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Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)
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Re: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)
#12"The engineers on the Mac OS and iOS teams move back and forth between the two projects based on release cycles and what's needs to ship next." As somebody who has been rather dismayed with the way the Macintosh platform has started to stagnate in the past couple of years, I don't really view this as a good thing.
Stagnate? Snow Leopard is just under a year old. I wouldn't expect a desktop OS to have a same release frequency as a mobile os.
Re: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)
#13Re: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)
#14Because of the Remote App was written by one guy, Apple is a huge startup?
No, that's just an interesting fact from the article. I assumed they assembled a crack-team of iPhone engineers to bang this out. I was surprised that one person put together such a high-quality app, especially in a company that could afford to throw lots of money/developers/teams to solve this problem.
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Re: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)
#15downvoters: Sorry if this question was offensive; I'm asking about if the "apple is like a startup" trend continues into developers being able to choose what kind of tools they want to work with. My complaining about my MBP isn't meant as a critique of apple, I'm just saying that if it was me I would probably choose a linux machine, not a mac.
I apologize for the off-topic question, but is anybody here a coder for apple (or has been in the past?)?
Are you allowed to use a non-apple computer if you work at apple?
I just got a macbook pro over the weekend (my first mac) and it seems like they've really gone out of their way to make this as difficult as possible to write code on. No page up/down keys...no dedicated delete key, no home/end keys...it seems like the UI is designed around the mouse. Alt-Tabbing seems really neutered in comparison to the gnome/kde/windows equivalents...and the solution that is offered is the expose' key (which works, but involves using the mouse).
Is there just a steep learning curve? Don't get me wrong, the machine is very pretty, but it seems like the type of work that geeks do was ignored when they designed this laptop (like having no dedicated right click key?)
Obviously they were talking about apple being run like a startup in that the teams are small...one of the things that I see advertised on some job postings for coding jobs is that there is a LOT of flexibility on what your workstation is...is it like this at apple?
Re: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)
#16Because of the Remote App was written by one guy, Apple is a huge startup?
No, that's just an interesting fact from the article. I assumed they assembled a crack-team of iPhone engineers to bang this out. I was surprised that one person put together such a high-quality app, especially in a company that could afford to throw lots of money/developers/teams to solve this problem.
That reminds me of an old story about the Texas Rangers. In 1896, Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald was sent to prevent an illegal prizefight in Dallas. Upon his arrival, the mayor of Dallas was confused why they only sent one Ranger, to which McDonald responded, "Ain't I enough? There's only one prize-fight!"
The story isn't true (there were several Texas Rangers on hand to prevent the prizefight) but I'm not surprised there's one, really talented guy working part time on the Remote app, as "there's only one app!".
Re: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)
#17"The engineers on the Mac OS and iOS teams move back and forth between the two projects based on release cycles and what's needs to ship next." As somebody who has been rather dismayed with the way the Macintosh platform has started to stagnate in the past couple of years, I don't really view this as a good thing.
Stagnate? Snow Leopard is just under a year old. I wouldn't expect a desktop OS to have a same release frequency as a mobile os.
I would agree with the general point, but if we're talking about end-user features, even Apple admits 10.6 was under-the-hood, so we haven't seen any UI enhancements since 2007 (10.5's release).
Re: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)
#18downvoters: Sorry if this question was offensive; I'm asking about if the "apple is like a startup" trend continues into developers being able to choose what kind of tools they want to work with. My complaining about my MBP isn't meant as a critique of apple, I'm just saying that if it was me I would probably choose a linux machine, not a mac. I apologize for the off-topic question, but is anybody here a coder for ap…
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html
Also, in Exposé it's possible to tab between applications and use the arrow keys to select windows.
As for right click: on an Apple trackpad, two finger click works much better for me than right click (either tap with two fingers or click with the thumb while two other fingers are on the trackpad) ever did on a windows laptop. YMMV.
FWIW, I also prefer the Mac ⌘⇥ (command-tab) behavior. You can drag stuff in and out of command-tab, you can hide or quit applications from it (Q and H keys), you can use either keyboard or mouse (or scroll wheel) to select apps, etc.
I think you’re mostly just unfamiliar with it... which is perfectly natural, but you might try phrasing your question in a less aggressive manner.
Re: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)
#19downvoters: Sorry if this question was offensive; I'm asking about if the "apple is like a startup" trend continues into developers being able to choose what kind of tools they want to work with. My complaining about my MBP isn't meant as a critique of apple, I'm just saying that if it was me I would probably choose a linux machine, not a mac. I apologize for the off-topic question, but is anybody here a coder for ap…
There are chords you can use to replicate some of those functions in any Mac OS X text input field--command-up or command-down is top or bottom of block, command-left or command-right is left or right of line.
Personally I just use vim--using the normal letter keys for navigation and jumping to insert mode is easier to me than chording or reaching over to the far reaches of the keyboard. If you're not vim-inclined, I'd use the Mac OS X chords.
Re: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)
#20downvoters: Sorry if this question was offensive; I'm asking about if the "apple is like a startup" trend continues into developers being able to choose what kind of tools they want to work with. My complaining about my MBP isn't meant as a critique of apple, I'm just saying that if it was me I would probably choose a linux machine, not a mac. I apologize for the off-topic question, but is anybody here a coder for ap…
Spend some time learning what you got there.