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by bprater 18y ago
As an iPhone fanboy and iPhone app developer, I absolutely welcome the first Android phone to market! Gogo G1! I want an aggressive competitor to iPhone. iPhone isn't perfect and having a great competitor can only drive Apple to making th
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by bprater 18y ago
A beautiful hack was my first thought and then -- ugh, let the exploits begin?
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by bprater 18y ago
I may be one of the few hackers that loves marketing as much as I do programming. I often split my reading time between both subjects. (And personal development.) For me, marketing is exactly like hacking code. Except that it's hacking for
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by bprater 18y ago
Ding, ding. That's why Apple is winning mindshare now, because they are invested in the complete experience, from obsessive design of the hardware to focus on simplicity and elegance in the software.
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by bprater 18y ago
Concept phones are really fun to dream about, but they aren't real .
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by bprater 18y ago
Agreed, that's where the beauty is always found.
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by bprater 18y ago
Unfortunate situation, but they are handling it in a very mature way.
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by bprater 18y ago
Interesting. The real issue question may lurk here: Did the developer do it because its in his job description or because he felt strongly that he wanted to communicate with the client in that way? And how does that change things?
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by bprater 18y ago
Don't forget to go out and grab Prag's iPhone SDK book! Just snagged mine! http://pragprog.com/titles/amiphd/iphone-sdk-development
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by bprater 18y ago
Great article. For folks that don't understand what depression feels like, an article like this is great. I think a good explanation of depression for someone that has never really experienced it is: "Take the worse day of your life. Feel t
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by bprater 18y ago
Long live micropayments! C'grats Ivan and team!
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by bprater 18y ago
So far, Apple has done a pretty poor job of managing the store. Look at all the '...zomg, you're charging for this!!?!!1!eleven' "review" posts. I'm hoping they throw someone at the project that has some common sense.
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by bprater 18y ago
YOU know what would be really useful? To have an expert Emacs user do a screencast of himself doing standard programming stuff. I think that would make it really obvious how these types of editors are.
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by bprater 18y ago
I think that trying to gauge user load for a startup is about as accurate as figuring out the financials five years in advantage. There are lots of questions: what will the servers be doing? Transcoding video is going to take lots of horsep
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by bprater 18y ago
I don't see this device being a "must-have" device like iPhone is.
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by bprater 18y ago
I really dig the Ken Burns effect. Very slick...
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by bprater 18y ago
It'll be a great option for folks, but traditional CDNs do offer additional capabilities like streaming, which S3 cannot do right now.
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by bprater 18y ago
I'd love to see AIR get more traction, but I rarely hear about it these days. Why?
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by bprater 18y ago
Client != Server.
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by bprater 18y ago
Curious as to how this compares to standard GZIP compression over the course of a hundred pages on a website.
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by bprater 18y ago
How do you get at that plist?
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by bprater 18y ago
Kudos for all the hard work he's put into JRuby. He's very passionate and has obviously put in a tremendous amount of effort into this project. Definitely the spirit of a true hacker!
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by bprater 18y ago
Have any of you Mac folks tried it virtualized to see how it feels?
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by bprater 18y ago
Have any of you Mac folks tried it virtualized to see how it feels?
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by bprater 18y ago
What's the angle for actually getting folks to use this browser? It's taken years to get mom-and-dad to using Firefox.
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by bprater 18y ago
It is amazing how entirely frustrating this is to developers. We are using a new platform and this is the point that we need access to as much information as possible, and this is the period where Apple is being most restrictive.
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by bprater 18y ago
I love the App Store, but folks who "review" stuff that haven't bought it ("wow, the price is too high, so I'm going to give it 1 star!" or "this app should be free") drives me absolutely insane. In a straight-jacket, on the 13th floor of t
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Is the App Store Review System Defective by Design? (smartphonetoday.com)
6 points by bprater 18y ago|4 comments
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by bprater 18y ago
You literally need the words About as a hyperlink. Don't get too creative here. We are used to a certain pattern that every website uses.
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by bprater 18y ago
The human brain prefers the dumbed down language. That's why people take trash novels to the beach and not Scientific American. Look at any novel and notice that nearly all the dialogue uses the word "said". Amateurs always switch this out

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