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by ptomato 17y ago
Well, assuming by cases you include things like the magsafe power cord, which is undeniably brilliant and which I hope all laptop manufactures manage to miniskirt around the probable patents for. Or battery life for laptops which unless I'm
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by ptomato 17y ago
"Some of them..." Some of them, certainly. Are you honestly claiming that all or even most Apple users do so because of marketing if there's no quality product to back it up? Edit: as per your post history/above, you appear to use Apple har
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by ptomato 17y ago
Did you ever stop to consider why Apple "fanbois" are? And why, for example, there aren't such people for other hardware or software manufacturers? (Microsoft has a good few, actually, and Linux certainly has some, but the numbers of fanati
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by ptomato 17y ago
Sure. Passenger can do this in a nearly-painfree fashion, and thin/mongrel/unicorn/webrick(heh) can do this by simply not having your webserver use them for that directory.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Anyone find it irritating when a company advertises the [insert niche technical spec here] of a product? It's sort of like putting words into your mouth, making assumptions about your workflow.
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by ptomato 17y ago
It does mean that there are limitations on using it in the advertising of a competing product, however.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Snow Leopard shipped a version of Flash which (may) have been vulnerable and which was the latest version available at the time the Snow Leopard GM was pressed, yes. And then they updated it.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Other than the "removed from the store" thing, you can backup the app, use it on a new phone, redownload it without repaying for it, etc.
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by ptomato 17y ago
"Just for my curiosity, I would love to understand how Adobe managed to get the specs of the iPhone byte-code." It isn't bytecode, it is a binary on a commonly used platform (ARM). But in general, somewhat a moot point seeing that Flash app
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Ooc - modern object oriented c(ooc-lang.org)
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by ptomato 17y ago
Or see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=877535
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by ptomato 17y ago
The Elements of Style, Strunk & White. Leave it to Psmith, P.G. Wodehouse
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by ptomato 17y ago
You know what helps me focus? Not messing around with half a dozen apps intended to make me more productive.
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by ptomato 17y ago
They've made several, though of course they're not for sale yet. But nonetheless.
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by ptomato 17y ago
Or, you know, javascript. Which the iPhone's browser definitely supports. And which isn't governed by the terms of the SDK anyway.
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by ptomato 17y ago
original posting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=849789
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by ptomato 17y ago
But craigslist already does charge, for job postings in certain cities.
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by ptomato 17y ago
"Stay classy, RMS." Well, at least the retraction is reasonably classy.
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by ptomato 17y ago
But there's certainly nothing requiring you to use them on the mac. And you don't need to have anything to do with the features he mentions. Use mpd/theremin/vlc/etc etc. And simply don't buy DRMed files in the first place. You can certainl
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by ptomato 17y ago
"people freaked over changes to a bunch of key commands and menu nav" Very much so. And then there's another set of people who freak because of some default key shortcuts (which can, of course, all be changed from the defaults to whatever t
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by ptomato 17y ago
I would agree. And (anecdotally) there's a large number of people who refuse to use Office 2007 because of it. I'm not saying that's a reason Adobe shouldn't do it; I think they should. But I don't think they're likely to.
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by ptomato 17y ago
In fairness to Adobe (and as somebody who has worked briefly for them) even moving things in, say, Photoshop, will result in a monumental outcry from many people who have used it for years and years. Also in fairness, considering the wide
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by ptomato 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979
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by ptomato 17y ago
nginx? ( http://nginx.net/ )
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by ptomato 17y ago
How idiotic can you be? "As a result of the financial crisis many people lost their homes." People lost their homes because they couldn't pay the mortgage. They couldn't pay the mortgage because they didn't have the money to pay the mortgag
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by ptomato 17y ago
The use of duct tape and WD40 as basic tools certainly far predates that movie. Per the ancient quote: “All of life’s problems can be solved with two things—duct tape and WD40. If it moves and it shouldn’t, you need duct tape. And if it doe
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by ptomato 17y ago
"If I tell one text editor widget about "Smalltalk," there's no reason why all of them across the system shouldn't know about it." It is on OS X. (Leaving aside software that implements its own spellchecking, of course.)
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by ptomato 17y ago
Not in emacs as such, though very similar as far as interface, keybindings, etc. is Conkeror ( http://conkeror.org/ ). Still missing some needed features, notably screen-splitting, but overall quite usable.
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by ptomato 17y ago
No he isn't. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=scott_s
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by ptomato 17y ago
Install mpd & theremin ( https://theremin.sigterm.eu/ ) (I'm sure there's a similar windows client if that's your thing.) edit: alternatively, picoplay ( http://www.kronenberg.org/picoplay/ )

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