misuba

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by misuba 16y ago
Only if what you want to do fits into a wee box. If you want to break out of that box and work with a web page directly, JS is still your only option. Abstractions are possible via LiveConnect (the very thing JavaScript was named for - abil
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by misuba 16y ago
Awesome. If it had first-class functions I'd be downloading it now.
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by misuba 16y ago
You will soon, if you want it: competent Windows machines for basic tasks will soon be the price of a mid-range piece of software. There will be plenty of reasons to prefer other platforms, but there won't be any need to choose per se.
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by misuba 16y ago
People like apps because installing and opening an app doesn't make them feel stupid. Remember the ReadWriteWeb Facebook-login debacle? Even the users who didn't make the same mistakes as those folks still feel frustrated with all the steps
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by misuba 16y ago
Takeaway: if it's email, it's on a server somewhere; if it's on a server somewhere, it's best to assume it'll be public record someday. If it's an outburst, maybe you should do it by phone.
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by misuba 16y ago
"Before prototype, mootools, and jQuery etc., JavaScript frankly sucked." Proto, mootools and jQuery are written in JavaScript. So your statement compiles to "JavaScript sucked until people figured out what it could do." (Which is essential
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by misuba 16y ago
I wonder, how difficult would it be to detect whether a user of some sort of brain interface simply is or is not irritated by the particular on-screen thing s/he is looking at?
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by misuba 16y ago
Please do!
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by misuba 16y ago
I guess I shouldn't be as shocked as I am that a major NPR anchor and interviewer, Linda Wertheimer, seems to consider it a huge novelty for a record release to be digital-only.
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by misuba 16y ago
If disagreeable opinions are just as likely to cause the negative effects of trolling as "real" troll comments, don't you need the same countermeasures in place?
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by misuba 17y ago
Besides putting weight behind HTML5 as a means of making native (not native-quality, but native ) Android apps, Google should be working with Adobe (and RunRev and Unity3D and whoever) too. Frankly, Flash isn't the closed platform that sho
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by misuba 17y ago
Where are the open-systems advocates who want to make something even better than the iPad instead of complain about it?
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by misuba 17y ago
Schell's followup talk at GDC allegedly gives some important context. Unfortunately it's not online from what I can tell. Gamasutra talks about it in passing here: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27754/Opinion_Fear_and_Lo...
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by misuba 17y ago
I doubt I'll need bash, but I'm gonna want emacs. Maybe Bespin will be adequate, I don't know.
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by misuba 17y ago
DIY is gonna have to drill down to the level of motherboards and chip-fab much faster than it has been.
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by misuba 17y ago
One thing's for sure, if iPhone-like computers get more significant uptake, we will find out exactly how horrible XSS can be.
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by misuba 17y ago
The average business today would fall apart if people suddenly got that time back that they spend dealing with IT. They'd fill the time with political machinations and end up eating each other alive. More seriously, I predict that we'll see
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by misuba 17y ago
Maybe the label was alright with embedding if they could do a sponsorship deal to sub in for the otherwise lost revenue. (Recall that YouTube only pays the label for video views in a YouTube-hosted page.)
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by misuba 17y ago
Damn, I've been trying to accumulate happiness points. Is there a patch I didn't download?
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by misuba 17y ago
People hate change a lot more than they hate inefficiency!
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by misuba 17y ago
Convincing people that broadband is stable enough to bet their income on is going to be a hard one.
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by misuba 17y ago
Counter to a different point entirely. You can stop making users deal with hierarchy without being closed.
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by misuba 17y ago
Yes. Massively better, but time-consuming and certainly not a gateway game.
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by misuba 17y ago
"If you have an FCP, they pay your bill for you. If you don’t, you eat free." I've paid massive emergency-room bills. The author and publisher (apparently not the same person) are morons if they believe it.
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by misuba 17y ago
Settlers isn't very good. The game is largely all due to luck after the initial placement of pieces; get that part wrong and you'll be spending 45 to 90 minutes repeatedly asking anyone if they can trade you that one resource nobody can get
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by misuba 17y ago
The diplomacy is what game fans call "petty diplomacy;" that is, you have to smack somebody and there's no compelling in-game reason to smack anyone in particular, so you default to smacking the guy who smacked you last, or the guy who's ah
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by misuba 17y ago
Do most people need 3 tabs?
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by misuba 17y ago
I went through the same process as Calacanis and most of my content had been automatically set to Friends Only. Maybe it's Calacanis who's unlucky... or clueless, or et cetera.
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by misuba 17y ago
not quite as much as it did in 2006, but yeah. anyone have memories of what was going on in extremely-alternative browsers around these times?
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by misuba 17y ago
That's the crux of the problem, yeah. We're like Tolstoy's line about families: normal people are are all just normal, but geeks are all weird in ways different enough to prevent us from having any kind of collective self-definition. Which

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