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Fair enough, Snow Leopard marketing was before my time noticing Apple's existence. I've just noticed that in general they never admit that they've done anything wrong or made any mistakes, and it seems hard to market a release for stability without somehow admitting to existing mistakes.
I was hoping they were going to remove some features that didn't work out - Launchpad for example, which seems to have been a spasm in macOS a couple years ago to make macOS more suitable for a touch screen that never came.
You mean a huge company could have released 1000 PM's and hundreds of millions of dollars, 99% of which would be spent on political infighting and empire building ... Wait weren't we trying to build a product ? NO ! I NEED MORE HEADCOUNT NOW !

Buying can be far more effective than building, especially for large companies.
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In my case it resulted in total data loss causing me to do a fresh install, then within days a file system that was filled to capacity due to time machine snapshots that couldn't be deleted due to a cyclical depedency. I had to figure out how to reinstall on HFS+ and don't plan on ever trying again.
Small feedback about the website: It should be easier to leave the docs subdomain and look at the main page. Took me way to long to get to your pricing page.
But they don't really need to fix it. Sure, it'd be nice, but they're targeting developer machines and utilities with WSL, not a server replacement of Linux. Nobody would buy a Windows license just to serve from LAMP stacks on WSL over Azure or something. Speed requirements for dev machines are a little less stringent, and as long as they are hitting better-than-Docker numbers, they will still be providing value.

Sidenote: looks like I/O performance is really not that bad in most cases already, and sometimes even faster than Linux distros like Ubuntu: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=wsl-febr...
Err at least some Battlefield games, fifa 17 and 18 use frostbite engine. I don't think one can call it custom.
This reminds me of people arguing that Doom can be called an Adventure game because you are going though an adventure in the game or that Half-Life is an RPG because you are filling in for the "role" of Gordon Freeman :-P. In other words, people trying to come up with explanations for words that make up a term.

The "Free" in Free Software refers to the software itself being free from the shackles of any programmer or company trying to keep it under control - specifically controlling who can use it and for what reason (edit: to clarify, this doesn't imply that Free Software and Copyleft are the same, Free Software can still be "caught"/"trapped" in a proprietary product due to its permissive license).

Of course people may try and use "Free Software" to mean "software that has no price", but people apply labels and terms wrong all the time, that doesn't make them right.
Does MacOS have night shift like iOS does? Else, f.lux really does the trick.
Fossil is nice but when you have very large repos (gigabytes) it gets kinda slow. At this point, when git is some kind of lingua franca of SCM, maybe the "best" thing would be if someone cooked up a single executable Fossil clone but with the git command line options and the git protocol.
Looks like it had to waste a lot of water to get that far!
Yes, we should indeed be proud that we can still do it over from scratch with new technology, since the past fifty years implied pretty strongly that we actually couldn't anymore, and certainly I don't see new car companies springing up anywhere else besides China.

What's more, by that clever little formulation of yours, you can cynically dismiss so many things of value. Why be proud of anything anyone does here unless you've never seen anything like it before on the face of this earth, right?
Well, great. OpenCL 1.2 was the only API that was actually portable. Now we have nothing. Might as well drop OSX and just move to Vulkan.
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Personally I'd prefer if the established physics we have stays put and the rest of new knowledge mostly falls into the (pretty big) gaps instead of shaking up the solid stuff. Because it seems like it's already complexified to a sufficiently high level.
Cool, can I install this on my 4 year old OnePlus One ? Because I can install iOS 12 on my 5 year old iPhone 5S.
I love (sarcastically) how Hacker News has no support for emoji. What year is it?
While that’s true that’s also their problem.

Unless they are being forced to do that without proper compensation in which case they should leave they aren’t and shouldn’t be awarded with extra just because they are workaholics if nothing else is that because it forces other people to invest more than they want or can.

For quite some time in the start of my working career I was staying till 9-10pm at work working on extra projects, perfecting something having fun etc. until at some point my then manager took me a side and told me to stop it not because of what it did to my life and not even because of the potential liability the company had but because of my other team members.

He basically said look you are 25 you can do what ever the hell you want but “Joe” is 42 and “Mark” is 45 don’t put them in a position to have to compete with you when there is nothing on the line.

Since then and since getting much more experience I’ve really taken that to heart and I actually detest people who spend considerable amount of time on top what is expected and appropriate at work and I work actively to prevent anyone on my team or who I engage with doing so.

