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by ddagradi 15y ago
Dear people making great products, Your products' minuscule flaws offend me, and render the entire product a failure. My complaints are more important than any decision or tradeoff you have made, and thus you are bad at your job. - Some Whi
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by ddagradi 15y ago
There's a lot of useful guides for submitting to the App Store now too, with an official one hopefully coming soon: http://www.brontesaurus.com/2011/04/signing-xcode-4-projects... http://redwoodapp.posterous.com/macruby-and-xcode-4-build
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by ddagradi 15y ago
It's called an iPod Touch, which costs $229 unsubsidized. Is there actually some magic market Apple is missing between the $99 iPhone 3GS and the bottom of the line Android handsets? Maybe, but they don't seem particularly enthused about ta
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by ddagradi 15y ago
It's hard to fight back against a project that hasn't been released, nor talked about until yesterday.
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by ddagradi 15y ago
So, the article argues that since Flash now runs mildly acceptably, we need it to watch video again? I've been watching video on my phone for almost 4 years without Flash; why do I need it now?
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by ddagradi 15y ago
Got a lot of comments on this. I'm not blown away by Apple's Notification Center, but I don't think this is the right solution at all. This approach fails to distinguish itself from the existing elements of the OS. It crams more information
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by ddagradi 15y ago
Seems to be 25,000 tracks excluding iTunes purchases.
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by ddagradi 15y ago
iOS updates will be OTA. They're tiny delta updates now too! It was mentioned in the keynote.
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by ddagradi 15y ago
Apple doesn't seem to fight jailbreakers at all. It seems that most jailbreaks rely on a security hole, and Apple has a responsibility to patch said hole. Back in iOS 2(?), for example, you could jailbreak your phone by visiting a webpage
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by ddagradi 15y ago
Sorry if that came off harsh - edited for clarity. Whether or not someone is the best programmer in the world with a certain technology, we're all complete novices in more areas than we can count. I know nothing about SproutCore, so count m
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by ddagradi 15y ago
Exactly. There's no reason to crap all over someone's toy project when they're clearly learning, playing and experimenting. The choices sure seem like someone learning the framework, and I bet there's a better way to teach.
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by ddagradi 15y ago
Makes me wonder how many more "simple" optimizations can be made to the Rails stack. Very exciting!
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Speeding up Rails startup time(rhnh.net)
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by ddagradi 15y ago
Apple is pretty damn careful about not making press releases until they have a clear, concise and informative statement to make. Staffers were likely instructed not to address it because the official response was forthcoming. Yes, it's a sl
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by ddagradi 15y ago
A monoculture where developers aren't hindered by supporting a mediocre browser with a breadth of missing features? Count me in.
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by ddagradi 15y ago
Achieving simplicity in design is more difficult than just throwing a ton of buttons, gradients and drop shadows at the problem. I'm an iOS user, and a huge fan of that model, but Microsoft is doing a good job of crafting an experience that
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by ddagradi 15y ago
With multiple MacRuby apps shipping in the Mac App Store right now, and rumors of iOS support in the near future, it doesn't seem completely unlikely.
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by ddagradi 15y ago
Section 2.5 of the license agreement seemingly covers developers in this case: --- 2.5 Ownership Apple retains all rights, title, and interest in and to the Apple Software and any Updates it may make available to You under this Agreement. Y
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by ddagradi 15y ago
I don't want to bash our competitor, but I can talk about our goals. We want to craft a clean and simple Campfire experience for the desktop, and we think we're well on our way to creating a unique and easy-to-use application. It will fit e
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by ddagradi 15y ago
Thanks Dylan! We had a lot of fun making it
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by ddagradi 15y ago
I would. MacRuby adds to the experience once you already know what you're doing. As an introduction to Cocoa, it adds a lot of difficulty too.
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by ddagradi 15y ago
It's definitely possible to start with MacRuby. It just requires a little more overhead to translate Cocoa documentation into methods that work with MacRuby (not to mention the occasional one that doesn't work right...). As a Rubyist, there
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by ddagradi 15y ago
For iOS, MacRuby is unfortunately not an option, as it would require garbage collection. However, for writing OS X software, MacRuby works great (we just shipped an app with it in the App Store - http://briquetteapp.com - and it has defin
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by ddagradi 15y ago
RubyCocoa is severely out-of-date. MacRuby is its replacement.
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by ddagradi 15y ago
Great job keeping the design classy and out of the way. Seems simple and easy to use - hope you have a ton of success with it. Any idea on how to keep it alive/monetize it? Maybe high street stores would want to promote some of their items
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by ddagradi 15y ago
It all depends on your situation. Do you have ~1 year of salary for a new employee in the bank? You're probably doing alright then, and can definitely afford the risk. "1 year of salary" is, of course, just a suggestion, but you don't want
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by ddagradi 15y ago
The PHP Drupal community alone is quite a mess. I know - I'm using it every day. It's not that the developers are bad, but documentation and testing are not tenets of the platform. Security updates routinely break functionality with no warn
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by ddagradi 15y ago
This is the same advantage as Ruby - the community for both languages has been more vibrant and interesting than PHP for years.
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by ddagradi 15y ago
It's totally weird that I didn't even register the two devices as different hardware classes. I can imagine instances where scrolling on a trackpad is more precise (webpages) and less precise (Photoshop?), but in reality, since the move to
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by ddagradi 15y ago
How is this the case? How many 3rd-party mice don't have a scrollwheel? (Especially gaming mice!) The other question is "What is the default behavior?". If I plug a mouse without a scrollwheel into my iMac, do scrollbars show up by default?

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