January 2011
14 posts
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Write Once, Suck Everywhere →
Particularly lame to hear from Facebook, who happen to ship a particularly awesome iPhone app (or at least did back when I used it).
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Oatmeal: It's Not Just For Breakfast Anymore
Matt: I skipped breakfast and the menu is being redone at Finbars so it's very small. Result: the only thing I've consumed for sustenance today were two Oatmeal Stouts and coffee
Matt: I can't tell if that's awesome or terrible.
Allan: Terrible, I think. Though oatmeal is a breakfast food
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Straight Guys at Gay Bars
Justin: They get so weirded out
Matt: he said that while he was always like "yeah, it's a gay bar, you should expect guys to hit on you" he understood the shock that went with the overt physical nature of gay cultural/sexual interactions. Fair point
Matt: that said
Matt: FUCKING STRAIGHT GUYS WTF
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Better Meaning
Justin: That's cool
Justin: You go
Matt: OH MY FUCKING GOD I'M SORRY ILL BUY YOU A BOAT TO MAKE UP FOR IT
Justin: A racey one?
Justin: With stripes?
Matt: RACEY = FILLED WITH PROSTITUTES
Justin: ALL HATH BEEN FORGIVEN!
Matt: LOVE BOAT MOTHERFUCKER
Justin: ^ Better meaning
I Can Crack Your App With Just A Shell →
Possibly more apt title: I can crack your Mac app with just a shell, the entire Xcode suite, extra software packages built from source, a reasonably long tutorial, and some informed guesswork.
Nice link-baiting headline though.
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HTML5 Logo and Icons →
I’ve already distanced myself from the term “web developer”. I don’t want to be associated with the kinds of tools who think this is not only a good idea but also an awesome idea.
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Notes on “Shortchanging Your Business with... →
Really great reply by Ed Finkler to Alex Payne’s post about AIR/native apps that’s caused a bit of a stir since it was posted.
I’m not sure I agree with Finkler’s position on what Alex means by “native” though:
The definition of “native” is really fuzzy here. it seems like you mean “uses the GUI toolkit that ships with the OS.” By this definition, though, I’d...
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Justin Prefers Email for Similar Reasons
Matt: It's sort of awesome. Like, I can't write for garbage so I'm stoked the way to come across as serious and thought-out is to open fucking Gmail.
Justin: ^ this
Justin: If I wrote you a letter you would probably wonder why arguably handicapped children were sending you coded messages
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Flash and H.264 are Internet Video →
Don’t be evil.
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W(ebM)TF
If Google removed H.264 from Android their argument might make any ounce of sense. Oh: Flash too.
Effectively they’re just joining forces with Mozilla, so if we wind up in a state where we make H.264 for IE/Safari/mobiles/Flash fallback and WebM for Firefox, Chrome using either one doesn’t matter much (assuming Firefox’s traction will convince sites to output a second,...
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My Personality-Defining Obsession With The Magic...
Justin: Ha, there is a guy here using a magic bullet, win
Matt: YES
Matt: I want to be his friend
Justin: He is like a walking infomercial, someone was like "is that a magic bullet?" And he says "yes, it makes a meal in a snap too"
Matt: I cannot tell if you're joking but I don't want you to be
Justin: The best part is that I'm not
Matt: YES