While I get the appeal of the Retina Macbook Pros and forward, my love affair with the Mac laptop ended with the discontinuation of the 15" unibody Macbook Pros.
Those unibody laptops represented just about everything I wanted in a laptop.
A powerful laptop with a quad i7 with a bunch of useful ports (including ethernet) and the ability swap out the RAM and storage easily.
Hopefully this lets Apple move back to making great devices that look great, instead of devices with seriously compromised performance in exchange for being very slightly more thin.
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If we allow users to harass and attack people who have genuine expertise for posting here, does that make HN better or worse? Obviously worse. Mob behaviors like this are incompatible with curiosity.
Yes but they all require a ~1bn dollar investment by somebody. Let's not forget the price alphabet is paying for this. And they have already agreed that they would not have IP level access to any of the data collected. Nothing personally identifiable. And all data goes through a 3rd party committee over which they have no control. I'm not sure what would lead somebody to vandalize the sensors besides ignorance and paranoia. What people fail to realize is that mass data collection, when done right, can be an extremely useful tool in improving convenience and efficiency of service. While alphabet may have a dodgy history of collecting information they had no right to, they are not Facebook or Equifax. As far as I am aware they havent mishandled or abused the data they've collected and it genuinely seems like they are committed to honest data collection this time around. Honestly I'm more concerned that the privacy committee that Toronto puts together will botch the data collection/storage end up leaking the data. And most likely they will blame alphabet for it in an "see we knew this would happen" kind of way. I lived in Toronto for a decade. Maybe it's because of Rob Ford but I have zero faith in the competence of Toronto city politics and fully expect them to over involve themselves beyond their capacity and royally fuck things up and then shift the blame to somebody else. #blockthesidewalk really says it all.
Another article about how hard it is doesn't mention the hardest part of all.
Getting to a place where you will ever get a chance to work on this stuff.
I tried joining a team working on it. Figured I wouldn't get to do a lot, but it was a foot in the door sort of situation.
By the time I quit I had managed 7 months without doing a thing, and 3 more where I wasn't even trying anymore.
Meanwhile the guys who built the thing all got pulled to work on the next big thing. Maybe they were just amazing engineers.
Maybe getting hired out of college and putting right onto a massive distributed systems project is the only fucking way to ever get your foot in the door.
I'm not gonna let this article ruin my day. It's pointless. I can think about how colossally fucked my career is on monday.
OT but relevant to your comment. AWS is hiring for various service teams[1]. I highly recommend it as the place to be if you want to work on massive distributed systems. DM me on Twitter if any of those jobs appeals to you.
