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by Toshio 14y ago
Have you noticed a pattern in BBC's malware reporting? When it's about windows malware, they deliberately avoid mentioning the name windows, instead calling it "PC malware" or "computer virus". But when it's about Android malware, they make
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by Toshio 14y ago
The BBC has always been biased toward microsoft.
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by Toshio 14y ago
BBC is using their platform to issue counter-attacks to legitimate complaints by independent developers. Nothing new here people, move along.
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by Toshio 14y ago
All the use cases for swiping are also use cases for NFC, but obviously the added convenience of NFC will probably encourage adoption in scenarios where swiping would have been too much.
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by Toshio 14y ago
Implementing this in Haskell is going to make for a very nice weekend project. I'll report back with details of the Github repo if I'm done by the end of the day.
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Ask HN: No AI challenge this fall?
1 points by Toshio 14y ago|0 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
At first I thought "Oh wow, video lectures a la Coursera, awesome", unfortunately these are just written materials. I'm a little surprised at how little love FP gets at the Courseras, EDXs and Udacities of the world. The only thing that's g
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by Toshio 14y ago
Is it just me, or is the programming language called Clean not on there? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_(programming_language)
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by Toshio 14y ago
Also known as free market competition at its finest.
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by Toshio 14y ago
Remember tablets are still not a mass market phenomenon, despite record sales of iPads. Sub $100 pricing might just be what the doctor ordered. I'm rooting for either Google's new Nexus or Apple's new iPad mini to saturate the low end.
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by Toshio 14y ago
It will be interesting to see what kind of tradeoffs are required to go that low on the price - 2GB RAM, weaker GPU?
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by Toshio 14y ago
That's an interesting perspective, but I don't think windowsphone (any incarnation of it) has enough going for it to make number 3.
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by Toshio 14y ago
I'm rooting for either one of BlackberryOS, FirefoxOS, Jolla or Tizen to be the #3 mobile ecosystem.
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by Toshio 14y ago
> Windows isn't cool anymore; windows has never been cool; ubiquitous is the word you're probably thinking of.
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by Toshio 14y ago
> has deep enough pockets to continue pumping money into Nokia for making WP handsets until they gain meaningful market share. I'll believe it when I see it. Them achieving meaningful market share with windowsphone would shock a lot of
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by Toshio 14y ago
If Nokia survives as an independent company, it is going to shrink considerably. They don't need a lot of people to be a little patent troll still making a product just to avoid the NPE pigeon hole.
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by Toshio 14y ago
The article fails to mention that there are at least two contributing factors in the technology stack, raw CPU speed and efficiency of the JS engine.
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by Toshio 14y ago
Interesting. Can you share a link to the 300$ product?
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Ask HN: Why do Haskellers discourage FP newbies from learning Clojure?
8 points by Toshio 14y ago|3 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
Why does your submission get to the front page with 2 points, while mine[1] doesn't (mine also has 2 points and was submitted earlier)? [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4537519
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[Scala] Coursera FP class has begun(coursera.org)
10 points by Toshio 14y ago|0 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
I second the choice of IRC server, but for some setups it may be overkill. I personally like gobby/sobby, it has a chat module besides being a collaborative code editor. It's open-source and cross-platform.
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White Paper: Haskell vs. F# vs. Scala [pdf](macs.hw.ac.uk)
80 points by Toshio 14y ago|8 comments
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by Toshio 14y ago
> "The carriers are also dying for a third major OS" I'm rooting for either Firefox OS or Tizen to fill that void.
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by Toshio 14y ago
They are both very expressive languages, but the one difference I noticed between Python and Ruby is what happens when you read someone else's code and the code hasn't been aggressively unit-tested or properly designed upfront. Ruby code te
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by Toshio 14y ago
What I find most annoying about ads is their repetitiveness. How would you like to be asked the same question twice? On a related note ... How would you like to be asked the same question twice? See, I managed to annoy you just by being mil
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by Toshio 14y ago
I'm confused, how is this hacker news?
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by Toshio 14y ago
> "This is what happens when a company is too cheap to invest in research and development. Did you know that Apple spends far less on R&D than any of its rivals - a paltry 2% of revenues, versus 14% for Google and Microsoft?" Funny
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by Toshio 14y ago
+1 for shurane's explanation.
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by Toshio 14y ago
There's an eleventh one, which should probably be given number zero for being top priority: read this essay and live by it: Lesson Zero: Don't Be A Sharecropper: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla...

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