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811.
by Zev 17y ago
Its valid: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/us/27security.html . Which is actually linked to in the article.
812.
by Zev 17y ago
Why not just sedate everyone... I'd be slightly more open to this policy if the TSA was going to start paying for in-flight alcohol. I don't necessarily want to use my laptop around alcohol in-flight. (Or soda, for that matter - though
813.
by Zev 17y ago
I personally can't wait to see systems like OSX & FreeBSD use Clang as their default compilers... Some parts of OS X are already compiled with Clang. Off the top of my head, OpenCL, OpenGL and Xcode are all compiled with Clang now. Al
814.
by Zev 17y ago
The number is from The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks, based on his experiences when developing IBM's OS/360. Beyond that, I can't really answer the rest of your questions; I haven't managed to sit down and read it yet.
815.
by Zev 17y ago
Isn't there a nonprofit behind VLC? I was mostly wondering what what their focus is on. Is their focus primarily licensing issues?
816.
by Zev 17y ago
Interesting that it took 10 days for this news to get out. Kind of makes me feel like Mac OS X isn't exactly a high priority for the people behind VLC? I do hope that they find a dev though.
817.
by Zev 17y ago
FWIW, A lot of their color comes from images within a post, not the blog itself (which is quite consistent with its blues).
818.
by Zev 17y ago
For me the "Hacker" part of Hacker News is that I tend to root for the smaller guy, with the clearly unpolished/non-existent PR dept, that actually delivered a product. For me, the "hacker" part is that I use what works for me, in ways th
819.
by Zev 17y ago
Yup, same here. Although, I'll occasionally find myself spending days at a time using C within a project (IOKit (accessing, not writing drivers for), CoreFoundation and some other lower level functions such as kqueue).
820.
by Zev 17y ago
Apparently my email isn't valid. Looks like they won't get my email and I won't find out what this service is. Oh well.
821.
by Zev 17y ago
I have Facebook, but for all intents and purposes, I treat it as if it doesn't exist. If your app needs me to log in with Facebook, I won't use it. Likewise, I have Twitter. I use it daily. However, if your app isn't related to Twitter and
822.
by Zev 17y ago
Despite a trend for some colleges to teach computer science as software engineering (my college included..), they should be considered two different things. However, they're not. So we usually wind up with a mix that is some CS, some SE a
823.
by Zev 17y ago
Except that Chrome uses WebKit for rendering. WebKit is used in least one other desktop browser (Safari — talk about a minority on Windows!) and a majority of the mobile web browsers.
824.
by Zev 17y ago
Who cares whether a method was overridden or called or whatever -- if it's in the runtime it can be invoked. API's aren't hidden to make developers lives harder, but rather because they may not be stable and may or may not exist in futu
825.
by Zev 17y ago
The copied app (unlike on the free internet) couldn't be called "Colloquy" (or reference Colloquy in its tags) because Apple would forbid its distribution, and so discoverability is significantly reduced. Sadly, not completely true. It co
826.
by Zev 17y ago
I wish this tired GPL counterpoint would be put to rest. If you provide the source code for your software, someone else will compile it and distribute a binary legally and for free. FWIW, I contribute to an app that has been on the App St
827.
by Zev 17y ago
For launch, I personally try to decide whats essential to the application at hand - if this feature isn't in the application, is it still the same application? Example: If you're making a todo list, you need to be able to add entries and
828.
by Zev 17y ago
To me, that would be a problem with your code, not Objective C or anything within the Cocoa frameworks. I would personally say that if an object is retaining its parent (or parent's parent, etc), there's something wrong with your design and
829.
by Zev 17y ago
The analyzer comes built into Xcode 3.2 on 10.6; no need to install another version (unless you're still on 10.5, I suppose — but you should update to 10.6 in that case, if only for the new dev tools). Either hit cmd + shift + a to run the
830.
by Zev 17y ago
There's also the (longer) Cocoa Fundamentals Guide that Apple has, http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Cocoa/C... . Instead of focusing on the language, it goes over the basic frameworks you'll use, the design patterns tha
831.
by Zev 17y ago
Most of the time, memory management with objc is easy; if you alloc, retain, copy or mutableCopy, you need to release (or autorelease). Combine that with Clang's Static Analyzer to give a warning on a leak, and you shouldn't have any proble
832.
by Zev 17y ago
New windows go to Safari's Top Sites. New tabs go to about:blank.
833.
by Zev 17y ago
Intel Mac's were announced in June 2005 ([1]). Apple started shipping them in the beginning of 2006. Anyone who bought a PPC Mac in August 2006 won't get any pity from me. And, where isn't it important to have a fast dev machine for, you kn
834.
by Zev 17y ago
The "Gitty" in the screenshots is the name of the folder the repo is stored in, not the name of the application. Confusing choice on the authors part? Yup. http://img.skitch.com/20091107-8pwm7hbtsrhc1gs2pn7kk4ba59.jp... is a screenshot af
835.
by Zev 17y ago
In that case, you're using a machine thats 4+ years old and its about time for an update. Especially if the machine is being used for development.
836.
by Zev 17y ago
Are you sure Gity is the same thing as Gitty? Gity (this app, by Aaron somthing) and Gitty (a different app, http://macsamurai.blogspot.com/2008/06/my-new-project-gitty.... , by Colin Wheeler) have similar names, but I don't believe they a
837.
by Zev 17y ago
These are all drop-in replacement kernels for mach_kernel, run by hackintoshers, that accept patches from contributors It sounds like none of these modifications are sent back to Apple. Its great that they can fork projects - that much, a
838.
by Zev 17y ago
Somehow, I imagine it would be a privacy nightmare if Apple were to enable Genius by default. People would say that Apple cared more about money than privacy. Genius works by explicitly telling Apple they can go through your purchases to re
839.
by Zev 17y ago
About -arch i386, sorry my English is poor, what I mean is, gprof is not working even with binaries compiled with -arch i386. Thats still wrong: 247:~ Zach$ gcc -pg -arch i386 foo.c -o foo 247:~ Zach$ file foo foo: Mach-O executab
840.
by Zev 17y ago
Given PyObjC didn't start shipping with OS X until 10.4, I would agree that you would have to be creative to make it work.

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