@Grumm It used to be that there was a data fork and a resource fork, or just one of the forks. It really worked well, especially the resource fork which was a binary precursor to .plist files. Elegant actually. But when storing such on Windows servers, in Windows you saw both file forks. Nothing was "invisible" on either side. Invisible files were a rarity. Now it's like the file system has STDs everywhere in the form of invisible crap.

@tosensei I wish DevRant threaded... Your Q&A, spot on.

@atheist 🤣

macOS

@Lensflare It says "safe" but still crashes. It makes me jump through hoops in its "help" with managing memory "For me". My non-swift software doesn't crash b/c of any memory handling... even when the machine runs out of RAM.

Having the runtime engine to support Swift is grossly inefficient. Then top that off with Swift not supporting bit level operations beyond ANDing and ORing...gah

The Swift business of (_) is bizarre, along with the other use of special symbols that feels like ADA. I'm fluent in C, C++ Objective C, Pascal, ObjectPascal, FORTRAN, a half a dozen assembly languages and three machine languages (aka hex code). Swift tries to obscure the "Machine" and remove it from the language construct. That whole "optionals" and "unwrapping" thing it does which has no relationship to reality in the computer itself, drives me nuts. In my mind it is a failure in the model of "not having to deal with memory". They need to learn from MS BASIC circa 1980s

@retoor Astute! (re layoffs). I had no illusion of any physical fitness at Microsoft (re 20) as there is clearly no mental fitness involved with this product.

OMG, Apple added wrap around screen mirroring to the AVP. I sit here with what is effectively a 8 foot by 25 foot virtual screen from my MacBook Air on my lap... floating above the dog in my back yard.. This is AMAZING. I worked this way all day and yes I had to stay plugged in with the AVP but damn it was worth it.

So counterpoint, Apple built future proofing into their goggles... and it is "holy crap" awesome.

More motorcycles... electric preferably.

Dude, I feel ya. Take up a hobby that has nothing to do with code... like major construction projects. I knew this guy who was a brilliant mathematician and wrote this software for a Fortune 500 company... but as a hobby he did construction and I kid you not, made his own copper pipe for the plumbing in his house. This dude was fascinating, had a style of his own, and someone I would crack a case of cab with any day. (bottles are so damn small!)

The excessive employment of the expletive “fuck” as a linguistic crutch represents an egregious affront to the potential richness of human communication. This diminutive, monosyllabic vulgarity—consisting of a mere quartet of characters—functions as a lamentable surrogate for substantive, descriptive articulation. Its ubiquity in colloquial discourse serves not as evidence of linguistic ingenuity but rather as a glaring indicator of intellectual and expressive impoverishment. (A rejoinder pertaining to sociopolitical discourse within a development-oriented forum.)

> I wonder if I'll live long enough to see

> Idiocracy [the movie] manifest in real life.

Electrolytes! (look around you, we are solidly headed there)

@Lensflare Nod, to wander. In so many words, yes brother! 😊

@netikras check my username. It sucked when it was NeXT Step too.

I feel your pain, brother. I struggled with it for the last three days, part time, but nevertheless agonizing.

I ended up deleting every developer certificate off of every machine I have and revoking everything from the Apple developer account.

Several ghost certificates in Xcode that I can’t get rid of no matter what I do, but this approach allowed me to create singular new certificates and actually have a compile and link and run successfully.

I’m convinced that people who claim their security professionals are full of shit, definitely NOT engineers. They’ll force you to have certificates on your software like having seatbelts on easy chair. It’s asinine and it prohibits and inhibits development . It clearly doesn’t prevent malware. Fake security.

I wish Apple would focus on fixing the bugs, which are vulnerabilities themselves, instead of trying to wrap themselves in chains and self flagellating, hitting us Developers in the process.

Yes, Xcode does suck.

@Lensflare It does annoy me in how long it now takes to go from click-to-edit on file / folder names.

