binaryapparatus

After few years of using lastpass (and following few of the more or less serious security breaches there) I am using https://www.passwordstore.org/ on both Mac and Linux machines. Works great, GPG encrypted, GIT synchronized, platform independent.

Requires login or wrong URL? Is there alternative URL? Doesn't work for me.

Excellent rsync-time-backup for local machine, backing up etc and home to external disk: https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup

Duply for servers, keeping backups on S3: http://duply.net/

Cron does daily DB dumps so Duply stores everything needed to restore servers.

+1 for Lazarus. Great cross platform development tool that creates _native_ UI. I use it occasionally and have only nice things to say.

This is both informative and interesting from other angle. If Dan Counsell, well known owner of Realmac Software, has to build hackintosh then wtf is Apple doing?

In the past I have tried various tiling window managers but always reverted back to xmonad. I haven't looked elsewhere for some time now.

Documentation is extraordinary and really easy to follow once I understood how to read it, years ago.

The only sore spot is monstrous GHC size, that compiler needs to get much smaller to be really good from all angles.

I am bit older than average so I used Delphi in its golden days. Even today few of the old customers need old apps maintained so I keep Delphi 7 ready.

It _is_ great IDE/language.

Seven years ago I switched to Colemak, smartest thing I ever did for my hands/wrists. It took two weeks of pain and very slow typing but considering the benefits it was very worth it.

I don't mean to start holy war here but consider Colemak instead of Dvorak. I did a lot of reading years ago before picking the right keyboard layout.

It seems that if you really want proper secure channel you need to write one yourself. Anything out there is subject to being compromised.

Is there open source alternative for Signal?

While I was working on Mac I never really liked OmniFocus. Then I used Taskpaper, then taskpaper-vim, then vim-orgmode.

Taskpaper is almost right but orgmode has few additions that I really need. Vim-orgmode works better than original orgmode on emacs for me.

In short try to pick something that can be easily migrated unless you want to be tied in ecosystem. There are ogmode clients for iPhone and Android, haven't checked them because I don't need them.

https://www.taskpaper.com/ https://github.com/davidoc/taskpaper.vim https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode

Non-American here so I may not fully understand mindset causing this. Simplistic question but why stay in that area then? Why not move somewhere where house can be afforded and which doesn't require 'three hours of sleep'.

Nobody can work on three hours per day sleep pattern so this story can't be entirely true.

If I am working 18 hours per day, no matter how much money I make (enough or not) having no life at all makes it all irrelevant.

All different decisions from Apple in last 12 months made me clean up the dust from my ancient linux pc. Reinstalled arch and I am feeling normal again.

I have few Mac / iOS apps to maintain but I use vnc or synergy to do that.

Yes, X11 with xmonad, it all works perfectly.

I also don't use any login manager, I log in into console then use startx to start gui. This way it is easy to test and debug things before booting X11, if I ever break anything. Never happened so far but I like having pure console at start.

It is bit of a nonsense to pick one distro with specific UI and call it 'Linux' in general.

I did similar thing with Arch recently, was long time user that switched to Mac six years ago. Then due to all the suspicious moves from Apple I installed Arch again and can't be happier.

Linux is what you make of it, not what any distro thinks it should be. I am using xmonad and there is nothing silly looking on my screen.

If doing any usability tests, fedora/red hat would be very low on my priorities list.

Key word is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

There is at least 80% chance that author decieves himself too.

See file management and hardware sections and it should be obvious. In hardware section he buys razer keyboard case just to be able to use iPad more comfortably. See pictures there, if we don't know it is iPad it really looks like a proper laptop.

Jumping trough hoops to make something work does not constitute 'iPad Pro is, by far, the best computer I've ever owned'.

Decent writer looks for a niche that's not occupied and says 'hey this will do'. Then tries to convince us it is all well. It is not -- the emperor is naked.

I like how Federico does his job but I really don't like 'lets pretend iPad can replace proper computer' approach.

Matt Gemmell took the same path recently and it won't end well too.

At some point in history we, as a programmers, allowed that HR 'professionals' insert themselves between us and employers. Approach used in this interview is nothing that any half-decent programmer would choose as a reliable test. This has HR written all over it.

This has nothing to do with quality (of candidates) only to do with HR person ticking another interview done.

