Same. I saw way more movies than I normally would. I use AMCs service now which is pretty good as well. But you can't beat 10 dollars.

I use alias for simple day to day things that I have to do.

Simple use cases: alias la='ls -al' alias somefolder='cd blah/blah/blah'

Less typing. Nothing too crazy. What he is doing with more complex features, I wouldn't look to simplify with .bashrc.

I'm really interested in the findings. How can Apple prove any of these claims?

I wonder if they would use his iphone data (assuming he has one)?

Would that be admissible in court?

Does Apple just have carte blanche access to any data they have?

I mean, I guess so, there’s probably some EULA I haven’t read.

But I’d think their privacy stances would let you sue them if they snooped through your iCloud backups.

Unless it was a company phone in which case their employees probably have a separate EULA like most corporate devices.

Just like you hopefully wouldn’t stream a torrent over your corporate VPN.

In a case like this, they would just request the information through a legal procedural called "discovery" in which a party is required to turn over requested information relevant to a legal matter to the opposing party.

In short, it doesn't matter if they don't have EULA or technical access to the data.

They would never snoop on a personal device - the risk of loss of user trust and pr has to be immesurably greater than any potential benefit. Maybe he used devices owned by Apple to work on his company.

Apple gives its employees free iCloud space though, what if his stuff was backed up into that?

Of course not.

Right. I don't consider that particular exhaustive at all and this has helped me when I wanted to do quick searches.

Because syntatically as a language/tool it is super easy to remember. Writing one liners with awk feels more intuitive to me.

Awk example:

ls -l | awk '{print $9, $5}' or ls -lh | awk '{print $9, $5}'

Seems a whole lot simpler. To me. I find if you have to write exhaustive shell scripts then maybe you can look for something more verbose like Perl, I guess.

Yep, but you have bug in your awk one-liner.

If you mean the lack of quotations, then the behavior is well-defined and is presumably what was intended. Per POSIX,

> The print statement shall write the value of each expression argument onto the indicated output stream separated by the current output field separator (see variable OFS above), and terminated by the output record separator (see variable ORS above).

The default value for OFS is <space> and for ORS, <newline>.

> If you mean the lack of quotations,

No, lack of commas in output and broken filenames with spaces.

I see your point regarding spaces in names. Suppose I could use FILENAME. But I think my point was made.

In my defense I did this fairly quickly (Which was the point.) and was not trying to illustrate proper syntax (I mean it does run and does produces an output.).

ls -l | awk '{print $9 "\t" $5}'

That is about as much as i'm willing to do for this.

I don't know. Seems to me that there is some good technology in there. I think what hurt it ultimately, and forgive me if I am repeating this but, the launch of the xbox one x with the kinect seems to have hurt it more. As I recall there was controversy over "always on" to receive commands from the users that rub the community the wrong way.

Honestly Microsoft is creepy as hell the past two years. Similarly as bad as Google/Facebook imo, and they're bald-faced about it.

For those who don't know; the One's kinect mic is always on by default, and says hello to you if it detects (what it thinks is) your voice recognition. I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted the camera on full-time too!

I think the whole thing is tone-deaf, like the windows 10 privacy settings charade.

That's the exact reason I will never have an Alexa, Google Home or any equivalent in my home. I was a massive xbox fan and that made it an automatic no go for me.

The "always on" thing was especially bad. They announced that around the same time as them forbidding used game sales and it created some pretty intensely negative reactions.

I agree with the above. Try to impact the culture from the ground up. In the meantime try working on new things and share those things with your colleagues who are otherwise not very interested in the job.

If the pay is substantial you should definitely give it another 6 months. I think as workers in general, that we should evaluate the companies and its leaders annually the same way they evaluate us. Hope this helps.

I thought that was a bit odd. If it was for the author's own rationalization and is not trying to convince the audience of a any kind of point, then why is the author publishing this publically? Why can't the author write this out in notepad or on pen and paper(Like I do.) and leave it at that? Vanity?

His brain ramblings may be useful to someone else out there having similar experiences or thoughts.

Definitely not non-existent but can appear that way when you compare it to southern california.

I agree, there should be a legislative intervention here. These devices come out semi-regularly with no regard to security.