...if one of the folks you follow has tweeted since you loaded your homepage, you’ll get a little notice saying “1 new tweet” that, when clicked, will display the new content.
- Scott Ludwig
from iPhone
Future Change Warning: Proposed Federal censorship regulations may prohibit us from giving you information about the possibility of calling this function. We would be required to say that this is not an acceptable way of terminating a program.
- Scott Ludwig
Little tip: when submitting an iPhone app to the App Store, don't use command line zip to create the zip file. The App Store will refuse it. Use the Finder's Compress Folder command to create the zip.
I was prepared to be skeptical but much of it generally rings true. Danger's contractual obligations would have been well known during due diligence but perhaps msft thought they could get out of them.
- Hayes Haugen
I am skeptical about the sabotage angle.
- Gary Burd
Hugely skeptical. Most of that stuff is plucked out of thin air (but the Pink project sure seems like one I wouldn't want to be on.)
- Sean O'Connor
Yah, not buying the sabotage angle. But a fumbled acquisition and a fumbled move in the mobile space? Totally.
- Hayes Haugen
The rationale behind the sabotage supposition is dumb. They claim that Microsoft isn't revealing the details of what happened because of a possible legal fight with a saboteur, yet they also say T-Mobile would likely sue for the SLA failure. Couldn't *that* be a reason for MS to keep details private for a bit? Or just that it's embarrassing and it's better to be quiet and thought to be an idiot than to open your mouth and remove any doubt? (Not that I think Microsofties are idiots, but you get my meaning.)
- Kevin Fox
They decided to use XMPP to notify connected clients of a change, at which point the clients perform a sync, presumably using HTTP.
- Scott Ludwig
from Bookmarklet
Interesting design point if they can efficiently virtualize the previous version in all future OS releases. For one, the effort spent on backward compatibilty (which is large) can be re-evaluated.
- Scott Ludwig
Isn't VirtualPC the SLOWEST virtualization software on the market? I hope they fixed it in the last 2 years.
- Michael Herf
From the wikipedia page "The Windows version of Virtual PC also uses dynamic recompilation, but only to translate kernel mode and real mode x86 code into x86 user mode code, while original user mode and virtual 8086 mode code run natively." It probably isn't so bad. It's definitely a much simpler way to do backward compatibility.
- Private Sanjeev