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by batista 14y ago
As a bitmap editor, it can access 100 times those pixels. As a GUI, it renders as it always did in Retina resolution, i.e it is not shows it's buttons and labels any more detailed, or any smaller. This is how every non-Retina ready app beha
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by batista 14y ago
Where you got that bizarro idea? You won't pay anything more. Pro Apple apps just got a free update to Retina-enabled, regular apps will get updated with Mountain Lion, and third party apps will also be updated for free. I don't think you u
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by batista 14y ago
> Your post illustrates Apple's success. Perceiving a criticism of Apple, you jump in with both feet. Clearly Apple isn't just something you bought. You start with a pointedly personal comment, so it seems that you took the comments abo
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by batista 14y ago
> The files are large enough that downloading them with the "free download" option is a terribly long wait. Do you have to actually _wait_ for them to download?
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by batista 14y ago
> I don't believe this story at all, at all... NeXTStep, the precursor to OS X, was running on a 486DX2/66 I had in about 1995. NeXTStep ran on PA-RISC, Intel x86, Motorola 68K and SPARC architectures since well before 2000. You missed
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, take the account from the perspective of actual Apple employee, much more the one responsible for the side-project, and add your internet commenter "bogus" on it. Being based on NeXTStep made it easy. People working ACTIVELY on it made
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by batista 14y ago
> China is going to need multiple revolutions at some point or another in the next few decades. Really, why? Because they have some problem according to western media?
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by batista 14y ago
> i understood your point, however the speed in the user's browser is not important since it's just 1 operation, whereas the server has to do most of the operations decoding/encoding all that Speed in the user's browser is VERY importa
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by batista 14y ago
That would be an insignificant amount. Plus, this increase was AFTER paying Google for Maps access. The non-paying Google part will start after iOS 6 is released.
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by batista 14y ago
> The purchase is not merely an exchange of money for a product that gives pleasure or does what it's expected to. It certainly isn't the guilty pleasure of someone who recognizes that they are consuming more than they really need to. N
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by batista 14y ago
Age in the spotlight doing web development. Not age since the development of the language. Mid-nineties it was CGI and mostly Perl. Then Perl started to fade, and in the late nineties, early '00s, it was all Java and PHP. Then Ruby/Python e
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by batista 14y ago
> Part of it is a framework issue. Struts is horrible...absolutely, stunningly horrible. Your controller is an XML file (seriously). Freemarker (the main templating language) makes ColdFusion look awesome. Play is better, but it seems b
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by batista 14y ago
> This wasn't just a single marketing campaign. It was THE marketing campaign. Yeah, only it was only played once, decades ago, and nothing similar ever appeared in Apple ads since then.
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by batista 14y ago
> "Binary compatibility" is routinely applied to libraries as well Wrongly. Only the lower lever is or is not "binary compatible", basically only how the code is loaded and how functions are called. All the other stuff (libraries, apps
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by batista 14y ago
> Really? You think this made #1 on the front page because people are excited that you can run ls from Darwin on a non-iPhone ARM7 system that's really running Linux? Which has its own ls? No, people saw the headline and voted it up thi
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by batista 14y ago
> Some of those numbers are either obviously false or obviously misleading, such as the theory that 51% of private wealth is controlled by women when we know the huge concentration of wealth in the US and know the huge disparity in sexe
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, as a fellow born-EO from another country, this is more or less accurate. Tiny sects built around EO do exist that are against evolution, etc, but are by no means the prevalent force. Let's say, 5% at most. Another nice feature of EO, i
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by batista 14y ago
Well, you also missed that it was a marketing slogan, and from a single campaign at that. Whereas Apple's focus of making simple computers/software for common people to use was a constant in their corporate story.
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by batista 14y ago
The never pretended "everyone's invited". In fact, the first iOS didn't have third-party apps, and when the API finally appeared, it had very clear restrictions and a $99/year fee attached.
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by batista 14y ago
> Once more, a reminder that we - the hackers - should stop giving Apple our money. This is not the kind of computing environment we want to encourage. And hackerism is not the computing environment Apple wants to encourage. Besides th
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by batista 14y ago
So not liking Pixar means I'm like this "Armand White" guy that doesn't like anything? Did you even notice that I gave TWO examples of things I consider better (old Disney, Nightmare before Xmas)? The rest of your argument I find no much lo
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by batista 14y ago
>At some point it becomes a burden to see the code behind the comments. (And just so no one misinterprets me: I am not against comments /per se/.) Then use an editor/IDE that can automatically hide or fold the comments?
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by batista 14y ago
I, for one, find Pixar's storytelling extremely naive, paint-by-numbers kind of affair. Like past Disney without the genius (e.g Fantasia, the dark forest scene in Snow White, etc) but with more puns thrown in. Or maybe "animated ho-hum Spi
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by batista 14y ago
binary compatibillity is a standard and well defined term in programming, and this is it. It is not about having access to all iOS Cocoa Touch etc libraries, or running iOS apps.
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by batista 14y ago
Downvotes? Because of disagreeing? Very democratic. It amazes that people believe that the people of such a country like Iran do not want to live in a religious muslim state and are "forced" by the government. And it amuses me, because, you
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by batista 14y ago
No, you're arguing from isolated facts presented in a sentimental package from mainstream media. Do you know how many deaths there have been in protests in the US? Like, say, the Kent State shootings, were police shot 4 students dead. Or al
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by batista 14y ago
> Studying individuals is the wrong experiment. Static typing benefits tooling most when you have larger groups of programmers who much collaborate, often asynchronously. Absolutely. And also: static typing benefits is not about "devel
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by batista 14y ago
We like to separate the citizens and the government, but I don't think this is the case. For most of the citizens, loyal muslims etc, that's exactly how they want to live. Western media just overplays dissidents and people that talk to our
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by batista 14y ago
> I understand your position here, but, please make contact with some Iranian refugees/dissidents near you for the full picture. Its bad. Worse than I understand Texas to be, by several ball parks. Sure, but those are "refugees/disside
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by batista 14y ago
>>* No, it means the music industry as a whole is doomed, period. Or, it means that technology (and preexisting oligopoly) has broken that particular market.* So, basically the same thing in a different phrasing? > Recordings th

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