SysArchitect

> He stresses that you should focus on building a community, with the code and platform as happy side-effects of that community.

Exactly, so license shouldn't matter that much. I'd probably be a lot more interested in it were it BSD licensed, as it is now I have no real desire to play with this new OS.

Only the currently selected foreground application gets to use the TouchBar and display content on it.

Which means apps distributed outside of the app store when they have focus are allowed to put whatever they want on the TouchBar and you are allowed to close and delete the app.

Problem solved.

$10 Billion worth of debt that is tax deductible as losses.

"Tax credits" :P

Friend of mine who worked at Qwest in the early days and worked with Level3:

"Interestingly enough, Level3 started out by building out the Qwest network as a contractor building out the fiber. Level3 in exchange for some of the work L3 was given long-term IRUs on the fiber and heavily discounted conduit leases.

Level3 to this day still leases a lot of fiber from CenturyLink (ala Qwest)..."

CenturyLink buying Level3 means that they are basically leasing to themselves :P

I completely agree with you. Micro-USB has already shown that it is not the best standard moving forward, it is already at it's end as manufacturers are replacing the port on devices with a USB-C port instead.

So let's call it. Micro-USB, 2007 -> 2016 (9 years). It had less of a run than the 30 pin dock connector!

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I still have USB-B, USB-Mini and USB-Micro, and USB3-Micro-B devices... some were built even after USB-Micro was available, yet they still use USB Mini (which in most cases is a lot more sturdy than Micro). I have a ton of different cables for different devices because there was no real standardization until USB-C very very recently.

Why was the same vocal crowd not out when manufacturers switched from Mini to Micro and everyone had to buy all new cables?

With USB3 there is also a USB3-TypeB connector, which is not even backwards compatible with USB-TypeB...

http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/usb_3_explained.html

This still has the issue of not being able to use your car controls to control the music, but:

https://www.amazon.com/Antec-Portable-Bluetooth-Receiver-Hea...

Pair this with your phone, and plug it into power. When your car turns on, it powers on, pairs with your phone, and spits audio out over 3.5mm to the car stereo.

Comes with a 3.5mm male -> 3.5mm male plug for this purpose.

Why are there threats of DRM with the DAC moved to the cable instead of the DAC sitting inside the phone (where arguably it has more control over the DAC than if it is sitting in-line on a cable)?

They could upgrade lightning to support USB-3... Lightning doesn't specify the USB protocol.

30 pin was introduced in 2003, it was finally replaced with Lightning in 2014 and thereby deprecated from use.

That's a 11 year run.

I bet those treadmills are not even that old yet.

Nothing. Since there is no relationship between the secure enclave on the keyboard and the laptop, TouchID won't function.

Vim user here... hence why it is mapped to Esc.

I have the shift key for when I want to type caps. I don't think I have EVER used caps lock to type in all caps.

You can't plug it into the wall adapter iOS charger, but you can plug it into a USB-C charger that comes with the MBP.

There's no reason they couldn't add a full secure enclave on a USB based keyboard with TouchID.

Register your fingerprints into TouchID, they are stored securely on the keyboard, with some secure communication between keyboard/computer... now you can easily log in and or do Apple pay.

They tend to tick-tock between Nvidia and AMD. Although this update is once again an AMD (Mid 2015 is AMD as well).

My late 2013 was Nvidia.

Op didn't mention Thinkpad. Just mentioned X2 Carbon Something or other.

That could be a jet plane from Lockheed Martin or a Thinkpad...

I had a friend in uni that was blind. He used a Mac for all of his work because he said, and I quote "It's the most beautiful OS I have seen".

He wasn't just legally blind, he had absolutely no vision what so ever... but with the voiceover technology and the accessibility built in to OS X 10.4 at the time it was already amazing to him. Apple has worked very hard to make iOS and OS X accessible to not just those with perfect vision or perfect control, but also those with various disabilities.

Replace Chrome with Safari.

Unfortunately Chrome is absolutely terrible not just for power usage but also for RAM usage. For some reason Chrome loves memory, it gobbles it up. Safari is much better about it.

I switched from Chrome back to Safari recently and while it took some time adjusting, I have been seeing almost 2 - 3 hours longer battery life, and I have had way less issues with "beachballing".

2 at 5K... from LG. LG is making a 5K display. Apple got out of the display business.

Incompatible? It's still USB, just bring a dongle. Wait a year or so, that dongle will be obsolete except for older tech.

Except that it increases utility.

I can now bring a single charger that can charge my MacBook Pro and my iPhone. I just need a USB-C to USB-C cable and a USB-C to Lightning cable.

Charge my laptop or charge my iPhone or charge both (use the laptop as a passthrough).

It will reduce the amount of stuff I carry, I tend to carry just an iPhone charger while traveling in case I want to bring it with me where I don't bring my laptop, extra space in luggage and weight.

That would have been nice. I was hoping for Mac mini update too. I still have mine from 2012, and the newer versions don't really offer much over that version.

Just upgraded the SSD in it from the fusion drive to a full on SSD, and it is incredibly fast now.

No adapters in the box.

US sales taxes vary depending on state. There is no direct comparison.

As a professional software dev/system architect using MacBook Pro's, I am excited about the new MacBook Pro. I'll miss the SD card for my amateur photography, but I'll live.

It's still got the 3.5mm for my headphones, with USB-C hopefully daisy chaining non Apple displays will finally become a reality, and thankfully my work has upgraded to using wireless technology for displaying screens in conference rooms (which works from OS X and Windows).

The new context sensitive function bar is going to take some getting used to, but I have been using Caps lock for escape for years now and OS X just got native support for mapping that.

Grabbed a USB-C to lightning cable while I was at it. Now I can just bring a single charger and charge either my Mac or my iPhone or both at the same time. I rarely use USB drives, so unfortunately I'll need a dongle for that, but it's not that big of a deal.

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I am more sad that there was no announcement for the Mac Pro/Mac Mini. Also no Apple display, instead handing that to LG, so it looks like Apple is pulling out of the desktop market (I wonder how long the iMac will last).

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Edit: There is one thing I will miss, and that is MagSafe. It has saved my laptop many a time in it's lifetime. I am hoping Apple builds a USB-C to MagSafe cable that provides the same functionality to save laptops from a tripping hazard.

That they have. I don't really mind them reaching out every 6 months personally...

OVH throws their DDoS mitigation system in for free when you host with them.

You could build your own DNS set up for Traffic Director. Based upon the recursive server IP hitting you, send back responses that are closest to the user.

There is an RFC to pass information about the client subnet: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-edns-client-sub...

Which Google DNS uses to tell your name servers more information about where the client is located. This allows you then direct them to the nearest server.

I know for me personally I prefer the QC20's because they are in-ear rather than over the ear.

Google called me back and let me know that they position they were hiring for was filled and that they would keep my information on file.

Have been getting their recruiters calling every 6 months since, and that was almost 8 years ago now.