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by fierarul 17y ago
So we have seen the countless denial articles, then the anger articles when Apple introduced the developer agreement change, we have seen a bit of bargaining with Adobe kinda threatening a lawsuit and developers swearing to switch to Androi
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by fierarul 17y ago
Actually this might backfire as Canonical has made some pretty strange decisions lately and is a corporation after all, just a much smaller one. What's wrong with something community driven such as Debian or FreeBSD ?
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by fierarul 17y ago
Perhaps someone should point out that Matt Mackall is the creator and lead developer of Mercurial (according to wikipedia). I've been using Mercurial for some time but I had no idea who was the author of that email. What I would like to see
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by fierarul 17y ago
Considering Palm is looking for a buyer and their chief developer just resigned, does it really matter that a dev account is now free ? I looks to me more like a sign that the whole thing might be discontinued shortly so why would anyone in
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by fierarul 17y ago
>They do own the phone, right? That's just a technicality. They own the phone but for Apple it's more like a subscription: people will buy apps from Apple's AppStore, buy accessories that need Apple's approval (and where Apple gets a cu
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by fierarul 17y ago
This was a bit obvious and yet surprising: > That may be because data show that people are more trusting and comfortable working with people of their own sex, says Toby Stuart, a Harvard Business School professor who studies the topic.
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by fierarul 17y ago
I think this is the kind of blogpost someone writes when they are angry, but not necessarily assertive. He's just installing Ubuntu on his Apple laptop, that's all! And pretty soon he'll miss something from OSX and then -- dual boot. Next t
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by fierarul 17y ago
I don't think the patents itself are wrong but the broken patent system which accepts obvious ideas (1 click patent ?), limits itself to the big boys and then grants large patent terms. Also, the patent shouldn't be on the idea, but on the
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by fierarul 17y ago
Sole proprietorship is pretty easy to do in some EU countries. Then again, in might have a different juridic status so an LLC is preferable. But I wouldn't focus only on how simple/cheap doing an LLC is, we should look at the total cost of
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by fierarul 17y ago
Yeah, but you won't see a TeX editor very soon.
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by fierarul 17y ago
Next up "Etch A Sketch"-like iApps will be banned since the viewers will interpret de data from the server and display other users' sketches. God forbid you use JSON to communicate with the server in your app and parse it yourself, that's t
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by fierarul 17y ago
I own the book and if I want to see the bibliography I can pretty much see it there. So this article might be useful but I can't imagine many people going through GEB's bibliography in order to get some new reading material.
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by fierarul 17y ago
Regarding a) I would say brand recognition sure helps. Regarding b) I'm not so sure. "Genius" might start to recommend it, but I would like to see how fast it will become a "staff pick".
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by fierarul 17y ago
What's the purpose of this ?
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by fierarul 17y ago
The return of lisp huh ? :-)
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by fierarul 17y ago
So you paid the US sales tax and the UK VAT ? It seems the Bundlebox guys didn't think this through -- they should perhaps relocate in a state without sales tax ? You are basically paying VAT twice.
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by fierarul 17y ago
Yeah, and then Apple would be surprised by the huge US demand, no ? Of course anybody wanting the iPad already did something similar but it's a drag and non-US developers/companies shouldn't "smuggle" iPads out of the country but buy them i
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by fierarul 17y ago
Yeah, I'm not surprised that much. Next up: the 500 euro + VAT iPad and the even higher UK prices.
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by fierarul 17y ago
Yeah, I'm not surprised that much. Next up: the 500 euro + VAT iPad and the even higher UK prices.
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by fierarul 17y ago
Yes, it's a real shame that Apple treats developers this way. They are expected to develop top-quality apps but only using the Simulator. A more normal behavior would have been to provide international developers a way to order iPads from d
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by fierarul 17y ago
And, as expected, daringfireball finds MobileSafari better and points towards the security flaws. But, indeed, there is something nice about Opera Turbo (or Opera caching proxy that Opera Mini uses): it's really handy when on a slow connect
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by fierarul 17y ago
Thanks ! I went to http://mozillalabs.com/bespin/ where you have a "Developer Resources" menu but it only links to the bespin client, not server.
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by fierarul 17y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding what the Bespin license and structure is. More to the point, this "release" seems to point towards a "server-only" update, which doesn't seem to have a source code repository. So -- they are releasing an
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by fierarul 17y ago
I saw now link between the video embedded and the supposed feature of flash and HTML5, just an animation FPS comparison.
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by fierarul 17y ago
That was actually an interesting approach, but still doesn't seem logic. You can't actually develop a Flash app without using the iPhone OS so then you have to follow the C/C++/ObjC rule. But if the author is counting on "not using the SDK"
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by fierarul 17y ago
They get paid to try and convince a judge or jury that their client's interpretation of the document is the correct one. You think it's a mistake the text is a bit vague and not everything properly defined ? Legal texts aren't software; i
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by fierarul 17y ago
The thing is Adobe is a corporate with standard management that would never be able to "think" of something like this. They have no "soul" (corporate culture) nor anybody with sufficient power and vision to at least try something like this.
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by fierarul 17y ago
I don't even program in C/C++ anymore and yet I find very interesting the progress LLVM is making. It's surprising how hyped up it is compared to GCC which it will replace (yeah, I know LLVM it's not the same as GCC but I think this is one
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by fierarul 17y ago
This is just a PR trick from TurboHercule. IBM told them they might infringe on over 173 patents, out of which 2 are from that famous 500 pledged patents. And of course that this trick to diverge focus works just fine on open-source zealots
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by fierarul 17y ago
This is also noticeable on all the other Apple products, especially laptops. I really disliked getting a top of the line Thinkpad from my old company and having those cheap Intel/Windows stickers.

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