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by DHowett 15y ago
1) Notice that Google has removed this app too. 2) Carriers (AT&T) are known for disabling app sideloading. 3) Having to root your device presents the basic user with a major technical hurdle, and in some cases, an outright impossibilit
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by DHowett 15y ago
You certainly can compile iOS apps, with full access to Objective-C and Cocoa, on Linux. The platform does not make a lick of difference when you bring a cross-compiler into the mix. That is somewhat like saying that OS X being written in O
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by DHowett 15y ago
I don't think it is quite fair to call Xcode crashes an Objective-C wart. It has nigh-unto absolutely nothing to do with the language, and you can of course execute the compiler directly. I'd be interested to know what other things you cons
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by DHowett 15y ago
How about Bluetooth on the second generation iPod touch? That's a prime example of "chipset supported this, Apple locked it out with software and unlocked it with an update."
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by DHowett 15y ago
I feel like this is an overengineered solution by somebody who is not quite familiar with what the platform has to offer. 1) UIImage already handles choice based on asset name. Apple could use the same asset choice logic server-side for eac
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by DHowett 15y ago
Oh. That makes a lot more sense. Thanks :P
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by DHowett 15y ago
Absence of test cases? Surely this is not a function of the license in use, correct? There can be shitty BSD-licensed swill with no test cases just as easily as there can be that as GPLv3.
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by DHowett 15y ago
I'll admit that I was expecting a site more like http://hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com . It's really nice to see that Mozilla is still taking this stuff into consideration. After all, memory has been a point of contention in the community
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by DHowett 15y ago
I don't have anything against Balsamiq or their product (nor do I know what it is,) but why are we lauding a company for doing what any human with some basic modicum of morals would do? We forget that companies are staffed by human beings,
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by DHowett 15y ago
I can't tell if this is brilliant or terrifying.
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The only real downsides I can find are that: 1) You need to design the selected/deselected states for buttons separately and merge the code. 2) It'll give you drawing code, but you have to maintain those chunks of code directly in your sour
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by DHowett 15y ago
If you boil down a UI element's description to a set of lines, colours and gradients, you can easily apply that to other elements at all scale factors, without having to ship piles of images (possibly in four different sizes, if you have iP
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by DHowett 15y ago
Wait, what does it matter that they were bootstrapped? The title could just as well be "startup that took investments and venture capital saved boatloads of money ...". The fact that they paid out-of-pocket seems immaterial to the article?
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by DHowett 15y ago
The "CRC-32 is slow" sentiment feels like a bit of a straw-man argument against gzip. With today's computing power, the difference is nigh-unto negligible: checksumming is dwarfed by the actual decompression, or maybe even the network overh
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by DHowett 15y ago
This is immaterial to the "use keys" suggestion. I realize that you mentioned the key+password case, but I can't help but think that the solution to that is simply to go with a key without a password, limit the account on the other end as m
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by DHowett 15y ago
This came up and was discussed at length yesterday. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3741813
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by DHowett 15y ago
Windows, because Apple uses Azure[1] in the iCloud infrastructure. [1] http://www.infiniteapple.net/apple-icloud-azure-use-tested-c...
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by DHowett 15y ago
Honestly, I wouldn't work for Apple either. I'd hate to give up the community I've spent most of my programming life a part of - the jailbreaking community. It'd take more than a giant salary to rewrite my values. :P
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by DHowett 15y ago
Not working for Apple is possibly the best decision Linus could have made. One can argue that Linux would have kept moving forward without him, but it's really a shame when great talent leaves the open-source community. The man might be opi
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by DHowett 15y ago
This bug is sort of funny (in the frustrating way) when you're looking for high-resolution wallpapers for the iPad - At least on InterfaceLIFT on-device, you get a 1024x1024 image when trying to fetch the iPad3,x version.
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by DHowett 15y ago
I wonder if they've paid any heed to case-sensitive filesystem users. Or at least stopped shafting them with the "Please install to another volume [but I won't let you select another volume.]" installer. Probably not :(
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by DHowett 15y ago
I don't usually think runtime hacks are the way to go (who am I kidding? I love runtime hacks), but this is damn clever on Apple's part.
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Tagged pointers and fast-pathed CFNumber integers in Lion(objectivistc.tumblr.com)
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The only caveat is that you then have to wrap it in an #ifdef if you want source portability. The thing random() has over arc4random() is exactly that - it's part of the standard C library on most platforms. For discussion: Why is random()
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by DHowett 15y ago
The BeOS (and therefore Haiku) window managers were well beyond their time. The tab style is still my favourite windowing paradigm.
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by DHowett 15y ago
Welcome to today's installment of "Go Post!" This time, we will be visiting the rebuttal to both "Go is amazing!" and "Why I will never use Go." What insights will our daring author bring? Find out now!
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The real WTF is... Almost free? Like, they found a company that will, what, sell you an image of black and white boxes for mere pennies? God, imagine the money they could make swindling companies with a per-scan advertising fee! Pixels will
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by DHowett 15y ago
I'd say he's almost too particular for an M with a down arrow in a rounded rectangle. However, what's the corner radius? What's the width of the stroke on the M? The depth of the point of the arrow or the width of its sweep? It seems like h
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by DHowett 15y ago
Yeah! Its existence everywhere is really good proof that it sucks. What planet are we on again?
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by DHowett 15y ago
The Market autoupdate mechanism is going to ensure that the Market icon spontaneously disappears on all devices running 2.2+ (with Google branding) in unison, much to the confusion of every single user who just knows "I press the 'Market' t

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