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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 there may only be one platform.

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 feedback as to timeline or whether a fix will occur. It's pompous, pseudotheatrical silence rather than engagement.

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 standing desk "cool kids" that are telling us "you're holding it wrong" and that we should do it their way "or it will kill you." C'mon. Trendiness maximus.

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 make more sense to look past the compulsion to find concrete (over?)simplifications and start looking at properties, behavior and utility. (Humans want to find patterns and construct conceptual models from these patterns... Even where there is no pattern and also where the pattern is far more complex than even the best minds could hope to imagine.)

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? Sure thing, if it comes with Lloyds of London kidnap insurance and triple death payout. (I know someone from the coast that has stories of rural life from about two decades ago, however it's far worse now.)

The TL;DR action item (wrong species of plant) needs a blog article (how to identify the right and wrong ones with pictures) to get linked into the news. That might happen, but I won't hold my breath.

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 tech) were never so broke as now, it's almost a 1920's pattern, to a limited degree. Janitors live in their cars in our parking lot because they can't afford housing. I wish they were paid more. :((

Eventually, we may need redistribution of wealth, voluntary or not, because people need at least enough food and shelter, and some path to self-sufficiency, if possible. I don't advocate rash direct wealth transfer but at first voluntary subsidization/underwriting of bare, minimal essentials (food (organic, fair trade fruits/vegetables/etc.[0]), housing, transport, education) adjusted to income.

(Santa Clara county General Assistance (GA) for singles is ~$150 USD/month and food stamps (CalFresh) is about the same... Seriously not enough to survive on but also not enough for people to hurt themselves with either.)

0: to avoid workers being sprayed with horrible chemicals and such. (Btw, in California, CRLA are cool folks.)

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 and test war stories the whole way. :) (I aced (800) the SAT I math section without studying a single minute, no prep classes... Not a lie.)

One thing I noticed is how anything that disess Ivy/Pac 10 always gets down-voted. Doubting the value of pedigree is tantamount to Siné out of Charlie Hebdo for poking at a certain religion I guess. People might be down-voting because they hate the circumstances and then do that the same as down-voting a video containing something newsworthy but horrible on (video platform).

Perhaps I'll try an evidenced-based comment sometime with generous, neutral language and let the audience make up their mind.

On the plus side of (undergraduate) academia, it signals completion of a large task.. Which has some value.

(Bias: I've worked at a big brand uni on both the research and business sides.)

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. :(

Works, stable on 10.10.1. (Discoveryd mdns announce disablement doesn't flag doesn work at all though.)

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 is doing gpg signing/verification and sha256 checksums in VMs... They would fail. Also, there would be kernel panics... I've had zero.

- App Store likely has a problem with storeaccountd / installer framework from the exception traces I've seen (debug menu on).

- HFS+ can corrupt itself irreparably (it's not ZFS). BTDTBTTS.

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 libs), I think it would be easier to get external developers contributing valuable fixes and offload some support to the community.

It doesn't make much sense to keep the OS totally closed, because the business model is in selling good HW. Sure, control the platform end-to-end ensures quality, but delegating some can be mutually-beneficial.

It's like a small business owner "control-freaking" so they don't put out napkins for fear people will take too many, making it a pain for everyone to accomplish a common task. There is a reasonable amount of control / final say-so that's necessary, but there is "penny-wise, pound-foolish" also.

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 to fix a docset feed bug that they duplicated a docset dmg url. I found the exact correct dmg url, and it still took 3 days to fix. Everyone had broken Xcode Tools docsets until they fixed it. (!)

iBooks can use 100% CPU trying to connect to the (nonexistent) internet when reading an ePub.

All-in-all, these aren't show stoppers, just a collection of things to whine about. It would cause more happiness if they were fixed, but they're mostly navigable.

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 working that more breakage than usual precipitaes a whinefest "crisis" that gets picked up on TechCrunch as "news." That somehow Apple is "over" because of a few bugs that are fixed in the next patch release. (New releases are buggy, obviously. Best to wait for everyone else to sort them out or help catch them in beta.)

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), get icefloor and/or (Hand Off OR Little Snitch). I use the former and latter.former. OSX Yosemite contains the awesome pf firewall forked from FreeBSD which was forked from OpenBSD. (Apple send some cash to FreeBSD and OpenBSD plz.)

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.

OSX Spotlight is blocked by policy in Hands Off!

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 is detail-oriented, accepts no bull and has "wrath of God" authority to make folks take them seriously.

Long-standing, time-wasting bugs I've noticed:

- Mdns broadcast disabling doesn't work.

- Swift playground in Xcode crashes regularly.

- Mobile Safari regularly crashes randomly on backspace in text areas.

- App Store installs corrupted apps but they don't show as corrupted until reboot, and then future downloads fail.

- Mail.app synchronously hangs the UI when processing new email notifications (probable not using a background queue).

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) or defers entirely to the department's admission folks. This tends to be one or two people for smaller programs. If they know you and you work in the same dept, you're probaly already friends by this time, so you'll at least have more intel on what's expected, if not some bias in your favor.

(Former Stanford affliate here. Ask me anything.)

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 light with large-scale stastical analysis. Admissions have a tough job because they are inundated with candidates that appear good but the signals of quality, if known, would tend to be easily simulated... Defeating their use.

English might be German, French, etc. influenced, but it's nowhere as straightforward as German. Also, it is no surprise that it's about as difficult to learn as a foreign language as Xhosa.

Quidquid latine dictum, altum videtur.

It's childish to downvote something unwritten that needs saying as important as historical discrimination. Even though the context of society at large was also extremely discriminatory, yet the loss of and failure of not capitalizing on bright minds and talent for any attribute was and is a disgrace. It's unpleasant to say or think about, but it's necessary to be broadly and deeply educated in reality. Also, one could argue SAT, ACT and similar standard tests often reinforces subtle biases along the lines of IQ tests.

Otherwise, the test itself is curious and reasonable for an entrance examination.

(Personal note: My parents refused to take me to interview to private primary schools that required pictures (We couldn't be more WASP) because they were firmly against supporting the inculcated exclusivity of attributes ahead of merit.)

The test goes into classics and is succinct, whereas today the hazing rituals are pedantic.

People forget the importance of the unwritten history of academia's cultural separation until modern times: how exclusive and unreachable universities once were, and that one's primary qualifications were less academic (hence photographs and interviews) and would be viewed today as enormously discriminatory (and today, illegal). It's important to recount this unpleasant fact to not fall into those traps or adopt new or subtle shades of them if unostensible diversity is a primary virtue.

Definitely playing Russian roulette with a loaded justice system. May skate on the (arguable) basis of "white male privilege" and possible lack of prior convictions.

IANAL, but I would play on empathy for an retiring, unaccomplished non-professor risking ignominy for ignescence... Dude was just deperate for attention. (Making an example of him wouldn't necessarily deter folks because they would throw their lives away anyhow... Making an example rarely does anything other than rationalize malicious sentencing.)