Without auto scrolling through the headlines, this is kind of useless in my opinion. And clicking the X on the right doesn't quit 0.3.1 for me, I installed the prebuilt package, had to SIGKILL the thing. TouchBar Piano retains the crown as basically the only good TouchBar app. Which says all you really need to know about the TouchBar.
Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar
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#42Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
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#43Anyone who has the new model w/ Touch Bar can comment on the usefulness of it, now that it's been out for a while? Do you ever used it / still use it daily?
I'm a developer and one of my work laptops is a MBP 13 inch w/ touchbar. I wasn't a huge Apple fan to begin with, but I used one of the last gen 17 inch MBP's for work, for about 2 years and liked it mostly because of the excellent hardware, specifically the keyboard and trackpad. The new keyboard is absolutely terrible though. Genuinely the second worst keyboard I've ever used. The new switches have caused dramatica…
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Worse than useless. Adds no value and sometimes it crashes.
Debating whether to buy this model or stay away. How do you ESC when this thing crashes?
Clicking on another app usually unlocks it.
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#45Mac Touch Bar is useless. Does anyone actually use it? Would you rather have the touch bar or your escape key back?
I'm using a machine with a touch bar right now and I have an escape key in the upper-left corner of the touch bar where it always was. I don't understand this complaint.
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#46Re: Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar
#47Anyone who has the new model w/ Touch Bar can comment on the usefulness of it, now that it's been out for a while? Do you ever used it / still use it daily?
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a developer and one of my work laptops is a MBP 13 inch w/ touchbar. I wasn't a huge Apple fan to begin with, but I used one of the last gen 17 inch MBP's for work, for about 2 years and liked it mostly because of the excellent hardware, specifically the keyboard and trackpad. The new keyboard is absolutely terrible though. Genuinely the second worst keyboard I've ever used. The new switches have caused dramatica…
The keyboard is... different. I would recommend anyone try it out at an Apple store before buying, absolutely. I actually love it.
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#49The Touch Bar has revolutionized the way I accidentally invoke Siri once per 30 minute period.
You can remove Siri from the touch bar in the touchbar settings. While in the settings you can tap the bar to open the different configurations and remove her anywhere