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by Toshio 14y ago
> "Who is this author?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely
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Failure Version 2: Nokia Lumia Relaunch with Windows Phone 8 is Also a Total Dud(communities-dominate.blogs.com)
1 points by Toshio 14y ago|0 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
I am now convinced that they organized this event hastily once they knew the date for the iPhone 5 event... kind of like what they did with surface to front-run the Nexus 7 announcement. Smacks of desperation if you ask me.
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by Toshio 14y ago
Off-topic, a little detail caught my attention: that guy with a crowbar has a lambda symbol on his chest. Coincidence or a hidden reference to functional programming?
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by Toshio 14y ago
I am absolutely astonished someone would even consider deploying a Rails app on windows.
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by Toshio 14y ago
This might improve the user experience by visually signaling to the user that their mouse click to submit a form has been registered by the browser, and please do not click again while the server is processing your input.
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An interview about Microsoft’s Surface(asymco.com)
1 points by Toshio 14y ago|0 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
HN submissions shouldn't point to .tar.gz files.
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by Toshio 14y ago
Photoshopped.
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Microsoft fails to pacify PC vendors about Surface tablets(digitimes.com)
15 points by Toshio 14y ago|19 comments
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Is AWS down at the moment?
1 points by Toshio 14y ago|0 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
There seems to be an intermittent problem with Amazon's AWS. I tried to look at some slides on both slideshare and speakerdeck and neither could fetch stuff from Amazon.
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by Toshio 14y ago
Yes, here they come ... and they are all going to be heavy and pricey and noisy and have poor battery life.
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HP Creates Mobility Division, Focuses on Consumer Tablets(mobile.theverge.com)
1 points by Toshio 14y ago|0 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
One fact is missing from this analysis: windowsphone is being systematically boycotted to death by retailers and carriers. No matter how many battles Samsung loses, windowsphone will never look "gooooooooood", windowsphone will never be the
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by Toshio 14y ago
There are powerful insights to be gained by learning a functional language if your day job is coding in imperative languages.
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Largest Computer Makers When Smartphones Included(communities-dominate.blogs.com)
1 points by Toshio 14y ago|0 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
I suspect so many users will reject the new OS out-of-hand and demand their tech-savvy friends install whatever, whether it be Linux or a previous version of windows, that we are going to see a particular set of tools instantly become very
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by Toshio 14y ago
Come October, I hope OEMs come to their senses and not foist this mess upon us.
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by Toshio 14y ago
I remember a polar bear desperately trying to locate a patch of ice in the movie "An inconvenient truth". I hate to imagine the situation polar bears are in right now.
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by Toshio 14y ago
I've said it before and I'll say this again: Kara Swisher needs to openly admit she has a serious grudge against Yahoo.
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by Toshio 14y ago
Nice idea, a separate edition that excludes everything made by microsoft would probably get me to part with money.
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by Toshio 14y ago
I'm particularly offended by this statement: "we wouldn’t have the web as we know it today if not for its contributions". In a parallel universe where microsoft never existed, the people who came up with XMLHttpRequest did their innovative
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The Microsoft Point of View to the Nokia dead-end(communities-dominate.blogs.com)
1 points by Toshio 14y ago|0 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
Do you intend to eventually open-source it?
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by Toshio 14y ago
<p>You can download the first 25% of the book <strong>here</strong>.</p> Ummm ... where?
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by Toshio 14y ago
I would disclose who is upvoting/downvoting whose comments. There are cliques on every social news site. Some of those cliques are genuine communities of technology enthusiasts, but others are like little armies of trolls which have been se
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by Toshio 14y ago
The fact that you have been downvoted clearly indicates that the majority of people's browsers still don't implement the brand-new <sarcasm> tag in version 7.1 of the HTML specification.
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by Toshio 14y ago
At this price all the windows enthusiasts would queue up to buy at least 3 pieces at a time for themselves, leaving microsoft without enough manufacturing capacity to reach the audience they're really gunning for: John-Doe-oh-well-I-guess-I
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by Toshio 14y ago
Rails and Django: The superior web development frameworks microsoft didn't want you to replace asp.net with, but you did anyway.

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