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by antonovka 17y ago
You're right, I don't think it's a fair trade -- I'm not going to pay money to beta test your admittedly unstable, rough-hewn software. I'm not telling you this to be offensive. I'm doing so because it's clear you're alienating people who w
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by antonovka 17y ago
Well, it's as unlikely to cost $1000 as it is to cost $20. That being said, Atlas is completely optional. Everything built with Cappuccino to date did NOT use Atlas. And this will always be a viable option. You wouldn't be the first compa
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by antonovka 17y ago
Less than $1000? For any per-seat pricing that nears $1k, Atlas needs be so much better than the current tools that it'll shoot sunshine and rainbows out of our asses while we're using it. Investing in Atlas is making a heavy investment in
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by antonovka 17y ago
Yes -- Apple makes direct review contacts available to larger companies, permits them to break certain portions of the SDK agreement, and provides assistance and status information while navigating the (much more friendly) review process. T
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by antonovka 17y ago
To those apologists who said Apple couldn't fix this issue rapidly if they were sufficiently motivated by negative press or otherwise -- you were wrong. It took many months, but something finally motived Apple to move.
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by antonovka 17y ago
Only if you're aware that the virus is running, and it doesn't do something disastrous in the meantime (eg, sniff your keystrokes while you enter a bank account number or log into the hospital records system).
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by antonovka 17y ago
I agree. If you have a privileged position, it is your responsibility to ignore anything personal you come across -- insofar long as it's not illegal or forbidden by established company policy. I wouldn't hesitate to reprimand and/or fire a
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by antonovka 17y ago
You have to reasonably expect any work communications to be open to monitoring, be it accidental, intentional, or ancillary. The "IT guy" could be monitoring the DNS cache logs for the purpose of debugging, and if your request for www.russi
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by antonovka 17y ago
They're a useful alternative/addition to Kerberos infrastructure, especially with PKCS#11 smart cards. I think that x509 client auth is probably underused due to the lack of good, free implementations of CA software to manage those certific
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by antonovka 17y ago
Dustin might be brash, but he is pointing out obvious problems. It makes no sense to bash him for being 21 and not having yet been turned into a so serious, cynical corporate designer. If you're trying to get something useful done, the po
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by antonovka 17y ago
The purpose of a quote is to negotiate a better price. I know, which is why I said exactly that in my post =) That said, I prefer vendors that simply charge everyone the same reasonable price, rather than having such a large profit margin
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by antonovka 17y ago
I love up-front non-predatory pricing. I hate wasting my time with salespeople, though sometimes you can work out a better deal with them. My preferred vendor is Silicon Mechanics: http://www.siliconmechanics.com/ They sell SuperMicro e
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by antonovka 17y ago
I wonder why the apparent point of failure is so far removed from the actual point of failure. With my work that is rarely the case, and I wonder which of us is the anomaly. Neither of us, it just sounds like we just work on different sof
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by antonovka 17y ago
I'm not sure what to take away from this post. Unit tests just saved my bacon when I accidentally introduced a serious bug in refactoring some network-related code. The bug wouldn't have shown up outside of production in some very specific
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by antonovka 17y ago
Also, "transition". There is no transition for Linux. ARM netbooks? That said, part of why there's no 'transition' is that providing easy-to-use (for consumers) third-party application binaries is this side of impossible given the lack of
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by antonovka 17y ago
But it was the wrong solution and the technical merits must trump other concerns. Your post is very long, but I'm curious to hear why universal binaries are the wrong solution? On the Mac, it's the cornerstone of their transparent multi
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by antonovka 17y ago
What you are demonstrating is the userland toolchain. No, what I'm demonstrating is an end-to-end architecture-transparent platform, which includes a complete userspace toolchain, a universal binary format, and necessary kernel and dynami
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by antonovka 17y ago
Somebody has to test and debug your app on actual PPC hardware. Our Xcode-supported unit tests transparently run three times -- once for x86_32, once for x86_64, and once for PPC. The PPC run occurs within Rosetta (ie, emulated). If the t
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by antonovka 17y ago
How are shell scripts and flakey logic an improvement on Apple's cross-platform development/usage model? gcc -arch i386 -arch ppc -arch x86_64 -isysroot <SDK path> example.c -o example Done. > file example example:
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by antonovka 17y ago
This is just a hack, nothing more. Well, it is the cornerstone of Apple's highly successful and entirely transparent transition from PPC to x86, including drag-and-drop application installation/uninstallation. Couple it with Apple's compi
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by antonovka 17y ago
This sort of wide-eyed devotion is their PR. You're not going to replicate it in your own company by buying into it. From the article: I don't use an alarm clock. Lately, I've been naturally waking up at 6:38 every morning. I used to wak
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by antonovka 17y ago
This is absolutely unacceptable. I'll be adjusting our withholding allowances to account for the change. California needs to spend less , not quietly raid my bank account.
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by antonovka 17y ago
I believe it is a contest, because we have a limited amount of time on earth. Well, you have enough time to comment here. Is this really a better exploration of the human condition (or whatever it is you want to achieve through reading) t
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by antonovka 17y ago
Do you believe the human condition cannot be explored through nonfiction? No. Would you entertain the idea that perhaps it may be possible to explore the human condition deeper and more profoundly through nonfiction than through fiction?
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by antonovka 17y ago
Think of it this way. If you only read fiction for the rest of your life, could you program a computer? Could you build a house? Could you understand quantum mechanics or any myriad other practical skills? Probably not. My practical skill
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by antonovka 17y ago
It's not real. At best it is anecdotal. It's a story. It's imagination. It's entertainment. Why are ideas presented in the form of non-fiction any more "real" than ideas presented in the form of fiction? Even the most literal non-fiction
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by antonovka 17y ago
I will come out and say it: categorically dismissing fictional books as "not real" (and therefor uninteresting) is both strange and stupid. Fiction can be as real as the author wishes to make it, as an endeavor to elucidate their ideas and
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by antonovka 17y ago
I didn't realize that it's a "which is more wrong" contest... At least the children are arguably less culpable given the age of majority.
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by antonovka 17y ago
While I don't like her tone, I listened to her entire response and she seemed to address Arrington's issues pretty effectively. Only if you've never worked at a game company selling virtual currency. The idea that only 5 incidents of ch
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by antonovka 17y ago
You sound like an indulged child, not a misunderstood genius. I am at the 'upper bounds' as well, but I don't attempt to batter others over the head with my vocabulary and pride, and I've learned that I'm just as vulnerable, alone, and huma

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