Once on a conference, I talked to Casey Liss (co-host of the ATP podcast). He's now an iOS developer, but at the time was still a.NET developer. He explained the basics of LINQ to me. Basically, it's an extension of the language for querying the database. In other languages, including Swift and Objective-C, you'll type your query in quotes. The compiler has no idea what's between the quotes, it's just a string for all it cares.
In C# with LINQ, the compiler offers code completion and type checking for queries and I thought that was great. I know Swift and Objective-C have Core Data, but LINQ is much more integrated. Why doesn't have Swift something like that?
I'm a fan of Sennheiser, because these have big cups and I have big but sensitive ears. Small over-ear headphones will quickly start to irritate. So I have the Sennheiser HD 558 for home and office. I prefer wireless but they didn't have decent (big cup) wireless ones. Damn shame, but they've apparently seen potential revenue in those iPhone 7 users. Because there are two new models: the HD 4.40 and the HD 4.50 with noise cancellation.
Really looking forward to getting that last one. I'm working regularly in an open office and every now and then, there's someone calling for an hour or so. A good headphone can keep you sane.
Same for us. We don't watch the same shows (wildly different tastes) so DW watches on her laptop and I use mine. Kid's still too young. But our babysitter just watches YouTube on her phone.
I'm worried that in personal computing today, and I'm including professional PCs in this, everything seems to be a shadow of its former self.
Dude, you're getting old. Times are simply changing. My baby girl will probably not need to learn how to drive. She probably also will be unable to use a mouse, and prefer to use voice commands. Or touch, if she interacts with computers in a professional way.
Of course the professional PCs will be a shadow of their former self; their glory days are already behind us. Apple milked them for all they're worth, and now they're on to the next thing. And if Microsoft doesn't move on, they'll be like IBM and their mainframes.
I could see a $50 version being a cool "WTF it's only $50 so why not" PC to add to a television, I guess?
That's a particularly good application because while it's not mentioned in either the summary or the Fine article, I assume it contains a Kaby Lake CPU. And about the only improvement of Kaby Lake CPUs is the addition of VP9 hardware acceleration. Which YouTube uses.
I live in Europe and this is technically embezzlement. If I were you, I'd put a bit of money aside in case they find out afterwards. Otherwise, it's a nice gift:) Note I don't care about the profits of a faceless corp, just a heads up.
Quote from the fine article: The bezel is very narrow, in keeping with the XPS style. The fanless PC offers an SD card slot and two USB-C ports, and a USB-A to USB-C adapter comes in the box.
Apple, pay attention. As a convenience to their customers, Dell puts an adapter in the box.
The tech-related topic highest up on the list, on number 8: web scraping.
I find it utterly strange that this particular corner of the tech world is so high up there. I would have expected new computer languages to be up there, like Swift or Rust.
So I look down the list and on number 42 no less: Java!
Apple says the devices should operate for up to 10 hours between charges
up to 10 hours includes lasting only 10 minutes.
That's true but historically, Apple has been quite honest about how long the battery will last. Up to the point where you'd have a decent chance of doing better.
However with the current "Late 2016" generation, there's people with 15" MacBook Pros who report not getting even half of that. So it's really a break from the past.
Although I run Linux on the server, I use a Mac for the desktop. And LibreOffice really looks it of sorts there. I hope they took the opportunity to make it look nice as well as functional.
So I'm an iOS developer. After ~10 years of working for the man, doing Python and C++ on Linux, I wanted to do fulltime freelancing.
That means buying your own hardware. Since starting freelancing, I needed to be frugal and made do with a 2013 MacBook Air. But now that I've got a real solid client, I've upgraded to the latest 15" MacBook Pro.
It's a crazy capable machine. Love the fact that you can login with your fingerprint, and the new touchbar is nice. Not great, but nice. But it's thin, has four very capable thunderbolt ports disguised as USB-C, and runs all of my stuff like a demon. I don't care that it's Skylake instead of the latest Kaby lake, because it's not like we iOS developers have a choice anyway. Gotta run with what Apple provides. And a quad-core Skylake with the crazy fast SSDs that the MacBooks have, that's way beyond what I actually need. Good stuff.
