technosmurf

I thought a big reason for the removal of Cover Flow from iTunes was troubles with patent troll companies in 2008:

https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-settles-coverflow-pat...

The source is SBF himself, in an interview with Tiffany Fong (covered by Coffeezilla):

https://youtu.be/0rL35_WV3lE?t=77

He said he donated about the same to both parties, with the Republican donations hidden as dark money.

The arrow keys on the smaller model are unfortunately full-sized (like the older Magic Keyboard 2).

I created an image gallery where you can see all 3 keyboard layouts shown in the keynote video today:

  - Magic Keyboard 3 (lock button)
  - Magic Keyboard 3 (Touch ID)
  - Magic Keyboard 3 (Touch ID and numeric keys, inverted T layout)

https://gist.github.com/spiritphyz/bac975617d513b5b4010a6828...

Yeah, that repository's README is a little bit outdated.

Here's what I found works or is broken in macOS Catalina and above:

Works: --------------------

  # Preview source code files with syntax highlighting (like colored .JS files)
  brew install qlcolorcode

  # Preview Markdown files
  brew install qlstephen 

  # Preview JSON files with syntax highlighting
  brew install quicklook-json 

  # Preview plaintext files with unknown extensions, like README, CHANGELOG, etc.
  brew install qlstephen 

  # Preview the content of .IPA files
  # Installs inside /Applications folder
  brew install suspicious-package 

  # Preview iOS/macOS provisioning information for .ipa and .xcarchive
  # For 'mobileprovision' files, Xcode has Quick Look plugin collision:
  # https://github.com/ealeksandrov/ProvisionQL/issues/20
  brew install provisionql 

  # Preview the content of macOS apps
  # Installs inside /Applications folder
  brew install apparency 

  # Preview WebP images
  brew install webpquicklook

Broken: --------------------

  # Display image size and resolution in windo titlebar of Quick Look
  # Doesn't work due to API change from Apple
  # https://github.com/Nyx0uf/qlImageSize/issues/45#issuecomment-610852166
  #brew install qlimagesize 
  
  # Preview Adobe ASE color swatch files from Photoshop, Illustrator
  # Doesn't work in macOS Catalina
  #brew install quicklookase 
  
  # Preview the content of Android .APK files
  # Doesn't work in macOS Catalina
  #brew install quicklookapk

As listed in the README, you also need to unset the quarantine attribute. To see the changes, you need to restart the Quick Look Server after the install, and sometimes requires logging out and in again. Here's a script I made, let me know if it works for you:

https://github.com/spiritphyz/Save-the-Environment/blob/main...

Where did you get the idea that the technology's been superseded?

The NANOGrav collaboration is trying to use millisecond pulsars to determine if a galaxy-wide analysis of 47 pulsars can detect gravitational waves.

The team says that Arecibo was instrumental for their data analysis because the telescope was unique in its radio sensitivity:

"Although NANOGrav does not expect the situation to result in significant delays in detection due to years of very sensitive Arecibo data already contributing to their datasets, the loss of Arecibo is a terrible blow to science, and will impact NANOGrav’s ability to characterize the background and detect individual sources in the future."

http://nanograv.org/press/2021/01/11/12-Year-GW-Background.h...

Mosh is designed to only synchronize the last screen of changes and will never support scrolling.

https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/122#issuecomment...

http://web.mit.edu/keithw/www/Winstein-Balakrishnan-Mosh.pdf (Section 6)

When you already have Safari running (or any other app), pull up the dock from the bottom edge of the screen.

Then press the Safari icon (or alternatively, press and hold on the Safari icon and choose "Show All Windows").

Now, all of those floating Safari windows are shown, and you can "toss them away" and close them.

Yes, it's not a very intuitive discovery process :(

WordStar is popular with science fiction writers for more fundamental reasons. (Not because it doesn't have spell check or isn't connected to the internet.)

Wordstar treats the text like a long-hand manuscript. You can add notes to yourself like "fix this!" and deal with the edits later. Or, you can block copy large sections of text and have the computer keep a reference to it without having to "copy and paste" it immediately. I've seen George RR Martin write that he likes how easy it is to move large sections of text around in WordStar.

Here's how the SF writer Robert J. Sawyer describes it:

"... as a creative writer, I am convinced that the long-hand page is the better metaphor.

