drgath

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by drgath 15y ago
Yes, no more will be made. There are still tens (hundreds?) of thousands sitting in warehouses though.
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by drgath 15y ago
Yes, it is. Heck, a new version of webOS was pushed out yesterday.
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by drgath 15y ago
... and it is just JS/HTML/CSS so it will run on any webkit browser and you can use it to write nice-looking mobile apps for iPhone, Android, etc...
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by drgath 15y ago
Why replace it with an inferior OS?
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by drgath 15y ago
HP already has a hold of this pile. I wouldn't just assume that because they're exiting the hardware business they have no (future) need for that portfolio. Heck, if anything, they'll have to hold on to those if they hope to license webOS
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by drgath 15y ago
"Why would anyone be interested in purchasing a failed-to-launch tablet product when Android tablets sell well and the software is free" a) webOS is an OS that has been shipped on much more than just this latest tablet. It's a fantastic OS
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by drgath 15y ago
I'm astonished that they aren't even going to bother selling it off. With the Google/Motorola merger, surely one of the Android partners has to be feeling a little uncomfortable right now. Hell, Motorola was always rumored to be working on
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by drgath 15y ago
Additional tools used: http://yuilibrary.com/about/ * Ubuntu * Nginx * Node.js * MongoDB * Express * Cluster * Handlebars * node-mongodb-native * npm * Google Prettify * Git
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by drgath 15y ago
FWIW, Konfabulator (now Y! ConnectedTV) is on 8 million TVs and growing. Pairing that with their recent IntoNow acquisitions, if those are to be integrated (rumored) then it could be a very unique and exciting product.
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by drgath 15y ago
Well, considering he trolls the blogosphere with a new "Flickr is Dead"-type post every month, I can't imagine he was very helpful within the help forums and was doing more harm than good.
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by drgath 15y ago
While I believe NaCl is radically different in nature compared to the DOM or XHR additions, regardless, web standards development is a much different game today than it was 5, let alone 10 years ago. We aren't talking about Apple experimen
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by drgath 15y ago
Feel free to peruse through WHATWG's specification for "Web Applications", or "Web Apps" for short. There is a standardized, very explicit definition of what that term means. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/
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by drgath 15y ago
XHR became standard in 2004. When did "Ajax" really begin to take off? 2005-2006. The DOM? Not sure what you are implying.
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by drgath 15y ago
Just because something is a standard in no way means one way or another that browsers should actually support it. For example... C# is a non-proprietary approved spec by ECMA, but you don't see that inside of a web browser. If something is
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by drgath 15y ago
No, ActiveX's downfall was that it wasn't part of the open-web. If ActiveX had bullet-proof security, it still would have failed because you'd still only have IE supporting it. In NaCl's case, Chrome will be the only browser to ever suppo
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by drgath 15y ago
I agree that people consider anything that appears in a web browser is a "web app", but that doesn't make it right. ActiveX, Java Applets, Silverlight, Flash, and NaCL are not "web apps." People also think "Internet" is analogous to "Worl
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by drgath 15y ago
I applaud them as well. It's better than just sitting on the sidelines (see: Google & Microsoft) while their "partners" get sued. But, let's not forget there is a lot for Apple to lose in this if Lodsys is victorious. If developing iO
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by drgath 15y ago
That's exactly what Lodsys would like. If Joe Startup sees a patent lawsuit and Apple is offering to pay the bills, heck yeah, just let them take care of it. In which case, all the money likely goes to a patent troll for them to scoop up
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by drgath 15y ago
> The problem is the concept of software patents in general, not the various ways of "enforcing" them. Absolutely not. The concept of patents, as applied to software or anything else, is a valuable aid to innovation. The implementatio
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by drgath 15y ago
The interesting part is that Lodsys of course knew this before acquiring the patents from Intellectual Ventures, and here's the catch... "Even if Apple believes the patents wouldn't stand up to reexamination, it is suspected that the secret
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by drgath 15y ago
Looks like Nov 5th is the target date. So in ~85 days, they are going to concoct a plan to destroy a $100 billion (allegedly) company? This should be interesting.
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by drgath 15y ago
Source: https://github.com/etianen/html5media/blob/master/src/api/ht...
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by drgath 15y ago
Tyson tweeted out yesterday: "Simple Logic: Worried that FOX viewers don't know, think, or care about science? That's why COSMOS belongs on FOX." It's being written by the same writers (aside from Carl) as the first one, and produced by Set
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by drgath 15y ago
Disagree. Neil is an amazing speaker and educator on science. I'd say the best since Carl Sagan. Like Carl, I'd be willing to sit down and listen to him talk about anything he wanted, for hours and hours, with the same sense of wonder and
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by drgath 15y ago
Original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2834334 Please post comments there.
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by drgath 15y ago
Clearly it wasn't designed to exclude EJ, but it also likely wasn't designed with EJ in mind. airbnb is no doubt working with an insurance company, and if that company finds an "out", they're going to take advantage of it. Like most all ren
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by drgath 15y ago
> "What matters is that EJ will be compensated and AirBNB will live to fight another day" That's what we're not sure about. EJ, a renter herself, likely didn't have the right to rent out her unit. The blog post says "We will extend this
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by drgath 15y ago
True. I was just thinking of typical airbnb apartment rentals, where the property owner only owns the "walls-in" portion of the unit.
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by drgath 15y ago
As a home owner and someone who has used airbnb, trust me, $50k will more than cover everything in pretty much every place airbnb rents out. Just because someplace costs $200k doesn't mean it costs $200k to rebuild from the ground up (a lot
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by drgath 15y ago
Which all of 0.0003% of people will actually turn on. It's not so much about me not knowing what is being sent, it's about anything users across the web type into the url box is sent to servers somewhere. It's not information companies ne

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