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True | brantyr | null | If it locked the device down more apple would have found time for it. | null | 0 | 1319782055 | False | 0 | c2v43et | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v43et | t1_c2v42ex | null | 1427794552 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | In a thread about one of their open source projects. Interesting.
You showed your cards as one of the "I hate everything Apple does just because" folks like one of the "I hate everything Microsoft does" of the 90s. Good luck with that. | null | 0 | 1319782164 | False | 0 | c2v43rt | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v43rt | t1_c2v43et | null | 1427794556 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ahminus | null | Unfortunately for you, you called out the obvious.
And got massively downvoted.
These idiots responding to you below didn't actually do any work at all, but rather, made their own presumption.
| null | 0 | 1319782278 | False | 0 | c2v445n | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v445n | t1_c2uxbx4 | null | 1427794561 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sevenalive | null | We can change it to Advanced Lossless audio codec or A lossless audio codec. | null | 0 | 1319782333 | False | 0 | c2v44br | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v44br | t1_c2v3o6l | null | 1427794564 | 38 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cat_in_the_wall | null | I really like the idea that eventually we can have systems that have no synchronization mechanisms for "correctness", but are in essence are giant diffusers of information. Eventually, the information (the "value of the value" as Sussman says) gets to a point where the information is close enough to correct enough to u... | null | 0 | 1319782348 | False | 0 | c2v44dk | t3_lr0m5 | null | t1_c2v44dk | t3_lr0m5 | null | 1427794564 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | brantyr | null | Bullshit. They've open sourced a product for which there is already a better, open source competitor. The open sourcing is simply their way of avoiding to have to implement the more popular standard of FLAC. See also: HTML5 / Adobe Flash | null | 0 | 1319782387 | False | 0 | c2v44im | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v44im | t1_c2v43rt | null | 1427794566 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I suggest looking at some of this sometime: http://opensource.apple.com/. A lot of good stuff in there. | null | 0 | 1319782428 | False | 0 | c2v44no | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v44no | t1_c2v44im | null | 1427794568 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sevenalive | null | Hopefully they will rename iPod Touch to iPod and then with just a bit of hope people will stop calling it a iTouch. | null | 0 | 1319782446 | False | 0 | c2v44pg | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v44pg | t1_c2v427w | null | 1427794568 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jataka | null | Ya, I understand this like so few people do. So many people I know that buy new vinyls won't even rip them. I've told them that it's the first thing they should do, but they won't believe me that the record degrades. It annoys the hell out of me. | null | 0 | 1319782710 | False | 0 | c2v45ln | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v45ln | t1_c2v41eo | null | 1427794579 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BeforeTime | null | I am not so sure about the concerns in that article, but I do think that new (as it is in Java and C# at least) is harmful because it is essentially a static call. In other words, you hard code a dependency.
This is to a large extent alleviated by dependency injection, not necessarily by factories, but just by having ... | null | 0 | 1319782747 | False | 0 | c2v45pz | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v45pz | t3_lr1g7 | null | 1427794581 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | denizenKRIM | null | What does this mean for non-iOS devices? There a chance they'll give support to it now? Half my library is ALAC. Since my portable devices are leaning more and more towards other companies, I'd like to retain all of it without significant work. | null | 0 | 1319782798 | False | 0 | c2v45vz | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v45vz | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427794583 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gnail | null | Exactly, it's a business decision. FLAC could (and probably is) better in every way but it just doesn't go with Apple's walled garden philosophy so they made their own! Spend extra man hours to write a new specification and new encoder/decoder to retain more control! Microsoft was notorious about that and Apple isn't a... | null | 0 | 1319782812 | False | 0 | c2v45xa | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v45xa | t1_c2v42ex | null | 1427794583 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redwall_hp | null | I suspect that won't happen until a 128GB iPod Touch is available, to match the storage space. Flash memory still has to come down just a little in price, first. | null | 0 | 1319782817 | False | 0 | c2v45y4 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v45y4 | t1_c2v427w | null | 1427794584 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sevenalive | null | I noticed in iTunes MP3's take a noticeable amount of time to load, where Nero AAC takes almost no time. Plus when iTunes plays an MP3 after AAC sometimes it takes even longer, really hurts gapless playback.
