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> Some anecdata on that: It takes ~5min when I need to do something on a windows or mac machine for me to get frustrated due to me not knowing UI details of these OSes.

Honestly, these things do take a lot of time. People think using Windows effectively is a trivial thing they already know, apparently because it's a GUI and it looks like it should be easy. It very much is not. I think the most important thing is, regardless of what OS you choose for your tasks, it should be based on your knowledge of how to use them properly, not lack thereof. Because whatever you end up preferring (I prefer Windows), there really are tasks in which your life is easier in one OS compared to another (I have Linuxes handy for this reason), and if you aren't aware of where each one shines, you're going to miss out and make your own life harder than it needs to be.
Don’t take anything seriously on dba-oracle.com - Burleson is well known in the Oracle community as an expert in self-promotion but his technical skill is mediocre at best.

Jonathan Lewis, Guy Harrison and Craig “the Hammer” Shallahammer are infinitely more experienced and insightful.
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> nor do they feel they have access to 'special information'.

I'm pretty sure that if you actually went and asked them you'd find that most of them consider the Word of God to be pretty special. (More specifically, the fact that they and their group recognize the True Word of God is what makes them feel special.)

> I think Hubbard's concept of 'tone scale' is brilliant

I think you just made my point for me.
> Sure, Tim, so why is the App Store infested with apps that phone home to Google Analytics? Why does every other IOS framework report to FaceBook et al?

Because the App Store did not have guidelines for this sort of thing, and unfortunately retrofitting these would kill the App Store completely.

> Or, they would provide their own analytics service that works the way Tim says it should.

Why would anyone use it, given that it would be less useful than Google Analytics?

> Locking every iDevice by default so that it can’t be reused

What?

> grinding up products for recycling instead of keeping them in service just to make an extra buck

The materials are then reused for manufacturing. It's not like that goes straight to a landfill.

> they would relay a message to the owner of a locked iPhone/iPad so they would have the option to unlock it for those who bought it second-hand but didn’t know to get the device taken out of Find-My-Phone, and for those of us who run charitable re-use centres—-we get locked iPads & iPhones because the owners who donated them didn’t know to unlock them. They’re e-waste.

I don't think you understand how this works, at all. If you can unlock a locked phone, then there's no point of there being a lock on it…

> why don’t you stop releasing a new OS every year and focus on fixing the bugs in every framework that render them both unusable and insecure

What do you think the thousands of engineers at Apple are doing?

> We don’t need new emojis or stickers

You don't need new emojis and stickers. Over a billion people use iPhones, not just you.

> Sorry, but this guy is the worst leader Apple has ever had, including Scully.

> Tim Cook, you are a liar and you suck.

This is just a straight up personal attack. There's no substance in your comment at all.
Ask HN: Test coverage in side projects
Have you guys noticed a difference in the number of tests you are inclined to write for your side project stuff as opposed to at work?

I have noticed that I write significantly fewer for my side projects. Is this normal or am I being lazy/reckless?
I will buy it and I am sure I'm gonna love it. I will feel good having it in my pocket and knowing nobody gets my data if it's not me giving it to them.
I will develop software for it and I hope others will too.
I really hope THIS is the future of personal mobile devices, and I want to help make that happen.
Every screen nowadays is optimized for (occasionally) creating and (mostly) consuming video content. Most video is 16:9. There is no other explanation.

Having a large screen is also good for watching Netflix and YouTube. For many people, the phone has almost completely replaced the TV. I guess that explains why the screens keep getting bigger.
> I am yet to find a single website that I need that's not working at all or even well enough in Safari, desktop or mobile.

