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by boucher 17y ago
Worth noting we aren't calling ourselves 1.0 yet. This is just our one year anniversary. Also worth noting that SproutCore 1.0 is still in beta, and almost a complete rewrite, rather than a stabilization of what was already there.
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by boucher 17y ago
Not sure what you mean by lack of stable releases. Are you saying that the releases are not stable, or that the release schedule is not stable? I believe our releases have been fairly solid, but I do admit they don't follow any predictable
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by boucher 17y ago
A lot of good points. About debugging, I would strongly strongly disagree. The Safari 4 / WebKit debugger is actually getting quite good. Add on top of that the profiler and support for native method names we added to WebKit, and you've got
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by boucher 17y ago
Still in development.
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Cappuccino Turns One(cappuccino.org)
84 points by boucher 17y ago|48 comments
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by boucher 17y ago
They are very clearly making money. They are just spending more than they make. Revenue is still an important metric. Many companies which are supposedly successes still have $0 in revenues. Saying such a company is already successful is mu
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by boucher 17y ago
Apple builds security against those types of attacks into the OS and the SDK. The review process basically adds no additional protection. Holes in the SDK which accidentally expose such features can still be exploited, and those exploits ar
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by boucher 17y ago
Nobody is arguing those facts, and I don't think anyone at 37 Signals is naive enough to claim that you can't grow faster by spending more money (and going into debt, in whatever form). From where I'm sitting, the point is that such a compa
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by boucher 17y ago
Unfortunately, I think you'll find a lot of the newer WebKit features missing from the Pre. For example, the canvas implementation is stripped down and lacks, among other things, gradients.
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by boucher 17y ago
I find this incredibly hard to believe. 1.5 Billion apps downloaded in about the first year, generously 10% of those are paid downloads. 150 Million apps generating 2.5 billion in revenue? When reasonable estimates suggest that about 40-50%
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by boucher 17y ago
Every security update Apple ships for Leopard it also ships for Tiger. And I preferred spotlight in 10.4. In fact, 10.4 was all around a much better OS than 10.5, which was the first update to Mac OS X that felt like a step backwards. Of co
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by boucher 17y ago
Gruber makes many good choices, this being one of them. But his writing is overwhelmingly pro-Apple. You can call it being a fanboy or not, it's up to you. Separately, I'd probably be as inclined to believe the source as I would Apple's pub
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by boucher 17y ago
to be fair, the iPhone is at the same place or worse on several of these issues.
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On HTML 5 Drag And Drop(alertdebugging.com)
32 points by boucher 17y ago|4 comments
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by boucher 17y ago
Agreed. The iPhone is a good demonstration of combining a powerful development environment with always on connectivity (one of the more powerful reasons for being on the web in the first place). It's also a shining example of many of the th
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by boucher 17y ago
It will end when they can sustain profitability. They are still a long way from that.
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by boucher 17y ago
the much better version: http://tlrobinson.net/bigbrother/snowstack.html
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by boucher 17y ago
Gruber consistently sides with Apple. He is, in essence, a fanboy. There are exceptions, and he's not a moron, so when there's community uproar and obvious stupidity he will say so. But his reporting is heavily pro-apple overall.
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by boucher 17y ago
$700 is probably optimistic, especially for the first generation.
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by boucher 17y ago
Exactly. We're talking about download ratios, not sheer number of apps available. And the total numbers are extremely lopsided in favor of free apps.
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by boucher 17y ago
I think it's hard to make the claim that apps are more popular than websites on the iPhone. Unfortunately, it's hard to find data on overall mobile web traffic (or total web traffic in general), but over 60% of all web traffic from a mobile
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by boucher 17y ago
I'm not a huge fan of Doug's book, but I think this is an excellent read: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/A_re-introduction_to_JavaSc...
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by boucher 17y ago
oEmbed does have a discovery mechanism, though it's its barely implemented by anyone. 280 Slides implements the discovery consumer portion of the spec.
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by boucher 17y ago
I'm not really sure it is a minority, or at least not as much as it may seem here on Hacker News. I recall reading that the GPL is by far the single most popular open source license. Can't seem to be able to back it up though. Either way, s
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by boucher 17y ago
Hey Koen! From the perspective of a person who chooses the GPL license for their code, the issue is that they want to the right to take your changes and then modify them as they see fit. The GPL prefers that right over everything else, incl
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by boucher 17y ago
You're confused about who the user is in this discussion. The user is the end user of software, not the developer who is using your code. GPL protects the rights of end users, no matter how many developers sit in between the original code a
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by boucher 17y ago
It's true that you can charge for GPL software. It's just not a particularly good strategy. Because invariably, that software will wind up easily accessible on the Internet for free, maybe even with a higher page rank than your own page.
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by boucher 17y ago
Do most browsers actually support hsl/hsla? Never actually paid attention to that. Would certainly be nice... though I've already put the conversion code in CP.
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by boucher 17y ago
Funny, my reaction to your statement is, why would anyone use Linux? (as a desktop operating system...) I'm a pretty good programmer. If I had to change the source on a program to use it, I wouldn't. I have better things to do with my brain
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by boucher 17y ago
I cannot, for the life of me, understand why anyone would want to specify a color in hex.

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