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Pages is an abomination. My partner was nearly in tears trying to do the most basic of table formatting.

iOS app 'screenshots' (in task selection mode) are often dated, even after multiple openings of the app. I get that they are meant to be just that, snapshots, but if those aren't up to date, you may as well just show the app icon.

Up to once a week, now, iCloud (in OS X settings) asks me to verify my password when "nothing has changed" (no purchases, etc). It then spins for a long time and there's no acknowledgement that it 'succeeded'.

Several more.
I'd go with that.
Valid point. But I still reject the notion of "that sucks but might as well get mine". Sounds like there's a lot of space for ad networks that don't suck. Or monetization models that don't rely on spammy, useless ads.
I think we're heading for a synthesis of these opposing trends, the common core being a fatigue with complex bloated user interfaces, and a return to simpler design. Personally I enjoy command line interfaces, especially in full screen with huge fonts, and I've been using Ratpoison (one of the first tiling X window managers) like this since like 2004. But I also enjoy, at least in principle, tablet-style UIs. Neither is based on overlapping windows, for one thing, and they are both helpful for my quasi-ADHD/OCD tendencies.

Mac OS now is in a weird limbo between the Unix heritage, the Mac heritage, and the iOS heritage. I think unifying these strands is an enormous challenge, but also really cool and inspiring. Maybe Apple are going to focus on making cars or whatever, and some weird little upstart is going to come along and make something totally new. You can see people starting to talk about Slack as an operating system, but that's still very primitive.

Chat and command lines are interesting because they represent a huge paradigm that's been overshadowed by the "GUI" paradigm, namely the paradigm of queries and responses: you ask the computer something and get something back, perhaps asynchronously. It's such a useful, coherent model. Easy to program with. Portable across interfaces. Good for exploration. Cognitively appropriate. Etc etc.

I think the complexity and bug-riddenness of most "modern" desktop operating systems come from an over-complicated and incoherent model of operation. Mobile represents a new start. It currently lacks in flexibility, but it's probably a good thing to start with rigid simplicity than to try for flexible complexity, and unless you can perfect a genius UI right away I do think those are the options, if you're aiming for the general public who don't want to learn vim.

I also think the divide between application programmers and computer users is politically a Bad Thing and also a result of exaggerated complexity. Unix was always about user scripting, and it managed that because of textual data, worse-is-better, and RTFM. Apple might not be the company to get back to this, because they're making tons of money from making shiny coherent appliances for people who pay to think as little as possible.

So just generally I'm not holding my breath for Apple to come up with a wildly new and interesting paradigm here. They're a dinosaur. A very pretty dinosaur. I'm more interested in startups with weird ideas, like maybe let's use e-ink displays, cheap ultralight computers, cloud servers, natural language processing, and the interactive fiction adventure exploration paradigm to provide a new style of terminal gadget that's even cooler than Linux. (If you steal this idea, please don't fuck it up.)
>He is, however, violating the conditions of his bail in the UK and I don't really see why we should offer any special dispensation just because he's been "hiding out" for a long time.

He is violating his bail conditions in the UK but I don't see how that's relevant here. Assanges goal isn't avoiding arrest, but extradition.

>Anyone violating bail should expect to spend the rest of their life under threat of arrest and not assume they can make it go away by hiding out for a few years.

I'm not entirely sure about the UK system on this but in most countries crimes expire.
youtube for IPad is terrible:

1. it has no back button. sometimes I watched video a, then from the recommend list there is video b and video c
I select video b, then the recommend list update
if I want to see video c, I have to search again

2. there is no sound volume button, each time I have to use the button in ipad
> But how do you reconcile that with those that marry through arranged, sometimes forced marriages, to those in some poor countries?

Forced marriages are already illegal under UK law, and additionally a foreign spouse cannot enter without support by a UK-national sponsor.

You cannot use extremely rare incidents to justify a policy of mass discrimination (against non-EU citizens, and UK nationals that are impacted).

> This law is intended to reduce that scenario which is a wide backdoor to normal immigration.

There's no backdoor. UK nationals are meant to be able to bring in spouses and children. The fact they cannot in some cases because they make the national median in salary is just disturbing.

Essentially poor people have one set of rules and affluent people have another.
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Even doing radiation tests on rats in a lab is going to have fewer confounding factors than 100 infertile human guys filling out a questionnaire.

I'm not aware of any lab rat studies that found harm from cell phone radiation. And of course the basic mechanism by which radiation affects materials is pretty well understood.

All this is to say: I think yummfajitas had it right. Fajitas are delicious.
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It was hard for me to get into a flow while standing.

This takes practice.

When words are flowing, leg fatigue shouldn’t cut a writing session short. When I’m “wired in”, I don’t want to have to think about the discomfort in my lower back. I just want to think about my work.

