"Stop planning and start doing" was the greatest piece of wisdom I got from my American boss many years ago. I suppose you'd call it "agile" these days (is that old hat now? I dunno). You can over-plan something, and whilst my reply probably has little to do with "hype" as such, you can focus too much on the latest buzzwords and frameworks. Just stop planning or thinking too much and dive right in. At the time when I heard "Stop planning and start doing" most of us thought the guy was crazy, but years of development have shown he was right.
I don't think the comment above is flamebait at all. I agree with the sentiment entirely. I use my mobile for a few things and only a quick google or two but that's about it. I'd much rather a desktop computer where I can actually see things properly laid out, zoom in, use a real keyboard, etc.
I would not want to see Australia adopt electronic voting. Paper ballots which are properly secured and monitored is the safest system overall. I would never trust my vote to a "black box" that could easily be rigged. No thank you.
Now I see what they're up to. I've been avoiding using iCloud drive but if that's now the only way to back up my stuff, I suppose I'll have to. I have far too much data though (i.e., my precious MP3 collection... yes, ripped from original CDs that *I* actually own!). I'm happy with my Time Capsule (which is also my MacBook Pro's route to the internet).
I would gladly switch to Visual Studio on Mac since Xcode feels like a straight jacket. I want file-based tabs, not workspace-tabs and Visual Studio gives me proper tabs. If I could develop macOS & iOS apps using Visual Studio, then I'll never need Xcode again:-)
One man's bias is another's firmly-held conviction. You seem to think that all left-wing sites are truth and anyone who disagrees is biased. I could argue the complete opposite. People just need to make up their minds, but an avowed left-winger running all of Snopes' "fact checking" means that it's obviously biased. I had always suspected that site but now I know why it didn't smell right.
Sounds to me like some lefty who doesn't like people thinking differently to him wants to tell unsuspecting users that their favourite sites don't toe the line of the left-wing, liberal agenda, and that they need to be "reeducated".
I haven't noticed any random UI changes made by Apple that have degraded the user experience (on OS X at least, I can't say the say for iOS). If a Mac user from 20 years ago came through time to today he'd be right at home with the operating system, and would have no trouble adapting in a short space of time.
I used to like KDE 3.5 but when 4.0 dropped and showed that the developers were more interested in UI-fads and flashy wiz-bangery, I went to GNOME. Then it turned to sh*t, so I switched to Mac over 3 years ago, and I've mostly been pretty happy. I like a UI that's functional and doesn't change to keep up with the latest (unproven or poorly tested) fashions.
"It's likely that the security error is caused by a malicious third-party advertisement."
The ads on that site are terrible, and it's no wonder browsers flagging the site as suspicious. If a web site chooses to plaster dodgy ads all over the place, then they can deal with the fallout.
I see no photo of this so-called "great Pacific garbage patch" so I'm inclined to think it's been hyped-up just a tad. I'm sure there is garbage floating around out there but its description is probably not an accurate reflection if none of these articles is game enough to post a decent photo of it, and only post illustrations.
I would welcome an audit from the relevant authorities. I have stacks of CDs all over the place as I've been buying them like crazy from prestoclassical.co.uk in recent years given the excellent exchange rates (and their specials!). I tried Napster back in the day, getting 92 and 128kbps MP3 files. All deleted now because they're crap. 192-256kbps MP3s ripped from CD in iTunes are just fine. I can't really tell the difference with FLAC anyway, and certainly don't welcome the extra hard disk space required to store them (or having to re-rip the lot!).
You've just described in detail why my reaction is not prejudice at all, but a very wise position. I have over a thousand CDs of classical music, and I DO have several different recordings of the same work, so there's no way I'm going to toss the whole lot up in the air and spend the rest of my life verifying whether each track is correct or not. Why fix what ain't broke?
My CD collection is ripped at mostly 192 to 256 kb and it's just fine. I don't trust Apple's iTunes Match thingy to replace all that music properly, and retain all my tags, etc. No way at all.
Couldn't agree more. I used various Linux distros after Windows Vista eventually spelled the death of XP but when Ubuntu went bad, I finally decided to just buy a Mac. Never been happier. It took a little while to get past the inability to configure my WM "just so", but once I got beyond my OCD tendencies in that area, the macOS was perfect. I can't see Linux or Windows being worthy enough to entice me back for many years to come. I should finally start using Numbers, Pages, etc and stop using Open Office (which I retained as my exit strategy, but I don't think I'll be needing one quite frankly).
