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I recommend downloading their ISO and trying it as a Live CD.

I don't see how this is lock-in, unless they have somehow crippled the exporting feature. It seems like the only thing preventing you from moving that 70GB of photos is a lack of motivation.

I've never had an experience this bad, but I've had plenty of bad experiences with sketchy rates in Baltimore cabs that I just take Uber or Lyft.

FWIW:

> Develop in their own hardware and OS

Strictly speaking this is still true, though a Hackintosh isn't hard to setup.

> Closed minds : iPhone SDK policies states that you cannot share what you are making with your fellow

I think something is lost in translation here. You can certainly share code, there is loads of it on github. Perhaps the author is talking about the core iOS source...?

> No choice in language and tools

This may have been true in 2010 but it is not true now, you can write iOS apps in Ruby, Swift, Objective-C, C# and a few other languages. There is also the excellent App Code IDE if you don't like Xcode.

> Big boss has to approve your application in order to reach the users

Sort of, ad-hoc distribution is an option (though a pain in the ass). But if you want to write an app for 10 of your friends, or whatever, you can do so without going through the App Store.

Since we're all talking about it...

I keep my dotfiles in a sub-directory (doesn't matter where) and use the following Rakefile to manage it:

https://github.com/tvon/dotfiles/blob/master/Rakefile

Then it's just `rake status` or `rake link` to symlink everything. I've only been using this for a few years but I haven't run into any problems yet.

mhm, no stand-alone display? I'd get one of those, not getting an iMac though.

Eh, I can see that argument with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+, but in this case we're just talking about keeping older products alive at a lower price point.

On a 5s with iOS8 I have seen the Touch ID system completely vanish. It wouldn't lock and I could launch Mint without any kind of authentication (the mint app has integrated Touch ID which previously worked well).

Well, sure, but for a device that pushes some technological limits (a responsive touchscreen UI built into a credit card) I think seeing it in action is pretty important. So far all I know is what they want it to be like, which means little to me.

Well, it usually installs from source, but that's not really the point. It's a package manager, it is trivial to give it it's own home, (and thankfully they made that an easy thing to do), but to throw it in that /usr/local bucket by default? It seems like a decision that requires real justification and the reasons I have seen seem pretty weak.

I mean, in the end it seems like almost nobody cares, but it's always been a pet peeve of mine.

> /usr/local is wher you install your own packages. For example, if I'm installing something from source, that's where I'm going to install it.

Right, that's what it's for, it's also why a 3rd party package manager shouldn't use it.

Yeah, but they often rely on the homebrew being installed to /usr/local which is just plain bad advice.

At least, not using /usr/local myself, I see a lot of packages building because they have detected I changed the base directory.

No, MacPorts is actually more sane in this regard because it build it's own set of dependencies instead of relying on anything the system provides. This makes it a more soundly designed tool, IMO.

Homebrew also recommends using /usr/local as the root which I think is just plain bad advice, but it is simple enough to change it to something else.

Christ, will the damn thing deform if I keep it in my pocket like I would any other phone or is it just a minuscule percentage of devices that have had photos re-posted in the LOLOMGWTF nature of these inane corporate allegiance squabbles? That is all I care about, I'm not trying to build a damn house out of these things.

Everything should also take `.maybe.it_wont` at the end, for completeness.

Gold Master, the version that will be released to the public barring any surprise blockers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#RTM

The "fork" link goes nowhere, FYI.

Does not look good to me, looks a bit like the first-gen iPhone.

I'll probably wait to see what they release next year.

Gruber certainly doesn't look like he did everything he could or really much of anything until after it was announced.

That said, to take something that is not your original work and to declare it "Standard" or even "Common" is a massive faux pas in my view. It is not yours, it is not your place to declare your variant to be either standard or common. Especially when practically nobody has heard of if.

Pedantry, but I believe the term is the "All-22".

Edit: I don't know if they offer the All-22 but NBC's Sunday Night Football is always streamed online for free and they offer multiple camera angles. It's pretty nice compared to what other broadcasts offer.

> After more than 40 hours of investigation, we have discovered that certain celebrity accounts were compromised by a very targeted attack on user names, passwords and security questions, a practice that has become all too common on the Internet.

So, the brute force attack with reasonable guesses at email addresses?

A window to change votes would be nice, much like there is a window to edit your comment.

So GlobalID means instead of doing `SomeJob.enqueue(instance.id)` (and then `Model.find(id)` in the job) you just do `SomeJob.enqueue(instance)`, and presumably reference something like `object` in the job?

Re #1, I don't know what config it uses but `:set guifont=*` will give you a font picker (as in any guivim, afaik).

No, but a lot of editors have some level of vim emulation (eg, Atom, or IntelliJ, or VisualStudio, or XCode) that always comes up a bit short. The point the author is making is that this actually embeds vim and is not a re-implementation of vim features.

FWIW, I find the purple and blue here a bit painful to read:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0ki0m7967x5tvn6/Screenshot%202014-...

I don't think that slide was meant to be taken literally, you can integrate Objective-C with Swift.

I like to say that there is no science in Sports Science, that said I was impressed with how much force Ray Lewis was able to generate with about a 4' head start in this episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1CwwsWkQLU&t=5m42s

Being a big fan of football I have sometimes wondered what the sport would be like if they slowly phased out the protection. You are taught early on to put your head down and drive your shoulder through the target, but I imagine this would be different if your head and shoulders weren't the most padded parts of your body.

It is not a trend, it is just people comparing a new tool to known tools.