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by boucher 18y ago
If only you didn't have to manually update it on iPhone. You still have to launch the app.
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by boucher 18y ago
You are asked before the first time any application is allowed to use your current location. So, this point is ridiculous.
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by boucher 18y ago
This is really a misunderstanding of "looking nice" and usability. This app doesn't look nice, but if it was an incredibly usable app with an ugly background color and ugly custom buttons, that would be somewhat understandable (I say somew
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by boucher 18y ago
He handles it incredibly poorly. All of his comments throughout the thread are, "I'm right, you're wrong, this is a good UI." Sure, he admits there may be room for improvement, but he also blatantly disregards useful advice from potential
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by boucher 18y ago
http://www.sunnydonuts.com/ The donuts are in fact pretty much exactly the same as Dunkin' Donuts, but the coffee is not.
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by boucher 18y ago
In fact, if you're a mac user, there's a Service that will open a highlighted URL in your default browser. Combine that with they keyboard shortcut tool in System Preferences, and you can make a hotkey to open any highlighted link.
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by boucher 18y ago
It's easy enough to check, and they do in fact diff to the above.
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by boucher 18y ago
WebObjects was way too far ahead of its time. You're absolutely right that so far Apple has contributed very little to the web app space. We'll have to see what happens in the future.
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by boucher 18y ago
All I can suggest is, do everything you can to get them to give you a number first. Otherwise, you're just bidding against yourself. It can only hurt you to give a number first.
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by boucher 18y ago
Apple is not that important. Seriously. Even with a mere 10% market share, Apple is so incredibly important. Since 2000, they have continually set the standard in industrial design across the electronics industry (and even beyond it). B
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by boucher 18y ago
Cocoa was designed from the ground up to build GUI applications. Java certainly can't claim that. Cocoa was designed 20 years ago at NeXT, and in all that time, it has barely changed. Interface Builder is an incredibly powerful tool. Coc
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by boucher 18y ago
I don't really think web apps have to look like desktop apps. But I think any such discussion also required a bit of consideration of what counts as a web application, and what is just a web site. Objective-J and Cappuccino (and SproutCo
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by boucher 18y ago
Although I agree that its foolish, every major school that competes in nationally televised sports has a commercial.
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by boucher 18y ago
I don't think there is one specific metric. It seems like SVN commits would be more accurate than LOC, but when I hear numbers like that, I begin to seriously doubt it. You have to take a lot of things into consideration when trying to me
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by boucher 18y ago
Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about affording school just yet. A lot of schools offer significant financial aid packages, and there are plenty of scholarships available. Take it one step at a time. Figure out where you want to go,
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by boucher 18y ago
"I didn't realize how slowly I was working until I worked with a YCombinator company. I was making about 6-8 commits/day; they setup a new Subversion repository 2 days ago and it's already on revision 100." Subversion commit rate is an abys
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by boucher 18y ago
If you're planning on a career in programming, I'd recommend trying to get an internship somewhere before you graduate. If you think you might want to start a startup, go that route, but it won't hurt to do an internship at a big company e
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by boucher 18y ago
Webkit nightlies have an enhanced Web Inspector that's nearly as good as Firebug.
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by boucher 18y ago
Actually, he pretty much states that fact directly. 37signals already had the money to survive long term. This article specifically addresses people who think they can work on products full time without a plan for paying the bills for 1
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by boucher 18y ago
never heard of it before, but our custom protocol is pretty similar to this.
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by boucher 18y ago
Objective-C 2.0 introduced garbage collection and "properties", as well as a new enumeration syntax. The best beginning Cocoa book is "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X", found here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321503619/bignerdra
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by boucher 18y ago
Amazon MP3 is worse than the iTunes store in every way except price. Amazon is competing almost solely on price, and they're losing. I think one of the reasons is that when something is that cheap already (99 cents), saving 10 or 20 cents
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by boucher 18y ago
I'd be surprised if they ever get above third place in the Wikipedia search market.
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by boucher 18y ago
The best way to find a designer is find something you personally think is beautiful and well designed (or, if you think you have no taste, substitute your opinion for someone's you trust). Contact those people and try to convince them to wo
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by boucher 18y ago
It's not really a problem, but if you do need to change states later, it's not all that hard. It takes two forms: one telling California you're leaving, and one telling your new state you're arriving.
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by boucher 18y ago
The value is being able to run programs that can only run in Mac OS X. There are plenty of reasons why you might want to do this. You might want to build some custom processing job that relies on something built on top of OS X for example
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by boucher 18y ago
Because the license for Server permits it, and the license for client does not.
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by boucher 18y ago
Mobile Safari handles CSS based layouts just fine.
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by boucher 18y ago
For what it's worth, in this completely unscientific survey, much less than 1% of all visitors to my site use 800x600. There are 15 more popular resolutions ahead of it. In fact, twice as many people show up on a mobile device with 396x32
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by boucher 18y ago
Please don't post direct download links. Especially after the last ones were removed.

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