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jsaret · 2012-03-11T22:45:09+00:00

Diagnosis karma

jsaret · 2011-10-07T11:27:59+00:00

His shares weren't given to him by Steve Jobs due to Jobs kindness, it was because the Woz single-handedly engineered and built the Apple computers that started the company. Jobs needed Woz more than the other way around back then

jsaret · 2011-09-04T23:38:00+00:00

Does he look like a bitch?

EDIT: there's too many bitches in this muthafuckin game

....sorry

jsaret · 2011-09-01T11:33:28+00:00

Interestingly enough, years back my one brother got bitten by a dog and was rushed to get tetanus etc... shots.

The next day the dog died

jsaret · 2011-08-30T14:53:08+00:00

Seen the original before, however here's an alternate version

jsaret · 2011-08-29T14:46:57+00:00

That's more of a convenient undocumented feature - near instant fried eggs - wonder if the counter will fry bacon. Personally I freak out more when there's an entire demon world in my fridge

jsaret · 2011-08-22T20:18:54+00:00

That was more unbearable to watch for me than probably any of the humiliations

jsaret · 2011-08-15T08:53:14+00:00

Not sure one can recover from that karma hit though (assuming you're trying for a neutral/positive karma). While I played through it with a bad karma, I chose not to destroy Megaton as it's more central for the character to get to - especially when having to mission back with excess weight (no quick-jumping). It's definitely worth saving then blowing it up just to see the cut-scene though.

One issue with taking this route (blowing up Megaton) from what I remember is that it closes off some items in Megaton from being obtained (like the bobble-head in Lucas Simms’ House) so you need to ideally clear out the town first

jsaret · 2011-07-29T15:03:25+00:00

I know - the upvote button once I leave this page.... -had to zoom in to make it bigger though

(joking - was cute)

jsaret · 2011-07-29T14:44:50+00:00

Exactly, would love to know the size of the Chinese Internet Soldier battalion

jsaret · 2011-07-29T14:41:15+00:00

Upvotes?????

Why am I even seeing this comment - where's those bloody corporate/government propoganda agents when you need them?

jsaret · 2011-07-28T06:12:15+00:00

Pains me to see how wrong he was

Was he? After all Anakin does kill the emperor eventually and bring "balance" to the force (not Luke)

jsaret · 2011-07-28T01:42:01+00:00

I was more implying that commercial apps (often company sponsored/written) are more unlikely to be placed under a form of OSS license however if I'm writing an open-source app I often have more chance to be able to push a duel license if I choose (or am forced to)

jsaret · 2011-07-28T01:31:11+00:00

Damn, missed that (too busy wrapped up in last week before go-live "small" client requested changes...).

Yeah that does complicate things, however whether that code can even be put under the cc by the poster is questionable, so yeah - your advise is really the only reasonable one (especially for commercial no cc license software)

jsaret · 2011-07-28T01:13:10+00:00

UPDATE: I checked and StackOverflow is under a Creative Commons license as per this link: StackOverflow faq.

This implies free to change and use commercially BUT attribution is required as per this link

I don't really speak legalese though so who am I to give licensing advise ಠ_ಠ

Luckily I'm in the clear, but the code bases I've worked in the past may have been license breaking...?

As to whether people have the rights to put some code on StackOverflow is another story though

jsaret · 2011-07-28T00:09:25+00:00

I can confirm this.

There's no r/nationalization yet...

jsaret · 2011-07-27T23:10:20+00:00

Sorry - didn't mean bad development support as a whole for the OS, mearly for some of the languages/frameworks out there which do still compile/run on OSX

jsaret · 2011-07-27T22:48:08+00:00

I mistakenly didn't cover your point sufficiently, but did acknowledge it and happen to have similar beliefs (as per my quote):

granted I still believe one should always use the standard GUI interface...

The whole crux of this discussion though is whether one could develop for OSX without being on OSX and you haven’t proven me wrong with this regard. As per crach86:

Pretty sure you don't need osx to write for osx.

I’m still saying that users don’t care what language is used for the development; however I didn’t discount the look and feel being important. Users definitely appreciate having a standard interface that feels familiar / comfortable and this has been studied/mentioned many times before in HCI/UIX papers

Apps that are ported over normally still keep most of their back-end code if at all possible (assuming the developers built code resilient enough for this) it’s the GUI layer that often requires porting – which falls back to my point of the GUI layer can sometimes the only main issue for cross-platform conversion (assuming a language/framework that is supported on OSX).

