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by Zev 17y ago
My understanding of the App Store policies is that they prohibit applications where you pay to buy a ticket and then give a prize away. I am a bit surprised that this policy hasn't been amended to add "…unless you sell the tickets with in-a
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by Zev 17y ago
I read it on my iPad; just double tapped and it focused on the right element. But, Readability also strips everything but the content (thus proving its usefulness once again).
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by Zev 17y ago
You don't need to test on every iPhone OS device though. Just the ones with different hardware changes. So basically: original iPhone and, iPod Touch 2G, iPhone 3GS and iPad. And this hardware combination (or 3 of the 4) isn't hard to imagi
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by Zev 17y ago
It could be that the department recommends that they take the class, not that they chose to take it themselves; many departments at my college recommend taking CSC120 to fill a prereq.
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by Zev 17y ago
The original post you're replying to was deleted, but, this comment interested me enough that I went and looked for the paper. It isn't up yet, but here's a writeup of it from the Boston Globe: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/artic
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by Zev 17y ago
Did you read the article? The author specifically mentions that he doesn't normally use Adobe Acrobat: The worst part is, Acrobat isn’t even the best free PDF reader. Next time I will go with my usual default. With "usual default" linking
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by Zev 17y ago
FreeBSD's probably not the best example you could have picked; it can already build on a non-GCC compiler, Clang (for x86 and x64, at least): http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang . And the last time I looked, it was more of "Cl
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by Zev 17y ago
Except that if you want to use an image (say, on a button), you're still stuck with rasterized types. The only way to have resolution independence for buttons would be to use custom Quartz drawing. There's no SVG or no PDF support in UIImag
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by Zev 17y ago
Right. My point was supposed to be that the average user doesn't know about these implications. And since it actually makes a difference in what page is viewed, don't hide the www. from them. Sorry if I wasn't too clear.
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by Zev 17y ago
The www. prefix is a special case for people; it literally means "its the w orld w ide w eb" or "its the internet" to them. Technically, the subdomain is irrelevant. But, most people don't know this. They don't know how the internet wo
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by Zev 17y ago
And AppKit is almost 18 years old; it was started by NeXT and Sun in 1993 or so. UIKit removed a lot of cruft and fixed some pretty big design decisions in AppKit. It was a rewrite that was needed, not because an intern had too much time
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by Zev 17y ago
I doubt that the "average" person would realize that foo.com is different from www.foo.com — or that they could even be different.
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by Zev 17y ago
FWIW, not all of those apps are using native UI components. Some have their own that are drawn.
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by Zev 17y ago
Its not a quote made by pg, but, it is a quote from his essay. Its a short essay (likely under 400 words), worth reading, if only for the context.
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by Zev 17y ago
WebKit nightlies: http://nightly.webkit.org/ And they probably enabled or disabled some features, based on what they're working on. For awhile (or, a few days, at least), Safari release was faster than WebKit nightlies on SunSpider, since
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by Zev 17y ago
With the new PDK you can use C/C++ (or any language that compiles with the same API) to develop your app and use SDL and OpenGL. Which is awesome, if you're making a game. If you want to make any other kind of application with a Mojo UI a
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by Zev 17y ago
I never mentioned developers. I mentioned agencies. As in, advertising agencies. They already (or used to) sell email addresses to spammers. It isn't far fetched to imagine selling location-based data as well. That sort of information is f
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by Zev 17y ago
If you're using Cocoatron for your UI, your development time is as long as it takes for you to reimplement the necessary bits of UIKit, plus however long it takes you to make the rest of your application. The same goes for GNUStep / the GNU
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by Zev 17y ago
If you have $30 billion in cash, chances are that you have somewhat of a reputation. Apple definitely does. That repuation is worth far more to the company than a couple hundred thousand or a few million that an agency could offer. Howeve
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by Zev 17y ago
With something like $30 billion in cash in the bank, Apple's one of the companies that I'm not worried about selling information in order to make a quick buck. After all, aren't people always saying that Microsoft should use the privacy ang
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by Zev 17y ago
Yet this is completely fair to consumers who buy the application. Some welcome protection for them against unscrupulous developers or ad agencies. This change of the rules makes a ton of sense; with location-aware backgrounding (applicati
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by Zev 17y ago
No, but they do make up a fair number of apps that populate the top 100 lists for various categories (even if they're not runaway hits on the most profitable list).
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by Zev 17y ago
I haven't used PhoneGap, but I thought that it was just a UIWebView and Objective C? In which case, it would still be allowed.
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by Zev 17y ago
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert, but, my thoughts on this are that this is just another (poorly made) attempt by Apple to keep what they perceive to be inadequate applications off of their App Store. Any side effects[1] of their de
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by Zev 17y ago
My understanding of what Adobe was doing is that they're using LLVM to output the necessary ARM binary directly, not going to C/Objective-C and then using the standard tools by Apple to make the binary. It is probably worth noting that Appl
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by Zev 17y ago
Personally, I'm with al3x on what he says about private APIs in this post. Here's a few of my favorite moments that I've personally encountered with Apple and private APIs: * There are APIs that date back to 2.2.1 (at the very least) that h
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by Zev 17y ago
The problem when indexing isn't getting the new content; it is getting the ~1,240,000 older posts that aren't on newest anymore.
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by Zev 17y ago
It is pretty hard to make an app that works well , without actually trying it out on a device. I've tried; ended up buying an iPod touch before the app shipped.
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by Zev 17y ago
Some ideas that have been going through my head that I don't see myself ever getting around to working on (beyond the initial "jot them down in a notebook" stage): 1. An iPad interface for reMail. Not iPhone, but, definitely something that
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by Zev 17y ago
That sort of app isn't exactly the best kind of app to use as an introduction to iPhone apps.. HTTP Live Streaming on the iPhone isn't the simplest thing to start with (and the server would be pretty big on the Mac/Windows/Linux/... side of

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