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> (I agree w/ the hardware issues for the most part).

Oh, I was echoing the opinion of a vocal minority there. Personally, I find the software in a relatively good spot. I made some comments on potential improvements hereunder.

In the past I had issues with either WiFi or DNS (could've been both I honestly don't remember) but this was fixed in I think El Capitan (that I forgot as well...).

> What improvements are necessary for macOS to be a better development platform for you?

The filesystem. HFS+ is ancient, but stable. I'd like a filesystem with support for CoW for snapshotting and checksums for data integrity (like hardware RAID, ZFS, and Btrfs). I know Apple's new FS is going to support those features, as well as native cryptography. I know this partly overlaps with system administration which is a bit outside of macOS league but still [and I do think Apple could actually advance in that area with features like ZFS and PF but that is a totally different topic]. (A workaround is using ZFS, or just wait for the time being.)

Time Machine. I understand Apple wants to sell Airport Express and Airport Capsule but that is no longer developed. Why does it still need AFP? Make it support whatever protocols which can be used native or via Fuse (SMBFS, SSHFS, NFS), and make Time Machine integrated in the new FS. (A workaround is using AFP on a server, or using CLI software like Rsync and Git.)

Out of date software shipped. Bash, Python, Git, OpenSSL to name a few. (A workaround is using Homebrew [or an alternative for Homebrew like Macports or Fink or ..] and using those binaries and libraries in /usr/local one really needs to make sure they're using the correct binaries and libraries though.)

Apart from that I feel its Homebrew and .App format which makes software management good. (I don't use an IDE, but I know they're widely available for macOS.)
> unless of course there is leakage of that radiation affecting someone else outside of your private property.

There always is. Radio waves don't respect walls (unless they're made of metal). If you look at the linked document, it shows strong indications that the attacks did affect wifi networks from vehicles passing by, that is, fully outside of the property.
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I don't disagree. The difference between a $160 6320 and $330 6700 is only $170, and 8 years (how old my Phenom II is...) reduces that cost to barely over $20/year.

However, whether "the core is going to be fully utilized" is another question. If you only ever need 2 cores, it is wasted money, plus, if your focus is on gaming, and your budget requires you to make choices based on right now, the extra $170 can be the difference between getting a Radeon 480 or a Geforce 1070.

(Since I hope my next build lasts another 8 years, I'll probably "pad" my build with an i5... I've fallen into the trap!)
Thanks for info. Yes the live render previewing is getting quite nice.
Fully agreed. Maybe I worded my post incorrectly, but for me FOSS is a huge win.
Haha, yeah that's true!
I'd count ubiquitous currying a design mistake in a dynamically typed language. All your "wrong number of arguments" errors get caught late.

(But the real problem with common lisp is that its version of (+ 2) is the ridiculously verbose (LAMBDA (x) (+ 2 x)) — far too many anonymous functions end up with more boilerplate than content. A decent reader macro might go a long way towards curing curry envy. If I remember correctly, it's [+ 2 _] in Paul Graham's Arc, not bad.)
The problem is a lot of people are in social circles full of crackpots, so their friends are the crackpots that trust crackpots and spread misinformation.

A lot of these anti-reality movements only function because they have the critical mass of participation to not easily be ignored or sidelined. Once you have millions of willing participants in a lie, by that fact alone, it is given legitimacy.
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The advantage might come if you regard the railcars as a stream of product on it's way to your warehouse, rather than a single delivery. So high latency, but the bandwidth is respectable once it starts. :)
It's s/government/Microsoft/ in those countries.

Perhaps that shows that people expect Windows to break in strange ways and are afraid of what Microsoft might do ;)
I think a lot of the commenters on this thread would do themselves well to read about Gamergate from women's perspectives, and learn about extreme online harassment.

Real names make it a little harder for attackers to hide behind anonymity, but a lot easier for those crossing lines to find their targets.
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> On October 23, 2014, the Commission received an informal complaint from a company that provides private Wi-Fi networks for exhibitors at trade shows by shipping equipment to customers around the country. The complainant stated in part that it had "just spent all morning arguing with M.C. Dean company who provides wireless [at the BCC] until they finally ceased sending de-auth signals to our router."

