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by rimantas 12y ago
+1 for Pixelmator, but there is also Acorn, quite popular.
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by rimantas 12y ago
Wasn't that more of "don't implement crypto yourself" than "don't use AES" though?
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by rimantas 12y ago
> You give no justification for rejecting powerful AI I wouldn't go that far as to reject it completely, but it will take a really really long time, orders of magnitude longer than Krzweil imagines. And the reason is very si
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by rimantas 12y ago
Sorry to hijack the thread but: does anyone know the "dead man switch" online service? Can be as simple as sending email if some action is not completed at predefined time. It's pretty triaval to do, but if there is an existi
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by rimantas 12y ago
Mozilla lost their focus long ago. They are now mostly political organisation with side busines of making software and financed by a competitor. I loved them so much since the days of the Phoenix (I think it was 0.6 which I made my default
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by rimantas 12y ago
Well… http://83-136-248-155.uk-lon1.host.upcloud.com/wp-content/up...
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by rimantas 12y ago
I saw the analogy in some book: imagine there is a shoemaker, who has no access to good materials and good tools. The result of course is that his shoes are terrible. And why you can understand all of the reasons why shoes are terrible—th
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by rimantas 12y ago
Well, what would you do with an encrypted password sent to you by email? How do you propose to solve this? Using password reset links instead changes very little.
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by rimantas 12y ago
That does not make it any better, to be frank. Sad to see IRC fading away, imho it is far supperior to many modern alternatives.
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by rimantas 12y ago
> If you haven't worked with web tools recently you should > see how far they've come. And if you take a good look what native SDKs offer all that progress looks laughable.
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by rimantas 12y ago
My server had 1000+ days uptime before it had to be restarted (migration/upgrade).
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by rimantas 12y ago
Objective-C is far from being shitty. Your comment, on the other hand, is.
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by rimantas 12y ago
And by coincidence WWDC just happened recently where many interesting things were announced.
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by rimantas 12y ago
What does it mean, exactly?
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by rimantas 12y ago
> The market needs an open mobile OS that respects the > user's liberties How do you know that?
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by rimantas 12y ago
Sorry guys, HTML is faaaar from being proven technology for the apps. And it will stay that way, sorry to dissapoint you. On the other hand: why this obession to have mobile apps built with HTML and JS. Why not fight for desktop, if you are
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by rimantas 12y ago
Yes.
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by rimantas 12y ago
Yes local, meaning on your device, centralised, meaning each app has access to some central repository instead of havint its own.
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by rimantas 12y ago
With each day I get stronge feeling that "the web" has some identity crisis. It's like a sumo wrestler who suddenly decided he should be a gymnast. I am already missing the web tech for the web not some ass-backwards usage
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by rimantas 12y ago
I recently got Bose QuietComfort 20i for my trip from Europe to Australia. It was expensive, but so worth it. That constant humming noise on the plane usually makes me incapable of doing anything. With these earphones—you flip the switch an
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by rimantas 12y ago
Oh, do iOS. You will know how elegant APIs look like.
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by rimantas 12y ago
The most important: does Google Glass indeed solve some problem many have? I can see it's appeal in some limited use cases, but not as a mass product.
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by rimantas 12y ago
Don't you think that your points 2-5 contradict the 1)?
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by rimantas 12y ago
And browsing without adblock means theat those who really pay for our services—people buying online ads—are being robbed. They paid specific amount for a specific number of impressions. Ok, I browse without ad-block, buty I never click on a
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by rimantas 12y ago
If you use Core Data you are not accessing raw SQLite, so the last two years don't mean much. And there are more often good reasons to use Core Data than not.
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by rimantas 12y ago
There is another option on iOS: use CoreData and don't sweat what's underneath it.
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by rimantas 12y ago
You could not be more wrong with your assesment why Photoshop users stay with Photoshop. I bought Pixelmator, and I also got CC licencse. I don't even remember when was the last time I had Pixelmator open. Pixelmator is a great and che
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by rimantas 12y ago
And they would also need to port the whole Core Graphics subsystem.
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by rimantas 12y ago
This was interesting but disturbing nonetheless…
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by rimantas 12y ago
Correct, I wrote the wrong key.

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