If you like to code 24/7 do your 9/5 job and then work on some FOSS project on the side, take a 2nd job or volunteer at some charity and build them a new donor engagement platform.
Don’t force me to feel bad or uncomfortable for leaving at 5.
As I explained A1 is the Version of the course that went from level 2 - 5
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The Witcher 3 is using RedEngine, GTA V RAGE, the Battlefields and SW:Battlefront {1,2} are using Frostbite IIRC, the two new Tomb Raider on Horizon, Rainbow 6 Siege and the Assassin's creed are on Anvil, Overwatch & SC2 have their own engines too, same for League of Legends, CoD are on a heavily customized id Engine, Minecraft is custom, Bethesda have their own engines too for Skyrim & Fallout, Path of Exile cutom too, all taken from Steam 100 most played.
It actually has code to handle emoji: by deleting them. You can find older posts that do contain emoji, from before they were blocked.
A footnote to your comment is that only 80% of US inhabitants have English as a first language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States. And amongst those there's literacy and education levels to consider.
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I have been feeling disappointed that I haven't been able to use my computer science degree to it's full potential. Most of my work seems to be boring CRUD work where the challenge is gluing libraries together or figuring out business requirements. Actual interesting technical problems seems to be mostly wrapped in ready-made libraries / SaaS services.

Anyone in the same boat?
I liked this post, not only for showing an overview of all the big and small wins but also for showing approaches that were tried and didn't work out.

It's nice to see someone write about failures in a very neutral and informative way, as it is a daily part of our jobs and life but most of what you read online is (logically) about successes.
> What? I've written commercial games with opengl on osx/ios and my experience doesn't show that at all.

State-based recompilation is a known issue in many GL drivers, particularly on mobile. E.g. changing blending settings may cause shaders to get recompiled. This can take up to a second.

Some engines work around this by doing a dummy draw to an offscreen surface with all pipeline configurations that they use at init time. This (usually) guarantees that all the shaders are pre-compiled.
> I choose OpenCL because I can develop code on my Macbook pro, and run that on a computer with a discrete GPU on a different operating system, and have a fair amount of confidence that it would work.

That was the promise, but it never became reality. When writing kernels for real-world applications, OpenCL breaks down in numerous ways. The result is usually neither stable, nor portable, nor fast and a pain to work with. There was never OpenCL support for 3rd party developers on iOS.

You say you are writing OpenCL kernels on a MBP and they are portable, maybe you got lucky? Lots of comments I see on the deprecation on OpenCL seem to come from people who like the idea of having OpenCL (and its promises, which are awesome), but never had the awful experience of actually working with it.

I remember the open letter from the Blender developers on the sad state of OpenCL support on Mac (http://preta3d.com/os-x-users-unite/) from 2015. Some GPU vendors (AMD, Intel and Qualcomm) continued to put resources to better OpenCL support over the last couple years, but maybe too little, too late? It seems at least Apple had already given up on OpenCL by the time of this letter (and moved their resources completely to Metal), as nothing new has happened for OpenCL since then.

I'd prefer if we had a working OpenCL on many platforms. As we don't, especially not on Apple platforms, the step of deprecating it is regrettable, but at least honest.
I'm guessing the key word here is reliance. Some of us are fine with sites that use JavaScript, but only if the core functionality still works when scripts are blocked.

If you're wondering why someone would feel this way, the reasons vary from person to person, but perhaps the best reason is that a site that becomes nonfunctional when client-side scripts are disabled puts itself at odds with basic web security precautions.
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The volume not being independent is super annoying, sometimes I have my ringer volume pretty low, just because, and I will barely hear my alarm in the morning.
> This sounds entirely anecdotal. I haven't seen any significant exodus from Atom to VSCode among people I interact with.

Were those two sentences in the wrong order?!
In Wyoming you can pay a nominee manager to open a company for you in their name. They let you pay on crypto.

It’s a crazy world.
As someone who owns a lot of houses, well the mentality that the house is the storehouse of value is not the only thing.

My family does not want to live where anyone can buy up a house. Yes, everyone likes less problems. But your ability to reduce problems depends on the resources you've available.

We want to live in the places where there are plenty of facilities, people rougly having same income level.

It's way easier to join and relate to the people who are at same level as you.

Housing cost is the best way to ensure these emotional aspects.
> what is the most used engine today if not UE nor Unity?

My answer was aimed at that part. But yeah, maybe we should define what "custom" is.
> QuickTime has been deprecated for seven years,

It has entirely been removed from the latest (since 10.12 IIRC?) SDKs so now you have to keep older SDKs just to build your app.
Just keep in mind that it's not just about the money. For example, in an early-stage, rapidly-growing startup, you're also bound to gain much more experience (managing, sales, operations, etc) much more quickly than in many established companies. So even if you just get a nice salary and a nice bonus, your career could still be leaps ahead of a corporate worker-bee.
I hope you don't watch any of that either.
Woah now, Clash Royale is a good game that is skill driven.

