foobarbazoo

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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
Even better, they can use that information to build or enhance profiles WITHOUT getting any kind of judicial approval or oversight. Yay, Patriot Act (not).
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
"acknowledging that the SproutCore approach from the past four years needs to be ditched in favor of a brand-new codebase" This is just flat out incorrect. SC 2 is a more moduler SC 1.x runtime, not an entirely new codebase. Similarly, SC 1
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by foobarbazoo 15y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing. Stallman is who he is. His time has passed. Oh well, move on. Life is to short to spend it giving advice to someone who clearly couldn't give a damn.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
This is an ad, in the guise of a news link. WTF?
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
HTML is the UI, and it's hardly "non-standard". If anything, HTML is the most widely used interface style in the world. I do agree that HTML 5 apps should not be trying to emulate native desktop or mobile apps. Instead, they should be w
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
SproutCore loves the DOM. You're thinking of Cappuccino.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
This is how SproutCore validation logic is used on the server, BTW. It's easy to use SproutCore's (very) powerful model layer on both the client and the server.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
In most cases, it will dramatically increase the load on your server, especially if you use a ReST API like the author suggests. UPDATE: To clarify, in the specific situation the author describes (exactly one model class, no relationships,
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
I'd be willing to do the identical tutorial for SproutCore, if the author will allow his page to be copied and edited. (I didn't see a license anywhere allowing that.)
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
> The truly intellectually honest way to disagree: Take the idea in question, and give it some genuine love. Or just ignore them; this is what successful people do. It's not sexy, but life is far too short to spend it "giving love" to o
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
There is a very easy way to explain programming (in assembler, no less) by analogy to how children do basic mathematics -- addition and subtraction. That's because mathematicians do use algorithms, and concepts like "position" (indexing t
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
If someone publishes via ACM, IEEE, or one of the other places papers go to die, it just ensures that their work will be unread, unused, and more or less ignored. Which is sad, because the individuals publish there in order to move up throu
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Where by "open", Hixie means "highly controlled by myself and my vision for the web." I wish Hixie would retire and get some new blood in there. He's done good work, but it's time to move on.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Time to fire up Coq and really prove it.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
My god that sucked.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
2048x1536 resolution has a name: 2K (from the digital film world). iPads are already widely used on movie sets; this would more than cement that trend. Hope it's true!!!
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Let's see, international ITU/ISO standard designed by video professionals (not web search people) vs. WebM de facto "standard" controlled by Google. I think I know which one the world is behind and which one Google is behind. I vote: world.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
It's 1-3 developers per chapter . Last I heard, 50 developers had already signed up to write.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Yes, Addison-Wesley is, as are O'Reilly and Prag Prog. The problem is not the publisher, it's the writing! That's what the proposal is designed to solve...
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
They can't be removed because there is no way to get them back. (They are not available in the App Store.) Yes, this could (and should) be fixed. And someday, perhaps, it will be. For now, it's just not a serious problem, outside of Hacker
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Totally agree, but apparently the Kickstarter people turned them down. From the article: "I had originally hoped to do a Kickstarter project, but I have since been informed that we do not fit the profile of project they are trying to promot
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
I love that this guy, and people who think like him, are my competition.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Apple barely got above 10% market share with the Mac since 1984. Even that high was done using tactics that left the company "beleaguered", and at any rate, Steve Jobs wasn't at the helm when that happened. It's really not valid to compare
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Two years and all I got was this stupid blog post.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
In cases like that, the wealth effect would have to consider the entire value stream, not just an individual transaction. If the company with products you describe, over many years, lost money consistently and it was not due to just "givi
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
That explains a lot then. Thanks for the info.
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Thanks for sharing. You got a lot of things right. What you didn't get right was my example. I'm not talking about a situation where Microsoft is pricing a $100 product at $80. That does not result in wealth destruction, as you explained in
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Anyone know why I'm not getting more downvotes? Lots of people have upvoted replies to my comment that disagree with me, and I'm assuming they also downvoted my comment. Is the downvoting on some kind of logarithmic scale? I've lost somethi
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
Without getting into it too deeply, money is not wealth. It is a wealth transfer mechanism. When wealth is converted into $100 for trade with someone (e.g. Microsoft, by buying Windows and Office products) and Microsoft takes that $100 and
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by foobarbazoo 16y ago
"the simple fact is, when you have a cash cow, you got extremely lucky" And here we have yet another comment purporting to argue against the article, and inadvertently proving it's main thesis. Google should give the profits back to shareh

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