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by Xuzz 16y ago
That's not true. Let's see: PS3: OtherOS allowed unsigned code, way before piracy. Wii: Team Twiizers, who are strongly anti-piracy, were the first to run unsigned code. This was later abused for piracy, but only after Nintendo refused to w
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Talk about obvious sarcasm...
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by Xuzz 16y ago
They changed the rules when they published the App Store guidelines PDF.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
My question was more of if you have multiple statements, instead of a single expression, you wanted to stick inside a macro and preserve the ability to call it within another expression. For example: #define SOMEMACRO(x) do { \ int
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Great article, although I'd prefer if there was a bit less of a focus on Objective-C and Cocoa, since all the rest applies pretty much the same to plain C. (However, that technique with blocks looks like a good solution to the "many stateme
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Funny, I spend the majority of my time on the couch using an iPad (and happily tapping away on my lap, if I have to use the keyboard, which I usually don't).
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I think the issue is that for me, the edges are what make or break it. I can't stand one little thing that bugs me every time I use it (for example, the iOS monstrosity of a notification system). I'm sure Google can make polished and smoo
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by Xuzz 16y ago
To avoid reposting the exact same message: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2056896
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by Xuzz 16y ago
How much input do you actually do on these websites? Facebook, for a major example, is just a sentence or two for each status update, and a word or two for the chat messages.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I think the issue is that (for some, at least) reading is much faster than watching the video, especially combined with the additional loading times.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
One example: Android still doesn't use the GPU for the interface, so the scrolling on a brand-new Nexus S still isn't as smooth as on a three-plus year old iPhone 2G. Plus, the lists don't bounce at the end, so not only is it choppier but i
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I use Git on my iPad all the time, from Cydia/Telesphoreo. Sure, it's unsupported, but it works great. (Link: http://cydia.saurik.com/package/git )
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by Xuzz 16y ago
(Unless you claim that Android is "bad software that actively interferes with usability" (because it doesn't officially support tablets yet, or has custom skins, or isn't integrated, or whatever), which the author seems to be, in a sense, s
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Assuming you count iTunes and Microsoft Office as part of the browser, which isn't really that much of a stretch. (However, he iTunes Store is a browser (possibly still using their proprietary/strange markup language), and for many (if no
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Did you actually read the article? Six kids die in a school bus every year. Awful, yes, but it's nothing compared to how many die in cars. Want to save more kids? Get more school buses with the money, not more seat belts.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
One way you can do this same thing, just simpler, is append " http://google.com/url?q= before the NYTimes URL. You still have to click through the Google XSRF prevention page, but it's a lot simpler and doesn't depend on the Googlebot havi
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by Xuzz 16y ago
You don't have to do that on the iPhone. There's this magic thing called "autorelease". Call it on an object, and it'll release itself (and its memory) sometime in the future, after the current call stack (probably sometime a few runloops a
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by Xuzz 16y ago
iOS has the concept of "autoresizing", which allows for relatively simple flow-based UI. Could you explain (or link to) Android's implementation of the concept? I'm interested to see how it works.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
> If they don't have as many rich animations as iOS it doesn't make a whole lot of difference to end users. Actually, that makes much, much more of a difference to end users than notifications systems or "intents" (both of which, I fre
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by Xuzz 16y ago
My iPhone 2G on iOS 3.0 can scroll a list smoothly. Every brand new Android phone (possibly excluding the Nexus S -- I haven't yet used one) cannot. Sadly, since I still see devices stuck on 2.1, 2.0, or even 1.6, that fix will not come to
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Question: what makes Objective-C horrible? I quite like the way it manages to remain moderately performant while also giving many of the benefits of dynamic languages. (Personally, I find Java horribly restrictive, but that's a separate dis
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Is the user, in this case, a thief? If so, and it's a switch you enable, it seems pretty benign to me. (But, before discussing this more: it's not spyware -- or anything -- if it only exists in a patent application.)
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I consider myself pretty computer literate, but I have absolutely no issues with this. I support the EFF, but I think campaigning against this is both backwards and never going to succeed.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
That's completely true, but having your app pirated by a ton of people (and engaging the pirates!) can really help drive actual sales, mostly due to exposure.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Firstly, please get rid of the caps in the title (and the spelling error). :( Anyway, I'm not sure how this is spyware. Properly implemented, this is no different than systems that already exist to take photos of someone when they have stol
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by Xuzz 16y ago
"Attacks on Lack of Cryptography"?
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I have the Bluetooth keyboard, but it (sadly) doesn't solve that: the apps are just not mature enough for serious typing in many situations (especially if that "typing" includes "coding").
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by Xuzz 16y ago
(And force every legit Android developer to manage their applications, updates, and support in two places, not even talking about the hassles of converting purchases between the two stores.)
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by Xuzz 16y ago
It's kinda sad... but I've actually done exactly that before.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
There is a distinction there: the way Java is used in the enterprise and for Android apps is very different.

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