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by macrael 16y ago
A project made up of 12 million lines of code, and Google can give it away for free. Mind boggling. There's not many can do that.
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by macrael 16y ago
Why turn linkable, copy pasteable, screen readable HTML into an inscrutible image? Maybe they could make embedding simpler, but I think there are betterr options than turning it into an image.
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by macrael 16y ago
Are they famous for that? I have never heard stories of how they deal with paying customers, but then, I don't think I know any paying customers of Google. No snark intended, I'm really curious to hear.
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by macrael 16y ago
The hardware lock in is the much less interesting of the two lock ins you mention. Regardless of which platform you use, you are locking yourself to the software much more than to the hardware.
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by macrael 16y ago
Google open sources things when it is beneficial to them to do so, or when it is not very central to their business strategy. Every time an oem takes the android source and makes it run on a new device, they are doing Google a favor, and mi
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by macrael 16y ago
I'm with you, but it is pretty fascinating all the same.
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by macrael 16y ago
Ok. I didn't really understand that they were charging so much for playing the game. I'm happy to be wrong.
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by macrael 16y ago
re: Zanga My impression is that they are making use of the user data they are able to collect when people start using the app. Is ther any evidence that they are selling that data or otherwise doing something uncouth with it?
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by macrael 16y ago
I think that is a fair reason for the current state of Mac applications, as theirs is a cultured built over many years between a relatively small number of people. But the iPhone has brought a hoard of developers who are new to the platform
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by macrael 16y ago
Yes! This is something it took me a long time to internalize but is something I absolutely love about Objective-C. Regardless of any technical differences between message passing and method calling, there was a real shift in how I thought a
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by macrael 16y ago
I'm a little confused as to what has actually changed here. Did they just stop running things off their own machines and start paying someone else to host the site?
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by macrael 16y ago
"No company — no matter how big or how creative — should dictate what you can create, how you create it, or what you can experience on the web." That argument seems to apply to Adobe more easily than it applies to Apple.
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by macrael 16y ago
I find it interesting that it is Verizon who is working with Google on this. As if whoever making the hardware really doesn't matter. Why wouldn't it be HTC or Dell or someone who is working with Google on this? Does any other carrier take
644.
by macrael 16y ago
My recollection is that the ether pad guys went to work on Wave. But they may have moved around.
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by macrael 16y ago
I agree with you. But even so, wouldn't a lot of people (everyone using firefox/Opera) then be unable to use youtube? When you have such an amazingly high profile site that is incompatible with major browsers, isn't that a bad thing? I gues
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by macrael 16y ago
I never said that the spec should not specify a video codec, I was just trying to set the record straight. In fact, I didn't claim anything about the spec at all, I just summarized some of Hixie's points. If you aren't satisfied with what I
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by macrael 16y ago
I think you could throw Google's name on the list there as well. Ian Hixie says: >Google ships both H.264 and Theora support in Chrome; YouTube only >supports H.264, and is unlikely to use Theora until the codec improves >subs
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by macrael 16y ago
This is complete nonsense. Read this instead: http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-Jun... Straight from the horses mouth, that is the state of HTML5 video and why we got there. The posted article is built on the idea t
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by macrael 16y ago
I love http://www.onebag.com the site design may be a bit outdated, but e information is great. I especially recommend reading the bit on packing clothes. I always use his method of "bundle wrapping".
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by macrael 16y ago
You could argue that the author is a knowledge worker as well. He talks about how his job requires him to know and learn about a huge number of things, then he applies that knowledge to solve a problem. Yes, his job is miles away from writi
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by macrael 16y ago
I've found that most of the things I do for fun and to "waste" time on the internet are easier and more fun on the iPad. Twitterrific, Instapaper, Net News Wire, checking HN, and several different games are what I have used it for the most
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by macrael 16y ago
Right, that's why I think that the total number of books sold, not the number per device, would be an interesting number to compare. Are there more books being bought for the Kindle or for the iPad? What does that graph look like?
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by macrael 16y ago
Has Amazon ever talked about how many books they have sold? I wonder how many they sold the first month of the Kindle being on sale? I don't think that is necessarily a number to make Amazon feel safe. I have an iPad but haven't bought any
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by macrael 17y ago
I have yet to go to a 3D movie where I felt 3D really added to the experience. Avatar came close, and there were times when it was really cool, but there were also times when I turned my head or something didn't line up right and 3D took me
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by macrael 17y ago
Man oh man, if Google went into the hardware business, now that would shake things up. Seriously, it would be a huge shift for the company and would require some massive hiring and restructuring. I think that would be exciting, but not at
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by macrael 17y ago
Yes.
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by macrael 17y ago
Again, it really doesn't look like they are doing that at all. They are just asking them to prove their marketing claims. My guess (IANANANAL) is that Match could sue for false advertising charges? Or bring evidence to the FTC? Dunno. But t
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by macrael 17y ago
> Match than demands that we enter into a confidential agreement where we show them how we are able to generate more relationships and dates than they do, and how we got so much bigger along with a lot of other things they want to kn
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by macrael 17y ago
Wow, you are exactly right! It is mostly the Cmd-L shortcut I notice going missing. I wonder why that one is getting eaten but Cmd-N, T, W, and Q all work? Still a bug, it works on Safari.
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by macrael 17y ago
I've never used Chrome on Windows, but I must say I'm a bit disappointed using it on the Mac. I do like the technical side of it so I use it often for watching Hulu, but the polish is not there. Often times, keyboard shortcuts stop working

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