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gnashville··on What the Heck Is Happening at Apple?
> It's not always about the numbers. In fact it's never about the numbers.

I've always found it interesting that the Android/iOS debate seems to go only one way. My handful of Android friends have tried convert with some new feature that does x and y over the years, yet I've never found myself trying to convince them to make the opposite switch. I think your quote sums that up pretty nicely.

gnashville··on New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore
> What they did do:

Not really surprised by any of it except number 3.

gnashville··on Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight
I think that's actually unique to primates (who do/did sleep in trees).
gnashville··on MacBook Pro
> but the Surface Studio makes me wish I were

Have you used Surface before? Asking because when I picked one up about a month ago, I had an awful time with it. Makes me think their announcement won't really do anything but look interesting. I could be missing something, though.

gnashville··on IBM says it is 3X more expensive to manage PCs than Macs
I've always wondered why this doesn't come up more in the mac/pc cost debate. The HP I was issued at my last job needed to be replaced three times in the eight months I was there. Current company issued me a MacBook air that I've used 50 hours a week for three years.
gnashville··on Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken
With you regarding macOS bugs but I've never been more miserable using technology than the last time I touched Surface.
gnashville··on Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
Ah, should have assumed you already did your homework. Sounds rough man, sorry.
gnashville··on Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers
brutal, glad you made it out when you did.

The "bad as a human except when he's drunk" is pretty interesting, considering it usually works the other way around. Keep that shit at arm's length.

gnashville··on Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
Seems your wrath is better aimed at those who implemented an open floor plan, not the lady doing her job.
gnashville··on Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers
> vengeful boss

> that boss and I get along really well outside of work

hm.

gnashville··on USPS Discrimination Against Atheism? A Study by Atheist Shoes (2013)
Just use coloreds only drinking fountains. Problem solved.
gnashville··on The Age of the Superbug Is Here
Easy in concept but the beef cartel would fight tooth and nail against something like this.
gnashville··on Learn Python Programming
I recently went through Learn Python the Hard Way (which is currently all written for 2.7), then enrolled in a intro python class at the city college that's all python3. The transition was a bit of a struggle; would have preferred to skip LPTHW for something written for py3+.
gnashville··on How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015)
Think about a 250 or even a 350. Brakes, suspension, and motor all more robust. This'll be important once it's filled with plywood and hardwood. And all your stuff.
gnashville··on Even the Rich Are Being Priced Out of Central London
That's pretty special.
gnashville··on Securing a travel iPhone
I think that's what sleep/wake+home button is for. Holding sleep/wake still requires 'slide to power off' (which i assume wouldn't respond when iOS locks up.)

sleep/wake+home button restarts iOS but ultimately reconnects to the device to the web.

gnashville··on Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Windows 10 upgrade
I can't believe this is still how they operate. How has the company that shipped Windows Vista not figured it out yet?
gnashville··on Facebook Offers Tools for Those Who Fear a Friend May Be Suicidal
Albert Camus added you as a friend.
gnashville··on Silicon Valley's housing crisis, in one sentence
Even with increased density, the bay area's freeways and transit systems are already jammed up. All those people would have a hard time getting anywhere.
gnashville··on Nest’s time at Alphabet
I think he meant as opposed to informal (maybe petty, harmful) internal competition.
gnashville··on Leaving the Nest
Expect excellence, respect excellence, drive hard, change things, don’t accept the status quo.
gnashville··on Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide
Autonomous opposite lock is a pretty incredible thing to watch.
gnashville··on There’s No Such Thing as Free Will
> there's nothing uniquely determining what's internal and what's external, what's an agent and what's not. So "free will" winds-up achingly ill-defined/under-determined here.

This is really interesting. Thanks for the reply.

gnashville··on There’s No Such Thing as Free Will
An agent's ability to do and not do without external influence or coercion.

The other side of this though is if the agent believes he or she has the ability to do or not do, but actually doesn't, is it still free will? An example being you enter your office with the intention of working for five hours. Without realizing it, the door locks behind you from the outside, leaving you effectively trapped. Even if you never attempt to leave the room, are you staying at your own free will?

gnashville··on Broken: What the Hell Happened in East New York?
Clicked, fought my way through those first two paragraphs, left.
gnashville··on Why Twitter has run into trouble
I'd happily pay Twitter $1/mo to keep suggested tweets out of my TL.
gnashville··on Elder Care Startup Honor Makes Contractors Full-Time Workers with Equity
Well put. Anyone can find a job and "make money". The issue here, of course, is much broader.