It absolutely sucks for her (and sometimes seems to manifest as anger), so she's going to take all that shit out on someone, and as the father you're the only one that's handy, so you get to grin and bear it.
Although this happens a lot, I'm very reluctant to call it normal.
If you love your partner, you don't take out your shit on him/her. When you get angry, you storm off and meditate a bit on it. There's this crazy notion that "someone has to bear the brunt of it". But well-balanced, emotionally developed adults know better.
I've gone the other way. I work from home a couple of days a week. I've decided to rent a desk at a coworking space. It's my own desk and space, nobody gets to use it when I'm not there. There's about 8 desks in the room, and 2-3 are in use at any give time. The rent is all-in and very cheap; around 1200 euros per year.
I love this setup. The reasons being: it's like a real office. There's people around me who are also working, which keeps me going. They're available for the occasional chat (but not overly so), which makes it far less lonely. All heating, maintenance, network etc. isn't my problem. They have two separate networks, at no extra cost. There's a bar and lunchroom on the ground floor so when the occasional client come in, we can get coffee or lunch there.
I like it a lot, and in my opinion, 1200/year is very cheap.
Unlike the child posters, I'll refrain from being an AC. If your process could be made derp-proof, I'd be all for it. Unfortunately, few non-geeks have the acumen to implement such a backup plan. The Cloud(tm) remains the only practical solution for most.
Exactly. I totally agree with grandparent -- I've got my own domainname + server for almost 15 years. However the ease of Dropbox sharing is amazing.
Except that there is no way to get those cables. Apple holds the patent.
All MacBook Pros are now equipped with USB-C so as soon as your current batch is written off, this problem will be fixed. For now, it's a pretty nasty situation though.
I second this, after having done considerable research on this over the past week. Be careful guys, many well reviewed chargers with 4+ star rating on amazon by lay people (like me) were tested and shown to be outright dangerous.
It's a weird situation too. Because USB-C can charge a phone as well as a laptop, some people might give rave reviews for a charger that is built to charge phones. But some idiot copy/pasted firmware that advertises the tiny charger can deliver 3A at 14,5V or something like that, and the first person who hooks up a laptop will have a red-hot charger.
Why will it get worse? Unlike the lightning connector, USB C is an open standard, so anybody - Belkin, Retrack, et al can make perfectly good USB C connectors, w/o having to pay anything to Apple
Well, on one hand it's a much better situation. We get much more choice in what we can buy. There's really good examples too, like this Innergie charger. It's made by Delta (which makes lab-grade benchtop power supplies) and it shows; that charger was very well tested.
However exactly because everybody can make a charger, we'll also get the worst possible stuff for sale.
With USB-C, this is going to get much, much worse. Apple, Google and HP now have laptops that can get juice from every charger.
However, the protocol for that (USB-PD, Power Delivery) is a digital protocol. So companies that used to build purely electronic chargers will now have to build or more likely buy firmware for their chargers. There's bound to be bugs in there, but we're talking about chargers that can supply up to a 100W of direct current.
I dare not guess how much houses are going to burn down because of crazy power supplies.
Personally, I'm only buying cables and chargers that have been tested thoroughly. You can't trust Amazon reviews, you can't trust big brands, you can only trust guys like Benson Leung and Nathan K., who whip out the protocol analyzer and the benchtop electronic loads.
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Once on a conference, I talked to Casey Liss (co-host of the ATP podcast). He's now an iOS developer, but at the time was still a .NET developer. He explained the basics of LINQ to me. Basically, it's an extension of the language for querying the database. In other languages, including Swift and Objective-C, you'll type your query in quotes. The compiler has no idea what's between the quotes, it's just a string for all it cares.
In C# with LINQ, the compiler offers code completion and type checking for queries and I thought that was great. I know Swift and Objective-C have Core Data, but LINQ is much more integrated. Why doesn't have Swift something like that?
