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I would like to see a feature freeze for one cycle if that means needed refactoring and annoyances can be addressed instead.

Internal product churn and massive refactoring is bad. Make the UI themeable and keep the core mostly the same. However there is drive to converge the iOS and OSX APIs to where the…

I file bugs on every issue encountered. I suggest others do as well. The way Apple works (or used to) is that all bugs get read and possibly fixed, however there is little/no feedb…

Sounds post hoc. The virtualization products tend to be on regular, frequent release cycles. (I know one of the Fusion product manager.)

Hell no. Vmware.

Moderation in all things including moderation excluding ricin, botulinum, radioactive polonium and militant extremism.

Definitely. If it's to be taken at face value, where is one dead person? "Died from sitting." Seriously? I haven't seen a single shred of hard evidence of these FUD claims by the s…

There are some concepts in hard sciences that are difficult to relate to using everyday analogies (monads, general relativity, particle physics, EC). In such situations, it may mak…

I get ads past the adblocker sometimes that say "visit Michoacán to see the butterflies". Hmm, disrupt the butterflies and travel to one of the most dangerous areas on the planet? …

Ethics are important, without a doubt, just orthogonal to how much more poor people are struggling. If it's any sign, look at the homeless camps in Silicon Valley. People (outside …

Thiel and others would probably agree with the value of brand point. http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html Get more than one (1) IITian on a ski/gambling trip, and it's rank a…

On a mid 2012 13" non-retina (the 16 GiB hackable, 2 SSD one) MBP, fixed wifi by doing a clean Yosemite install, no transfer settings and then deleting network preferences plists. …

Might consider Bartender. Check that UISystemServer is not crashing repeatedly (flapping).

Definitely not, it's 2 years old and memtest86+, prime95, iozone and iperf for 24 hours each. These are all independent soft errors. Furthermore, I'm continually running stuff that…

The SOP is basically never give any feedback to users. You won't know until it's either fixed or it's not months later. If OSX/iOS were more open source (beyond the kernel and some…

Update: I forgot the worst. FileVault 2 + HFS+ corrupting metadata and becoming un-fsck-able (Repair). TimeMachine restore and 5 hours loss per incident. Also Xcode 6.1 took a week…

A lot of stuff works on Yosemite. It's not that bad or I would've migrated back to Mavs. YMMV.

On 8.1.x?

Anecdotally, Yosemite (clean install) had an order of magnitude more breakage than Mavericks. YMMV. Perhaps we're so used to the unreasonable expectations of almost everything work…

discoveryd is shit. The unofficial no broadcast argument breaks WiFi. You can't disable discoveryd, or it breaks DNS and DHCP. If there's somwthing you want to block (multicast DNS…

On the privacy front: iOS Spotlight still falls back to searching the web without permission, leaking privacy info. And all the Privacy and Spotlight settings are set correctly. OS…

I bet there's multiple issues in the text input / autocorrect buffer bounds checking. It's possibly an exploitable security issue too, or at least a nice area for research.

SJ used to be relentless about nitpicking to keep quality up. Probably not happening consistently across all apps and platforms as much. Tim may need to appoint a Quality Czar whom…

For grad school, working at the dept in which one would wish to enter is a popular, lower risk approach. The admissions for grad school tends to be either multi-tiered (uni & dept)…

Seems a bit conspiratorial sensationalist. There's probably some subtle bias (humans are fallible, impossible to be purely objective) common to reviewers that could be brought to l…