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cesareon Apple sends iPhones into 'Coma Mode'

> I have had my iPhone for about a 1.5 years and it has worked spittingly.

The article is about the latest firmware (3.1) which came out two weeks ago.

cesareon Apple sends iPhones into 'Coma Mode'

Here's the support forum thread about the issue:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2151766...

Better skip this firmware update.

cesareon Signs of a Programmer Created UI

Maybe I haven't been clear enough, sorry.

The title of this post implies that if you're a programmer automatically you are a poor user interface designer.

To me this is offensive to both programmers and designers.

These are just narrow-minded stereotypes, perpetuated by narrow-minded people.

cesareon Signs of a Programmer Created UI

Probably. Even more with the second comment (about double negatives).

cesareon Why the Granny Coder decided to make her first iPhone game aged 77

She knows how to code a game. She has learnt objective-c, Xcode, the iPhone sdk api and the chipmunk physics library. She also does her own graphics (a blog entry is titled 'How to polish your game', in two parts) with a style that is clearly made by a twentysomething and that would require a very sharp eye.

But she couldn't operate a video camera?

cesareon [dead]

duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=828992

cesareon MIT ’hack’ hits a high note

I agree that they shouldn't be punished or anything.

But calling them heroes is a bit of a stretch.

cesareon The man who sold his 10% share of Apple for $800

I agree completely.

BTW, there's more about this story here: http://extras.denverpost.com/books/chap0411h.htm

cesareon Why the Granny Coder decided to make her first iPhone game aged 77

Very original marketing gimmick.

Edit: as if it wasn't obvious enough, check the hands in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZATuhCoJLc

Of course a story like this brings a lot of traffic to pocketgamer. It's not worth to check if it's true.

cesareon "Move to Applications Folder?" Dev on how he simplified Mac app installation

Simple and elegant.

cesareon Gwt Smalltalk

Tried:

  a := TextWindow new: 'a test'.
  a moveX:200 Y: 200.

It worked. Nice.

Tried to add a factorial instance method to the Number class:

  factorial

  "comments"

  self = 0 ifTrue: [^ 1].
  self > 0 ifTrue: [^ self * (self - 1) factorial].

Then in Workspace:

  Transcript show: 10 factorial.

prints: 10 does not understand factorial.

Anyway, it looks promising.

cesareon Ask HN: What do you use to store code snippets?

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

It has tags, search, and there are many useful plugins (you may want to have syntax highlighting: http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Syntax_Highlighting).

It's all javascript so it runs locally in your browser. No need for a server. But you can't also host it on your server if you want: http://tiddlywiki.org/wiki/Server-Side_Solutions.

cesareon Apple brainwashing: How we do it

Incredible, indeed! :-)

Edit: it's hypnotizing. I've turned off the music I was listening to and I'm replaying this over and over.

cesareon Open Source Is Really About Documentation – Twisted vs. Tornado

It's obvious, documentation is always important. It's even more important for proprietary software, since you can't even study the source. But it seems that neither of this two projects has good and extensive docs/tutorials.

You could argue that if Twisted was better documented the FriedFeed guys wouldn't have started their own project. I don't buy it. There could have been many (technical and non-technical) reasons to do this anyway.

I (mostly) agree with a comment on the blog: This is just pure NIH syndrome. It happened because it’s easier to write code than to read it, and it’s more fun to create than to fix.

cesareon [dead]

21 points?

Probably this is just a troll or a lame PR stunt.

Edit: Well then, it worked.

cesareon Microsoft's Zune HD launches. No firmware?

You can't start using a brand new iPod Touch (or an iPhone) right away, either. First, you have to connect it to a PC with iTunes installed.

cesareon Learning Advanced JavaScript

Especially if you're astigmatic.

cesareon Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1

The VM image works like a charm with VirtualBox. I just had to change the emulated network adapter to Intel PRO to make networking work.

Boot and shutdown are really really fast.

cesareon Sound Effects Library

The guy in the picture forgot to take off the hat before wearing the earphones.

cesareon MIT Students Take Pictures from 93,000 ft on $150 Budget.

It seem that financial backing wasn't needed for this project. Isn't the cheap cost the surprising factor here?

cesareon MIT Students Take Pictures from 93,000 ft on $150 Budget.

Top notch marketing/PR? ;-)

cesareon MIT Students Take Pictures from 93,000 ft on $150 Budget.

True. But consider also that this has been made two years ago, with 2007 technology.

Edit: Take the camera for instance. The MIT students used a Canon PowerShot A470 (they bought it used from ebay) which costs $120 new and is 7 mega pixels. This guy used a similar camera (Canon PowerShot A70) which was only 3.1 mega pixels and costed $350 when it came out.

cesareon MIT Students Take Pictures from 93,000 ft on $150 Budget.

They aren't the first to do something like this.

Here's a very similar project made in 2007:

http://www.natrium42.com/halo/flight2/

cesareon Dmitry Medvedev declares official holiday in Russia: Programmer's Day

True.

That's why I thought the comment I replied to was kind of pointless.

cesareon Embedding a Web Browser in Emacs

rms wouldn't approve (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134252/focus=1...).

;-)

cesareon Python based MIT 6.00 | Intro to Computer Science and Programming

Is this the course that used to be taught in scheme?

cesareon Dmitry Medvedev declares official holiday in Russia: Programmer's Day

Most of the people I know who use macbooks can't tell an ethernet cable from a shoe string, let alone a bit from a byte. :-)

Disclaimer: Mac/Linux user here. And my main machine is a macbook (actually a MBP).

cesareon Tell HN: Web Standard for Sarcasm

You forgot 'Great' without exclamation marks (see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=819160).

cesareon How PHP became such a huge success - Talk with Rasmus Lerdorf

I don't think that Lerdorf (btw, not Lerforf) doesn't know what he's talking about.

He's just saying that frameworks like Rails are inherently slower, and all the magic (like scaffolding etc.) isn't really worth it.

He also says: > Ruby as a language is great, I think it's a really clean and nice language. There just aren't that many people who know it well.

cesareon Why Users Dumped Your Open Source App for Proprietary Software

> I honestly don't believe that if you charged for OpenOffice.org, Inkscape or The Gimp then people would prefer them over their closed source equivalents.

I'm not saying this.

I, for one, prefer Gimp and Inkscape over Photoshop and Illustrator. I have coded my own plugins for Gimp and I write my own scripts (in various languages) to output svg (using Inkscape for additional free hand editing).

But I know that I'm not the average designer/sw user.

Apache and Linux are for tech-savvy users.

> Open-source software isn't automatically better than proprietary software.

This is obvious. What I'm saying is that, for most people, the opposite is true, because there's a psychological bias which is independent of technical value, user friendliness etc.