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I don't have a particular issue with any of the iOS stuff ported over, but it's a lament I hear quite frequently from other Mac users.

You're right that there's a certain amount of rose-tinting with regards to Snow Leopard. It certainly wasn't perfect, and I wouldn't really want to switch back to it; the world has moved on since then, and SL isn't really competitive as a primary OS now.

With that said, though, my use-case in OS X hasn't dramatically changed since Snow Leopard --- mostly web-browsing, some IM, using the Terminal for various tasks --- but OS X's stability has changed in that time, for the worse. Apps crash more often, the OS itself is generally less stable and prone to random freezes which require a hard-restart. Doing a fresh install didn't fix these issues, and my fianceé's MacBook has them too, which makes me think it's not just hardware issues.

I think what I'm really looking for is Snow El Capitan: a year where nothing new is added and Apple throw intense focus on fixing the various weirdnesses that are introduced during their breakneck release cycle.
I've experienced a similar issue with song removal. I've also had to jump through a bunch of hoops to finally delete a few old apps that kept coming back after being deleted as well.
That's not true at all. QuickTime container can represent each frame timestamp exactly, and it has got some advanced features like edit lists. Every frame has got a start and stop time, and each sync sample is marked as such, it's even possible to mark on which sample each sample depends. In Matroska for example the stop time is so unreliable you often have to analyse the frame content or wait for the next frame to know the duration of a sample, and who knows if the sync flag is true or not.

You are probably referring to the delay introduced by b-frames, but the mov container has got a atom ('cslg') to store the max and min offsets and put everything in sync again.

Unfortunately third party mov demuxers don't support cslg or edit lists, so they only supports the simplest mov files.
It's actually sad that this company with only patents and no products is a listed public company on a regulated US exchange.
Regarding your last point about many people not knowing what XCode is: I assume GP was theorizing that Apple's declining software quality is related or even in part caused by their bad development environment and tools, compared to competitiors.
Have you tried Centrallo?
Centrallo 2.0 Global Productivity App Adds Evernote Import Wizard to Its List-Making Features and Adds Former Evernote Executive Heather Wilde to Its Team
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/02/prweb13198898.htm
Understanding JavaScript's async await
That's a feature, not a bug. I want my seeding/downloading to run the background. I suspect he doesn't understand how to properly close the application.
This does not sound healthy.
Oh, this is kind of interesting. I mostly use my desktop workstation, with my Dell tablet serving as my portable thin client over ssh. I use Termux ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux&hl=... ) to get my essential command line fix and it really is a wonderful example of a quality Android app for people like us, but I'd still kill to have a real desktop Linux on my tablet. How I pine for the option to sometimes drop into a good old i3 session on my tablet...

Has anybody used the Android version of this tablet? It looks decent but it's hard to say and my Spanish is too rusty to read most of the pages that talk about it.
> Seems like what you really want to say is "don't hate the player, hate the game."

More like, "Hate the game, and hate the player for playing it"

Instead of everyone joining in the patent suing racket, these big players should be lobbying for the laws to be changed
Sorry, you lost me at "rockstar developer" (actually at that brilliant quote about the "inferior OS", c'mon we are engineers right?).
I mean bricked as in unusable because it's too slow for anything. Not bricked as in dead.

The usual fun stuff involves turning off with 30% battery left and Google Maps burning through whole battery in MINUTES.

There was a class action lawsuit about it, so I'm not the only one! If you iPhone still works, count yourself lucky!
It's not hard to imagine 20,000 people who want five things each…but all of these people want a different set of five things.
Ecuador, si. UK, not so much.
People have been building homes cheaper than that for a long time now. What makes this different?

When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time on my grandfather's farm in southern Kentucky. I didn't realize it, but it was rural poverty. He didn't have electricity or running water (this was the early 1970s). But at least it was a wood house, with glass windows and doors and a decent fireplace and a coal-burning stove.

