> why not just use your Linux flavor of choice and cut to the chase Because desktop Linux is simply not sufficient for me as a daily dr...
> why not just use your Linux flavor of choice and cut to the chase Because desktop Linux is simply not sufficient for me as a daily driver. It is unpleasant to me, it's highly frictional and there are a thousand shitty cuts everywhere that you have to endure for the legitimately good development environments you can get there. I am a software developer but I'm a person first and as a person Linux-on-the-desktop doesn't work for me. Quality matters to me, and OS X's user experience is qualitatively better for my use case. If OS X didn't exist, I'd still be using Windows and SSHing everywhere. But OS X is a happy combination of the tools I want to use (including ones that don't exist on Linux--I use TextMate 2, for example, because I'm not a big fan of Sublime Text) and a desktop environment that doesn't make me endure it rather than enjoy it. (And as for expense: if you've got a job as a software developer in the developed world, you can afford Mac gear. If you can't, that sucks, but frankly I'm gonna still use the best tools for my job.)
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That's the biggest problem with iOS because Apple can be ordered to block them from the App Store and it would be instantly kill these pr...
I'm intrigued about the "Trip Planner" being a top-level app.
This asymmetry is IMO the biggest problem with AI-driven output.
This is one of the most important objectives in software today.
At least in Europe - these rouge corporations need to be reined in or just leave the market.
I was skeptical, but this looks genuinely useful.
Why has she gone through so many iPhones?
The biggest problem with Europe is the lack of innovation.
> why not just use your Linux flavor of choice and cut to the chase Because desktop Linux is simply not sufficient for me as a daily dr...
> why not just use your Linux flavor of choice and cut to the chase Because desktop Linux is simply not sufficient for me as a daily driver. It is unpleasant to me, it's highly frictional and there are a thousand shitty cuts everywhere that you have to endure for the legitimately good development environments you can get there. I am a software developer but I'm a person first and as a person Linux-on-the-desktop doesn't work for me. Quality matters to me, and OS X's user experience is qualitatively better for my use case. If OS X didn't exist, I'd still be using Windows and SSHing everywhere. But OS X is a happy combination of the tools I want to use (including ones that don't exist on Linux--I use TextMate 2, for example, because I'm not a big fan of Sublime Text) and a desktop environment that doesn't make me endure it rather than enjoy it. (And as for expense: if you've got a job as a software developer in the developed world, you can afford Mac gear. If you can't, that sucks, but frankly I'm gonna still use the best tools for my job.)
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