Agreed.
It's not like they didn't have enough time to fix it either.
And they seem semi-capable of creating usable UI's elsewhere.
The thing is, when it comes to applications, both Apple and Microsoft compete with their own customers; which makes a pretty solid motivation for providing shitty developer experiences.
Did something happen with Xcode? I used it around 5 years ago, and it was pretty good and fast. I don't think it had dark mode but that's not too important to me.
No refactoring tools, lack of autocomplete, having multiple targets break compilation, errors in the ui, crashes running unit tests, it freaks out when switching git branches, spm can’t handle proxy servers, never ending indexing… List goes on and on. Xcode used to be good at around version 3. Everything that came after that has been disastrous.
Meanwhile Android Studio or VS Syudio are tools which are a joy to use and are built to help you and not to be constantly on your way
Fact is Apple should do like Google and admit there are better ides out there
Yeah Xcode has its quirks but so does everything else. Nothing is perfect in this world.
What actually bothers me is Apple is now apparently trying to copy other IDEs (poorly) and making theirs worse for it.
E.g. the new commit view which is an atrocity. They had something buggy yes, but at least decent. Now they have something buggy AND with a terrible UX.
Xcode is fine as long as you skip Interface Builder and make a point to keep your SwiftUI views lightweight. For the latter my rule of thumb is to try to cap nesting in any given view at 3 levels and to break code out into new components for anything deeper, which is a good practice since readability starts declining steeply past 2-3 levels deep anyway.
It doesn’t have all the whizbang features of Jetbrains IDEs, but my experience is that those sorts of features only work correctly sometimes and can be as much of a hindrance as they are a help.
I have a kid (5~8 range) and what we did was to limit PC consumption, avoid getting our kid a tablet and cellphone. It has been really good and my kid still has his/her innocence intact. Hopefully this will continue until adolescence. We're also trying to put the kid in different outdoor activities as well as playing with him/her (chess, uno, etc...). It's not easy, but is doable.
You can go further: Which business will bet its entire existence, let alone finances, to an "AI" (Companies are literally writing "don't rely on X LLM outputs as medical, legal, financial, or other professional advice"?
What I'm seeing here is lots of echo chambers getting created as we speak. Threads, bluesky, etc... I don't use Threads because I don't use Instagram that much. Everyone will have their safe space and the world will continue without any issues whatsoever. Heck, there are countries where Facebook is the "internet". Other than the left (US, UK, Canada?) posting on any of those platforms, nothing will change for the rest of the world and each one will capture what the other side said and post it on the platform.
I've moved sharply right in the past 4 years. But I still see plenty left content on X so it doesn't seem like a complete echo chamber to me.
It could be that the "left" content that reaches me is whatever enrages the people I follow, so I get an extreme view of what the left thinks now. That is a danger in the "for you tab", but I also follow plenty of people directly on the left of the spectrum.
> nothing will change for the rest of the world and each one will capture what the other side said and post it on the platform
Network effects almost guarantee each country will choose one. My guess is Europe will migrate away from X, mostly, while South America mirrors our left/right split.
This is interesting. We know twitter was left-wing all the way to the top and after Elon took and put both sides on equal footing, it suddenly became right-wing? C'mon man. Media is run by the left.
The EU is increasingly trying to suppress dissenting voices on one side of the aisle. We'll see how long people will put off with that before things get out of control.
South America is starting to divide itself between socialism (Venezuela, Bolivia, etc...) and center-right ideas (Argentina, El salvador). Time will tell.
Yep. There's this massive blind spot created by years of "moderation". All the media has been heavily left leaning, as well as all social media platforms. So sure, when a major social media platform removes restrictions it will of course feel to them like it's moving right, when in reality it's just balancing out. It's unacceptable for left leaning people to be subjected to any dissenting views, so they move elsewhere.
Some are here https://observer.com/2022/12/elon-musk-suspend-twitter-accou...
There was also Dell Cameron for reporting about a Twitter hack; Liam Nissan, TrueAnon, for poking fun at Musk; Ken Klippensten for sharing an embarrassing document about JD Vance before the election, Alan MacLeod & Steven Monacelli for who knows what.
He frivolously sued orgs whose speech affects his bottom line in order to bankrupt them, like the Center for Countering Digital Hate, MediaMatters or Global Alliance for Responsible Media. There was him folding without a fight to censorship requests from India and Turkey. There's him banning the use of 'cis' and 'cisgender' on Twitter, and Pro-Palestinian phrase "from the river to the sea".
Altogether, it paints a picture of someone whose stated commitment to free-speech is not backed by facts, and entirely self-serving.
“ On December 16, 2022, Musk stated that account access would only be restricted for seven days[2][3][5] and on December 17, 2022, some accounts were reportedly restored with Musk citing Twitter community polls as the reason for the reversal.”
This was something to do with tracking Musk’s location and sharing it on Twitter, according to your link.
I can’t be bothered to validate your secondary links.
Posting publicly available flight ADSB information (you can even set up a tracker at home to track overhead flights) is not "tracking someone's location" or private info.
