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There's always hope.

Apple added support for extended attributes to HFS+ in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2005/04/macosx-10-4/7/#extended... Today, resource forks are actually expos…

If you'd like to learn more about resource forks on the Mac, which were a very clever solution to a difficult set of problems, please read this, written by the person who created t…

No one really knows anyone else's struggle. To think otherwise is, well, insufferable.

The definition from the article: "Companies that make physical products that have only recently started sprouting sophisticated software features"

Quoting from the article: "Not all new ideas represent progress. (Do I really need to spell this out? It seems so.) But ideas should not be rejected based merely on a lifetime of h…

Only a tiny subset of the population cares about fast cars. A larger portion cares about expensive cars, of which supercars are only a small subset. Many people are dazzled by weal…

The sentence in question is not an assertion about Apple's feelings towards PCs. It's recommended pairing of action and motivation. "Joe should marry Sue because he loves her, not …

The problem with the Porsche 918 is that it's a solution to a problem almost no one has. It uses racing hardware to solve commuter problems. Great, but…why? Is there any public roa…

Good thing the I didn't do that, eh? As I noted in the article, there are many more axes of innovation beyond just performance. But performance is definitely one of them! Apple's p…

I am also, perhaps unsurprisingly, a longtime supporter of the idea of higher-end iOS devices.

I'd say we already see the benefits of having so many people work together on WebKit. Would we be better off if Google had to create and maintain its own desktop and mobile web ren…

We already have two or three powerful entities working on WebKit, pulling it in whatever directions suit their needs. If they ever pull hard enough or far enough in different direc…

> Both of your examples clearly show that it takes huge resources to overcome a single implementation in a field. That is far from optimal, it means the barrier is so high that inn…

LLVM was created by one person, just like Linux. Both projects would not be where they are today without the efforts and monetary contributions of many others, including corporatio…

That's not my argument. It's a cycle. People tried to contribute to gcc, but eventually reached some limits (real or imagined, it doesn't matter) and created something new. egcs wa…

It's not an arbitrary distinction. I see a continuum between products and "infrastructure technologies," and I think it's increasingly reasonable (and, eventually, desirable) for t…

Let’s check back in a year. I don't share the fear of WebKit bugs that are present in every single implementation of WebKit in use today (I'm not even sure the disk filler qualifie…

The concept of "WebKit's implementation quirks" implies that WebKit is a single thing when in fact it's (already) a huge diversity of different things. http://paulirish.com/2013/we…

That was one of the connections I was trying to make, though I agree it's not spelled out as well as it could be. The other is that Microsoft's decision to expand into so many diff…

Is running to completion and producing an incorrect result really preferable to dying in the middle of execution due to a runtime check or assertion? Either your program works or i…

"it won't be the same 320x480 device anymore." Well, it'll be 640x960 which is a nice integer multiple of the current iPhone resolution, allowing older apps to remain visibly uncha…

No more blogging, but damned if he'll give up responding to comments on Hacker News. (Cute dog.)

Regarding the "should" part: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1323013