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I am surprised that this is so shocking to the author. Stuff like this is expected and only logical, as wrong as it may be. Apple has been desperately trying to tie people into their eco-system and every move the company makes is a step in that direction whether it may be immediately obvious to other people or not. Also I should mention that I believe Apple is probably not the only company that promotes the use of its own apps on its own platforms. Regardless, it is nice to see some concrete indicators like this article to actually show how that is being done.
For an example of an integral constant, consider the exponent in Newton's law of universal gravitation: the distance is squared (exponent two).
Obivously, since base 10 is arbitrary.
Can anyone point out a good introduction to some of the methods used in the article? Terms such as the p-value, treatment effect etc.
Completely guessing - but I think the strict structure of German makes it easier for machines to translate? English and Spanish on the other hand break more of their rules than they stick to, so it makes it more "human" / "natural" and easier to relate to?
I guess the reason there is not too much new CLISP development going on is that it's really a mature product. The ANSI standard of Common Lisp was published in 1994 and there was no amendments or additions since then. CLISP has implemented it awhile ago. Also, CLISP is written in C and doesn't compile to machine code like, for example, SBCL, so no need for an extra work to target new platforms. Again, that's my guess.
I can't get beyond the second slide. Possibly because

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Edit: Oh, I can if I turn adBlock off.
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Only if you let them find out ;).
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Systems-oriented software engineer, to me, means a developer who can venture into realms of the system not normally granted a lot of attention; someone who understands the code around the drivers doing all the work for some of the system component modules, for example, or who can formulate a good understanding of the behaviour of the system as a whole, sum total of its parts, and knows those parts well. Whereas a non-systems programmer sees a file-descriptor they can read from, a systems-programmer sees the driver, the cache management, the block and other layers underneath it all that make it work. i.e. not an Application developer, who assembles blocks, but rather a Systems developer, who makes blocks and destroys them at will.
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But this isn't really a newbie's guide to using Git, as far as I can tell. There are probably other texts that are more suitable for that purpose. This text was pretty useful for me as a refresher-type thing to clarify the basic data types and inner workings of Git.

There are many, many people who have no problems with using the command line, and who in fact by default prefer it to GUI tools. The guide itself provides graphs and visual means of understanding, and explains how these representations relate to the CLI tools. Very helpful!

I don't really agree with your complaint, because it seems like you're just saying "I would prefer to read a different kind of article," which is fine, but it's not a criticism. The argument about "alienating an even larger portion of your reader base" seems spurious; the author can write to whatever target audience they want!
About Kodak failure to imagine a world without analog technology : http://petapixel.com/2010/08/05/the-worlds-first-digital-cam...

Very surprising.
Well, here's some food for thought on all those new "job markets" created:

http://www.fastcompany.com/3027355/pixel-and-dimed-on-not-ge...
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for those of us too lazy to rtfm, can you paste the imagemagick commands you used or upload to github?

it's interesting that the aliasing from reducing the size of the image decreased the hamming distance in the last example.
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There is currently only working support for VFP hardware floating point in SBCL so the build options are reduced a bit. I think the only choice to make for a binary release would be whether to build against Debian, Ubuntu or something else.
Lets be clear here. The aim here is to let you sit back, browse the web, and click on Google ads.
I agree that stuff like this is expected but I am still shocked. I think that this kind of revelations means you never really own the iphone you have bought. It is more like a leasing. The only way to own what you buy is to switch to open alternatives.
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How would you prevent them from finding out?
Some groups however do share their code [1] (I am not really aware of similar sites for fields other than astrophysics, although there is plenty of code out there).

[1] http://asterisk.apod.com/wp/?page_id=12
As someone who is not an iDeveloper and has no idea what the UIPopoverController does: couldn't you make a case that Apple is deliberately crippling the competition and, therefore, make a case for abuse of a dominant position?

