They have been doing this for a while. Look at the "safe browsing" stuff... Google will blacklist your website if it doesn't like the ads you're showing. That blacklist is used by firefox, chrome, safari. Your website will then just show a "safe browsing" blocked error.
massive abuse of power. It's amazing that the company that controls most internet advertising, also controls which websites are blacklisted by the vast majority of browsers.
Not using adsense? Maybe we blacklist that website until they use adsense! :)
And the biggest problem is, there is no oversight, or communication or recourse. If your website gets blocked, you won't know why, and will just have to click a "reconsider" button to ask Google to see if it's acceptable now.
The EU is not "a single country", obviously. I have no trouble imagining a close EU-like relationship between the US and Canada; until recently, you didn't even need a passport to travel between the two. They're very similar countries which could work together on almost everything.
That's certainly the endgame. What couldn't be achieved by world wars, is being achieved by the EU project.
> US and Canada... very similar countries
I'm going to assume you're being sarcastic here. And if not, don't you think it's pretty disgusting to suggest the culture of Canadians and Americans is pretty similar? Don't you think that culture is something to cherish and protect, rather than pretend doesn't exist?
People are buying things like Dell XPS laptops instead of macbooks - you get far faster hardware, and a better development environment.
I moved at the end of last year. I sometimes have to hop back on my macbook and it pains me when I do so - minutes of watching a rainbow spinner. Compiling things takes forever. The magsafe adapter is awful (Been through so many magsafe adapters, they all fail in exactly the same way).
The macbook was the ultimate developers laptop for a good few years there. Now it's just - I don't know - something for hipsters who think removing things makes it better? It's underpowered, overpriced, and the OS seems slower and more clunky than ever.
Its not difficult not install, but there are often a few tweaks that are needed to get everything working. Sometimes that can be quite tricky even for experienced people (I can't get both bluetooth and wireless working reliably one one machine I have, despite having tried 3 or 4 disrtos on it).
The only performance area that I can think of where Macbook Pros have trailed PC laptops in recent years is with discrete GPUs. CPU-wise, they've been pretty much the same.
Once you get into solid state disk I/O, PC laptops have some catching up to do.
The xps 13, the surface book and most other "developer-friendly" laptops don't fit more than 16 gb. I use a t460p which supports 64 gb, but I just have 16 gb in there because even for hadoop development I don't need more.
The memory cap issue is a non-issue. 99% of the people who complained wouldn't pay extra to get 32 gb.
Sorry, tell me about the better development environment. Especially if one needs xCode? What are you getting that exists on there, that doesn't exist on MacOS?
That's one of the points. Back then, using Xcode and develop for iOS were bonuses, yet another reason to buy a Mac. These days, it feels more like I am obligated to buy a Mac if I want to develop for iOS. Not the same pleasure it once was.
Upvoted you, because the people who downvoted you unfortunately proved your point. :(
I personally would love it if downvotes required an explanation. Such would be a great way to separate the "your comment was out of line for legitimate reason" type of downvote vs. the "I'm downvoting you because you're wrong and I'm not even going to say why" type of downvote.
You can learn something from the former type of downvote; the later sort of downvote is completely useless.
It's ironic that your comment was downvoted; because everything you said is exactly why it was. It's not that your idea is a bad theory or negative; people downvoted it because they didn't agree with it.
> everybody who knew him found him to be a genuinely nice and caring person...
You're rewriting history. Read up a bit about Reddit early days etc
He's raised up to demi-god status because he checks some boxes in the same way Turing does, and as with Turing, people believe the "history" they want to believe to fit their own views. Personally, I find it distasteful to use people like this, and it belittles everyone elses lives and contributions.
The thing I like most about Aaron's writing is that he was relentlessly introspective. But this definitely rubbed some people the wrong way. There were many who dismissed his articles as navel-gazing when they were originally posted.
> everybody who knew him found him to be a genuinely nice and caring person...
That is a demonstrably false statement, as you admit. No one is loved by everyone. No one is hated by everyone. No one is "evil", and no one is a "saint".
This ridiculous habit some people have of putting people in two boxes (good, bad) is just so stupid. People do good things, and do bad things. Everyone does some amount of good, and some amount of bad. People aren't good or evil.
They never were. Before github everything was on sourceforge.