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901.
by blasdel 17y ago
Flash isn't an open standard by any useful definition. Sure they specified the container format and data structures (just like with the MS Office formats), but everybody had figured that part out a long time ago because it's obvious and eas
902.
by blasdel 17y ago
On2 had a pile of active patents covering VP3, which they granted irrevocable royalty-free licenses to when they abandoned it to become Theora. Nobody's ever done codec development without either filing a ton of patents or at least publishi
903.
by blasdel 17y ago
I'm quite fond of "I hope your head falls off" (origin: http://www.thatcanadiangirl.co.uk/blog/2008/05/30/the-letter... )
904.
by blasdel 17y ago
The tax system is complicated not because of the taxes themselves, but because of all the tax credits created to incentivize behaviors. The vast majority of tax cuts are really just government spending in disguise -- pork for a special in
905.
by blasdel 17y ago
You are making stuff up. Hardware acceleration for h.264 decoding was introduced in the Windows betas of Flash 10.1 in October 2009 . It hasn't shipped yet, and probably won't for another 6 months.
906.
by blasdel 17y ago
The original iPhoneOS device prototypes had 8-10 inch screens, were wifi-only, and named "SafariPad". Their work on capacitive multi-touch goes back to their 2005 acquisition of FingerWorks. They started working on the iPad two years before
907.
by blasdel 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll You need a few hundred karma to post one.
908.
You Don't Need To Maintain Your Software(gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
5 points by blasdel 17y ago|0 comments
909.
I Want a New Data Store (for Craigslist)(blog.zawodny.com)
73 points by blasdel 17y ago|25 comments
910.
Mustache: Logic-less templates(mustache.github.com)
6 points by blasdel 17y ago|0 comments
911.
by blasdel 17y ago
Don't have to wait 6 months and upgrade everything to get slightly newer versions of packages. The packages are pretty direct from upstream instead of being patched and split apart by the distro.
912.
by blasdel 17y ago
I agree wholeheartedly about preemptive TDD: http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s... Almost nobody in the Rails community uses foreign key constraints with ActiveRecord. I chafed against it at first, but if you're
913.
by blasdel 17y ago
It'd be really cool if this could be bridged server-side -- there's a bunch of Python libraries on bitbucket that would be nice to be able to track as git submodules without adding a client-side burden.
914.
Weinre: Remote Web Inspector for WebKit(muellerware.org)
2 points by blasdel 17y ago|0 comments
915.
What you can learn from Panic's approach to email marketing(campaignmonitor.com)
3 points by blasdel 17y ago|0 comments
916.
Chiquita, Gizmodo, and the wages of sin in journalism(rc3.org)
2 points by blasdel 17y ago|0 comments
917.
by blasdel 17y ago
How do you square that with him having designed a byzantine language, written an inefficient implementation, and built a standard library that's the most excessive of all time? The things he disdains as novel in other languages are 40 years
918.
by blasdel 17y ago
Well that's just the bizarre missing feature to install apps to the SD card, combined with the manufacturers's braindead insistence in shipping the devices with the least amount of inbuilt flash that they could possibly get away with. You c
919.
by blasdel 17y ago
They can be making inflated claims for their own fanciful reasons. They don't need to be copycats to be dumbasses.
920.
by blasdel 17y ago
Because it's weird in ways that provide no real benefit except towards the gratification of the designer for having done something novel, and uses those novelties as an excuse to willfully leave out the data that's normally used for that. Y
921.
by blasdel 17y ago
My point was not that using alternate codecs was technically impossible, but that it was de facto infeasible — nobody does it (because you'd only want to use it if you already wanted to use a free codec for it's freedom), as such nobody t
922.
by blasdel 17y ago
http://blog.pearce.org.nz/2010/04/new-ogg-video-decoder-for-... This is awesome — finally someone released an implementation that's more reliable than liboggplay instead of just doing the minimum necessary to get basic playback. I guess
923.
by blasdel 17y ago
In this instance, it looks like it was far more enjoyable to have it documented so that everyone can publicly put a jackass in his place.
924.
by blasdel 17y ago
Firefox is just ridiculously insecure all around as a platform for extensions. Instead of developing a new least-privilege extension API like Chrome did, Mozilla put in an App Store style review process on A.M.O. for real extensions and dev
925.
by blasdel 17y ago
It is entirely the design. You might say that everyone else who tries out your artifact is a moron if they can't use it correctly. They would just say that you're a terrible designer with no concern for usability. Even the parts that are
926.
by blasdel 17y ago
Firefox is the only place I've seen it work reliably — but that's because they link directly and exclusively with liboggplay. They don't support any other codecs or containers (save for raw RIFF-encoded audio (WAV)), so there's no other mod
927.
by blasdel 17y ago
Seeking is frequently broken, especially wherever OGG support has been added to a larger system as a plugin like with Quicktime or ffdshow. FLAC is much worse on this. You can't actually use any non-Xiph codecs in an OGG container in the re
928.
by blasdel 17y ago
I don't think they could port this to the regular builds without it being even more broken than globalmenu. This is only attainable when all windows are always maximized like they are in Netbook Remix , especially in combination with their
929.
by blasdel 17y ago
He does a very good job of bringing the nerd rage but unfortunately reality doesn't back him up — even his own implementation doesn't support his design choices very well and the ones in larger systems basically ignore them.
930.
by blasdel 17y ago
The timestamps are before the epoch because you live in the western hemisphere, so your timezone is GMT-N.

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