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ptomato
16y ago
You can, however, develop for plenty of different smartphones.
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ptomato
16y ago
I'd bet $100 that they didn't.
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16y ago
It works on apps that haven't implemented the DRM correctly, yes. Not on most.
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ptomato
16y ago
But if you lose them they won't replace them for free.
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ptomato
16y ago
That it makes good linkbait, essentially.
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ptomato
16y ago
"Vertical integration shouldn't be considered a religious matter." Somewhat irrelevant, as Apple has demonstrated fairly convincingly that they do consider it such.
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ptomato
16y ago
Apple, in particular, is never (well, while Steve Jobs or anyone similar is in charge) going to rely on other people for essential parts of their platform again. They've learned that lesson many times.
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16y ago
And didn't exist at the time the iPad came out.
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ptomato
16y ago
And yet, oddly, similar phones (see: android devices) are not priced significantly less.
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ptomato
16y ago
Does he actually write things in between the two? I hadn't noticed.
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16y ago
http://www.activestate.com/komodo-ide
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16y ago
Hey, that's what Sparkle is for.
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16y ago
I just bought it as well. Fantastic piece of software.
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16y ago
iTunes Store music isn't DRMed, at all. Neither is music from the Amazon music store.
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ptomato
16y ago
Contracting or salaried? Because that's very low at least for contract Ruby developers in the US.
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ptomato
16y ago
He's also going to pay roughly 60% of everything he's made so far in taxes.
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ptomato
16y ago
Server costs are minimal; about what hosting any other website with similar traffic would be. He is not hosting the game servers for it, just an authentication server.
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ptomato
16y ago
Certainly not two million in PayPal all at once, but if you want to know how many copies he's sold the numbers are right here http://minecraft.net/stats.jsp and I don't think the price has been below €10.
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ptomato
16y ago
The thing is, minecraft is far, far more accessible than dwarf fortress will ever be without some major changes, and has a vastly greater potential audience.
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16y ago
Yes.
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ptomato
16y ago
Very unlikely, I'd imagine, just from a performance standpoint.
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ptomato
16y ago
How do you have fun? DHH will actually be getting some use out of this car on a track, not (just) using it as a status symbol. Furthermore, he did his best to remain anonymous as the purchaser of this car and was apparently quite unhappy wh
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ptomato
16y ago
Have you checked out homebrew? Similar to macports/fink except much, much better, available here: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew In particular, their recipe for zsh compilation might help you even if you don't want to install brew itself
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ptomato
16y ago
Animals are not people.
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16y ago
Doesn't appear to be significantly different then a normal horse harness. How do you consider it abusive in any way that, say, leashing a dog isn't? Or do you consider that abuse as well?
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ptomato
16y ago
Or more probably the artist pages are created by the artists.
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ptomato
16y ago
That's an incredibly mature edit. [User was dmm, unsure what original post was but he edited it to read "Reply to this if you're a nazi"]
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ptomato
16y ago
There's quite a few people who use iPhones/iPod Touches, though.
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ptomato
16y ago
Anything that has been accessed within the past x amount of time and hasn't fallen out of cache yet. For more info, check http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc around lines 1485, 1550, 233.
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ptomato
16y ago
Actually the link checker only checks vs. links that are currently loaded into memory.
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