I'll be damned, there are [0] and at first glance it seems like a good replacement. Granted, it is still annoying to have to buy a damn dongle for almost every port.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Adapter-Connector-Quick-Char...
Telling everyone they have to change just to suit your interests does not seem reasonable.
Yes, true. But my guess is that what Dijkstra considered elegant and manageable would be very different to what Uncle Bob would.
Oh thank God, I'll have another company to not buy products from!

Seriously though, I think his vision may have overstayed it's welcome at apple.
In Auth we call this a NASCAR, where there are so many buttons on the page that the user no longer knows which one they used to login last time. This leads to retention problems as users accidentally sign up for your app multiple times, ending up with their data scattered in multiple spots.
> With the previous generation of MagSafe/MagSafe II power supplies, if the cable gets frayed, you have to replace the entire power supply. If the MagSafe connector gets hosed, you have to replace the entire power supply. Basically, if anything goes wrong beyond the AC input side, you have to replace the whole power supply. I ended up buying a whole bunch of these things over the years, so I am particularly sensitive to the amount of money I've spent.

This is a design issue that doesn’t require a USB-C cable to fix.
This is exactly what they do in Shanghai and it works. The rails are not for the whole route just long stretches with lots of lights.

As far as I can tell they have a mixed fleet. Electric for ones that are downtown enough to charge and natural gas for busses that are mainly outside the city.

Things change rapidly so this may no longer be true.
Improving how we manage spreadsheet data
This sort of breaks tor though, doesn't it? Tor works really well if you stay on the same circuit for a while since it reduces the chances you have a compromised circuit. If you start getting recaptcha to block every exit node except those you control, you essentially have amplified your effective strength on the tor network.
if I run eonugh t-tests thats better than an ANOVA
No one follows good security hygiene anywhere. It's certainly not a cultural thing.
Funny how other laptops (and I've owned PC laptops and macbooks) have cables that don't fray. Only Apple's old magsafe cable has that fine rubbery material that disintegrates with time, and no strain relief on the connector.
> So, if it is divisive, why not make both kinds?

I doubt they sell enough Macbook Pros for it to ever make sense to make multiple "editions" like that; I doubt they'd get that many more sales.

If you are a software developer you really don't have to buy a Mac these days. Linux is great on Dell and Lenovo laptops and they offer a lot more selection.
I love the design actually!

Engineering and design need to meet to produce a product that is beautiful and functional. Unfortunately, the keyboard fell short and the limitations imposed by the design made those failures maximally painful for customers.