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Mobile is constrained to using touch interfaces

Currently, but do you think this is the end game? Why not voice, gesture, eye tracking, or some as yet unachievable brain interface? The seemingly insurmountable defects you point out (lack of feedback without activation, hand obscuring the screen) would seem to imply that touch is never going to be the best universal interface.

My touchpad already has several useful gestures, draining away the marginal utility of other touch interfaces.

I'm surprised that I haven't seen built-in touchpads that integrate a screen, maybe modal between the displayed screen in miniature, a zoom of the cursor, and a menu space. Might it make more sense to integrate a display into the existing touch interface rather than adding a new (hard to reach) one? On the other hand, I've been surprised that my friends who use tablet interfaces for graphics work don't find the integrated screen approach (http://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-displays) to be compelling.
Hi, I looked at some of your lecture videos which also look great. You have a wonderful teaching style. Is there any possibility of these lecture videos getting on youtube? Watching is a little choppy. Cheers.
The only concept of UML I use is the N-many relationships, adding a number or asterisk to the edges between things.
I believe the iMessage issues have been resolved now.

Hackintoshes are getting better, but Marco is fundamentally right. Any OS update could break your system, which means you need to wait before installing an update, which opens you up to security and/or professional risks (for example, if it takes a couple of months for the newest MacOS to be made suitable for a hackintosh, that's a couple of months where you cannot update your iOS apps with the latest features, since XCode versions also tend to be tied to OS versions).
Intel releases have become stretched out a bit, and they do no longer renew the whole processor lineup in parallel any more. It took Intel almost a year to finish the transition to Skylake - the late 2015 iMac already has Skylake processors, but the models needed for MB Pro only became available not too long ago. The 32g ram support for laptops seems to depend on the Kaby Lake earliest - while the ultra low power versions have been released, the more powerful versions are going to be released all over 2017.
They still do run all that stuff, they are just letting Microsoft administer it for them increasingly, rather than fiddle-frig around with on-premise deployments. Office 365 is exploding.
Fuck apple
"Linux can solve some pro needs, but not most. It’s a fantastic server OS but a miserable desktop one, and that will probably never change."

Miserable is a strong word. Ubuntu is hardly miserable. Chromebooks are pretty much guaranteed to be able to run Linux without worry, and installing Ubuntu on them shouldn't be much of a hassle.

I personally run Fedora on an XPS 15 and have had very few issues with it, which is crazy since I'm bleeding edge everything by that count (hardware and software).
Sure.

I don't think anyone, myself or the OP, has suggested reading Wikileaks as a sole source.

A good example is understanding the role that Benghazi State Department officials (Ambassador Stevens) played in illegally internationally shipping weapons between war zones: from Qaddafi's weapons caches into Syria under the direction of then State Department Secretary Clinton.

If you just read the emails you'll understand that Benghazi was important, that it was dangerous, that there was a secret CIA annex there. But when there's a big-to-do about Clinton emails and Benghazi, including her use of private email servers in violation of FOIA statutes that prevented journalists from investigating the breach of international law - if you just read Wikileaks you'd probably think that there wasn't really that much to the Benghazi thing.

I agree with you completely: read a ton of Wikileaked documents. But understand that they are communications between people; and that to understand what they mean you need to understand who those people are, when they were sent, and what objectives and constraints those people were under.
Not sure what the author point was. He told us that chips aren't getting faster, so the only way to add speed was to add cores, then he told us that we can get 22 cores from a Mac Pro. As far as I know no other desktop can deliver 22 cores, so what is he griping about? Is he upset that Apple hasn't released a Pro with 48 cores?
I wonder if it's possible to offload the stuff that requires a heavy CPU load to the cloud. Spot instances on aws are really cheap per hour.
Well, G is an arbitrary constant but Pi is not. So while you can _formulate_ using a new arbitrary constant, it is HIGHLY improbable you reached tbe point of making that formulation without discovering Pi along the way.
I am not sure what the benefit of this considering vim has this feature already baked in:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_and_replace
LipNet-Reads lips with 93.4% accuracy
Tell me who your target customers are and I'll send you leads with verified emails
I'm testing the demand with a very basic MVP.

