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Along with the ARC transition, the move from PowerPC to Intel was incredibly smooth (relatively). But much of the work for that was done long before the change actually happened. B…

No, it doesn't. C++ sucks.

The Gmail native iOS app is really nice, so the flow of innovation isn't consistently pointing towards the web. But part of the answer to getting "desktop deployment right" is sand…

Vishal Gurbuxani gave us the marketing perspective on this last month in Napa: http://www.slideshare.net/vgurbuxani/app-retreat-2012 One major problem: HTML5 is fragmented across p…

Bill Dudney and I are organizing a conference for iOS app makers in San Francisco next month. It's unique because it's not being run by a platform company, a media company with a n…

Bill Dudney and I are organizing a conference for iOS app makers in San Francisco next month. It's unique because it's not being run by a platform company, a media company with a n…

Oops. It's back now. Sorry about that, I intend to upgrade that site but have been taking on some new things lately and haven't had much time. Also, I don't really follow Hacker Ne…

I've never heard that web apps require approval. Probably a typo? Also, it would be nearly impossible to "crash the whole iphone OS." An app runs in a sandbox, the worst thing it c…

No, I think you're right. There seem to be separate queues for different categories.

I'd just let the market decide. With so many identical-looking screens of apps, most iPhones already are getting cluttered. I expect that we'll soon see a better (hierarchical) Spr…

Does the computer you are using have a hierarchical file system?

How about those book publishers who attempt to milk their printing presses by publishing multiple titles? Or bloggers who attempt to milk their blogging software by publishing mult…

Yes, I agree with you on a lot of that, especially if you can write your entire app in Ruby. That hasn't been true for me though. Either I have to go to C for performance or there'…

Hi Ross, little things add up, and they are easy to fix in higher level languages (with macros). I consider programming to be a process of building abstractions, and I think the be…

It's relative, and it's a distinction that changes as we make progress. Objective-C is a higher-level language than C, but as you noted, it's not interpreted, and I don't think it …

To be fair, it depends on the application. You might not have to write them, but there are still plenty of applications where memory and speed are issues, and C gives you some real…

Also covered here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=171292

Back to the PowerPC? PA Semi's only announced product so far is a dual-core PowerPC: http://www.pasemi.com/processors/index.html I was working on PowerPC processors with IBM and Mo…

No. Malone didn't write that; it's not so black and white. But there's plenty of gray: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=USDEUR=X&t=5y&l=on&#... The silver lining is that Americans c…

I was just re-reading Robert Cringley's piece on the move from education to certification. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080321_0045... Of Malone's suggestions (…

These are good distinctions, and all categories (especially the lower ones) are well-represented on sites like digg, reddit, and this one. But there's at least one more dimension t…