donteflon

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by donteflon 14y ago
The entire letter is typical of the Jobs rhetoric, a web of lies, omissions and half-truths and I fail to notice any insight at all. Sure, in the opening paragraph, Jobs tries to pretend he doesn't loathe Adobe [1], but in the rest of it it
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by donteflon 14y ago
Let's leave the Steve Jobs PR bullshit out of this. When it comes to Web Standards, Adobe was on the bandwagon before Apple even knew such a thing existed. For example, before any browser had support for SVG, Adobe Illustrator could export
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by donteflon 14y ago
Flash RUNS on iOS/Android/Blackberry, there are a lot of Flash apps on all those platforms, including best selling ones[1]. Adobe just discontinued the mobile version of the Flash browser plugin, but what you don't understand is that with
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by donteflon 14y ago
It runs in desktop web browsers on Windows, Mac and Linux (soon only hosted in Chrome, but it will be there). It runs on iOS, MacOS, Windows, Android and Blackberry with Adobe Air and it's far better, faster and easier to develop for than a
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by donteflon 14y ago
Adobe's last decade was far from bad, it was actually pretty great[1], and they did it under fire from both Apple and Microsoft. Not only that, Microsoft Expression Studio and Silverlight went nowhere, Apple's Apperture and Final Cut are ta
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by donteflon 14y ago
This is a simple example to make a point about the simplicity of using bottle, a python micro-framework contained in a single file with all the stuff you need for simple web projects (like routing, templates, various utilities and even a te
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by donteflon 15y ago
>First, before Tesla people thought of electric vehicles as ridiculous DIY golf carts driven by treehuggers. They were utterly uncool and stupid. Absolutely not. http://www.gizmag.com/go/3889/ Tesla just had the Silicon Valley hype ma
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by donteflon 15y ago
Use --noconfirm.
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by donteflon 15y ago
Not keyframe animation. Not SVG.
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by donteflon 15y ago
Fortified church build by a small German village of less than 1000 people around 1100, in Transylvania. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Feheregyhaza2.jpg Now compare that with anything build by the Great Zimbabwe, Old Ghana or Timbuktu.
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by donteflon 15y ago
Sicilly is not a city, is an island with a lot of cities. Before the Arabs even existed, Greek colonists founded Syracuse (which is around 2700 years old) the birth place of Archimedes.
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by donteflon 15y ago
>You could simplify it and say that it went like this: Egypt, Greece, Rome and Europe. Not necessarily. The first big European civilization was the [Cucuteni-Trypillian culture]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni-Trypillian_culture
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by donteflon 16y ago
US PISA ranks for 2009: Maths - 30th, Sciences - 23rd, Reading 17th. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_Stu...