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by archgrove 16y ago
Genuine question: How are the restrictions placed by Apple on what's allowed in the App Store any different then the restrictions placed by console owners on what's published for the XBox or PS3? For example, the XBox XNA community games sy
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by archgrove 16y ago
The browser. Virtually nothing crashes the actual OS these days (be it Windows, OS X or Linux). I think I've had 1 or 2 complete OS crashes in the last 4 years.
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by archgrove 16y ago
Regardless of Job's other comments, the "Flash crashes Macs" isn't FUD by any definition. The SWF plugin is just a pretty bad bit of software. If you don't believe me, check the Firefox crash analysis for today: http://people.mozilla.com/c
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by archgrove 16y ago
The author openly conceeds the points that consumers will actually care about - performance, security, and proprietary nature. It's hard to claim that it's a "marketing trick to pull the wool over the eyes of consumers" when you agree with
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by archgrove 16y ago
This doesn't seem to be linked to any upcoming or finalised W3C/WHATWG standard. It certainly looks like a nice idea, but isn't this arbitrary introduction of non-standard features exactly what we hated IE3-6 for? Prefixing it with "moz-" d
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by archgrove 16y ago
OK, having researched, I presume you're refering to the XAuth stuff http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth#browser-less-apps . How the frell is this any better than Basic auth for most users? I can only see that 1) I don't have to store their p
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by archgrove 16y ago
And importing a new library into my codebase is a non-trivial activity. I need to vet it, ensure it will be supported and updated, and that well, it actually works . It makes Twitter implementation from "pretty much trivial in any language
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by archgrove 16y ago
Edit: OK, I was wrong, as I'd hoped - you don't need a web browser. The rest of my post stands unchanged as, regardless of my interpretation, it kills the Twitter support I just wrote in less than an hour into one of my apps, and renders it
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by archgrove 16y ago
I see your point, but I stand by the choice - any process that actually has an group of people sit there and review your app by hand could only have been seen as "open" by very naive individuals.
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by archgrove 16y ago
Direct quote from Mike Chambers: "Because this is Flash, it is rather trivial to port games created with Flash that target the iPhone to target other operating systems, such as Android." Which pretty much sums up the entire reason for 3.3.1
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by archgrove 17y ago
Well, even if I did set it all up for them, the point is that it will happily break itself without doing anything other than the recommended updates.
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by archgrove 17y ago
I think EPSN (and porn :) are basically just video. Porn is normally at the cutting edge of tech, so I expect <video> there soon enough and I'd guess EPSN would get it once enough of their users start moaning. So, in the long term,
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by archgrove 17y ago
Fair enough, though I wonder if you really need to buy it to realise that you don't have a use for it. I suppose a trial run is reasonable, in case it has some magic use you don't consider till you have it. I'm still though, to this day, bo
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by archgrove 17y ago
Good lord. I need some kind of super-flag to hammer this kind of idiotic, vitriolic, nonsense into the nearest incinerator. Though by the tone of it someone already missed the incinerator, hit the author, and caused serious brain trauma. Be
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by archgrove 17y ago
The specifics of the post may be written in a troll-like style, but the key points are quite valid - I've had very similar experiences with Ubuntu. Running an "apt-get dist-upgrade" update last October entirely hosed support for my (pretty
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by archgrove 17y ago
I can think of only two (tenuously) justifiable reasons for this. 1 - Perhaps, during the beta, they want code written in C (and derivatives) to aid in debugging framework bugs. Rather than "My App doesn't WORK!!!!! (Using MonoTouch Vxxyy)"
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by archgrove 17y ago
Well, the browser has tabs (at least, the iPhone Mobile Safari does, so it's no stretch to think this does as well). The lack of a camera is, I agree, silly. Rather than rebut the rest of his "points" directly, I'll focus on "multitasking".
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by archgrove 17y ago
Um. OK. It's a holding page for another "Stealth startup" doing search. Come back to me when you've actually got a product or got some important, non shill people I trust excited. Stealth Startup is, in my dictionary, largely congruous wi
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by archgrove 17y ago
Good for you - this is the way it should (and for most sane people, does) work. You ignore the tools until you understand what they're automating. One day, you'll get bored of writing boilerplate and trying to design the best UI by compile/
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by archgrove 17y ago
It's a nice example. Another one I like is "It takes the whole earth to attract this small iron object, but only this small magnet to overcome that pull"
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by archgrove 17y ago
If I were writing a popular URL shortener, the most useful thing I could add would be short (2 character) prefix to the random link, indicating the target type (e.g. video is foo.bla/vd12345). This fixes a pet peeve of mine, when I follow a
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by archgrove 18y ago
I'm going to assume the actual statement "Good students are good at everything" is a quote that is, at best, rather out of context. It's patent garbage; I often take classes (and advise others to take classes) in things I know I'm no good a
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by archgrove 18y ago
I've tried this approach; taking the time to give a detailed answer with reasoning behind my choices and explanations for areas that might be unclear. Two things happen: 1 - The fast, but "good enough" answer wins out for the short term 10+