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by bonaldi 16y ago
What WebObjects would have allowed us to do today if it hadn't been left to bitrot was write an app's business logic once, customise the interfaces and have a webapp, Mac app and iPhone app all from the same codebase. They would connect to
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by bonaldi 16y ago
It also did things that have still really to be replicated for web developers in a joined-up way; things like proper developer tools (including Interface Builder for the web), a seriously nifty ORM, and the ability to write the back-end onc
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by bonaldi 16y ago
I read the manifesto; it's troubling for people who, like me, are in support of the general principle of greater transparency but don't support an ideological reading of the US as an authoritarian conspiracy. As for "morally unassailable",
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by bonaldi 16y ago
"I see a lot of potential benefits for people currently being murdered in Iraq and Afghanistan." 1. Expose internal documents. 2. ???? 3. Fewer people being murdered in Iraq. Going to need to spell out 2 here, because nothing wikileaks has
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by bonaldi 16y ago
"Why do you think Wikileaks is only about the US? Right now the cables leaked out are from the US, but the point is to do this to every government. Everyone opposed to statism and nationalism benefits." I think a dog only barks because that
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Depends on how much you trust them, really. What you call collusion is, for them, co-operation. There were a lot of powerful internal voices in the security industry against the kind of online information-sharing that makes a leak like this
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by bonaldi 16y ago
This works both ways. When everyone can see the communiques, the communiques go offline.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
"All set"? Hardly. You lock it once, but then you fidget and roll over. Oop, need to unlock. So now you have to double-press and try and work the task bar upside down to unlock, then chase the lock button round as the screen rotates to lo
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by bonaldi 16y ago
If you have a PIN set for the screenlock you can often need to control orientation from the locked state. Orientation lock is incredibly useful in two key areas for iPad: people lounging at home, and in business. I use the lock all the time
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by bonaldi 16y ago
The copyright on the original vinyl performances is going to expire, hence the rash of remastering. New works = fresh copyright.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Does Textmate do anything that BBEdit doesn't? There are threads like this all over the place talking about a "vacuum" in the Mac editor market. Meanwhile the daddy of them all has just had another big update.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
It might make you sad, but it's spot on. People were sharing MP3 files on usenet pretty easily, back in the day. It would have taken 5 minutes or less to work out how -- even easier than grabbing cookies. It wasn't until Napster made that 0
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Sorry, that wasn't really the intention of my example, which was to show the range of government spending. Ultimately, though, it boils down to this: Google isn't doing anything with this money, except earning less than 1% interest on it.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
I still maintain that Google can do more good with more efficiency than any government. That's fine, but there are plenty of other people who disagree with the assertion. If the money is in the hands of the government, at least those othe
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by bonaldi 16y ago
By adopting the "Don't be evil" motto Google makes this about ethics. If you say that you are going to hold yourself to an ethical standard, that means you will be judged by your ethics, not by your adherence to the letter of the law. But
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by bonaldi 16y ago
I have seen bindings running on iOS, and it has massive potential, especially for areas like live updating of on-screen table rows etc. Fully expect them there soon. Will be astonished if they get deprecated on desktop, too. Value is far to
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Websites. Hyperlocal websites are springing up, from nationals like Patch to tiny town-focused sites. The business models aren't quite there yet in a lot of cases, and in others they can't support huge staffs, but this is true of everything
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Local journalism is worth saving. Nothing he talks about is intrinsic to print.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
It would only support the IMAP subset of Gmail, which every other client does. Having conversations is one of GMail's USPs, and I've been waiting a long time for a mail client that supports them (was amazed that Outlook 2011 only went half
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by bonaldi 16y ago
This is about instant personalisation, where you don't have to log in for any of this stuff to happen. It should be a huge reason to log out of Facebook after every visit (or not use it at all), but 99% of users are never going to do that.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
These are great, but won't work on iPad, where I do most of my HNing. Server-side solutions are much preferred.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
You don't offer non-profits discounts because you necessarily agree with everything they do. Rather, you offer the discount because you agree with the entire concept of "non-profits". Your opinion of a particular non-profit doesn't come in
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Hoped this would be for the comments page -- would love one that didn't reorder the comments as they are rated. I find it desperately hard to find what's new when revisiting a comment thread, unless I've posted in it and can go in via "thr
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The actual implementation of non-profit status in the US is a different issue. Consider patents. I agree with the idea of patents, but totally disagree with the US implementation. Likewise, I agree with giving discounts to non-profit organi
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> Some might say that non-profits do good, while for-profits do business, but I don’t believe that 1. matters, or 2. suggests that for-profits don’t do good. It's pretty easy to say "non-profits should pay the same as for-profits" when
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Nonetheless, to the human mind, there are plenty of shades of grey. If you're trying to convince (both them and the blog-reading public), you'd do well not to act as if everything's black and white. see also: Stallman.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Did you pay Apple prices? A Range Rover, BMW X5 or VW Touareg isn't like some godawful Explorer.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
There needs to be a Godwin-esque term for "takes one data point and extrapolates it to the entire world". So, for his 5-person company the social media role "just isn't" a full-time job. I doubt if marketing or HR are full-time jobs there,
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Low-worth rant about using a free service to the max is saved by the hilarity of the comments, some of which are one notch above "why do you keep them all? I print all of mine out on paper where they are safe" or "Google might delete them w
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by bonaldi 16y ago
2001 writing is so quaint. Didn't they know they should have called this "Rotten Apple: 10 reasons why Steve's Stores Are Going To Fail" and had each reason on a separate page? Saps.

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