groxter

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   by groxter 16y ago

   On the contrary, it was quite civil and thought provoking. It was simply terse, elegant, and to the point. "Naive" needn't have been interpreted as a personal attack, it was a sufficient and complete summary of the argument presented, impl
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   by groxter 16y ago

   I got -4 karma points on this, for refusing to answer point by point the arguments of a naive Apple fanboy. I'll go back to just scanning HN, instead of participating. I've been a professional programmer for over 30 years, Written for Mac
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   by groxter 16y ago

   Incidentally, I just tried the latest "fastest ever" Google Chrome with this. The frame rate DROPPED on my machine from 48fps to 18fps. I'm getting the feeling that pushing the performance limits of compiled JavaScript is not an effective
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   by groxter 16y ago

   Naive.
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   by groxter 16y ago

   You presume too much. Think, man. Free high-performance HTML5 web apps are 1) not under their control and 2) not profit-making for Apple, as they bypass the App Store.
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   by groxter 16y ago

   The reason that it IS a BFD is that Steve Jobs is now saying they have "high performance HTML5" on iPad. This is evidently not true. Here is an app for which it makes a big difference, something I prepared on my MacBook Pro (with the iPad
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   by groxter 16y ago

   http://grokware.com/Flowfazer.html
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   Flowfazer inventor and coder Dave Levine ports it to HTML5, for Safari & Chrome(grokware.com)

   1 points by groxter 16y ago|0 comments