And once you have a block of time to use for productivity, all you can think about is "someone is going to interrupt me" which then interrupts your thoughts... then you manage to get past it and WHAM, someone interrupts you and you are like "God damn, I knew it, why did I even bother to make the effort to get focused". This is your signal to look for another company ;-)

I had an offer from a rather prominent company, and when I had accepted and was finalizing the start date, HR tried to take the salary down 1.0%... and this is after all the negotiations & acceptance and hands were shook with the hiring manager.

1% is nothing serious (back then about 1,500/yr), but when the company pulls that kind of garbage, what else will they do later?

If I were not so shocked, I would have used that to negotiate up 5%. Instead, I was stupid and let my feelings get in the way. When I told her that the deal was already confirmed, she said, “Well, we are (Bigshot Company Name Here)..." as if they could do whatever they wanted. I politely said, “Oh, I see, then I will have to decline. Thank you very much for your time." and that was that.

@PaperTrail Online

Back in the days before time, there was MPW and the ability to check in and check out revisions with terminology that made sense in English. "Pull requests" OMG, shit for brains term. Pull on my finger...

@b2plane Went to Europe recently. Tipping was very unusual and it was explained to us that it is only in the tourist areas where the Americans typically visit... Prices were very reasonable where we were ($14 got two hoagies, 2 small side salads, and a bottle of great wine, no option to tip, and absolutely some of the best most friendly service we have ever had in our lives). I don't put my perspective out there quite as strong as you do :-) but in general principle I don't disagree at all with you.

Did they fail to draw the iOS crowd? They advertise all platforms but Mac / iOS / iPadOS but if you dig you find they have (had?) Objective C stuff for iOS: https://m2.material.io/develop/ios. Kinda looks like yawn...

Shower them with praise and be impressed. It is likely why they did it... they wanted to impress dad maybe as much as they wanted the Nintendo. Hell, after reading that I want to buy them the switch!

It happens all the time on Intel Macs... just idling uses all 8 real cores of the processor. The bloat in current software is out of control. Good engineering produces products that run well; excellent engineering produces products with fewer moving parts, smaller size, and hence fewer defects and less impact on resources. Computers don't do anything significantly better or more advanced than 20 years ago (ChatGPT and other AI not withstanding) yet they require 100 times the resources. Open source is actually a huge contributor to the problem. A project needs a "kidney" but the trend is to take the whole body of code just to get the kidney's function. All the cancer, dementia, body odor, and bad habits come along with the kidney.

@DreEleven what are you using your Mac for?

@helloworld Capitalism is not the issue here. It is the short term thinking and greed of leadership who looks from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter.

If when you negotiate salary you ask for a month severance and they balk, it is a good indicator that you are working for a quarterly company.

But I will say that vulture capitalists do suck... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I have been part of a number of buy-outs over the years and the pattern is the same. Buy-out means time to leave. It also means that your original corporate leadership sold out (literally and figurativaly). Get a retention bonus when the buy out happens (too late now) and then immediately look for a job like your building was on fire.

I feel for you, I truly do. It's more than "a job" when you invest your heart and sole into a company that becomes a fraternity... when it evaporates it is like the rug is pulled out from under your feet.

The fact that you stayed there for a year means you have let your hope cloud your judgement. Pull the handle before you lose too much altitude.

@sleepyobjobjobj so what about photos of the new coding assistant? ☺️

@Parzi Not a Linux fan. Too much of a patch work quilt from the 1970s wearing bell bottoms and smoking LSD. Pass. BSD, underpinnings of current macOS, not much better but at least iApple managed to polish that turd. All current desktop operating systems are ultra-bloated self feeding monsters with patches that patch the patches that patch the patches that patched the original problem instead of fixing it.

Dont get me wrong, I am so not a Windows fan. I would say the best day of 1988 was this: https://m.youtube.com/watch/...

but today, Windows is a slightly cleaner leaner architecture than any *nix.

IM-not-so-HO The best desktop operating system ever created died from asphyxiation in March of 2010.

The Eggs Templar? (Note the +s in the egg-cophagus )

Omg so true. Not because of code but because of everything else going on when you work that is non-productive horse sh..