Surely the "addiction is a disease" mindset is a defensive response to the (especially in America) mindset that addiction is a moral failing. I.e. one crackpot opinion begets another.
The truth about 'addiction' is complex and different for each individual but, given that no one is born an addict, at heart the concept describes how many people have learnt to cope with their individual circumstances. Disease and morality are both inadequate to discuss this.
Macbook Air 2012 models with 4GB soldered RAM ran fine on Mavericks and XCode 6, until Apple decided the newest XCode 6 to be Yosemite only. Now Yosemite is free, but is absolute abonimation on 2/4GB machines. On top of that, you have to run XCode. Not to mention the time debt required to upgrade.
Now, for indie developer setting, these issues might not be huge. But the problem here is - Apple puts businesses in awkward positions, when they have to bulk buy RAMs and upgrade all the systems just to compile on the newest minor release of iOS. Then, they started soldering RAM, so now to compile on 8.3, buy 25 new Macs or fuck off.
Apple's actions that screws us - solder RAM, make only latest XCode work with latest SDK, make OS impossible to run on low RAM, make XCode run only on newest OS.
Well that is just stupid, the macbook air is not a dev machine. Get a macbook pro or an imac and you are fine. Apple did not screw you, you screwed yourself for buying the cheapest they had to offer.
This is the most delusional piece of self-justification I have read in years. Your use of words like culling and optimise makes me suspect you need to work on your social skills, a lot.
No one likes braggers, no one. Sometimes braggarts who have power or some other use are tolerated, but only as long as they have to be.
As a non-stock-holder in said companies, I couldn't give a rats ass in who makes the most money.
Having a dozen companies each making a little money represents a much healthier market than one giga-corp taking the lions-share. What we're seeing in China is the market moving to a healthier, more natural and sustainable state.
I find that much more important. As a consumer/customer that benefits me.
Come on, its not difficult. Apple makes products in gold because it makes those products more appealing to Chinese consumers. If you're going to try and be an Apple hater at least also try to be intelligent about it.
But what is luxurious (or even exclusive) about HN? If you are going to generate some culinary comparison perhaps a niche burger (tofu?) would be more appropriate.
Reordering could alter the program's semantics as well as being extra work for such limited machines. FORTRAN permitted explicit and implicit declarations. It would be quite legal to use I as an implicit INTEGER variable then later explicitly declare it to be REAL and use it accordingly so the position of the declaration in the source code was significant. Then there are declarations inside subroutines etc.
The truth about 'addiction' is complex and different for each individual but, given that no one is born an addict, at heart the concept describes how many people have learnt to cope with their individual circumstances. Disease and morality are both inadequate to discuss this.