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Ballmer calls out Microsoft’s bogus revenue numbers over Azure, & we expand on his point to discuss an overall trend towards “hero CEOs”.

But the majority of our discussion this week is around the open sourcing of Swift, what Apple got really right & what areas still really need improvement.

Plus the real possibility of replacing your laptop with a large tablet, starting your first app the “easy way” vs the “hard way” & more!

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Hoopla:

Ballmer: Microsoft’s cloud revenue numbers are “bullshit”

_Rather than reporting these figures, Microsoft has reported its annualized revenue run rate—a hypothetical value that describes what the company’s revenue ___would___be if the current level of sales were sustained over the full year

• Impact of your show on me

Swift.org – Welcome to Swift.org

We are excited by this new chapter in the story of Swift. After Apple unveiled the Swift programming language, it quickly became one of the fastest growing languages in history. Swift makes it easy to write software that is incredibly fast and safe by design. Now that Swift is open source, you can help make the best general purpose programming language available everywhere.

• Swift open source · Jesse Squires

Not only is Swift on GitHub, but the Swift team will be working completely in the open. Apple did a spectacular job with the release. Not only do we have the source code, but we have the entire commit history for each project, a very detailed view into the Swift team’s development process, and access to the Swift evolution process. Everything you need to know is on Swift.org.

• initial checkin, nothing much to see here. ·

initial checkin, nothing much to see here.

• Package Manager

The Swift Package Manager is a tool for managing the distribution of Swift code.
It’s integrated with the Swift build system
to automate the process of downloading, compiling, and linking dependencies.

TL;DR: Apache 2.0 License + Full Standard and Core Libraries included + Compiler + copyright owned by the contributor (i.e. no assignment or CLA) + good community structure and documentation + code of conduct.

Saying goodbye to Carousel and Mailbox

We’re committed to making the transitions from these products as painless as possible. We’ve posted more information on the Carousel blog and the Mailbox blog, and we’ll be communicating details directly to users of both apps in the coming days. Mailbox will be shut down on February 26th, 2016, and Carousel will be shut down on March 31st, 2016.

• Mailbox Cost Dropbox Around $100 Million

The post-pivot startup cost the storage company “well over” $50 million, according to multiple sources. And we’ve heard that that the price was around $100 million in cash and stock.

Feedback:

• First mobile app done right

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Debian aims for reproducible builds of all packages. We’ll explain what that means & why other distributions might be jumping onboard with the idea.

Plus impressive early performance results under Mir & Gnome’s 3.18’s best features you’re not hearing about.

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• Cards Against IT

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• System XVI

System XVI is a modern take on service management. It aims to incorporate useful functionality while maintaining a modular design in the UNIX tradition.

Jose Macbook Linux feedback

From: Sean
RE: Jose Macbook Linux feedback

I’ve been running Linux on my macbook pro for about 4 years now, I just switched back to Fedora 22 from OpenSuse (been rocking Suse since 2007) and my macbook has never worked better.

The newer kernel 4.1+ finally has good hardware support for the keyboard backlight, thermal/fan controls, cpu scaling (yes Apple does their own crap for this) so battery life is still good.

One other thing that I’ve done to extend battery life is buy the Fluendo codec suite and switch to a gstreamer based video player, the fluendo codecs have much better video acceleration for video decoding, taking much of the load off the cpu.

Also, not all gstreamer video players are created equal; totem is still pretty heavy on the cpu, 24% on 1080p h.264 video, but something lightweight like MPV sits around 12%, and this is on a Sandy Bridge i5.

I haven’t tried Arch on here but I imagine getting a similar setup wouldn’t be too hard. I wish Jose the best of luck, don’t give up on Linux.

Name for the road show

From: Zek the Penguin
RE: Name for the road show

Hi Chris!

Was listening to Unplugged today and figured I’d make suggestions for the road show.

