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by cmiles74 8y ago
Check out the link above from Apple's website, the quote is from their extended warranty page.
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I don't think anyone was prepared for this to be something that wasn't covered under warranty or, if it wasn't covered, so expensive. Where I work there is an insurance policy to cover laptop damage, they are currently in tal
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by cmiles74 8y ago
At least for myself, I fully expected Apple to fix the laptop. I had read about these keyboards and their issues, I was really surprised when Genius refused to take it in for warranty repair. I suspect that if we had purchased the extended
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I think this may have been lost in my post: the Genius at the Apple Store was clear and insistent when they diagnosed the issue with the laptop that the customer was at fault. It is my suspicion that Apple is trying to push blame onto the c
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I don't think so... Generally all of the Dell's have an extended warranty and, so far, most of the damage has been covered under that. Where I work there is also an insurance policy to cover laptop damage, they are currently in ta
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by cmiles74 8y ago
A co-worked of mine convinced the company to buy them a MacBook (the first the company has ever purchased) to replace their aging Dell laptop. They have been doing more and more work on the company's iOS app and the aging Mac mini the
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by cmiles74 8y ago
HoTMetaL was available pretty early on as well. ~1994-ish? https://www.w3.org/Tools/HoTMetal.html
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I think the big difference between Panic's editor and VS Code will be that it's a native application, that it's not using Electron. In the past Panic has really set themselves apart by leveraging Mac OS, I don't believe
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I would like to second this. This idea that everything will move more quickly if the same language is used on the client and server sides is compelling. But .Net or Java have been on the server side a long time, there are projects for which
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I think things have very much moved away from the "one vs. the other" stance. Back in the late 90's, I think people really did think that they could spend time on an ORM tool and never have to think about the database. In my
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by cmiles74 8y ago
There are much less drastic things that could be tried, but I don't see much political will for real change. We get a lot of talk, but few concrete plans.
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by cmiles74 8y ago
The hospital or larger healthcare organization derives real monetary value from the prescribing of these tests, I don't think it all boils down to "cover your ass". In a lot of cases it's to charge more per patient.
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by cmiles74 8y ago
It's unfortunate to see how deep this myth of entrepreneurship runs, and I think this sentiment really highlights the issue. In the statement above, successful people are literally conflated with the stories being told by these busines
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I think it's important, in this particular case, to note that Duke's "innovation" was clever and malicious rent-seeking. While there was some technical innovation in terms of the forming of the corporation in order to se
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by cmiles74 8y ago
Everyone's take-away is different, but I find the general argument that the cost of driving is hugely under-priced to be compelling. In my opinion this piece hits on a good example: the overall cost wasn't really appreciated when
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by cmiles74 8y ago
From the article: "Peak hour, drive alone commuters from Clark County, Washington have average household incomes of $82,500; and 75 percent of them are white, non-Hispanic. More than two-thirds of Tubman students are people of color;
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I'm not sure what "more correct" means in this context. Coming from a MacOS background, it is my opinion that ClearType makes fonts look worse. Regardless of my personal opinion, it's clear that other people share this o
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by cmiles74 8y ago
This doesn't seem to be getting a lot of play, but isn't it important to note that YouTube has been generating ad revenue by serving this content to this audience? It seems like they are only stopping this practice because the amo
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I don't think people are this naive by accident: Google, Facebook, etc. have been pushing this idea for a long time. It has always been unrealistic but I don't think we can blame the average consumer for taking the statements of G
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by cmiles74 8y ago
Is it surprising that people are happier and better able to deal with their illness when they believe they are doing meaningful work and are useful to the people that surround them?
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I think your splitting hairs on this one. The Micral N also didn't have a GUI environment and it was clearly destined for the top of someone's desk. In my opinion that makes it a desktop computer.[0] When Alan Kay was working on G
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I use i3 daily but every couple of months I switch over to Gnome (I have both installed). I appreciate the appearance of Gnome, but I get frustrated with it's handling of multiple displays (I dock the laptop at work and have two monito
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I disagree, I think that a terminal implies connection to a larger computer that is doing most of the work. In this case all of the work is being done on the local machine. I do agree that this person has many terminal sessions open, but th
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by cmiles74 8y ago
When I think of a "desktop" computer, I think of a form-factor suitable for placement on a desk. I can stretch that to include a machine you keep under the desk or even a laptop that is attached to an external keyboard and mouse.
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by cmiles74 8y ago
Personally, I found the implication that performing this job was actually making the contractors "stronger" to be stomach churning. I certainly wouldn't want to approach Logan for help with my own mental health.
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by cmiles74 8y ago
In my opinion, Facebook is trying to maintain the illusion that this kind of content isn't being posted at all, that they present a "safe" environment for their customers. If people started to see this kind of content, they m
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by cmiles74 8y ago
If they were treated better and had access to better tools, it might not be such a "high-churn context." Facebook makes literally billions of dollars, they could easily pay more and provide better support to these people. They sim
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by cmiles74 8y ago
IMHO, the only valid use-case for one of these VPN services is to hide your traffic from your ISP. Perhaps there's a small improvement in terms of your privacy (the VPN service has less incentive to sell your traffic data than your ISP
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by cmiles74 8y ago
I think many people don't really understand how they perform the functions of their job. Some things they enjoy doing, some things feel like busy work: all the things are mixed together over the course of the day. Picking and teasing t
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by cmiles74 8y ago
It looks like we disagree on this. It's unclear to me why only Linux or MacOS developers should be covered by the "first step" way to getting started. In any case, why not remove the Maven example? It's weird to see Mav

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