I have a sit-stand desk: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/01/24/geekdesk-max-sit-stand-des.... Best of both worlds! When I'm in the zone I often get up, walk a little, and then continue working anyway. Putting it from sitting to standing or vice versa doesn't disrupt flow, at least for me.
I've been complaining about this for a while now, and I'm glad more people are experiencing it and complaining.

I honestly dread Apple software updates because I know they're not going to fix anything I care about, and they're going to break stuff or arbitrarily replace perfectly fine, working features with new half-assed implementations that are buggy and don't work as well.

The latest example came just a couple days ago when I finally updated to the latest iOs, hoping maybe they've made it possible to remove the "radio" feature from Music. They haven't, and as bonus they replaced the "app close" screen with an ugly, broken one for no good f'ing reason; and the top info display with service/time/battery level now covers the top 20 pixels of several apps, obscuring the view in those programs. And they've added a few new crappy apps I have no interest in using, but can't remove.

I still think their hardware is awesome, but their software is going down the drain.
You can always refer to the official Docker Compose documentation for examples: https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/

However DCHQ provides a lot of cool enhancements on Docker Compose like event-driven service discovery plug-ins and additional parameters like host, mem_min, registry_id, etc.

You can check out DCHQ's Docker Compose examples here: http://dchq.co/docker-compose.html#docker-compose-examples
Just a note, I was sick of Spotlight too, and I switched to Alfred, which is actually the "father" of spotlight. And it is way better than Spotlight now. You should give it a try
The fact that we are still talking about Pocket being integrated in 2016 amazes me. Especially considering that Mozilla was designed and intended as a community project.
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Many major issues regarding security,filesystem keep cropping up(there are a couple of links in the article). The idea is that instead of spending time and effort trying to maintain the OS, they can instead use the battle tested linux and focus exclusively on the distinguishing features.

And this will hopefully enable Apple to focus on the issues in the userspace.
Preview was pretty cool, and for the most part still is, but now it doesn't update any more when viewing a PDF not in page mode but in continuous scroll mode. That basically means I cannot use it for previewing Latex PDFs anymore.
Yes. Remember, Apple never started asserting their patents until they were sued by numerous patent trolls and Kodak and Creative.
The title is not accurate. Regardless of whether "people" (excluding me, it seems) think of Firefox OS as a phone OS, Mozilla has been using the name in TV usage for two years [1].

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/01/06/mozilla-and-partner...
This is like saying "the battery of the future will be a transistor."
Where can I buy one though?
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I still don't understand why anyone thinks tablets are "the future" for anything other than passive consumption of content.

Convertible tablets like Microsoft Surface don't count -- those are laptops with detachable keyboards.
You are very low on the pyramid, try to move up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_%28computer_progra...

Your post would have been better if you'd posted links explaining why you disagree. Insulting just makes you look ignorant.
> The 'Unity' interface these days pretty much IS the equivalent of 'legacy'.

Really? In such a short time it's considered 'legacy' now? The Gnome 2.x interface is legacy, but I wouldn't consider Unity to be so.
As with most things in this world, you could sue them.
I've been using BlueMix off and on since it was still Beta. I have noticed that a lot of things, particularly in the BaaS space, have changed significantly. While I'm sure BlueMix will be around, I doubt you'll make it 3 or 4 years without having to modify your code to accommodate changes to the platform.
> These comments certainly add no useful information

It did though, someone else came in to link the requested reference. As an American I knew nothing of the "Five Techniques" and learned something new today as a direct result of that comment.

If you make a statement of fact you have an obligation to back it up with references. It makes perfect sense then that statements without references can and should be challenged to provide them.
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Your post reminded me of something: after years of doing Time Machine enhanced updates, last year I did a fresh install without Time Machine. I think that this made things better, but I can't really be specific why.
It's pretty meaningless to say it's a political agenda - when you're talking at national scale everything is political.
I think it boils down to asking what the product is actually for, or rather, what fundamental human need does it solve? That's a rather tough answer for computers, but for cars it's easy - getting from point A to point B. Every modification to a car is in pursuit of either making the job more efficient or making the job easier/more comfortable for the customer.

I think the fact that the answer is so tough for computers is why feature creep is so common with software. When your tool can literally do anything you want it to, why say no? The constraints are actually in the mind of the customer.
I don't think this is as horrible as it sounds. It would be expected that a long-term investor would have a negative alpha (for the period of a few seconds), especially in a shallow market encouraged by low-latency traders.

For example, if you're buying 100k stocks on an exchange, chances are that you'll move the price. Since the price movement was "random" (i.e. not caused by any fundamental news about the company, but rather about your decision to execute that trade exactly in that moment), it would make sense for the price to revert back to the previous mean. But then, if you're focused on the long-term performance of your investments, you won't care - you know in advance that you will have to pay a fee for executing large trades (which is only fair, really), so you factor that in when deciding which stock to buy!
The timing of this is terrible.

