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by tophat02 17y ago
I won't speak to Jobs' health issues, but with respect to the insane amount of secrecy involving product launches, I really hope Apple keeps it this way... ...just makes it a whole lot more fun. We all need some intrigue in our lives, even
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by tophat02 17y ago
This is a non-story. How could this developer have not known that Apple's app store agreement forbids emulators, interpreters, and so forth? I mean, not only is it there in plain letters, but that particular clause was all over the interwe
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by tophat02 17y ago
Two thoughts immediately rushed through my head: 1) Netscape Navigator did this 15 years ago, although not nearly as cool 2) Why did he just show a screenshot? Couldn't he have given, you know, a link?
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by tophat02 17y ago
Maybe because they're so excited that they might make birdie on the hole that they lose their concentration?
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by tophat02 17y ago
>The rest of the information (on how to interpret the data) can then be stored in the first mega/gigabytes of the binary data. Plain text ASCII only, ofcourse. No pictures, audio, or video. You could only include such data once you've t
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by tophat02 17y ago
I added up every material possession I always dream about: two really nice houses, a speed boat and a yacht, tons of furniture for the houses, about 6 cars and trucks that I love, etc. It came out to "only" $4.4 million. That exercise actu
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by tophat02 17y ago
I love this kind of thing. It's effectively a "perpetual motion" machine, but because it uses waste energy generated from somewhere else, it avoids that pesky "laws of physics" thing. I really think we'll see more of this in the future, pe
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by tophat02 17y ago
Was his name David?
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by tophat02 17y ago
I don't agree with the author, but games DID get a little less interesting around that time, but the reason was actually 3dfx. In my opinion, fixed function triangle rasterizers killed a lot of the wonder and excitement that used to come wi
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by tophat02 17y ago
To be fair: it wasn't as easy, quick, or high fidelity to tape music as it currently is with ripping or pirating. Not that I think either of those will "kill music"... it just kind of bothers me when people make the comparison as if it's an
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by tophat02 17y ago
I feel this way about Mint.com. They're a great site, but I would gladly pay a premium to not be offered "deals" and to be given features (like advanced envelope budgeting and the like) that may be at odds with their advertising interests.
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by tophat02 17y ago
I think a better title for this article would be "Why the Palm Pre Will Fail to be an Immediate Smash Hit Like the iPhone". (Maybe there wasn't enough space) Here's hoping that Palm has the financial resources to withstand a slow uptake. I
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by tophat02 17y ago
At least 1/3 of the time. Often, I'll start to write an argument or an opinion, and then realize halfway through that the argument is wrong or the opinion is actually crap now that I'm looking at it in words. Also, being from a conservativ
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by tophat02 17y ago
But we can hope that it happens the other way around: what we need is a definitive "killer app" that can only be done given near native speed JS + HTML 5 capabilities. If it truly IS a killer app, it will kill IE in short order. We can dre
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by tophat02 17y ago
Posterous is what a startup should be: simple enough that it really needs no hype to promote it. To wit: it's not even the new "currency" of anything! :)
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by tophat02 17y ago
Happiness is not worrying about being happy. To quote a the Baz: "If you succeed in doing this, tell me how."
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by tophat02 17y ago
I love the smell of hype in the morning.
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by tophat02 17y ago
I'm afraid I don't get your point (or your prickish tone, for that matter). Do you disagree that a course or section of a course teaching students about release management, merging, and reproducible builds from source artifacts is a useful
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by tophat02 17y ago
Examples of classes I should not have had to take: - Kinesiology (fancy term for "PE" and/or "Health"): they had their chance in high school. By college, most people know whether they're going to be "physical" or not. I had to take FOUR o
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by tophat02 17y ago
Terrible latency, though.
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by tophat02 17y ago
As terrible as the App Store situation is today, it will get better starting in June/July. I have a hunch that Apple is going to solve this problem with parental controls.
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by tophat02 17y ago
The NEXT next iPhone needs to really be your "personal computer". I imagine a time when the only computer you have will be your mobile device. How this device acts will depend on what you dock it with. Maybe when you're on the couch you'
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by tophat02 17y ago
Because after today, any bugs you find in the Arc language are staying in there!
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by tophat02 17y ago
"Actionable Metrics" is quite possibly the worst business buzzword combination I've ever heard. Hey Lawrence, when you're at work does anyone ever talk to you about "Actionable Metrics?" No. NO. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your as
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by tophat02 17y ago
Great, now give me a tasks.app on my iPhone and let it sync with Google, Outlook, and Apple tasks through mail.app. Please??
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by tophat02 17y ago
Luckily, Wolfram Alpha has enough funding (and ego) behind it to survive for at least five years. If they throw serious effort into it during all that time, I'll bet we'll end up with something truly impressive (if perhaps not life-changin
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by tophat02 17y ago
Apparently, when you have money all the sudden lots of people want to meet with you. No one wants to meet with me, no one. But I'm sure if I scrounged up a couple hundred million bucks I'd have to write an article like this.
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by tophat02 17y ago
The biggest problem preventing more widespread adoption of .NET on the web is hosting. Compared to Linux-based hosts, the market for Windows/IIS hosting is not quite as large, and also not quite as trusted. .NET really is a great platform,
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by tophat02 17y ago
Wolfram is remarkably short-sighted. You'd think that such a smart guy would have realized that spending 1100+ pages blowing is own horn would tend to turn off the very people he hoped to convince. They say that love is blind, ego must jus
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by tophat02 17y ago
Apple will do the same thing it always does with stuff like this: introduce a system that accomplishes 50% - 80% of what people need and then listen to what people scream the loudest about for where to go next. First round: Push notificatio

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