Consider: On a long-hand page, you can jump back and forth in your document with ease. You can put in bookmarks, either actual paper ones, or just fingers slipped into the middle of the manuscript stack. You can annotate the manuscript for yourself with comments like "Fix this!" or "Don't forget to check these facts" without there being any possibility of you missing them when you next work on the document. And you can mark a block, either by circling it with your pen, or by physically cutting it out, without necessarily having to do anything with it right away. The entire document is your workspace...

WordStar's ^Q (Quick cursor movement) and ^K (block) commands give me more of what I used to have when I wrote in longhand than any other product does. WordStar's powerful suite of cursor commands lets me fly all over my manuscript, without ever getting lost. That's because WordStar is constantly keeping track of where I've been and where I'm likely to want to go. ^QB will take me to the beginning of the marked block; ^QK will take me to the end; ^QV will take me to where the marked block was moved from; ^QP will take me to my previous cursor position. And, just as I used to juggle up to ten fingers inserted into various places in my paper manuscript, WordStar provides me with ten bookmarks, set with ^K0 through ^K9, and ten commands to jump to them, ^Q0 to ^Q9...

WordStar, with its long-hand-page metaphor, says, hey, do whatever you want whenever you want to. This is a good spot to mark the beginning of a block? Fine. What would you like to do next? Deal with the block? Continue writing? Use the thesaurus?

After another half hour of writing, I can say, ah hah!, this is where I want to end that block. And two hours later I can say, and this is where that block should go. I'm in control, not the program. That's clearly more powerful, more intuitive, and more flexible than any other method of text manipulation I've yet seen implemented in a word processor. That WordStar lets me have separate marked blocks in each of its editing windows multiplies that power substantially: imagine doing a cut and paste job between two versions of a paper document, but being told that you could only have one piece cut out at a time. Madness! Yet that's what WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, and others would force you to do. (In WordStar 7.0, you can even, in essence, have two marked blocks per window, toggling between them with the "mark previous block" command, ^KU.)"

http://sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm

The agricultural systems around the big temple complexes suggest that over a million people lived in the area.

http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2007/08/metropolis-angkor-world...

After I do a search, the Back button is broken. Seems like it somehow made 5+ entries and I have to manually look through my search history to go to the previous website. I'd rather use the Algolia search at the bottom of every page.

There are a good number of reviews and testimonials from people who have finished these "developer bootcamp" schools at:

https://schools.techendo.com

The person who runs that website also runs SF Hacker News and its weekly email newsletter.

I'm surprised that Anand didn't mention anything about the trackpad. The Verge's impression is that it's pretty terrible:

"The trackpad, on the other hand, is pretty bad. It’s sticky and plastic, and doesn’t allow your finger to glide smoothly at all; my fingers jittered around as I tried to move the cursor, and the screen jittered even worse as I tried to scroll with two fingers or pinch to zoom on the screen. It’s a frustrating change from the smooth, responsive Chromebook Pixel, which got all this right — and had a touchscreen too, just in case. Of course, the Pixel is also six times the price."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/10/4822576/hp-chromebook-11-...

In 2012, it seemed that Newsstand was a lucrative option for some publishers. Future PLC (which makes PC Gamer, Computer Arts and Computer Music magazines) earned $8 million USD in one year. They were really happy with the number of people who signed up for marketing messages (5 million out of 12 million downloads), which was an early stumbling block for publishers because Apple doesn't share the customer contact info by default (traditional publishers always had access to this).

Have other publishers seen a serious drop in users or revenue since then for the article to recommend not putting magazines inside Newsstand anymore?

http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/future-has-made-5-million-...

> Bill Gates shouldn't be listed as someone who inherited his wealth: he did not inherit it.

According to Philip Greenspun, Bill Gates started off with a million-dollar trust fund:

"William Henry Gates III made his best decision on October 28, 1955, the night he was born. He chose J.W. Maxwell as his great-grandfather. Maxwell founded Seattle's National City Bank in 1906. His son, James Willard Maxwell was also a banker and established a million-dollar trust fund for William (Bill) Henry Gates III."

http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6546325

You're probably thinking of a RIM employee who told a story about how the engineers thought Apple was lying about the iPhone because the large screen was too power-hungry:

The iPhone "couldn't do what [Apple was] demonstrating without an insanely power hungry processor, it must have terrible battery life," Shacknews poster Kentor heard from his former colleagues of the time. "Imagine their surprise [at RIM] when they disassembled an iPhone for the first time and found that the phone was battery with a tiny logic board strapped to it."

http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/12/27/rim.thought.ap...

This allegation has been debunked. Apple device are not being throttled. In fact, the original author has deleted his article.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7037/apple-not-throttling-ipho...

