dieterrams

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   by dieterrams 16y ago

   I've always gotten what you've been saying. You seem to be completely incapable of getting what I'm saying. And I'm certain you have to ability to get what I'm saying, but I think you just really, really don't want to. Or you're trolling. N
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   by dieterrams 16y ago

   Well, I tried my best.
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   by dieterrams 16y ago

   Why would they have licensing issues?
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   by dieterrams 16y ago

   Or he could develop for iPhone devices, and use the freed time to make his apps better. Or start on a new app. Or take a break.
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   by dieterrams 16y ago

   Let me try this again. Let's say we form a company to develop a web layout engine. We haven't made anything yet, and we're wondering if it would be better to make our layout engine closed source or open. We decide to go with open. Why? Beca
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   by dieterrams 16y ago

   I refer you to my previous comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1397514 Let me break it down a bit further. WebKit is an Apple-initiated project. It is the web counterpart to Apple's native UIKit framework. If they wanted to, they
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   by dieterrams 16y ago

   Dear god, did you completely fail to read the first part of the quote? How can he imply that KHTML wasn't already open source when he specifically refers to it as open source? The "interesting thing for Apple" is that they chose to put th
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   Is Steve Jobs Big Brother?(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)

   5 points by dieterrams 16y ago|1 comments
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   by dieterrams 16y ago

   When you choose to build off a LGPLed project, you are choosing to open source the work you put into it. They could have easily chosen not to build off a LGPLed project. Stop fishing for perceived slights. This is petty, and a waste of the
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    by dieterrams 16y ago

    After watching some of the video footage, I noticed that Engadget's transcription is often highly paraphrased. So I transcribed directly from one of the D8 videos: Steve: We took a tiny little open source project, and we created what'
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    by dieterrams 16y ago

    I'm not an expert, but the first search result for 'snooping' on Google turns up this page: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gc... It's got some obtrusive ads, so I'll just quote it all here: ---------- Snooping,
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    by dieterrams 16y ago

    Journalistic outlets frequently like to use a paraphrase of what someone said or implied as their headline. Some paraphrases are pretty accurate, while others are trash. This is the latter. Here's transcription from Engadget: ---------- &#6
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    by dieterrams 16y ago

    Sorry, but how on earth do you know pre-iPhone HD apps look fuzzy on the iPhone HD? iPhone apps on the iPad look fuzzy because (A) it does not use nearest-neighbor scaling, and (B) the screen is way larger, with a much lower PPI. It would b
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    by dieterrams 16y ago

    The solution is rather simple - start with a high-res asset, put it in the drawable-hdpi folder, then downscale by 66% to get the mid-res assets. This technique doesn't work for pixel art, which can only be scaled up by whole number val
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    by dieterrams 16y ago

    Re: the Multiple Resolutions Problem, it's probably less of an issue if you're writing a utility app. But for games, which frequently make use of resolution-dependent assets, it is far from trivial or fictitious. A larger developer might be
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    by dieterrams 16y ago

    He might have, and given the context, he has a plausible motive. But it's worth considering that many news outlets have called what Google did 'snooping', as a Google search will reveal. (The CNET article he linked to actually calls it 'spy
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    by dieterrams 16y ago

    Proving that someone has zero credibility takes a bit more than that. Hurt his credibility, perhaps, but saying that he has zero credibility is hyperbolic. And 'snooping' is only a gross mischaracterization if you believe the meaning of the