Back in the far back of the same property, up a dirt trail in the woods, an old black man lived alone in a shack. One room, walls made out of tar paper and corrugated steel. That's a house that can survive in that kind of terrain, and it cost a lot less than $20k. (Interestingly, my father treated that old man with great respect and deference. My father didn't respect anyone, so it boggled me, even as a small child.)

Around the world, entire neighborhoods of "shantytowns" arise around cities, made from the discarded junk of richer people. Shelter is shelter. People build it because they can't make a living wage and pay someone else to build a house for them...
from their FAQ[1]:

"What will you do with my money once you're a bank?

In year 1, a very small proportion of your money will be lent to private individuals in the form of unsecured personal overdrafts. The rest sits in cash at the Bank of England. In the future, we will do more personal lending and invest some of the money in UK government bonds."

Until they get their banking license, they're just offering rebranded pre-paid debit cards from Wirecard. From the FAQ: "We have given out the initial batch of 500 Mondo Alpha cards." "In total, we’ve got 3,000 limited edition “Mondo Alpha” cards to give out over the the next three months or so."

[1] https://getmondo.co.uk/faq/
This is very important. You have to make sure you have the upper hand. This has been successful for me even in the private sector. I left a department once with another offer in hand, and they were willing to rewrite the job spec (and salary range) to convince me to stay. The other offer was more lucrative with more upward mobility, so I ended up leaving anyway, but it's a much better experience when you don't have anything to lose.
A lot of the poor, rural, families these low-cost homes are targeted at are living on land owned by the family for generations. They often do small-scale farming or large-scale gardening (depending on your definition) and hunting/gathering on the property for food.

In many cases, there will be multiple generations of the family living in separate houses on the same property. At least, these things were all true when I lived in family property in West Virginia in the 80's. We had four houses on about 200 acres in a valley, nearly an acre of garden, and other relatives would regularly stop by from nearby valleys on hunting trips, sharing what they managed to catch for what we managed to grow.
Object.observe deprecated in Chrome 49
"Help, I used a PRNG and I accidentally destroyed all known universes"
The N5 is a terrible phone in general. Even with the OS it launched with, battery life was subpar. Worse than even budget phones of the time.

I'm glad the Nexus product line has given up on the 'budget' end of things. Battery life and camera quality in the 6, 6p, and 5x are much better. They cost a bit more, but its more than worth it.
procrastination is delay in doing things you don't particularly want to do but still understand are obligations. Delaying doing homework/office work/yard work.

idea debt is: the struggle with creative sunk costs. Thinking in circles about something you are interested in while accomplishing no really progress in making your idea a tangible thing.
https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm and https://www.onetonline.org have always been reliable data points. I do find that they are typically 10% lower than what I've been offered for various positions and 20% lower than what I was able to negotiate for.
Nice job formatting that...
Cynically: the old are already impoverished, and we have more to gain by freeing the youth from future poverty than we do by salvaging twilight years.

Realistically, you're right about debt having two sides... but one side is typically far more in the hole than the other.
Why is 2 stupider than 1?
Never quite followed the plethora of "Capitalism isn't working" articles. And the alternative is?? There always seems to be some political agenda involved.
Note that there is actually a very nice kafka mesos framework for this sort of thing:

https://github.com/mesos/kafka

Mesos supports persistent volumes and what they call "dynamic reservations", which this framework supports. If the application is killed, and the host is still up, it will be restarted on the same host and re-attached to the volume which has the data, otherwise, kafka will just replicate to the new broker (as it does).

The initial code for adding the dynamic reservation bits was added last November as it is a relatively new feature in Mesos:

https://github.com/mesos/kafka/commit/455b20f94b9166b026ea
While a lot of people have tons of ideas that they can only execute on a few of them, there's quite a few people have the talent to make things that don't have the deluge of ideas invading their mind every day.

