rab_oof

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by rab_oof 12y ago
I would like to see a feature freeze for one cycle if that means needed refactoring and annoyances can be addressed instead.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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&#
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Sounds post hoc. The virtualization products tend to be on regular, frequent release cycles. (I know one of the Fusion product manager.)
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Hell no. Vmware.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Moderation in all things including moderation excluding ricin, botulinum, radioactive polonium and militant extremism.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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 (
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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 ki
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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 1
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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 wa
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Might consider Bartender. Check that UISystemServer is not crashing repeatedly (flapping).
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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 sh
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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 g
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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
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by rab_oof 12y ago
A lot of stuff works on Yosemite. It's not that bad or I would've migrated back to Mavs. YMMV.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
On 8.1.x?
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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 whine
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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!
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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 o
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
Quidquid latine dictum, altum videtur.
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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 unive
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by rab_oof 12y ago
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, unaccomplis

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