jemmons

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by jemmons 18y ago
"highly-publicized" You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by jemmons 18y ago
Ever known someone with a FingerWorks TouchStream? I think you might be surprised exactly how productive one can be with a "touchscreen keyboard on a tablet".
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by jemmons 18y ago
I have a 1st generation iPhone in the US on AT&T and reception and clarity are as good as they eve were on HTC, Blackberry, or Treo. It's possible this is a 3G issue as all of the above ere 2G phones. But given the author's demonstrated
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by jemmons 18y ago
Essentially he's saying he likes the Pre because its imagined features are better than the iPhone ones that he hasn't tried. The article is about pitting an ideal vs. a bias. Who will win?
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by jemmons 18y ago
The vast majority of apps we saw on mobile devices, you mean. Then the iPhone and Android-based phones came along. If simple frontends are what the Pre plans to focus on, then Palm is still fighting the last war.
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by jemmons 18y ago
"Unless you have hooks for deeper functionality" Functionality like what? Will it let you import physics libraries written in C? Give you access to OpenGL in javascript? What about networking stacks? What if I need OpenSSL? At a certain poi
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by jemmons 18y ago
"Palm’s bet on social networking integration is a game changer ... That is huge and not many people will get it." Umm, how can a social anything be huge if not many people get it? The Zune wasn't just social, it was The Social -- and no o
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by jemmons 18y ago
Cocoa + OS X = developer playground in your pocket. Mojo + WebOS = web browser in your pocket.
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by jemmons 18y ago
"You are counting on webOS being nothing more than a WebKit browser. I am sure that's not the case." Even if it's not, the fact remains that apps written in HTML+CSS+javascript (what's more, HTML+CSS+JS tweaked to run on WebKit) will be tri
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by jemmons 18y ago
Right. And this is a false correlation. You might as well say "knowledge of C is highly correlated with who you know." It is undoubtedly true. If you know C, you're likely to know many others who know C. If you don't, you might struggle to
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by jemmons 18y ago
Umm... How do you think you get funding? This is the primary difference between the technically-minded and the business-minded. The technical think wealth is who you know or what you're born to -- it's firmly outside their domain. The bus
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by jemmons 18y ago
Wow. So you found the twitteresque transcript pounded out by some guy desperately trying to keep up with live events from his seat on his laptop little dry, and you blame Phil Schiller? I thought Phil was positively engaging. The audience w
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MD5 considered harmful as of today(win.tue.nl)
9 points by jemmons 18y ago|2 comments
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by jemmons 18y ago
This might be the most criminally simplistic, naive thing I've read on HN this month. Get started, suck it up, and know thyself. Wow. Thanks. I never thought about doing something instead of not doing something. That's profound!
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by jemmons 18y ago
Yes.
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by jemmons 18y ago
I don't get what the noise is about here. Millions of lines of objc code have been written without mass confusion of how to init objects. It might look good on paper, but in practice telling people "this is the designated initializer" seems
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by jemmons 18y ago
ObjC: You don't have to declare ivars for your @properties if you target 64bit. The 64bit runtime Does Magic. Also, @property cannot imply @synthesize because you might want to use @dynamic instead.
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by jemmons 18y ago
Learn Cocoa. Seriously.
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by jemmons 18y ago
See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=195959
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by jemmons 18y ago
What a pointless article. It starts with unsupported assertions that Eclipse and Java are better than XCode and ObjC (clearly a matter of opinion as I strongly believe the opposite, but moreover what does that have to do with the SDK?) an
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by jemmons 18y ago
s/with the//; Fixed that for you.
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by jemmons 18y ago
"Forget BMW , meet the Scion!"
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by jemmons 18y ago
Only in so much as Macs are popular enough now that I'm almost never forced to use a PC. On the (thankfully) rare occasions when I am, then yes. It matters a great deal.
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by jemmons 18y ago
Umm... they don't think you're a hacker. They think you're a robot. Big difference, right?
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by jemmons 18y ago
Being a human (not a transhuman) it seems likely that Yudkowsky can only stumble across static arguments that convince gatekeepers to unlock the AI Box (rather than invent dynamic arguments on-the-fly so as to "take over the mind" of a gate
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by jemmons 18y ago
That is certainly a way to learn. It may even be the only way supported by this site and its largely a-social community. But I doubt very much it's the best way.