feralchimp

"gimme gimme gimme" from man after midnight, you say?

Really nice job with this project, and especially the clear/concise write-up of the pipeline steps.

If this is real, I don't think it's about release timing at all, but the technical complexity of implementing and integrating the specific new features they've chosen.

I don't have a list of specific examples to back up that claim, but I encourage other apple devs here to think about recent releases from that perspective.

This is a great review for two reasons:

a) it provides readers with a laundry list of things to go study independently

b) the book author can, given time and inclination, do the same study and improve the book

"Grave error" implies something that a non-fool might blunder into. Fools don't blunder, per se, they simply exist.

One of the first jokes I ever heard at a startup was "We'll give the product away and make it up on volume!" Changing the joke to "We'll pay people to take the product and make it up on volume!" doesn't make it less obviously ridiculous.

I'm amazed they were able to hire employees, let alone find investors. Doesn't make the guy's death any less tragic though.

If you're wondering how to write thorough doc for an engineering audience, I highly recommend looking at IBM's doc for z/OS. The first thing you'll notice is: there's a lot of it.

And yet, an order of magnitude less arrogant than the recruiting attitude that led to its authorship.

The market for people who want a native terminal on their phone should be roughly equivalent to people who ever want to terminal INTO their phone.

The market already well served by iOS, Android, etc., is people who want to terminal OUT OF their phone and onto a real computer someplace.

What are the real-world tasks you expect to do with the former that you couldn't do, or couldn't do as well, with the latter?

Does Linux behave similarly by default if one uses calloc instead?

This is awesome, Danny. Now get on that 30-page version. :)

Somehow I'm not worried about their brand getting usurped.

rock on, tptacek! if you're not eating sushi off the top of a rare steak right now, stop what you're doing. :)

My sense is that if you can regularly acquire and store thousands of vintage LPs for less than $3 per record, it doesn't matter where you advertise the yard sale.

Glad to hear Facebook ads resulted in greater than zero hits, but I'm guessing so would CL, posters in coffee shops, a sign taped to the back window of a car...

If you think McDonald's is liable for assaulting you, bring a suit. If you lack the resources to bring a suit, by all means complain and stop shopping at McDonald's.

But how much else is there to say, really?

> you have got to be a fucking idiot to buy one

Whenever I get the urge to write something like that, I ask myself: "Am I in the target market for this?"

A product built to these tolerances is not one that a rational person (even a competent one, with experience fixing computers) should want to crack open. Make the professionals worry about getting in and out of it, and enjoy the fact that they'll be liable for anything they break in the process.

"Not user serviceable by design" != "disposable by design." You're not wandering across a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland with this thing; take it to a f'ing Apple Store and grab a coffee while the infrastructure wrenches on it.