wilsonnb2

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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
In 2016, Google donated $167 million in cash and $1 billion in their own products to charitable causes. Microsoft - $135 million in cash, $922 million in product Cisco - $41 million in cash, $245 million in product AT&T - $112 million i
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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...
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
There are a huge number of pro users that don't require integrated graphics. Most developers don't need them.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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 k
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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 workf
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
I'm curious as to why you did that. I get people wanting to use less Google services, but why quit all together?
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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 s
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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 monet
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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 busin
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
That man was a former Thai Navy SEAL, not a US Navy SEAL. Both nations have SEAL teams.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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 re
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Certainly wouldn't be the first time a company didn't want the public to know it was talking about being acquired.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Users can exert plenty of control over Windows 10.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> 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
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> you can't decouple commodity needs from the market Why not? Isn't that what agricultural subsidies are for?
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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 t
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Probably because "trust" isn't really a binary state. I trust some corporations, but not in the same way I trust my wife.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
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 mos
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Because most people buying monitors want something bigger than a laptop screen.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> 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 p
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Can anybody give me a good reason why I should care if my TV watching habits are tracked for the purpose of targeted advertisements?

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