I agree with you, but I think you just landed the elusive "half-Godwin."
Can we at least agree that if we attempted a list of all the Xs a programmer needs to know before doing Y and made it law that nobody could write any software at all?
I'm mostly wondering how long these lunches were that they even rate mentioning, let alone mentioning BEFORE code quality?
Great examples. I think even the WebKit touch events version of Google Maps is broken, but, not being a Gmail user, I had no idea they were blowing it that badly. I use both Maps and Twitter every single day, but -- and…
Admittedly this is just a guess, but might the Carson velodrome explain Orange County's dominance in this index? There's precious little overlap in the Venn diagram of people who race track bikes (on tracks) and people…
I work for a very large (Fortune 500) retailer whose customers are overwhelmingly Mac users. Safari users make up just shy of 50% of all of our traffic, with Chrome accounting for 25%. I'd guess that's as much because…
Gruber's assessment is more reasonable, but watching the video, I completely fail to see the controversy. In context, Schmidt's response seems almost humble, and he seems to be addressing two separate concerns raised by…
I concede that I'm not being completely fair. I actually don't develop in Firefox and only have a few versions installed on VMs for testing, no bookmarks or extensions. And, as I said in another comment, over the last…
> Much like how a computer gets slow and needs to be reformatted, people who are browser power users need to clean out Firefox every few years. Maybe I'm asking to much, but this seems totally unacceptable to me --…
> on several matters its in direct conflict on the w3c standards with other major players. Yeah, this is false. Gecko is still arguably the gold, um, standard for page rendering. That said, I dread using Firefox…
I can assure you that this was in the United States.
My wife's friend recently moved from a large city, where she didn't have a car, to live with her boyfriend in a smaller town. It's a smaller town without much public transit. My wife's friend knows how to drive, but her…
The APNs token is unique to the install of iOS, not the hardware. So if a user moves to new hardware (with a different UDID), and they restore from a backup of their previous device, the token stays the same. Similarly,…
I agree. I do not like this idea that lots of zany shit = fun and comfort. Having worked in a number of different office cultures, the people with all the crazy junk all over their desks are almost always the sad ones…
Maybe "web video" is too lazy of a term. What I'm talking about is video transferred via HTTP (or other protocol) from one computer to another. So, yes, that would be Netflix, iTunes, Hulu, YouTube, BitTorrent...…
You're right that MPEG-LA does not indemnify licensees of H.264, no. Licensing doesn't eliminate the risk of adoption. It substantially reduces that risk. (Largely because patent licensing also function as a protection…
>The same argument applies to video sites. We shouldn't be held back and stuck on a proprietary format just because you don't want to write a script to go through and re-encode everything to WebM. Here's a question:…
I've been trying to refrain from commenting, too, so that's one thing that we have... had in common. > ...of course WebM exclusivity is the right way to go. Mozilla supports it, Chrome supports it, Opera supports…
Even if Apple ultimately intends to close the Mac to non-App Store applications -- I'm guessing not, but a valid concern anyway -- it's unlikely to happen in the next five years for two key reasons: Microsoft Office and…
Yours is clearly a case of being downvoted unfairly.
Clarification: Even if other companies can figure out how to make a decent tablet, still a pretty big if, who knows if tablets will be a "big thing" for the computer industry as a whole. The iPad is clearly already the…
Do you think that maybe your desire for tablets to not be "the next big thing" is shading your assessment of iPad sales? The iPad outsold ALL Macs this quarter, so no, Apple is not likely cooling its heels on the tablet…
> The story is very much the opposite in enterprise apps; I can't remember the last REST interface I saw, but we see SOAP interfaces every week, in new apps. That's kind of like saying "I can't remember the last…
> This makes the assumption that all apps are dumb frontends to a database. I think the commenter is talking specifically about templating languages, not all server-side logic. In terms of MVC, I think the idea is…
Voting based on agreement/disagreement, rather than based on quality and relevance is thuggery. It's also human nature; we're passionate, lazy animals. The question is whether or not the problem is widespread enough to…
I agree with you, but I think you just landed the elusive "half-Godwin."
