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by vor_ 14y ago
> It feels like we're walking into the dark age of the internet. The persuasiveness of your argument is harmed by this sort of melodrama. By the way, the "Dark Ages" are named such because of a lack of written historical records from th
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I can't help but doubt that you have spoken to all the drivers.
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Until the logs are released to the public, it is a case of "he said, she said."
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With all due respect, your previous comment was that your accusation against the NYT was serious but obvious.
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Implying that the the oil and auto industries have gotten to the NYT is a serious accusation. Incidentally, the NYT is sticking by its story and has called Musk's accusations "flatly untrue".
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> Can anyone explain why boosterism gets upvoted so much on these RoR vuln posts? I don't have an answer for that. Not to discount the work people do, but it feels weird to celebrate the existence of severe vulnerabilities because of th
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> Unlike the iPad you basically get a usable tablet UI for free with Android. I just posted two screenshots showing otherwise. > Android's fragment API makes it a lot easier than he iPad to adapt to a proper tablet UI if you want. A
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The Skype screenshot is from last year. It was't the only one; another was the Netflix app, and Facebook was really bad: http://i.imgur.com/fSQYQex.png I'm glad to hear that companies are busy adding big screen support, though that suppor
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by vor_ 14y ago
This might be a risky comment, but the way Hacker News has become an activist dumping ground for Aaron Swartz links is, in my opinion, slightly disturbing and exploitative.
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"Everybody knows that" doesn't count as evidence.
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I haven't developed for Android, but I do know that the interfaces for several major apps I saw were hilariously bad on large screens--literally just the small-screen phone interfaces floating in empty space. For example, Skype: http://i.i
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It's clear that Apple engineers do read those bug reports. Any amount of time spent interacting with them publicly will have them directing people to the bug reporter quite often. Their development process appears to be very data-driven; ev
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Don't rule out Core Data! It's very nice (especially with the new concurrency APIs); it hasn't yet been brought totally up to speed with iCloud, but it's been improving every year. Remember that OS X is on annual releases now, so there will
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Auto Layout has been a godsend for me. What trouble are you having with it? In particular, I use the 10.8 NSSplitView support to manage resizing behavior without any code.
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Based on my interaction with Apple engineers, Bug Reporter is the primary way to communicate issues to them and is a large factor in driving their development. On forums and mailing lists, they're constantly telling people to file bugs.
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Several companies dipped their toes in Linux gaming in the 90s, and the market just isn't there to justify the effort.
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My impression is that Valve's Linux investment likely has more to do more with politics and sticking it to Microsoft.
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I'd think that if there was an incentive to mislead to avoid criticism from the opposition, it would be to make things seem better than they are.
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What are you wanting an example of?
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> What's not subjective is that war is (almost) always fought for the wrong reasons. But that is subjective.
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Apple obsoletes older technology, but it doesn't introduce dozens of redundant technologies only to drop them. There's a difference between keeping up with a linear path of progress and jumping from API to API without any clue as to which o
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I wouldn't be able to view it so black-and-white. For example, what about waging war for independence against a tyrant or waging a war to prevent genocide? What is considered highly unethical is also highly subjective.
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I don't understand why that can't be joked about.
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> i'm not asking for 10 years, just more than ~2 What application released two years ago isn't running on Mountain Lion today? The only one I could think of would be Xcode. > there is no technical reason why the latest iPhone SDK ca
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That very well may have been a factor. However, Apple engineers have publicly stated that for them to continue supporting PowerPC Macs would have required developing and shipping system APIs targeting a processor they hadn't sold in over ha
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Actually, Office 2008 ran on Intel Macs. It was Office 2004 that was PowerPC only, which as you state was supported for several years.
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> I'm not sure why you bring up Classic, Carbon, or PowerPC. Because it's not true that Apple doesn't emphasize backwards compatibility. I also pointed out that once those technologies outlived their usefulness, they were no longer supp
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You're definitely not going to be able to run a MacOS executable from 1992. There is less backwards compatibility in OS X compared to Windows, but to claim there is a lack of any emphasis on it is to forget the ability to run Classic in OS
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This is a very subjective and vague list of criticisms. It reminds me of the iPod haters around 2003 who didn't like that Apple was spending so much time on its music player. I mean, what exactly is he talking about when he says OS X is bec
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I've never said they're "selling privacy", whatever that means. Presumably, that's shorthand for selling access to personal information, which is a simplistic characterization but not entirely inaccurate with respect to how targeted adverti

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