ThePherocity

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by ThePherocity 14y ago
At the current rate of change 1 year is more than enough for an iPhone/iPad/kindle/etc... to completely dominate the market in terms of mindshare. Software patents need to go away immediately, and technology patents, if needed at all, need
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Well, being that 'sucks' is subjective, and every language 'sucks' under different scrutiny, then this statement is as useful as "Javascript is a programming language". Useful in almost no contexts, but completely inane and irrelevant when
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Hardly. A captain steers the ship, but it's the rest of the crew that sails the boat. You can steer to your hearts content, but without the right team and culture, you aren't going anywhere.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Programming is algebra in some instances, it's calculus in others. When you want to display something to the screen it's geometry and trigonometry and if you're you're doing 3d work its' linear algebra.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Obviously, yes. You just need to find a way to get the density of the evacuated hairball to 0.1 mg/cm3. Duh! ;)
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Yea, they can, but some of the names are overly verbose.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Yea, although there appear ways around it though hackery, for all intents and purposes, you need a 64bit OS to take advantage of the extra memory.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
You get used to them, but they do have a tendency to look like someone from another planet wrote them, don't they?
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
You don't write in Objective-C for an Apple then, eh?
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
I'm so glad you mentioned that, I wasn't going to watch it at first. A synopsis prepared by Hawking hours earlier read on command by his robot voice, all the while having the camera focused on him while he's shifting in his seat waiting fo
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
This is akin to saying evolution through survival of the fittest was not a big deal because it just shifts the question to how speciation occurs...
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
I agree completely with this, all code should be visible, but I still go well over 80 personally because I'm don't, nor will anyone likely edit my code on a 80 char terminal. When I was hacking on an IBM mainframe through a 3270 terminal,
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
No, the goal is to make money. If a business can make money without customers, then it's still a successful business. (Though it may be a racket). Making a business with lots of customers, but no money, at best is called a startup... ;)
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
I've had two iPhones, a motherboard on a MacBook Pro (which I spilt coke on, and told them I did) and a replaced keyboard on the White MacBook that cracked all replaced out of the warranty period. I thought Apple was over priced non-sense y
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
I'm a huge fan of Google, Apple, Linux, Xbox, and Kindle. Apparently, I need to start insulting and belittling myself or something...
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Can you refer me to the amendment that states that law should be followed in spirit? Just curious, cause I don't recall seeing it.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Can we just kill software patents already? Seriously, they need to go away.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
I'm very weary about this conceptually. If you don't know what a piece of code is doing, then you shouldn't be putting it into your project; because when it breaks, you wont know how to fix it. So a cookbook with explanations would accomp
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
There is no abuse of the law, there is law, and there is not law. Using the law is not an abuse, regardless of what it may seem from the cheap seats where we are all sitting. If you don't like it, fix the laws.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
I vehemently disagree with this; good tools help get out of the way to allow you to do good work. If your tools are producing work, then you aren't.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
True, but there is a fine line. You cannot reasonably move a product forward if a few select people refuse to play along. Every product I release, I'm met with disdain from users that don't want to change, and how it was perfect the way i
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Well, we do. I'm certainly going to spread the news. I like the spunk!
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Agreed.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Not every feature, sure. But there are a lot of features that don't have an increased hardware requirement. I know this because I use TomTom turn by turn on the iPhone 4 right now, same maps data that's on iOS 6. I also use video calling
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Well, besides an environment impact, and the fact that we're running out of resources and should be trying to get the most out of these devices? No, I don't. I'm listing the three competitor OS's and explaining that they all suck. Yes, it
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
iPad 1 released in 2010 (two years old) lacks all features. iPhone 4 lacks turn by turn navigation, 3D maps, Siri, and Facetime over cellular. So I get what with an iPhone 4? Passbook, Facebook, and a maps app that no longer tells me wha
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
Well, google started charging WAY too much, so you have folks with started projects that simply became untenable. And the principal of something for free/cheap becoming very expensive after you've built an infrastructure around something i
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
You can edit a post ^
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
iOS 6 won't run with most features on 2 year old hardware. Windows Phone 8 - Won't run on < 1 year old hardware. ICS Can run, but doesn't because of carriers. They're all shite.
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by ThePherocity 14y ago
When I was working at Dell, we were told that if we shipped/sold or willing sold to someone who we suspected would sell to someone in to one of the embargoed countries, we could be personally charged and imprisoned with no amnesty.

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