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I disagree, I think Apple is still rather committed to the Mac even if it is no longer their #1 priority. Even if it's a small part of their profits, it's a big source of the strength of their brand (visually speaking, a Mac stands out against a PC far more than an iPhone stands out against any other smartphone), and that's something that's crucial for all of their products. Bad press about the Mac damages the brand, and if they don't continue to put out a good product (and correct their recent mistakes) they are going to keep getting bad press. I would argue that the Watch and Air Pods are more in the category of the Apple TV than they are the iPhone, because they're just a means of pushing up the average value of each iPhone customer. The Mac both does this and serves as a "halo" which is crucial even if it's less profitable. Honda certainly isn't making much money on NSX sales but that doesn't mean it's not still vital for them to produce it just for the sake of the brand (although I admit that's a bit of an extreme example).
This tweet is, unsurprisingly, too light on details. I wonder what the plus for Xcode is here? I'm sure it already had Git integration. Is Xcode getting project, issue, merge-request etc. management support? And they chose to start that with (or exclusively base it on) GitLab?
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I don't know about other cancer types but around here they do that for non-hodgkin-lyphoma. The first two years after remisson the screening is every 3 months. Year 3-4 every 6 months and year 5+ once every year.
Have driven both. The 3 is more (a lot is subjective) fun to drive. Similar to the difference between a BMW 4 series and 7 series.
Everything on that list is relevant, but please keep in mind that banning custom browser engines isn't particularly bad thing for everyone.

Of course Apple doing it to force web developers to keep supporting Safari since no one can simply expect iOS users to install Chrome, but it's also benefit open web greatly since it's preserve status quo that we have more than just one browser engine. The day Apple stop doing it would be the day web developers going to abandon support for Firefox too.
People probably mistook "by that time" as "at that time" instead of "since", which was what you meant. Also, use "has been" instead of "is", as the open-sourcing happened sometime in the past (although it is in the state of open-source now).
sounds just like your average truck commercial in america

"Real men, drive really big trucks, and they look really manly. and cool"
The way I see it, it's not worth the risk of Facebook forking it and essentially getting control of the community of developers who are using Atom. A better way to do it IMHO, as other people in the thread mentioned, is just integrating Microsoft products like Azure to promote their enterprise offerings (where they make their money).

Eventually, though, they might want to allow an easy transition to VS Code in some way to cut redundancies but doing it too soon would anger too many people. Atom seems to be losing market share anyways.
Not all apps that are ad supported are negative value? We just don't believe users should have to pay for the app.

Look, I know the game in Silicon Valley is to be bound and gagged by whatever billionaire is willing to throw money at you in their desperate quest to catch a unicorn. Some of us like to do it a different way. And our users are okay with that! They understand the transactional value of ads!
Glad you checked everyone's opinoins about big o' G, thanks for your hard work buddy!!
That's another common variation, using a where in the outer query to select only a few of the rows from the window function.

And I've also used them as a better performing version of a full outer join - do a select of the combined fields from a window function query that is selected off of a UNION ALL. You have to jump a lot of hoops to do it, but the performance win can be worthwhile.
All we know is that Apple was bankrolling a portion of OpenGL development on OSX and now they feel otherwise. OpenGL ARB is a committee and Apple has only one vote. Maybe they were not satisfied with the direction the spec was going. Its certainly not an unfounded belief.

>I don't see how a technology can get to a mature status if a major hardware company decides to not support it.

Alternate reading - They gave it their time and money, and it didn't work out.
Maybe they had a slide for GitHub and they deleted it in light of the Microsoft announcement. Apple is one of very few companies secretive enough to be able to do something like that.
Why is Apple investing in Metal at all then?
I've thought about that same kind of feature, even without AR and simply based on geo location would be cool... someway to quickly pull up historical photos and information about wherever you are at the time.
Good luck with that. They are incapable of blocking people that already use as blockers.
Or many of the other issues that plague archive formats: duplicate files in the archive at the same path, symlinks in the archive or relative links enabling directory traversal.
Good. I've structured my life to avoid Microsoft, and I intend to continue doing such. This is a vote of non-confidence in Microsoft and they should realise that their reputation for abhorrent behaviour cannot be erased overnight.
Right. And they should be punished harshly for it, so that everyone else is much more careful about who they share that stuff with in the future.
but what if we don't use outlook - not everyone does. this is at the fundamental heart of the problem with Microsoft (Apple is just as guilty, btw). It is the "hey, we have a nice ecosystem - everyone should use it" viewpoint. As a developer and consultant - I will decide which tools are appropriate and best for the job at hand, not something dictated by corporate marketing. Skype has gotten much worse since Microsoft acquired them. Every time I start Skype I have to update it and its not as stable as it once was, especially on OSX
> There are vanishingly few trips taken longer than 2-3 hours from home by car, in your own car.

