I liked the ThinkPad because it felt solid. Now, that "solidness" feels a little clunky, a little less refined. MS Windows doesn't help. Speaking of OSes, macOS causes me less aggravation.
I have both a ThinkPad and a MacBook Air. I used to really like the ThinkPad and its rugged, tough feel (behold the travel of those key presses!), but I much prefer the Mac now. For me the MacBook Air was the best investment I ever made. I would agree with Rob Pike, who, in https://usesthis.com/interviews/rob.pike/ wrote "That said, my two-year-old 11" MacBook Air is the only piece of computing hardware to make me happy since I can't remember when."
To certain user communities, "almost." I know I am looking forward to seeing the new iMac. Having a good portable device is secondary to me. My 2012 MacBook Air would be fine except for the lack of memory (only 4GB). So, I will probably purchase the new MacBook Pro without the touchbar, and then sell my MacBook Air.
He says that the four ports are all the same, but that is not correct. According to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207256:
"MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2016, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports) supports Thunderbolt 3 at full performance using the two left-hand ports. The two right-hand ports deliver Thunderbolt 3 functionality, but have reduced PCI Express bandwidth."
There were similar problems when the X-Pro1 first came out, but over time firmware updates (for the camera body AND lenses) improved the shooting experience substantially.
I don't know if he was an "idiot," or not, but there's value in having something to oppose. Kind of like a diagram that isn't correct, but can be seen by all and iterated to something that IS correct.
Leanpub promotes a superset of Markdown called Markua. It is claimed that Markua is more suited to the writing of books and documentation. See http://markua.com/ Personally, for my projects, I use rST, but that is only because the wind happened to be blowing that way the day I made my choice.
In many offices, the majority of the employees start at about 10 am or even later. Also, most people people prefer to go home using public transportation, which stops relatively early (in most places, between midnight and 1:00 am). Extroverts like to socialize, introverts less so. Personally, I fall into the latter camp, but I usually find it to be invigorating and educational when I do "participate." Those with families often "bow out" (no pun intended), although I can see that with some groups, there might be peer pressure. If one has a long commute, that can be a perfect excuse to not participate or to leave early.
A generation or two down the line, history may record that this was an important event in Japanese history. And perhaps, as you imply, that sentence in a history book will be glossed over by generations even farther in the future. The populace may not even know how their society came to be what it is. But the government, I think, is envisioning a certain future, and planting the seeds to create that future.
The value, I think, is that Japanese society as a whole will at least appreciate programming. Whether that appreciation is as a craft that is not always so easy, or as something that sometimes even approaches art, I do not know, but some of today's kids will be the ones who grow up to either approve or disapprove future projects. An understanding sown in youth and shared by a generation goes a long way.
Meaning "three hawks" in Japanese, Mitaka correspondingly emphasizes three themes: improved user experience, better manageability, and better scalability.
Heh, whereas an American would normally write "unauthorized" (that is, with a "z"), the purported Sergey used the British/Australian spelling, "unauthorised." Odd and suspicious.
So at its core (a rather large core), the internet is advertising -- curated, paid spam? Granted, some of it is actually helpful in providing a pointer to a product I didn't know about, but it's interesting how all of these companies are proxies for a salesman.
Reading (rather, skimming) this sort of analysis makes me wish that advertising had its own internet -- an anti-matter, separate universe sort of place. Depressing to see technology as a pack horse for advertising.
Solving it by hand gives an exact answer, which in some contexts, might be preferable. Forman Acton, in his classic book, Numerical Methods That Work, uses the quadratic formula as an example to illustrate how a computer can give a wildly incorrect solution.