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Saturated vs lighter-desaturated is accessible to all people with vision.
Apple Developer System Status
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Re: Apple Developer System Status
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#33Ughhh. Just noticed that I can't install the XCode Command Line Tools because the dev center is down... no stdio.h on my system. What is this, the dark ages!? :)
Unfortunately, it seems to be the future. Just like everything, the price of having an all knowing central authority must be paid somewhere sometime.
This has nothing to do with an "all knowing central authority." This only affects people selling or developing using Apple's tools or distibution. Turning this into George Orwell borders on ridiculous. When AWS goes down, which is far more frequent than the Apple Dev center, are you still making tin foil hat assumptions, despite the fact that AWS outages affect a significant portion of the web, while the dev center means that we can't download a particular tool to build an App that obstensibly makes us money. If the freeway gets shut down because of an accident, I don't think we equate that with a totalitarian plot.
If I subscribed to Art Bell/Coast to Coast theories of the world, I'd be far more concerned about Google (and Facebook) than Apple. Google's product is you, sold to advertisers. Apple's product is primarily hardware. Apple has no financial incentive to know everything about you because that data doesn't really help them sell more stuff, if it does, it's marginal. While with Google, the more they know, the more they can then sell that information in the form of targeted advertising. Remember, Google is the one that wants(ed) to store health records. They store every single search query, indexed by IP, and if you're logged into to Gmail, to your name and every email you've ever sent. I don't hate Google or Apple, but to bring up some dystopian future because a dev center is down?
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What's interesting about this rebuild is it tell us Apple tightly couples it's services. I would except at Apple's scale they would have followed a Service Oriented Architecture. This doesn't seem to be the case at all. And whatever happened to static hosting for videos/downloads.
As of now right now (~1374712460) there are two systems that are online: iTunes Connect and Bug Reporter. And both seem to use the cannot-be-killed* WebObjects. You can clearly see that in the URLs as they mention "WebObjects" and end in ".woa" (assuming it means Web Objects Application). *I've no idea what WebObjects are but I've heard people poke fun at their mention. Would be interesting if someone had more detail…
I don't know about you, but I can't convert epoch time in my head and I don't know anyone who can. What's benefit is there to posting epoch time instead of in ISO 8601 format?
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh, only in the same sense that "maintenance" is equivalent to "downtime."
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Perhaps they ought to disclose the IP address of the possible hack along with the method and specific technologies targeted in the breach. They should also provide the names and email addresses of the engineers helping fix the problem. They should have personally called every developer within the first 2 hours of the problem to inform them of exactly what line of code led to this utter mayhem.
I'm not sure how this affects their credibility at all. Does knowing within the first 10 seconds of the problem help you sell more apps or do your job any better? Did they make some kind of bullshit excuse? I think the emails I received were pretty clear. Remember that AWS failed two times in two weeks last year and they completely disabled AWS API access during those failures, which doesn't affect us downloading Xcode or dealing with provisioning, that affects live, production apps, that for many mean serious money. Remember how
Also, let's compare Amazon's response to a 2012 failure. The failure happened on a Friday night, taking completely out, a large number of web sites and applications, including Netflix, Pinterest and important to many developers, Heroku. Yet, it wasn't until Monday, that they released a statement explaining why, even when it was crystal clear it was power related. The kind of breach that Apple must have experience probably wasn't able to be forensically identified until many hours after the initial failure, yet in Amazon's case it was a power failure, which doesn't take a genius to need three days to release a statement.
I'm not defending Apple, but I am suggesting that our knee-jerk reactions be tempered by reality and how other companies have performed under similar situations.
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#37Ughhh. Just noticed that I can't install the XCode Command Line Tools because the dev center is down... no stdio.h on my system. What is this, the dark ages!? :)
You agreed to this... You know there's a well known and simple solution... YOu could always... You know what, I know you know better, but perhaps you'd be interested in forfeiting your rights for a bit of convenience? Great!
I love pseudo-haikus wrapped in dystopian drama.
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#38Well, the Bug Reporter is now online; that's one system restored, 13 to go. At least they're making progress. https://bugreport.apple.com/
we should file a bug report that the dev center is down. That would be metafun.
EDIT: (I forgot to use the tag.) Apologies all.
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You agreed to this... You know there's a well known and simple solution... YOu could always... You know what, I know you know better, but perhaps you'd be interested in forfeiting your rights for a bit of convenience? Great!
I love pseudo-haikus wrapped in dystopian drama.
I hate when no amount of evidence and history will keep ostrich-types from calling you a crazy conspiracist. I guess we won't understand until food delivery is dependent on iPhone Apps.
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As of now right now (~1374712460) there are two systems that are online: iTunes Connect and Bug Reporter. And both seem to use the cannot-be-killed* WebObjects. You can clearly see that in the URLs as they mention "WebObjects" and end in ".woa" (assuming it means Web Objects Application). *I've no idea what WebObjects are but I've heard people poke fun at their mention. Would be interesting if someone had more detail…
WebObjects is a web application framework. It's OLD old. It's about ten years older than Ruby on Rails, putting it on par with PHP and Ruby itself. NeXT made it and Apple decided to make it free. It was Objective-C and is now Java.
Web Objects was amazing for its time. It actually utilized server-side image maps to make web pages responsive before JavaScript took off.