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In contrast to @Chris_Maunder, I actually like my Surface Book very much.
I agree that the cost is high, but 1) it's comparable to Macs at that performance point and 2) the company I work for paid for it. 
The hinge seems to bug some people, but doesn't bother me at all. The extra thickness hasn't been a problem for me when I travel or walk around the building to go to meetings in various conference rooms. It's plenty thin and light for my needs. The battery lasts most of the day while I'm doing lots of meetings and dev work. YMMV.
I absolutely adore having both the large trackpad with multi-finger functions with the touchscreen. Some people seem to think that a touchscreen on a laptop isn't "ergonomic" or something, but I find it to be very conducive to quick and easy screen use and navigation. Most of my colleagues who use various PC laptops or Macs bring with them a small mouse (mostly wireless) which takes up one of their USB ports, and is just something else they have to bring around with them. I don't bring a mouse at all, which makes my Surface Book seem more portable to me - I don't need various dongles or extras just to do basic things with my laptop.
The screen is gorgeous, and the keyboard is the best laptop keyboard I've used. The fact that it separates into a tablet isn't something I use very often, but when I DO need to use it, I'm glad that I have the option to do so. It's great for taking notes or drawing diagrams/schematics during brainstorming or training sessions, and being easily able to save it or display the screen to others through a projector/tv.
It's got good enough power to run 2 or 3 instances of VS2015 while having Outlook and several other applications running - so it's fine for dev work. I hook it up to the dock and have 2 large screens with my ergonomic keyboard and mouse for doing normal work at my desk, and just leave Outlook up on the laptop screen off to the side, and it swaps in and out of this mode very nicely for me.
All around, it's the best work laptop experience I've had.
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Excellent feedback. Thank you very much.
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I concur completely.
I was actually impressed for a change from a MSFT product. LOL.
The pen is nice too when you need that.
But battery life is not bad, we usually have the keyboard attached.
Beats the 7lb Dell that came before it. LOL.
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New parents: make sure your kids first word is "brains".
That way, until they learn a second one you'll have the cutest zombie on the block...
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Don't have any. 
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Want some?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Kevin Marois wrote: Want some?
Nope. Been there, done that. He's out of the house, and I now have two cats.
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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what? brains?
Sin tack ear lol
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He's here with us, so he doesn't have "a life"
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You wouldn't believe how hard it is to convince people you REALLY don't want kids...
It's the default, so at some point in a conversation people will say "Just wait until you have kids of your own."
You reply "I don't want kids."
Then starts the disbelief "Really!? Why? Kids are the best thing in the world blah blah blah..."
You explain nicely "I just really don't like kids."
They'll try to talk you into kids "You'll change your mind! I was like that too when I was your age!" (This is often not true as they already had kids at your age)
Or, also a good one, "I don't really like kids either, but your own kids are really something else." (Why did you get kids if you didn't like them in the first place!?)
So you decide to explain it so that they'll surely understand that you don't want kids "I really don't like the little dumb ugly drooling shitting trolls. When they enter a room I leave."
You have now offended the other, but they'll still think you'll want kids someday.
REALLY!? 
Just for the records, I don't want kids. Ever. 
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Would a frog at McDonalds order flies and a diet croak?
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Swapping the r and the l, I get fries and a diet cloak. What's a diet cloak?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: What's a diet cloak?
One that makes Wonder Woman look thinner.
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Sounds like some evil device created by Lex Luthor... A thinner Wonder Woman... Who'd want that? 
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Without the cloak, she's a size XXXL!
SFW but not for lunch[^]
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Maybe also a McRibbit and a Hoppy Meal?
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from the dive thru
Sin tack ear lol
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I should have toad you not to post that rivet-ing pun.
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Huh huh, hey Butthead look, French Flies. Huh huh.
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You sure Kermit to posting a pun every day!
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I toad you I would!
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I've been working remotely for over 20 years, and last week I accepted a position[^] that requires being on-site (with management discretion on a case by case basis for telecommuting  )
So why did I do this? Because:
- it looks like a great company
- the people I met were smart, articulate, and had themselves been there for many many years, indicating that they really liked working there.
- I'll be working with peers, something I rarely experience as a solo remote worker, and I am really looking forward to that. (That doesn't mean I don't love working with hardware engineers, satellite designers, boat yard managers, or people in the "entertainment" industry, but with regards to the tech itself, it's been 25 years since I've worked together with people whose career is software development.)
- I'll be working with Microsoft tech (C#, SQL Server, etc.) which is my passion. Python is fine, I actually enjoy using Python on single board computers, but I really cringe at the idea of using Python for back-end work. Granted, when I installed Django and played around around with it, I actually found Python/Django a very pleasant experience. But it's still a script language, and runtime debugging of syntax errors still sucks.
- Hopefully the management (and my peers) will be considerably saner than where I have been working.
So, it'll be a 30 to 40 minute (fortunately pleasant, from what I've seen, hardly any traffic, the benefits of living in a rural town and commuting only to the outskirts of the Albany area) commute, listening to liberal biased NPR on the drive (oops, I said this wasn't going to be a political post) or maybe just driving in the silence of my own biased thoughts, haha.
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Looks like a great company. Best of luck with the position.
"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedivere. Explain to me again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes"
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Mel Padden wrote: Best of luck with the position.
Thanks! I am going to endeavor this time to keep a daily journal, from day one! Something I've always wanted to do and have never been disciplined enough to do so.
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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