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well, i think the wally parts is worth reading, i love his procastination behaviour 
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Possibly your English is not advanced enough to appreciate it; I don't mean this as a slight, just an observation based on my own experience. When I read "Tortilla Flat" in its original and my native language, English, I thought it was the funniest thing since Twain. When I recently re-read it in Spanish (which I understand pretty well, but not at a native speaker level), it was not nearly as funny.
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For the 20 years I worked for a largish company, Dilbert so closely mirrored what went on in that company it was like Scott worked there too. Now that I'm working at a startup I can still relate but mostly just from past experience.
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Please send a link to a video of you tripping over a network cable or something. I've been practicing my Viking guffaw, with some tips from my wife. 
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Dilbert, non Sequitor, and Unshelved are the only three I follow. All three range from outright hilarious to h'uh, I don't get it. Unshelved is Dilbert for librarians.
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Surprisingly, I'm largely over the "who moved my cheese?" phase. It's a bit of a mixed bag:
Pros
- Very stable
- Very light - went home without the beast like Dell for the first time last night and had to check I'd actually packed the machine. This is a biggie
- Some of the OS well thought through, it's pretty similar to Ubuntu's GUI TBH. Some processes are very smooth
- Bootup time, compared to win7 at least is insane
Cons
- Finder - a sort of windows file explorer-cum-search. Makes it unnecessarily difficult to perform basic tasks- can copy but not cut. Rename is insane - need to go to the "Get Info" popup and do it there, from the people who criticised MS for putting shut down in the start menu. No real sense of where you are in the file system - I want to be able to navigate a path. Sometimes I've dropped into a terminal because its easier
- Had to learn a silly amount of keyboard shortcuts - I'd want to learn most of these anyway to be fair, I know the equivalents in windows, but on for some tasks its quicker to take the hand of the mouse and use the keyboard.
- A keyboard that doesn't have a # (alt-4 on a mac) but does have a key for ± / § is not a keyboard designed for actual use. The physical keyboard is good otherwise
- Nobody, in the whole world, will need more than 2 USB ports. But thunderbolt with adapters - they need to be everywhere
I'm doing a lot of screenshot work preparing materials, this typifies my experience. No PrintScreen key, so i've had to learn the shortcut (cmd-shift-4) bad. Instead of printing the screen, I get a selection cursor to choose which area to capture good. The image is saved as a .png to my desktop bad apple, naughty apple, haughty apple - the filename defaults to a date and time, so I need to use either the terminal to move and rename, or scrabble round the UI.
I really don't understand what the hype is about - it's OK as a machine, I wouldn't pay that much for one. Using for (mostly JS) dev the experience is similar to working under a *NIX - pretty good, but again I'd rather save the cash and do just that.
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Keith Barrow wrote: Finder
Last time I mentioned this POS here I was flamed at, along the line "how can you be so obstruse" and "file explorer is no way better"... Add to it the fact that you have to guess that plugging an USB key creates a directory on your desktop (or whatever it is) instead of being accessible through any kind of path navigation or file explorer, and you have a no go from my side. Either I did not understand a concept, or this is just a dumb way to interact with the user.
/Edit : From this forum[^] : "I don't even know why it's called the Finder. It should be the Hanger."
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Rage wrote: plugging an USB key creates a directory on your desktop (or whatever it is) instead of being accessible through any kind of path navigation or file explorer
It creates a desktop shortcut and it's mounted as a disk that you can access from the left hand side of any finder window.. You have to unmount it from finder before unplugging it (just like Windows)
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That was exactly what I would have expected, but there was nothing "mounted" anywhere back then, definitely only the desktop shortcut. Maybe some sort of silly options somewhere.
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I started using OSX at Mountain Lion - perhaps it was before then?
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See Mike's answer, it is a setting.
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I'm referring to the most current version. I seem to recall is was the default several versions ago.
