Tloewald

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811.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Agreed, contenteditable is terrible in Safari for iOS. Pages actually uses SVG for most of its layout. It makes me suspect that Apple has an XCode back end for compiling Cocoa/IB code to Javascript.
812.
by Tloewald 12y ago
I've done a ton of work with contenteditable and it's not especially good on IE (it was especially bad on IE up to IE8) nor especially bad on Safari (it's kind of horrible, but it's horrible everywhere).
813.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Seems like a weirdly anti-Safari summary, including assumptions about "future Safari" being inferior to "future IE".
814.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Setting aside Facebook -- Apple, Microsoft, and Google were all technically impressive early on -- it's as a business that they were kind of pathetic. It's easy to think of similarly technically impressive products that never tu
815.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Where was there any suggestion of algorithmic or IQ test interviewing?
816.
by Tloewald 12y ago
You should look into some of the stuff MS did in the glory years, such as deliberately breaking rival software from Lotus, Borland, and Apple.
817.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Starting with 3rd edition, two-classing is completely nerfed. Multi-classing is the norm (each time you go up a level you pick a class to level in) but unless you pick highly compatible classes you just create a basket case.
818.
by Tloewald 12y ago
I'm pretty skeptical about the Apple Car rumor (Jean-Louis Gassee wrote a nice debunking piece http://www.mondaynote.com/2015/02/15/the-fantastic-apple-car... ), but when the NY Times suggests that Apple
819.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Also, autonomous cars should be large enough to lie down in ;-)
820.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Actually the high end fights now are, in general, far more technical than they were in vanilla WoW (BWL, AQ40, Nax). They just offer dumbed down versions ("LFR") for the masses -- which is fair enough. Everyone pays for the conten
821.
by Tloewald 12y ago
One of the things I liked about BG was that it faithfully implemented all kinds of loopholes in the AD&D rules (which have since been "balanced" more-or-less out of existence). E.g. the optimal way to create magic users was as
822.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Good luck! I released an indie game in 1994. Three of us worked on it and two of us had high pressure jobs by the time it shipped (we'd worked on the bulk of the game in easier times). For its time, the game was pretty successful but i
823.
by Tloewald 12y ago
All the major javascript engines are multistage now, not just safari.
824.
by Tloewald 12y ago
The US flies drones over foreign countries and kills people with them, topples governments that it doesn't like (or that US companies don't like), invades countries on false or trivial pretexts, yada yada. Ob yeah, and funds terro
825.
by Tloewald 12y ago
How meaningless valuation figures can be . Apple's stock is pretty liquid and its revenue and profits suggest its market cap is, if anything, conservative.
826.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Why don't the people with this point of view rail against proprietary fonts the way they do against video codecs? If we took the same approach to fonts then you'd only be allowed to use open source fonts and everything would look
827.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Basically, do it the way Spivak does. Funny thing is in freshman year we were taught to do just that, but then abandoned the formality pretty much immediately after.
828.
by Tloewald 12y ago
I wonder if this is true. I suspect it's a bit like comparing Hollywood movies from today to 1950 — far better production quality, but script writing that's no better and possibly worse.
829.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Most people probably used the record feature on their cassette players and the cost of simply including it in every device may well have been lower than the cost of two production lines. Incidentally, for five years or so the Amiga was a gr
830.
by Tloewald 12y ago
How many queries do you think google or Siri have had to learn from?
831.
by Tloewald 12y ago
> I have never been more impressed with a human being Nelson Mandela.
832.
by Tloewald 12y ago
I don't see how this first item -- "Ban iOS developers from ever speaking about the developer agreement" -- is true. First, I don't see any such clause; second, you're allowed to discuss anything that's publicl
833.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Hypercard had a really nice programming language with automatic formatting and (eventually) an excellent debugger. The code was both easy to read AND write, and it was pretty easy for a competent programmer to understand clean up dodgy code
834.
by Tloewald 12y ago
I prefer not to shop at a place where the employees don't look like they can make ends meet. I'm not sure that is helping or hurting people on the whole, but it makes me feel better. I wish places which underpaid their staff allow
835.
by Tloewald 12y ago
It would be interesting to use something like bitcoin for social capital -- literally a favor bank.
836.
by Tloewald 12y ago
HP is working on a new architecture based on computers with just a buttload of persistent RAM, but so far it's vaporware.
837.
by Tloewald 12y ago
> I am sure that you can pick apart a global conflict spanning (at least) two decades, with many reverses and triumphs by both sides, to show that one side and one hero was destined to win, the other side's defeat inevitable. I agre
838.
by Tloewald 12y ago
I'm hardly an expert on the matter, but there are plenty of conflicting opinions. The fact remains Wellington was essentially undefeated as a general, in India, Spain, and finally Belgium. He was a defensive specialist, whereas Napoleo
839.
by Tloewald 12y ago
Nice tutorial pitched just right for me. Looks a lot like Iron Python iirc. I like that you can start writing old school interactive command line apps so easily -- great for starting out and in the absence of solid gui tools.
840.
by Tloewald 12y ago
The most valuable thing about the article, in my opinion, is its teasing out of the difference between strategy (considering all means and all goals) and tactics, something that -- for example -- the US military might learn from (which defi

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