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by sid0 16y ago
You have people talking in this very thread about a walled garden being better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2279823
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by sid0 16y ago
You need a message name (@selector), and the names are strongly typed What do you mean by strong typing here? AFAIK ObjC has dynamic binding, which means you can send the same message to a different object based on a condition. So from wh
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by sid0 16y ago
But you were being honest in your use of the API.
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by sid0 16y ago
They do static analysis of your executable and check what you call Doesn't Objective-C have dynamic binding? I'm sure you can determine what function to call at runtime, which means you can always get past a static analysis. I can think
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by sid0 16y ago
No, from logic. I don't have a Mac to develop on, sorry.
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by sid0 16y ago
It gives users a false sense of security. The average user is far more willing to trust an arbitrary iPhone application than an arbitrary Windows application, do you not agree?
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by sid0 16y ago
You can slip the malware in as a timebomb. It's not exactly as easy as it is with Android or an open platform, but it is almost as easy.
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by sid0 16y ago
The Apple walled garden is way more dangerous, because it's almost as easy to slip malware into your code (remember, Apple doesn't do full source code audits), and the false sense of security makes users even more complacent. It really is a
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by sid0 16y ago
A related but somewhat off-topic question: when do you start using version control on brand-new projects? I find myself hg initing and making my first commit once I've written something significant -- say around 150-200 lines of code.
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by sid0 16y ago
I'm not familiar with Wittgenstein (it's on my list), but I wonder if the difference is in the system of logic followed (intuitionist vs classical).
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by sid0 16y ago
Seriously? As an Indian developer who considers himself at least decent, I'm offended by your statement. Of course there are bad developers, maybe more in India than in other places. That doesn't mean good ones don't exist.
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by sid0 16y ago
Firefox uses plenty of new Vista/7 APIs. If you abstract the implementations out suitably, you can easily support both the old XP APIs and the new Vista/7 ones.
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by sid0 16y ago
And yet the new stuff is ready only when at least two implementations ship it. This currently means at least two out of Gecko, WebKit and Opera. Does Microsoft really never want to be one of the two?
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by sid0 16y ago
HTML5 is descriptive, not prescriptive , so the complaint about features not being ready doesn't make sense. They're ready when browsers ship them.
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by sid0 16y ago
That's just completely untrue. PC gaming worldwide is much bigger than console gaming, and even in the US traditional PC games are bigger than any single console. http://www.gamesetwatch.com/newzoo_2010spend.jpg One reason is that AFAIK i
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by sid0 16y ago
Plenty of tech-savvy people I know in real life think that Chrome has a terrible UX. There's no way they're going to be installing it on anyone else's computer. (How do you move the refresh button to the right of the address bar?) edit: to
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by sid0 16y ago
That's only compositing acceleration though: I don't think Chrome does content acceleration yet.
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by sid0 16y ago
But if they can't, then what you said was basically wrong. The app store totally lets you make malicious applications. Seems like security theatre to me.
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by sid0 16y ago
On Windows Vista and 7, Firefox 4 uses the same rendering engine (Direct3D/Direct2D/DirectWrite) that IE does.
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by sid0 16y ago
Yeah, Epic probably gets a lot more money from engine licenses than Valve does. Valve definitely makes a large portion of its money through Steam.
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by sid0 16y ago
That was a joke. (I'm a student at IITK.)
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by sid0 16y ago
> The app store doesn't let you make malicious or pornographic apps How could Apple possibly prevent a sufficiently covertly malicious application from entering the app store?
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by sid0 16y ago
As a guy pursuing a CS degree, I'm compelled to be a constructivist (what use is a proof if you can't get an algorithm out of it?) and reject both AC and the well-ordering theorem. Find me a well-ordering of the reals and then we'll talk. :
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by sid0 16y ago
I'd count among my favourites: * the Schroeder-Bernstein theorem in set theory * the fact that the axiom of choice is equivalent to the statement that every set is well-ordered: how can something so intuitively correct and something so intu
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by sid0 16y ago
The good thing about reddit is that it allows you to have exactly as much seriousness as you want from it. Look into subscribing to some of the smaller and more focused subreddits instead: I'm subscribed to /r/compsci, /r/math, /r/Philosoph
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by sid0 16y ago
Fair enough: I was thinking more about C than C++ there. I guess that for at least some libraries an FFI + a C to C++ glue layer might work. Now that I think of it, I'm happy with a C + high-level language future, and C++ programmers should
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by sid0 16y ago
You could always use some sort of FFI. I don't think it's that big a deal, since you can still use C and C++ libraries on any desktop platforms + on Android.
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by sid0 16y ago
A developer who is so dependent on one language/framework that he cannot learn another in a reasonable amount of time is one I have no sympathy for.
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by sid0 16y ago
Quantum computation as been explored but as yet we don't have a computer capable of executing the quantum algorithms. They're in their infancy, but we've already had a quantum computer factor 15. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/computing/ha
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HTML5 Games 0.2: Integers are Your Friends(developers.facebook.com)
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