As a Bay Area tech worker, I would totally spend that much on an smartphone. Maybe not an iPhone, but the new Pixels are coming out in October, and my current Pixel XL is at least 6 months old. Maybe you should just give one a try? They don't all cost over $1000. Get an Android, as a developer you can easily put your own apps on it. Then maybe it will make sense.
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Other than being able to be kept in a pocket, why would anyone want a $1K iPhone instead of a notebook & pad? -
Apple: your software sucksI agree - take it to the shop already. In numerous years of Mac tinkering, I've never had this kind of problem - generally the reinstall just works. Perhaps there is some other problem?
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Using a Mac, [a bit over] a week laterI've been using Mac for ages - I love OSX, but would agree that the "It just works" thing isn't always the case. There are some pretty strange/non-obvious things which you need to do on the Mac. To change the filename in finder: select the file to change, and then press 'Enter'. Quick to use when you know it's there, but intuitive? Hell no. And don't get me started on the hundreds of hidden characters - on my (Finnish) keyboard, the {} | $ and many more are all hidden behind the alt key, and not marked on the keyboard at all. You get used to it after maybe 5 years, and it's always fun to alt through all the keyboard characters to see what's there. •Ω鮆µıœπ About a year ago, Apple started taunting us with the mysteriously moving taskbar on dual-monitor machines. No word of warning, it just suddenly started moving between screens - took a few weeks to figure out the mouse moves for it. Thanks, Apple. I would really really love it if I could cmd+tab to a specific application window rather than just an application - something you can do in Windows and Linux but not Mac. Although you can keyboard through all the terminal windows, which is nice. (Cmd + arrow keys, only works on Terminal). And I really hate the 'natural scrolling crap' which they forced on us - like 99% of Mac users, I switch it off first thing. Love my , but not blind to the strange/questionable OSX design decisions.
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Google, EU, and $6BOh sure - Greece owes the EU hundreds of billions. Squeezing Google for €6 billion isn't going to make much of a difference in this case. To suggest it would is, well, crass. You sound like you've never been to Europe - you should visit, we don't all live in mud huts out here. European governments do pull dumb tricks to get cash out of each other - like this one[^]. Pinching money from corporations like Google? No.
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Funny variable namesA project I used to work on had a module called 'cunit'. I was shocked when I first saw it.
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Fighting obsolescence..... - do you REALLY use a smart phone, and if so, how?I have been addicted to mobile computing since the early Palm days. Now I have a Nokia N900, and in addition to my own apps (an English/Finnish translator program and a bespoke text editor) am using it for XMPP chat, internet news, email, photos, calendar and sundry other apps. You can also send SMS and make phone calls! I get that the iPhone is great, but for me being able to run (most) Linux apps on my phone is amezzing. Can't imagine life without it.
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Advanced GoogleThat link is too useful - thanks!
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Developer ProductivityLazy mornings, nap at lunchtime, and work late into the evenings when everyone else has gone home. Also, company ski holidays and other free things - they don't help help, but they do make me feel wanted. :D