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by tumult 17y ago
Have you ever written software? You'd be surprised what isn't written in C or C++. I bet this clause disqualifies the majority of serious applications in the app store. Anything with a generated parser, for example, can now be rejected. Obj
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by tumult 17y ago
I could do it with assembly. But it would be stupid, and wasteful. Objective-C is not the tool for every job. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
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by tumult 17y ago
My Nexus One is so laggy that I can't stand to use it anymore. It's just a huge pain in the ass scrolling around, resizing, etc. It's a slow turd, and the Android devs seem intent on bolting on more useless features rather than speeding up
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by tumult 17y ago
Android requires use of the Dalvik VM. Native code cannot make API calls to create interfaces etc. WebOS is the same deal, must use JavaScript and their framework for a native interface (and WebOS is a dying platform.) Windows Mobile is gar
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by tumult 17y ago
Why does it matter what language I used to develop an application, if it produces a binary that runs acceptably on the platform and otherwise follows all of the rules? I can write a more stable application in SML, Haskell or even untyped Sc
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by tumult 17y ago
Who cares what you think they want? Read the developer agreement. What's it say? Anything that isn't C, C++, or Objective-C is banned.
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by tumult 17y ago
This affects anything that isn't C, C++, or Objective-C. Pay attention.
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by tumult 17y ago
I don't want to invest months of my life, only to be told, "sorry, if you can't prove it's C, your app is rejected. Bye."
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by tumult 17y ago
No, they're clearly doing this to lock people down and prevent strong innovation on their platform. They want tons of toy apps, but nothing threatening. They don't want people abstracting over their platform. They are deliberately restricti
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by tumult 17y ago
What's next? A requirement on what languages I'm allowed to think in? Not allowed to think thoughts that impinges Apple or one of its partners?
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by tumult 17y ago
This is unsavory in the extreme. I had been writing an iPhone app in Haskell, and now I have to can it? What the fuck? Fuck you, Apple! Blowhards. Hope you guys enjoy the mass exodus of decent developers from your dumbass platform with kidd
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by tumult 17y ago
Doesn't this mean you now have to write every iPhone application directly in C and Objective-C? This doesn't make much sense. What's a translation layer? C preprocessor? What if I implement a language in the C preprocessor? That's not allow
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by tumult 17y ago
No, they don't. Stop repeating this lie. They reject App Store applications which allow users to load in external code which is executed.
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by tumult 17y ago
Then I want my chunk of the property back, the amount that the taxpayers shelled out to subsidize the telcos laying down said equipment, and which Comcast and others readily accepted.
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by tumult 17y ago
Apps normally run in the background all the time in Android. I know which app it was (meebo) because I can view the stats afterwards. Also, to help alleviate some of your confusion, we are talking about background processes, not just stream
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by tumult 17y ago
Not happening here
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by tumult 17y ago
I'm an iPhone user as well, and it also kills the iPhone. the point was that on iPhone, 3rd party apps are not given the opportunity to do this without the user being aware (because it's in the foreground.) i've had a runaway android app ki
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by tumult 17y ago
Don't mutate data structures from within a closure :)
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by tumult 17y ago
Maybe we're doing something different, but I cannot get my Nexus One to stay alive for longer than 5 hours with an active net connection. It if it's a low-traffic connection (calm IRC channels, occasional email polling) it will last a day (
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by tumult 17y ago
Sign in with the connection currently using WiFi instead of GPRS/3G, and it will keep the WiFi hardware on, which is what kills it. There is no way for a normal user to know that they need to open new, persistent connections over a connecti
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by tumult 17y ago
If I leave an app running in the background that keeps the net connection open on my Nexus One, the battery goes from 100 to 0 in about 5 hours.
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by tumult 17y ago
Yeah, the people voting this article up sure are sticking it to Apple and their dumb tablet! Show those Apple fanboys! This company is scummy and taking people's money with the full knowledge they probably won't be getting a product. Flag a
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by tumult 17y ago
Hahaha, I started reading this straight away without glancing at the sidebar. Nodding my head in agreement with the grossness of SF (even though I live here and love it) and then after a few paragraphs thought, "man, this guy does a pretty
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by tumult 17y ago
Holy crap, I spoke too soon, haha
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by tumult 17y ago
Oh please, how am I ever supposed to make practical use of this without NSZombieEnabled?!
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org-mode In Your Pocket Is a GNU-Shaped Devil(mph.puddingbowl.org)
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by tumult 17y ago
Any lawyers out there: if they remove this feature, can I use this as a way to get my money back?
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by tumult 17y ago
magit does have that feature (automatically reload files etc after changing branches.) What I want is that feature outside of magit (or other VCS integration) somehow.
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by tumult 17y ago
Well, I mean with files that are open and unmodified. If I change to a different branch to work on something else, emacs will prompt me for what to do with each open file that is different between branches.
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by tumult 17y ago
I use magit right now, but one thing about using emacs and the commandline that bugged me when I tried it was that when changing branches, I would be prompted for what to do with each open file that had changed. Is there a good workflow sol

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