I feel that there is real evidence of Google influencing the regulatory landscape and we really need a viable alternative to google for people that can't afford an iPhone.

Google's data collection on android devices is so far past the creepy line (all under the dual use rationale of protecting users from bad things- cert abuse in chrome or malware prevention in verify apps).
Somewhat but not exactly. I have 3 children at home. I still get plenty of ideas, sometimes I even do research or hack up a quick rails scaffold to see how it might start. I just no longer spend nights & weekends banging it out until I get to the half-finished stage.
The majority of this thread's comments relate personal experiences, so I might as well contribute mine as well. Nearly a decade ago I started work on a project. For eight years progress consisted of taking notes and daydreaming. I was going to write a book that would make me famous. Over the years the dream-ideas progressed from a paper book, to an iPod book, to a HTML5 book. The daydreams always kept up with the available technology. Finally, two years ago, I suddenly started working on the thing. It is a travelogue, written for Android. The difficulties of implementation were unexpected and surprising. And now that it's approaching completeness a new set of unexpected problems arise. I'd assumed that simply writing a book would be enough to sell it; but apparently a lot of marketing is required. Daydreaming has benefits, but it costs time.

Edit: Having mentioned marketing; here is video screen cap of the book: https://youtu.be/yX4JTS-eIqQ
> Up to once a week, now, iCloud (in OS X settings) asks me to verify my password when "nothing has changed" (no purchases, etc). It then spins for a long time and there's no acknowledgement that it 'succeeded'.

Only once a week?

Try refusing to log in. You'll get pestered every five minutes, sometimes more often than that.

Try disabling it after not logging in, and it asks you to log in to disable it, and then start pestering you even more frequently. Completely asinine.
Nice! Do you have a video? I'm curious as to how smoothly it responds to touch.
All this Javascript machinery does so little. Most sites aren't implementing something like Google Earth, which needs heavy machinery to make it go. They're not implementing a multiplayer game in the browser. They're not using WebGL to display and edit 3D engineering drawings. 90% of web pages just display some static text and images with some forms and buttons, just like they did 10 years ago. There's a little more work required to deal with the screen size and form factor between desktop, laptop, tablet, and phone, but mostly it's basic content.

Yet the amount of code needed to do this has increased by huge amounts, and it churns constantly. Something is very wrong here.

The bad part of this is the disappearance of WYSIWYG editors for HTML. You weren't supposed to write this stuff by hand. That wasn't the plan. Tim Bernars-Lee's first browser had an editor. Mozilla had an editor. Microsoft had FrontPage. There used to be good open source editors. There was Nvu (dead)[1], and then Kompozer (abandoned)[2] Now, about the only thing left is Dreamweaver, which you now have to rent by the month. (Is BlueGriffon any good?) You didn't need a "content management system" unless you were constantly publishing new content, like a newspaper.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvu
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KompoZer
I really can't say I care about those jobs. The engineers would have more than likely found other jobs with actual companies that actually do stuff.
Wealth is less diffuse than your suggesting. But, it's also more global.

As it stands, money never really sits around doing nothing. It's on some banks balance sheets and so it's loaned out, then repackaged and sold to organizations seeking safe places to park money. This repackaging of debt has been a huge boon to the US economy in the short term. But, it's only a long term gain if people actually default otherwise it's just a long term drain for a short term boon.

The wider problem is there is more 'money' than productive usage for that money which means bad loans, and wealth destruction. Arguably the solution is to have money sit around without being loaned out.
Wish I could give this more upvotes.
Since it was a statement by you about your own actions, saying he thinks you are wrong in that wording is calling you a liar. It could, and I think should, have been worded differently if the intent was to probe whether you were being hyperbolic or mistaken. E.g.

"I'm not sure how someone would go about not using any Apple app, such as calculator, camera, clock, contacts, messages, phone, photos, safari. Do you not require a lot of what these apps provide, or have actually found good alternatives for each of them?"

or

"I really can't imagine not using any Apple apps. How do you get by without any of them?"

In each of these cases, the problem is presented as a failure of the asker's imagination or knowledge, and we ask for clarification on this point. IMO, this is a much more civil way to converse than starting out by questioning the veracity of someone's statements about theirself.
Well, he is right in that the comment he's responding to didn't really add anything to the subject but rather serves to distract from it.

Assanges bail violation has nothing to do with the UN decision.
>Only CEOs of huge corporations are able to ... process financial transactions.

