bonch

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by bonch 15y ago
If you think living free of DRM and lock-in are major concerns in the minds of most desktop users, you spend too much time on Slashdot and other Linux forums. What good is no DRM if your sound card doesn't work?
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by bonch 15y ago
Linux is a server operating system. The attempts to shoehorn it onto the desktop have always felt hacky and cumbersome compared to commercial products. After a few years, I just accepted this reality.
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by bonch 15y ago
Can't believe you're calling other people trolls after your comment to a previous Bitcoin post: People that don't have the money to buy bitcoins and see them appreciate are jealous of the ones that do. They hide their insufficiency and jea
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by bonch 15y ago
No offense, but you come off like a Google fanboy. Nothing in this article seemed out of line or inaccurate. The best part is that you say to wait a year for the product to get finished. Then you list some of the very criticisms made in the
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by bonch 15y ago
Scientists can be just as emotional and biased as any other human being, regardless of training.
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by bonch 15y ago
Another one that people repeat is that Bill Gates said 640kb out to be enough for anybody. He says he never said it, but even if he did, at the time he supposedly made the statement, it was an accurate one given the technology available.
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by bonch 15y ago
Are you willing to elaborate on this? Recommending it over garbage collection on OS X would run contrary to their previous evangelism of GC and its concurrent scalability.
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by bonch 15y ago
Garbage collection specifically refers to a collector that reclaims resources at run-time (the "garbage"). According to the article, this is static analysis that inserts retain/release into the code at compile-time.
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by bonch 15y ago
I really think that real, full-fledged applications will still be written in whatever languages are available today. All of this fear is IMHO just plain FUD The issue is that those apps will be relegated to the crufty, legacy desktop tile
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by bonch 15y ago
If .NET has a place in first-class Windows 8 development, why is Microsoft remaining silent about it? Journalists who follow Microsoft, like Mary Jo Foley, have covered the internal strife over .NET. Reportedly, the Windows division just do
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by bonch 15y ago
In fairness, the majority of Android, as well as many of the smartphones it runs on, are cloned directly from Apple. Android phones were going to look totally different before the iPhone was unveiled in 2007.
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by bonch 15y ago
Javascript is an implied part of DOM scripting. HTML5 is an umbrella term covering all of these technologies and is much more than text layout.
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by bonch 15y ago
Objective-C is always going to win the contest for Smalltalk-esque verbosity, but I would hardly consider the code you wrote to be cumbersome. In the modern Objective-C runtime using garbage collection, you can write this: // Order.h
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by bonch 15y ago
> Objective-C does have performSelector, but its awkward to use. It lacks the ability to easily add slots to objects and you often have to work with C types. -performSelector: takes a selector string, and its variants allow you to pass
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by bonch 15y ago
People have been predicting web-based desktop development for 15 years now, and it never happens. Netscape even wanted to replace the Windows 95 shell. Apple tried to push web apps for third-party iPhone development, and people didn't want
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by bonch 15y ago
Objective-C is already a dynamic language. Its ability to drop to low-level C at will makes it too flexible and powerful to abandon for something slow and cumbersome like Javascript.
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by bonch 15y ago
> In the last week I've mentioned Sony's situation to a number of lay people who've never owned a Sony gaming machine but have all heard about these security issues and insist they'll never trust Sony with personal information ever agai
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by bonch 15y ago
In what way is Apple fighting them? Other than fixing the security holes used to jailbreak. A jailbreaker already gave Apple their money for the hardware. It's like how Apple doesn't go after software piracy all that much, relying on a seri
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by bonch 15y ago
> Java is the default language in the best selling phone platform, Android. When iPods and iPads are included, iOS greatly surpasses the Android install base. These aren't just phone operating systems; they're mobile device operating sy
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by bonch 15y ago
Enterprise often over-engineers things.
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by bonch 15y ago
The problem with C# is that it's tied to Microsoft, and we're already seeing what can come of that with developers wondering if .NET is a first-class Windows 8 development platform or has been relegated to legacy status and supplanted by HT
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by bonch 15y ago
Most of the Java hate I see comes from C# fans (which is ironic given C#'s origins).
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by bonch 15y ago
> HTML5 is the future, cross platform. JavaScript will be made into a robust language in the coming years, with classes, etc. People have been claiming HTML and Javascript were the future of application development for about 15 years no
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by bonch 15y ago
Then why did Microsoft not mention Silverlight or XAML once?
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by bonch 15y ago
You're comparing a single phone to an entire operating system platform. If you include iPod touches and iPads, iOS's install base exceeds Android's.
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by bonch 15y ago
Java was supposed to take over everything, scripting languages were supposed to take over everything, etc. C/C++ are still the primary languages for native application development.
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by bonch 15y ago
> I see this tile-thingy more as an additional overview-shell, but the real work will remain to be done in the classic apps. This is more comparable to the Mac Dashboard widgets than to a complete UI redesign. Microsoft hasn't been port
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by bonch 15y ago
Keep in mind that France actually invented its own term for email simply to have a term that it considered to be more French.
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by bonch 15y ago
> Though the story is interesting, I'm flagging this article for extreme bias while trying to sound like a news outlet What are you talking about? What about it is trying to "sound like a news outlet?" It says right in the side of the p
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by bonch 15y ago
It's not a fight; Mike Ash was just using a tongue-in-cheek headline.

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