People take level 1 accounts into legendary arena which shows that skill dominates money.

How on earth the devs at Supercell tricked management into making a skill rather than money based game is genuinely a mystery to me.
It's so kind of you.
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I think spullara was being sarcastic, but I could be wrong.
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The body has a high portion of elements made of carbon fibers. Depending on the damage it can very quickly be a total write-off.
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Current Celerons would be Gemini Lake (https://ark.intel.com/products/codename/83915/Gemini-Lake), if not the generation after that - after all, A76 is not exactly shipping.
ASL is not English. It is an entirely separate visual language with different syntax, lexicon, etc. ASL speakers can communicate to each other over mobile devices using text in the same way that, say, 17th century intellectuals communicated using Latin, or late-dynasty Chinese officials communicated using Classical Chinese.

I do not know how to sign, but I do imagine that a member of the signing community would not feel truly at home in their digital life in that they cannot type the language that they "speak" and very probably think in, but must rather resort to a second auxiliary language whenever they interact with text.

Like, imagine if Apple (or Google or anyone else--this is an industry-wide issue) made it technically impossible for you communicate in anything except French. In this hypothetical world it is not a show stopping issue because you are fully proficient in French having used it in some way nearly every day of your life, and so are all the people you would want to communicate with. But it's not your mother tongue, and so you wouldn't really feel at home or fully included in the digital world, now would you? Texting your family and close friends in French when in fact all your other interactions with them are using spoken English would just be weird.

(Incidentally I do wonder if Swiss German or Scotts speakers feel similarly, and if they don't to what extent that serves as a counter point.)
While Vulkan is a bit verbose, it's not an order of magnitude difference if you follow modern OpenGL best practices. If you rely on default state and use the default framebuffer and rely on implicit synchonization, you can squeeze it down to a few hundred lines but that's not a good foundation to build practical apps on.

To give a ballpark figure, my Vulkan "base code" is less than 2x what my OpenGL boilerplate is for the same functionality. The big difference: the Vulkan code is easy to understand, but the GL code is not.

Comparing "Hello World" doesn't make much sense, OpenGL gets really darn complicated once you get past the basics.
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I think it is a good point, and they could probably survive about 2.5 years of losses without too much pain - but Apple's margins back in the 1990s were pretty good also: what hurt them was that sales dropped off a cliff, so their good margins weren't enough to save them...

There could be a number of factors that would hurt them, like margin compression, reaching market saturation, etc. All the ailments that Business Schools will warn you about...

However, they (IMHO) have become arrogant and out of touch with their users. VISION is their problem.

They need the MacBooks and desktop Macs to be seen as very desirable, in order to project the "creative people buy Apple" halo over the rest of their products.
I'm happily married and have a lot of old computers, games console and even an arcade machine. If you're spending the rest of your life with someone it helps to find someone with common interests. :)
Ethylene glycol is used in windshield washer fluid in cold climates, up to 5% concentration, as it helps de-ice windshields.
>* Yes, you pay a lot for the name, but if you actually work with them, the overpriced designer products really are better than the drugstore competition. *

I'm not so sure about this. For example L'Oréal owns many brands from NYX and Revlon to Lancôme, YSL and Urban Decay. They compete with themselves to capture a different market. Testing and development would be up to the same caliber and quality standards set forth by the parent company facilities. You are correct that products behave differently on various skin types and other conditions. But is this a quality issue or personal?

Most cosmetics cost less than a few euro to produce, if that. This is also expressed in OP's article. Packaging for luxury however is getting more elaborate and therefore expensive. Much of the cost for these items is also due to marketing.
Also, then take into account the sheer number of magazine articles, makeup artist interviews and YT videos amassing "favorite drugstore products." This is no matter of hidden gems. Good products are not hard to find if preconceived notions of brand's quality are cast aside.
Yes. But I understand you, and I agree. I was there. I quit my job in a big tech company a few months ago so I could work on more interesting problems. I started a company a few months, and it's been hard - exactly what I was hoping for.
It really depends on how you define "viable". For most technical writers book sales are very poor return on the investment in time and effort. Far less that what you could earn in doing programming work. But there non-financial benefits that keep people going.

When you look at print on demand (POD) and eBook publishing angles, you might be able to eke out some revenue. IMHO the only reason to publish a book is to support your consulting and related activities. There still is some kudos in being a "published author".

With a bit of googling you should be able to find some war stories by people who have gone ahead and published their own technical books. I encourage you to read about their experiences before making your decision.
https://www.iris.sssup.it/retrieve/handle/11382/303321/901/M...

