I didn't really think of knowledge magpies as an in-joke, just a particularly apt and vivid metaphor. The way a flock of magpies might swarm around food, and pick at whatever crumbs people drop, us crazies swarm to information about Apple products. So if it was a joke, I either missed it or killed it, but I thought it was a pretty cool image.
@daniel Yeah, that works too, I was thinking of the pointless collecting if things that they do, just like us learning how to fix thing we will likely never ever need to do.
Oh, and @JasonSalaz, Kyle, and Nathan, to expand your cultural elightenment, since clearly you didn't know this a week ago, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltron
Sorry, I @'ed the one person in that exchange least necessary to @.
@JasonSalaz just one of the questions I got needlessly engrossed in as I have never used the terminal programs in question - great example of the accumulation of limited use knowledge :)
It seems we get about an even handful of questions each month by developers asking about iTunes Connect / App Store sales. I hope this increases with iBooks Author as teachers start to experiment with making their own iPad books and course content. I want this site to be a place they can ask any ...
It just seems silly to have that one program be totally off limits - especially with the great moderators we already have and you could throw darts at the current nominees and have a great lineup for this upcoming year.
If everything is going smoothly, there's nothing to discuss on meta. It's only when we need to shake things out that meta errupts. But they seem like healthy things to be discussing, so... may you live in interesting times
