EdwinLarkin

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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
It blows my mind that no company is currently able to challenge Chrome. Not even Microsoft or Apple is interested to challenge the status quo.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
Your comment makes absolutely no sense. Sciter is not a browser engine nor it tries to sell itself as a browser engine light. Sciter just happens to use dialects that are similar to CSS and JS sort of what XAML is to WPF or what QML is to Q
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Ask HN: Would you find antipiracy telemetry intrusive?
1 points by EdwinLarkin 6y ago|2 comments
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
By definition of fair trading? Spotify is so huge that it would be a suicide not releasing on their platform.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
These are not platform providers Apple and Android are. I would argue that digital app stores should be treated as important and critical infrastructure. There should be a way for you to install (based on a contract) whatever you want from
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
Hmm did not Softbank buy ARM for 32bn? That investment did not pay off I guess..
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
Sure but you are still just "renting" the software.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
Windows builds are possible? Can you tell me more? I skipped Crystal because I absolutely need windows binaries.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
It's a bad thing if you dont take advantage of it. The problem is the Eastern European countries never did. They never stood a chance in the first place. You need to own the value chain if you want to get richer.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I would say that the difference is that China's elites are interested in China's economic growth. They want to see China big and powerful and for that they need to sacrifice some of that greed (and really beyond certain amount of
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
Employees in countries like India are more disposable. In theory if you mean by eastern europe the part that is in EU even that one has some decent labor laws to prevent companies like Uber from firing at will. I think even Ukraine or Belar
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
That's true. Several companies I know are pursuing such endeavors. It's often even battle between Java & .NET as they are trying to focus on a single stack.
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
I dont believe this. Maybe it's no longer used for "core banking services" but companies the size of JPMorgan have subdivisions that are as big as small/medium sized companies. There must be a lot of software written in
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by EdwinLarkin 6y ago
This is a standard corporate job. C#,.NET,aws,linux,Xamarin etc
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Ask HN: Dev in a company reliant on international travel. Should I get out ASAP?
2 points by EdwinLarkin 6y ago|3 comments