rimantas

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by rimantas 10y ago
Apple is not hostile to open source. GPL you get wrong way around. While it is true that you need Mac, you don't need to purchase developer license to develop. Only to distribute through App Store.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Have you seen native apps? Claim that Web apps load faster or behave "exactly like a native app" is hilarious.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Things are very simple: browser tech, Apple's or anyones else is light years behind the native frameworks and cannot even dream of catching up. Those who think otherwise most likely are not familiar with native SDKs. BTW, there is com
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by rimantas 10y ago
Your comment is the best example of the demagogue. Zero understanding of the issue, the problems that tables caused. But it was easy, right?
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by rimantas 10y ago
Accessibility is dead, alas. It is extremely sad to watch what is happening with the web right now. All the good initiatives are being forgotten in the chase for the latest fad. "You were so excited that you could that you've forg
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by rimantas 10y ago
We are not talking about mainstream, we are talking abou those financing hate preaching in European mosques.
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by rimantas 10y ago
a.k.a. keeping one's head in the sand.
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by rimantas 10y ago
One of the sad and amusing at the same time things is watching people not satisfied how things are bravely go and make them worse.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Who are "we"? We, his majesty king?
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by rimantas 10y ago
A clear indication of process over people.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Always used that one and could not care less about clearfix.
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by rimantas 10y ago
> Freeing humans from having to do the driving has a huge > potential value Except that it does not. What would have a value is getting rid of the need to be in traffic at all, no matter self or not self driving car you use.
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by rimantas 10y ago
You should not be responsible for running any of the sites with this attitude.
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by rimantas 10y ago
> Interestingly, Swift doesn't feel much like Obj-C. Not necesarrily a bad thing. However I am the one who does like Obj-C. That said after some time with Swift you do not really want to go back to Ojbective C any more.
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by rimantas 10y ago
You worked with source of both , Uber and Lyft? And Linkdin too?
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by rimantas 10y ago
Those who complsin the most don not really want anything except to rant—that's the cheapest way for them to appear smart.
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by rimantas 10y ago
IIRC first prototypes were made in 2004 and were more iPads than iPhones
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by rimantas 10y ago
Being able to focus sight on far or on nearby object at will is also a simple problem and already solved in VR? (I honestly have no idea). Until it is solved there is no R in VR.
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by rimantas 10y ago
In Lithuanian "rasa" means "dew". And you can find many similarities between Lithuanian being one of the oldest languages and sanskrit.
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by rimantas 10y ago
Apple still has the best CPU on mobile. But that does not count for those who cannot see past a headphone jack.
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by rimantas 10y ago
I think it is time for you to buy more books.
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by rimantas 10y ago
While your first statement is true what has faith in the community has to do with it? Maybe OP just knows this community and that is enough reason not to "have faith" in it?
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by rimantas 10y ago
It will be a year when VR hype scales back. Not the first time and not the last one.
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by rimantas 10y ago
You did not do much web development then, did you? It was not "reference implementation", most of the nice things were not implemented at all and many that were there were buggy. And even if the box model makes more sense it was s
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by rimantas 10y ago
on iPhone 7 you get the haptic feedback when e.g. scrolling the picker items. I think 100% of users notice that.
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by rimantas 10y ago
"Acts on data" reminds me the story where the program was given caloric values and cost of various products and tasked to calculate the cheapest way to feed a human. The answer was to drink 10 liters of vinegar per day.
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by rimantas 10y ago
> lot more bugs and problems since Apple switched to a yearly > release cycle. The theory that I subscribe to, is that now there is less time for the version to mature. Previously a version of OS X lasted long enough for the
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by rimantas 10y ago
> I hope that's sarcasm. It is. ("Yeah" at the beginning of my comment is pretty much the same as /s at the end of others :) )
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by rimantas 10y ago
Yeah. I remember the times prior to 2007 when OS X had zero problems.
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by rimantas 10y ago
> Now its just incremental phone updates. Feel free to move to another manufacturer which makes revolutionary upgrades with each release. If you find one. Or one which matches Apple's phone CPU.

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