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Post by sushisource »

JonathonW wrote: post #148
sushisource wrote: post #143

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3:2 is the best. It drives me fucking insane that all the laptop manufacturers have capitulated to the idea that everyone's spending time watching movies on their laptops more than anything else, which strikes me a complete nonsense but I suppose it must be true, otherwise they wouldn't make that decision... I hope.

A wider screen on a laptop has the advantage of allowing a wider keyboard-- so smaller laptops (12"-13" and below) can have full size (or closer to full-size) keyboards, and larger laptops (15" or so) can fit things like a full numeric keypad (15-inch 16:10 doesn't even quite leave room for one, but 15-inch 16:9 does without inflating the screen bezel too much). It's also probably not coincidental that a wider screen…

Never thought about the diagonal thing. That's probably the best explanation.

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Post by saurik »

msie wrote: post #141
derefr wrote: post #82

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Most of the codebases of both iOS and macOS are fundamentally the same kind of (low-level but architecture-independent C and Objective-C) code, and encouraging team unification will make that even more true—if the same people are working on both AppKit and UIKit, for example, it's a no-brainer to unify them rather than maintaining that duplication. The exception is the kernels and drivers of each OS, which have to co…

Duplication of effort is something that a small company may worry about but Apple has boatloads of money.

It isn't just "we coded it twice" (which I would still argue is bad from a security perspective with respect to making sure both are actually correct), but "we both designed an API to solve the same kind of problem... different... so now the world has two APIs to learn on these weirdly different platforms when, by all rights, we should have just designed one".

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Post by Viper007Bond »

jmagoon wrote: post #129
willtim wrote: post #116

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> Apple still seems to have the best hardware overall The example comparison you gave, an X1 Carbon, has a more reliable keyboard with more travel, a matte-screen option without fragile glass, a user-replaceable battery, a user-replaceable NVMe drive, a variety of ports new and old, a docking solution, security cable lock etc

All the other ultrabooks are 16:9, right? It's so hard losing that extra screen real estate, you really get used to it after a while. I'd rather even go 3:2, but the options there are only the Surface Pro or Pixelbook.

The Surface Laptop is also 3:2 [1] and I absolutely love it. Proper laptop unlike the Pro (tablet).

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/surface-laptop/p/90f...

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Post by kstrauser »

djsumdog wrote: post #125
newscracker wrote: post #13

This does not help at all for the drubbing that macOS High Sierra has been getting recently. Long term OS X users have been waiting for a Snow Leopard like release, but it seems like Apple isn’t taking as much care as required on security and stability on the Mac. Something has to give — either Apple’s organizational structure needs a change or Apple needs to abandon certain things completely instead of releasing sub…

> Snow Leopard like release This was the last good MacOS in my opinion. Starting with Lion they removed Expose, and they removed the workspace grid and replaced it with that shitty Mission Control rubbish. I hated I couldn't down-grade (or really upgrade depending on how you look at it) my Lion laptop back to Snow Lepord. It was so unusable I actually went back to Linux and tried a bunch of different tiling window ma…

In fairness, I also hated Mission Control at first. I'd sure hate going from the (High)? Sierra version back to Expose now, though.

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Post by bigiain »

jpttsn wrote: post #119
dmitriid wrote: post #110

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One woman has a baby in 9 months. In how many months will 9 women have a baby? Also: “Mythical man month” etc. You do not solve your problem by having a bunch of engineers from a different domain and having different priorities.

First baby take 9 mo, but with a pipeline you can get the average close to 1 mo.

And if you'd been speculatively executing the baby making pipelines...

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Post by anfilt »

nextos wrote: post #138
reaperducer wrote: post #107

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If some of the Linux distros would start trying to look like MacOS instead of constantly aping Windows, then switching would be a lot easier. That's been the big reason I've never really taken to Linux. The GUIs all look like Windows with a skin. Where's the innovation?

This is really not true at all. The most popular desktop in Linux, GNOME, has always drawn heavy inspiration from Mac. The latest version is really polished. But there are so many options! Including IMHO the best one on any platform for a developer: no desktop environment and a tiling window manager. There are even NeXTStep clones with binary compatibility! So saying Linux GUIs copy Windows is nonsense.

Agree a Tiling window manager. Light weight too.

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Post by loopbit »

threeseed wrote: post #137
loopbit wrote: post #104

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I agree with you, the lack of QA skills in a team is a dangerous thing. But I disagree with the notion that the agile methodologies are the problem, more like an excuse from the same people that would use any other excuse to cut corners[0]. A QA column (or set of columns) fits perfectly with Kanban. Years ago I started seeing companies combining QA and product teams[1]. It required product people with a bit of techni…

I am sure we have both spent time in Agile projects. Let me ask you. When stories end up in the QA column do they just test the story or everything the story could possibly touch ? Be honest. Because that right there is the problem when you are dealing with systems with lots of interconnected components. There just isn't enough time for the "randomly try to break anything" phase.

Yes, they usually only test the feature and you are right, when you are dealing with plenty of interconnected components, it's more difficult to do complete tests and there's a higher chance of something slipping by unnoticed.

However, on every build the unit, integration and acceptance tests should run and should alert if something is not right[0]. Automated testing can't cover all the use cases, but there's no reason they couldn't catch most of the issues we've seen with OSX lately (a good example of a system with plenty of interconnected components). On top of that, the good QA people I know always run some random manual tests not related with the story itself on every feature release just to make sure everything is still as expected.

The time is there if it is, along with the expectations, managed correctly. Only in smaller chunks instead of a big, single block of time at the end.

Even though, there's always the chance that there's a completely unforeseen side effect (a test can prove that there's an error, but can't prove that there are no errors), all of this is to try and minimize that chance. In general, I think that these issues appear more often related to specific systems (lots of interconnected components) or environments (lack of proper testing), rather than with specific methodologies (back in the non-agile methodologies days, programs still had bugs).

[0] Like, for example, an edge case of a method being fixed. That can have knock-on effects if other parts of the system were relying on that method failing.

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Post by mikeokner »

icelancer wrote: post #122
willtim wrote: post #116

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> Apple still seems to have the best hardware overall The example comparison you gave, an X1 Carbon, has a more reliable keyboard with more travel, a matte-screen option without fragile glass, a user-replaceable battery, a user-replaceable NVMe drive, a variety of ports new and old, a docking solution, security cable lock etc

As always, the mousepad can't yet be beaten. While it sounds trite - and I've long since switched away from my original Macbook Retina, IMO the height of Mac's hardware dominance - I still pine for it compared to everything I've used since.

I was right there with you for a long time, but the touchpads on PC flagships have largely caught up. I switch between a Dell XPS 15 and a late-model MBP daily, and while I still give a slight edge to the mac, the Dell works well too and doesn't cause any frustration/pining.

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Post by mackey »

mapmap wrote: post #146
mackey wrote: post #133

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I am talking specifically about unit testing, ui testing, integration testing and then supporting those tools in some type of ci system. And to be clear, they provide these things in the form of XCTest, XCUITest, and Xcode bots, but they aren't good enough. Tons of resources have been spent by the community and major corporations trying to fill in the gaps and offer useful alternatives, but the closed nature of Xcode…

Personally, I've found XCTest to be pretty good - especially performance testing.

It's fine, although its amazing how long it took to get native async testing (iOS 8?).

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Post by mygo »

dmitriid wrote: post #120
jpttsn wrote: post #119

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First baby take 9 mo, but with a pipeline you can get the average close to 1 mo.

In this case we’re talking about just one baby :)

Just hire a woman who is in her 3rd trimester and you can cut that baby down to 3 months. ...
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