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This is a mind-boggling level of FUD. Content blockers have been noticeably superior on both macOS and iOS for years. They’re not “limited”, they’re rational. It’s abjectly absurd …

And then maintained it and fostered its growth while it became the foundation of modern computing…?

I think it's gotta come from the other direction, ultimately. They're working hard to push AppKit forward and bring it into the future, but I think UIKit will figure out the hard p…

"Native" being a really relative word here.

[Really easy to enable.]( http://internals.exposed/blog/dtrace-vs-sip.html ) But, hey, sure. Don't let that stop you from getting angry. Merry Christmas. There should be a bingo ca…

It seems like they do that on OS X as well.

Based on the warnings in the Console log back when I used Dropbox, Dropbox isn't using fsevents API appropriately but is instead reading from the raw fsevents firehose.

I have nothing to say about your other issues (I haven't experienced most of them; I'm quite happy with the service), but the banner at the top of the More (…) menu takes you to th…

Forget the "-ish". Actually, forget the "native". Their app is no more or less native than Rdio's was.

Not anymore; those methods are implemented in an extension on `String` that don't always involve bridging back.

Because you're making mistakes in those other languages? Because the world is not just English anymore, and "going through an i18n library" is all well and good until you need to a…

But the definition of "character" is not generalized, therefore the use case cannot be generalized.

> obsesses a lot about not breaking backwards compatibility Lo, how times have changed. ;-)

iTunes on Windows is as much AppKit as it is on OS X; which might be to say, not much, maybe… but definitely a lot of ObjC and Foundation.

`WKWebView` has issues that made it untenable for use as a web browser last year, but there's nothing I'm aware of preventing its use for common in-app browsers.

The Swift standard library is not yet up to snuff for that, you still need to know Cocoa to do basically anything high-level. Thankfully I know Foundation better than I do straight…

Trials and upgrades are niceties for the developer, not the user. The App Store isn't made for developers, it's made for users. If developers want access to those users, they shoul…

His Snow Leopard review was also in part a classic because the release was a classic. Nothing was left unturned in that OS, it was a goldmine for a guy like him. I hope a feature r…

For something that foundational, you have to move as one giant, lumbering beast. Recall that Apple had at least one (that we know of) false start. A fair bit of the OS (CoreService…

For something that foundational, you have to move as one giant, lumbering beast. Recall that Apple had at least one (that we know of) false start. A fair bit of the OS (CoreService…

If I remember correctly from an article many years ago, they want the C++ API to be high-level and fast-moving; the C API exists so that they can support low-level use and almost a…

It's [Windows Installer]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames ).

As someone who has used it extensively, Auto Layout is not a cause for performance UI regressions. Not by a long shot.

The Finder and all its functionality was ported to Cocoa in 10.6. All related functionality has eventually made its way into Cocoa: NSWorkspace, NSURL, NSFileManager, and NSFileCoo…

No, iOS has had tools for building apps with flexible canvases, that has very little to do with the resolution of the screen these days.