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by Zev 16y ago
The App Store has refunds, but it isn't an automated process. You basically fill out a form in iTunes saying you want a refund (and say why), and you'll get one. I've seen a few refunds. But, not too many; I could probably count the number
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by Zev 16y ago
- xchat (maybe that does work on the iPad, it could be) X-Chat? Nope. However, I can personally vouch that IRC works on the iPad. And will work even better once we get Colloquy for the iPad released :) - an ide (currently intellij, I hat
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by Zev 16y ago
Romania isn't exactly a surprise either. A lot of Eastern Europe is in pretty bad shape. With Romania, their GDP dropped by approximately 20%, or $40 billion in in 2008/2009. Its only expected to go up by about $7 billion or so in 2009/2010
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by Zev 16y ago
I entered my email into the form and never heard back from Amazon. So I spent the time playing with Palm's SDK and PDK for WebOS instead.
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by Zev 16y ago
You don't necessarily have to have citizenship of a country to live there. Nor do you have to live in the same country that the rest of your family lives in. I'm just wondering how much (if any) of his/friends/families experience is due to
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by Zev 16y ago
The point is that almost everyone I know seems to be having a bad experience with flying these days Just as a counterpoint, almost everyone I know is minorly inconvenienced and continues on their merry way way when flying. Mainly grumblin
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by Zev 16y ago
There has been work on performance; in a lot of cases, MacRuby is faster than YARV. Just, not in this case, with strings. Thats mostly because strings were just redone to use NSString's internally, so there hasn't been as much work done o
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by Zev 16y ago
Also might be worth noting: MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9, not 1.8.x. Any benchmarks done should be compared against YARV, not what comes with OS X.
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by Zev 16y ago
Kochan's book is great for the language itself. But, that doesn't help you with the frameworks. For that, I'm a huge fan of Hillegass' Cocoa Programming (and its how I first picked up Cocoa), but, I'd only recommend it if you're more intere
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by Zev 16y ago
"Including iPad" could mean 3.2, since 3.2 isn't available for the iPhone or iPod touch.
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by Zev 16y ago
Nimbyism. People want it. Just not near them. Near someone else is fine. The word "nuclear" has too many negative connotations for it to be near them. A perfect example of this is the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island in the 70's.
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by Zev 16y ago
I think the confusion comes from Bram Cohen apparently having worked at Valve on their CDN for a bit; http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/12/technology/circuits/12shar...
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by Zev 16y ago
I was simply referring to OS X's automated crash reporting tool. Which does work after a kernel panic, regardless of what messed up badly enough to cause such an event.
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by Zev 16y ago
OS X saves a log and sends (or asks to send) the report back to Apple the next time the user logs in.
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by Zev 16y ago
Just to nitpick, its AppKit, not UIKit. UIKit is on the iPhone, where, sadly, MacRuby isn't available.
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by Zev 16y ago
1. How is the learning curve for a ruby programmer ? None. MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9. A very fast Ruby implementation, but, not a completely new language thats only similar. HotCocoa is a gem. A very useful gem that should
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by Zev 16y ago
Are you saying that Adobe reimplemented the UI? Or that they pass it off to the OS to handle? Because if its the former, the iPhone doesn't have a menu dropdown for cut/copy/paste. Or a ctrl/command button, for that matter. I'm only asking
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by Zev 16y ago
"Selectable text" is an option in any Flash text field. Is copying/pasting it to the OS (or app) pasteboard an option? If so, will it use the same UI as native apps have? Or will it force a funky widget of its own in the middle of an app
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by Zev 16y ago
Hover isn't used for navigation in Flash. Its used for controls in games, a lot of the time. You click to start, then move the mouse to play. // note: Deleted this comment and readded it, since I originally replied to the wrong comment. Who
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by Zev 16y ago
Delays Your link makes it seem like an evangelist is playing loosely with words; "available for download" could simply mean beta/RC status, not ready for release everywhere. Battery Life From your link: The results are amazing: I can wa
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by Zev 16y ago
MobileMe cloud service Palm's Synergy works better than MobileMe ever has (including its time back as .Mac). Its free, over the air and automatic. Handles calendars, address book and the like. And I've never had (or heard of) a horror sto
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by Zev 16y ago
If you wanted to, sure. Palm also has an App Store. IIRC, they just entered into a bunch of EU markets.
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by Zev 16y ago
but at the end of the day they are all desktop/laptop UIs. The physical form of an 8" netbook isn't designed for the same type of use as a 15" — or even 13" — macbook pro is. Why should the UI be?
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by Zev 16y ago
What would you suggest it do? Reformat the text to fit the iPad's screen completely. Doesn't seem like too much of a hassle. Some titles are really long and scaling the size would create very small fonts. Its not much of a hassle. But
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by Zev 16y ago
Also, what is this weird back button? Likely an attempt at copying Instapaper's pagination; see "Pagination tap zones" on http://blog.instapaper.com/post/545408126
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by Zev 16y ago
HN for the iPad is a great idea. Its certainly one that has crossed my mind (only to be put aside due to the lack of time - maybe in a few weeks, after the semester ends...). This app leaves a bit to be desired, however. At least, judging b
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by Zev 16y ago
... and have the ambition of outdoing OSX in the user experience department. Is it really "outdoing OSX" if the UI is being done for a market that Apple isn't and doesn't seem to have an inclination of targeting? At least, for what the UI
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by Zev 17y ago
If you exclude HN redirects from your search, the result count goes down from 136 to 37 (only 10 or so sites): http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Hacker+News%22+%2Bgroaner+... Tangentially related question: what is ridddlr?
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by Zev 17y ago
I've actually gone and removed Twitter support from an application I work on. It was a small, fun /tweet command in Mobile Colloquy. I wrote it on a whim; it came out to maybe 100 LOC (with proper error handling and formatting). More time s
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by Zev 17y ago
Couldn't the issue mentioned by the comment be addressed pretty easily? Just have a blog or twitter client that announces the giveaways as well; "Giving away: A shiny foo! To enter, use our iPad app!"

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