I submitted a 1.0.3 version of an app last week and was surprised when I got a notification on my iPhone the next morning to say that it was "ready for sale" already. Previous versions took several days, and the first version took over a week!
Which is why I don't use Facebook as a source of news. I only use it to keep in touch with people I know, and ignore the rest of whatever else it offers.
OSX is such a disaster that every Mac I've ever come across is riddled with spyware, browser toolbar add-ons, etc.... oh wait, they were actually Windows machines. My bad. I haven't yet seen a Mac infected thus (including my own, which has no so-called "anti-virus" or other such software on it).
How long do you think the 10% of people who actually work for a living will go on happily slaving away to carry the other 90%? Sooner or later somebody like John Galt (from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", excellent book!) will enter the scene and get the productive people to pull up stumps and leave the other 90% to fend for their useless selves. I wouldn't blame them, either. What a complete joke this Sam Altman is. I guess I'd happily sit at home watching FX, AMC, Showtime, etc, while Sam Altman rakes in the millions from his worthless theories. LOL!
Firefox is the best browser to use for screen reader compatibility, and if it uses the same engine as Chrome, then there goes vision impaired users' sanity. Chrome - as much as I like it myself - is nowhere near as good as Firefox in this area. If Electron/Chromium get their engine up to scratch to match Firefox, then it won't be a problem (I find Firefox slow as a web developer anyway, though Firebug beats Chrome's developer tools, hands down).
You know, I don't think he was being sarcastic, actually. Which is very sad because people who believe in "safe spaces" and "triggering" (ROFLMAO) are ruining free speech, and the media are enabling them. We need a replacement for Twitter, one whose founding principle is the protection of free speech.
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"Stop planning and start doing" was the greatest piece of wisdom I got from my American boss many years ago. I suppose you'd call it "agile" these days (is that old hat now? I dunno). You can over-plan something, and whilst my reply probably has little to do with "hype" as such, you can focus too much on the latest buzzwords and frameworks. Just stop planning or thinking too much and dive right in. At the time when I heard "Stop planning and start doing" most of us thought the guy was crazy, but years of development have shown he was right.
I don't think the comment above is flamebait at all. I agree with the sentiment entirely. I use my mobile for a few things and only a quick google or two but that's about it. I'd much rather a desktop computer where I can actually see things properly laid out, zoom in, use a real keyboard, etc.
I would not want to see Australia adopt electronic voting. Paper ballots which are properly secured and monitored is the safest system overall. I would never trust my vote to a "black box" that could easily be rigged. No thank you.
Now I see what they're up to. I've been avoiding using iCloud drive but if that's now the only way to back up my stuff, I suppose I'll have to. I have far too much data though (i.e., my precious MP3 collection... yes, ripped from original CDs that *I* actually own!). I'm happy with my Time Capsule (which is also my MacBook Pro's route to the internet).
Xcode for iOS? Are you smoking crack or something? Who wants to develop stuff using an iPhone or an iPad?!
I would gladly switch to Visual Studio on Mac since Xcode feels like a straight jacket. I want file-based tabs, not workspace-tabs and Visual Studio gives me proper tabs. If I could develop macOS & iOS apps using Visual Studio, then I'll never need Xcode again :-)
That's another lie spread by the right in an attempt to avoid the truth.
Outing yourself as the lefty I knew you were all along :-)
One man's bias is another's firmly-held conviction. You seem to think that all left-wing sites are truth and anyone who disagrees is biased. I could argue the complete opposite. People just need to make up their minds, but an avowed left-winger running all of Snopes' "fact checking" means that it's obviously biased. I had always suspected that site but now I know why it didn't smell right.
Sounds to me like some lefty who doesn't like people thinking differently to him wants to tell unsuspecting users that their favourite sites don't toe the line of the left-wing, liberal agenda, and that they need to be "reeducated".
No thanks.
I haven't noticed any random UI changes made by Apple that have degraded the user experience (on OS X at least, I can't say the say for iOS). If a Mac user from 20 years ago came through time to today he'd be right at home with the operating system, and would have no trouble adapting in a short space of time.
