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by symfoniq 10y ago
Apple designated this monitor as the successor to the discontinued Thunderbolt Display, and they sell it alongside Macs in the Apple Store.
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by symfoniq 10y ago
I could get around 10 hours on my 2013 MacBook Pro doing mostly Web development in a text editor with the screen brightness set fairly low. My coworker is a writer, so he's not using Adobe CS or anything like that.
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by symfoniq 10y ago
A co-worker who upgraded last week to a 2016 MacBook Pro from a 2013 is complaining about battery life, too. He used to get 10+ hours and now he's lucky to get six.
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by symfoniq 10y ago
At this point, I'm just hedging my bets: Windows for creative stuff; Linux for development; still using iOS for my phone (maybe the Pixel 2 will finally convert me to Android). I don't find that Mac OS X (sorry, macOS) or iOS &quo
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by symfoniq 10y ago
My own anecdotal evidence is that there are at least two dozen Airports in my neck of the woods because that's what I recommended to friends, family, and coworkers who wanted a wireless router than "just worked." And "ju
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by symfoniq 10y ago
My Airport Extreme hits 750-800 mbps pretty routinely, despite my devices being able to pick up about 10 other neighborhood wifi networks. However, I get ~950 mbps over the wire (on a 1 gbps connection), so I still plug in when I'm sit
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by symfoniq 10y ago
Indeed. And where I live, pretty much everyone has municipal fiber. There is no ISP-provided default router—just an ethernet jack in your wall.
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by symfoniq 10y ago
It's kind of funny: I recently decided that Apple's ecosystem no longer works for me, and that I'm gradually going to start putting most of my tech eggs into other baskets. And whaddaya know? Between the monitors, the wireles
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by symfoniq 10y ago
And there the working class disparagers go again, saying they know the true motivations of people like my brother. This, right here, is the willful blindness I'm talking about. Maybe—just maybe—people like my brother viewed Hillary as
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by symfoniq 10y ago
This. The grandparent is one of the most condescending comments I've read in the last 12 hours, and that's saying something. The suburban and rural people who grow America's food, get its energy out of the ground, and manufac
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by symfoniq 10y ago
I don't think most people are complaining about the new MacBook Pro's CPU. There are many other design choices that are problematic for a lot of professionals.
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by symfoniq 10y ago
Indeed. I'd already bailed for a ThinkPad a few months ago, but the rest of our office was still solidly Mac. My company was ready to upgrade, but the new MacBook Pro isn't going to be a good fit for us. That's about $25K we
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by symfoniq 10y ago
I went with the P50, as connectivity options were more important to me than weight or thickness. Agreed that the Snow Leopard era was a high point.
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by symfoniq 10y ago
I think this an accurate summation of the state of things. It just took some of us longer to realize it than others. Apple and I simply don't agree on what matters in a computer anymore. My current MacBook Pro will be my last. I'v
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by symfoniq 10y ago
ThinkPad P50. I wanted the Ethernet port and expandability more than I wanted thin & light.
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by symfoniq 10y ago
Just switched from a MacBook Pro to a ThinkPad, myself. It's early days. Everything you mention was/is also an issue for me. I'm dual-booting Windows for Photoshop and Lightroom, and using the 1Password Web interface since th
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by symfoniq 10y ago
ICANN (as well as other supporters of the transition) believe that even the appearance that the US has control over ICANN is damaging to their ideal of keeping the Internet global, rather than devolving into numerous regional, government-
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by symfoniq 10y ago
This. After owning four generations of MacBook Pros, I just bought a ThinkPad. Not having to carry around half a dozen dongles will probably offset the weight disadvantage, and definitely reduce my aggravation.
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by symfoniq 10y ago
I would trace the beginning of the decline of Ars Technica back to when Jon Stokes sold it to Conde Nast. But Siracusa's departure was another nail in the coffin.
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by symfoniq 10y ago
The organization I work for has used Comodo certs in the past, but antics like this ensure they'll never receive another dime from us.
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by symfoniq 10y ago
Agreed. Spectacle is one of the first things I install on a new Mac.
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by symfoniq 11y ago
Having young children, there's almost always a box of macaroni and cheese in the house. My kids, who fancy themselves mac & cheese connoisseurs, started complaining about the taste of Kraft a couple of months ago. So now when Kraft
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by symfoniq 11y ago
EPB has different (more expensive) pricing for businesses. But it's still a whole lot cheaper and a whole lot faster than a DS3.
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by symfoniq 11y ago
I have the EPB 1 gigabit service, and it's 1 gigabit up and down for $69.99/mo. There is no reason to think the 10 gigabit service will be anything but symmetrical.
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by symfoniq 11y ago
So what does it mean if your joints don't pop? I'm unable to induce it, and it happens very rarely by chance. However, my wife pops her knuckles (and other joints) all the time.
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by symfoniq 11y ago
This. We didn't feel comfortable moving my company to Rails until it hit version 3. Maturity is a good thing.
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by symfoniq 11y ago
This. I'm in my 30s with a wife, kids, and a successful career. The Georgia Tech program looks great, but there's no way I'm going to go back and finish my bachelor's degree at this point in my life. Useless general educ
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by symfoniq 12y ago
Agreed. The "C/C++" designation is all too common. What I was getting at is that any experienced Objective-C programmer would also know C. C++ is an entirely different matter.
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by symfoniq 12y ago
Maybe the writer is confusing C++ with C.
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by symfoniq 12y ago
Same issue here.

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