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721.
by boucher 17y ago
"freetard" seems pretty in character for Jobs to me.
722.
by boucher 17y ago
Reference counting really isn't that hard to follow. Cocoa's conventions are pretty straightforward. You need to release (or autorelease -- which by the way is great) for every call to alloc, retain, copy (inc. fooCopy), or new (inc. newF
723.
by boucher 17y ago
C has no conventions for memory management. You've got malloc, you've got free, and the rest is up to you. Objective-C has an easy to follow pattern, reference counting, which is used consistently throughout the language and libraries. Crea
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by boucher 17y ago
Not having GC on the iPhone is unfortunate, and I think there's a good chance we'll see it in OS 4.0. But Apple developers have a culture of not trusting garbage collection. It's irrational, but it runs deep through most of the experienced
725.
by boucher 17y ago
This is incredibly naive. If you think all of 280 Slides is two toolbars and a dozen or so icons, then you have missed the point. Even the point you are trying to make is invalid, because this is perhaps 2% of the layout involved in 280 Sli
726.
by boucher 17y ago
I can tell you its not anything new, and it's been around at Apple for a while now. It's in use right now on several live Apple properties. When and if it will be released in any usable form has yet to be made clear though.
727.
by boucher 17y ago
I think its more complicated than you make it sound. Though, Cappuccino is, as far as I know, the only open source web framework that has professionally designed graphics which are also open source in their PSD format for anyone to use and
728.
by boucher 17y ago
It's much less than 20%.
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by boucher 17y ago
I dislike IE6 as much as the next guy (more probably), but people should stop harping on Microsoft like this. IE6 created the first version of AJAX. It had browser based drawing primitives ages before anyone else. It turns out that IE filte
730.
by boucher 17y ago
Actually, I think it's about ease of implementation.
731.
by boucher 17y ago
There is a refresh button. And if your mouse is properly configured, middle click does open a new tab.
732.
by boucher 17y ago
Firefox on Linux has never really compared to the Windows version. I hear that Chrome on Linux is working pretty well though.
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by boucher 17y ago
Sproutcore isn't something made by or supported by Apple, it's a project created by the individual who was later involved with the development of MobileMe.
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by boucher 17y ago
I wrote a server side version of Sinatra in JavaScript called Roundabout: http://github.com/boucher/roundabout/tree/master My co-founder also ported Rack to JavaScript (called Jack) http://github.com/tlrobinson/jack/tree/master Roundabo
735.
by boucher 17y ago
Cappuccino is a completely client side framework. It requires nothing on the server. It is written in JavaScript and Objective-J (a small set of extensions to JavaScript). It uses no python.
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by boucher 17y ago
We're not immortal, but I'm glad you think so. We strongly believe in open source software, and we want to be a part of it. Cappuccino is our way of doing that. Plus, with something this cool, we just couldn't keep it to ourselves :) But, f
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Cappuccino 0.7 Released(cappuccino.org)
71 points by boucher 17y ago|35 comments
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by boucher 17y ago
There are almost certainly not 600,000 paying iPhone developers. I'm guessing that number is people who have downloaded the SDK (which is available for free). There are only about 35,000 apps, and the average number of apps per developer (w
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by boucher 17y ago
This only affects you if you only follow jack XOR jill. So, if you like them both, you're still going to be annoyed.
740.
by boucher 17y ago
No, setting a variable to undefined doesn't delete the object contained in that variable (and I never said it did). Neither does calling delete. Delete gets rid of the variable itself, not the object it contains, which is precisely what I d
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by boucher 17y ago
delete can be useful, but it's not nearly as useful as it sounds. delete's only purpose is to remove a property name from an object. that is the only advantage it has over just nulling out a reference directly, and in most cases, the two te
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by boucher 17y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/a_re-introduction_to_javasc... This continues to be pretty much the best JavaScript reference on the web.
743.
by boucher 17y ago
it will probably be never. unless all browsers ceases to include internet explorer at some point.
744.
by boucher 17y ago
yes, 45 days
745.
by boucher 18y ago
In some cases, this might fail to infer a name, in which case, the function is listed with the special name “[Anonymous]”. IE suffers from the same problem the other profilers do. They may "try" to be smart, but there's
746.
by boucher 18y ago
Well, I certainly don't want to argue about semantics, but I don't think the title is "completely inaccurate". The code did not work at all before. It almost always reported incorrect information. You can consider those bug fixes if you lik
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WebKit gets a new JavaScript profiler courtesy of 280 North (YC W08)(alertdebugging.com)
80 points by boucher 18y ago|16 comments
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by boucher 18y ago
280 Slides uses an asynchronous POST (or PUT) request for saving documents. Just because the mechanism for generating requests has changed, that doesn't mean the mechanics of REST should be thrown out the window. REST is useful, and its how
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by boucher 18y ago
Seconded. This is a pain to deal with, and integrating it with Github would be oh so nice.
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by boucher 18y ago
There's nothing "clean" about using a link. @import is an actually useful feature: the ability to define dependencies. "This file depends on another, which I've imported." Instead, using link tags forced you to push dependencies all the way

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