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Tim Cook needs to do the right thing and hold a VP accountable for this, as well as for the thermal throttling and T2 bugs, flex cable failure, iPad chassis deformation, AirPower vaporware, etc. Phil Schiller? Dan Riccio? John Ternus? Sounds like Apple needs Bob Mansfield to run the hardware division again.

Here's Randy in action demoing OOP in NeXTSTEP Interface Builder (1:17 in):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr82oJHUCzw

From the Press Release under "Availability"

"macOS Mojave will be available this fall as a free software update for Macs introduced in mid-2012 or later, plus 2010 and 2012 Mac Pro models with recommended Metal-capable graphics cards."

Looks like it's the end of the road for my 2010 Mac mini running High Sierra. So long as Photos and Photo Stream continue to work, I'm not complaining. It was a good run.

Yep, or Guias Baltar gives the Cylons access codes to the defense mainframe!

macOS/iCloud keychain does the job for me, but agreed that that user experience can be much better. If not a Safari password that's not setup for autofill, opening Keychain access, searching for the right credential, then authenticating to see the password gets tedious real fast. Same with being on iOS of opening Safari > Settings > Passwords, authenticating, and scrolling through a list of passwords to choose from with a final Copy/Paste action in the end. At the very least Apple should make credential management a lot more easier.

I agree. Bringing back the old design would immediately solve a lot of problems, but Apple won't do that. Even with a new redesign, I assume the system will still be designed to accommodate standard-sized GPUs and other add-in cards, unless Apple is going to use custom packaging, which is doubtful. That's why I guessed that they could potentially make the new Mac Pro smaller and have it sit on a desk instead of the floor, etc. Instead of the current cylindrical Mac Pro, it would go back to something box-shaped.

What are the chances the new Mac Pro will simply be a smaller, higher-density form factor of the cheese grater Mac Pro?

Also glad to hear the Mac Mini's not being killed off.

Lately, I've been thinking about how important or relevant industrial design is to something like the Mac Pro. Had Apple continued to use a tower form factor with yearly revisions, would we even be having this conversation? Faster CPUs, GPUs, storage, and the latest macOS. What more does the Pro need? My thesis is radical industrial design is non critical for a professional product as the Mac Pro.

If Santa Cruz had the will and might, what would stop it from becoming "New San Francisco"? Seems to me that creating a competing city is easier and quicker than reforming one.

While everyone's heard the minimum wage-automation argument many times over, wasn't POS kiosks the inevitable next step regardless of wages? Sheetz and Wawa have been doing this for decades in the Northeast US, so why hasn't McDonalds, Subway, Burger King, etc followed suit? Is it due to public pressure, and/or the cost of deploying infrastructure?

Companies like them and Deloitte still offer traditional auditing and accounting services, but their cash cow is mostly in IT contracting for government and Fortune 500-type companies.

I think it's great because it exemplifies the spirit of the Web, like back in the Geocities days. He probably wrote the site himself and really has nothing to sell or market. His name, the domain, his work, and his CV are all that's necessary.

It's all about the text.

Loved the photo's caption of the "laptop brigade", lol.

If there's a point where a significant portion of a community become knowledge workers, then it would be advantageous for local coffee shops to adapt to a co-working atmosphere. It wouldn't surprise me if a chain such as Starbucks did something like this in the future.

When I was working remotely and in-between jobs, I regularly squatted and rotated through coffee shops in town. What sucked about this though was several things: buying food/coffee out of guilt because it seemed like the right thing to do, constantly packing-up and unpacking your gear when going to the restroom, holding your bladder in as long as possible because it's an annoying and expensive context-switch to tend to one's biological functions, and uncomfortable seating which isn't meant for prolonged use.

Coffee shops in college towns will mostly be immune to this because it's simply how students live and work. Au Coquelet and People's Coffee in Berkeley come to mind. Talk about laptop brigades! The Berkeley Public Library wasn't so bad either, and they had free Wifi.

Nowadays, co-working spaces seem to be popping up everywhere now. Even where I'm at now in Lancaster, PA, which isn't exactly a tech hotbed, there are already 3 co-working spaces. I'm at the point now where coffee shop squatting is just too much of a hassle and would rather pay to have a quiet working environment that forces productivity, provides a solid Internet connection, offers decent amenities, and offers controlled access so I don't have to worry about getting my laptop stolen when stepping away from the desk.

A judicious combination of solitude and social interaction is key. I've long had to battle the problem of leaving social events early because it was just too easy to stick around until something was over, only then feeling guilty afterward because some of that time could've been better spent doing Math or working on a project/program. I like to do these things not because I'm a recluse, but that these activities are enriching, align with my goals, and just happen to be individual/solitary activities.

While it would be nice to travel (as others have done, which is great), go to beer/food festivals and concerts this summer, I'd rather be reviewing Vector Analysis, Linear Algebra, and Quantum Mechanics to get ready for the Fall semester so that I can be ready with the material in class. This isn't to be taken as an absolute. But for right now, it's the right thing to do, and to do anything to the contrary would be a poor use of my time and lead to more guilt and anxiety.

At 33 with many goals has made me realize that time management is essential, and not investing in those goals will result in repeated failure and frustration.

There's no shame in doing things alone and saying no to group activities. It's all about Opportunity cost and the scarcity of resources. That resource being time.

