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by tjogin 15y ago
What aspect of PHP is "very very good"? Genuinely curious to know.
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by tjogin 15y ago
It's true that Bill Gates saw the future very early on, although he never managed to make anything good in either tablets or the online collaboration/synchronization space (especially the latter which Microsoft has attacked time and tim
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by tjogin 15y ago
Precisely. Perhaps most famously his total failure to foresee the successes of iPad, iPhone and then iPad. Ballmer laughing these devices off rather than seeing the future in them was painful to watch. Another tangential favorite is when Mo
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by tjogin 15y ago
It's disappointing to those of us standing on the sideline enjoying the show. But it must be very comforting for App developers, knowing that Apple is standing by them.
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by tjogin 15y ago
Also please note that this is paid vacation we're talking about. In Sweden, we have five weeks of vacation by law. And, the right to take four of those weeks consecutively .
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by tjogin 15y ago
I dont remember people talking of "app stores" before the App Store.
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by tjogin 15y ago
That definitely is a stupid default setting.
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by tjogin 15y ago
I'm so tired of this strawman. The Mac was never "magically immune" to malware. Just because technically challenged people believe that doesn't make it true, and there is no reason for us to "disprove" it with great fanfare every chance we
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by tjogin 15y ago
ASP.NET MVC is a far closer imitation of Ruby on Rails than either CakePHP or even Groovy on Grails. Django isn't even an imitation, by any stretch of the imagination. The similarities between ASP.NET MVC and Rails aren't just that they b
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by tjogin 15y ago
FOSS is adequate and .NET is the best solution, huh? How do you reconcile that with the fact that .NET MVC is a blushingly obvious imitation of Ruby on Rails?
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by tjogin 15y ago
I would not take business advice from anyone attributing all of Apple's success to their image and none to their products.
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by tjogin 15y ago
One of my mottos is that it is far easier to change yourself than it is to change the world, even if you've done nothing wrong yourself. Trying to change everybody to live by that code is quite a bit harder than to adapt to the situation we
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by tjogin 15y ago
Well, that, or it could also mean that the mistakes are the reasons none of his products are available on the market today, and therefore he can't show them off.
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by tjogin 15y ago
I think you underestimate the power of coal plant incidents and hydropower incidents. They're no joke. Chernobyl, an INES-7 killed 56 people. Plus another 4000 from radiation. As previously linked, check these out: http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by tjogin 15y ago
Well, why do reactors grow old to begin with? Because nuclear isn't an area where funding for research is pouring in. Had we not pulled the nuclear handbreak, we wouldn't be stuck with aging reactors in the first place. Now that we have the
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by tjogin 15y ago
Sure it's a bad thing, but how can anyone possibly rationalize away the fact that coal plants kill more people than nuclear plants per kilowatt hour produced? For every one person killed by nuclear plants, thousands die because of coal, a
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by tjogin 15y ago
On an iOS device, HTTP streaming would be the way (other clients like VLC support it too). http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/07/apple-proposes-http-... It's got nothing to do with HTML5 though, which I think is a good thing.
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by tjogin 15y ago
If you are capable of switching editors, what does it matter if it's closed source or not? This adversity to switching editors is a common trait in programmers I can't quite understand. We programmers learn new things all the time, it's par
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by tjogin 15y ago
Sure, understood and agreed. I like to get away from work during lunch too. But, for those rare times when I might eat at work, I like the idea of a few long tables, for the reasons Joel outlined. It might solve some awkward problems for so
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by tjogin 15y ago
I'd assume it's got something to do with user satisfaction. Users hate when things are taken away from them.
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by tjogin 16y ago
Less than a minute is still a long time to wait for a position, and it requires visible satellites. With the iPhone I get a decent location in seconds and a more accurate one in ten. Indoors.
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by tjogin 16y ago
I agree, and furthermore, based on my own observations, it seems like a lot of Android users don't even know that their phone is running Android, much less have ever heard of anything called "the Android marketplace". Those users don't co
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by tjogin 16y ago
8. What other location data is Apple collecting from the iPhone besides crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data? Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing i
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by tjogin 16y ago
Android is not an iPhone competitor, it's an operating system. HTC, SonyEricsson, LG, Nokia, etc are competitors.
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by tjogin 16y ago
I never said that, not even anything close to it. If you read beyond the first sentence it should be pretty clear.
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by tjogin 16y ago
I use a mnemonic algorithm to generate site specfic passwords instead, but this is _really_ nice. Do you happen to have the source on github, or would you mind putting it up there?
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by tjogin 16y ago
Scarred them for life, did it?
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by tjogin 16y ago
Although, these things are true of Sweden as well.
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by tjogin 16y ago
Right, but neither of those hurt users, so not malware without stretching the definition of the word. I don't think malware on jailbroken iOS or Android happens much because most people who jailbreak are technically savvy. Also, they're a r
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by tjogin 16y ago
Two reasons: Apple's approval process and the paper trail. The approval process, while not guaranteed to catch malware, serves as a deterrent to evildoers because they know that at least some review will be made of their app, functionally

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