If it were so it then it wouldn't be about being shocking, expected or logical, but about being against the law.
Of course Apple 'cheats' with regard to its own closed product, it's hardly surprising. Interesting to read about the exact mechanisms by which they do, but I'm always reminded of Jeff Atwood's article 'Serving at the pleasure of the king'[0]. It's Apple's party and they can define the rules however they like. Enough people seem to be okay with this that it's a viable method of doing business, even if it isn't desirable.

[0]: http://blog.codinghorror.com/serving-at-the-pleasure-of-the-...
You're going to have to elaborate if you know any more, it seems incredibly easy to check programmatically.
This is a fairly straightforward, boring UI class which you could easily implement yourself, or use one of the many open source replacements[1]. Whatever the reasons for making this API private on the iPhone, I seriously doubt that it's because they are trying to give their own apps an unfair advantage.

If that was their game here, I can think of many other parts of the iOS frameworks that would be kept private before UIPopoverController.

[1]: https://www.cocoacontrols.com/search?utf8=✓&q=popover
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If you click on the list button in the top right you get a much superior reading format. :)
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This seems to be the same anti-competitive behavior that Microsoft was often found guilty of and chastised for. Come on Apple, please don't become an Evil Empire.
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>The typical way that an entity would have the right to access employee communications is through the entity's employee policy.

It's nice of you to drop into this thread, but it's exactly as bad people assumed.

If I was an employer and I didn't cover this sort of breach of privacy in my employee policy, and someone at Atlassian bothered to ask (I'm sure that Atlassian invests in lawyers to vet each submitted request), I'd just add the language to the policy document and fire it off.
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Hmmmmmm...downloadable 'modules'?
Nice catch about the shape minimizing blind spots for the roof-mounted lasers.
I like how your rant about "trying to tie people into their ecosystem" has absolutely nothing with the situation here, which is the fact Apple's apps use some harmless private APIs before they finalize them to a degree to make them public.

Tell me, what other "expected and only logical" things did you encounter while reading the article? I'm sure there's an alien invasion conspiracy theory in there somewhere.
Isn't the argument that Apple makes use of private APIs as a beta test? That is, Apple will first introduce these private API restrictions, build apps around them and release the API as public once they are confident on its reliability. My understanding this is the approach with XPC and TouchID.

Maybe Apple aren't confident with UIPopovers on iPhone and are awaiting its maturity until they let it loose. I highly doubt holding back a popover would be malice on Apple's part.

EDIT: Imagine if Apple released APIs as soon as they used them, we'd see more blog posts complaining about the reliability of an API they were promised.
I would not consider the default applications on the iphone "apps" even. They are written by Apple to provide a certain functionality and that is what they do. They can use any API they need. Why should they not use private API? I would not consider iBooks to be somehow different from say the phone or system preferences "app". They are there because they are provided by the system.
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Or you can just use any imaginable icon set in IcoMoon, export the PNGs and color/resize them in Photohop.
You're probably thinking of AutoCAD, which isn't written in Lisp, but scriptable using Autodesk's variant of Lisp.
You can also press that button to see them as a top-down list.
Kodak also demoed the first professional DSLR in 1988, and released the first commercially available DSLR in 1991. In fact Kodak, with their series of Nikon based DSLRs, basically owned the professional digital photography market throughout the 90's.
Oh yeah. Without UIPopoverController on iPhone, it's like you lease your phone, and at any moment Apple may pull the string to that UIPopoverController and take their phone back.

Do you even read what you write or you just mash the keyboard and hit "reply"?
As was already said, some people get sick. Also, many more people prefer to be facing forward on a train. I know I personally do. Sure, I can handle facing backward with no problems, but I just prefer facing forward.
+ 100. I find it revolting and scammy that tech companies have to get outside "consultants" to help fill out the paperwork. I've heard stories where some consultants worked for the program itself in the past. How can Canada piss away so many tax dollars is beyond me.
I wonder why people are so excited about this. It's voice recognition coupled with an automated translator and a text-to-speech tool. Sure it all has to work fast enough but the English-to-German translation is horrible and probably much worse than a Google translate of the same sentence.
For me as a native German speaker I would have been embarrassed being a Microsoft employee if they advertise something like that as "revolutionary" - it's not!
>> Stuff like this is expected and only logical, as wrong as it may be

Maybe it's just me, but I really don't see what's "wrong" about Apple using private API's and workarounds that are not available to 3-rd party apps. I also don't see how this is different from about every other piece of commercial software in existence, the Windows API is well known to be full of undocumented API's that are only used by Microsoft, for example.