I just get everything as Flac, backup the Flac after tagging every little detail I can, then covert to Nero AAC... | null | 0 | 1319782834 | False | 0 | c2v45zl | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v45zl | t1_c2v30mj | null | 1427794584 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | troyanonymous1 | null | > Write it right once, and everyone can use it
That's exactly what Qt is going for, and with QML they want to add in phones somehow.
It works well for web applications because they rely on browsers to provide a gigantic abstraction layer between your application and the operating system, which is important since W... | null | 0 | 1319782877 | True | 0 | c2v464o | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v464o | t1_c2v39jt | null | 1427794587 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | troyanonymous1 | null | Yeah, it's totally possible to just have a server-side database and client-side database and synchronize them via some sane protocol.
I guess I'm glad it's possible, even though it probably uses a lot of XML and SQL in places where you might prefer other languages? | null | 0 | 1319782962 | False | 0 | c2v46dx | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v46dx | t1_c2v2xs1 | null | 1427794590 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'd be willing to bet there is more too it than on the surface than either of us are pointing out.
We have to look at what the state of FLAC was at the time, we also don't know how long Apple's format was in the works, for all we know it could have been a project they had chilling in the Quicktime frameworks since the... | null | 0 | 1319783054 | False | 0 | c2v46oo | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v46oo | t1_c2v45xa | null | 1427794594 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redwall_hp | null | >See also: HTML5 / Adobe Flash
How is that even comparable? Apple chose to support an open standard (HTML5) while ignoring proprietary bloatware that is a known battery drain. Not to mention the fact that it's only logical to focus on HTML5 when it's, you know, HTML. The markup language that web pages are supposed ... | null | 0 | 1319783128 | False | 0 | c2v46x0 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v46x0 | t1_c2v44im | null | 1427794599 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319783182 | False | 0 | c2v4732 | t3_lrr7h | null | t1_c2v4732 | t1_c2v35sb | null | 1427794599 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | troyanonymous1 | null | I fucking hope so. | null | 0 | 1319783207 | False | 0 | c2v4762 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4762 | t1_c2v44pg | null | 1427794600 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Actually, a large proportion of the people who actually buy iPod classics are music geeks, and many of them would love to have flac support. | null | 0 | 1319783227 | False | 0 | c2v478o | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v478o | t1_c2v3tr4 | null | 1427794602 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SanityInAnarchy | null | I wouldn't be using iTunes anyway.
This is also a weird technical issue. Maybe I'm missing something, but I honestly don't see how it could be harder to implement gapless playback across codecs than to implement it only for a single codec. | null | 0 | 1319783249 | False | 0 | c2v47aw | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v47aw | t1_c2v45zl | null | 1427794602 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319783368 | False | 0 | c2v47ny | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v47ny | t1_c2v45vz | null | 1427794608 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319783510 | False | 0 | c2v483e | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v483e | t1_c2v336m | null | 1427794612 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redwall_hp | null | You can put WAV files on iPods. I've done it by accident. | null | 0 | 1319783599 | False | 0 | c2v48dh | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v48dh | t1_c2v3whv | null | 1427794617 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | the_peanut_gallery | null | Oh no! The evil corporations want to put their NAME on things that THEY PRODUCED! **FUCK THE SYSTEMMMMMMMMMM**
(funny jokes!) | null | 0 | 1319783624 | False | 0 | c2v48gl | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v48gl | t1_c2v3o6l | null | 1427794624 | 40 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319783643 | False | 0 | c2v48i6 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v48i6 | t1_c2v3esz | null | 1427794619 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | manberry_sauce | null | > Not very many?
You're fucking high, or talking out of your ass. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say you're high. Otherwise, you really don't know what you're talking about.
If you've been following any of the dev news over the last 24 months, you wouldn't say what you've said. Prior to the fig... | null | 0 | 1319783661 | True | 0 | c2v48ka | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v48ka | t1_c2v3uk0 | null | 1427794619 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | >>I'd like to see what is "arbitrarily complicated management routine" to you, though, because, obviously, there's no "inability of executing" anything in C++ (or something else, really).
>you shouldn't throw in a destructor.