They were actively harming/disrupting others' equipment. It wasn't just "oh, your signal sucks, use ours!" but "we're going to knock you offline unless you pay."

Disclosure: I used to work for MC Dean 10+ years ago.
> Same as anyone using a Go-Pro.

Can you go into some more details? Does this mean that tourists technically can't wander around with a go-pro strapped to their chest without registering, or does this apply only to UK citizens - and does it mean that they can't do that when visiting London?

How far does that stretch? Does taking a video on a phone count?
EWAH is "Enhanced Word-Aligned Hybrid", for anyone wondering.

(It also reminded me of the joke "Why does Edward Woodward have so many 'd's in his name?")
Agreed. Nothing against the described service or its users, but personally when I'm searching for something like this, "upload" comes right before Ctrl-W for me.
This reads like a sports news flash.

Not sure if this is good or bad, just an observation.
did you work at google before?

I would love a fair comparison.
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Go to USA, maybe some Google conferences (or look at Google employees): You will mostly see only mac people!
I'm still baffled that people use laptops for actual work.
I am a PhD student in physics and I would definitely say that linear algebra is more important.
> inside a CSS file, someone disabled events for the element.

I never heard of that. I just looked up CSS pointer-events [0], is that what you're referring to or are there others?

[0] http://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer-events
Depends on your problem, experience level, and the context of your overall architecture, team or a million other factors. Apply thought liberally :)
Are you claiming that macOS has better vetting of its packages than Linux? And what do you mean by "Linux" anyway? -- lumping RHEL in with ADistroIMadeInMyGarage is a bit odd.
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Looked down on? not really. They are given an appropriate amount of crap over their big egos, and lack of engineering discipline. Game development gives one a great tool set that is valued by other software engineering segments.
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Unfortunately the kindle is optimizing for users buying Amazon content, not for being the best general purpose eReader. This incentive mismatch between Amazon and the end users is probably why we will never see such a feature built in.
> But today, compared to Apple's pricing, they are so cheap that I can get equivalent HW for half the price (equivalent wrt performance, not manufacturing quality!).

How true is this? For instance, I often see the XPS brought up as an alternative to the MPB, but whenever I look into it, it seems like the price is comparable for similar hardware configurations.[1]

[1] http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-macbook-pro-13-...
California is a state the setup the rules to keep democrats in power for the foreseeable future. I went to vote for senator and was pissed when i saw 2 terrible democrats as my only option. The California state legislative body is an example of a political machine that has reached critical mass. It's now making laws to eliminate all but the democratic party.

California post 1993 is like mao's china during the cultural revolution when the communist party took control.

California's state government is the tail that wags the dog. Latino special interest aligned with tree hugging liberal sycophant religious globalists have come together to take over the state.
Advertisers do run unprofitable ads and marketing campaigns all the times.

And they are fine with that too. That's the case of VC-backed startups: they accept a negative ROI to get the chance to start making money one day.

Then you have the less consciuous ones, which might be big brands who want to experiment a bit with new media/ad formats.

In any case, if you think about it, the real losers are...the honest publishers. Because the money on the table is not increased by fraud, it's just shared in a way that takes something away from good publishers to bad/fake ones.
Thought about this some more- such reputation systems, suppress anonymous dissent, unless it is lend legitimacy- and they favor self-censorship..
> it's just that random generated levels are not as good in creating interesting and non-repetitive challenges.

i see this sentiment and similar echoed a lot and the issue i take with it is that there are degrees to everything. Just like there are good and bad hand designed games, there is the same spectrum of procedural games

there are many games that do this extremely well but they are mostly not very well known indie efforts. Off the top of my head:

* Dungeon of the Endless

* Invisible Inc

* Downwell

* Rogue Legacy

* Spelunky

* Teleglitch
I don't think they actually dropped SmartCache. SmartCache is just a way of saying that all of the cores share the same cache space. (Generally, the cache is divided equally among each core for multi-core processors.) The Kaby Lake architecture is basically the same as the Devil's Canyon architecture with some minor tweaks, so there is basically no chance they changed how caching works, as that would be a really major change. Chances are the person in charge of adding information to ARK doesn't have the ability to release or verify all of the info yet.
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Are you willing to consider remote work from outside the USA?
Interesting that the iPhone offers 128GB option, but the top end for laptops is 16GB.

