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by rahoulb 16y ago
Actually - good point. Historically Next/OpenStep ran on Windows and there were always rumours that Cocoa for Windows (aka Yellowbox) would be released. And there was GNUStep, which was an independent open-source clone of OpenStep. I wond
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by rahoulb 16y ago
The key point being that Apple's strategy is the exact opposite of write-once run-anywhere
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IOS alarms cannot deal with Daylight Savings(telegraph.co.uk)
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Neither - he just says that the way society deals with drugs should be proportionate to the harm that they do
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by rahoulb 16y ago
there is a cost to maintaining features - ten years ago making java a first class desktop citizen was a good thing. today circumstances have changed and it's not worth the effort. so you could say that they have broken a promise - but do
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Agreed - you sacrifice who you are/were but become a better person for it. (I've got 2 girls - 6 and 16).
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by rahoulb 16y ago
When James Gosling was moaning about Apple deprecating their JVM he mentioned that Apple's WebObjects stuff was actually running on Sun hardware. http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/steve_jobs_comments_o...
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by rahoulb 16y ago
"Manchester United" is a contraction of "Manchester United Football Club"
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by rahoulb 16y ago
Because I lived through the 90s and early 2000s
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by rahoulb 16y ago
They were also told about this a while back: http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/massive-twitter-cross-site-scri... Not quite the same flaw but very similar - caused by unescaped URLs
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by rahoulb 16y ago
bit.ly does 301 redirects with analytics. this assigns domain names to ip addresses
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by rahoulb 16y ago
John works for a hosting company (the awesome Brightbox) so I suspect it's just making public one of the tools they use to assign DNS records to newly provisioned boxes.
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by rahoulb 16y ago
RIM owns QNX which has been working in embedded communication devices for years. Why would they need Android?