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by sjs 15y ago
When did Apple sue iOS jailbreakers? Did it go to court or did the defendants settle? edit: Nevermind, looks like they haven't actually sued any jailbreakers.
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by sjs 15y ago
One problem with putting blinders on yourself is that you lose touch with the zeitgeist of a site like this. Also, is it worth creating and installing browser extensions for flurries of stories that usually peter out after a week or so? Obv
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by sjs 15y ago
Unfortunately there aren't any other smart phones that I could recommend for my mom in good conscience. I haven't tried WP7 yet which actually looks like it's made for humans. Unlike my Nexus One which is no good for mom yet for a number of
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by sjs 15y ago
Basho themselves have complained about being called a document DB. Probably because you can store absolutely anything in Riak. Regardless of the reason I think we can safely call it a KV store and be done with it. edit: And by Basho themsel
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by sjs 15y ago
That is eye opening, thanks. I can't believe how much faster new is. There's a glimmer of hope though. In Firefox 4.0.1 Object.create is almost as fast as new Constructor. If other implementations caught up in this respect what are your fee
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by sjs 15y ago
Touché, you're right. MS is amicably working out license deals, very unlike a patent troll.
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by sjs 15y ago
I think one reason it's news is because people have predicted that Adobe CS and Office will never be on the Mac App Store. If there's a competing store that does offer such titles a few big titles like that are enough to give it some steam.
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by sjs 15y ago
You don't get to start a paragraph with "So" when the previous sentence began with "Estimating that". That is nothing to base a conclusion on. Regardless it's funny and sad to see MS acting like a common patent troll. Sure they need revenue
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by sjs 15y ago
Quick, someone run it through the Java -> JavaScript transpiler. We can go deeper.
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by sjs 15y ago
A lot of us on hacker news have more than 100GB of data to back up. I use Dropbox all the time but have no need for more than the free account. Dropbox is only for syncing. If I need to back something up it goes to CrashPlan, where I store
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by sjs 15y ago
Is the Jobs .... the Job? :p
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by sjs 15y ago
Not only their fans. For some reason almost nobody can look at Apple and their products objectively. It's love/hate. My best guess is that people who care about little details like 2 volume levels for headphones & speakers, pausing your
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by sjs 15y ago
Pretty typical from zdnet. That site is mostly garbage. Just as Gruber doesn't say nice things about Microsoft and/or Windows, neither do Ed Bott and Mary Jo Foley say nice things about Apple and/or OS X. Ed Bott's Windows Expertise: http:
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by sjs 15y ago
Perhaps we'll have a system akin to DNS that resolves phone numbers to IPs. Dynamic DNS functionality could be built-in or layered on top by a provider like Google Voice, so that you don't give up one-number-that-follows-you. Whichever devi
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by sjs 15y ago
Mostly tech blogs and links I come across on twitter. I try to keep my rss subscriptions to a minimum. If I don't read 5-10 consecutive posts I ditch the feed.
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by sjs 15y ago
It means immediately. If the binary is available so the source should be available. Simple.
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by sjs 15y ago
When a language has a deficiency people make up for it with libraries. If you don't acknowledge the "class pattern" for object inheritance then you are dismissing an incredibly popular use of OO. Whether or not code reuse via OO is a good t
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by sjs 15y ago
There's no argument there. However I see more new projects that use MIT/BSD/Apache or similar than GPL. It could just be the projects I come across and/or are interested in, but I keep pretty broad tabs on technology and use various OSs on
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by sjs 15y ago
I think you misunderstood canadaduane's point. There's no denying that a lot of popular open source software is not GPL these days. Chromium, Rails, Ruby, Python, PHP, Riak, jQuery, SproutCore, basically everything from Apache and Mozilla i
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by sjs 15y ago
Please don't make us start saying "object used as a class".
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by sjs 15y ago
TextMate takes some good ideas in Emacs and improves them (from the user's perspective), like pressing Option to start a rectangular selection so you can see the selection as you make it. Emacs is far more consistent in that basically every
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by sjs 15y ago
Yup. After writing Java for Android in IDEA 10 CE for a few months I die a little inside every time I want to rename a function in C or JavaScript in TextMate. I should check if anyone has used js2-mode to write some refactoring functions f
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by sjs 15y ago
I agree, however I find it refreshing and inspiring. A lot of us use typical software and hardware. Nothing esoteric, interesting, or insightful. Just guys using Macs getting some work done.
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by sjs 15y ago
Fine, s/Python/JavaScript/ then. Nobody applauds JS for it but neither is it derided as PHP is for this reason.
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by sjs 15y ago
Using a rotational HD does not excuse you from having solid backups. I've had rotational HDs fail in just months, it's not the norm but it does happen.
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by sjs 15y ago
You're being voted down because they are not actually that outrageous. "purity of non-blocking libraries": the context makes it explicitly clear he is not talking about side effects and referential transparency. If I were more mean spirit
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by sjs 15y ago
@ryah: "jesus, i go out for a beer and this damn reddit thing is #1 on hacker news?"
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by sjs 15y ago
I just accepted a new job last week and my employer sought me out largely because I am mostly self educated (I did a couple years of comp sci, may go back eventually). He feels that it shows a hunger for knowledge and lack of fear to learn
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by sjs 15y ago
For me there is no cost, but I rarely do the cycle-through-all-tabs thing (not never but rarely). For your workflow it sounds like there is a cost. If you work on multiple projects in the same editor instance then there is a significant cos
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by sjs 15y ago
This is clearly a golfing exercise. If you want a more full featured Lisp check out Write Yourself A Scheme in 48 Hours by Jonathan Tang: http://jonathan.tang.name/files/scheme_in_48/tutorial/overvi...

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