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by leon_ 15y ago
When I was doing web stuff back in 2003 the common opinion on webmaster forums was that one should never ever use GoDaddy. (There were cases of stolen domains, etc.) Maybe they changed now - maybe not. But I'm not going to find it out.
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by leon_ 15y ago
Get Ukelele and change the keys' locations. I did that for #, @, \ and |.
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by leon_ 15y ago
> over priced, and under performing For me they always performed well and the reduced need for maintenance saved me a lot of time (which might equal to money for some people).
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by leon_ 15y ago
You shouldn't assume you know how the development world looks like only because you have a bunch of vocal webdev evangelist blogs in your RSS reader.
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by leon_ 15y ago
Hmm, I just don't like JS. It feels to me rather fragile. Alone == and === let ring my alarm bells. And the most examples you can find on the web for JavaScript are just a messy hell. Abuse of closures (are those real closures in JS anyway?
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by leon_ 15y ago
For me to develop anything webapp related the following must happen: The development environment has to become a lot better. I don't want to write my application in 3 different languages on 3 different layers using 3 different technologies.
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by leon_ 15y ago
> As long as you have a good browser, your device won't become a brick. For how long will HP push out updates (including new browser versions that keep up with new standards)?
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by leon_ 15y ago
So much time and resources wasted on a game. My heart bleeds.
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by leon_ 15y ago
Though it would be nice to have some understanding of OpenGL. It's gold worth if your UI runs sluggish and you try to fix that. Understanding how OpenGL handles things helps a lot.
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by leon_ 15y ago
> I should have read it before writing my first 4 apps through trial and error. I wouldn't say that. I consider learning by trial and error far more valuable than reading the best books on a topic. If you read the guide now you get more
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by leon_ 15y ago
It's foreseeable that GC will go the way of the dodo in one of the next OS X releases. (They didn't mention GC once at the WWDC talks. Not even in the memory management related talks.) > I personally trust ARC or GC more than I trust my
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by leon_ 15y ago
> Apple will not approve apps with it yet—I know, I've been rejected for trying to use it in an app. Just change the Info.plist of your app (so that it looks like it was built with the non beta of XCode), re-codesign the bundle and uplo
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by leon_ 15y ago
> As a programmer, I find the design to be the most important part. As a programmer (teamed up with a designer) I consider marketing to be the most important part. We sank so many good looking (and well programmed) apps in the app store
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by leon_ 15y ago
So writing something in word is programming too?
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by leon_ 15y ago
Guys, cool down. Writing HTML is not coding.
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by leon_ 15y ago
> Sometimes I wonder how some people's configurations get so wonky Warez. Many expensive applications (especially audio/3d editing software) comes with a dongle. To "crack" the apps people write kernel extensions that simulate such dong
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by leon_ 15y ago
With enough automation where every physical work is done by robots it might work.
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by leon_ 15y ago
> Nopublicdomainistan Anyone said Germany? The concept of the "Urheberrecht" which many people falsly translate to copyright (it's more of a creator-right) is that you can not relinquish it in Germany. It's kinda like your mother can no
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by leon_ 15y ago
I do this too with some of my iOS apps. I put them GPL licensed onto github and anyone with the knowledge (and dev license from Apple) can get the apps practically for free. But I'm not really vocal about that. If someone finds the source:
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by leon_ 15y ago
Probably rather offtopic but: I've never understood the motivation behind "modding". Why put so much work into someone other's project instead of starting something own? I understand modifying/augmenting open source - because it's a communi
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by leon_ 15y ago
> Making the initial learning curve simple will have implications on the overall feel & appeal of the operating system, but this is something that is difficult to quantify with simple software metrics. Ok, but the file system metaph
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by leon_ 15y ago
Yeah, many users even don't understand the file system metaphor. MS unleashing the full fury of cut/copy/paste/files isn't really helping user experience. But MS is a highly engineer dominated tribal culture. I don't see how they can overc
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by leon_ 15y ago
What makes you think that new computer users who can't remember "non intuitive" concepts like right clicking and context menus will know what cut/copy/paste on files does?
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by leon_ 15y ago
I guess they still have some money flow due contracts sold in the 90ies. In Germany they sold many long term licenses to radio/tv stations - which is why you sometimes still can find real media links if you want to listen to online radio in
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by leon_ 15y ago
Groupthink is a consequence of karma based non-anonymous discussion systems. You can't do much about it.
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by leon_ 15y ago
That's how desperate the industry is ;)
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by leon_ 15y ago
> What about all the talented engineers and designers who actually design the products and software? What about all the talented engineers and designers at Microsoft, HP and co? Without a strong lead talent is worthless. (Either that or
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by leon_ 15y ago
I hope Apple will survive this. I don't want to develop for windows.
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by leon_ 15y ago
he has a list of his apps on his website.
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by leon_ 15y ago
apple pays to poland. at least I'm getting money from them every month :)

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