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by dstein 16y ago
I've made my point clear. If you think web browsers should not have the ability to play any audio that's a different topic than whether an OEM gets to pick and choose which parts of a standard to implement and which devices can support it.
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by dstein 16y ago
>If that breaks web games -- tough luck. It's worse than that, it breaks the standard. Audio API can no longer be used reliably if a major portion of the audience can't utilize it. Remember when days when one major heavyweight would
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by dstein 16y ago
No. They've done this to prevent web sites from outputting sound when they're loading (or just as they're done loading). The Audio API's .play() method is now always disabled. It was working on the iPad iOS 4.1 only through a hack, but A
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by dstein 16y ago
Mobile Safari Can't pre-load sound files, only plays one sound at a time, severe lag, timing issues, clicks & pops, completely ignores every other call to play a sound, doesn't support Ogg/Vorbis. Utterly useless for anyt
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by dstein 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_%28computer_science%...
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by dstein 16y ago
Because of whitespace and line break sensitivity you can't dynamically generate serialized CoffeeScript (unless delicately handled) because it won't compile.
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by dstein 16y ago
I really wanted to like CoffeeScript but that it can't be metaprogrammed and serialized (easily) is a huge problem for a scripting language. I guess scripting was never the point of CoffeeScript, but a lot of what makes JavaScript so flexi
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by dstein 16y ago
The concept of "files" were an abstraction in the first place. The icon, or the row in my directory list output that says "/Documents/file.xml" is simply an abstract way of visualizing "where" and "what" that particular data represents. Wh
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by dstein 16y ago
Or for that matter I kind of want to hover over parts of the barcode to see a screenshot from that scene -- I wanna see what that one "red" part is really quickly.
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by dstein 16y ago
1) pick a project large and difficult enough that you don't already know how to accomplish it. I certainly will not have fun if I already know how to accomplish the task before I've begun. 2) daily progress. It doesn't have to be consiste
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by dstein 16y ago
After the lawsuit I think investing in RIM or their platform isn't a good idea. That RIM was more willing to "kick" this company to the curb and serve them a lawsuit, rather than perhaps acquiring an innovative team and hot messaging platfo
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by dstein 16y ago
You mean people don't work 7-to-12 days in a row until they crash, then take a day and a half off, and repeat the process over again? Pfft, lightweights.
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by dstein 16y ago
Apple definitely wants a piece of the mobile advertising market otherwise they wouldn't have created the iAd network. And I speculate Apple will drop Google from the Safari search box at some point and replace it with a custom location &#3
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by dstein 16y ago
I'm not in SF but from what I can see, the programming job market is only good these days for "rockstars" willing to work for entry-level salaries. There aren't very many good, high-paying programming jobs these days. Everything is entry
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by dstein 16y ago
Google has the far higher staying power Make no mistake, Google is scared stupid. They know their core business is in the crosshairs of both Facebook and Apple. They won't go down without a fight, but that Google is reaching out in ever
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by dstein 16y ago
I guess it would be reasonable to ask people pay the full $25 if they ever used a pirated copy of the software.
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by dstein 16y ago
Not only can they build rendered cities at breakneck pace, they can do it for the real thing: http://www.businessinsider.com/shanghai-1990-vs-2010-2010-6
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Microsoft irate over Facebook staff poaching(thenextweb.com)
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by dstein 16y ago
You should read the contract you signed thoroughly instead of assuming anything. You could also be upfront with your employer, bring the contract in, and have it modified before making any decisions.
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by dstein 16y ago
I wonder what this fellow would have thought about work 100 years ago or more. The amount of "slavery" that a person has to do today to sustain himself has never, in the history of mankind, ever been lower than it is today. We should be s
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by dstein 16y ago
With this much money you obviously don't want to be dropping the whole lot into the market at one point. If this were 2009 it would've been a great decision, but after a 2-year bull run that looks like it's petering out I'd probably opt to
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by dstein 16y ago
Sure, trolls will be trolls. But I'd make a bet that average Joe Sixpack might just get tired of logging out of Facebook to log back in with his troll account just so he can post a hit-and-run nasty comment. It's probably enough of a barr
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by dstein 16y ago
When you think about it from the perspective of big sites like TechCrunch, requiring that people use their true Facebook identity would virtually eliminate nasty comments overnight. When you're using your true identity people will generall
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by dstein 16y ago
Calling this a clone is a understatement to say the least. At 16-core, 2 GHz, and 512 gigaflops these are some pretty serious numbers. China is getting scary.
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by dstein 16y ago
Day trading, and poker playing. Both require you to be of a type of person that makes one a good entrepreneur - willing to put in long hours and withstand a lot of pain.
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by dstein 16y ago
Ever seen the job boards on Craiglist? They're free, and they really suck. The signal to noise ratio on both sides becomes horrendous.
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by dstein 16y ago
Another reason would be so they can get a job.
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by dstein 16y ago
http://thenextweb.com/
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by dstein 16y ago
The JavaScript language isn't what's nice. What's nice is using one programming language to write an HTTP server, your server application, server templates, client-side application, client-side templates, communication code, database code,
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by dstein 16y ago
We uninvited him from his interview. That's too bad. It would have been a very interesting interview.

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