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by dkuntz2 13y ago
Having never lost a phone or a laptop, I don't know. While a phone is smaller, it's something most people check frequently, and typically notice if it's missing quickly. Plus, don't most phones have email, which is almos
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
I don't use an online editor, but the main advantage I see is that it makes editing across multiple devices really easy.
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
Scarier than losing a company laptop?
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
How was fame necessary for his self-preservation? If nobody knew who leaked how is revealing himself useful? Deep Throat never needed to reveal himself to the world. Things seemed to go fairly well for him. There are better ways to make sur
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
I don't think that's entirely true. If the two of you have the ability to keep you work separate from the rest of your lives, it'll work fine. From what I've seen, most people can't do that, but that's a differ
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
I'm sorry, but I can't let your aside at the end stand. From my point of view it had nothing to do with ethics, and everything to do with the possibility of fame. He revealed himself. He couldn't even wait, he had to let peop
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
FirefoxOS doesn't need a native or official YouTube app, because the entire thing is just web pages. If Google wanted to make something official, all they would need to do is add an app manifest file with some metadata about the app.
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
> A simple rule that degrades the experience that the official app doesn't follow . And that degrades the experience how? Just because Google doesn't use the same API (nor are they required to) doesn't mean everyone else
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
I don't agree that an iframe would suck compared to directly playing the video. If Microsoft can't write a browser with an acceptable video tag, it's their own fault, not an API provider's fault. Mozilla, Apple, and Goog
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
I'm not sure if it's Ars' commentary, or just the commenters, but it seems entirely sided towards Microsoft. Ars didn't mention that Microsoft didn't want to play by the rather simple rules of "put the video in
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
And after they stopped breaking Google's ToS, they decided to re-release the application that was breaking the ToS, and decided to cry foul on Google, for not liking that they re-released the old app.
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
Requiring someone to play by the rules to use the data isn't being not open. The data is accessible, and you can use it, provided you follow the rules. And there really only seems to be one rule that Microsoft keeps breaking (and even
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
I don't believe that antitrust law applies here. There's no collusion, there's not cartels, the monopolization aspects don't really come into play. Yes, they can't literally do whatever they want, but in this instan
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
Because it's their product. They're permitted to do whatever they want with it. They decided that they wanted a set of rules for when other people play with their toys. If Microsoft had followed the rules, instead of ignoring them
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
Again, you should be paid because you're too lazy to look for applications yourself? Is it really more efficient for someone to put an app on your phone and pay you to have it there than it is for them to market to everyone?
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
Yes. But he said he's a professional developer, which implies to me that he should strive to learn new things, like a statically typed language...
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
If your college education for becoming a developer didn't teach you a lower level language it failed you. Even at my small liberal arts school we use multiple languages (they may all be really, really similar, but they're differen
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
I know how it works, I just find it worse, by far. There's a whole lot more overhead to getting it working, specifically all of the foo.prototype stuff, and it doesn't require that everything be together. Sure, it's kinda nic
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
JavaScript, and scripting languages in general (and, to be more specific, dynamically typed languages, too, but those tend to be scripting languages, anyways) tend to have a lot of gotchas, and when it comes to controlling physical things,
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
I didn't say you couldn't, I just skimmed over them. The prototype stuff is funky to me, I'd rather just have a straightforward syntax with objects.
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
BeagleBone Black has a huge number of gpio pins, it's one of BeagleBoard's major selling points over RasPi at this point. I'm fairly certain the BeagleBone Black has more gpio pins than the Arduino.
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
Yeah that len thing's weird, I probably had similar thoughts when I started using Python, but got over it. I don't use lambdas, so that doesn't carry into how I compare languages.
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
I would rather use Python for scripting.
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
I personally don't like that everything's a hash. It's nifty, and it means you don't really need objects, but I kinda like objects, even if I don't use them frequently in Python. Your preference makes sense, it&#x27
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
@eob - same problem, couldn't reply directly to you. My main reason for liking Python isn't that it's compact and manageable (unless by compact, you mean the code one writes), but because I like the elegance of the language.
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
No. I prefer C over JavaScript for embedded devices. And actually in most places, too. I know I'm weird, but I really like pointers, because I really like being able to manually setup data structures, and enjoy the power provided by po
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
Why? I really would like to understand, because I see JS as a necessary evil, and would rather use something else if given the option.
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
Source?
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
So ... someone should pay you because you don't want to put the effort into finding new apps yourself?
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by dkuntz2 13y ago
Why? Because it uses JavaScript? I'd rather stick with my Arduino and use C. I don't get the whole "JavaScript Everywhere" meme, I'd rather use almost any other modern language (note the almost).

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