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by jammur 15y ago
An alternative to a mobile skin might be to have the option to "unflag" something. Even with a mobile skin, I could see submissions still being accidentally flagged.
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by jammur 15y ago
In that case, you are now taller than Yao Ming. The subject of the sentence is your height, and you said it grew 'above'. Therefore the only valid interpretation is that your height is now above Yao Ming's. For it to be interpreted the othe
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by jammur 15y ago
I don't think it's misleading. Since it says that MS profit "drops below Apple's", it's making reference to a relative difference, in which case it did drop.
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by jammur 15y ago
The market data suggest that you're mistaken. In 2010, the App Store took in almost 20 times the revenue that the Android Market took in. $1.7 billion for the App Store, compared to $102 million for Android Market. Considering where Android
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by jammur 16y ago
It's called competition. Spec work does, in fact, devalue the design industry. But so what? That's what happens in a free market when competition is introduced. Most of the freelance designers who are complaining about 99designs are respons
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by jammur 16y ago
Banks are absolutely considered victims, but if the victim didn't do their due diligence with respect to keeping their vault secure, then they absolutely share in the blame.
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by jammur 16y ago
You know what we call banks who leave their vaults unsecured? Neither do I, but it's certainly not 'blameless'.
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by jammur 16y ago
I'm well aware of victim blaming, but sometimes it's justified. If someone hacked into your bank account and stole your money because of a security flaw your bank decided to put off until later, surely you would lay blame on your bank as we
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by jammur 16y ago
The major problem with your analogy is that storefront windows don't have hundred or thousands of bricks thrown at them everyday. Web hosts are basically under constant attack. Would you suggest that the CIA, NSA, etc. not worry too much ab
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by jammur 16y ago
I don't think you can draw those conclusion from the evidence presented. I would guess that quite a lot of the top white hat hackers today sharpened their skills early with some highly unethical behavior of their own. A good example of this
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by jammur 16y ago
Exactly. This post tries very hard to trivialize the security holes, and blame their problems on bad luck. They had problems because they decided not to fix glaring security holes immediately.
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by jammur 16y ago
Maybe, maybe not. It's not just his name that gets the up votes, but the context which it provides. If you've read the previous stuff Zed has written, it kinda gives you context for this site, and adds to the humor.
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by jammur 16y ago
Clearly, you're not familiar with Zed Shaw :)
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by jammur 16y ago
Apogee is known to make some of the best AD/DA converters around. IMO, the Apogee Duet absolutely blows away everything else in its price range. The difference between the Apogee Jam and something like the iRig is huge. The iRig is very noi
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by jammur 16y ago
Thanks for the comment, but I'm going to have to disagree. If you read the comments on the main article, I think you'll see that quite a few people found it funny. As did many of the people who emailed me directly. You're right, sarcasm isn
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RIM Rant Follow-Up(blog.jamiemurai.com)
33 points by jammur 16y ago|8 comments
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by jammur 16y ago
I have to disagree that it's an awful process to get apps on an iOS device. I was up and running in under 30 minutes from the time I started the registration process to the time I had an app running on a device. Point taken about the untapp
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by jammur 16y ago
Thanks for the response Matt. As the author, I'm gonna have to disagree about the whiny tone, haha, but obviously you have the right to your own interpretation. I realize the Bueller thing probably came across as bizarre if you're not famil
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by jammur 16y ago
I'm not sure the first advantage really makes a difference though. Corporate users are not buying a lot of apps. This is shown in the latest market share data, where the App Store took in $769 million in revenue, with RIM App World in secon
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by jammur 16y ago
It's not a question of whether you CAN make it work, but whether you should have to. RIM is in competition for developers with Apple and Google. Why would a developer choose to go with RIM when the experience is much better elsewhere. I thi
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by jammur 16y ago
Were you registering as a business? I saw other commenters mention that they had to jump through additional hoops when registering as a business, but I had no trouble at all as an individual. Just put in my name, address, etc., pop in my cr
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by jammur 16y ago
I've definitely heard the horror stories of the early days of iPhone development. I don't think I exaggerated though. I pretty much stuck to the facts of what happened, with some sarcasm sprinkled on of course :) It's important to remember
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by jammur 16y ago
That same thought occurred to me when I was writing it. The conclusion I came to was that if RIM is going to offer an SDK for Mac (or any platform for that matter), they need to do it in an integrated way, just like their competitors. I hav
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by jammur 16y ago
Now I feel like an idiot for spending an hour and half writing it, lol.
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by jammur 16y ago
Guilty as charged on the first point :) The separate files/downloads was a minor annoyance, but fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things. On the whole, I just found it to be an very frustrating experience.
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by jammur 16y ago
I guess I should have mentioned I was trying to use the WebWorks SDK, not the AIR SDK. I'll update the post accordingly. Thanks!
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You win, RIM (An open letter to RIM's developer relations)(blog.jamiemurai.com)
320 points by jammur 16y ago|109 comments
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by jammur 16y ago
That's correct, when you run the software, you agree to the license. But before that, you still don't own the software. At no point do you ever own the software. You simply pay for a license to use it. This is the same with OSX, Windows 7,
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by jammur 16y ago
You didn't purchase the software. You purchased a license to use it, which included agreeing to Apple's terms. To use your car analogy, it would be more like renting a car, and the rental company saying you have to stay in your state/provin
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by jammur 16y ago
As another person commented, it may be your hardware, but it's not your OS. You license the right to use iOS, but you don't own it. The app distribution channel is tied to the OS, not the device. If you want to install a different firmware

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