Another glitch: the volume controls don't work correctly. No matter what level your volume is at, if you press the down button just once, the volume will go completely to 0! You have to keep pressing up again to reach the proper level. Quite annoying when the volume is a function used so many times a day. Jailbreaking may allow you to get more features, but it usually brings a whole host of headaches, too. I'll probably just stick with the standard iOS system after the next update.

I also checked the shasum by comparing 2 files.

The Mega link (Mac client) from the official web page: bd9fe1e58343a5c03295a975697de3e64e65b42c

asiekierka's Mac link: bd9fe1e58343a5c03295a975697de3e64e65b42c

Both file sizes are the same (9,690,941 bytes, 9.7 MB on disk). Maybe the discrepancy has to do with -a flag for 224, 256, 384, or 512 or something.

I think his mirror is safe. It's the one I used to successfully jailbreak my iPad 3. Now I can SSH into my iPad and change the hosts file for some ad-blocking and installed Flux for "easier on the eyes" nighttime reading.

I don't look forward to Apple's next update which will wipe out my jailbreak, so I don't want to customize things too much. Last time I did a jailbreak for my iPod Touch, it messed up an in-app purchasing mechanism for a game I was testing. After this experience, I dread that jailbreaks will cause unforeseen problems and prefer not having to customize every single little tech option. Still, I performed this jailbreak mostly to get ad-blocking in MobileSafari.

Actually, one snag I have: the iPad time was totally wrong, insisting that it was 8 hours ahead, and the General Settings wouldn't properly automatically update the time. Had to do a lot of fiddling with Location services and Date & Time to fix it.

Jailbreakin' ain't all that it's cracked up to be!

Samsung wanted to fortify the claim that Apple "copied" from Sony. (The evidence was dismissed because of procedural reasons.)

However, the main problem with this story is that the "copied" design is for a Sony Walkman, not a mobile phone. Also, the Sony-inspired design submitted by Shin Nishibori, an Apple industrial designer, was just one of many prototypes that didn't make the final cut.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/01/the-sony-device-samsu...

http://www.itreviews.com/hardware/audio-video-players/sony-w...

rprasad wrote:

> You can quibble over whether he donated a dollar or two to some bum somewhere, but ultimately, Steve Jobs donated less to charity than either of us.

I don't know how to reply to individual posts, so I'll write in the main thread. Rprasad, you are still assuming many things about Jobs' private attitude in regards to charitable giving. After the New York Times opinion piece that appeared to stir up controversy after Jobs' resignation on Aug. 24, 2011, Bono wrote this as a response:

"Apple has been (RED)’s largest contributor to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria — giving tens of millions of dollars that have transformed the lives of more than two million Africans through H.I.V. testing, treatment and counseling. This is serious and significant...

You don’t have to be a friend of his to know what a private person he is or that he doesn’t do things by halves." [1]

What most people don't know when they compare Bill Gates and Steve Jobs is that Jobs' Buddhist beliefs probably influenced the nature of his charitable giving, which is to do it anonymously.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/opinion/bono-praises-steve...

ShiftIt is great because it's an open source version of many of the other app suggestions you list!

The public 1.5 versions on GitHub are missing one important feature: pushing the current window to a second monitor. This is available on the 1.6 branch. I couldn't get it to build with Xcode on OS X Lion, but the author has a very stable 1.6 binary available for download:

https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt/issues/72#issuecomment-3...

I've had good success with an open source tiling window manager for Windows called HashTWM [1]. I use it inside my Windows XP virtual machine to manage a bunch of hairy situations with multiple windows. I like that it actually does reposition new windows to fit inside the grid, and that I can easily adjust the middle "split" line so that my main window can become thinner or thicker.

Where it falls down is when you deal with modal dialogue windows, like the "Save File As..." window of Firefox, or the "Find and Replace" window of Excel. I haven't found a good way to overcome the issue of those modal windows being hidden, even with the "-i ConsoleWindowClass -i #32770" ignore options. It seems like Firefox, Excel, and Photoshop implement some non-standard ways of opening smaller windows. In these situations, I quit HashTWM, deal with the modal window, and then start HashTWM again (using quick keyboard shortcuts).

[1] https://github.com/ZaneA/HashTWM

I wish you could browse the available sets and DJs without signing up for an account. To force me to do that is a bit of a pain. I'd rather go back to doing some "real work" than to go through the trouble of signing up so I can explore your new site quickly.