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541.
by endemic 13y ago
Yeah, seems like just another scammy F2P mobile game. Kudos to them for making money hand over fist, but I don't think I could sleep at night if I built my business by exploiting users.
542.
by endemic 13y ago
+1 subscriber. Might want to turn the input to type "email" and hook up the default form event handler.
543.
by endemic 13y ago
I ran into the same issue the author describes, RE: getting Ember to work with a non-Rails-style REST API. After spending quite a bit of time trying to figure out Ember Data, I reverted to Backbone, since it's dead simple to link a mod
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by endemic 14y ago
I thought T-Mob just got a major spectrum influx due to the failed merger, plus they bought some from Verizon last year. And they're doing that merger w/ MobilePCS.
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by endemic 14y ago
From what I can see, it means you write your code in another language, and then it is "compiled" into performant JavaScript. Basically it would create much more efficient JavaScript than you could write yourself. Nothing to stop you from co
546.
by endemic 14y ago
Pretty subjective statements. Maybe you're just more familiar with the Chrome tools UI?
547.
by endemic 14y ago
Agreed, local syncing is indeed unfortunate, but not sure how else it could be better unless Google builds an iTunes-esque desktop client, which is never going to happen. However, once I started using Google Music, I never looked back.
548.
by endemic 14y ago
Interesting that so many people are discussing the price. If you've followed 37signals' blog posts about business, it's pretty clear that they prefer to have paying users, rather than offer support (i.e. waste money) to people only using fr
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by endemic 14y ago
Can't nobody get nothing right. Plastic is too cheap and flimsy, glass is too heavy and fragile. Maybe the optimal solution is what Apple's doing now with the mostly-aluminum (or should I say, aluminium) back. That being said, seems like th
550.
by endemic 14y ago
"Has Sergey Brin changed the way people use the internet?" Let me Google that for you.
551.
by endemic 14y ago
Tethering. If you're travelling a lot, tethering to your LTE phone would give you a relatively consistent, fast internet connection. Aside from that, it's just another way for carriers to charge you $$$ for a feature that is only marginally
552.
by endemic 14y ago
Virgin Mobile's rates are attractive, but unfortunately they're a Sprint subsidiary, and as such use CDMA. Nexus 4 is GSM, so your best bet is StraightTalk, T-Mobile, or other inexpensive prepaid GSM carriers. As others have said, check out
553.
by endemic 14y ago
As pointed out by others, the screw-up was not admitting that Apple Maps launched as an inferior product. The long-term benefits of a homegrown mapping product were very obvious, such as turn-by-turn and vector tiles.
554.
by endemic 14y ago
Yeah, video tutorials are the worst. I can either view the video full screen in an attempt to read the code which is being presented (while losing the ability to type along in my editor), or squint and type. Even in a primarily visual progr
555.
by endemic 14y ago
Agreed. I think this problem spills over into Google's webapps as well.
556.
by endemic 14y ago
Yeah, these interaction features make the OS much more usable for sure, but their obscurity isn't doing Apple any favors.
557.
by endemic 14y ago
Here's my own anecdotal example of CoffeeScript's readability. Once, before banging out a bit of complex code, I thought I'd write out some psuedocode to help wrap my mind around what I wanted to do. I type out my psuedocode algorithm, real
558.
by endemic 14y ago
Laziness. I'm able to commute by bike, on a well-maintained bike path, no less. However, more often than not, I don't do it. Why? Because since I also have a car, I'm more likely to drive when running late (which is basically ALL the time).
559.
by endemic 14y ago
Hmm, I thought that v.2 shipped with some build scripts, so theoretically you wouldn't have to open Xcode, just do everything via command line.
560.
by endemic 14y ago
It's not necessarily about how the software works, but how it looks. Apple's UI design is very appealing, so to appropriate that in order to sell a different product is wrong. I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say Apple was "ripped off," but
561.
by endemic 14y ago
I don't understand this at all. How did the 4 year development cycle of Fez get funded, if not out of Microsoft's pockets? I don't think Fish & Co. were bootstrapping it. If anyone has insight into Polytron's financial situation, I'd be
562.
by endemic 14y ago
Not applicable to most games, but I did a puzzle game that uses HTML/CSS for layout, then enforced a fixed 2:3 ratio for the "content" area of the game, with each UI element using a percentage-based width/height. The great thing about this
563.
by endemic 14y ago
"It's marketing" Correct.
564.
by endemic 14y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but customers who want/need to swap out batteries themselves are too small of a market for Apple to care about. Unfortunately for you, the trend of ever-tighter industrial design (which means integrate
565.
by endemic 14y ago
Agreed. The price is low enough that I pre-ordered one on impulse, just to play around with and possibly use for development.
566.
by endemic 14y ago
I kept my account safe by deleting it. Zzzing!
567.
by endemic 14y ago
Hear hear!