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811.
by rahoulb 16y ago
I didnt know that either! Cheers
812.
by rahoulb 16y ago
Cocoa IS Nextstep - which is why the class names are prefixed NS
813.
by rahoulb 16y ago
(Slightly tangential but) I like this: http://www.thinkvisibility.com/robots.txt
814.
by rahoulb 16y ago
Maybe buttonless for the iPad, but I doubt it for the iPhone as you would lose the ability to use it one-handed.
815.
by rahoulb 16y ago
I'm not at my computer so can't find the reference but there has been an ongoing experiment in Russia where they selectively bred Siberian foxes and after about 20 generations had a female that responded to her name and craved human attenti
816.
by rahoulb 16y ago
I don't think Gruber is framing it as "good vs evil". More - "why are you dropping support for H264 on grounds of openness but not dropping support for Flash (and MP3 and AAC) on those same grounds?"
817.
by rahoulb 16y ago
It's not Apple that wants you to use SMS - it's EVERYONE. I bought my first mobile over twelve years ago because of SMS, not voice, as it replaced the pagers that me and my friends had.
818.
by rahoulb 16y ago
For work I have weekly text files, where I write down what I'm doing. Originally this was to help me compile the weekly timesheets that my (then) employer required. But the notes saved me from a lawsuit and I know find it useful for keeping
819.
by rahoulb 16y ago
A friend of a friend used to write for the Mail and he claimed that they all knew exactly what they were doing (and normally personally disagreed with what they were writing). They know their audience very well and know exactly which button
820.
by rahoulb 16y ago
So if the original authors of VLC (not the authors of the iOS app) granted that permission to Apple then this wouldn't be an issue?
821.
by rahoulb 16y ago
Try using Airdisplay on an ipad. Traditional OSX is awful as a touch interface.
822.
by rahoulb 16y ago
Two of my favourite points about the iPad are the battery life and the instant-on (including connecting to Wifi - OSX on my MBA is crap by comparison). Arguably hardware features, but ones that won't work without deep software support. Wind
823.
by rahoulb 16y ago
Don't forget to set your headers - Heroku uses Varnish on the front end so you your app may not even be touched (and hence no extra dynos needed) in a lot of cases.
824.
by rahoulb 16y ago
A big problem Microsoft has is their pre-announcements. They will announce stuff before it's ready so when it does arrive there's no buzz about it. BUT it's a necessary culture for them because of the way their business interdepends upon t
825.
by rahoulb 16y ago
I consider Test::Unit a testing tool while Rspec is a documentation tool that happens to do testing - hence the verbose matchers. (thinking about it that's also a good description of TDD vs BDD - TDD is meant to be run, BDD is meant to be
826.
by rahoulb 16y ago
There appears to be an ongoing low-level diplomatic conflict between the UK and Russia since the FSB guy who was killed on British soil - I'm sure that plays a part in his comment.
827.
by rahoulb 16y ago
Cheers (that's why I love this place). At the moment I use Authlogic in Rails, which uses SHA512 by default (SHA512 is built into the Ruby core libs). But I also notice that it's quite easy to switch to bcrypt (using the bcrypt gem). Is it
828.
by rahoulb 16y ago
It's worse than that - I admit I know very little about crypto. So when it comes to implementing a password storage system I read up a bit, get confused, ask a couple of people and get different answers back. It's the "get confused" bit tha
829.
by rahoulb 16y ago
Blackberries are certainly the phone of choice for teenagers in the UK at the moment. According to my daughter this is entirely because of BBM
830.
by rahoulb 16y ago
It was over a period of four or five months, ending about six months ago. I think it was the shape of my eyes at fault - i would have a fortnightly scan, they would remould the lenses (which was done at some central factory, not by my docto
831.
by rahoulb 16y ago
There's a table listing the migrations that have already been run on the database. The list of migrations in source control are compared against the list in the database, the outstanding ones sorted into timestamp order and then run. So if
832.
by rahoulb 16y ago
The real issue is when you have feature branches and merge them in to master/trunk - so it's not a single file conflicting, but maybe a week or more's worth of work from both developers. As you say, it would rely on notifications that there
833.
by rahoulb 16y ago
I hated Ortho-K - they couldn't get the lenses to fit correctly so they hurt my eyes and some days I would wake up with imperfect vision (at a basically random power).
834.
by rahoulb 16y ago
Tsk, young people today. No idea of history (where history == about ten years ago)
835.
by rahoulb 16y ago
that's the second rule
836.
by rahoulb 16y ago
no never. not jordan hubbard, not dominic giampolo. no-one.
837.
by rahoulb 16y ago
The thing is that this has always been Apple's design decision - the OS marks very clear distinctions between applications (as described here in another Gruber piece about the OSX - and MacOS - window manager http://daringfireball.net/2003
838.
by rahoulb 16y ago
I use OneTeam for GTalk - stays signed in for 12 hours and I've not noticed a missed notification (although they were sometimes delayed a bit)
839.
by rahoulb 16y ago
I've read that all Apple executives are supposed to be totally hands on (which is why that bloke got fired earlier in the year, despite Apple having waited a year for his non-compete to run out)
840.
by rahoulb 16y ago
One of my clients is a print-shop and they chose XServes to handle their internal network because they use Macs everywhere else. They regarded it as a natural step with minimal retraining for their technical people (where technical means le

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