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by Xuzz 16y ago
Whoever wrote this seems to have an extreme hatred of Ruby on Rails. I've personally never used it, but... wow, that was a lot of hate.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
It doesn't even have to be an ISP, you get pretty much get the same with most technical support lines on any computer-related product.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
(This is from 2004, so please add a (2004) tag to the end of the title nobody else misses that.)
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by Xuzz 16y ago
(And pretty much every IRC client, Gmail, webOS/iOS SMS, even QQ chat.)
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Sort of like how Smalltalk replaces 'if' statements with ifTrue: messages?
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by Xuzz 16y ago
This is a bit pedantic, but Git isn't an acronym (or all-caps).
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by Xuzz 16y ago
iOS actually has a full implementation of Scheme (TinyScheme) running inside the kernel, that manages the (often very complex) permission schemes -- one for each type of pre-installed app or daemon, and then one for the third-party apps a
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Or even "Startup Title Junk | Hacker News" -- that keeps the full title, and makes it show up right in your tab.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Thanks for saying that much better than me.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
This seems backwards to me. Shouldn't the "extended" description be the one hidden from the user's title bar, not the short one?
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by Xuzz 16y ago
That was true for iPhone OS 1.x, but since 2.0 they moved everything to 'mobile' except a few (very heavily sandboxed) daemons. For example, the 'JailbreakMe' jailbreak exploited FreeType running in the browser (Safari), but it still was sa
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by Xuzz 16y ago
This is the same thing that the iPhone jailbreakers do: look for security holes to open up the window to "root" (or install another OS: http://www.idroidproject.org/ ) on the iPhone. The sad part is that Android is supposed to solve this p
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I'm not sure what to put -- I use Google Apps's "catch-all" feature for my domain, so I have it as paypal@example.com (I also do this for most sites requiring registration, e.g., HN is hn@example.com). While it does end up at the same inbox
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Interesting; I've always preferred Little Star (in SF). I guess I just have an attachment to their cornmeal crust, I think it holds up better than the ones from the other places. (Although, I might just be down-rating Zachary's a bit harshl
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Objective-C is similar -- you have "setters" and "getters", but since there is no direct ivar access and you have the convenient @property syntax, you end up with a reasonably similar end result.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Another (probably more-known) one: http://opensource.apple.com/ They get ( ahem ) behind on the GPL code releases (especially for iOS), but it's still a useful site.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
The "panel" concept reminds me of Twitter for iPad (which I really enjoy), just applied to the entire OS -- a sort of simplified implementation of 10/GUI ( http://10gui.com/ ). It could definitely be more polished, but I'm excited for what
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by Xuzz 16y ago
"Users wanting to access Cloud Office from a web browser will need to be running Firefox 3.6 or Internet Explorer 8. It will also be supported by the Apple iOS and Google Android mobile platforms for mobile access." Interesting that they me
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Wait, I'm not sure I understand: "the openness argument is that the code is open and it is" and "this does is limit their openness" -- what do you mean by that? Anyway, my point is that you would not call Firefox an open source project if i
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I don't have an answer, but it really undermines their "openness" argument. Related question, if someone knows: Does the Android team take patches from those outside Google? (I know that Chrome does.)
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I know it's irrational. That's not my point.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I can't see the numbers on the left at all. I need to get this app.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Betrayed isn't the right word, but it certainly doesn't make me happy :/.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I just signed up Sunday. I feel betrayed :(. Maybe I can just cancel my account and move somewhere else that has a new-customer deal for the holidays.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Basically, a (very!) enhanced preprocessor? That would definitely be useful.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Depends if you care about "code fast" or "develop fast".
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by Xuzz 16y ago
If these dynamic languages are usually used in a mostly-static manner, just without the typing and some added load-time flexibility, doesn't that just mean they operate at a higher level of abstraction? Isn't that a good thing?
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by Xuzz 16y ago
That's not for iPhone.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
However, for those who still use the original iPhone, jailbreaking is the /only/ way to avoid a remote, browser-initiated, publicly available vulnerability. :(
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I feel that actual "hackers" need to realize that a new name is necessary if they want to disassociate themselves from this depiction. It's like the "begs the question" people ( http://begthequestion.info/ ) -- it's simply unfeasible to cha

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