One thing that the Terminal app in Mac OS X has always done extremely well is to automatically rewrap text when resized - even Linux terminal window apps, numerous though they may be, don’t seem to handle that well. Windows wouldn’t even let you resize the damn window - hopefully that will be fixed now!

It’s platform strategy. If Apple stays with OpenGL (or adopts Vulkan) they are at the mercy of Khronos, and Khronos may not do a good job (in the long run – in the short run Vulkan seems pretty good.)

Microsoft is never going to give up on Direct X, it grants incredible market control. $$$. OpenGL is owned by committee and can’t be relied on to be competitive (something the last 20 years of history demonstrated, and since Khronos controls Vulkan there’s a substantial possibility committee politics destroy it too in the long run.)

3D engines all require multiple rendering backends anyways (DX9/11/12, OpenGL ES 2, ES 3, ES 3.1, desktop GL) so the incremental cost of implementing another backend for Metal is low. The cognitive cost is also low because Metal/DX12/Vulkan are similar. So Metal is better (for Apple) than Vulkan or OpenGL because they get complete control. Complete control is where Apple likes to be, they have a history of delivering strongly when they have complete control. Although Apple’s values rarely align with the prosumer, they do a good job at fulfilling their own vision.

Really the main disadvantage of deprecating OpenGL on OSX is all the heckling from armchair quarterbacks, but let’s be honest, Apple DNGAF about the nerdygentsia’s opinion ;)

If you’re an indie or OSS dev either you’re not doing high end rendering and OpenGL remains fine, or you can just use MoltenVK/GL and call it a day, it’s not worth getting angry about IMHO.

Doesn’t seem like the problem is ever identifying the flaws in the organization, the flaws are everywhere, easy to find.

And it usually feels like the flaws come from the top of the org. It’s hard (impossible?) to change your boss. The problem is finding and settling on the organization with the most acceptable set of flaws.

It’d be great if they’d just release a ‘bizdev free’ version on GoG for $10 or whatever.

I’m kind of excited about payment request, would that integrate with e.g. Apple Pay? Reducing the overhead to paying sites is one of the things that I think could turn the web around. I have wished that e.g. Firefox would put a “$1” button on their toolbar, which would allow you to just give the site a dollar. Practical problems aside, could really improve the best parts of the web.

I look forward to a possible future where competitive pressure forces a management shakeup at Qualcomm, or even splitting the radio business from the SoC business.

Just curious, where did you find this link?

Why do people think that CDN infrastructure should be radically neutral? Access to the internet does seem increasingly equivalent to free speech, but does that equate to a right to access other people’s syndication systems?

EFF quote: “Because Internet intermediaries, especially those with few competitors, control so much online speech” – eh? No one is stopping anyone from hosting their own content, and it’s not even hard. You don’t need a CDN to exercise speech. You need a CDN to reach a broad consumer audience. Granted I’d feel a little different if their ISP pulled the plug on them, but that’s not what we’re talking about.

I think Intel is running out of gas. Their process lead and their design lead are both smaller than ever. Qualcomm and AMD are almost as good, and perfectly happy undercutting Intel. (Never mind that Apple is miles ahead of all three in terms of low power performance, but is mostly irrelevant to Intel because they don’t compete directly.)

This is just the Intel management lining up the lawyers to try to defend entrenched markets because they don’t have much technological advantage left.

Long ago and far away, we had these things called “shared libraries” which allowed one to build code and reuse it, so that even if the build process was very long and complex, you only had to do it once. An elegant solution from a more civilized time.

I think that’s missing the point I was trying to make. Even if 75% of them happened due to us using C, that fact alone would still not be a strong enough reason for me to reconsider our language of choice (at this point in time).

Ironically this is missing the point that memory safety advocates are trying to make. The response the post got is less about Stenberg’s refusal to switch languages (did anyone actually expect him to rewrite?), and more about how he is downplaying the severity of vulnerabilities and propagating the harmful “we don’t need memory safety, we have Coverity™” meme.

curl is currently one of the most distributed and most widely used software components in the universe, be it open or proprietary and there are easily way over three billion instances of it running in appliances, servers, computers and devices across the globe. Right now. In your phone. In your car. In your TV. In your computer. Etc.

So in other words, any security vulnerabilities that affect curl will have wide impact. How does this support his argument?

Do the economics of their business work out? Or are they just gobbling market with investment money? For the little company I work for CF is dramatically less expensive than MaxCDN, which itself was dramatically cheaper than AWS Cloudfront.

And aside from that, I hate their attempts to differentiate via value-adds like this site scraper shield garbage, or their DDOS shield stuff. It doesn’t work well and isn’t trustworthy. I wish there was a CDN that just took an nginx config and got out of the way.

Did Google do the CPU design? Is Rockchip just doing the fabrication?

Odd world to have Google poised to join Apple as the best mobile CPU vendors. Maybe they got sick of Qualcomm’s relatively lackluster performance.

Though cliche, I think nuking the escape key is a courageous thing to do. Use is limited, alternatives are available, the physical cost is relatively high, but it’s steeped in tradition and probably has vocal support.

Pretty cutting. Verizon looks like it will have no trouble staying profitable due to their spectrum control, though. Ironically the strength of the dumb pipe (good coverage) will keep the value add afloat.

For Valve to have any position to negotiate with MS from, they have to have a credible threat of being able to walk away from Windows. Mature Linux support and Steam Machines (which are integrated systems) make a credible threat. You could say it’s dead in the water as a consumer product. Maybe it’s not a consumer product though, maybe it’s a negotiation tool.

And, Valve could step on the gas at any moment. I think they have a good shot at shipping the best possible gaming hardware platform by virtue of having a lot of development resources and a strong track record for delivering quality. Maybe they’re just letting the project idle because they’re close to closing an agreement to be the only other MS endorsed app store on Windows?

Does anybody else have no idea what RAP and ROP are?

That sucks, I like Phoronix a lot. I know the comments aren’t great, but the news Michael puts together is usually pretty interesting and a great way to get caught up on developments in the Linux graphics stacks.

How?

Actually, while we’re here, question for lobsters: should the NSA crack the phone?

I wonder if anyone has tried using ART as a server side JVM, seems to have a great GC with super low STW times.