kitsunesoba

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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
Please no. GitHub for Mac is an extremely solid, smooth, light little native app and I would hate to see it vanish in favor of a heavy chromium-based monstrosity. I don't use Windows but if I did I'd prefer a WPF or .NET app over
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
It can’t be a coincidence that “flat” design became hip right around the time “HTML/CSS/JS for EVERYTHING” trend really started to gain momentum. Web tech is far more inclined toward flat, uncomplicated designs than it is the sort
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
>This makes sense in native-is as well as web based applications. The fact is, with as much variety as there is, there really isn't a canonical application profile that's consistent everywhere... so trying to make a nice looki
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
I think the answer here is to have a "base menu" that all applications start with instead of starting from zero and having developers fill in the blanks. The base menu knows where to put common special items (Preferences/Opti
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
It's not so obvious on Windows, but a thing written with non-native tool kits stick out sorely on OS X simply because AppKit is so much more detailed, nuanced, and in some cases functional than the average Windowsesque UI toolkit. It&#
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
The problem with existing libraries is that they try to do away with the notion of different platforms in favor of a metaplatform. In reality, the divergent nature of platforms must be embraced in some ways. I imagine the aforementioned hyp
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
LibreOffice looks fine on Windows, but anything but native on Mac. Honestly I kind of wonder why nobody has written a library that acts as a thin layer around and abstraction of native UI toolkits (AppKit, .NET, GTK+, etc) instead of a mono
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
I'd also say to try to not get caught up in language/framework hype. Learn what you find fun or useful and use that as a springboard for learning other things. If you specialize too much in whatever's hip right now, you'
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
Anybody entering the market that has even a grain of intelligence would be spending their time both before and after being hired learning how to engineer software (language/framework agnostic) instead of forever monkeying around with a
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
Agreed — to me, the ability to compile my OS X projects for Windows is a far, far more interesting proposition than being able to port my iOS projects. To be quite honest, I don't really care that my iOS apps don't have a Windows
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
It's awesome to see old machines like this get a little love. The IIgs is obviously very limited in what it can do by today's standards, but these community updates make it that much more usable for what it can do. Now if only a c
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
There are times when Xcode chugs on a top of the line 2015 15" 2.5Ghz rMBP with 16GB of RAM and a 2GB/s PCI-E SSD. Not frequently mind you, but it does happen. It's incredibly heavy and I can't see it being usable on an
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
The way I see it, ridiculous rent is largely (but not solely) thanks to predatory real estate owners and bankers. Given that a place to live is a necessity and that people need to live reasonably close to their workplaces, I think it's
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
Could it be used as the the CPU emulation component of a compatibility layer? For instance, if someone were to create a WINE-like Classic Mac OS compat layer, could Unicorn serve as the PowerPC emulation portion? Or is the intended use case
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
Very cool! I've always thought that Github's discovery features were way too limited. My only complaint is that Obj-C/Swift Mac stuff gets thrown under the "Mobile" umbrella, but that's somewhat understandable
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
I'm kind of surprised to hear that CUPS gives some people so much trouble. I've been using OS X and Linux since around 2001 and neither have given me any mentionable trouble with printing. It's always been install drivers -&g
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
Yes, this is a huge problem. The fact is that most computer users treat the OS as an immutable fact about the device, much like the firmware on a cable settop box or digital watch. Just introducing the concept of an operating system as an i
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
I think it's important to highlight that these benefits aren't exclusive to Safari; they encompass all of WebKit on OS X. Unlike Google who has inexorably tied Blink to Chrome, Apple pours most of its efforts into WebKit itself. A
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
I disagree. Mobile performance is fine; modern smartphones and tablets provide more than enough power. It's enough power to be able to churn through huge photo libraries and power surprisingly capable video NLEs and multitrack DAWs; wh
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
I believe one of the biggest advantages of space exploration, if done seriously, is that keeps us from stagnating on and inevitably overblowing the various quibbles we have today. I think it's clear that either space exploration or the
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
It wasn't a problem when H.264 was new. There were devices that had H.264 decoding support well before it was popular with users; I remember iPod videos sporting support for it back when DivX/XviD and flv was the norm. Eventually
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
If you look at the driving causes of domestication in animals, it's typically the fact that surviving is no challenge — e.g. food and shelter are easy to come by, danger is rare, and there's little need to fight with other animals
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
The way I see it, H.264 is more about practicality than anything else. Hardware acceleration for it is everywhere. VP9 is great, but until there's hardware acceleration available for it, it's a bad idea to use the codec on devices
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
The bit about adding in Mach/OS X support is really interesting. Any idea specifically what they're looking to run? It's intriguing on its own and could provide a basis for reimplementations of CoreFoundation, AppKit, Quartz,
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by kitsunesoba 11y ago
I have a latest-model rMBP 15" with a R9 M370X. I use it for developing iOS apps and it works great… even with long periods of repeated tweak+compile sessions, it only gets moderately warm and still manages good battery life. The only