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by boucher 16y ago
Like every good liberal, I'm not crazy about the idea of nuclear power, but from an objective standpoint it's relatively safe and it's incredibly clean compared to just about every other viable alternative (at least in the short term). Of c
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by boucher 16y ago
This is a terrible analogy. In the real situation, Apple has forced developers not to use third party technologies, ever. In your hypothetical, the owner chooses not to go to McDonalds on occasion. An apt analogy: The owner of a four star r
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by boucher 16y ago
It's an incredibly simple claim. Apple is engaging in hypocritical policies. Apple forbids actions on its own platform that Apple uses to make money and gain market share on other platforms. I don't see how you can interpret this any other
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by boucher 16y ago
They aren't pitching them as equal. Apple wants them to be unequal.
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by boucher 16y ago
Actually, the main difference between debug and release are that release builds also minify/compress the code. Both compile from objj to js. Of course, you can not run the compiler at all and the code will still run in your browser, because
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by boucher 16y ago
If you aren't using gzip, you're crazy. But gzipping is one small piece of the puzzle. Even the simplest web application would benefit from the concatenation and minification of its scripts. Plus, as it turns out, those aren't the only thin
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Hydroponic Edible Gardens for Urban Windows(windowfarms.org)
57 points by boucher 17y ago|3 comments
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by boucher 17y ago
There are absolutely loyal companies. It's just not the norm.
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Using Node.js and Cappuccino to create real time collaborative drawing(techblog.gomockingbird.com)
74 points by boucher 17y ago|14 comments
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by boucher 17y ago
Not really sure what that means. I don't think there has to be one winner, and we're glad to have more people in the market trying to realize our goal of desktop class web apps. But let's not kid ourselves. Cappuccino has two interface buil
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by boucher 17y ago
MobileSafari doesn't support web workers.
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by boucher 17y ago
It hasn't been released, and probably won't be released in the near future.
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by boucher 17y ago
I love Github, I like the Github team, and I use Github issues every day. But I honestly can't wish it on anyone else, it's just terrible. It's slow, buggy, and not all that well organized.
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by boucher 17y ago
This argument makes no sense. These third party tools are using only the publicly documented Apple APIs. They are simple doing so through an intermediary layer. It has nothing to do with using private or low level libraries.
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by boucher 17y ago
I actually think it shows a lot of promise. Though it is reasonably limited, a lot of what it does do it does well. For example, it doesn't have the extremely common problem of every piece of text being selectable, and often that selectio
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by boucher 17y ago
For the most part, open source makes the irrelevant. Not that we are going anywhere, but if we dropped off the face of the planet tomorrow, Cappuccino would go on. We already have a thriving community of contributors and users who rely on C
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by boucher 17y ago
More of our biggest users came from pure web backgrounds then from Cocoa backgrounds.
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by boucher 17y ago
You have to be a little careful here, as certain versions of IE won't render MHTML assets the second time they area loaded, but again only under certain circumstances. In Cappuccino, in addition to building in all the known workarounds (ser
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by boucher 17y ago
We're still shipping updates to the Atlas beta. Not quite sure when a final release will be ready. In any case, we're continuing to write code like mad men.
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by boucher 17y ago
Agreed! I want to build our entire community site around Github, but I don't want people to provide their usernames/passwords, and I'd prefer a way to specify whether or not they're providing access to SSH keys, which I don't need.
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by boucher 17y ago
There's a fairly substantial difference, in that all Apple apps that used private APIs came installed with the device. They weren't competing for a share of the app store market. Apple is now directly competing for the same dollars as every
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by boucher 17y ago
If you read the post you'll see that we have OBJJ_ZOMBIE_DETECTION. It actually works :).
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by boucher 17y ago
Yeah but you have to appreciate an April fools joke that comes with a working implementation :-).
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by boucher 17y ago
I think the change in the dollar value limits are reasonable. It may not be the greatest thing in the world for startups, but I'm not sure it will have a huge impact on the number of angels making investments. The SEC registration requireme
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by boucher 17y ago
Well, no. If you've only got $250K in the bank you already can't invest. The current requirements are $1 million in assets or $250K annual income. This will move that bar up by about 2X.
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by boucher 17y ago
I think the magnifying glass is perfectly acceptable here. I think the "filter" icon is much less recognizable to the majority of users. (case in point, the author of the app hasn't heard of it).
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by boucher 17y ago
It would be interesting to break this down by revenue, and compare what each company is actually making on each category. Google would be dominated by search, which would likely be a fraction of the other companies business. Microsoft would
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by boucher 17y ago
People downvote duplicate posts all the time to express displeasure (and hopefully to get the author to delete the duplicate). It's not more significant than that.
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by boucher 17y ago
Data driven from an individual collection and observation perspective, perhaps. Apple doesn't AB test its products.
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by boucher 17y ago
Seems like immortality without memory is useless, so really that's the question.

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