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by armadsen 8y ago
Lambda School (YC S17) | 100% REMOTE (US and UK/EU) | Instructors (Web, iOS, UX, Data Science), Sr. Full Stack Web Engineer | https://lambdaschool.com/careers/ Lambda School is an online, immersive program strivin
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Fair point, although I would bet that the share of Netflix customers using Apple devices is significantly higher than 10%. For one thing, in the US, iOS has more like a 45% share. For another, wealthier people are more likely to own iOS dev
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Since this article was written, the iPad has gained a number of excellent programming tools from third party developers (Pythonista is my favorite). And perhaps more importantly, Apple has released two: Swift Playgrounds and Shortcuts. Swif
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I have a Pocket CHIP. It’s really cool. Comes preloaded with PICO-8, some other software (a synth, etc.), and a dead simple graphical launcher. But under the hood it’s running full on Linux. I got the Swift compiler installed and running on
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If you read the article, you’d learn that they refueled twice a day by lowering a hose down to a speeding truck.
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Same goes for Salt Lake City. But notably, Provo is very red. They also had an existing fiber network infrastructure that they basically gave to Google in exchange for the promise of offering a free service tier to residents.
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Yeah, I think there’s something to this. In the US, the news talks about climate change using Celsius, presumably because that’s how scientists measure it. But from a messaging/persuasion perspective, it’s bad. The average American thi
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Yep. As evidenced by the iMac Pro also having a T2 despite not having a touch bar. (It also has the kernel panics that are a feature of the T2.)
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Yep. 0dB is the limit of human hearing, not absolute silence. There are anechoic chambers with noise levels below 0dB.
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Yep. I believe I read that the real Paul Stamets is an advisor for the show, too.
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There’s nothing stopping you from keeping your machine running the same version of the OS you’re on now. It will continue to run fine indefinitely, and should run all the software you use now. Surely Apple is allowed to release updates to t
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You can also use the Previous emulator to emulate NeXT hardware if you want to run versions of the OS from before they ported it to x86. http://previous.alternative-system.com
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I take it you’re not in the US? Signatures are required for the vast majority of in-person credit card transactions above $25 or so in the US.
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As have Microsoft and other major companies. Unless you're writing large portions of the code in assembly language, porting to a new operating system can be greatly eased by the developer tools. In the past, Apple has provided a transi
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Lambda School (YC S17) | Full Time | REMOTE | https://lambdaschool.com Lambda School is pioneering a new model of higher education in which the school invests in the students, instead of the other way around. Attending Lambda Sc
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It also works on 2017 iMacs and iMac Pro. ie. Macs with Thunderbolt 3.
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No, unfortunately it looks like it makes heavy use of non-ObjC-bridgeable Swift features including structs, rich enums, etc. It _might_ be feasible to write a wrapper around it using ObjC-compatible Swift, but I don't know enough about
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Yeah, I’m still (primarily) a Mac dev, but I think the community has been sort of been subsumed/replaced by the much, much bigger iOS dev community. For what it’s worth, I still find the cocoa-dev mailing list useful.
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He has talked pretty frequently about how he has and likes Eero’s products on his podcast.
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Thanks for the nitpick :). I’m usually really picky about that stuff too. I have Macs from the 128K running System 1.0 though macOS 10.13 High Sierra.
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They not only have a Lisa, they have a Lisa 1, which is very rare. The last one that sold at auction (in the past few months) sold for around $50,000. I've seen estimates for the number remaining in existence as low as 30. It didn&#x27
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by armadsen 9y ago
The Living Computer Museum is incredible. Worth noting in the context of this article is that among the many machines they have working and available to play on is a Lisa 2 running Lisa OS.
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macOS actually has stationery pads! https://www.macworld.com/article/1161619/software-utilities/... But Lisa OS was amazing, and was ahead of the original macOS in many ways: preemptive multitasking, way nice
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It sure was. The Lisa originally sold for $10,000 in 1983. The price dropped to about $5k (IIRC) for the Lisa 2 which came out the same day as the original Mac, but that was still very expensive. 128K Mac ($2500) + Lisa 2 ($5000) = $7500 in
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Swift was open-sourced in December of 2015, which was a few months after that gist was written.
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The slums in the Paris suburbs are pretty well known.
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This is the one to use. Worth noting that Microsoft took a fair bit of the original source for this project from The Cocotron.
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Yep. It also looks and feels nice, IMO. The iPhone 4/4s had a glass back too, even without wireless charging.
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Sounds like it. From the About page: >As befits a home computer you can also plug in a standard USB PC keyboard and use as a classic C64 to type in those old BASIC computer listings or program new games. It doesn't seem like they&#x
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Funny to hear that my brother and I aren't the only ones. We always played Captain Comic with me walking and jumping and him shooting (continuously). Neither of us were good enough to beat it alone as little kids.

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