Can we at least agree that if we attempted a list of all the Xs a programmer needs to know before doing Y and made it law that nobody could write any software at all?
I'm mostly wondering how long these lunches were that they even rate mentioning, let alone mentioning BEFORE code quality?
Great examples. I think even the WebKit touch events version of Google Maps is broken, but, not being a Gmail user, I had no idea they were blowing it that badly. I use both Maps and Twitter every single day, but -- and…
Admittedly this is just a guess, but might the Carson velodrome explain Orange County's dominance in this index? There's precious little overlap in the Venn diagram of people who race track bikes (on tracks) and people…
I work for a very large (Fortune 500) retailer whose customers are overwhelmingly Mac users. Safari users make up just shy of 50% of all of our traffic, with Chrome accounting for 25%. I'd guess that's as much because…
Gruber's assessment is more reasonable, but watching the video, I completely fail to see the controversy. In context, Schmidt's response seems almost humble, and he seems to be addressing two separate concerns raised by…
I concede that I'm not being completely fair. I actually don't develop in Firefox and only have a few versions installed on VMs for testing, no bookmarks or extensions. And, as I said in another comment, over the last…
> Much like how a computer gets slow and needs to be reformatted, people who are browser power users need to clean out Firefox every few years. Maybe I'm asking to much, but this seems totally unacceptable to me --…
> on several matters its in direct conflict on the w3c standards with other major players. Yeah, this is false. Gecko is still arguably the gold, um, standard for page rendering. That said, I dread using Firefox…
I can assure you that this was in the United States.
My wife's friend recently moved from a large city, where she didn't have a car, to live with her boyfriend in a smaller town. It's a smaller town without much public transit. My wife's friend knows how to drive, but her…
The APNs token is unique to the install of iOS, not the hardware. So if a user moves to new hardware (with a different UDID), and they restore from a backup of their previous device, the token stays the same. Similarly,…
I agree. I do not like this idea that lots of zany shit = fun and comfort. Having worked in a number of different office cultures, the people with all the crazy junk all over their desks are almost always the sad ones…
Maybe "web video" is too lazy of a term. What I'm talking about is video transferred via HTTP (or other protocol) from one computer to another. So, yes, that would be Netflix, iTunes, Hulu, YouTube, BitTorrent...…
You're right that MPEG-LA does not indemnify licensees of H.264, no. Licensing doesn't eliminate the risk of adoption. It substantially reduces that risk. (Largely because patent licensing also function as a protection…
>The same argument applies to video sites. We shouldn't be held back and stuck on a proprietary format just because you don't want to write a script to go through and re-encode everything to WebM. Here's a question:…
I've been trying to refrain from commenting, too, so that's one thing that we have... had in common. > ...of course WebM exclusivity is the right way to go. Mozilla supports it, Chrome supports it, Opera supports…
Even if Apple ultimately intends to close the Mac to non-App Store applications -- I'm guessing not, but a valid concern anyway -- it's unlikely to happen in the next five years for two key reasons: Microsoft Office and…
Yours is clearly a case of being downvoted unfairly.
Clarification: Even if other companies can figure out how to make a decent tablet, still a pretty big if, who knows if tablets will be a "big thing" for the computer industry as a whole. The iPad is clearly already the…
Do you think that maybe your desire for tablets to not be "the next big thing" is shading your assessment of iPad sales? The iPad outsold ALL Macs this quarter, so no, Apple is not likely cooling its heels on the tablet…
> The story is very much the opposite in enterprise apps; I can't remember the last REST interface I saw, but we see SOAP interfaces every week, in new apps. That's kind of like saying "I can't remember the last…
> This makes the assumption that all apps are dumb frontends to a database. I think the commenter is talking specifically about templating languages, not all server-side logic. In terms of MVC, I think the idea is…
Voting based on agreement/disagreement, rather than based on quality and relevance is thuggery. It's also human nature; we're passionate, lazy animals. The question is whether or not the problem is widespread enough to…