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Randy Zwitch
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Randy Zwitch writes randyzwitch, a personal blog at randyzwitch.com about programming and data. Since 2013, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “Getting Started with MapD, Part 2: Electricity Dataset”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a first-hand account of the MacBook Pro EM209 hinge problem, including a free repair and a second failure Apple did not cover. Commenters cite it as support for their own experience.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Data Science, Programming, Technology, Design
Most-linked posts?
- Getting Started with MapD, Part 2: Electricity Dataset2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-23
What Hacker News says?
>* First Unibody MB/MBP had glossy screen not suitable for indoor lighting This didn't affect me (and it didn't change until Retina, I think), but EM209 < https://randyzwitch.com/broken-macbook-pro-hinge-fixed-free/... hit me twice, the second time not covered by Apple.
Comment linking /broken-macbook-pro-hinge-fixed-free/>
on “Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro”Submitted A Million Text Files and a Single Laptop as a story · 94 points
HN discussion>My solution has been to place an Apple bluetooth keyboard -on top- of my 15" MBP keyboard and that seems to work pretty well, but wow, it shouldn't have come to this... I did that with my 2008 unibody Macbook Pro (yes, Macbook keyboards also sometimes broke pre-2016), which also suffered from EM209 [1] (second time, beyond Apple's free-fix period). I used heavy-duty rubber bands to both hold the screen together alo…
Comment linking /broken-macbook-pro-hinge-fixed-free/
on “MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy”Submitted Getting Started with MapD, Part 2: Electricity Dataset as a story · 61 points
HN discussion>Not suprised to see Rossman succeeding in mining anti-Apple rage clicks. Rossman's video is about the pre-unibody, but the first-generation unibody indeed had a heat-unsticks-the-adhesive issue. The EM209 issue (< https://randyzwitch.com/broken-macbook-pro-hinge-fixed-free/ >) affected me twice , the second time not covered by Apple (< https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21542522 >).
Comment linking /broken-macbook-pro-hinge-fixed-free/
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HN discussionSubmitted Using pandas and pymapd for ETL into OmniSci as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting Started with MapD as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code Refactoring Using Metaprogramming as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data Science Without Leaving the GPU as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Travis CI: “You Have Too Many Tests LOLZ” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon Elastic MapReduce with Python as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Beginner's Look at Benchmarktools.jl as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mirroring an FTP Using lftp and cron as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating a MapD ODBC Connection in RStudio Server as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bulk Loading Shapefiles into Postgis Using Bash as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fun With Just-In-Time Compiling: Julia, Python, R and pqR as a story · 1 points
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