Out here on the west coast, cities are much more spread out.

Getting between major cities is at minimum 2 hours.

99.9% of my trips aren't that long, but a couple times a year I go well over 3 hours.

Heck I'm planning a 10 hour trip soon. I'll be meeting in the middle with some friends in LA who are driving up 8 hours.
If they ask, then don't hire you, you have a case against them for discrimination.
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That's an interesting point. At least in the parts of Europe I'm familiar with, Taxis have an exemption for car seat laws. Ubers don't.
Most of the field of machine learning is irreproducible right now because you can't not use CUDA, but you can't promise that it will work the same on anyone else's computer, or that it will work six months from now.
Stop whining about Microsoft buying GitHub, everything will be O.K
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It won’t though. It’s a terrible currency.
> Radical groups in the 1960s had a reputation for factionalism: some organizations split because of disagreements on details of strategy, and the two daughter groups treated each other as enemies despite having similar basic goals and values.

That observation could be what inspired that gag in Monty Python's Life of Brian film: the "People's Front of Judea" versus the "Judean People's Front".
Every game developer I know turns off the metal rendering pipeline and uses the much more stable and refined OpenGL one unless getting every tiny bit of performance needs to be squeezed out.

I’ve witnessed plenty of last minute builds be saved by a Unity game dev on a Mac just flipping their renderer settings.
There's theory, design and implementation.

Maybe in theory it is safe, but implementations are often not safe.

An oversimplified way to see this is that your software runs on an OS which runs on a processor.

Your processor is backdoored (Intel ME and equivalent), your OS is backdoored, the entropy for your crypto is backdoored (Intel RDRAND instruction), your crypto algorithm implementation is backdoored.

So there are infinite resources for them to hack you at any moment for any reason. You have already gave them the keys to everything.
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Oh, it's a stock thing? It makes more sense as Wall Street slang - in terms of the technological landscape, one of those companies is so obviously dissimilar to the others that the phrase makes little sense.
If it is contextual and subjective, then we could just use any word or phrase in the same manner to the same effect. Written language itself is just contextual line patterns.
If he is a brilliant engineer then he probably has done his research on that matter and has come to this conclusion. If he had no idea or at least wasn't informed enough he probably wouldn't comment on it.
It is not literally illegal to ask, but if they decide not to hire someone after asking the question (or possibly, if they ask some people interviewing for the job, and then decide not to hire someone they didn't ask), it is absurdly easy for the person who wasn't hired to pursue a discrimination claim.

Therefore, most HR departments simply tell you that it's illegal (or prohibited, more precisely). There's a huge amount of legal risk to the company, in asking, and no benefit because it is illegal to actually take the answer into account.

Personally, I would probably answer truthfully in the interview, and then politely tell the recruiter / hiring manager next time I spoke to them, "Thanks, I enjoyed speaking with <person> about the company! By the way, they asked me about my age (or whether I was married, or whatever), and I just wanted to confirm that this information will not be used in a hiring decision. We were making small talk and I didn't mind answering, but I don't think it's relevant to what I can bring to the company." If the recruiter or hiring manager is in the least bit competent, they will immediately panic, and probably end up finding a way for that person to have no role in making your hiring decision, or something.

(This only applies for hiring in the US, if this is in another company things may be totally different)
> Augmented reality: not compelling

While certainly a matter of opinion, but I think it’s the most important tech innovation in a long time. Just the Measure app alone has incredible implications. We are just scratching the surface of what this tech can do.
Exactly like DirectX. Great API to use if you don't give a shit about portability. If you do, it's useless.
To be fair, the sort of people who used to live there then are not of a kind with the variety that live there now. Most of those who could leave — undoubtedly like yourself — did.
I guess now that I think about it Scala does have a strongly-typed duck-typing thing, but it's kind of silly and rarely used.
But none of us care if they make huge sums of money or not. I fail to see why I should accept them being shitty because "they created shareholder value."
It really depends which country you're looking at. Usually Google Maps is better, but not always. China is a good example of a place where Apple Maps is far superior.
Robustness is orthogonal to versioning. They were funding opengl dev on osx, and decided to stop. You can insert your own reasoning but I believe the more reasonable assumption here is that they were not happy with the direction the spec was going. Apple is strongly biased towards vertical integration. Owning the spec + OS + driver + hardware is the best way of achieving a high level of robustness (Whether they actually do achieve that remains to be seen).
To be fair, PC gaming is a small fraction of the overall gaming market. All the consoles have their own proprietary graphics apis. It's ok if apple's api is proprietary too. Consoles support opengl, but it's not optimal. If they all strictly adhere to standard graphics apis, how do they differentiate themselves? Why make custom silicon with their apple 'bionic' chip? It's going to need an api to go with it.
It doesn't need to mean anything really. It's just the writer's way of marketing to Trump supporters.