Being contractor, I don't accept any HR involvment for some time, if company insists on running stupid tests they can't count on me. I have never seen any HR like approach with hiring that made ANY sense.

If you need and want job done call me. If you want agile/scrum pretending to work its not for me...

It seems I didn't paste URL properly, #-1 scrolls down to second segment. Please scroll up to read entire interview.

I thought that duplicate links merge automatically?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13057200

tl;dr :

- TouchBar appears to be denoted as Watch2,5 running watchOS 3.0-14Y36.

- TouchBar OS is stored on EFI partition.

- Setting date to 1.1.1970 triggers iOS date problem and makes mbpro unresponsive for some time.

- Deleting file(s) on EFI partition triggers critical software update.

- TouchBar iOS seems to 'activate' calling Apple servers.

I am using pass on Mac and all other computers for over a year. The only thing missing is proper dmenu alternative for Mac but I modified https://github.com/oNaiPs/dmenu-mac to work with pass and paste username/password to the clipboard. If I get time I will publish this code because it makes pass fly.

> To support 32GB of memory would require using DDR memory that is not low power and also require a different design of the logic board which might reduce space for batteries.

Another design over usability nonsense from Apple.

> Or you can tell that iOS has much larger user base and hence the priority for security fixes.

Yeah because that single guy that needs to code all security patches has to finish iOS first before he goes to another building to work on macOS?

We are often discussing (me included) Apple moves like they have very little resources to do anything. Then I think again and d'oh.

Q. I hear you no longer work for Apple; is that true?

A. Correct. I joined Apple in January of 1997, almost twenty years ago, because of my profound belief that “the power of the computer should reside in the hands of the one using it.” That credo remains my truth to this day. Recently, I was informed that my position as Product Manager of Automation Technologies was eliminated for business reasons. Consequently, I am no longer employed by Apple Inc. But, I still believe my credo to be as true today as ever.

Because who needs or expects anything remotely 'pro' at Apple any more?

Sorted by ergonomic importance, it goes like this:

1. Keyboard 2. Chair 3. Desk 4. Monitor 5. Computer

Sorting where you type, then where you sit, then how you sit and finally how relaxed or strained eyes are is making old age less painful.

Model M -> HHKB -> Kinesis Advantage -> Ergodox EZ

Right now after using Kinesis then Ergodox I can't comfortably type without thumb clusters. They are so important to relax rest of the hand.

This surely wasn't an event that deserves 'hello' line. Unless Apple starts using 'hello' each year from now on it should be reserved for truly earth shattering visionary events.

Touch Bar is ergonomic catastrophe. Tiny flat screen hidden behind the keys -- at the event all the people demonstrating Touch Bar had to stand, lean over keyboard and crouch in order to use it. Doing that while sitting and doing some serious work is usability nightmare.

I had very bad experience with Elance some 6-7 years ago. It was really unbelievable, job provider did tried to abuse me (cursing and mind games), I asked Elance to cancel the job and they closed my account because 'thay are losing money on closing $4000 job'. All after making few tens of thousands of successful jobs there. Crazy. I just moved on.

If I understand correctly Upwork is the same team that run Elance? If that's the case it won't work well for developers, stories like this don't surprise me.

I didn't declare it dead, far from that, it can only grow for the Mac only user population. I said the direction it is going for years does get further from what I need, year over year.

Can you please elaborate what are 'high barriers'?

'Very little reason' - really?

> It is striking that developers no longer send the final binaries when submitting an app, but a bit code

This bit is very expected, along with Arm architecture. It makes sense for Apple to lock down entire ecosystem. It is also terrible if you use Mac to develop anything except iOS/Mac apps, which is what I do. No more windows and half working Linux is not what I need. How long before you can't even compile Obj C or Swift code without going trough app store route?

I don't know if they will do all the steps in a few days or years but I know they will. Also not sure if it will backfire because people need occasional Windows app to run, I suspect huge majority won't care at all.

Lenovo, I know you think I neglected you but I am starting to look your way once again.

Non American here. Inability to even comprehend why calls to punish one person because it supports option that I don't like (that's allegedly full of ism-s) equates to me being as narrow minded as the side I am attacking... is very dangerous. Marco is not doing any favor to his favorite this way. Narrow mindedness, no matter how well packaged, stays narrow mindedness. Dragging YC in this is again just a reflection of inability to see how this looks on the outside.

As we say in this part of the world "just don't defend me any more please".