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by Xuzz 15y ago
I'm talking about Apple, not about developers. If Apple had returned SHA1(KeychainID + UDID) instead of just UDID when the SDK was released, then apps would never have seen the "real" UDID, and we wouldn't have this issue now. However, sinc
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Sadly, this all could have been avoided with one simple change four years ago: rather than having the UDID match the specific device, have it be hash of the app's "keychain identifier" (usually set at the company level, enabling cross-produ
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Either it's a non-story, and so it doesn't matter. Or it is a story, and they are being proactive and going out of their way to solve the issue before it gets bigger. Either way, it can't hurt: nobody is saying that they are hurting their
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Maybe Linux will dominate, but Android is definitely not GNU. They don't use the GNU userland, libc, or many other GNU libraries (if any).
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How to test your app on older iOS releases(blog.chpwn.com)
5 points by Xuzz 15y ago|0 comments
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by Xuzz 15y ago
The bigger question, to me, is what drivers are included. Many of the chips in all these phones do not have specifications freely available or community-built drivers. Does this include, say, the GPU driver? Or is that still a binary blob t
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by Xuzz 15y ago
(Try Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Large Text: it seems to work on my iPad for bumping notes to a larger font size.)
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I don't think it's about iPhone vs Droid bs Nexus: it's about phones and tablets versus desktops and laptops. Most laptops today aren't sold with a 200+ DPI screen. I think I'd have a hard time finding any. And yet, most phones (and tablets
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by Xuzz 15y ago
One difference is that the ASUS tablet isn't out yet. And, as far as I know (which, admittedly, isn't much), it doesn't even have a release date. Once it is out, it should be definitely comparable, but this tablet is out now . Which is pre
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I tried to explain it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3707183 More condensed, it's a combination of Apple not wanting each app re-implementing push (or constant polling), Sparrow not willing to take on the responsibility of bein
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Yeah: what we really want is a way to strictly limit Sparrow's permissions, so they can only see new mail as it is passed in, and maybe only just enough for something like push. However, that's really on Google's end to implement, and I'm n
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Copied from another thread where I talked about this issue: I think the issue here is that it isn't really "push" that Sparrow wants to do. From what I can tell, what they want to do is simply "run all the time so we can keep a connection
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I think the issue here is that it isn't really "push" they want to do. From what I can tell, they want to do is simply "run all the time so we can keep a connection open to receive new messages immediately". Which, to be fair, is pretty sim
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Although the HN title (currently) says "Ipad 3", Apple seems to actually be calling it the new "iPad" (edit: "new iPad", not "New iPad"). It's a bit confusing: next year, is it then the "old iPad"? But, we don't really have that issue with
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by Xuzz 15y ago
So, strangely, for app testing purposes, I actually own one of each model of iPhone and iPad ever made by Apple. The performance, as you said, certainly does vary. However, from my experience, there's been only one really bad moment: the
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by Xuzz 15y ago
However, and probably due to Apple, the new Windows 8 tablets (and the Metro UI for all forms of Windows 8) will only run applications from their new Windows Store. So while they may not have before, Microsoft is certainly not immune from t
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by Xuzz 15y ago
As of Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), it's an improved version of the IE9 rendering engine, and is generally not bad. It doesn't work with a lot of mobile sites that expect WebKit (as with Opera Mobile or Firefox Mobile), but it's not a bad brow
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by Xuzz 15y ago
One use case would be something with "projects", like Xcode, that need to have project files with implicit access to the files around them. IIRC, it's currently limited to files (rather than directories), though, so I'm not sure how useful
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by Xuzz 15y ago
However, can you incorporate a minimal portion of the HP code to get the patent license? Maybe just use one function or something, just to make it a derived work?
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by Xuzz 15y ago
(I reversed engineered that procedure: it does nothing. Just a placebo.)
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Like the built in Messages, or Gmail, or Browser apps? It's hard to have a general rule when it seems that most apps on the platform break it. :(
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by Xuzz 15y ago
One of the cool parts of webOS being released under the Apache license is that it makes patents much less of an issue. The Apache license's patent grants mean that Apple, Google, Microsoft, or anyone else can freely take the best parts from
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Comments on the proposed DMCA excemption for "access control" measures.(copyright.gov)
3 points by Xuzz 15y ago|0 comments
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Gatekeeper's Dialog(dcurt.is)
104 points by Xuzz 15y ago|88 comments
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by Xuzz 15y ago
That's not completely true. They can't (feels weird to say "can't" and "mandate" for an open source project) now replace the Google UI, but they certainly can add their own modifications. (And that's only on 1% of devices, too, running A
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by Xuzz 15y ago
I would actually agree that his Facebook scraping should get him kicked off, but not due to some terms of service crap. But think about it. Whose data was he scraping? Maybe Facebook's, maybe the user who entered it should own it. But I don
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by Xuzz 15y ago
(For what it's worth, while software unlocking is usually not a huge or dangerous affair, there is not currently a software unlock for any iPhone beyond the iPhone 3G.)
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by Xuzz 15y ago
That's true for WebCore (the WebKit rendering engine), yes. But WebKit itself, actually, is BSD licensed and released just because Apple decided to release it. (About a year or so after WebKit was first publicly released, though, I think.)
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Apple has their description of delegation here: http://developer.apple.com/library/IOs/#documentation/iPhone... Delegation is a design pattern in which one object sends messages to another object that has been specified as its delegate,
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by Xuzz 15y ago
Should you need a third party app installed for a good reading experience? I don't use Google+ and don't want the app on iOS, even if it was launched when I click a Google+ link (which, fwiw, you are correct: it currently does not). (On t

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