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by tiles 16y ago
Freedoms which releasing any GPL'd code under the old App stores terms would have been negated.
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by tiles 16y ago
There's a lot of similarity between the latter two (rotated almost on a pivot). If Safari moved to the .app store variant, saving real estate in the top, I'd approve. Perhaps they're trying to phase in a new button layout?
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by tiles 16y ago
My impression of the video was that Android 3.0 applications will be entirely a Google stack... where does that leave developers? I applaud Google for finally taking on the role of owning the whole OS experience, like Apple, but if they are
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by tiles 16y ago
The reason that I'm excited about Haiku: a fledgling open-source OS that isn't based on the Linux kernel. It has been awesome to see Linux find its place on the desktop and mobile, yet, the homogeny is rather stifling and it's disappointin
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by tiles 16y ago
Steve Jobs wouldn't have been brought back to the company. (But that's not a commentary about the technology.)
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by tiles 16y ago
There's the anecdote that some portion of casual Windows users don't know what an "Internet browser" is, they just click the little blue "e" on the desktop. Google is a brand name they'll associate with searching. Was it wrong for Firefox t
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by tiles 16y ago
And yet Stallman's endless ranting was instrumental in getting the Open Source movement started, and developing the GNU tools which brought us Linux, which is used widely in embedded systems and on servers, as well as by small businesses to
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by tiles 16y ago
For a comparison between the two syntaxes, see this article: http://www.broken-links.com/2009/11/26/css-gradient-syntax-c... http://www.broken-links.com/2009/11/30/css-gradient-syntax-c...
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by tiles 16y ago
The author pointed out in another post that his blog was not meant to be a series of articles, just his state of mind at a given point. I think it's fair to scrutinize his ideas, but we should not criticize a lack of article quality or refe
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by tiles 16y ago
We can. http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2010/08/emscripten-llvm-to-javas... or its kin will definitely see a place in the future of web development. x86 is a sucky architecture to target but we target it cause that's what's worked on. Path of
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by tiles 16y ago
"Where should i get my hair cut?" " You should get water and put the fire out. " I'm a bit confused.
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by tiles 16y ago
Apple didn't single-handedly invigorate (if not invent) two forms of consumer-class electronics in the 90's, and they didn't have strong leadership to continually innovate on their leads. Android could be the new 1995-era Windows; but who's
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by tiles 16y ago
Also one should recognize that Facebook never let the site degrade to the point that bad features caused people to leave. Appspam was a huge problem, for maybe a month-- then they started incremental steps to limit it, until now when there
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by tiles 16y ago
Context: Opinion column from 2008 in an Irish independent newspaper.
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by tiles 16y ago
Yet this fear is largely self-imposed. My parents have Facebooks, and I encourage their use of it for socializing. I, however, am not friends with them. They're not upset by this. Yet many of my (IRL) friends are friends with their parents,
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by tiles 16y ago
Can someone transcribe loosely for the video-disabled?
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by tiles 16y ago
And that makes an excellent case for why JavaScript should simply be the bytecode of the future. x86 is gaudy and unsuited for many tasks--but it's where most of the speed innovation happens, thus it's the best platform for compiling other
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by tiles 16y ago
Gecko is not an HTML rendering engine, it's a Mozilla XUL+HTML rendering engine. It's a legacy codebase and not easily embeddable. XULRunner and other developments are changing that but that still involves XUL. I'd love for a separate pure-
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by tiles 16y ago
I hope it exceeds just beating OpenOffice. Even under Sun, I feel OpenOffice didn't really have what it takes to be a successor to Microsoft Office, even though it was certainly a capable piece of software. Hopefully freed from the shackles
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by tiles 16y ago
Just as with any field, I think competition in the distributed social networking space will only be beneficial in the long run. Why should Diaspora adopt Appleseed if they want to tackle the problem space in their own way, with their own id
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by tiles 16y ago
This is absolutely what I think HN gives them too little credit for. Their first release, they released on time, as promised. It was far from a complete release, terribly buggy, full of security holes. But they shipped. They're updating on
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by tiles 16y ago
Except Java has a poor reputation (on the "fun to program in" scale) and not much in the way of intellectual growth for a programmer (in terms of new, effective paradigms for coding). This is a generalization of the opinions I've read about
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by tiles 16y ago
I have been using "Firefox 4.0b8pre" (with Jaegermonkey!) for weeks. It's really been a pleasant experience, fast load times, nice UI, and few if any major bugs. Perhaps I just caught a good nightly, but nonetheless, this news then comes as
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by tiles 16y ago
On reocities.com you can request to have information removed. If you want sites removed from this torrent... better ask now, before the torrent's up.
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by tiles 16y ago
This is incredibly necessary for HTTP authentication to be useful, and bizarrely, has been given little to no attention over the years. There's a proposal for HTTP authentication in HTML dating all the way back to 1999: http://www.w3.org/T
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by tiles 16y ago
[Responding critically because this comment was posted critically.] I had to re-read the Catholic comment before I found you weren't being intentionally offensive. The analogy would have been better stated if it were a Catholic priest doing
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by tiles 16y ago
The exciting part is that there are so many _potential_ worthy successors even when Jobs leaves. The same can't be said of many companies with rockstar CEOs.
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by tiles 16y ago
A boon to the "interoperability" bit, but not the "freedom" and "open standards" bit. VP8's obviously a mixed bag, but I don't think this makes H.264 any less dangerous to hitch the HTML5 cart to.
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by tiles 16y ago
I'm curious, is there historical evidence of whether short-term copyright protection (14 years) allowed greater innovation in society than no copyright, or the current artist life + 70 (no doubt)? In an ideal legal system, what would be the
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by tiles 16y ago
I feel as though some of the episodes are bizarrely topical, like references to the app store, The Da Vinci Code ... all things which would have been topical even a few years ago, when the show was cancelled. My theory is they are lingerin

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