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by nikster 14y ago
If they do want to make money off of hardware, what's the point of Motorola?
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by nikster 14y ago
As an app developer I find lots of useful code online - most of it is licensed under the MIT license, meaning do with it whatever you want (by and large) If you want to make it so other people may use your stuff, just put it under such a li
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by nikster 14y ago
So? That's a limitation of the license, not of the app store. Why should the app store have to accommodate all sorts of licenses? Nobody reads license info anyway - I, and probably everyone else except Richard Stallman himself just click on
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by nikster 14y ago
How many times do we have to make the argument that Apple doesn't run the app store to make a profit? Please look at any Apple quarterly statement. There you'll see that the margins of the app store are in the low single digit percent range
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by nikster 14y ago
+1 Awesome explanation. Can we stop with the outrage over the "30% cut" now?
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by nikster 14y ago
The only thing the EFF should demand is that Apple provide an official way to jailbreak. That's it. The rest of the policies are fine. They can show 100 warning messages, remove any warranty, et cetera - it's their stuff, why would they sup
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by nikster 14y ago
Thanks I was going to say the same thing. I am an active EFF supporter and while most of the crystal prison article is more balanced than the title would imply, the money motivation is simply idiotic. The Apple App store never was about mak
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by nikster 15y ago
The idea had apparently been around for a while, since 2008 or so, there were other, similar studies. I don't know if they were similarly flawed or not though. I also would not completely dismiss the premise - trees are probably very good a
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by nikster 15y ago
The "new" Skype on OS X is certainly total garbage. They just keep making the UI worse and worse. MS isn't exactly know for making great UIs so I am not holding my breath there.
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by nikster 16y ago
The App store and iTunes are the first micro payment systems to really reach a mass market. It's so easy - click, and I get something. If an app is 99 ct I am not going to go through the trouble to search for a torrent - I will just click o
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by nikster 16y ago
Hate that about Safari. Most of the time I certainly don't want to read a PDF in the browser.
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by nikster 16y ago
Reliant Robin show was epic. Only in England.
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by nikster 16y ago
The Prius using more fuel than the M3 when driven at the same speed - it's still surprising, even though clearly they hammered the Prius while the M3 was puttering behind slowly. A bit of a ridiculous test. The other thing they said though
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by nikster 16y ago
Please don't defend western medicine, or standpoints that western medicine takes - it's a losing proposition. I've never even been to a chiropractor but I have seen a Reiki master do work that was impossible to do for the best surgeons in a
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by nikster 16y ago
Hey, it's still a good story, and makes a good point. Then again, PinkelStar is actually even better. I am a native German speaker: PinkelStar is just funny, and the Dutch are known for their strange humor anyway - all credibility for inves
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by nikster 16y ago
I once worked for Stagecast - easy enough right? But people kept calling us Stagecraft or other varieties...
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by nikster 16y ago
Color IMO is a bad name as it's too generic. That they paid a lot of cash for the domain name - well, if they have it, why not. Some startups are strapped for cash, others aren't. If the service becomes as popular as they think it will, $50
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by nikster 16y ago
I am going to make a completely unscientific argument now that I know the HN readership will look down upon, but I think it captures why we can't build nuclear plants. First, nuclear power started out as a cold war thing; they built nuclear
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by nikster 16y ago
The author points out the solution for storing nuclear end products, its quite brilliant! 100m under a pro-nuclear persons house! Problem solved! Maybe those who think nuclear energy is very green might join the author? I am sure we can fin
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by nikster 16y ago
Goes to show that it's sometimes best to ignore the rules and do what you think is right. Great idea with the scuba gear, too!
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by nikster 16y ago
Case sensitivity on a file system is generally retarded. I think it was an accidental 'feature' of some file systems and now in order to be compatible everyone has to do it. Real world benefit is zero while the annoyance factor is high. Not
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by nikster 16y ago
I bill for hours and I'll definitely go and refactor something - but only if I need to touch the code anyway in order to implement a new feature or fix a bug. I'll fix _every_ bug the right way, the first time; that may involve refactoring
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by nikster 16y ago
Meh. The best web developers I know are also the fastest I know; they write unit tests like crazy. They write good code. I guess you're assuming that writing good code takes longer, which is the basic fallacy in software engineering. Writin
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by nikster 16y ago
I guess you could say: Make it good. Just don't make it _too good_. Not all code needs to be super general, extensible, and re-usable. However, all code needs to be simple and elegantly designed, and unit tested. It needs to not smell.
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by nikster 16y ago
Yep - I learned it in my first job after college. We had a hacked-together app that was 99% complete. It then remained 99% complete for the next 2 years as we fixed bug after bug after new-bug-that-was-introduced-by-the-last-bugfix. The cod
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by nikster 16y ago
Suit yourself if you want to write crap code. The fallacy here is that cleaning up your code, doing things right, and writing unit tests slows down your development speed. You could be implementing new features, after all. But what you will
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by nikster 16y ago
Have you ever heard of unit tests? It's the only solution. Unit tests, of course, are another hard sell. "what you need to spend just as much time writing tests as you did writing the code??" But I find the benefits are almost immediate, at
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by nikster 16y ago
I hear you but all this means is your refactoring wasn't good enough - maybe you underestimated the scale of the undertaking. I have been there. Don't lose faith - just document all the features, ideally with unit tests, before you make the
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by nikster 16y ago
Interesting - in that case I cheer his departure. One of the most important abilities of a great engineer is to be able to throw away his own code (so it can be replaced by something better).
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by nikster 16y ago
Nice one! Ever since the port of Mac OS X to the iPhone - the iOS - I am in awe of Apple engineering. They are Gods. I mean - imagine Vista, or Win 7 going on the phone, just with a new touch UI framework added. It simply wouldn't work, cou

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