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Please not yet another "I've switched from A to B and was shocked to discover that B does not work like A!" rant. You're simply executing working patterns from Windows and of course it does not work so well.

1. Cmd-Tab does not select windows, it selects apps. If the app is hidden (Cmd+H), it will be unhidden.

2. They are not such a frequent click targets. Also, that is not a maximize button.

I see what your problem with 1+2 is: you are using minimize function to reveal windows behind the current window like you did in Windows. Well... don't. There are other ways to do it (Mission Control, Dock, hide), you are not supposed to use minimize so often.

3. Seriously? It's only an issue if you're seeing Mac the first time in your life.

4. Because there is no maximize function.

5. Keyboard-only never was a design goal.

6. Alt+Cmd+I. Learn about significance of Alt button, you'll discover a lot of functions that you think are missing.

7. Because Enter renames the item.

8. The blue button. (Apple has recently broken that in some dialogs in 10.11 and hasn't fixed yet.)

9. Finder does not allow to cut&paste files, yes. Of all your list, this is the only valid critic, which does not stem from mis-using the thing.

Trust me as Mac user, we are not suffering, and when rebooting to Windows to play PC-only game, we do not feel any improvement (to put it mildly). What you think is "the most intuitive way to do it" is actually just "the most familiar to me way to do it".

There is a term for this, "baby duck syndrome": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/baby_duck_syndrome

> (humorous) The tendency of computer users to always think the system (software or usage paradigm) they originally started using is better.
It would be trivial for the owner to test the limb at regular intervals (have a few people pull on the rope from an angle).

The insurance company settled, which suggests that under US law there was liability. Negligence is one of the most common sort of lawsuits in the US, looking it up I see that it is a common law concept and it's hard to find any resources that discuss it in terms of civil law. Perhaps that explains some of it.
100% agree. I kept scrolling looking for an explanation of "When/how would I use this?" but found nothing. I then went to the top menu looking for something - anything, really - but was similarly disappointed.

I then looked at the videos - which is a fail if I have resorted to that. I'm 8 minutes into the first video and I'm still not sure when/why.

Perhaps my biggest frustration came on my 2nd scroll when I encountered this:

"Simple Cloud Programming

MBrace.Core is a cloud programming model simple enough to be explained on a single slide."

Surely I am not the only person who clicked the header expecting to see that slide? No slide...
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Otto and Vargrant like technologies make me nervous and here is why: I recently took a contract assignment in a dev shop that use vagrant. If everything worked as advertised , I should have just done vagrant up and my jbosss appserver etc. would have automatically built and deployed for me so that I could focus on code. However, I had to spend a couple of day trying to fix Vagrant salt issues --- that I had no clue about. I could have easily setup a jboss linux vm without breaking a sweat but debugging vagrant and salt was like a solving a mystery wrapped in an enigma. So now that I am upto speed with vagrant and salt , it does not seem all that bad -- but I do feel as though it has been overhyped.

I shudder to think that the dev manager are now adding "must have xx yeas of solid vagrant experience " along with "must have 5 years of [some ide]" in their skills requirement.
I suppose, in the same way that Dylan Roof is the fault of some Conservatives, or some Southerners, or some Americans, etc. Yes, the existence of terrorist organizations that make use of these lost angry men means that in a minority of these cases a group can tell them to attack on the same day rather than weeks apart, and means they can stamp an ideology on them, like I said. So yes, there is a difference, just as there is a difference between the shooting that are done by a couple of friends (like Columbine) and the ones done by a lone wolf (VTech).

Still, people don't find it inappropriate to bring up Columbine when they talk about VTech or Aurora. When people try very hard to exclude all the other mass attacks and single out only the ones connected to Islam in situations like this speaks more to their personal biases than anything else.
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>Your comment is irrelevant to the point being discussed, which was specifically about communism.

Only under the naive assumption that we assess things in isolation and not comparatively and in historical perspective.

>It's akin to saying, "We excuse X for doing something bad because Y (something to which we are ideologically opposed) did the same bad thing".

No, it's more akin to saying "You singled out X as the cause of something bad when it's also an attribute of Y".

E.g. something like:
"- Python is slow because it's a GC language".
"- Nope, Java and Swift also have GC and are very fast".

Also note that I never said anything about "excusing" -- I actually condemn both.

>In other words, it's the "side", not the "principle" you are arguing. If you take that position you can be an apologist for practically anything that happens.

What you can actually be is pragmatic, someone who assesses things in historical and relative perspective, instead of taking sides and singling out.

