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by mithaler 16y ago
You're contradicting yourself. Assuming you're defining "successful" as "making money", you're simultaneously claiming that the iOS App Store is too draconian for developers to succeed, and that it's more successful. Furthermore, I haven't
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by mithaler 16y ago
This is exactly what Android needs. Many of the enduring criticisms of Android I've seen are pointed at the Market. No matter how much merit those criticisms may have--inadequate policing, malware, weak categorization, whatever--separate di
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by mithaler 16y ago
There should be some tool or way to generate a function/stored procedure/x that outputs your data as arrays/objects/json/xml/whatever based on some simple dragging or dropping or marking that you would do with a super neat efficient interf
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by mithaler 16y ago
Politics and governance maybe, but not law. The text of law actually shows remarkable statistical resemblance to code, since fundamentally it does something similar and has to be just as explicit in its methods. http://radar.oreilly.com/ar
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by mithaler 16y ago
On that note, here's one well-written but scathing review by a UMichigan professor who goes into that among other things: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/
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by mithaler 16y ago
If, hypothetically, a rape had actually occurred (which we can't speak to at this time), could a genuine prosecution occur without accusations of a smear campaign? What if he really is a rapist? If that were the case, should he not be pros
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by mithaler 16y ago
Adding to that, by the time I clicked on the post, the comments on it were disabled.
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by mithaler 16y ago
"Linux is only free if your time has no value." --Jamie Zawinski
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by mithaler 16y ago
Generalizing the college experiences of the writer to all college experiences is not doing anyone any favors. My college experience was nothing like that: in intro CS, we were taught Java concepts as the basics of object-oriented programmi
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by mithaler 16y ago
Have you proven this assertion?
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by mithaler 16y ago
I happen to have personally worked for priestdo at Vassar, and I can say that he gets a lot done with his wearable; sometimes it's hard to tell if he's using it at a given time. ;) I don't think he uses it while walking--he tends to stand a
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by mithaler 16y ago
Wait... what? The fact that they thoroughly tested it and still had as big a problem as they did is supposed to make us think they're more competent?
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by mithaler 16y ago
Is it just me who read the last line and thought of this? http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/frustrations...
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by mithaler 16y ago
In my experience, the line between "mastering" a language/framework and "becoming competent in" it isn't very distinct. Once you grok the way the syntax works, the rest is all learning library functions and new methods for things (often idi
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by mithaler 16y ago
According to the Engadget articles linked above, Verizon changed the pricing late in the development process because they smelled a rat on Microsoft's side and didn't trust them to deliver a product that would sell well. By all indications,
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by mithaler 16y ago
Here's an unorthodox idea: if it sucks so much, why do we need the Android Market? Yes, by default it requires checking a box in the Settings to install apps anywhere else. But what's stopping developers from marketing their apps through,
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by mithaler 16y ago
I like it. In fact, I confess that lately I've been thinking of HN as Daring Fireball's comment feed.
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by mithaler 16y ago
I don't know about most people, but when I want to learn about the merits of a product or company, my first thought is to search for a variety of independent opinions of it, not the product/company's own marketing. Thus, the last thing I wo
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by mithaler 16y ago
Two things: 1) I need OPML import. Before that's there, all I can really do is play with the interface to see if I like it; I imagine this will be the case for anyone who already uses a lot of RSS feeds. (Other users new to the concept, on
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by mithaler 16y ago
I do not understand at all why there needs to be any distinction whatsoever between "system apps" and "app store apps". Yes, it's the way Apple does things . But why? Linux distros have used package management to push updates for everythin
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by mithaler 16y ago
You can't out-Apple Apple. It's been tried many times. No personal computer company besides Apple has succeeded at selling a lifestyle like they do. That's what product names like that are for--describing the sort of person a product is in
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by mithaler 17y ago
I think you missed the point. Yes, the iPad is not a desktop, and it's not expected to do the same things. What the post is positing is that Apple may release a laptop similarly locked down, and if they did, would it be an appliance like an
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Would you buy a laptop locked down like the iPad?(perpetualstudent.net)
8 points by mithaler 17y ago|26 comments
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Piracy does not threaten modern business models(perpetualstudent.net)
1 points by mithaler 17y ago|0 comments
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Shotguns and Rocking Chairs Don’t Work Over the Internet, Mr. Murdoch(perpetualstudent.net)
1 points by mithaler 17y ago|0 comments
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by mithaler 17y ago
I actually just discovered this site, but I highly dislike reddit for a number of reasons that I've been meaning to enumerate on my blog. So yes, I suppose I do count. :)
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Proprietary Data Formats Are Evil(perpetualstudent.net)
2 points by mithaler 17y ago|0 comments