I use a MBP at work and just bought a Surface Book 2 to use for side projects. It's everything I want a MBP to be, good battery life (you can go almost a full day on a single charge), a touch screen that works exceedingly well, and function keys that are...keys. Using the stylus also changes your workflow, instead of screen shotting, opening in preview, and annotating, you just kind of draw on the screen and share the image.
Only major downside I've run into is that there do not seem to be any native terminals for Windows that even come close to rivaling iTerm 2. Cmdr is decent, but has some weirdness around colors and ligatures; Hyper is also decent, but has some rough edges. Suspect that'll change as more devs start needing decent *nix environments to develop on.
Yeah, completely agree on my Surface Book being the MBP I wanted to buy Great hardware (including touchpad and keyboard), Win 10 and WSL have come a long way, and the touchscreen and stylus option became part of my workflow much quicker than I expected. Probably the best laptop I've ever owned, including the 2010-2015 era 15" MBPs.
Regarding native terminals, I've had the best success with ConEmu set up to drop into WSL zsh by default. Easy to launch into cmd or powershell for Windows native stuff to boot.
I'm building a terminal for Windows, part terminal envy and part learning Direct2D. It's currently bloody fast, renders minimally (so battery-friendly), has ligature and color font support and works in remote sessions (read: where there isn't a GPU available). It isn't yet a terminal, though - I'm still working on the VT parser.
The terminal situation will hopefully improve shortly; Microsoft just recently overhauled their console API with a backwards compatible API that behaves much closer to how *NIX works.
It's hilarious to see Microsoft educate their audience about things Unix and Linux users have take for granted for a long time. Like leaving their parallel universe after all those decades. Also interesting to see their jumping through hoops to get there.
Who said wrong? I think it's funny to see. Loosen up downvoters.
It's not like Unix was hidden somewhere for the last 50 years. It's just that Windows users didn't seem to bother. For what it's worth the OS course at my former university did cover Unix and NT (based on the Stallings book).
Also moved from Mac to Surface, 2 years ago. Used iterm2, which I believe is one of the highest quality pieces of software ever made. Before that gnome terminal pn various Linux OSs.
I regularly check out ConEmu, Hyper, Alacritty, etc for their current state on Windows (cmder isn't a terminal, but it includes ConEmu which is).
I might add vscode to this. You probably don't want it running solely as a terminal, but I've become used to it while developing and it's pretty nice on both Windows and Macos.
This is a bit of a terrible hack, but what I do is install an X server for Windows (I use VcXsrv, but there's a couple options), then from WSL launch Gnome terminal or whichever terminal emulator you like from Linux.
Something worth noting is that FATCA essentially makes it impossible for an institution to remain "FATCA compliant" if they have any financial relationship with a non-compliant entity. Sure, they can have such relationships, but the U.S. Treasury department can then impose a 30% penalty on any transaction that passes through a U.S. bank. Given that the vast majority of international payments are made in USD, that 30% penalty is going to be very painful for any bank that purposefully decides to be non-compliant.
The end result of that will be that the global financial system is going to be bifurcated into "compliant" and "non-compliant" institutions. Believe me, most banks/insurance companies/financial entities will find it worth their while to eventually become compliant.
The reason that more countries aren't complaining about this (and most are actually entering into bilateral enforcement agreements with the U.S. Treasury department) is that they'll then be able to get access to the same sorts of information on their own citizens that the U.S. is getting on their own as a result of FATCA.
And it imposes a large cost on non us citizens who have to pay for our uk institutions ro meet the cost of US regs out of our fees the Daly telegraph estimated that the cost of FACTA to uk investors with absolutely no connection with the USA was 1/2 a billion pounds.
> "But Marx's original critique of capitalism was not that it made for lousy growth rates. It was that a rising concentration of wealth couldn't be sustained politically."
I feel like this is one of the very most important things to consider in any discussion of wealth concentration. Economic growth does not necessarily correlate with a broadly pleasant experience for all participants in that economy. I think we came out of the 20th century with it being taken as axiomatic that some kind of tradeoff must be made to achieve both goals in concert somehow, but this understanding seems to be receding (really starting with the rise of austerity policy in the 80s, but coming very much to a head lately).
Only major downside I've run into is that there do not seem to be any native terminals for Windows that even come close to rivaling iTerm 2. Cmdr is decent, but has some weirdness around colors and ligatures; Hyper is also decent, but has some rough edges. Suspect that'll change as more devs start needing decent *nix environments to develop on.