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by tjogin 16y ago
I think it's because those who try to do that don't realize the full spectrum of things that Apple does right, seeing only the most superficial fraction of it.
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by tjogin 16y ago
I think Windows 7 is pretty good, but I think the record adoption rate of it has quite a bit to do with how bad Vista was (and its terrible reputation); it created a void that needed to be filled, by anything that wasn't as terrible as Vi
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by tjogin 16y ago
All MacBooks have the same size keyboard. From the 11" MacBook Air to the 17" MacBook Pro. Same size keyboard. The size of the keyboard has never been an issue for me, IMHO it comes down to screen real estate -- which is why my last machine
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by tjogin 16y ago
Maybe it's more of an easily measured performance indicator than something he cares about.
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by tjogin 16y ago
By posting the chart here, I would assume you intended for others to see it, no?
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by tjogin 16y ago
I think so too. MacRuby is perfect for Apple, as they control its implementation, and the syntax is far more approachable than Objective-C is. Also, no performance penalty when compiled, unless I'm mistaking. Thinking on it, I'd only be sl
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by tjogin 16y ago
Why did you stop there? Why not continue with the things that those things abstract away, ad infinitum?
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by tjogin 16y ago
I don't see the harm in specializing, really. There are plenty of room, and need, for both generalists and specialists. Being a specialist doesn't mean you are unable to learn new things, or that you are daft. I think what people really mea
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by tjogin 16y ago
Agreed, it's weird that we continue to preoccupy ourself with the carpenter analogy.
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by tjogin 16y ago
Yeah, I exaggerated. But out of $20.34 billion in revenue this quarter, that revenue is still a sliver. That sliver isn't going to lit Steve's eyes up and get him to go all crazy. You don't get Apple levels of success by acting shortsighted
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by tjogin 16y ago
Apple makes money selling hardware. The money they make from iOS developers is a drop in the ocean — the App Store is merely a means to an end; to provide users with lots of great apps, so more people buy Apple hardware.
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by tjogin 16y ago
Well, the post does imply that they've had problems recruiting exactly because they're using PHP. It's no mystery to me either, I imagine it must be hard to find great engineers willing to spend all their days dealing with the idiosyncrasie
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by tjogin 16y ago
For the web development subset of programmers, the Microsoft loathing may be inspired by Microsoft's disdain for web standards. Microsoft are, in a very real and palpable way, making client side web developers' lives a lot harder than they'
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by tjogin 16y ago
Yesterday's Apple event in summary: * Multi-touch gestures via trackpad and mouse. * No touching the screen. * No iOS apps coming to the Mac, instead bringing some ideas and concepts over. * iOS and Mac OS X stay separate, ideas converge. M
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by tjogin 16y ago
If Flash on a mobile device is important, why haven't they implemented that themselves? Actions speak louder than words.
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by tjogin 16y ago
Well, many/most pro-lifers aren't pro-life anymore when it comes to the death penalty, or gun-control, or what have you. Then the sanctity of life isn't that uncompromisingly important, anymore.
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by tjogin 16y ago
Every Apple patent doesn't result in a shipped product or feature. This is Apple we're talking about; they love secrecy, don't want nobody to know what they're doing. Some of the patents they've filed are probably just ideas, some of them
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by tjogin 16y ago
Sure. But not because of his supposed larger-than-life PHP skillz.
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by tjogin 16y ago
Adding multi-touch to the trackpad is one thing, assuming OS X will become touch-oriented is quite another. iOS isn't just about touch, it's first and foremost about direct manipulation — touching the very thing you want to interact with.
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by tjogin 16y ago
Absolutely, and yours as well. One of us will admit that they are terrible at understanding Apple's direction.
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by tjogin 16y ago
Apple created iOS because lightweight devices with a touch screen demand entirely different solutions and paradigms than mouse driven desktop applications do. They're not converging any time soon.
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by tjogin 16y ago
I think Jason is wrong about industrial design being the singular primary differentiator for Apple devices. Sure, Lenovos look like shit next to a MacBook, but people buy Lenovos for entirely different reasons and the rugged design plays in
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by tjogin 16y ago
I'm sure they've been working on it for the past half decade. Maybe now it'll even get resolved.
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by tjogin 16y ago
The state of the ruby/rubygems distribution is clearly not viewed as a bug by its maintainers, which is why neither hard work nor a bug report will fix it. Let's give discussion and attention a go.
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by tjogin 16y ago
Well, Zed seems to have created a bit of a stir, hasn't he? Compared to the previous total lack of a discussion over the last several years, it seems Zed's approach has been quite efficient.
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by tjogin 16y ago
All I'm saying is that the non-functioning state of ruby/rubygems on debian and/or ubuntu is not news. This is not something that Zed just uncovered that was previously unknown. Everybody in the Ruby community knows this, and has known it
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by tjogin 16y ago
The "bug" in question is not unknown to them. Especially the distribution of Ruby and Rubygems is completely botched. The most common answer in #rubyonrails is probably this: "you've installed ruby/rubygems via apt haven't you? uninstall it
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by tjogin 16y ago
I don't know of any specific hiring opportunities for you. Just want to say that I don't think the language thing is going to be a big problem, we all speak english. Maybe this can give you an idea of how/where to find employment: http://w
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by tjogin 16y ago
The Pirate Party lost my vote because they focused more on antics than politics; i.e. that they would host the piratebay and wikileaks from within the parliament. The Pirate Party has alienated those who supported them not because they want
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by tjogin 16y ago
Even if it is him, I don't think DHH would create a Rails based blog just for the purpose of posting pics of his pet project. DHH is a pragmatic guy, and Tumblr is an excellent tool.

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