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by sudont 16y ago
You're right, I meant Media Player framework.
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I'd have to say the benefit of html5 video is greater on mobile devices and Macs, domains where Flash performance has traditionally been terrible, and where a content provider will most likely spend effort in patching UX. It'll be a bit unt
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by sudont 16y ago
50% of desktop web users. The encoding landscape is considerably different in the mobile world, and will be until Android tablets are both released and then adopted in large enough quantities. Currently though, most video is still in h.
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by sudont 16y ago
No, he isn't. "One thing I should make clear, given some of the email I’ve gotten this week, is that I’m rooting for Android, big-time." --Gruber Personally, I'd rather not see his articles here as they never contain any discussion of the t
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by sudont 16y ago
That's already happened to some extent. Xcode and Final Cut both run in multi-window yet effectively fullscreen mode, but act as IDEs for their respective workflows. In fact, this IDE mentality could be the new big divisive topic in the Ma
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by sudont 16y ago
I highly doubt that that Apple will remove dragable windows. Their iPad-ification of applications is the full-screen mode that can be toggled. More likely: a bar-wide drag handler that takes precedence over widget clicking.
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by sudont 16y ago
This goes back to the traditional engineering parable: is it better to create a million dollar car that gets 900mpg (gasoline), or to make a 5 dollar widget that adds another 5mpg in every car?
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It's also a subtle way to get the new age devs to forget about supporting two architectures. It's not so big of a deal with something that's entirely Cocoa, but this would cause a lot of problems with games and anything written with low-lev
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by sudont 16y ago
As in Bodega, the pre-existing mac app store, or Sparkle, the mac app updating framework?
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This is one double-blind test that would be fairly easy to do with friends. Try it at home, kids?
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by sudont 16y ago
Actually, I was agreeing with you. Despite the fact that I'm learning Cocoa and I like the iOS platform best, we really need to avoid the pedagogical mindset of teaching the "inevitable" platform, much how many school computer labs only use
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by sudont 16y ago
There is some amount of chromosomal damage that will now occur with our cheap, plastic materials and water tables full of pharmaceuticals.
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Then why not provide a 200 dollar RFP, solicit designers that love open source, and pick the best one? You gotta realize that designing stuff takes time. This means that there's a bunch of designers working hard for a prize that will most
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by sudont 16y ago
Apple may never address any of your concerns. They're continually leaving niche markets: the eMac is dead, their blade server and SANs are dead, WebObjects is a free afterthought for Xcode. Even QuickTime is getting server mainstreamed with
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by sudont 16y ago
Why do you feel bad? One of the biggest common gripes here is the non-technical partner who "just needs a programmer" to get the project off the ground. Everyone bashes those types, yet this exact thing, except for exploiting designers, is
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by sudont 16y ago
I asked this of a friend who went to SVA in New York for graphic design. He said that the real benefit of an excellent, yet expensive, college, is in learning from real people and having the course tailored to the current situation. He said
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by sudont 16y ago
At least duckit.com is still open!
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Nike's hired guns for design are generally a bit ahead of the mainstream curve of any art direction. They've got a long history of legitimizing (rather, stealing) a particular style, postmodern editing in general, and Sagmeister and Victore
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> They think (incorrectly) that whatever they themselves "like" will also be liked by other people. This stems from kindergarten, really. This is where we start telling children that everyone's aesthetic opinions are correct. When an
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by sudont 16y ago
You bring up a good point, importance is a human attribution to information, and a lot of people are either stupid or self-important. Impartial judgement is important, but NPR's music segments demonstrate that trending topics are middling a
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by sudont 16y ago
> doubt that an italian law degree will give a job. That’s the same for an American law degree. There’s simply too many lawyers right now. I provide web services to lawyers, and about a third of my co-workers are qualified for the bar
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Not so much, I’m talking about pure poundage of production: code, pots, designs, sculpture. Iteration is the only way to make something better. Anecdote: One semester, a professor decided to split his ceramics class up into two sections and
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Nope. The most effective habit of highly creative people is persistence, the ability to work and work and work while resisting burn-out. The best graphic designers I’ve ever met would put in 8-10 hour days, then go home and work on their pe
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by sudont 16y ago
RSS is strictly linear, largely chronological. The NYT front page, while changing day-to-day still has a layout that embodies importance. There needs to be some sort of semantic interpretation of how important something is other than h1’s.
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How is “ persuaded me that I was wrong ” anything other than an explicit admission of the other person’s correctness?
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> Sure, once I've found some new source of content it's nice to put its RSS feed into a reader This is why most linkblogs are now twitter feeds. Even Andy Baio’s is still a subset of what he twitters. My problem in RSS feeds is import
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Never doubt the laziness of people, especially other developers. I'm actually more surprised that the site didn't either use Google's API to host the download, or provide a hotlink button right there.
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"we did that on purpose" is engineering's exact reasoning behind every single bug we've discovered in our system's architecture. This is not an atypical response, this is a standard experience. I personally have discovered bugs that can
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Eventually a bully may learn. A true sociopath will continue no matter how many times punished.
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I was going to go off on a tangent about how the GUI was pretty terrible due to Java, but it looks like it's being nicely Cocoa-ified by a fork since I last used it in 2007: Since the OP is on a Mac due to TextMate, this link may be essenti

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