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by robmcm 13y ago
They currently are leaving it, there is a lot of content I can't get through a web browser that I can through a native app or through a plugin player.
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by robmcm 13y ago
The BBC can not show the majority of their content on the iPlayer because the rights owners won't let them without DRM. The BBC needs DRM to be able to give us that content.
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by robmcm 13y ago
Malcolm Gladwell would love to get his grubby little hands on that fact!
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by robmcm 13y ago
>App performance is often sub-par This is typically down to web developers building desktop apps without the same level of experience. There is nothing baked into AIR to make it perform poorly.
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by robmcm 13y ago
I'm afraid this will always be the case. Any runtime or VM will have bugs, and the fact there are multiple instance in the world of web development only exacerbates this. One day something new may come out, and the web will become a wa
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by robmcm 13y ago
Not to mention most of that cash is overseas, and it would be extremely costly to pull in onshore. They actually took a loan to pay out the dividends as it would be cheaper than paying the tax required to onshore their overseas monies. I ex
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by robmcm 13y ago
Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, Uber, Lyft are mobile apps because they suit the context of mobile or rely on their features (camera/video). I think they are obviously mobile first because without mobile they wouldn't exist.
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by robmcm 13y ago
Also on the billing page "You are currently on the tophat plan" (no space)
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by robmcm 13y ago
Oh right a 21,000 mile round trip would explain some of it ;)
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by robmcm 13y ago
I like it, impressive for such a short amount of time. I did notice the site is very slow, is that your hosting (HN effect) or the client side stack you are using? Navigating the pages was taking 5-6 seconds for me.
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by robmcm 13y ago
Even better is to draw everything in a canvas!
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by robmcm 13y ago
Most native frameworks provide tools to position elements, although at the end of the day they are just positioning things on an x,y,z axis. Using CSS and JS you can do the same thing, respond to events and re-position your elements. The pr
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by robmcm 13y ago
I depends on the complexity of your application, sure it could be easy, it could also be a nightmare. People make the same arguments about using interfaces (think Java not Objective-C ones), they are only useful when you need them, but almo
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by robmcm 13y ago
You have highlighted the good parts about using singletons. Now say your application wanted to play two different music streams (lets pretend you added a mix feature), you are now stumped. I first ran into the pain of singletons when using
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by robmcm 13y ago
There was the same problem with ActionScript back in the day. So many people had played with it in Flash, and were going for jobs developing RIAs. They had no idea about software development, but knew how to say goToAndPlay(1) and add a cli
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by robmcm 13y ago
They are under the same leadership now Rubins went to build robots.
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by robmcm 13y ago
Could this be one of the reasons web apps get traction on Android?
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by robmcm 13y ago
I thought this was rife in the game industry. Everything's a remix these days anyway.
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by robmcm 13y ago
Or ban it.
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by robmcm 13y ago
The BMW has a range extender which is a gas engine that powers the battery. It gives you an extra bit of range, but I think you need it running over a long time, IE I don't think it can recharge as fast as you can drain the battery.
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by robmcm 13y ago
Out of interest, here in the UK all washing machines have windows. Why does North America have top loading machines? What does your region have?
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by robmcm 13y ago
It's great to know what a library like JQuery is doing under the hood, but if you are going about your daily development using a progressive enhancement to access the dom using document.querySelector you are removing support for IE7 fo
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by robmcm 13y ago
"the USA, currently the world's leading first world country," citation needed.
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by robmcm 13y ago
Try it and let us know :)
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by robmcm 13y ago
I think they will use that to put you away, if they don't believe you...
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by robmcm 13y ago
Send me your photos and I'll encrypt them for you! I think the law is very vague due to the people writing it now knowing much about it. I imagine they have a use case of this guy and want jail for anything other than seeing some incri
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by robmcm 13y ago
As this story illustrates: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25745989
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by robmcm 13y ago
Vodafone offer free access to Spotify or SkySports with some packages, although I am not 100% confident it's free data, or free service.
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by robmcm 13y ago
"The mystery of why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes?"
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by robmcm 13y ago
It's a currency first. Just like art is art first, or an antique chair is a chair first. The investment or any of these can be described as a ponzi scheme by the above criteria. The first few buyers of a chair make money, it only works

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