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by tomlin 16y ago
One of my favorite articles on HN thus far. I have struggled with a few of these notions myself. It's nice to see another humble perspective.
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by tomlin 16y ago
It sounds like you're just jumping into web development when you say that. Adobe has been faster with release cycles than Macromedia. Often known as Hackromedia, they were not the powerhouse dev. studio it sounds like you're trying to push.
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by tomlin 16y ago
iPhone with an open App Store. I might like that!
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by tomlin 17y ago
Honestly, I don't know. But I know a lot ignored it because it said "FREE iPad".
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by tomlin 17y ago
I doubt that capable programmers are going to be enticed by a FREE iPad. You would hire a programmer that came for the FREE iPad?
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by tomlin 17y ago
Think about it. A FREE iPad?
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by tomlin 17y ago
Tacky.
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by tomlin 17y ago
A company used their own product to do something on their website. Oh no! Let's all cry about it.
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by tomlin 17y ago
"Innovate or die, bitches." Adobe isn't perfect by any means, but their business decision to focus on one platform rather than another is no more selfish than any other software company I've seen. Apple having a "quality control" platform t
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by tomlin 17y ago
The technology is valid. It needs a better community and a standard associated with it. Flash is a great technology. HTML5+JS is a great technology. Adobe/Macromedia can be, at times, hack-y. Doesn't mean that they didn't manage to have a g
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by tomlin 17y ago
Flash debugs great and MonsterDebugger is swift and elegant. This one-sided story is getting old.
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by tomlin 17y ago
It's extremely clear that you have not developed in Flash. Flash isn't an extension of the CSI interface, so no, it doesn't do anything "for you". Please, don't wax your "knowledge" as fact. You know exactly what I mean. I do agree that Fla
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by tomlin 17y ago
Ugh. I hate this fallacy of composition. I think you know what he means, but it is easy to be the teacher's pet with a shiny apple of misinformation. Making complex animations (not a sliding nav, for example) is not easy in HTML5+JS. Sorry,
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by tomlin 17y ago
My favorite "gang mentality" moment is Jobs' refusal to implement Flash in favor of a "non-proprietary" method, such as HTML5. Killing a proprietary product with a MORE proprietary product is somehow a great moment in our technological revo
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by tomlin 17y ago
I am curious as well. We've decided that Capitalism is the answer. It is better than communism, sure. ...that about sums up how people feel about it.
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by tomlin 17y ago
Doubtful. jQuery, CSS, HTML, JS or Flash? Flash is quicker development time hands down.
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by tomlin 17y ago
You then seemed to say that HTML5 doesn't actually let you create the effects exhibited in those websites. I corrected you and referred you to the modules. The side-step again. The examples that you gave (a vague reference to ADC) did n
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by tomlin 17y ago
How I love the "The Flash-hater side-step". If you read, I wasn't talking about adoption rates (although that is also an issue worth noting). You might have noticed that I mentioned that Flash brought about new innovations to the web. Most
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by tomlin 17y ago
jQuery and PNGs are actually not HTML5. I understand they aren't the same. jQuery is often cited as a "Flash killer" of sorts, just covering the bases. See the ADC for a pretty nice selection of examples which do actually rival Flash web
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by tomlin 17y ago
I need to see HTML5+JS perform as well as Flash doing multiple things. Sorry, sliding PNGs across the page with jQuery isn't really the same. If we're gonna go into debate about Flash vs. HTML5, I am gonna need to see more than simple equal
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by tomlin 17y ago
Give us Flash's source code. That's the problem. It is a problem, but I am having a hard time believing that perspective. The OOS community can create a player. Since the SWF format is inherently open there is nothing really stopping an
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by tomlin 17y ago
I tend to agree. The fact that your IQ metric can be swayed by lack of sleep, bad experience in the day of test, etc. make it an inaccurate way to measure intelligence precisely.
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by tomlin 17y ago
You're not very well informed, it appears.
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by tomlin 17y ago
The record of what? Talk is cheap. Let's see some examples.
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by tomlin 17y ago
Flash has issues and anything the W3S and WHATWG do is without fault. Down with plugin architecture! All ideas and possible innovations that live outside of our dying, simple-minded, slow-moving, "One or None" religion should be killed! ch
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by tomlin 17y ago
One-way, binary thinking FAIL.
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by tomlin 17y ago
Precisely. This is the point I try to make. Flash gives life to the experimental web. Anyone care to tell me why web devs should want Flash dead? No, not a dumb blanket statement regarding open source. Think. Flash sets the stage (no pun in
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by tomlin 17y ago
This article is nonsense. Passion generates ideas. Ideas have the potential to make life (and programming technique) more intuitive all around. Get a new job. Don't hand out your single perspective gripes in the form of fact.
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by tomlin 17y ago
Thank you for your thorough insight. I appreciate a good explanation with facts :)
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by tomlin 17y ago
IIS is terrible. Microsoft innovates at the speed of open-source. No contest there.

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