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by cgranade 15y ago
And here we find one of the major advantages of open source development: their efforts need not be lost, and that productivity need not be wasted. Instead, there is now an opportunity for someone to stand up and continue making MeeGo someth
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by cgranade 15y ago
Those statistics are enough to sample the entire population only if it is a fair sampling, but I think the point is that Alexa toolbar users are not a fair sampling of Internet users in general, and hence the claiming that 27% figure applie
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by cgranade 15y ago
I remember at one point, Apple forbid pricing things higher on iOS' App Store to compensate for the 30% cut. Is that still the case? If so, then Amazon's choices are a lot narrower: kill the link or kill the app.
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by cgranade 15y ago
Not to mention that if they did pay for the license, I'm not sure that it would propagate down to forking projects. If you can't fork Firefox, that significantly impedes the utility of its open-source development model.
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by cgranade 15y ago
You can hide the + portion of a Gmail address behind redirects and forwards, if you feel so inclined. It's a lot of work, but it does let you use the "deliveredto" operator in Gmail to automatically sort and discard spam like that.
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by cgranade 15y ago
I'm wondering if it's at all possible to integrate this with OpenID, and how this interacts with previous Mozilla Identity projects to make your identity a part of the browser chrome. It all seems rather tangential to their other efforts, r
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by cgranade 15y ago
Not all web apps do, either, thanks to HTML5 Manifests and the like. That said, not everything plays along well with offline web apps, sadly.
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by cgranade 15y ago
Should add a few, too, like "hope wireless connection works well or that developer properly prepared manifest," or "hope the developer didn't just assume 'web app' meant 'test in Safari Mobile only,'" etc.
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by cgranade 15y ago
On laptops and desktops, sure, where there's enough of a computational surplus that the overhead isn't that big a deal. I'm not aware of a web-delivered version of Angry Birds that can work well on phones, though.
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by cgranade 15y ago
This article seems to basically be a giant troll... if you can't see what problems Google+ claims to solve for a consumer, you aren't looking very hard. As far as I can see, there's two giant issues that G+ addresses and one that's arguably
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by cgranade 15y ago
I've been waiting for this for a long time. I think that the tactile feedback is the main thing holding back touchscreen keyboards from competing with hardware keyboards, for instance. Having this in a tablet would, I expect, make it much e
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by cgranade 15y ago
There is a kind of uncanny valley to UIs that imitate native UIs. For instance, I remember back when IE6 faked UI controls, they didn't act quite like the native Luna controls, and that upset some users.
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by cgranade 15y ago
Maybe, however, Google is trying to change that. E-mail is a perfectly fine choice for the protocol for such messages, but the UI has to change. Look at what they've done in the other direction, brining Talk and Buzz logs into Gmail inboxes
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by cgranade 15y ago
Google actually overhauled much of their mobile web apps on the launch day for G+, as Gizmodo documented: http://gizmodo.com/5817102/googles-looking-real-nice-right-n...
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by cgranade 15y ago
In the US, yes, they were: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedi
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by cgranade 15y ago
It amuses me that the author talked about the Share menu as if it's a special case behavior developed in. Rather, the Share menu is a direct consequence of what may well be Android's biggest strength aside from openness: the Activities and
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by cgranade 15y ago
If it's easier for a developer to make interesting things, that can translate into a better user experience as it means more interesting things will get done. That (mobile) webapps sacrifice a bit of usabilty for ease of development and por
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by cgranade 15y ago
There's a big difference between saying that something is presently insecure and that it is by nature not securable. I understand and agree that WebGL is not presently secure at all, but Microsoft is making a set of claims far beyond this:
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by cgranade 15y ago
I don't want an independent opinion so much as I want one from a party that isn't being disingenuous.
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by cgranade 15y ago
It would be crazy to ignore MS on this point, yes. It would also be crazy, though, to take them at face value. While there are avenues for attacks via WebGL, I think it's clear that MS is being at least somewhat disingenous about the implic
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by cgranade 15y ago
I'm sure it sounds silly, but I never realized that there were so many other HN readers from Waterloo, so I can definitely relate to your disbelief. I was quite surprised to see "Waterloo, Ontario" pop up in Google Reader.
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by cgranade 15y ago
Amusingly, though, closer to the David Johnston R&T park if I'm not too much mistaken.
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by cgranade 15y ago
There's a lot more to this town than just RIM. I work, for instance, at the Institute for Quantum Computing, which is just one of the things that UWaterloo is pushing forward with. I'll grant you there's probably going to be some real-estat
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by cgranade 15y ago
While I want to share that optimism, I worry precisely because of Apple's many flirtations with censorship and their having built an amazing architecture for such on their iOS platform. This patent, whilst it wouldn't make any marketing sen
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by cgranade 15y ago
As thin as this article is, it's something that wouldn't surprise me a bit to find out is true. MS practically bought out Nokia with the Elopoclypse, after all.
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by cgranade 15y ago
I'm not so sure I agree. Python in general is very consistent about pass-by-value versus pass-by-reference semantics, whereas MATLAB infers things in ways that are far from transparent. Look at, for instance, the way the `parfor` loop const
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by cgranade 15y ago
I'd love to see similar lists for other languages. I've been coding in MATLAB as of late, for instance, and rediscovered my hatred for the fact that you can't index the output of a function without assigning to a temporary variable. For ins
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by cgranade 15y ago
Interesting, if brief, article. I'd like to know what's meant by "key signing parties themselves generally don't involve computers, since that would give adversaries increased opportunities for subterfuge," though. Maybe I'm not cryptograph
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by cgranade 15y ago
I think at least part of the point is that the Law of Leaky Abstractions means you always need to think at least somewhat about the infrastructure, just not as much as they do.
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by cgranade 15y ago
Why? Adams is showing himself to be sexist, and a good argument can be made that he's being a jackass, too. This whole game of ad-hominem gotchas is really getting old.

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