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by alxp 16y ago
BitBucket seems to have a lot of Python projects hosted there which might take a chunk out of Python's share on Github.
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by alxp 16y ago
Apple certainly could have made it easier to put any old video you want into iTunes, I think they made a strategic decision to coax people into purchasing video through iTunes by making it hard to just drop AVIs into it. If they had tried t
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by alxp 16y ago
Don't underestimate the influence of developers and the tech elite jumping on a usable desktop Unix in the early 2000s. The first places I ever saw more than one or two Mac laptops in one room were developer meetups. And you know each of th
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"With effort and smart marketing, ClusterShot could be a great little business."(clustershot.com)
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by alxp 16y ago
Betting against high-selling low-margin products would be like betting against Wal-Mart. You can co-exist with them but you can't beat them at their own game, and their game is around to stay.
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by alxp 16y ago
I normally find articles with titles like that painfully condescending, but this was quite well-done and worth a read.
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by alxp 16y ago
> I'm not sure why it's the author's responsibility to go setup a dozen different VMs. That really is the package maintainer's job. If you're in the enviable position of having lots of people willing to put in the time to maintain your
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by alxp 16y ago
HTML's smooshing two spaces together was offensive to me in the 90s when I was learning it after being a touch typist since I was 7 years old. I still double space, but no one knows unless they view source.
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by alxp 16y ago
Drupal's localization infrastructure is quite nice. Instead of 'echo' you use the function t() which lets users use a GUI to translate all tokens in a Drupal site.
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by alxp 16y ago
A lot of Apple products don't have any activation at all and rely on the honour system. The times I've pirated desktop software was because I was annoyed that I had to tie the installation to a single machine. The Mac app store lets you ins
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by alxp 16y ago
Omni Group are the best example of a great Mac developer that isn't huge like Adobe or MS. They sell best-of-their-kind software for the iPad for quite high prices, and are doing very well. I don't see this changing in the Mac app store.
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by alxp 16y ago
There's also lots of $2 games on Steam and it hasn't killed the premier developers' ability to charge $30 or $40 or more for their AAA titles.
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by alxp 16y ago
I think games will be where WP7 will shine, Microsoft has the best game and media development APIs out there for any platform, and there are many many developers who've been building high quality games for Xbox and PC who could move to the
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by alxp 16y ago
I think we've ended the historical period where younger people will always be more tech-savvy than their slightly older counterparts. I wonder if having internet and ubiquitous connectedness just be a part of the background for younger peo
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by alxp 16y ago
You could say the same thing about driving a car.
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by alxp 16y ago
I haven't looked at the page code but it seems like there's a deliberate delay after the page loads and you start reading before the banner pops in right in your field of vision. It drives me crazy every time.
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by alxp 16y ago
IIRC id's first game on iOS was Wolfenstein 3D which originally cost $9.99 when I bought it. They are probably aiming for the left-hand side of the price / demand curve for Rage to gain new fans, where Wolf3D was targetted at people who al
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by alxp 16y ago
They "convinced" developers to get on board in large part because they let devs use the same tools they've been using to create the original games on Windows with. If I had an existing PC game it's a no brainer to target WP7. Android is a
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by alxp 16y ago
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mozilla/stomps.html D'oh.
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to _its_ site.
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Yep, doctors have been complicit in creating the United States' for-profit healthcare system. If they live by a code of ethics that says "first, do no harm" then an objective outside observer would say they've not only failed miserably, th
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by alxp 16y ago
Think sports metaphor.
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They need time to get developers working on products for the thing so they don't get caught out in the cold with nothing good at launch.
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From an accessibility perspective, having the text available to a screen reader is a very good thing. Hope this becomes commonplace for web comics.
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I love that this has gotten so well-known. Tanya is from my hometown and it's fantastic to see a member of our arts community make an imprint on the world like she has.
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by alxp 16y ago
Here's the important sentence, and why the author has a point: "if I was running a jailbroken iPhone, I'd just restore it with iTunes, and it would be factory-fresh with known software." Apple tells you not to jailbreak, but they'll happily
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by alxp 16y ago
> Yes, this is the nasty little secret at the heart of feminism. The straw man version of feminism you hold in your head is not the one that exists in real life. Google "patriarchy hurts men, too".
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by alxp 16y ago
This rock keeps tigers away. I'll sell it to you for $20.
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The creators of the Fedora repository software are playing the world's tiniest violin for these guys, I'm sure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_(software)#Trademark_dis...
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> "actionable" Metrics you can get sued over?

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