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Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Minix - some extreme hermetic/ascetic variation of early Christianity where you kinda suspect the adherents who do stuff like sitting on top of poles or getting sealed up in windowless cells for 40 years are more into the masochistic aspects...
Commented on Crib Sheet: The Fuller Memorandum
Fuller was in many ways a perfect Laundry character - the guy was espousing drone warfare (admittedly in the form of tanks controlled from base stations in the UK) as early as 1926. Throw him into a universe where eldritch...

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andrewknutsen commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Why do people think Mac OSX is Unix? I don't even know why Apple insists on pushing that flavor of Kool-Aid. Let the truth be known from the scrolls of the intitiates: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/Mach/Mach.html. You'd think Jobs would be proud of keeping his creation (NextStep) alive... So perhaps OS-X is the Islam of the OS world, since its a new religion which adopts the facade of the old....
andrewknutsen commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Hmmm, looks like URL's are prevented. Lets try this: developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/Mach/Mach.html...
andrewknutsen commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Or this: developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/ Conceptual/KernelProgramming/Mach/Mach.html...
paws4thot commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
That's how OSX was originally described; as being a Mac-style X environment layer over a Unix kernel. You're allowed 0 to 2 valid hyperlinks before your message will be automatically submitted to the moderation stack. Does that explain your "missing" submission?...
phongn commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
Why do people think Mac OSX is Unix? I don't even know why Apple insists on pushing that flavor of Kool-Aid. Because it is. It conforms to the UNIX 03 specification. It's a bit unusual (BSD userland running on top of a Mach microkernel) but since it conforms to specification what does it matter if it has different sort of kernel?...

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