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by omaranto 17y ago
I think the proliferation of languages is due to people following your advice: they go off to make their own language, realize it's hard to make something radically different and end up just fixing a couple of their pet peeved from another
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by omaranto 17y ago
Mmh. My iPod Touch is second gen. I guess older iPhones don't load pages in the background and third gen iPod Touches probably do. It seems likely that Apple enables background loading only on devices with more memory (or maybe, on faster n
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by omaranto 17y ago
Safari on iPod Touch (3.1.3 OS): 113
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by omaranto 17y ago
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by omaranto 17y ago
Really? It's definitely not on the iPod Touch: other windows do not finish loading in the background, they wait until you swith to them to load. If you're right, I wonder why Apple made it different on the iPhone.
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by omaranto 17y ago
Wait, you're saying the WSJ app does not cost $17.99 per month as reported? You're saying it's free with the $1.99 per week website subscription? Did people just make up the $17.99?
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by omaranto 17y ago
I don't mean to be pedantic, but he didn't say that stating that the iPad is not designed for what he does means that you are fanboy. He merely said that fanboys would say that, which is likely true since I think almost everyone would say t
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by omaranto 17y ago
Right, it's not meant to replace a laptop. I currently own both an iPod Touch and a Sony eBook reader. An iPad could easily replace both of them and its price is actually pretty much just the sum of the prices of the two.
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by omaranto 17y ago
Replying to your aside: With HTML5's offline capabilities you don't really need hosting (for many kinds of apps). I need to run a server on my laptop only once so I can download little programs I write to my iPod. With this method I don't n
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by omaranto 17y ago
Don't you think swearing in English could potentially offend anyone who speaks English whether or not they're from the USA?
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by omaranto 17y ago
I haven't programmed in Logo in years, but I recall it as pretty full-blown: isn't it a dialect of Lisp (with a funny infix syntax but) including macros?
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by omaranto 17y ago
"here's the code"? I thought "tech" was short for "technology" only part of which involves code.
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by omaranto 17y ago
My guess is High Level Languages.
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by omaranto 17y ago
In my experience it's fantastic and you get good answers very quickly. I got an answer from precisely the mathematician I was planning on emailing! It's not meant for homework type questions, though, and they do shut those down right away.
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by omaranto 17y ago
A small correction to your comment: your "correction" is actually an addition, since you point out an omission not a mistake.
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by omaranto 17y ago
Nice app! I have some suggestions: 1) Add a setting to make Readability the default (when this option is used, you could turn the current Readability button into See Original). 2) It would be nice to be able to see more than the first 30 it
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by omaranto 17y ago
> Or perhaps: the users don't raise their voices to have something better? I think that probably most people don't realize there is something better, and can't even really tell the difference between typical word processor output and ni
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by omaranto 17y ago
Finally! I've been waiting for more decisions like this ever since I bought my iPrude Don't Touch!
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by omaranto 17y ago
Hope this suggestion catches on, it sounds good.
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by omaranto 17y ago
The problem the author finds with pure functional programming is very well known and is one reason people never use a pure functional language, sticking instead to practical functional languages such as Erlang (that has processes), ML diale