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by generalk 16y ago
Is this information still relevant? From the Try It link ( http://www.gnome3.org/tryit.html ): GNOME 3 is under active development and will not be completed until April 2010. We hope to be able to provide live USB images really soon. Watch
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by generalk 16y ago
The question is whether Apple can come up with the next ipod or iphone without him. That, I sincerely doubt. Of course Apple can come up with the next iPod or iPhone. They can even design good ones. Steve Jobs is a fantastic CEO with a
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by generalk 16y ago
For me, I want to have a second version control system to track releases. For my personal projects, I deploy as soon as I have something interesting, which might be once a week or might be five times in an hour, and I deploy straight from
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by generalk 16y ago
> I can't help but think this requires that only 'rock star' programmers be on the team. "Rock star" developer can mean a lot of things. What's required here (aside from everything listed in the prerequisite section of the slides) is
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> However at least SOAP is a spec and generally works. SOAP has several versions of the spec and a bunch of vendor-specific cruft. The SOAP use-cases from this comment thread are enough indication of that. > REST is an architectural
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by generalk 16y ago
Minor historical note: the .app extension for application bundles is a holdover from NeXTSTEP. I don't think that has anything to do with the usage of "app" on the iPhone, and I think the Mac App Store is branded that way for similarity wit
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I don't follow. Command+Q and AppNameMenu->Quit both disagree with you.
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You don't see a lot of that on the Mac, mostly because of the culture. A lot of the big players in the Mac development world have been developing software since the 90s or earlier, so have a tangible sense of quality about their work. Newer
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by generalk 16y ago
I don't know if you have stats or if you're just making numbers up, but in all seriousness if you have the conversion rates for some popular sites I'd love to see them. Just for curiosity's sake.
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> and there is an opportunity to create real public enthusiasm [about FOSS software] Sorry, there really isn't. And if there ever was, a mobile phone isn't going to do it. Most folks don't know their phone is running Android,
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by generalk 16y ago
What's the difference? (Not a sarcastic or leading question, if VPS isn't "cloud" hosting, then what is?)
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> "Is your computer connected directly to the modem?" > Yes, sure, whatever. Of course it's actually not > because I know my router isn't the problem. Be careful with this one. I know I said to lie, but lie on
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by generalk 16y ago
I was also a frontline tech for some years, for Verizon DSL. These are all things I was asked by other geeks that I couldn't do: * Help you configure an email client that wasn't Outlook. (I could give the servers/ports/config info, but I co
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> the app determines which one has the last state and updates accordingly Have you used Things' desktop sync? I have. It didn't do that. I frequently updated items on my phone while I was out, then did some work and added/comp
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> Implementing syncing as an independent developer kind of sucks. But they have syncing . You can sync between your iPhone and Desktop copies of Things just fine with a cable. Extending that to work over a network connectio
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by generalk 16y ago
The transcriptions Smith puts up on his website (silentbobspeaks.com) include the breaks as he intended them.
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I don't know how happy you are, but Kevin Smith seems pretty damn happy with his life.
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> When I think about this hypothetical person getting, say, programming lessons with my tax dollars, that only makes me angry. Option A) Person is put into the current prison system. Continues to offer no good to the world, po
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by generalk 16y ago
Preventing users from running code not obtained through the Mac App Store would change the Mac fundamentally from a personal computer to something like a console. Apple making that move would alienate every software dev and anyone who's eve
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That entirely depends on the purpose of the software that's being written. If you're writing, say, the Amiga Boing Ball demo, or Dali Clock, you might be leaning more towards art. But if you're writing software that controls transactions fo
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by generalk 16y ago
Versioning should really be done with an "Accepts" HTTP header as opposed to changing a resource's URL. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1566460
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I don't get it. What's bad about incentivizing monkey-patches that don't interfere with other code?
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Huh? That's not at all what made Gmail a succes. If I'm on Wave, and you're not on Wave, we can't use Wave together. That's the end of it. If I'm on Gmail and you're on AOLMail, we can email one another, and I can tell you how awesome Gmail
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by generalk 16y ago
Would the Fair Use doctrine apply here, or does that not apply to trademarks?
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by generalk 16y ago
If you're making reference to the Freedom of Speech guaranteed by the US Bill of Rights, you absolutely can't. Facebook isn't the government, the First Amendment doesn't apply to them.
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Gruber's whole premise is flawed. Android doesn't need killer apps. iOS has to have "killer apps" because that's how Apple locks folks into their system. If you can get the iOS experience somewhere else, there's no reason to pay the Apple
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by generalk 16y ago
@tylernol: you know this is a threaded conversation forum, right? Click "reply" (right under the comment you want to discuss) next time, and your comment will be nested properly.
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In Ruby 1.9, or Ruby 1.8 w/ ActiveSupport, you can use the & operator, which coerces it's argument (in this case, a symbol) to a Proc: all_users.select(&:is_admin).map(&:username) This is a common idiom with a fantastic
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It's very easy to find yourself on no branch at all, for instance, or for a developer to believe they've committed work to a shared branch when in fact it's a private one (and therefore leave the rest of the team hanging.) I've never ever
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It's a shame, too. They sold the phone with two novel methods bunched together: selling it sans-carrier-lockin, and selling it exclusively online. The former is interesting and somewhat unique in the US. A lot of geeks want this, and it's t

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