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by tjogin 14y ago
I love John Siracusa's OS X reviews, but they too are subjective, like all reviews are. Saying a person's opinion is subjective is like saying he or she has a perspective . Everybody has a perspective, you can't escape yours. A review ca
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by tjogin 14y ago
An objective review is an oxymoron. All opinions are subjective by their very nature.
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by tjogin 14y ago
How about the fact that Visual Basic tops both?
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by tjogin 14y ago
Being first is about as useful as saying "first!" and there is zero value in "coming out of nowhere". What matters is creating something great. The iPhone turned the industry on its head. Palm did not.
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by tjogin 14y ago
It's more important to be good than to be first. Otherwise Microsoft would be the king of tablets right now.
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by tjogin 14y ago
I agree, but on the other hand, Dan always says "it's your show" whenever they need to make a decision about something. Dan also often refrains from correcting or informing Gruber at times when he's unsure or is wrong about something, much
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by tjogin 14y ago
No you wouldn't, because it would suck. Touch interfaces would suck to use with a mouse, since they are touch interfaces. And mouse driven interfaces would suck to drive with your touch, since they are designed to be used with a mouse .
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by tjogin 14y ago
The iPad is a lot more than a regular PC with an ARM processor. Had you suggested that, and some foolish HP exec would have believed you, then it would have failed catastrophically. The ARM processor is not the magic juice that made the iPa
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by tjogin 14y ago
> Give me something like the transformer prime, with an a15 and an android + desktop linux combo for a reasonable price and i'll be all over that. So if you combine a bunch of things that each sell very poorly then that would sell reall
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by tjogin 14y ago
So people really want things like laptops with touch screens and laptops with detachable keyboards, despite those things selling really poorly.. And people dont want the iPad, despite it selling like hotcakes, thats your conclusion? If the
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by tjogin 14y ago
WWDC has never been the release date for iPhones.
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by tjogin 14y ago
An iPhone has never been released at a WWDC before. So no. The WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference) is aimed at developers , so it's not the right forum for major hardware releases. I'm pretty sure the mainstream media won't be prese
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by tjogin 14y ago
Reading the documentation would be good start.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Sounds good. I just want to add that sometimes it's not about "wanting to write closed source apps", sometimes it's more complicated than that. Like, the app integrating with other systems that can't be GPL'ed, or just lawyers not willing t
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by tjogin 15y ago
I haven't been this impressed since DHH showed off Rails in 2004.
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by tjogin 15y ago
> You've turned something that's a person's fault into something that's the language's fault. PHP programmers have only one single thing in common. PHP.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Square and Apple seems like a great cultural fit. But I don't think there is a snowball's chance in hell Apple is even mildly interested in acquiring them, as it would make zero business sense to do so. And the feeling is probably mutual.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Paying for health care and high education is insane.
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by tjogin 15y ago
I agree, but I think that is a double edged sword. Let me give you an example: some people write off Apple by saying they didn't "invent" the tablet. Right, they "only" make the first one anyone was willing to buy. They "only" caused a seis
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by tjogin 15y ago
Right, here we have Gruber trying to disprove Battelle's argument when really Gruber should be attacking Battelle's person and motivations? I kind of like it when the argument is about the idea rather than the person. I wish HN discussions
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by tjogin 15y ago
I'm not even a little bit upset about CEOs trash talking each other. I'm sure Gruber doesn't care either. Not sure what lead you to believe that. Observing something happening and writing about that doesn't mean that it upsets you, or tha
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by tjogin 15y ago
He doesn't have a problem with Gates's statement, he has a problem with Isaacson's lack of research. Gates didn't write the book, Isaacson did. This is just one example where Jobs says something true, Isaacson thinks he's lying and instead
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by tjogin 15y ago
I agree with Gruber, but I'd like to add that these are not small errors on Walter Isaacson's part. They're huge errors. The biggest errors any biography author could make about Steve Jobs. Why? Why are we even interested in reading a bio
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by tjogin 15y ago
Prefixed attributes bring features to developers while they are still experimental, which means we don't have to wait a decade before trying them out.
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by tjogin 15y ago
The objection is that the standardization process is too slow. Not a little bit too slow, but so glacially slow it's almost indistinguishable from abandonment. So, progress of key web technologies needs to be put into vendors's hands. CSS b
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by tjogin 15y ago
That wouldn't be a problem if the non-vendored variants of the CSS attributes didn't take so god damn long to become proper standards. The problem is not the webkit vendor attributes, the problem is that proper standards aren't able to keep
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by tjogin 15y ago
I honestly don't think Apple set out to kill flash. They just chose to not support Flash, like they also don't support a bunch of other browser plugins. All of them, in fact. Had others not made such a big fuss about it, Apple's mobile devi
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by tjogin 15y ago
Yeah, but then using apps would quickly descend into a horrible mess of deny/accept, confusing and scaring the user. The pop-up hell of windows would pale in comparison. You'd have solved the problem, but created a horrible user experience
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by tjogin 15y ago
You've thoroughly misunderstood design if you think it is "extra javascript/flash/ajax".
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by tjogin 15y ago
I think Bill Gates was every bit as ruthless as Jobs was. But Bill had his enormous success earlier in life, stepped down from his company earlier, and was thus ahead. Despite being the same age, they were in very different stages of li

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