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by megaduck 17y ago
I can't speak for thras, but if I can't do software development on a device, that's a pretty big problem. I'd love to replace my netbook with sleek little tablet, but the odds of Apple selling something that runs Java, Ruby, or emacs is sli
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by megaduck 17y ago
It seems that a lot of people are looking to extend twitter with email-type features, but I wonder if the reverse strategy (extending email) might be more fruitful. Email has some great properties that make it the ideal foundation for a com
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by megaduck 17y ago
I have to disagree. While it is definitely possible to use the language of politeness in an offensive manner, there is still a place in the world for "please" and "thank you", so long as they are sincerely offered. I do agree with the OP t
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by megaduck 17y ago
It is indeed based on Bespin, which means no IE support. Scuttlebutt from the Ares dev team is that they're trying to support all browsers that are HTML5 compliant, but abandoning the ones that aren't.
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by megaduck 17y ago
Anyone who's interested in HTML5 should give this a look. Ares heavily leverages things like the <canvas> tag to provide a rather nice development environment. More importantly it's a web app, so your tools are always up-to-date.
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by megaduck 17y ago
I don't think this changes much. You've always needed a government license to run a server, so virtually everybody either already had government permission or was running their stuff out of Hong Kong. This the new ban looks more like they'
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by megaduck 17y ago
Whoah, there. I'm not criticizing Gruber for being an Apple fan. Heck, I'm an Apple fan. They make some of the best hardware and software going, period. All I'm saying is that Gruber tends to instinctively side with Apple in any disput
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by megaduck 17y ago
Gruber's a smart guy, but he's also a completely reliable Apple apologist. If the Apple position is that there's no iPhone, then Gruber shows why the idea is stupid. If Apple suddenly reveals an iPhone, Gruber shows why it was inevitable.
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by megaduck 17y ago
That's interesting, but not quite what I'm looking for. I'm trying to find out if the iPhone is a good phone on a crappy network, or a crappy phone on a crappy network. How does your LG perform in urban areas like SF, Seattle, or NYC? How
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by megaduck 17y ago
Most, but not all. When I went through, there was only one option up at the top that was not set to "Friends Only". No big deal, right? Just one thing out of 10 or so? Except that one thing included all my status updates, links, and pict
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by megaduck 17y ago
We can answer this pretty easily by looking at AT&T Blackberries. If 3G Blackberries also have issues, then it's the network. If not, it's Apple's problem. Anybody out there with a BB care to comment?
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by megaduck 17y ago
Disclaimer: I'm still a total lisp newbie, take all of this with a grain of salt. As I see it, the biggest hurdle to learning LISP isn't the syntax per se. Lisp's syntax is so simple, it's easily learned in a matter of minutes. The whole
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by megaduck 17y ago
I'm sorry, I think the prospect of human extinction should be frightening to just about everybody. If we do eventually develop a trans-human AI, it's a virtual certainty that it will escape its "box". Whether it would kill us all is unknow
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by megaduck 17y ago
I would like to note that the fear of something that could annihilate the human race is not an unreasonable one.
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by megaduck 17y ago
Ah, understood. Sorry if I misread you. I totally agree it would be nice to be able to flag previously-read articles, or manage dupes in some other elegant way. It seems like a non-trivial problem, though.
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by megaduck 17y ago
Normally I'm opposed to dupes, but every once in a while there's something that everybody should see. This probably falls into that category, if you couple it with the AI-Boxing experiment (previously mentioned in this thread). The resul
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by megaduck 17y ago
Seconded. One additional advantage is JRuby's ability to use structures like Clojure's concurrency primitives. AFAIK, there's nothing even close in the world of MRI and YARV.
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by megaduck 17y ago
Perhaps JRuby simply isn't for you. We're using JRuby with Rails, and the tradeoffs are well worth it. Performance is quite good, and the laggy startup is irrelevant to a long-running server process like Rails. More critically, our deve
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by megaduck 17y ago
One of the big challenges facing the JRuby community today is the prevalence of gems with C extensions. For gems where the C source is available, this might be a viable route to compatibility. For anyone trying to crack that problem, this
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by megaduck 17y ago
A word of caution: a potential problem with this strategy is that pricing sends a signal to potential buyers. Higher price generally implies higher value. If you switch to fully dynamic pricing, then you lose control of the marketing messa
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by megaduck 17y ago
The point is power consumption. If a machine is instant on/off, then there's no reason to ever revert to sleep, which still drains battery. The only reason we have stepped power consumption modes is because moving from full off to full on
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by megaduck 17y ago
I think any conflation is quite intentional. For all practical purposes, ChromeOS will be inseparable from the devices that run it, much like the iPhone and the iPhone OS. Google has been quite clear that ChromeOS will not be run on genera
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by megaduck 17y ago
That is exactly what Palm announced last month. http://investor.palm.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=413826
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by megaduck 17y ago
The fact that formatting your computer brings it back to "the medieval ages" shows how important third-party software is. A full-format/reinstall of your desktop OS is almost identical to resetting your phone. It wipes everything, and rest
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by megaduck 17y ago
It's interesting that Clojure was able to beat Perl in the "Wide Finder" contest. In the first Wide Finder, Perl blew the doors off of everything else, including Erlang and OCaml. For Wide Finder 2, Perl drifted towards the bottom, but wa
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by megaduck 17y ago
I wonder if the author isn't barking up the wrong tree. I don't think that the App Store review process can be 'fixed'. Instead, it might be doomed. Android allows for unfettered development, as does Symbian. WebOS is headed that way too
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by megaduck 17y ago
Why is there a review process at all? There's no review process for OS X, and that seems like a decent consumer experience. For that matter, there's never been a review process for UNIX, Windows, or the Web. Those platforms all seem to d
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by megaduck 17y ago
You're a far more tolerant man than I. The fact that Apple is preventing you from supporting your customers is inexcusable. These kinds of issues can be extremely hurtful to an ISV. I wonder if upper management at Apple knows how much d
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by megaduck 17y ago
From the graph, it looks like the Droid launch was responsible for an order of magnitude jump in sales. With those kinds of growth rates, the Android marketplace could rival the iPhone very quickly.
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by megaduck 17y ago
Well, darn. That's a bummer. Serves me right for assuming, rather than testing. However, this seems more like an implementation-specific thing than a limitation of the platform. Bump can fix this on Android, they can't on the iPhone.

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