cooldude127

You're familiar with the idea of satire, right?

Yeah, but they do care when the app they want to use won't work on their phone because their software is too old.

Looks pretty cool!

What did you use to build it?

I remember reading about this branching model and really liking the idea. The tools might actually motivate me to use it.

2 chicks at the same time

Location information could be used to connect people to a server that gives them a better connection. Not necessarily an evil thing.

I agree with you that their software is the most compelling part of the Mac. But the reason people tend to say Apple is a hardware company is because that's where the money is made.

It's not wrong to say that the software drives the sales of the hardware. The software is outstanding, and compels people to purchase the profitable hardware.

Also, computer monitors are typically farther away than a phone screen, so less resolution is needed to fool the eye.

The problem is that often (not always), proprietary software is just better than any free equivalent. I will gladly sacrifice some freedom to gain quality.

It's been a godsend for me. AppleCare is great support, and has absolutely paid off for me in the past.

Seems kinda silly that you're referring to Scheme as a "modern programming language" and then excluding C/C++/Objective-C. Scheme dates back to 1975, while Objective-C is only from 1986. So by your standards, Scheme would be considered less modern than Objective-C.

That's not the worst case though. The worst case is the possibility of ruining your finances because you have no income while trying your startup. And what if you can't find a job when you finally give up?

It's not a decision to take lightly.

output that runs on the flash player. that's all the users care about.

To be fair, you definitely don't pronounce it twice. Then you'd just sound crazy.

Reports indicate that the $29 version will install on a clean machine just fine, no need to install Leopard first. It's kind of an honor system thing with Apple.

i've been using colemak for about a year and a half, and i'm very happy with it. the few times i'm forced to go without it, i can feel how much more my fingers are moving. emacs is quite usable with it, but vim requires some remapping (i'm an emacs guy so i haven't put too much effort it).

actually, objective-c is not strongly typed. it is quite dynamic, despite the fact that you often see types specified. you could replace every declared type with 'id', and your code would still work, and it would be dynamically typed.

not every developer wants to develop on their os. rather, I would like computer that "just works" so that I can do my development work.

yes it's cool to be interested in what's under the hood, but once you've tried to get your wireless working for hours on numerous occasions, you start to appreciate when things just work. i got sick of wasting my time.

Sounds exactly like how I would answer the same question. Very rational.

If you're working on something important, maybe you shouldn't be on HN. Maybe, idk, do some work?

there is a mingw port for windows. untested by me, but it looks credible. as for os x, that's all i use, and git works PAINLESSLY on it. i'm not sure where you got this information from.

need a mac version first. then i'll see.

LTS is for long term support, meaning that they will provide help for it longer than the other releases. The most recent version, 8.04 is an LTS release. The previous LTS was 6.06.

this sounds a lot like what I did. I own a license to textmate, but lately i have been using Emacs a lot more. I love it. Textmate still has a special place in my heart, but right now Emacs just supports more of what I need, and it works with all my platforms.

did you also post this on reddit? ;-)

shouldn't this be ask yc or something? this is not reddit.

that makes me feel a little sad

Qi is just a little too out there for me. All variables uppercase? Autoquoting symbols? The bizarre list syntax?

I do like the built-in partial application as well as pattern-matching. But basically it feels like Prolog with a more Lispy syntax.