I think the idea people should be a little less protective of their ideas, especially the ones they know will never get made, and flesh them out just enough so others can run with it, and then put it out there somewhere.

I know there's a couple sites based on this concept, but maybe it could be something where ideas could get upvoted and the more visible ones might get people on board.

I don't know, sometimes I think that's what people are trying to do when they make a project open-source sometimes.

But yeah, there's a bunch of junk I come up with that aren't bad ideas, but I'll never realistically invest the time to get them done, especially considering all my other projects.
IRS computer problems shut down e-file system
Ask HN: No HTTPS – Why do you trust an app?
There is no way of knowing whether an app uses https or not. How do you trust an app, then?
Those default memory use measurements are just a way to check if a particular 100 line toy benchmark program has been written to exploit time / space trade-off.
Sorry, man. This is a pet peeve of mine, as you can see from my comment history. And I'm not the only one, those comments often get quite a few upvotes. I can see how it must be frustrating to launch something only to have a comment like this, but it is my honest not-trying-to-be-mean reaction to a site that breaks the back button, I feel very frustrated and it's off-putting. The website is a cool idea as I said, so to be clear, I do not think that they shouldn't have bothered.
Why Apple and Beats Should Sell Turntables
How am I misinterpreting what you've written. You said "stealth is mostly worthless" a statement that is factually incorrect. You also are speculating as to how much technology the Chinese have stolen, and how easily that technology is to integrate into their own airframes, and how easy to counteract with their AD technology.

The idea that the Chinese can just steal some autocad drawings and crank out competitive aircraft isn't realistic. They lack the experience in engine design and manufacturing for starters. Much of their military technology is either licensed from Russia, and then reverse engineered. Yet they still can't produce an engine even close to the PWF135.

And speed isn't life in air combat. Situational awareness is. And someone flying a POS MIG/Sukhoi will get slapped by a slower aircraft if the MIG is unable to detect, track and engage the F-35. Ask the Iraqi's how well they did running away to Iran? Ask them how their MIG-25s did against slower F-15s? Or ask the Syrians why they stopped flying Foxbats over Israel once the Israelis got the slower F-15. The reason is because top end speed isn't the be all and end all of fighter performance.

And thanks for the ad hominem at the end. Nice to know that you've run out of logic and facts for your arguments.
I don't even know if Apple owns the hardware quality title anymore. The Surface line from Microsoft is astounding in quality, and it's only a few generations old. This latest line did have some bugs (mostly due to Intel,) but overall when I walk into a Best Buy, and I feel a Surface Book and look over at a MacBook, one feels like the future, while one feels like it's hugging the past.

The problem with Apple, and I've said this for ages, is that Apple is fashion. It's a status symbol, Sony used to be that same way, and look at it now. It had similar business verticals, pushed the same proprietary nonsense instead of adopting what the rest of the industry is doing and they were drowned as they began to expand their portfolio of devices.

Apple makes great quality devices, but Apple also enjoys massive hardware margins. Hardware margins diminish with time, no company has successfully escaped it. So the question is, at what point does Apple go out of style?
Hey, guys! I'm one of the core collaborators for JSON Resume[0], an alternative to this project.

Markdown is cool, but as scrollaway said,

> JSON Resume wants to standardize CV fields to improve compatibility between tools, ease conversion, ease theming and such.

In fact, we have a notion of "themes", and this sort of markdown-based format can be generated from your JSONResume. We think that JSON is a saner default interchange format than markdown.

If you've been following JSONResume development, you might have thought the project died, but myself, along with @aloisdg and others are reviving it and working towards a stable v1.0.0 release. Feel free to suggest changes and make PRs :)

[0] - https://github.com/jsonresume
You could turn it on initially and turn it off subsequently I guess.