Yes, that's how it is. However, note that this is the same thing in e.g. Java or s... | null | 0 | 1319783664 | False | 0 | c2v48kk | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2v48kk | t1_c2uw8dc | null | 1427794619 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | > we also don't know how long Apple's format was in the works, for all we know it could have been a project they had chilling in the Quicktime frameworks since the 90s.
Considering single individuals have made better lossless codecs than ALAC in their free time (TAK is the first one that comes to mind), I very high... | null | 0 | 1319783672 | False | 0 | c2v48li | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v48li | t1_c2v46oo | null | 1427794619 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LordGreyhawk | null | The language provides abstractions away from the hardware. The abstractions may be inherently complicated and/or complicated because it fails to be defended by the language. The Scala tail call abstraction seems fatally littered with failure, it seems undefended and unreliable after reading the linked explanation.
I... | null | 0 | 1319783703 | False | 0 | c2v48ot | t3_lqu6x | null | t1_c2v48ot | t3_lqu6x | null | 1427794621 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319783720 | False | 0 | c2v48qk | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v48qk | t1_c2v48dh | null | 1427794622 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redwall_hp | null | Yeah, like frigging *WebKit,* an open source project they started. (It's technically a fork of KHTML, but it's evolved a lot over the last ten or so years.) | null | 0 | 1319783724 | False | 0 | c2v48r3 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v48r3 | t1_c2v3ssc | null | 1427794622 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robotsongs | null | I cannot tell you how much "iTouch" grates on my ears whenever people say it. | null | 0 | 1319783797 | False | 0 | c2v48yt | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v48yt | t1_c2v44pg | null | 1427794632 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thehodapp | null | ah but you know even CD quality is lossy. Generally the frequencies humans theoretically can't hear are cut out due to the sampling rate of most CDs at 44.1 kHz which should mean you won't notice a difference. However, through the mixing/mastering process, you can still get aliasing. That's why DVDs use 48000kHz and in... | null | 0 | 1319783873 | False | 0 | c2v496r | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v496r | t1_c2v41eo | null | 1427794627 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319783886 | True | 0 | c2v498m | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v498m | t1_c2v47aw | null | 1427794627 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xcbsmith | null | Yes. Actually, even if it wasn't true, their algos are so similar, why not just "patch up" FLAC than make your own thing from scratch. The answers aren't good. | null | 0 | 1319783915 | False | 0 | c2v49by | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v49by | t1_c2v3spz | null | 1427794629 | 46 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | I am aware. It is literally impossible to acquire the master audio through *any* means in 99% of cases, however, so it's lossless as far as practicality is concerned. | null | 0 | 1319783971 | False | 0 | c2v49hr | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v49hr | t1_c2v496r | null | 1427794631 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Good point. I wonder if the reason they went with it then was because ALAC was a pet project of some trusted engineer?
I just realized if ALAC was released in 04 than the teams working on it wouldn't have known about the intel switch yet. Could it have been a decision made with PPC in mind? | null | 0 | 1319784000 | False | 0 | c2v49l8 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v49l8 | t1_c2v48li | null | 1427794632 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | amyisgonnakillme | null | >[I know!](http://xkcd.com/927/)
xkcd:Standards | null | 0 | 1319784303 | False | 0 | c2v4aeq | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4aeq | t1_c2v3wx3 | null | 1427794642 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | It might have been. It's still a poor excuse for not implementing any measure of FLAC support, or not updating ALAC in any noticeable way since it was first released. Open-sourcing it just seems like a way for them to get some form of development going on it again. [I'm not actually opposed to the idea](http://www.redd... | null | 0 | 1319784372 | False | 0 | c2v4ale | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4ale | t1_c2v49l8 | null | 1427794645 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | therealprotonk | null | Name a major developer actively working on native apps for the iPhone prior to iOS 2 who got caught flat footed by the need to use Apple's SDK to release apps for the iPhone.