This isn't a particulary great argument, since web developers are generally forced to adopt the lowest common denominator of what popular browsers implement.
> I'd say that the UI of Windows 10 is about ten years ahead of anything in the linux world

Windows 10 is really really nice these days...
Apple introduced one-hand mode a long time ago for its bigger models which I find helps somewhat. But what I sometimes miss is a mode to permanently resize the displayed screen area to a smaller area. With the iPhone’s current mode, the screen is only lowered so the top buttons can be reached, but the lower half is moved off-screen, and the mode is limited to a few interactions after which the displayed screen is moved up again. What I miss is a mode to permanently resize the displayed screen area to a smaller one so my thumb can reach every point. I hear some Android phones have this. Would be nice to have. Even better if I can adjust the screen area’s size to fit the length of my thumb. And when I want fullscreen again, I switch to fullscreen mode.
Popularity is King.

Even if the Python solution is vastly superior, there is significantly more people who know or want to learn Javascript, so if your game is to sell stuff, it's only reasonable to pick the bigger market, and the kind of complexity you're talking about is very common to modern Javascript.

Most devs know some Javascript and as complex as the current js ecosystem is, it still seems like those devs would prefer to deal with some libs in a language they already know rather than learn a completely new one.
So that's why I'm getting a "The page isn’t redirecting properly" message from my browser?
>But what it won't tell me is "we don't have the title you want".

That's by design, not accident. The Netflix catalog is much, much smaller than most people think, especially for films. They have just under 6,000 titles available in the US, but a large proportion of that is cheap filler that most viewers will have no interest in. Searching the catalog using a third-party tool reveals just how thin it really is.

https://unogs.com/

Netflix have focussed on recommendations over search because it makes their service look better. If you search for something, the odds are that Netflix don't have it. Recommendation allows them to promote their original content, which is Netflix's main moat - if you're hooked on Stranger Things or Orange Is The New Black, you're far less likely to cancel your subscription.
Bend... a MacBook? My colleague ran his car over one and it has just a few scratches...
> What's to say we can sustainably afford current levels of public transport?

Add a full carbon tax to price of fuels, and the answer should quickly become apparent.
> In fact if say the GUI freezes on Linux, which doesn't happen often with open-source GPU drivers for Intel/AMD, then I still at least have the option to switch to tty and restart the display server. On Windows the option seems to be a hard reset pretty much.

This reasoning... doesn't make sense. Say Linux freezes 1% of the time, and half that time you can go into the TTY and fix it; the other half of the time you can't do anything. Now say Windows freezes 0.001% of the time, but never provides any way to recover. Therefore you conclude Windows sucks and you prefer to be on Linux because Windows requires a hard reset whenever it freezes...?!
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Found her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_David-Néel
Off topic: why is talking about Slack so popular on HN? Are there only HR and managers left? ;)
Umh, for a long time people could use old IEs and say the same. I assume IE11 people will also not have any problems. Yet IE11 is why many people will not be able to use CSS Grid for a long time. Your argument makes no sense unless you say you WANT devs to exclude people with left-behind browsers.
Solar seems like a decent pair with nuclear. Use nuclear at the level of night-time load, solar covers the extra daytime demand, and any remaining discrepancy you cover with either storage or extra nuclear, whichever is cheaper.

A couple years ago MIT had a simulator online that let you try out different grid energy combinations to see their total cost, and this was the cheapest I came up with.
I use iPhone SE as my daily driver because of the form factor. Give me a premium SE with thinner bezels and I would probably pay close to iPhone X prices. There are quite a few of us out there.
Isn't there an equivalent to DCF77 in the states? It would allow people to skip the cumbersome WiFi setup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77
Keybase starts supporting Stellar wallets
YES! Thank you. I hate this part of HN.

It feels like people here are so militantly anti-religion or frankly anti-everything that's not taught in science classes. This in a very contemptious, oh-so toxic way.

I like this article: http://www.paulgraham.com/ecw.html

And that would apply to everyone, not just F/E:ers. Now that's how you achieve true pluralism, not that I'm necessarily advocating that, but it's better than this hegemony and/or hate mongering.