I'm curious if there's any effort underway to refine Ubuntu's desktop UI. It's a great distro for my needs, but am always underwhelmed by the UI and how large all the buttons and elements are, plus it's use of earth tone color schemes. I feel it could do a much better job using a screen's real estate.

Doesn't even have to like Windows or OS X. Perhaps something like Material Design would be a good starting point.

Dare I say that a refined, well-polished UI for Linux would provide a great face and mainstream credibility to adopting Open Source computing.

Thanks so much for this. I finished your book over the weekend and loved how clear and concise the writing was. Discover Meteor was difficult to follow as a beginner but am more confident that I can follow along now. Thanks again!

I'm with you. I'm using a Logitech TrackMan Wheel, and though it operates at a low resolution, is still a very efficient means of moving the mouse across high resolution/multi-screen setups. Microsoft must have something against trackballs, and they shouldn't. I'm sure they could do well releasing a slick trackball that could compete against Logitech and Kensington.

As for the latter, the iPhone in 2007 pretty much set the bar for how mobile interfaces should be done and then everyone just fell in line. And on a sidenote, the trackballs on older Blackberries were very unreliable, so there's that aspect to it as well.

A disappointing update, but would still consider it to replace my mid 2010 Core2Duo mini if the Thunderbolt ports supported Multistream Transport (MST) so I could daisychain 3 x Dell U2415 19x12 displays.

I don't understand why they continue to omit the LED flash for the camera. Theres no reason to leave it off.

Anyone have a clue on the attack vector? A reddit post said that the presence of the "/Library/Application Support/JavaW" indicates an infected system. Flash? Java?

Read: "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson

Currently reading:

"Zero to One" by Peter Thiel

"Discover Meteor: Building Real-Time JavaScript Web Apps" by Tom Coleman & Sacha Greif

Reading next:

"Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" by Walter Isaacson

Overall, I like Isaacson's writing style, and for someone with a non-scientific background, did a pretty good job at describing physical concepts such as a relativity and space-time.

It was exciting to read his bio on Steve Jobs the day it came out, but in retrospect seemed to lack depth. I'm not sure if I learned anything new about him as a person, than just someone following Apple and his career over the years.

Are we to assume that with this update, we can finally get rid of the old "Google Voice" app to do text messaging and playback voicemail?

For my use case, I ditched my iPhone 4S last year and got a Retina iPad mini with a prepaid Verizon data plan. It's pretty good, though there needs to be better integration between Hangouts and iOS. For example, if I get an incoming call notification, it sometimes will not automatically open Hangouts to receive the call. It would take me to the Home screen, then I have to open Hangouts in hopes that I can answer the call in time. If iPad's locked, then I have to act fast to enter the passcode and launch Hangouts manually.

This many not really be a problem with Hangouts than it is that iOS doesn't support deep integration with 3rd party telephony, so that the experience is no different from receiving a native phone call on an iPhone. Other small complaints are that the push notification (incoming call) sound persists for a few seconds after the call's connected, and that it only shows me the phone number of the incoming call and doesn't display the contact's name if it's in my contacts.

Considering I don't use the phone much, and have saved a lot of money by not subscribing to a smartphone plan, this overall was a good experiment. But I'll be going back to an iPhone soon because it's been a burden carrying an iPad everywhere for the past year. With Wi-fi calling now available in iOS8, I'll probably try out T-Mobile's test drive and if the coverage is good enough in my area, will probably sign up for it since they have the cheapest plans.

What Microsoft should do is bring more artistic people into the Surface team, perhaps engineers with artistic abilities, and by doing exactly what they did for Gabe: study how artists work. The end result is a much better product without the need for a post-mortem scramble.

I always loved their motto:

"We're building a machine that will be proud of us."

The headline is so absurd that I'm not reading it. But an excellent analysis.

As a US-born Korean, American interventionism really bothers me. As others have discussed what happens when America tries to "make the world safe for democracy", the South Korean people and its government should be the sole arbiters of how they want to deal with these problems, instead of waiting to get a permission slip from Washington. There should be only one military force in South Korea, a South Korean military, under the command of the South Korean president.

I don't think it would be so bad. Both countries would still remain allies, and South Korea would still be under the US nuclear umbrella. The hope is that there wouldn't be any of this embarrassing vacillation in policy you just described.

To work harder and smarter in school, panic less on tests, and use my free time to work on interesting and progressively difficult hacking projects.

MS ended stack ranking over a month ago:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5094864/microsoft-kills-s...

But yeah, a pretty bad system in principle.

Thanks everyone for their reviews. Glad to hear this isn't a POS text.

I'm taking this at Millersville University as a once-a-week, 3 hour evening course. I'm a Physics and CS major, and am taking it as an elective to get a Math minor.

With all the NSA and crypto news these days, it sounds like a great time to learn about the fundamentals of crypto. And I'm curious if there will be actual programming involved because to my knowledge, there aren't any prereqs for it, not even an intro to programming course.

I'm taking an Intro to Crypto course this spring. What's interesting is that it's offered through the Math department, and assumed it was a CS class.

We'll be using this text:

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Cryptography-Coding-Theor...

Is this any good? Apparently a best seller in the "Software Coding Theory" category on Amazon.