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adl··on Ask HN: Modern Linux laptop with great battery life?
Because a single key press during boot can render your installation foobar.
adl··on Microsoft launches Windows 10 on ARM
You mean a Surface Pro?
adl··on “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
Being ubiquitous is a kind of power (just like Javascript).
adl··on My Uber driver robbed me, so I took Uber to court and won
There are places where Uber is the best choice. I can support a morally corrupt company (Uber) or I can risk my life every time I get inside an Eco Taxi (Green and white taxis in Mexico).
adl··on IISc Bangalore scientists are doing seed bombing with drones to plant a forest
Oh, man. I'm going, that's all there is to it. I'm fucking going.
adl··on Kerbal Space Program Acquired by Take-Two Interactive
Software developers (.NET and Java) can get between 1,000 - 3,000 dollars a month in Monterrey, Guadalajara or Mexico City. 2,500 yearly salary sounds extremely low. Even interns get paid more that that here.
adl··on System76 is moving product design and manufacturing in house
Yes, several thinkpads do that. I have a T440s with an extra battery and swapping the battery without turning it off is great.

Linux will even tell you the charge for each battery (Ubuntu Gnome 17.04)

adl··on Ask HN: If I only learn one static typed language, which one should I learn?
In the JVM ecosystem you can use Jetty and have a simple embedded App Server. No need to install or configure Tomcat/JBoss, etc.

Spring Boot and Dropwizard makes this dead simple, a single .jar file with everything you need to run your app.

adl··on Kotlin/Native Tech Preview: Kotlin without a VM
Depends on how you define commercial development.

You can certainly do commercial applications using Intellij IDEA CE, if you don't need Java EE, Spring, GWT, Grails, etc deep integration in the IDE.

adl··on Kotlin/Native Tech Preview: Kotlin without a VM
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition is free(cero cost) and Open Source.

I believe it includes Kotlin Support.

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/#chooseYourEdition

adl··on U.S. life expectancy will soon be on par with Mexico’s and Croatia’s
> Mexico is an emerging first world nation with universal health care, one of the best run systems in the world.

You are joking right? Have you ever set foot in an IMSS Hospital? Describing it as a third world health care service is being generous.

Source: I'm Mexican.

adl··on On the road with the 13-inch MacBook Pro
So removing MagSafe is a feature? Laptops have diferent power profiles when they are plugged in than on battery.

Again, this: "You don't need to plug in your laptop all the time" works for the regular MacBook, but we are talking about the 'Pro' line here, MagSafe should be standard.

adl··on How to be like Steve Ballmer
Erick S. Raymond: http://esr.ibiblio.org/

Author of the Cathedral and the Bazaar.

adl··on GNU Mailman is now hosted on GitLab
For someone who lives outside the USA, what's the standard meaning of 'reverse racism'? I think I understand, as in: if the standard meaning of racism is a majority (Caucasian in this case) oppressing a minority (black, Mexican, asian, etc) then is reverse racism when said minority oppresses or acts against said majority?

I hope not, that seems wrong.

Prejudice (against a ethnicity, culture, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc) is wrong no matter the percentage of the majority/minority doing it involved

adl··on Material Design Lite Components in HTML/CSS/JS
28K minified is bloat?
adl··on Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life
Twitter is way worse, it is a public forum, with thousands of followers and she used her account as an official representative of her company. (in a PR kind of capacity even.)

The dongle comment was a conversation between two people, it was not private, but it's audience was intended to be limited to two individuals.

The CAH game could offend someone that passed by (it was played in a hallway), what would have happened if someone took a picture of her playing CAH and tweeted "Not Cool Guys/Gals"and made a blog post about feeling treated at PyCon?

https://instagram.com/p/W_A1xlAacg/

adl··on Jon Ronson: How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life
> Personally I can't see how the joke is threatening, but I can't dismiss her feelings over this just because I find it tough — or even impossible — to imagine.

The same Adria who herself made penis jokes on twitter a few days earlier and who was playing Cards Against Humanity at the same PyCon conference?

What happened to her is shameful and can't be condoned in any way, shape or form, but she engaged in the same (or some would say worse) behavior that she was criticizing Hank for. Double standards much?

>Perhaps you are right in perceiving a lack of empathy.... I think it's because she is viewing Hank as an oblivious part of a system which puts her at a significant disadvantage.

That's the definition of lack of empathy, Hank clearly expressed empathy for her, she didn't even consider the possibility that her public shaming could have serious consequences.

