fuzzywalrus

While there's nothing explicit in the demo video, screenshots like the following infer LinkedIn like behavior between people:

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Never underestimate the placebo effect.

You and me both. 2012 Mac Pros have retained their value quite a bit because of Apple's 2013 debacle. The Firmware upgrade (if you can score CPUs) makes the 2009 the best bang for buck.

Here you go, I imagine some of these are underhand pitches for the HN crowd, but here you go. There's a few that most users are simply unaware of, such as replacing the Airport card with one that supports ant continuity and handoff and Airdrop support.

7.5 years later, and my 2008 Mac Pro is still going strong.

http://blog.greggant.com/post/58331227038/recommended-mac-pr...

Does it really take much to maintain a user modifiable tower? I imagine the amount of engineering the 2013 Mac Pro took, was greater than simply maintaining a 4x PCIe slot box with whatever the latest and greatest Xeons are. Apple could have left the tower exactly the same. Problem solved. It's not sexy, and its not exciting but it'd keep a very dedicated group of Mac buyers happy and married to the platform.

It isn't mutually exclusive to cater to both audiences.

I'm still on a Mac Pro 2008, and I've written several articles about upgrades which drives the majority of my blog's traffic. I've done everything from jam in a nVidia GeForce 760 GTX, to SSD, to mini-PCIe wireless A/C card + Bluetooth 4.x The legs the Mac Pros had are incredible pre-2013. As someone who's contracted for four TV shows for some visual effects on the side, it hurts that I may have to switch to windows.

I love OS X and dislike the desktop hardware.

Agreed, the folder metaphor works as its a direct visualization of the hierarchy of the computer.

I had the same thought.

While looting mobile for some our better interactions (Swipe gestures for OS X), I don't see how this is more efficient that what we have. Mobile work flows are far more convoluted and time sucking that current desktop models. This seems to introduce unnecessary steps, and is completely touch pad dependent. Tagging exists in modern OSes already, plus there's a strong use case for folders. There's a reason why dropbox is popular on iOS.

This isn't a web problem, this is a division of labor problem. There's plenty of specialization to be had to as you advance career wise, and by logical progression of the web platform. It sounds like you haven't found the right position fit, which isn't uncommon early in your career.

... which leads more militarized policing.

This seems to be a theory based on the assumption that the person(s) are already having more than their base needs met: (decent housing, food, entertainment, retirement). Salary is one hell of a motivator if you're struggling to meet these things. It's all good and academic but antithetical to why a good portion of people obtain higher education.

Atom Helper sometimes gets a mind of its own and runs rampant on the CPU, sometimes eating 100% of a single core even an i7 2015 MacBook Pro. Quiting Atom doesn't seem to stop Atom helper. It takes firing up the Activity Monitor and quitting them. It's ugly but it works.

I tested out VS Code, seemed nice enough. Hopefully it'll get the tight integration with Git that Atom has. I have a love / hate relationship with Atom right now.

Years ago I installed a mouse driver for iOS on a jailbroken iPad 2 on iOS 6, it more or less worked for most applications that didn't require two finger gestures. I was able to paint with Brushes and such.

It wasn't a pleasant experience but I was just tinkering to see what it'd be like. If you like big huge icons, zooming when highlighting, and having to occasionally touch your screen, I suppose it was good.

I can't imagine its about being a viable desktop OS more than push the envelope of Android.

I had two "jack of all of all trades, master of none" for a cumulative of 5 years out of college.

Life got considerably better as I started specializing towards a track of Front End Development. There's a huge gulf between being the guy who can write spaghetti JS and CSS to developer but its doable, although it was much easier 6 years ago when left the Jack-Of-All-Trades. I'd suggest picking a part of your skill set if you have extended downtime and trying to level up. Having a broad skillset won't hurt you, but not having anything technical will.

Apple isn't immune to not-so-great design choices: Hockey puck mouse (personally never had a problem but most did), the iPod Speaker system, iPhone antenna issues, the yellowing cases in old MacBooks, the ever breaking Apple Pro Mouse, allowing the Motorola iTunes phone to be a thing, the G4 Cube, previous mediocre iPhone cases, mobile me, the egregious skuemophism that gave skuemoprhism a bad name, a few ugly iMac patterns all under the banner of Jobs.

The case is ugly but functional, the magic mouse however is just plain out poor design. This is jumping the gun. It's like declaring "Whatever happened to Google design?" After the Pixel C.

Beyond ethical issues, the repercussions for services under its the Alphabet-Google umbrella would be bad. I can easily imagine YouTube videos suppressed simply because Google's speech-to-text algorithms, anyone who's try its auto Closed Caption probably has seen some insanely bizarre mis-translations. It's easy to start conjuring a lot hypothetical issues with this, from YouTube comments to Blogger posts.

