JimDabell

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by JimDabell 15y ago
This isn't true. I've had two rejections for HIG violations - one was an unclear error message (authentication failure-style message when no network was available) and the other was orientation problems (one of the official iPad app templa
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by JimDabell 15y ago
Every Mac shipped with a mouse in the past 6 years has had a continuous scrolling mechanism built into the mouse. First with the Mighty Mouse, which had a scroll ball, and then with the Magic Mouse, which you can scroll directly on the sur
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by JimDabell 15y ago
> The curriculum hasn't changed towards 'we won't tell you what you need to score the marks' I never said it did. It's perfectly possible to have a spec. that allows for more than one type of implementation. This is schoolwork, not NA
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by JimDabell 15y ago
You are assuming that there was a more detailed spec. that asked for something different to what he did. There's no indication of that in the article, you're just inventing things to prop up your argument.
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by JimDabell 15y ago
> He threw out the mark scheme and did his own thing. That's not what the article says. It says the brief was to "design and create a multimedia project", which he did. It says that most people went with Powerpoint, but it doesn't say
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by JimDabell 15y ago
I don't believe you can downgrade to 3.1.3 any more. When you restore an OS image, iTunes checks whether it is a valid image with Apple's servers. After a major version has been out for a while, Apple stop approving installs of older vers
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by JimDabell 15y ago
> The level of support still available for the 2.5-year-old iPhone 3GS is outstanding They are selling the 3GS brand new today. I don't think they deserve kudos for supporting a current product. It should go without saying.
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by JimDabell 15y ago
I'm not really following you. "Make a list of all the different things that would break" - these things are things that are in use today by real people. No hypothetical people involved.
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by JimDabell 15y ago
> why does presentation need to be separated from content? You can't think of any instance when you would want to access the content irrespective of the presentation? Imagine if, instead of HTML and CSS, web pages were delivered as pre-
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by JimDabell 15y ago
It's Apple. All they have to do is issue a beta and they'll have plenty of people writing to the new API. The cost of buying Growl isn't just the dollars used to take ownership of the company. You have to integrate the people and the code
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by JimDabell 15y ago
I can't agree here. Yes, there are a lot of people who turn their nose up at the OS X/iOS development toolchain simply because it is unfamiliar. They see the square brackets and write it off immediately. But the argument that the toolchain
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by JimDabell 15y ago
It's ⎇-3, not 4. ⎇-4 is ¢.