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by voidpointer 16y ago
Interesting approach and I think it is a good direction. There are some differences though: sharing the files on the net is releasing them to a potentially broader audience. The patrons in a bar don't get to take home the music they listen
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by voidpointer 16y ago
I loved this story when I read it in "Surely you are Joking..." It is exactly how it still works at large Tech-Corps. Number of Patents filed is a metric the PHBs love to use in order to determine the innovativeness of departments and there
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by voidpointer 16y ago
This is not how it works. In the patent application you have to describe how your invention works. In software patents, the implementation is described in such general terms that a lot of the time, any implementation can be said to use the
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by voidpointer 16y ago
Great example of the problem with software patents. Landmark has a method for music-matching. They would love to be the only one having access to that technology. The confusion starts where the patent system is meant to only protect how the
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Flash Player goes Cocoa, makes a host of improvements(blogs.adobe.com)
4 points by voidpointer 16y ago|0 comments
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by voidpointer 16y ago
What Jobs says is totally consistent from his perspective (or if you will, from within his reality distortion field): In a world, where there is only apple devices, Flash indeed has outlived its usefulness because there is no need for multi
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by voidpointer 16y ago
If the author of the app provided a link to a full source code download in the app itself and on the appstore page, wouldn't that make the whole thing compliant, at least in spirit, with the GPL? Everybody would be able to download the sour
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by voidpointer 16y ago
But would your situation have been any better if you had just declined to speak to them? The amount of time wasted on your part could have been far greater (let alone expenses for an attorny)
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by voidpointer 16y ago
It feels like it is more likely that this is made up than Jobs actually replying to some random dudes email.
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by voidpointer 16y ago
It looks like some commenters here and on the linked site actually believe this is a genuine email exchange with the real Steve Jobs... Why?
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by voidpointer 16y ago
I was just wondering about the same thing. It's the super-long (over) exposure. See http://www.solargraphy.com/index.php?option=com_content&...
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by voidpointer 16y ago
Ok, to answer my own question... It is the long exposure time. See http://www.solargraphy.com/index.php?option=com_content&...
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by voidpointer 16y ago
I'm surprised that he is able to scan the latent image from the exposed photographic paper without developing it. Especially since the scanner will further expose the paper so it would be useless afterwards... Maybe this is just working bec
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by voidpointer 16y ago
I see this the same way. The TOS states that you are not allowed to use an intermediary layer to call the iPhone OS API. A C++ or C library that would abstract the underlying OS' API would clearly be such an intermediary layer and if there
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by voidpointer 16y ago
If you consider the output "object code" there would be no need to edit, let alone roundtrip. You don't edit the object-code or byte-code from your compiler either.
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by voidpointer 16y ago
Adobe used to be behind SVG a lot before the acquisition of (referred to as the merger with) Macromedia.
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by voidpointer 16y ago
As far as the statement from unity is concerned, it sounded like it wasn't really backed by any real indication from Apple about their solution not being banned. However, there is also no actual evidence (yet) that it is actually banned and
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by voidpointer 16y ago
Neither would I. When analyzing risk, there is also always the risk that you didn't recognize something as a risk at all. Maybe this is the Black Swan event ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory ) of mobile application developmen
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by voidpointer 16y ago
Isn't it funny how many people using alternative runtimes seem to say "I can fully understand why they would ban Adobe/Flash but why on earth would they also ban my favorite runtime"? Apple didn't make this move because they have some irrat
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by voidpointer 16y ago
This is a good example of what is still utterly wrong today with HTML/CSS implementations. I appreciate the work and the fact that it is shared with the public. The fact that you still have to deal with this sort of markup in 2010 is really
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by voidpointer 16y ago
This feels wrong on so many levels... Basically, they reserve the right to ban any sort of DSL/runtime/engine application architecture. Imagine you are building adventure games (like Money Island). You'd have a game engine and a domain lang
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by voidpointer 16y ago
Here is the press release from the ASMP: http://asmp.org/articles/press-release-10-04-07.html Interestingly, it says "The new class action goes beyond Google’s Library Project, and includes Google’s other systematic and pervasive infringe
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Photographer groups sue Google over Book Search(news.cnet.com)
1 points by voidpointer 16y ago|1 comments
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by voidpointer 16y ago
I think, when trying to help someone, asking for more context is a good thing. The examples that are given in the article are often things that arguably sound a bit more complicated than necessary (writing a windows app in assembly). Thus,
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by voidpointer 16y ago
This leaves quite a lot of questions... Were the homework assignments of a type were using a computer to prepare them would actually help? Did the computers include the appropriate software that was needed to do the homework? Had the homewo
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by voidpointer 16y ago
This is going to be really nice when cleaning up old photos with dust and scratches
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IStockphoto to begin selling stock logos(thedonutproject.com)
2 points by voidpointer 17y ago|1 comments
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by voidpointer 17y ago
99 bucks to get your company name and a piece of clip-art? I think people who go for this just don't deserve any better. One should probably just automate this. Pay $20 to istockphoto for a piece of vector art and put the company name besid
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by voidpointer 17y ago
"I then built a middleware layer that would either decorate the content with a layout template..." Methinks you might have a somewhat non-standard definition of the term middleware. Please have your buzzword generator re-calibrated ;)
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by voidpointer 17y ago
... by users that have managed to master entirely text-based editors like emacs or vi to a degree that allows them to still be as productive as their brethren who moved on to slicker IDEs :)

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