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by anonms-coward 6y ago
Apple is not behind BSD at all, using Darwin is not being behind BSD. Any of the the popular BSD distributions is not backed by Apple. Not to mention Microsoft needs linux, not the other way around. Microsoft is desperate to get linux devel
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by anonms-coward 6y ago
You can't debug anything via lldb/gdb without having an administrator password AFAIK. You can debug non native programs using for example pdb and other language specific debuggers, but I find it hard to make that more inconvenien
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by anonms-coward 6y ago
Microsoft and Apple makes good money from China, so don't expect them to do anything. Microsoft Bing works and censors in China, and yet microsoft PR department is so good to keep them safe from any outrage over this.
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by anonms-coward 6y ago
To be fair, it is highly likely he was lying and was saying that just to ensure he could win the election. A modern example would be Obama saying in 2008 that he wasn't in favour of same sex marriage. Source: https://www.poli
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by anonms-coward 6y ago
It seems stallman had the foresight to predict things like this in 1997. I think the days where one needs to be licensed to use a debugger might not be far away.
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by anonms-coward 6y ago
This is very old but feels as relevant as ever http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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by anonms-coward 6y ago
That article is misleading. India has a huge amount of people going into Engineering, and calculating what % of engineers (not CS engineers, or even CS+ electrical engineers) can code, is a useless metric. Not to mention, a textile engineer
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by anonms-coward 6y ago
Yup, Flipkart has one of the best mobile websites of any ecommerce app. Far better than the likes of Walmart and Target.
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by anonms-coward 6y ago
I think you are comparing it to the wrong scenario. Hiring for your own company(Uber in this case) is far different than outsourcing to an Indian company like Infosys and TCS. Microsoft already has a huge presence in India, and so does Amaz
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by anonms-coward 6y ago
I think you replied to the wrong comment.
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by anonms-coward 6y ago
I think we might see more instances of this happening, not less. The thing is SF salaries are very high compared to just anywhere else in the world. There are many reasons for that (high rent, high concentration of talent), but I doubt thes