Things I dislike about the MBP 16:

- Still has the touch bar

- Screen size is awful. I like to work with windows size by size and the 16 inch screen size is awkward because most website won't re-size properly.

- Its heavy as hell, slightly thinker than the old ones.

- Its slow. Yes, all the RAM and CPU and the thing is laggy. I don't know why but it just has a bad "feel" to it.

- Touchpad is too big. Its gigantic and I often end up touching it by accident.

- Its crazy expensive

In the end, I will end up selling it and using my 10 year old Macbook Air until it dies. After that I'm not sure.. maybe I will try the newer Macbook Air and see if its tolerable. At least it doesnt have a touchbar.

The options for scripting were either bash or perl. After some digging around I found some scripts that other engineers wrote in Perl. Mostly using it for text replacement, regex, and basic server functions.

I was intrigued by the weird syntax and very powerful one liners, so I got some books and taught myself basic Perl. I started writing some quick scripts and it made me feel like I had a super power. Most of all, Perl was fun with all the different ways you could do things. It was like a puzzle.

Fast forward to my first "real" software job. Most of the code case was written in Python, so I started learning that. I wrote a couple scripts in Perl to do some basic text stuff that I thought would actually be less elegant in Python. While I thought I was quite clever, the other engineers immediately jumped on me and told me to never write any Perl code again. Something about "hard to maintain", "too many ways to do it", etc.

After that I never wrote any "real" code in Perl, but I kind of want to write some clever, convoluted Perl code just because I can.

To adults, the content is absolute garbage, but to her its entertaining. I noticed that most of the stuff she watches is just some tweens or twenty somethings doing every day life stuff (sitting in a pool, making spaghetti, etc). The only real difference is that they do it with high energy and make a big deal out of everything.

WOOOOAAA noodles feel weird! NO WAAAYY the sauce is RED!! HOLY COW this hot TUB is SO HOT!

I guess it works because these videos often have 400k to millions of views.

It violates the philosophies of Python and UNIX where one function, or one line, should preferably only do one thing, and do it well.

I get the idea behind the :=, but I do think it's an unnecessary addition to Python.

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If you want a fast editor, switch to Sublime 3.

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Software Engineer and Architect with over 10 years' experience. My biggest strengths are

- Back-end - Python - Big Data - DevOps - AWS

I can also do full stack web development if needed.

Check out my LinkedIn profile for full details.

https://linkedin.com/in/jasonrhaas

A lot of Americans think that they should be able to drive and park their car when and where ever they want. This mentality needs to change if we want to continue to grow our cities sustainably.

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I'm not against the company or the founders making money. This is America after all. What is disappointing to me and others in the open source community is that we have zero say over something that we helped build.

This sale to Microsoft is just another reason why we need something new, a new system that can be owned by individuals and not corporations. I would love to see something where the developers and users actually have a stake in what happens, and can in turn profit from it as well.

R.I.P. Github. Your move, Gitlab.