I feel the same way. Also, the integration between Apple hardware is great. I have Macs, an iPhone and an iPad and everything works ridiculously well together.
I’ve contemplated switching to Linux for a while, and keep a laptop with Fedora installed, but every time I seriously consider it I picture losing those key applications and the tight integration with my other devices and I can’t justify it.
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> Your analogy is ridiculous. In what way is polluting a river like hosting a social network on your own servers?
It's an analogy for the "age old personal responsibility argument", but if you want to get metaphorical then maybe society is the river, Facebook the pollutant?
I mean come on man, it doesn't take a creative genius to connect the dots here, and it's certainly not ridiculous.
I have 2 blogs, both on WordPress. My web development blog is on a DO droplet and uses the Roots stack, Trellis, Bedrock and Sage. https://roots.io
I've done a lot of WordPress development, custom themes mostly. I can't always use Bedrock and Trellis due to hosting constraints, but I would never choose anything other than Sage for a theme development project.
The Roots projects have always been ahead of the curve as far as WordPress development goes. Whether it's things as simple as name spacing, or actually taking advantage of PHP 7 features, to using Composer to manage dependencies, gulp to automate build processes, Ansible for automated provisioning and deployment....
I could go on and on, but I'm loyal to these tools because they've consistently pushed me to learn new things. I also enjoy the workflow.
My personal blog is hosted by Automattic, on WordPress.com, strictly out of convenience.
I'm looking around at other options however. I've thinking it might be time for me to move on from WordPress. Partly from the Roots stuff constantly driving my curiosity, and partly from being unhappy with the direction the WordPress project as a whole is taking.
I've been looking specifically at Ghost, Craft, various flat file solutions, and have even been considering taking a crack at building my own blog with Python. (Python because I've been learning it and have really been enjoying it)
I think the intent is clear, it’s the word choice which some may find tasteless.
For example, a person who survived an actual genocide may find your analogy to be shallow because where you’ve lost some extensions due to a browser upgrade, they’ve lost everyone they love due to them having been hacked to death with machetes, or gassed, or worked to death in forced labor camps.
I don’t know, maybe they just need to get over it?
> This whole article boils down to "new hires require training".
There were also the parts about needless bickering in the PHP community, the responsibility of senior developers to guide junior developers, and the importance of keeping an open mind.
I love the form factor and overall feel. I really like the keyboard, though I don’t care for the trackpad.
My real issue with this laptop is the screen. It’s hard on my eyes to the point that I don’t use it. I’ve had the laptop for around a year now and have had at least 5 different Linux distros on it, I’ve calibrated the display, and nothing has helped.
> I got mine for $650 with IPS 1080p (Zenbook UX305CA).
@franciscop - which distro are you running? I'm primarily a mac user but picked up a UX305FA about 8 months ago to start poking around with Linux.
I've had Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, OpenSUSE, Fedora 25 & 26, and most recently Ubuntu Studio.
In every case I have the same issues that end up turning me away - first and foremost is the screen. I hear it's a nice screen under Windows but no matter what I can't seem to get it to not strain my eyes. I've tried calibrating the screen, different resolutions, and Redshift but no matter what it ends up straining my eyes. Maybe my eyes are too used to Apples retina displays?
The other issue is the jumping cursor. No matter what I do, or how careful I am to keep my palm clear of the track pad, inevitably while typing the cursor jumps up to the top of the screen while I'm mid line. Drives me nuts.
Sorry, not trying to thread jack but seeing how you have a similar machine and seem to like it, I thought I'd throw it out there.
I really want to like this computer, over than those 2 issues it's a great little laptop.
> But even though a wall of knobs and wires looks like the last word in musical openness, it actually puts some very rigid limits on the complexity and sophistication of what you can do. And worse (IMO) it trains you to think inside those limits instead of encouraging you to explore beyond them.
To me, this statement implies that you either don't understand what a modular synthesizer system is or you haven't kept up with the times. I mean, you literally build your own system by choosing your own components and patching them together however you want. You're free at any time to pull the patch cables and start over. Add one new module changes the entire system.
Other than the fact that you need to be able to plug it into something, I can't imagine anything being much further from the definitions of rigid and limiting. It would be like calling Pure Data limiting because it's a visual programming language. I don't know, it just seems silly to me.
There's a ton of small outfits in the Eurorack space doing really great stuff. To any one who is curious I'd suggest checking out some manufacturers like Make Noise, Mutable Instruments, ADDAC System, Modcan, and there's just too many to name.
> So, if we adopted a true single payer system, by this math, the total spend in the US healthcare system would drop by 3%. US healthcare costs have recently been growing by 6% per year, so this would bring our costs all the way down to where they were on election day, 2016.
But with the "true single payer" system you mentioned, everyone would be covered, and have equal access to care?
Including the ~28 million Americans without care?[1]
Especially considering nearly everything has a monthly fee attached these days.
$3 here, $5 there, $9.99 over there. Of course businesses should be paid for the services they offer, but as a consumer those numbers add up quickly, and in that context a subscription in the $30/$40 range is non-trivial, even for someone with a first world salary.
I can't imagine they provide that level of value, but that's just my opinion.
I agree, I've read The Silmarillion multiple times.
The Bible reference makes sense but I've always thought of it as similar to reading a history book. That's essentially what it is, a history of the beginning and the first 2 ages. Whereas The Hobbit & the trilogy are narrative accounts of a very small portion of the third age.
Aside - Jeffrey Way, who runs a popular tutorial site called Laracasts, maintains a free Learning Vue series. It's worth checking out, Jeffrey is a great teacher.
I’ve contemplated switching to Linux for a while, and keep a laptop with Fedora installed, but every time I seriously consider it I picture losing those key applications and the tight integration with my other devices and I can’t justify it.