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by betageek 16y ago
Wow, when did HN become all Apple fanboys, all the time? - I thought this was supposed to be a rational argument but it seems as long as Jobs is destroying Flash he's ok with everyone, even while he's locking down the rest of his platform.
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by betageek 16y ago
I don't buy this at all, although some of the reasoning is sound there's some jaw-dropping rubbish in this statement. esp. around 'openess'. This is one big red herring - Adobe pissed Jobs off, this is his revenge, end of story.
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Ask HN: Is Facebook Graph API ready for production use?
4 points by betageek 16y ago|1 comments
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by betageek 17y ago
Gruber's aggression toward Gizmodo fans the flames - he knows this, he's in the business of page views - and off the story shoots, racking up ad impressions for everyone. The only one to come out badly from this is the poor guy that got a l
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by betageek 17y ago
This whole Flash murder/death/kill attitude is boring me to tears - I don't think any Flash developer would disagree that HTML 5 will (eventually) replace the more basic things that Flash does. Advanced multimedia will still use Flash. Ads
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by betageek 17y ago
yes
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by betageek 17y ago
Gruber has every right to cover it, no question, but how he covers it is important. He started talking about theft before he had any evidence that this was anything other than the worst drunk phone loss in history. He raised the temperature
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by betageek 17y ago
How is that not implying it was stolen??? I thought a legal education was a pretty lengthy process - I stand corrected.
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by betageek 17y ago
My point is not that Gizmodo did the right thing (far from it) but that Gruber is actively involved in hyping this thing up. I don't think its a mischaracterisation to say he implied it was stolen, it's right there in the text of the post.
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by betageek 17y ago
My problem with this post is that Gruber acts like he isn't involved in this whole circus - he's just as much to blame as Gizmodo. I'd suggest one of the main reasons that Gizmodo published the guys name is that Gruber implied immediately t
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by betageek 17y ago
Much as it's not cool of Gizmodo to drag this guys name on to the front pages I think everyone engaged in the Apple rumour mill is culpable in this, especially Apple themselves. Gruber over at Daring Fireball basically called Gizomodo out b
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by betageek 17y ago
"Flash’s only use is as a naive video player" - ok, well you better tell the millions of people playing web-based games out there as they didn't know that...
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by betageek 17y ago
Your missing the point - any social construction that provides a solution to a problem no longer has a point if that problem ceases to exist. Therefore the construction will not just act to preserve itself, it will try to preserve it's anti
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by betageek 17y ago
Wish I had time to build an AdFundedSiteBlocker - extension for Firefox that doesn't allow you to read the content on a site if it has ads on it.
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by betageek 17y ago
Nobody, even Kanye himself, would disagree the guy is a bit of a dick sometimes, but it's nice to see someone that wears his (he)art on his sleeve and strives for the best. He's the Steve Jobs of Hip Hop.
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by betageek 17y ago
Seems to be a open source clone of WriteRoom ( http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom ) - pretty much identical
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by betageek 17y ago
very nice indeed, a lot better than the previous entries, well done for a taking a pretty standard idea and making a much more usable version, hopefully you can start a trend! I'd agree that you definitely need to take into account date/tim
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by betageek 17y ago
I think your words resonate with a lot of the HN readers, but you need to look a little deeper into the cause. For me, I still liked my profession, but the job I had wasn't allowing me to do the things that fulfilled me. Simple solution was
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by betageek 17y ago
Wooah, jargon overload - you've managed to put pretty much every technical term on one page and I think that could be a problem to your audience. Publishers & marketers are a varied bunch, and very few of them would be able to understan
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by betageek 17y ago
Doctorow appears to be warning 'punters' that someone giving them a service may be trying to make some money (shock!) and that we should all just store our 'encrypted bits of state information' - meanwhile I just thought we were trying to p
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by betageek 17y ago
valid point if 'use the right tool for the job' is a valid point? very misguided examples for anyone that's used Rails extensively
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by betageek 18y ago
The solution to the colour printer problem is not to buy a printer. I've probably spent as much time trying to get home colour printing to work well as I have re-installing windows. These days neither thing (colour printer or windows pc) ex
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This Thing Is Better Than That Other Thing(thebetageek.com)
2 points by betageek 18y ago|0 comments
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Google search results marking everything as 'This site may harm your computer' ?(dl.getdropbox.com)
4 points by betageek 18y ago|1 comments
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by betageek 18y ago
Yep, that's what i need - just need that on OS X now...
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by betageek 18y ago
Global Tabbing - I have a lot of windows open (as do you all i'm sure) and i'd really to be able to bundle them into one tabbed window in a Firefox stylee. Look at something like Coda (www.panic.com) and think instead of having all the apps