I guess you could also set up some smart devices with some log-in credentials on a guest network you activate once a month to allow everything to update without it being too invasive or something.
For OS X, the decline began under Jobs with 10.7. I'd always assumed it was simply that Apple no longer cared about computers; in Jobs' own words, “milk the Macintosh for all it's worth and get busy on the next great thing.”
I work 60 hours a week with 2 weeks vacation a year. I am also not highly paid. I would love to work at a place that just required the normal 40 hours a week.
The Rise of Texting as an E-commerce Platform
The reason for this is barriers to entry to be a big corporation are getting bigger. (This is the only fundamental truth that the author fails to mention!)

However, the barriers to entry to be an entrepreneur are far far lower. Corporations still compete with each other on innovation but now more than ever this is through buying small and medium sized companies said entrepreneurs have created :)

So, this is neither good nor bad, just a shift in where the competitive opportunities are. Hint, it's getting easier for the little guys to compete.
This article would be more accurately titled "Only 1.2 Percent of Phones Are Allowed by the Telcos to Run Android Marshmallow". Do you think it's due to any kind of apathy on the user's behalf? I'd be thrilled to have Marshmallow. I upgraded to an HTC M9 from my M7 because HTC promised that the M9 would get Marshmallow.

Nonetheless, it's four months later, and I'm still waiting for Verizon to allow me the privilege.
Isn't this to be expected, given the heritability of IQ?
It's about time google crack down on these ads. The download button is just one of the many tactics. Any ads that show a guy with biceps three times the size of his head should also be banned. Yahoo is infested with these "sponsored" ads, and pretty much any other site that lives on ads revenue only.
Or how about we hard delete all software patents since they are absolutely ridiculous? Goodbye $600mil flow charts.
A lot of awful software shipped under Steve Jobs. X Code has always been a buggy mess, iTunes bloated greatly under Steve (remember Ping?), iMovie '08, etc etc.
There are already many applications that won't run on my Cyanogenmod 4.4.4 because I refuse to have any Google binaries onboard... I hope that this is not the future.
Gotcha. Yeah, I see one there. Big green button with a down arrow saying "GET IT NOW" lots of whitespace below and then a smallish rewaterpressure logo. Because of the whitespace, the button very much looked associated with the paint.net download text above, not with the rewaterpressure logo below.

I also received the less bad (but still bad) text-based "start download now" one the same page. You convinced me. Editing my parent post above.

EDIT: for those curious, here's what the page looked like on the page load mentioned above: http://imgur.com/SisOXNT

They were all Google served ads.
Not to be a stickler, but this particular part of the discussion seems unfair to me. Application bugs should be blamed on the app developer, not on OS X. (Unless, of course, it's one of Apple's built-in apps.)
It is ridiculous indeed. If your work can be done from home there is no reason to come to office apart from occasional meetings. Even things like scrum stand ups can be done via hangouts.
So is basically every single website you visit and all the data you share with them wittingly or unwittingly. Pocket isn't a password manager, it's a short scrapbook of things you want to read later.
looks like HN overloaded the website
Exactly this. Snow leopard was a great release in terms of quality, but leopard wasn't.

Many releases had critical flaws that needed a point release in less than 2 weeks.
In America, 100 years is a long time.

In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance.
Has Android ecosystem ever given a hint that a device would be supported after 2 years? Certainly for phones you are supposed to get a new one from your carrier.
I don't know whether we'll ever have the privilege of a great TV OS, though. The iTV was supposed to deliver us (from) that, but looks like we're stuck with just the Apple TV for now.

I'm not impressed with any interfaces, but at least my Panasonic's FxOS is better than my old Panasonic's.
Then you decide to pull the trigger and move. I did and I am happy that I did. I still have a mac for my primary machine, but literally everything else is Android and Windows. I consciously make sure my data is portable. No lock in and it's not that hard.
Not in the eyes of customers, but in the eyes of future investors. I don't think customers should know or care what accelerator a company went through, although Cinder does advertise itself as "YC-backed" in order to convince customers that it's not a Kickstarter scam.
10 growth hacking tips to boost your conversions by 40% and more
As a person who decides salary and raise and bonus I would like to hear about your impact. Many requests are because "you need it" or its what's paid elsewhere.