The only way I could interpret a commercial vendor using private API's unvailable to third party applications as 'wrong' is if they secretly use them to gain a competitive advantage over third-party vendors of competing applications. This is clearly not the case on iOS, because the whole system is already locked down, and publishing applications directly competing with Apple stock apps is explicitly disallowed in the submission guidelines. Whether you agree about that is a different thing, but there's nothing secret about it.

As far as I can tell, there also is no pattern whatsoever of Apple applications somehow using magic killer unicorn features that are unvailable to third-party apps. Did anyone ever get the impression that third-party apps on iOS are second rate compared to stock apps? I surely haven't, I'd even go as far as saying it's the opposite. Also the list of app bundle exceptions that can use UIPopoverController is so small, I expect there's a much simpler explanation here. Most likely UIPopoverController does not work reliably on iOS, except in some restricted use cases, and Apple chose to disable it for third-party apps to prevent applications with broken user interfaces or having to support UIPopOverController use cases they didn't intend to be used on smalls screens.
This is how to use this on iPhone - https://gist.github.com/xuki/f66e4d77b682dbb0960d

This won't pass Apple's automatic check for private API, but you could do some clever swizzle. IMO it's ok to use this in production (if you can get pass the app review), Apple is using them in their app anyway.
The Apple apps that use these private APIs are publicly available. They're not beta versions. If the APIs are unstable then why are Apple releasing apps that use them?
Technically VBA != VBScript, although they are similar.
No. 16-bit, as I recall, was the upper limit for Voodoo cards. Resolution wasn't a problem. I played Unreal (the original) at 1600x1200x60hz on my old 17" CRT monitor. I had a Voodoo 3 card back then.

I still remember staying up all night playing Deus Ex on that rig.

The late 90s truly was the golden age of PC gaming.
Yep I know, you could consider these production apps as beta tests of the API.

If they mess up the API calls, they can sidetrack the review process and deliver a swift update.
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Hi Manicdee! The point is that with any unityped representation you can come up with, the name tells you nothing certain; any conclusions you think you can draw from it are pixie-dust and moonshine. Even with nonsense names, the argument and return types give you solid proof not only about what the method does, but importantly what it _doesn't_ do.

There's no criticism implied of my colleagues at all -- I'm as culpable as anyone. The point is though, we can make big improvements with types, without paying a big cost.

You must have had good OOD teachers:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CaseStatementsConsideredHarmful
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SwitchStatementsSmell

Cheers
Like others, I'm fairly convinced that this is simply not enabled because Apple haven't done the necessary amount of work to ensure that the UIPopoverController on an iPhone is stable, API-compliant, and well-tested.

Specific use-cases under their control can be extensively tested, and it may be the case that e.g. iBooks only uses a subset of the functionality.

More to the point, there's nothing to be gained from this example. UIPopoverController is a relatively boring UI element which it's not too complex to implement by hand, and there are a bunch of open replacements. It was also only relatively recently (Lion?) introduced into MacOS. If they are trying to find a competitive advantage here, they're not doing a good job of it…
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With first-party apps being under Apple's control, it's possible to test them extensively, or make sure that they only use a working subset of the API, etc.
They all do in varying degrees - e.g. Goldman's Slang/SecDB -and are investing in well-engineered valuation/risk systems that work across various trading units due to regulatory pressures as well as to reduce manpower/maintenance costs.
A teacher asks a group of students to prove that all odd numbers above 1 are prime numbers. After a short while the students begin arguing about the best proof.

Mathematician: "We should use proof by induction, I can show 3 is a prime number by listing all of it's factors, and then from there I can show that 2n + 1 is prime ..."

