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I wish the authors had spent a few hours more honing their argument, because some of the points are really good.

Where it fell flat for me:

* The post was much too long. I was intently reading but soon realized that it was all over the place and started having to skip through to try to dig out the main points.

* They admitted that they weren't even working at Apple during the time when it was designing successful products.

* They admitted that iOS 9 solved many of the problems quickly at the end without saying which ones or how they failed and while introducing new problems (memory?) that only served to confuse the reader.

* The authors' argument was incoherent. It seems to be building up reasons why Apple's design was bad, but they are all over the place. "It's just bad" is not an argument. Lay the groundwork. Provide evidence for each point and evidence against arguments against those points. Tie it all up.

Some of the information in here would make great articles on their own, e.g. I'd like to read a full criticism of Apple's new font, how the Human Interface Guidelines list changes over the years and how it could be better, and the whole Dieter Rams piece would have made an excellent article even outside of the context of Apple's failures.

I think few that have been using iOS and OS X over the years would dispute that Apple has dropped the ball since Jobs' death. While much of Apple's design still trumps others', others have blindly followed Apple and done an ever worse job. (I'm looking at you, Windows 8, which was a reaction to both iOS's use in the iPad and the terrible AppStore trend introduced in OS X.) Hopefully, Microsoft, Google, and others have realized by now that leading and innovating doesn't mean copying or reacting out of fear to Apple's direction- it means hiring extremely creative people that understand user-centric design.

But, even though there are problems at Apple and with design worldwide thanks to Apple's mistakes, the authors of this post haven't made it much clearer why they dropped the ball or how we can all understand how to avoid those problems.
I think it's pretty clear that what a military-style school can bring to the table is a stand-in for paternal care to children without fathers, or with bad fathers. Traditional schooling doesn't really instil confidence or pride, in my experience; it's much more about not rocking the boat, or rocking the boat in the way that the administrators would prefer (which, of course…isn't rocking the boat).

As mapt elsethread indicates, these things can go wrong, just as the traditional, maternal school system goes wrong (zero tolerance? students disrespecting teachers‽).
> against non-obvious features (there's a word for this, I can't remember it)

Are you thinking of "affordance"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
I think there is easily a greater than 5% chance of Russia using nukes in the case of an all out war between Russia and Ukraine. (Remember how realistic it was for the US to develop small bunker-buster weapons just a few years ago? What sorts of tactical nukes do you think Russia has stored away somewhere?) Any that's plenty of risk to dramatically influence the conflict, whether diplomatic or violent.

So now you're talking about a case where the US is violating both the spirit (no UN petition) and the letter (no meaningful aid) of the memorandum, although doing each in different ways. At that point, I think the damage is done. Other countries will not and should not expect the US to honor agreements it makes, even on the deathly serious issue of voluntarily giving up nuclear weapons.
You should read the links you cite before you cite them. Among the answers found on that page are these:

"The 1-6-11 recommendation contained in Cisco's whitepaper about IEEE 802.11 deployment in the corporate environment certainly does not apply to all circumstances! For example, in moderately congested neighbourhoods, one stands a very good chance to benefit from not sticking to this proposed scheme."

"the situation usually gets worse when one voluntary abides to the 1-6-11 non-overlapping channel scheme. Doing so will expose your devices to the IEEE 802.11 RTS/CTS/ACK (Request to Send / Clear to Send / Acknowledge) of alien devices, effectively silencing your devices and hence forcedly lowering your bandwidth. This problem is known as the exposed node problem. In a corporate setting this problem can be solved by synchronising the nodes. In the wild, this is not readily achievable."

"In big corporate networks it's common practice to use channels 1,6 & 11 because it is fairly straightforward (at least on a diagram) to design non-overlapping cells of coverage. As a home user you don't have the same constraints so it makes sense to experiment and look for the best channel."

"I am a Ham Radio operator. I have done extensive testing. On my Actiontec or ZyXcel, channel 1 is abysmal! Channel 11 is a close second to the death of channel 1. ACTUAL power readings put 3 and 4 as the strongest signal output and throughput. Channels 6 and 9 are the standard preset. so actually avoid 1,6,9,11. I am a DSL tech also. I have walked people through changing channels from 9-10-11 to 3 or 4. They are amazed at the doubling of the wifi signal on all devices across the board."

"Hence, I call for actually measuring one's own signal-to-noise level...The Quality value takes into account noise from overlapping channels."