Open with: I built the good thing that saves us $5k/mo. My design is clean and easy for a new guy to maintain. My work-product is obviously valuable and from that I deserve financial recognition.

When I used to negotiate my own salary I used that approach. one time (in 2001) it worked to take my salary up by $3k/mo - I had only been there 3 months.

Be prepared to walk. Remember that recruiters can get you a new gig in weeks. Hold that for 6mo while finding the right one
Which isn't terribly different than being employed. Your employer probably pays 80% of your health insurance premium and you pay the rest. It's all just part of your comp package that you need to sort out if you decide to start a consulting business.
My first thought was that's going to have a big impact on the NHS and the care industry:

"Metcalfe says there will be temporary exceptions for people with skills such as nursing, because there is a shortage in the U.K."

Presumably central government has perfect information about the job market and will be able to make all the exceptions required in every industry?
Feature bloat is a problem in virtually every piece of software people have ever used.

Time and time again a startup comes along with "-foo- simplified", gets people to switch with it's ease, bloats up the product over time, and then loses to the next guy.
Ugh, channel switching is such a goddamn pain, even on modern TVs. It blows my mind that this is still a bloody thing with fancypants TVs.
Show HN: ScopeAround –– A Smart and Versatile Camera Like No Other Camera
They're likely just contracting with an OEM to build the thing, and it's probably reusing a design of an existing Android tablet. It would likely be prohibitively expensive to get a bespoke custom designed tablet that has a kickstand like the Surface.
Becoming a webhost resller
Does anyone have experience being a webhost or a webhosting reseller? I'm interested in doing it for passive income.

A few questions:
- Where do I start?
-Do you have a recommended provider for reseller services?
- How many hours per week do you spend on it?
It's surprising just how bad Apple's software has got in a seemingly small space of time.

Yosemite was the biggest disgrace of all. My mouse or keyboard would not wake the iMac after it went to sleep. And the beach ball was seen so frequently that my 1500 CHF iMac was useless after just 2 years. El Capitan finally fixed the sleep issue and the beach ball is seen much less, but I'd expect much more for the price I paid. The profiteering of Apple with regard to having an SSD with the iMac also severely annoys me.

My iPhone seems to have numberous glitches and software issues too. And for a fine example of just "what the hell are apple thinking" - the original incarnation of the battery monitor in iOS was it. What's the use of seeing the percentage of the battery an app has used - a completely useless statistic unless it included the time too. I still don't find it a particularly useful feature, as I am sure my battery is draining too fast, but the battery monitor gives me no simple way to prove this.
I can think of a dozen perfectly good answers.

"I'm the tech lead", "I was a developer for X years before moving into management", "Fully technical - I wrote/designed this blah", "I have a degree in X", etc.

I ask people how technical they are all the time - recruiters, project managers, designers, marketing people, product managers. It helps me communicate effectively. I won't describe a problem in the same way to a senior engineer as I would to a non-technical marketing person.

Depending on the parent commenter's job title, people may not have known whether she was a technical leader or a people manager upon first meeting, and asked the question without ever even giving a thought to gender.
How much promotion is too much promotion? Scenes from a Marketing War Room
M is the first release since J where almost all the UI changes were improvements.
True story. I was earning £50,000 in London ~ 6 years ago. I asked for a £10K raise after I'd been given more responsibilities and had taken up mentoring duties too. I was given a £5K bonus and told to wait until year end for a £5K salary rise. I wasn't satisfied but was informed that HR had overruled the dev manager. I was offered a lucrative contract as a freelancer, so I resigned. I was immediately offered £70K, another bonus and an improved benefits package, because HR has called my bluff and got it wrong. I walked. Never looked back. Process. It's a killer.