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Re: Apple announces iOS 10

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Post by __d »

mintplant wrote: post #189
smnscu wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, then you haven't been using macs for a decade, but for a year, times ten (and that's totally fine, unless you're leaving arrogant comments on HN about "why we tolerate this or that"). I've been using macs for about 5 years and I still learn new useful features and shortcuts, and having 3 modifier keys is so useful (e.g. emacs + iterm2 + spectacle) that I can't see myself going back to linux/similar. ETA: also,…

>and having 3 modifier keys is so useful (e.g. emacs + iterm2 + spectacle) that I can't see myself going back to linux/similar Linux has control, alt, and meta (aka "super" or "the Windows key").

gotta love X. super is not meta, and you forgot hyper too. also, shift (although most people just use it for the obvious).

Re: Apple announces iOS 10

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Post by wener »

andrewla wrote: post #24

Looks like Apple is doubling down on at least two features that really seem like duds -- 3D Touch (which as far as I can tell nobody even knows exists), and Siri (which everyone raves about but nobody uses for anything). I'd love to see UX improvements around minor inconveniences of the iOS experience: - what the hell the volume button does in different contexts (sometimes it changes the ringer, other times the in-ap…

Seems all these inconveniences is already got over in android.

- volume button can control all in all context with a same ui

- long press the app title

- I don't have a buzzing yet

- never get into this

- just swipe to dismisse or slide down to get more info or action

Re: Apple announces iOS 10

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Post by zeta0134 »

selectodude wrote: post #187
throwanem wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I still have no idea what the option key is for It's for "⌥". Yes, that's not ideal, and it's a striking UX failure on Apple's part that the keycap says "option" while the menu says ⌥ - all the more striking given Apple's generally well deserved reputation for getting that kind of thing right. Same goes for control and ^ - granted, Unices have represented Control as ^ since forever, but part of the appeal of a Mac…

The key has had the word option on it for several years now.

Aye, but on newer mac keyboards it lacks the symbol. So you have that funny symbol in the menus, and you're supposed to divine (you're a new user, remember) that it means "option" with no visual similarity.

Re: Apple announces iOS 10

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Post by cheapsteak »

ChicagoBoy11 wrote: post #160

Is this the death of hybrid apps? Seems all the announcements were focus on the deep integration that apps can now have with the OS. For a long time, the big knock against hybrid development was that performance was never as good as native, but it seems that this new wave of integration presents a far more compelling case for native development, no?

Are those integrations not possible with hybrid apps?

Re: Apple announces iOS 10

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Post by mynameislegion »

throwanem wrote: post #117
erikpukinskis wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using macs for I guess a decade or so now and I still have no idea what the option key is for. When a keyboard shortcut is like ^+⌥+F6 I just mash buttons until it works. Why do they use a different symbol on the button than in the UI? I really have no desire to learn the seven different buttons in Mac OS and I wish application authors would stop using them so they could someday simplify the keyboard. I don…

> I still have no idea what the option key is for It's for "⌥". Yes, that's not ideal, and it's a striking UX failure on Apple's part that the keycap says "option" while the menu says ⌥ - all the more striking given Apple's generally well deserved reputation for getting that kind of thing right. Same goes for control and ^ - granted, Unices have represented Control as ^ since forever, but part of the appeal of a Mac…

I use option and control all the time for muscle memory keybindings, but every time I see "⌥" or "^" as a shortcut in a menu, I need to check which is which. After all the time I've spent on cli, you'd think I'd have "^" memorized by now, but for some reason it doesn't stick.

Re: Apple announces iOS 10

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Post by pbuzbee »

wlesieutre wrote: post #126
badlucklottery wrote: post #105

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You can predictably silence it before it happens with the above method. Just drag the "music" volume to zero.

I'm not sure what solution they're looking for. A single universal volume control where if you turn up a video it means your ringer is now on full blast? 6 volume buttons on the side of your phone to adjust them each individually? Android's system of adjusting media volume when media is playing and ringer volume when it isn't seems like a reasonably clean solution. It takes a single tap to expand to the three sliders…

> A single universal volume control

This is exactly what I want.

Re: Apple announces iOS 10

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Post by logicallee »

If you want to watch the keynote, the last line in this macrumors blog post: http://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/13/wwdc-2016-spoiler-free/

provides a link labelled "Video Posted: A direct link to the video file is now available, with no spoilers." The direct link is: http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/16faohbadfv... - Hopefully you can just click it and it'll work.

