There’s something lovely about this.
To my eye, it is like the patina that your favorite tools get.
I’m looking at you, 40 year old tape measure.
Filing the corners off my MacBooks
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#462I used a macbook for almost 2 years and genuinely don't understand how people can tolerate these machines. My wrists would be cut up all the time to the point where I looked like I was self harming myself and the glary screen is entirely unsuable anywhere but a darkest basement. Not to mention the terrible keyboard. To this day I'm perplexed how macbooks have such high desirability by full time developers when they'r…
I am with you. But we are somehow a minority. Cannot decide weather we are oddballs or people just love to drink the Kool aid that much.
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#464You mac people are masochistic freaks. Buying overpriced hardware that you hate the design of just to file off the corners.
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#465I do this too, although only the corners. It's one of the only design failures of the MacBook.
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#466Just a few drops of mercury on aluminium kills it.
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#467> This was on my work computer is this an employer-issued computer? Like if I did something similar on my DELL laptop (us lowly devs at %DAY_JOB% don't have Macs), management would be up my ass the minute they saw this, if only because the maintenance agreement the company has with our supplier will likely be voided for my machine.
That was my first thought, I don't think my employer would be cool with this somehow
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#468Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does Europe and America really call the summer solstice the “start” of summer. Wow. In India our summer holidays start at the end of March and finish in the start of June. That’s usually our hottest months too. And a lot of our regional “New Year” calendar’s and related festivals are on April 14th and can probably be considered the start of summer.
Hottest day of the year in the US varies by 3 months from California to Texas, which is only about half the width of the country. I would imagine the region you're in has a different hottest day of the year from say Kashmir or your neighbor Sri Lanka.
The three months difference must be based on a wild corner case. What cities are you basing that statement on?
I played around with weatherspark and all the places I tried looked like this :
https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/1705~8813/Comparison-of-t...
Re: Filing the corners off my MacBooks
#469Thanks for this interesting post - I've been showing it to co-workers to get their reactions, which was incredibly entertaining for me! Co-worker 1: Interesting. I wonder if that voids the warranty. It's Apple you know. Co-worker 2: May Jobs have mercy on their soul... Co-worker 3: Not a bad idea. But not sure if that would cause problems with structural integrity of the laptop, like if you drop it or something. Co-w…
It's a work laptop - I'm surprised none of the coworkers said "you'll get in trouble when you return it". I don't know WHY... But corporate bureaucracies have logic of their own.
Well, it's property of his workplace, and they're usually resold when the employee gets a new one. And it's not exactly mint any more, is it.
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#470I'd like to see some side-by-side before and after photos