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Did Apple say that? Or are you making a prediction?

In addition to all the typical Bash tools, you also have C/C++/Objective-C, Apache, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, SQLite, and Apache.

Maybe I just don't remember installing it, but I think macs have zsh out-of-the-box too.

Instantly? I thought the transactions took an average 10min. Am I wrong?

Why and how will they cause a shit storm in finance?

> you're in like .01% of the population that wants [a self contained video streaming device with its own physical remote, processor and OS that does not need anything else but a internet connection]

Then why is Roku the most popular brand of streaming device?[1]

> You have log into an account within the 'roku os'

...and with Chromecast you have to log into an account within the Google Home mobile app. In both cases you only have to log in that first time.

> you also have to have the remote on you

No, you don't. You can use the Roku app on any iOS or Android device.

Most people who buy a device like this are trying to watch Netflix or Hulu; not trying to cast video files from a local storage medium. Note that the marketing copy on Roku.com[2] focuses on everything _except_ casting. And it's the same for Amazon[3].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/roku-vs-chromecast-amazon-fir...

[2] https://www.roku.com/how-it-works

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Fire-TV-Family/b?ie=UTF8&node=...

Mr Fox promises he'll behave in the hen house

He wants to undo a rule from 2015 that forces broadband ISPs to be regulated the same way that dial-up ISPs were in the 90s.

The rule from 2015 made broadband ISPs regulated under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. ISPs that operate over phone lines already were regulated under Title II.

The notion that internet providers were unregulated in the 90s is outright false.

I recall the days of dial-up & DSL internet, where I had multiple national ISPs to choose from, as well as several local ISPs... all of which operated over phone lines... which meant they were covered by Title II.

This notion that everything was unregulated until two years ago is counterfactual.

Could you elaborate on the bugs in SVG? Are there any usability issues beyond the bugs? I tried some cursory googling 'why not to use svg', 'svg bugs', etc and didn't really find any common/recurring.

The software is proprietary, but the actual files use a variant of an open ISO/IEC/ECMA standard.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

No. If I buy a package from Amazon and the tracking information goes to my gmail account, Google Now cards will automatically show my tracking numbers with links to view full tracking information.

I think I vaguely recall some confusion when I first set up my Roomba 960 with my Android phone, but once I got it going it hasn't had any issues since.

I use password manager browser extensions... but honestly they make me a little uncomfortable, and I'm slowly migrating away from them.

If your computer were a city, the web browser would be the high crime area. I may have my valuables in a locked safe, but it's a little bit self-defeating to carry that safe with me in the places where I'm most likely to be mugged.

> Dropbox never sees anything unencrypted

LastPass says the same thing[1]

[1]https://www.lastpass.com/how-it-works

EDIT: No, I'm wrong. I was thinking in terms of login credentials (which neither are able to see); but LastPass does look at the URLs associated with your credentials so they can pull favicons

Wow, I feel like a dumb-dumb. I have no clue how I've missed this. Though, from what you say, it sounds like I'm not missing much at all...

FWIW, I'm pretty happy with my personal passwords being managed by the 1Password for Mac desktop client.

Idk if I'm right or you are, but I read the GP as meaning "standard _across platforms_".

If my interpretation is correct, then I think I need to be the cliche bearer for the XKCD reference: https://xkcd.com/927/

If your interpretation is correct then yeah, Apple has Keychain.

Also, I think I recently got an OS-level 'save password' prompt for something recently on my machine running Win10 Pro v1709... Can anyone confirm or refute this?[1] No clue if this is just a new skin for the existing Credential Manager, something new entirely, or just confusion on my part.

[1] I just now tried Googling for information about this, but I nearly drowned in the sea of links about IE password saving and Edge support for password manager plugins

Using LastPass Enterprise for work, I try to keep its plugin only installed in my fallback browser. I really wish they would make a desktop client... Though, now that LogMeIn owns them I'm more fearful than optimistic with regards to what their next move will be.

Why is it a deal-breaker security concern for him to have his passwords stored on 1password servers or LastPass servers but not with Dropbox servers?

Haha, yeah, I remember hearing ads with and without 'forward'. What's really funny, I think, is how the people who needed that 'forward' clarification were exactly the people who'd have no idea which slash was the forward slash.

> Also, flat design works better when people already know that stuff can be clicked, or dragged and such. We can afford to lose some affordance now.

That's an excellent observation. IIRC, back in 1996 there were still radio ads along the lines of "And available online at w-w-w-dot-c-n-n-dot-com or AOL keyword CNN" (or, worse yet, some that added h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-w-w-w-dot...).

I'll try to avoid stewing on the fact the CEO where I work is very hands-on with our website, despite never using the web. It's 2017 and he has every button replaced with beveled images of buttons...