By the way, I believe she was in her right to complain about the joke to the organizers in private, it's the public tweet with the photo that crossed the line.

adl··on Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease reversed in rats
Have you had a Baron-Cohen EQ test?
adl··on Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease reversed in rats
> You sound like a pathetic whiny snot who has embraced a life of learned helplessness.

I'm trying to change my circumstances the 'hacker way': learning, experimenting and trying my best, even if it is a hard problem for me to resolve.

For me, staying healthy, slim and fit is incredibly hard, it seems that for you it is not.

adl··on Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease reversed in rats
Eating healthy is incredibly difficult in western society, and if you are suffering from Type 2 diabetes caused by lifestyle , chances are you already suffering from some kind of food addiction.

"Just eat less" is not a very helpful answer, it's incredibly frustrating to hear, believe me.

When your blood sugar is in the 60s or 50s range from trying like hell to do your diet all day, reason goes out the window and 'mere' will power is not enough.

It takes a lot of effort, lots of planning (preparing food, planning what, where and when to eat, snacks, etc) and a LOT of information (nutrition, insulin effects on the body, pros and cons of current 'fad' diets, etc) which takes a while to collect, also, lots of trial an error.

It doesn't help that most doctors, are clueless regarding healthy eating.

adl··on Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke
GPG is an integral part of the Open and Free internet.

Imagine all the workflows that depend on verified encryption signatures like Debian, Ubuntu, etc and that's just software distribution, not counting privacy issues like journalists, political dissidents, whistle blowers, etc using it for secure communications.

It was pretty easy to donate, took me less than 2 minutes. I encourage everybody that is able to make a donation, however small, every euro counts.

adl··on CoreCLR is now open source
I'm familiar with the philosophical differences between Free Software and Open Source.

But in this context you seem to imply that there are practical differences i.e: Not all Open Source licences are considered Free Software in the practical sense.

If that is the case, could you provide an example?

adl··on Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
> Some Macs still have Ethernet, but WiFi is pretty ubiquitous.

WiFi is fine for when you are on the move, but for serious use, I wouldn't trade an ethernet connection.

I'm in a office right now with over 500 people, all with laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and the WiFi is pretty crappy. I wouldn't want to depend on WiFi as my main network connection in any kind of office environment.

adl··on Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
I have owned dozens of Macs (personal and work), from the clamshell iBook, TiBook, White iBooks, to the latest MacBooks and a few iMacs too. I'm very familiar with the platform ;-)

Most of the time they are above the average PC/Laptop, I do give you that, but recent models have reduced functionality (non replaceable batteries, memory, HDD, dongles for ethernet, etc) all in the name of Form over Function.

adl··on Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
I understand your point, i really do. And I can understand why people would choose Macbooks, I understand the appeal, I just want to point out that they are not the only laptops in the market with those characteristics.

Maybe most consumers don't care about other features (minimalism can be good and a feature by itself) and a Mac is ideal for them, that is fine, I just disagree that only MBP have those qualities

adl··on Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
The coming lineup has restored the trackpoint buttons. I have a t440s and the clickpad is horrible! I'm selling it as soon as the T450s is available.
adl··on Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
Serious question, what makes Apple laptops beat the rest of the industry?

No docking station, can't change batteries, no touch screens, no spill resistant keyboards, no matte screen option,etc.

You also need those dongles for ethernet and video and can't upgrade RAM or hard drives on the retina models.

Sure, the OS (if you need/like OSX, there is little choice), and the trackpad (if you like that those) are good, the rest? meh.

I rather have a Thinkpad that can take a lot of abuse.

adl··on What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs
> Believe it or not, Jobs had empathy for what the user truly needed, which gave him a killer sense of taste. I feel that's lacking here.

The word empathy to describe Steve Jobs is not the word I would use at all. Maybe "in tune"?

adl··on Smartphone ≠ smart home
Can we see a photo of your setup? sounds pretty good.
adl··on Firefox.html: Rebuilding Firefox UI in HTML
I don't know if XUL is better than HTML + CSS, I haven't used XUL. I have used XAML and Qt, and the Android Layout Manager. and they are way easier to deal with.

In HTML, a button is not a button, it's a DIV with an CSS properties (which render differently depending on the browser) + some images + some Javascript. And that abstraction leaks a lot.

The equivalent in native code will be having to deal with Xlib in X11 or GDI on Windows every time you debug.

That said, there is value in HTML/CSS/JS UIs, I don't deny that, and I use them when appropriately. I still think native UIs are 'cleaner' to develop.

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