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Post by yariik »

dangus wrote: post #99

All the nightmares are nightmares until they're not nightmares. Weird launch day bugs like the I bug on iOS 11 are distant memories. Yeah, these bugs are bad, but to me articles like this really feel a lot like a broken record. Every September and October, when the major releases come out, there are bugs. And then by the time you're on 10.xx.2 or iOS xx.1.3 a month later they're just a bad memory. If you don't want b…

Okay, so you're saying that a dozen other games that I like to play sometimes are going to magically start working after I wait for six months before updating to the new macOS version?

These games are not even that old, released from 2010 to 2016 or so. And Catalina won't let me play them, because some asshole decided that I'll be fine without them, and removed 32 bit support from the OS.

Meanwhile, I can still play games from 1995 on Windows 10 without any problems.

Re: Broken

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Post by musicale »

snapples wrote: post #131

Things 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…

The best workaround I've found for this in large companies has been to sidestep the formal management structure as needed to actually get things done and working properly, and then give management credit for it.

The cleverest way to get rid of bad bosses (besides moving to another group yourself) is to get them hired by another company or promoted to irrelevance (though both strategies can backfire.)

Re: Broken

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Post by swiley »

deif wrote: post #507
swiley wrote: post #411

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Linux user I feel like windows users live in a bubble where where computers are more or less expected to behave like diseased wild animals rather than machines.

Good joke. Sounds like you haven't used windows since ME.

I came up with that idea (windows makes computers behave like organisms and not machines) during an internship where everyone was required to use corporate computers running Windows 10.

I haven’t used it on a personal computer since XP though so I guess you’re not far off.

Re: Broken

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Post by jitbit »

amanzi wrote: post #176
navidkhn1 wrote: post #24

I'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…

I've never seen a bug like that on Windows. Honestly, it feels like a lot of Mac users live in a bubble where Windows is a buggy pile of crap. Meanwhile most Windows users around the world are getting on with life on a stable OS with a great choice of hardware. While nothing's perfect, Windows is in a really good place at the moment.

I've spent 15 years on a Mac before switching (back) to Windows *

I must say that Windows has... changed... In a good way. But that's not even the point. The point everyone keeps forgetting, is that OSX is tightly coupled with native Apple hardware, while Windows has to work on a zoo of devices.

[*] I actually blogged about this here, sorry for a shameless plug: https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/277-back-to-pc-after-14-year...

Re: Broken

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Post by benwaffle »

als0 wrote: post #125
shantly wrote: post #118

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Yeah, saw this the other day on an Ubuntu machine (running whatever the last release was, not LTS) I have hooked up to a TV. Flash of the desktop for a second or so before the login screen. Speaks to something fundamentally wrong with the way the whole thing works, I figure.

I had the same impression. That general feeling that the screensaver is like an app/overlay that is invoked only once the desktop is active. The speed of invocation also seemed related to how fast your machine is at launching general desktop programs...

>That general feeling that the screensaver is like an app/overlay that is invoked only once the desktop is active

That is how it is implemented (in X11)

Re: Broken

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Post by diehard88 »

snapples wrote: post #131

Things 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…

that's samsung.

Re: Broken

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Post by ric2b »

als0 wrote: post #91
temac wrote: post #50

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Despite having a lower quality than before since a few years, Windows has login and locking features that actually work (and I don't even really remember of bugs in there, like ever), so no, from what you describe it does not feel like Windows at all, it feels like some completely broken crap.

While on the subject, on Linux I've also noticed that Xscreensaver (or GNOME screensaver, can't remember which) sometimes goes straight into the desktop after wakeup for a few seconds before the lock screen prompt actually appears. You can even run programs. Really bizarre and feels like this issue has been present for a while now. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?

That bug has been open for 6 years or more.

Re: Broken

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Post by ric2b »

navidkhn1 wrote: post #132
temac wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Despite having a lower quality than before since a few years, Windows has login and locking features that actually work (and I don't even really remember of bugs in there, like ever), so no, from what you describe it does not feel like Windows at all, it feels like some completely broken crap.

Wouldn't know about the windows lock screen particularly, and I haven't been a windows user since Vista, but such low quality software and UX is what I remember being accustomed to during my time with windows. To be fair, it was also vista...

Windows 7 was the peak. Stable, simple to use, performant.

Of course it didn't have all the features that were introduced since, but it also didn't have as bad a UX as the more recent versions.

Re: Broken

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Post by thezealot »

newacctwhodis wrote: post #516
saagarjha wrote: post #460

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> The overt sexism that I’ve been witness to in iCloud management certainly doesn’t help either. Yikes! Is this something you could share the nature of?

There is shockingly little female representation, especially in management. I’m well aware software engineering skews male, and infrastructure even further so, but the numbers are absurd. In one section of iCloud, there’s zero female managers in a 200+ person org. In another, after recent re-orgs, there’s only one remaining female manager in a 600+ person org, and even then, she only has a small team of engineers. No…

Why does every accusation of sexism always end up sounding like a conspiracy theory? Shouldn’t you be more concerned with someone’s competence than what is between their legs? Besides, women aren’t happy in the workforce.

Re: Broken

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Post by vor_ »

webwielder2 wrote: post #391
snapples wrote: post #131

Things 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…

And yet most of Apple's products are consistently best-in-class, so I guess it's working for them? And a bumper crop of bugs in a point zero macOS release doesn't count as a disaster. They've been shipping super buggy point zeros for two decades.

Fans like you are a major factor in why Apple won't change. They can do no wrong.
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