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781.
by ajanuary 15y ago
"uk" doesn't, but "gb" does :/
782.
by ajanuary 15y ago
The trackpad on a Windows Air-style laptop could be a big win. As amazing as the Macbook trackpad is on OS X, it's still incredibly flaky on Windows.
783.
by ajanuary 15y ago
This puts into words why I found the use of "shit" in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3209500 jarring despite not really being offended.
784.
by ajanuary 15y ago
For instance, Java, .NET, ruby, C++ STL and Objective C. Most languages use them. http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/A... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fkbw11z0.aspx http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/
785.
by ajanuary 15y ago
Not on OS X. I'm sure I've seen a tiny js library on github that does browser sniffing and gives you the relevant keyboard shortcut. Can't find it now.
786.
by ajanuary 15y ago
Copy constructors are a much more common idiom in programming than taking a slice of an entire list.
787.
by ajanuary 15y ago
It amuses me it goes straight from making the point that tabular layouts are clear to a rather confusing table in Figure 4 where what should be a header looks like normal text.
788.
by ajanuary 15y ago
Hopefully the G+ chrome plugin will stay as a plugin. I'm not too keen on it being integrated into it as a product as a whole.
789.
by ajanuary 15y ago
Hey Apple, there's a shop near my parents simply called "Apple". It's logo is a picture of an apple. That seems a more likely candidate to go after.
790.
by ajanuary 15y ago
Not true if you got a 2nd generation iPhone. You could have gotten a 3G as the latest phone and been unsupported for 9 months on an 18 month contract.
791.
by ajanuary 15y ago
If you bought an iPhone 3G any time before June 2009 you were buying the latest phone. On a 12 month contract that leaves you with 3 months unsupported, and on an 18 month contract 9 months.
792.
by ajanuary 15y ago
Or add the ability to pause / control which slide to view.
793.
by ajanuary 15y ago
Limiting it to 3 years masks the fact that lots of people still had iPhone 3G phones on 2 year contracts when Apple stopped offering updates for it. That said, the fact even that's off the scale is worrying for Android.
794.
by ajanuary 15y ago
There's a full, though poor quality, transcript. That's what I ended up using.
795.
by ajanuary 15y ago
I think the arguments about staying on course are poor. It seems to me the thinking is "Given we've got optional typing, it's faster to not check the types. The majority of type errors should be found during development."
796.
by ajanuary 15y ago
I dunno, the reliability of Intellisense static typing gives combined with a REPL would be even more useful for exploration. That aside, it's exciting to have the ability to have both.
797.
by ajanuary 15y ago
"Your phone becomes your credit card... Google will probably do this first" Haven't they already done it with Google Wallet?
798.
by ajanuary 15y ago
What's their obsession with blonde people not texting?
799.
by ajanuary 15y ago
True, but that requires reading. And reading is haaaaard.
800.
by ajanuary 15y ago
True, I hadn't considered that for a lot of those there isn't any other way.
801.
by ajanuary 15y ago
Given they have similar situations with finder, multitasking, folders, deleting apps etc. I suspect they're just going to rely on people remembering the feature's there.
802.
by ajanuary 15y ago
That was actually written by Steve Hayden ( http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story... )
803.
by ajanuary 15y ago
You need to start listening to some better UK bands.
804.
by ajanuary 15y ago
It works based on geofencing, which allows you to specify and label regions.
805.
by ajanuary 15y ago
I keep typing the urls into the "Search Google Developers". Seems like a bit of poor design there.
806.
by ajanuary 15y ago
"The most profound difference between the 4S and 4 cameras has nothing to do with image quality. It’s that you don’t have to wait nearly as long. [...] Even better, image quality is better, too." Jeez Gruber, make up your mind :P
807.
by ajanuary 15y ago
Chrome 13 scores 2.5. I thought Chrome latest was 14, which definitely addresses some of the missing points from 13.
808.
by ajanuary 15y ago
Is it just me, or are the icons in the "old browser" distinctly Chrome-like?
809.
by ajanuary 15y ago
The comments under the "Feeble Typing" section make it clear the author has never seen or read Gilad talk about optional typing. For one example, read http://bracha.org/pluggable-types.pdf
810.
by ajanuary 15y ago
They do, but it's a heck of a lot of work. The CLR has the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) that does a lot of the work for you now, but it's still a pain.

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