It's amazing how someone that begins by saying that "this discussion is only about X, anything else is irrelevant", accuses someone adding the stats for Y for comparison as "taking sides".
Well yes, but it's a new application of a HID attack, and it's nicely wrapped up for the media/public (who just got done watching CSI Cyber and Mr Robot)

Also, just because it's trivial doesn't mean it'll get patched quickly (wasn't it France's airports that were still running Windows 3.11?) or even be acknowledged by the vendor.

I'd try this on my local self-serve supermarket checkout if I were feeling brave...
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I expect the insurance company that paid the settlement did bother to check if a reasonable test of the swing had been done.
As far as I remember from the original article the tree had been dead for two years. Not sure if the host knew that or not though.
> What could the owner have done to ensure that this did not happen?

Remove the swing? If you have the foresight to say that the swing is so dangerous, then why not the person who actually owns the thing?
So much good stuff. I really like the kernel+distribution idea and thinking about lexer/parser and "just adding stuff to that" like the example of adding Ruby ?! syntax.
Why are child soldiers a human rights violation when they happen in Africa, but a hero when they happen in America? Is it the difference between volunteering and being forced to fight? That shouldn't apply to children who are too young to make those decisions themselves.

He still broke the law, and the navy still didn't check his ID thoroughly. If we wanted child soldiers, the age limit would have been reduced from 16 to 13. That shows they were already socially unacceptable even during WWII.
Well, I agree that code for the sake of code is dumb. But I can also imagine practical applications for these things. So, it gets a +1 from me.
You can fuck right off. I found the last part useful. It's exactly what it was and why I found it annoying. Wankery means something in addition to being distasteful. This is it. Sorry if you were offended.
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I don't think anybody involved had the foresight to say that that particular swing was dangerous if they had they no doubt would have taken it down. But swings are dangerous, and users of swings should be aware of that. The very same thing could have happened to the owner of the house.
Not have a tree swing on an old tree and advertise it? The owner bares the burden of ensuring their service is safe - not the user. Try and imagine a world where that's the opposite as you're proposing.
Is it also awesome that the Japanese soldiers they fought also sacrificed so much? If so, then how is it a good thing for people to kill each other with no apparent purpose? If not then who decides which side is right and which is wrong?

Add to your list the desire to kill other people. That's a human instinct which was, as the article seems to suggest, a strong motivator for this boy. Much like what drives westerners to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS, or what drives a mass shooter in America. We shouldn't deny that soldiers often choose their job for the opportunity and pleasure of killing.
We do, but it's a hell lot of work, especially for something much more complicated than Javascript.
Agreed 100%, particularly the thing about thin fonts and lack of contrast. I'm 27 years old and I had to turn on the accessibility option "Increase contrast" on newer OS X versions to avoid getting headaches; so I went back to Mavericks. My next computer won't be a Mac, I'm not interested in using an OS that causes me literal pain. Seeing that Windows is going down that route too with terrible and blurry font rendering in Windows 10 seems like the only option is Linux, where at least you can adjust the UI to suit your needs.
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> What could the owner have done to ensure that this did not happen?

You can do a simple impedance test on the tree. If the tree had rot then electricity will go through the core faster due to additional water content. And they give you a nice graph to prove whether the tree is safe or dangerous.
If there were a tree swing at a hotel, and someone died in the process of using said swing, I would expect that to be a legitimate liability.
That were my initial thoughts as well, but after reading mitchellh's and others' responses it made more sense. Developers are rightly weary and suspicious of bad abstractions. And what separates good abstraction from a bad one is how fast you are going to trip over its scope of applicability and how surprising it will be. Good general purpose abstractions for distributed services are not there yet but I think this tool will be successful if it will be a good enough abstraction for a large enough cohort of users. And those for whom it is not enough will be able to learn a thing or two by peeking under the hood.

But I agree with you wholeheartedly that reading through the marketing copy to calibrate what my expectations regarding this tool should be is very tiring. I really wish there were a little link titled "explanation for technical-minded people" leading to a clear description of what it really does behind the curtain without any bullshytt words like "boost to productivity", "scalable" or "best-in-class".
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I live in that world. The responsibility for my life is mine and if I climb on some who-knows-how-old treeswing in some rustic cottage tied to an old tree without any leaves on it then you can be damn sure I'll check to see if it is solid before I trust my own weight to it and I'll check it myself before I let my kids play with it. Because money from some settlement won't give me back my life or my children and because trees have been known to break every now and then even when not burdened with tree swings carrying adults and even when they're healthy and not dead like this particular tree. It all boils down to personal responsibility and if you let that go then accidents can happen.