How about ‘Nation Migration’? ‘March of the Penguin’? ‘Roll Your Own’?

Just a few ideas. Hope it helps.

Linux Academy

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Ubuntu Convergence Demo: X Apps Running on Mir Display Server

The video was filmed by Canonical at a recent developer sprint. The video was distributed internally to better demonstrate the progress made on the X.org compatability layer for Mir.

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

How Debian Is Trying to Shut Down the CIA and Make Software Trustworthy Again

In response to the Snowden revelation that the CIA compromised Apple developers’ build process, thus enabling the government to insert backdoors at compile time without developers realizing, Debian, the world’s largest free software project, has embarked on a campaign to to prevent just such attacks. Debian’s solution? Reproducible builds.

Reproducible builds, as the name suggests, make it possible for others to reproduce the build process. “The idea is to get reasonable confidence that a given binary was indeed produced by the source,” Lunar said. “We want anyone to be able to produce identical binaries from a given source.”

A software package reproducibly built should be byte for byte identical to the publicly-available package. Any difference would be evidence of tampering.

Reproducible builds rely in part on David A. Wheeler’s solution to this problem, Diverse Double-Compiling.

“You need two compilers,” Lunar explained, “with one that you somehow trust. Then you build the compiler under test twice, once with each compiler, and then you use the compilers that you just built to build the compiler under test again.

“If the output is the same, then no backdoors,” he added. “But for this scheme to work, you need to be able to compare that both build outputs are the same. And that’s exactly what we are enabling when having reproducible builds.”

According to Lunar, 83 percent of Debian packages are now built reproducibly, and more join the party every day.

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TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Gnome 3.18’s Best new Features

• Gnome Terminal 3.18 comes two new great features! The first one is the…

• Quick testing on Wayland This is the standard user testing, trying both…

• Gnome Files 318 will disable recursive search on network locations, because of…

• GNOME 3.18 Will Feature Google Drive Support

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The big debate over today’s biggest UI compromise comes to life, Microsoft open sources its iOS-apps-on-Windows compatibility layer, the process of evaluating a new language, plus a book recommendation & more!

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• Microsoft open sources (most of) its iOS-apps-on-Windows compatibility layer

• The Hamburger Menu Doesn’t Work

• Facebook Platform Topic

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• Book Recommendation

• Mike’s language evaluation

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Many of us have at some point dreamed of uploading an app or launching a web-service and becoming fabulously wealthy. For the most part we are all sadly mistaken.

This episode is all about dashing dreams and facing the biting wind of reality.

And your feedback!

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• Emmet rights in again, sharing a solution to his issue.
• Charles schools me a bit on the nitty gritty differences between LLVM and GCC. He also points out that C was at one point called “Portable Assembler”, so HAH!
• Nicholas sends me a message in C!
• James asks if I am using the Intel River Trail API at all and asks if we have a CR subreddit.
• Atcl shares a great resource and some thoughts on the value of knowing assembler
• Brandon would like some information on services like oDesk, eLance, and vWorker as a source for work.
• Thomas and a number of others have joined me in trying Pomodoro coding and overall they seem to like it.

Technical Dependencies

• What’s a dependency?
• Dependencies you must take.
• The risk of taking too many dependencies
• Avoiding Dependencies
• This sounds an awful lot like “Not Invented Here Syndrome”

Distribution Dependencies: What Is a Store When It Wants to Be More?

• GOLD RUSH!
• Do App Stores show preference to “certain” developers?
• Distribution limited API’s?
• Those rankings are legit… right?
• Those reviews are real… right?
• App Stores put small and large developers on a level playing field… maybe… no?
• These problems are coming to an OS near you.

Human Dependencies or the Rockstar Syndrome

• About that bus….
• Fire any and all “Rockstars”

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• Do you use Unity

Mike’s Plug

• Code Journal

Tool of the Week

• Sublime Text 2

Book of the Week

• Turing’s Cathedral

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