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721.
by tumult 17y ago
Please direct your hate towards anyone in Congress in 1998, when the DMCA was passed unanimously.
722.
by tumult 17y ago
It is, but federation doesn't work yet. They're saying they're aiming for the end of this month for working federation on the sandbox, which I eagerly await :]
723.
by tumult 17y ago
It wastes space and then you have to think about a way to display two separate items which represent the same data but which can be in different states. If you're using the menu bar so much that having it on the other screen causes you to b
724.
by tumult 17y ago
Yes, it's an open protocol. http://www.waveprotocol.org/ It's still being revised and edited. There are example clients and servers based on the actual code Google is using. It would have taken you about 5 seconds to search for this, btw.
725.
by tumult 17y ago
"Maybe if I make my title sensational enough, people will actually read my stupid blog post about a nitpick that most other people would probably consider to be a good design choice."
726.
by tumult 17y ago
Who is voting this up? Why aren't any editors killing it? Leave the dude alone.
727.
by tumult 17y ago
You can't spend any time on Twitter without geeks lusting after Google Wave. Here's my quick take...it has as much chance catching on as RSS did. So you mean, fantastically? (He doesn't) What problem does Wave solve? What problem did emai
728.
by tumult 17y ago
I use Scheme (Bigloo, PLT/mzscheme) all the time, even if the project isn't in Scheme itself. If I hit a point where I know I don't fully understand the problem, I'll usually break out my Scheme stuff play around until I have a better grasp
729.
by tumult 17y ago
Well, I've been using Wave in the sandbox since July, and I think it rocks pretty good. So there.
730.
by tumult 17y ago
Should we get some kind of HN group going to play around with it? I haven't played with the public one yet, so I don't know why kind of groups support there is. I think a decent number of us are in the sandbox, too, but we never organized.
731.
by tumult 17y ago
The ends and the means are not necessarily the same thing! I would rather teach a new programmer Scheme, Python, Ruby etc than PHP, VB, etc.
732.
by tumult 17y ago
Yeah, but that's not very interesting, so I don't include it :) You can do big complex apps in dynamic languages though. But iPhone is a somewhat restricted environment (not THAT restricted, really) where you are encouraged to use as small
733.
by tumult 17y ago
Actually, it's often not performance that's the problem like you might be thinking. Some apps, for example, actually become faster with Obj-C 2.0 GC enabled, since all of the retain/release message sends become noops. (Some will be slower,
734.
by tumult 17y ago
Yes, I actually agree with you. Especially iPhone is a little ways off from being suitable for a scripting language.
735.
by tumult 17y ago
Check out MacRuby and some of the Obj-C bridges for other languages (MacRuby isn't bridged though), you'll be pleasantly surprised. You still start out with the same set of classes and methods as in Cocoa+Obj-C, but how you abstract on top
736.
by tumult 17y ago
You mean, they would have to write a simple JavaScript function. No Erlang involved in writing CouchDB views.
737.
by tumult 17y ago
Anything where you can send a message is vulnerable to spam.
738.
by tumult 17y ago
Is it in the sandbox? I'd like to play with.
739.
by tumult 17y ago
Are you in the sandbox right now? Add me tumult ~at~ wavesandbox on the dotcom. :)
740.
by tumult 17y ago
What is this post trying to say? He just kind of babbles on and then ends. Hrm.
741.
by tumult 17y ago
There's a "Spam!" button in Wave, for marking wavelets as spam.
742.
by tumult 17y ago
It doesn't matter who he targets with it, it's completely wrong. It sets the wrong precedent in every way. Why should it be "ok" for him to target Microsoft with it, but not some smaller developer? There's no validity to his claim, this "ne
743.
by tumult 17y ago
He had a patent granted in 1996 that covers: product activation, shareware, and machine ID locking. There's not really much else to say, it's idiotic. The Age has no idea of how much damage this would have done to an already battered set of
744.
by tumult 17y ago
No, sorry. His patent is ridiculous. It's trolling – cast a wide net and set the cruise control. Sue and hope you get lucky. You might make a buck off the broken system! Blatant example of why software patents should be abolished in general
745.
by tumult 17y ago
"It was never about the money. It was about the ethics of it ... winning a court case is not winning the lottery." Haha, bullshit. Nice to a see judge make a reasoned decision. This site The Age is also absurdly biased in favor of this pa
746.
by tumult 17y ago
I'm sure it is, and I would probably be fine. It's still intimidating stepping into unknown territory like that.
747.
by tumult 17y ago
Then don't use it on your site?
748.
by tumult 17y ago
I guess this needs repeating: Chrome Frame doesn't load unless there's a specific tag in the page telling it to.
749.
by tumult 17y ago
Yeah, but I mean, if I took up a sudden interest in crocheting or something and the best way to get connected and start learning was to go to a crocheting convention that's 99% female, I'd feel a little awkward/discouraged.
750.
by tumult 17y ago
No, see, they run a unit test on you.

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