If you tell me who are your target customers and your website url (so I can better understand it), I can send you new leads with verified emails for cold email outreach.

You can target based on any keywords people may use to describe themselves in their bio on social media. For example, you can target individuals based on their interests or titles such as "interior designer", "bitcoin enthusiast", "freelance accountant" but also companies such as "design agency".

This method of targeting has worked for me in my other startup very well so I thought I'd open it up.

If you're interested, leave the link to your website and describe briefly who your target customers are.

The price is $0.25 / verified targeted email.
macOS runs a BSD-like userland atop a Mach kernel. It's not Linux, but it is a damn sight more field-tested and reliable than the Windows kernel...

I'm actually surprised at the question, considering the number of devs who work on macOS (and I'm not talking about front-end folk).
The abillity to have multiple desktops came with the anniversary update a couple of months ago.
Yep, that's exactly it. "is being" and "estar a ser"/"estar sendo" are pretty much the same thing. What english doesn't have is the "ser"/"estar" distinction, both map to "to be".
I saw this while using Firefox on my wife's Windows laptop yesterday. "Firefox is using 75% of your battery. Switch to Edge." Notification pop up from the battery indicator. Really obnoxious dark pattern.
Yep. That's one of the reasons why searching for "ApEx" on Stack Overflow isn't fruitful.

The other is that nobody, if they can help it, uses ApEx.
Foreign students targeted by UK anti-migrant policies
It means you've been convinced of something that is wrong.
>and stuff that relies on (for instance) having an official serial number (like iMessage) will also fail.

Which is not true. I have gotten my iMessage to work without having to clone a serial number.
Can't cut and paste with the keyboard...?
Completely agree. Oracle's success did not happen by chance. They have a great track record of navigating successive technology waves. Their strategy is often "bring a gun to a knife fight" like when they bought InnoDB out from under MySQL AB. Not to everyone's taste but they have outmaneuvered an amazing number of competitors over the years.

Ellison in the flesh is quite personable.
I ditched my smart phone for a flip phone. Apparently it's all the rage but I don't know how I know that since I don't use those social media platforms you mentioned either. Just developer forums (or fora) and such like. Good feels from helping people, getting help and not feeding trolls.
You're right. It's almost instinctive that when I hear some forcefully presented opinion, even if I agree with it, I put a mark next to the person's profile (in my mind).

One quite large issue is that once you've said your opinion, you are held to it. It's often easier to go even more extreme than to backtrack. And the effect is worse the more extreme you've gone.

I've had some sympathies for libertarian opinions lately, but when I see how far some of my friends take it, I wonder whether they're really thinking as clearly as they like to imagine.
Good point. I find sequence diagrams can be useful in places, as well.
Many corporations do, but Exchange and Sharepoint are no longer practically a "given" like they use to be.
Virtually all of the rendering heavy lifting and many of the desktops in the world of cinematic VFX are Linux. Have been for years. Even Pixar has a Linux desktop fleet.
FWIW, the name is quite similar to https://github.com/google/jsonnet
Punishment by Rewards by Alfie Kohn speaks to this ... being rewarded for any activity destroys intrinsic motivations -- rewards make you forget reasons you may have originally had for enjoying or benefiting from that activity. Once you see yourself as doing it to get rewarded, it sort of cheapens the whole experience.

i.e. Kids given a prize for participating in a library summer reading program will read <i>less</i> after the program ends than kids who never participated.

It's a totally worthwhile read for parents and managers.
Why It’s Better to Test Than to Debug
> The ESXi hypervisor is an officially-supported macOS hardware configuration.

ON APPLE HARDWARE. If you run MacOS on non-Apple hardware it isn't officially supported at all, effectively piracy, and you need to hack ESXi to make it work at all (ESXi Unlocker, etc).

> but there's literally nothing stopping you from doing otherwise.

Except the license agreements (both Apple and VMWare), and the fact that ESXi won't do it unless modified.
> Can't cut and paste with keyboard, can't lock your screen with keyboard...

