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Google Voice returns to iPhone via slick weblication(gadgetell.com)
1 points by mcav 17y ago|0 comments
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by mcav 17y ago
It sounds like you had issues with SQLAlchemy, not Pylons.* If you take care to understand SQLAlchemy well, it won't get in your way either. *(I concede that Pylons doesn't have a good automated admin feature.)
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by mcav 17y ago
Now we just need a GPS-based iPhone app that shows the location of you and your friends in Zelda-style avatars. On this map.
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by mcav 17y ago
It can use Gmail's search features. (IMAP doesn't do that nearly as well.)
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by mcav 17y ago
It's great that a lot of developers are sounding off on their blogs about this. But what will it take to achieve real progress toward reform? We can complain all we want, but what will it take to get real traction?
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by mcav 17y ago
As long as this isn't the first step toward a more iPhone-like development model for Mac.
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by mcav 17y ago
A lot of acronyms to essentially say that you can't write-once-run-anywhere in mobile. From the article's glossary: "XHTML – multi modality markup language". What?
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by mcav 17y ago
You get 24 hours each day, true. But it's not just about motivation and mental ability. The time you have available to read is only time you aren't doing something else. If you have a job, or school, or family duties, or anything else, you
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by mcav 17y ago
Could suing for patents ever be considered a violation of monopoly law? (I know Apple isn't a monopoly.)
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by mcav 17y ago
Aaron recommends isolating yourself from other people, stopping reading blogs entirely, and getting rid of other hobbies. If your goal is to read a lot , obviously it's primarily a matter of finding time to read. Aaron's advice is extreme,
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by mcav 17y ago
Steve Jobs: > "We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We've decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own origina
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by mcav 17y ago
Loren Feldman's threats against Divvyshot: > "If I were ipodrip and divvyshot, Id be be starting to think about damage control. Arrington cant hide you forever." > "Divvyshot. you have 24 hrs." Veiled threats via Twitter? Come o
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by mcav 17y ago
NB: This was from 1997.
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by mcav 17y ago
I know there's Hadoop, etc for map/reduce; what is available for correlations like Amazon?
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by mcav 17y ago
> as they embark on an ugly and dishonest campaign against Flash. Apple's campaign against flash isn't dishonest . It's a campaign designed to keep Flash away from Apple's products, but it isn't very ugly as far as campaigns go, and
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Daring Fireball: Tits and Apps(daringfireball.net)
66 points by mcav 17y ago|48 comments
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You cannot copyright a Tweet(zeldman.com)
15 points by mcav 17y ago|18 comments
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by mcav 17y ago
This strongly resembles Pylons' approach: Break core components into separate projects, so that each can evolve more quickly and so that one can use the best component for each area.
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by mcav 17y ago
That only works for one thread. Many (most?) cases for using multithreading are when you need to do something CPU-bound, for which event-based mechanisms don't help.
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Gears API Blog: Hello HTML5(gearsblog.blogspot.com)
27 points by mcav 17y ago|10 comments
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by mcav 17y ago
Next, we see if they actually do something with it.
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by mcav 17y ago
I don't leave every tag open; just a few: tr, td, p, li. To me, it's intuitive that when the next row/listitem/paragraph begins, the first one ends. So I think this is perfectly readable: <ul> <li>Item1 <li
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by mcav 17y ago
In XHTML, the </p> is required. In HTML, some people prefer to close all tags for cleanliness; others prefer to leave the <p> open. It's really a personal preference. Personally, I like the more minimal approach of leaving t
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by mcav 17y ago
GVR's tweet: http://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/9297047851 The PEP that was accepted: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/ Previous Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1066283
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Unladen Swallow to be merged into Python 3(lwn.net)
140 points by mcav 17y ago|28 comments
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by mcav 17y ago
Competition helps drive innovation, but right now WebKit has so much forward momentum, it's hard to say that standardizing on WebKit is a bad thing. WebKit is LGPL-licensed, so if it were ever to stagnate, there's nothing preventing anyone
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by mcav 17y ago
Crime is publicized everywhere, drilled into peoples' heads on TV and in newspapers. In the public eye, crime continues to be seen as a rampant problem regardless of its increase or decline.
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by mcav 17y ago
Would it have been more successful if they had fragmented their efforts further?
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by mcav 17y ago
Not when you have a hardware H264 chip.
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by mcav 17y ago
http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2010/01/building_ipad_a...

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