In Nomine Jobs, et Woz, et Spiritus Schiller

merlin:

But, fucking A, guys. I realize you’re having a big, beardy lemon party about all these homeopathically non-obvious new features, but come on.

Don’t wag your finger at people like me for pointing out shit that shipped empirically broken. Let’s not conduct an auto de fe on the heretics who pose sensible, relevant, and acceptably reverent questions about whether parallelization is literally the body of Christ. Even when the screen hangs for 40 seconds for no Godly reason.

Cardinal, sir: your communion has bugs in it. And while that doesn’t mean I won’t eat it, you damn sure better not put all the rosaries on my penance. That’s just…not Christian.

Merlin is one of the people I admire the most on this planet, but this post is just completely off the mark. If you’re writing a book on a deadline, does that seem like the best time to upgrade your operating system to a major new release on all five of your computers? Doesn’t it make sense to check the compatibility or support of your most critical applications before upgrading the operating system on all five of your computers?

I don’t mean to blame the victim, but fucking A, Merlin. I realize that you have the same kind of love affair with Quicksilver that others before you have had with 68k processors or Oscar the Grouch but can you really expect a codebase that hasn’t been touched in earnest in years to continue to run with major OS releases? Reeeeeeeeallllllllly? I think it’s time to seek medical attention for that Quicksilverection. How many years has it been, for cripe’s sake?

If this comes off as kind of critical, I don’t mean it to be. I mean, you’ve been bitten by OS upgrades before, right? “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…well…you can’t get fooled again. I would think a power user such as yourself would be a little less reckless with his sacred cows.

The Catholic parody stuff doesn’t bother me though. I’m Orthodox.