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episode 158.

I am your host Victor Marks, and joining me is the inestimal the inimitable the one and only Neil Hughes

Victor how are you I'm all right how are you doing okay good has the buzzing in your head stopped for now at least until I take my next pills there we go it's it's always about using the right medication in the right order I guess. Well one of the things that I'd have to say about

that is it's also sometimes important to hold back and to lay off rather than charging forward.

You know what I mean?

Sometimes.

You know, in order to be stable, in order to be reliable, in order to be predictable,

to pull back and to be on an even keel.

And I say this not because I'm worried about the medication that you're on or not on,

but we're talking a lot offline about software stability and about some of the things that

Apple's had to confront in the past year.

And when I think back to stable systems, we all go back to Snow Leopard, right?

We all sort of recall how that was the one OS 10 version that was,

and it sometimes gets compared to the Windows XP of OS 10, just because it was,

and it sometimes gets compared to the Windows XP of OS 10,

just because it was so long running and so so well thought out you know right so

that after a while all the bugs got worked out of it more or less the reason that I think

we go back to that one is because that was the year that

Steve Jobs got up and said listen we're going to delay releasing it because and

we're going to cut features from it because we're going to make sure that it's stable, make sure that it does everything right.

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