gtufano

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by gtufano 17y ago
iPhone3GS, without contract and SIM-free (you can use it with any operator), as it sell in Italy, is 599€. So 500€ is cheaper (specs are better).
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by gtufano 17y ago
The field of "human sciences" is slippery. Economics, as a mere example, aims to be a "real science" and there is "good and solid research" but, nonetheless, the results are under our eyes. I will not try to ask why this happens, many epist
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by gtufano 17y ago
Interesting, but I don't think that this concept applies to the "civil law" countries.
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by gtufano 17y ago
That don't seem to be something I'll write about on a release note... would you?
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by gtufano 17y ago
Air France? There were no outlets in economy on CDG-SFO flights (last checked last year).
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by gtufano 17y ago
I don't know about US. But, here in Europe, this is so true to not being a notice. If you live in "Suburbia" you walk less, if you live nearer to the center you walk more. Who walks more is healthier... As an added bonus, in the center of e
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by gtufano 17y ago
You are somewhat right, but there are two faces in Apple being the super middle-man: 1) the good fact that it is "fair". The underdogs leave to them the same amount of money of the big brasses (30%). Any application starts the same, and you
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by gtufano 17y ago
I reached a good compromise with Xcode and its dreaded windows management using Witch < http://manytricks.com/witch/> . At least now I can have cycling through the XCode windows with a list, better than, as the author says, try to u
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by gtufano 17y ago
I've been countless hit by programs crashing because I'm using an accented character. It is really easy to think "I'm not using unicode strings there"... until an user uses unicode characters. Enforcing unicode is a good thing, whatever eng
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by gtufano 18y ago
I find interesting that you assume that disparity within nations is caused by differences in intelligence. While this is true (i.e.: differences in intelligence make a difference, sorry for the joke) there are many, many, other causes for d
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by gtufano 18y ago
True, definitely true. What the difference is, IMHO, that with iPhone and AppStore a single individual can develop something in relatively easy way and have a very good distribution channel. The toolchain is reasonable and Obj-C is fun (wel
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by gtufano 18y ago
Every acquisition between big Corporations generates layoffs in redundant sectors. Really nothing new.
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by gtufano 18y ago
Well, if you release in public domain you lose any right, AFAIK. Someone could step over, take your code and have intellectual property over it. You don't forfeit your property of the code with BSD licensing. IANAL, of course.
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by gtufano 18y ago
Solaris is way better than AIX, and a Power port is half done (historically there were a Power version). I don't know really, but IBM could choose to drop linux or, my hope, merge solaris and linux... this would be terrific, if backed by a
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by gtufano 18y ago
Wonderful! I always dreamed of programming phones in HTML/CSS/JS. This is a great step forward from C/C++/ObjC. Joking, of course... but this seems to me the way for trivial apps, given the constraint in a phone-sized OS. I hope to be wrong
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by gtufano 18y ago
The "myriad of tax forms" can be very, very nasty if you're not american. Documentation is confusing and I can assure you that the forms are not so understandable, if you're not a native speaker. The docs on apple site say to apply for a 'T
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by gtufano 18y ago
You can learn Objective-C in about 5 hours, true (probably less, if you know C and C++). The point being that Obj-C without NSObject (and cocoa framework) is not a big deal. The "good things" come from cocoa and Interface Builder. And you w
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by gtufano 18y ago
Agreed. This is what I use and it's ok (with 2 gig RAM).
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by gtufano 18y ago
In Italy you can get unlocked iPhones (no locked iPhones here)... for ca. 750 US$, btw...