This is not the brakes of your car services by some competent mechanic in which case I can easily see a liability issue but in the case of old stuff hanging from trees different rules apply.

For that matter, when visiting a friend who has two young children and a nice swing in their garden I spent the better part of a day re-inforcing the swing and its foundation because I thought the whole thing was an accident waiting to happen.
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We'll hopefully be moving to compilers capable of supporting c++11 at work soon - maybe even in 2016 if we're lucky - but it'll probably be an even longer wait before we can start using c++11 features in our code. Still, a guy can dream...
Could both of you let the bodies cool down before you start rambling about what they might and might not do?
There is no "prime cause" that is easy to work on, the situation is much more complicated than terrorism is the outcome of US/Western US policy.
So unless your solution for the "prime cause" is glassing the middle east a large portion of asia and africa there won't be just one simple solution. Not to mention that working on the "prime
cause" in the eyes of such people is justification enough there have been just as many attacks against western targets for building schools as for blowing them up.
This is kind of like asking, what is the root cause for young earth creationists beliefs and how do we end it?
> Liability insurance protects you from this kind of thing.

No, liability insurance moves money from the insurance company to the next of kin of the person who died from having a chunk of tree crack their head open like it was an egg. It does not protect you from this sort of thing.
This is really interesting and highlights a problem with AirBNB that I hadn't thought of. OP could be an AirBNB renter and sees no issue here. A hotel or B&B owner would see the issue. And if not his insurer etc would inspect his or her facility and drive these points home. I think AitBNB is a great service but this is enlightening and highlights key differences to regulated facilities.
There are swings at my local park. They were designed by competent engineers. They were installed by competent builders. They're regularly maintained. The council (who own and operate the park) have insurance.

I am aware that there's some risk involved in swings - don't walk in front of one when it's being used, don't use it when I'm drunk, don't do handstands on it, but I also know that using it normally is pretty safe.
University closures are typically not tightly enforced. Grad students and post docs aren't considered essential personell, but if they have cells to maintain they will probably come in regardless. We had several closures due to weather last year, and my lab mates doing cell culture still came in and replaced media as needed.
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This will evoke emotions, but I would not call terrorists cowards. In fact, it's the attribute that least describes them. They usually die in the attack and going to almost certain death is not cowardly even if their targets are innocent civilians.

Terrorists don't attack military personnel because terrorism as tactics does not work trough reduction of enemy manpower or material capability. It works trough terror.
A little of topic, but if we're talking strict liabilities, and lawsuits?

In some cities, like San Francisco, you need to disclose in the sale of your home if anyone died in your house--even of natural causes.

Rediculious law? Something about Asian superstition? My grand mother died a natural death in here Richmond district home. The fancy realestate agent skipped through the house yelling, "You need to disclose the death!". I told my dad fine. We would have caught it eventually.

I did get his commission reduced 1 percent on the gleeful way he treats my father's/mine pain.

Why do realestate agents even exist anymore? 6-7 community college courses, and a easy test? I've never understood the need for them these days. A few years ago, the Realestae lobby got to Jerry Brown, and got him to sign a bill making it harder to become a Realestae broker. It exempted all the current cheerleaders who passed their broker's exam years ago.

What I found ironic, is the bill was presented to Arnold Schwartzeneger years ago, and he saw right through it. There was no problem with inexperienced brokers. The current brokers/cheerleaders just didn't want more competition, and wanted salespersons commissions.

That day I realized a good Republican is no different than a democrat.
Certainly (though I'm not sure about the 'getting a job' part): Breeding of open-pollinated plants, mostly vegetables. Not as well known as OSS, but much the same ethos. I've had people ship seed across the world to provide germplasm breeding stock and done likewise myself, completely without any expectation of payment or even reciprocation.
Hmmm. "Muslim..."

This is the same with all kind of violence most of it doesn't have a reason.

But in this case it has. In the case of terrorism it's a business. Their goal it's to stablish an image and get the people that might oppose them prefer to do not intervene. And the people they want submission be that submissive. With this they can exercise control. Impose authority, sell protection (for example) and control any kind of illicit activities.

It's the same with the drug cartels like "The knights of Sinaloa", the organized crime remember the "Cossa Nostra". The mongols to cite an old example.

Conquer by fear.