Scientist: "What? that doesn't make any sense. What we need is experimental data. Let's collect enough points, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13. Six points should do, now look, the general trend is that all of them are prime. We have one anomaly, but it's probably just caused by a random fluctuation in..."

Engineer: "Nah, all this theory is pointless, we only need to know if they are prime in the real world. Let's just take a few and see if they work for our purposes. 3 - prime, 5 - prime, 7 - prime, 9 - nearly prime, 11 - prime, surely that's good enough."

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All of the students gather around the CS's computer and watch as he presses go.

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https://speakerdeck.com/steipete/taking-advantage-of-the-run... - see 2nd line

Peter Steinberger (https://twitter.com/steipete) shipped this in his PSPDFKit, which is used for Box/Dropbox/Evernote.
You can't download executable code to an iPhone app outside the App Store, only data.
Not yet. It looks like a moving target for now so I'm waiting for a stable release.
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UIPopoverController is a trivial UI element which allows an app to display a kind of tooltip-style contextual view above the app. It would be hard to argue that the exclusion of this API would constitute "crippling" anything, given the number of alternatives which are available.
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It's totally reasonable for Apple to use APIs internally that it's not ready to make public -- making an API public is a serious decision with lots of downsides! You've got to support the API forever, and future design directions are constrained.

To expect Apple to make all code it uses internally available publicly is silly.

(If you want some great examples of the extreme amount of work it can be to support legacy APIs, and why it's really important to prevent devs from using private APIs, check out Raymond Chen's blog.)
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There is definitely a need for private APIs that normal apps cannot use - they might have security implications, for instance. The App Store or Settings apps clearly need to be able to do things that other apps cannot do - for instance, any app that had the same privileges as the App Store would be able to install/uninstall other apps.

Further, Apple's position is that the App Store, Settings etc. are akin to natural monopolies - it only ever makes sense to have one of each. The fact that it's not possible to implement a third-party Settings app isn't a problem because nobody should ever need to do this. This is arguable, but it's an easily defensible position for Apple and most iOS users would be happy with this (and those who aren't can jailbreak).

Having private APIs that are available to apps like iBooks, when competitors to iBooks exist, seems a bit shadier and much closer to the example of Microsoft Office using hidden/unpublished Windows APIs in the 90s. iBooks isn't some essential system service, and should be replaceable by a third-party app according to user preference. If Apple are making it even slightly more difficult for a third-party app to replace iBooks then this would appear to be anti-competitive.

IANAL, but I doubt that there is a legal case to answer. However, there does seem to be a moral case to answer. Sure, it's Apple's product and they can do what they like, but we have seen what happens when essential software vendors do what they like, and it's generally not pretty.
I'm not trying to suggest any kind of equivalency here, but what's the difference between hidden api functionality for Apple and Microsoft's undocumented function calls?
> The main critique I have for the OP is that is that it should be responsive -- and only work on tablets and mobile

All it does is add and remove classes. It can be as responsive or unresponsive as you like with @media rules.
It's understandable that Apple locks down private API's, however given that developed these often they move from the private state (beta testing for their own apps?) to public and available for developers to develop against once they are happy with them.
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Have a look at this[0] blogpost. Also, I'm just guessing, once kdbus is in the kernel using direct calls to journald will (or could potentially) be more efficient.

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Very nice overview,
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It is not as much feature X, but lack of feature X that's the problem in the article. Statical typing is a tool you should be using if it is suitable to your problems. The problem described is verifying there is no garbage in garbage out situation for your functions. Proposed solution is making compiler do the check instead of manually checking the codebase, writing more code known as TDD, enforcing conventions that are easily confusing... Common theme in these alternatives are necessity of extra tools and all associated effort. Compiler can be a perfectly servicable point of enforcement if types are used properly with possibly no extra cost.
Is this talk available online anywhere? I'd love to hear it, or at least a broad-strokes summary.
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The biggest problem I see here is that if all cars on the road were self driving then you have more control. The issue is when you mix human behaviour and error into the mix. The first fatal or near fatal accident with self driving cars could be the end before it's even started.
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