toddheasley

7 ms·

1.
by toddheasley 14y ago
I agree with you, but I think you just landed the elusive "half-Godwin."
2.
by toddheasley 14y ago
I get the author's point, but I also strongly disagree that the economy was doing "incredibly well." I think it was fairly obvious even 5 years prior to 2007 that the wheels were coming off. For me it felt like a slow motion accident. Same
3.
by toddheasley 14y ago
Can we at least agree that if we attempted a list of all the Xs a programmer needs to know before doing Y and made it law that nobody could write any software at all?
4.
by toddheasley 14y ago
I'm mostly wondering how long these lunches were that they even rate mentioning, let alone mentioning BEFORE code quality?
5.
by toddheasley 15y ago
Great examples. I think even the WebKit touch events version of Google Maps is broken, but, not being a Gmail user, I had no idea they were blowing it that badly. I use both Maps and Twitter every single day, but -- and here's another facet
6.
by toddheasley 15y ago
This is something that the discussion hasnt touched yet, but I don't know that you can assume that devs are omitting the vendor-specific prefixed border radius out of laziness. I'm frequently guilty of coding base lowest-common-denominator
7.
by toddheasley 15y ago
Admittedly this is just a guess, but might the Carson velodrome explain Orange County's dominance in this index? There's precious little overlap in the Venn diagram of people who race track bikes (on tracks) and people who ride track bikes
8.
by toddheasley 15y ago
I work for a very large (Fortune 500) retailer whose customers are overwhelmingly Mac users. Safari users make up just shy of 50% of all of our traffic, with Chrome accounting for 25%. I'd guess that's as much because Safari is the built-in
9.
by toddheasley 15y ago
Gruber's assessment is more reasonable, but watching the video, I completely fail to see the controversy. In context, Schmidt's response seems almost humble, and he seems to be addressing two separate concerns raised by the question: 1) The
10.
by toddheasley 15y ago
I concede that I'm not being completely fair. I actually don't develop in Firefox and only have a few versions installed on VMs for testing, no bookmarks or extensions. And, as I said in another comment, over the last 10 years, Gecko has be
11.
by toddheasley 15y ago
> Much like how a computer gets slow and needs to be reformatted, people who are browser power users need to clean out Firefox every few years. Maybe I'm asking to much, but this seems totally unacceptable to me -- both things seem tota
12.
by toddheasley 15y ago
> on several matters its in direct conflict on the w3c standards with other major players. Yeah, this is false. Gecko is still arguably the gold, um, standard for page rendering. That said, I dread using Firefox now, for reasons that ar
13.
by toddheasley 15y ago
I can assure you that this was in the United States.
14.
by toddheasley 15y ago
My wife's friend recently moved from a large city, where she didn't have a car, to live with her boyfriend in a smaller town. It's a smaller town without much public transit. My wife's friend knows how to drive, but her boyfriend's car has
15.
by toddheasley 15y ago
I'd argue that you can hand an iPad to your grandmother with severe arthritis or your toddler for the first time and they wouldn't have nearly as much trouble as the presenter in the video.
16.
by toddheasley 15y ago
The APNs token is unique to the install of iOS, not the hardware. So if a user moves to new hardware (with a different UDID), and they restore from a backup of their previous device, the token stays the same. Similarly, if a user does a com
17.
by toddheasley 16y ago
I agree. I do not like this idea that lots of zany shit = fun and comfort. Having worked in a number of different office cultures, the people with all the crazy junk all over their desks are almost always the sad ones -- people who go home
18.
by toddheasley 16y ago
Maybe "web video" is too lazy of a term. What I'm talking about is video transferred via HTTP (or other protocol) from one computer to another. So, yes, that would be Netflix, iTunes, Hulu, YouTube, BitTorrent... Everything. I couldn't even
19.
by toddheasley 16y ago
> We're talking about video that is embedded in web-pages. Are you watching those during your 6 hour flight? Increasingly, yes, I am watching those during my 6-hour flights. But I'm not talking about video embedded in web pages exclusi
20.
by toddheasley 16y ago
You're right that MPEG-LA does not indemnify licensees of H.264, no. Licensing doesn't eliminate the risk of adoption. It substantially reduces that risk. (Largely because patent licensing also function as a protection racket.) MPEG-LA will
21.
by toddheasley 16y ago
>The same argument applies to video sites. We shouldn't be held back and stuck on a proprietary format just because you don't want to write a script to go through and re-encode everything to WebM. Here's a question: If it's no biggie to
22.
by toddheasley 16y ago
I've been trying to refrain from commenting, too, so that's one thing that we have... had in common. > ...of course WebM exclusivity is the right way to go. Mozilla supports it, Chrome supports it, Opera supports it, Flash will be suppo
23.
by toddheasley 16y ago
Even if Apple ultimately intends to close the Mac to non-App Store applications -- I'm guessing not, but a valid concern anyway -- it's unlikely to happen in the next five years for two key reasons: Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite
24.
by toddheasley 16y ago
Yours is clearly a case of being downvoted unfairly.
25.
by toddheasley 16y ago
Clarification: Even if other companies can figure out how to make a decent tablet, still a pretty big if, who knows if tablets will be a "big thing" for the computer industry as a whole. The iPad is clearly already the next big thing for Ap
26.
by toddheasley 16y ago
Do you think that maybe your desire for tablets to not be "the next big thing" is shading your assessment of iPad sales? The iPad outsold ALL Macs this quarter, so no, Apple is not likely cooling its heels on the tablet thing.
27.
by toddheasley 16y ago
> The story is very much the opposite in enterprise apps; I can't remember the last REST interface I saw, but we see SOAP interfaces every week, in new apps. That's kind of like saying "I can't remember the last hybrid car I saw here in
28.
by toddheasley 16y ago
> This makes the assumption that all apps are dumb frontends to a database. I think the commenter is talking specifically about templating languages, not all server-side logic. In terms of MVC, I think the idea is that now you can move
29.
by toddheasley 16y ago
Voting based on agreement/disagreement, rather than based on quality and relevance is thuggery. It's also human nature; we're passionate, lazy animals. The question is whether or not the problem is widespread enough to threaten the overall
30.
by toddheasley 16y ago
I also agree with the sentiment that nothing is ever as simple as it seems. But, yeah, isn't this what relational databases are for?

More ›