Uh, are you using some weird KVM or something? There are keyboard shortcuts for both of those.
My fear is that for most apps Jasonette will be too abstract and require lower level languages like Swift/ObjC to be more expressive.

I think a good exercise would be to find a popular mobile app and recreate all of the functionality with Jasonette, developing missing features where you need them. A demo showing you recreate Tinder or iMessage by bolting a few pieces of logic together in Jasonette would go a long way in maturing the functionality and demonstrating its viability.

Have you considered weaving Parse or Firebase into this?
I know, it is too simple, people's head just exploded.

Well, there seem to be great number of uses for this. I think this is excellent idea. Off to make an app... or two.
I read the headline as "demand" and thought this was a rather petulant reaction to the "no new physics" development this year.

https://home.cern/about/updates/2016/05/theory-theoretical-p...
Alien Hunt Spot Strange Fossilized Grizzly Bear on Mars: SCIENCE: Tech Times
You can only get maximum 6 cores from a Mac Pro currently. He is saying that the modern processors they should be using have 22 cores.
Seems like it's not possible to change your password after you use it to create a Ring ID...
I'm curious about that, since iMessage and iTunes Match have been a constant source of trouble to one of my colleagues. He also mentions that the device is flagged as "Untrusted" in Find My Mac...
That's not how relativistic speeds work. If this was going near enough to the speed of light, it could travel almost any distance before decaying. Time dilation would be observed of the particle, where it would appear that time is ticking slower for the particle compared to our own frame of reference.
Anything too much is bad, just like too much capitalism (which is the root cause of bad blocker bug meetings).
Pandoc: a universal document converter
No it's not! There are tons of places in Shakespeare where he uses wherefore, and that one place in Romeo and Juliet is literally the only usage that's somewhat ambiguous.

> Beatrice: Why, how now, cousin! wherefore sink you down? (http://shakespeare.mit.edu/much_ado/full.html)

When your cousin faints, would anybody ask where they have just fainted?
Is the 2013 Mac Pro the best performing Apple-supported Mac computer? Or are there older full ATX Mac Pros with dual CPUs or something that would outperform them?
The author is discussing the "why" of the Mac, not its whereabouts.
What issues are you talking about? I was about able to run a full Rails installation with MongoDB, Redis and Sidekiq without issues.

But, I kind of agree actually, the only true issue was advanced socket issue with PhantomJS. Like for some reasons, Capybara/Poltergeist can't connect to it. It's the only reasons I am back to MacOS. But, I think I will switch as soon as it fixes. It should be soon.
I don't like Microsoft and I like Apple about as much, but I have to be fair: almost everything on that list can be solved in two weeks if you distribute the tasks. Give it another month for polishing and testing.

Now fill the other 9 years and 10 months, minus two or three developers that are still working on some of the bigger items for another couple of months at most.
I wonder whether 'cq' is a mangling of 'sic':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic

FWIW, I've never seen 'cq', but I've seen (and used myself) 'sic' lots of times; it might be a leftpondian/rightpondian thing.
I personally don't really care how nerdy criticism sounds like to me. MacBook Pro still the best developer laptop I have ever use. Even, you just keep a closed MBP on everywhere in your house, it looks so like a piece of fine art rather than an electronic device to stand out.
No, that's not really the future. Here's the future: you don't get any privacy, period. Get over it. Live with it. Doesn't matter who you are - you don't get any.

Oh, and you know what? The future has already arrived.
I watch videos on computers. Oh look, another new cute cat video on Youtube click

I occasionally read Twitter, usually for news.

I post images to Instagram almost daily. One picture per day is a good way to exercise photography.

I use Uber. Sometimes too lazy to drive

I still enjoy using computer, especially for coding.
Well, to each his/her own.
> maybe it would help you to level out your perspective by thinking about some reasons why almost every business on the planet runs Windows and not Mac.

Every is a bit strong, but...

