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I didn't say they're perfect or anywhere near perfection. I could go on at length about the myriad things that annoy me: Finder, HFS, software update crammed in the App Store, iOS …

It might not be perfect, because what ever is? But the interior of the Macbook Pro, Mac Pro, and other hardware suggests otherwise: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+15-In…

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The book is a fascinating read: http://www.amazon.com/Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller-Economy... It chronicles competing standards, proprietary efforts, attempts at sea-rail-road in…

It's not ideal, but there's a happy enough compromise in USB-powered 2TB 2.5" external drives.

True. And the "marine reserve" shenanigans are disgraceful.

Indeed there is no indigenous population and hasn't been since 1966 [1]. It's nothing but a strategically well-placed airbase with a few thousand personal and contractors. .io is c…

You're right, I just re-read the judgment with the proposed wording. Apple should have gone with that verbatim and otherwise shut up so as to not drag it out. They made what could …

The judgement specified where, when, and how to publish the notice down to which website and publications, the typeface, and point size. It was sloppy to do all that and then not e…

The obvious answer is to use progressive fines, making them proportional rather than a fixed amount. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine

Beats me. Apple complied with a sloppy judgment. I'm no great fan of Apple in this, but the appeal judges fucked up by not clearly specifying what Apple needed to do and could not …

"The job of an OS not a human admin. "apt-get install puppet" on the clients and "apt-get install puppetmaster" on the puppetmaster. That's about it." It might be a simple apt-get …

Sorry, I don't recall in particular. It was about a year ago. It was only a basic setup of a user account, a directory tree, and ufw. It took over a minute for either a first or su…

I never got on well with either. Puppet was mind-bogglingly slow (even locally without a master), both Chef and Puppet felt overwrought, and I prefer keeping dependencies to a mini…

I don't know if that would be more awesome or terrifying, especially once you've removed the pilot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaman_K-MAX#Unmanned_remote_con...

I forgot Browett came from Dixons. Everyone then said he would probably be disastrous for Apple. Looks like we were correct. I can't imagine him not being shown the door imminently…

Ah hah, I forgot about Fantastical. Looks like it will do the trick for quick entry of reminders which was one of the few features I was missing after Things. (Plus there's a 50%-o…

I loved the original release of Things on the desktop, but wish I had never bothered with the iOS app. It took far too many taps to do anything and syncing was clunky to the point …