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I'd say it's pretty ethically questionable to harm people's livelyhoods to settle a score with an unrelated company and to then make claims that you're doing this to ensure "quality" on the platform while simultaneously demoing a quality app that violates your own rules.

Umm.. Yeah. I've come to the conclusion that this debate isn't worth participating in anymore. People don't get the bullshit Apple is pulling or are willing to look past it because of the superb quality of the iDevices and the App Store gravy train. It's hard to explain it in a paragraph. And when you explain it in detail people don't listen. You get comments like the above. You get people saying "Flash sucks" when Flash has nothing to do with it. I just don't have the time anymore, sorry. Bury away.

I never said it was surprising that he replies to emails.

I'm not claiming it's definitive evidence, I'm just saying it seems to suggest it.

Apple has made a lot of really ethically questionable moves, and is being quite hypocritical in many cases. This is obvious to me, and others. So when someone on the outside brought this up, Steve Jobs responded in a way that almost seems like it's the first time he's having this debate. That's just my take on it.

Or do you really think that many at Apple had this same or similar kind of debate with Jobs, and then he's willing to publicly have it again with Tate? His arguments are just too weak and unpolished for it, and it's surprising he's responding to Tate at all if he's already deliberated it internally and settled on his position.

Anyone else a little surprised that Jobs even got into this debate in the first place? Like, shouldn't he have had this already with some employee on the inside?

It seems to suggest that at Apple he has no opportunity to have such debates. Everyone is too scared, it's almost like he's surrounded by yes-men and is therefore astonished at the negative response he's getting. "Why can't people just understand me?" type of thing.

Here's a thought. If no one at Apple is actually standing up to Jobs, and since he seems open to outside input via email, perhaps it's a good idea to let him know how you feel? Maybe he actually doesn't get how much he's turned Apple into the 1984 Big Brother that Apple was supposed to vanquish?

This video is excellent. Long, yes, but well worth it, thanks for the link.

I think this has been addressed several times, the performance issues for video playback are Apple's fault for not providing the necessary APIs to allow third-parties access to hardware decoding (which exist on Windows). In 10.6.3 I believe they finally added them, and Adobe released a beta/alpha of Flash player that uses them.

Then, there have been several benchmarks released recently showing that Flash is faster than HTML5's canvas for drawing, both on desktops and mobile devices.

So I think your comment isn't exactly fair, or at least it deserves some qualification.

(Note: I am not an Adobe apologist. I barely use any of their software, and have no personal stake in their survival. I'm just seeing Apple spreading a lot of FUD and that upsets me as I've been a big fan of the company.)

> Git's user interface isn't perfect, but you're not going to get the "Mac of DVCSs" either. There's a reason for the complexity, doing stuff like merging together the work of three people is inherently complex.

This is a limitation of your imagination. You can write a DVCS that's easy to use and intuitive. Git has an absolutely terrible UI, it borders on idiotic.

One example of a DVCS with a good design and UI is a Bazaar. Sortof like the Mac a few years ago, no one uses it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually gains in popularity. I see two things holding it back right now:

- Launchpad is terrible and needs to be at least as good as Github.

- In concert with having a terrible "hub", Bazaar has a small community of users.

To gain users, it will need to out-innovate like Apple did. That means on all fronts, not just bzr itself but the community, marketing, and the websites that support it.

Adblock. :-p

And the problems shouldn't exist in the first place.

Thank you.

I suspect these folks were OK with spending hours learning about their DVCS, but for most others, this just seems like unnecessary tedium and frustration, "When can I get back to worrying about the code?"

Someone needs to make the Mac of a DVCS, i.e. one that doesn't require a 20+ page tutorial to figure out, is completely intuitive and "just works."

I currently use Mercurial, and while I don't think it qualifies as the Mac of DVCS's, it seems to be working decently enough so far (for my simple purposes). I could learn git, but thanks to hg-git I'm hoping I won't have to.

The premise is that because Windows Mobile does not allow, and Android makes it very difficult to run C code, that therefore "C might be on a decline as the universal programming language." (He incorrectly states that the iPhone "only" allows Objective-C). That's not very convincing.

Until Apple, Microsoft, Google and others start writing their operating systems in Java/C# instead of C, I wouldn't worry.

Yeah, that's what I got to. Summary: the title on this post is completely misleading.

I spent a while today trying to decide what I like better, Cocoa Emacs or Aquamacs, and I eventually decided upon Aquamacs.

I found that Cocoa Emacs is faster to setup and get running, but once you have Aquamacs behaving the way you want it the extra features really are worth it. For me, tab support and the ability to re-open windows & frames from the last session seals the deal.

One oddity that I struggled at first with was how to get it to load ~/.emacs.d/init.el. I eventually solved this by loading it from: ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/Preferences.el

The homepage can be found here: http://ldeniau.web.cern.ch/ldeniau/oopc.html

It's all C99 compatible, and yet it appears to have support for closures, message passing, multimethods, generics, autorelease pools, exceptions, KVO/KVC, pre and post conditions for methods, and is apparently faster than Objective-C (see benchmarks in the paper).

This video contains no substance. It's an advertisement (albeit entertaining). Flagged.

I'm very happy to see this! Sorry for my ignorance, but does anyone know if there are any other projects along the same vein?

The crux of the argument seems to hang on this statement (linked to from the article):

  If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to
  destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes
  one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons
  of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting
  to get the magnitude of this?