Why would Apple want to drive developers away?
It's going to be ~1:1 with the number of discrete nvidia + AMD graphics cards sold which is not exactly niche.

Further, Intel already has a range of chips in production making that 100's of millions per chip vastly overblown. You can measure these numbers in several ways, but ramping up 100 million of chip X or 80 million of chip X and 20 million of chip version Y is nowhere near 200+ million.
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> Classic. "I'm not at risk, so we need not change anything. Your behavior is therefore at fault."

I'm sure you meant to say "Classic strawman:" because that's not at all what I said, or meant. Please actually respond to what I said and not whatever argument you heard other people make.

I think it's demonstrably true that if using Facebook is an acute risk to your life, you are better off not using. That doesn't mean you're at fault if you use it and someone kills you. But it doesn't mean that Facebook needs to change its real name policy. It means you need to weight the pros and cons of why you want to use Facebook and why using it could get you killed, and whether you're willing to risk that.

> Would you say that being able to freely live your life without threat of death (as you most likely already do) should be?

Yes.

But that doesn't mean that it's a right to do things that could engender threats to your life. A Tutsi has an inalienable right to live in Rwanda without fear of persecution or death. A Tutsi does not have an inalienable right to use Facebook (nor does anyone). If you're a Rwandan Tutsi, and you use Facebook, you should understand the risks. You should be able to use Facebook without fear or persecution or death but it's not a right any more than it's a right to have an email address or drive a particular type of car or eat a certain food on a certain day.

They're separate issues and it's Facebook's decision whether or not they want to require real names. To make that the issue ignores the fact that people are being killed because of their beliefs, or because they're transgender, or whatever the actual problem is.

> People harass me at the laundromat because of my appearance, to the point where I fear for my life. "Don't go to that laundromat ever again."

Well no, my response would be "Call the police." There are a lot of things that could happen from there. If it's actually harassment and the police address it, potentially problem solved. If it's actually harassment and police do nothing, that's a related but separate issue, and yes I would say that not going there again is the smart move. You have a right not to be killed and you have a right to wash your clothes but you don't have a right to wash your clothes in that specific laundromat at that specific time.

If it's not actually harassment then it depends what's actually happening. A group of teenagers pointing at laughing at you is uncomfortable and wrong but probably not harassment. A group of rough looking guys in a bad part of town staring at you will make most people feel uncomfortable but is also not harassment.

> People shout threats at me at the grocery store. "Don't go to that grocery store."

Call the police.

> this attitude is precisely what is meant by "white privilege."

I know you are going to hate this, but why is it the first person to bring up race is usually someone saying that something is offensive or privilege? I tend to agree that a certain level of privilege exists in the world and some of it has to do with race but Facebook's real name policy is a piss poor example of it.
I don't disagree with your points, though I will say that I control the volume of my AirPods with my Apple Watch if I don't want to dig out my phone. I think Apple generally expects people to have fully consumed their Kool-Aid for their products to not seem wanting for features/functionality. If you have a glorious red mustache like I do, then most of their products work great!
This is what I point out whenever BI is brought up as a possibility in the US. With 1/4 the population of India, higher GDP, and allowing for all the existing entitlement programs being retired, we can't afford it either. The math just doesn't work out.

Edit: Some grossly simplified numbers.

Assumptions: BI matches poverty level. Everyone gets BI (parents receive their children's payments until they reach majority). Family size is 3 (average household size is really 2.54 persons in the US)

US Population: 312 million, which is 104 million families (households). The Census dept. says poverty level for a family of 3 is $20,000, so that's what BI must match. This gives us annual BI payments of $2.08 trillion.

Savings from shuttered entitlement programs: Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, ACA subsidies: $938 billion. EITC & CTC: $362 billion. Total savings is $1.3 trillion annually.

