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by jonhendry18 6y ago
The color NeXTStation actually had 4096 colors, dithered by Display Postscript to approximate more colors. 12 bit color and a 4 bit alpha channel.
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by jonhendry18 6y ago
"Although Wikipedia has the introductory price at $4995, or nearly $10k in 2020 dollars." But the comparable machines of the time like the Mac IIfx or the Sun boxes of the time had similar or higher prices.
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by jonhendry18 6y ago
They used to have PDFs linked from the documentation pages. Obviously that went away at some point.
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by jonhendry18 6y ago
"Part of it is that it's really hard to show a causal link between the docs we create and developer success" Yep, high traffic to a dev doc web page is ambiguous. Is it because it's really good? Is it because it's b
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by jonhendry18 6y ago
"documentation is a huge cost center" It's a tiny cost center, in the grand scheme of things. As it is they probably spend less than they spend cleaning the glass at Apple Park.
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by jonhendry18 6y ago
The reason to keep implementation details out of the docs is that people will rely on those implementation details, and then when their app breaks, they won't even think of looking at the documentation for updated implementation deta
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by jonhendry18 6y ago
>Get ready for documentation subscriptions. I wish I were joking I thought that was what the $99/year was for.
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by jonhendry18 6y ago
Apple used to be better about developers, I think, back 2000-2010 or so.
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by jonhendry18 6y ago
You have to give them time to write it, too.
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by jonhendry18 6y ago
Unfortunately there's bits of information that are important and only ever appear in the WWDC videos.
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by jonhendry18 6y ago
This seems bad, as a precedent, for the entire industry/hobbyists/etc. Way to go, Google.
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by jonhendry18 6y ago
I would bet the art mode pictures are analyzed somehow to optimize the settings, or the settings are hand-tuned for each picture. Not applying art mode to arbitrary user pictures removes the risk of them making art mode look bad, when art m
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by jonhendry18 6y ago
I'm sure after you finish the training you'll find all the ads looking for people with 5 years experience. Assuming the demand for people still exists by then.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
"A simple change in DNS servers " Would this matter if the devices on the network are all themselves configured to use other DNS servers?
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
"Particulates in the air can carry a few thousand kilometers" Particulates in the air can circumnavigate the globe if they get high enough in the atmosphere.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
There's probably a bunch of patents related to the manufacturing process or mechanisms.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
What would have been interesting is if Apple had bought Be in 1993 or 1994, and incorporated BeOS tech in System 8, then wound up buying NeXT anyway at the end of 96 and OS X incorporated Be and NeXT tech. Though it's entirely possible
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Jobs helped enormously, of course, but if Apple was still trying to sell classic MacOS in 2005 I'm not sure even Steve Jobs could have kept them afloat long enough to ship an iPhone.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Additionally, NeXTStep had been in use in production on investment bank trading floors, in scientific institutions, and in military/intelligence agencies. It wasn't widely used, but it was used. So while it might not have been q
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Or drive a truck full of money to Intel HQ to pay them to do it. Probably need to be a lot of money though.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
The point I think is that the anti-increase people would have predicted that raising the minimum wage would be such a dire threat to business that it would decrease employment regardless of the wider economy.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
"Some businesses cannot be profitable and therefore will not exist at certain minimum wages, though" If they require lower wages in order to be sufficiently profitable, but those lower wages mean the employees have to rely on ta
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
I wasn't sure about the "ripped the gear shift off" anecdote. Not sure I believe it.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
I'm not sure fair salary is enough, if their quality of life still sucks otherwise and they're still being ground up by the algorithm. Perhaps they'll be able to save up enough money for something and quit sooner than they co
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
That's not a digital underclass, that's a very analog meatspace underclass.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
Or they'll make the company they bought take on unmanageable amounts of debt. The funds thus made available to the acquired company will be kicked out the back door to KKR as dividends.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
If they don't plan on just loading it up with excessive debt to pay themselves a big dividend, then let it die and sell the patent portfolio.
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
In order for a cancer-like mutation to kill a plant it would probably have to cause mechanical damage. Tumors completely circling the trunk of a tree might have an effect like girdling the tree and kill the tree. A tumor growing in the cent
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
That's two menu screens at a fast food restaurant. (They need not be 4k, of course.)
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by jonhendry18 7y ago
You don't have to boot off of the SD.

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