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by adamlett 11y ago
I don't know how I missed that part of of your post. Sorry about that. Still. I find it quite a stretch to argue that not supporting file downloads "breaks" the web. Users don't perceive websites to be broken just becaus
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by adamlett 11y ago
> If it lacks very basic functionality, isn't the effect the same as breaking the web? No. If what worked before continues to work, it means it's not broken. Also: What "very basic functionality" doesn't the late
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by adamlett 11y ago
> Then I tested it in Safari (emphasis mine) I use Chrome as my primary development browser and Safari and Firefox as my second and third choice. When I do get around to testing in IE 9+, it's almost an afterthought. Is it surpris
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by adamlett 11y ago
Why is that obvious? It seems quite insulting to presume that people don't speak for themselves.
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by adamlett 11y ago
> Clean design isn't innovation . I beg to differ. innovation is generally considered to be a process that brings together various novel ideas in a way that they have an impact on society. ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by adamlett 11y ago
It will not hurt the content producers who publish their content in apps. Like the just announced Apple News or the Facebook thing I can't remember the name of.
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by adamlett 11y ago
Among people who like Ruby, this is seen as a feature, not a bug. It makes refactorings easier when you change something from a local variable to a method call and don't have to search for all the places you would have to add parenthes
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by adamlett 11y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying here exactly. What is unsuitable for real-world applications? I will say this, though, regarding the need for shared, mutable state: You can communicate by sharing memory, but you can also share m
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by adamlett 11y ago
> Therefore, I must be a militiaman (A ⇒ B) ⇏ (B ⇒ A)
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by adamlett 12y ago
> which are usually actually Apple leaks That's really interesting. How do you know this?
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by adamlett 12y ago
Apple's business model is selling devices at a premium. Every choice they make is guided by that. In order to sell at a premium (as opposed to competing on price) their products have to be differentiated. This means no generic back-end
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by adamlett 12y ago
Nobody said it was 'a great deal'. It could be that it is simply priced right. In which case a savy investor might be able to find investments elsewhere. And don't forget that just because the three you mentioned didn't
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by adamlett 12y ago
As a poker player, I recognize that you can be ruined both by making plays with a negative expected value (= valuation) or by making plays with positive expected value but which you are not adequately bankrolled for (= risk). Doyle Brunson
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by adamlett 12y ago
It's not difficult to predict the future with 100% accuracy if you don't have to provide a deadline for your predictions. Every product or service will eventually become obsolete, but the question is when? Will Uber make enough mo
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by adamlett 12y ago
Students and teachers are the target audience. Salespeople are. Business people are. These people all have serious computing needs that are better met by an ultraportable device with long battery life than by anything that has more horsepow
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by adamlett 12y ago
> the primary reason remains the fact that the iPhone is a premier fashion item But what does that mean? _Why_ is the iPhone a fashion item and other phones are not? Why does the iPhone command such a high degree of customer loyalty comp
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by adamlett 12y ago
I feel like the concepts are being abused here. Prototypical — at least in my understanding — refers to a mechanism of inheritance or delegation, and not as Crockford uses the term to the way you build your objects. Confusingly, JavaScript
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by adamlett 12y ago
Hundreds of millions of people have bought iPhones. How sure are you that the people who defended the smaller screen are the same as the ones who defend the bigger screen? My personal experience is that people who were sceptical of a large
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by adamlett 12y ago
What a strange, myopic view that a language should be judged primarily by how easy it is to parse. Writing a parser is something very few will have to do compared to how many will use the language itself. It seems self evident that the lang
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The Secret Life of Passwords(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by adamlett 12y ago
No, you couldn't. That's not how Touch ID works. Apps never get access to the fingerprint or have any way to interact with the Touch ID sensor except to ask it to authenticate the owner of the phone, ie. yourself.
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by adamlett 12y ago
Or any previous device you might have had with Touch ID. Unless you change your fingerprints when you get a new phone. Or... You could wipe your old phone when you get a new one. Which can easily be subverted by simply disallowing the ph
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by adamlett 12y ago
A bad choice for what? Your fingerprint can only be used to access a particular device in the case of Touch ID. It is worthless if you don't also have physical access to the device. And it's a lot easier to tell if your device has
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by adamlett 12y ago
In the case of Touch ID, please consider that in order to circumvent it, you not only have to be able to fool the Touch ID sensor, you also have to have physical access to the device .
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by adamlett 12y ago
The amount of money Apple makes from (US) government contracts is utterly insignificant compared to what they make from selling directly to consumers. Which revenue stream do you think they would be least likely to gamble with?
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by adamlett 12y ago
When you are considering how two things are alike, don't forget to also think about the ways in which they are not. Unlike with HTML, content producers who write Markdown, don't need their documents to be parsed correctly by many
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by adamlett 12y ago
Still no hash literal :-(
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by adamlett 12y ago
> Congratulations, you just described Arel. Unfortunately SQL leaks through Arel's abstractions and make it behave in surprising ways. Arel falls short of achieving the goal of being able to modularise and compose queries. The same
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by adamlett 12y ago
This reminds me of the saying: It took me ten years to become an overnight success. Humans generalize well from few examples because, well, they've already processed billions of examples. A toddler may have never seen an elephant befor
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by adamlett 12y ago
Is there a difference between "not from current website" and "3rd party"?

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