Would be great to have some secondary sources/opinions on this. Is that true? And if so, how much damage could this leak cause?

1) The quality argument has been shown to be utter hogwash. Simply untrue, utterly devoid of rational backing. Read the Ars link I posted for details.

2) All of these companies and developers have been following the rules only to just now have them changed on them for utterly shitty reasons.

3) Apple isn't enforcing their own rules. Lots of apps break the rules yet are allowed on the store. Their rules, at this point, amount to: we're gonna let you in if we like you. That's a pretty crummy rule; hope your business plan doesn't depend on it.

4) You're missing half the perspective. Apple should be grateful to the developers who have worked their asses off and bent over backwards to satisfy Apple's various restrictions to fill their store with lots of software. If Apple treats them poorly, they'll find developers choosing other platforms.

I did read it, but you're right about what his main point was. I was mainly referring to the last two paragraphs.

His main point boils down to, "Baby, look how sweet it is up in here, look at this bling bling, now shut up while I smack you about." Sure, I agree, Apple has a wonderful, beautiful setup. I don't think anyone disputes that, but I fail to see how that's supposed to make me respect their actions.

Like all of the articles praising Apple's actions, this one focuses solely on the conflict between Apple and Adobe, as if that's all there was to it, as if those decrying Apple's actions are doing it out of love for Adobe and not because Apple's actions and public statements on the matter are inconsistent, hypocritical and are causing huge collateral damage to various companies and individuals who have nothing to do with Adobe or Flash or Microsoft and have only been adding value to the App Store.

I found this piece on Ars Technica to be more insightful and closer to reality (i.e., outside of the Reality Distortion Field):

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/steve-jobs-weighs-...

  We're sorry, ----@gmail.com does not have permission to access this spreadsheet.

Anyone else getting this? What's the deal? Did anyone get a chance to save it?

Source? Where did you hear this? I can't find anything on Google about TTR using Lua.

I honestly don't know why people rave about the Aeron. I went to a store and sat in a few and wasn't impressed, maybe it's because I'm skinnier than most people, may (as some suggested) you need to sit in them for a long time to appreciate them.

What I do know is that for a period of time I was on a mad chair hunt. I went from store to store trying to find that perfect million dollar chair that would stop my legs and feet from hurting due to lack of circulation because of how long I'd sit for.

In the end, after sitting in Aeron after Aeron and others, I gave up, realized every one of them was a waste of money.

The solution was cheap and simple:

1) I kept my cheapo $70 chair from Office Max

2) I put a $90 cushion on it (one of those you can carry with you and put in your car).

3) I put a wooden tangerine crate inside of a cardboard box, taped it up, and used it as a foot support to elevate my legs, thus relieving pressure on them from the chair's cushion.

That's it. I was able to code much longer now without taking breaks, for a fraction of the price. Then again, if you're buying for other people, this sort of setup might cause them to roll their eyes, this is mainly just advice for people looking to buy chairs for themselves.

Of course, don't forget to take periodic breaks and exercise. No matter how expensive or ingeniously setup your chair is, unless it's levitating you in the air with force perfectly distributed on every square inch of your body, you'll need to take breaks to allow your blood to circulate properly.

> That is a classic pickup line, you know? Walk up to a girl and compliment another equally beautiful girl. This usually triggers a bit of jealousy and the guy seems increasingly attractive out of competition with the other girl.

Thank you for that bit of information, but like you, I too have a penis between my legs. My apologies if I gave the wrong impression. :-p

This entire concept of "coming off as needy" and "TMI on a first contact is bad" is just depressing to me.

Whether it's true or not isn't what concerns me. What I find puzzling is that these are considered negative things. Sometimes totally self-reliant people can come off, to someone else, as needy. It's silly to make snap judgments like that without even speaking to them.

I adore people who are open. Openness is a quality that I think some people mistake for "neediness." I consider openness to be a very valuable quality. I think this would be a much better world if it was OK to be open.

The other day a guy walked up to me during a fair and said, "Oooo, damn, look at those legs." He was referring to some girl. I thought he sounded like an idiot, and could have said, "Excuse me, I have to run." Instead, I carried on a conversation and ended up speaking to him for over 2 hours. Discovered that I, a liberal, borderline hippie could easily converse with a former soldier who just came back from Iraq, on various political topics no less!

It was because we were both immediately open with each other, we were able to get along and have a great conversation despite each of our flaws (his gawking, my arrogance).

If someone writes you a sincere letter, I don't care how many of those you get, I hope you have the decency to reply, even if it's just to say that you're not interested. If you can't handle it, then what, may I ask, are you doing on that dating site in the first place?

The Hit List

http://www.potionfactory.com/thehitlist/

Where did you hear that from? Or are you being facetious?

Thanks for the link!

I'd certainly believe it. The amount of toxins man has put into the ocean is mind-boggling, so it's not a surprise if, even though they say on the damn bottle that they filter PCBs, that they're still there.

Edit: However, it looks like the one mentioned in the article is not the same one I use. The one in the article is Cod Liver oil. Still, that's no reason to assume the other one is safe, as this is quite a global problem.

That site seems really insecure. Got this MySQL error at one point:

  QUERY = UPDATE ec_customer SET `noOrders`=noOrders + 1 WHERE customer_id = 

Their registration doesn't seem to be done through HTTPS. I'd be careful handing your CC info to them. Whoever wrote their software seems really incompetent.

Thanks for that! Any recommendations on alternatives? I find other sources of Omega3 (flax seed) to be not as good unfortunately...