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I think motif was fine for its time, but definitely not much better than OpenLook.

However, 30 years ago, developing a standard SunOS app with devGuide was the most enjoyable and productive programming I've ever experienced. Simply layout your GUI, link actions to methods, generate code, fill in the abstracted methods, compile and run. I didn't have to learn X or any other bloated low level graphics library.

AFAIK, nothing has been easier, especially XCode.

I'm reading Iain McGhilchrist's The Master and his Emissary. There's a bit about right brain damage correlating (fact?) to lacking empathy.

    Patients with right frontal deficits, but not left frontal deficits, suffer a change of personality whereby they become incapable of empathy.

Besides API features, it won't require downloading 0.5 GB of web browser in order to run.

Sure, you can make it smaller, but how many companies actually do this?

Sure, you can make it faster, but how many companies actually do this? Accountants and product managers don't care about speed or size -- that's a user problem.

Judging by the app sizes I download (and try to avoid), few companies really care about the user experience as long as the basic feature is checked off.

I worked at a company that provided an unnecessary and heavy FE framework (original devs didn't know what they were doing and "just got it out there"). Most of the target audience used used older PCs, and thus slower and memory limited. Some pages required multiple GB of browser memory. We've had this problem for decades because devs usually have well spec'd computers.

Theoretically, Apple says you can now (or will be able to) write Android apps in Swift.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1ogjkq7/developers_c...

Not upvoting because the comment is flippant, but pre-1990 you had the Cold War and a somewhat realistic threat of nuclear war, though I have no memories of ducking under my desk in 1970's NYC.

Generally, the best time to live in is the present, but there have been a lot of changes since Reagan that have made life harder and worse, e.g. the 24h news cycle exacerbated by a distinct lack of rational discourse.

The list of other factors is pretty long, but it pretty much comes down to how public and disproportionate the negativity and spin pervade society.

I'm going to use Flora Incognita if only because it's a 29MB download so even if it's offloaded, it won't kill me to retrieve it.

Seek is 220MB...

I'm sorry this blog post was so long, I didn't have time to make it shorter.

Xcancel is your friend.

Like we need another reason not to write and publish!

Not to mention that car dealerships seem to resist providing software updates. You have to beg them and even show them proof an update exists.

And a bonus:

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/classic-100-the-original...

Apple Playlists

- [Classic 100 The Music You Can't Live Without](https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/classic-100-the-music-yo...)

- [The Best Classical of All Time](https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/the-best-classical-music...)

- [Classic 100 Music in the Movies](https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/classic-100-music-in-the...)

Technically people do benefit from having a dump or power plant.

Very few people are affected by having a dump nearby or a nuclear power plant, whereas it seems like the power generators for these AI data centers really belong in an industrial park.

These data centers also don't employ many people, though I've read they are wonderful for city taxes, assuming they haven't gotten too many enticing tax breaks.

On the website for the algebra I book:

  Grade Level US 6–8 / UK Years 7–9

"Asia 2-4" is missing.

  It is chiefly concerned with the following question: how should interest charges on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel at close to the speed of light? This is a problem because the time taken in transit will appear less to an observer travelling with the goods than to a stationary observer.

It's actually an interesting question!

I'm tired of long winded posts that bury the lead, AI or otherwise. Long form can be worthwhile, but many times it's just the writer performing an unnecessary guitar solo.

I was going to use this quote yesterday, but correlation is not causation.

I prefer the one where the national debt increases more under "fiscally responsible" republicans.

More correlation: more jobs are created and inflation is lower under democratic administrations.

GDP is also better with a Dem president, but it partially depends on the makeup of congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_p...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/deficit-us-presidents-sinc...

The day before the night I first saw Office Space, way after becoming an underground hit, I had my first encounter with the TPS communication barrage. It made the movie funnier and my work life sadder.

Similar thing happened with Idiocracy recently...

Funny, I got it wrong because the reader view showed the equals sign, but I had to go to the website to check my answer, which does hide it.

Lots of complaints about Netflix, but for the money, combined with Prime, I only miss affordable NHL, which is split between too many providers.

I agree that I wish Netflix had less lowbrow content, but they target a wide audience, and let's be honest, most people willing watch crap.

And seriously: go for a walk, read a book, play a game, or work on a hobby? TV shouldn't be your life, and it's long been one of the big societal problems.

I love to support creators, but I wish there was something common between free and significant subscription price so that I could show appreciation more readily.

Examples I would use without thinking for worthwhile-to-me content:

  - "tip" options in the App Store
  - 10/year
  - 1/month

Similarly, I'm surprised these newsletter gatekeepers haven't implemented a tip jar where you put in $/year and it gets divided based on readership.

I know this has been tried in other ways, but I think Substack and Medium could make this work.

Your first sentence is gold.

It's only in the past few hundred years where focus actually matters: knowledge workers, and some factory work where lack of attention resulted in injury.

They were called Sophists in Ancient Greece and were despised by Socrates because their arguments were based, not on truth or facts, but whatever rhetoric would convince the audience.

We have similar problems in Colorado re: pipes leaking. People don't want to pay the full cost of water, which includes supporting infrastructure. Municipalities are caught between these unfunded costs and taxpayers refusing to pay 1¢ more. I believe the utilities require political approval to raise rates, so that doesn't happen either.

We replaced e pluribus unum with in god we trust. How's that working out?

I would add that these finds would, and many did, find there way to the black market, ending up in private collections, which is almost as bad as their destruction.

Contrary to what others say, I don't think MacOS is that bad. In general, it's perfectly stable. There has been an increase in situational paper cuts -- I haven't experienced any I recall, but one cannot discount that others encounter weird problems. In the end it's significantly more stable than Windows and completely free of crapware.

Personally, the new look is annoying at worst, but it doesn't affect my day to day at all.

The biggest Apple problem is the same as its been for a decade: languishing Apple app development.

I love my merino wool socks and non-base layers, but my skin is generally too sensitive for most brands.

I should try the smartwool underwear because there stuff is better than the competition, especially the small players.

My 2¢: Feedly's free plan is great and their web UI awesome. The features I want from the pro plan do not warrant the price.

I've switched to using Feedbin. I don't mind paying for it even though I could keep using Feedly for free, but the web UI ads annoyed me enough to look elsewhere.

The best Apple app is easily Unread, both for UI and UX. It still is t perfect for me, but the problems are minor and the author pleasant to interact with.

I think the devil is in the details. There are some recent Rails conference talks on YouTube about adding "native" support.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VbMt_4STWIo

As the other commenter said, it may not be as "native" as you'd like.

I remember using the Hey app and being amazed at how well it worked (and this wasn't Hotwire Native at the time, I think) and I'm kind of sensitive to mobile apps not working as expected.

I don't know anything about React Native aside from my dislike for the complexity of React and how it perverts web operability, not to mention it is epically overkill for most use cases.