This is just the first step. Eventually, we'll have systemd-browser and the OS will be redundant.
Don't be silly. You'll always need something between the hardware and the rest. And that's where Emacs comes in.
I'm a fan of Sennheiser, because these have big cups and I have big but sensitive ears. Small over-ear headphones will quickly start to irritate. So I have the Sennheiser HD 558 for home and office. I prefer wireless but they didn't have decent (big cup) wireless ones. Damn shame, but they've apparently seen potential revenue in those iPhone 7 users. Because there are two new models: the HD 4.40 and the HD 4.50 with noise cancellation.
Really looking forward to getting that last one. I'm working regularly in an open office and every now and then, there's someone calling for an hour or so. A good headphone can keep you sane.
Same for us. We don't watch the same shows (wildly different tastes) so DW watches on her laptop and I use mine. Kid's still too young. But our babysitter just watches YouTube on her phone.
Easy, gramps. Forgot to take your medicine again?
I'm worried that in personal computing today, and I'm including professional PCs in this, everything seems to be a shadow of its former self.
Dude, you're getting old. Times are simply changing. My baby girl will probably not need to learn how to drive. She probably also will be unable to use a mouse, and prefer to use voice commands. Or touch, if she interacts with computers in a professional way.
Of course the professional PCs will be a shadow of their former self; their glory days are already behind us. Apple milked them for all they're worth, and now they're on to the next thing. And if Microsoft doesn't move on, they'll be like IBM and their mainframes.
I could see a $50 version being a cool "WTF it's only $50 so why not" PC to add to a television, I guess?
That's a particularly good application because while it's not mentioned in either the summary or the Fine article, I assume it contains a Kaby Lake CPU. And about the only improvement of Kaby Lake CPUs is the addition of VP9 hardware acceleration. Which YouTube uses.
I live in Europe and this is technically embezzlement. If I were you, I'd put a bit of money aside in case they find out afterwards. Otherwise, it's a nice gift :) Note I don't care about the profits of a faceless corp, just a heads up.
You got to keep it with their blessing?
Quote from the fine article: The bezel is very narrow, in keeping with the XPS style. The fanless PC offers an SD card slot and two USB-C ports, and a USB-A to USB-C adapter comes in the box.
Apple, pay attention. As a convenience to their customers, Dell puts an adapter in the box.
The tech-related topic highest up on the list, on number 8: web scraping.
I find it utterly strange that this particular corner of the tech world is so high up there. I would have expected new computer languages to be up there, like Swift or Rust.
So I look down the list and on number 42 no less: Java!
up to 10 hours includes lasting only 10 minutes.
That's true but historically, Apple has been quite honest about how long the battery will last. Up to the point where you'd have a decent chance of doing better.
However with the current "Late 2016" generation, there's people with 15" MacBook Pros who report not getting even half of that. So it's really a break from the past.
"Hi, I'm from your company's tech support team (...) I'll be needing that key...."
I have the feeling that these are just like stronger locks. You basically push the burglar towards your neighbors.
Although I run Linux on the server, I use a Mac for the desktop. And LibreOffice really looks it of sorts there. I hope they took the opportunity to make it look nice as well as functional.
How's that job for Apple Marketing going?
Well, have you had that laptop in your hands? I don't think I'm overdoing it. Whether it's worth your money, that's another matter.
So I'm an iOS developer. After ~10 years of working for the man, doing Python and C++ on Linux, I wanted to do fulltime freelancing.
That means buying your own hardware. Since starting freelancing, I needed to be frugal and made do with a 2013 MacBook Air. But now that I've got a real solid client, I've upgraded to the latest 15" MacBook Pro.
It's a crazy capable machine. Love the fact that you can login with your fingerprint, and the new touchbar is nice. Not great, but nice. But it's thin, has four very capable thunderbolt ports disguised as USB-C, and runs all of my stuff like a demon. I don't care that it's Skylake instead of the latest Kaby lake, because it's not like we iOS developers have a choice anyway. Gotta run with what Apple provides. And a quad-core Skylake with the crazy fast SSDs that the MacBooks have, that's way beyond what I actually need. Good stuff.