Sketch always seemed hampered by the Mac App store.

I'm really hoping this opens the door for more flexible licensing for Sketch. The Mac App store is a bit of a pain for multi-seat licensing and upgrade pricing.

I agree: The inner-cynic in me sees the insidious side to this, that childhood follies may be be even archived and data-mined for all eternity.

I digress, the thing that really jumped out at me:

"according to a 2010 paper by Elena Smirnova, director of the Center of Play and Toys at Moscow State University, dolls that resemble humans are essential for the kind of role-playing that kids need to do to work through the events of their lives"

I imagine this being lessened if the toy points parameters on the imagination. I know I played with action figures and placed them in pretty fantastical situations but it seems the cheapened by an electronic interaction governor. Perhaps it may enhance it but I'd wager its the former and not the later.

As a front end dev, I've noticed the steady increase in job offers. Most of us had the benefit of growing with the technology. Its why when you see a group of Front End Devs, you'll see a group of mostly early 30 somethings to 40 somethings, and not the usual crowd of young faces in other practices.

The biggest problem I see with Front End Development is the massive trove of tacit knowledge it takes. If you have a portfolio that goes more than a decade deep, a junior front end dev might run across a table based layout, or baffled by transparent gifs used to position. Or perhaps its a site made 7 years ago, and its locked on a 960 grid and the jr dev is throw by the "Clearfixes", used to modern frame works that magically clear floats by psuedo elements, and doesn't understand why her/his grid isn't working when she/he forgets to manually clear the floats. It could be even a site that is 5 years old, and relies on wurfl to do user agent detects the baffling usage of user agents at all to detect mobile.

Anyhow, that's just scraping the surface. My standing theory is Front End Development is only a few years away from being divided into more roles as the current bar for knowledge entry is getting to be almost unattainable.

The obvious question is: How does one even verify such claims? Without any real evidence, its hard to really take this seriously.

I stand corrected, I assumed that you could as you can rename what Siri calls you. Learn something new every day.

There's a few things that seem key to this: Leaving "hey siri" and "ok google" on at all times, requires relatively noise free environment. Also, with the always on feature, you need to properly address one's phone. Simply changing Siri to "Stupidhead" would render the always on attack moot.

It's interesting but without direct access, there's only minimal information to be gleaned as commanding Siri to look up the most recent call would only allow the attack to see the most recent call with a direct LOS.

Also, this recap can be skipped by going to the original wired article: http://www.wired.com/2015/10/this-radio-trick-silently-hacks...

Interesting, company I work for has had Epicodus interns, when interviewing there were two women and two men that applied for my company for an internship. Seemed like they're doing well to get women into to tech, as a 50/50 split is pretty unusual.

Since this is tied to an account, it means data that never dies. While currently unlikely, imagine being vetted for a job by the websites you visit. Do you want an employer to be able to purchase your online history? There's more to hide the the usual things like pornography or political sites. Imagine you've visited several competitor employers, including past job listings. One could easily deduce you likely applied and failed if the job listings no longer exist and you're applying for this new job. Perhaps this makes for a lower offer on the new employers behalf.

I could invent many hypotheticals in this vain but privacy is something worth protecting.

Once Apple ditched DiscoverD, my wifi and bluetooth woes disappeared instantly. I had a problem where my connection speed suddenly would drop to no more that about 7k as second through wifi which required zapping the PRAM on my 2013 MacBook Pro until a week or so the connection would start exhibiting the same problems. mDNSresponder seems to work like a charm in Yosemite.

I'm curious how much Metal matters but it seems like they went from GPU to CPU in Yosemite and then back to the GPU.

The review sorta skimmed on Metal but reported that it only worked on a Mac Pro 2013, which lead me to wonder why my 2008 Mac Pro couldn't run it with a GeForce 680 GTX, turns out it can. http://netkas.org/?p=1405

I was about to comment the above too. The world isn't static. This also discounts time of year shots, as fall trees vs snow covered hills vs spring blooms make a world of difference too (they do mention that geo-tagging isn't the only way).

Despite the entry point for photography as art being relatively low, this also discredits the idea that there are good and bad photography and the defining factor is rarity.

I wish there was a way to combine a simple 4-6 digit pin with fingerprint, it'd certainly make an attack on a physical device more cumbersome, especially if the rejection happened after the TouchID so the error was obfuscated on what failed.

From above link: "Our attack only covers users that click the “Store my password” option though so, don’t store your master password!"

That seems a rather important detail. Thanks for the link.