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by boucher 16y ago
No, I meant what I said. We use narwhal-jsc 95% of the time. Rhino is this unfortunate thing we keep around for compatibilities sake. The flexibility of being able to switch engines as needed is also a major win in Narwhal. I suspect in the
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by boucher 16y ago
Prototypal
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by boucher 16y ago
It's unfortunate, but it's also the reason we wrote Narwhal, which now means we rarely need to use Rhino at all. A welcome change.
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Why Taxing Carried Interest As Ordinary Income Is Good Policy(avc.com)
41 points by boucher 16y ago|8 comments
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by boucher 16y ago
Use a text editor? This seems to be the thing people say they like most about Firebug compared to the WebKit tools. I don't get it. Is the cost of a refresh really so high? There are dozens of editors with built in auto-refresh/live-preview
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by boucher 16y ago
Of those 400 million apps, the best guesses suggest that fewer than 10% of downloads are paid. Estimates have put the values at about 10-20 cents per dollar app. The costs are fixed though, so they do make much higher profits on more expens
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by boucher 16y ago
Even if VS is better than Xcode (and I have no problem believing that it is), I don't see how that's a win for Apple. First off, Apple isn't in the game of admitting that their products suck, and they certainly wouldn't encourage people to
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by boucher 16y ago
Well, if you wrote the code, you own the copyright. You can release it under any license you wish. If other people wrote the code, then they've expressed their wishes through the terms of the GPL (which haven't really changed in the last
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by boucher 16y ago
But again, it hasn't been made explicitly clear which terms are being violated. The GPL doesn't require that code be distributed along with binaries, only that code be made available upon request, and the manner for doing so be made clear.
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by boucher 16y ago
This argument doesn't seem to make much sense, as MobileMe does store all of your information on a cloud service on machine's not owned or operated by you.
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by boucher 16y ago
In the U.S., the police are allowed to lie to suspects in order to get a confession. They are not allowed to search you or your property without probable cause or a search warrant. If they do so, the evidence obtained (and all evidence stem
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by boucher 16y ago
I think that was a good description of Apple Computer, Inc. Now that we live in the post iPhone world of Apple, Inc., they seem to be behaving quite differently. Their strategy seems dominated by short term market share grabbing in the mobi
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by boucher 16y ago
This American Life is one of my favorite things. It's simply wonderful.
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by boucher 16y ago
This is _extremely_ unlikely. Not only is it far more technically complex than you let on, it goes completely against the ecosystem Apple is building.
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by boucher 16y ago
Every school that plays competitive college football advertises on TV during those games (if not also at other times). This includes Stanford, Notre Dame, UCLA, USC, Berkeley, and plenty of other great schools.
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by boucher 16y ago
The fifth season is mostly awful. The seventh season picks up a bit, but with the things they did to Toby's character, and with the incredibly lame "live" episode, it's hard to pretend it lives up to the first four seasons (each of which wo
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by boucher 16y ago
Our opinions on this specific issue: http://www.alertdebugging.com/2009/11/04/mockingbird-cappucc...
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by boucher 16y ago
it's using the native browser's css transforms, which unfortunately don't always look so hot.
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by boucher 16y ago
can you be more specific?
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by boucher 16y ago
The problem with trying to run native code in the browser is that you're likely to be stuck on Chrome for the forseeable future, whereas NativeHost (and technology like it) needs only to be written once for each platform and can then bootst
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by boucher 16y ago
Hah, yeah, we realized as we were building it that the number of new fangled tech products in use was off the charts. There were a lot more we couldn't fit in the title :).
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by boucher 16y ago
There was a time when Apple's ability to ship a new OS every 1.5 years was touted as one if proudest accomplishments. MS was insulted for years over their inability to ship a new version of Windows.
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by boucher 16y ago
Sure, but how is this line crucial? Do you disagree with the analysis that 3.3.1 clearly bans his company's application?
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by boucher 16y ago
You don't actually have to wait, you just have to manually select the date from the date picker.
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by boucher 16y ago
Less like a tip, more like a requirement. Clicking to advance didn't work for me. :(
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by boucher 16y ago
I remember being so excited about the Optimus. The final product was such a disappointment. We won't make the same mistake :).
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Making a Plug-in for Atlas (the Cappuccino IDE from 280 North)(cappuccino.org)
33 points by boucher 16y ago|4 comments
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by boucher 16y ago
And a pretty misleading one at that. "The iPad team worked with the SproutCore team to provide native hardware acceleration to the JavaScript layer..." Yeah, that couldn't be further from the truth. MobileWebKit has had hardware accelerated
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by boucher 16y ago
Nor is there any guarantee it won't be significantly faster or use significantly less memory, which is the OP's point.
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by boucher 16y ago
First off, let's turn down the rhetoric just a bit. You can like or dislike this feature without believing it goes "well across the line" of ethical behavior. We're talking about blog posts here, not scientific research or human life or pol

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