I call for some dignity on the basis of humanity, I guess. And a bit of respect and humility wouldn't hurt, either ...
I prefer to use macOS as my main desktop environment; where I can easily drop into a bash shell if the need arises. Mac also gives me access to standard iOS development tools. I keep Linux vms running for server-side development and experimenting. Sometimes I wish I also had a Windows machine so I can stay abreast of the .Net ecosystem, but nowadays I don’t really have the need. Each environment/OS is a tool with its own strengths and weaknesses. Don’t limit yourself to just one environment. Learn how to secure yourself in each environment. Use Tor, encryption and other tools to stay as safe and secure as possible. Your privacy can be invaded on Linux, Windows, or any other OS, so unfurtanely the burden of keep your system and date secure still remains.
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Don't feel alone.
I usually have much less time to work on my side projects than on customers projects so I tend to bang things together quickly. And so I write much less tests.
The only reason I haven't cancelled my 4-screen Netflix subscription is because I share the account with 3 family members who still use it.

Recently, the price went up, but I still continue to pay.

I looked into downgrading my subscription from 4-screen to 3-screen, but only the 2-screen option exists.

Well played Netflix.
Can you provide some links/example to your usage of a gantry system? I don't typically use that term, curious to your exact usage.
> GUI performance is bad.

This depends heavily on the GPU drivers used, which in itself is probably a problem, but is far from universal.

I didn't have any issues with Bluetooth & hibernate for years now, I am surprised you'd have hibernate problems on a System76 laptop as I don't even have a 'Linux-friendly' laptop per se and hibernate works.

> The next time I'm ready to drop $1500+ on a laptop, I'll probably just get a Macbook.

I use MacBooks sometimes at work and I'd say that past 2015 they've not been on the right track. The keyboard and cooling especially. Software-wise, macOS is indeed more 'uniform' in terms of hardware, so it's easier to make sure everything 'works', (which is not really a fair comparison to Linux, which works well on a much wider range of hardware, including the 2015 MBP).

As for macOS itself, you don't really have much in terms of customization options, which you may prefer, but that also means if you don't like something you're stuck. Be however prepared to pay $20-30 for every little utility from a decent file manager to window snapping, (that's right, macOS doesn't ship with a proper file manager and doesn't really support window snapping the way you'd expect out of the box).
No. Those are Nim, or rather tokens that guides the Nim code to do the pipe thing.

The code splits the line in function names, args and those operators, to then orchestrate the pipeline flow.
LibreOffice supports BASIC (a version of StarBasic), Python and JavaScript (Mozilla's Rhino engine).
> There are many reasons why people believe their religions.

What are those reasons in your opinion?
"Some people are disheartened to see how much you still need the command line to do some very basic things."

I am more surprised how someone can do serious IT work with windows. A nightmare for me.
Yeah, how is this not infringement?

Otherwise, we would see $79 mass-produced word clocks at Target.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. You make some reasonable points.

I would say though, in the short term, we could stand to increase renewables massively with out needing to solve the storage problem, virtually every watt of installed capacity we add is directly offsetting dirty producers.

Grid scale battery storage is just starting to be implemented, theres also hydro, and 'smart' grid solutions. Whether any of this turns out to be a silver bullet I don't know.
To me it seems disrespectful and offensive to publicly shame your parents, or almost anyone really, over privately shared conversations and opinions. Reminds me of this time I had lunch with a co-worker, who repeatedly referred to his parents as being "uneducated" because they didn't finish college.
who needs debate about real economic issues when you have so many sci fi fantasies and fauxial justice crusades to occupy your time.
Losing the home button and extra bezel could probably make it ergonomic up to 4.5 inches.
No, you're not the only one
"We need the latest standards" isn't a particularly great argument either. Web existed and flourished long before 90% of these new standards even came into being.
How is that compatible with Net Neutrality?

Can an ISP subsidize access to Netflix because they save on transit?
Well, mate is not the default Ubuntu Desktop. Honestly, I never got used to the Ubuntu desktop (What is it now? Unity?) but I always stayed with KDE and Kubuntu.

