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by Xuzz 16y ago
Here in San Francisco, we really have Comcast and Astound (a localish one). I don't know of any except those two.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Is this really appropriate for HN? Admittedly, I'm pretty new around here, but isn't this kind of "political news" off-topic?
513.
by Xuzz 16y ago
Thanks! That looks just about what I was (mentally) predicting.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
It might (partially) be due to the "identifying features" being removed from the images.
515.
by Xuzz 16y ago
Easily: poor scrolling, slow, shadows at the end of the web views (that the iPhone SDK forces in there (!)), etc. It's fairly easy to tell on an iPhone if something is JavaScript or not, it's one of the reasons I don't use anything that's b
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Are there actually? Could you link me to numbers on that?
517.
by Xuzz 16y ago
Sure, but then you have the exact same issue where only a subset of devices can use Netflix.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Interesting; I didn't know that. The block-based methods are, of course, better, but then you can't support iOS 3.x, which is still a pretty big percent of users. Thanks!
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Once, of course, all the devices get upgrades to it. When I'm still seeing releases of Android 1.5, I'm actually unsure if working with the OS for this would actually make it more difficult to support on a variety of platforms.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I cannot rate Erica Sadun's "iPhone Cookbook" high enough: some of the techniques it showed (especially the truly modal alert views) incredibly helpful, if slightly obscure.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
May I ask why you aren't using the UIView animations, which, for something like this, are easier (and don't need the extra CA power)? For this case, do this (also uncompiled): [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL]; [UIView set
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Did you even read my comment? :( I've read the code, there is no iPhone 3GS support -- yet. Here's a link to the project's wiki, note all the red under 3GS: http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Status#iDroid_7 Secondly, my point was about th
523.
by Xuzz 16y ago
Correlation does not imply causation.
524.
by Xuzz 16y ago
It doesn't even run on the iPhone 3GS? Also, the iPhone 2G and 3G have identical processors, so I'm not seeing where a speed difference would come from...
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Apples to robots?
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by Xuzz 16y ago
The issue with piracy is because Apple lets their DRM be cracked by just running gdb on the encrypted processes (while running) -- if they put any effort into it (kernel level blocks, etc) they could make security possible even with these h
527.
by Xuzz 16y ago
Or even find the option -- hiding it well is important.
528.
by Xuzz 16y ago
Python has == for value, and 'is' for reference -- that seems like a good solution to me, since it works for both "primitive" and "complex" data structures.
529.
by Xuzz 16y ago
No, it's an X-ray: click it.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Note: while this mentions that FaceTime is an 'open standard', it's not, at least yet. Steve Jobs promised it in June, but he has yet to release any documentation or the necessary information to make a compatible implementation.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
So far, only three people are using Windows (all 7) as their main OS. About 7-9 were using some flavor of Linux/BSD as their main OS, with the rest (all 10-12 using Mac OSX. (There were 22 posts when I wrote this.)
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by Xuzz 16y ago
It's most certainly not a fair comparison and I'm most likely trolling here, but at the moment I considered it a (somewhat) interesting point. (Edit: And Microsoft supports downgrades. I can't defend my own argument. In fact, on anything ne
533.
by Xuzz 16y ago
Obviously they weren't taught well enough to know that iOS 4 would slow things down, too :/.
534.
by Xuzz 16y ago
Not for the buttons in the bottom-right, though?
535.
by Xuzz 16y ago
Can someone sue Microsoft for slowing my computer with Windows 7? They don't provide any easy tools to downgrade and preserve my data... It's almost like they want me to but a new computer with Windows 7 -- another duplicated license to wha
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by Xuzz 16y ago
Interesting; I hadn't heard that. I feel this trend is good for the future: less things to manage is less that a user can do wrong.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
They want to make the idea of "running" irrelevant: to the user, it's active or inactive. No need to manage a list of running programs if what is actually running is made invisible and unimportant. Makes it simpler.
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by Xuzz 16y ago
As someone there pointed out, how about some HN username validation?
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by Xuzz 16y ago
That doesn't mean that Android is outselling iOS, though: the title doesn't mention phones anywhere, it says "devices".
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by Xuzz 16y ago
I don't see governments considering more than Microsoft for most things: desktop OS, office suite, etc. I would be glad if this changed that, though. There's a potential for quite a bit of money to be saved.

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