EDIT: to reconcile "very hands-on with our website" and "never uses the web", I should specify that he orders changes to the website via the following process: 1) has someone print out the website 2) that gets faxed to him 3) he writes on it with a sharpie 4) that gets faxed back 5) that fax gets scanned 6) resulting scan gets emailed to the web design guy.

Let us not forget that you're talking about a time before CSS was available, let alone well supported--let alone _consistently rendered_. This is a time when "web safe color palette" was part of the day-to-day web design lingo.

I could see this being a fun challenge, though--how pleasant of a modern-look web page can you make using only HTML <=v4.0; only 256 'web-safe' color palette; limited font choices. One could demo their work via BrowserStack.

EDIT: I totally forgot to think about the fact that "whitespace techniques" would have been quite a bit more difficult given that a good 80% of your users were viewing on screens that were either 640x480 or 800x600. On a 640x480 screen, this comment takes up half of the space above the fold.[1]

[1] https://imgur.com/x0keeI1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro Find in Page "AMD"

> Decades of UI/UX knowledge, down the drain. Usability is gone.

Exactly the opposite; this is an evolution that has been taking place over the past decade.

Firefox has had tabs-on-top as the default since Firefox v4.0[1]. Chrome has had tabs-on-top for its entire existence (starting in Sept 2008); Opera had them before Chrome.

The merits can be argued either way, but don't act like this is sudden or arbitrary; it's neither.

Consider that maybe--just maybe--the dev teams at Mozilla, Google, et al. have done some usability studies in the past decade that informed these decisions.

I get that you may prefer tabs below the URL bar, but your claims about the greater state of UX are baseless and absurd.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmgtW2Iw-kE posted June 2010

EDIT: Google made a comic for the release of Chrome 1.0 that includes an explanation of their original rationale for putting tabs on top. https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_18.html

Isn't it kind of crazy that gmail is the ONLY place you can search Hangouts chat history??

D'oh! Right you are!

Maybe the search is less different than I think it is.

But there are other things... like, am I wrong, or can you still not Mark As Unread in Inbox? Last I checked, you couldn't mark as unread, and if you tried to find out how you'd run into zealots who tell you that your use-case is wrong and that you're using Inbox wrong. So, okay, say I accept that premise; say I accept that there are some things that are just 'the Inbox way' and others are 'the gmail way'.

With the click of a button, Gmail lets you save all attachments to Google Drive or download all attachments as a zip--why in the world wouldn't they include that with Inbox?

Gmail lets you click an icon in the search bar to reveal advanced search options; if you need to search for something that has an attachment in Inbox you need to either A) google how to do it or B) try to remember "now was it has:attachment? or has-attachment:true? has-attachment:yes?". Is it really so distracting having that little down-arrow icon in the search bar?

Also, testing just now I found that the pagination in gmail would let me browse through hundreds of search results going back to 2012 whereas the Inbox endless-page stopped loading additional results by the time I got to email from 2014.

I like Inbox, and I use it...but have you noticed that, stunningly, you can search for things in Inbox and get zero results and then take that same search into _gmail_ and get results??

(Unfortunately, no, I don't have an example I can demonstrate extemporaneously)

Excel 2016 integrated PowerQuery features and improved upon the data model tools. Going back further, Excel v1 thru v7 was limited to 2^14 rows (16,384); v8 (10yrs after v1) thru v11 upped that to 2^16 rows (65,536); v12 (20yrs after v1) thru current can handle 2^20 rows (1,048,576).

Windows 10 is faster and more secure than any consumer version of Windows ever released; PowerShell (slow to start up and verbose, though it may be) makes CMD.exe look like a kid's toy; Win8.1 added the Win+X menu, a ridiculously useful shortcut for our crowd; and the Windows Reset feature--show me a tech that doesn't love having that baked-in. We also have the (not perfect but still better than nothing) Windows Subsystem for Linux. And we have improved container support on the horizon.

iPhone: SecureEnclave, TouchID, ApplePay, waterproofing; and they continue to try to improve security and privacy.

EDIT: Corrected 2^14 = 16,374; not 65,536 as I had originally written. Credit to unwind for the correction.

It's amazing how my gut reactions to Google announcements have changed over the years.

Ten years ago: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Sweet! I wonder what cool stuff they added!"

Today: "Google released a new upgrade to X? Ugh. I wonder what features/workflows they broke or removed."

Am I just a cynical jerk, or do other people feel this way too?

Pizza stones aren't just for cooking pizzas on. They help you maintain your oven temperature[1].

Also, IIRC, Alton Brown does use a pizza stone, but he recommends buying unglazed ceramic floor tiles as an alternative.

[1]https://www.cookingforgeeks.com/blog/posts/the-two-things-yo...