Well, IBM wanted to use an OS called CP/M and was buying a lot of products from Microsoft. Something stupid happened and then IBM bought their OS from Microsoft. Microsoft was allowed to license it and Compaq figured out a work around for the BIOS issues. Thus DOS became the big thing because of IBM then all the other PC companies. Apple totally flubbed the Apple III, and Commodore didn't retain their leading market share. IBM then completely failed to follow-up with OS/2 (seems working with Microsoft to compete against Microsoft Windows is not a healthy move).

DOS begat Windows which begat Windows NT, and the software was good enough. I can buy a PC from more than one company and they have a lot of non-technical, business support. Microsoft doing a bit of cheating probably helped. It actually helps sell support contracts to have some problematic areas in your software which generates an amazing ecosystem that businesses understand (paying someone to be responsible is understandable).

A lot more people drive Kia than BMW, but I really wouldn't argue Kia is a better built car.
You think a company can host the largest tech-conference on earth, Dreamforce, with 200k attendees in SF while noone uses their software?

Whole companies have been built on top of the SFDC stack - Veeva, FinancialForce, Velocity, ServiceMax, CloudCraze, etc. That's how large the ecosystem of force.com is.

SFDC is for sales, marketing and service people. Call Centers use ServiceCloud all over the globe. Amazon, Bank of America, Japan Post, etc all use Salesforce CRM. Practically all big pharma companies use the SFDC stack through Veeva for their field forces. etc etc etc

The enterprise is a big world. All these consumer unicorns are neat, but there is much more to be done.
Hey! Thanks for the link. I don't really want a completely PC-like box (I have a mini, and want to upgrade that), but I do want something that can be expandable somehow.

I'm pretty sure I won't get it (or worse, that I'll have to pay through the nose for it at Mac Pro-grade prices), but I'd really like to get a more modular Mac.

I don't think that Apple will do it, though. Jony "VP of Narration" Ive has a thing about unbroken surfaces, and even though I like Apple's overall aesthetics, I don't think there's any way a modular system fits into the Mac "look".
The source is looking at solar power costs over time for the last 20 years.

Costs are still dropping by 30 percent a year.
Also expensive is using CABAC, which is much slower (for better compression ratio). H.264 allowed used a faster coder called CAVLC.

There are two ways to interpret this: either low-powered devices have become much stronger, or h.264 is just not supporting some classes of devices.
I believe you have misunderstood the author's point. He is not criticizing Apple, but rather analyzing how they are managing disrupting themselves while seeking to find ways of making the disrupted product continue to be relevant.
The long history of images of birds with human arms
I've been wondering, is it practically possible to have a dual arch hardware + OS?

The kernel would run on an ARM processor, along with all the supported software. Any x86 binary would be offloaded to the intel cpu. Sharing RAM and even the remaining hardware would be nearly impossible I guess. Not sure though. This way it can be like the integrated / discrete gpu design and switch can be done a lot less painfully.
Frustratingly, the brilliant Davinci Resolve has been half ported to Linux. The backend will run on Linux to allow for rendering clusters, but the UI is Mac and Windows only.

Ardour is only half the equation for audio production on Linux, even if it didn't have serious shortcomings. Professional users need an extensive suite of plugins, the vast majority of which are proprietary and have no good Linux alternative. There's no good pitch correction plugins for Linux, no Kontakt compatible sampler, no mastering suite, no restoration and repair suite, no good metering tools.
I think they had to move into the consumer market, but they should have used their ability with messaging to get them their. Developing something like the Passport instead of the Storm would have been a much better deal.
This is true, however, I think the people who have strong opinions end up becoming successful entrepreneurs.
Just one reason, among many.

From the article:

He often said, “It’s not enough to win—all others must fail.”

I think capitalism taken to its extreme is counter-productive to society.
Some of these are valid, but:

* My Razer Blade 2015 has no problem driving its hidpi screen and my lodpi monitor, even at the same time

* My battery lasts 8 hours with a VM running, which is about as good as any MacBook I've ever had

* Multi desktop exists in Win10, Win+Tab lets you switch desktops

Windows isn't perfect, and I spent a long time on a combination of Linux and Mac machines, but my daily driver is Windows with a Linux VM for programming now and I'm perfectly happy.
* Free OS updates.

* Better touchpad support throughout the entire OS.

