forthewyn

Author here. Thanks for the feedback.

The Python bit mostly lives in the "Python - It Takes a Cast of Thousands to Raise a Platform" section, but your point is well taken.

What kind of Windows Python specific content would you like to have seen? I wrote the article from my personal perspective of having found Python development on Windows painful a number of years back and so chose to focus more on the improvements that removed those barriers to productivity.

Author here: Most notable are WSL-G and Powertoys Run as mentioned in the article.

FWIW this is my post. I didn't post it here because I'm not really involved with this community very much.

Any feedback would be very much appreciated.

OSX has been an accessibility leader for a very long time. However recently everybody else has been catching up.

I was away from Linux and Windows for 10 years because neither provided key chorded full screen zoom by default and now they do.

So, in short, accessibility support in OSX is good, but no longer best in breed, so choose the OS you're most comfortable with generally.

IOS accessibility is excellent. Screen zoom, VoiceOver, high contrast, etc.

Hi! I'm nosing in here but I'm a partially blind dev who recently came back to Linux and have had great success with the KDE desktop, specifically Kubuntu 18.10 in my case.

They have excellent accessibility support baked in by default.

Things are getting better all around in modern Linux though because in recent Ubuntu releases you can enable voice narration, full screen zoom (my show stopper must have) and screen readers from the login screen.

Good luck!

This is a rather disingenuous headline given the actual contents of the order. Nice job fearmongering, OP. It's a shame someone felt the need to spread the false panic to HN.

Is this just another cheeky Javascript "amiga simulator" gag site in Javascript? Or is there any real functionality here?

I also wish ELB would get security groups like EC2 and RDS already have.

I think a LOT of people revert to HAPRoxy on an EC2 instance because of this.

Use http://bitsquest.bitbucket.org/ as posted by another commenter. That one works.

Apples and Oranges JacksonGariety. Diet Coda allows you to code external projects that are stored in a server. This is for allowing you to write Codea applications on your computer rather than right on the iPad.

I really wish people would come down out of their ivory tower and live in the actual world once in a while.

Expecting major motion picture studios to distribute their family jewels in a DRM free format is simply ludicrous. Everyone should support the inclusion of DRM in HTML5 because at least we can all have a standards supported way to view content.

Would you rather a world where they chose a proprietary codec that only worked on Microsoft Windows?

Yeah I'm feeling a bit whiskey tango foxtrot on this one as well :)

I'm with you.

This post strikes me as nothing more than fear groundless fear mongering.

A-men. The self righteous tone gets SO old after a while.

What's also strange to me is that these posts get the up votes they do. is this REALLY news to anyone?

Quite honestly, this kind of post just makes me want to hurl. The OP was NEVER the target market for Apple, it just so happened that Apple's design choices coincided with his or her needs.

If you ever thought Apple's primary target market was uber-geeks, you were seriously deluding yourself. The reason so many of us were drawn to OSX was that it runs Mach BSD under the hood - so yay, we all get a nice convenient UNIX(TM) workstation that also runs commercial software and games.

I've got to admit I'm getting awfully sick of this kind of meaningless hand wringing. You want commodity hardware and the ability to tinker with everything* then by all means go buy a Linux box, just don't get all high and mighty and act as if Apple has betrayed you, because from their perspective exactly nothing has changed.

FWIW I set my own instance of this up for anyone who's getting locked out of the main server.

http://www.feoh.org/1110

I keep hearing things like this about the Retina MBPro. Dangit I WANT one, but my spidey sense keeps insisting that this is first round, early adopter technology and that I'll be MUCH happier if I hang onto my early 2008 17" MBPro for another few months or maybe a year until the next laptop line bump from Apple.