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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
Was there a cultural conflict for the myriad other ex-Apple employees at Tesla?
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
Agreed. Lattner was the only remaining engineer of note at Apple that I knew by name.
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The iPod-based interface that lost out to iOS for the iPhone(sonnydickson.com)
9 points by bangonkeyboard 10y ago|2 comments
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So Long, Prog21(prog21.dadgum.com)
46 points by bangonkeyboard 10y ago|2 comments
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
No. > First, you can auto update extensions distributed via your own web server. It says so right in Apple’s docs how to do it: Only Safari extensions installed from the Safari Extensions Gallery can be updated automatically. [0
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
Xcode is used for Safari App Extensions. Safari Extensions like RES are created in Safari's Extension Builder, which apparently balks without a signing certificate.
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
Scott Forstall combined Steve Jobs's sensibilities and obsessive attention to detail with a deep, working background in software engineering. He championed UI usability and responsiveness, spearheaded accessibility initiatives out of c
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
Sorry, I should have been specific: a comment on the Medium post that is TFA: This isn’t correct. Without paying the $100, you can’t get a certificate, and without a certificate, you can’t sign an extension to build a safariextz.
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
> Caveat: You can develop for free, without getting listed, but then you can't automatically update the extension. There's a comment on the post disputing this possibility.
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
They do, actually. Not that hosting a few dozen kilobytes makes it any better.
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
> What Apple needed was another person like Steve... They had one. Tim fired him.
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
> Want us to think you’re still serious about the Mac, Apple? Show us parity of capabilities between the two platforms, at least on your core product sets... Be careful what you wish for. The primary problem with Sierra with respec
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
For Safari, use Sessions ( https://sessions-extension.github.io/Sessions/ ).
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
I reached the same conclusion, and the prime suspect in my investigations is Safari 10. However, once the system has hit the file limit, it never fully recovers without a reboot.
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
The Mac has passed the hardware diagnostics at the Apple Store multiple times. The components are unchanged from Yosemite, which did not have these issues. The OS has been freshly reinstalled, with the same problems. This is also just one o
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
Two days ago, immediately after several programs crashed and shortly before the entire OS locked up, I managed to capture this: http://i.imgur.com/ecCPlcs.png That is Crash Reporter crashing. The following is the last scree
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
What's great is that it's a straight sci-fi story that could be dropped into the Zipes adaptation of One Thousand and One Nights and none would be the wiser.
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
I'm not sure that "Lifecycle" is less palatable to mainstream Hollywood than "Hell Is the Absence of God", but would be thrilled to be wrong.
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
Not that that's stopped the ex-maintainer from soliciting donations for it.
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M(DM)acOS(michaellynn.github.io)
82 points by bangonkeyboard 10y ago|35 comments
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
The Mac UI ripoff issue may not matter to you, but it does to me. It's gross and slavish, like using a KIRF Chinese knockoff phone with stolen icons.
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
10.12's poll() is also newly broken in another way. When called with certain combinations of descriptors, it will block forever, causing an application hang: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/3530#
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
> And what if he believes it? So what if he does? I believe it. That doesn't mean that Apple has provided any actual proof, and only a blinkered shill would claim they had.
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
You do now, after people noticed what you were doing. You didn't then, when the GA integration was originally snuck in.
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
Broken: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/commit/11116c2467710c9b3df3... Fixed: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/commit/99837fae4746db48b656...
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Homebrew released a broken update that broke updating(github.com)
5 points by bangonkeyboard 10y ago|3 comments
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by bangonkeyboard 10y ago
"Much needed updates with extensions" in this case means killing their open development and deprecating extensions entirely in favor of native app extensions that are less capable but more salable.