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mootedon Daring Fireball: The Kids Are All Right

If you are regular guy using a car to go from A to B, you definitely don't want to open up the hood. But if you bought a car to learn a thing or two about the engine inside, then you are in trouble with a locked down hood. The same with kids who wanna be hackers.

If your kid want to be a hacker and learn things, he is definitely going to be in big trouble with locked down devices like iPad and companies like Apple .

mootedon About Adobe's Flash Player Not Having Access to H.264 HW Acceleration on OSX

"slower" means "choppy" and is not interchangeable with "use more resources" as you suggests. I have never seen any flash content that runs choppy on my 2 GHz Macbook. Post an example and back up your claim.

mootedon About Adobe's Flash Player Not Having Access to H.264 HW Acceleration on OSX

IMHO, Adobe should definitely act more responsible and finetune Flash Player to perform better across all platforms.

But i disagree with John Gruber.

#1) Flash is not "slower" on Mac . It uses up too much resources compared to its Windows edition. I switch between Windows(work) and Mac (personal) all the time and i have never seen anything Flash playing "slower" on mac.Flash makes use of GPU access (if required) not just for video playback. I assume Adobe's excuse for resource hungriness is , 'too much time marketing'?

#2) As http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/recommendations.html suggests, without a card you are going to experience crappy playback for HD video on Quicktime,Flash plugin and everything.

#3)John is comparing native desktop video playback tools to a plugin that lives inside a browser.

Lastly.. read staunch's comment.

Why doesnt John have comments enabled in his blog?

mootedon Joe Hewitt on the iPad

Quoting him & disagreeing with him calling iPad platform an "incredible opportunity" - gets me downmodded.

I laughed a little.

mootedon IPad: an Apple for Mom - The uncomputer for the people

Except nothing moms consider cool work on this thing..

mootedon Joe Hewitt on the iPad

iPad, as a device is a new opportunity for developers. But not an incredible one. Open up the platform, and we can consider it incredible.

He calls the demand for open-computing and removal of restrictions a "nonsense" .

mootedon Poll: Are you getting an iPad?

No camera. No mutitasking. No choice of browsers. No plugin support in browser. Runs only what apple wants.

Definitely not worth carrying a 10 inch display for a crippled web experience.

mootedon Microsoft calls Zoho the "Fake Office" - Zoho responds with a zinger

"we're not seeing any inclination that Zoho or Google or Zimbra or any other of those offering fake Office capabilities can replace [Microsoft Office]"

Sounds more like a generic trash talk on everything non-MS Office, than a purposeful marketing move.

mootedon The real Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB port

Does this really matter? IMHO, this is more of an ego issue to 'nerds' than selling the product in itself. The latter being the purpose of ads.

mootedon The real Ajay Bhatt, co-inventor of the USB port

Dont give a fuck. Just sell things.

mootedon Merlin Mann on Adobe's products

Perhaps i am the only one, but i never experienced even one single crash using Flash CS4 / Fireworks CS4 (mac). I use Flash CS4 everyday. Sometimes a session last for almost a whole week. No crash yet!!

But Fireworks does have tonns of annoying bugs.

mootedon Google's Javascript PDF Viewer is Embeddable

any live examples?

mootedon Google's Javascript PDF Viewer is Embeddable

Text copy wont work.

I really dont see anything new here. This is exactly the same stuff they have at Google books. Except now its in an iframe .

Flash implementations are obviously superior as of now.Also, try building a decent browser game in javascript and html5.

mootedon How Twitter Could Lose The Game By Design

Indeed he has:

http://twitter.com/andrewbaron/status/35621952

Nevermind, i am on an intense fact-checking-spree tonight.

mootedon Tell HN: Check out HNTrends.com

Not for me, or anyone at my office.

mootedon Ask HN: I'm resigning soon, any suggestions what to build on my own?

Ouch! You seem to have fallen in love with laziness.

>You are leaving a job you like, with no idea of what to do next.

>You are leaving a job you like, inspired by vacation.

Thats you being lazy.

mootedon See Randomness

I think he is merely referring to the assertive nature of this part of essay:

No, it turns out, humans are not created by God in his own image; they're just one species among many, descended not merely from apes, but from microorganisms.

mootedon Richard Branson accepting micropitches via Twitter

I choose not to publicly tweet my billion dollar idea.

mootedon Sequoia Capital's redesigned website: a search bar

Way to accidentally the whole usability!

The site even allows single letter searches.

mootedon Apple now censoring dictionaries in the App Store

What if the government wanted all dictionaries to be curse-word-free? Will the publishing companies involved just sit back and accept the move as " this is the world that we live in"?

mootedon Just launched Favstar.fm, would love your feedback

Really nice! I have already spent 30 minutes on your site and have bookmarked it alongside mylifeisaverage.com

mootedon Bump Technologies (YC S09): The Quest To Destroy The Business Card

Just another silly app. A whole company just to build this?

mootedon 4Chan's Plan to Game Twitter (The Race to 1 Million)

Indians?

mootedon Update: DiggBar will only be shown to logged-in Digg users

Listening to users and taking actions is always a good thing. Translating what they did to "telling users to fuck off" just isn't right.John Gruber did tell Digg to fuck off btw.

mootedon The Founder Visa

On the other hand, if the restrictions doesnt exists: (1),(2)Employees can quit anytime for a better paid offer , effectively nullifying the value of efforts and investments the original employer made on the individual. (3)Huge inflow of foreigners will hurt US citizens.

If a foreigner is ready to accept a job with a company offering him a lower salary,it depicts that just he want to get into US somehow.

mootedon WordPress plugin to block DiggBar (inspired by Jon Gruber)

The Diggbar is only visible to Digg users and links shared by Diggers.So if Digg users are revolting against it, that makes sense. But obvious Digg haters like John Gruber revolting against the Diggbar looks like a cheap publicity stunt to me.Calling Digg users "mindless, borderline illiterates" and greeting them with "F* off" message to Digg, is just hating Digg. Doest look like this has anything to do with preaching standards.

As a Digg user, i dont like Diggbar on pages linked from Digg pages. But i would appreciate this,if the url shortening service along with Diggbar was an independent feature.