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by neonfunk 16y ago
Wow. I would love to see a technical write-up about how they generate these documents. (I assume they're programmatically generated...?) How do they get around issues of font licensing? (Where do the font file themselves come from?) Re
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by neonfunk 16y ago
I'll bet people are only interested in this because it (Flash on Android) was originally described as running "flawlessly". If they had just described it as alpha (and realistically, buggy), this would be a non-story.
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by neonfunk 16y ago
It's from David Carr's NYT op-ed: "... and regardless of how the law shakes out, the optics are horrible for Apple." So I think in that context it means "how it appears" vs. "how it is".
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Ethics & Apple: do the optics matter?(jessesmith.tumblr.com)
2 points by neonfunk 16y ago|2 comments
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by neonfunk 16y ago
... for you. (I ought to have said, "less worrisome for me."). The thought that the operator could just look up from their screen, after "looking in my pants", so to speak, is what feels awkward to me.
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by neonfunk 16y ago
One way they could make it less worrisome for passengers is to have the room where they view the body scans separate from the room where the scanner is. From the images I've seen, it doesn't seem like you'd be able to recognize a person fr
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by neonfunk 16y ago
They would risk their department's integrity for the sake of popularity?
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by neonfunk 16y ago
Yes, I'm being a gruber apologist, but that post was written days ago, before the raid. If anything, I think that there was a raid vindicates gruber's sense that this is serious business, and that the police are treating it as such.
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by neonfunk 16y ago
Didn't he/she know the engineer's name? And have his facebook profile?
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by neonfunk 16y ago
Why, it's a bizarre tale of sordid intrigue, of course!
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by neonfunk 16y ago
In terms of appearances, the DA pursuing criminal charges is the best possible outcome for Apple. They get the satisfaction of seeing Giz and/or the "thief" scrutinized for their actions without risking the fallout of aggressively pursuing
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by neonfunk 16y ago
Gotta love the competitive spirit... Now if only their other services would offer such "human" support, as opposed to the maddening, hair-pulling, teeth-wrenching -- yes -- god-questioning expereience it is trying to contact Checkout or AdW
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by neonfunk 16y ago
You're right, I don't think apple is that interested in devs' profitability, or for that matter, app store profits. But I also don't think they have any incentive to actively harm devs' chances of being successful... It's the "don't want t
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by neonfunk 16y ago
There were several free apps in the top-grossing list last time I checked. And I think ad profits are worth mentioning. iAd is a pretty significant investment on Apple's part... not that they aren't hoping to profit from it -- but the mor
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by neonfunk 16y ago
I don't think the IIB post is partisan. This author says, "they emit almost completely clean CO2 (note that bar global warming, CO2 isn’t considered harmful)" ... To my ears, that's a major understatement ("bar global warming"). I'm almost
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by neonfunk 16y ago
I mean, I totally hear the point about the importance of a "computer defense department", especially in the context of the recent shots fired between google and china... But to conflate explicitly-installed software that allows admins to wa
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by neonfunk 16y ago
So, wait: you think it should have been rejected for not following UI conventions? My first thought is that plenty of games have UIs built from scratch. I think the conventions are just that: conventions.
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by neonfunk 17y ago
Looking at my comment again, I think you're right. I'm succumbing to the same cheap temptation. Morals for me intertwine much more with politics than with tech -- and I feel strongly enough sometimes that I can't contain myself. How to c
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by neonfunk 17y ago
It's exactly this kind of sarcasm I avoid when replying to someone I disagree with (HN has definitely helped me mature comments-wise). It antagonizes the opposite party, preventing a rational debate. There are plenty of smart people who di
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by neonfunk 17y ago
Not to mention, you can't ignore a notification so you can look at it later... It's either view or dismiss.
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by neonfunk 17y ago
I do the exact same thing with multiple sites, using Asual's address plugin (which I love, btw... it also integrates with G Analytics perfectly). The only difficulty I have is getting people to use the non-hashed links instead of just copy
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by neonfunk 17y ago
I am very confused with all of the rhetoric going around. His post was one of the more substantial explanations I've seen on HN. (And of course, the resulting comment thread here is usually very helpful in parsing this kind of debate.) "W
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by neonfunk 17y ago
"I’m not arguing that it’s anything other than ruthless competitiveness." Seems more like an explanation of their motivations rather than a defense. Not to be a Gruber apologist.
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by neonfunk 17y ago
The lack of a CPTableView is why I ultimately decided not to use Cappuccino for a back-end project I was working on recently; looks like the wait was worth it -- what a beautiful implementation.
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by neonfunk 17y ago
The article underestimates kids -- but the sentiment is understandable given the short history of computing. These guys witnessed the birth. Now things are vastly improved, just like how you open the hood of a car and it looks like an amo
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Concert shot on Chatroulette with 15 MacBooks [video](intothewoods.tv)
2 points by neonfunk 17y ago|1 comments
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by neonfunk 17y ago
Isn't that jumping the gun a bit? It's really hard to predict what context this was designed for, but I very much doubt it will apply to the existing hardware/software model.