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by tdavis 17y ago
And what happens when you give it a full-featured version of Safari? Does everyone still use closed App Store apps when you've got Safari on a 10.1" screen? I know a lot of developers would prefer to create web apps tailored to an iTouch
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by tdavis 17y ago
I guess common sense doesn't factor into the decision of whether or not to prosecute in these cases. Pretty ridiculous.
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by tdavis 17y ago
I'm a big fan of Apple, but this is ridiculous. Going to such extreme lengths in the name of what boils down to decreasing their customer base seems rather silly. God forbid someone use Linux and pay Apple for iPods .
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by tdavis 17y ago
I wasn't aware someone on HN made this or I might have been slightly less abrasive (okay, probably not), but I'm glad that you took the constructive (albeit rough) criticism :)
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by tdavis 17y ago
Yeah, I didn't really touch on that part, but you're completely right. The only reason the Internet can be less reliable than other sources is because it lowers the barriers which usually keep stupid people from voicing their opinions to la
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by tdavis 17y ago
HOW FUCKING CREATIVE! Look, I can cuss, too! Woooo! (Don't tell my Mom) How about somebody with some god damn knowledge and care takes that meaningful domain and actually provides a concise point-by-point difference between Git and Mercuria
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by tdavis 17y ago
It's all subjective, though. What is intrinsically better about the "real world"? It's full of its share of dumb people (just walk outside). Working a 9-5 job filing paper is an awesome way to turn somebody into a lifeless moron. TV will he
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by tdavis 17y ago
I'm a very strong believer in a balanced life. I simply don't think it's possible to be happy without it. That being said, when I read all this "The real world rocks ; the Internet makes me sad!" stuff, all I see is the context it is wri
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by tdavis 17y ago
Exactly. I am a huge Python fan and have contemplated giving Mercurial a go just because I know I could hack it myself if need be and that'd be cool. But I've gotten to the point where I know my way around Git well enough that I can't jus
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by tdavis 17y ago
There's a nice bug in it I just ran into, too: it sometimes errors on XHR connections and actually breaks the pipe in the process. Very ugly stuff. http://groups.google.com/group/firebug/browse_thread/thread/...
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by tdavis 17y ago
I completely agree. I'll step back from my normal state of bashing the Rails community for a moment and give a quick personal example from Python: I use an incredibly helpful library that basically allows one to create a public API out of t
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by tdavis 17y ago
You should consider your code to suck over time, if you're "doing it right". If you keep learning new and better techniques and practices, old code starts to look immature. If you code in the real world, you make compromises to get a projec
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by tdavis 17y ago
It would be nice if it did more introspection. I have a root projects directory (~/workspace) and it'd be nice if I could specify that root then try like :Proj ticketstumbler and just have it figure out from the directory name what I want
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by tdavis 17y ago
I can't think of a single good thing to say about a service that produces low-quality, boring video and spams automated tweets into the ether, but Twitcam's design is kinda nice to look at! If Twitcam "wins" doesn't that mean JTV really w
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by tdavis 17y ago
Why should the non-DRM version cost more? If anything, the DRM version should cost more, given all the time and work put into wrapping the item in some annoying "protection". In the vast majority of cases, DRM is only an annoyance. It doesn
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by tdavis 17y ago
I'm astonished by how little DRM bothers people in general . The idea that I can buy something and not own it at the same time is ridiculous. It'd be like buying a car and having it taken back in 5 years. We make a distinction between "buy
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by tdavis 17y ago
Have the shipped configs improved to the point that you get a production database out of the gate? I've been using (and loving) psql for years, but I've never once trusted the default postgresql.conf .
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by tdavis 17y ago
PostgreSQL isn't superior to other solutions (in this case MySQL) for all purposes, but it's superior for enough purposes to make it a smart recommendation to those looking for alternatives to MySQL. I've used them both for roughly the
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by tdavis 17y ago
I don't see why anybody would go to a high school reunion. I've only been out of high school for six or seven years and I can't remember a single person from those four years, unless I stayed friends with them afterwards. The entire experie
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by tdavis 17y ago
I never, ever gloat or make fun of others when it comes to security. It seems like a no-win situation. If you go to someone privately with security concerns, you're generally seen as helpful. If I publicly oust somebody, there are all sorts
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by tdavis 17y ago
They are otherwise indisposed at the moment. I'd cut 'em some slack for the next couple weeks when it comes to responding to emails and such.
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by tdavis 17y ago
Right on the money. Most people have no idea how difficult (and expensive) it is to acquire a decent non-TN LCD. And even when you find one, nobody ever gives the bit depth. The reason the quality has been (and is) receding is because manuf
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by tdavis 17y ago
Apple has been using comparatively low-quality panels in their laptops for a while. I ran into an issue like this when researching my 17" Macbook Pro purchase in late 2006. I still ended up making the purchase, but it was indeed a lower-qua
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by tdavis 17y ago
The way I see it, I've utilized so much free software over the years and made use of so many man-years of development that I couldn't care less if I am given any attribution for the code I write (which is why I pretty much exclusively licen
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by tdavis 17y ago
I'm not doing anything with HN. I expect the server to emit the proper line breaks because that's what it should do, especially if it's going to be made freely available and used by others. There's no reason that such a simple bug should ha
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by tdavis 17y ago
A recommendation to applications is hardly as noteworthy as a written spec. Most clients (rightly) go by the spec, as you can see in this thread (PHP and Ruby have been mentioned; Python's urllib.urlopen also fails to properly parse the C
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by tdavis 17y ago
Neither, I was reading through a Twisted ticket and it was mentioned that this server was breaking the new HTTP client (and why). I then confirmed this ridiculousness myself, and posted it. I wrote one in 2008, though. Okay, most of one. Bu
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Tell HN: Please Stop Breaking HTTP Clients
124 points by tdavis 17y ago|30 comments
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by tdavis 17y ago
Looks nice; I think a lot of people (myself included) have wanted some kind of all-inclusion analytics package for a long time. The pricing seems rather high, though.
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You should follow me on Twitter(dustincurtis.com)
263 points by tdavis 17y ago|71 comments

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