* Vastly superior HiDPI support (especially if you're using a multi-screen, multi-DPI setup). I cannot stress how poorly Windows 10 performs in this regard. This has been a solved problem on the Mac for years.

* Better colour management through the whole UI stack.

* Better tablet support (OSX has had integrated support for tablet events since 10.4, on the Windows side there were still apps that broke when the Surface 3 launched almost a decade later due to using a third-party API for tablet events that needed custom drivers)

* Core Audio. OS X has had the same set of audio APIs since 10.3, and they've been well regarded for years and years. It wasn't until Windows 10 that you could argue Microsoft had finally caught up, and there's still people with ASIO driver compatibility issues. That's literally 12 years it took for Microsoft to catch up.

* OS X had scrolling of inactive windows for over a decade before Windows caught up. I actually think it's something that was there in 10.0 but I only started using Macs at 10.3 so I can't be sure.

* Spotlight. Spotlight is almost the perfect analogy of the difference between OS X and Windows, and I'm just going to look at one tiny feature of it. If you want to do some math on Windows at a single keypress, you need to turn on Cortana which only became availble in Windows 10. Cortana isn't even available in every country. Meanwhile OSX has had that built into Spotlight since 10.4 and it works on every Mac ever shipped since then, no matter what country you're in.

* File tagging. OSX has had this for over a decade, and you still can't do it in Windows.

* An integrated C/C++ runtime library, like every other Unix ever. It wasn't until Windows 10 that you could ship C/C++ code without worrying about whether your end user had the right msvcr/msvcp DLL installed on their machine.

I'll stop here, because there's so many things that OSX has had for a decade or more that Windows still hasn't caught up with that I wouldn't be surprised if Windows doesn't catch up after another decade.
The Dakota Pipeline protestors have been getting maced and tear gassed this past week. There are also reports of protestors being locked in dog cages[1].

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/0...
Amazon Alexa Hacked into Billy Bass Fish
> I now consider it a fundamental benchmark...

Sorry to be pedantic, but I just wanted to point out the paradox you get by holding such an opinion so strongly.
The only drawback to Bluetooth is range. In my house it's effectively limited to one partial intervening wall - anything more and the signal fades fast.
If you know what you want a workstation for, you probably have enough know how to get a Supermicro barebones system and stuff it with the exact CPUs, GPUs, RAM, SSDs, and ANY peripheral you want. More flexibility and cheaper. There are even outfits that will build it for you if you're feeling lazy.

And when Linux breaks, there is a wealth of knowledge on how to fix it. I have found OS X's community to be plagued by the opposite.
Latest Windows insider build have DrawboardPDF app preinstalled. So no more dependence on Edge anymore.
"It remains indirect, a defining characteristic of the second wave. Indirect inputs are powerful and lend themselves to muscle memory with practice"

It's not indirectness that lends itself to muscle memory but rather staticness. To illustrate this, consider a keyboard that randomly switched between Dvorak and QWERTY. This keyboard would not lend itself to muscle memory at all, despite being as indirect as a normal keyboard.

I think the touchbar could be beneficial in the muscle memory sense if it remains static within an application. At that point it simply becomes a more easily looked up version of Fn key shortcuts (but with potentially poorer tactile feel).
Like the Dakota Access Pipeline protest right now. No mainstream network talks about it at prime time, despite it probably being the most significant US national political event right now next to the email leaks. Which they also ignore, beyond claiming they are Russia's fault.
I'd love to run macOS on my NUC with 32 gigs of ram for iOS development instead of buying a shitty Mac mini. This sounds pretty awesome but I only understand a fraction of what you're talking about. Is there some kind of tutorial for setting this up?
Oh, yes indeed!
It was already evident from the Anandtech review, where the 12 core model was reaching around 100 C (CPU and GPU) under stress load.
Anand tried to downplay the issue somewhat, but the numbers speak for themselves, it's not a computer you can rely on for prolonged high loads.
Great article! Makes me wonder if there are any cases of user interfaces having animation smears [1] as motion blurs.

[1] http://animationsmears.tumblr.com