rbarooah

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601.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Yes - it's pretty obvious that that CPU graph is not accurate.
602.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Except that Obj-C has pretty simple memory management. It's not like comparing with c or c++. More importantly Obj-C's system makes it easy to control when collection happens so you don't get pauses during inportant interactions. Does lua
603.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Right - also there doesn't seem to be a story for closures and GCD.
604.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Sorry - downvoted when I meant to upvote.
605.
by rbarooah 16y ago
That's fair enough - but saying it 'cannot' be used for such things is simply false.
606.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Temporary hack before what? Back to laptops, or forward to neural interfaces?
607.
by rbarooah 16y ago
The iPad cannot be used for productivity work (coding, writing, even longer emails) Coding apart, it works great for these things if you use the bluetooth keyboard.
608.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Do you have a computer for those other things?
609.
by rbarooah 16y ago
While generally a reasonable point of view, which I'm not really contradicting there are a couple of points worth mentioning: 1. Eliminating the keyboard dock makes sense just because the Bluetooth keyboard is a much better solution . I j
610.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Agreed. So how does a new label fix that?
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by rbarooah 16y ago
And another thing - what about debugging. Are we back to just logging? Personally a slightly simpler syntax for the message sending layer in Objective-C just doesn't seem to give that much leverage. I'd much rather see a functional langua
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Lean is about copying what works and stripping out what isn't unhelpful. That's it. Who could possibly disagree with doing that? We're all lean now!
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Looks very nice, and god knows it would be nice to have a next generation replacement for obj-c, but... 1. Obj-c may be verbose but XCode 4 does a lot of the heavy lifting with templates, snippets, and auto-completion, not to mention the co
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by rbarooah 16y ago
If I could vote this up high enough to reach the pages of the NYT, then I would. It gives so much perspective on the kinds of things other governments and societies could actually be doing right.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Not only do they not have a patent, but they have stated that other vendors are welcome to make use of the magnets. They probably include them in the specs they make available to vendors.
616.
by rbarooah 16y ago
I'd have thought that the incentive would be not to trash the machines as doing so makes them look like extrajudicial thugs when they claim to be on the side of the law.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
True, but those are empty pixels.
618.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Reminds me of AMPLE - a forth based system from 1984, which was notably used by Vince Clarke of Erasure. ( http://www.colinfraser.com/m5000/m5000.htm ) Take a look at the AMPLE nucleus programmers guide - this thing was incredibly powerfu
619.
by rbarooah 16y ago
But they did't give it away. It was part of the Mac people paid for. They are perfectly entitled to give stuff away. What they can't do is retroactively claim that part of what they sold you before was free.
620.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Who said it did?
621.
by rbarooah 16y ago
If you know what you are talking about then you'll be able to tell us the reason why it can't be true.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
The sox comment has been explained in numerous places. Basically because Xcode comes with a purchase of a new Mac or OSX it's considered to be part of the value delivered with that purchase. If they update it later, it is regarded as deli
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Google contradicts own counsel in face of antitrust probe(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by rbarooah 16y ago|0 comments
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Except that the price of their other software (iWork, Aperture, OSX) has even falling dramatically.
625.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Thanks for being so open. Like you, I would love to just hack on things that make the world a better place. Unlike you I don't have a protective environment from which to do so. I have to fund myself somehow. It would be a lot easier to
626.
by rbarooah 16y ago
I doubt he meant that given that he devoted paragraph after paragraph to describing all the improvements.
627.
by rbarooah 16y ago
Not sure why merijnv was downvoted - seems like a pretty reasonable point of view to me. May I ask how you fund your activities?
628.
by rbarooah 16y ago
The liability would be hard to prove and the plaintiff is unlikely to be in a position to drag it through the courts. On the other if you hire a dud, your boss can easily regard it as your fault and look for mistakes you made.
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Apple believes software is worth money. I'm not sure why that surprises people. What does surprise me is that people here don't .
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by rbarooah 16y ago
Apple believes software is worth money. I guess a lot of people here don't. Which I find odd.

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