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by tjogin 16y ago
First, Google Reader is the best RSS reader I've tried. The reason one would go there when one could be reading the source website in the same browser instead is because presumably we're subscribing to more than just one RSS feed. So you
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by tjogin 16y ago
I'm not sure the original goalpost was at "nowhere in the world will even one single line be formed of people wanting to buy an Android phone". I think it was at "people won't line up for an Android phone", which is a more general stateme
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by tjogin 16y ago
Yeah, why would Rubyists know anything about setting up Ruby?
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by tjogin 16y ago
Maybe he didn't mean that the title is irrelevant from a SEO perspective (I don't think he meant that, it's hardly a closely guarded secret). Maybe he doesn't think people tend to google for "breaking news" much. Maybe he meant that ranking
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by tjogin 16y ago
I think it looks like the creators of Ultra Edit don't think developing software for Mac is in any way different than for Windows; that Mac users don't expect other things from software than Windows users do.
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by tjogin 16y ago
I'm not sure that's the common one. It's just mine. And I do agree with you that this case is anything but usual, numerous things about it strikes me as odd and weirdly coincidental.
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by tjogin 16y ago
Adams, being Adams, wrote most of that tongue in cheek though. I'm Swedish too, and I think there is a core of truth to what he's saying. The joke about how you're half a rapist just for having a penis and a fully qualified one if the condo
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by tjogin 16y ago
Nice strawman. I use and contribute to open source. I don't think Apple is looking at Ubuntu though, certainly don't think they consider them an opponent in any race.
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by tjogin 16y ago
Is it a "race", really, when one of the "contestants" isn't aware, or care, that the other "contestant" is even there?
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by tjogin 16y ago
My observation is that enterprise software usually sucks, though not for a lack of features. Usually it has to do with extraordinarily poor useability and massive amounts of clutter, due to featuritis (needing to meet the demands of all
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by tjogin 16y ago
What are the probable consequences of allowing sideloading apps though? It'd mean that you could pirate apps without jailbreaking the device, right? Why would they want to allow that? On iOS devices, you have to jailbreak your device, and t
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by tjogin 16y ago
Can you provide a source for when Apple argued/suggested that?
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by tjogin 16y ago
Normal people don't care about the Apple logo, and the vast majority of Apple's customers are normal people — not fanbois. The engraving makes the gift special, intimate and remarkable.
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by tjogin 16y ago
For years, this was the most common interchange in #rubyonrails: - I can't get rubygems to work. - You've used a Linux package manager to install Ruby haven't you? Don't, it's broken. Uninstall it and re-install from source. Then follows a
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by tjogin 16y ago
Did you miss how the conversation started? They were talking over the internet, and she wanted him to see if his internet connection was working.
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by tjogin 16y ago
Without explanation, it sounds like you attribute near magical abilities to the web.
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by tjogin 16y ago
I don't know about that. I think the Mac market share is pretty good where it's at right now. Certainly it doesn't need to get any bigger. It's big enough that people need to consider Mac users as a part of their user base. And, it's small
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by tjogin 16y ago
It's not a version for browsers in general. It's an iPad web app.
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by tjogin 16y ago
What's ironic about an iPad app not working on an iPhone? They're related, they're not the same.
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by tjogin 16y ago
He said nothing like that, as I recall. Please provide a direct quote.
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by tjogin 16y ago
I'm not against compulsory voting, but I'd just like to add that I don't think it's necessary in order to get a good voter turnout. We have voluntary voting in Sweden, and yet we get about 86% turnout. In the US, there are a number of probl
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by tjogin 16y ago
Good point, though I think Angry Birds is one of the apps that would lend itself better to being ported from iOS to OS X. But like you pointed out, it would be quite different still. Think about how different the official Twitter client wou
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by tjogin 16y ago
I don't think there would be enormous amounts of money to be made from porting made-for-touch-interface driven apps to a mouse/pointer driven system. iOS apps on OS X would feel terribly weird and out of place, since, again, they're made fo
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by tjogin 16y ago
Touch is only part of what makes the iOS devices different from OS X. The other half is direct manipulation — you touch the very thing you want to manipulate. On OS X, there is a pointer between you and the things you want to manipulate
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by tjogin 16y ago
No. No no no no. iOS was created in the first place because a touch-oriented direct-manipulation user interface demands entirely different solutions and paradigms than mouse/pointer-driven user interfaces do. Apple is not going to lead
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by tjogin 16y ago
First of all, what is said privately between Apple and Adobe we don't know. Second, if Adobe wanted to create a flash runtime that runs on iOS as proof of concept, demo, or whatever, Apple couldn't stop them even if they wanted to. Third, S
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by tjogin 16y ago
Exactly, and certainly didn't exist at the time Apple were forming their iPad strategy.
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by tjogin 16y ago
Well, in the past six months, the amount of video available in non-flash, "html5" format on the internet has increased from 25% to 50%, something like that. In another six months, what do you think that figure is going to be? Flash is heade
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by tjogin 16y ago
The Mac App Store will be most helpful to the small unestablished developers, since it will alleviate things like marketing, billing, support, etc. Bigger more established developers (like Panic, Bare Bones Software, Delicious Monster, The
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by tjogin 16y ago
It's just a thought though. A fantasy born out of hysterical rumor mongering. Apple has in no way indicated that the future of the Mac is locked down in such a fashion. It's all fear, uncertainty and doubt.

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