Recently I am unhappy about the stability and also about the RAM requirements of KDE since I only have 8GB Ram. I am pretty sure my next installed Linux system will be Bodhi Linux on my Laptop.
That’s so wrong... you can have a borderless formfactor form redmi(sub brand of xiaomi) for 160 usd , and 5 y.o. Design for much $200+. I’m ok that Apple price is higher, but it should be decent. What Apple is doing is selling expensive outdated tech and formfactors.
It's a relatively simple Nim code. It takes a line that starts with "import" and searches for three components: module, function and alias. If you don't provide an alias, you'll get an index error.
"Side hustle" is some kind of SV slang for money-making side project. The SV-specific part is that it's not meant in a dishonest or otherwise negative (rather humoristic) way.
Yup. Same here. I ended up reading comments on HN to see what the article was about.

Under GDPR Slate's privacy banner is probably illegal, by the way, because it doesn't provide a way to opt-out.
I also wrote a forth system for the Z80 TI calculator series when I was in high school, about 20 years ago now (wow).

Very happy to see young people still fooling with this stuff, despite the ubiquity of smart phones etc.

I just uploaded the code to github: https://github.com/hoytech/tiforth

To anyone else interested in really understanding forth, Brad Rodriguez's "Moving Forth" series is the best I've ever read (and I don't imagine much has changed since), including a great explanation on "DOES>", widely regarded as the most difficult part of the forth kernel. You can read it online here:

https://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/index.html

Also I have to confess I stole the division routine for my forth from Brad's CamelForth: https://github.com/hoytech/tiforth/blob/master/forth.z80#L50...

Quickly looking it over I notice I used m4 as the macro-expander (haha I've since grown out of that).
>Looking at the power generation of example Germany we see a massive 75%+ use of wind power in good conditions, but then see it all replaced with coal + oil + gas when it is not.

The last time I looked they were importing power from abroad when it's not, which usually meant pulling in excess power from French nuclear plants.
CDNs have been doing this for years. It's nothing new!
You are shifting the topic with a flawed analogy. IE was breaking websites left and right. Safari doesn't.

Give me an example of Safari users getting significantly worse experience in a web service that they need in their everyday lives.
Both groups are the Illuminati — that’s how we planned it (obviously).
Just build my own from scratch as Christmas presents. Saw the orig. Qlocktwo 10 years ago and always thought: the logic is so simple, I build this on my own. The main problem is a professional looking front plate, but after discovering online services for cheap lasering a SVG file, I re-thought my idea.
Pro tip: separate every LED, not just the words, because you can use the LEDs as two letter 8x5 segment display to show temperature or a running text.
Just finished the clocks a few days ago, so project not documented yet, but will also publish my code, because with the segment letters I added some more functions than on the usual wordclock tutorials. Project hardware basics:
* Arduino Nano (also tested Wemos D1 mini for implementing a control app via WLAN sometimes)
* DS3231 RTC
* LED strip WS2812b
You are the one claiming that some particular Linux DE freezes more than Windows. If we're comparing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS running Unity under Xorg to Windows 7 then I don't agree at all; in my experience they're both rock solid.
> This reasoning... doesn't make sense. Say Linux freezes 1% of the time, and half that time you can go into the TTY and fix it; the other half of the time you can't do anything. Now say Windows freezes 0.001% of the time, but never provides any way to recover.

You're attacking a strawman, you specified the numbers and now say how they don't really make sense. I'd say Windows freezes are actually more frequent for me than on Linux, but maybe it's about even, (general slowdowns, ie "Not Responding", are certainly more frequent on Windows).
An old guy playing PlayStation vita (especially out of character) is more jarring than anyone drinking Coke.
It's not about "giving mcdonalds a bad name", it's about protecting me from buying what I think is mcdonalds (for some reason), but actually being sold something else.

As Pirate Party say:

"Trademarks are okay as long as they protect consumers from fraud, etc, but never okay when they punish consumers."

