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by rahoulb 14y ago
Off-topic - but doesn't that confuse you? I gave up on desktop linux - partly because I don't like Gnome 3 or Unity (Gnome 2 was good though) but also because my fingers are so used to Cmd-S, Cmd-T etc. I tried mapping Ctrl to the Cmd key
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by rahoulb 14y ago
For me, I talk to my children all the time, so they know the standards I expect and I know if something's bothering them. If they do want to look at something I disapprove of, they can and will, so I don't try to stop them directly - as th
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by rahoulb 14y ago
From a 0% to 13% in just 2 years sounds pretty good to me.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Tiles look awesome on WP7 and on the tablets I've seen. But this desktop looks awful: http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/06/05/windows-8s-proble...
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Making it easy to use is design
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by rahoulb 14y ago
In the Apple ecosystem, you need a commitment to good design. It's less strong than it used to be (for example read John Siracusa and early Gruber criticising Apple's design choices with in OSX or Pierre Igot taking every app he comes acro
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by rahoulb 14y ago
That's a bit unfair. The OP uses the word "we" implying some sort of team decision. And asks for references, implying this is still under research.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
For me, it's because it's a Mac app. I've paid for Sublime Text and it does the job (and is my preferred editor on Linux), but, for me at least, it doesn't "fit" on a Mac as well as Coda. And I can't really tell you why that is.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
There were many rumours of forthcoming iOS/Facebook integration a while back - but then it all went silent. I guess they couldn't agree legals, but all we have is speculation.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Yes - `delete from posts where published = 1;` (or however your particular database adapter translates true)
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Yup ;-)
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by rahoulb 15y ago
My friend worked for a big bank for nearly ten years in Obj-C (using NeXTStep and OpenStep) - and quit when they moved to Java a couple of years ago.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
It's going back a while but I believe it was the graphical nature of Macs, coupled with the LaserWriter printer that made DTP important for Macs. Which in turn prompted the use of Postscript in NeXTstep.
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by rahoulb 15y ago
And the reason for that is because NeXT used PostScript for rendering - use the same language for displaying on-screen as on paper. When NeXTStep became OSX PDF was used instead (I believe because of a bust up between Steve Jobs and Adobe o
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How I lost my Adsense account(stateofsearch.com)
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Well the sports car in question is a one-off custom-build, purely for him, and rumoured to have cost a few millions of dollars. Not quite a private jet, but I would put that into "filthy rich" UPDATE: Link - http://www.luxist.com/2010/09/
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Asking upfront is also a problem. Asking on demand is much more annoying to the user, but also makes them think about what the app is asking for - as opposed to a list of permissions at install time, which are skimmed over and then forgott
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by rahoulb 15y ago
My mum would use it as an insult to try and shame me into behaving better :-/
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Heh - take your database, stick a webservice in front of it (request: "is this address valid?" response: "probably" or "they may have meant X") and charge a (small) subscription fee. I'm sure that there are a lot of people who would find th
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Also, at least at the moment, Apple's profit model is easy to understand - you pay money, receive something in return and they pocket the profit. Google's model is based upon understanding who you are so they can place the best adverts in
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Microsoft during the late 80s and 90s was famous for its ruthlessness and the way it exploited and crushed its competition. I wouldn't say "Jobs is the nasty one and Gates is the nice one"
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by rahoulb 15y ago
> The game is different in PCs and Microsoft has a different position on lockdown there. This is because of the anti-trust action against them. Everyone remembers the Navigator part of the case, but there was also the case of them prev
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Fun tangent: Linus knows about the word `git` - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)#Name
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by rahoulb 15y ago
I'm sure part of it is that Steve Jobs actually understood programming (even if he wasn't a programmer himself) - coupled with his desire that things should be beautiful. He said that it was a mistake only taking the GUI to Apple, and he sh
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by rahoulb 15y ago
I have a 2010 MBA, a 2010 Apple Bluetooth keyboard and a 2011 Apple USB keyboard (with number pad). They all feel different, even if the switching mechanism is the same - the Bluetooth one is best (by a long way).
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by rahoulb 15y ago
The brakes are a bit spongy ... `nice -10 brakesd`
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by rahoulb 15y ago
Agreed - traffic is an issue. But I'm convinced that the threat from "predators" is minimal, yet I still find it really hard to let my kids just go out and play. Luckily both myself and next door have decent sized gardens, so they get to r
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by rahoulb 15y ago
you should read the rest of it - it's not about amazon's working conditions, it's about a mistake that google is making. (btw i didn't downvote you)
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by rahoulb 15y ago
I can't wait to see how it copes with British accents. Not just English vs Scottish etc - but the hundreds of variations. I grew up in the East Midlands and now live in Leeds, 70 miles north. The difference in accents is night and day (al
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by rahoulb 15y ago
As Gruber says, it sounds much more like the old Apple than the new Apple (see Happy Mac, Dogcow etc).

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