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by jherdman 16y ago
This is an interesting point, though what we have with Android is something slightly different in that there's a certain degree of individual vendor responsibility to provide updates for your device as needed. Thus vendors will compete on a
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by jherdman 16y ago
Android is a "commodity" OS, if you will. That is, anyone can build a device and put Android on it. Given that Android isn't complete shit and that people ARE building devices and using it, this trend is rather expected.
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by jherdman 16y ago
"... but I’ve had fun trying out FaceTime with a few iPhone 4-enabled friends" This sentence is absolutely delicious to my mind, specifically the use of the word "enabled". It's as if to own a device was to somehow be an upgrade for
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by jherdman 16y ago
I'd check this out, but Flash block effectively hit the entirety of the content.
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by jherdman 16y ago
And you don't think that Apple has sent the clear message that they don't see the iPad or iPhone as a general purpose computing device? I think they've done a pretty great job of indicating that these are appliances and are not to be consid
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by jherdman 16y ago
Zed loves Fossil SCM: http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/index.wiki
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by jherdman 16y ago
Many thanks. I hadn't realized that.
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by jherdman 16y ago
HTML5 is a documentation spec, not a video encoder. I think you knew that, but language is surprisingly precise, so before commenting I wanted to ensure that we were talking about the same thing. Having got that out of the way, the HTML5 sp
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by jherdman 16y ago
Can someone explain to me why we need these solutions? Shouldn't everything just gracefully fall back anyways (with the exception of Firefox and H.264, that is)?
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by jherdman 16y ago
Meetings can be exceedingly fruitful when done well. The other day I found myself chasing a solution for a good hour or so. Realizing the inanity of this, I called together the interested parties, explained my issue, and together we worked
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by jherdman 16y ago
I recently purchased a subscription to Mobile Me. I was sick and tired of Google's offerings not synching correctly, or completely losing my data. I have not had this problem since switching (mind you, I've only been a member for one month)
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by jherdman 16y ago
Have you checked out the VIMCasts ( http://vimcasts.org/ ) series? They're pretty great. I don't know of an equivalent series for Emacs. I'm a VIM-ophile, but I find ELisp to be a major draw for Emacs. I think if I could entirely swap out t
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by jherdman 16y ago
Cool, but why? The traditional arguments in doing something like this would be to access the libraries available on something like .NET. However, the point of building Node on V8 is to avoid existing, non-async libraries.
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by jherdman 16y ago
No kidding. Did you notice the drop in usage of JavaScript? I highly doubt that this is the case. If anything I would have expected its usage to go up.
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by jherdman 16y ago
FYI: ruby-1.8.7-p249 > nil.to_i => 0 ruby-1.9.2-head > nil.to_i => 0
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by jherdman 16y ago
Hmm... I think you might find this a little more flexible in the long run: String.prototype.toInt = function (base) { if (typeof base == 'undefined') base = 10; return parseInt(this, base); } Smart defaults are alwa
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by jherdman 16y ago
The gist is that these editors are both customizable to the extent that proficient users don't see the need to go elsewhere. They're both keyboard driven, so one finds their productivity soaring as their dependency on the mouse decreases. T
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by jherdman 16y ago
You can safely add "Goedel, Escher and Bach" to that list.
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by jherdman 17y ago
The goal here is to slim down Rails as much as possible. A slim Rails means fewer moving parts, and an end product that's easier to comprehend. "Batteries included" sort of features are candidates for extraction.
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by jherdman 17y ago
Well, that's sort of what I'm driving at. Apple clearly has an agenda with this clause and its not 100% clear to the developer community what that agenda is. Do they mean things like PhoneGap are dead, or simply things that provide an alter
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by jherdman 17y ago
I'm sorry, but I really don't give a damn. There's a lot of speculation here (and elsewhere), and until I hear anything official from Apple I refuse to get too wound up.
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Understanding "require" in Node.js(jherdman.github.com)
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by jherdman 17y ago
IIRC Apple has made public a lot of these private APIs that they've used in the past.
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by jherdman 17y ago
Source?
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by jherdman 17y ago
I think you're wrong, and I don't think you can deliver on that promise. I had the opportunity to speak with someone in a similar sort of project in Canada who told me that one of the biggest costs involved in these sorts of projects are th
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by jherdman 17y ago
I think it's important that we draw a clear point about what you're talking about when you say "open". I must confess that I thought you were talking about open as in F/OSS. You're clearly talking about "Maury Povitch" open ("You don't know
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by jherdman 17y ago
Pardon my confusion, but I fail to see how the openness of the device has anything to do with your experience with it. An open device merely ensures that you have the freedom to do with it what you want, not that you have to do anything w
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by jherdman 17y ago
Err... apologies. I thought you were unaware of the UnboundMethod class.
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by jherdman 17y ago
You're actually reimplementing some parts of Ruby that already exist: http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.8.7/classes/UnboundMethod.html
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by jherdman 17y ago
FYI: #returning is a hack that #tap supplants, and is supported in Ruby 1.8.7 natively, and is supported in Rails via ActiveSupport for older versions of Ruby.

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