darkandbrooding

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by darkandbrooding 16y ago
The Zope community experienced similar (self inflicted) branding damage with Zope 3. The goal of Zope 3 was to build a next-generation rapid app development toolkit, incorporating lessons learned over the life of Zope 2. This is perfectly l
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by darkandbrooding 16y ago
That was my first thought as well. My initial exposure to nix was a purchased copy of Red Hat Linux 4.2, running on an HP Vectra tower. and I remember paying extra for the CDE install CDs. An absolute noob when I started, by the time I'd l
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by darkandbrooding 16y ago
You need a compiler to build iOS and OS X apps. Once you have a compiler on your machine, how can someone else prevent you from creating or running arbitrary executables? In order to lock down the desktop so as to make a Mac App Store the o
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by darkandbrooding 16y ago
Re: Uncertainty about what data is shared with Google, for OS X users Little Snitch ( http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html ) is an eye-opening (and quite possibly alarming) way to see just how much data an application is s
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by darkandbrooding 16y ago
Moglen stated, "but Mr. Jobs is investing heavily in LLVM solely so he can stop using GCC, lest the patents somehow leak across the GPLv3 barrier, and we become able to use his claims. Nobody has ever tried before, to build a multi-platform
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by darkandbrooding 16y ago
I won't attempt to defend iMac-based hardware upgrades apart from RAM, but memory is actually extremely easy to replace. Just FYI. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3918
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by darkandbrooding 16y ago
Over the past decade I've used OS X's firewire migration option... (counts on fingers) five times for myself and friends. Four of those times the transfer was flawless and (surprisingly) painless. The one problematic time was because the ne
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by darkandbrooding 16y ago
I'm assuming, based on your handle here, that you wrote the original piece as well as submitted it to HN. Was the point of the article to provide some obligatory context for the (quite well executed) collage of Steve Jobs? I ask because yet
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by darkandbrooding 16y ago
Your post contains the implicit assumption that "really hideous malware" will strike the Android platform before it does the iPhone, which is the necessary condition for Jobs to say "I told you so." (I make the assumption that Jobs would no