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by bonaldi 16y ago
Overwhelmed by traffic now. I don't think Apple has yet absorbed just how big it is: the iPod explosion didn't affect the dev side of the company, which subconsciously still has Mac assumptions in place. This isn't "102: Moving from CodeWar
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Unicode is incomplete, and this is the fault of people who it doesn't serve? Developers don't have the right to dictate how people write their names just because they have created a poor implementation. The best solution is suggested in t
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by bonaldi 16y ago
There's a scene in the 'Flaming Homer' episode of the Simpsons where Homer fights his way into Moe's packed-out bar to tell Moe he'll never drink there again, but Moe can't hear him over the noise of the cash register. Moe doesn't even noti
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by bonaldi 16y ago
"routing links through this service will eventually contribute to the metrics behind our Promoted Tweets platform and provide an important quality signal for our Resonance algorithm" So this is Twitter's Digg bar: they want to wrap and trac
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Almost the opposite: my position is that there is a distinction but it's purely lexical, and the two terms are effectively synonymous. That's why it's not quite right to say that people "confuse" them all the time (as my grandparent did); i
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by bonaldi 16y ago
"I care about the dots/pixel" Yes, but those are two different dots you're talking about. What you actually care about is how many printer dots you get for each image pixel. There is a distinction, and I'm all for precision in language, but
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by bonaldi 16y ago
You've got a false distinction there. It's the number of constituents that can be packed in per inch: whether those constituents are print dots, physical pixels, or utterly notional (as in displayed images).
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by bonaldi 16y ago
If your site is full of "crud", it's hard to be sympathetic.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
No, DPI and PPI are literally the same thing. (Photoshop used to call what is now PPI "DPI"). "PPI" comes from people wanting a way to talk about the dpi of a digital image without including all the baggage and confusion of dpi, which too f
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by bonaldi 16y ago
It's not quite as clear as that. People aren't confusing DPI and PPI -- they're the same thing. Pages like the linked that suggest otherwise are muddying the problem, because they're misunderstanding how printing works by ignoring line scre
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by bonaldi 16y ago
You found the OS X UI "bland and ugly" but caring similarly about the aesthetics of hardware is so inconceivable that it "puzzles the hell" out of you? I think you're getting your party lines crossed.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
The Mac still attracts a premium, because that's its market now, for better or worse. When it was conceived, the target price was $999, which it didn't actually hit until the underpowered Mac Classic arrived. The other products -- iPod, i
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by bonaldi 16y ago
By the same token, Microsoft capitalised on the void left by Sculley-era Apple. While Apple was charging thousands of dollars for underpowered Macs with 9" screens, Windows PCs could leap into the bottom end. They weren't really good: users
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Gruber hasn't changed in the slightest. The only thing that has changed is sentiment here towards Apple. Because you disagree with him, you're more likely to judge him harshly. I don't agree with him entirely often either, but god am I glad
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by bonaldi 16y ago
app for that, in 4.0, got it (UK), app for that, got it. So again, a huge leap forward? Hardly.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
"but it's looking like Google is quickly overtaking them in innovation and features" Such as? The announcements yesterday looked as though they'd finally caught up to iPhone 3.0, including the huge cheer for "Update All".
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by bonaldi 16y ago
No ctrl or meta keys on the iPad keyboard might make that tricky. (ymacs is amazing, though)
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by bonaldi 16y ago
They linked LaTeX to a page for fans of latex. What was that about ambiguity?
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Don't expect a reversal. This meeting will be because staff are seeing their peers suddenly hating them on their favourite forums, and execs are seeing the media having a pop. It's to reassure the troops, to tell them "we're right, here's o
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by bonaldi 16y ago
"but I can count the total number of software engineering advances they’ve made on one hand." I was just thinking the other day about the number of software engineering advances they've made that I wish would fan out: - Hypercard - Dylan -
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by bonaldi 16y ago
What a massively unpleasant troll. All based on a simple fallacy: "If all it takes to break a privacy system is for one of your friends to copy and repost your “private” photos or tweets then they’re not private at all." By the same measure
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Sorry, you don't get to be all prescriptivist in telling someone what "brave" doesn't mean, then suddenly produce a descriptivist defence when you're called on it; they're incompatible.
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by bonaldi 16y ago
/pedant: it is, actually. Definition is "ready to face danger or pain". "Brave" is mostly used approvingly, but it's also completely proper in sentences like "He decided the app should be IE-only, which was a brave move but one he felt was
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by bonaldi 16y ago
This is becoming a FB blindspot. Zuckerburg (and FB in general) now just dismiss all criticism of any changes they make because -- hey! News Feed was criticised. I don't know that betting your business against growing storms of criticism on
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Absolutely. After all, Orkut and Friendster now offer almost everything people are talking about here as the bare minimum any competitor needs. Facebook took off (after the college-only days) for two reasons: 1. For people on Myspace, it wa
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Horrible, horrible idea. Imagine your car did the same. "Ooh, winter's back, need the rear window demister ... hey, where's the damn button gone?". This is like those dancing menus Office used to have, except even worse, because it lowers t
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by bonaldi 16y ago
The whole privacy setup was never really about people's privacy -- it was about keeping them locked into Facebook. I think in their bizarre eat-the-world rampage thay've lost sight of this. Which is fine, because with the new tools they're
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by bonaldi 16y ago
Yes. All that link shows is the same app running on lots of different screen sizes, with no concessions to the local device beyond resizing the same layout. It's lowest-common-denominator in action, really. The iPad split views are complete
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by bonaldi 16y ago
From the article: "'It’s the hard question I want to answer,' he says. 'What creates consciousness?'" This isn't just rhetoric: he's talking about a major area of philosophy of consciousness called the hard problem or hard question -- http
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by bonaldi 17y ago
Surely you have to build communities to do this, though? Your earlier answer mentioned how you needed voting so the "community" could choose best answers, you needed tags to keep sub-communities separate and so on. And one of the rating cri

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