chmaynard

On a Mac, Safari converts the postscript to a PDF on the fly when you click on the postscript link in the article.

Despite its amazing rate of growth, it seems to me that Apple is no longer just an "aggressive growth" company. As Apple returns more profits to investors in the form of dividends, their tra…

Agreed. The article implies that PostgreSQL has everything the other open-source databases have, plus these additional hot features. If that's true, the author should make it explicit.

Brilliant reasoning. Let's forget about drivers licenses and car registration, too. Any why bother securing our homes? Anyone intent on breaking in can just pick the locks.

Did you even read the article?

It's a short interview summary with a few sarcastic quotes. Musk is probably worried because Apple wants to make an EV "for the rest of us". If I were a Tesla engineer and had similar a…

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In the corporate world, the powerful profit motive often seduces weak-minded managers into making decisions that ignore legal and ethical concerns. Strict regulation and law enforcement is the only co…

One way to address the crisis of climate change is to wean ourselves off of non-essential commuting as soon as possible. Obviously, many jobs require workers to be present at a job site. For so-called…

Great read. While I was a writer at Apple, I was invited to attend a few monthly staff meetings of the Graphics and Imaging team. At one of these meetings, Don Melton gave a fascinating presentation o…

I spent a few minutes scanning news articles about this alleged memo. It appears that it was leaked to some news organization (Bloomberg?) by an anonymous source. I think I'll wait for the NYT to…

I'd like to see Apple commit to making Apple Pay available for online commerce. That would allow Apple to get rid of the hundreds of millions of credit and debit card numbers they retain in their…

This NYT article is the best summary of the scandal I have seen thus far.

Great story. Your refusal to do illegal, unethical work took courage. The B level manager should have gone to bat for you and put his job on the line, too.

This is really sad. Arment has made an impulsive, flakey decision that tarnishes his reputation as one of the leading independent iOS developers. Instead of removing Peace from the App Store, Arment c…

As I understand it, the new policy at HN is to allow duplicate posts to make sure enough readers see the article. I used to check for duplicates before posting, but now I don't bother.

New feature idea: At some point, merge duplicate posts and their comments into a single master post. Create forwarding links as needed.

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I believe it was a point of pride at the old HP (pre-Reagan years) that they never did employee layoffs. The company my father worked for, DuPont, had the same policy. Seems like ancient history now. …

Looks like the rules for building and installing third-party kernel extensions changed for OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and later. Details at http://asciiwwdc.com/2013/sessions/707 …