fuzzywalrus

A week ago there was a pretty good similar thread:

Ask HN: Most productive OS for web developers? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7731996

Notably the screen capture terminal command, while neat, is sold as "more flexible". I think the author is unaware of Command+shift+4 followed by tapping the spacebar. It'll give you the window capture.

Otherwise good article.

OS X server edition EULA allows for legal copies too.

As Front End Developer - OS X - I have access to Bash and for things like Node do not need to install a terminal (like Windows) for running commands. There's a lot of OS X only apps that make my life a little easier, Tower, Kaleidoscope, CodeKit, Colorsnapper, Sketch, Fontprep, Transmit, Slicy, Web Code that mostly have equivs on Linux and Windows but aren't as polished. Plus iOS simulation is OS X only and regardless of feelings towards this, it is something that has to be acknowledged. VM software seems to be the most polished for OS X with options of VMware, Parallels, and Virtualbox, which is more than enough for running Windows Server Edition for ColdFusion legacy projects or just general testing with all the modern.ie distros.

Also as front end developer, I'm tied to commercial software (Photoshop, Illustrator mostly, sometimes Indesign and Lightroom) and while there are Linux solutions they aren't ideal.

My job of course can be done from any OS, but OS X I feel offers the most advantages having the best of both worlds from Linux and OS X. I'm able to config apache2 and manage my own Vhosts more sanely than Windows, but I'm also not as beholden to open source and always running workarounds like WINE and VMs for everyday stuff.

Bringing the Oculus Rift to market has been quite the journey. It sounds interesting but considering the ridiculously thin information, I'd file this under vaporware.

The allegory to HyperCard is interesting as HyperCard had its own programming language, HyperTalk.

Same with Macromedia Director, which also had Lingo (which was similar to HyperTalk). I never considered those apps as "no programming required" but more like "less programming required"

Indeed, the iPhone damn impressive & shiny but a bit rough to justify. I remember thinking "If they'd just let people write apps for it, this thing could be absolutely amazing..." but even then, it it was apparent iPhone wasn't just a phone. When Apple announced the App Store, I dumped my Verizon contract shortly after and picked up an iPhone 3G.

Often, I'd be willing to bet that the naysayers never used first hand an iPhone. I don't think I've ever been more awed by a single piece of technology. Not even my first laptop, a G3 500 MHz PowerBook in 1999 that had an AGP ATI Rage 128 Mobility, Firewire and a DVD Drive left me that blown away. Everything about the iPhone 3G was amazing, with most intuitive user interface for something so foreign. It immediately changed the way viewed information, my friends would joke "Ask the godpod!"

It was one of those things that despite the absolutely absurd amount of press coverage and hype, was justified and even then it might have been short.

Pages? Eh. They've had much bigger failures in the software department.

Anyone remember iMovie '11 update (if memory serves me correctly) this was horrific regression and Apple allowed users to redownload and install iMovie '09.

Final Cut Pro X easily is Apple's biggest fiasco, and that dates back now nearly 3 years ago. Considering the two Comedy Central TV shows I've done contract work with went from Final Cut Pro 7 to Avid I'd argue was more tall-tell sign of Apple sluffing off professional users in favor of consumer/prosumer.

Other failures that come to mind are me.com, Final Cut Express and Shake in recentish history, all which rank higher than Pages. I like Pages

Seems like a good time invest in Australian VPNs...

Any source on this? Impressive if true.

"You can change your circumstances at the job, but that doesn't make the senior-managements behavior any less toxic?"

Too true, I was in the situation awhile ago of being checked-out at a bad job. I realized that I needed to turn around, despite really positive feedback from the management about improving performance, it did nothing to improve the management's ineptness. Most of my proposals of even basic industry practices like using Git to manage our code base, and switch to using a CSS framework were met with smiles but resisted.

The company inevitably self-imploded, largely due some egregiously bad management decisions. I was laid off, but at least I had gotten used to a workflow that made my skills more marketable...

Linked earlier:

Video of Ours vs HQ4X. Ours seems to have a slight advantage to my eyes, admittedly it is a personal preference. Text has a distinct advantage on HQ4X but Mario and Yoshi look better even if less "accurate". https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart...

Agreed, for a community always linking stories blasting 60 hour work weeks, I find the dick measuring of commits a bit dissonant.

Its a pretty good interpretation of Toy Story, but I do take issue that the end of the article is more-or-less petitioning for a wiki edit at the end.

