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by bonaldi 16y ago
I wonder what things would have been like if they'd used BBEdit for that Rails screencast, way back when.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
If you read the comments Dave is busy shouting at people who make that point. Apparently there's some sort of additional reason why the Kindle hardware is staying around.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Notably missing feature: one that allows them to issue a point release to the SDK without making you redownload 3gb of dev environment each time.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
No you don't. Harder to develop and support for Apple is what I mean.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
That the Mac, which has a huge product line and a much more complicated OS and so is harder to develop and support for than the iOS machines, is only just barely outselling the brand-new rev 1 iPad? Yeah, I think they're taking note of thi
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Imagine you really, really cared about your FB account -- only real-life trusted friends wre linked, you kept your profile free of spammy apps and them some q&a site wanted those credentials. It's not a million miles away from asking on
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by bonaldi 16y ago
There's no problem with asking the user about this; the point is not to do when the app is going into background. If you're concerned that most of your users won't want this, then turn it off by default and have an option to turn it on. The
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by bonaldi 16y ago
My Knight News challenge entry last year was essentially this. I think it's a great idea: abstracting away the actual cash and making more concretely about rewards for creators.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
1. That I/O keynote was something else in terms of mindshare. Before, Android was an ugly also-ran where devs were making a tenth of the income they made on iOS. After, Android was still ugly and making a tenth of the income for devs, but w
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Only showing the bookmarks bar after opening a new tab is much less efficient for my case: I have a number of bookmarks that I want to open in tabs, but it's a varying subset of the toolbar set. To do it I now I just command-click all the b
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by bonaldi 16y ago
I tried taking the back button off, but it turns out I really need it: not to click, but as a status indicator. Because I use tabs, the back button shows me at a glance whether or not I'm in the middle of a stack, or if I opened a link from
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by bonaldi 16y ago
There is a fascinating book by Julian Jaynes called The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind that goes even deeper into this area. Basically, he says, our two minds were previously split and "you" would "hear" your
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by bonaldi 16y ago
OK, basically the argument boils down to "if you have to write a webapp and don't know how to program in Lisp or PHP, you'd be better choosing PHP". It's very close to trite. Yes, PHP is easier to learn. But if you're already proficient wit
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by bonaldi 16y ago
So the comparison is between starting from absolute scratch with Lisp -- having to choose a framework, get a dev environment set up, choosing your libraries etc vs an experienced PHP person just using PHP? This article could easily be turne
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Yep, it's a huge problem: the pervasive rating system constantly needs fresh eyes on things to keep it accurate, so old questions don't get updated votes. To compound that, if you're a newcomer arriving via Google, you can't down vote. So
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Regardless of the actual numbers, the issue doesn't appear when the gap in the antenna is taped over or it is otherwise insulated (like with a bumper). That strongly suggests to me that this is something over and above normal loss of signal
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by bonaldi 16y ago
They still get mocked for "pick the Apple III up and drop it on a soft surface to reseat the chips", I don't think "duct tape" is going to swing it as a solution for them to suggest.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Made it happen without trying, left hand. Gratis bumpers seem like the quick fix solution.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Why not allow custom stylesheets? Because the vast majority of Apple's customers can't write them, is why. As I said below, perhaps the specified fonts should be a default with alternatives in a menu, but until then, it's vastly preferable
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Good point. Does the standard insist on the specified fonts, or are clients allowed to overrule them according to user prefs? If the latter, a fix is just an additional "book default" entry in the fonts menu. (If the former, that's a lousy
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by bonaldi 16y ago
It is, yes, even down to adding typographer's quotes where the original lacks them (another iBooks oversight). It's not as good at H&J as you would be doing it by hand, but I've yet to see a river anything like those that snake through
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by bonaldi 16y ago
I'm with Apple all the way here. If Mike got what he wanted, I'd have a much poorer user experience. There's no way I'm ploughing through a book set in some godawful sans. Apple's way allows me to choose the fonts I want in a book. "Serif,
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by bonaldi 16y ago
It's completely doable, as Eucalyptus shows on the iPhone. There's absolutely no excuse for not doing proper typesetting, other than they simply don't notice the lack of it. I expect that of Sony, but I'm surprised that Apple of all compani
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Missing entry on the feature checklist: "World's tiniest fonts by default". Do the Posterous guys work in 800x600 or something?
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Just tested. Downloaded a book on the phone that I'd bought on the iPad, and it gave me the "you have already purchased this book; press to downloaded it again" message you get from the App Store. If you go into the "purchases" tab it offer
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by bonaldi 16y ago
if it's on the BBC there's no way Apple put it there. There are very strict rules about that. Is the Apple logo even visible? They'll usually blank it out.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Dreadful post. Why, exactly, does he have a hard time believing it? The post doesn't say; it merely re-iterates that the author is incredulous. Closest you get is this: "What ever happened to looking at the team, their vision, their track r
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by bonaldi 16y ago
I'm such a novelty whore: I bashed my email address in the form on nothing more than the headline here. Sounds like a fantastic idea, though.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Yup, the comments on that link prove why DF shouldn't ever get comments, just like daringfireballwithcomments did.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
The sessions are still under NDA: they've added a reminder to the front page.

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