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by bonaldi 16y ago
I don't think your lack of understanding entitles you to demand someone write a 2000-word essay for you. But, briefly, many of the points in Road can still be right with the conclusion being wrong. Yes, data is more important than computer,
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by bonaldi 16y ago
We should treat it as a document delivery and linking system, as it was designed to be. Currently, the alternative application delivery platform is the App Store, the runaway success of which is neatly proving the point that the web just is
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by bonaldi 16y ago
So why is their platform the only one to get special treatment? Safari also has a (better, faster) native PDF viewer, why not hand off to it too? Don't like this precedent of funnelling the web via their servers and translators unless you'r
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Great, yet more formats that I have to try and get around Google Docs with. Worst of all is PDF: Some of us have browsers and platforms that don't hate the format, and viewing PDFs natively in Safari/Chrome is a million times better than se
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by bonaldi 16y ago
This would be great for use inside our company, but only if it's on the Yammer model where everything is company-private. Don't want staff to have to go through hundreds of external groups, just want them to see ours. If Convore is like IRC
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Pretty glad there are already great native apps out there. Lowest-common denominator remains lowest-common denominator whether or not it's done for a principle.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Less simple than Shift-Command-3/4?
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by bonaldi 16y ago
See my point below: it has to only support WebM, and they're not brave enough to do that against iPhone, esp if they had to kill the Flash support we've heard so much about.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Yes, YouTube would have to switch to WebM -- ie no support for serving any other codec -- for that to be true. Which is effectively turning off YouTube for every browser and device on the web today. Are they going to do that? No chance. S
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by bonaldi 16y ago
The content is all in h.264 because it works in 99.9999% of places. You can make every browser support webM tomorrow and that still wouldn't be a compelling reason for publishers to add WebM in favour of the status quo. The only thing t
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Yes, this is all very true. If I'd thought "Jobs matters" was going to be so controversial I would have prepped the examples better! Even if they were minor, I think they show a tendency that Apple has, and always has, that very few people
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by bonaldi 16y ago
The Pro hardware will have been setup in advance, but the pricing will be done very close to launch, and the launch was a couple of months after he left. The MacBook that was a MacBook and then a Pro is a much more telling example, which yo
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Thing is, we already know what Apple is like without Jobs, and frankly it reverts to type very quickly. Last time he was off on medical leave, they brought out a new Mac Pro that was massively more expensive than the model it replaced (to a
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by bonaldi 16y ago
That's such an uncharitable reading I don't really know where to start. It's a bad decision because its only real-world consequence is to entrench Flash even further. It does that by ignoring the state of play of video content , which is w
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by bonaldi 16y ago
It's not the actual codec that matters. It's that if you have one given codec end-to-end throughout your entire workflow and it lets you drive everything from broadcast to mobile phone, why would you then support an oddball outlier without
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by bonaldi 16y ago
> "But, we already have all this expensive stuff for H.264! We spent a lot of time and money buying it and figuring out how to make it all work!" You cast this as if investment and legacy are irrelevant quibbles, when in fact they're co
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by bonaldi 16y ago
> This whole debate is stupid and of course WebM exclusivity is the right way to go. This whole debate is stupid and of course WebM exclusivity is the wrong way to go. An "of course" is a really lame way to enter a debate, because it sa
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Google's assumption: People will add WebM encoding to their already complicated video workflows What will actually happen: Chrome will get served h.264 wrapped in Flash. Lose all round, then.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
This is a bug in Angry Birds, not the DRM. You're supposed to check the receipt's bundle ID actually matches that of your app, and they didn't. If you try this with other paid-for apps it will fail.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
iTunes is multi-window -- double-click any playlist to see. Even if it weren't, you don't want it to quit when you close its last window, you want the music to play on. The distinction is arbitrary, though. There are plenty of single-window
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by bonaldi 16y ago
BBEdit
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by bonaldi 16y ago
He keeps people in his "repertoire" and gets to know them via the amazing mutual interest in "hot women", then protests that he is completely different from all those networkers because he doesn't use people and has shared interests. Riight
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by bonaldi 16y ago
I can smell the nerd from the first comment, which uses characters to distinguish differing pronounciations of "th". Is that a peccadillo of his own, or is it a thing?
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by bonaldi 16y ago
In this case, though, it's more like you were weighing it up and decided to keep both adapters, but throw away the Kindle. Delicious is not equivalent to Yahoo! Notepad or the other crud they decided to keep.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
I think you're missing the point. The UI isn't autogenerated -- it's the only bit that isn't. (Aside from DirectToWeb, which is a whole different thing). What WO allows you to do is save on all the backend work and focus entirely on the d
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Do you think we make our lives easier by only making the "hard part" of a job easier? Look at the number of little webapps people here make. Do you see absolutely no value in also being able to produce native apps at the same time, with dra
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by bonaldi 16y ago
In practice? I've done this. The controllers change only as much as needed to accommodate the new views. If your model has differences you've coupled it too tightly. "only thing stopping this awesome revolution in software development" I th
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Yes, I agree. That's why I think we should do better. Dreamweaver really doesn't come close to what we should be doing in terms of visual and coding tools to let designers and developers work together.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Lets separate out here Job's utopian spin and focus on what I'm actually talking about, which is not "global level code-reuse" or whatever generic strawman you're aiming for. But let's say I'm writing a web app, perhaps in RoR. I build an e
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Ever actually used WebObjects? Especially in the objective-C days this is exactly what it did. (What became) Cocoa has pervasive MVC all the way through. Turning a WO app into a NS app was a matter of working on the V, as it should be.

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