Notice alignment of both form (Trump-style breathless personal attestations and hyperbole) and content (Deep-state activity against Trump).
Google or Amazon?
Maybe info sec drove the decision to purchase github because that was the easier way to reign in the data leak. =)
It supports GitHub, BitBucket and GitLab.

It’s not very useful though. It just lets you clone repos without using a shell. Kind of pointless.
Same reason Microsoftinvests in DirectX. Lock in software developers and consumers alike.
fastned in the Netherlands has 175kW charging stations (not all of them), and just they announced their first 350kW one:

https://fastned.nl/en/blog/post/fastned-onthult-nieuwe-gener...
I know it's not an official deprecation, but it sure seems like the Khronos Group sees Vulkan as OpenGL's de facto successor.
Pretty sure Unity is more heavyweight than a few hundred kilobytes of a library.

It also doesn't come installed on my machine.
Regarding point 1 about charging money for code, that you argue against. If people shouldn't charge money for code, should authors also not charge for open source books [1] beyond printing costs? Should open source hardware manufacturers sell their hardware for exactly material + assembly costs? The consumer of open source hardware has the right to repair the hardware, to modify the hardware, and to resell the hardware but they don't usually have option of reviewing/verifying the hardware before purchasing it. Can you expand on why you think non-material goods should be treated differently than material goods?

[1] For instance https://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ https://craphound.com/littlebrother/buy/
FWIW, they've only deprecated it, meaning no new updates. They haven't removed it from the platform. Furthermore, desktop OpenGL seems like it's dead anyway, given that Vulkan has replaced it.
> I'm sure the FSF sees this as a tradeoff that has to be made in order to keep free software viable. But that's a very different story than "user freedom is everything".

That presumes that the FSF's tradeoff is getting things wrong. If this strategy is what results in maximum overall user freedom, then that is exactly the strategy you have to follow if "user freedom is everything".

It is meaningless to say that making slavery illegal is a tradeoff that has to be made in order to keep a free society viable, but that is a very different story than "human freedom is everything". Yes, human freedom is everything, and that is exactly why we restrict people from owning slaves, there is no contradiction there.
Institutional investors want consistency more than they want returns. Career risk is a bigger concern than your retirement balance.

In turn, hedge fund traders are paid for returns, but fired for volatility. Firms like Point72 literally have a "down and out" clause in their contract: if you have a certain percent drawdown you will be fired. Internally, hedge funds backtest against measures such as IR (information ratio) and not against returns. IR penalizes for volatility and rewards consistency.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/informationratio.asp
There are a lot more emoticons than a few simple faces. Even your example ("¯\_(ツ)_/¯") is an emoticon, albeit one from the Asian side of the pond. I've had long distance relationships over text chat and so I really disagree on the fact that they are limited in their expressiveness.

Part of what is off-putting about emoji is that they make text look like early first-language reading materials, where pictures of objects are embedded next to the word you are meant to learn. It's kind of off-putting to read, at least for those of us who grew up in that experience.

I also do not share your adoration for things that are super instantly accessible. There is much value in learning, and in struggling along the path to learning, that people think they don't want or need. Linguistic training (like learning to read written words) is a necessary skill for assimilating oneself to a new culture or in-group and language is one of the best methods for practicing that.

Also, are emoji really so universally understood? Are the peach or eggplant really universally understood to stand in for genitalia? Like almost everything the simplest form of emoji are accessible but I do not think everyone in the world is on the same page about the finer points on how to use some symbols
From your link:

> Update (2016-11-02): Andy Chu notes that precedence climbing and TDOP are pretty much the same algorithm, formulated a bit differently. I tend to agree, and also note that Shunting Yard is again the same algorithm, except that the explicit recursion is replaced by a stack.

So, let's be careful about pasting a "first hit from Google" that you might not be discussing close to the same thing.
Interesting. I will have to check out the link.
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I may not be understanding how the guidelines work in HN, in respect to posting. I have posted a few times and have been taken down, half the time.

Why can't the moderators send an email to the OP explaining why? Even a general reason would go a long way.
Love this in theory.

But...

There's still way more money being invested in the traditional world of advertising than what's being invested in the analytics and data side. Creative agencies haven't gone away. Agencies of Record are still the traditional shops (DDB, Ogilvy, etc.)
true, but the implication is that if fees were lower then returns for investors would be better than treading water. i.e. an actual service is performed rather than a straight wealth transfer
Android P beta is available to the public. You could go try out many of the wellbeing features right now.
I think Tesla's are beautiful and have set the bar, but if you want a capable & cheap alternative, look at a used BMW i3. Resale value sunk for many reasons but has bottomed.

