pico303

I grew up Christian, but I’m not any longer. That said, St. Francis is still a hero of mine and represents what Christianity should be.

What are you, a monster?

> another Apple can’t put my finger on why this is so much better than everyone else things

Once you’ve used a Mac touchpad, it’s impossible to go back to a Windows/Linux laptop. I’ve tried…

Is this what happens when research moves from universities to the private sector? Not sharing data and results seems par for the course for things like proprietary algorithms. Why would biotech be any different?

That’s what I was getting at. I think the original commenter was implying BlackBerry (or RIM), not Microsoft or Google.

Blackberry

I’ve still got my Seven Cities of Gold cardboard folder sitting on my shelf on display and Starflight in a box somewhere.

Another history of the Apple II I enjoyed: https://juiced.gs/store/sophistication-simplicity/

Was going to say almost the same thing, except you left out smart. These people didn’t have just luck and opportunities, they were also highly intelligent.

Someone else who commented on your post used the term “defeatist.” I’d guess it’s even more defeatist to realize if your child has average intelligence, maybe you shouldn’t focus on them being the next Einstein.

Or, from a positive perspective, encourage your child to be who they’re going to be and given them every opportunity you can, and hope they’ll be the happiest, most successful person they can be. Because in the end, there is no recipe for someone to be made into an exceptional person.

Out of curiosity, are there any OSS projects you’re donating $5/month to?

I’m just getting really tired of people thinking good software should be free and all the expertise and hard work that goes into something like Docker isn’t worth paying for. Docker provides a ton of value for very little money. Why shouldn’t I, as someone who makes a living writing software, pay others for the same hard work they’re doing?

If you can’t be bothered to pay for anything, why should anyone pay you for your software?

Did it seem to anyone else that during the holidays, UPS prices skyrocketed? I felt like a box that would have run me $25 to ship 3 day ground a year or so ago was almost $60 this year. If this is how others felt, UPS might struggle next holiday season while USPS and Amazon thrive.

To everyone suggesting to silence unknown callers, most of these scams come through email or text messages, and the victim is tricked into calling the scammer.

Best defense: don’t ever call a phone number you receive in a text or email message. Delete the message and look up your bank’s, Amazon’s, or PayPal’s phone number yourself through the company’s official web site.

Also, don’t get scared by messages about your finances…stay calm. The scammers count on you getting freaked out and doing something stupid.

Does anyone else find it amusing that I shouldn’t use phrases with “trigger” in them, as they promote violent imagery, but then the reason why I shouldn’t say “killing it” uses “trigger” to describe why it’s bad?

I was in this boat. I used to call it "a Unix laptop that could run Photoshop." Also it didn't crash when I closed the lid.

I don’t understand why folks don’t just point out any back doors in these services will be abused or hacked eventually. Do our leaders want their own personal correspondence—-to their big donors, bankers, brokers, interns, mistresses, drug dealers, coup instigators—-available to the FBI or the media too?

I’ve tried a lot of Windows laptops, and there’s still nothing on the Win/Linux side, even in Dell and MS laptops, that compares with the precision and natural feeling of a Mac trackpad.

Or CLion, if you’re doing C++ or Rust development

Every time I see some usability flub in Mac software—like the new Safari tabs—I think that Steve is just a little more gone. Despite his flaws, he really understood how people interact with computers in a way not many others do.

There was also one to keep an eye on the candy machine stock. Though talking about these early webcams makes me feel every pain and creak in my old joints.

I didn't realize at first how much this was going to change my view of Apple. Used to be when I saw the "Verifying xyz..." popup on my laptop, I felt a little more secure. It popped up tonight, and I found myself wondering, "Am I in trouble?"

I guess what I'm saying is, at least for me, this backlash is blurring their entire privacy and security pitch. Apple built a walled garden, told me it was for my own protection, then come to find out the cameras are all pointing to the inside.

It is a straw man. Software engineers don't hate spreadsheets when they're used as spreadsheets, like this article describes. They hate the "spreadsheet as a database," particularly when they're asked to load those spreadsheets into a proper database or other system periodically. Spreadsheets are so easy to use for tabular data, and since technical and non-technical people alike can easily use them, it's a tempting data transmission protocol. But most non-engineering types aren't disciplined about the layout, or understand the intricacies of interpreting the data (e.g. putting labels into numeric columns, adding accidental spaces to the end or beginning of labels), leaving the engineers to constantly rewrite sometimes complex scripts to load new data in this month's "flavor" of spreadsheet.

These days I usually reboot my top of the line MacBook Pro by holding down the power key.

Ah, sorry. You're right.

I think it's a trick question, in the way he phrases it. If A implies B, then not B implies not A. But he doesn't say that. He says, "If A implies B, does not A imply not B," for which the answer is no.

Laws aren’t like code. Laws are like specifications...everyone has their own interpretation.

These are great points. I disagree with a lot of this article, because it oversimplifies the problem without considering things like this.

Another related problem it forgoes discussing is the idea of planning. Once these problems get harder, the need for people to sit down and design a solution grows, sometimes exponentially. Yes, you need good communication, but you also need something to communicate and agree on. How many small teams in big orgs have even a simple design doc to work from?

We like them because you can make one or two cups without wasting a lot of coffee or water.

And unlike other brands, Nespresso pods are made of aluminum, so they can be recycled. In the US, when you order the pods or pick them up in a Nespresso shop, you get a UPS mailer bag. When you use a pod, drop it in the bag. When the bag is full, seal the bag and drop it in a UPS mailbox to recycle the pods with Nespresso. That's something I can't do with the bags from the coffee beans I get in stores here.

This article makes a big deal out of the fact that people don't recycle their pods. I'm not sure why that's Nespresso's fault. At least in the US, it's pretty damn painless.

Yeah, they'd messed with a clunky tablet for years. Then they finally developed a glass display that scrolled with touch and thought, "This would be better in a phone." I don't know if that really qualifies the iPhone as a "spinoff" of the Folio, or the Folio as even a predecessor to the iPad.