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by alextgordon 17y ago
No tabbed browsing in Safari . I'm guessing dozens of tabbed browsers will pop up in the App store almost immediately. Unless Apple rejects them of course.
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by alextgordon 17y ago
There are many different motives for piracy. Some are morally justifiable (at least to me), some are not. For example: * Lack of available funds. This is a mostly harmless (and sometimes beneficial) form of piracy. If a person has $75 and a
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by alextgordon 17y ago
That's not quite a fair analogy. If Apple allowed Flash on the iPhone, it would have real consequences: lower battery life, higher RAM usage. I don't doubt for a minute that there's an ideological component as well - Apple want to see Flash
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by alextgordon 17y ago
Mozilla's decision to push for Ogg seems like a classic programmer's response. They're attempting to solve the problem with an engineering solution. Unfortunately, this won't be enough. If Mozilla want to usurp H.264, they'll either need
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by alextgordon 17y ago
This is a definite win for thesixtyone. Thanks to the publicity surrounding the change (whether negative or positive), a whole lot of new users have been introduced to it. Existing users still have http://old.thesixtyone.com/ to fall back
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by alextgordon 17y ago
This is an incredibly one-sided view. Clearly if you're a Mac developer, you switch to iPhone development and you start receiving truckloads of cash, you're going to think Mac developers would be stupid not to do the same. However: 1. Most
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by alextgordon 17y ago
I just did a very unscientific test, playing the same video in both Safari and Firefox. In both cases Flash used approximately 50% CPU. For comparison, playing a higher resolution video in Quicktime yielded about 15% CPU.
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by alextgordon 17y ago
An answer of Why do you ask? is a common symptom of asking the wrong questions or not giving enough information. Q: What's the best type of elephant to ride to work? African or Indian? A: Why do you ask? Q: My car's broken down. I
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by alextgordon 17y ago
Damn, C++ is making Perl look readable. Instead of adding features, they should be cutting them. C++ is 27 years old, yet there still isn't a full production-quality implementation of the specification. And they carry on regardless, addin
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by alextgordon 17y ago
I'm not sure the timer is a good idea. For one, I found the seconds counting down very distracting. It also encourages quick and inefficient solutions that are easy to hack out, over more efficient algorithms that may take longer to code.
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by alextgordon 17y ago
Abstractions are a necessity for portability. You can't talk about "little heads reading data off the hard disk" if your program is expected to work on SSDs too. Or what about the "quantum-holodisks" that arrive in 2020? The vague underst
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by alextgordon 17y ago
This is certainly a bad idea. The last thing you want to do is get into a battle with crackers. They have far more time and expertise at cracking software than you do at stopping them. For this to work, the intentional bug would have be sma
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by alextgordon 17y ago
In case you missed it, Jeff replies in the comments: http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/1078/open-source-obligations... I think the moral of the story is, "Don't feed the troll". I'm not sure if Jeff is deliberately provocative in his posts,
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by alextgordon 17y ago
The reasons why many hackers (including myself) dislike PHP are totally irrelevant to its merits as a teaching language. I don't like the type system, I don't like how OOP is seemingly an afterthought, I don't like the mishmash of syntax or
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by alextgordon 17y ago
There is already an ideal language to teach kids, and it exists right now. PHP. Whether or not you think it's a good language for building real world applications, it does have a lot of going for it when considered as a teaching language. *
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by alextgordon 17y ago
Richard Hipp actually said that he wished he hadn't released SQLite into the public domain. Apparently it becomes a headache when the code is used in countries that don't have the same implementation of the public domain as the US (around