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by boucher 16y ago
Yeah, you should read a bit about Cappuccino, it makes drastically different decisions about how an application should be built on top of the browser, but as a result it gets to do complex things like this image spriting extremely simply.
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by boucher 16y ago
I think the policy is stupid, but I have a soft spot in my heart for Objective-C. It may be a product of the 80s but it remains very relevant, especially in its 2.0 form.
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by boucher 16y ago
There's nothing unethical about making the decision early; it would, however, be unethical to make that decision and then not continue to put in the required work while you wait for that vesting day.
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by boucher 16y ago
The author isn't saying things need to be perfect from the start, just that he's frustrated by imperfection being introduced by people other than himself, especially when it's the result of compromise or design by committee. The argument is
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by boucher 16y ago
You can sort by any column by clicking on its header. There is no way to reorder them manually right now (though it wouldn't be hard to add).
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by boucher 16y ago
No problem. I actually enjoyed writing this app quite a bit, and I think it's a good showcase for a lot of different technologies in Cappuccino.
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by boucher 16y ago
I think you're confusing having the power to say something with having the obligation to say it.
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by boucher 16y ago
The specific career is not relevant. Any person who has retired after making 3x the median US salary is evidence in this scenario.
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by boucher 16y ago
Probably not. I know a lot of designers who have become good enough at programming to do most of the things that good programmers can do. I know very few programmers who are even passable at design work.
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by boucher 16y ago
Yeah, because Microsoft and Apple are two companies that clearly failed while Sun and 37 Signals are clearly successful multi billion dollar businesses.
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by boucher 16y ago
I don't think its fair to say that Cocotron has implemented more than GNUStep.
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by boucher 16y ago
Of course, like the distribution of free vs. paid, it's likely that a majority of the money is going to a minority of the paid apps (I would imagine a pretty similar 85% to 15% distribution), which means its probably working out decently fo
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by boucher 16y ago
The person speaking in the video identifies himself as an employee of the Cato Institute, it's not hard to imagine why I made the mistake. Not to mention the fact that half of the board of directors (and some of the listed experts) of the C
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by boucher 16y ago
I think there are just a lot of people who agree with the slant. Agree or not, though, it was obviously one sided.
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by boucher 16y ago
It does embed that absolutely hilarious Cato Institute video.
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by boucher 16y ago
I wouldn't question Siracusa's technical chops, he's definitely earned them. He's intimately familiar with Objective-C and its history. As for your second claim, I really don't follow. Memory protection has nothing to do with garbage collec
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by boucher 16y ago
Gross generalization alert. True ever? Probably. True always? Absolutely certainly not.
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by boucher 16y ago
This is a silly metric. Development downloads have nothing to do with code deployment size. Cappuccino's download, for example, comes with two complete versions of the code, plus the documentation, plus a sample app. And there's also a sepa
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by boucher 16y ago
This seems disingenuous. While it certainly sucks that something which was once completely free to you now costs money or comes with several strings attached, it's hardly unfair or dishonest. What you had for free continues to be free, fore
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by boucher 16y ago
It's really hard to say that iOS 4 is resolution independent. Right now, it pretty much just supports two fixed resolutions. And though the public information is pretty limited, what we do know about the API approach suggests that each addi
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by boucher 16y ago
Not really. I don't know how much you know about how it actually works, but it's a much bigger mess than what you are describing in the article. OS X isn't really built from the ground up to be resolution independent, and linking to article
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by boucher 16y ago
Have you actually gotten a lot of chargebacks? I've heard that the industry significantly exaggerates the amount of chargebacks that actually occur.
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by boucher 16y ago
Yes, they would. If Posterous users opted in to such a feature by installing some Tumblr code on their site, Posterous would not block it.
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by boucher 16y ago
Of course, a $5 million exit is not $5 million in the bank. Depending on where you live, and a lot of other factors about the sale, it could mean as little as <$3 million after taxes (avg. case probably being around $4 million).
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by boucher 16y ago
This seems to be a point a lot of people are making, but it isn't really true. Most of the features shown in these demos are not part of any web standard. HTML5 is actually not a standard, but even if it were this would still be only partia
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by boucher 16y ago
Everyone wants this to be the reality, but right now it isn't. Thomas says "with almost complete desktop-like performance in most cases," but seems to say the exact opposite in the previous paragraph (let alone the rest of the article -- wh
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by boucher 16y ago
Unfortunately, it started a few years ago when Gruber took a break from writing anything interesting and decided to focus all of his energy for months on the thoroughly uninteresting wi-fi macbook hack story (on which he was ultimately pret
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by boucher 16y ago
Well, sort of. You can still only play music and movies through iTunes, and you can only do it in formats supported by iTunes. You are not allowed to create a third party music or video player, which effectively means that even these things
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by boucher 16y ago
The process definitely has a lot of randomness, but this is a lot harder to do in practice then you think. Specifically, because you supply bank account information with every account, so now you're also creating several bank accounts. And
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by boucher 16y ago
The title doesn't really give you much to go on, but the app is incredibly well done. It diffs all kinds of binary image formats like PNG, JPG or even PSD. Oh, and the product website is amazingly beautiful too.

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