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Had a similar experience. Came in to college with very little programming background and wasn't sure if CS was right for me. Truly enjoyed CS61A and how simply it worked up from primitives to explain more complex concepts over time in an approachable way. The best part was no hand waving and everything was fully explained.

I had previously tried to learn Java as my first language and never could make sense of all of the "public static void main(String[] args)" and handwaving involved to write a simple hello world.

Honestly as someone who used to use a Hackintosh as my daily driver, I can't recommend building one to anyone.

Everything from getting drivers to work, to handling updates, is a major pain. The whole point of the mac is that just works, and a Hackintosh is the furthest possible thing from that.

http://neverhttps.com is my go-to. Looks like there are plenty of other good suggestions as well :)

I've also found the new 2017 MacBook w/ Touchbar keyboard to be extremely problematic. Many of the time the keys that I press don't work and I have to press them again. Tried compressed air, but to no avail :(

Meanwhile my 2012 MacBook still has a perfectly functional keyboard and has never had these sorts of issues before...

All on a brand new $3k laptop. This computer has caused me so many problems.

My experience directly booking from hotel websites has been really bad. I usually end up using a service like Booking/Priceline/Kayak/Google, just because the UI is nicer than booking directly from hotels, even if it means having to deal with stuff like this.

I'm a pretty big fan of Vox. If you're looking for a stripped down iTunes/Foobar2000-like player for Mac it's a good option.

In addition to local media, there's even Soundcloud integration if you get your tracks from there, which beats using their web app.

It seems like all the animations in this article are GIFs, not actual animated SVGs :(

I wonder why he chose to export them as GIFs after going through all the work to create SVGs. They also seem to be pretty choppy as a result. Maybe whatever CMS the article is using doesn't support SVGs?

Agreed. In my case at least, Lyft works really well but the Uber app has issues.

Phone calls in Uber to drivers have also never gone through, and their support is always unhelpful, so I've been a loyal Lyft user just because their app has worked more reliably.

Having to work a lot across timezones, I created a web app to track time and weather around the world and quickly find a good time to meet across multiple zones:

https://www.iwantthetime.com