Totally agree, I personally feel this has been the case with 10.13, there hasn’t been any annoying / over the top ‘jazz’ that gets in the way of my workflow and it’s certainly a lot faster than previous macOS versions welcomed by Metal 2’s dramatic latency improvements.
The biggest change I’ve noticed since testing each of the betas and now running the final release is the significant decrease in interface / UI latency, it feels significantly faster to use and is a welcome upgrade.
Interesting indeed. I work for an NGO / non-profit in Melbourne, Australia and we work with a /lot/ of other Australian NGOs and I can honestly say most NGOs (at least in Australia and New Zealand) are not at all like this. Salaries are generally significantly lower in the NGO/Non-profit sector and generally speaking these roles tend to attract morally driven individuals that are primarily concerned with their impact on society or at least the sector they work in (obviously a generalisation but speaking from experience).
I see Zipkin is a Java app, without sounding like I’m hating on a language for no reason here - but I wonder if it’s awfully heavy and slow to launch like so most other java apps? By comparison I’d expect a tracer written in Go would be significantly more efficient.
Certainly a very interesting product and something I see gaining increasing popularity, I was wondering if there have been have publicly published independent security reviews on the product / code, default configuration and recommended configuration for production deployment?
(I did a quick search and checked the readme and nothing popped up but I may have missed something while on my phone and commuting)
Certainly lots of features I'd enjoy but I couldn't find the source and builds logs so I was a bit dubious - after doing some research it appears to be closed-source and proprietary software.
While I'm not saying it's bad because it's closed source, a web browser has access to a _lot_ of personal (meta)data and is certainly not something I'm about to trust to some black-box software that's not under review by the many.
But that’s no different to running it in Firefox or whatever, it’s not a desktop app - it’s just JavaScript wrapper that is essentially doing the same thing but giving you less control and generally higher memory usage.
Hmm, got a lot of very poor recommendations when trying various realistic combinations, the recommendation engine seems to promote pop music very heavily and doesn’t seem to consider lesser played tracks fairly in its analysis. Both Apple Music and pandora do a pretty good job of this by comparison.
I personally think that’s helping the problem of the infestation of poor performing JavaScript sites making their way onto the desktop, often they’re so bad it’s more sensible to open those sites in a Firefox / Safari window.
Not really related to clocks (other than the fact I was watching one while waiting for that to load) but that link seemed very slow to load, I haven’t seen a link to azurewebsites before but I’m assuming that’s some sort of static file hosting on Microsoft’s Azure platform?
I would argue that it’s not an industry standard unless it’s back by some sort of ISO like RFC. I’d also argue that it’s not an accepted term as _many_ people don’t agree with its misleading name, for example I personally see it as marketing spin.
On my work desktop (iMac 5k) I use a Das ultimate mechanical keyboard, I’ve been a big fan of Das keyboards with Blue or Brown switches for many years, I purchased a MacBook 12” Retina when they came out and it certainly took some adjusting to get used to the new keyboard but - after a week or so I really, truly liked it, I found myself typing very fast will a low error rate, when the new MacBook Pro came out a few months back I noted that they used a new generation of the same low profile keys that the MacBook 12” had, again I really enjoyed it because I was used to new style of key mechanism thanks to having the 12” for some time, I ended up buying a 13” MBP and oh my I’d almost go as far as saying I love the keyboard. Yes it’s very different from both mechanical keyboards such as my Das keyboards and legacy laptop keyboard designs and I think after a short adjustment period many people would likely enjoy the feel of the keys more than legacy / previous designs - it really grows on you.
I’m sorry I don’t see any comparison at all, iOS is a /lot/ less fragmented and iOS devices present on networks have a far high percentage of up to date OS versions installed. Just two months ago I sampled data of a 100~ staff user wireless network and a heavily used guest network, while more than 95% of iOS devices were running the latest version of iOS 10 (the 5% was all bar one a selection of test devices kept back for legacy mobile web browser testing) where less than 25% of android devices on either network were running either the current or latest stable legacy android versions over the same 30 day period.
When you’re managing a decent sized wireless network all the out of date Android devices are a right pain in the ass, so often I find devices that aren’t just out of date (usually Samsung’s) but also devices trying to connect to dodgy BitTorrent and P2P networks - furthermore when I speak to the user(s) involved 99% of the time they genuinely didn’t know their device is running dodgy software such as malware with P2P connections OR that it’s a potential security issue that they haven’t or often can update their OS. Most of the time the devices look quite modern too, it’s not like its people running really old devices.
Debian security are very good at their job indeed, however so many of the packages are so old they’re not usable, furthermore Debian doesn’t enable SELinux by default and has a number of policies missing which significantly weakens the average deployment.
I don’t want to make a negatively geared comment just for the sake of it, however (and there’s often a however after such words) facebook and other platforms where the product is the you - the person deeply troubles me especially when said company invests heavily in data sciences that will likely be used to market products to or get more information from again - people.