But what about Social Security (OASI/DI) with $888 billion in payments? Since that's a pay-it-forward program we can't end it suddenly (it'd be political suicide, in any case). It'd have to be tapered off in some fashion. The trust fund (Al Gore's "Lock Box") doesn't exist as a big pile of money to be tapped, as that has been turned into US-issued Treasury Bonds.

So there's a shortfall of about $810 billion each year. Could we tap into the money sent to the Pentagon? Yes, but that's "only" $610 billion and we'd have a military that isn't being paid and with increasingly obsolete equipment. Not a good situation.
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As far as I can see, that applies to organizations, not individuals. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
It looks like Piwik has bought or in some other way acquired it and shut it down. Bit of an odd move for an open source company..

Edit: Had this thread open in a tab and forgot to refresh before commenting - Apparently Piwik and Piwik PRO are different companies, despite piwik.org linking to them a lot and them having the exact same logo with a "[pro]" stamp on it. I always figured PRO was the commercial arm of Piwik.
Dtrace is nice but everything seems trending away from it.

I know you can't just compile and call it a day... Kind of what I was getting at :)
Sure, but this can be the same in Rust or C, which was the context of this discussion. New languages may provide more tools to eliminate more checks, but in general, if you have a runtime value and you index an array with it, someone has to check somewhere.

And the point of this thread is that Rust's default (check index bounds and fail at runtime unless the check can be proven unnecessary by the compiler or optimizer) is safer than C's default (don't check anything by default and hit UB if the index is out of bounds).
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I don't get your point. We are talking about professional software here, there is no "user friendly" Illustrator or Photoshop either. They all require a heavy use of keyboard shortcuts and have learning curves that a broader audience simply cannot get past and all need input devices that a broader audience simply doesn't posses. It takes equally long time to get productive in any of them. The real difference is not in their UIs, but in features, tools, performance, especially performance, Adobe just has more resources to throw at it, and those things can make you noticeable more productive in the long run.
I really didn't know CSS could do that. http://caniuse.com/#search=css%20pointer-events for any one whose mind was blown by this.
You're incredibly rude, short sighted, and all your huffing and puffing amounts to is a poor utilitarian defense of a horribly executed demonetization.

Sorry to be brash, but I'm appalled at your behavior and I'm about to walk into work so there's no time to dance around the facts.
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

"Data means information which –

(a) is being processed by means of equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose,

(b) is recorded with the intention that it should be processed by means of such equipment,

(c) is recorded as part of a relevant filing system or with the intention that it should form part of a relevant filing system,

(d) does not fall within paragraph (a), (b) or (c) but forms part of an accessible record as defined by section 68, or

(e) is recorded information held by a public authority and does not fall within any of paragraphs (a) to (d).
"

IANAL, but my non-professional understanding is that constantly recording like this, if you're only going to be manually looking through the way his partner does, isn't covered as "data" under this law.

(Section 68 is not relevant either in this case, http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29/section/68)

edit: in reply to your edited in link, there's a big difference between filming to distribute (e.g. movies) vs. filming for personal record (e.g. tourists taking photos).
Oh, cubicles suck too. I prefer an office with a door.
> 70% of those polled (average of all polls conducted by media and independent media houses) disagree with you.

We measure success or failure of such economic policies with statistics, not by political opinion polling.

> You fail to mention about all those getting caught with counterfeit currency and black money and still continue to be caught.

They have been conducting raids to catch black money hoarders and counterfeit currency forever. They have escalated it recently, but it could have been done without demonetization as well.

> I'm sorry that you are incapable of understanding a perspective beyond the deaths of 100 people.

What benefit did we get out this whole scheme?

My family have personally suffered significant monetary loss on our 100% tax paid cash, and suffered significant loss in business because of this chaos.

Millions of citizens have hard time feeding their family because of this jumla.
The Spotify app for macOS has a habit of eating 100% for no reason, even when no music is playing. I habitually quit Spotify every time I leave the room. I hate coming back from shopping only to realise that my laptop fans have been running for hours. Poor machine.

These kinds of problems with Spotify, SpotifyHelper, SpotifyWebHelper etc. have been well-documented for years. It would kill me to work for a company with such low engineering standards.
Sounds intriguing. But how does storing the objects as blobs perform better than storing them as standard file types?