<salesman>I bought a 2016 fully-loaded REX with 5,000 miles for under $25K, sticker was $58K. Factory warranty for 4 years, 8 years on the battery. Fastest BMW from 0-40mph. This thing flies for urban commuters. It comes with a charger that can plug into a conventional socket which can be nice for people who don't have the means to install a 240v. Fun to hack with BimmerCode to customize all sorts of stuff. My big complaint is the rear door system is awkward. It also rides a little high so I put 1" lowering springs and 15mm wheel spacers which greatly improved handling.</salesman>

I'm also interested in testing the Jaguar iPace. By most performance measures, its beaten the Model X.
"on the market" isn't.. really. If you're guaranteed a wait.

So, to rephrase your reply:

"It is so cool it is worth waiting for, versus the other ones which look so much like garbage, they aren't worth having right now."
Creative Suite has run better on PC and at better price-performance ratio for almost a decade.

Graphic Designers still like Macs for the most part I guess -- and I still see them in video production a lot, but that's starting to change pretty quickly.
I think that's an insane stretch of what's really happening.
> the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system

Good old Apple.
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I'm sometimes amazed at how afraid otherwise competent software dudes are of a bit of sysadministration.
> Acronyms require prior agreement on what they mean

Emojis do as well. As someone who has autism, I don't recognize or understand facial expressions all the time. I remember being 18 years old and finally understand what faceroll/roll eyes meant (thanks to -what it was called then- an emoticon).
He may have done his research and came to that conclusion, he isn't claiming to be an economist, civil servant or researcher.

Also, no one is forcing you to use Bitcoin, Your government, however, forces you to use the state-controlled money.
Some comments addressed MoltenVK and MoltenGL https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17232868
Apple killed Flash and now they kill OpenGL. Both incredibly crappy technologies that survived for so long because of their popularity.

Nowadays Unreal Engine fill the role very well and can sit on top of any platform easily. Popularity wise , together with Unity have completely destroyed both Metal and OpenGL. Vulkan , stands no chance too. Unreal Engine is also open source and very easy to extend because of Blueprints. Unlike OpenGL , is not a C API trying to shoehorn itself into a C++ dominated world.

I have to use OpenGL 3.3 and I am amazed how badly designed it is. A brief look into Vulkan made even less sense.

I don’t agree with everything Apple does but killing Flash and OpenGL is two of my favorites. My only complain is that they have not done it as aggressively as they did with Flash. If they manage to kill JavaScript and HTML/CSS abominations I will become a hardcore Apple fan.
Why highlight GitLab and not Bitbucket, then? Is someone else cozying up to Atlassian?
You are correct. However, many in-studio tools are written in OpenGL. These tools are used to model objects and layout lighting, scenes, etc. by artists. They are written in OpenGL, usually on Linux. (Source: I work with several people who formerly built these tools for well-known studios like DreamWorks and Sony.)
> I love that there are people carrying this torch, I just wish the language wasn't so over the top hyperbolic. That would make it easier to join the effort for me.

Manifestos often have hyperbolic language. See the communist manifesto or a declaration of the independence of cyberspace[1]. That is usually what gets people excited about a movement.

[1] https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
If I was an intelligence agency, I would do the trivially obvious thing and only use "unmarked cars" when I didn't care about being spotted, and an actual nondescript vehicle the rest of the time.
Its currently 2018. Going back to 2009 = 9 years
I don't get your point. Is he saying these are unique to Apple? Should we not celebrate Apple doing good work, even if others have done it before? Should we not be happy that Apple is improving iOS?
It depends on what you're expecting by "release".

In my career, 90%+ of the code I've written is Free Software (specifically, LGPL or AGPL licensed). That said, most of it is not publicly available - it's custom code written for clients, who could - but for the most part don't - release it publicly. That complies with rms' philosophy, but is it enough for you?

If not, then you have fewer choices - mostly a position on a company like Mozilla, Canonical, Sentry, etc. Finally, some people live on patronage (by companies and/or individuals), but this is generally hard to achieve.
Depends who you ask. To be fair, it is not an apples to apples comparison (pun intended). Tesla is in a very different position than Apple in the early 90's.

With that in mind, the dialogue about Jobs / Musk feels oddly familiar with institutional investors having major issues and everyone else probably being too optimistic.
In my experience, trying to get OpenGL to behave the same way (and with the same performance) on a bunch of different systems is actually more work than just maintaining multiple backends. Testing OpenGL on Windows does not in any way guarantee that it's going to work on Linux, or macOS, or whatever else -- even if you don't add a crazy OpenGL extension support matrix into the mix. So your QA budget is already going to include testing OpenGL on all those platforms.
> I assumed that Microsoft has security policies to ensure that all confidential information (e.g. non-open-source code and strategic discussions) is stored on infrastructure controlled by Microsoft.

It depends on how important the code is.

I don't imagine MS will ever move Office or Windows to external servers, but a lot of other stuff is fair game.

There is always a security/convenience trade off.
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