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by tl 13y ago
The API that's available to iPads with keyboards is substantially different from the one available to Macs. If your Mac software relies on keyboard behavior that third-party apps cannot produce (like CMD+C doing a logical copy of a sel
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by tl 13y ago
We're currently using Citrix to handle our "iPads don't run MS Office" problem and our "iPads don't run Internet Explorer" problem. The result is so horrible that I've adapted the old jwz quote to des
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by tl 13y ago
One of the common varieties of in-app purchase is "Let me use the full app". Thus you end up with a "free" app that has a single $5 "in-app" price tag. My suspicion is there are two categories: * In-app purch
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by tl 13y ago
It's also true in the US. We've gone through several transitions from mainframes all the way to smartphones, bringing technology to more people each time, and my anecdotal experience is this the average HR worker understanding of
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by tl 13y ago
For the security experts in the audience, which of these statements are untrue? 1. bcrypt is preferable to salted sha1, md5, rot13, plain text, etc... 2. Because of the "cargo cult" effect, bcrypt is more accessible (more platform
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by tl 13y ago
> The next day we finally received a response which indicated that Apple had no intention of helping us with this situation. They asked that we communicate with the developer and keep them apprised of our progress. INAL, but doesn't
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by tl 13y ago
As an additional insult, when an item in my RSS feed is a YouTube video, I can play it in Feedly in a (flashless) Safari. However, if I go to the youtube page (the embedded version in Feedly lacks fullscreen, for example), "flash playe
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by tl 13y ago
Arguing to replace a well-defined single idiom (verbs) with some arbitrary combination of URI, custom headers, request body contents is exactly the opposite of what you want. Using defined verbs instead of having each site do their own sli
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by tl 13y ago
Well, hype plus the fact that neither the HTC One nor the Xperia Z are available to Verizon customers.
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by tl 13y ago
Actually, most Mac users likely got it through the various Humble Bundles which all included a Mac version. I picked it up through HIB V even though I had the iOS version because it included several other fantastic games that I did not hav
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by tl 13y ago
I wonder how many people are effectively stuck on older devices because Verizon wants to strip away unlimited plans (Verizon ended unlimited data in May 2012 and you have to switch to a limited plan to get the carrier subsidy).
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by tl 13y ago
Oddly enough, the forums went down sometime after the dev center. I was able to access them yesterday, and there were no posts on the issue. At the time, I figured that a new beta might be going up or that it was a short outage.
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by tl 13y ago
Offtopic: Why does google groups require you to login to view images?
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by tl 13y ago
Well if we're going to randomly speculate on such things, Scott Forstall resigned on October 29, 2012.
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by tl 13y ago
This is the full stylesheet: <style type="text/css"> body { font-size:18px; } .wrapper { max-width: 600px; margin:0 auto; } </style> I feel like you're being a little unfair here.
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by tl 13y ago
From the article: > Rope-based completion was always unreliable, slow or both. I haven't used rope. Is the author wrong about this?
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by tl 13y ago
Related question: Can anyone recommend a QR scanner for iOS that doesn't suck? I use android personally, but was annoyed to learn that most / all iOS apps lock you into a webview when you scan effectively blocking functions like add to hom
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Additional Notes on "Drawing Dynamic Visualizations"(worrydream.com)
7 points by tl 13y ago|0 comments
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Stumbling Into the Cold Expanse of Real Programming(prog21.dadgum.com)
70 points by tl 13y ago|4 comments
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by tl 13y ago
Bret mentions the symbols (in this case, code) still being used. What I would foresee is this: take the recent LightTable video that showed a code on the left, output on the right view (or Bret's similar construction from a prior talk). Now
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by tl 13y ago
C# also has LinqPad as a REPL ( http://www.linqpad.net/ ), but more is better in this case.
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by tl 14y ago
Well the former is an interesting thought experiment, but very much yes to the latter (at minimum, there would be value in a "book viewer" program that embeds a code runner).
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by tl 14y ago
If you view DRM as a negative and you believe that there are more good games than you can play, you can subtract every game with DRM from your list, and still have enough good games!
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by tl 14y ago
> It's fairly easy to manage iOS devices with any number of MDM tools. You mean it's fairly easy to manage a (small but slowly growing) list of privileges that Apple provides and impossible otherwise.
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by tl 14y ago
I would argue that Twitter is bad example. I prefer the Twitter site over the apps. Reeder vs. Google Reader is a different story.
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Light Table - Chris Granger(youtube.com)
3 points by tl 14y ago|0 comments
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by tl 14y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but iOS does not have Chrome or Opera because the only browser allowed is Safari/UIWebView. It has an app called "Chrome" that runs UIWebView and has features like tab/bookmark sharing.
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by tl 14y ago
From your link: "To install Windows 8 Pro upgrade, customers must be running Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, or Windows 7." What I don't see is a way to buy a non-upgrade version at a sane price ($69 vs. $199) if I want to run a clean versio
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It's Not You, It's Them: Why Programming Languages Are Hard To Teach(vimeo.com)
8 points by tl 14y ago|1 comments
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by tl 14y ago
If you hold the copyright, new versions can be under whatever license you want. Old versions cannot have their license changed.

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