There were hundreds of developers who *wanted* to develop for the iPhone in their language and framework of choice, but none of them were under ... | null | 0 | 1319784585 | False | 0 | c2v4b6j | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4b6j | t1_c2v48ka | null | 1427794652 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | keithasaurus | null | because you get all the advantage of open source improvements (hopefully?), plus apple integration. if any technical kinks can be worked out, why would anyone use flac anymore? nostalgia? itunes is the most influential music player and iphones/ipods are the most influential music players. that trumps any technical comp... | null | 0 | 1319784658 | False | 0 | c2v4bd6 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4bd6 | t1_c2v3r1z | null | 1427794655 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | geon | null | I believe you are not allowed to link directly to the external download page. Not sure. | null | 0 | 1319784694 | False | 0 | c2v4bgp | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v4bgp | t1_c2v2mzd | null | 1427794656 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | amyisgonnakillme | null | True. However, I use ALAC because I don't have to have a FLAC copy for my desktop and another mp3 copy to sync to my phone for iTunes. | null | 0 | 1319784729 | False | 0 | c2v4bjw | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4bjw | t1_c2v3i6u | null | 1427794658 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Good points.
In real world tests how shitty is ALAC in comparison to FLAC? Let's say I'm a regular user who doesn't want to look at a technical comparison chart, do you tell me I save kb, mb, time, speed, what? Would you tell me I should spend X time converting all of my ALAC music to FLAC and why? | null | 0 | 1319784765 | False | 0 | c2v4bnh | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4bnh | t1_c2v4ale | null | 1427794659 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Cyrius | null | >[The Bureau of Engraving and Printing offers 5lb bags of Shredded U.S. Currency. This bag contains approximately $10,000 worth of Shredded U.S. currency notes.](http://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/5lbbagofshreddeduscurrency.aspx)
Costs $45. | null | 0 | 1319784809 | False | 0 | c2v4brz | t3_lrr7h | null | t1_c2v4brz | t1_c2v34tm | null | 1427794661 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | amyisgonnakillme | null | http://xkcd.com/927/ | null | 0 | 1319784811 | False | 0 | c2v4bs7 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4bs7 | t1_c2v3x79 | null | 1427794661 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lolol42 | null | Sure. Now how about getting your music onto the iPod without iTunes? Want to download something from the Apple store? Ok, I hope you didn't want to play it on anything except their program. Apple has always been excessively tight about anything with their systems. People "spout this FUD" because they realize the e... | null | 0 | 1319784887 | False | 0 | c2v4byv | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v4byv | t1_c2v2gqr | null | 1427794664 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nibblonian | null | ಠ_ಠ
I know it's meaningless karma, but ... [my post](http://alac.macosforge.org/) from 2 hours earlier. | null | 0 | 1319785085 | False | 0 | c2v4cik | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4cik | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427794672 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noreallyimthepope | null | For now, I'd settle for clients on non-Apple platforms. | null | 0 | 1319785092 | False | 0 | c2v4cj8 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4cj8 | t1_c2v38hs | null | 1427794672 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319785133 | False | 0 | c2v4cmy | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4cmy | t1_c2v4bnh | null | 1427794676 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | teleport | null | That's just not true. At least Ogg Vorbis supports fully gapless playback. All you really need to know is the exact length, in samples, of the track (or the last frame), and have this information available to the decoder in a standardized manner. | null | 0 | 1319785159 | False | 0 | c2v4cp7 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4cp7 | t1_c2v498m | null | 1427794674 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | renesisxx | null | Wrong. WMA has had gapless for about a decade. | null | 0 | 1319785260 | False | 0 | c2v4cy3 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4cy3 | t1_c2v498m | null | 1427794685 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319785269 | True | 0 | c2v4cz8 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4cz8 | t1_c2v4cp7 | null | 1427794678 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ilmmad | null | You can type with a Bluetooth keyboard.
Small point, but still. | null | 0 | 1319785332 | False | 0 | c2v4d5a | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v4d5a | t1_c2ux536 | null | 1427794679 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | I edited the original post. I had heard that from a credible source, but you're the second person to tell me that it wasn't true. | null | 0 | 1319785403 | False | 0 | c2v4dc3 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4dc3 | t1_c2v4cy3 | null | 1427794682 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | manberry_sauce | null | They had every reason to believe that they would be supported, in that their previous versions worked and were accepted. This also provided proof of concept for endeavors after that, and investment followed. Apple got in a beef with Adobe and then a lot of companies suffered a huge loss.
