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by sspiff 14y ago
Listen, I don't mean to downplay your achievement. You've done a great thing I can only envy. You did a great job, seeing a game project through to the end. But I just wish you wouldn't lead with "I'm X years old", I see these things all th
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by sspiff 14y ago
Same here. When I'm working on something of which I'm not yet sure where it should end up, it's on the desktop. Anything that fits into a number of predefined categories/projects goes into the Documents folder.
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by sspiff 14y ago
In the past, each file/folder/icon on the OS X desktop consumed an additional non-trivial amount of memory. So it wasn't irrational then. Today, almost everything is a trivial amount of memory.
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by sspiff 14y ago
I'm not contesting the 80:1 ratio (although bornhuetter makes some good points against this argument as well.) I'm contesting their Android-bashing on ease-of-use and technical merits. I use and have used an Android phone and an iPod touch
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by sspiff 14y ago
You make an interesting point. Would it not be possible though, to host multiple encoding profiles on a server somewhere, and have the device download the best match for its screen and decoding capabilities?
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by sspiff 14y ago
> But even then we had to deal with frequent crashes, a less intuitive interface and a platform that is even more fragmented than iOS. Frequent crashes? Sounds more like an issue with the app than the platform. You can develop unstable
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by sspiff 14y ago
"Salaries jumped: In 1980, the average officer earned $15,000 a year; today, one in every 10 officers makes more than $100,000 a year." This means effectively nothing. First of all, 1980 dollars are not 2013 dollars. Second, you're comparin
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by sspiff 14y ago
It's depressing how much of these are perfectly applicable to software development for large companies. At least most of them are valid in my current job.
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by sspiff 14y ago
With my clicky wheel on Firefox, it works just the same: one line at a time.
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by sspiff 14y ago
Try scrolling up, above the first page. You can get a perfect indicator of where you are as you are reading, as far as I'm concerned.
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by sspiff 14y ago
On my first generation i5 with integrated graphics, it runs fine in Iron, which is basically Chromium. Looking at the Wikipedia article for RockMelt, that browser hasn't even seen a preview release in over half a year, so I would assume its
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by sspiff 14y ago
Exactly, I wanted to try and see what it said about a flight I had planned, and I only got "Sorry, flights from Belgium are not currently supported. Sorry, flights from Germany are not currently supported.". Strangely, it did support Greece
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by sspiff 14y ago
I pick hostnames from this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List
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by sspiff 14y ago
Perhaps, depending on the user. Doesn't work well for me though.
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by sspiff 14y ago
Sure, the simple characters make it a bit easier, but the phrases tend to be much longer. The error rate on a touchscreen keyboard is high enough to really become a problem at 20+ characters when you only see the last typed character (no pa
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by sspiff 14y ago
Since reading that xkcd, I use phrases as passwords, using a simple Ruby script to generate them: w = File.readlines('/usr/share/dict/words').map { |w| w.chomp }.reject { |w| w !~ /^[A-Za-z]+$/ }; 3.times { print w[rand * w.size] }; put
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by sspiff 14y ago
> and if this story serves to scare off would-be iOS devs, then we’re all poorer for the actions of a few. According to these numbers, the few seem to outnumber the many 9-to-1. As a software developer and someone who doesn't mind payin
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by sspiff 14y ago
I guess I have a more negative worldview than you do. And in this case, I would have been wrong, and you would have been right.
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by sspiff 14y ago
Sure, it's not a good indicator of success, but it generally is a good indicator for what kind of people you'll be dealing with and how you will be communicating with them. Depending on what you want, of course, you should look for differen
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by sspiff 14y ago
I agree, based on this ad, I would discard the company as an overreaching startup founder with a vague idea of how to reach out to developers and destined to fail within the next two years. In this case though, I would have been wrong.
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by sspiff 14y ago
Although if I read that today, I would think the company is being unrealistic and overreaching. Granted, they made it, but this kind of language would not build faith in a company if I were to read a job ad for them. The added Alan Kay quot
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by sspiff 14y ago
"just fine" is something all companies I have dealt with would agree with, at least when it comes to servers. Running closer to the metal often means higher development costs, which vastly outweigh the performance overhead abstraction layer
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by sspiff 14y ago
I agree with you. I don't understand how this comment got so high with such short-sighted arguments, I would expect people here to have a little more insight.
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by sspiff 14y ago
People use servers for things other than hosting websites, and I've seen my fair share of web services that do push the CPU for significant amounts of time. But sure, for 99% of all websites, CPU is not the issue.
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by sspiff 14y ago
I'm not saying WebOS is not good, or that it worse than any of the high-volume platforms out there. The same goes for Hurd. What I am saying is that both missed their shot and will never see high volume pickup and large marketshares, in the
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by sspiff 14y ago
It is finished, in the sense like WebOS is finished.
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by sspiff 14y ago
I think some of the things that could help are: * A very straightforward exit strategy: make it easy for users to at least extract their mail from your service, if they host it on your servers, and want to have an offline backup. * Offer an
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by sspiff 14y ago
There are two things I miss on Linux: my collection of games and half of my battery life. I do virtually everything on Linux, but when on the road or in the mood for a game, well, there's not much of a choice.
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by sspiff 14y ago
This looks really well done, but as a consumer I wouldn't trust a small-timer (no offense) with something as ubiquitous as my email. As a company looking to self-host, however, your product looks very appealing, but then your battling other
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by sspiff 14y ago
I wouldn't call building a patched version of WINE to run the Windows version "working on Ubuntu", sadly.

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