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by sedev 15y ago
To think Apple is not interested in the same information about their customers just seems incredibly naive or like some kind of cognitive dissonance. Actually I think there's definitely room for argument there. Apple may be be interested,
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by sedev 15y ago
One can hardly emphasize this point enough. iOS users buy shit. The process of buying stuff on iOS is easy, easy, easy. It's unusual for it to be more than just the password prompt and the tiny pause for verification. When buying things i
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by sedev 15y ago
You really, really need to cite a source about the Apple thing. This blog article is independently verifiable: people went and observed the behavior of their Android phones. Please point to someone doing the same with an iOS device. Edit: C
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by sedev 15y ago
Once you get at that point, the dev experience starts to look a lot like traditional desktop client-server app development. ... with all the security/privacy problems that go with that, and then some.
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by sedev 15y ago
I admit I'm atypical here, but I do all my development work in emacs, and it's nice to have reference material that can also be accessed through emacs.
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by sedev 15y ago
"Doesn't function right without JavaScript" disabled rates a shrug - JS enables lots of cool stuff. "Displays a completely blank page without JavaScript" is - well, in this case, as others have pointed out, one of the tradeoffs made in p
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by sedev 15y ago
That is a relevant piece of information I hadn't known. Thank you.
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by sedev 15y ago
Oh look, it's another site that loads nothing with JavaScript off. What is wrong with you? Progressively enhance, or gracefully degrade, or display something other than a completely blank page to non-JavaScript visitors. I harbor many dou
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by sedev 15y ago
There's no alt text for the images - as a result, when I visit in w3m, I can't actually see whether or not the site thinks I'm on a tty.
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by sedev 15y ago
That, unlike the iPad, Courier, and the future Win8 devices, is legitimately a specialty device, and if you think that Apple's restrictive about what software developers can do, take a look at Nintendo's policies. Then try browsing Hacker N
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by sedev 15y ago
As troublesome as Twitter, Facebook, and Google Plus can be, some of their epiphytes are just terrible. Personally, I harbor a surly attitude towards Klout because there's no opt-out option - there is no way (that I could find) to say to th
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by sedev 15y ago
That, however, throws the effort from publishers to readers without lessening it as much as one would like. I can see specialized audiences investing the time required to get a web of trust going, but not mass audiences. Mass audiences, whe
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by sedev 15y ago
As someone just getting into iOS, this looks very useful, because it's a bunch of coherent ObjC code to read, presented in a beginner-friendly way. I'm also glad I read the HN critiques, though - knowing that some of this will be batteries-
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by sedev 15y ago
A bit of historical perspective may prove helpful: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/15/thurrott-claim-c... Paul Thurott's track record when it comes to making predictions about the iPad is terrible. There's simply no reason to
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by sedev 15y ago
Generally if you have to explain to someone that it was a joke, it was a bad joke.
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by sedev 15y ago
I agree with that, and with the proposition that that shows that he has better taste in web design than Thurott.
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by sedev 15y ago
Gruber gives the example of how the iPads that were available to the press at the Apple event were indistinguishable from the iPads later sold at retail. Microsoft says up front, very clearly, that the hardware they're giving away is a "re
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by sedev 15y ago
That's a mischaracterization of the statement you're responding to. Gruber and Thurott's sites are actually a neat microcosm of some trends that they also come down on opposite sides of. Gruber delivers content as a product to an audience.
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by sedev 15y ago
At last, the court has discovered the deadly weakness of hackers to being forced to use their legal names! Wait, what? The decision makes a very, very sad statement about the court's understanding of the issues at hand.
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by sedev 15y ago
Actually, that's one of the reasons Strauss & Howe are a big deal - they did make some fairly specific predictions, and invited people to hold them accountable for those.
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by sedev 15y ago
This reminded me a lot of PG's "How To Make Wealth" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html ) essay. Graham wrote: "Making wealth is not the only way to get rich. For most of human history it has not even been the most common. Until a few
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by sedev 15y ago
That seems like a risky flow of rules - but mostly in that they look difficult to consistently adhere to. Someone who could consistently play by those rules would be interesting to work with. The list also, though, makes an underlying cla
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by sedev 15y ago
I wish I could tell whether the downvotes were for "that's not funny," "you are slandering RMS" (who is by the way far smarter than I am and has done far better things for the hacking community, I am a nobody), or "that is a cheap-shot comm
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by sedev 15y ago
Cue GOB's "I've made a huge mistake." Unfortunately I doubt we're going to see RMS on a Segway.
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by sedev 15y ago
Don't look now, but language, culture, and technology all change. Change right out from under the most carefully-written of legislation, in fact. Adapting to the now is what I think is the "only reasonable way" to come at the document - and
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by sedev 15y ago
I would argue that that is in practice their job, especially given the amount of ambiguity, both unavoidable and superfluous, in the legislation-as-written. I actually have a very strong dislike for Scalia because I think that his legal 'or
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by sedev 15y ago
"The rule of thumb is that if someone says that's their name, that's what you call them." Yes! Insofar as it can be made simple, that's how simple it is. I can't fucking believe how hard it is for some people (and databases) to accept tha
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by sedev 15y ago
I wonder whether the recommendation at the very end, about starving patent trolls of lawyer resources, is more or less viable now than it was five years ago. Although there are certainly plenty of megafirms, I'm not sure that the legal worl
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by sedev 15y ago
That's the whole point of the article: the SCOTUS members don't have to be re-elected and are not going to be lobbyists after leaving the bench - they actually can do such a thing on principle, that's their whole role. Please read the art
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by sedev 15y ago
While "keeps a close eye on" is certainly an accurate description of what he does, "makes accurate and/or well-founded predictions" is not, and that's more important. Someone who wanted to be well-informed about mobile would do far better b

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