theanswerer

For unknown reasons it will still try to contact the npm servers once in a hundred runs even though none of the package versions changed.

A big +1 for yarn from me. I had no end of trouble with npm needing internet connectivity at all times and its non-determinism. Thanks to all involved!

You can make it work with `node --preserve-symlinks`

And that disproves my point how?

In last quarter Apple had revenue of $42B.

$24B in phone sales compared to $5B in Mac sales. iPad revenue roughly same as Mac sales. Services made up the bulk of the remaining revenue.

This gives you an idea of how unimportant Mac sales are to Apple. They just need Macs for the sake of the iOS ecosystem.

Apple clearly doesn't care about the Mac platform and derives only a sliver of revenue from it compared to iPhone, music and app sales. Apple believes that Mac exists solely as platform to develop iOS apps.

Running Mavericks here without incident. I avoided the WIFI debacle with Yosemite. Unfortunately cannot upgrade Xcode or Safari past version 9 - a fair trade for an OS that works I suppose. I'll switch to Chrome and not use Xcode. Swift? I hardly knew ye.