lurch_mojoff

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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
Come on. Big Brother? Really? And do you honestly believe that it is a bad thing that ordinary, unsavvy with computers users will not immediately be able to install applications from unverified sources?
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
Yes, I have. And I can confidently say that Mac OS X, even today after a decade of evolution and sweeping changes, is clearly a direct descendant of NeXTStep and has little in common with System 7. I'll also reiterate what others said -- th
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
I disagree that Apple's goal was lock-in. If it was, they'd probably make the interactive textbooks iOS applications, similar to what PushPopPress did, instead of this bastardized version of epub. Quotes from the linked post like this: "Th
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
Which is compltely idiotic business model for Netflix. They can sell their original content directly to me. Unlike traditional TV content producers, they don't have to rely on (and split profits with) third party distributors. I suspect you
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
Lack of empathy is the definition of psychopathy. A psychopath will look at someone ran over on the street and think "too bad it ruined that nice jacket" or something similarly disjointed form the fact that a human being is dead. Stallman'
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
And tablets… and portable music players… and small and light laptops… and… The sentence you quote does look outright ridiculous when said about Apple.
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
Three years? Make that five. And every additional year makes your point even more relevant — I can understand, even if it is just subconsciously, that one cannot fit all the things I expect in a 6 or 12 month release cycle. I cannot accept
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
"Let's be clear: Apple changed its delivery pattern for iPhone. It's a delay, and a big one.” Followed by absolutely no evidence supporting the statement. Yep, this is not link-bait, no siree.
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
The question is how many people will buy a PlayBook now on the off chance they’ll get a rebate at some future point. Not that many I reckon.
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
It is way too early to proclaim that history is repeating itself. 20 years ago Apple were a rudderless ship. Today they are on of the most efficiently operating computer companies out there. They have a vision, they have a solid foundation
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
The important thing is not whether Apple should or shouldn't have won, but that they did. A court of law, as biased as it may be, has concluded that Apple’s complaint has merit. And now that may serve as precedent for Apple to use in other
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
I still don't understand how a bunch of stored-to-file object graphs "dirty the code base" but I guess you are right -- it is a preference thing. Believe me, I have weirder quirks than that when it comes to coding. Your example, however, is
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
Would you care to qualify that. In my experience it has been the exact opposite -- setting up your UI in Interface Builder has always reduced the amount of code necessary and has allowed quite complex view hierarchies to appear pretty much
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
Sure, it is. But Push Pop got a ton of publicity partly because of Al Gore and partly because of Mike's passionate Ted talk, so I presume they would have been able to get more than enough funding. And of course you can't change the world if
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
I'm definitely in the K&R camp. I keep alternating between 1TBS and Compact Control Readability, depending on the preferences of the other members of the team working on that particular project. I personally prefer Compact Control Reada
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
How much do musicians get paid for Spotify streaming? Well, this much: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
"Offline streaming", right. You can synch only music you have bought from Spotify. It does not work with the "all you can eat" subscription. So it is very much not an obsolete complaint.
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
Yeah, I should stop hanging around iOS developers - I'm loosing sense of what is under NDA and what's not. :)
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
It is actually much more than probable that Apple will require Mac App Store apps to be sandboxed, it is certain — Apple have notified developers that come Fall (I can't remember the exact month; October? November?) that requirement comes i
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
Apple have never shown any interest in being friends with the carriers. Since day one of their foray into the mobile phone business, they've been barely tolerating their partner carriers - like a horrible roommate, you cannot kick out becau
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
In computers Apple are not competing on price. In fact they maintain atypically high prices there. In tablets they are.
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
Because Apple don't allow the use of private APIs and the modification of the function of physical buttons. Both for a good reason - if they allow those they lose control over user experience and set up things to break horribly down the roa
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
I don't know, "near monopoly" doesn't mean anything - 70% or 7%, you either have a leverage over the market and are a monopoly or you don't and aren't. I think it's rather that Apple figured that those two (and others) going out of business
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
> Have you ever tried to compile Xcode samples on a MacMini? Yes, I have been doing it on a four year old, Core Duo one for the whole three years since the iOS SDK became available and have had zero compilation performance issues. Keep
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
One difference is that the command-line and DOS applications didn't require more CPU and memory resources. Another difference is that the mouse didn't remove the main input device for the command line - the keyboard. Yet another difference
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
Or simpler still - the iTunes application will generate fingerprint of the whole audio in each file and send it along with whatever metadata is available. Then serverside the fingerprint and metadata are analyzed and if a certain criteria f
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
No they don't. If you don't renew your ADC membership Apple won't pull your apps from the store.
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
Does it really matter who's done "it"? The whole "hunt for Osama" was not about punishment or rehabilitation of the guilty. It was a symbolic act. In the eyes of the world the ones who did it are the ones who took responsibility for doing i
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by lurch_mojoff 15y ago
I think jschuur's suggestion is that they should have made a video targeted at the general public. The use case of many of these mobile services and apps is not inherently obvious, not the the general public anyway. Compare the information
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
The thing is those "other specialized frameworks" are mostly the exact same ones you get on the Mac. So the accurate description would be: "Apple ported the major parts of Mac OS X to ARM and exchanged UIKit for AppKit".

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