Apple doesn't just have a wall... | null | 0 | 1319785450 | True | 0 | c2v4dgi | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4dgi | t1_c2v4b6j | null | 1427794684 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Good post. To answer your question of that post about why so many ALAC encoding things I'd imagine is because is has been into iTunes for ripping since '04. | null | 0 | 1319785595 | False | 0 | c2v4du1 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4du1 | t1_c2v4cmy | null | 1427794688 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | glados_v2 | null | Yes, actionscript 3 is a very powerful language, and there's going to me Stage3D. So excited.. | null | 0 | 1319785598 | False | 0 | c2v4du5 | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v4du5 | t1_c2ux0ql | null | 1427794688 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | atomic1fire | null | And they might get more people using ALAC, which means the other standard gets less users. | null | 0 | 1319785696 | False | 0 | c2v4e3d | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4e3d | t1_c2v3ixo | null | 1427794692 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | denmarkahye | null | open source from apple? wait what's going on here excatly | null | 0 | 1319785715 | False | 0 | c2v4e5g | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4e5g | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427794692 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | That's where OS vendors get to "cheat". While Oracle DB and SQL Server don't have special APIs that other databases can't access, there is no doubt that a lot of OS functionality in Windows/Linux was created specifically for the database teams. | null | 0 | 1319785782 | False | 0 | c2v4ecc | t3_lrljb | null | t1_c2v4ecc | t1_c2v2bkk | null | 1427794694 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Starting disclaimer: I'm a Mozilla employee. I speak my mind; I'm under no obligation to tout some sort of Mozilla line here.
I think HTML / CSS aren't the best. They're a document format wedged into making GUIs. I'd love to design something different.
But there's something someone once told me: Whenever you're t... | null | 0 | 1319785896 | False | 0 | c2v4ena | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v4ena | t1_c2v1upp | null | 1427794698 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | inmatarian | null | This gets posted every once in a while. It's a nice link, but I notice that there's this page:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Unimplemented_tasks_by_language
It sounds like there needs to be a volunteer reddit task force who can massage that wiki into shape. | null | 0 | 1319785926 | False | 0 | c2v4eq1 | t3_lrmtc | null | t1_c2v4eq1 | t3_lrmtc | null | 1427794699 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319785944 | False | 0 | c2v4erq | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4erq | t1_c2v4bd6 | null | 1427794700 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319785979 | False | 0 | c2v4eux | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4eux | t1_c2v4du1 | null | 1427794701 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | therealprotonk | null | Look I'm not going to disagree with the sentiment that iOS developers serve at the pleasure of the king. But that comes with the territory. There are people making money on the platform and quite comfortable with where they are. When the demand no longer brings developers in, we can start talking about what a failur... | null | 0 | 1319786073 | False | 0 | c2v4f3n | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4f3n | t1_c2v4dgi | null | 1427794704 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theillustratedlife | null | When I got out of school, I took a client who offered $65 (seemed like a good deal at the time.) I added $10/hr for each new client after that. Got up to $90 when the recession hit, and I stopped playing the how-high-can-you-go-game.
Then, I got hired on full-time at one of my clients. One of my roles is selecting ... | null | 0 | 1319786097 | False | 0 | c2v4f5j | t3_lqz9i | null | t1_c2v4f5j | t3_lqz9i | null | 1427794704 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | I upvoted it for you. It was in a less-specialized subreddit less likely to be interested in something like this, however; I doubt it was reddit being fickle as much as the OP making a slightly better subreddit choice. | null | 0 | 1319786171 | False | 0 | c2v4fck | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4fck | t1_c2v4cik | null | 1427794707 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | http://opensource.apple.com/ | null | 0 | 1319786179 | False | 0 | c2v4fda | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4fda | t1_c2v4e5g | null | 1427794708 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | geon | null | True. Perhaps if unlocking the device was supported by apple, but slightly difficult for the normal user, much like jailbreaking today?
Apple could even have an intermediate step where developers can self-sign their apps and have their apps checked on request and revoked if found guilty. Pretty much an inversion of th... | null | 0 | 1319786203 | False | 0 | c2v4ffh | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v4ffh | t1_c2v2awp | null | 1427794708 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Mabeline | null | Starcraft 2 is typically played at the 'faster' difficulty where a game minute is shorter than an actual minute, [see the TL wiki](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Game_Speed). The game clock reads game minutes. | null | 0 | 1319786296 | False | 0 | c2v4foc | t3_lqb73 | null | t1_c2v4foc | t1_c2v3dod | null | 1427794712 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adrianmonk | null | I have actually thought of experimenting with some audio for a toy project. Maybe some tone generators (square wave, sawtooth waves, sine waves, sine waves that sweep), and then move on to adding effects like echo and maybe even EQ if I can ever wrap my head around FFTs.