The bottom line is as I said: test your own equipment in your own environment and find what works best for you.
The problem is that there is a very significant portion of the French immigration who absolutely hate France and that ISIS can recruit so easily in this population. In many suburbs of Paris, people were cheering during 9/11. And earlier this year you didn't see any immigrant in the Charlie support demonstrations. The French press is trying to spin this as a foreign attack from the middle-east but I think that the real problem is inside France.
> it's something both their parents transmitted culturally/behaviorally because they themselves converged by living together

I very much agree and I think there is even more here:
The people in charge of their education (mother, father) weren't "drawn independently", they are two people that chose and love eachother (at least for some time).

People who marry each other tend to come from similar cultural background, or they can share some interests. All of this can then be transmitted to their respective kids.

After all Jack & Oskar's parents probably both liked white jackets before they even met.
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Is a curfew in place?

I know that all universities and research institutes are closed on Saturday.[1] Sucks if you have cells to maintain.

It would be awfully sad if people can't go out and drink and eat freely in one of the great European cities. If I was still in Paris I'd want to be having a good, relaxed time with my friends tonight.

[1]Bonjour,

Sur décision de la Mairie de Paris et du Rectorat, toutes les écoles et
établissements académiques seront fermés le samedi 14/11/15.
Both "mindless" meditation and mindful meditation have their purpose. They are not the same thing, and people who do not practice meditation do not understand they are different.

I find both extremely important in maintaining my mental state during times of stress. A half hour of meditation a day keeps the mental hospital away.
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Wow, it's like timecube for a new generation.
I don't think everyone would agree with your reasoning. In fact, your reason for disliking the FAB (it's position) is all the more reason for it to be there because it's easy to tap.
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I'm very comfortable with the Apple mouse.

But that's a single data point. The problem seems to be that the industry has decided that everyone has the same standard pair of hands.

Which is nonsense, obviously. It's like selling shoes or clothes in a single standard size.

So what happens in practice is people keep trying different mouse models until they find one that happens to fit. For me, the Magic Mouse works fine. For someone else, it won't fit at all.

This is also a problem with design. In spite of a century of theory and history there's really no such thing as an ideal standard design, because everyone's cognitive needs/skills are different.

So what happens in practice is that "design" means "looks polished and expensive, and confers accessible social proof". This attracts a price premium, and that's where the feedback loop is in the market.

The feedback loops for usability are more diffuse and not nearly as strong.

The problem with Google's Material is that it doesn't understand the social proof element. It's purely utilitarian. (IMO it's not brilliant for usability either. But that's a different issue.)

Apple's design language has been much better at creating social proof through aesthetics. As long as it keeps doing that, usability can be good-but-not-great and it will still be a commercial success.

Never mind Windows 8/10 - the less said about that, the better.
I think you'll find that psychological health has little to do with what people can convince themselves of, or convince themselves to do - i.e. you can't explain away Daesh (or WWII nazis, etc.) with mental illness.

Their actions could absolutely be called rational and logical if you were to accept their premise - which is what I'd argue is irrational.
There is a difference between a lone mass shooting and a terrorist attack coordinated by a government. It goes without saying that this is not the fault of Muslims in general. It's the fault of some Muslims, in this case IS.
People that claim Einstein was wrong should spend more time submitting their scientific papers for peer review and less time writing blog posts about it.
Most muslims are peaceful => true.
But what if we see it differently? From 100 terrorists, how many of them are muslims?
"So often, the user has to try touching everything on the screen just to find out what are actually touchable objects."

This happened to me many times on iOS and I'm a (still young) software developer, being familiar with most user interfaces that happened since Windows 3.11 until now. To be honest, biggest culprits are third party apps, but they follow official guidelines and Apple's example. This was my biggest problem with Windows Phone too, with the whole transition to flat interfaces that don't give clues on what can be tapped. If this can happen to us, then other people don't stand a chance.

But you know what's worse? Every couple of years we change the UI just for the sake of change.
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I'm wondering who did run the camp you experienced? I would like to believe that actual public military organization run camps or schools (such as the one hilighted in the article which is run by National Guard) would not be such horrorshows as private organizations might be.
Telehack
Have I just walked into some alternate reality?

On my Mac, cut is command-x.
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This looks great. Have you thought about turning it into a unix filter?
Inferior is subjective. Different groups have different traits. Not an insane point of view, but definitely one that is politically incorrect, for now: https://jaymans.wordpress.com/hbd-fundamentals/ Of course we are all human beings equally deserving of compassion, no matter what our differences, but the equality myth that we are all born the same and all have the same chances of having equal outcomes in life, is a very dangerous one that is destroying the social pacts modern Europe was built on.
With CRTs I believe it's the flyback transformer frequency you can hear.
I agree with all of your points. I have done tons of research on how to use the keyboard only.

