lurch_mojoff

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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Looking gifted horse in the teeth. Apple/Lala are giving him a 100 bucks, despite not being obligated the slightest to do so. But obviously for some people even free is not good enough. edit: seriously people, read todd3834's comment bellow
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
Why do you think we'll never see it compiling iPhone apps? Neither the technical reasons - i.e. garbage collection in the iPhone Objective-C runtime, not the political reasons - the infamous 3.1.1, I presume, it doesn't do so already seem t
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by lurch_mojoff 16y ago
If the plugin system really causes that much trouble, then why was Adobe complaining about the lack of a low-level API for hardware-accelerated H.264 decoding? As you pointed out in your next paragraph, it was because that way Adobe can p
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
...and calling Apple isn't a reasonable and just attempt to return the property to its owner... Calling AppleCare - Apple's customer support - apparently? No, it is not reasonable. Going above and beyond the call of duty would have been s
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Why higher resolution? Because competing devices have higher density displays. And high density allows for prettier, crisper, more natural graphics. iBooks are just the icing on the cake. Why 960x640 precisely? Because it makes things s
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
I'm not defending the rule or the inconsistent enforcement of it. I'm just pointing out why DLWormwood's apocalyptic prediction of "a cat-and-mouse game with the larger and/or more tenacious middleware developers, leading Apple to waste res
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Actually you are right, the ban (i.e. clause 3.3.2) that was there since the beginning was not against all interpreted code. Originally it said: "An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
I don't think Apple have any interest in strictly enforcing this rule. It's meant to be a catchall clause. Most likely App store reviewers will first use some subjective criteria like whether an app feels like a native app or whether it fit
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Although I am amongst the first to disagree, maybe not necessarily with Apple's goal, but certainly with the language they are resorting to to achieve that goal, I have to object to the following statement: What I believe programmers are t
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Precisely this should have been Adobe's response to the lack of Flash plugin on some devices. Instead of all the FUD-ing, blaming, whining, and even insulting that has been going on recently, Adobe should have said in the very beginning - w
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
If stuff gets compiled to ARM code and is linked to Apple's frameworks, which I think both Flash-to-app and MonoTouch do, it should be all the same to Apple. Therefore I'd go with thumbing their noses at Adobe. And I'd even say it is becaus
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Yes, antitrust measures are applicable only to monopolies. Shocking, I know.
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Apple's own applications have been using APIs and have had capabilities unavailable to third parties since day one. The only difference with iBooks is that the app is distributed through the store, but that is completely orthogonal to the i
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Boy, just when I thought Dave Winer's ramblings can't get any less coherent he does this. This stream of consciousness stuff is certainly not working for him.
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Rejections (by which I mean - "we are not putting this on our store") are an imaginary issue. They are so few and far between that you'd be hard pressed to find a developer who had had an app rejected. Also in my experience the "app store g
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Is the Cube really one of the two "Tech's two greatest albatrosses"? Aside from the mentioned similarity - both products are brought up when someone wants to take a swipe at a new product of the respective company - is the Cube really a fai
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Admitting your mistakes is a good start. The question now is whether Nokia have actually learned their lesson and if that lesson is the right one. Statements like these, though: "It happens every now and then in a big company, like Nokia,
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
For one Gruber is lampooning WSJ's entrance into the Apple rumors business, so keep in mind he might be mentioning those "specs" in jest. And for two, it should be noted that competing devices released in the past year have higher density d
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
It was fairly well publicized in the plans for Longhorn. Quick Google search produced this, probably not most authoritative, but still, source: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1032_3-1011859.html
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
I noticed something off - in Chrome on the Mac Flash never dropped below 40 fps while canvas and SVG never went over ~25 fps, but perceptually it seemed things are the other way around - canvas and SVG animations seemed smoother than Flash.
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Are there actually any cases in which laches had been successfully invoked in a patent dispute? For what I understand, unlike trademarks, patents don't have a provision that you should protect them or enforce them. In fact that's why defens
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Thom's arguments tend to be based on his personal biases (this company good, that company bad; open source good, closed source bad; etc.) and as a result he sometimes says the stupidest shit to defend them. The thing you quoted about Theor
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Oh, for the love of... OK, Bild, you don't like that Apple's new policy is screwing with your promo app, I get it. But can we cut the "freedom of the press" bull crap. Not that I should expect rationality and perspective from a tabloid rag,
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
More like not his QA department. And to the author of that blog post, dude, how bloody entitled do you have to think you are to bitch that Apple didn't catch an obscure bug in your application. What do you think they do, play through every
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Hey, you break it, you buy it! On a related note, where is my liquid-quark fueled warp engine? I'n not giving all that gold for you to propel to 99% c for nothing, am I? Dumb, sophomoric "humor" aside, what practical implications does this
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Not necessarily so. As I said, my experience may not be representative of the most common workflows, but in the company I'm working for people often work on experimental or tangential stuff but at the same time they want their changes to ke
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
I believe that by "superior branching", DannoHung actually ment superior merging. That is something at which SVN is far, far behind DVCSs in general and GIT in particular. Also, my experience, as non-representative as it is, has shown that
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
So in short, Adobe have capitulated trying to push the Flash plugin on the iPhone platform, and instead have decided to at least take a sliver of the application authoring tools market. Surprisingly smart move for them.
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
I don't know if the Apple Tablet will impact Wacom's business in any way, but for what it's worth a picture drawn on an even smaller screen using one of these "not half decent graphic applications" ended up on the cover of The New Yorker.
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by lurch_mojoff 17y ago
Unless hands on wows me off my feet, I almost certainly am not getting one. There are two things I can fully understand in the context of the iPhone - no third party background apps and apps only through the App store - that I refuse to acc

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