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by alexbell 15y ago
They also have a great iPhone app.
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by alexbell 15y ago
Agreed. Immature - certainly. I don't think his actions were done with malicious intent. Maybe insolent, but that only counts in the military. If he wanted to he could have made his point in a far more malicious manner. And the octocat tatt
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by alexbell 15y ago
Login required on my iPhone's browser. Can someone post the contents please?
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by alexbell 15y ago
Sweet, I did not know. Is the performance respectable (provided it's a modern device)?
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by alexbell 15y ago
Multiplatform on mobile? As far as I am aware, no browsers for Android support WebGL. And Safari on iOS certainly doesn't. And as long as you're referring to mobile, why wouldn't you just use OpenGL anyways?
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by alexbell 15y ago
Bose QC-15 at home. They're great for over ear headphones, I wear glasses and they are not uncomfortable at all even after hours of wearing. A set of apple in ear buds that I leave at work.
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by alexbell 15y ago
Exactly. And those same users are the most likely to not be able to distinguish a targeted ad from actual content. You can say "this isn't a problem because it doesn't affect me". It's still a deceptive, slimey business practice that eff
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by alexbell 15y ago
Auto matching brackets in gdb!!!! Fucking finally! I nearly fell out of chair as shear joy overcame me.
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by alexbell 15y ago
> But, really, what does anyone expect incumbents to say? Exactly. It's not like a Samsung rep is going to get up on stage and talk about how one of their competitors entering another of their core businesses is bad for Samsung. You h
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by alexbell 15y ago
Playing around developing for a Rasberry Pi (or 4) is going to be one of the coolest/most satisfying things I do coding wise in 2012 I think.
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by alexbell 15y ago
Unfortunately it matters if you do mobile development, iOS being one of the two must have platforms and requiring a Mac. I do use and like Ubuntu though, and could see myself switching over with minimal hassle.
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by alexbell 15y ago
Agreed. I had an iPhone 4 for about a year when the Touchpad went to fire sale, and stayed up fairly late to order one online. I had heard great things about webOS, and the Touchpad looked like a bargain. And it's great for reading Hacker
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by alexbell 15y ago
You do have C++/SDL (roll your own UI!), but if I recall correctly you DO NOT have native UI APIs anywhere near what Cocoa is.
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by alexbell 15y ago
This. User experience is not a real driver for Android, and never has been. It only has to be "good enough". It's open, which I applaud. But you are overly optimistic if you thought publicly traded billion+ dollar carriers and manufactu
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by alexbell 15y ago
Fair enough, and I can certainly empathize with wanting to use C++ so you don't have to rewrite everything for another platform. My perspective is going from the C/C++ (on Visual Studio for the most part) I used in school (so none of those
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by alexbell 15y ago
What you care to provide an example? Are you referring to not being able to mouse over a var during debugging and having it displayed properly? I've never minded having to use gdb to type out "po items", but can understand that if you're
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by alexbell 15y ago
For most people, what makes Objective C so useful though is the Cocoa core classes. The GNUstep stuff has a lot of that functionality, but is not quite what the Apple stuff provides.
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by alexbell 15y ago
> But it won’t run on anything less than an iPhone 3GS. This is a general problem with mobile given how fast the hardware is moving along. And given that the 3GS is what, ~2.5 year old hardware? I don't think that it's crazy that an a
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by alexbell 15y ago
The not pushing forward while stalling really does say to me by the time they thought to analyze the situation, they were in a state of absolute panic. I would be curious to know if any of the flight crew were military trained, or if all c
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by alexbell 15y ago
Homebrew is far superior to Macports or Fink IMO. In some ways I prefer brew install'ing to apt-get'ing. The packages are often far more up to date. I am not a fan of the transition from spaces to mission control. At least you can rearrange
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by alexbell 15y ago
This. While I'd done a little scripting, I was never interested in working in software development. It made me think of boring/painful win32 programs. After I graduated college I skipped around through sales jobs I hated and was terrible
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by alexbell 15y ago
This is cool!
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by alexbell 15y ago
Agreed to a point. It's kind of apples and oranges to compare the HTML5 stuff to iOS, though. Apple provides pretty much all the boilerplate stuff you could ever need with few exceptions. That's not to say nobody should ever try and impr
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by alexbell 15y ago
This project is much more lightweight. three20 certainly has more features, but it is large and relatively complicated compared to this. IMO, this project has a much more narrow scope. And that is a good thing when I don't need all the t
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by alexbell 15y ago
This is great so far, you have an excellent taste in frameworks. It's also nice and light weight. I would suggest adding a singleton macro. Will try and put some of the boilerplate stuff I use in as a pull request when I get the time.
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by alexbell 15y ago
I would be curious to know if any companies do actually do this?
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by alexbell 15y ago
I just want a tablet sized web browser to read HN in bed before I fall asleep. Hard to justify $499 on that.
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by alexbell 15y ago
If anybody sees legit links for $99, please post. I was going to get an iPad, but for $99... Edit: spelling. I can't type.
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by alexbell 15y ago
hombrew is awesome! previously my big complaint about os x was the difficulty of installing packages a la linux. you can't really say that any more. perhaps it doesn't quite have the sheer size of packages, but what it does have is much
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by alexbell 15y ago
It's almost as if the majority of programming languaguages are "thought through". I mean, really, who designs a programming language and doesn't think it through? It's a nontrivial undertaking typically undertaken by people that are smarte

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