beforedawn

Fully agree.

Magic or abstraction layers should be intuitive, so you understand them and are able to solve edge cases. If the abstraction layers are too foggy or magical and you are unable to fix edge cases yourself, something is wrong.

> Ruby has the easiest data access tools, between ActiveRecord and Sequel

Not true

So true. Best was ActiveRecord, the most cumbersome ORM I have ever met, it could create 20 SQL requests out of a simple query.

There must be a reason that Ruby dropped few places on Github's Octoverse 2018.

While I was never against Ruby, every time has its tools, it was the culture of the Ruby community which I didn't like. Being a Rubyist was always a good excuse to not help on the frontend or help with some devops.

Now they escape into Elixir which is the next good academic excuse to not help with the frontend because React is so working class...

So the massive share price drop is because of China? Go and buy an XR but don't try to lull us with your shaky 'crisis communication', the case Apple is crystal-clear.

He does. In a technical way and re to what he is doing with a computer. He uses emails to delegate and thus does more but this is not what this discussion is about.

That's true but I could imagine that Jobs would have seen these flaws and fixed them after a decade. Just because he uses himself the stuff.

Look, Jobs called Goolge's Vic to tell him that the color of Google's second 'o' in the logo was wrong and hence looked bad on the iPhone. Do you think Cook would ever do this, do you think Cook uses any of his products seriously? When did Cook write the last contract himself? Does he code? This guy just write emails, something a Blackberry could do better than an iPad or iPhone, 15 years ago.

OT: Tim Cook/Apple is on the wrong track. The entire line-up of a product company is fundamentally flawed and heading to nowhere:

Today was the first time, I saw the new iPad Pro in action in a shopping mall nearby. It was a lazy Tuesday evening and I was in shopping mood. The first thing I did was running Sun Spider in Safari. Not an up-to-date benchmark but still a good indicator for performance. This thing reached insane 119ms. Without having any noisy fans and a battery that runs for days. Then, there is a buttersmooth 120hz screen, also the first time I saw a hi-fps screen live and it's so nice. All packed in some slick enclosure, thinner and lighter than any Surface Microsoft ever made.

I would have bought this device without thinking (this is what malls are for after all) and I really don't care if it's 1,000, 2,000 or even 3,000 bucks.

But tell me--what should I do with an iPad Pro? The OS is not just crippled but utterly useless for any real use case. You don't have to be a pro.

I could work via SSH on a remote server, nah I can't test properly without the major browser being installed or at least Safari's dev tool. Maybe some mockups with Affinity Designer? It has the most responsive digitizer, so c'mon. Nope, the files are so big and exchange to my desktop goes always through a slow cloud, this feels like going back in time and juggling floppy disks. Maybe some Word? No, I prefer full-fledged Word. Contracts are too important to fiddle them together on a subpar Word, I don't open Word for fun, I make or lose money with contracts. If I used this device the entire day I would also eventually get RSI from moving my hand up and down all the time (there is no Vimium for Safari).

This is what I mean, Tim Cook does not have this obsession with details like Jobs had. Let me not start with Macbooks, non-existing Mac Pros or odd, LG-branded screens. Steve thought all features to the end. Tim doesn't and ships one half-baken product after another.

While the SE has great specs and the form factor is nice, the screen and hence, the keyboard is a tad too small to type fast and comfortable. I think the sweet spot size-wise is the 6/7/8. They make it harder to reach top corners though (but still ok). That's a trade-off I am willing to take for a better typing experience.

The last iPhone I bought was a maxed-out 7. Tell me one good reason why I should buy a XS (or a bulky XR).