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by Me1000 14y ago
Lets step back from the "open" buzzword and look at the empirical facts. Less than a decade ago you made sure your web sites ran well in Internet Explorer, a closed source browser that was allowed to stagnate. IE took the W3Cs standards as
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by Me1000 14y ago
Do your parents know how to change the default search engine on iOS? The desktop is a different beast than mobile; I think most mobile users just use the "search field" and find what they want. (Edited for typo)
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by Me1000 14y ago
DRM isn't dead, and its not going away any time soon. Although iTunes dropped it for music, they still use it for all video contents and of course apps. Spotify uses DRM for their content as well. I'll be honest, I used to be a DRM hater, l
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by Me1000 14y ago
I think you'll see an update shortly that will fix this issue; which is clearly just an overlooked bug. I think you'll also see iOS patching the issue soon too.
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by Me1000 14y ago
Impossible? I don't think so. Since Path (and every other iOS app) uses a system API for things like photos it's trivial for the OS to strip the exif location data from photos if the user has turned off location data for an application, the
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by Me1000 14y ago
Apple provides an API for determining permissions.
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by Me1000 14y ago
While I feel your frustration with iOS apps in general, concurrency is not a silver bullet. I can't say anything specifically about what's making certain iOS applications slow, but I actually think it's probably more related to Core Data an
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by Me1000 14y ago
Why do they need to sell? Just because a company doesn't have a (public) monetization strategy doesn't mean it won't come with time. There are other options for successful startups than just selling the company.
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by Me1000 14y ago
This book was used for my algorithms class last year. I never buy textbooks because I never really find them useful (especially CS books). This book, however, I thought did a great job of explaining how things work and was a pretty easy rea
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by Me1000 14y ago
I have a native iOS app that works with GitHub's API. I had the exact same concern as you. As a user, I would much rather use an oath of flow instead of entering my password. Unfortunately, GitHub actually suggests you use basic auth for na
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by Me1000 14y ago
It's nearly impossible to compare raw specs when Apple is making their own chips. Android devices have had more cores and more Hertz than the iPhone for years, but only recently have they been able to start matching the iPhone in performanc
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by Me1000 14y ago
Well, if the phone still works and you need something replaced under warranty, you can always factory reset it. If the phone DOESNT work, then there is no way for them to tell that it's jailbroken in the store...
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by Me1000 14y ago
> Installing any app you want -- and any app store you want -- on your own device ought to be an inalienable right. You're acting like: 1. Jailbreaking doesn't exist. 2. Apple is actively working to prevent people from jailbreaking thei
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by Me1000 14y ago
Since no one is forcing you to buy it, I would simply suggest not buying it and going on with your life. Perhaps that sounds harsh, but there are plenty of products out there that cost a lot of money (much more than $150) which won't bring
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by Me1000 14y ago
If there doesn't already exist a tool that watches your working directory for file changes and automatically recompiles, it will soon. There are plenty of people who actively have build steps for web development: SASS, Less, CoffeeScript, C
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by Me1000 14y ago
Anyone building large projects do this anyway, using minifiers to reduce the download size. Sometimes the code has inline documentation which gets built too. A build step is already a reality for many people writing JS today.
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by Me1000 14y ago
Correlation not causation. As someone who has built large scale JavaScript applications, and has a lot of experience in other languages I really don't like JavaScript. My experience is that a lot of people know JavaScript, but very few peop
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by Me1000 14y ago
I won't pretend to be an expert on internal combustion engines, but I don't think the demands are that bad. Electric engines have 100% torque all the time, which isn't true of gas engines. I believe that essentially implies a fast take off
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by Me1000 14y ago
1. Commodities don't make record profits. There is nothing "dickish" about that… That's how companies work. 3. I've hear equally terribly, if not more terrible percentages from Amazon on physical books. In fact, I've heard worse. Amazon has
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by Me1000 14y ago
I agree with you, higher prices are disappointing. However, given the example you used of Campbell's Biology, most of the time students never read a textbook in its entirety. In that case, Inkling actually lets you buy the specific chapters
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by Me1000 14y ago
Inkling has a team of people that work on content creation, custom tailoring each book for Inkling. Much of the original source material is reused, but much of the content is created from scratch… In fact, many times the content team discov
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by Me1000 14y ago
Twitter is encouraging services to use their new Twitter Card feature for things that syndicate to Twitter like Path and Instagram. This gives the App that posted the tweet additional attribution than "via Path" or whatever... Although the
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by Me1000 14y ago
I think for the purpose of teaching people the basics of programming it's perfectly acceptable to leave them with a basic understanding of "You can only add numbers and strings." Then allow them to revisit the oddities much later after they
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by Me1000 14y ago
That's fine, not everyone can live that kind of life. There are a few engineers, however, who do want to put in the extra hours to build something awesome. The thing is, for that to be successful you will never be asked directly to work lon
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by Me1000 14y ago
Sorry, but the people who only get excited with fancy hand outs won't be at Yahoo much longer if Marissa does her job right. She needs people who want to work long hours, and/or weekends. That kind of work ethic doesn't come from handouts,
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by Me1000 14y ago
A lot of companies don't provide free food, Apple, and Nest to name a couple. Talent won't be attracted by free food, but what it will do is cause the morale to change. People already working there will start getting excited about these new
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by Me1000 14y ago
Sure, Facebook had a billion dollars in revenue last quarter.
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'Growing exponentially' is an overused phrase, and people actually forget what it means. Exponential growth makes a lot more sense when you're describing the number your user base, where generally speaking each user is worth the same to you
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by Me1000 14y ago
People are willing to spend a lot of money on a text editor, feature set is really not as important as one might think... What's important is that the editor feels good when I use it.
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by Me1000 14y ago
No. Cheddar also works in browsers, so any device with a browser can run cheddar and it pushes it to ALL your devices.

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