To end it, well that's another issue. You need to end their flux of money. Cut their recruitment systems. End the fear.
I thought that it was customary to add a 'smile' to most financial distributions (i.e. increased probability of extreme events), I don't think that anyone believes that a normal distribution accurately measures anything much in finance.
Yeah I agree it is, how do you deal with that problem?
The swings in that park are indeed probably normally safe. Swings installed by homeowners are usually held to a different standard and tree swings should be considered dangerous until personally inspected before use.
Simple, U.S government leave oil exporter countries and do not f..k their brain with your "democracy". let them manage their own economy, issues, they are not stupid, they can handle and solve issues on their own. Do not lie to your people by saying you are defending from terror attack, thats just ridiculous, you are killing your own citizens and middle east citizens only to get richer.
> Liability insurance won't save your life if you get hit by a few hundred pounds of tree.

It will give my family the money they need to bury me. It will give my dependents a bit of the money I would have given them across the rest of my life.

> If you want to use an old tree-swing the onus is on you, the user to make sure that it is safe because if it isn't you pay the price.

Not if someone has charged me for access to the swing. It's the commercial activity that has caused the extra attention here.
A multi-tenant only view will lead to obvious outcomes for single tenants. My sense is that this is the nature of things, to vacillate between single-tenant and multi-tenant models. A pure multi-tenant model, which is also highly secure, is probably little different from this reality. It's exceedingly difficult to make things vanish here.
11 years old is not old enough to break the law. Navy is the one who broke the law, and one who should pay compensations for that.
Sounds like Rails for Devops. Works great until it doesn't...
>You're not contradicting anything I said, I wouldn't claim utopias are the only reason for people to become violent.

Well, why single them out then if both sides can be dangerous?

If you think they are the "more dangerous", then I think the previous 2 milenia of bloodshed for pragmatic land/power grabbing, including WW I, refute that.

Besides, even so-called utopians are quite pragmatic in their actions. When Mao executed tons of people, it wasn't some "utopianism" guiding him, but a very pragmatic power grab to stay in power and get rid of possible contenders.

(You might say that this was only possible because his subordinates were deluded by some utopian zeal. But lots of other cases, from the Belgian colonies and Pinochet to Indonesian "death squads", prove that you don't need that to have mass killings, just unquestioned power and the upper hand).

>Did you reply this way because you approve of communism?

No, I replied this way because I approve of utopias. The US was one too at some point -- for persecuted from Europe religious nuts.

Also because I like being objective, which needs taking all sides into account. Of any binary (utopia/pragmatism e.g.) I'd never say "the first is dangerous" if the second has been historically proved just as dangerous.
Someone must keep the faith. Without it, we're all fucked. :)
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If I were to rent out my home on AirBNB (which I won't) I'd make damn sure that everything is in 100% working order and safe because I would not want anything to happen to my guests. Conversely, if I would rent someone else's home on AirBNB (which I won't) I would make damn sure that everything is in 100% working order too before using it simply because I would assume that the home-owner is not the one who has the most at stake if it turned out not to be the case.
Saying a UI is difficult to use, doesn't adhere to convention, &c, even saying it may not look sexy/ggod/æsthetic for a reason is one thing. Chiding the author for a "Win95" look is just childish.
The terrosist attacks are caused by political, cultural and economic factors, I don't think technology has an important role to play in an eventual solution...
Dead trees are called widowmakers for a reason and even cutting one down is an extremely risky operation.
Agreed on all points.

Still the "airports can be hacked using this ninja barcode trick" spin that they put on the story pushes my buttons. -- The "trick" is absolutely trivial and they haven't even bothered to try and confirm it on _any_ real world device.

This doesn't stop them from framing it in a way that makes it look like a significant discovery of a new vulnerability which "affects the entire barcode scanner-related industries" and then try to insinuate fear of the possible consequences of that "new discovery": "[It's] really a serious problem, not just a bug people could use to get free beer". Even though it's all based on complete speculation in the first place.

In all likelihood, the people building those systems have thought of and closed the attack vector a long time ago (if it was ever there). But of course vice apparently hasn't even asked a single vendor for comment -- maybe the answer would've been "no, it's not a problem in our product".

I find it a typical case of vice reporting. They take something that isn't exactly true/new to begin with and then blow it extremely out of proportion. This creates the illusion that only vice has the hottest, rawest and most uncensored stories abut sex, drugs and crime which nobody else reports about like they do (because they are mostly made up by vice). IMO vice is classic yellow press packaged for the hip and trendy geeks of my/our generation.

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How are the tenants supposed to know that?