damon

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by damon 8y ago
What's interesting to me is how serious Nadella's Microsoft is about embracing OSS. Consider his appointment as a line in the sand and look at how drastically the company has changed since that line was drawn. I realize that doesn
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by damon 8y ago
It's hard to let past Ballmer / Gates era sins go, and I'll probably take a lot of heat here, but moves like this continue to reinforce the Nadella era is truly serious about advancing OSS both within Microsoft and within the
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by damon 14y ago
I like the iOS API's simplicity. Also the ability to attach observers to file objects. Much easier to use than iCloud (IMHO) and cross platform are huge advantages for me personally.
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by damon 14y ago
Take a look at the Core API for use from a web app: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/gs
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by damon 14y ago
It would be interesting to hear Amazon's side of the story. It just doesn't seem like something any digital retailer would do. Assuming Lynn did no wrong and this is entirely a fraud algorithm problem on Amazon's side, you would think the
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by damon 18y ago
I entered "iPhone 3G sales" (no quotes) and was given a porn picture next to an Apple PR link. I do hope they succeed in challenging google, but looks like they have work to do.
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by damon 18y ago
I was thinking "another solid post from reg". Then boom, didn't see that coming. It's too bad it will be his last. Looking forward to seeing what's next. Keep us posted, Reg.
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by damon 18y ago
As an iPhone dev, I'm sure iPhone OS 2.0 isn't perfect. They pushed 8 beta builds into the hands of devs since march. They've been working on hugely aggressive timelines. There has to be defects. In all, however, I'm glad it's released.
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by damon 18y ago
I'm releasing one at some point . If I can ever get the MLS data. Yikes what a mess. http://codemorphic.com/products
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by damon 18y ago
Downloading/sync to iPhone is trivial and slick, very easy to trial/error free programs, apple did distribution right.
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by damon 18y ago
Just curious... Do people really buy linux off the shelf? Why? The packaging? Docs? Box?
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by damon 18y ago
If it took them a year to admit it, how long will it take to fix it? Rather than a marketing push, how about an engineering push?
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by damon 18y ago
There's only 10?
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by damon 18y ago
Wow, I had no idea! Best wishes to the newlyweds. Is it Jessica Graham now? JG?
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by damon 18y ago
Let's see... no vacation for at&t employees in june, iphones out of stock in apple online, multiple country deals signed in past few weeks, iphone sdk nearing beta end... You'll see the 3G iphone on the 9th. What interests me any new
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by damon 18y ago
"they're still afraid of anything that's different and are looking for any excuse they can to maintain the status quo." That's exactly what I want to hear! Let them keep their 600+ page C# spec and their 10+ year java resume - leaves more
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by damon 18y ago
Is it April 1st?
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by damon 18y ago
1. State. 2. Functional languages.
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by damon 18y ago
I'll be @ minnebar May 10th also. I've heard estimates of 400 attendees planned! If you're interested in iPhone development, lets meet up. I'm doing a 5-min lightning round talk on native iPhone objc development.
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by damon 18y ago
Short version : "Price fixing is how."
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by damon 18y ago
Innovation takes more than deep pockets...
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by damon 18y ago
"Mr. Liddell dismissed claims that some customers were reluctant to buy Vista machines. “There are no Vista-related issues at all,” he declared." puff puff give, dude...
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by damon 18y ago
"Now I've seen Vista I wonder how a company of that size can get something so wrong" Perhaps because it's a company of that size.
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by damon 18y ago
Apple seems too consumer focused to start putting in all sorts of crap just because someone from Walmart corporate suggested it.
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by damon 18y ago
In 2004 IBM was considering a switch to linux. I hope they are successful with the mac push. "First, our chairman has challenged the IT organization, and indeed all of IBM, to move to a Linux based desktop before the end of 2005. This mean
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by damon 19y ago
Microsoft is still dead.
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by damon 19y ago
Come on, it has a pretty obvious design. So obvious in fact that Microsoft is copying it for "asp.net" v-next. There is a lot of magic to rails, but let's call it "configurable magic" since __it seems__ most of the magic can be overridden
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by damon 19y ago
Imagine what the emacs version would look like. M-q C-q M-C-q M-x quit ...
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by damon 19y ago
Time Machine to a drobo.
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by damon 19y ago
Ruby descended from lisp, according to matz. So in order to "see what you're missing" by using ruby, take a look at what he removed or changed from lisp. In particular he removed macros and created syntax. As others have commented, macro

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