timburks

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by timburks 11y ago
Along with the ARC transition, the move from PowerPC to Intel was incredibly smooth (relatively). But much of the work for that was done long before the change actually happened. Both of those changes required very little from developers. O
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by timburks 14y ago
No, it doesn't. C++ sucks.
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by timburks 14y ago
The Gmail native iOS app is really nice, so the flow of innovation isn't consistently pointing towards the web. But part of the answer to getting "desktop deployment right" is sandboxing. In essence, the native app platforms are making oper
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by timburks 14y ago
Vishal Gurbuxani gave us the marketing perspective on this last month in Napa: http://www.slideshare.net/vgurbuxani/app-retreat-2012 One major problem: HTML5 is fragmented across platforms and is missing important ingredients needed by ap
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by timburks 14y ago
Bill Dudney and I are organizing a conference for iOS app makers in San Francisco next month. It's unique because it's not being run by a platform company, a media company with a network of sponsors to satisfy, or a professional conference
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Renaissance: the iOS app maker's conference. January 21-23 in SF.(renaissance.io)
14 points by timburks 14y ago|4 comments
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by timburks 14y ago
Oops. It's back now. Sorry about that, I intend to upgrade that site but have been taking on some new things lately and haven't had much time. Also, I don't really follow Hacker News, but a friend pointed this post to me. Feel free to follo
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by timburks 18y ago
I've never heard that web apps require approval. Probably a typo? Also, it would be nearly impossible to "crash the whole iphone OS." An app runs in a sandbox, the worst thing it could crash is itself.
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by timburks 18y ago
No, I think you're right. There seem to be separate queues for different categories.
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16 weeks to get my iPhone app approved. Guess I was doing it wrong. Here's my advice.(softwaredev.meetup.com)
35 points by timburks 18y ago|11 comments
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by timburks 18y ago
I'd just let the market decide. With so many identical-looking screens of apps, most iPhones already are getting cluttered. I expect that we'll soon see a better (hierarchical) Springboard.
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by timburks 18y ago
Does the computer you are using have a hierarchical file system?
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by timburks 18y ago
How about those book publishers who attempt to milk their printing presses by publishing multiple titles? Or bloggers who attempt to milk their blogging software by publishing multiple articles?
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by timburks 18y ago
Yes, I agree with you on a lot of that, especially if you can write your entire app in Ruby. That hasn't been true for me though. Either I have to go to C for performance or there's some library that I want to use that's easier to use direc
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by timburks 18y ago
Hi Ross, little things add up, and they are easy to fix in higher level languages (with macros). I consider programming to be a process of building abstractions, and I think the best high-level abstractions are concise. I like to quote Pete
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by timburks 18y ago
It's relative, and it's a distinction that changes as we make progress. Objective-C is a higher-level language than C, but as you noted, it's not interpreted, and I don't think it would be very pleasant to use as an interpreted language. It
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by timburks 18y ago
To be fair, it depends on the application. You might not have to write them, but there are still plenty of applications where memory and speed are issues, and C gives you some really good tools to deal with them, but you're right -- C is no
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by timburks 18y ago
Also covered here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=171292
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by timburks 18y ago
Back to the PowerPC? PA Semi's only announced product so far is a dual-core PowerPC: http://www.pasemi.com/processors/index.html I was working on PowerPC processors with IBM and Motorola in the late 90's. Back then, Apple's investment in
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by timburks 18y ago
No. Malone didn't write that; it's not so black and white. But there's plenty of gray: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=USDEUR=X&t=5y&l=on&#... The silver lining is that Americans can now get a lot more dollars for the things that
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by timburks 18y ago
I was just re-reading Robert Cringley's piece on the move from education to certification. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080321_0045... Of Malone's suggestions (to Washington), "making education more open" is the one th
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by timburks 18y ago
These are good distinctions, and all categories (especially the lower ones) are well-represented on sites like digg, reddit, and this one. But there's at least one more dimension to this that seems completely orthogonal, and that's identity
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by timburks 19y ago
The comments links in your RSS feeds appear to be broken. http://news.ycombinator.comitem?id=101047