I used to like KDE 3.5 but when 4.0 dropped and showed that the developers were more interested in UI-fads and flashy wiz-bangery, I went to GNOME. Then it turned to sh*t, so I switched to Mac over 3 years ago, and I've mostly been pretty happy. I like a UI that's functional and doesn't change to keep up with the latest (unproven or poorly tested) fashions.
"It's likely that the security error is caused by a malicious third-party advertisement."
The ads on that site are terrible, and it's no wonder browsers flagging the site as suspicious. If a web site chooses to plaster dodgy ads all over the place, then they can deal with the fallout.
I see no photo of this so-called "great Pacific garbage patch" so I'm inclined to think it's been hyped-up just a tad. I'm sure there is garbage floating around out there but its description is probably not an accurate reflection if none of these articles is game enough to post a decent photo of it, and only post illustrations.
I would welcome an audit from the relevant authorities. I have stacks of CDs all over the place as I've been buying them like crazy from prestoclassical.co.uk in recent years given the excellent exchange rates (and their specials!). I tried Napster back in the day, getting 92 and 128kbps MP3 files. All deleted now because they're crap. 192-256kbps MP3s ripped from CD in iTunes are just fine. I can't really tell the difference with FLAC anyway, and certainly don't welcome the extra hard disk space required to store them (or having to re-rip the lot!).
You've just described in detail why my reaction is not prejudice at all, but a very wise position. I have over a thousand CDs of classical music, and I DO have several different recordings of the same work, so there's no way I'm going to toss the whole lot up in the air and spend the rest of my life verifying whether each track is correct or not. Why fix what ain't broke?
My CD collection is ripped at mostly 192 to 256 kb and it's just fine. I don't trust Apple's iTunes Match thingy to replace all that music properly, and retain all my tags, etc. No way at all.
Couldn't agree more. I used various Linux distros after Windows Vista eventually spelled the death of XP but when Ubuntu went bad, I finally decided to just buy a Mac. Never been happier. It took a little while to get past the inability to configure my WM "just so", but once I got beyond my OCD tendencies in that area, the macOS was perfect. I can't see Linux or Windows being worthy enough to entice me back for many years to come. I should finally start using Numbers, Pages, etc and stop using Open Office (which I retained as my exit strategy, but I don't think I'll be needing one quite frankly).
I submitted a 1.0.3 version of an app last week and was surprised when I got a notification on my iPhone the next morning to say that it was "ready for sale" already. Previous versions took several days, and the first version took over a week!
Which is why I don't use Facebook as a source of news. I only use it to keep in touch with people I know, and ignore the rest of whatever else it offers.
I've not subscribed to any video streaming services before but this is the only show that could do it. I'm looking forward to it.
OSX is such a disaster that every Mac I've ever come across is riddled with spyware, browser toolbar add-ons, etc.... oh wait, they were actually Windows machines. My bad. I haven't yet seen a Mac infected thus (including my own, which has no so-called "anti-virus" or other such software on it).
How long do you think the 10% of people who actually work for a living will go on happily slaving away to carry the other 90%? Sooner or later somebody like John Galt (from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", excellent book!) will enter the scene and get the productive people to pull up stumps and leave the other 90% to fend for their useless selves. I wouldn't blame them, either. What a complete joke this Sam Altman is. I guess I'd happily sit at home watching FX, AMC, Showtime, etc, while Sam Altman rakes in the millions from his worthless theories. LOL!
Firefox is the best browser to use for screen reader compatibility, and if it uses the same engine as Chrome, then there goes vision impaired users' sanity. Chrome - as much as I like it myself - is nowhere near as good as Firefox in this area. If Electron/Chromium get their engine up to scratch to match Firefox, then it won't be a problem (I find Firefox slow as a web developer anyway, though Firebug beats Chrome's developer tools, hands down).
You can't post stories about "lasers" and NOT post a link to a video!!! There are none linked from the article itself, either. Tease!
You know, I don't think he was being sarcastic, actually. Which is very sad because people who believe in "safe spaces" and "triggering" (ROFLMAO) are ruining free speech, and the media are enabling them. We need a replacement for Twitter, one whose founding principle is the protection of free speech.