Clojure is on my list too, but I don't see it ... | null | 0 | 1319786405 | False | 0 | c2v4fxg | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2v4fxg | t1_c2uw2pq | null | 1427794715 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | arjie | null | That's just "not being dicks". If they'd kept it closed, it would have been a huge dick move. It's nice, but not something I'd use to point or their open-source friendliness so much as non-hostility. | null | 0 | 1319786509 | False | 0 | c2v4g7g | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4g7g | t1_c2v3kr7 | null | 1427794719 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Abstractions are fine if you actually need them. But to start throwing around factory methods only because you are too afraid that you might need to waste 15 minutes doing a global search and replace is inexcusable. | null | 0 | 1319786517 | False | 0 | c2v4g8b | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4g8b | t1_c2uwsic | null | 1427794720 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | geon | null | There was an app that had a hidden 3G tethering functionality before it was enabled in the OS by Apple. They discovered it after a while and revoked the app. | null | 0 | 1319786524 | False | 0 | c2v4g8w | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v4g8w | t1_c2uzu35 | null | 1427794720 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | My business analyst is in charge of thinking about what needs to be computed. As a software engineer it is my job to think about how to compute it. | null | 0 | 1319786544 | False | 0 | c2v4gb0 | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4gb0 | t1_c2v3r7p | null | 1427794721 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | >The big difference is that constructors most often are not allowed to fail
Not in any languages I know. In fact, they *must* fail exactly so to signal the inability to create the object. Happens all the time. I don't get you.
>>In the article, memory is discussed as if it were somehow different than a "reso... | null | 0 | 1319786604 | False | 0 | c2v4gg7 | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4gg7 | t1_c2v0qtn | null | 1427794723 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | denmarkahye | null | well this is awkward | null | 0 | 1319786609 | False | 0 | c2v4ggn | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4ggn | t1_c2v4fda | null | 1427794723 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Lets say you have a cache and a service call. Perhaps you read from the cache, effectively a pseudo-new, and if the item isn't found you get a null. At that point you then know to call the service, again a psuedo-new.
But of course these aren't really new expressions. And if your API was properly designed, you would h... | null | 0 | 1319786691 | False | 0 | c2v4gnb | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4gnb | t1_c2v2t8i | null | 1427794725 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wizang | null | Considering the shit DACs on most phones and extra CPU time needed to decode lossless audio, there's probably zero benefit. However, I like a wider range of support as well. | null | 0 | 1319786724 | False | 0 | c2v4gq0 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4gq0 | t1_c2v3iae | null | 1427794726 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | manberry_sauce | null | It's OK that it's wrong because they have the ball? Honestly, these things are unethical. After this litany of dubious business practices, can you seriously come back to the original point and say someone is nuts for questioning whether they should build in support for a codex that has "Apple" in the name? I certainly ... | null | 0 | 1319786741 | False | 0 | c2v4grq | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4grq | t1_c2v4f3n | null | 1427794730 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theillustratedlife | null | We use the cloud (specifically AWS), and I've never heard of other VMs performance impacting ours. I'm under the impression that Amazon's abstracted away the physical hardware pretty completely.
He seems to ignore the biggest advantage of the cloud which is persistence. You can build a system that has near-zero down... | null | 0 | 1319786756 | False | 0 | c2v4gt6 | t3_lrnvt | null | t1_c2v4gt6 | t3_lrnvt | null | 1427794730 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joelthelion | null | Do they grant a perpetual and irrevocable patent license? | null | 0 | 1319786779 | False | 0 | c2v4guy | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4guy | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427794728 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jevring | null | I don't agree at all. That said, I can't give you any reasons. The reason I still like 'new' is that I have yet to encounter any problems with it that would make me abandon it. I certainly haven't found (nor have I had the need to look for) the end-all-be-all object creation method to replace 'new'.
tl;dr: stop being... | null | 0 | 1319786807 | False | 0 | c2v4gxq | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4gxq | t3_lr1g7 | null | 1427794729 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaaaaaaargh | null | Well, I have a large portion of my library in ALAC, either reencoded from FLAC or ripped myself. Quite surprisingly, iPod Classic is capable of playing ALAC (although not perfectly and not 24 bit 96khz), which makes it a neat output device at gatherings.
