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Apple doesn't track bugs. Couldn't be farther from the truth. Apple's development process revolves around their bug tracker, to an extent that I haven't seen anywhere else. If it i…

I’m super excited to see how this experiment goes. Yes, must be him all right.

The guidelines say nothing about any particular programming languages.

In some circumstance, when you're healthy, you could comparison shop. Except: you can't. Try to find out how much a major medical procedure will cost you -- if you can find anyone …

About that category issue: you know about the -all_load and -force_load linker flags, right? c.f. the "Important" box in http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1490/_index.ht…

Engineers at Amazon. Seriously.

This made me laugh. The words "Apple II" and "graphics chipset" don't belong in the same sentence! The Apple II graphics were a fantastic, and fantastically weird, low-hardware hac…

Uh, no. The last MBP update was in October 2011. The specs page on Apple's site still shows the same specs. What makes you think anything has changed?

How soon people forget! OS X had a software-based compositor until 10.2 -- that's when "Quartz Extreme" was introduced. Pretty sure the OpenGL path was planned the whole time, but …

In practice, CGLayer is not some pixie dust that magically makes your drawing fast. It helps only in a specific instance: when you are drawing repeated instances of the same conten…

That's a bit oversimplified. The ACT approach is that goals can be useful things, in moderation, when they're serving your values. But if you get too caught up in the outcome assoc…

No idea why this reminded you of DO -- as you say, it's a totally different thing. DO still works in OS X. Frankly, it's a neat hack, but it's prohibitively difficult to build anyt…

Keynote is $20 on the app store. How much is your time worth?

Just remember: the Galois extension of a Galois extension is not necessarily Galois. (Never took number theory myself, but that was the one thing I learned from those who did.)

Not true. You can get Opera for iOS: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id3637...

The problem is: Most people don't do that, especially new computer users. (Or, these days, people who are used to web apps, which don't use command-S.) They don't learn until they'…

Not necessarily; you can special-order a 15" MBP with a 1680 x 1050 display.

Apple just introduced a new monospaced typeface in 10.6, Menlo. (It's the default in Terminal and Xcode.) Seems unlikely they'd want to bother changing it again so soon.

Inertia. 20 years ago, at the start of college, I got a free checking account at a smallish local bank. Which got bought by a bigger regional bank, which got bought by another bank…

Am I just in the wrong program at the wrong school at the wrong time? Yes. Maybe the wrong program, definitely the wrong school. (You have little choice about the time, so forget a…

The name for this concept is "lifestream". Lots of projects have attempted it, but nothing has really taken off yet AFAIK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestreaming

Not Woz, Bill Atkinson. http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story... "Smalltalk didn't even have self-repairing windows - you had to click in them to get them to rep…

It hasn't always been that way. The Powerbook G3 series (and before?) had a similar logo, but oriented in the other direction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G4#Industrial_…

What happens when the user moves the cursor outside the window, and then clicks? Or moves the cursor into a hot corner of the screen, activating something like a screen saver? Delt…

But: BeOS couldn't print. End of story. (I don't recall the details, but there was little to no printer support; certainly nothing comparable to classic MacOS. For Apple's core mar…