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Meh. Don't be platform-phobic. Honestly, people use what is best for them. That may be Windows, it may be Linux. Point is, don't knock it if it works for them.

Agreed. XCode is definitely the best for any Cocoa/Objective-C tool. Though I've heard good things about AppCode lately. I do some Ruby coding and for that I tend to use MacVim wit…

Apps that I install immediately upon re-installation or a new Mac: * 1Password - Password facilitator ( http://www.agilebits.com , buy the Mac App Store version) * OmniFocus - GTD/…

Linkinus is a pretty nice IRC client as well. I believe I got it on sale on the App Store for like $5. I'm sure it's more now though. I definitely suggest HomeBrew over MacPorts an…

I say go for Launchbar. The clipboard history is pretty rockin in my opinion.

"We're stuck with it for another 18 months" uh... I'm not so sure this is a "problem." I'd rather be "stuck" with a solid, stable, and useful operating system on a device that need…

To be honest here. I carried a 5.5lbs PowerBook G4 around to college for a couple years. I hated it. I'm not a big guy by any stretch of the imagination (5'7", 120lbs) but as soon …

I think this is sort of similar to what I was explaining. I was mostly talking about the detractors, but those that do like the display aren't exactly different in the end. If I we…

I've not seen the display in person. But some initial take aways are this: People kept saying that the iPad's Retina display wasn't worth it and that they couldn't see the differen…

You wouldn't be able to even read the text. Scaling is really needed at this point. Primarily due to the size of the screen. If the screen was larger then allowing the native resol…

Fragmentation at the API level is the real problem. Not at lack of "built-in features." An app written for iOS 6 can run on the iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, and iPhone 3GS (not to mention …

Check out their IRC channel. The group in there are quite helpeful. The main author is always willing to help.

Right, I don't think "built-in features" are fragmentation. If I have to change the way I write my application or can't include features in my application because most users don't …

I think you show your own bias by even making this comment. Defensive much? This is why politics suck on hacker news. I typically skim through every headline posted on HN to see wh…

But that probably isn't the whole story. Has anyone done any battery comparisons between the LTE model and the wifi model? My bet is that the wifi model doesn't get much better bat…

http://blackpixel.com/blog/1558/radar-or-gtfo/ seriously... report it.

Yikes. Terribly written. Seems like there are a fair number of words simply missing from sentences.

I think a thing to remember is that Apple will probably iterate on this, much like any other technology, and make it better with each release. At least, that is my hope. I sadly do…

There have been rumors of iChat getting iMessage integration of some kind. But I'd like it to be taken a step further. I'd really like to be able to have my phone in a charger a la…

Just because there are apps doesn't mean you have to download them all. I made a point of removing all apps I hadn't used daily when I wiped it clean for iOS 5. I then installed th…

Sorry, late reply here. I know that Android is built on linux. But I don't see that as being hugely important. It's about the interface and the "mindshare" of the users and particu…

Extremely doubtful that we'll see Ubuntu as a contender to iOS and Android. If you're going to run linux on a tablet-sized device, why not just use Android? It has an existing appl…

I think they called out the situation pretty well. It's users hitting one website, and it's views not downloads or active users. That said, there's certainly a lot of increase in m…

This isn't the same thing as 1.3 is it? It's just the older 1.2 code that was updated by pmetzger to compile and function properly on Lion. In other words, this != 1.3 right?