Is that true? Isn't Stripe a counterexample to this?
Truth is an absolute defense to libel in the US.
The only issue I have with spotlight on El Capitan is a strange issue where sometimes after entering the first character the cursor jumps to start again and overwrites the first character, turning a search for "text" which should open TextEdit to "ext" which opens Extractor.
As a very casual Apple user (ie I don't own any devices but I sometimes uses my girlfriend imac/macbook), I would say that this has been my opinion for a couple of years now.
Pretty much everytime I use OSX or an iphone I run into bugs, as a short list from the top of my memory:

- iphone screen turning black with siri enabled and repeating that she couldn't hear what I said or something like that

- closing lid on macbook, re-opening -> no more wifi until you reboot

- itunes download progress disappearing after a few seconds, changing tab and coming back would show it again for a few seconds

- randomly losing wifi

I might be cursed when it comes to Apple software but that also means I won't go near an Apple car, even though I hope they have very different standards from the OS/phone teams.
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Context: that's a quote from 1996.
> Except you have to do both - if you ignore the racket you are much more exposed to lawsuits

Check this out: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/06/defensive-patent-licen...

Google and Facebook are playing as well: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1639473982937255/updating-ou..., https://www.google.com/patents/licensing/dpl/non-sticky/

It should be mentioned that both of the above corporations grant this patent license for use and modification of the software they have open sourced.
It wasn't a major or revenue-generating site, so I don't want to spend on legal fees. If it had been though, I would.
>Best of both worlds!

Exactly; there is no panacea. The purpose of "standing desks" was to prevent workers from sitting all day. But the sitting or standing are secondary to the moving.
> Google's Youtube IOS app has issue playing video correctly. It can't even buffer the segments correctly.

Do you have t-mobile? T-mobile started throttling everyone's videos. I had problems similar to the one you describe and had to turn off tmobile's throttling 'feature' in order to get youtube to work correctly.
Hmm, interesting points about the hopper and added features. Thanks for sharing!

Any interest in the portability of a grinder? Maybe being able to take it with you camping, or anywhere else without an outlet?
Wow, there's a lot in this article. For me the standing desk is not a EITHER stand all damn day no matter how much it hurts OR sit all day. It's stand some, sit some. Stand when I feel like it, or it feels right. Sit when I feel like it, or if it feels right. But having this desk at least gives me the option. I feel like the author made it I MUST STAND NO MATTER WHAT and then said nope, I shall sit.
The government should not be intervening in the market (through bailouts or subsidies) on behalf of an anointed market player (or group of players).

It should set the same rules for everybody and enforce them. If someone is not playing by the rules, they should be punished.

While an ideal fair/"free" market can probably never be reached, the US has seen better than the abomination we have now.
You shouldn't expect to stand 8 hours a day. Get a sit stand desk. Stand when you feel like standing, sit when you feel like sitting.
Well, you have a pretty challenging job, but also an opportunity to improve the situation. Startups are very interesting place because both business and culture is still growing.

One good (but general) advice - think how to make a process efficient (e.g. more automation for tasks and less complexity in a state of integration and problem solving).
Xcode 4 was a definite backward step in UX terms, in my view, from which the product has yet to recover. Xcode 4 has the dubious distinction of being one of only a handful of products that I've used daily for a good period - in Xcode 4's case, 20 months - without ever finding a way that I could be happy using them.

(Sometimes I just throw my hands up and decide that something, whatever it is, is just never going to be my cup of tea, and that's that. I've done that with a few software packages and/or styles of working. But in Xcode's case, I'm pretty sure it's them, not me. Because Xcode 3 was fine...)
Er, why not? The judiciary aren't the ones that decide on if Assange gets extradited, where'd you get that idea from?
Regarding Mail, I don't really want it to change. Other than the improvements in stability and speed that I've noticed over the years, Mail.app is pretty much exactly what I want in a mail reader on OSX. Sometimes Apple's changes seem purely for the sake of change and result in reduced usability (e.g. Photos), I don't want that to happen with mail.
I can't wait to see how your app works, it sounds like it could be really useful.

I just signed up with the email in my profile, could you please send me an invite with the next batch?
I like to sit down instead of stand. Just make sure to change your posture all the time. Fidgeting is good. And stand up to do something at least once every 15-30 minutes.
I actually enjoy those little quality fails on Apple and Google apps. Kind of re-assuring that even billion dollar companies can do the same stupid mistakes I make with my code. Quality is hard, especially when you need to ship.
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I agree it's important to have an adjustable sit-stand if you're going to have a standing desk. I can't see standing for 8-10 hours as any better than sitting for 8-10 hours (and I'm sure if you know anyone who works retail, they'd agree). It's especially convenient to have one with electric motors so you don't have to sit there and hand crank it, and they even have desks with a "memory" so you can save different heights and then just press one button to move from sit to stand or stand to sit.

Of course, like you and the original post mentioned, you should still be getting up and moving around every now and then. If you've just wrapped something up and can take a break, try doing some stretches for a while, or even some light cardio like the "7-minute workout".