On that same note: Vimeo does allow download links to the source files (assuming its a distribution format like MPEG4 and not intermediate codecs designed to be used by Final Cut, Avid etc). In the interest of preservation, it'd allow users to download the sources as well, would be more easily viewed (and embeddable).

I do see value in hosting outside of Vimeo/Youtube as the likelihood of having content DMCA'ed is a looming threat.

East Portland is wired up with Fibre backbone DSL from Century Link. Its $30 a month for a connection that's roughly 40 mbps down / 15 mbps up. I generally get 4 megabytes a sec downloads, and my friend who lives south around Holgate and 65th sees about the same. No data caps that I'm aware of either.

Its faster than Comcast's two lower tier internet packages. I've heard North Portland isn't as lucky but its certainly worth checking out.

Also various complexes around town are already offering FiOS.

I'm all for what what the author is pitching but this article also ignores the fact often in smaller companies the only upward mobility to jump ship.

Just to expand on what eponeponepon said, digital generation loss (by transcoding/compression) sounds quite a bit different than analog generation loss.

I haven't even gotten a confirmation e-mail.

Agreed.

There was the instance of LG being outed for collecting the names of images/movies/etc read from USB media being reported back to a central server but not in the same Orwellian sense that webcams forever monitoring video streams and archiving conversations.

I haven't read of any exploits of smart TVs being used to monitor subject. Feasible? Sure. Reality? Probably not.

Good video except for the love everything, mono your voice track. Every-time the speaker turns his head, the audio pans to the right. Its annoying with headphones.

Ok, I'll bite.

Rolling your own GUI should be done when the native OS GUI doesn't meet the expectation or needs of your application. A custom GUI may not play nicely with accessibility and may look increasingly alien with OS updates.

I don't see any advantage to using the iOS look, and it only added to my confusion when downloading. I wasn't sure if it was at first looking at the screen shot an app that required an iOS component.

1) No maximize dot, I wasn't sure if the window was resizable until I moved my mouse to the corner

2) No Resize in icon in upper right hand corner

3) Lack of menus (really, ever action must be found in the gui?)

4) clicking off the app window does not "grey" out the title bar letting me know its not the front window.

5) Close/minimize icons do not highlight on click

6) Settings fields cannot be tabbed between

7) Settings cannot use keyboard controls for the cancel / save like OS native dialogs

These are just the errors I noticed while writing this post. The app looks like it could be a nice MAMP alternative.

I admire FiftyThree but this ship has sailed. Unless FiftyThree is willing to lawyer up, I can't imagine anything changing.

Skimming the original NPR article: "Unidentified Man #2: You know, it's nice when you're walking around to hear other people talking and see what they're doing. And you're kind of putting blinders on."

Culturally we've evolved to taken wearing headphones publicly in a public place (such as a Grocery Store) as a subtle social cue that "I don't want social interaction".

I imagine with early augmented reality devices like the Google Glass, we will adapt social etiquette around them. Its less of a question if it will be accepted but how social graces will accommodate such a technology. I imagine similar behaviors will evolve around the Glass. I can speculate what those might be but I think more importantly that the Google Glass may not stop looking super dorky, but rather we will develop culture around said device, and its acceptable uses.

Pretty sure this is hardware and not software, my iPhone 5 suffers this in iOS 6.x. I'll be out for run with 30% battery, then suddenly, no music... my phone has shut off and it takes usually 15ish minutes before it'll reboot, so I'm left finishing a run in silence.

Many lower tier jobs already do pre-filtering with silly questionaries about ethics.

Its interesting but without understanding the matrixes of questions, and hard data to prove the outcomes I remain somewhat skeptical. I'd love to see a full sample test and the metrics they use to justify questions and how they correlate. I imagine its easy to root out the the truly unqualified but quickly becomes harder after that.

I think URLs help explain this

Internet Explorer on Windows 8.1: One browser, two experiences:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ie/hh771832.aspx

CNET Reporting on Multiple IEs:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57405765-75/ie10-in-window...

Google brings Chrome OS straight into Windows 8 in latest update:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/14/5309326/google-chrome-wind...

The TL:DR; is that Chrome in Metro will launch a Chrome OSish layer.

I nabbed Hype 2 off the mac app store only a few weeks ago or so. I haven't had much time behind it but it seems promising. I'll have to compare the two utilities....

Chrome/Safari support subpixel rendering, using OS X's font renderer. Subpixel rendering works well for black on white but looks awful in reverse

See: http://www.usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smo...

I've really tried to make a go of getting out of the google verse. I set DuckDuckGo as my default but it was interfering with my ability to work, when searching for code. I'm using Bing as my default but occasionally I still use google for searching some snippets.