I spent a summer working on XAML UI's for an internship, and recently dove back in as a side project to update some Windows specific apps that rely on WinForms(https://github.com/hass-agent/hass.agent). XML UI's are fairly underrated imo.

The source of this great quote, from the wonderful Bryan Cantrell: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc

Said about Larry Ellison (who recently gave $6B to his son to buy CBS, and likely turn it into another ultra-wealthy right-wing mouthpiece rag).

But damn oh damn does Broadcom feel like a good fit for this statement.

38:28 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s&pp=0gcJCTA...

Very excited to see my JSON objects start to hallucinate new properties!

I still have my L702X in my closet next to me! The machine lasted me 7.5 years. Thanks for the throwback reminder.

Still use my L702x daily. It's heavy but I love the display and the speakers. It had Nvidia 3d vision with shutter glasses at one point, obviously not useful now. Windows 7 still on it. With an SSD it's still speedy and does a good job. I hope this 14 year old laptop will get me through another 6 years at least.

Thank you for sharing, the paintings are pretty awesome

Everything for the document (fonts, images, etc) are all stored within the document file. It's entirely self-contained.

Thanks for the clarifications! I've been spending the last 3 weeks deep in the weeds of TF/IDF scoring and was about to give up on Elastic Search when this got posted. The article has been eye opening!!!

Really cool!! Website for mobile can use a little work, a lot of the sub headers get truncated a bit much.

FaceTime next!

Open/Interoperable FaceTime, Announced by Steve Jobs on June 7, 2010. Never Forget

Killed by a lawsuit by a patent troll company, never forget.

This gets repeated a lot, and might be true (apparently the patent lawsuit forced Apple to change the implementation to be less peer-to-peer?), but lore says that Steve Jobs announcing Facetime as an open standard was a surprise to everyone working on Facetime.

If only Apple was big enough to fight the patent trolls...

They have - for over a decade. It took time to invalidate the patents and the damages:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-wins-reversal-502-mln-vi...

If only they hadn't fought the patent troll, and were denied the ability to bring a new suit when they lost.

Prove it

Not killed. Apple decided not to charge for non-Apple users and not to provide it for free either. They were only prevented from doing P2P connections, not from opening the protocol.

Or maybe it could've even been federated... not that Apple likes to play nice with anyone else.

Which is funny given that WhatsApp started as a very popular paid service. They could've been that for iMessage and extended it to calls.

You can start facetime calls from an Apple device to anyone by sending a link that works in their browser. No it's not 100% of the functionality, but it's a lot of it.

No, it's not.

There's a fare amount happening in the custom scene for widgets (like there is for KWGT on Android). Checkout the scriptable app!