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by boucher 18y ago
I can't really say I agree with you. There are a lot of good books on the subject, there are a lot of great tutorial sites (free) on the web (look at scott stevenson's work, or cocoa is my girlfriend, or CocoaDev). The mailing lists are pre
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by boucher 18y ago
Well, those benchmarks are over a year and a half old, and the JS engine in webkit has improved by probably a factor of 10 since then. iPhone 3.0's JavaScript will probably be a mere 10 to 20 times slower than Obj-C, which is actually prett
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by boucher 18y ago
Apple doesn't release simple things because they wanted to ship as fast as possible. In fact, I'd say Apple behaves in the opposite fashion. They take as long as necessary to release something intentionally simple. Arguably the iPhone start
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by boucher 18y ago
No, it isn't.
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by boucher 18y ago
Who says that drag and drop, or context menus, need to fail? And why would any sane user, who's spent the last 15 years getting used to the way desktop software works, want to switch to a completely different, entirely text based user inter
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by boucher 18y ago
That's a big maybe. I'd wager that a small percentage of the people who use bit.ly to shorten links are actually using the metrics. And I agree that bit.ly could probably be cloned trivially. There's no network effect, so there's no real re
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by boucher 18y ago
GMail is not built with GWT (and to my knowledge, no major project at Google is).
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by boucher 18y ago
Why did it get killed? It is certainly more interesting than a lot of the stuff that gets posted from TechCrunch. Poorly written or not, it's an interesting opinion. I think WebKit is going to kill Gecko.
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by boucher 18y ago
You have glanced the side of an interesting point: what comes out of data driven design is not art. Great design, the kind of work that people obsess over Apple for (at its best), cannot be made that way. Great design is art; it is expressi
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by boucher 18y ago
Why sentences and not words?
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by boucher 18y ago
well, it's holding on to an active connection during that timeout, right? if it were much higher, you could quickly eat up all your available connections. on the flip side, for something low traffic that may not be an issue.
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by boucher 18y ago
The law does not require disclosure of the collection of non personally identifying information. If it did, server logs would be illegal. Pinch analytics performs exactly the same function as Google analytics, and you don't agree to that on
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by boucher 18y ago
it only works on the real reddit. the private install idea is interesting though...
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by boucher 18y ago
28 now, but it's saturday night, and valentines day. people are doing other things at the moment :)
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by boucher 18y ago
Definitely exciting, though it will be interesting to see whether or not going entirely canvas pays off. We've thought about it and thus far rejected it in our framework.
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by boucher 18y ago
Any time you ever need to map an object to another object, you need this functionality. Without a memory address, object's don't have any other unique values associated with them. It's actually a pretty fundamental problem. Of course, like
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by boucher 18y ago
Firefox has some serious issues on Linux. It's admirable that they make a browser for Linux, but they do seem to let a lot more fall through the cracks than on other platforms. For example, I've seen several websites that crash Linux in Fir
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by boucher 18y ago
We're not yet using it in production, its only a few weeks old, but we will be in some of the things we're working on. One of the main benefits is letting us run objective-j and cappuccino on the server, letting us share application data mo
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by boucher 18y ago
Sinatra is definitely an interesting project. We recently "ported" it to JavaScript: http://github.com/tlrobinson/jack/blob/030685ef3de4c29c38b4e... The same webservice would be: roundabout.route({ path:"/add/{a}/{b}", get: function
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by boucher 18y ago
Plus jack and roundabout (ports of rack and sinatra to javascript), because we created those too :) http://github.com/tlrobinson/jack
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by boucher 18y ago
Keeping the office?
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by boucher 18y ago
People still use WebObjects everyday too (I used to be one of them), but not very many. I'd say WebObjects is basically on the scrap heap.
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by boucher 18y ago
I see the value in being "interactive", but it isn't enough to rule out any other factor in choosing a language.
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by boucher 18y ago
I don't think being interpreted matters. It may make your immediate development cycle faster, but that says nothing about long term development. I imagine the Scala guys would argue heavily that being compiled is a huge advantage to the pow
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by boucher 18y ago
I'd like to know what argument you would make to claim Objective-C isn't a "high level language". Despite the fuzziness of the term, I think Objective-C would meet most any bar that didn't specifically require the language to be interpreted
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by boucher 18y ago
I think something that google has begun to do, and that is incredibly valuable, is data "sources" that aren't hard coded into any particular spreadsheet, but that come from a URL or API of some kind. I should be able to make a row of "oil p
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by boucher 18y ago
DRM free tracks have not cost money for the last year.
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by boucher 18y ago
Agree that you should try to figure out what doing so would actually cost, and what you might hope to gain from the situation. Of course, if the costs are expected to be relatively low (which I would imagine, given that it isn't likely to b
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by boucher 18y ago
Agreed. I paid for food, rent, books, tuition, etc. I'm still paying for the tuition, probably will be for the next 10 years :).
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by boucher 18y ago
"A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority" I'd say he is in fact implying that his decision was related to learning about his health problem.

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