Regarding: "I doubt we will see a seismic transition to a new Mac OS"
First of all, you can observe a drop-off in quality (-control) with every new upgrade. OSes should be stable and not layered with new destabilising os-features every year.
Since Tim Cook took over, the apple products were mere Box'es and not new new internets. I don't think they will come up with something "seismic" big.
> I honestly don't know how far I am from "normal," but why do you believe there is a kind of implied sacredness even in the "normal" human condition?
This is actually a very important question. You could even argue further and say, is a schizophrenic person healthy from 'their' viewpoint or should we measure it with the ordinary man as a standard and declare him ill.
I definitely can see that a unconscious behaviour can be seen as an illness, and then it's something that should be treated. But altering your perception of the world, into a more narrowed state, can lead to losing the ability to correct your course in life. The same way an alcoholic or drug addict, is able to enjoy himself in his drugged state but lives in hell in every other. But society can see in these examples an ill person. In case of you, going to a doctor, giving him the responsibility to tell you to be ill, accepting it and living in this state, nobody sees as something that's not good for you. Nobody means in this case, neither you. Suffering can lead the way out of things. Out of harmful relationships, jobs, addictions. If you suffer in your normal state, it doesn't have to be your chemistry but the mindstate you were in. Why would meditation work so good, because it alters your mindstate, and instead narrowing it down it opens it up.
If you believe you are brain chemistry induced, sure. But maybe it's the other way around. And this is what "the-searching-in-life" could be about, or not?
Yeah, and resolve your issues with life like this. You are a human being, with a very complex psyche, on top of it, you are to unaware to be aware of most of it. So, the thing that drives you, is a program written into you, maybe you should change something in your life, than just take a pill and transform into a robot. Maybe you enjoy, drawing, making art, being closer to your children, doing something in nature, meditation, and so on. Maybe, you adderall it all away, for the money.
This is a bad example, these are symbols. Like +,-,*,/,e,π,µ, ... in maths. These symbols can represent a relation between the named things he referred to. They are widely used and have more or less the same meaning across different languages.
I'm not a native speaker either. But firstly, if you don't know english in computer science you can't follow any research, any documentation and worse you can't write code that is readable like a book. Basically you are stuck like Robinson Crusoe putting together yourself a roof and a bed from banana leaf, while the whole world is on an other civilisation level. I personally hate when people start using their language to code, it's just not how it evolved and how it should be done on a professional level. If you want to play music you need to learn reading the notes first. Call me a traditionalist.
I'm always surprised how slick politicians can take a majority vote and transform it into a gift for an exclusive minority. Healthcare was always an issue in the US, but this is truly worse than pre-Obamacare. A tragedy.
I don't know if something like this exists, but I think this should be named as some kind of "oral exam bias". Probably some of his candidates didn't know it better. But personally I think it's how you ask the questions. If you setup the stage, you are psychologically priming them with some concepts before, if you ask them now a simple question their answer is the first thing that comes to their mind. Like with this game: What's the color of the white house? White! What's the color of ...? White! What do cows drink? Milk! Hahaha. So many of the OP's candidates could have performed better in a realistic environment than with his "simple" questions, a computer doesn't ask you, even in 10 years experience. The experience only changes your intuition about the problems you could potentially run into if you want to approach the given problem. But storing numbers, is not a problem, it's a simple question. That's why you get simple answers. Give them work to do for a weekend, and pay them.
Wow. Isn't this a trojan horse? People start to use it because of it's convenience and then it will spread and spread and spread. I mean what's up when google will run more or less everything?