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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by yani on Saturday May 12, 2018 @08:31AM (#17053750)
Escape key, siri button, densed keyboard keys, and unreasonably huge trackpad are the things that made me switch. I am in a meeting or listen to a youtube video... I press backspace ... Oh my bad I pressed siri button - everything goes silent for 30 seconds.

I disabled siri button... a few weeks later apple released an update and siri is back ... just before my important call. My anxienty level is to the roof.

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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by bengale on Saturday May 12, 2018 @10:54AM (#17054310)
If you don't use capslock you can set the keyboard to map that to escape.
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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by PascLeRasc on Saturday May 12, 2018 @11:01AM (#17054345)
I think that's the de facto control key on Macbooks since they aren't in the bottom left corner. It'd be cool if we could configure a single caps lock keypress to Esc and holding it down to Control.
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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by raihansaputra on Monday May 14, 2018 @06:19AM (#17064226)
That is possible using Karabiner/Karabiner-Elements. I currently have Caps Lock mapped to Escape and Hyper (for vi like arrows)
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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by brazzledazzle on Saturday May 12, 2018 @11:14AM (#17054402)
I use mine for escape and hadn’t considered using it for control. Is it more comfortable?
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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by copperx on Monday May 14, 2018 @12:28AM (#17062688)
It's indispensable because OS X has Emacs bindings in all standard controls. Control A, E, K, P, N, C, D.

These keybindings are one of the only reasons I have stayed with OS X. I'm surprised that others use Cmd-arrow combinations instead.

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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by PascLeRasc on Saturday May 12, 2018 @11:48AM (#17054584)
Since I'm just using it for ctrl+c in a terminal, it's much more comfortable.
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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by copperx on Saturday May 12, 2018 @11:08AM (#17054378)
Anyone sane has already remapped it to control.
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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by oellegaard on Saturday May 12, 2018 @08:37AM (#17053778)
How about you just disable Siri like everyone else? :-) I work with my macbook 12+ hours a day and this never, ever, happened to me.
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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by yani on Saturday May 12, 2018 @08:43AM (#17053798)
Yes, read the last sentence of my comment. Updates might re enable it. If your battery runs out, the same happens.
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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by zeitg3ist on Saturday May 12, 2018 @10:43AM (#17054258)
I've removed the Siri button from the touchbar the day I got my MacBook, more than a year ago, and it never appeared again. Might be a problem on your system? Usually resetting the NVRAM/PRAM solves this kind of problems, but it's basically black magic.
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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by jonhendry18 on Saturday May 12, 2018 @08:55AM (#17053839)
Did you remove the Siri button from the touch bar, or disable Siri altogether? Maybe try doing both.
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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by tedmiston on Saturday May 12, 2018 @09:09AM (#17053880)
I removed it once. I may be mistaken here, but if I recall, removing it slightly shifted the layout of the other keys throwing off my muscle memory for the f keys.

I'm interested in a solution. I probably hit that key unintentionally 10 times a day.

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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by brazzledazzle on Saturday May 12, 2018 @11:57AM (#17054640)
Check out this post about customizing the touchbar that was on HN a little while ago: http://vas3k.com/blog/touchbar/
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Re:Ask HN: Are Chromebooks ready for serious development? by jonhendry18 on Saturday May 12, 2018 @09:52AM (#17054066)
Perhaps you could replace the Siri button with a similar sized button if one is available, in order to keep the spacing. (I don't have a touchbar Macbook, so I don't really know what's available.)
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