mrmondo

Hello, please try to keep comments constructive. The guidelines for commenting are available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Yeah, interesting - that's certainly not and never has been my use case (ultra / daily portable), there must be some sort of rating for number of insertions / connections similar to the varying USB standards over the years - I wonder if that's published somewhere, if so we could probably do the math and come up with a - moves per week rating for a charger?

That's not a direct quote of that I said, the sentence I wrote is phrased in the past tense with the intent (and you'll just have to take my word for it) of surprise and / or previous thoughts on the matter up until the time of writing it. When you quoted me there you actually changed the construct of the comment to become an argument or judgement which was not the intent.

Honestly: be really careful with that charger / cord - that could likely easily start a fire or spark and ignight something nearby. If you haven't the funds to replace it - may I suggest at least insulating it with either some non-conductive heatshrink or electrical tape to keep you going?

Indeed, if you have the money - you can buy racing speed horses and in many countries it's still legal to ride them on the road while abiding standard road rules and avoiding highways. (The term 'Enterprise Horse' came to mind and I had a giggle)

I can definitely see if it was jammed into a bag or wound tightly (got to be a pretty fine line there!) how it could happen, similar to how if I jam my IEM earbuds into my bag all the time I'd break one in no time I'm sure. But at least the larger chargers have those neat L shaped hooks that are supposed to encourage the correct diameter twist - I would have thought that'd be the saviour? Usually when I've heard of it or seen it it's at the MagSafe end and it's clear that the cord has been pulled backwards away from the laptop regularly - which to me is still a design flaw if that's how users are using them they should be altered. Having said all that - the amount of HP and co laptops I've seen with bent charger pins or squealing caps in their power packs is unreal and they're often more expensive than an Apple charger depending on the wattage.

It's not propaganda, it's my experience (and actually the guy sitting next to me at work as well, although he said his girlfriend has gone through a MacBook charger and her current one although working is looking tired but not broken yet).

Out of interest are you the standard 240V or in the USA with the 110V chargers? Also, again just out of interest - are you in an especially humid or hot climate? I'm just trying to think of any 'extremes' that may cause consistent failures like this if the user isn't mistreating the product.

Yes and I don't disbelieve you either, I'm just wondering if it's perhaps something like interaction with a specific file system or disk scheduler that might be causing a block level locking issue, it's a bit of a stab in the dark without knowing anything about your setup but I build quite a few storage systems and have experienced some fun interactions with IO blocking.

I'm quite excited about this, as a concept a decentralised twitter meets diaspora is something that I'd love to see popularised.

I find Atoms memory usage (and leaks) combined with odd periods of strange input latency so aggravating that I end up going back to sublime text 3 every time I try it. It just 'feels' so javascripty - like a web app, not like a snappy desktop app which is the reason I don't use my web browser for development. Coupled with the poor performance handling files over a few MB in size I can't see myself using atom in the foreseeable future unless it became a native / compiled app which isn't going to happen.

Of all the MacBooks, MacBook Pros and idevices I've had over the years (including my still running perfectly Jan 2011 MBP) I've never had a single issue with any power cord tearing / breaking or power supply even fail as far as I can remember. I always assume when I hear of people with this problem that they're disrespecting their hardware by jamming it in doors / desks or perhaps have pets that chew on them.

Exactly, I find myself needing to use this quote all too often but it is a wonderfully well considered statement on product engineering.

We replaced all our AD servers with SAMBA4, so much more reliable and while AD/LDAP is still a nightmare of an architecture having it running on standard Linux servers means it's much easier to monitor, backup, snapshot, introspect and it far out performs windows based DCs.

Fantastic software that I use almost weekly and have done so for many years.

We have a great deal of repos on our GitLab private server and even a major upgrade only results in 2 minutes or so of downtime.

What spec hardware are you running this on?

and just upgraded to 8.15.1 flawlessly :)

Plan meets final execution, love it guys and gals, great work yet again, we upgraded today without a hitch, within 30 minutes I had devs making positive comments in chat about the upgrade. Thank you again for all your hard work and the passion that drives that.

