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What you really need is one of these fashionable carrying bags for the 27 inch iMac.

https://www.amazon.com/Lavolta-Carrying-Case-Apple-27-inch/d...

There are a huge number of pro users that don't require integrated graphics. Most developers don't need them.

I'm looking forward to the very first "real development takes 64GB RAM, 32 just isn't enough" complaints.

Honestly, this looks like a good revision. I've been wanting a quad core 13 inch for a while.

Hopefully the keyboard revision helps with all of the issues people have had.

I currently work at a small development shop whose main product is a debugger. The process you describe is our standard way of navigating the code base - load the debugger up in the debugger and poke around.

I'm not a fan of this workflow. I like to start learning about something from the top down and there is basically no way to do that with this method. It's great for getting into the nitty gritty details of the code to solve a problem, but it's terrible for learning how the different chunks of code fit together or how the code looks from the top. For our developers with many years of experience, this isn't a problem. For newcomers like me, it is.

It probably doesn't help that this particular debugger is both written in and used for assembly language. If it was in a higher level language, I could probably get more of a top level view from the commentary, meaningful variable names longer than 8 characters, and the fact that 10 lines of python does a lot more than 10 lines of C which does a lot more than 10 lines of assembly.

I'm curious as to why you did that.

I get people wanting to use less Google services, but why quit all together?

The actual line of reasoning being applied is not that, though - it's a very specific case where effort was already applied toward charity but a different kind of effort could have been applied for greater effect had the applier been solely interested in helping and not inflating their own ego.

I would still do it but I would also do something else.

I didn't realize this until after college, but outside of a CS 101 class you can't be just a programmer. Programming doesn't happen in a vacuum - it must be applied to a domain.

For some people, a lot of whom are on this website, the domain can be computer science. Writing a compiler, database, or operating system would fall into that category. Things on the cutting edge like VR or AR would also fall into this category. This particular kind of programming has never appealed to me personally. I don't much care for programming itself or even computer science itself.

However, there are a lot of interesting problems to be solved in other domains that require programming. Economic models, biotechnology, digital synthesizers, etc.

Unfortunately, without the domain knowledge required in those fields, it's pretty hard to find a job solving those problems. All that's left is CRUD work where the domain is opaque business logic that requires little to no expertise but is dreadfully boring.

So I would go back and treat programming as a tool to be applied to problems that I care about instead of the main focus of my education.

Interesting perspective. I don't see much difference between building websites, physics models, game dev, and data science.

Computers certainly have wide ranging applications but at the end of the day, programming all of those tasks is pretty similar.

All of my analogies are intended to be similar situations, not identical situations. It's inaccurate to say that they don't apply because they aren't identical.

Yes, there are regulations and consequences for mishandling food and patient data but I still have no personal way to ensure that these practices are followed. In the end, you have to trust the entity that you are doing business with. The same applies to 1Password.

I have no problem with the OP's line of reasoning.

It's obvious that Elon Musk has a larger than normal ego. I'm sure that this hands-on attempt to help probably greatly satisfied that ego but it seems reasonable that a monetary contribution could have done as much or more good while also appearing less selfish.

There was absolutely no reason for Musk himself to actually go to the cave either. Send some expert engineers along with your sub, sure, but I have no idea what help he thought he would be providing in person.

Although it's still a net good, I consider it distasteful to do something good solely or mostly for the publicity it brings, especially in cases like this where it took extra effort to publicize it.

Had Elon Musk not made a big deal about it but a media company found out and publicized it, I wouldn't blame him for that.

I also have no way to audit how UPS handles my packages, how my dentist handles my records, how Papa Johns handles the ingredients that make my pizza, etc.

It's pretty standard to not be able to audit a company, and most of us do business with all of those companies anyways.

That man was a former Thai Navy SEAL, not a US Navy SEAL. Both nations have SEAL teams.

I don't think people are mad that he mad an effort, but that he made a highly publicized effort.

There's no reason he couldn't have done everything he did but not talk about it, at least not until after the situation was resolved.

It's not a trap, it's just convenient to use. I can export my data in a CSV format that can be imported in another password manager if I choose to do so in the future.

Certainly wouldn't be the first time a company didn't want the public to know it was talking about being acquired.

