My IKEA Backpack: After looking for ways to get my backpack weight down, and browsing through $450 ultralight backpacks, I stumbled upon a Reddit post of a guy
Has anyone ever done a study about how your Mac battery health can affect your own health? They really should because when the battery dies, it’s never at a convenient time. Just imagine: you’ve been
by Felix Feng A less-talked about part of the bootcamper’s journey is what happens after you graduate — when you’re searching for that six-figure developer position. < 3% of applications became offers
As most of you know, I had been endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, for my personal safety, because I live in California. It isn’t safe to be a Trump supporter where I live. And it’s bad for busi
According to IBM , doing a good job with requirements can save your organization a fortune. Requirements Specification Documents (RSDs) are the primary means of communication between users and develop
High in Tower, Trump Reads, Tweets and Plans President-elect Donald J. Trump, speaking in Raleigh, N.C., the day before the election. “The presidency may change him eventually, but it’s not going to c
A former Facebook editor and news fact checker says the company could have easily eliminated fake news from the massive social network. Adam Schrader worked on the short-lived Facebook trending news e
The image of the Zen philosopher is the monk up in the green, quiet hills, or in a beautiful temple on some rocky cliff. The Stoic, on the other hand, is the
Daniel Kahneman, in his paradigm-shifting and international best-selling book Thinking, Fast and Slow , refers to the experiencing self and the remembering
Photo by Leticia Chamorro I am currently on parental leave, so these days I wake up to the freedom of an empty calendar that’s ready to be filled with toddler
Unexpectedly, Apple debuted a new design book earlier today featuring over 20 years of Apple products, from the 1998 iMac to the 2015 Apple Pencil. Entitled ‘Designed by Apple in California’, the book
Update: As of Wednesday, November 14, 2018, Apple offers new, higher-end graphics options for the 2018 MacBook Pro. Namely, mobile Radeon Pro Vega. The 15-inch MacBook Pro now offers Radeon Pro Vega G
On Tuesday night, after tossing and turning for a couple hours, I said fuck it and grabbed the laptop and started typing. What came out was a post called It’s Going to Be Okay . The next day, the post
Lies in the Guise of News in the Trump Era IF you get your news from this newspaper or our rival mainstream news sources, there’s probably a lot you don’t know. You may not realize that our Kenyan-bor
I didn’t ask Apple for a Touch Bar. No one did. Yet here it is, perched on top of the keyboard of the new MacBook Pro, like a strand of Technicolor ribbon. Clearly, Apple ascribes to the school of inn
My MacBook Pro is on its last legs. The anti-glare laminate began bubbling up some time ago, spreading across the screen like an untreatable rash, fogging up the webcam in the process. The hinge is lo
15-inch CPU performance and SSD notes The processor in the 15-inch MacBook Pro jumps two full processor architectures, replacing the Haswell-based quad-core CPUs that have shipped in 15-inch MacBook P
Authentic work is what we dream of when we imagine what a working life might ideally be like: the sort of work that would tap into the deepest part of us, that
Bloomberg via Getty Images On the 27th October Apple unveiled their new line of MacBook Pros. Since then half of what I read online seems to be "Professionals" (those guys), telling me it's not Pro at
The 13-inch MacBook Pro (top) and a 12-inch MacBook on a table in Ireland. When Apple provided me with a 13-inch MacBook Pro the day before I was set to spend 10 days traveling to Europe and back, I t
One aspect of the criticism of Apple’s new MacBook Pro laptops has been their prices. The new models feature higher base prices than the previous generation—in essence, the old Good-Better-Best trio h
Books & arts Sep 17th 2016 edition A moral philosopher offers handy hints on how to live an ethical life Sep 15th 2016 Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter. By Peter Singer.
Is progress a pipe dream? Or are things getting better? I debated this question last month at Stevens Institute of Technology with my pal Garry Dobbins, a philosopher who’s even more of a curmudgeon t
A lot of people in this country feel like this right now: Or this: Or even this: I feel ya. It’s a lot to take in. President Trump. The guy who said all those things over the last 18 months is our pre
Books & arts Jan 9th 2010 edition In search of the real Camus Jan 7th 2010 Albert Camus: Solitaire et Solidaire . By Catherine Camus. Michel Lafon; 206 pages; €39.90. Buy from Amazon.fr Les Derniers J
“All the world’s a stage…,” Shakespeare wrote, and physicists tend to think that way, too. Space seems like a backdrop to the action of forces and fields that inhabit it but space itself is not made o
“All things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe,” the great theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler wrote in
Could one vote — your vote — swing an entire election? Most of us abandoned this seeming fantasy not too long after we learned how elections work. But the chances are higher than you might think. If y
It’s looking increasingly likely that there will never be another Mac Pro. Here’s why that would be a shame. Pro buyers depend on Apple to make the hardware that satisfies our needs. And we’re flexibl
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