donmelton

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by donmelton 12y ago
Yep, that's it. :)
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by donmelton 12y ago
That's a great damn story. And I'm certain it wasn't a coincidence.
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by donmelton 12y ago
Exactly. And for a moment there, he bought it. :)
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by donmelton 14y ago
Much better answer.
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by donmelton 14y ago
If there is, I've never met one. :)
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by donmelton 14y ago
The original options we had weren't restricted. Also, most of them were at a lower strike price since Apple wasn't highly valued then.
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by donmelton 14y ago
Yes, please someone tell that to Ballmer. :)
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by donmelton 14y ago
Yeah, there was nothing devious there. I hope. The line about my son was partly to annoy him since he, unlike my wife, reads my blog. And we punk each other like that all the time.
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by donmelton 14y ago
Not that big. About 140 I think. My admin would know for sure.
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by donmelton 14y ago
D'oh! Yep. Noted.
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by donmelton 14y ago
My former minions probably think that. :)
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by donmelton 14y ago
My son, unlike my wife, reads my blog. That's in there just to tweak him. We punk each other like that all the time.
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by donmelton 14y ago
Yes, I have that one and I agree — excellent book.
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by donmelton 14y ago
Closure — that's actually a very good way to put it. I didn't feel burned out. Just tired and complete. But I was very fortunate to have the means to retire. Many who experience burnout don't have that choice. Which is another reason there
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by donmelton 14y ago
Some of them did. But the decision to retire is not always about the money.
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by donmelton 14y ago
Thank you so much. I am humbled by that, sir. I will take your advice to heart.
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by donmelton 14y ago
This is great summary. Thanks.
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by donmelton 14y ago
I can't comment on iTunes. Remember, Safari is not open source. Only WebKit is.
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by donmelton 14y ago
Neither, really. It's mostly because I retired.
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by donmelton 14y ago
Surprise, I would hope. :) And lack of recognition, I suppose.
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by donmelton 14y ago
That's just me being facetious. Don't read that much into it. Apple was an excellent place to work and I had a great relationship with Scott, Bertrand, Avie and Steve. Nobody was going to shoot me. AFAIK. :)
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by donmelton 14y ago
I'm not going to comment on the present and future of Safari and WebKit. I'm retired. I have no business doing that. And it would disrespect the fine people at Apple -- my friends -- who are still working on both.
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by donmelton 14y ago
Thank you! I'm typing as fast as I can. :)
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by donmelton 14y ago
I would love to claim the foresight of planning for the iPhone all along. Alas, that was not the case. :) For any of us. We built our own browser because we didn't want to depend on another company for a critical application. We built our o
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by donmelton 14y ago
The string was originally just contained "WebKit." When it became "AppleWebKit" in mid-December (as I recall) then, yes, it was more likely to be discovered. But I felt that a 17.x.x.x address would be the clincher and the secret would be o
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by donmelton 14y ago
I'll be clarifying that shared history in a later post. Specifically, what made me select KHTML/KJS over Gecko and other engines.
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by donmelton 14y ago
Thank you. That was my whole reason for writing it. :)
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by donmelton 14y ago
My mistake. We turned it off in the final release?
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by donmelton 14y ago
I don't know whether the Apple IP addresses were reallocated. I do know that Stanford returned most of its Class A allocation.
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by donmelton 14y ago
Firefox wasn't a big factor when Safari debuted. And the project was still called "Phoenix" back then. I believe that other Mozilla and Gecko-based browsers were more widely used at that time.

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