1. If the window is minimized (minimize with Cmd-M) you can Cmd-tab to it let go of Cmd hold tab and press option and let go of tab and the window will reappear.

2. I use Cmd-W to close windows and Cmd-M to minimize windows. If you hold Shift while double clicking the title bar of the window you can maximize it in the same paradigm as windows.

3. I use the shortcuts.

4. see 2.

5. Yes.

6. If you hold Cmd-option-I after selecting files.

7. Cmd-O for Open. It started to make more sense to me.

8. Sometimes you can press (and this is inconsistent) Control-(the letter the button that you want to press starts with, so Control-C for Create)

9. Sure there is a cut operation.
That Apple was ever good at design was probably the relative side effect of other software and hardware developers being abysmally bad at it (probably due to monopolistic inefficiencies). And now that the competition is heating up and challenging Apple on the design front, the flaws that earlier would have been swept under the carpet by ardent fans, including me, are becoming difficult to disregard.
This is a false-flag attack designed to motivate moving western operations in Syria from covert to overt. There are already Russians and Chinese in Syria so this could literally kick of WWIII if no one stops it. Unfortunately the media is so well controlled that the ubiquitous war propaganda is generally not questioned.

As demonstrated by the instant downvote of my comment, media that isn't explicitly controlled is generally self-censored to protect the mythical reality supporting the war effort.
Hey, we're making this board/dice/card game about startups (it's mainly an endearing dig at them, actually) and we'd really like some feedback from you guys. What's your favourite board game, and why? Any particular features? We've already made the prototype outline, just doing some play throughs now :)
TLDR: There is some malware out in the wild called SilverPush that does interesting new bad things.
I've never seen a university closure that didn't still require certain essential employees, like those caring for animals (and presumably cells?), to work. Can someone confirm whether that is the case here?
In the Finder it isn't.
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What is special about this?
Didn't France approve sweeping surveillance laws back in July? And they even were on high alert due to international talks happening in Paris...

Italy and Spain also stopped terrorist cells this month, but they don't seem to have such laws...

Guess they need more unwarranted power, uh?
By crippling other competing governments - especially Iran, Russia, and Brazil, all of whom are struggling now - and trying to drive competing energy technologies out of the market.

The problem is that Saudi wealth isn't infinite, and as a petro-feudal patronage state with a lot of internal stresses it's not obvious the Saudis can afford to see things through to the end.
I wonder if the other factor besides interest rates is the prevalence of algorithmic trading.

When I see these swings and I hear these "flash events" it reminds me of extremely fast decisions made by machines based on very small changes.

I'm curious is there an index where we can see how much trading happens almost unattended on a daily basis via algorithmic systems? I wonder how that would map against the last decade of "systemic changes" in markets?
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Is there anything resembling "opensource" for any other area apart from programming?

I am not aware of any other trades / industries where people work on things to give away for free in their own time (and even be expected to do so in order to get a job)
I've contacted colleagues at a biotech startup that has lab space in my building. Hope they don't have any important experiments ruined.
You can read the full paper here:

http://jn.sfn.org/press/November-18-2015-Issue/zns0461501530...

Fascinating results.
There's an iOS option to outline clickable buttons, but I get what you mean
> The irony of it all is that last year when i had a couple of computer science applying for a job, they told me that they had assignments of doing bits and parts of a civilization clone at the university as part of the studies, so i guess that the university got smarter in the meantime.

Yes, indeed. The Software Architecture course at Aarhus University (which is where the FreeCiv founders are from) now contains the HotCiv project: "This project develops a framework for defining strategy games similar to the classic computer game, Civilization." The lecturer, Henrik Bærbak, wrote a textbook for the course: http://www.baerbak.com/description.html
OP starts with:

> I think Android has surpassed iOS in terms of
> design and usability.

But then only describes how materials _looks_. Both Windows and Android have been plagued with attempting to make things look a particular way without consideration for how they _work_. Ironically, Apple is often criticized for exactly this, when in my experience they really do sweat the _work_ details.

I'm not saying OP should prefer anything over another thing, just that only talking about how devices look is missing the broader goals of design and usability.
Yeah, I have read that too. That is one of the best sites that I have ever came across explains so neat the FP concepts like Monad and other stuffs.

Here is the actual course of FP from the same author: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/functional-javascript/
The justification for sortition is equity. We all have an equal right to have our views taken into account on all issues. Sortition permits the formation of a truly representative chamber of parliament. Elections do not, for a raft of reasons.

Representation is necessary because direct democracy is unworkable in large modern states, and because no-one has the time to study and understand every issue, particularly as many are highly technical and complex.

