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by billmcneale 16y ago
It doesn't matter what Apple is interested in, I was just quoting existing numbers. Apple is #3 and likely to become #4 in the next couple of years. Whether they enjoy that position or not is irrelevant to this discussion. We're discussin
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by billmcneale 16y ago
They're winning in terms of quality of the phones that they release, but they are already losing at the numbers. Nokia is #1, Android is #2 and while the iPhone is currently #3, it's likely that it will have to fight with RIM and Microsoft
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by billmcneale 16y ago
All fair points, but I'm really curious to see what you did with traits that has anything to do with dependency injection. DI is essentially a runtime activity while traits are just a more granular way of assembling your objects together a
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by billmcneale 16y ago
Scala's traits come nowhere near the functionalities offered by dependency injection frameworks such as Guice. When Scala encounters the need for DI, it's very likely that it will roll out a framework that will look a lot like Guice. Your
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by billmcneale 16y ago
Actually, I think this characterization is pretty accurate. Most developers that like dynamic languages do so because they can write less code, which is exactly what the blog author is saying.
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by billmcneale 16y ago
"The Web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years."
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by billmcneale 16y ago
tldr: I interviewed at Google two years ago, I didn't get an offer so now I'm writing a blog post to explain that I didn't really want to work there anyway. Psych.
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by billmcneale 17y ago
Last time Jobs went on stage, everybody knew about the iPad down to its exact specs and what magazines were going to be available on it. Didn't seem to hurt the sales nor the excitement one bit.