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by elblanco 16y ago
I agree. I think that there are all kinds of lessons to be learned from the Opera experiment, which is why I asked the question.
872.
by elblanco 16y ago
It would be an interesting investigation into why Chrome and Firefox have done so well in growth and Opera (a quite nice browser) never seems to have done well.
873.
by elblanco 16y ago
This is a great idea, I wish more mobile browsers had something like this.
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by elblanco 16y ago
The similarities between cults and Apple (with Jobs at the helm) is pretty well studied and written about. The good news is that people who buy Apple products actually get something of value for their money -- so it's far less sinister.
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by elblanco 16y ago
duck duck go is rapidly becoming a new goto search engine. It hasn't quite replaced google, but it's farther along in doing so than any other engine.
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Turn Off the Tweets, the Third-Party’s Over(mashable.com)
2 points by elblanco 17y ago|0 comments
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Steve Jobs Hints At Theora Lawsuit(yro.slashdot.org)
5 points by elblanco 17y ago|1 comments
878.
by elblanco 17y ago
I was quite enjoying the music on the video on that site.
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by elblanco 17y ago
Why not? If <canvas> is being used as a drop-in replacement for Flash, why wouldn't it just be used in exactly the same ways? There's nothing special about canvas that would make it less prone to abuse.
880.
by elblanco 17y ago
That's shameful and frustrating.
881.
by elblanco 17y ago
People don't like hypocrites. Like it or not, the Apple brand is strongly associate with Jobs. Even here, on HN, an Apple friendly site, many people have announced an end to their support for Apple products (or at least it's giving them som
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by elblanco 17y ago
A good strategy might be to go ahead and make flash work on the Apple devices. Being able to demonstrate that the limitation is purely political and not technological would be helpful for people that don't understand what's going on. Plus
883.
by elblanco 17y ago
I think Apple's behavior towards Adobe (and by extension the end-users) has been pretty piss poor. Jobs' pretend "rationalizations" are also rather poor. However, I agree with this blog post. Flash is going the way of the past, HTML5 is
884.
by elblanco 17y ago
Absolutely, 100%, spot on. Adobe, please turn your attention to making great HTML5 authoring tools.
885.
by elblanco 17y ago
> in Greece you pay no taxes on a building 'til it's completed, but since the weather is fine all year anyway, why not just leave the top floor unfinished? And they do, private individuals and corporations alike. This. Athens reminded
886.
by elblanco 17y ago
I have an extension that blocks flash from any page I visit. I can turn it on by clicking the in the little box where the flash content was supposed to appear. I'll put it this way, my finger sometimes gets so tired clicking to turn the fla
887.
by elblanco 17y ago
There's a 10.1 beta for Android phones around.
888.
by elblanco 17y ago
> It is an essay about why Apple thinks its actions are good for it. Hidden in that of course is the lack of concern for what's good for the consumer.
889.
by elblanco 17y ago
And HTML5 canvas changes this how?
890.
by elblanco 17y ago
> We do other things on the iPhone. I don't want to make the choice between watching a video and then restricting my own usage just so my phone has enough juice to make a call. I'd rather watch videos and use my phone, and the more powe
891.
by elblanco 17y ago
It's a fascinating combination of good points and utter rubbish, but mostly rubbish. The twisted hypocritical logic here is almost entirely devoid of the introspection I would expect from Jobs. More important, if that Jobs felt the need to
892.
by elblanco 17y ago
You would be very surprised at how common it is. It's a pretty big problem with new companies started by people who've never been burnt by that.
893.
by elblanco 17y ago
That, or there's good reason for outgoing employees not to have unfettered access to the company IP.
894.
by elblanco 17y ago
I think 2 years is pretty much okay. The first 6 months is learning the organization, the second 6 is putting that into action and trying to make it work. If it's working stay another year and see. If not, move along.
895.
by elblanco 17y ago
Yup, it's about that easy. Most of the time you don't even have to finish out your 2-weeks.
896.
by elblanco 17y ago
I'll be getting some free time in about 3 weeks and have been interested in picking up my python education again (after a very long hiatus). I've written some non-toy language tools in it and was impressed with the language, but the existin
897.
by elblanco 17y ago
He must have written a perl script that automatically writes a python book.
898.
by elblanco 17y ago
a) My 2008 era blackberry is routinely hung doing something. Apps take minutes to load. I/O on it seems like it's about half as fast as other modern smartphones on the same network. For example, by the time I get a nice app like google maps
899.
by elblanco 17y ago
It reeks of "don't care". It's clunky in places, everybody has to roll their own gui toolkit to make anything that looks halfway decent, performance isn't that great (maybe the devices are slow), crap is buried in long lists of settings, I
900.
by elblanco 17y ago
Please, RIM is in severe need of a major OS update. Blackberry OS was kinda okay 7 years ago, but the devices I see now are more or less the same ones I was using in 2003.

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