To add to the list of bugs, what the actual fuck is going on with SideCar? It barely works and every time I turn it on, it destroys the colors on the laptop screen. Whites become yellow and colors are partially inverted. It's worse than the betas (which also had its fair share of bugs while connecting)
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> Culture of secrecy means nothing gets fucking done. You file a bug report and you can’t even see it any more for some orgs > And you can’t speak out about this. Apple doesn’t take well to employees complaining. Even then, because of the lack of organization there is no one you could raise these issues with. Sounds similar to a cult.
No, it sounds like any large multinational. In the end, all commercial entities turn into the same thing where they only differ in branding, segment and origins.
Agreed. Any sufficiently large organisation is, by definition, staffed by average people.
Why would we expect that organisation, as a whole, to be above average?
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This sounds largely as I feared. The organization was built to serve the will of an omniscient god-king who knew better than anyone else. And now he's gone, and the organization is still set up to make orders trickle down from on high (despite no-one qualified or interested being there to make those calls) and hasn't learned make good decisions by communicating internally either. So the acolytes and high priests try…
If you read other insiders’ comments here you can notice that this is not the case at all. Under Jobs the Mac OS team was more open and collaborative, so probably this happened “by chance” and the death of Jobs was probably a force toward closeness.
It sort of makes sense to me. The god-king likely demanded answers and accountability, that must make people cooperate somewhat. With stagnation, power plays and petty turf-wars take over.
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I feel like there are people who get around the secrecy/isolation veil, they just have long-standing friends in other projects and can rely on them to push features and bugs though the bureaucracy. If you don’t have that, well, expect your Radars to sit in “punted from this release” until the end of time.
Or just escalate to your Product Manager. It's not like cross communication doesn't happen it's just via a formal process.
That's hilarious and cute. I'm pretty sure I'd be told off if I tried to push cross-project collaboration up the management ladder beyond making an introduction happen.
This thread is really helping me understand why I can never see eye to eye with anyone on Hacker News. What I had assumed would be engineering companies are companies with engineers but without engineering culture, and there is zero autonomy to be had without getting into management in an over-stratified org-chart.
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#495I still love Apple. For me macOS is still much better than Windows and Linux, and iPhone + iPad + Watch + TV + App Store + AirPods etc. is still a more pleasant overall experience than any other ecosystem out there.
but when you see betas for x.1 before there is even a GM for x.0, you know it's going to be a rushed, buggy release.
and it's disheartening to see all the little quality-of-life bugs and suggestions you submitted eons ago remaining unfixed year after year.
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Done the install manually several times and it is crystal clear what you have to do once you understand how Linux works from boot to the OS. Of course not recommended for beginners and those who have no interest in how the internals work. Sorry to hear it did not work for Navi, was the wiki any helpful to understand what goes wrong?
Not really... pretty much started loading, then hard locked... couldn't navigate (ctrl-alt-f#) to a usable terminal, etc. At that point, I'd been through several failed attempts and just jumped to Ubuntu LTS, since it's supported by AMD, and dealt with the wifi and onboard audio not working. Started with Pop!_OS with 5.x kernel (5.2 fir wifi drivers, though not using it). Onboard audio also weird, the UI would show f…
Can you give me more details about your configuration? pm is ok
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“Lately though, I have noticed that we Linux types are insufferable in our own ways...” Indeed, but this is the (sour) price of 'victory' too: it means Linux is going mainstream now. Hence, it's becoming more 'popular' with all that entails... Linux is best 'lived' in professional circles nowadays, imho: specific blogs, forums and channels with solution-driven people. I find myself more and more attracted to the RHEL…
Eh. I think Linux is sufficiently fragmented (in this case it's a good thing) that there will always be somewhere to hide if dealing with the ups and downs of the masses isn't your thing. I like helping people, so if the future holds more software today breaks transparently, then that's more people I'll be able to help.
Right there with you regarding help. One of my pet peeves is to write guides. Even one-offs just to reply to a comment.
I thought you were referring to 'wars' between Gnome/KDE, or against systemd, and we're thankfully relatively free of these popular sports in more professional circles.
If you know Noah Cheliah (podcast Ask Noah, formerly from Jupiter Broadcasting), that's my kind of guy. Up there with the pros, but always willing to go out of his way to help anyone, no questions asked, newbies very much welcome. A great steward of the community imho.
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#498I'm not sure if anyone has seen this yet, but Catalina is letting me login without entering my password! I have two users on my machine. 1. I "lock screen" from the Apple menu and close the lid. 2. I reopen the lid and it does not ask for password. 3. I start using laptop and lock screen suddenly pops up, but asks password for the wrong user. 4. I hit random key and the screen goes away, and i can continue working. A…
The huge spam of confirmation popups reminds me of the "debacle" of Windows Vista introducing UAC. It's kind of inexcusable that, a decade later, Apple did exactly the same UI fiasco.
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thank you. this really validates my decision to work as a backend Python engineer at a well-established startup.
What is a "well-established startup"?
It’s an enterprise full of hipsters that tell themselves they’re changing the world in order to be able to take the punishment (or to be ok with unethical work). :P
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#500Things are so broken here at Apple. I joined about 4 years ago. I am awed by the fact that we manage to release any software at all, let alone functional software. The biggest problem is communication. No one fucking communicates. - No communication between orgs. Tons of bureaucratic tape to cut through just to get a hand on someone working on a different product - Barely any communication between teams. Literally ev…
You are probably segregated away from where the real work is happening. This is by design, because you haven't proven yourself yet or they don't trust you yet. Good work is being done in Apple every day. You're just not a part of it and are not seeing it.
Yeah, like iOS 13, Catalyst, and Catalina. It’s all rather amazing. Ship on time, ship all features that were announced, heck, their hardware teams can barely keep up!