It would be absurd to choose one person, or even a small group, by sortition (or elections!), and give them legislative authority. The group chosen must be reasonably large, since a small group cannot be representative.

Regarding sortition and tests: Any test is designed to exclude some people. Who has the right to say that these people should be excluded?

A common idea is that by excluding the stupid, crazy, corrupt, ambitious, malicious… one will get "better" decisions, "better" legislation. But for any decision to be "good" it must first be equitable. Any exclusion renders the chosen group unrepresentative, and hence is inequitable. Better far to include these "undesirables": they will be relatively few in number, just as they are in society, and they will not vote as a unified block when decisions are made. Further, the more diverse the group, the better the quality of decisions (when this can be measured). It is not necessary for all the members of a group to be intelligent or well-intentioned for the group to make intelligent choices.

As for corruption and the undue influence of multinationals, lobbies, religious groups, and bureaucrats, I believe it is possible to greatly reduce or eliminate this with good design of the institutions.

For a fuller discussion of these issues and a proposal for a government based on sortition, you might be interested to read "Down with Elections!", available as an e-book on Smashwords, Amazon and Apple's iTunes bookstore, for about $1. (A blatant plug for my own work).

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/570431
http://www.amazon.com/DOWN-ELECTIONS-C-Wallace-ebook/dp/B014...
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/down-with-elections!/id1032...

Or you can have it for free as a PDF (less convenient):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7oqo5paiwmwatsp/DWE_PDF.pdf?dl=0
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Hmmm, good idea.
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You know, a lot of these features are so mindlessly piled that for an existing iPhone user it does not feel like cognitive overload.

But my mom used the newest iPhone last week -- she used iPhone 4 as her full time phone back in the day -- and she could not navigate Safari properly. That's how unusable the iPhone is now even for a legacy iOS user. Whatever happened to days when toddlers could figure out iPads? Is this really the company that brought sliding, tapping, pinching actions to touchscreens?

I think when it comes to Flat UI, Apple seriously lost the new design wars to Google. To add function, you need corresponding forms. Previously, Apple could hide the new function in the skeuomorphism wrapper and it didn't feel like too much on the plate. Form wasn't needed as it mimicked real world. With 7.0 and beyond, they tried to use the z-axis, but willingly chose form over function over and over again, and it shows! Google, on the other hand with their material design and paper element succeeded in wrapping together functionality in 3 dimensions, widgets (paper elements) and feedback based animation in such a way that the usability endpoint is very static to interact with the various functions. If you can use the Phone app on Lollipop, you can use anything.

And all this while Apple managed to put in yet another dimensions to somehow preserve their z-axis to two layers to make sure integrity of Flat UI is preserved. iOS' UI isn't just flat, it's also congested -- just like my flat table.
Well, that was kind of the point.

The original Mac OS was designed to be mouse-first. Keyboard shortcuts were there, but only to be used as well as, not instead of the mouse.

Windows had to be completely usable by keyboard as it began as a graphical overlay to a keyboard-only interface - and it wasn't possible to guarantee every machine it was on had a mouse.

It's a bit like now I suppose. iOS was designed to be touch-first, with limited keyboard and no pointer support, and Windows adds a touch overlay to a keyboard and pointer-first system.
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This is great but can we have it without Vagrant?

We already have fully capable systems to simulate potential production stack with Docker, no need for another layer of virtualization.

OTOH I really love that there's no need to dig into .otto directory.
any old key...

You can always revoke certificates.

what does a grace period buy anyone?

It avoids bad publicity and lost revenue. At some point you don't want to continue operating with old certificates, but breaking without warning is a terrable idea.
Am is missing something or is the presented "attack" really trivial? They use a barcode scanner connected as a virtual keyboard to directly enter keystrokes into the windows shell - I imagine the barcode simply reads "CTRL, T, S, O, M, E, C, O, M, M, A, N, D".

It's not surprising that it works to me -- I think it's the intended behaviour.

The article suggests the fact that barcodes can contain arbitrary (non-printable) ascii characters is the discovery of a new vulnerability which can be used to attack a large number of real-world POS/airport check-in systems, but doesn't give a single example or proof for that. This seems like complete speculation on the presence of input handling bugs in systems connected to barcode scanners presented as a fact.
Most the material ergonomy is laughable, lots of nice ideas and work but I'm about 32x more productive with a BadaOS interface.
>“General speaking, we can make [a barcode scanner] to 'type' any keys to the host system, not only the 0-9 and a-z,” Yu said. He claims this lets someone create a boarding pass to “execute any command on computer.”

At a guess, they encoded Win+R cmd <enter> into a barcode. It's a neat trick with big potential.
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