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mackey··on SuperShuttle is going out of business
That depends on the Airport and the time you arrive. I have definitely tried to take a taxi before only to be told "Big flight from XXX just arrived at terminal Z, they are routing all taxis there".
mackey··on Young Homebuyers Are Vanishing from the U.S.
We definitely are getting a later start than we had hoped because of these issues.
mackey··on Young Homebuyers Are Vanishing from the U.S.
My wife and I both graduated from college in 2008, with a lot of student loan debt. That was a bad time time to graduate. We both took relatively low salaries and wages increases were nonexistent for a few years. Combine this will living in an already expensive market, and it was definitely difficult to save up enough to buy a house. We bought two years ago, in a city with a median home value of 580K and high property tax. My wife still pays ~1000 a month in student loans. We are trying to start a family, so we need to think about day care at some point. Student loans + daycare + mortgage is a lot. I feel incredibly blessed and lucky that we both have good salaries and very healthy savings.
mackey··on Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field
It looks like its reproducible in a sample project.

https://twitter.com/nolanobrien/status/1189623346033381376?s...

mackey··on Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field
I honestly wouldn't read anything in this bug in terms of development quality. Catalyst is buggy and poorly supported. Developing for Apple products is often-time an exercise in workarounds, hacks, and undefined behavior fun. These issues only get worse when you get to be the size of Twitter and the app architectures starts to get more complicated to support a large team. The iOS application patterns are not super evolved or friendly to scale.
mackey··on Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field
It sounds like its specific to secure text fields, which I assume is why it doesn't interfere with tweeting. But thats a fair question about setting those up before login. My guess is those registrations aren't happening at the login VC level, or maybe in some global container VC. But I don't think that matters too much, because there are certainly use cases where you might want to show a secure text field even when logged in and you want shortcuts registered.
mackey··on Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field
Are you an iOS/Mac developer? Because in this case it sounds like the UIKit/AppKit isn't respecting the responder chain, which would be an Apple bug.
mackey··on A History of Pizza
Looks like a neapolitan style, which is maybe the third wave of pizza in the US. Lots of neapolitan style places have opened in in the last 15 years. I like that style, but I wouldn't say its my favorite.

I would probably put a well done Regina's pizza (Boston) or a Prince Street (NYC) spicy pepperoni square slice ahead of any neapolitan pizza, and I say that as someone who owns a pizza oven and makes a lot of neapolitan style pizza.

mackey··on A History of Pizza
It was partly a joke, it's somewhat of a touchy subject for those that love New Haven style pizza. People that don't care for that style often called it burned, and fans of new haven style pizza are quick to "correct" them.

With a coal fired pizza, the goal is to get a bit of black on the outside, a crispy crust with a fluffy inside.

mackey··on A History of Pizza
Pizza quality varies wildly in America. There are a lot of places where the only "fresh pizza" you will find is something from one of the big chains. And there are a lot of places that serve pizza that just serve terrible quick food in general, so not surprising the pizza will be bad too.

Having said that, there is a lot of good Pizza in the US, especially in areas with heavy Italian immigrations like the north east. Obviously its a different style than most Italian Pizza, but its still really good.

I have only been to Italy once for three weeks to visit my cousins, but I read a lot about pizza. From what I have read/watched from Italian sources, even Pizza in Italy was in somewhat of a rut ~20+ years ago.

mackey··on A History of Pizza
It's not burned, its charred. And that is New Haven style. It's pretty good.
mackey··on A History of Pizza
For cases like New Haven Style pizza and some of the original NYC pizza places like lombardi's, they use coal ovens which get really really hot but don't really have a flame like wood oven. So you end up cooking them longer than in a wood oven, which makes them crispier but also a little charred around the edges.

Given that these places served a lot of immigrants when they opened, I also wouldn't be surprised if it helped having a sturdier pizza that you could take to work with you.

mackey··on LastPass Extension slows Chrome's responsiveness by up to 50%
I assume this is caused by having "Autofill" turned on?
mackey··on Sorry macOS users, but Apple has gone too far for some of us devs
I am not a Mac developer, but this doc https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin... claims you need 10.13 or above, which seems to run on 2009-2010 hardware. I know the latest version of Xcode 10 requires 10.14, but even that is about ~2012 hardware and newer. I think the upcoming 10.15 also has the same hardware requirements as 10.14.

