rbarooah

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by rbarooah 15y ago
Nothing you say here seems to contradict the author's position that the patent situation is making things worse for indie devs.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Absolutely. I think the criticism is that Google has credibility amongst the tech community for 'openness', which is based on shrewd PR rather than them actually behaving differently to any other large corporation. I see proponents of Goog
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by rbarooah 15y ago
If you don't like the stack, why do you think it is a good thing that it should become so widespread?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Depends on your definition of singleton. In java, singletons are enforced by the type system - i.e. There's no public way to make more of the object. Usually that's what people mean by 'singleton' in java. If you don't have the source and
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by rbarooah 15y ago
If you're using NSUserDefaults, why bother with a SettingsManager? If the SettingsManager is an NSUserDefaults replacement for whatever reason, then it's probably fine for it to be a singleton.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Letting individual classes get settings from NSUserDefaults (which itself effectively presents a singleton) directly seems to work pretty well for me. One advantage is that the classes are then reusable in other projects because they aren't
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I think you're spot on - Facebook is basically an entertainment destination. If google is trying to become the same thing, they may end up making the search experience worse. That said, it's not like there's a choice.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I think his point is that Google made + so that they can learn about people. It's designed to serve Google's need to learn about people and damage it's competitors first and foremost. Vic Gundotra is quite open about this when he talks abo
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Where does this 'mean time between iPhone reboots' come from? Has someone done a study - and are you talking about stock or jailbroken? I ask because I occasionally had to reboot my original iPhone, and 3GS, but I simply haven't thought ab
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Home screen apps are not running in the browser - they run in a separate process. What distinguishes a 'design bug' from 'doesn't work the way I want it to'?
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by rbarooah 15y ago
You're not helping yourself by saying absolutely nothing on the site about why it's good and what the benefits are. I will sign up for most things that seem novel or interesting, but I won't fill out a random form with no hint of what I mig
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by rbarooah 15y ago
His flaky opinion piece seems to have done a reasonable job of starting a conversation.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Whilst the lack of that feature certainly wasn't good, how can that be described as a 'bug'? Nothing was broken.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I totally agree with you about the unpleasantness of ads in general, but iAds don't work like that - a static banner appears first and then if the user taps it, the interactive portion is started.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
And yet if you zoom out just a little, people seem to be buying more and more equipment from Apple to produce and consume the "amateur" content of the web.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Maybe there is a refusal to innovate, but maybe we now have a structural problem wherein we simply don't need as many people to work on these things as a result of automation, and even information work jobs are going to diminish. How do you
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I thought I said that!
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by rbarooah 15y ago
This chart makes it look as though Matt's fine as long as they're no worse than Bing. Somehow I doubt it's as simple as that.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I've seen it happen twice - once just after a series A, and once after a company made it incrementally to good profitability. Both had headcounts in the 20-30 range, and still considered themselves to be startups.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Works great until the startup is successful enough to hire an executive who things that office hours are a more importamt measure of productivity than peer respect or checkins. It's easier if you're a founder.
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by rbarooah 15y ago
What a bizarre piece - no examination whatsoever of what the implications of the success of ChromeOS might be - just a self-referential exhortation to blindly put your personal energy into it "because it will be successful".
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by rbarooah 15y ago
And indeed Steve Jobs is pretty quiet, and often criticized for it. He also never talks about himself but only about the results of his company, and even then only a couple of times a year. Given that he's the CEO of one of the most succes
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by rbarooah 15y ago
Safari users might like http://www.mindfulbrowsing.com
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by rbarooah 15y ago
I'm sure other manufacturers would stop imitating Apple if Apple failed. But that's an incredibly negative view isn't it? By imitating Apple, the other manufacturers simply aren't contributing anything meaningful. It seems unlikely that A
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by rbarooah 16y ago
So you want Apple to fail because you don't like what the other manufacturers are doing?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
The people who were reporting these issues made false claims and presented them in the most alarmist and damaging way possible to Apple. They did this without data to support them and continued to make insinuations not supported by the fac
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Frankly this is doublespeak very similar to the kind used to manufacture this hysteria in the firstplace - the data you're talking about is on your phone Apple doesn't have it, therefore Apple is not tracking you. Your email is on your ph
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by rbarooah 16y ago
It sounds as though you are suggesting that journalists should not ask CEOs questions about issues that might affect PR or the stock price. Am I misreading you?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
http://mykeyboard.co.uk/microswitch/ Not lisp specific, but he does have dedicated paren keys.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
The Scala philosophy of actors just being a demonstration has been somewhat lost when you look at the literature, where Actors are presented as a solid solution. STM doesn't really exist in Scala except as an experiment, so you cannot use i

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