Everything seemed to get slower and slower as JavaScript became more prevalent IMO.

O365 is the most unreliable, haphazard, glued together, frequently unavailable piece of $&,$/$! that my team and I have used for 4 years. I can honestly say that I have never in my life experienced such repeatedly unreliable software in my life. Worse yet it's backed by the most incapable off-shored and overworked support team(s) that we now no longer bother to log queries with.

Aka 'Go gets its wide-on', in all seriousness though, collaborative online editors have a lot of potential, still yet to find one that's fast, with good git integration and supports puppet DSL / ruby.

Opt-out of analytics should be illegal, analytics and data collection should always be opt-in and clearly described to users. This is worse than the recent homebrew analytics cafuffle.

Just like it's always been with chargers - it still does "just work" but the correctly powered charger will charge much faster, no different to previous MacBooks, iPhones or iPads.

My thoughts exactly, same old story since the start. Doesn't mean people shouldn't try though - competition and questioning your purchases are both very wise things to do, but to make hugely over generalised statements based on essentially no scientific or statistical proof is another.

I'm not sure I really agree with the principle of the idea that apples products are getting worse in general. There's always some products that work, some that don't and some that don't at first - but do after refinement.

For example, 2-3 years ago I thought OS X (now macOS) was really going down hill, far less stability, performance stagnation and no clear direction. Turn to 2016 and I think Sierra is the most stable and reliable macOS yet, also we now have much 'better' standboxing, protected core system storage, better battery life and an interesting file system on its way. Now, look at the iPhone 7+ - it's a great phone, it's in my opinion the best phone they've ever made, it's not perfect, the camera is good but it's still a phone camera and thus requires a lot of light and a nice clean lens to take a decent shot, its battery life is excellent compared to most other phones - you can quite happily go two days between charges unless you have something setup poorly (like a polling email account etc), iOS is more responsive and stable than ever, we have public and developer betas and finally Apple actually respond to bug reports from the feedback tool (not every time, but when it's something worth investigating).

The retina MacBook is a lovely replacement for the MacBook Air, yes it doesn't have enough RAM and could do with a bit faster CPU, but it is a truly portable, usable machine.

Since the introduction of the 5k iMac, there's been no turning back for me, I have an early 2015 model at work and late 2015 at home and they are simply a joy to work on, not just the wonderful screen but the CPUs are rarely maxed out, the upgraded GPU in my home machine easily plays any game I want to play.

The bad is that the MacBook Pro is undeniably over priced if you want to spec it out, the Mac Pro is long overdue an update and they in my opinion should have retired the Air and offered a higher spec MacBook.

On the software side of things, we have a larger than ever open source software community contributing software usable on OS X and the range and diversity of games available of macOS has grown at an amazing rate over the past few years, look at the titles on steam, gogs and the App Store - it was only 2-3 years ago you really had to use wine and friends to play such games. iTunes still kind of sucks, it's UI/UX is a lot better than when Apple Music first launched but the app is still very slow and heavy when you have a large library, but Apple Music itself has very quickly gone from being a wtf is this product to replacing Spotify for me thanks to its integration across devices, better streaming quality (or so it seems) and it's better range of full albums.

Tldr; some things work, some things don't, I think things are better than ever regardless of failed experiments or some product lines that are outdated.

Sorry to sound cynical but haven't they taken something that's existed for a long time and spent money on marketing it to add / repair value to their brand? It feels a little obvious to me to be honest?

Very interesting! Keen to try it out, very sick of bookmark syncing and exporting etc... thanks

While I obviously feel the same way, I'd take a step back and see what Brew's response is to this thread / the backlash of what people want / don't want, because it has, overall been a good thing of macOS.

He's worked so hard, trust me - that man deserves a beer!

Interestingly, we're quite heavy users of GL (EE) and I'm probably the main person to log into the servers to do upgrades / check on things etc... and I haven't noticed any memory issues, not saying that they don't exist like I know that workers have to be reaped every so often to prevent memory leaks etc... which while isn't great is very very common and is just a delivery decision as a trade off between development time vs a bandaid approach.