jcsiracusa

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by jcsiracusa 7y ago
Click the “Aa” icon in the WYSIWYG text input area toolbar to go back to the old non-WYSIWYG text input field.
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by jcsiracusa 11y ago
There's always hope.
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by jcsiracusa 11y ago
Apple added support for extended attributes to HFS+ in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2005/04/macosx-10-4/7/#extended... Today, resource forks are actually exposed through the ext
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by jcsiracusa 11y ago
If you'd like to learn more about resource forks on the Mac, which were a very clever solution to a difficult set of problems, please read this, written by the person who created them: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.
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by jcsiracusa 11y ago
No one really knows anyone else's struggle. To think otherwise is, well, insufferable.
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by jcsiracusa 12y ago
The definition from the article: "Companies that make physical products that have only recently started sprouting sophisticated software features"
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by jcsiracusa 13y ago
Quoting from the article: "Not all new ideas represent progress. (Do I really need to spell this out? It seems so.) But ideas should not be rejected based merely on a lifetime of having lived without them."
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by jcsiracusa 14y ago
Only a tiny subset of the population cares about fast cars. A larger portion cares about expensive cars, of which supercars are only a small subset. Many people are dazzled by wealth. Far fewer know or care anything about performance.
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by jcsiracusa 14y ago
The sentence in question is not an assertion about Apple's feelings towards PCs. It's recommended pairing of action and motivation. "Joe should marry Sue because he loves her, not because she's rich." Whether or not Joe loves Sue is anot
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by jcsiracusa 14y ago
The problem with the Porsche 918 is that it's a solution to a problem almost no one has. It uses racing hardware to solve commuter problems. Great, but…why? Is there any public road out there that really takes advantage of 820 horsepower? S
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by jcsiracusa 14y ago
Good thing the I didn't do that, eh? As I noted in the article, there are many more axes of innovation beyond just performance. But performance is definitely one of them! Apple's pursuing top-end performance with gusto in its laptops and m
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by jcsiracusa 14y ago
I am also, perhaps unsurprisingly, a longtime supporter of the idea of higher-end iOS devices.
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by jcsiracusa 14y ago
I'd say we already see the benefits of having so many people work together on WebKit. Would we be better off if Google had to create and maintain its own desktop and mobile web rendering engine from scratch? If there's a monoculture probl
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by jcsiracusa 14y ago
We already have two or three powerful entities working on WebKit, pulling it in whatever directions suit their needs. If they ever pull hard enough or far enough in different directions, it could tear (fork) and the cycle begins again. An
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by jcsiracusa 14y ago
> Both of your examples clearly show that it takes huge resources to overcome a single implementation in a field. That is far from optimal, it means the barrier is so high that innovation is being stifled. I think it's more optimal than
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by jcsiracusa 14y ago
LLVM was created by one person, just like Linux. Both projects would not be where they are today without the efforts and monetary contributions of many others, including corporations. These are examples of the system working, IMO. Giants
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by jcsiracusa 14y ago
That's not my argument. It's a cycle. People tried to contribute to gcc, but eventually reached some limits (real or imagined, it doesn't matter) and created something new. egcs was another, similar crisis with a slightly different outco
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by jcsiracusa 14y ago
It's not an arbitrary distinction. I see a continuum between products and "infrastructure technologies," and I think it's increasingly reasonable (and, eventually, desirable) for there to be more collaboration on a single, shared project (
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by jcsiracusa 14y ago
Let’s check back in a year. I don't share the fear of WebKit bugs that are present in every single implementation of WebKit in use today (I'm not even sure the disk filler qualifies) and that "can't be fixed because they'll break the web."
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by jcsiracusa 14y ago
The concept of "WebKit's implementation quirks" implies that WebKit is a single thing when in fact it's (already) a huge diversity of different things. http://paulirish.com/2013/webkit-for-developers/ WebKit is also constantly changing, s
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by jcsiracusa 16y ago
That was one of the connections I was trying to make, though I agree it's not spelled out as well as it could be. The other is that Microsoft's decision to expand into so many different markets parallels Apple's decision to do the same. W
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by jcsiracusa 16y ago
Is running to completion and producing an incorrect result really preferable to dying in the middle of execution due to a runtime check or assertion? Either your program works or it doesn't.
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by jcsiracusa 16y ago
"it won't be the same 320x480 device anymore." Well, it'll be 640x960 which is a nice integer multiple of the current iPhone resolution, allowing older apps to remain visibly unchanged without and code changes. As for the iPad, it's distin
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by jcsiracusa 17y ago
No more blogging, but damned if he'll give up responding to comments on Hacker News. (Cute dog.)
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by jcsiracusa 17y ago
Regarding the "should" part: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1323013