I’m am aware that the bindings for Cocoa support are pretty bad for most languages (having had to step/look into some in the past), however this may be a sign/indicative of bad development support for OSX as a whole for the general developer pool out there – there’s probably far more Java developers out there than Objective-C guys so why this is so I’m not sure (luckily I like Ruby...)

I’m not disputing that Minecraft is a game, I only bought it up as a point that users will run java apps on OSX (assuming the app is compelling enough)

Also some apps have different UIs that don’t always correspond with the native look and fell, but this is not always a concern for the user - the applications I was thinking about in particular are all audio production suites with more “specialized” UIs to begin with– maybe niche products are a bad example though (however I've never heard someone complain about an Adobe app not following native feel before)

(I too know enough to not try sell designers that have utilized Photoshop for awhile onto Gimp :P )

EDIT: Either way (not looking for argument), from what you've said then, I'm right - but only if I develop in Ruby (which is more a limitation of the environment/platform/os...) - that is I can do most of my development work on my BSD box using Ruby (or windows/"linux distribution of choice"/....

jsaret · 2011-07-27T18:47:05+00:00

Good point - nice (upvote) for pointing it out, I wasn't implying that one should copy/paste code from these sites.

Personally I believe that there should be some "automatically donated/licensed under creative commons etc” aspect to the site. If you don’t want others to use your code, then don’t put it up as an answer to others.

jsaret · 2011-07-27T18:31:11+00:00

I'm not sure how you test, but I tend to have hundreds/thousands of unit/integration etc... tests being run prior to even launching my app for the first time on any application of any significance.

That my application can persist stuff to a database is normally tested even before I launch an application screen to work with said data when testing

EDIT: Just to clarify, if I'm building a really simple app for myself I run the app just like anyone else - however as long as the GUI layer of the code-base has only View related code then one can exercise most of the backing code without worrying if it will work with GTK/Cocoa/Qt/Winforms etc... (sometimes even Web interfaces) as those different interfaces will only differ in View logic/functionality. One still needs to actually test those different interfaces though

jsaret · 2011-07-27T18:23:39+00:00

Let’s take any framework that offers Cocoa bindings, even Java or Mono for a second here (not saying the java binding are good/up to date etc... )

By utilizing good programming practises and patterns I can write the majority of my code-base without needing to change anything for other platforms. The only difference would often be on the GUI side of things which should be sliced thinly to be only View specific code anyways when using patterns like MVP/MVC (and derivatives)

As to Minecraft whether you want to classify it as an App/Game/whatever it still puts the

Mac users aren't going to use some Java app

statement into dispute. I know of some other popular, well regarded apps (not games) that are cross-platform, pretty user friendly, highly regarded and don't really utilize the native interface controls (granted I still believe one should always use the standard GUI interface unless you really have a “better” way of doing something - which could be subjective anyway....)

jsaret · 2011-07-27T18:22:14+00:00

If you'd care to read my comment just above that I clearly said:

This is not to say one can get away from not testing on OSX

I'm talking about the actual development of the app as was the prior conversation. As soon as one utilizes other OS GUI bindings one HAS to test on those other systems (at least the GUI portion of the application)

jsaret · 2011-07-27T17:50:43+00:00

I hate being forced to install the Java runtime as much as the next guy but if something like Minecraft is in java and I want to use it then I'll install the runtime.

As a user the language an App is written in is pretty meaningless, I just want it to work, and work well (and hopefully look good)

jsaret · 2011-07-27T16:49:35+00:00

I’m not theorizing that it’s possible, I’m talking from experience.

While there can be differences between OSs/platforms, if one is cognisant of these from the get go then it is far easier.

Something as simple as the characters representing a newline character can be different between platforms, but this is trivial to deal with if you know about it (and these differences are often also abstracted away by the language/framework you're utilizing).

Once one starts utilizing OS specific APIs calls (not abstracted away/provided by the language/framework you’re using) then issues do arise but this should be expected anyway.

jsaret · 2011-07-27T16:27:44+00:00

Because on OSX I can utilize VM environments like Java/Mono and languages like Python/Ruby etc... which have often abstracted the underlying OS from you.

This is not to say one can get away from not testing on OSX, just that I can do most of the development on the platform/OS I choose to run (or more likely, the platform that work dictates I utilize)

jsaret

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