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John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review

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Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review

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Post by ldar15 »

"It chose to attack the lowest-hanging fruit first, the one thing about Apple's development environment most likely to stand out as primitive and backwards to programmers coming from other platforms or even fresh out of school: manual memory management."

ARC works great until you have cyclic references. Then you "just" have to add "Zeroing Weak References". Ok. Where? How do I know when I have to add them?

The problem with reference counted memory management is NOT having to type [x retain]. Its having to KNOW where NOT to type it. ARC doesn't solve this at all. It just allows an entire generation of programmers to stop thinking about it altogether. That's going to end well.

Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review

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Post by pflats »

eftpotrm wrote: post #62
kahawe wrote: post #37

One thing that continuously strikes me is Apple's ability to invest great level of detail when they want to. Take the FileVault recovery key, for example. For something so crucial like file encryption, not only do they offer you a quick solution but a practical and more "human usable" one; they offer to store it for you. And then they go the extra mile with those security questions! http://static.arstechnica.net/2011…

Childhood phone numbers - if your parents still live in your childhood home and haven't changed phone number (not that unusual) then it's just their phone number. First teacher - actually I can't remember mine (I was only there for a single term) but, again, I know enough people who have contacts they've had since very early school days, so will share that answer. Honestly, I'm yet to come across a 'security' questio…

The best solution I've found: I lie on all my security questions.

Give your father's middle name instead of your mother's maiden name, or something. As long as you're consistent in your lies, it's not hard to keep track of.

Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review

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Post by calloc »

cubicle67 wrote: post #16

Love the (lack of) scrollbars. My perfect OS would have no visible window chrome at all, no edges, no title bar, no buttons, nothing other than my work. The other bits would fade in as needed, then disappear again. not sure how exactly though...

Look at a tiling window manager on Linux. No title bar, nothing to grab on to the resize or anything like that. Just simply the content displayed.

Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review

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Post by ethank »

ethank wrote: post #106
bengl3rt wrote: post #46

Siracusa strikes me as a power user type so I'm extremely surprised that he neglected to mention how patently awful and useless Mission Control is on multiple monitors. Whereas in the Spaces view in Snow Leopard I could move a window to a different space AND a different monitor with a quick drag, Mission Control doesn't allow this - I have to first move the window to the correct "Desktop", then exit MC and drag it to…

Actually interestingly enough full screen apps that have palettes are really nice on multiple monitors. Omnigraffle, etc. The palettes can live on top of the linen on your secondary display. it makes using Keynote, omnigraffle and similar apps such a joy.

Example: http://f.cl.ly/items/0x3q260l0a390E1u1N1P/Screen%20Shot%2020...

Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review

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Post by BrianBerk »

masklinn wrote: post #117
RexRollman wrote: post #25

From page 13 of the review: "With ZFS out of the picture, Brtfs presumably eliminated due to its licensing, and future development of ReiserFS uncertain, its hard to see where Apple will get the modern file system that it so desperately needs other than by creating one itself." There is one BSD licensed option I can think of: HammerFS. However, considering the fact that the creator of BFS is an Apple employee, I coul…

> However, considering the fact that the creator of BFS is an Apple employee, I could totally envision them creating their own from scratch. Dominic has been working at Apple since 2002 . I'm guessing if they wanted a new filesystem they'd have tapped him quite a long time ago.

They didn't want to make a new file system for a while, when they were going after ZFS, but that has fallen through. And anyway, all he saying is that they definitely could make their own, which is true.

Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review

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Post by oflannabhra »

justinchen wrote: post #18
euroclydon wrote: post #2

I'm disappointed in the answer to the following questions: Can I tile two windows without 17 clicks and mouse movements? Fortunately for the creator of Cinch, it seems the answer is no. Can I archive a gmail message? No?

I use Divvy for Mac for arranging windows. I love it. http://mizage.com/divvy/#divvyMac

I just purchased this. One feature I'm really looking for is the ability to launch multiple apps in a specific configuration. The best solution I've found so far is using Applescript. I realize I might just be overlooking already implemented features. Anyone have a recommendation?

Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review

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Post by kissickas »

ugh wrote: post #24
nirvdrum wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Archiving is handled through IMAP delete by default. Check your GMail settings and go to the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab. Most likely your setting for "When I mark a message in IMAP as deleted" is "Archive the message (default)."

But I want to be able to delete mails (anywhere). I don’t want to repurpose the delete button, no way.

Move the mail to the trash folder. Sorry, not a 1-button solution, but it works.

Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review

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Post by iamscanner »

pflats wrote: post #122
eftpotrm wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Childhood phone numbers - if your parents still live in your childhood home and haven't changed phone number (not that unusual) then it's just their phone number. First teacher - actually I can't remember mine (I was only there for a single term) but, again, I know enough people who have contacts they've had since very early school days, so will share that answer. Honestly, I'm yet to come across a 'security' questio…

The best solution I've found: I lie on all my security questions. Give your father's middle name instead of your mother's maiden name, or something. As long as you're consistent in your lies, it's not hard to keep track of.

This is not-super-secure, but in a lot of situations I just use a rule like "third character of first word + second character of third word + first character of fourth word", and so on. You end up with gibberish most of the time, but at least you're not going to let it slip in conversation (and as long as you remember the rule and don't pass that around, you're hopefully okay).

Re: John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review

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Post by ethank »

blahedo wrote: post #67

ARGH. I'm still bitter over the introduction of Spaces in the first place—a crappy implementation of virtual desktops that nevertheless drove all the third-party versions out of business—and now they cripple their already-weak version further? Over and over in this review I'm seeing Steve Jobs's message come through loud and clear: "You should be on an iPad. We're going to make Macs as much like iPads as we can, even…

A bit hyperbolic don't you think? Have you used Lion yet?
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