Apart from the iPod, it's just more convenient to keep all your ... | null | 0 | 1319786827 | False | 0 | c2v4gzi | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4gzi | t1_c2v47ny | null | 1427794730 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ivosaurus | null | True; however I am one iPod owner that *desperately* wishes it and iTunes could just play FLAC. | null | 0 | 1319786842 | False | 0 | c2v4h0x | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4h0x | t1_c2v3i6u | null | 1427794730 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | arjie | null | I'm not a lawyer, so is that possible? All I know related to this is that open source licenses do not grant you trade mark licenses by default. The while ice weasel business comes to mind. | null | 0 | 1319786910 | False | 0 | c2v4h6r | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4h6r | t1_c2v3132 | null | 1427794732 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | doofy77 | null | ReplayGain destroys music. It's basically the same as a temporary brickwall. | null | 0 | 1319786921 | False | 0 | c2v4h7t | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4h7t | t1_c2v3hri | null | 1427794733 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | I'm voting for gibberish. If he can't provide specific code samples showing why new is bad in the general case then he has no argument.
As a counter-point, there is object allocation and initialization in there somewhere. No matter how may abstraction layers he adds he is still eventually going to have to call a const... | null | 0 | 1319786928 | False | 0 | c2v4h8m | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4h8m | t1_c2v0ihu | null | 1427794733 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cm03d | null | Still waiting a couple years for CSS3 to be useful and we're already talking about 4? Kids these days... | null | 0 | 1319786933 | False | 0 | c2v4h90 | t3_lqu87 | null | t1_c2v4h90 | t3_lqu87 | null | 1427794733 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | >In many contexts this is harmful.
Well, actually, we need to compare that "many", to count of all known contexts to really know whether it is harmful.
Or better yet, use it when it's not harmful, not use it otherwise? 'Cause blindly saying "it's harmful" is dumb.
Most famous example: blindly saying "goto is harm... | null | 0 | 1319786950 | False | 0 | c2v4has | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4has | t1_c2v3r7p | null | 1427794734 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wierdaaron | null | Perfect for sprinkling on salads! | null | 0 | 1319787030 | False | 0 | c2v4hhr | t3_lrr7h | null | t1_c2v4hhr | t1_c2v4brz | null | 1427794736 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | willb | null | [This Page](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DoubleFactorial.html) has a much clearer definition. | null | 0 | 1319787040 | False | 0 | c2v4hil | t3_lr1eo | null | t1_c2v4hil | t1_c2v1ww2 | null | 1427794736 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | blorg | null | It is still a pain in the neck and requires you to either spend time transcoding or to keep multiple formats around wasting disk space. I would prefer one format that just worked everywhere. | null | 0 | 1319787095 | False | 0 | c2v4hnv | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4hnv | t1_c2v3e5a | null | 1427794738 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | There are many people that don't like ReplayGain. It's nothing but removeable metadata, so, luckily, you'll never have to deal with it if you don't want to. | null | 0 | 1319787112 | False | 0 | c2v4hpk | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4hpk | t1_c2v4h7t | null | 1427794747 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | willb | null | Yes, which as *thisisnotgood* pointed out, is the same as (5!)^3, which the solution does catch. | null | 0 | 1319787120 | False | 0 | c2v4hq7 | t3_lr1eo | null | t1_c2v4hq7 | t1_c2v3tr2 | null | 1427794747 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319787156 | False | 0 | c2v4ht0 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4ht0 | t1_c2v4gzi | null | 1427794740 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simonask | null | > Catering for a common case is a good thing IMO.
Well, yes, but often people need the *uncommon* thing. The author argues that the abstraction we call `new` is insufficient to support that, even in languages like C++, where `new` can be overridden. | null | 0 | 1319787210 | False | 0 | c2v4hxs | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4hxs | t1_c2v4gg7 | null | 1427794742 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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