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by _frog 6y ago
This is entirely ignoring the value third party developers bring to Apple's platforms. I'd argue Apple has hugely benefited from a robust selection of third party apps available via the App Store, and the quality and diversity of
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by _frog 6y ago
I don't think people being unemployed and staying at home due to a global pandemic is remotely comparable to a situation where people were financially stable but worked less.
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by _frog 6y ago
For Apollo's use case there's a solution: iOS 14 adds a new API that lets you perform a pattern match against the contents of the clipboard. That way Apollo can attempt to match a Reddit link, and only actually read the clipboard
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by _frog 6y ago
It's in the "General" section of the System Preferences
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by _frog 6y ago
Interestingly there's a few mentions of Catalyst improvements in the Xcode 12 release notes: > When bringing iPad apps to macOS, you can now use the Optimize Interface for Mac target setting to use native macOS controls and Mac reso
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by _frog 6y ago
This largely only really true on Android. iOS at least lets you install content blockers that work with Safari as well as any embedded web browsers within apps. The only place I typically see ads on iOS is in free to play games, and in thos
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by _frog 7y ago
My understanding was always that NeXTSTEP served as the foundation of OS X, and while it certainly got a new desktop environment and compatibility with MacOS's legacy Carbon APIs, it was essentially still NeXTSTEP under the hood.
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by _frog 7y ago
Swift doesn't actually use garbage collection, it uses a variant of Objective-C's Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) which was introduced a few years prior to Swift.
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by _frog 7y ago
I've been working through this book over the past few days, and writing my own git implementation in Rust in parallel, and I've found Ruby to be much simpler from an implementation standpoint. Ruby's standard library provides
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by _frog 8y ago
From my personal experience, Flow prioritises soundness in its type system, and thus can catch some bugs that TS won’t, but the TS tooling and editor support is drastically better than Flow’s. Edit: oh and it’s worth noting that I’ve had mu
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by _frog 8y ago
It feels weird to me that they’re putting those monetisation hooks back in without talking at all about the future of the product. I’ve used Instapaper for many years now, and I’m more than happy to pay for a service that I get so much valu
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by _frog 8y ago
I had a ton of fun with Valkyria Chronicles back in the day, and I’m not sure anything’s pulled of that sketched style in quite the same way. The brushstroke renderer also reminded me a lot of Okami[1], one of my favourite games from the PS
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by _frog 8y ago
I'm also a big fan of `ci[(|'|"]` to change all the text between a pair of delimiters. I can type `ci"` while my cursor's at the start of the line, and it'll jump to the first set of double quotes, remove the t
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Cdecl: C gibberish ↔ English(cdecl.org)
2 points by _frog 8y ago|0 comments
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by _frog 8y ago
My company's also using Buildkite, and I've been hugely impressed with how easy it is to work with, and how flexible it's been for us.
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by _frog 8y ago
I’ve been tracking some of the bugs related to this for years, and there’s been a dispiriting lack of progress in them. Ultimately I’m still a Firefox user because it makes the best trade offs for my particular wants and needs, but I’d love
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by _frog 8y ago
In the same way other countries who've banned firearms have carried it out? It's not like there's no precedent for this if you look outside of America.
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by _frog 9y ago
When your target audience is 'Firefox users', doesn't it make sense to more freely use features that are supported by Firefox?
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by _frog 9y ago
Judging by where the article ends, I’m assuming this was published originally in early 2010
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by _frog 9y ago
I think the light theme feels much more 'native' on macOS, especially in Nightly where they've added the same 'vibrancy' effects they use on the standard theme[1]. That said, a few things like the Photon-style menus
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by _frog 9y ago
The scrolling thing is a real shame, and it’s shocking to me that they haven’t implemented bouncy overscrolling when macOS has had it for something like 6 years.
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by _frog 9y ago
on last generation hardware too, though the screenshot in question might be taken one of the ports to more modern systems
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by _frog 9y ago
For those not following Firefox development too closely, there's a few major projects in the works right now: - Stylo, the new CSS styling engine currently enabled for a percentage of Nightly users - WebRender, a new GPU-based renderin
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by _frog 9y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but I saw your newsletter sign up form partway through the article and thought to myself "I would like to see new articles from this blog". The issue is I don't want to sign up for yet another email newsle
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by _frog 9y ago
> If I wanted voice search, file sharing and/or note taking I would find the appropriate piece of software for that task and install it separately. The good thing is that these are all separate browser extensions, none of which are
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by _frog 10y ago
I'm pretty sure they said it was running LLVM at some point
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Pastebot(tapbots.com)
1 points by _frog 10y ago|0 comments
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by _frog 10y ago
I definitely agree that console emulation is a Good Thing from the standpoint of preserving the history of the medium. Hell, I've been working on my own Game Boy emulator in my spare time out of a mixture of technical curiosity and pre
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by _frog 10y ago
Most emulation is based on approximation, and while getting super accurate emulation is important from a preservationist standpoint, the reality of the situation is that these less accurate emulators work fine for the purpose of playing old
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by _frog 10y ago
A lot of these older classics that you'd probably want to emulate are actually available in some form or other. For PS1/2 games, you can often purchase inexpensive digital copies on the Playstation Store, and for older Nintendo ti

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