Thesis covers an earlier time frame than you want (up to 1800), but is this the kind of analysis you are after?

Would pull in development of precision machining, and various improvements in steel making I imagine. The paper below has a time line and details of 'start ups' involved in UK.

https://www.iris.sssup.it/retrieve/handle/11382/304403/988/G...

In twentieth century various people tried to adapt the steam turbine to rail use with varying success. Marine turbines dominated ship engines then for larger ships.

I think a carefully worded question on a UK railway forum might yield some results. I can just about remember steam locomotives clinging on in the early 60s (my mother hated them - put your washing out and watch the soot land...)

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

Has a time line of the companies involved in some of that.
With established publishers you only get some fixed amount of pre-payment without royalties from sales, no?
Yes, because he prefers the GPL over non-copyleft. That doesn't mean he opposes non-copyleft Free Software. For example, gNewSense - the distro sponsored by the FSF - doesn't really distinguish between them when deciding what to include.
Agreed! The book could be one aspect of a portfolio of "products" related to your main topic.
Kind of depressing what the web has become in recent years when you think about it.
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This might be interesting, the audio of the conference call with Nadella, Friedman, Wanstrath, & CFO https://edge.media-server.com/m6/p/eudfciq3
The most recent is a month or two ago when I upgraded my motherboard and cpu and my retail Windows 10 deactivated and I was unable to activate it myself, so I had to contact support. "Support" was rude and insisted on invading my privacy by remotely accessing my system to do "something". It took several days of exchange and they treated me like a potential scammer and I even had to send scan of receipt to prove that I indeed bought a motherboard. Utter scum.
Yes, the vast majority is internal; most of our clients are not software companies, they only use software to provide other services/products.
While there's a hefty dose of irony in the fear of emigration, socioeconomic dynamics can have some interesting nonlinearities. Meaning, in the long run, anything can happen.
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I think PG is entirely wrong and Mark Suster was entirely right on that subject.
You could just create a centralised interface to GitTorrent, just being a simple view, the only difference is that anyone cold host that interface.
> OpenGL is "learnable" by someone in the process of learning.

If this is the case, it's only because there is much more material and tutorials written. Not because OpenGL is simpler or better.

I know because I watch noobs stumble with OpenGL all the time over at ##opengl in freenode. It usually takes them a week or two to get a triangle on screen, and they're super confused about semi-opaque concepts such as "vertex array objects" (they're well documented in the OpenGL wiki, but reading documentation seems to be out of fashion).

It would certainly help (them) if they had a good knowledge about 3d graphics in general before stumbling into OpenGL. But if they had, they'd be able to do it using Vulkan or Metal with no great difficulty. OpenGL isn't at all better here.
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"Free as in speech, not beer" is about what meaning to avoid: the "free" refers to freedom (free speech is about freedom), not price.
Read this theory, it contains everything the standard model is incapable of explaining, i.e. mass, distribution of normal matter/antimatter dark matter and dark energy after the big bang, decrease of dark matter, increase of dark energy, what DM and DE actually is, et cetera:

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Its clear that the music industry has a long history of exploitation and its an interesting comparison to the software industry. Record labels taking the product of the artist and giving crumbs or often nothing at all back to the artist (or in the past a large loan to be repaid).

But hasn't the law tried to catch up to those abusive tactics? An artist can split their copyright into multiple tiny pieces for specific use cases, often time limited, and there is even laws that gives the artist the ability to break a contract after a number of years. There is also very little "work for hire" that I can see where the record company owns the work and the artist just got paid once. Occasionally I see the odd article where an artist is in a constant legal fight with a company because they signed off on a one-sided contract and the product of their work happened to be worth millions.

I am trying to imagine what would happen if the software world would get the same protection as current day laws and practice for musicians. No more work for hire, software being split into "performance", "internal", "on-demand-download", "CD", "combined/synced with X", and so on. Here in Sweden we have state funded public radio and TV so maybe a stated funded repository where a small tax pie is distributed based on some form of statistics. In this world, what kind of licenses would be popular?
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To be fair, it is possible to use the Chorleywood process to make loaves that look pretty rustic and taste OK, but your basic white sliced loaf tastes of nothing much.

A quick search reveals no known evaluation of the Chorleywood process by any authoritative agency in the UK (e.g. Food Standards Agency). Andrew Whitley has expressed concern over the use of directly injected enzymes that do not appear on packaging. There was some stuff in the press about linking Chorleywood process to 'bloating' but that was debunked fairly quickly (around 2012 I recollect)
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