Archive for the 'wtf' Category

Apple Doesn’t Want Developers?

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Ok, now this is just confusing:

By now, most of you have probably seen or heard about Apple iPhone SDK 4.0 and a little hidden gem in their freshly minted 4.0 Terms of Services, notably 3.3.1:

“Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited.”

It’s clear that products like Titanium, Unity3D, Ansca, MonoTouch and others are now a bit in question for iPhone 4.0+ with this language. We’re all trying to get our heads around what this means and trying to reach out to Apple to get clarification.

I called up Apple to ask for details about how this affects Appcelerator & Unity3d as particular examples that I’d been planning to use for games and utilities, and whether I can get a refund for my program fees if I were to not accept the updated agreement.

The rep was very pleasant and polite and took my information to escalate the question; the CSRs of course don’t have immediate answers for this. I was told someone should get back to me within 24 hours.

If y’all also call, please above all be polite — customer service reps are real people too, and they didn’t write the agreement! Be polite, accept being on hold gracefully, let them know how this would affect your future development plans, and be specific about what questions you’re asking and what answers you need.

Flickr hates England

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Ah, search suggestions…

punishment

Time to cleanup my home directory

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

I probably don’t need these files anymore…

cleanup-time

How can I get her to upgrade my RAM?

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

ram-spam

I need to check my mail more often

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

check-your-mail-dammit

Configuration management best practices

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

or… not :)

23381 Oct 16 13:32 lighttpd.conf
11085 Jun 18  2007 lighttpd.conf~
11085 Jun 18  2007 lighttpd.conf.before-brion-broke-it
11250 Apr 11  2008 lighttpd.conf.before-mark-broke-it

Name too long

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Wikipedia doesn’t have all the answers?

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

:D

Wrong number

Friday, June 20th, 2008

“Hello, may I speak to Donald (something) please?”

“Sorry, you have a wrong number.”

… pause …

“Oh, I really *do* have the wrong number. I thought I didn’t for some reason. Sorry!” *click*

o_O

Stop hitting yourself!

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

While rebooting to install software updates…


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