It absolutely sucks for her (and sometimes seems to manifest as anger), so she's going to take all that shit out on someone, and as the father you're the only one that's handy, so you get to grin and bear it.
Although this happens a lot, I'm very reluctant to call it normal.
If you love your partner, you don't take out your shit on him/her. When you get angry, you storm off and meditate a bit on it. There's this crazy notion that "someone has to bear the brunt of it". But well-balanced, emotionally developed adults know better.
Win10 is not even on my radar. As long as it is loaded with malware and forced updates feature set is irrelevant.
I don't think the phoning home is ever going to stop. So I wonder what you are going to do when the security updates for Windows 7 finally stop.
I've gone the other way. I work from home a couple of days a week. I've decided to rent a desk at a coworking space. It's my own desk and space, nobody gets to use it when I'm not there. There's about 8 desks in the room, and 2-3 are in use at any give time. The rent is all-in and very cheap; around 1200 euros per year.
I love this setup. The reasons being: it's like a real office. There's people around me who are also working, which keeps me going. They're available for the occasional chat (but not overly so), which makes it far less lonely. All heating, maintenance, network etc. isn't my problem. They have two separate networks, at no extra cost. There's a bar and lunchroom on the ground floor so when the occasional client come in, we can get coffee or lunch there.
I like it a lot, and in my opinion, 1200/year is very cheap.
Unlike the child posters, I'll refrain from being an AC. If your process could be made derp-proof, I'd be all for it. Unfortunately, few non-geeks have the acumen to implement such a backup plan. The Cloud(tm) remains the only practical solution for most.
Exactly. I totally agree with grandparent -- I've got my own domainname + server for almost 15 years. However the ease of Dropbox sharing is amazing.
Except that there is no way to get those cables. Apple holds the patent.
All MacBook Pros are now equipped with USB-C so as soon as your current batch is written off, this problem will be fixed. For now, it's a pretty nasty situation though.
I second this, after having done considerable research on this over the past week. Be careful guys, many well reviewed chargers with 4+ star rating on amazon by lay people (like me) were tested and shown to be outright dangerous.
It's a weird situation too. Because USB-C can charge a phone as well as a laptop, some people might give rave reviews for a charger that is built to charge phones. But some idiot copy/pasted firmware that advertises the tiny charger can deliver 3A at 14,5V or something like that, and the first person who hooks up a laptop will have a red-hot charger.
Why will it get worse? Unlike the lightning connector, USB C is an open standard, so anybody - Belkin, Retrack, et al can make perfectly good USB C connectors, w/o having to pay anything to Apple
Well, on one hand it's a much better situation. We get much more choice in what we can buy. There's really good examples too, like this Innergie charger. It's made by Delta (which makes lab-grade benchtop power supplies) and it shows; that charger was very well tested.
However exactly because everybody can make a charger, we'll also get the worst possible stuff for sale.
Can USB-C charge a beowulf cluster of Samsungs Note 7?
My answer is an unequivocal maybe.
With USB-C, this is going to get much, much worse. Apple, Google and HP now have laptops that can get juice from every charger.
However, the protocol for that (USB-PD, Power Delivery) is a digital protocol. So companies that used to build purely electronic chargers will now have to build or more likely buy firmware for their chargers. There's bound to be bugs in there, but we're talking about chargers that can supply up to a 100W of direct current.
I dare not guess how much houses are going to burn down because of crazy power supplies.
Personally, I'm only buying cables and chargers that have been tested thoroughly. You can't trust Amazon reviews, you can't trust big brands, you can only trust guys like Benson Leung and Nathan K., who whip out the protocol analyzer and the benchtop electronic loads.
This is a real good source:
https://docs.google.com/spread...
And this is the Google Plus page, where they post an analysis every so often:
https://plus.google.com/collec...