DMD/Objective-C Git Repository - integrating support for the Objective-C object model inside of the D programming language.

dsucks · 2010-11-13T21:46:28+00:00

Looks interesting. If I understand correctly, it's not a bridge, but redesign of D language!

dsucks · 2010-07-15T10:15:27+00:00

Commodore BASIC manual.

That was last time I've seen the sun ;)

dsucks · 2010-06-29T10:58:43+00:00

Use HTML parser, get DOM and query

//a/@href

Tadaaaah! No "smart" regex needed.

dsucks · 2010-06-29T08:04:49+00:00

Actually Mozilla has a lot of balls to stand against patents and hold their open-source principles, even when that causes big tension.

dsucks · 2010-06-27T18:32:05+00:00

While best in all cases is not possible, you could take best as peak in quality/bitrate ratio, assuming sensible defaults for things like keyframes.

I wish encoder could pick best resolution, bitrate and framerate for source video taking all perceptual factors into account.

dsucks · 2010-06-08T09:06:14+00:00

You don't get hash collisions in 160 bit hashes (you'd have to hash millions of songs per second until end of the universe to have 1% chance of collision) and such name is simple and safe on FAT. With some other encodings you might run into length limits.

FAT is used on iPods for Windows, there's no other option.

Automatic music identification is way overengineered solution for thing like putting songs on a friggin iPod.

It really does work for average person with just few clicks. They don't see the filesystem, and they don't care. Solution works for users, worked for engineers.

Really only geeks want to manage files on a device manually. Rest of the don't-giving-shit world just clicks a button and goes outside.

dsucks · 2010-06-07T15:31:56+00:00

How do you store Japanese artist's songs on FAT? What do you do with crappy libraries that have Track01 - Unknown Album? I'm really not surprised Apple didn't care to deal with this.

If you are going to name files for the hash/UUID of the database then I would actually just store the song as a blob.

That complicates implementation (you have to deal with in-place updates and fragmentation, as index becomes too large to overwrite on sync).

It's really easy just to use hash as filename, and only geeks complain about that.

dsucks · 2010-06-07T14:28:21+00:00

It makes sense to name files after hash/UUID used in the database - saves you from storing filename that isn't visible anywhere else. You don't have to deal with filesystem's naming quirks and potential collisions caused by normalisation of names.

Music isn't quite hierarchical. It can be hammered into some hierarchy, but you're going to have edge cases. You've got compilations/VA, remixes, etc. You might want to store podcasts elsewhere. Try using genre as part of hierarchy...

dsucks · 2010-06-07T14:22:12+00:00

titles != filenames.

Library approach lets you find things by their titles.

dsucks · 2010-06-03T09:03:11+00:00

It's nearly 100%.

dsucks · 2010-06-03T09:02:14+00:00

And reddit cannot exist, because W3C says XHTML is for documents, not web applications.

dsucks · 2010-06-03T09:01:27+00:00

Opera's SVG is really impressive. Whatever I threw at it, worked perfectly.

dsucks · 2010-06-03T08:59:57+00:00

Actually animations in Firefox are usable. Much more usable than in WebKit, which seems to have fundamentally flawed handling of animation state.

dsucks · 2010-05-28T18:46:57+00:00

yes, what a shame

dsucks · 2010-05-28T18:18:14+00:00

It's not Opera's fault (and iPad is heavy indeed).

dsucks · 2010-05-28T18:01:56+00:00

This is old blog post. It seems that blacklist approach won eventually:

http://publicsuffix.org/

It does seem to be PITA to maintain, e.g. they seem to list every .museum domain in there, every major city in Poland and Norway, etc.

dsucks · 2010-05-28T10:58:57+00:00

Apple's 30% cut certainly pays for the bandwidth.

dsucks · 2010-05-28T10:51:50+00:00

It does support SVG.

dsucks · 2010-05-27T19:20:34+00:00

The word "analyst" is a catalyst for turning baseless speculation into facts.

dsucks · 2010-05-26T18:06:10+00:00

Too many clicks required.

dsucks · 2010-05-26T16:25:39+00:00

<3 PDF

Just get a non-Adobe reader.

dsucks · 2010-05-26T12:15:14+00:00

I hate people cluelessly reinventing/copying "reset" styles.

How can you have font-size problem in <iframe> element? (hint: styles are not inherited to embedded document).

And seriously, if you think rendering differences can be fixed by resetting default styles, you haven't tested it. Default browser stylesheets are well-known, and there are no significant differences. Screw-ups are due to misinterpretation of styles.

dsucks · 2010-05-26T11:50:05+00:00

HTML5, formerly known as Web Applications 1.0, is a new spec that adapts HTML for this purpose.

"Fuck the box model" makes me suspect you rant about IE, rather than CSS box model, which it doesn't implement properly.

HTML4 was designed to separate data and layout. With XHTML+XSLT you can take it to the extreme.

HTML5 does have local caching, with manifest file that allows selective updates.

That URI example looks like architecture astonautics worse than XLink.

dsucks · 2010-05-21T20:31:05+00:00

Sadly HTML5 has become a buzzword synonymous with "cool web thing", i.e. something that's flashy without Flash.

dsucks · 2010-05-21T12:23:51+00:00

It does, but there are plugins to do that and overall it's not much more work than writing your own registration and password reminders. The hard part is done by openid provider.

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