geophile

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by geophile 10y ago
So USB-C sounds great. Too bad the laptop offering it has a crippled keyboard.
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by geophile 10y ago
Uhh: * Personal computers * Cell phones * GPS * Video phone calls * Carrying around your entire music collection in your pocket * Self-driving cars * Google * Speech recognition * Computers playing world-class chess and go
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Manhattan DA Wants Apple to Remove iPhone Encryption(mashable.com)
3 points by geophile 10y ago|2 comments
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by geophile 10y ago
https://github.com/geophile/osh Osh (Object SHell) is a python application giving you a set of Linux like commands which can be composed similar to pipes. However, it is objects, not strings, that are passed from one c
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by geophile 10y ago
Fine, make it a big deal. But give me back my Fn and Esc keys!
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by geophile 10y ago
Actually, intuition is actually the cause of pretty much every decision. Think about how people are deciding to vote in the upcoming US presidential election, for example.
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by geophile 10y ago
This is correct. I was at a particularly dumb company in the early 2000s, when outsourcing was all the rage. It was completely wrong for us, as we were still doing R&D. Yet the folks inhabiting Mahogany Row read Fortune and Forbes and l
788.
by geophile 10y ago
One more way in which the previous MBP was superior. No "MacBook Pro" on the bezel.
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by geophile 10y ago
How old is your laptop? That sounds like the behavior of my previous MBP (the one with an HD) toward the end of its life. I put it down to disk fragmentation.
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by geophile 10y ago
Yes, I know. Mechanical keyboard > old MBP keyboard > MB keyboard > virtual keyboard. For the six rows of keys on an old MBP, Apple has taken one step down on five rows, and two steps down on the sixth. I concede that a mechanical
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by geophile 10y ago
It has to. It would be intolerably dull otherwise.
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by geophile 10y ago
The PC pronouns in this article are really irritating.
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End of the line for MacBook Pro
21 points by geophile 10y ago|7 comments
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by geophile 10y ago
Please -- no touchscreen, not on a laptop. It seems very uncomfortable; it smudges the screen, which I cannot stand; and if there is a touchscreen then apps will start exploiting it, making it more and more difficult to not actually touch t
795.
by geophile 10y ago
It's not just the function and escape keys. - The rollout of USBC has been a mess. Apparently you now need to purchase a separate cable to connect your iphone to the new MBP. - I haven't tried the new keyboard, but from what I&#x2
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5th amendment loophole: fingerprint != passcode(dailyherald.com)
8 points by geophile 10y ago|1 comments
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by geophile 10y ago
This is a joke, right? Are standup desks no longer a thing? Yes, ergonomics are important. Get a separate keyboard and mouse, put your laptop on a pile of books to raise the screen, done.
798.
by geophile 10y ago
Well, they do have a track record at this sort of thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
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by geophile 10y ago
One thing not mentioned is that Microsoft software had already acquired the same stench as GM cars of the 80s: buggy and unreliable. It may actually be true that WinCE was "[a] solid and stable embedded OS code base", but for peop
800.
by geophile 10y ago
Why is this wrong-headed discussion top-rated on HN? And why is there so much misunderstanding on HN of big-O notation wrt cache misses lately? All you kids, get off my lawn.
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by geophile 10y ago
Big O notation is typically counting comparisons, and ignores constant factors. It isn't that memory hierarchy is ignored so much as the equating of comparison growth (in n) with performance. The field of cache oblivious algorithms is
802.
by geophile 10y ago
Along the same lines, for Linux and MacOS: https://github.com/geophile/osh
803.
by geophile 10y ago
Yes, I agree, it is easy to see how Agile could lead to this particular, disastrous, dead end.
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by geophile 10y ago
More than a story about MongoDB, this is a story about hype. The unquestioning, unthinking acceptance of some technology just because someone enjoying his 15 minutes of fame has tweeted about it. The designers of Diaspora set out to build a
805.
by geophile 10y ago
Hell yes. Intellij, AppCode, and emacs, which is where I spend a huge amount of time.
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by geophile 10y ago
I'm pretty sure you can attach an external monitor to an air or any other MacBook*. The current MBP is a very nice machine. The new MBP is rumored to have some questionable features: Thinner (what will do that do to the keyboard?); tou
807.
by geophile 10y ago
Worrying about cache misses seems premature without value types in Java. The list elements are not physically embedded in the list, and accessing each one could easily result in a cache miss.
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by geophile 10y ago
He takes a long time to get to the point, doesn't he?
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by geophile 10y ago
The major events in the world and in the US are driven by religious fanaticism and tribal behavior. Why would anyone ever think that any aspect of human behavior will be free from stone age impulses?
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by geophile 10y ago
Question about Postgres architecture: Why were secondary indexes designed to refer to ctids instead of primary keys?

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