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For longest time I used Samsung Galaxy with CyanogenMod, while it was usable. It was pretty much a stretch. I'm also guessing using that old ass phone for so long is one of the huge factors why smartphone isn't a big part of my life (as it seems to be for most of people of my age). Since my phone was so slow and barely worked I always opted for other means of communication and face-to-face socialising.

10 years is pretty long time. Like think about still using first generation iPhone

I still don't see the killer feature here. It just throws around ton of commands, most of which are completely unnecessary.

So this is for people who don't know how to use aliases (bash or git)?

Chromebooks are great for most people, I even used one in college, but I did "side load" Ubuntu with Crouton for programming.

security-focused Linux distributions

Kali

I don't even know where to begin with this one...

Kali definitely is not "security focused", it JUST a pile of scripts added on top of flavour of the month Debian. At least in Backtrack days it tried to be all secure and invisible and sneaky and shit, but then noobs complained since they couldn't figure how to start X or how to enable network interfaces.

Now it's just bunch of script kiddies running shit they know nothing about and then crying when some version update breaks random dependency they weren't even aware of.

On our next breaking news: Gun deaths linked to bullets

Well, just incase someone wants to actual PDF: http://www.lysator.liu.se/mit-guide/MITLockGuide.pdf

in what way is whiteboarding like real work deadlines?

hurdur, what is stress, I dunno. Why is everyone on this site suffering from autism?

My brain requires time to focus inward to formulate complex thoughts, and interrupting any time I pause narrating doesn't give me that time to think.

So basically what you are saying is that you are some kind of snowflake that requires it's own room to concentrate and be productive and you can't even think while doodling on a whiteboard.

In my books that counts against you, that doesn't mean you are straight out, but it definitely makes you a liability to some degree.

Meh, if you can't even handle a tiny whiteboard situation how are you going to handle any deadline pressure? It's not about knowing the right answer off the top of your head, it's more about how you work and approach the problem.

Sure some bad companies expect you to be able to write something very specific on the spot, but thous are pretty rare imo.

No, but you can call yourself Data Scientist, I hear they make big bucks what with the big data and analysis and stuff.

I have a degree that says I'm an engineer, so I'll call myself an engineer thank you very much.

Especially for developer-types, having lots of VMs running is a thing

Really? Why do you need lots of VMs? Back when I did front end stuff I used Vagrant, so that's one, but maybe I weren't a real developer.

Now days I work with embedded stuff and only reason some people run VMs is that some clients use VPNs that require Windows, so they are running Linux on top of Windows, but again that's just one VM.

If I already have a Mac and I'm invested into the Apple ecosystem things on Windows needs to be 10-100 times better for me to make the switch.

If you are just starting out or you aren't in the Apple's ecosystem (e.g. you don't have Idevices) then Windows might be the place for you. I'd still go with Linux personally, but that's just me. Or if you just need more power, but I'm guessing most people here don't actually NEED that much power

Gaming, VR, upcoming 3D

Am I missing something or does this seem like one thing? Or is there use case for VR that isn't gaming? And what is 'upcoming 3D' exactly?

if workload X is too slow on the fastest mac, it may well still run on a windows machine

Can't argue with that, but what are such workloads if you are not game developer? Wouldn't cluster of Linux servers always be a better choice? Unless of course you are die hard Windows fan.

Imo the Windows linux compatibility layer is a nice gesture, but there already existed stuff like Cygwin that did most of the stuff.

I haven't really paid any attention to the feature set since I've only used Windows for games for past 5 years and ~6 months ago I gave up on Windows completely, but let's say it give you everything Linux gives you. You can just use rvm.io to install your ruby and then use gems to install everything else you need (author used Jekyll as an example). What is the real gain to be have'd?

I can not see a single reason to switch over to Windows from perfectly working OS just because Windows is catching up. Only argument you can reasonably make is that Apple has neglected Macs and you can build faster/more powerful PC and run Windows on it, but what front-end stuff needs that much power? Imo unless you are working with 3D or something like a game meant to played on Windows there is no benefit switching to a more powerful machine.

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, maybe the author was upgrading from early 00s model of Mac/MacBook, but if you have anything even recent-ish from Apple, I see no benefit in switching.

So basically you want them to not make Razer product anymore, but instead your product.

What is the point of this? I mean "alt-git" and "gitster"?

Is that $500/h freelancer/contractor fee? Because that seems absurdly high for someone on a payroll no matter how much of a rockstar they are.

If so, then you have to factor in all the non-billable hours you spend getting clients/contracts, advertising, and general housekeeping required to run a company. Then stuff like health care, car, phone, computer, electricity, office and other expenses.

Just saying that you can't just say: "my time is worth $500/hr" if that's what you bill for 4 hours a day for a client for few weeks.

I would leave a slight gap between the outer edge, it just feels claustrophobic when the blue and black parts touch. Also it needs some fancy speed up/slow down parts at the end of the exhale/inhale parts, it stops and starts too abruptly.

Otherwise it's pretty bang on.

For on it seems to only have one HDMI and no minidisplays, most displays don't come with VGA anymore.

I'm guessing that market is kind a small. Most people I know have either transitioned into just using their smart phones and tablets or at least into using laptops and on other side thous who want to play games have needs that mini/mini-like computers can not fulfill.

Mini is kind a odd computer, it isn't mobile yet doesn't provide much more power than a laptop (if any). I think a mini-like computer would probably do everything I need it to do, but I rather get a laptop and just dock it. Which also has the extra benefit of being portable

For one Ruby just has easy syntax

Because VR games are so physical, gaming will no longer be perceived as an unhealthy activity. I could have used this growing up.

What kind of VR games are you playing? I haven't seen a single physically demanding VR game (unless you count standing "physical"). Unless everyone is going to have a dedicated room for their games or we come up with some kind of rental halls there won't be any physical activity in VR games just because there is no room to move around.

Sure ducking and crawling is somewhat more physical that just sitting and playing games, but not by much.

Can't wait when commercials just go: "Alexa, buy <whatever we are selling>".

Or you could buy Arduino Nano which costs ~€2.5-3, fine it doesn't come with WiFi, but it also comes with analog inputs which the Wemos one seems to be missing. So it depends on what you want (also ESP8266 costs about same as the Arduino Nano)

Have you seriously never ran into a situation where your IDE does almost what you want, but you still have to do some bit of it manually just because IDE can't handle this specific thing or format or whatever? If so you are either spending way more time thinking about your architecture and code before writing anything than most people or your IDE is fucking amazing.

While remembering long button combinations seems hard and tedious and "strain on cognitive capabilites" they really are just chained commands. In the idea world you don't think: "now I just have to hit v4w"+y to copy these things to clip board", but instead: "I'll copy next four words into clip board" and then just execute the commands. Same goes to longer commands, instead of hunting down some hidden feature in your IDE, you can just bang out chain of commands you wish to execute.

Man, now I'm all worried.

In every physical where my hearing has been tested I've always gotten average results, but quite often if there is some noise in the room (like a dining hall or a bar) I have really hard time hearing what people are saying

I still do not believe that the Steel Mountain hack could be pulled off the way they did it.