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by batista 14y ago
> I stopped reading after the first example I stopped reading your comment at "I stopped reading" too. I've _never_ read an intelligent comment starting with "I stopped reading". These kind of comments always try to show how "clever" t
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by batista 14y ago
> In the late 1980s, they feared that Japan was going to economically overtake the United States, yet the crony capitalism, speculative madness, and political corruption evident throughout the 1980s led to the collapse of the Japanese e
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by batista 14y ago
I call BS. Your other comment in the same thread does not mention you using Cabify at all -- it's a general slant against the company for using "unproven technology". And your account was created one hour ago, just to deliver these two nega
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by batista 14y ago
Unproven in what sense? This is not some novel academic concept. It's a Ruby port on the Obj-C runtime. If it builds and runs the app, there is absolutely nothing to be proven. Also, "a 20 years old dude comes with some hipster unproven tec
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What exactly have you done in iOS programming to feel so entitled? Seriously, it must be awesome, give us a link maybe? That said, they may lack respect for "knowledge gained over 20+ years of platform development", but you also lack knowle
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by batista 14y ago
Well, I got Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store, which is even bigger than Gnome (kernel + userland + stuff).
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by batista 14y ago
> That example isn't due to static linking, it's because they chose a particular style of dialog which is deprecated and cannot be updated without breaking backwards compatibility. I'm not sure what this means though: "it's because the
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by batista 14y ago
Plus the dependencies. With app stores you (usually) get one program and that's it. It works. With package systems you have to install several dependencies for each, sometimes an absurd number (say, 100 packages to get Gnome). And then ther
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by batista 14y ago
> Two off the top of my head: workspaces Much older than Linux. > app stores You mean package managers. Similar in functionality (getting programs) but not the same thing. Both have nice things going for themselves though.
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by batista 14y ago
> I far prefer the Windows 7 interface to OSX, it's just stuff like the terminal/command prompt that really lets Windows down. I'm not sure. Windows has some overall design, but also has tons of design neglect. One example: due to stat
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> I think he's right, but I think he's missing a key point. Design. Design is what killed the linux desktop. It never had it. OS X has it. Even windows, crappy as it may be, has it. I'm not sure he is missing it, even if he doesn't nam
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> And I meant "platform fan" in the advocacy sense: he has a tendency to "fall in love" with favorite products. Well, for one, C#/CLR was not a favorite product when he fell in love with them, were they? At the time lots of people thou
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> So in that light, I think the idea that the Linux desktop got "killed" is sort of missing the point. It's no more moribund now than it was before. Oh, but it is. Because it has lost a lot of momentum that it had, momentum that was co
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by batista 14y ago
> Do as I say, not as I do. Which is mighty fine. I'f I'm telling you to be good and I'm bad, them I'm a hypocrite. That doesn't mean that my advice is bad, or that you shouldn't follow it. Follow an advice (or not) by the intrinsic va
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, all 100 of you (combined) will make a very big dent in Apple sales...
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All companies, including Samsung, have sued others for patents, including trivial patents, including in this very issue. So it would hypocritical for Samsung to cry because it lost the trial. Now Samsung has to either make a different enoug
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by batista 14y ago
> This is why I don't buy Apple products in the first place... So what other company you give money to? Because as far as I know, Google, MS, Apple, Motorola, Samsung, Oracle et al have all sued for patents.
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by batista 14y ago
So, you preemptively assume that anyone defending Apple in this thread or others cannot be a rational individual with valid arguments but surely a "fanboy". In other words, yours is the only stance that can ever be right in this issue. Am I
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by batista 14y ago
Actually on Mac with a combination of alt/option key and the letter you should be able to right {} in cyrillic without switching layout. Search a little, and openthe "keyboard viewer" tool.
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by batista 14y ago
> No-one claims the iPod was innovative. Well, I do. Innovation is not only technical in the most narrow term ("first device with an SSD", "new display technology"). There's also innovation in product design (how you've desided to buil
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by batista 14y ago
> That codebase also runs on: variety of UNIX/Linux distros and their terminal emulators; MS-DOS; Windows; etc. So what? Those can still run Emacs. Progress in programming editors should not stop because they new one might not run on M
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by batista 14y ago
> What exactly is Intel trying to achieve with these integrated GPUs? A better performance/energy consumption ratio for lightweight laptops? > It seems that performance-wise they're quite far below discrete graphics cards, so I'd g
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by batista 14y ago
> So what? Why should you care about the health of "your country"? That's just an attempt at emotional manipulation. No, it's an attempt at appeal to a pre-existing emotion. Not the same at all. Not everyone of us is a rootless opportu
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Not based on a 30 year old codebase designed in and for an era before color displays, mice, touchpads, graphics and unicode? Not using a god awful Lisp dialect (Emacs Lisp) at it's base? Having more thought, design, and hindsight poured int
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by batista 14y ago
> but in the native version it's much more clear what's actually going on. Yes, but it's also more probable that it won't go on at all (due to browser incompatibilities and such).
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Try this in a browser. On Webkit at least is also returns length and item: for (var p in document.getElementsByTagName('p')) {console.log(p);}
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"illegitimate" in some novel sense? Because the courts seem to think otherwise.
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by batista 14y ago
> The camera was "meh" and didn't do video, the screen wasn't nearly as nice as the VGA screen on my e800, the OS didn't support 3rd party apps, where was 3G?, etc. etc. With that you reminded me of the now classic response of Slashdot
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> This is a very common trend in this entire debate that saddens me to no end: the iPhone is being compared to simple feature phones, while in fact, it should be compared to its true predecessor: the PDA. PDAs have always done with few
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by batista 14y ago
A kilogram of film is still too much film. And they have too many useless and bad photos taken so it doesn't seem good pictures was their priority.

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