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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by felipelemos »

Tenobrus wrote: post #347
Gaelan wrote: post #246

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I haven’t used OpenOffice much? But it feels much less polished than Office or iWork. I guess there’s Google Docs, but even that’s limited compared to even iWork. Is there anything actually decent that can be used for “Office” stuff on Linux?

LaTeX and Org mode are much better and more usable than either Office or OpenOffice for me. I haven't needed to do more than copy-paste into Office documents for the last 4 years. Of course, that's not at all relevant for general market share, but there are viable alternatives depending on how technical you are and your exact needs/restrictions/use-cases.

But the issue here is monopoly. Or do you really think that LaTeX will somehow gain any market share from Microsoft?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by Raz2 »

makecheck wrote: post #387
tomp wrote: post #103

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. > Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind I'm starting to like the business model of buying the product more and more. There was a recent t…

It’s kind of crazy just how many resources of humankind must be expended to make up for obnoxious behaviors, whether it is burning cycles on ad-blockers or cleaning up other peoples’ garbage. For all the power we have expended, humankind could be so much further along than we are. I wish the people who spent energy making terrible ad experiences would just quit their jobs and apply their talents to something of actua…

I worked in ads company. I understood that I was producing waste. But I treated it as a puzzle. Tasks were really challenging and salary was more than average.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by Terretta »

4ad wrote: post #181
Terretta wrote: post #166

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Serious question: What family sharing use case needs more than 100 albums for sharing family photos, and what family sharing use case needs more than 1000 photos "per hour" (you can add thousands, just rate limits the uploading)? Agree with you on the time ordering. If people want a particular order, they could upload in that order. If they want time ordered, they could tap a button to refresh sort by time taken. How…

> What family sharing use case needs more than 100 albums for sharing family photos. 100 albums is nothing. Looking at my photo share history (on Google+, not iCloud as iCloud is useless) I have about 500 albums shared with friends and family over the last five years. And of course, there have been innumerably more albums shared with me, while iCloud limits that too to only 100 albums. The best thing about these Goog…

FWIW, all these reasons are why I pay Flickr.

I attempted over the years to use the various incarnations of Google's photos but they consistently mangled pictures, canceled / renamed / migrated services, bungled who gets to see what under what Google Accounts, etc., until I was browbeaten into conceding defeat.

I think you missed the point on sorting by time. If multiple people are at an event, you lose the information about "physical time" because the time recorded in their snapshots is very probably wrong. So unless you fix the metadata, the only sort you can have is manual.

Note: If you're not even naming albums, how does one find them again? What's the use case? Throwaways? You're making on average a new album every 3 days, which still seems a little awkward. And innumerably more shared with you, means, what, 10 albums shared with you a day? It's amazing you have time for detailed and thoughtful HN comments. You should switch to pictures, they're worth a thousand words.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by baldfat »

deong wrote: post #300
debaserab2 wrote: post #279

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GDocs has been the primary office tool for the past several jobs I've had across the entire staff. What can it not do that office can do?

Within large organizations, I don't think there's any replacement for Excel. Google docs are great as a Word replacement, but Google's spreadsheet offering is a spreadsheet. Excel is an extremely sophisticated development environment.

> I don't think there's any replacement for Excel

That would be great. People over use Excel to no end and it causes problems. They need to use programming. Get people with R or Python and Pandas, or some other statistical program. (88% of Excel Spreadsheets contain human errors) These are human error. Use a program not an Excel sheet.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/salesforce/2014/09/13/sorry-spr...

One error cost $6 Billion in the "London Whale"

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by selectodude »

bocklund wrote: post #367
jrcii wrote: post #177

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Why should you have to?

Because Microsoft paid a lot of people to develop and maintain a software they gave away for free to users?

If Microsoft let me buy Windows without that, I would have paid for it. Alas, If I spend $200 on Windows 10, I get the same tracking landmines than the person who spent 0 a few years ago.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by baldfat »

dbattaglia wrote: post #360
debaserab2 wrote: post #336

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I hear this argument a lot and I still don't buy it. I use more advanced functionality than 90% of my coleagues and I don't find google spreadsheet stops me in any way. Tell me something excel can do that Google spreadsheet can't.

My guess is mainly legacy stuff (VBA macros) and .Net/COM based plugins that may be purchased or developed in-house at some businesses. For something brand new I would imagine Google Sheets can handle the vast majority of use cases.

Those companies need to hire programmers and use a programming language like R.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by tresp »

kiliankoe wrote: post #303
fairview14 wrote: post #299

> Apple File System. > Your data is under new management. Ok, should I expect it now finally to be case sensitive? Or is that still science fiction for MacOS?

Apfs ist case-insensitive by default, probably due to legacy reasons.

there was a tremendous ATP episode about this exactly, maybe 6-9 months back. John's explanation of case sensitivity and file systems is a real gem, if anyone can remember the title

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by jdironman »

kemayo wrote: post #350
deong wrote: post #305

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"Hey, have you tried Safari? It's pretty great. Why don't you give it a try?" "Umm, hey there...me again. You still haven't tried Safari? What's wrong? Want me to launch it for you?" "Ok, this is getting a little awkward. We worked pretty hard making Safari, and you won't even try it? I'm trying to not be insulted here, but you're not making it easy." "Listen motherfucker. You know that Keychain thing that you don't…

Interesting. I don't use Safari, and have never seen "try Safari" notifications. I wonder what the criteria for it are.

Probably having chrome installed.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by mk89 »

kemayo wrote: post #350
deong wrote: post #305

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"Hey, have you tried Safari? It's pretty great. Why don't you give it a try?" "Umm, hey there...me again. You still haven't tried Safari? What's wrong? Want me to launch it for you?" "Ok, this is getting a little awkward. We worked pretty hard making Safari, and you won't even try it? I'm trying to not be insulted here, but you're not making it easy." "Listen motherfucker. You know that Keychain thing that you don't…

Interesting. I don't use Safari, and have never seen "try Safari" notifications. I wonder what the criteria for it are.

Same here. Not 1 notification so far...
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