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I'm using Yosemite but hardly use USB sticks these days.. (yeah, I like the cloud too )
I remember seeing it last time I used a USB stick, odd if they've made it a setting though - that wouldn't make sense to disable it.. how are you supposed to unmount the drive?
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Brent Jenkins wrote: I remember seeing it last time I used a USB stick, odd if they've made it a setting though
I'm not sure how it transitioned through updates vs. fresh installs. I'm also going on memory since my Mac is at home and I'm at work (Win 7).
Brent Jenkins wrote: how are you supposed to unmount the drive?
Maybe through the drive shortcut that pops up on the desktop.
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Rage wrote: the fact that you have to guess that plugging an USB key creates a directory on your desktop (or whatever it is)
Ummmm... its a shortcut to access the drive. Very similar to the way Windows can open the dialog and ask you what you want to do.
Rage wrote: instead of being accessible through any kind of path navigation or file explore
A Finder preference will show external drives on the left just like internal drives or shares.
Rage wrote: Either I did not understand a concept
Seems to be the case here.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Very similar to the way Windows can open the dialog and ask you what you want to do
Which, to me, is a very terrible thing to do.
Plus the desktop had many icons on it, so it took me a while to spot the newly created shortcut.
Mike Mullikin wrote: A Finder preference
Yeah, make the obvious hidden by default 
Mike Mullikin wrote: Seems to be the case here.
Intuitive seems to be a concept, then.
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Rage wrote: Plus the desktop had many icons on it
Which, to me, is a terrible thing to do.
Rage wrote: Yeah, make the obvious hidden by default
Yeah, looking at the preferences wasn't obvious at all. 
Rage wrote: Intuitive seems to be a concept, then.
Nobody is claiming that Apple is perfect but it helps to at least have an open mind when using something new. Sheesh! Were you one of those guys that screamed and whined when Windows 95 came out because it was soooo much different than Windows 3.1?
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Mike Mullikin wrote: eah, looking at the preferences wasn't obvious at all.
Looking at the preferences to make it possible accessing the content of a USB key with the what-should-be a file explorer ?? Really ?
Mike Mullikin wrote: Nobody is claiming that Apple is perfect
I do not want them to be perfect. I was only expecting a bit more for a device that costs about 4x more than its equivalent in the PC world. Apple braggs about everything being simple and shiny, well, in my experience it was far from being that. All I wanted was to download some file to a USB disk, and it took me 10 minutes. Never again.
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Rage wrote: a device that costs about 4x more than its equivalent in the PC world
Not where I live. In the US there might be a 10-15% premium for Mac's versus Dell/HP/Lenovo when comparing "equivalent" products. That's a premium I'm willing to pay for the benefits I see.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: it helps to at least have an open mind when using something new
 Exactamundo!
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Does this explain why most Apple enthusiasts are apparently so open minded that their brains fall out?
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So what's the alternative? Sticking in one camp or the other, trolling "competing" forums, like Android vs iOS, PC vs Mac, C# vs Java? Does any of that behaviour actually make any sense?
Perhaps as professional software developers, we should embrace new technologies and enjoy using new bits of kit or different ways of doing things.. look into them, work our their pros and cons and determine if we can make things better?
Just a though
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I've got nothing against using new stuff if it is genuinely new; in other words demonstrates actual progress and improvement on what has gone before. What I don't respect is the washing powder approach that so many tech companies, and Apple especially in my judgment, adopt of splashing a new label on a barely tweaked product and announcing it as a monumental breakthrough which is then snapped up by the fanboys like it was the final revelation of the actual date of the Second Coming! It's a second screen for your phone, you deluded fools, I want to scream as I turn over the tables in the Temple Apple Store!
No, I'm not going to waste time on the forums you mentioned, but I'm also not going to be completely mute as Acme Incs Various dumb down the tech market yet further and turn customers into dogs with the attention span of ... SQUIRREL!
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Dogs with the attention span of squirrels? Seriously, I've got no idea what you're on about
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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