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by fpgeek 14y ago
Note that, for the moment, only the Globe is reporting a confirmed link to the Marathon bombing. Everyone else is saying too much chaos to know anything for sure.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I agree the "on campus" line for MIT can be pretty fuzzy (between the open campus, frats/ILGs across the river in Boston and so on). That being said, there are more objective measures we could use, such as "made The Tech" (outside the polic
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Me neither (1994-2000).
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by fpgeek 14y ago
One complication is that Apple's "death penalty" is at least theoretically far harsher than Google's. With Google's even if you're blacklisted people can still go to your site and use it if they want to. The only penalty is that the site is
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by fpgeek 14y ago
If a developers are willing to spend $100K or more there are always going to be lots of ways they can artificially push up their ranking. How does it make sense to target specific instances of the problem instead of trying to make the assoc
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by fpgeek 14y ago
One thing I wonder is if AppGratis' s business model (intentionally or not) games Apple's App Store ranking algorithm... Why not just change the algorithm instead of playing whack-a-mole with AppGratis and similar apps? For example, I could
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I just can't get over how mind-bogglingly stupid this was. Even having decided to use dirty tricks to strengthen their overall marketing effort... What possessed them to try to go after HTC in Taiwan of all places? As HTC's stronghold, Ta
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I expect an individual OEM can get a much better deal out of Microsoft than Google could. Remember, Microsoft doesn't care (much) about the money. The more important value of the Android patent racket for them is in making Android less comp
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by fpgeek 14y ago
That isn't the whole story on incentives, at least from the USPTO's perspective. While it is true that the overall budget is set externally (by Congress, for the most part), the money that the patent offices is allowed to actually spend is
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Accomplishing the short-term goal while creating or reinforcing long-term positioning and/or framing issues (e.g. Facebook as a tool for tuning out) isn't actually a win.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
And your character was obvious to me the minute you said that "do no evil" is a more useful standard than "don't be evil". "Do no evil" is an impossible and therefore pointless standard. How many people do you know that have done no evil in
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Apple blocks explicit comic in App Store, but not iBookstore(macworld.com)
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I could be wrong, but I strongly suspect the artist here would be thrilled to be getting a reasonable licensing fee from Disney for use of her work. Meanwhile, in Andy Baio's case, Jay Maisel was reportedly unwilling to license the photo fo
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Perhaps, but there are per-transaction and daily limits on ATM withdrawals.
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True, but just like XP, there are lots of pre-3.x devices out there...
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by fpgeek 14y ago
> The upside of HTC First: will be the first HTC device to have native Android UI - if you turn off Home. How soon we forget. HTC did make a little phone called the Nexus One. Prior to that they also made the T-Mobile G1 / HTC Dream. Th
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Talk about goalpost-moving. First you ask for apps that benefit from these kinds of optimizations. Then someone gives you an example and you say it isn't important because it probably doesn't have many users? That's a catch-22. Apps like th
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by fpgeek 14y ago
With the difference that Facebook's efforts help Android compete against iOS (at least for the moment) while Chrome is agnostic between Windows and OS X.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
What Google's doing now is far kinder than what Apple did then. As noted above, Apple "contributed back" big monolithic patches. By contrast, Google is providing access to a version-controlled repository. The latter is far easier to work wi
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Extensively modified WebKit, I believe (at least compared to the system WebKit on Android). That being said, given that their customized engine targets Android, I suspect it is more likely than not that they'll switch to Blink.
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With Google, Opera (and probably others) leaving, is WebKit going to be able to sustain itself as an entity separated from Apple?
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by fpgeek 14y ago
You're right. Internet Explorer was originally based on Spyglass Mosaic. [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Internet_Explorer
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by fpgeek 14y ago
I suspect you get portability to Firefox for Android for (nearly) free. That's a decent start at the very least (and an important proof-of-concept for other Android browsers).
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by fpgeek 14y ago
It depends on your point of view. I'd make the argument that without Gecko the web would have become even more entangled with and dependent on IE. That would have smothered WebKit in the cradle, making it impossible for anyone outside of Mi
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by fpgeek 14y ago
How is announcing Blink a "fuck you" to Samsung? Exactly which side, if any, of the Blink/WebKit divide do you think Samsung is on? And in terms of Servo, Blink makes Servo more likely to succeed, not less, by breaking open the (mobile) Web
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I wonder if that's where the name came from: something any decent web developer would be ashamed to put in a vendor prefix.
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by fpgeek 14y ago
Speaking of reviewers, it looked like there were (maybe) a handful of WebKit reviewers that meet the following criteria: 1. Not affiliated with Apple or Google. 2. Not specifically associated with a port in terms of their review areas. To m
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by fpgeek 14y ago
If you think WebKit hasn't fostered a culture of laziness and apathy among mobile web developers, try browsing the web using Firefox for Android or IE (on Windows Phone) sometime. I've lost track of the number of times I've had to pretend t
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by fpgeek 14y ago
"Non Apple Mac ports, if broken by core functionality changes to WebKit2, are now responsible for fixing themselves." For a cross-platform project, this is a stunning policy change. I don't know what was the chicken and what was the egg, bu
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It's proof that Microsoft's intentions towards Mono aren't dependable. They can (and have) changed dramatically, whenever Microsoft wants. Exactly how friendly do you think Microsoft will be if Mono stops being .NET's toehold in non-Microso

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