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by al_james 16y ago
Well, Mac is a mature product line. True it might not be at the cutting edge of Apple's business but it is a highly profitable income stream for Apple. So it is not going anywhere. I suppose there is a possibility of iPad cannibalising MacB
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by al_james 16y ago
Yes, the first thing I did when trying Safari 5 was try to type a google search in the main address bar. Its funny how quickly Chrome has reprogrammed me.
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by al_james 16y ago
"Big newspapers" are not getting the returns from online advertising because they are lazy. The days of 'fire and forget' advertising where you stick a few banners and google ads on a what the money roll in are gone. You need to find ways t
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by al_james 16y ago
Wow... I wonder how that works. 'next' and 'previous' links?
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by al_james 16y ago
I have been spending less time on 'large newspaper' sites lately because I find it annoying that the text columns are becoming narrower and the ad columns multiplying to their right. If CPM rates are dropping from your advertisers, maybe it
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by al_james 16y ago
Yes, I suspect its the implementation of the canvas object thats the bottleneck here. An implementation of sub-objects (eg. sprites) on the canvas along with a dirty area only rendering algorithm would go a long way to bridging the gap.
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by al_james 16y ago
I think we need to accept that the 'HTML5' name will be mis-used to mean 'HTML5 + CSS3 + JS'. It certainly is easier that naming all 3 component technologies and IMO its acceptable as those browsers that support HTML5 typically support some
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by al_james 16y ago
What would be great is the ability to edit javascript and then save the edited file somewhere. Otherwise I can see alot of copy and paste in my future!
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by al_james 16y ago
In other words: "Don't use any of the cool CSS 3 features that would make you want to code an app in HTML in the first place". If the only way to make it snappy is to draw it on a canvas and implement your own 'dirty regions only' drawing m
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by al_james 16y ago
Why would they bother with this HTML5 showcase in that case?
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by al_james 16y ago
Yeah, but Apple seem to be suggesting that you can use HTML5 for nice looking (near native animation) effects on these devices.
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by al_james 16y ago
Has anyone tried these on iPad or iPhone? Some of them are not smooth on my macbook, surly they must suck on a low CPU device? Or am I wrong?
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by al_james 16y ago
Why would you want to do that for? You would still have the annoying ads (or whatever) plus the overhead of a chrome extension to convert them when the page loads!
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by al_james 16y ago
Wow. Major guesswork in the numbers here. Any one of those numbers could be out and throw the final result off by an order of magnitude. The other point is lock in. Google have 65k new users locked into a google environment each day. Their
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by al_james 16y ago
I dont want to pay people to 'pick things up on the job'. I want people with a proven track record in the language we use.
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by al_james 16y ago
Good, but took me a little while to work out the result interface. What are the bars all about?
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by al_james 16y ago
But you are forgetting that its much easier to hire experienced Java programmers than experienced Scala programmers, simply because there are not that many of the latter.
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by al_james 16y ago
Yes huge difference. It still amazes me that some geeks have trouble identifying that they are not their own target market.
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by al_james 16y ago
Its pretty terrible that a big site like Yelp would be open to a Cross Site Scripting attack.
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by al_james 16y ago
Most pointless link ever. BBC is the place to go http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/default....
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by al_james 16y ago
Its a shame geo aware DNS hosting is always at a premium price point. On a related note: dns.com sell packages based on number of dns queries per month. How would I work out how many I need? Obviously its not one per visitor. Does anyone kn
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by al_james 16y ago
Yes!
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by al_james 17y ago
But, more to the point, the teacher did ask the kid to close Firefox and they did not. The teacher may be misinformed, but that does not give the child the right to ignore the teacher.
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by al_james 17y ago
Yeah, to be honest, I think that the reason that Apple took so long in approving the app is that they were too busy rolling around on the floor laughing at it.
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by al_james 17y ago
I have posted on their mailing list. However, I guess that if you dont distribute a copy of the Neo4J package with your code, they basically have no say?
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by al_james 17y ago
How about if the Neo4J REST component was (say) one of a few options (the others being something like FlockDB or a mysql implementation)... In effect you would need to bring your own Neo4J platform to use the larger sytem, and Neo4J would n
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by al_james 17y ago
Yeah sure.... it is much harder and involves minimizing the number of relations across shard boundaries. Not easy. However, to call a system that only allows depth 1 traversals a 'graph database' is slightly pushing the definition. To me, i
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by al_james 17y ago
Hmmm... This looks to only store first order relations efficiently, its seems that to traverse many nodes, you would need to repeatedly query the database (e.g. I can only get my friends, not the friends of my friends etc...). This severely
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by al_james 17y ago
Well, I intend to buy my mum a iPad and keyboard so I can prop the iPad up on her desk, and she can use it just like a normal desktop PC. She will be able to do all the things she does normally, but with many orders of magnitude less tech s
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by al_james 17y ago
I would also recommend looking at node.js ( http://nodejs.org/ ). Its an event based javascript framework that lends itself to the creation of scalable servers very easily. Its still early days, so might not be mature enough for your projec

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