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by batista 14y ago
Really? Because you don't like the aesthetics? Well, I for one like the new iCal. It's mostly faux-design sense (everybody is a snobish designer these days and everybody is for "minimalism") than anything really problematic with an app that
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> For me TDD is doing the exact opposite. It bores me to tears, which really brings down my edge. That. It takes all the fun out of using a dynamic language. You might as well go back to a static typing and write LESS tests for obvious
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> Netscape could still be alive this way, but web would be way smaller. Now, think your argument again.
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> This is exactly google's strategy with android, except that it doesn't involve users buying content. Google makes money when you use the internet. They win whether you use an iPad or a Nexus or a Kindle, Apple only wins if you buy an
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You know, actual luminaries in our field are also against them. I've seen UNIX programming gods among men dismiss them. It's not like it's a clear cut issue. For some things like libraries and such, there are absolutely needed, but unit tes
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> It greatly disappoints me that being the biggest public company on the planet isn't enough for them, and they have to start suing everyone. True, they could have played the "we're getting copied verbatim" card better, and only sue fo
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by batista 14y ago
I was saying back in the day in another HN post that the so called Libyan "protesters" were a bunch of crooks and mercenaries picked up and supported to topple Khadaffi. The Libyan case had nothing like the _real_ popular protest in Algeria
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We (the Go users in the know) use "golang", as in: "golang map". > "go lang map" works far better but who wants to refer to a language as "go lang" You don't have to refer to it as "go lang", just use the term in searches. Plus, it's n
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Yes, the only jump-started or taken from zero to hero SIX markets in the last 10 years, with the last one 3 years ago (desktop OS, portable mp3 players, online music distribution, touch smartphones, online app distribution, tablets). I don'
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>* Why are fun place to work and quality products mutually exclusive?* Because "fun place to work" obviously means beer and bongs passing around, in-office swimming pool, bikini models, pool and air-hockey tables, and Futurama watching
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No Windows 3.1 support, no deal.
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> Yahoo mail's mobile site (at least on my iPhone 4 with ios5) is a good example of this. An app which all of 50 people use --and many of them curse while doing it.
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> Compared to both Windows and Linux, Apple is the absolute worst on this front. They break backwards compatibility and leave old devices in the dust all the time. Better than having millions of people using Windows XP in 2012, and kee
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You wrote about "greatly increased reliability". Which you don't get at all out of your 1-disk laptop/iMac with ZFS. For this use case, both filesystems as just as (un)reliable: a simple disk failure and you're out. So, all reliability come
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Single drive reliability means nothing. In a SSD, doubly so. ZFS won't kill the need for external backups, even in the least.
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There are programmers using Java and C# than can run circles around your programming skills -- whatever those skills might be. Your comment is a fine example of the Dunning-Krueger effect...
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Oh, I see. I thought you were using it ironically against Jobs, which would be missing the point.
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Because you don't manage them there, you mostly consume them, and one at a time at that. In any case, you do it at your leisure, while delving into them. Consuming them, and mostly one at a time is the main reason for having the iPhone/iPad
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> It must be a huge pain even for Apple to work on such beastly monolithic app that does almost everything except the laundry. For all we know, iTunes could be (and probably is) a fully modularised code base, with minimal cross module
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Why? Do you have half a SSD to spare for checksums and additional metadata? Or does the common OS X user have several disks that he wants to see as a logical volume, while also understanding the risks after one of the dies? Do they even hav
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Some things one agrees with and some that sound like typical non-programmer (and sadly, some-programmer) lists. E.g "Return Apple to its roots with minimalism - does a photo manager have to be 707 MB?" Yes it has. People think the binary is
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> Imagine all the awesome applications possible if you had access to these photos easily. I cannot. Please, do tell us some of those "awesome applications" if we had access to several billion photos easily: > One of my favourite se
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> such as the S3 which singlehandedly outsold the iPhone in August. You mean it outsold the iPhone in the month before the announcement of the NEW iPhone, that everybody interested in one expected and hold off for? Doesn't sound that b
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Damn right. Plus: way to get the quote wrong. It's about stealing some concept and making something of YOUR OWN with the inspiration, vs copying somebody else's work verbatim. That is, it applies exactly to this situation. When you thought
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"2 * 1 = 1 * 2" You forgot the "2 choices" part, ie that the numbers are pointers to qualitative differences, thus 1A + 1B != 2 * 1A.
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> Can someone explain why copying is bad? Because it limits choices. Instead of 2 different options for your all-in-one desktop you have 1 multiplied by 2.
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> It's been two and a half years since that, and still HTML5 has major issues. Given Apple's engineering prowess, I doubt that HTML5 is a priority for them, or else they would've had a great implementation by now. Well, noticed how And
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> Not really. For large amounts of people to get worked up enough about a proposed government policy to bother protesting in public, it usually means the proposed policy is really bad. People don't get off their butts otherwise. The "l
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> Yes, most of them are simple (though there are some impressively complex projects on there). So what? So you just repeated the complain of the author (that it only works for simple stuff), and yet you act like you challenged it.
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> "stay at home dad" doesn't mean I'm in a cave all day. I go to the grocery store, the park, my yard, the neighbor's house, my son's therapist, and so on. Still, not the typical subject of the original post. Outliers need not apply.

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