Anyway, even if we say 10.14, I wouldn't call 2012 models fairly new.

mackey··on Wanna Impress an Engineer at a Career Fair?
I was thinking the same thing. I was definitely someone who had a lot of free time to do extra stuff, so maybe this is just my guilt speaking, but I had a lot of friends that had 0 free time between class, work, and/or family obligations. If anything, they were way more dedicated than I was, because going to college was already a major obstacle.
mackey··on The Verizon iPhone 11 Pro is Locked For 60 days. Buyers are told it is unlocked
The user stated they did not activate with a Verizon Sim before trying the t-mobile sim. Another user confirmed they had a similar issue only on their iUP that they ordered online, their in store version was unlocked even after activating with Verizon.

Apple's order page also clearly says all the version are unlocked except ATT Next. Apple apparently failed to update their site regarding the Verizon issue. That is Apple's fault, not the person.

mackey··on The Verizon iPhone 11 Pro is Locked For 60 days. Buyers are told it is unlocked
I agree that they went a little over the top in sentiment, but it after the Reading the entire thread, they appeared more correct than the other people. They also explained why they selected the Verizon phone. Historically that was the model to get due to CMDA and/or bands. However, I am not sure if that was necessary this year.
mackey··on The Verizon iPhone 11 Pro is Locked For 60 days. Buyers are told it is unlocked
I am an Apple fanboy and a macrumors member since 2002 and that thread is infuriating. People bend over backwards to defend Apple by any means necessary. I just read the entire thread and it seems like Apple messed up here. I would be surprised if it was intentional, but they still clearly messed up. It's ok to admit that.
mackey··on Apple neutered ad blockers in Safari, and users didn't say a thing
Safari allows 50,000 rules per list and an extension can have unlimited lists. Google is doing "a global maximum of 150k rules" per extension.

https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-declarativ...

mackey··on Why Americans pay more for lunch than Britons do
Well, I rarely eat breakfast during the work week. Based on the quality and size of breakfasts at Nordic hotels, maybe people just aren't as hungry during lunch? Not sure if that's a hotel thing or an every household thing.
mackey··on Why Americans pay more for lunch than Britons do
I travel a lot to Europe for work, and that's one of my least favorite aspects of getting a sandwich. I am not a large person at all, but I am never satisfied by a typical European sandwich that is more bread than meat.
mackey··on Why Americans pay more for lunch than Britons do
I was thinking the same thing. I worked near a Pret and it never seemed very popular and at least two of the Boston locations have closed in the last two years. There are just too many better sandwich options even if do cost a little more.

I travel to Europe a lot for work and its frustrating when you try and get a sandwich and its been sitting premade for a while, soggy bread, and its got a single slice of meat in it. Sure it may be a little cheaper, but compare that with sandwich you can get at Casa Razdora[1] or Bob's[2] and its not even close to as satisfying.

[1] https://s3-media4.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/jDayx34LzPfip626pT1g... [2] https://hiddenboston.com/images/BobsDeluxItalian.jpg

mackey··on Why Americans pay more for lunch than Britons do
Italian and other European immigrants have certainly left their mark on sandwiches on the east coast. It's the best of both worlds. Quality cured meats and US portion sizes.
mackey··on Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’
I won't argue with flavor, but again, its cheap fast food, you aren't going to find brisket or short rib blend in a McDonalds burger. The new McDonalds quarter pounder is decent too for what it is.
mackey··on Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’
I am totally with you on this one. I feel similar about GMOs. The business behind GMOs isn't always the greatest, but we need all the help we can get.
mackey··on Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’
The OP that the person was responding to used the phrase "Plant-based meat" which to me at least sounds specific to these type of imitation meat burgers like impossible/Beyond Meat, not just a normal veggie burger.

In terms of Impossible/Beyond Meat, health seems kind of a wash.

mackey··on Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’
I agree with others, get with the times. I am pretty sure all the major national fast food burgers are 100% beef, no fillers, no preservatives.

I don't eat a ton of fast food anymore, and when I do its usually McDonalds, but I have always enjoyed the Whopper. I had one a few months ago at an airport and tried the Impossible Whopper last week. It's close, but the beef version is still better in my opinion.

mackey··on Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’
They haven't used ammonia wash or "lean beef trimmings" since around 2011.
mackey··on Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server
Quote: "Then you can delete the ~/.zoomus directory to remove the web server application files."
mackey··on 16-Inch MacBook Pro Said to Launch in September
It's definitely different than 2015 so if you require more key travel, it won't be for you. But I am pretty happy with it.
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