I think the person you're responding too was implying a tablet with attached controllers like the Nintendo Switch.

Indie games like Stardew Valley and Hollow Knight are incredibly popular on the Switch, so a device from Microsoft that could play the already existing PC versions of those games on-the-go while also providing a real tablet experience could probably take some business away from Nintendo.

Users can exert plenty of control over Windows 10.

I wouldn't consider any machine with only a 10" screen to be a great development machine of any kind.

10" is really, really small.

There was a Google Pixel tablet but it was discontinued around 6 months ago. Presumably because it didn't sell well.

Honestly, the experience of using Android apps on a tablet is much worse than using iPad apps to me. Too many Android apps just treat the tablet like a huge phone.

> A Google Sheets is not Microsoft Excel.

That's true, but OneDrive is integrated into Windows and the mobile/desktop versions of the Office programs. I can open Word on my Windows desktop, Android phone, or iPad and all of my OneDrive files will be there.

> We can't edit data in non-vendor-sanctioned tools. We can't work off-line.

> We need something that lets you retain ownership and control of your data, supports powerful software running locally, and generally doesn't treat Internet access as if it was electricity (i.e. assumes it's always available).

OneDrive and Google Drive both support offline access to files. They get synced with the cloud the next time you go online. Even Chromebooks, which are basically designed to be always online, can use Google Drive offline.

I am also free to open up any Google Drive or OneDrive file on Windows with any program I want. Both of those services integrate with the file system. On iOS, I'm not sure if it's universal, but most of the apps I use allow me to open a file from Dropbox, Drive, OneDrive, iCloud, etc.

The $549 model with 8gb RAM and 128GB SSD storage interests me. I currently own a 10.5" iPad Pro but would have considered the Surface Go had it existed when I bought the iPad.

> you can't decouple commodity needs from the market

Why not? Isn't that what agricultural subsidies are for?

That's also true. The interface is in fact much older than the piano, having first been used on harpsichords, clavichords, and (I think) pipe organs. If I'm not mistaken, the black+white keyboard we use today was invented around the 1400's. The piano itself dates back only to the 1700's.

I can see the argument for the keyboard being a timeless UI because it's lasted mostly unchanged for about 600 years now.

I can also see the argument that 600 years isn't that long in the scheme of musical instruments. We've found ancient flutes from at least 30,000 years ago. The lyre, popular in ancient Greece, is not that different from a modern harp. Lutes are thought to have been present in Mesopotamia around 3000 BC.

Site note - I was surprised to learn that Bach lived before the piano became popular and apparently did not endorse the instrument until a few years before his death [1]. He would be familiar with the interface from earlier instruments, though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano#Early_fortepiano

Probably because "trust" isn't really a binary state. I trust some corporations, but not in the same way I trust my wife.

You're just as likely to see a keyboard instrument with 25, 37, 49, 61, 73, or 76 keys as you are 88 these days. Pitch and mod wheels are also a staple of certain kinds of keyboard instruments.

Aftertouch adds pressure sensors. The most advanced form of the keyboard interface at the moment would probably be the ROLI seaboard [1].

I do expect that the 88 key piano will be a staple of music for a long, long time, but I'm not sure I would call it's interface timeless seeing as it's still being modified and adapted to this day.

[1] https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SeaboardG-61--roli-s...

Because most people buying monitors want something bigger than a laptop screen.

> I have not found anything that beats the size and weight of it while still giving that level of power

The current MacBook pro is only .05 pounds heavier than the 13 inch MacBook air, and noticably thinner than the air's thickest point. They are basically the same form factor at this point.

The 13" MacBook Pro with no touchbar is more or less the upgraded MacBook Air with Retina Display that everyone has been asking for for years.

Can anybody give me a good reason why I should care if my TV watching habits are tracked for the purpose of targeted advertisements?

This opinion piece (like the vast majority of opinion pieces) is not worth the time to read.

The author doesn't even have a position. They're just summarizing a book that someone else wrote. It's not even a book review. There's very little supporting evidence given, and even worse there is no discussion of why the book's ideas might be wrong.

The click-bait title did draw me in to read it though, so I guess whoever wrote it did their job.