moe

Rest assured this is not subjective. It is objectively disgusting.

That's one of the aspects in which Crystal shines.

It retains most of the flexibility and DSL capabilities, but the type- and nil-safety allow you to leverage them without nasty surprises at runtime.

Not having to guess what a method or block returns and instead having the compiler tell you when you get it wrong makes an enormous difference.

Go is not a good comparison.

Crystal is expressive, 500 lines of Go commonly translate to 50 lines of Crystal. The DX in Crystal is really closer to Ruby than to Go. It's essentially a very fast and type-safe version of Ruby.

The mic is pretty bad anyway.

And to add insult to injury, your listening audio quality also gets degraded whenever it's on... So it's a lose-lose for both sides every time you use it.

My main complaint is that OSX has no setting to completely disable it. I have to manually switch to the Macbook internal mic basically before every call.

I wish they would just sell a model without the crappy mic. I would even happily pay less for it.

Friends don't let friends buy Salesforce (or Oracle) has been common sense in engineering circles for at least a decade.

It seems founders should adopt a similar stance: Friends don't let friends get bought by Salesforce.

I wonder if James et al regret having fed their baby to the devil. Surely a better buyer could have been found, one that doesn't destroy everything they touch. But no blame here. They had their well-deserved payday and we shall remain grateful for all the good patterns, ideas and years of solid service they contributed to our craft.

R.I.P. Heroku!

I feel like you are both chasing red herrings.

This is not about child porn nor about what AV software can or cannot do.

It's about normalising mass surveillance and implementing populace control. They don't want another Snowden to scare the public with reports about "backdoors" and mass privacy violations.

They want the coming generation to perceive it as normal. Because all phones do it, hasn't it always been this way, and think of the children.

Oh, these dissidents in $distant_country that will be muted and killed using Apple's shiny surveillance tech? Well, evil governments do what they do. But we are not like that. Over here it is only about the child predators. Trust us.

Apple has been an opponent of these developments for decades. Now they are spearheading it.

But then how would you know it's really off!

Ok. So there is not only a LED, but a physical latch.

I think Apple's building security architect should have a conversation with their camera security architect.

Out of curiosity...

Do the doors at Apple HQ have locks? Or is there just a little LED next to them that lights up when they open?

> you'll see stuff pretty much just works

The problem is the "pretty much" part.

We all know what that means in practice. That's why OSX is popular.

Maybe there just isn't much interest in windows support?

Crystal is a fantastic language for server-side programming where it pairs the performance of Golang with the expressiveness of Ruby.

I imagine most Crystal users love it for exactly that reason and have little interest in development resources being diverted to a platform that they have no use for.