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If you want to download the above video. (In my case, on Windows, VLC has trouble with that so I used the instructions here to actually download it: http://stream-recorder.com/forum/livestreamer-m3u8-error-no-... )

The exact thing I did was:

1. Get dl-youtube.exe from here: http://youtube-dl.org/ (save the fourth link for windows, labelled youtube-dl.exe, to your desktop)

2. Option One: Download Highest-Quality Version

From the command-line execute, in my case. The following line downloads the best quality version:

  C:\Users\User\Desktop>youtube-dl.exe http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/16faohbadfvoihjbadfvljhbphjb06/m3u8/hls_vod_mvp.m3u8 --hls-prefer-native -o output.ts
Notice that the above defaults to the best stream which is 7.13 GB (and 1920x800). It's too much for me, so I killed it and instead did:

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2A. Option Two: Choose Quality

Instead you can run -F to list formats. The following line outputs possible settings:

  youtube-dl.exe http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/16faohbadfvoihjbadfvljhbphjb06/m3u8/hls_vod_mvp.m3u8 --hls-prefer-native -F
Which outputs:

  [info] Available formats for hls_vod_mvp:
  format code  extension  resolution note
  meta         mp4        multiple   Quality selection URL
  786          mp4        480x200     786k , avc1.4d401f, mp4a.40.2
  1406         mp4        640x266    1406k , avc1.4d401f, mp4a.40.2
  2029         mp4        640x266    2029k , avc1.4d401f, mp4a.40.2
  2806         mp4        960x400    2806k , avc1.4d401f, mp4a.40.2
  3849         mp4        960x400    3849k , avc1.4d401f, mp4a.40.2
  4967         mp4        1280x532   4967k , avc1.640028, mp4a.40.2
  6581         mp4        1280x532   6581k , avc1.640028, mp4a.40.2
  8728         mp4        1920x800   8728k , avc1.640028, mp4a.40.2 (best)
I chose the one labelled 2806 for me, so I just ran:

  C:\Users\User\Desktop>youtube-dl.exe http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/16faohbadfvoihjbadfvljhbphjb06/m3u8/hls_vod_mvp.m3u8 --hls-prefer-native -f 2806 -o output.ts
Notice that capital -F lists the available formats, lowercase f chooses one.

This one is only 2.3 GB, which is good enough for me. At 2-3 MB/sec it took me twenty minutes to download.

VLC plays this one just fine.

Re: Apple announces iOS 10

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Post by nevster »

f_allwein wrote: post #166
erikpukinskis wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using macs for I guess a decade or so now and I still have no idea what the option key is for. When a keyboard shortcut is like ^+⌥+F6 I just mash buttons until it works. Why do they use a different symbol on the button than in the UI? I really have no desire to learn the seven different buttons in Mac OS and I wish application authors would stop using them so they could someday simplify the keyboard. I don…

Interesting facts in Wikipedia: "The "⌘" symbol (the "looped square") was chosen by Susan Kare after Steve Jobs decided that the use of the Apple logo in the menu system (where the keyboard shortcuts are displayed) would be an over-use of the logo. Apple's adaptation of the symbol — encoded in Unicode (and HTML) at U+2318 ⌘ (HTML ⌘) — was derived in part from its use in Scandinavian countries to denote places o…

And Apple II's used the Apple logo. There was an Open Apple and a Closed Apple

Re: Apple announces iOS 10

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Post by nardi »

therealmarv wrote: post #169

How is object recognition possible on a (i)phone without a huge/massive dataset like Google uses on Google Photos' AI backend? It has to be worse AI than from Google Photos. Can someone clarify?

You only need a huge dataset to train the network. The trained network itself is (relatively) tiny, so it can be loaded and run on iPhones.

Re: Apple announces iOS 10

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Post by AOsborn »

emehrkay wrote: post #170
throwanem wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I still have no idea what the option key is for It's for "⌥". Yes, that's not ideal, and it's a striking UX failure on Apple's part that the keycap says "option" while the menu says ⌥ - all the more striking given Apple's generally well deserved reputation for getting that kind of thing right. Same goes for control and ^ - granted, Unices have represented Control as ^ since forever, but part of the appeal of a Mac…

After reading your message, it just clicked to me that the option symbol could be a fork in the road.

Had exactly the same thought. Was never aware - and now I'll recognize the symbol going forwards!
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