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by cgislason 15y ago
I agree, unless someone can point to anything Apple has ripped out or deactivated in WebKit. Apple seems to have been pretty open with Mobile Safari. The most closed thing I can think of is when they only enabled their faster JS engine for
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by cgislason 15y ago
Seeing evidence of this trick is one criteria I use to block people and (possibly) report them for spam.
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by cgislason 15y ago
The Play framework ( http://www.playframework.org/ ) is a good example of how things can be done better with Java. None of the bloat or XML config, just a productive set of APIs to work with. It seems to mostly try to stay out of your way.
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by cgislason 15y ago
Touch devices seem to be simillarly impaired. Seems like someone was being a little to clever.
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by cgislason 15y ago
I'm sure they do plan for interruption, but with magsafe you invite it, in a sense. Especially on a portable device. You're probably right that the physics of the magnet don't make it as useful. That makes me wonder how thoroughly Apple has
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by cgislason 15y ago
Simple: it carries data. If the power cord on your laptop is yanked off for a minute it's usually not a big deal. If you disconnect the iOS device cable you could interrupt a data transfer. There is a higher risk to disconnection.
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by cgislason 15y ago
Even if your users are not stupid, designing as if they are is usually beneficial.
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by cgislason 16y ago
Done this way, it could easily come off feeling like a bait and switch. As a potential employee it would harm my opinion of the company unless it was clear enough in the requirements that you do Java dev but want a more rounded individual.
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by cgislason 16y ago
For iOS you have to provision the device and then sign the app as part of the build process. For the Playbook, you only sign the app so there are fewer things to go wrong. The tools run from the command line, but work well if you follow the
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by cgislason 16y ago
I think it all comes down to lack of polish. Even in the early days, the iPhone SDK was leagues above the Playbook SDK in terms of polish. My personal anecdote is that the tools only run on 64 bit Macs but I could find no mention of that in
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by cgislason 16y ago
There is also an iPhone dev meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Winnipeg-iPhone-Developer-Meetup/
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by cgislason 16y ago
Even if these classifications made sense, I think most programmers are some blend of the ideas behind each group. As a programmer I switch between all of these modes as necessary.