They're similar to rules protecting origin. If I buy Feta, it's guaranteed to come from Greece. This protects me. Nothing stops me from buying "greek style cheese", which comes from Italy, I have informed choice.
I don't think there's anyone who believes in "clean coal" that isn't a lobbyist or a dupe of one. Theoretically coal-with-carbon-capture could be clean, but I'm not sure if any of these have ever been built and they would have high running costs.
You realise there is significant variation in the size of people’s hands? I consider a 4 inch phone so small as to be nearly unusable. Apple’s approach of having differently size phones for different people is the right one.
Supermac's have been doing business in Ireland since 1978. They are a household name with over 100 restaurants. The chain is named after the founder, Pat McDonagh. The burden of proof lies with McDonalds to prove that there is a significant risk of confusion; Neither I nor the EUIPO are persuaded of that.
That is of course the crux of the issue.

I'd like to think -- believe if you will -- that things are changing. Many people want a safer environment for their kids and are thus more politically active.

Sadly they are a drop in the ocean still.

Even with that however, this crazed consumerism cannot last forever. Things will change. Not sure you and I will live to see it though.
> * Something like 1 in 7 Americans works for McDonald’s at some point in their life, which is at least interesting if nothing else.

And if Mcdonalds didn't exist, people would buy from Burger King, which would have more stores, and employ those 1 in 7 americans
Not the first feature, but I want my phone to be able to be replaced immediately if I break it, and Apple provides that with Apple stores where I usually am.

Also google took too long to come out wit Duo, so all the old people in my family learned how to use FaceTime, so now we all just stick with Apple products because it’s not worth switching to another environment, especially since Apple stuff changed much less and causes much less frustration.
> Who asked about actual plans?

It's no use saying it would be great in theory if it turns out not to work or be cost effective in practice. This problem dogs a lot of technologies but nuclear has a particularly bad case of making promises that it doesn't meet in practice.
Its all about education. He even pointed it out in the article, he was home schooled.
Consider offering the same app in multiple implementations. Focus on the "why" and not "how". The how part becomes much easier to communicate when the students understand why it works.
That's a good point, I haven't actually spent a lot of time on Popper, though I was amused to find that under some interpretation of his argument, the most extreme varieties of obvious pseudoscience fall under science. In particular I wasn't aware the article even addressed Popper, in particular what's in footnote ii:

>Strictly speaking any method can be made to falsify claims with the addition of a falsification rule. However, the rule must still be shown to be reliable.

At the very least, I think it's shaky to try and apply the same standard regardless of the actual method of the science - since some fields take different approaches to others. That's not to say that all approaches are valid, but that one idea of science in one field shouldn't necessarily need to hold up in other one. Some sciences obviously greatly benefit (or did in the past) from even a simple statement of falsifiability, but to others it seems like a total mismatch for the problem domain.

I hadn't considered Bayes' rule to work that way (my only exposure to statistics is an intro course on information theory as part of an EE degree) but if I'm right, this opens up a discussion as to how risky is risky enough - is astrology still in the picture then?
The issue is that installing something that's not in the official repositories and getting a functioning .desktop file set up for it can (in some cases) be a complete PITA if you don't already possess a reasonably detailed understanding of how the desktop launcher system works under the hood.
See WWVB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB
Sounds like you are just talking about things you find really weird rather than things that are easily falsifiable.

I'm not convinced that any of the things you are discussing can be disproved more easily than flat earth.
EightOS: Open-Source Operating System for the Bodymind
article it's missing name of the restaurant, so don't waste your time, might as well read Harry Potter. if it's not made up story she should name and shame them
How is this not an ad?
yeah, but does the old man really care what other people think about him? so it kinda didn't matter what's his purpose of watching volleyball, if he doesn't care and doesn't break a law
Don't trust this thing. AFAICT, there's not a single clear photo of the actual physical product. Everything is a rendering/CGI/dark lighting and I can't tell if it's real.

If you had a working, quality thing, you'd expect they'd show a clear image. Warning!
Agreed. But where's the updated small form-factor model?